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Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the passage of a renewed child tax credit – a bill that had passed the House by a 357 to 70 margin – because childless cat ladies something.

I dunno guys, I just think that maybe winning the 2024 election might be more important than having this silly and meaningless conversation

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 1, 2024

Ben Shapiro seems to be sensible enough to realize Kamala Harris’s background isn’t a winning issue for Republicans. Josh Shapiro on the other hand just may end up being Harris’s pick for a running mate as CNN’s Ed Dovere reports the Pennsylvania gov abruptly canceled “a bunch” of appearances at fundraising events in New York and the Hamptons he had scheduled for this weekend.

So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs?”

“Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our ‘negotiators’ are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash. To do so is bad precedent for the future. That’s the way it should be, or this situation will get worse and worse. They are extorting the United States of America. They’re calling the trade ‘complex’ – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday, plainly furious that the Biden Administration undermined his promises to free Evan Gershkovich before even taking office if elected.

Furious enough to shit on the Russians, even if he doesn’t do it by name. All the details are available if he wants to read them and he obviously doesn’t. The US gave up four Russians being held in American prisons, all of them scam artists and money launderers convicted of various crimes.

The fat bastard then shared scumbag Laura Loomer’s post of Kamala Harris’s birth certificate and then a video of the Khelif-Carini fight screaming he’ll “KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!”

A Michigan MAGA terrorist was arrested this week after leaving a threatening note to a landscaper who moved their signs – one of which was a “Trump Pence” sign with “Vance” handwritten on a piece of tape over “Pence” – from the roadside of a vacant commercial property, ABC 12 reports.

Saginaw landscaper Tom Roy, who the article mentions is Republican himself, hadn’t even thrown out the signs lining the edge of the former Sears store his firm is contracted to maintain, he simply leaned them up on the side of a utility box so the owner could come back and collect them. When Roy returned on Sunday to continue working the property he found the signs had been put back in place, also noticing a handwritten note taped to a nearby lamppost that said, per Roy, “a threat that they are in the far distance with a camera with a 9mm gun, so I got a little worried because it was very specific,” and calling him a “lame Democrat” for moving the pro-Republican signs.

Roy said he then called the police, who confiscated the signs as their placement was in violation of municipal code. Later, an unnamed 50 year-old Saginaw man also called the cops to complain that his signs had been stolen – which led to him admitting that he had written the note and being booked into the county jail on a threat of terrorism charge. The “9mm” turned out to be a BB gun.

Asked by a reporter at a Thursday White House presser heralding the prisoner exchange with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s regime what he had to say to convicted felon former President Trump’s claim that he could have gotten the four American citizens held in Russia “without giving away anything in exchange,” President Biden simply responded with “Why didn’t he do it when he was president?” The snappy reply didn’t exactly refer to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich (that’s a different story though), but it certainly did with former Marine Paul Whelan, who was arrested on December 28, 2018 – two years and 23 days before Trump left office.

Look at what Kamala Harris did or supports or doesn’t actually have anything to do with at all but it just kind of feels like she does so MAGA Twitter are absolutely losing their shit over it.

True or let her deny it https://t.co/z3OulP5eKJ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2024

They needed some kind of distraction after the horror show that was Wednesday so they went with a very short Olympics boxing match between Algerian Imane Khelif and Italian Angela Carini – which Carini quit after 46 seconds because Khelif had simply mauled her. “After the second blow, and after years of experience in the ring and a lifetime of fighting, I felt extreme pain in my nose,” Carini said after the bout… which the right wing freaks made into a “controversy” all morning Thursday.

Few if any actually used the word “trans,” they simply said Khelif is male because she was disqualified from an International Boxing Association tournament in India last year after testing for high levels of testosterone. The IBA itself was suspended as a qualifying body by the IOC for some sort of financial fuckery, so Khelif and fellow boxer, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, were allowed to compete this year in Paris, just as they both did in Tokyo in 2021, without said “controversy.”

A New York appeals court on Thursday ruled convicted felon former President Trump is still subject to the gag order imposed on him by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan prior to the trial which found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, with the court finding “the fair administration of justice necessarily includes sentencing,” leaving it in place until then, the AP reports.

The Utah state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a case brought against the state over its near-total abortion ban brought by Planned Parenthood Association of Utah “raises serious issues concerning SB 174’s constitutionality – and serious issues going to the merits is what Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 63A required when the district court evaluated the motion for a preliminary injunction. The district court did not abuse its discretion when it reviewed the evidence the parties presented and concluded that PPAU would suffer irreparable harm if the law were not enjoined, that the balance of harms tips in favor of an injunction, and that an injunction would not be adverse to the public interest. We affirm the district court and allow the preliminary injunction to remain in place while PPAU litigates its claims.” The upshot is that the state’s 18-week ban remains in place for now.

In what’s a mere formality at this point in the game, delegates to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday began the virtual roll call to nominate VP Kamala Harris, CBS News reports.

The New York Times on Tuesday reported holy shit this is what we’re fucking paying them like $20 a month to print? Jesus Christ, in what universe is this a real article? They actually felt compelled to reduce this woman, who has probably at this point a better than 50-50 chance of becoming the leader of the free world, down to a study in fucking pantsuits? These people need help.

Fuck. Thing is that we would actually be more than cool with this if it were coming from some celebrity or fashion-centric outlet with a readership removed from politics like Us Weekly or Vogue or whatever. Get those people excited about Kamala Harris’s candidacy. A vote is still a vote even if it’s based on her looks and style being better than the Orange Diva’s. In the Times it just looks like frivolous, tiresome horseshit that piles on to the growing bad will among subscribers like us already beyond fed up with their fucking abysmal handling of this apocalyptic election year.

In a possible sign of their nervousness, convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign is running TV ads in North Carolina starting Thursday, Medium Buying reports on what should’ve been a safe state for the fat fuck. Even though it was his closest win in 2020, Biden had basically no chance of contesting it and we’re skeptical that Kamala Harris can outperform Joe there. Still it’s a sign of worry from a team that had been campaigning in Minnesota and New Jersey.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan have been freed in a multi-prisoner exchange between with Russia, Bloomberg’s Jordan Fabian reports. Whelan had been in the gulag since December 28th, 2018, and Gershkovich since March 30, 2023.

Both were arrested on fake charges of espionage, with Gershkovich’s charges particularly fucking scummy given that it came just a day after he filed a story titled “Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone.” We’re still waiting on details of the exchange and who the US (or possibly third countries) handed to Putin’s regime in exchange, but either way there goes convicted felon former President Trump’s extremely twisted and suspicious promise to free Gershkovich if he’s elected.

Convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign team are looking to have couch-loving Mike Pence replacement weirdo JD Vance make “a second pass at introducing himself to America as the Ohio senator attempts to put his uneven rollout as Donald Trump’s running mate in the rearview mirror,” CNN reports with wording that just kind of feels like it was written by Team Orange.

Sources on the campaign say the Vance rollout hasn’t gone as planned and that he was mostly picked because he praised Trump during recent TV appearances… ones more recent than when he called Trump “America’s Hitler” and “cultural heroin,” among other accurate assessments.

The plan for the “reset” is to put him in a bunch of right wing edgelord podcast interviews and to serve as the campaign’s “main policy attack dog” because Trump is incapable of that.

Arizona-based Republican strategist Chuck Coughlin tells Politico that convicted felon former President Trump revealed how badly he just blew up his own campaign’s strategy during the train wreck NABJ interview in Chicago on Wednesday, saying “They don’t have a narrative that they’re comfortable with about how to take down Harris. He’s grasping around. I think he’s desperately grasping around with his instincts. I don’t think his team has any way to put their handle on this.”

Politico themselves characterize the shitshow with “Scrambling to put an end to Kamala Harris’ ascent, Donald Trump’s campaign and outside allies came up with a plan: Hit her on immigration, her record as a ‘liberal prosecutor’ and as a ‘radical.’ It didn’t last long,” and that the stupid, racist shit he said “overshadowed the attacks his political operation has made against Harris in recent days, while Trump still seems to be searching for an effective message to damage her.”

Loyal ballsucker former RNC spokesman Doug Heye spun it with the old “The media is going to go into overdrive over the next 24 hours of all the ‘bombshells’ from this interview, as it has every other time Trump the matador waves the red cape and the media follows. The conversation today and tomorrow will not be on cat ladies or coconuts, etc but back on Trump. Where he wants it.”

That trope was tiresome in 2016, even if there was some validity to it. However Trump was sui generis then, by 2020 when Joe Biden was running his “basement campaign” the novelty had worn off and more media attention was a bad thing. If it was a good thing then Donald and his fanboys would have been happy that Biden had a lower profile. That Harris’s campaign just put out a brief statement ripping Trump and then outsourced all the “damage control” to Republicans complaining that the fat bastard wasn’t focusing on policy, should tell you this isn’t good attention.

A new round of ads by Republican Voters Against Trump features five of the fat bastard’s former voters telling the camera why they’re switching to supporting Kamala Harris this year. They’re all middle aged and white, which is obviously the correct demographic to target and build the permission structure for reluctant would-be Trump voters in that cohort to switch.

RVAT founder Sarah Longwell is a pretty freaking sharp consultant who constantly runs focus groups and does a pretty good podcast about them. She’s basically the alpha wolf of the Never-Trumper movement, so far be it from us to question her here, but we were to understand that this sort of pitch was always supposed to open with why these people supported Trump in the first place and then go into why they decided to walk away from MAGA… Maybe it’s just time constraints?

Convicted felon former President Trump’s shitshow at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday had Congressional Republicans going back to their time-honored “I haven’t what he said yet” and “It wasn’t helpful” vintage of avoiding confronting the fat fuck’s racial malevolence, per quotes obtained by usually GOP-friendly outlets Axios and Punchbowl.

“Any time we’re commenting on anything but this Biden administration’s failed economy, failed border, failed national security, we’re not gaining ground,” North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis said to Punchbowl. Asked if Trump should apologize, Tills said “I’ll leave that to President Trump.”

“I haven’t seen [Trump’s batshittery] and I haven’t seen the context in which they were made, so I don’t have anything for you,” creepy, grandmotherly Lousiana Senator John Kennedy told Axios.

“The president speaks for himself,” Wyoming’s John Barrasso repeated five times to Punchbowl. “I’m going to continue to talk about her record, and I think her record helps Republicans win.”

Israeli military officials on Thursday confirmed that, Mohammed Deif, the leader Hamas’s military wing, was killed – along with 90 bystanders – in a July 13 airstrike in Gaza, the AP reports.

As an always-spinning conservative political pundit, Scott Jennings did his best to try to put to lipstick on a pig, and that pig is Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party.  Trump’s latest porcine act of piggery occurred at the Chicago conference of Black journalists where Trump questioned presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s heritage, and Jennings tries at first to cast Trump’s appearance as brave before admitting, “He did crap the bed today.  The only question is, is he gonna roll around in it or is he gonna get up and change the sheets.”

Asked if he could defend Donald Trump’s comments from his appearance at a conference of Black journalists–“I didn’t know [Vice President Kamala Harris] was Black ’til a number of years ago, she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.  So I don’t know.  Is she Indian or is she Black?”–Arkansas Republican Senator and recognized cockwomble Tom Cotton would not address the issue, instead misstating Trump’s comments as remarks about her policy positions, something not mentioned in the quote cited.

Updates on two of Donald Trump’s business ventures that have not been shuttered by the courts, and they’re not good.  Trump’s Truth Social, the low-budget Twitter rip-off platform and the single product of the Trump Media & Technology Group with a mysterious $4.4 billion market cap, continues to shed users, the Guardian reports.  In June, the site reported 2.11 million users, a 38% drop from the previous year.

Another of Trump’s money laundering efforts, LIV Golf, the Saudi-financed ball-chasing tournament that pays to use Trump golf courses, continues to see its viewership drop, going from an initial audience of 430,000 on its opening weekend down to 143,000 for a June event.  While viewership for all live golf events including PGA and LPGA events has dropped, LIV ratings have been particularly hard hit.

And this comes one month after Caffeine TV, the start-up streaming service contracted to supplement the CW Network broadcast found high on your UHF dial, went belly-up suddenly, months into its initial contract for exclusive streaming rights.