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-A pile of rulings throughout the various trials and lawsuits made for another bad day for Ex-President Trump XCI. In FL, reports that the Mar-a-Lago information technology officer is cooperating with Special Counsel Jack Smith means the pressure on Trump and two others in the classified documents case continues. In NY, a judge ruled in a second defamation suit that the results of the first defamation suit which ruled Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll can be used against Trump against comments made by Trump while he was President (which he no longer is). In DC, Trump ally Peter Navarro's contempt of congress trial is about to go to the jury with no defense offered by Navarro and the triumph of a persistent protestor who has bedeviled Navarro in his outside-the-court news conferences taunting his (anticipated) guilt. And in GA, an attempt by two of the 19 members of The Enterprise to break off their trials fell flat in the first televised hearing, as D.A. Fani Willis told the court she would need about four months to present the case - and that she will be ready on October 23, the assigned trial date.
-That's a lot of bad news - but for the MAGA Party, they also got a bit of good legal news for themselves: the announcement by Special Prosecutor David Weiss that he will indeed go to a Grand Jury to attempt to indict America's Most Horrific Criminal There Ever Was - HUNTER BIDEN (DUMDUMDUMDUUUUMM!). The charges stem from Biden's attempts to purchase guns while he was addicted to drugs.
-In contrast to all the above criming the potential Hunter Biden charge might not seem like a big deal, except for the fact that a new CNN poll shows 61% of voters believe Hunter's crimes are, in fact, tied to President Joe Biden. This is of course complete and utter nonsense (at least until actual evidence is presented, which has yet to be done), but that poll is also showing that it, combined with chronic reports of Biden's age and a feeling that inflation is still clinging to the electorate, has Trump with a 47%-46% lead - within the margin of error but leading to typical Democratic FHA-REEK OUTS that Mr. XCI is even in range of a legislative record that should be the envy of any Democratic President.
-All that said, a report from the newsletter Semafor notes that, besides the election still being more than a year away, the performance of Democrats in state-wide elections throughout the Biden Presidency (and going as far back as 2018) have shown consistent overperformance of electorates who have used the threat of Trump and the end of Roe v. Wade as powerful motivators that, thus far, have been more potent than Trump being Trump.
-Also, CNN's poll has Biden's unfavorable rating as 7% higher than the national average, suggesting it may be an outlier.
-So ... breathe ...
-In case you didn't sense it already, NOAA has noted that August 2023 was the warmest month recorded in the history of Earth, beating the previous warmest month, which was ... July 2023. The note was made as yet another superstorm, Hurricane Lee, is building in the Atlantic with a track expected to at least brush by the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane by Monday, and a number of other storms are being monitored throughout the basin. All that occurred while FL continued to clean up from Hurricane Idalia and President Biden visited the state without being accompanied by continuing-to-flop GOP Presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, who claimed some kind of schedule conflict for the reason.
-Criticism continues to mount outside of MAGAville over the continued obstruction of over 300 military promotions by AL Senator Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach whose actions are taken in an attempt to get the military to stop supporting abortion rights. Appearing with Laura Ingraham, Tuberville not only tried to shrug off rampant warnings that the obstruction of promotions and retirements is doing significant damage to American military readiness, he pivoted and accused the Joint Chiefs of Staff of being lazy and - of course - "woke." Tuberville never served in the military, and cries to have Democrats try to override the holds are complicated by both the ill health of GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell to the fact that, due to the same Senate rules that allow Tuberville to stop the promotions in the first place, such attempts would need to be done individual by individual, with each individual potentially taking weeks to clear the process and receive their promotions.
-Remember Twitter? The microblogging site currently being "run" by billionaire weirdo Elon Musk is now estimated by Musk to be 1/10th of its value when he bought it, meaning Musk has lost all but $4 billion of the $44 billion he spent on it. So he is doing what everyone that would be in the situation would do - attacking the Anti-Defamation League and claiming the ADL's insistence that Nazis and other ultra-right anti-semitic and racist and sexist posters be disciplined or thrown off the platform for their hate speech is the cause of the 90% drop in Twitter - or as he insists it be called, "X" (eye roll) - and its value. (This writer microblogs on Threads, run by the now slightly-less-bad-by-comparison oligarch Mark Zuckerberg.)
-The NFL begins tonight with the currently fashionable choice to break out Detroit Lions facing Super Bowl Champions Kansas City and the newest sports spokesperson on every dang commercial you see (even though he hasn't hit Brady- or Rodger-esque annoyance levels yet), Patrick Mahomes. The big change in the season is how you watch out-of-market games at home, as the NFL Sunday Ticket package is now part of YouTubeTV's streaming service over the satellite/cable DirecTV (although they still carry the contract for bars and restaurants). Go Football!
-On this date in 1813, a beef packer named Samuel Wilson supplied rations to the U.S. Army with a stamp labelled "U.S." - and his shipments then became nicknamed "Uncle Sam's" - the earliest believed origins of that icon. On this date in 1963, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, OH. On this date in 1977, the U.S. agreed to transfer the Panama Canal to Panama. On this date in 1979, ESPN went on the air. And on this date in 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas by a still-unknown assailant (he died six days later).
-Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth I, Grandma Moses, Paul Brown, David Packard, Peter Lawford, Daniel Inouye, Sonny Rollins, Al McGuire, Buddy Holly, Dario Argento, Gloria Gaynor, Julie Kavner, Chrissie Hynde, Benmont Tench, Corbin Bernsen, Diane Warren, Michael Feinstein, Sen. Chris Coons, Easy-E, Leslie Jones, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Love, and Donovan Mitchell.
-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Isak Dinesen, Everett Dirksen, Keith Moon, Joe Cronin, James Clavell, Warren Zevon, Don Haskins, Mac Miller, and Bernard Shaw.
-Feed the Worms: notorious dictator Mobutu Sese Seko bought it on this date.
-Elia Kazan and Peggy Noonan were born on this date. You decide if they get a Happy Birthday or if they Feeds the Worms.