Today’s Big Stuff 7.10.24 | Ted Lieu drops some truth

It’s Wednesday. There are 117 days until the general election. Ted Lieu drops some truth, Biden comes through for Texas and Republicans go full racist on VP Harris.

Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. It’s not sure how to stop.

Note: Howdy, Sexy Patriots! We think it’s safe to say that things are a little tense these days. We sure wish everyone on the blue side would give each other a break and remember that we all want the same thing — for Donald Trump to shart himself into oblivion and take the rest of the Republican Party with him. Ok so we’ll settle for him losing. Badly. We just have different ideas about how to make that happen. That’s ok. We’ll figure it out. While we do, let’s make sure we’re keeping our senses of humor. And one surefire way to do that is to laugh our asses off at Nikki Haley… More: Threads

LOLOL! Wait a minute. She released her delegates, encouraged them to vote for Trump, said she would do the same and she still didn’t get invited to the convention?! Damn that’s brutal. They invited the woman who stuck her fingers in Kanye’s ass but not the runner up to the nomination?! Ouch. This would be so sad if it wasn’t so damn funny. For eight damn years now we’ve been watching Republican after Republican kiss Trump’s ass only for him to turn around and throw them down an elevator shaft. Hope it was worth it, Nikki. You could’ve done the right thing for America, and instead you just got humiliated by a dim-witted gameshow host one last time. Y’all have a blessed day.

Note two: Hey so HUGE thanks to everyone who has been signing up at Substack. If you’ve been with us these last few years, then you know we don’t ask for money. We’ve kept this newsletter free because we love it and we love your hot asses. We’re only asking now because it’s what we gotta do to keep this thing alive. And because this country desperately needs more foul-mouthed truth-tellers. So thanks, y’all. We’re damn grateful. 

Note three: So this is ain’t Fox News. We don’t just only share with y’all the shit that makes us happy. If we did, this would be a damn short newsletter. So here’s the Cook Political Report’s latest forecast. We’ll just warn you that it ain’t good. More: Axios

Note four: We’re gonna say this every day if we have to — as long as Joe Biden is the candidate, then Joe Biden is our candidate. And we can sure as hell defend the greatest economic record of our lifetimes.

Note five: One of the reasons we’re more than happy to keep Ridin’ with Biden is that unlike the other guy he ain’t Tootin’ with Putin. 

Note six: Speaking of Putin, DOJ just busted a Russian bot farm. They just followed the red hats. More: The Hill

Note seven: Former Speaker Pelosi was on Morning Joe talking about Biden staying in the race today. We’re seeing a lot of parsing of what she did and didn’t say, so we’ll just let you decide on your own. More: NBC News

Note eight: We are seeing more and more elected Democrats saying the president should step aside. Sen. Michael Bennet said he is worried we will lose in a “landslide” and lose the House and Senate too. More: CNN

Note nine: And right on cue, the kiss asses at Axios are here to tell us that Trump has a new tone so he can win more states. Don’t they ever get tired of falling for this shit? More: Axios

Note 10: We probably shouldn’t put the MyPillow asshead in charge of anything. 

Note 11: The DNC is hitting RFK Jr. hard. Good. More: Ally Sammarco on Substack

Note 12: George Stephanoplous is apologizing after saying Biden can’t win. We’re sure noticing reporters can certainly have opinions when they want to. More: Axios

Note 13: Trump was praising Hannibal Lecter again last night. That is so fucking weird, and the press treats it like the most normal thing in the world. 

Note 14: Senate Democrats are asking for a special counsel investigation of Clarence Thomas. Good. This should have happened months ago. More: Huff Post

Note 15: Project 2025. Learn it. Fear it. Stop it. More: Threads

Note 16: So last night Sam watched Space Cadet on Amazon Prime, which is basically Legally Blonde set at astronaut training. It was delightful. 

Note 17: Climate change denier Jim Inhofe is dead. Guess that’s why he had the luxury of denying climate change. More: CNN

Note 18: The guy running against Sherrod Brown is a damn liar. We know you’re shocked. More: Heartland Signal

Note 19: For today’s Happy Ending, we just want to show you VP Harris dropping by Team USA’s practice yesterday. We just think that’s cool as hell.

Note 20: And on that hoop-a-licious note, let’s go do some news! We sure hope y’all are having an awesome week. Or at least a better one than Nikki Haley. LOL. Love y’all!

Thank you, Ted!
Yesterday, while the press continued their brainless assault on Joe Biden, Congressman Ted Lieu reminded them that there might be other news worth checking out. Yeah, Lieu suggested the press should look into Trump being all over the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents. What a novel idea. We need to see more of this from Democrats. The press have to be shamed into doing their jobs. Watch: Us on Substack

Texas Joe
With Hurricane Beryl leaving millions in Texas without power and their idiot governor out of the state on a semi-vacation, Joe Biden stepped up yesterday to deliver federal assistance for the Lone Star State. He also called the Houston Chronicle and let everyone know that he’s been trying to help but he couldn’t find the state’s asshole Republican leadership. Maybe they were all in Cancun. More: Texas Tribune

WTF?!
While we were reading about Trump’s new tone this morning, we came across this racist shit from Trump adviser Seb Gorka. Maybe white political reporters shouldn’t ignore this crap. But also, all these pricks sure seem worried about our VP, don’t they?

Today’s clips
Clooney comes out against Joe: It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. More: NYT

A U.S. marshal shot a suspected carjacker near the home of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor last week. More: NBC News