“It has been 17 days since Kamala Harris replaced her mentor Crooked Joe Biden and she has refused to engage with the press or participate in interviews. It sounds like the Kamala-Walz campaign is scared of talking about their liberal records or policies, instead talking about non-sensical things like couches and coconuts. We’re not going to talk about couches or coconuts or whatever weird fetish KamalaHQ is into. When we have something to say, we’ll say loud and clear. If Kamala is a coward, we’ll call her a coward. If Tim Walz is a liar, we’ll call him a liar,” says large-headed Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung in a typically angry statement.

Well there you have it. They’ve officially addressed the couch meme in the public record. The Rubicon has been crossed and the die is cast as they say. There’s no un-pushin this cushion.

“In the few weeks that Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as Democrats’ standard bearer, she has ‘reset’ the electoral map to some degree, as she has polled better than President Biden was performing before he ended his campaign. We are upgrading Democrats’ chances in Minnesota, the home state of now-vice presidential candidate Gov Tim Walz (D), as well as in similarly blue New Hampshire. As Harris has performed better against Donald Trump in the Sun Belt than Biden, we are moving Georgia back into the Toss-up category,” writes election UVA egghead Larry Sabato.

The Veep and her would-be veep are expected to take the stage in Eau Claire at about 2:30 PM EDT, video taken earlier showed an extremely long line of attendees itching to get in to the venue.

A new survey of likely Wisconsin voters by Marquette University Law School finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 46 to 45 percent in a full field including RFK Jr and the other shitheads. Incumbent Dem Senator Tammy Baldwin leads Californian weirdo Republican Eric Hovde 51 to 45 percent among LVs with third party scrubs included.

“In the first 24 hours since Governor Walz was announced as Vice President Harris’ running mate, Team Harris-Walz has raised $36 million dollars,” the campaign announced Wednesday, per CBS’s Scott MacFarlane, making it official that the Veep has twice in under a month had a day eclipsing the $34.8 million fat former President Trump raised in May after he was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up two minutes of sex with a porn star.

🚨 Kamala Harris donated LAST YEAR to defund police group backing DC ‘sanctuary city’ law https://t.co/inT5HV1Zgx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 7, 2024

Damn, the team at RNC Research really live and breathe all those old sayings about how politics is perception, that you always want to present your adversaries in the ugliest way possible so that voters feel the same disgust and contempt as you do. It’s probably why they’re on a side with a dizzingly long string of dominant performances in every single election all acr-

Aye carumba! Medium Buying reports the Harris-Walz campaign have made their first purchase of ad spots on Spanish-language TV stations in the swing states, with the first ads running Thursday.

A 47 year-old employee at an Australian warehouse is under arrest after investigators tied him to the theft of $600,000 dollary-doos worth of coins depicting the popular character “Bluey,” from the eponymous animated children’s series about a family of dogs, the Australian ABC News reports.

Thing is that the coins aren’t strictly collector’s items but actual legal tender that the Australian national mint was about to put into circulation because Queen Elizabeth II is dead and they need some other global cultural icon on their currency. Meaning Steven John Neilson wasn’t some weirdo into kids’ cartoons but a regular, normal criminal stupid enough to get caught.

Things would feel a lot more even for Republicans if Kamala Harris did this every day and just looked like a complete jackass every single time. It’s only fair she and Tim Walz do the same.

Four people are dead, one of them a Lake County, Florida Sheriff’s deputy, another two deputies are wounded, and a QAnon-pilled registered Republican woman is being held without bail awaiting charges of suspicion of murder, attempted murder and other crimes after a shootout last week in a home in the town of Eustis spurred by pedophilia accusations, USA Today reports.

The shitshow started at about 7:45 PM Friday when 48 year-old Julie Sulpizio began assaulting her neighbors, accusing them of “being sinners,” and saying, ‘I know what you did.'” Cops responded and placed Sulpizio in cuffs. Asking her name, Sulpizio simply said she was “Helen under God’s will,” that her neighbors were pedophiles, and she was trying to lure them into her home so her husband, 49 year-old Michael Sulpizio could shoot them dead, as it was her job to bring him “dark souls.”

Deputies attempted to conduct a welfare check on the home, but were concerned that the residents might be armed so they waited. Finally after an hour of no activity, they approached and announced themselves, upon which Michael opened fire, fatally wounding 28 year-old Master Deputy Bradley Link. Two others were hit. Link’s body camera caught a woman, one of the Sulpizio’s daughters – either Cheyenne, 23, or Savannah, 22, (both registered GOP voters) screaming “My king will kill all of you!” while racking an assault rifle. A SWAT team showed up but all three of the Sulpizios still inside the house self-neutralized just before the tactical officers entered at around 11:02 PM.

Investigators found “conspiracy theory-related media,” gas masks, other emergency prep items, along with more than 20 firearms “gathered, placed and staged” around the home.

The Iowa State Fair will kick off on Thursday to a presidential hopeful-free celebration of the vast cornfield’s culture and heritage, starting with a parade headlined by fat, tattoo-faced caucasian rapper Jelly Roll, Christian recording artist Lauren Daigle, the Des Moines register reports.

Absent this year will be Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Asa Hutchinson, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Doug Burgum, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ryan Binkley, and the rest of them, trailed around by national political press and being photographed talking about farm policy to some dude in a John Deere hat who brought his prize piglets to the fair while eating deep fried cotton candy sprinkled with bacon bits and raspberry sauce drizzled top, served with a cup of funnel cake batter for dipping.

If Iowans are lucky it might not be until 2026 when Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Pompeo, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tucker Carlson, and Kristi Noem and whoever else show up for such tedious photo ops. If America is unlucky that would mean that Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, Wes Moore, etc will too, just in case there will actually be a 2028 election.

There it is. He actually said it. Convicted felon former President Trump on Wednesday acknowledged the other side of his moronic claims that stock market gains can be attributed to his poll numbers because investors are pricing in his winning, telling Fox and Friends that Monday’s losses were due to Vice President Kamala Harris’s clear if marginal momentum against the fat bastard in polls.

Set aside that he’s simply lying about this and everything else, and just marvel at the fact that he really did just apply some consistency to the internal logic of his stupid bullshit. That’s quite an admission, and an entertaining one at that. The Orange God Emperor otherwise played a mish-mash of his greatest hits such as that Jewish Democratic voters “need their heads examined,” that Harris-Walz would “want this county to go communist immediately if not sooner,” Walz is “very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great,” and responding to a question about housing costs with “Drill baby, drill… four years ago you were in great shape… you had gasoline at $1.87.”

President Joe Biden’s aides are looking at having him hit the campaign trail in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to help shore up support for Vice President Kamala Harris among the older, white, and/or blue collar workers friendlier to him than the veep, Politico Playbook reports.

Acknowledging the damage already wrought to convicted felon former President Trump’s brand, Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts tells RealClearPolitics he’s delaying publication of his upcoming book “Dawn’s Early Light” – which features a foreword written by Trump’s couch fucker running mate JD Vance – with Roberts saying in a statement that “there’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours – and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country. That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election,” almost as if the whole fucking point of printing out a book on the plot wasn’t to hype MAGA voters up beforehand.

Lol. Plainly butthurt over the blatantly panicked and triage-y reversal by Roberts, RCP tiptoes around in their description, writing “Project 2025 is a loose collection of white papers that Heritage hopes will be turned into policy come the next Republican presidency. It is not unusual for Beltway think tanks to draft policies they hope will become law, and the organization announced their initiative to little fanfare two years ago. But the proposals, from eliminating the Department of Education to new federal restrictions on abortion, have since become a lightning rod.” Which is their way of saying that Dems have effectively messaged it to the point where the fascists behind it are in full retreat.

And by “ominous” we mean ominous to the MAGA freaks who melted down before and after the Super Bowl since it was rigged by the Deep State because Taylor Swift was going to endorse Joe Biden in 2024 that’s why she was there cheering on her dude Travis Kelce and – holy shit they really are that deranged. It’s easy to get lost in the minutiae of that particular flavor of far right conspiracy theory while realizing it’s notionally insane, but summarizing it hits significantly harder.

Anyway, per the Hollywood Reporter, a shit ton of fans of both Swift and Kamala Harris saw the silhouette of a waving female figure appearing behind the 21st century’s female Elvis onstage as a portent of a coming endorsement, perhaps even heavy involvement with the Veep’s campaign as hoped and feared by left and right, respectively. Yes, on one hand this seems very Rorschach test-y, and partisans are going to see what they want to see. It’s also kind of weird that, if this is a tease, what the hell’s the point of just a tease? Why not just come out and endorse Harris?

On the other hand, well, the figure sure looks like Kamala Harris, confirmation bias or not. Whatever the meaning and intent of the image is, it definitely resembles the vice president in height, hairstyle, pantsuit, and poise. The background also kind of looks like it’s invoking the White House.

Dem donation platform ActBlue processed $41,338,094 in contributions on Tuesday, most of it after news broke that Vice President Kamala Harris had picked Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as her running mate, per the ActBlue tracker at ObservableHQ written by the Marshall Project’s Ryan Murphy.

Now with the caveat that we don’t know yet exactly how much of that went to Harris-Walz as opposed to downballot Dems, the DCCC/DSCC, PACs etc, while also assuming that the vast majority of it in fact did go to the top of the ticket, Tuesday is highly likely to be the second day in the less than three weeks since Joe Biden handed his reelection bid over to Harris that the D ticket broke disgraced former President Trump’s record $34.8 million haul from the day of his conviction.

Quoting Minnesota Gov Tim Walz’s “see what I did there?” joke about JD Vance and the couch, NBC News political correspondent Natasha Korecki on Tuesday reported “Some Republicans have been frustrated more media isn’t smacking down this kind of stuff, charging that it would be panned as disinformation if it were an attack on the left,” without noting that, well, you know, they kind of propagate misinformation every single goddamned day, like blaming Dem “rhetoric” for the failed attempt on convicted felon former President Trump’s life, that Joe Biden took bribes from Ukraine, that Hillary Clinton murdered children in a pizza dungeon, on and on, so they can fuck off.

Missouri Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush, an outspoken member of The Squad, lost her primary to the more moderate Wesley Ball in the state’s 1st Congressional District.  She’s the second member of the far-left Democratic sect to lose their reelection bid, after New York’s Jamaal Bowman.  Bush has not only frequently gone rogue on Democratic leadership who did not actively back her reelection, she’s also facing a corruption investigation for redirecting campaign funds to her husband.

In other Missouri election news:  Democrat Lucas Kunce will take on the jogging insurrectionist Republican Josh Hawley.  Trump lawyer Will Scharf lost the GOP primary in his bid to unseat the state’s Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, who Scharf said wasn’t radical enough.

On a day when many late primaries are happening–proving that you can nominate someone closer to Election Day and not need to advertise for two goddamn years–the race for Michigan’s open Senate seat has been set.  After stomping actor Hill Harper in today’s primary, Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin will take on former Congressman Mike Rogers, who last served in Washington in 2015; Rogers held off former Congressman Justin Amash.  The seat is available thanks to the retirement of four-term Democrat Debbie Stabenow.

Remember Scott Baio?  There’s really no reason to, unless you’re addicted to MeTV.  He’s the one on the right above, and he appeared on a couple sitcoms in the 1970s and 1990s.  Now he’s taking his turn at campaign planning.  (Hell, if Lara Trump, a former segment producer for an entertainment show can do it, so can Chachi.)  His advice to Trump:  stick to policy at the rallies.  Don’t stray off and insult people or tell stories.  Trump wins on all policy issues, Chachi says.  There’s one problem:  Trump denies knowing anything about the GOP’s policy platforms outlined in Project 2025.