“President Biden is more ‘receptive’ to the push for him to leave the ticket, has gone from saying ‘Kamala can’t win’ to asking if Kamala Harris can win,” CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports, on the possible, maybe beginning of the end of this deeply sad and sadly kind of necessary saga.

If that’s where this is going then it’s on Democrats and all of us to give Joe the heroic sendoff he deserves. This man has endured so much tragedy, suffering, and now this painfully unfortunate palace coup – that again, is the better outcome to give American democracy a better shot at surviving into next year – to end a career of dedicated service, one lasting more than half of his life so far, capped by the successful presidency that had eluded him for decades, one the most accomplished in generations legislatively. Let this be a celebration, not a lament.

We all have to ride off into that sunset one day or another. That the day may be coming sooner than later for our president is the result of so many forces converging to land us the right man to defend our democracy at the wrong time of his life. Move forward, but never forget him.

Wednesday night is JD Vance’s big debut amid a theme of “Make America Strong Again,” which is just the same bullshit canned “foreign policy” lines about handing Ukraine to Putin.

Republican Colorado State House member and Pastor Scott Bottoms on Sunday told his Evangelical MAGAchurch congregation that the FBI was behind the failed attempt on convicted felon former President Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday, 9News reports.

“I believe it’s the FBI. I’m not talking about the Democratic Party. I’m talking about the people that are controlling our country. The people that have been controlling the FBI, controlling the State Department,” Reverend/Representative Bottoms said to his flock. Bottoms, lol.

“This is just the beginning,” Bottoms continued. “They need that man dead. We’re not gonna have a presidential election. If he’s still alive and he’s not in jail, we’re not gonna have an election.”

Bottoms’s other claims to fame include being formally reprimanded by state House leadership for calling Democratic colleagues pedophiles, claiming January 6th was inside job, and told churchgoers that Israelis held hostage by Hamas should turn to Christianity to be freed from captivity.

President Joe Biden tested positive (again) for COVID on Wednesday just minutes before he was to take the stage for a speech in Las Vegas, CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang reports.

New Jersey Senator Gold Bars Bob Menendez will resign his seat following his conviction on a shit ton of felonies related to his bribery scams, NBC News reports. The timing is unclear.

Trump campaign dipshit Brian Hughes on Wednesday pumped the brakes on Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance of a debate against eyeliner-wearing Senator JD Vance, saying “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate,” in a statement making it obvious they aren’t committing.

So yeah, we kind of fucked up in our earlier article where we said it was “officially set.”

“JUST IN: Former Thomas Crooks classmate says Crooks was a known Trump hater and was a ‘know it all.’ The FBI still doesn’t know what Crooks’ motive could have been. Hispanic classmate Vincent Taormina recalled a political disagreement he had with Crooks after he told him that he was a Trump supporter. ‘He did not like any [politician],'” writes TrendingPolitics.com publisher Colin Rugg, co-founder of a really dogshit MAGA clickbait site, after three days of multiple other witnesses telling legitimate news outlets that the would-be Trump assassin was a conservative if not a Trump fanboy.

We’re still keeping an eye out for actual reliable updates on any indicators of Crooks’s politics and motivation, not some shit a MAGA propagandist paid another kid to say on camera.

Can’t believe how badly the RNC is doing in the ratings. They played right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats, and now are floating in limboland. Really Sad! Axios reports it’s down 21 percent compared to the 2016 RNC. Lots of people are saying the show sucks! No wonder it’s a ratings and beyond disaster! CANCEL and air Reruns of The Apprentice instead! More would watch!

For a party that bitches constantly about the use of non-gender-specific pronouns, Republicans sure like throwing “they” around a lot to as placeholder for vaguely nefarious malefactors.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday formally appealed MAGA Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the case against convicted felon former President Trump for stealing classified documents and hoarding them at Mar-a-Lago, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports.

In an interview set to air Wednesday, President Biden told BET’s Ed Gordon he would consider dropping out of the 2024 race if he had “some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” the New York Times reports.

It’s not clear if this is anything like “opening the door” to stepping aside, but the Times notes that the answer “is the latest in a series of shifting explanations by the president about what might cause him to reconsider. In an interview with ABC News this month, Biden said he would drop out only if the ‘Lord almighty’ told him to. At a news conference in Washington several days later, he said he would stay in the race unless aides came to him with proof that he could never win.”

Georgia MAGA Congressman Rich McCormick responded to a Newsmax host’s suggestion that Democrats were somehow “trying to get their stories straight” on the failed assassination attempt of convicted felon former President Trump – like it was a plot – with just general MAGA bullshit. Th answer was as if McCormick didn’t listen to the question at all. He clearly did, based on the content because the canned lines about Marxism and the judiciary and what not was to paper over his unwillingness to directly engage with the right wing propagandist’s conspiracy theories.

A source tells NBC News that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pushed for the DNC’s sudden reversal on the plan to begin the virtual roll-call nomination of President Biden this week.

In related news, California’s presumptive next Senator, Congressman Adam Schiff went public with his call for President Biden to step aside following private comments from last weekend that leaked.

Vice President Kamala Harris and eyeliner-wearing Senator JD Vance will face off in a debate on CBS on Monday, August 12th, Wall Street Journal’s Ken Thomas reports. No flies allowed on the set.

Former Las Vegas city councilwoman, 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary candidate, and current Nye County justice of the peace Michele Fiore was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday for “her alleged scheme to defraud donors to a charity to memorialize police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty,” according to a Justice Department press release coming just over three years to the day after the reports of a federal investigation into a campaign finance scam first surfaced.

“According to the indictment, Fiore, 53, solicited donations to build a statue honoring Las Vegas police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Fiore allegedly promised donors that ‘100 percent of the contributions’ would be used towards the creation of this statue. As alleged, Fiore did not use any of the tens of thousands of dollars in charitable donations for the statue of the fallen officer and instead converted the money to her personal use. The donations were used to pay her political fundraising bills and rent and were transferred to family members, including to pay for her daughter’s wedding. Fiore is charged with four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each count.”

Fiore doesn’t have a JD – actually not even a bachelors – but since December 2022 is serving as a justice of the peace in the very MAGA county after the commission appointed her for God knows what reason. She was appointed after losing her 2022 bid for state treasurer, running for that office after her gubernatorial primary campaign’s running ads in Mar-a-Lago’s media market – about 2,000 miles from Nevada – failed to land her an endorsement from the Orange God Emperor.

Now at first you might be like “Okay, Spartan, they’re both pairs of sneakers, so duh!” Totally understandable. But aside from the differences, like that the sneakers on the left are $299 and the ones on the right are $55 – well actually that’s a fucking ripoff for Paw Patrol sneakers.

What the hell, lol. Those should be like $20 tops. Anyway the point is that despite the differences like color and imagery and what not they’re actually really similar when you think about it, as both are designed for people with the fashion sense and emotional intelligence of a five year-old boy who loves cartoon superheroes. And yes this take is pretty goddamned painfully obvious but we had to write something underneath the pics and headline that already got the job done.

Oh and one more difference: The sneakers on the right side were definitely licensed to use the image of the characters they depict. Not 100 percent sure we can say the same about the other pair.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 41,000 mark on Wednesday, the first time in the long history of the index, cruising on a rally that began BEFORE the RNC opened Monday.

A new AP-NORC survey finds 65 percent of Dem voters and 70 percent of overall respondents saying President Biden should drop out of the 2024 race. Convicted felon former President Trump didn’t actually score that much better though, as 57 percent overall – including 26 percent of GOP voters – said he should drop out too. In favorability ratings Biden and Trump are pretty much tied at 38 and 37 percent, respectively but Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead of both at 43 percent.

The fat orange fuck commented on the (maybe, possibly) renewed momentum among Dems to replace Biden as the nominee, posting “From a political standpoint, an unprecedented event is happening – The Dems are trying, again, to get Biden off the ballot!!!” as if it wasn’t unprecedented politically that a convicted felon such as Donald himself would be running for president.

Trump ballsucker David Bossie on Tuesday told Semafor “I want that hole in the Titanic as soon as possible,” when he learned of the now-scrapped plan to hold the nomination next week.

I just saw this.

Tubby did not need to “physically held back” he pulled a “Hold me back bro” move to look like a tough guy because he is in fact, is a little bitch. https://t.co/zpfz6HJDGg

— Derrick Van Orden (@derrickvanorden) July 17, 2024

The Democratic National Committee’s rules committee chair Minnesota Gov Tim Walz and Dem official Leah Daughtry on Wednesday informed delegates that the virtual roll-call to formally nominate President Biden will begin no earlier than August 7th, CBS News reports.

“None of this will be rushed. Unlike our nation’s other major political party, our rules are set in public meetings, anchored in the Party’s charter and its traditions. That will continue in the 2024 cycle, as it must with so much at stake,” Walz and Daughtry wrote to the rules committee’s 186 members.

The updated timeframe follows Tuesday’s effort by Congressional Dems to urge the party to slow all of this down and give the “replace Biden” crowd time to maneuver. Complicating matters is that, although Ohio Republicans caved and rewrote the ballot access deadline rules, Dems don’t trust them not to fuck around and tie up Biden’s eligibility in the courts with Sherrod Brown running.