Friday – August 1, 2025

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Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire
1873 – Cable cars begin running in San Francisco
1936 – Hitler oversees opening of Berlin Olympics (Thank God for Jesse Owens!)
1944 – Anne Frank pens the last entry in her diary

1960 – Chubby Checker released ‘The Twist’

1961 – The first SIX FLAGS park opens in Texas

1966 – Ex-Marine climbs 300 foot tower at UT Austin starts shooting people – 14 would die
1981 – MTV launches, attention spans begin a serious decline

1988 – A guy named Rush Limbaugh launched a national radio show
2007 – I-35 bridge in Minneapolis collapses during evening rush hour- 13 killed

Seen in Russia – Dementia Care Center uses a Biden photo

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– TRUMP HOSTS PRO ATHLETES AT THE WHITE HOUSE – THE HARRISON BUTKER LINE

     – I HEARD IT AT THE WHITE HOUSE – GOLF IS GOOD FOR YOU – MORE GOLF!

     – TRUMP ASKED OF HE HAD A SPORTS HERO (HE DOES, HE DID)

– SEC KENNEDY ON HIS UNCLE’S COLUMN CALLING OUT ‘THE SOFT AMERICAN’

– THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT HAVING TO ‘BEAT TWO’ (KAMALA AND BIDEN)

– PRESS SEC EXPLAINS TRUMP’S DEAL WITH BROWN UNIVERSITY

– ON THE PRESIDENT’S REACTION TO FRANCE, CANADA ENDORSING A PALESTINIAN STATE

– PELOSI’S STOCK PORTFOLIO AND RECENT SUCCESS ALSO GOT SOME TIME YESTERDAY

– BEN WEINGARTEN ASKS LEAVITT — WHAT DOES THE PRES CALL JUSTICE IN DNI INVESTIGATION?

– BIDEN’S OUT TRASHING TRUMP, CLAIMING THE PREZ IS DISMANTLING THE CONSTITUTION

– WHERE WAS JOE SPEAKING??? AT SOME LAWYER EVENT (CROWD NEEDED ENCOURAGEMENT)

– THE INVOCATION AT THE BIDEN EVENT WAS BEYOND BIZARRE

– ANOTHER EPIC TRUMP RESPONSE TO A RIDICULOUS QUESTION FROM THE PRESS

– MSM HAS DNC TALKING POINTS: ‘BASELESS CONSPIRACY THEORY’ & ‘DISTRACTION’ ARE EVERYWHERE

– BACK IN 2016, HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN MGR WAS ON WITH TAPPER EXPLAINING WHAT WAS PLANNED

– REMEMBER WHEN COMEY TOLD ABC NEWS WHY HE DIDN’T TELL TRUMP HILLARY PAID FOR DOSSIER

– HAKEEM JEFFRIES HAS DEPLOYED HIMSELF TO TEXAS TO FIGHT REDISTRICTING

– CNN’S HARRY ENTEN BREAKS DOWN THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF TX REDISTRICTING

– THE ELIZABETH WARREN SENATE SIT DOWN VIDEO

– CRAZY LEFTISTS LEAVE A COFFIN AT THE HOME OF A GOP REP FROM WISCONSIN

– SOME OF SENATOR KENNEDY’S GREATEST LINES

– ICYMI – ABC NEWS DOESN’T COVER TRUMP’S ECONOMIC SUCCESS BUT EARLIER, WELL

More News From DC

– IT’S AUGUST FIRST — HERE ARE THE TARIFF UPDATES PRESIDENT TRUMP PROMISED

– TRUMP ANNOUNCES MAJOR WHITE HOUSE MAKEOVER

– SCHUMER TRIES TO CALL MAKEOVER ‘GOV’T WASTE’ — IT’S PRIVATELY FUNDED

– THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS DRUG MAKERS TO CUT PRICES IN THE NEXT 60. DAYS

– KAMALA HARRIS TO RELEASE A BOOK — ‘107 DAYS’ WILL TELL HER STORY

– KAMALA ALSO JOINED COLBERT LAST NIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SYSTEM

– HOW MANY PEOPLE TOOK THE TRUMP ADMIN’S BUYOUT???

– EVEN MSNBC HAS TO ADMIT THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS SECURE

– IRISH COURT OF APPEAL FINDS ASYLUM SEEKER DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO HOUSING

Other News Catching My Eye

– JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE REVEALS HE’S GOT LYME DISEASE

– GUESTS ON THE VIEW IN 2025 HAVE ONLY BEEN FROM ONE SIDE… WANNA GUESS WHICH ONE?

– WHAT THE HELL? OCTOPUS ATTACKS 6YR OLD AT AQUARIUM? 

– SHOTS FROM OZZY’S PRIVATE FUNERAL — IT WAS NOT SO PRIVATE, I GUESS

–  60-YR-OLD LIZ HURLEY AND HER 85-YR-OLD MOM PROVE THE ‘GOOD GENES’ THING