President Donald Trump joked Tuesday night that the $5,000 payments he’s promised U.S. adults would buy little more than “a hamburger and maybe a small dessert” at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, a week before the midterm election dominated by voters’ concerns over affordability. Trump has pledged $5,000 to every adult citizen if his fellow Republicans retain majorities in both the House and Senate, specifying the money must be spent in the U.S. Read more from Trump:

My wife's best friend Yui married an American named Jason, from a small town in South Carolina. Before she met his mother for the first time, Yui didn't sleep for three nights. In Japan, the mother-in-law is the final boss. There are TV dramas about it. The mother-in-law who runs one finger along the top of the bookshelf, looks at the dust, and says nothing. The silence is the point. Yui practiced her English. She bought a very expensive box of Japanese sweets. She practiced her bow in the mirror. Fifteen degrees. Respectful. Not desperate. They pulled into the driveway. Before Yui could even open the car door, a woman in an apron came off the porch at full speed, flip-flops slapping, dish towel still over her shoulder. Her name was Kay. She was 66. She opened Yui's door herself. She didn't wait for the bow. "Come here, baby." And she pulled Yui out of the car and into her arms. Into the smell of fried onions and dryer sheets and something sweet in the oven. She held on like she'd been waiting her whole life for this exact person to pull into her driveway. Yui stood there, stiff as a board, holding a box of Japanese sweets, crying into a stranger's shoulder before she'd said a single word. Kay patted her back. "Oh, honey. Did you eat?" That was the first thing. It was always the first thing. In Kay's house, "Did you eat?" meant hello, and I love you, and I've been worried, and sit down, all at once. Yui stayed two weeks. She kept a list. She showed it to my wife later, and my wife showed it to me, and I have not been the same since. In Kay's house, nothing in a Cool Whip container has ever been Cool Whip. Green beans. Gravy. Chicken and dumplings. Yui opened one hoping for dessert and found black-eyed peas. Kay laughed so hard she had to sit down. Kay's recipe cards were in a tin box on the counter. Handwritten. Stained with butter and fifty years of fingerprints. Some of them were in her mother's handwriting. Some in her grandmother's. Kay said, "When I'm gone, these are yours too." Yui said, "But I'm not even…" And Kay said, "Hush." Kay checked for a fever with the back of her hand. Not a thermometer. Never a thermometer. She'd press her hand to your forehead, then your cheek, then your forehead again, and frown, and she would know. Kay cut the crusts off sandwiches for her 38-year-old son. He did not ask her to. She did not ask him. At Christmas, there was a stocking on the mantel with Yui's name on it in glitter glue. It said "YUY." Kay had spelled it the way it sounded. Yui has never let anyone fix it. And when it was time to go home, Kay stood on the porch. She waved while they backed out of the driveway. She waved while they drove down the street. She waved until the car turned the corner and she couldn't see it anymore. Jason said she has done that every single time, his whole life. Since kindergarten. She waves until you're gone. And then a little longer. Just in case you look back. Three years ago, in Tokyo, Yui lost a baby. Eleven weeks. In Japan, we are taught to carry things like that alone. Quietly. Gaman. Endure. Don't be a burden. Yui went back to work in three days. She smiled at her coworkers. She cried only in the shower, where the water was loud enough. She told Jason not to tell his mother. It was too far. Too much trouble. Kay had never even been on a plane overseas. Jason told her anyway. Two days later, there was a knock at their apartment door in Tokyo. Kay. Sixty-nine years old. Fourteen hours on a plane, alone, for the first time in her life. One small suitcase. A tote bag with a casserole dish in it that customs had looked at for a very long time. She didn't ask what Yui needed. She took off her shoes, because Jason had told her you take off your shoes in Japan. She walked into the kitchen. She looked at the pile of dishes in the sink. And she started washing them. Mothers like Kay don't ask. They just start the dishes. She stayed three weeks. She slept on a futon on the floor and never once complained about her back, though Jason could hear it cracking every morning from the next room. She couldn't read a single word in the supermarket. She bought three bottles of what she thought was milk. It was drinkable yogurt. She drank all of it anyway, out of principle. The tiny grandmother next door taught her how to hang laundry on the balcony the Japanese way. They had no language in common. They did it with hands and laughing. By the second week, they were drinking tea together every afternoon and Kay was calling her "Sugar." Kay made chicken and dumplings from whatever she could find. They tasted wrong. They tasted perfect. She left notes on the refrigerator. In marker. Big letters. "Eat something. Love, Mama." Yui had never called her Mama. Kay had decided it was time. On the fifth night, Yui finally broke. In the kitchen. Over nothing. A dropped spoon. She apologized. She tried to stop. She said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I should be stronger." Kay turned off the stove. She came over and took Yui's face in both of her hands. Warm. Smelling of onions. "Baby. You don't have to be strong in front of me. That's what I'm for." And Yui cried the way she hadn't let herself cry. Not in a shower. Not quietly. On the kitchen floor of a tiny apartment in Tokyo, in the arms of a woman from South Carolina who rocked her back and forth like she was small. Later, sitting on that kitchen floor, Kay told her something she had never told anyone. Not even Jason. Between Jason and his little sister, there had been another baby. In 1987. Kay lost him at four months. Back then, nobody talked about it. The doctor said, "You can try again." Her church said nothing. She went home and put away the little clothes by herself. "I named him," Kay said. "In my head. I never told anybody. His name was Daniel." She held Yui's hand. "You don't get over it, baby. You carry it. And I'll carry some of it for you." When Kay left, she filled the freezer. Fourteen meals in plastic bags, labeled in marker. "Chicken & Dumplings. Thaw overnight. Eat it, Yui, I mean it." There was no porch at the apartment. So Kay did the only thing she could. She waved from the back window of the taxi. All the way down the narrow street. Her whole arm. Her face pressed to the glass. Until the taxi turned the corner. Yui stood on the sidewalk and waved back until there was nothing left to wave at. And then a little longer. Just in case. Yui and Jason have a daughter now. She's two. Her name is Kay. They live in Tokyo still. Every morning, when Jason leaves for work, Yui stands on the little balcony with the baby on her hip. In Japan, we don't really do this. We bow once at the door, and we go back inside. The neighbors think it's a little strange. Yui doesn't care. She waves while he walks down the street. She waves while he crosses at the light. She waves until he turns the corner and she can't see him anymore. And little Kay waves too. With her whole arm. Her whole body. Until he's gone. And then a little longer. Just in case he looks back.

I was at the beach with a couple of friends, and we were all hungry and wanted to find a really good restaurant for dinner But we couldn't decide where to go. You know how it is when you're traveling, you end up spending so much time searching through Google trying to find the best place Then one of my friends said, "Just ask Grok Bot" So we did, and it literally picked a restaurant nearby for us We just had dinner there, and it turned out to be the BEST food we've had since arriving here last night 😂 The Pad Thai was great, the mango shake was great, and the dessert was absolutely amazing I'm telling you, Grok Bot is making even the little things in life sooo much easier

I’m currently traveling in Southeast Asia, but I wanted to take a moment to mark #InternationalGayMensDay# on Sept. 6. Having lived in the U.S. and now living in England, I reap the benefits of a tolerant society that protects sexual orientation in the law. But tolerance cannot be exploited as some mandate for radical political agendas that seek to dismantle all norms, institutions and safeguards. It’s important for dissident gay men like me to speak and make clear: not in our name. Photo below: I visit a dessert stand at a night market in Can Tho, Vietnam.

Travel pool report 8: rest of rally "I'm the king of the wall," Trump says, pointing to the rally regular in the "wall" suit in the front row. "By the way, Mexico did pay for that wall. I charged them tariffs and I charged them costs like they've never paid in history." Trump references renaming of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, crowd cheers. Says he couldn't have done some things in the first term he's done in the second. "This is a much more powerful term, I can do stuff that's almost unbelievable." "Canada has taken advantage of us for 50 years." "We lose "$90 billion a year…at some point we're making a year." Trudeau is "not a good guy.. a loser." "Your current guy is nice, but he's not good at trade." Says Canada "spends our money" on a health care system they shouldn't have. Talks up the Senate race in North Carolina. Calls former Gov. Roy Cooper a "radical left governor, he's a lunatic." References the Willie Horton case from the Dukakis campaign. Relates it to Cooper, who he says let 88 murderers out of prison "because he didn't want them to catch COVID." Says "you should vote for Michael Whatley," the former RNC chair. Calls Whatley a "mental killer." "You should go out and work for him" He repeated claims of fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia and Pennsylvania, saying "hundreds of boxes of ballots just happened to be found." Talks about "transgender mutilization" and "open borders." "Joe Biden and his whole group of crooks handed us the dark age of America. It was the dark age and they weaponized our government." "We're in the golden age of America. Our nation is doing better than ever. But the fake news refuses to acknowledge it…. It was just announced that under Republican leadership, incomes have soared to the highest level ever." "Remember Biden? 'It's great to be in Florida,' and he was in Maine."…"President Xi was here last week, and they respect our country." "More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country." Says federal workers hated him but now they like him because they went out and got private sector jobs…. "I let over a million [federal workers] go." Says they've gotten better jobs, "they [women] get much more turned on" by their husbands who now make more money. "Poverty rate has just reached the best number we've ever had." "Stock market has hit 88 all-time highs" since the election, good news for 401k's. Asks folks to raise their hand if they have 401k. Many hands go up. Riffs on "Barack Hussein Obama," and how Rush Limbaugh used to call him that. "The Republican Party is starting to look pretty good…. latest poll says Ken Paxton is now leading in Texas. He's the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas." "The other guy's a freak." Talks about how Melania is correcting his pronunciation of "vegan" and telling him not to dance. "She says, you are the president of the United States, you don't dance off the stage." Why he's campaigning ahead of midterms: "I have to, because if they win the midterms, all you'll see is a slide." "That's why iIm here, working my ass off for you." "If you had a hat, if you bought a Make America Great again, you were under investigation by deranged Jack Smith." Announces that if the Republicans win, the Department of War will be investing $100 million in the pharmaceutical company Anthea in Winchester, Kentucky. "They're going to gut the Dept of War." "I rebuilt the military in the first term, then gave a lot of it away to Ukraine." "If Republicans win the House and Senate, I'm going to give all adult citizens in the US $5,000. Only Republicans can do that, he says, because we're taking in massive amounts of money thru tariffs." He acknowledges it would cost US $1 trillion, but "we have $21 trillion coming in." Only caveat: You have to spend the money in the US. Jokes they can spend it at Mar a Lago one hamburger and a small dessert will cost about $5,000, he jokes. Says Dems will raise your taxes and they're bragging about it. "Or you can defeat the Dumocrat communists, and get more money in your pockets." "No amnesty for illegal aliens." "Just think of what we've accomplished in less than 2 years' time…We've inherited the worst border…and turned it into the strongest border. In the past 17 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States." Talks about a case in Moorhead Kentucky and Louisville's "horrible sanctuary city policy." "If you vote for Andy Barr and a Republican Congress, we will end sanctuary cities." Talks about "clean beautiful coal." On drug prices: "We went from paying the highest drug prices to the lowest" Riffs on social and cultural issues transgender, making English the official language of the US. Talks about winning affirmative action case in SCOTUS. "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon…that should have happened years ago." "There's never been two years like this anywhere in the history of our country." "Construction numbers are thru the roof," he says, touting US economy. "We're leading in SI, we're building our pharmaceutical…" "Now the radical left Dumocrats want to burn it down." Attacks Democrats on a variety of issues, including no tax on tips, voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote. "On election night, KY is going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it, America belongs to those who really love it." Goes after Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, misstates his name as "Mohamed El-Sayed." "I'm the president of the United States, I can call you whatever the hell I want." At 3:31 pm, Trump invites Andy Barr to come up to the stage. "Kentucky loves President Donald Trump!" Barr says. Thanks Trump for investing in Kentucky "to power America." "This president believes in American energy dominance." Barr leaves the stage at 3:33 pm. At 3:36 invites Ed Gallrein, R nominee for House, to the stage, after trashing outgoing GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, whom Gallrein defeated in the primary. "One year ago today he invited me to Oval Office," Gallrein said. He called on the audience to "help me with this no-fail mission." Went back to his seat at 3:37. "We've done 9, maybe 10 of these in the last few days," he said, referring to political rallies. "They're saying something's happening these big monster rallies," in Montana, Alaska. "They're all watching, Ohio is watching. The spirit is incredible, it's infectious." re the blue wave, and history of president's party doing poorly in midterms: "We're at, out of 25 races, a sitting president has won 2. There's never been any president that campaigned like this for the midterms…. If I don't make it, they're gonna get me. If we win, I will get absolutely no credit…. Shows video of Harry Enten on CNN talking about "MAGA GOP Voting Patterns." And how MAGA has stuck with Trump. And that he's more popular than Abraham Lincoln among MAGA voters. Talks against $5,000 if R's win, promises to make the tax cuts permanent, make permanent the estate taxes, "we'll win the war on corruption and fraud," led by JD Vance; promises to prevent any future president from opening borders. From earlier in the rally, courtesy of co-pooler Kerry Picket of WashTimes: "Seventeen days from now. The people of Kentucky are going to defeat the radical left Democrat Charles Booker." (on Andy Barr): "I backed him from day one when he was running for Congress against a very tough opponent." (on Barr's chances): "I know all you'd have to do if the people turn out just a little bit, you're going to walk away, but you're going to have one of the best senators in Washington." (on Ed Gallrein, who defeated Rep. Massie in GOP primary): "I looked at him walk through the door of the Oval Office. I said, that guy is central casting…He's a Navy seal, straight up and down." "here in Kentucky's 4th district, we're going to send Ed Gallrein to the US House of Representatives." Rally ended at 3:50. YMCA is playing as pool files out Linda Feldmann The Christian Science Monitor Sat. Oct. 17, 3:52 PM

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