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.

Rodent-faced NBC News bastard Chuck Todd reports that President Biden’s reelection team are happy that convicted felon former President Trump went with eyeliner-wearing Senator JD Vance as his running mate rather than Marco Rubio as Rubio being Latino would have given Donald a further opening in the demographic. With Vance however, Biden’s campaign “is convinced all things MAGA are unpopular with swing voters, and the more they can connect Trump with the less popular parts of the MAGA agenda, the better they think their chances are,” writes Todd.

The even bigger bonus is Vance’s lengthy record on Trump, calling him “cultural heroin” and “America’s Hitler” before he turned heel and ascended to the number two spot on Team Orange.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING!

This Monday, @GOPoversight will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to discuss the utter FAILURE that took place at President Trump’s rally on Saturday.

She has a lot of explaining to do. But I also think this DEI hire should RESIGN!

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 16, 2024

A federal jury in New York on Tuesday convicted Dem New Jersey Senator Gold Bars Bob Menendez on all 16 counts related to his many, many acts of corruption and venality, Inner City Press reports.

From a letter – without any known signatories just yet – circulating among elected Dems urging the DNC to halt the rapid virtual Biden nomination set for next week: “We write to share our serious concerns about the DNC’s plan to hold a ‘virtual roll call’ to select our Democratic Presidential Nominee as early as July 21. There is no legal justification for this extraordinary and unprecedented action which would effectively accelerate the nomination process by nearly a month.”

“The ‘virtual roll call’ was initially proposed as necessary for meeting Ohio’s unique ballot access requirements, but that is no longer a valid justification. Ohio enacted legislation on May 31 allowing the Democratic Party to nominate its candidate at the DNC in person. At this point, there is no serious threat to the Democratic ticket nominated in regular order at next month’s DNC convention appearing on the ballot in Ohio or any other state. Simply put, there is no longer any legal reason for moving forward with the extraordinary step of an early nomination by way of a ‘virtual roll call,’ as even many DNC members have admitted. Proceeding with the ‘virtual roll call’ in the absence of a valid legal rationale will be rightly perceived as a purely political maneuver, which we believe would be counterproductive and undermine party unity and cohesion. Moreover, it would contradict what President Biden himself has repeatedly said to members of Congress in recent days, telling us that anyone who wants to challenge his nomination should do so ‘at the convention.'”

“The Democratic Party – not just elected officials and delegates, but also millions of grassroots voters – is currently engaged in careful consideration and debate about the absolute imperative of defeating Donald Trump and winning control of Congress. As Democratic members of Congress, we represent the spectrum of views on this question,” and it keeps going on and on.

An analysis of polling data by the Survey Center for American life finds that divorced men prefer convicted felon former President Trump by 56 percent, a wide margin over the 42 percent of divorced women who would vote for him, and the 50 percent of married men who back Donald.