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The Daily Show Introduces The Presidential Neck Vag

Bobby Cannavale for the win:

Donald Trump's neck has caused an uproar on social media, with actor Bobby Cannavale now getting involved in the drama.

The president made headlines after giving a speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on July 24, and not for the right reasons. Viewers were distracted by Trump's appearance and many questioned the folds of his neck, with some begging for it to be censored.

Attention was again drawn to Trump's neck as he gave a eulogy at Lindsey Graham's funeral on July 28. Close up images of the 80-year-old president from the event showed sagging, loose skin on his neck. During a sketch on Friday night's episode of The Daily Show, Cannavale poked fun at the president's neck as he played the role of fictional five-time Trump voter Skip McMahon.

Full segment below.

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Todd Blanche Shoveling Big Bucks Out The Door To Extremists

While acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is trying to shore up support for his flagging nomination to drop the “acting” from his title, he’s also busy shoveling your taxpayer dollars out the door for the poor victims of weaponization by the Department of Justice.

On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that you just gave seven figures to Paul Vaughn, an anti-choice activist who was convicted by a jury in 2024 for conspiring to block access to an abortion clinic, which is an actual law that he broke, even though it is one that Trump doesn’t believe should exist.

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Elon Musk Plans To Buy Susan Collins

Nazi-enthusiast Elon Musk has decided to throw in $100 – 120 million to help Republican candidates in the upcoming midterms, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins.

“The precise spending amounts could reportedly change,” the Portland Press Herald says, but Musk’s America PAC “is planning a field operation revolving around knocking on doors to reach voters.”

You have to wonder how glad the Collins campaign is about the world’s richest man inserting himself into a close race in which affordability and income inequality are front and center. Collins probably has some concerns – which she will probably ignore. The Herald also reported that she “had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves.” I'll bet she's gotten over those concerns by now.

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Todd Blanche Declares God ‘Front And Center Again’ Under Trump

On top of all the other reasons Todd Blanche should never be confirmed as our nation’s attorney general, he clearly wants to make the U.S. more Christian – and to heck with the First Amendment.

Right Wing Watch caught Blanche on a call with the White House Faith Office Thursday night. I’m not sure which is worse: what Blanche said or the fact that he was fine with saying it publicly.

Blanche’s nomination is currently stalled because of Donald Trump’s insistence on getting a pass to cheat on his taxes and handing out nearly $2 billion to convicted insurrectionists who assaulted police officers. That’s not counting how Blanche has clearly covered up for pedophile sex traffickers in the Epstein files while harming the victims.

Yet, that Todd Blanche claims he and his proud, p***y-grabbing boss are turning the U.S. into some kind of beacon of Christianity:

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Trump Sides With Iran Over Minnesota On Cyber Attacks

There is no bottom with this creature. During yet another one of his North Korean-style so-called cabinet meetings, where Trump also took a bunch of questions from the press, Trump sided with the Iranians over the state of Minnesota when asked about the recent cyber attacks...

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Jeanine Pirro Drops Reflecting Pool Case, Now Blames The Contractor

Donald J. Trump's top federal prosecutor in D.C. has pulled the plug on the criminal case against David Hearn, the 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. In a late-Friday filing, Pirro moved to dismi...

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Trump: This Fund Isn't For Me, It's For The People Obama And Biden 'Destroyed'

Donald J. Trump is once again pushing the assertion that he and his allies were unfairly targeted by the Justice Department under Presidents Obama and Biden — and this time, he's arguing that no group of people, "most likely," has ever been treated worse. Sure thing, buddy....

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Clown Vivek Ramaswamy Gets Booed Off The Stage

MAGA creep Vivek Ramaswamy got no love from his home crowd during a speech at the Young Americans for Liberty conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, when he was unmercifully booed off the stage during his thirty-minute speech. Vivek made a name for himself within the ...

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Mike's Blog Round Up

First Draft: The third red scare.

Pharyngula: Kangaroo court in session.

Press Watch: When fact-checking is not enough.

Lawfare: What they want to hear – the politicization of U.S. intelligence.

Greater Good: How Trump is affecting teens' views on racism and inequality.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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The MAGA Machine Steals Power: We Built One To Take It Back

Blue Amp Media has partnered with Defiance.org because you all MUST see what Miles Taylor and Xander Schultz have built. Defiance exists to answer a question I hear more than any other: What can I do? Not “what should I worry about”—what can I do. Every week they fund get-...

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Friday Night Funnies: Scrubs

I didn't watch Scrubs when it initially ran, but when I finally checked it out on Hulu, it grabbed me.

It's hysterical.

Bill Lawrence is an amazing showrunner who went on to create another one of my favorites, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and many others.

The Scrubs revival wasn't too bad either.

Open thread.

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U.S. State Dept Apologizes For Map That Mislabels Every African Country

"Screenshots of the map first appeared in a Substack post by the Aids expert Emily Bass and were widely ‌shared on LinkedIn, with one post garnering about 40,000 views." I imagine it would be. Source: Reuters July 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled e...

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Wisconsin Lawmaker Calls For Fauci To Be Publicly Executed

Waukesha County Supervisor Robert Kolb made a Facebook post calling for the public execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci. When people started to call or send emails to him, he made another post saying, "I stated that Fauci should be executed for his crimes…. I guess these people...

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Jim Jordan Calls Abuse Allegations Against Colleague A 'Family Matter'

Rep. Jim Jordan stuttered and stammered his way through an interview with CNN's Kasie Hunt when she threw his own hypocritical words back in his face. Jordan made an appearance on this Thursday's The Arena with Kasie Hunt. Initially, he called the abuse allegations against ...

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RFK Jr. On Trump’s High Grocery Prices: 'You Can Buy Liver!'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some words of advice for Americans struggling with the skyrocketing cost of groceries thanks to Donald Trump’s unnecessary tariffs and his unnecessary war with Iran: It’s fine, make do.

On Thursday, Kennedy basically told Americans Trumpflation is no biggie. “This is true all over the country. … Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive.”

He went on to lecture Americans who may want to eat a steak. “If you buy a porterhouse steak … it’s gonna set you back. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts instead that are very, very affordable.”

First of all, liver is not recommended for everybody. Kennedy has no medical qualifications for his Health and Human Services secretary position. So maybe he doesn’t know.

Or maybe he does, and it’s yet another part of his plan to endanger Americans’ health.

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School Shooter's Dad Sentenced To 15 Years

Colt Gray, a 14-year old freshman at Apalachee High School in Georgia, decided to bring an AR15 to school on September 4, 2024 and start shooting. He killed 2 teachers - Richard Aspinwall, 39 and Christina Irimie, 53 and 2 students - Mason Schermerhorn, 14 and Christian Ang...

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'They Don't Speak English' DJT Trashes Immigrant Truck Drivers

Trump continues to destroy the US economy with his racist, anti-immigrant fury by targeting truck drivers in his latest campaign of xenophobia: The "Freedom Haulers" Initiative. The AP reports, "A new campaign launched Friday will promote programs that let veterans who rece...

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Fox Host Asks Trump If Iranians Have Food And Water, Trump Hits On Her Instead

As Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran steamrolls into its sixth month, with absolutely no conceivable end in sight, one Fox News host attempted to ask the President a starkly serious question: Are the people in Iran okay? Trump called into Fox for a phone interview this ...

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CNN Data Guru: Republicans Tanking Badly With Youth Vote

CNN's Harry Enten highlighted new polling data that shows people 50 and under have turned away from Trump and Republicans in droves, while the enthusiasm gap is monumental with majorities wanting Democrats to take back the House. I doubt Trump staffers will let Trump see t...

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Ever Wondered What Obama REALLY Thinks About The Trumps? Now You Know...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently took it upon himself to publicly release Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary, hailing from his COVID days under the Trump Administration and spanning upwards of 1,000 pages of his inside thoughts, as part of Paul's ongoing feud with and inv...

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Alex Jones Calls For 25th Amendment Against Donald Trump

Alex Jones is calling for the 25th Amendment to be implemented against Donald Trump because the only way to stop Trump and his Iran war is to impeach him. How times have changed. Many members of the MAGA cult are fed up with Trump's tariffs, 1.8 billion dollar slush fund, a...

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Trump Asks SCOTUS To Reinstate His Bogus Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton

Despite repeated losses in his lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump is trying yet again to go after her. As Bloomberg explains, in 2022, Trump sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others, accusing them of conspiring to harm his 2016 campaign ...

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Secret Diary Confirms Stephen And Katie Miller Are A Couple Of Hypocritical Clowns

Stephen and Katie Miller are a couple of hypocritical clowns, and Dr. Anthony Fauci has the receipts to prove it. Fauci, now 85 years old, stood at the helm of the US government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic during Donald Trump's first presidential term. For a while,...

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Fox News' Gen. Keane Wants All-Out War With Iran

Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst and national security contributor General Jack Keane told Fox Business that Trump must initiate "major combat operations" in Iran if he wants to succeed. The general didn't outright say Trump will have to send troops on the ground, but "maj...

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SF 49ers Coach Kyle Shanahan Photo Released After Car Crash

WGN in Chicago with the faux pas. Understandable mistake, though, using a meme photo of Kyle Shanahan with Elaine Chao in the hospital instead of a real one. Source: The Daily Mail A Chicago-based TV station has gone viral for being tricked into using a fake image of San F...

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Mike's Blog Round Up

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Make America Healthy Again, with explosive diarrhea.

Emptywheel: James Comey's lesson about no kings.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: People losing food assistance due to Republican legislation.

Constant Commoner: On being ashamed of the good in us.

This Modern World: Strategizer-in-chief.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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Blame Biden Becomes GOP Strategy To Hide From Failure

The Republican Party is now trying to accomplish something unheard of in Western civilization – hold power indefinitely while accepting responsibility for absolutely nothing. Including massive infighting that has pitted numerous Senators against Trump, with John Thune even ...

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The First Quarantine In History Began During The 'Black Death' Plague

The Black Death's first blow started in 1348 in Ragusa, we now call Dubrovnik, spreading to all of Europe. Britannica: On this day in 1377, the lawmakers there instituted the first quarantine in the world.Anyone arriving from a plague-stricken place would be stopped at ...

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Trump Vowed Private Donors Would Pay For Freedom 250; Taxpayers Just Got The Bill

Turns out "Freedom" isn't free — and neither is Trump's sparsely attended 250th anniversary bash. The Department of the Interior is going back to Congress with its hand out again, this time asking for another $10 million to cover costs from this summer's Freedom 250 festivi...

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Republican Lawmaker Wants To Ban Yoga Pants From Congress

Rep Drunken Van Orden (MAGA-corner bar) apparently believes his own bullshit and thinks that everything is going swimmingly, so he has time to worry about what Congresswomen are wearing on the floor of the House:

Yoga Pants should be BANNED on the House Floor says Rep Van Orden pic.twitter.com/kNyFuJQPin

— CHARLIE COTTON (@hicharliecotton) July 26, 2026

DVO said that he is against yoga pants because they are too casual and that there should be more respect for the Institution.

Well, the good news is that if DVO doesn't like yoga pants in the House, he doesn't have to wear yoga pants in the House. I'm sure all of his colleagues would be grateful if he didn't wear them.

However, if he is worried about showing respect for the institution of Congress, maybe he shouldn't be wandering the halls, drunk as a skunk, screaming at teenage pages. Just saying.

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