Trump tries to flip-flop on (checks notes) abortion

Today’s Big Stuff. August 24, 2024. Weekend Edition.

Happy weekend. There are 73 days until the general election. Trump is losing and losing it, America tuned in for MVP and Trump tries to flip-flop on (checks notes) abortion. 

Be advised: This newsletter uses profanity. These days it’s usually followed by the word “yeah!” 

Note: Sexy Patriots! After the week of electric awesomeness we all just had we would understand if you were taking the day off and hanging on the couch. But we know your hot asses are out there doing everything you can to save this country’s hot ass and put MVP in the Oval Office where she belongs. Of course to do that, we’re gonna have to beat some lunatic shitheads. And two of them just joined forces yesterday…

Um, is either of those dudes what we’re calling “healthy” these days? Because they look broken, fucked up and flat out crazier than a shithouse rat. If those assholes are healthy, then we’d prefer to be sick. 

But this is what VP Harris meant when she said Trump is not a serious person but the threat he represents is deadly serious. RFK Jr. is a deranged party clown and Trump people are talking about making him HHS secretary or head of the CIA. So the next pandemic, we don’t inject bleach — we’ll freebase it like it’s crack. What a cool and smart and healthy country we’ll be. 

So yeah, thanks for continuing to make the stakes of this race super crystal fucking clear, Orangey. You have sufficiently scared the living hell out of everyone. Y’all have a blessed day.

Note two: Yesterday Trump attacked VP Harris twice for saying thank you so much while receiving massing and long-lasting applause at the convention. So yeah, he’s still got jack shit to run on against her. More: Huff Post

Note three: Did you hear about the miserable dirtbag radio host who attacked Gus Walz? Well he’s off air now and he tried to apologize yesterday. We don’t accept. More: Deadline

Note four: ActBlue says you folks raised more than $100 million for Democrats This week. Y’all are crazy and we love you for it!

Note five: Btw the Kennedy family dropped a big ol’ load on Brain Worm Bobby yesterday…

Note six: The Trump team is already trying to set expectations that MVP-Walz will get a “sugar high” bump. It ain’t a sugar high if you never come down. More: NBC News

Note seven: Want to hear something that will give you chills? Vice President Harris has started putting together a presidential transition team. More: NBC News

Note eight: We forgot to mention Gabby Giffords in our write-up yesterday and we’re gonna let you guess just how horrible we feel about it. Pretty goshdarn fucking horrible. Sorry, Gabby! And thank you for saving lives!!!!! More: NPR

Note nine: Happy Independence Day to Ukraine! Now let’s keep doing everything we can to keep them independent from Russian shitheads. More: NBC News

Note 10: The Foo Fighters really don’t like Trump and the brain worm asshole using their music. Don’t mess with Dave Grohl, Orangey!

How low can he go?
So we hate to toot our own sexy horns — or maybe we don’t — but we want to share with you this piece we wrote yesterday. It basically lays out all the drastic and embarrassingly inept moves Trump has made in recent days that make clear he knows he’s losing. It’s been pretty remarkable to watch, and one of the wild swings is so stunning we’re giving it its own news section paragraph. It’s really something to behold. But it’s also becoming more and more ok to ask if the fever is finally breaking. More: Sam and Adam, The Alt Media

America hearts MVP
So when Kamala Harris melted the United Center in Chicago Thursday night, Americans were watching. MVP pulled in an average of 26.2 million viewers on the final night, with viewing surging during Harris’s speech with 28.9 million viewers. We looked at several different reports on this, and it looks like MVP beat Trump by about half-a-million viewers. It’s a win. It’s also a reminder that shit is gonna be close so let’s work our hot asses off until it ain’t close. More: Variety

WTF?!
So the craziest thing in the whole damn world happened and it had nothing to do with the brain worm dude. Trump flip-flopped on abortion. Seriously. The guy who overturned Roe and says he’s proud of it, is now posting that he and his “administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” How fucking desperate is that guy? And how dumb does he think we are? Anyway, we just thought that was pretty freaking huge and the mainstream media don’t really seem to give a shit. More

Today’s clips
Multiple Secret Service personnel from the Pittsburgh Field Office and one member of Donald Trump’s security detail involved in the advance planning for Trump’s July 13 rally have been reassigned to administrative duties and ordered to work from home, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. More: CNN

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will launch a bus tour of southern Georgia next week, the duo’s first time campaigning in the state together and, as of now, their first public event after the Democratic convention in Chicago. More: NBC News

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with West Nile virus, a spokesperson said. More: CNN

A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis is being unveiled Saturday outside of Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood there for more than a century. More: CNN