HOLY SHIT! The Gateway Pundit reports that former Trump Administration something and shitty right wing children’s book author Kash Patel revealed in a Truth Social post last week that then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan received a copy of the Steele Dossier – aka the “Pee Tape” oppo research – back in 2016 and didn’t tell anyone about it. Patel’s post linked to a clip of his appearance on soon-to-be-imprisoned white nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show.

“Remember in 2016, let’s rewind the tape. Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion. Then Speaker Paul Ryan enlisted me and Devin Nunez [sic] to investigate the Russia collusion,” Patel said per a transcript by the Gateway Pundit where they misspelled the name of Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes. “Nobody knew what the Steele dossier was in 2016. They had already gone to the federal court and unlawfully surveilled Donald Trump with it. But we didn’t find out until after we completed our investigation in 2018, was that the speaker, Paul Ryan, who charged us with investigating Russiagate, was the first guy to ever get a copy of the Steele dossier in 2016.”

“He never told us. He still never admitted it. It finally was admitted in a British court where Christopher Steele was being sued. Just think about it, Steve. We could have asked, Where did you get it? Who did you get it from? How was it paid for? All of these secrets could have come out under this man’s very investigation, but he rigged it from the beginning,” Patel continued ranting.

Wild populations of a bird with bright pink feathers with “flaming” in its name are resurgent in Florida, a state whose government in recent years has tried to combat the acceptance of homosexuality through public policies such as the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law, NBC Miami reports.

Miami Zoo expert Dr Frank Ridgely says it’s no accident given decades of conservation efforts. “We have several places that are national parks and preserves, or waterways that have undergone extensive restoration, and certainly Everglades restoration efforts. We want to probably credit that, and that gets the result of all this freshwater flow that’s coming back to the South that everyone’s been working on for so long… the flamingo is likely a success story of that,” said Ridgely.

But it all will ultimately come down to numbers as Ridgely says, and we shit you not, that “they usually won’t breed unless at least 30 other flamingos are looking at them.”

Where to even start with this fucking mental patient’s rant on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday show. There’s the implication that writing a letter to the White House is going to do anything, the complete void of anything remotely resembling a single standard being applied to both candidates, the assertion that Biden is guilty of taking PEDs until proven innocent, the mention of Adderall and Provigil as potential pharmaceuticals Biden is using – the latter of which “Dr Feelgood” gave out like candy to the Trump White House staff – and of the side effects that Johnson Jackson himself appears to exhibit on a regular basis, all of it on top of the overall schizophrenic pre-spin of the debate that they’re very obviously trying to prime the MAGA base for a Trump defeat.

A new CBS News/YouGov national survey specifically touted as including an “oversample of adults age 18-29 for a total of 743 adults in that age group” finds President Biden leading convicted felon former President Trump 61 to 38 percent among likely voters in that demographic. The delta almost exactly matches the 59 percent Biden to 35 percent Trump among under 30s found by Pew Research after the 2020 election. Setting aside that CBS’s poll didn’t include the Russian assets like Robert F Kennedy or the Libertarian whatever his name is, the finding will do absolutely nothing to quell the MSM circlejerk narrative that Trump is gaining ground among young voters.

A senior Conservative Party official placed dozens of bets on when UK Prime Minister would schedule upcoming Parliamentary elections, the fourth Tory, including two members of the House of Commons, under investigation for such wagering, the BBC reports.

A close aide to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, MP Craig Williams,  made a £100 bet on a date three days before Sunak announced on May 22nd that the election would be on July 4th.  Members Laura Saunders and Tony Lee are also being investigated by the Gambling Commission, which oversees all betting in Britain, where bookmakers will take your money for anything from the traditional sports games or horse races bets to wagers on when intelligent alien life will be proven or which member of a pop band will leave first.

El Paso native Marissa Teijo wants to open a new chapter in the storied history of the Miss USA pageant by becoming the first person over the age of 28 to win the national title, and she’s way more experienced than the previous record holder.  At 71-years-old, Teijo is nearly three times as old as most other contestants in the long-past-its-prime beauty pageant circuit, NBC reports.

The Miss Universe organization, once owned by adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, removed its age ceiling for contestants as well as regulations barring married, divorced or pregnant contestants, and contestants with children.  If Donald Trump walked into the dressing rooms now, he’ll see things have changed:  Maryland’s representative in the national contest will be the state’s first Asian American and its first transgender representative.

Trump says he confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi on purpose because he’s a “genius” pic.twitter.com/cmgNb11Upo

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 22, 2024

MAGA Michigan state House member Neil Friske’s campaign on Thursday posted on Facebook in response to reports that he was in jail pending arraignment following his arrest the previous night for having chased a stripper with a gun at 2:45 AM in Lansing the previous night: “This morning, it was brought to our attention that Representative Friske was arrested and being held in jail.”

“As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right. We do not have any details, besides what has the media sourced, oddly before anyone of us knew anything. It is highly suspect considering the timing of this situation: Right before absentee ballots are released. [A] Day after an unknown phone number conducted polling on the [Michigan state House District] 107 race between Rep Friske and our opponent with deep-state ties. We ask everyone for prayers and to stay tuned from updates directly from this campaign or Representative Friske himself. Thank you for the outpouring of concern and unwavering support we have received this morning. Clearly, Rep Friske is over the target in this race – Team Friske.” This one’s a keeper. Never change, MAGA.

“Bill Maher, the highly overrated ‘Star’ of the ratings challenged show with the Fake, Loud and Obnoxious laughter pouring out of your set every few seconds, even when nothing was said that was funny (which is most of the time!), suffers from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. Republicans should stop using him as a reference point, his show is dead!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Saturday, correctly pointing out Maher’s terminal case of smug self-cocksuckery. Of course this probably means that Maher was right about something too and had mocked the fat bastard pointedly enough to trigger him.

• A man with 34 financial fraud felonies had a record fundraising day for his GOP presidential campaign on the day of his conviction, and that’s all you need to know about the state of the Republican Party.
• I move to impeach Clarence Thomas now.  His corruption is clear, as is his disdain for professional ethics.  I know it will never get out of a committee–hell, it won’t even get a hearing–but it will make news, which is what Democrats need this election season.  Do it on a Friday and make it the focus of the weekend talk show cycle.  Highlight the corruption on the court, and make Clarence and Ginni Thomas the faces of it. 
• It’s true:  the law applies to everyone.  Just look at what they’re doing to Justin Timberlake.  Or… wait…  Is he a victim of the criminal Marxist Deep State?  I’m so confused.
• Republicans know Trump isn’t capable of beating Biden in a one-on-one policy debate; it’s why they’re already propagating the “Joe on Juice” shit.  Assuming the moderators cut mics like they say they can, Biden wins on discussing policy every day.  And Trump will get none of his sought-after feedback from an empty studio.
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“So I think that Joe Biden needed a nanny to arrange this debate, for him to be able to function to do it because he’s afraid of Donald Trump and everyone else who dares to ask him a question,” a Fox shouting face shouts.

Joe Biden challenged Donald Trump to two debates; Trump accepted Biden’s challenge.  So to this person, Biden was so scared of Trump that he challenged him to debate.  Is that how this conspiracy theory goes?

Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters union, secured an invitation to speak at  Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, Politico reports, in a booking that will likely not go as swimmingly as convention organizers hope.  The Teamsters have not made a formal endorsement for president yet.

O’Brien also wants to speak at the Democratic National Convention in August, but the Biden campaign has not yet extended an offer.  “This is truly unprecedented since it will be the very first time a Teamsters General President has addressed the RNC. Our 1.3 million members represent every political background, and their message needs to be heard by as wide an audience as possible, and that includes all political candidates running for elected office,” a Teamsters spokesperson said without noting if O’Brien will engage in a highly-desired cage match with Oklahoma Senator and general douche Marcwayne Mullin, who challenged O’Brien to a fight during a Congressional hearing last year.

Carpetbagging Colorado Republican Congresswoman and Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s little bitch Lauren Boebert is taking on the important work of the people of Colorado by demanding–demanding–that the United States Postal Service create new ZIP codes for 31 communities around the country, Newsweek reports.

Yes, as she campaigns in the district next to the one she represents, and while her son faces trial for dozens of felonies and misdemeanors, Boebert boasted she’s fighting for the ZIP code-deprived places, only three of which are in Colorado, saying, “These municipalities deserve consistent mail service, their fair share of tax revenue, and the other economic benefits associated with having their own ZIP code. My bill will solve a host of ‘real world’ problems for these cities and towns by finally providing them with a definitive, representative and accurate ZIP code.”

After a Republican member of Congress called the advertising company to demand its removal, a PAC’s ad comparing adjudicated rapist Donald Trump to Fidel Castro will take to the streets in Miami on a rolling billboard along with an ad comparing Trump to Fidel Castro, the Miami Herald reports.

Mad Dog PAC purchased advertising on a billboard in South Florida aimed at the region’s Cuban population saying “No a los dictadores. No a Trump” [“No to dictators.  No to Trump.”]  Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar called Lamar Advertising demanding the company remove the ad, which she said the company’s regional vice president and general manager said would be done “promptly.”

“The truth forces them to adopt this measure. I am glad that they are doing the right thing and showing solidarity with the pain and suffering of the Cuban community in exile,” said Salazar.  An official for Mad Dog PAC said the ad would be moved to a privately-owned rolling billboard; the digital billboard ad will be replaced with another from the PAC highlighting Trump’s 34 criminal convictions, which is the truth.

Fox’s first runner-up bro, after Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters has spent weeks claiming President Joe Biden is on the decline, and as is typical with Fox “News,” much of the evidence is manipulated or simply fabricated.  Watters loves featuring clips he claims shows Biden wandering away from a group (he wasn’t) or forgetting people’s names (he didn’t).  But this isn’t doctored:  Watters calls Kayleigh McEnany “Katie,” to which the supplicant McEnany replies, “I’ll take it!”

Faith Rittenhouse, the sister of Kenosha killer Kyle, set up a crowdfunding effort seeking $3,000 to pay rent for herself and their mother saying her “brother’s unwillingness to provide support or contribute to our family, we’ve been left to navigate this journey on our own,” Newsweek reports.  The site shows the fundraiser, set up at the end of May, exceeded its goal.

Noting that she’s faced many health difficulties herself, Faith says that her brother’s actions in November 2021 that left two people dead had a detrimental effect on the entire family, but only Kyle has benefited.  “In the wake of this tragedy, my family, among many other families, has faced countless challenges. We’ve had difficulty obtaining and maintaining employment due to the fact many people still believe my mother drove Kyle or was somehow involved in his decision to go to Kenosha. We’ve struggled emotionally, mentally, and financially to piece our lives back together.”

Kyle Rittenhouse has made a cottage industry of appearing at conservative functions around the country to be lauded for shooting and killing two men and getting away with it.  He’s known for provoking gun control advocates, including various speaking engagements that were canceled due to negative community reactions.

While Democrats look to abortion rights as a way to incite liberal voters to the polls and win swing states, voters in Montana will not likely swing the state to Joe Biden, but thanks to pro-choice advocates in the state, Montana voters will decide whether Montanans’ abortion rights in a ballot measure in November, NBC News reports.

Planned Parenthood of Montana, leading a group called Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, collected more than 117,000 signatures–far more than the 63,000 signatures required by state law–to get a state constitutional amendment on the ballot that would allow people in the state to “make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”

While having the measure on the ballot is unlikely to make traditionally deep-red Montana swing to Joe Biden, it will help Democratic incumbent Montana Senator Jon Tester, who faces a close race against self-shooting Republican Tim Sheehy.

A Nevada judge on Friday tossed the charges against the six fake Trump 2020 electors, citing a lack of jurisdiction for the state AG’s office in the matter, the Nevada Independent reports.

At issue was that the charges were filed in Clark County – the heavily blue bailiwick surrounding Las Vegas – and not the state capital, Carson City, in the state’s redder northwestern area. The defendants had argued was the proper venue as the crimes largely occurred there rather than Clark.