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.

A North Korean official visiting Moscow as part of Pyongyang’s new enhanced security agreement with Russia drowned while swimming in a pond outside the capital last week, Reuters reports.

The whole situation’s as murky as the no doubt fetid puddle the guy was swimming in, but Reuters cites two independent sources as having confirmed the death of a man said to be Kim Geum Chol, leading the NKs’ delegation to the Kremlin and currently the president of the Kim Il Sung Military University, Kim Jong Un’s alma mater (that definitely accepted him on merit). Even if and when they confirm it was Kim Geum Chol there’s still the question of whether Putin’s goons somehow mistook him for a journalist or human rights lawyer and forcibly shoved the wrong guy’s head into the water.

A new Fox 5 Atlanta/InsiderAdvantage survey of “800 registered likely voters in Georgia” finds convicted felon former President Trump leading President Joe Biden 47 to 44 percent and Vice President Kamala Harris by 47 to 37 percent in the state… And they sampled 17 Black voters.

In a state that’s 32.3 percent Black and 10.5 percent Hispanic/Latino their sample was 2.1 percent Black and 6.1 percent Latino. Meaning the sample was more representative of South Dakota than Georgia. “InsiderAdvantage is ranked among the most accurate pollsters in the nation for the aggregate of the last four election cycles by RealClearPolitics and was ranked the most accurate for the last presidential cycle,” Fox 5 claims in the conclusion to their write-up of the poll.

Not much we can really add to that here. Polling is fucked this year. This kind of bullshit is exactly why. No need to go into the weeds of “response bias” couple with MAGA “enthusiasm” probably doing a lot to inflate Trump’s numbers when we have shitty data right in front of us.

Why mail theft is on the rise: https://t.co/KZ0Ojbhg7I

— TIME (@TIME) July 17, 2024

Implicit in TIME’s chilling headline about the rise of mail theft nationwide is their own fears that severals, maybe even tens, of their subscribers’ print copies could be getting stolen on a weekly basis, intercepted by corrupt postal workers or greedy criminals perusing mailboxes before they’re checked by the elderly residents or the staffs of the proctology clinics that leave them and sister publications like Golf magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, and InStyle out for patients.

Colombia’s government on Tuesday announced they had reached a resumefire deal with the remaining holdouts of the FARC leftist insurgency that had plagued the country for decades until 2016, deciding to set aside diplomacy and agree on a framework for further violence, the AP reports.

Terms of the landmark resumefire deal were not disclosed but observers believe the government and its military had agreed to rapidly supply tons of pre-fired ammunition and explosives to the rebel faction on an ad-hoc basis wherever they presented themselves to government forces.

The remaining “establishment” GOP figures opposed to any disengagement from Europe are thoroughly freaked out by convicted felon former President Trump’s pick of eyeliner-wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance as his new running mate to replace the guy who almost got hanged, with House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chair reacting by telling an aide that “The Ukrainians better hurry up and win,” while another pro-Kyiv GOP member told Politico that he/she is “scared to death.”

“I would love to see more like-minded people in cabinet positions,” Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said, citing fellow hawks such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton, as “Ernst-esque” picks, apparently her way of saying she really didn’t want Vance as Vice President.

Meanwhile the share price of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company fell 2.37 percent on Wednesday after the Orange Shitbrain told Bloomberg Businessweek that the endangered island country, an American ally, “takes about 100 percent of our chip business. I think, Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we’re no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn’t give us anything. Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China. A slight advantage, and China’s a massive piece of land, they could just bombard it. They don’t even need to—I mean, they can literally just send shells. Now they don’t want to do that because they don’t want to lose all those chip plants. You know, all those plants and they don’t want to do that. But I will tell you, that’s the apple of President Xi’s eye, he was a very good friend of mine until Covid that I really, you know, I was, I didn’t feel the same way. Same thing with Putin. Putin and I got along very well…”

Some Dem megadonors – mostly Hollywood types – are working the phones with Congressional Dems to try to pressure them to in turn pressure President Biden to step aside for another candidate as well as going to the media on the record to express their unease, the New York Times reports.

“If you don’t publicly call for Biden to step aside,” WME founder Tom Strickler said he told New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich’s team last week, “you are not getting a dime from me.”

Worst. Gotcha. Ever. https://t.co/xQv6eoyZzz

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 16, 2024

“The Radical Left Democrats are desperately trying to ‘Play the Ref’ by calling for an illegal and unConstitutional attack on our SACRED United States Supreme Court. The reason that these Communists are so despondent is that their unLawful Witch Hunts are failing everywhere. The Democrats are attempting to interfere in the Presidential Election, and destroy our Justice System, by attacking their Political Opponent, ME, and our Honorable Supreme Court. We have to fight for our Fair and Independent Courts, and protect our Country,” posted convicted felon former President Trump in response to reports of Biden planning a major push for term limits for Los Supremos.

This is the night when they pretend that every criminal is going to suddenly scream “OH MY GOD WE’RE SO FUCKED” and suddenly give up on lawbreaking if Trump is reelected.

As part of the plan to remind Americans of all the shit they don’t like and associate with convicted felon former President Trump, Joe Biden will announce support for legislation to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices and a binding ethics code, the Washington Post reports

Matt Gaetz isn’t quite satisfied with having ran Kevin McCarthy out of Congress. Apparently he wants to rub it in his face in front of a bunch of other people. Funny, but still pathetic on both ends.

The page on Trump running mate Senator JD Vance’s 2022 campaign website that, until this afternoon, said “END ABORTION: I am 100 percent pro-life, and believe that abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience to be thrown away rather than a blessing to be nurtured. Eliminating abortion is first and foremost about protecting the unborn, but it’s also about making our society more pro-child and pro-family. The historic Dobbs decision puts this new era of society into motion, one that prioritizes family and the sanctity of all life,” is no longer available, according the “Biden-Harris HQ” campaign account. Maybe just leaving it up and publicly pretending he had “evolved” on the issue would have been a better idea.

Gotta love how he spews all this shit about homeless veterans and inflation and whatever else he thinks is going to get his father elected but the Dreamers have to be deported because we don’t have a real immigration system – which his father will also never do anything to fix if elected again.

“Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese businessman and purported billionaire, brazenly operated several interrelated fraud schemes, all designed to fleece his loyal followers out of their hard-earned money so that Guo could spend his days in his 50,000 square foot mansion, driving his $1 million Lamborghini, or lounging on his $37 million yacht. Thousands of Guo’s online followers were victimized so that Guo could live of a life of excess. Today, Guo’s schemes have been put to an end.”

“Moments ago, a unanimous jury found Miles Guo guilty of racketeering conspiracy and various securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering charges. He faces decades in prison. I commend the career prosecutors of this Office and our law enforcement partners for bringing this case and seizing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fraud proceeds so that justice can be brought to Guo’s victims. This Office will not waver in our dedication to prosecuting malicious and harmful fraud schemes,” says US Attorney for SDNY Damian Williams in a statement issued on what’s been a pretty good day for his office following Gold Bars Bob Menendez going down in flames too.

Seems Steve Bannon won’t have a yacht to lounge on when he gets out of the clink in November.

A detail of Columbus, Ohio cops detailed to Milwaukee to help security at the Republican National Convention shot and killed a Black man about a mile away from the venue at Fiserv Forum after he had pulled out a knife or knives, local radio show host Dan O’Donnell reports.

O’Donnell writes that he spoke with man’s sister, who says he was bipolar and schizophrenic. The FBI and Secret Service are investigating the incident and well this could get pretty ugly. While it might not have been these cops specifically, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Monday that a detail from Columbus were deployed as a “police dialogue team” for defusing protests.

Creepy incel-ish MAGA Congressman Cory Mills had a tough time this morning with CNN’s Kate Bolduan when he was trying to dip into the “they” as in the “they tried to kill Trump” over the weekend. Bolduan wasn’t having it, forcing Mills to actually attempt to explain this bullshit.

The US Secret Service on Monday arrested a 39 year-old convicted sex offender living with his parents in Florida for posting shit like “I don’t like President Biden. I want to kill him, slit his throat” and then, after a visit from an agent, posting “The secret service sent a special agent nigger to my house with gadsden county officers. I’ll still slit joe biden’s throat,” then “I want special agent matthews dead, too. stupid n****r has gotta go!!” and finally “Where you at special agent matthews ? come arrest me n***r!! this is Jason Alday!!” And yes, the affidavit contains the real word.

A triple-cross-reference of Alday’s parents’ names in the arrest affidavit with their public voter records and Alday’s sex offender registration reveals that Alday was “adjudicated” in 2006 for “Lewd or lascivious molestation victim 12-15 years old offender 18 or older,” when he was 20 or 21.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said what he should’ve said from day one, calling on DINO Senator Gold Bars Bob Menendez to resign in a statement, Politico reports.

“In light of this guilty verdict, Senator Menendez must now do what is right for his constituents, the Senate, and our country, and resign,” Schumer said following Bob’s conviction on 16 felonies related to bribery and foreign corruption. It’d be cooler if Menendez said no and forced an expulsion vote to put Republicans on the record over whether a convicted felon should be allowed to serve in office.

It was a close call what was the most ridiculous moment from this stupid interview with Axios’s Mike Allen in Milwaukee. This one about “African Americans” coming up to Don Jr in airports and telling him how great his father is and all that shit just barely edges out the wiffle ball questions from Allen about whether the campaign is “peaking too early” and Don Jr’s golf game.