Today’s Big Stuff 7.11.24 | Trump meets with a fellow fascist
It’s Thursday. There are 116 days until the general election. AOC steps up on SCOTUS, Trump meets with a fellow fascist and Joey Jobs brings down inflation.
Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. You will too when you remember Trump was supposed to be sentenced today.
Note: Howdy! How the heck are y’all today? Well whatever you’re doing, it’s working for you. Us? Well, to quote Outkast — we’re cooler than a polar bear’s toenails. For now. But we are also fully prepared to erupt in a volcano of fury and f-bombs when President Biden has a news conference this evening.
Ugh. Is there anyone anywhere that thinks a press corps that pissed its pants when Trump called them stupid is actually going to be responsible tonight? Yeah, we don’t either. In fact, we know they’re not. We got our hands on some of the questions the press are planning to ask the president. You’re not gonna like them…
Peter Baker, New York Time: Why haven’t you killed your last surviving son yet? Have you considered feeding him to Commander on live television?
Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News: Why don’t you hate Kamala like we do? Is it cool if we throw stuff at her?
Peter Doocy, Fox News: Do you like my red hat?
YET TO BE ASSIGNED: Mr. President, why did you make Donald Trump attack the Capitol? Why won’t you step aside for the QAnon Shaman?
YET TO BE ASSIGNED: What do you say to reporters who have had their book deals canceled because you’re not more exciting? How the hell am I supposed to afford my lake house?
Ok fine so those aren’t real. But we’re probably not that far off. Godspeed, Mr. President. Y’all have a blessed day.
Note two: We just want to say a giant THANK YOU to everyone who has joined us on Substack. We are cautiously optimistic we’re going to be able to keep this cussing newsletter alive and cussing. We still have a long way to go, but y’all are freaking amazing and we’re so touched that so many of y’all have joined us. Thank you!!!
Note three: The IRS got $1 billion from rich delinquent a-holes. No wonder they all want to beat Biden. More: CNBC
Note four: Seven battleground states are sending fake electors to the Republican convention next week. So yeah, they’re proud of their coup attempt and ready to try again. If they ever stopped the first time. More: CNN
Note five: The Republican governor of Utah says he won’t vote for Trump. Seems like a big story to us.
Note six: Rudy Giuliani had a bad day yesterday. And we really love when that happens. Fuck that guy. More: The Hill
Note seven: We think a lot of this story is bullshit, but we do want to share it. Trump’s top campaign officials are thinking they can win in a landslide. What do we think? More: The Atlantic
Note eight: Did y’all know there are astronauts stuck in space? What is happening to this country that we’re not all gathered around black and white televisions chain-smoking nervously until this is settled? More: ABC News
Note nine: Candace Owens is back to being a nazi scumbag. If she ever really stopped. More: NY Post
Note 10: This Trump trash says the next election is about who gets to replace Clarence Thomas. We agree.
Note 11: The New York Times is finally calling for Trump to be stopped. It’s almost like they’ve realized how much we all fucking hate them for becoming Fox News. More: Politico
Note 12: Trump put out another statement saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. So yeah, he’s real worried. More: The Hill
Note 13: If you haven’t heard about it, Dark Brandon has been crushing it at NATO. More: Reuters
Note 14: We know how pissed off people are, but we just can’t bring ourselves to hate George Clooney. He’s just too damn charming, and we don’t want to end up as Kevin Sorbo people. More: Huff Post
Note 15: We should all be talking about this more…
Note 16: As the Be Advised noted, Trump was supposed to be sentenced today after being convicted on 34 felony counts. But then the Supreme Court fucked us all. Damnit.
Note 17: So two things are true about the polling we’re seeing right now. A. Trump is winning. B. The debate didn’t change the numbers that much.
Note 18: Just a reminder that Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro are currently in prison.
Note 19: For today’s Happy Ending, we bring you Rep. Jennifer Wexton and the miracle of modern technology. Get ready to cry your goddamn eyes out.
Note 20: And on that tearjerker note, let’s go do some news! We sure hope y’all are having an awesome week. But we get it if you’re not. Just remember — you’re not Rudy Giuliani. Love y’all!
Thank you, AOC!!!
While so many Democrats are focused on pissing their pants these days, Rep. AOC stepped up yesterday to do something long overdue. The New York congresswoman introduced articles of impeachment for Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito. Hell to the yeah. AOC laid out in great and devastating detail just how corrupt these two shitheads really are. Oh and as a bonus we found out yesterday that Clarence has been using his billionaire travel funds to go to Russia. So that really sucks for America. More: TBS on Substack
So messed up
While Joe Biden continues to meet and greet leaders of the free world and unify them around pushing back against Putin’s aggression, Donald Trump is going another way. Today Trump will meet at Mar-a-Lago with Hungarian fascist leader Viktor Orban. Orban is fresh off a meeting with Putin, so there’s a good chance he’s just dipping down to Florida to drop off some marching orders and pick up some nuclear secrets. Yes, everything about this is totally fucked up. More: Semafor
Go Joe!
So today we found out that prices have dropped for the first time since the pandemic. Inflation declined .1 percent. Gas prices and electricity both dropped. When you add this to the fact that wages and job growth are up, crime is down and Biden hasn’t attacked the U.S. Capitol, this really should be a goddamn landslide win for us. Sigh. Thanks, Mr. President, for doing what you said you’d do. Now we just need the Fed to start lowering interest rates. More: CNBC
Today’s clips
Michael Cohen has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to sue former President Donald Trump for alleged retaliation and violations of his constitutional rights. More: Huff Post
Senate Democrats are set to meet privately Thursday at a special caucus lunch with President Joe Biden’s senior advisers Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, as well as Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, according to a Democratic leadership source and senators. More: NBC News
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Just wanted to thank you guys for putting this daily list together. This is one of my daily morning reads - this and Heather Cox Richardson should be REQUIRED reading for every voter in America.
Sooo, regarding Clooney, let me see if I have this straight.
We're all supposed to be real concerned about the opinions of the guy who wrote, directed and starred in "The Monuments Men"? And all the other movies he has unrelentingly fucked up over the 30 years since he finally proved with "ER" that if you keep on with a one-armed bandit long enough, the law of probability says you'll eventually hit a jackpot - that people who should know better by now keep giving him money to screw up? Have I got that right?
We'll ignore for the moment that the people who keep doing that are the same ones who become Major Democratic Donors and reserve to themselves the power to decide who runs for what in Democratic politics. Because they're so astute in their choices of how to spend money.
That's it, yes? Got it.
When I was but a teenage sailor, I once knew an Old Navy Chief who could cuss for 20 minutes straight without repeating himself. I'm almost up to that ability today, watching the collection of clucks, clowns and cucks who make up the DC Press Corpse and the upper echelons of the Dimocratic Party.