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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