Vice President Kamala Harris will on Friday participate in what the New York Times is calling a “short notice” call with wealthy Democratic donors, all convened by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.

“We continue to find ourselves in a rapidly evolving environment… With the stakes as high as they are this cycle, we have to remain focused on the critical work that needs to be done to protect our democracy,” Hoffman wrote in an email addressed to “friends and allies” in donor community. The Times article says it isn’t clear what Harris’s role in the call will be, as in whether she “plans to encourage the restive donor base to calm down or to deliver some other message.”

Anything other than the former looks like she’s leading a palace coup. Harris hasn’t done anything stupid in the last three weeks, so no reason to expect she’d somehow fuck it up now. Kamala appears to be reading up on how Gerald Ford was conducting himself 50 years ago exactly: Staying as fucking far away as possible from anything and anyone even remotely pushing Nixon toward resigning from the presidency. Still, leaks get twisted and turned to serve agendas so leaving the Times ample space to write that ominous “some other message” is not great… unless that “other message” is going to be the first word of a shift on the Dem ticket, sanctioned by Joe Biden.

UPDATE 7/19/2024 2:31 PM EDT: NBC’s Ali Vitali confirms the Times’s reporting, but adds “Biden’s advisors asked her to do the call.” So probably just filling in while Joe recuperates from The Rona.

There’s no coincidences.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 19, 2024

We can however tell why she wrote “There’s” rather than “There are,” because she’s a dumbass who thinks “Gazpacho” and “Gestapo” are the same word. But we haven’t seen any medium-prominent right wing voices reacting directly to the Crowdstrike shitshow just yet.

A Sumter County, Florida sheriff’s deputy wasn’t fooled last week when he saw clearly through the back window of the vehicle he was pulling over that the female driver and the male passenger in the front seat quickly switched places in order to avoid the consequences for whatever it was.

Funny that, as Villages-News.com reports that not only did that not work out for 31 year-old Brittany Ann Northington who had been driving with a suspended license, it also got 31 year-old Christopher Austin Yates arrested too, as the dumbass had his license suspended for failure to pay child support.

Yates and Northington put in a really solid effort with their arrest at the Love’s Travel Stop in Bushnell, but they’ll still miles away from topping the unnamed stupid asshole in Colorado who last year switched places with his dog in a failed attempt to escape a drunk driving arrest.

“We must face the reality that widespread public concerns about your age and fitness are jeopardizing what should be a winning campaign. These perceptions may not be fair, but they have hardened in the aftermath of last month’s debate and are now unlikely to change.”

“We believe the most responsible and patriotic thing you can do in this moment is to step aside as our nominee while continuing to lead our party from the White House. Democrats have a deep and talented bench of younger leaders, led by Vice President Kamala Harris, who you have lifted up, empowered, and prepared for this moment. Passing the torch would fundamentally change the trajectory of the campaign. It would reinvigorate the race and infuse Democrats with enthusiasm and momentum heading into our convention next month. Mr President, you have always put our country and our values first. We call on you to do it once again, so that we can come together and save the country we love,” says the tail end of a joint statement from Dem Congressmen Jared Huffman of California, Marc Veasey of Texas, Chuy Garcia of Illinois, and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin.

Punchbowl’s Max Cohen notes Veasey signing on is particularly significant as he’s a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which was supposed to be a big piece of Biden’s firewall. It’s not clear off the bat if any of these guys are “frontliners,” but Pocan could be because Wisconsin.

I watched the first part of Trump’s speech again – amazing.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 19, 2024

Former Trump Org CFO Allen Weaselberg Weisselberg walked out of Rikers Island on Friday, having completed his second five month-bid in the hellish jail in two years, CNN’s Kara Scannell reports.

“Members of President Joe Biden’s family have discussed what an exit from his campaign might look like, according to two people familiar with the discussions,” NBC News reports in the lede to their story headlined “Biden’s family starts discussing his exit plan from the 2024 race,” which we copied verbatim to not mince words about the significance (if true) of the reporting.

Again, and we cannot emphasize this enough, the official campaign/White House line is ALWAYS going to be deny, deny, deny stories like this up until the very last moment. That doesn’t mean something is or is not going to happen, it’s simply to say treat the denials as something completely independent of the pace and volume of the leaks indicating the opposite. Saying that it’s the “Biden family” isn’t specific enough and it could very well be a leak from some aide with an agenda because everything we’ve seen so far has told us that it’s the family that has been most resistant to outside pleas to get the president to capitulate and step aside for another nominee.

Or it’s a real sign that he’s starting to cave. But any denials will be neither here nor there.

“Anti-scaling fencing” will ring the Capitol this week during Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports citing a memo to members.

We seem to recall the fanboys telling us that since similar fencing was put up during Joe Biden’s inauguration was a sign he was not legitimate president. So what does that make Netanyahu?

A Russian court on Friday sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in the gulag for spying or some made-up bullshit when the actual crime he committed against Putin’s regime was printing a story about the country’s ongoing economic collapse, Politico EU reports.

Gershkovich better hope convicted felon former President Trump wins the election in November as he has already successfully negotiated his release – contingent on his returning to the White House.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office on Thursday announced that former North Korean ambassador to the UK-turned-Seoul lawmaker Tae Yong-ho would lead the presidential advisory council on unification, making Tae the highest ranking former commie in Seoul, the BBC reports.

Tae, 62, defected to the west in 2016 while serving as Pyongyang’s ambassador to London. He then set him and his family up in South Korea, acclimating quickly enough to win a National Assembly seat in the 2020 elections. He lost to a challenger in April, leaving him free for the unification post.

Earlier this week Seoul’s top spy agency confirmed the Kim Regime suffered another similarly high profile defection earlier this year, stating that a man identified as Ri Il Kyu had fucked off from his diplomatic post in Havana. It’s not clear if Ri had gone to South Korea or if he was going to settle down in a marginally less oppressive and dysfunctional communist state like Cuba.

A handful of attendees at this week’s Republican National Convention mass cult gathering in Milwaukee told Rolling Stone they were worried that the “momentum” behind their Orange Allah could end up breeding the kind of complacency that in part doomed Hillary Clinton in 2016.

“Are we gonna blow this? Anything’s possible,” said a GOP donor with a “barely concealed sigh” on Wednesday. Former Congressman and 2022 New York gubernatorial race loser Lee Zeldin warned
MAGAmerican voters they “have to fight for it – the mechanics of campaigning, the tactics of campaigning, taking nothing for granted – all in, every ounce of our energy, every moment of our day!” Loser ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy said “you should never feel like something’s ‘in the bag,'” and he should know from experience of calling himself “Speaker-elect” after the 2022 midterms.

Asked if it was unwise to feel like it’s in the bag, RNC delegate and longtime Trump campaign shitbag David Bossie said he thinks “the fake-news media is going to create a narrative now that Donald Trump is guaranteed to win, to try to suppress and drive down our vote,” as if it only the mainstream media saying this kind of shit and not people like Lara Trump, who this week said “We are going to go to bed early on November 5, as Donald J Trump will be announced as our 47th president. Early. I’m calling it at 10 o’clock at night. How does that sound to everybody?”

Trump pledges to end the inflation crisis: 'Drill, baby, drill' https://t.co/EmD2Ylzox0

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 19, 2024

Evil Deep State pro-Democrat Party tech firm CrowdStrike on Friday caused a massive outage of services across a wide array of industries, with airlines, banks, and telecom firms crippled leading to numerous canceled flights and all sorts of other clusterfucks, CNBC reports.

It’s CrowdStrike! Remember them? They covered up Hillary’s corruption during the 2016 election by using that bleachbit to erase her illegal servers and frame the Russians for hacking her emails or something. Now they’re finishing the job against the American people with another attack and…

Ugh. It’s too early for MAGA-QAnon satire shit. And yet it’s what at least some of the fanboys are actually saying in response to the real news that a faulty update pushed by CrowdStrike to Microsoft 365 caused this global havoc, with the London Stock Exchange reporting problems with its data platform, the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM grounding most flights, and Visa saying they’re “aware of reports of people being unable to make payments and are working with our financial institution clients to understand any impact on their services to cardholders and merchants.”

CyberArk CIO Omer Grossman tells CNBC the damage is “dramatic” and worse, will need to be fixed on users’ ends one by one. “It turns out that because the endpoints have crashed – the Blue Screen of Death – they cannot be updated remotely and this the problem must be solved manually, endpoint by endpoint. This is expected to be a process that will take days,” said Grossman.

Vice President Kamala Harris allies have begun working Dem donors to get them to start writing big checks right away should she end up soon being the presidential nominee, Politico reports.

Thursday is the fourth and final night of this miserable shitshow that was convicted felon former President Trump’s recoronation ceremony, capped with a special appearance by racist pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan before the fat orange fuck himself takes the stage for his address.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been telling close allies that she thinks President Joe Biden is indeed on the verge of dropping his reelection bid, the Washington Post reports.

Judged solely the color of his or her skin, a lobster was saved from being savagely boiled alive and consumed with butter sauce at a Pueblo, Colorado Red Lobster location, a reprieve denied to the soon-to-be red lobsters it was crawling amongst in a delivery last week, the AP reports.

“Myself and many of my team are born and raised Denver Broncos fans, so as soon as we saw that orange color, we knew that Crush would be an excellent representation,” said Kendra Kastendieck, the Red Lobster locations’s general manager, who named the lobster Orange Crush after the 1976 to 1986 Broncos defense. “And we all want our defensive line to be that good again.”

Crush’s new home in the Denver Aquarium has a Broncos helmet for it to crawl in and around for however long it lives in captivity. The other, non-orange lobsters it was caught with are dead.

“The Great Lou Dobbs has just passed away – A friend, and truly incredible Journalist, Reporter, and Talent. He understood the World, and what was ‘happening,’ better than others. Lou was unique in so many ways, and loved our Country. Our warmest condolences to his wonderful wife, Debi, and family. He will be greatly missed!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday.

NASA on Thursday announced they were throwing in the towel on the Viper rover mission set to explore the Moon’s south pole and check for traces of water, citing cost overruns and testing capacity that threatened the viability of other missions, the Associated Press reports.

They only pissed away $450 million to learn a valuable lesson about something. Probably.