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The Federal Reserve Bank may end up reporting GDP growth as high as 5.6 percent on annualized basis in the third quarter of 2023, doubling previous internal estimates, Bloomberg reports on something we’re not going to otherwise pretend to understand but it sounds pretty impressive.

“Any read on GDP growth above 3.2 percent would mark the strongest quarter since 2021, when the US was experiencing a rapid recovery from the initial shock of the pandemic. The acceleration is in stark contrast with the outlook for China, which has been downgraded in recent weeks amid a mounting property crisis,” Bloomberg writes in their report which sounds like good news.

Well unless you’re one of those people who don’t like good economic news when it means you have to stop repeating tired cliches like “Americans vote with their wallets!” because doing so consistently in such situations is effectively an acknowledgement that victory is less than assured for the candidates you prefer in the next election. Then it’s bad news and decidedly at cross purpose with whatever actual sincere desire one may have for economic growth and for middle class families to prosper and so on and so forth. Which was supposed to be the reason you were constantly complaining about the suffering caused by current economic policies in the first place rather than simply exploiting whatever electoral advantage that could be gained by said suffering.

And yeah we were talking about Republicans, who are going to be fucking PISSED if “Bidenomics” ends up getting validated by 5.6 percent gross domestic product growth in the third quarter.

In their version of Roe v. Wade, the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized abortion across the nation, allowing patients seeking abortions in states like Texas, Alabama and Mississippi to get safe, legal medical care across the border, the Associated Press reports.

Various Mexican states had legalized abortions in some manner–in the same patchwork policy Republicans believe works on a national level in the US–but in an opinion issued Wednesday, the Supreme Court ordered the procedure decriminalized nationwide.  With Mexico’s federally-funded health system, the order also requires all hospitals to provide abortion on-demand to patients to seek one at a government-run facility.

Irresponsible crackhead Hunter Biden will once again be charged with unlawful gun possession and tax crimes before the end of the month, CNBC reports citing a court filing by Hunterghazi special counsel David Weiss. It’s not clear if Hunter will try for a plea deal again.

Deposed authoritarian Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to establish a fascist police state in which enemies of his regime will be subject to prosecution and imprisonment for attempting to hold him accountable through various legitimate congressional and criminal investigations over the years.

“They spied on my Campaign, Impeached me twice, had the Russia, Russia Hoax, the Fake Dossier Hoax, FISA Fraud, Election Fraud, the ‘No Collusion’ Mueller Hoax, and so much more. I was innocent on all counts. If I am elected, they will be brought to JUSTICE, something that Republicans have always been afraid to do,” Trump wrote on his lame, QAnon-infested Twitter clone, continuing in another post with “Right now Republicans in Congress and the Senate have to get tough, and put everything together in one big, neat package, because I will be President in one and a half years, and we will pick the strongest, toughest, and most respected Attorney General, and if guilty, we will put them all in jail where they belong, just as they are trying to do to me based on NOTHING.”

The posts came in between bitching about former Vice President Mike Pence and ghoulish, far right racist but still anti-Trump influencer Ann Coulter. Left unexplained was why Trump failed to fulfill similarly terroristic promises of retribution made toward Hillary Clinton during his 2016 campaign.

Mar-a-Lago IT chief Yuscil Tavares has entered into a cooperation agreement with Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and will testify against disgraced ex-President Trump in exchange for immunity from prosecution for aiding Donald’s efforts to obstruct justice by deleting security camera footage sought by a subpoena in the investigation into Trump’s hoarding of stolen classified documents, CNN reports on what was already a pretty bad day for the fat fuck.

From the superseding indictment handed down July 27th, which referred to Tavares only as “[Trump Employee 4]”: “DE OLIVEIRA told [Tavares] that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted. [Tavares] responded that he would not know how to do that, and that he did not believe that he would have the rights to do that. [Tavares] told DE OLIVEIRA that DE OLIVEIRA would have to reach out to another employee who was a supervisor of security for TRUMP’s business organization. DE OLIVEIRA then insisted to [Tavares] that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”

The Mike Lindell-ish fantasies of Nigerian Labor Party fans hoping to see All Progressives Congress Party President Bola Tinubu removed from office and losing 2023 election candidate Peter Obi installed were snuffed out with a MyPillow Wednesday by a special presidential tribunal convened to examine allegations of fraud and a US criminal record for Tinubu, the Guradian Nigeria reports.

“According to Section 137 of the constitution, Bola Tinubu is not disqualified from contesting the presidential poll,” ruled Nigerian Supreme Court Justice Haruna Tsammani, also finding that the allegations that Tinubu had a criminal record for drug trafficking in the US was bullshit. The tribunal’s proceedings did not include any allegations that Twitter suppressed stories about Tinubu’s son’s laptop or that too many people were allowed to vote by mail. Those might’ve worked.

Writing simply “Decline to sign, Defendant’s arguments are completely without merit,” New York state Judge Arthur Engoron on Wednesday denied disgraced former President Trump’s motion to delay the trial New York Attorney General Leticia James’s $250 million civil suit against him aimed to annihilate his corrupt business empire, still scheduled to kick off in Manhattan next month.

Trump minions Kenny Chesebro and Sidney “Kraken” Powell are in court in Fulton County, Georgia on Wednesday seeking to sever their cases from the other 17 defendants in the sprawling RICO indictment over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the Peach State.

“Patriot, Today was supposed to be my scheduled arraignment in Atlanta. But I refuse to be part of the Left’s televised spectacle as they weaponize the legal system to try and make me look like a criminal and list over a dozen FALSE CHARGES against me on live TV. Instead, I want to make today a MASSIVE grassroots fundraising day,” writes some campaign aide pretending to be disgraced former President Trump in another stupid email to his fans – and those of us in the media masochistic enough to have signed up for this endless spam in case we want to use it for material.

The email was forwarded atop a previous one dated Saturday, which read in part: “A judge ruled that all of my court proceedings in Atlanta will be TELEVISED for the entire country to watch. The Communist Democrats would love nothing more than for me to be stuck in court in a televised spectacle as a way to keep me off the campaign trail. But I refuse to play into the Left’s hands. That’s why I have waived my in-person formal arraignment and simply pleaded ‘NOT GUILTY’ to the indictment in the Georgia witch hunt… Why would I fly down to Atlanta just to hear over a dozen FALSE CHARGES brought against me on live TV? We have serious matters to deal with – not televised charades orchestrated by Crooked Joe and his corrupt accomplices.”

So yeah, not to keep belaboring this point but like we predicted would happen and was already confirmed by Trump lawyer Alina Habba last week, the Orange Attention Whore is simply scared of being in a situation he’s not in control of and took the out to not appear in court when it was available to him. These stupid emails speak to a deep insecurity where he needs to overexplain the dodge to his fanboys who’ve been conditioned to believe he’s nothing but tough and fearless. Sad!

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a 20-year-old non-partisan watchdog group that monitors questionable behavior by elected officials in DC, has filed a lawsuit in Colorado seeking to prevent Donald Trump from the ballot in November 2024 based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ABC News reports.  It’s the first significant lawsuit to remove Trump from a state ballot.

The clause, known as the Disqualification Clause, prevents people who had previously taken an oath as a public servent to protect and defend the Constitution from holding future office if they subsequently “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”  Proponents of the lawsuit say Trump’s support for the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress meet the criteria outlined in the Constitution for exclusion from public office.

Things are about to get real.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 6, 2023

An Orlando-area family tells CBS News they felt bad for the three legged black bear known to roam the woods near their Lake Mary, Florida neighborhood given the recent oppressive heat and didn’t intervene or call the cops when the wild ursine, nicknamed “Tripod” broke into their backyard patio recently and helped himself to three cans of White Claw alcoholic seltzer from their mini fridge and then some fish food from their aquarium before wandering off with a likely moderate buzz.

“As you may know, it’s hot here in Florida, so Tripoid the bear needed to refresh, and he decided to go for the White Claws when he opened the cooler,” Josaury Faneite-Diglio told CBS.

Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday awarded a partial summary judgment to writer EJ Carroll in her second defamation lawsuit against disgraced former President Trump, finding that the allegations in her complaint that the twice-impeached loser defamed her in 2019 were proven based on the findings in the first trial concluded in May of this year. The upcoming trial in the second case is still set to begin in January, however the jury will only be asked to consider damages.

House Freedom Caucasians are telling Axios that a motion to vacate the Speakership, which legendarily uncourageous Republican leader Kevin McCarthy agreed to allow any one member to initiate because he literally had no choice otherwise, could be coming for him and soon.

“I think it’s [motion to vacate] in the back of everybody’s mind… If somebody brings that it wouldn’t take much, you know, it just takes a couple of votes,” said Tennessee MAGA Congressman Tim Burchett. “I’ve been picking up chatter that they want to do a motion to vacate if we do a CR, but a lot of people want a CR to get more time and to attach HR 2,” another member said anonymously.

“When we get back to Washington in the coming weeks, we have got to seize the initiative. That means forcing votes on impeachment. And if Kevin McCarthy stands in our way, you may not have the job long,” Matt Gaetz said Tuesday on far right propagandist Todd Starnes’s show.

Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, who has appeared to have sufficiently complied with prosecutors to save his own ass, in May of last year tried to warn the Orange God Emperor that he had to comply with the subpoena for the documents he had stolen from the White House following his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election or the FBI would eventually come to Mar-a-Lago looking for them, according to Corcoran’s contemporaneous audio notes obtained by ABC News.

Another Trump attorney, probably that Boris Epshteyn chode if we had to guess, just minutes later warned Donald “would just go ballistic” if Corcoran continued to push the compliance issue.

The best part is the ending: The FBI did end up raiding Mar-a-Lago to recover the documents and Trump was eventually indicted for hoarding them just over a year after Corcoran recorded the notes.

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Wednesday landed in Kyiv to continue showing American support for Ukraine amid a grinding counteroffensive that is reportedly on the verge of a major breakout against the Russian occupiers in the country’s east, Bloomberg reports. The stop-by marks Blinken’s fourth visit to Ukraine since the war began and comes ahead of an expected announcement of another $1 billion in US military and humanitarian aid for the war-torn country.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis rebutted the attempt of one of the fake Republican electors to remove his case to federal court because, the defendant claims, he was working under the orders of the Trump campaign and was therefore acting as a federal official.  Willis asserts the defendant, Shawn Still, essentially argues that the electors were just acting as electors, not attempting to actually be the state’s electors, a claim that falls short of what the group actually did.

Of course, this group of sham electors was anything but duly elected or qualified . Nevertheless, Defendant and his fellow conspirators then caused the false certificate to be sent to the President of the Senate, the Archives of the United States, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Georgia, as would be appropriate if the false slate of electors had been genuine.  As alleged in the indictment, Defendant Still and his co-defendants were part of a conspiracy to subvert the electoral process. [Doc. 1-1], 30-32 (detailing scheme to have Trump elector nominees attempt to cast electoral votes in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, despite Trump’s loss in each of those states).

Perhaps taking a swipe at a one-time Georgian Republican Senate candidate, Texan Herschel Walker, Willis wrote, “Defendant’s argument is akin to claiming that a homemade badge could transform him into a genuine United States Marshal with all the powers afforded that position.”

Mother Nature obviously doesn’t want Ron DeSantis on the campaign trail.  Less than a week after Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the Gulf coast of Florida, a new Tropical Storm has formed in the Atlantic, and initial projections show it’s headed toward Florida, CBS News reports.

Currently 1,300 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, Tropical Storm Lee is expected to intensive as it heads northeast toward Dominica and Cuba, at which point it could continue on the path to Florida or bounce out to the North Atlantic.

Fourteen seconds of fact-free statements on Fox cable propaganda network:  “You don’t have to go back that far.  Biden plagiarized the term ‘Bidenomics.’  Biden plagiarized his own nickname, ‘Dark Brandon.’  Remember, that was a chanting NASCAR crowd that coined ‘Brandon.'”

Even when he’s trying to be over-the-top smarmy, Jesse Watters can’t help but be 100% wrong.  Joe Biden didn’t plagiarize the term “Bidenomics”; he co-opted it.  He owned it.  There’s a difference.  And it’s working in his favor, like “Obamacare,” when conservatives tried to use it as a slander, only to have it backfire.  And Biden didn’t plagiarize “Dark Brandon.”  That was a meme from an unknown internet artist which the White House and Biden camp adopted, to their favor, again.  And no, the NASCAR crowd didn’t coin “Brandon.”  The driver’s name was Brandon; the field reporter misheard the ignorant crowd and started a meme.  Fox sucks at rewriting history.

New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge to sanction Donald Trump, his two eldest sons, and his company among others, for repeatedly pushing dismissed and flagrantly faulty arguments in an apparent attempt to delay the civil financial fraud case from being heard, the Washington Post reports.

With the trial scheduled to start October 2nd, Trump has already been sanctioned by the judge in this case:  in June 2022, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Trump a total of $110,000 for failing to comply with subpoenas.  In a federal court earlier this year, he and his lawyers, including Alina Habba in this set, were fined nearly $1 million for bringing a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and various Justice Department officials.