.@SebGorka: Are you looking forward to debating Kamala Harris?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Sure. I would like to debate her… Look at her ideas. If she won, she'd go right back to open borders and destroy the country. One little piece of their game is trying to register these people to… pic.twitter.com/2FLZAjwXsB

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 23, 2024

We get that this is more base maintenance/fan service whatever but isn’t the ostensible point of a campaign account to highlight positive clips of the candidate to undecided voters who would be open to their messaging and not like whatever the fuck this idiot is sputtering?

In what Republican Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds is calling a “victory for life,” a judge in the Cornhole State on Tuesday lifted the final procedural hurdle for the state’s six-week abortion ban following the state Supreme Court’s decision to remand it to a lower circuit on June 28th, setting the effective date of the ban for July 29th, USA Today reports on more of the wreckage from the Dobbs decision.

“As the fetal heartbeat law finally takes effect, our work will continue to strengthen a culture of life in Iowa,” Reynolds said in a lib-owning statement. “I remain deeply committed to supporting women in planning for motherhood, promoting the importance of fatherhood, elevating adoption, and protecting in vitro fertilization (IVF). Families are the foundation of society, and policies that encourage strong families will make our state and country strong for generations to come.”

Reliable-ish Ukrainian news outlet the Kyiv Post on Wednesday reported that at least three Russian Shahed drones crashed inside Romanian territory, causing a fire in the town of Nicolicești.

Two fishermen were plucked from the water off the coast of New Hampshire after a whale breached the water and capsized their boat.  Rescued by teenagers who were filming a TikTok in the boat in front of them when the incident happened, the two men sustained no serious injuries.  Per CBS News, one of the fisherman was caught under the boat as it went down.  “Thankfully it was slow enough that I could kind of swim my way out away from it before it completely capsized,” fisherman Greg Paquette said, noting that the whale had a mouthful of fish as it smashed into his boat.

The truly bipartisan effort to identify the operational deficiencies that allowed a local 20-year-old with an AR-15-style rifle climb a building and try to assassinate a presidential candidate has uncovered some actual noteworthy information–besides leading to the resignation of the head of the Secret Service.

As CNN reports, based on the number of expended shells found around him, the shooter in Butler apparently got off eight shots before being eliminated by a sniper team, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris testified on Tuesday.  The shooter may have scouted the area using a drone prior to climbing onto the roof of the building.

The building where the shooter perched was supposed to be secured by the county police, according to the overall security plan, Paris testified.  A state police sniper team, set up in a nearby building that overlooked the shooter’s location, had left their station to search for a suspicious individual they had seen earlier.  That person ended up being the shooter.

“One thing I can tell you,” guy who wouldn’t look out of place on a foosball table rod Sean Hannity says to amenable Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, “is that, I don’t care if it’s China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, they never feared Joe Biden.  They did fear Donald Trump.  They won’t fear Kamala Harris.  They’ll laugh at Kamala Harris because that’s what she does half the time anyway.  She giggles away, y’know, her time.  I don’t think they’ll take her seriously because I don’t think she’s a serious person.”

Television host Sean Hannity, who asserts he’s a political entertainer and not a journalist, says the current Vice President of the United States–a former Senator, former Attorney General of the largest state in the union, former city prosecutor and a courtroom litigator–is not a serious person.  Sean Hannity said that right before he cut to a commercial for stuffed foam.

Last Sunday was the hottest day in all recorded history on Earth, a European climate agency announced, saying the global average temperature of 17.09º C/62.76º F topped records dating back to at least 1880, the Associated Press reports.  Sunday beat the previous record, set last year, by just 0.1º C, but that smashed the previous record high day in 2016 that came in at 16.8º C.

“What is truly staggering is how large the difference is between the temperature of the last 13 months and the previous temperature records,” the head of climate group Copernicus said in a statement. “We are now in truly uncharted territory and as the climate keeps warming, we are bound to see new records being broken in future months and years.”

Officials at the Secret Service are reportedly encouraging Trump campaign planners to book indoor arenas and other enclosed sites for future political rallies, not outdoor venues, the Washington Post reports, apparently expressing concerns that no outdoor site can be completely secure from gunfire or other attacks.

Trump’s campaign officials appear to be heeding the warning, with planners scouting municipal centers and basketball arenas for future events.  Of course, that would give Secret Service ways to limit access to the line of sight to the stage, but it also gives media a better gauge of the size of the crowd, rather than custom-built outdoor sites where Trump event organizers can wrangle a small number of people to look like a lot to cameras.

Demonstrating once again that Republicans are hypocritical non-rational actors, Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles filed articles of impeachment against de facto Democratic Presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that Harris abdicated her duty to uphold the Constitution by allowing an incompetent Joe Biden to remain in office, the Daily Beast reports.

Harris “demonstrated extraordinary incompetence in the execution of her duties and responsibilities, a stark refusal to uphold the existing immigration laws, and a palpable indifference to people of the United States suffering as a result of the ongoing southern border crisis in the United States,” Ogles claims, demanding that she invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden, even though Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race isn’t evidence that he’s unable to do his duties.  It’s a sign he cares about the nation and the Constitution, more than Ogles.

“The only reason Kamala’s is in The White House is because of the DEI deal Biden cut with Bernie to secure the nomination,” Jesse Watters asserts, in a completely un-racist reference of the barter of a woman of color by two white men.  Claiming anyone is a “DEI hire” is code for believing no one but white men are capable.

“We have seen press reports indicating that a law firm representing Ambassador Nikki Haley has sent a cease and desist letter to our organization. We will review the letter with counsel once we receive it and provide further comment in the next few days. We enthusiastically supported Haley over former President Trump in the primaries and our mission is to encourage likeminded voters to vote for Vice President Harris in November. We do not claim to represent Haley or her views.”

“There are many other likeminded Haley voters who also do not plan to support former President Trump in November. Our rights to engage with voters and encourage them to vote for Vice President Harris, who in our view is the clear better choice for the country will not be suppressed,” says “Haley Voters for Harris” in a statement addressing a cease and desist sent from Nikki Haley on Tuesday.

Look, we’re not going to pretend we know the law on this but just by osmosis – for example that neither the Republican Party nor the Trump campaign have threatened to sue “Republican Voters Against Trump” – we get the sense that this isn’t really actionable and Haley is full of shit.

Drug-addicted edgelord billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday told incel shitbag Jordan Peterson in an interview that he’s not actually spending $45 million a month to support convicted felon former President Trump, spinning that he doesn’t “subscribe to a cult of personality,” Fortune reports.

Musk did however claim he had launched an “America PAC” to back Trump, but did not disclose the actual amounts he was putting into it. The denial came when Peterson asked about the Wall Street Journal’s reporting from last week citing “sources familar” saying Musk had committed to the figure.

In a Tuesday morning all-hands meeting House GOP leadership commanded members to shut the fuck up with the “DEI” shit when criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris as more and more voters are starting to become aware that it’s just a euphemism for the n-word, Politico reports.

An anonymous member – who was probably anonymous because he didn’t want to be called a “RINO” – said “We have everything going our way and you just can’t handle that? We’ll give you a cheat sheet if you don’t know what else to talk about.” Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson said the same in more “positive” terms, telling Politico “This should not be about personalities. It should be about policy. And we have a record to compare. This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the competence of the person running for president, the relative strength of the two candidates and what ideas they have on how to solve America’s problems. In that comparison, we’ll win a landslide.”

Tennessee MAGA Congressman Andy Ogles on Tuesday introduced an article of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris for “willful refusal to uphold immigration laws.” This comes a day after Harris secured the Democratic presidential nomination and not any time in the three years or whatever it was since Harris was assigned the task of conducting diplomacy in Central America in a bid to address the root causes of northward migration from the impoverished countries there.

A 22-year old Michigan libtard and an 80 year-old MAGAmerican are dead after the younger man ran over the older one with an ATV, called 911 to confess the crime, and then shot himself dead before cops could arrive to arrest him Monday, the Guardian reports on a rare case of Blue-on-Red murder.

Marine biologists in Brazil have been finding “potentially worrying” levels of cocaine in wild sharks caught off the South American country’s coast tested for the drug, now researchers believe that the nose candy’s been finding its way into them via runoff from drug labs producing it and/or from sewage produced by party animals whose bodies aren’t breaking it down, the BBC reports.

The biologists caught 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks – surely the name’s just a coincidence – and found the drug in all of their muscles and livers at levels 100 times higher than in specimens collected in other studies of aquatic life. Polytechnic University of Leiria marine eco-toxicologist Sara Novais told Science magazine that the findings are “very important and potentially worrying.”

Texas Lt Governor Dannie Goeb (aka Dan Patrick) on Tuesday refused to say the n-word on some dogshit right wing streaming channel, saying simply “Donald Trump’s going to win in November, and we will be rid of all this DEI woke culture bs nonsense. I won’t use the word that America’s been subjected to.” Nice of him to go with politically correct-ish terminology instead of racial slurs.

White nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon’s Manhattan trial on New York State-level charges from the “We Build The Wall” scam has been pushed to December 9th, as he’ll still be in federal prison on his contempt sentence during the previously scheduled September start date, ABC News reports.

From a Trump Campaign internal memo by pollster Tony Fabrizio, obtained by Brain Stelter: “Many of you have heard me refer to the upcoming ‘Harris Honeymoon’ that I expect to see in the public polling over the next couple of weeks. As I’ve explained, the honeymoon will be a manifestation of the wall-to-wall coverage Harris receives from the MSM. The coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats and some other parts of their coalition at least in the short term.”

“That means we will start to see public polling – particularly national public polls – where Harris is gaining on or even leading President Trump. Obviously, the situation we find ourselves in today is totally uncharted territory and has no modern historical parallel. But there are some things that haven’t changed. Due to the events of the past two weeks including our highly successful Convention, President Trump has seen a bump in his numbers in a number of recent public polls.”

“Not surprising given that most candidates historically receive some type of bump. Given what has happened over the past couple of days and her impending VP choice, there is no question that Harris will get her bump earlier than the Democrat’s Convention. And that bump is likely to start showing itself over the next few days and will last a while until the race settles back down.”