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.”

Convicted felon New Jersey Senator “Gold Bars” Bob Menendez will resign his seat effective August 20th, over a month after being found guilty on a shit ton of crimes, the Washington Post reports.

Convicted felon former President Trump announced Tuesday that Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu will visit him at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday at some point before or after his address to Congress and meetings with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris… which is sure to go over well with the two Democrats when “Bibi” is holding out his hat hoping for US taxpayer dollars.

Possibly figuring the office is kind of redunant since he’s already the supreme leader of the country anyway, Myanmar junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing went ahead and declared himself president on Monday, his first act of office renewing the state of emergency in place since Hlang and his crew ousted elected Premier Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, the AP reports.

The previous president, Myint Swe, also appointed by the junta, is suffering from neurological disorders and is currently on temporary medical leave, per state media. It’s not clear if he’ll return or if the leave will become permanent after Swe suffers from cranial bullet-hole-itis.

BREAKING: Federal Bureau of Prisons Director REFUSES to commit to allowing Congress to see Steve Bannon in prison! pic.twitter.com/Oz68zXxYXZ

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) July 23, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will hold a press conference at 1 PM EDT Tuesday to announce their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, Politico reports on some extra “buzz” being applied to something they could just tweet. We guess the additional effort by saying it on camera is the two Brooklyn boys’ way of closing the distance made necessary by their role in pushing Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid.

While we apologize for oversaturating the feed with Trump rants the last few days, we also can’t deny they’ve been pretty funny as he freaks the fuck out over losing Joe Biden as his opponent, like his reaction to Minnesota Gov Tim Walz mocking him on Fox News Tuesday, with “Why did Fox News put up Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, where I am leading? They make me fight battles that I shouldn’t have to fight!” (Note that only one or two dogshit MAGA polls found him ahead there.)

In reply Mike Flynn posted “Stay away from FOX… [Paul] Ryan hates you and they will never give you a break. Their audiences are small compared to Tucker, Rogan, Roseanne Barr, Hodge Twins, Tim Poole and many others. Get out into the world of the independent podcasters.” Lol.

Trump then, as if anyone actually gave a fuck, randomly posted “I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury,” and then “Lyin’ Kamala Harris destroys everything she touches!” like he just had to post something negative about her even if it wasn’t actually effective.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced he “will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people” at 8 PM EDT Wednesday.

Maybe some awesome Dark Brandon kamikaze is too much to expect. That said, an Oval Office address is different from just holding a press conference with Harris at his side, so we’ll see.

Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle tendered her resignation on Tuesday, her head rolling after a Trump fan was tragically shot dead when the intended target was… We’ll leave it at that.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy? He sounds like he’s neuro-atypical [we’re all ears for something more politically correct than “on the spectrum”] and simply reciting the scripts in the NRSC oppo memos on Kamala Harris rather than, you know, demonstrating a comprehension of it and forming his own individual thoughts from there. He could at least apologize to CNN anchor John Berman, laughing it off with “Sorry man, I mainlined Adderall this morning and all I could think about was that Diet Cherry Pepsi over on your production assistant’s table while I spewed out all those canned lines I’d memorized verbatim. You guys got any extra? Diet Sprite’s good too, I’ll take it.”

Largely lost amid the shitshow of the last month was that Democrats had actually made serious ground on highlighting the extremist Reich-y Project 2025 plan that convicted felon former President Trump had tried to distance himself from before picking a running mate who talks like an AI chatbot programmed by the same Heritage Foundation gauleiters that came up with the plan.

A new Navigator Research survey’s findings show that the fat fuck was absolutely right to try to lie his way out being associated with policy proposals like banning IVF, birth control, no-fault divorce, and all sorts of other barbaric shit, as increasing awareness has wrought serious opposition from respondents: The net overall favorability is down 32 percent since June 9th, at 43 percent unfavorable to 11 percent favorable, with the rest saying “don’t know.” Even among those who self-identified as “MAGA Republicans,” the net favorability is down by 9 percent from +10 to +1, likely reflecting some dim awareness that turning America into Nazi Germany is an electoral liability.

Even worse for Team Orange, despite their frantic and disorganized efforts to create distance from the project: “A plurality of Americans believe Project 2025 accurately represents what Trump stands for (net +29; 45 percent describes – 16 percent does not describe, with 39 percent saying they don’t know enough to say). Among independents, two in three are not sure whether Project 2025 aligns with Donald Trump’s principles (64 percent).” By the way this was all sampled before Joe Biden dropped out and Kamala Harris became the nominee. She’s read up on Project 2025.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign announced they raked in more than $100 million in small dollar donations from 1.1 million unique donors – 62 percent of them first-timers – and 58,000 new sign-ups for volunteer teams, up 200 times over the Biden campaign, CBS’s Ed O’Keefe reports.

The Veep’s headed to Milwaukee this afternoon for her first campaign rally. Let’s see if we get any reports of people getting turned away at the door. That’ll be the pure, uncut hopium.

When Kamala Harris was put in charge in past jobs, scandal and failure often followed https://t.co/fKz1mWFR29

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 23, 2024

Self-proclaimed paragon of professionalism and journalistic integrity John Solomon on Tuesday tweeted a link to an article his website JustTheNews.com printed. The article asserted that Vice President Kamala Harris “often” left her previous positions with a record of “scandal and failure.”

Missing however from both the tweet and the article itself was any sort of acknowledgement that such a summary description could be applied to Solomon’s own career given that, just for example, he’s come on the radar of federal law enforcement for foreign election interference and his former employer The Hill was forced to append lengthy corrections to his “articles,” which were classed as “opinion” pieces following a newsroom revolt. Then there’s that, almost certainly by his own personal standards of achievement, he failed at the most important task that was assigned to him.

“Earlier today, the Committee notified Senator Menendez through his counsel that members voted unanimously to initiate an adjudicatory review of his alleged violations of Senate Rules. The Committee anticipates completing the adjudicatory review promptly. An adjudicatory review is required when the Committee considers disciplinary actions, such as expulsion or censure.”

“The adjudicatory review will be conducted in accordance with Committee Supplementary Rules of Procedure 4 and 5, and Senator Menendez will be afforded the procedural rights he is due under those provisions. At the completion of the adjudicatory review, the Committee will move expeditiously to submit a written report to the Senate including specific findings and any recommendations for disciplinary action,” said the Senate Ethics Committee in a Monday statement.

Weird how “expeditiously” isn’t just literally copying and pasting the fucking indictments against him and then adding “A federal trial jury convicted Menendez on these counts.” Like on one hand we get it that they still want to play by the rules and give Menendez “due process.” On the other, he already got his “due process” in court and a rubber stamp on the indictments should suffice. Expel the son of a bitch yesterday if he still refuses to take the goddamned hint and resign already.

Having semi-officially secured the top of the ticket late Monday and raised a shit ton of money, there is no question at this point of whether Vice President Kamala Harris will be nominated in the virtual primary still slated for next week – and Politico Playbook notes that before then she’s going to need to make her pick for running mate. Already formal vetting questionnaires have been sent to Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, North Carolina Gov Roy Cooper, and Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro.

“Others, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are in the mix,” Playbook writes, without saying if they’re being vetted. “Some of this is chemistry. She knows, having been VP, what it feels like… Some will require more [vetting] than others,” a Harris ally said.

The headline is an actual quote from a Black Republican, Utah Congressman Burgess Owens, who told Punchbowl News that Vice President Harris is “the greatest example of DEI… For those who believe in DEI, this is exactly what DEI is like. Kamala Harris.” White MAGA Congressman Troy Nehls said he’s “not going to get into all the color stuff. I’m just looking at performance.”

NRCC chair Richard Hudson wouldn’t go there either, saying the DEI line is “certainly not something I’m going to say. I’m going to remain focused on the policies.” Wisconsin MAGA dipshit Glenn Grothman did though, saying on Sunday that Democrats “have to stick with her because of her ethnic background.” When Punchbowl followed up with Grothman to elaborate on what he meant he said simply “I don’t think people view her as Black.” So it’s already going great for the House GOP.

The best they can come up with for now is a non-binding “emergency” resolution “strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border,” being pushed by angry toad New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

“Republicans have never had less time to define the presidential nominee of our opponents,” said an NRSC memo obtained by Punchbowl. “Because of that, it is vital that our entire Conference is on message and working together to present Kamala Harris as an extreme San Francisco progressive who is out of step with the American people.” The memo also highlighted that Harris sometimes laughs at “inappropriate moments,” and criticized her love of Venn diagrams. Nothing about “DEI.”

“ABC Fake News is such a joke, among the absolute WORST in the business. They try to make Crooked Joe into a brave warrior because he didn’t have the ‘guts’ to fight it out — He quit! They then tried to make ‘Sleepy’ look like a great President – he was the WORST, and Lyin’ Kamala into a competent person, which she is not. ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many! MAGA2024” posted convicted felon former President Trump at 12:12 AM on Tuesday, plainly trying to fuck off from debating Kamala Harris.

The fat bastard was even more deranged earlier, posting “Lyin’ Kamala Harris, the Biden appointed “Border Czar” who never visited the Border, and whose incompetence gave us the WORST and MOST DANGEROUS Border anywhere in the World, has absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J TRUMP! Be careful what you wish for, Democrats???”

Saying that the case should never had been allowed to proceed because it was too old–and besides, the penalty was just too much–multifaceted criminal dullard Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court to throw out the $454 million financial fraud judgment against him, CNN reports.

Trump’s lawyers threw everything at the wall, also claiming that Judge Arthur Engoron made reversible errors in allowing various counts and evidence in the case to remain after, according to them, the statute of limitations had long expired.  They also claim that because no bank or institution claimed fraud, no fraud actually occurred under state law, so the entire case was bogus.

Trump didn’t need to raise the entire amount of the judgment to appeal after the court ruled he only needed to put up $146 million. He was able to get a wealthy supporter to post a bond.   Luckily, Trump still has the GoFundMe started by his cult, which has been stuck at $2 million in donations for weeks.

A fairly typical story is emerging in New Orleans:  two police officers were injured–including one who reported broke his leg–while apprehending a 34-year-old man suspected of cutting off his 70-year-0ld mother’s arm with a chainsaw, according to WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans.  Y’know, fairly typical, “Holy shit, what a world we live in.  That’s fucked up.”

The most interesting detail is buried in the story:  the newly one-armed woman fled to get help from a relative who lived three miles away.  No word on how she arrived at the relative’s house:  walked, biked, Uberred.  Maybe she took the bus, pulling the cord for the stop with her remaining arm.  Did she drive?  And if so, we can assume it wasn’t a stick shift.