Feckless Blowhard Delivers Brutal Self-Own At Moms For Liberty Event

As Kamala Harris gains momentum, Donald J. Trump continues his old playbook of using personal attacks to demean his opponent. At the annual event for Moms For Liberty, a conservative book banning, school board infiltrating group of Karens with their own set of scandals, the felonious former President droned on about his opponent while looking tired and sweaty.

The problem here, well, one of them, is that Trump doesn't seem to be aware that Biden is the current President and the felon is the one "we just had."

“I think she (Harris) would’ve been better off if she just did interviews, even if they weren’t great it would have been better … because now everyone’s watching and now we see, she’s defective,” Trump said about Harris's CNN interview which resulted in the network nearly doubling Trump's ratings for his last interview with CNN.

So, he went with "defective" because he's out of material.

“She’s a defective person," Trump added. “And we don’t need another defective person as president of the United States. We just had that."

We know he was trying to take a jab at President Joe Biden, but he broke the irony meter. He does that a lot! He, not Biden, is the former President. Words are hard.

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Bolt reportedly threatens legal action against Silverbear Capital

In the latest twist in Bolt’s aggressive fundraising efforts, the fintech company’s CEO appears to have made a veiled threat of legal action against Silverbear Capital, the investment bank whose involvement in the deal remains in some dispute. “We believe there was some internal miscommunication at Silverbear Capital, one of our lead investors, which has […]

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Bluesky tops app charts and sees ‘all-time-highs’ after Brazil bans X

A Brazilian court’s decision to ban X (formerly Twitter) seems to benefiting its rivals, especially Bluesky. The microblogging platform announced late Friday that it was seeing “all-time-highs for activity” with 500,000 new users joining in the previous two days. It’s also number one on the free iPhone app chart in Brazil today, ranking just ahead […]

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Dummy Trump Wants A Government Shutdown Right Before The Election

Mr. Big Brain made an appearance on Project 2025's Monica Crowley's podcast this Friday, and pushed for Republicans to shut down the government over the so-called SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote.

The bill was summed up here by the League of Women Voters, which opposes it:

The House and Senate introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to register to vote, even though voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering to vote. It is already illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in federal or state elections. The bill’s requirement of a document to prove American citizenship to register to vote in federal elections is unnecessary and seeks to divide us. It also creates another barrier to voting.

Americans do not need MORE obstacles to vote. Instead of moving this legislation forward, Congress should protect voters in this critical election year by strengthening protections against discrimination in voting and expanding access to the ballot.

Xenophobia Has No Place in Our Elections. Tell your members of Congress to oppose the SAVE Act.

More voter suppression, so of course Trump and his MAGA enablers in the House are all for it:

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JD Vance: Trump's QAnon Misogyny Is 'Fun' And 'Jokes'

JD Vance told CNN's John Berman that when Trump sends out sexually explicit insults toward Kamala Harris, he's clowning around.

This is what the Trump campaign came up with to defend Dump's misogynistic and QAnon attacks? Fun and jokes?

Trump is a candidate who would rather be hateful and sexist as opposed to being stodgy.

Gotcha!

BERMAN: You were talking about Donald Trump's social media.

Would you describe his posts over the last 48 hours as lifting people up, quoting, reposting QAnon statements, reposting these misogynistic memes about Vice President Harris and Hillary Clinton? That's the kind of open discussion that you think is lifting people up?

VANCE: Oh, John, I think if you look at Donald Trump's full campaign appearances and, yes, his social media appearances, what you see is two things.

A guy with an agenda to lower prices and bring back American prosperity and a political candidate who isn't stodgy, who likes to have some fun and likes to tell some jokes.

I'd much rather have a candidate who's willing to go off script, who's willing to give every interview and is willing to tell some jokes.

I do think that's how you lift people up. A politics of boring scolds, telling people they can't laugh, that is not lifting Americans up.

That's how to tear us down.

BERMAN: All right, fun and jokes.

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Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed.

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Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds

Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community's Mastodon server, for instance.

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JD Vance Praises Candidate Who Wants Forced Birth For Child Rape Victims

JD Vance spoke at a campaign rally Tuesday near Big Rapids, Michigan, where he introduced a failed Republican gubernatorial candidate as the "great Tudor Dixon," even after she defended forcing children to give birth after being raped.

JD Vance praises Tudor Dixon, who said teenage rape survivors being forced to give birth can be “healing” for them: “The great Tudor Dixon!” pic.twitter.com/TYmpCmz5Sq

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 27, 2024

Ron posted video on August 17th, where Dixon is asked about 14 year-old rape victims. It comes from two years ago.

HOST: Who was raped by somebody who was, you know, 14 years old as a victim, why not allow that person to have an abortion?

DIXON: You know, I've talked to some other legislators about this, and they've met the same people that I've met who've told their story of once this child knew they were in their second or third trimester, and I am that child, you know, that I've heard, I've talked to those people who were the child of a rape victim, and the bond that those two people made, and the fact that out of that tragedy there was healing through that baby.

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The Harris Effect: Voter Registration Is Up 175% Among Young Black Women

One would expect increases in voter registration to occur after Kamala Harris entered the race, but nothing anywhere near this dramatic.

Source: New Jersey Advance

Voter registration among young Black women took off like a rocket across more than a dozen states after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race against former President Donald Trump, according to data.

As Vice President Kamala Harris worked to secure her party’s support in the week after Biden announced his decision, new registration among the group was up more than 175%, according to an analysis from TargetSmart.

It compared voter registration to the week of July 21, 2020 to July 21, 2024. While there would be little reason for a spike in registration in the middle of the summer of 2020, Tom Bonier, a senior advisor to TargetSmart, told CBS News’ Major Garrett that the data is a bombshell.

And part of their conversation:

Garrett: 175%, could that possibly be right? You must have triple-checked this, or many more times than that?

Bonier: You’re right to repeat the number because I’ve more than triple-checked it. It’s incredibly unusual to see changes in voter registration that are anywhere close to this. I mean, to remind people, 175% is almost tripling of registration rates among this specific group. You just don’t see that sort of thing happen in elections normally.

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Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds

Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry, has ousted its sibling co-founders – CEO James Eberhard and chief legal counsel Jenifer Snyder – according to sources familiar with the matter. The shakeup, which employees have described as a hostile takeover, was led by two minority investors on the […]

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Scott Jennings Is CNN's New Jeffrey Lord

Discussing the upcoming Harris-Walz/Dana Bash interview, CNN's Republican commentator Scott Jennings denigrated Kamala Harris by claiming she is 'the most manufactured presidential candidate in history.'

This after Bakari Sellers said the Harris-Walz ticket was organic.

Listening to Jennings, I was instantly reminded of the racist Jeffrey Lord on CNN during the 2016 election cycle.

SELLERS: The American public, and that goes back to my entire point, the American public does not want to hear us saying that, oh my God, she should do an interview on day 10 or day 12, and it should be with this person or that person.

It's organic. The entire Kamala Harris campaign has been organic.

JENNINGS: What?!! Organic? This is the literal most manufactured presidential campaign ever. She didn't even run. It's the opposite of organic.

Can I ask you one question? Like you've been a part of a lot of campaigns, right?

JENNINGS: A ton of campaigns.

And in every one of them- And how many campaigns in your manufacturing have you been able to manufacture 400,000 volunteers or $540 million?

Or how about this?

McCurry. Four percent of the electorate, FOUR PERCENT of the entire electorate in the state of Georgia, has volunteered for Kamala Harris.

JENNINGS: If you believe that. All right.

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AG Ken Paxton Conducts Raids On Latino Voting Rights Groups

This is what you get with heavily gerrymandered districts like Texas. Tyrants like AG Ken Paxton keep getting elected and anoint themselves as kings. The nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, LULAC, is one of several entities in Texas targeted in voter fraud raids led by Paxton. Via CBS News:

In a letter first obtained by CBS News, LULAC requested that the Justice Department investigate Paxton's office for Voting Rights Act violations. The organization is accusing Paxton's office of carrying out illegal searches premised on voter fraud.

[...] "Attorney General Paxton is using his position of authority to harass and intimidate Latino non-profit organizations like LULAC, Latino Leaders and LULAC members," Juan Proaño, LULAC's CEO told CBS News, calling the state AG's effort "point-blank" voter intimidation. "It is evident through his pattern of lawsuits, raids, searches, and seizures that he is trying to keep Latinos from voting."

Proaño said one of those targeted was Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old who lives in San Antonio. Martinez has been a LULAC member for over 35 years and works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas.

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Durov arrest boosts Telegram app downloads

The arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France is starting to impact the app’s traction and ranking. On Saturday, the founder was arrested for allegedly allowing illegal activity to thrive on the social app by failing to moderate messages adequately, particularly in areas involving drug trafficking, money laundering and the distribution of […]

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Ukraine Using Machine Guns To Knock Out Russian Shahed Drones

In scenes that look more like they're from World War II than modern warfare, Ukraine is now hunting Russian drones from helicopters and downing them with machine gun fire. The Iranian or Russian-made drones fly at low altitudes, at relatively slow speeds (185 km/h max), and are made with composite materials that make them hard to detect for anti-aircraft radar. And Russia has hundreds and hundreds of these things, either bought from Iran at around $200,000 each, or made domestically in Russia. Downing them with surface-to-air missiles is effective but also expensive, as Ukraine always has limited supplies. So they've come up with a novel approach to the problem: hunting them from attack helicopters.

The video above is from a side-mounted machine gun, while the text below refers to the machine gun mounted in the front window of another helicopter. As always, the Ukrainians add some music, in this case Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally."

Source: Euromaidenpress

A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter shot down a Russian Shahed combat drone with a forward-mounted machine gun located in the nose of the aircraft, says Militarnyi.

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Fox News Host Says Obama Might Be Controlling Kamala Harris Through 'Earpiece'

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) argued that former President Barack Obama was controlling Democratic officials through an earpiece.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Bartiromo wondered who was "running the country while Kamala Harris is out campaigning."

"I'm not quite sure who's running the place," Donalds replied. "Maybe Susan Rice is still in charge for all we know. I have no idea."

"It raises the issue of who's been running the country these past four years and who is expecting to do so in the next four years," Bartiromo opined.

The Fox News host said she "heard" Michelle and Barack Obama were planning to "help" Kamala Harris run the country.

Bartiromo then pointed to a 2020 interview in which Stephen Colbert asked Obama if he would be willing to serve a third term as president.

"And I used to say, you know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand in a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats, looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines," Obama said at the time. "But somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony. I'd be fine with that."

"Is that the plan?" Bartiromo asked Donalds.

"It very well might be," the lawmaker agreed. "Even if you look at the Biden-Harris administration, a lot of the staff are Obama holdovers from the Obama-Biden administration."

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Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries

Y Combinator’s first defense startup, Ares Industries, launched earlier this week. In a post on the YC website, the startup outlined a vision to build low-cost cruise missiles that will be compatible with existing launch platforms, saying it will “deliver the capabilities that the [Department of Defense] wants in a form factor that’s 10x smaller […]

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Arkansas Court Blocks Abortion Amendment From Ballot

Abortion rights defenders in Arkansas said Thursday it was "a dark day" after the state's Supreme Court ruled a ballot measure that would enshrine stronger reproductive rights protections for people in the state was ineligible for November election ballots.

The court ruled 4-3 in favor of arguments presented by Republican officials including Secretary of State John Thurston and Attorney General Tim Griffin, who said organizers with Arkansans for Limited Government (AFLG)—which submitted more than 101,000 signatures to secure the amendment for the ballot—had failed to correctly submit paperwork verifying that paid canvassers had been properly trained.

AFLG strategy director Rebecca Bobrow expressed agreement with Justice Karen Baker's dissent, which accused Thurston of making up statutory requirements "out of whole cloth" and of being "determined to keep this particular vote from the people" at all costs.

AFLG proposed an amendment that would have allowed people in Arkansas to obtain abortion care up to 18 weeks after fertilization, with additional exceptions for incest, rape, and fetal anomalies that would make it impossible for a fetus to survive after birth. Arkansas currently has one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S., with abortion care allowed only in medical emergencies.

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Apple reportedly announcing iPhone 16 lineup and more on Sept. 10

Apple will be unveiling new products on September 10, with the announced phones going on sale on September 20, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. That lineup will reportedly include the iPhone 16, with larger screens on the Pro models and a new button just for taking pictures. The phones should also support […]

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Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city

Marc Andreessen's family is planning to build a large housing development
near the proposed California Forever city.

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Michelle & Barack Obama PUMMEL Trump With Brutal ONE-TWO Punch

Did you see it? Michelle & Barack really laid into Donald at their DNC appearance Tuesday night. It was so bad, it hurt Donnie's fee-fees!

And you got the feeling Michelle was holding back since 2016. No more of that "we go high" stuff now -- she went for the jugular!

“If we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we don’t get a second, third or fourth chance,” she said. “If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead. No. We don’t get to change the rules so we always win. If we see a mountain in front of us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top.”

Barack Obama picked up the theme and ran with it.

He compared Donald to “the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day,” constantly obsessed about his own desires.

“Here’s a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago,” Obama said.

“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala.”

And yes, he is VERY afraid. Don't doubt it. He slammed the Obamas for "getting personal." Hell no, Donnie. They were being POLITE!

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Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas can do push-ups

Until today, we’ve seen exactly 40 seconds of Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas in action. The Hyundai-owned robotics stalwart is very much still in in the early stages of commercializing the biped for factory floors. For now, however, it’s doing the thing Boston Dynamics does second best after building robots: showing off in viral video […]

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August was Medium’s first profitable month — ever

August was online publishing platform Medium’s first profitable month — ever. That’s according to Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine, who on Wednesday published a recap of Medium’s recent digital Medium Day 2024 conference. Stubblebine says that Medium had over a million members as of April, and that more members “than ever before” are subscribing to the […]

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Gamified rower startup Aviron branches out into bikes

At around $2,000, the Fit Bike places the system between Peloton’s entry-level Bike ($1,500) and Bike+ ($2,500).

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DNC's Law & Order Parody Calls Out Trump As Convicted Felon

A blistering ad during last night's Democratic National Convention laid waste to the lie that Republicans are the party of Law & Order. They are not. They shield lawbreakers, men who sexually assaulted women, business cheats, and politicians who would overturn free and fair elections.

NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. This is the story of Donald Trump.

His entire life, Trump has believed he’s above the law, that no one would ever dare hold him accountable. He lies. He rips off workers. He sexually abuses women.

TRUMP: And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

NARRATOR: He cheats in business. He cheated on his wife with a porn star and paid her off so the American people wouldn’t find out during an election.

But in the criminal justice system, ordinary Americans have had the courage to find him accountable, time and time again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #1: Guilty.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #2: Guilty.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #3: Guilty.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #4: Donald Trump, guilty on all 34 felony counts.

NARRATOR: For the first time in history, we have a convicted felon running for president. And to take on this case, we need a president who has spent her life prosecuting perpetrators like Donald Trump.

He tried overturning Georgia’s free and fair election.

TRUMP: I just want to find 11,780 votes.

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Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles

Renovate says this model is faster and more accurate than its predecessor, despite being roughly half its weight.

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Cisco employees face a month of silence ahead of second layoff in 2024

After tech giant Cisco announced plans for its second round of layoffs this year, employees tell TechCrunch that they will not know if they are affected for close to a month. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Cisco was planning a second round of layoffs this year, after letting go of around 4,000 workers in […]

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Could Trump’s AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?

On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted a collection of memes on Truth Social — the platform owned by his media company — that make it seem like Taylor Swift and her fans are coming out in support of his candidacy. But as new legislation takes effect, these images could have deeper implications about the […]

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Deja Vu: Trump Is Setting Stage For Another Fraud Claim

“This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup.” Trump is doing what Trump does, which is setting the stage for another extended "Stop The Steal" claim. Via the Washington Post:

Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used in the 2020 campaign and indicate how he could again seek to delegitimize the results if he loses, setting the stage for another combustible fight over the presidency, election and national security experts said.

“This is Donald Trump’s playbook: ‘There’s a deep state, they’re all out to get me,’” said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security official during the Trump administration and is now among his conservative critics. “Even here — as he’s going to have to face a stronger, harder candidate to defeat — his default is, ‘Well, this couldn’t possibly be legal. This is a coup. This is wrong,’ even though there are no facts to back that up.”

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Swarmbotics founders grew ‘obsessed with robot swarms’ and now plan to bring them to the battlefield

Few truly autonomous systems are deployed on the battlefield, but one startup is looking to change that with robotic systems that use cooperative behavior to boost troops’ intelligence and tactical advantage. Those systems are called “swarms,” and they’re basically collections of autonomous robots that can coordinate their actions.  Swarm robotics have been the stuff of […]

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Not Weird At All: Trumpers Are Holding Fake Cups Of Vance's Icky Jizz

Gov. Tim Walz coined the term 'weird' to describe his Republican opponent, and he nailed it, just like Hillary Clinton was accurate in calling Trump supporters 'deplorables.' But they've gotten even weirder and more deplorable since 2016, as Kamala Harris now dominates the polls after jumping in the race only a few weeks ago. America is sick of the gloom and doom that Trump is propagating to his base at each rally and on Truth Social.

Vance, like his felonious boss, called the polls 'fake,' but they're genuine. To highlight why Trump and Vance, among many other things, are plunging in the polls, Trumpers have jumped in to be as offensive as possible, following the vice presidential hopeful's lead of disparaging women who are childless.

That's not a good way to reach out to the coveted woman voting bloc, but OK. Note to Trump supporters: Some Republican women are childless, too, you weirdos. The specimen cups they proudly hold say, "JD Vance Family Kit," with a pic of Trump's vice presidential pick's photo featured on it.

Trump supporters are carrying around a pretend jar of JD Vance’s jizz to mock Democrats that are unable to conceive children, just in case anyone wonders why we think they are a cult and just plain fucking weird pic.twitter.com/XqylRfWCej

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Lucas Kunce Hits Weirdo Hawley For Acting Like Tough Guy While Ducking Debates

Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce didn't pull any punches when responding to what looked like some desperate moves from his opponent, Josh Hawley. As someone who lives in Missouri, I was extremely unhappy that the Democratic party in our state threw their weight behind one of the worst candidates we've ever had for Senate, Trudy Busch Valentine, rather than Kunce the last go around.

I'll be very happy if Kunce takes chicken-boy Hawley out this time around now that it appears the Democratic party in Missouri and the voters here decided maybe voting for someone who is actually going to fight and take their opponent head-on rather than playing nice with these fascist Republicans is the way to go to appeal to voters.

Kunce made an appearance on this Friday's All In With Chris Hayes, and Hayes played this ad for his audience, which features St. Louis native John Goodman, before asking Kunce to weigh in.

John Goodman is a born-and-raised Missourian. He's got a message for you about family values.

All that noise from Josh Hawley? That's something else. Help us break through it so we can give Missourians a real choice in this race: https://t.co/QVflbJMAu7 pic.twitter.com/6THgnKxwPz

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Aging Old Narcissist Says He's 'Much Better Looking' Than Kamala

Donald Trump couldn't even fill a small arena in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on Saturday, but that didn't stop him from going off-script. While those in the former President's orbit, including pro-Trump media, have encouraged the aging narcissist to stick to policies instead of personal jabs at this Democratic opponent, it hasn't worked. A narcissist isn't capable of changing.

Trump once again started talking about Time magazine's cover featuring Kamala Harris. The felon did this just this past week during his Xitter Spaces event with Elon Musk, and he can't let it go. Of course, this time, he added a lie because that's just who he is.

"I mean, Time Magazine — think of this — Time Magazine doesn't have a picture of her," said Trump, who had at least four phony Time Magazine covers featuring himself hanging in his golf clubs.

"They have this unbelievable artist drawing her," he continued. "And I said, Is that Sophia Loren? I couldn't — who might that be? Is that Elizabeth Taylor? As they say, she was a beautiful woman. Who is it?"

"So beautiful," he said. "It's a drawing. "They took a lot of pictures that didn't work out, so they hired a sketch artist."

Fact check: What the fuck?

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'Can You Imagine?': Fox News Is Now Mad That Kamala Eats Doritos

Elisabeth Hasselbeck launched a rant on Fox News about Kamala Harris's email revealing that the Democratic nominee coped with Donald Trump winning the election in 2016 by binge-eating a bag of Doritos. That only makes Harris more relatable unless you're a miserable cultish trunt invested in the felonious rapist winning in November.

Just last week, Fox News's Outnumbered panelists were big mad that Kamala cooks. And now, Hasselbeck thinks Kamala's Doritos revelation means she won't be a good leader.

"You just talked about Kamala Harris supposedly eating a bag of Doritos, so emotionally charged after hearing this," she said of Kamala's response to Trump's win. "That's the commander-in-chief, potentially. That's the emotional response of the leader of the free world, which is to binge-eat a bag of Doritos. Are you kidding me?"

"Can you imagine Putin how he deals with things?" she asked. "Chugging down a bag of Sour Patch Kids because he's depressed about something not going his way?"

Girl, we were all binging on something. I recall pouring a glass of bourbon. Meanwhile, the felon throws ketchup at the walls when he can't cope with something -- but do go off.

Xitter users gave her a wake-up call.

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Hovde: Most Abortions Happen Through Day After Pill

California banker Eric "Pornstache" Hovde has continued his streak of insulting whole groups of people. He insulted the elderly by saying they're almost dead and shouldn't even be allowed to vote. He insulted Black people by saying they are hyping up all the Black deaths at the hands of white supremacists. And now he's onto insulting women by showing his total ignorance in both the medical field and women's reproductive health. During a lunch event with wispolitics, he drove the point home repeatedly

WISPOLITICS HOST: So, you're okay with various states having various laws, and if a woman needs an abortion and her state doesn't provide it, then she'd have to travel for the abortion.

ERIC HOVDE: Well, okay, let's be honest on that. The vast majority of abortions today are done through the day after pill. So, the reality is most abortions are handled, and you're getting medication delivered online.

WH: You're okay with the preservation of the use of the pill?

EH: Well, look, you're not changing that. We can all talk in theory. Let's just talk in reality. You're not changing that. That pill will be around. And just like hard narcotics transfer from state to state or from other countries into our countries, medications move all over our country, and that's just reality.

What a charmer he is!

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp is ‘not going to apologize’ for military work

Data analytics company Palantir has faced criticism and even protests over its work with the military, police, and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, but co-founder and CEO Alex Karp isn’t interested in “the apology show.” In a lengthy New York Times profile, Karp told writer Maureen Dowd that the company has “a consistently pro-Western view” […]

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Nancy Pelosi criticizes California AI bill as ‘ill informed’

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi issued a statement late yesterday laying out her opposition to SB 1047, a California bill that seeks to regulate AI. “The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill-informed,” Pelosi said. She noted that other congresspeople from the Bay Area — Zoe Lofgren, Anna Eshoo, […]

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'F*ck You!': Vets Disgusted As Donald Demeans Medal Of Honor Recipients

Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for President, demeaned Medal of Honor recipients at his golf resort while praising GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson's widow, whom he bestowed the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom. The felon said the award was "better" than the Medal of Honor for military valor. Unsurprisingly, Trump also awarded the late toxic conservative host Rush Limbaugh with the civilian award. Oh, and Jim Jordan, too.

"I have to say, Miriam, I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Trump said. "That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but a civilian version."

"It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor," he falsely said. "That's soldiers."

"They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead," Trump continued. "But she gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman."

"That's right," he added. "And they're rated equal."

What a loathsome piece of shit. Vets aren't too happy about Trump's thoroughly disgusting remarks.

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OpenAI shuts down election influence operation that used ChatGPT

OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election, according to a blog post on Friday. The company says the operation created AI-generated articles and social media posts, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience. This is […]

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Another week in the circle of startup life

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. I’m Anna Heim from TechCrunch’s international team, and I’ll be writing this newsletter moving forward. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week, we’re looking at some companies being created, funded, shut down and […]

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Jeff Bezos’ brother’s firm has launched a debut $100M VC fund called HIPstr

HighPost Capital, a private equity firm run by Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos' younger brother, and PE veteran David Moross, has launched a new venture capital arm.

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Alleged Couch-F*cker Sh*ts Himself 'Wayne Gacyuch-F*ckernull'

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld's brain cracked during an episode of The Five.

Gutfeld's brand of "punditry" has always been witless instead of witty.

Gutfeld's explanation for the sudden success of the Harris/Walz campaign as, "the Left has been brainwashed."

Greg, you are actually a weird dude.

GUTFELD: He just has a weird vibe. The key here is brainwash, right?

They're like all of a sudden the Left loves things that they mocked months ago. The rural vote, since when do Democrats love the rural vote? Aren't those a bunch of hicks and pickup trucks with the red hats? Now, all of a sudden, they care.

Democrats have always cared about rural votes. Kamala Harris chose a genuine midwestern leader for her running mate. He's the real deal, so Gutfeld doesn't know how to respond.

"Greg on tilt" #1:

GUTFELD: They care about white males, the military, the second amendment, and all of a sudden the things that they usually reject, criminal justice, social justice, sanctuary cities, free health benefits, left-wing protests, all that stuff takes a backseat to folksy, rural, Midwestern white guy, and we're all supposed to go, oh yeah, he's great, just like Joe Biden was going to be the voice of moderation when you guys put that jackass in front of us.

I have no idea what he's rambling about. Take as many MAGA hit words and toss them around, then do the hokey pokey.

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Foiled Again!: The Felon Forced To Pay NC City In Advance For Rally

Donald Trump has a history of stiffing contractors and venues for his rallies, too. Many of these venues needed the money to pay police officers for overtime work. According to Blue Ridge Public Radio, Asheville, North Carolina, a moderately liberal city wasn't having it, and Lumpy was forced to fork over more than $82,000 in advance for his rally this week.

According to the city's spokesperson, Kim Miller, $22,500 of that money goes toward renting the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium event space.

"The remainder of the funds go to cover additional costs such as venue and security staffing, production equipment rental, and exterior items like attendee queue stanchions and related items," Miller told BPR.

"The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is a publicly owned venue and therefore is restricted from discriminating against users based on the content of their speech or political party affiliation," Miller explained. "The City is committed to maintaining a neutral stance and upholding the First Amendment rights of all individuals and groups."

Via BPR:

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UAW files federal labor charges against Trump, Musk for intimidating workers at X Spaces event

The United Auto Workers union said Tuesday that it filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The union alleges that Trump and Musk attempted to “threaten and intimidate workers” who engage in strikes after comments made during the now notorious X Spaces interview Monday evening. “They go on strike, I won’t mention […]

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Kellyanne Conway Begs Trump To Lob 'Fewer Insults'

Sadly for ConJob, and Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow, the two of them couldn't even take their own advice. The Trump campaign has reportedly suspected that Kellyanne Conway is the one who has been leaking negative reports about JD Vance to the press.

Now we've got Conway on Fox Business Network this Monday, giving Trump campaign advice about not going too negative on Harris, while ignoring her own advice during this interview with Larry Kudlow.

KUDLOW: Here's the big point, big point, question for you. Mr. Trump has got to hammer away on what he did, and why she wouldn't do it. In other words, all these things are kind of a gift. I mean, Tim Walz of Minnesota is a socialist gift, okay?

These flip-flops and plagiarisms and so forth, they're little gifts, but he has to turn them into important gifts. He has to hammer away, does he not? I mean, that's what he, don't wander off, don't call her stupid and all kinds of names, stay on message.

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Megyn 'Did The Twirl' Kelly: Nobody Cares About Trump's Sex Assaults

Former Fox News host Megan Kelly, who admitted Roger Ailes forced her to twirl in front of him to check out her body and who was horrifically castigated by Trump during the 2016 primaries, led the MAGA cult apology charge after it was reported that Trump called Kamala Harris a bitch.

She calls him a criminal sexual predator fraudster so I’m pretty sure none of us care https://t.co/XYWbT1ZLpk

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) August 10, 2024

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Since Kelly became irrelevant in the mainstream media, she is not hiding her love for the MAGA cult, which is highly confusing.

After enduring the horrible work environment in Fox News that led to the demise of Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly (to name a few) over unwanted sexual advances would take this position to defend Trump, who told the world he routinely sexually assaulted women and lost millions of dollars over a rape case.

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records. Plus, some special shoutouts.

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Trump Flying Around In Jeffery Epstein's Old Jet

There's just something so perfect about all this. Either the Trump campaign doesn't bother to vet details such as this or they just don't care. And no it's not the infamous 'Lolita Express' that Epstein used to fly the rich and powerful around to have sex with underage girls. That was a much larger Boeing 727 and this is a smaller Gulfstream G550.

Source: View from the Wing

After former President Trump lost the 2020 election, he no longer had access to Air Force One and his private Boeing 757 was left in disrepair. At the time I wrote that if you wanted to know when he was ready to run again, just watch his private private plane which has gold-plated everything down to the seat belts.

When he announced his candidacy for President seven years ago, he claimed to be worth $10 billion (though self-reported election filings suggested wealth one-eighth that). Yet he asked his small donors to pay for repairs on the plane, registration N757AF, which had been stored at Newburgh-Stewart airport in New York.

The Trump 757, once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, made an emergency landing last week, diverting while the candidate was en route to a fundraiser. The campaign now continues on a Gulfstream G550.

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Jesse Ventura Whacks Vance For 'Shameful' Attack Against Walz

I've gone back and forth on my feelings about former governor of Minnesota and former Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura, who rightfully spoke out about Dick Cheney and waterboarding on more than one occasion, but then turned to conspiracy land with the likes of Alex Jones when contemplating a presidential run in 2016.

Regardless of Ventura's past, I was happy to see someone mention the fact that the deployment Vance was falsely accusing Walz of dodging was one that never should have happened in the first place, and someone again whacking him for his support of Trump who dodged the draft.

Here's the exchange between Ventura and CNN's Laura Coates from this Friday:

COATES: Governor Ventura, thank you so much for joining me this evening. I'm really eager to hear your take on this because you are a former Navy SEAL. You served in Vietnam. And I have to ask you what you think of this attack from the Trump-Vance ticket on Governor Walz's military service.

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Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software company

Autonomy founder Scott Painter is spinning out a new company called Autonomy Data Services, or ADS, he tells TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. 

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Redfin CEO promises to ‘drink our own urine’ if mortgage rates don’t fall

He really said that: When asked about the company’s “Plan B” if mortgage rates don’t fall, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman responded, “Plan B is to drink our own urine or our competitors’ blood, stay in the foxhole.” This wasn’t at some informal, off-the-record gathering. It was on Redfin’s second quarter earnings call, the kind of […]

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Turkey restores access to Instagram

Turkey appears to have restored access to Meta-owned Instagram, after blocking the app on August 2.  Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the country’s minister of transport and infrastructure, posted today that the ban would be lifted at 9:30pm Turkish time.  Cybersecurity monitor NetBlocks says, “Live metrics show that Instagram is being gradually restored on internet providers in #Turkey […]

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Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves.  Crucial to that mission is Dojo, Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer designed to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some […]

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Why Tim Walz Can Help Democrats Overcome Trump

When Vice-President Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate, it was a moment of joy. We are tired of hate and division. Walz is a happy warrior who wants to include everyone in the American dream.

In a New York Times Op-Ed, author Sarah Smarsh explains why Tim Walz is a much-needed voice for the Democrats.

"The rural white working class is not a monolith. Among them remains a large and consequential minority of sensible people who even in their vulnerable economic state remain unmoved by charlatans blaming immigrants while amassing corporate wealth."

"That for all the loud racism, homophobia and jingoism of today's Republican Party — which indeed has dominated elections outside metropolitan areas — the real rural America is diverse, full of immigrants, people of color, gay and transgender people and native peoples, and even straight white folks who happily work and live alongside them."

Americans share more similarities than differences. But Trump and the GOP have made it their mission to try to divide people. Smarsh describes the pain of Trump and GOP co-opting parts of the rural life for their gain.

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How to ask Google to remove deepfake porn results from Google Search

The internet is full of deepfakes — and most of them are nudes. According to a report from Home Security Heroes, deepfake porn makes up 98% of all deepfake videos online. Thanks to easy-to-use and freely available generative AI tools, the number of deepfakes online — many of which aren’t consensual — skyrocketed 550% from […]

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Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say

Researchers found flaws that could allow anyone to spy on the owners of Ecovacs home robots by hijacking their cameras and microphones.

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Flint Capital raises a $160M through an unusual fund-raising strategy

Flint Capital just closed its third fund at $160 million. Its has a unique strategy for finding its limited partner investors. 

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Compare The Felon's Rally With Empty Seats Vs. Kamala's Filled Arena

Future Madam President Kamala Harris's rallies, compared to Donald Trump's in the same arenas, have ended with the same results. The felon gave a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday evening, and you could clearly see a lot of empty seats, but Kamala's rally was filled to capacity. Trump tried to explain that previously with a bonkers conspiracy theory, so I can't wait to hear how he explains the comparisons with the rallies in Philly.

The Kamala/Walz campaign posted this on Truth Social, too. For a pro-Trump site, it garnered a staggering 1,056 likes.

Harris rally vs. Trump rally

Same arena in Philly pic.twitter.com/YqRiRIPRrW

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024

Below, same arena:
Harris campaign today on top.
Trump campaign, a few days earlier, below.
Notice all the empty seats in lower photo (click to enlarge).

Donald's revenge and self-pity tour is wearing thin. pic.twitter.com/Ww9BgrGIPQ

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Techstars is laying off 17%, ending its J.P. Morgan-backed programs

Techstars is cutting 17% of its staff and will end its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed Advancing Cities Program once the fund is completely deployed.

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Newly launched social network Maven loses its co-founders

Just three months after Maven’s public launch, Kenneth Stanley — the former OpenAI researcher who co-founded the social media platform designed to facilitate serendipitous interactions — is stepping down.  Stanley posted on Maven and X that despite enthusiastic responses to the platform’s launch, Maven “could not achieve the kind of growth curve that investors want […]

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Tim Walz: Midwestern VP With Kelce Brothers' Heart

Tim Walz is a Midwesterner who served as an enlisted soldier and coached high school football. The former school teacher is the highest-ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress. He enlisted in the Army National Guard at 17 and retired 24 years later as Command Sergeant Major. Walz personifies a "real American" man who is tough, decent, and kind.

Similar to the Ohio natives Travis and Jason Kelce, Walz proves that showing compassion and sharing your feelings is a strength. Like the Kelce brothers, the future Vice-President is comfortable in his own skin, and he's not afraid to stand up for what he believes in.

According to USA Today, Travis and Jason Kelce are "rewriting the limiting narrative of professional athletes being tough all the time. Toughness, according to the Kelce brothers, includes feeling feelings and loving your people hard. They know who they are and what they care about."

What is a Command Sargeant Major?
Mark Hertling is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General, he explains the importance of Walz's experience as a Command Sargeant Major. Hertling tweeted:

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Google Assistant lives to automate another day

With new Pixel devices just over the horizon, Assistant’s days on Android may still be numbered. For the time being, however, it still has a place on the home.

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Amazon upgrades its AI image generator

Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the new model brings with it several new capabilities, AWS principal developer advocate Channy Yun explains in a blog post. Users can “guide” the images they […]

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Mark Levin Complains About 'Propaganda Machines'...Like His Own

Fox News weekend host Mark Levin, a blowhard's blowhard, was very angry at how the NABJ treated poor, defenseless, and helpless Donald Trump during his horrific appearance.

This egged him on to rant for a long time about the topic of propaganda. He's decided that only Trump and the MAGA cult passes on honest information and never implements thought control over their herd.

I left off his first 4 minutes for grousing that the NABJ set up up diminished Donald. A common tactic by cults, racists , fascists and the like is to transfer their forms of degradation onto the people fact checking them - hence we are the racists, etc.

MARK LEVIN: Democracy and totalitarianism.

Politics in the English language by George Orwell.

The Marxist philosophy of language written by a Marxist, how to change the language.

The psychology of totalitarianism.

The origins of totalitarianism.

Why am I talking about this?

Because you're living it.

And it begins with free speech, honest information, not thought control and language control.

And probably the most nefarious and yet ubiquitous book of its kind, a book called Propaganda, written over a hundred years ago by Edward Bernays.

Now, what does he say, in part?

This is all very important.

Edward Bernays pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he called engineering consent.

This is my book now on Freedom of the Press.

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OpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall

Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference from a tentpole event into […]

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Google loses massive antitrust case over search

Google has suffered a major court defeat in the U.S. that could alter the way it does business, should the decision stand. Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling in a case brought against Google by the Justice Department, said that Google had abused its monopoly power over […]

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GOP Senator Twists Himself In Knots Defending Trump's Promise To Pardon J6 Insurrectionists

Watch Oklahoma Republican Sen. Marywayne Mullin try to defend Trump's statement that he "absolutely" would pardon January 6th rioters who assaulted police officers "if they're innocent" while pretending he's not defending insurrectionists who assaulted police officers.\

And CNN's useless Dana Bash allowed him to do it, and basically tried to put words in his mouth instead of holding his feet to fire for being a MAGA toady flip-flopper.

Here's the exchange from this Sunday's State of the Union:

BASH: Senator, this week Donald Trump said he would absolutely pardon January 6th rioters, even those who have been convicted of attacking police officers. You helped barricade the door to the House chamber on January 6th, and we're showing a photo of that right now, and you're prepared to fight the rioters if necessary.

Would you be comfortable with Trump pardoning people who have been convicted of attacking police officers?

MULLIN: You know, unfortunately we saw a lot of people on January 6th get caught up in politics. You saw the FBI start calling them domestic terrorists, and they stayed with that for several years after that, January 6th, and I mean the last three years, it's just recently quick to quit using the term, they kept referring them to domestic terrorists.

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Old Sh*t For Brains Describes What's In 'His Brain' At Bonkers Rally

Donald Trump gave a doozy of a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday evening, complete with mental glitches while using his same old tired attacks. Did you know that while Kamala Harris has been Vice President, Americans have been deprived of saying 'Merry Christmas'? Trump regurgitated his basely worn-out rhetoric, winning over zero Gen Z, independents, or swing voters.

The ex-president's crowd was not enthusiastic; Trump just didn't garner the fervor that Kamala Harris's crowd expressed at the same arena only four days earlier. And there were empty seats, which was predictable since he launched attacks on Harris's Georgia rally. His projection skills were at the IMAX level.

One thing Trump succeeded at during his lackadaisical performance was bringing up what's in his brain. We've all wondered about that, too!

"Did you ever see a guy in the debate?" the Stable Genius™ said while pointing to his head. "You know, they give you like two minutes to answer and you want to use up."You got so much fertility in there."

Yeah, he's weird as fuck.

Never has a more compelling argument for contraception been made. https://t.co/UYntVv6FYB

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 3, 2024

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From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better

COVID-19 pushed people to take up outdoor activities. Now, startups are helping companies and consumers keep up with demand.

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Karl Rove Brings The Bad News To Fox On Harris' Momentum

Reality is starting to set in over at Fox "news" that Felon45 will likely be behind in the polls by the time the Democratic Convention ends. I hate to break it to them, but it's not going to take that long.

Here's Karl Rove, a.k.a. Turdblossom, and his whiteboard, tossing some cold water on the happy face host John Roberts was trying to put on what the shift in momentum means for Trump's chances of winning the election.

ROBERTS: So let's talk about where the race is because in some battleground states, the polls seem to have been narrowing. Let's put it up here. Arizona, Trump still leads, though one poll has got Harris up by two. Same thing in Nevada. Wisconsin, Trump holds up very narrow lead.

Michigan, Trump is ahead, but Harris is up eleven in one new poll, which I think might be an outlier. Trump continues to lead in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.

He's still got the advantage, Karl, but she's gaining momentum. There's no question.

ROVE: Yeah, no doubt about it. If you look at, remember, better to look at an average of polls, and we just don't have a lot of battleground state polls since all these things began to shift.

Take a look at the national number, though, and you get a sense of this. Remember, before the first debate with Biden and Trump, Trump was leading by close to three points or above three points, depending on when you looked at it.

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Zuckerberg and Jensen show off their friendship, while an AI necklace covets yours

A fireside chat between Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg at SIGGRAPH 2024 took some unexpected turns. What started as a conversation about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg’s vision of an AI chatbot future quickly became a more casual affair — including a swap of custom-made jackets, a rare F-bomb from the Meta CEO, […]

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When a big company comes after a hot startup, it’s not a slam dunk decision to sell

We spoke to Harness CEO and founder Jyoti Bansal about his previous company, which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion in 2017.

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Krazy Kudlow Claims Trump 'Came Out The Winner' At NABJ

FOX Business host and former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow outrageously claimed Trump was some kind of winner after his horrific and racist performance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference on Wednesday.

Says the man who infamously said, “We don’t actually know what the magnitude of the virus is going to be. Although, frankly, so far it looks relatively contained,” he told CNBC on March 7th, four days before Trump finally declared COVID a pandemic..

LARRY KUDLOW: you know, I mentioned Mr. Trump's tax cuts. I just thought yesterday, okay, he went into the lion's den with the convention of black journalists. He faced some, you know, pretty strong criticism. Thank heavens for Harris Faulkner, by the way.

But I thought he came out the winner.

And the reason I thought he came out the winner, I guess I'll start with my pal Brian Mast, is because he emphasized border, inflation, economy, tax cuts.

Those are his emphasis.

Again and again and again.

Those are his strong suits.

That's where the Democratic administration has done so badly, that he kept doing that.

So I think he went into the lion's den and he came out a winner, Brian Mast.

How did you see it?

MAST: I'll just say it the same way that you did, but in a slightly different way.

I agree, he came out the winner.

It's because he has this willingness, whether it's with a rally or whether it's with media or somebody else, to essentially go where he's not invited to.

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FTC and Justice Department sue TikTok over alleged child privacy violations

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are suing TikTok and ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law requires digital platforms to notify and obtain parents’ consent before collecting and using personal data from children under the age of 13. In a press release issued […]

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How filming a capella concerts and dance recitals led Northzone’s newest parter Molly Alter to a career in VC

Molly Alter wears a lot of hats. She’s a mockumentary film maker working on a project about an alternate reality where charades is big business. She’s a caesar salad connoisseur and documents her rankings of different restaurants’ attempts on a blog called JULIUS. She’s also Northzone’s newest partner. Alter’s path to venture capital was not […]

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The Felon Takes Giant Sh*t All Over The Imprisoned Americans Coming Home

In a historic move, Russia, the U.S., and several other countries engaged in a 24-prisoner exchange, with President Joe Biden negotiating the deal. Four Americans, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, are on their way home.

Trump, Putin's fckboi, has repeatedly claimed that he could end the war in Ukraine immediately and vowed to free Gershkovich if elected in 2024 -- and he isn't taking the news well. Shocking, I know. Instead of leaving a welcome home message to the freed Americans on his shitty social site, the felon took a shit all over the swap. You knew this was coming. I did, too.

"So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia?" Lumpy asked. "How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I'm sure the answer is NO)?"

"Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs?" he continued. "Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our "negotiators" are always an embarrassment to us!"

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