GOP senator warns Trump his presidency is OVER

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GOP senator says Trump will face “the most miserable two years of his life” after midterms
Texas Republican John Cornyn, who spent the past decade dutifully carrying Trump’s black water only to get knifed in the back the moment Dear Leader decided Ken Paxton’s slavish devotion would better serve his self-interest in the Senate, is now openly predicting “disaster” for the GOP in the upcoming midterms and two years of hellish retribution for Donald when Democrats inevitably retake Congress.

With just seven months left in his political career, Cornyn is suddenly trying his hand as some kind of clear-eyed statesman. “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn told The New York Times, referring to Trump’s betrayal. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants. But obviously that’s not what the senator’s role is supposed to be, especially in terms of checks and balances.”

Funny, that wasn’t the tune Cornyn was singing when he voted with Donald 99% of the time and courted his endorsement like a spineless supplicant!

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Trump now says a peace deal will be announced “soon,” cancels further strikes on Iran hours after threatening more wide scale destruction
It really feels like we’ve been here before, doesn’t it?

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Mike Johnson FLEES when confronted by media over the Iran War
Democratic Veterans for Congress: Speaker Johnson was just asked if Congress should hold an up or down vote authorizing Donald Trump to put troops on the ground in Iran — and Johnson predictably refused to answer. He’s entirely abdicated Congress’ constitutional responsibility to dictate when and where America goes to war, and with an unhinged and volatile president like Trump, our fighting men and women are in serious danger. Will you chip in to help elect Democratic veterans and make sure we have a Congress who will treat decisions of war with the seriousness it demands?

Trump pushes to “expunge” his impeachments from first term
The 2019 quid pro quo call heard ’round the world and Donald’s violent, nationally televised insurrection in 2021 will never ever go away, no matter how hard pipsqueaker of the House Mike Johnson tries to scrub the MAGA cult leaders’ high crimes and misdemeanors from the official record. Like the illusion precariously coiffed upon his dome, Trump can try to comb over his many transgressions, but the truth will always rear its ugly head in the end.

Trump opened a complaint line and got 35,000 complaints about himself
Only 35,000? We sure there aren’t a few zeroes missing?

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr.
Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in unapproved, unproven, and potentially harmful “treatments that scientists warn are proliferating across the United States under the active encouragement of racoon penis collector Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Clinics in Florida, Texas, and other states are selling what they bill as “regenerative medicine” to families with autistic children who have intensive care needs. The procedure, which can involve the child being sedated with ketamine before receiving intravenous doses of millions of stem cells, costs up to $20,000 per treatment. Families are often advised to return for regular top-ups.

Profoundly stressed parents are being wooed to the clinics with promises that a high-dose infusion of umbilical cord stem cells can lead to dramatic improvements in their children’s ability to speak, socialize, or avoid aggressive or self-harming behavior. Yet there is no scientific evidence that the procedure works — the most comprehensive clinical trial staged so far, a placebo experiment conducted by Duke University, found insignificant benefits for most of the 180 children tested.

Deeply unflattering inflatable Elon Musk mysteriously appears in Times Square
An oversized and grotesque effigy of the ketamine-addled man-child — who’s set to become the world’s first trillionaire with today’s SpaceX IPO — appeared in Times Square yesterday, proving yet again that all the money in the world cannot make an off-putting and fundamentally unlikable prick anything close to cool or beloved.

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Half-empty World Cup stadium sparks fresh backlash over sky-high ticket costs
Who could’ve possibly predicted that systematically and deceptively inflating ticket prices orders of magnitude higher for this year’s World Cup compared to the 2022 competition would trigger widespread backlash and disengagement from a global fanbase already pinched by soaring cost-of-living increases across the board? While the average ticket price has spiked fivefold from four years ago, the cheapest tickets for the July 19 final in New Jersey are up an astounding 900%.

FIFA boss and Trump ego-stroker Gianni Infantino laughably defended the dubious and quintessentially American tactic known as “dynamic pricing,” declaring, “If we do something wrong, then probably everyone selling tickets in North America is doing something wrong.” He’s just so close to getting it.

Trump caves on intel chief — but his new pick is just as bad
The MAGA cult leader’s pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, was so universally panned across the political spectrum Donald was forced to go back to the finger-painting board and come up with a new, uniquely unqualified sycophant for the post.

Trump’s new pick, Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York and the administration’s former Epstein “investigator,” does share a few common qualities with Pulte — he too has zero prior intelligence experience or anything remotely applicable on his CV that would suggest he’s equipped to run America’s vast national security operation. Clayton does possess the one specific attribute our narcissist-in-chief seeks out in all his appointments: unwavering fealty to him.

It is not clear how quickly the Senate will move to confirm Clayton’s confirmation, however. Among other steps, he still has to fill out a detailed questionnaire, undergo an FBI background check, and sit for a public hearing before the upper chamber conducts its final vote. And with several disgruntled Republican senators on their way out the door at the end of this congressional term, it’s anybody’s guess how Clayton will actually fare.

DOJ agency has no record of Trump’s shady IRS settlement
The division of the DOJ that — in a healthy, functioning democracy — should have handled Donald Trump’s ludicrous, $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS claims to have zero records related to the case. How convenient. You might think some sort of paper trail would exist for the shady settlement that created a $1.776 billion insurrection slush fund AND shields the wannabe dictator, his idiot offspring, and his myriad business interests from ever being audited by the IRS again, but that would insinuate some semblance of due process or performative acknowledgement that any protocol whatsoever was followed. Justice just ain’t justicing like it used to.

Republican congressman says Trump was a “very special baby”
In yet another show of humiliating bootlicking that would make a North Korean propagandist blush, Texas Congressman Troy Nehls waxed poetic to the media about what delivery room doctors thought of Baby Donald Trump back in 1946, declaring, “I bet you the doctors said, ‘I can tell this is a very special baby.'” Who knows, maybe they did. Or maybe they said, “Any chance we can just put this one back in?”