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“He loves this. Another news cycle he will dominate. I hate it because it will alienate the independent voters we need to win in the general. Not everyone is as eager to martyr him as his base is. This will not end well. But y’all are bound and determined to try” – The current top comment on the RedState.com article “BREAKING: Donald Trump Confirms Receiving Target Letter From Jack Smith in January 6 Criminal Investigation.” Weird how rational-ish this guy seems over it.

“The message I got was, remember Jared? Pedophiles still crave Subway” – The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “CNN Says Jack Smith Buying a $5 Subway Sandwich is a ‘Message to Trump,'” about the network’s silly, insipid coverage of Smith being spotted buying lunch on Tuesday… which a Gateway Pundit reader “jokes” that it means Smith is a pedophile.

“Trump is suspected to have ripped a tag off a mattress in 1992. Quick! Empanel a grand jury to investigate. At this point all this is getting obvious and ridiculous and comes across as gratuitous piling on. It will push Trump’s supporters even closer to him, but as usual, the Democrats could be overreaching here because most normals out there know a pile-on when they see it, and piling on just because you CAN is inherently unfair” – The current top comment on the TownHall article “Trump Announces He Expects ‘Arrest and Indictment’ in January 6 Grand Jury Probe.” Public opinion polls have for months consistently found majorities support criminal charges against Trump, so LOL at this asshole thinking “most normals out there know a pile-on when they see it.”

US law enforcement officers interdicted fewer than 100,000 in June, the lowest level since February 2021 as the impact of Biden Administration policies like revoking Title 42 and implementing remote asylum requests start to take effect, Politico reports.  Border agents detained 99,545 individuals trying to enter the country through means other than one of the ports; another 45,000 undocumented migrants came in through the ports of entry.

Undoubtedly, conservatives will credit Trump’s wall–which apparently took more than two years to make an impact even though it’s a physical barrier–or claim that this is some secret Deep State plot to underreport the number of “illegals” entering the country because laptop debt ceiling cocaine.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Sith’s letter notifying disgraced former President Trump he’s a target in the criminal investigation into the post-2020 election coup attempt plot included mentions of three federal statues the fat bastard is likely to be charged under: Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States, deprivation of rights under color of law, and tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant, sources on Team Orange tell Rolling Stone.

The letter does not contain any mention of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, or insurrection, suggesting that Smith is aiming for the official corruption-ish elements of the plot to overturn the election, like pressuring Mike Pence to toss the electoral votes, rather than the more ambiguous culpability the autocratic tyrant has in inciting the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.

With record-breaking temperatures reported not just in the United States but around the world, the report of a location in Iran having a heat index reaching 152 degrees Fahrenheit has scientists and medical researchers wondering if humans can tolerate anything higher, CNN reports.

Researchers have calculated the top threshold for environmental temperatures that humans can tolerate would be 160°F for any extended period.  Should the climate continue to heat up, humans may find some areas physically too hot to handle for more than an hour or two a day.

Asked by Jake Tapper if Donald Trump should be charged if Jack Smith presents evidence of a crime, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis says it’s all water under the bridge and should be overlooked:  “I don’t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago, uh, in January,” a wide-eyed DeSantis asserts even though the crimes happened two years ago and continue on through today.  “And so I want to focus on looking forward.  I don’t want to look back.  I do not want to see him, I hope he doesn’t get charged.  I don’t think it’ll be good for the country, but at the same time, I’ve got to focus on looking forward and that’s what we’re going to do.”

Clearly someone who didn’t take the right lessons away from her gradeschool history classes, Georgia’s Missing Link, Republican Congresswoman and women who literally can’t stop shoving her sporkfoot in her mouth Marjorie Taylor Greene now apparently thinks apartheid wasn’t all that bad as she “air quotes” the evil out of it.  “There’s a lot of countries that rely on walls.  I have one article here that, um, that comes from earlier this month [Editor’s note:  it’s from 2015.], um that says, talkin’ ’bout 65 countries have erected fences on their borders, um, also talkin’ about walls, talkin’ about security fears, widespread refusal to help refugees have fueled a new spate of wall building around the world.  They include Israel’s aparthe– ‘Apartheid Wall,” India’s 2,500 miles fence around Bangladesh and Morocco’s huge sand berm.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday announced her office has indicted all 16 fake Trump 2020 electors in her state on forgery-related crimes, CNN reports. Charged are former state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock and other fake electors Kathy Berden, Rose Rook, Mayra Rodriguez, Hank Choate, Mari-Ann Henry, John Haggard, Cliff Frost, Kent Vanderwood, Stanley Grot, Marian Sheridan, Tim King, James Renner, Michele Lundgren, Amy Facchinello, and Ken Thompson.

The criminal complaint against Berden, who served as the Michigan RNC National Committeewoman during the coup attempt, lists eight total counts: conspiracy to commit forgery, two counts of forgery, conspiracy to commit utter and publishing, uttering and publishing, conspiracy to commit election law forgery, and two counts of election law forgery with a maximum total penalty of fucking 85 years in prison and $32,000 in fines. Berden is a close ally of RNC National Chair and fellow Michigander Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel and the person whom Ronna had in mind when she famously wrote that people were being victimized by “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” from the House January 6th Committee investigation.

Yes, Ronna did open herself up to completely valid criticism as her lack of specificity made it sound like she meant the Capitol rioters with that stupid shit. But she reportedly had really meant to refer to Berden and other “legitimate political” actors who were subpoenaed by the committee.

In a Tuesday hearing in the case against fat former President Trump over his theft of classified documents from the White House, MAGA federal Judge Aileen Cannon was disinclined to rule for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s target December trial date but also seemed skeptical of Trump’s bid to delay it until after the 2024 election, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reports.

Democratic House members plan to bring another motion to censure Republican conman and New York Congressman George Santos to the floor for a vote, but unlike their May attempt, they expect a number of GOP colleagues to join them in this effort, Politico reports.

Speaker pro tem Kevin McCarthy was able to fend off the last effort to oust a valuable ally to McCarthy’s speakership by moving the complaint to the House Ethics Committee after New York Republicans pushed to expel Santos, who has been an ongoing embarrassment to New York Republicans.

The New York delegation set a 60-day timeframe to revisit the issue, during which time the Ethics Committee launched an extensive investigation into the various alleged illegal and unethical acts by Santos.  The Committee has issued more than 30 subpoenas and received information from 40 different sources from which it had requested information.

Fascist MAGA lawyer John Eastman, whose conscience was guilty enough that he literally asked for a presidential pardon in the weeks after his efforts to help keep disgraced then-President Trump in power had ended in disaster and bloodshed, has not yet received a target letter from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s office, his attorney said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Our client has received no target letter,” said Eastman lawyer Charles Burnham. The statement was longer but it was all bullshit about how his client is innocent so we just copied the relevant part.

Now assuming Burnham’s telling the truth about this, and setting aside the possibility that Eastman simply didn’t get a target letter yet, the statement raises the all-important question of what the hell’s going on here. The FBI seized Eastman’s phone pursuant to a criminal investigation last June – months before Jack Smith was even appointed, so it’s more likely than not that he’s still in trouble. Unlike with Rudy and Mark Meadows we’ve seen no reporting indicating Eastman might also flip on Trump, but the guy is a fucking weasel who wouldn’t survive an hour in prison so we might have to go ahead rate that as the (marginally) likeliest possibility in absence of further reporting.

A set of ancient oil lamps and other artifacts that had been in the keep of the Israeli Antiquities Authority and lost amid the COVID shitshow after they were loaned to the White House in 2019 for display at a Trump-hosted Hanukkah Party have been tracked down at Mar-a-Lago, Haaretz reports.

The Netanyahu Regime found out about this a few months ago, but kept quiet as to not disturb the unholy Orange Baal, trying to use Trump’s former Ambassador David Friedman as a conduit to politely ask the pieces be returned, an effort that has thus far proved unsuccessful. Sources tell Haaretz the Israeli government isn’t sure if Trump is definitely aware that he still has the lamps, but let’s be fucking honest: He knows and he’s ignoring them on purpose. One Israeli official involved in the effort said he wouldn’t be surprised if the artifacts are “in some bathroom” at Mar-a-Lago.

Crunching the numbers for the RNC’s debate qualification requirements, Politico have determined that chunky former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie – along with former South Carolina Governor Nimrata “Nikki” Haley, weirdo millennial Vivek Ramaswamy, and Senator Tim Scott have met the polling and fundraising thresholds to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in person since soon-to-be thrice-indicted former President Trump almost certainly won’t be there at the first 2024 GOP primary showdown in Milwaukee next month, especially now to avoid Chris Christie.

Mike Pence has met the minimum polling requirement but hasn’t hit the 40,000 individual donor requirement yet to make it to the big stage. Would be a damn shame if his last ever nationally televised debate would be the one when the fly landed on his head and sat there for a minute.

Jack Smith is a lousy attorney.

His career is filled with mistrials, overturned cases, and judicial rebukes.

He only targets Republicans because he’s a weak little bitch for the Democrats.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 18, 2023

A South Carolina MAGA white nationalist who last month pleaded guilty to burning objects with intent to intimidate – literally a Virginia criminal statute – after marching with a tiki torch in the infamous August 11, 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was arrested Monday on charges of assault, obstruction, parading, and other felony counts over his violently enthusiastic participation in the similarly-themed January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, NBC News reports.

Tyler Dykes, 25, a former Marine, is accused of stealing “a riot shield from law enforcement and raised it over his head to establish sole possession of the item,” during the mayhem.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer Robert Costello tells CNN’s Paula Reid that his alcoholic shitbrain client has not received a target letter from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team and does not expect him to be charged in their investigation of the Trump Regime’s post-2020 election coup attempt. Costello did not say why, but the implication is pretty obvious given recent reporting on Captain 9/11’s interactions with prosecutors.

The guy who screamed “THEY’RE TRYING TO FUCKING KILL ME!” during a phone call with then-President Trump as his marauders rampaged through the Capitol believes that Jack Smith is getting a grand jury to indict Donald because his “poll numbers are up” lately. Interesting.

“WOW! On Sunday night, while I was with my family, having just arrived from the Turning Point event in Florida, where I won the Straw Poll against all other Republican candidates with 85.7%, with all polls showing me leading in the Republican Primary by very substantial numbers, almost everyone predicting that I will be the Republican Nominee for President, and as I am leading Democrat Joe Biden in the polls by a lot, HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country was given to me by my attorneys. Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment.”

“…But on top of all of that, they have now effectively indicted me three times (the DOJ staffed and runs the DA’s Office in Manhattan), with a probable fourth coming from Atlanta, where the DOJ are in strict, and possibly illegal, coordination with the District Attorney, whose record on murder and other violent crime is abysmal. THIS WITCH HUNT IS ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL POLITICAL WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT! It is a very sad and dark period for our Nation!” says the disgraced loser in the first half of a statement.

As if there was any doubt, in the second half Trump confirmed what’s happening: “This has been a neverending fight from the day I came down the escalator in Trump Tower, many years ago. So interesting that in this case the information was delivered to me on a Sunday night, less than 24 hours after I suggested during a major speech that the Federal Government ASSUME CONTROL of a filthy, unsanitary, neglected, and crime-ridden Washington, DC, where murder and violent crime are rampant and people no longer want to go to our Nation’s Capital… and yet, that is where Biden’s DOJ actually wants my trial to take place, all because they think, especially after my strong words of a Federal takeover at the speech, a DC jury will do whatever they want. VERY UNFAIR!”

A new Suffolk University/USA Today survey of Ohio voters finds incumbent Democrat US Senator Sherrod Brown ahead of two of his three likeliest 2024 Republican challengers – 48 to 41 percent versus businessman Bernie Moreno, 46 to 43 percent versus Cleveland Guardians ownership family member Matt Dolan, and tied at 45 percent each with Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

As for the GOP primary itself, LaRose leads among Republican voters at 19 percent to Dolan’s 14 percent and Moreno’s 9 percent, with 57 percent undecided, so whatever lead the Secretary of State has now is probably more due to name recognition thing than anything else. Per Politico, Moreno is considered tightest with the Orange God Emperor, who publicly encouraged him to jump in, although an “official” endorsement hasn’t come yet. Bernie is also bros with amoral nihilist Senator JD Vance, who has endorsed him. LaRose meanwhile might be vulnerable among MAGA voters for insufficient faith in the cult of “election integrity,” as well being caught on tape badmouthing Trump. Dolan is also likely on Donald’s naughty list over past comments.

Even with this drama, the 2024 Ohio GOP Senate primary is still unlikely to be anything remotely as ugly as the historic shitshow Buckeyes were treated to in 2022, mostly surrounding the flaming out of utterly deranged former State Treasurer Josh Mandel, a 30-something Marine vet, who very nearly beat the shit out a 70-something rival Mike Gibbons on stage during a debate.

An unidentified US national on a tour of a South Korean border village adjacent to the DMZ walked into North Korea without authorization and was immediately arrested on Tuesday, the AP reports.

It’s not clear if the American was crazy and knew what they were doing or was stupid enough to somehow get lost and enter the totalitarian communist shithole, but either way the UN Command is working with the Kim Regime to try to negotiate the release of the hapless moron. Or their corpse.

Temperatures are expected to hit only 123 degrees Fahrenheit in southern California’s Death Valley on Tuesday according to a National Weather Service forecast, putting the famously inhospitable, mortality-themed desert region tantalizingly short of the all time worldwide daytime high record of 134 degrees hit at Furnace Creek, located within the valley, in July of 1913.