Today's News: from Biden passing the torch, to Olympic success, to Weird Trump, to White Dudes for Harris

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Accurate, accurate, accurate pic.twitter.com/yEBOdysQYm

— Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🪷🎗😺 (@MadisonKittay) July 23, 2024

Biden is the one who really took a bullet for democracy, not trump.

— Mia Michaels (@MiaMichaels77) July 22, 2024

Moving on to the Olympics, we see Canada doing great today. 

First gold for Canada at #Paris2024 and first-ever Canadian Olympic champion in judo 🇨🇦

Christa Deguchi DID THAT 🥇#MedalMoments presented by @petrocanada pic.twitter.com/RzwYqPq3KG

— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) July 29, 2024

It's the summer of Summer. ☀️

Summer McIntosh is your 400m individual medley Olympic champion!🥇#TeamCanada | #Paris2024 | @RC_Sports pic.twitter.com/gsgswNGXaE

— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) July 29, 2024

PURE. JOY.

Rylan Wiens, Nathan Zsombor-Murray win Canada's FIRST-EVER Olympic medal in 10m synchro diving 🥉🇨🇦#MedalMoments presented by @petrocanada pic.twitter.com/tscjnibWQY

— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) July 29, 2024

History. Made. 🥉

Eleanor Harvey secures Canada's first-ever fencing medal at the Olympics, claiming bronze in the women's individual foil event 🇨🇦#TeamCanada | #Paris2024 | @RC_Sports

pic.twitter.com/dDHWp15Wq9

— Team Canada (@TeamCanada) July 28, 2024

What a swim! Congratulations to Canada’s Summer McIntosh on her first Olympic medal – silver in the 400m freestyle – and for claiming #TeamCanada’s first medal at #Paris2024! 🥈

Photo by Leah Hennel/COC pic.twitter.com/48A02I1rYW

— CanadianPM (@CanadianPM) July 28, 2024

I think we are damned lucky our soccer team didn't get disqualified and sent home. So glad they won against France and so kept their medal hopes alive.

They cried, punched walls, cried. Canada’s women’s soccer team felt like their world fell apart in the last 72 hours, and all they could do was to fight - for their families, their history, and each other. They won the most emotional game of their lives. https://t.co/Du1CiF2LOV

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) July 29, 2024

Here's the best photo of the day, from the surfing competition in French Polynesia:

Well folks, I think I've found the "Photo of the Day." My goodness, what a shot of Gabriel Medina!

📸 Jerome Brouillet/AFP via Getty Images pic.twitter.com/A6l9yyM3oF

— Kendall Baker (@kendallbaker) July 29, 2024

An amazing story here:

You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?

This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone.

Why?

/1 pic.twitter.com/wKMEk9tNvY

— Aaron Smith (@Aaronsmith333) July 28, 2024

Moving on, dare I hope that Trump is finally toast?

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Chief Executive Leadership Institute CEO Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says there will not be one Fortune 500 CEO supporting Donald Trump. This is wholly unprecedented. Retweet so all Americans see this shocking news. pic.twitter.com/X6w4OQFwqO

— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) June 24, 2024

The Harris team understands it is impossible to keep up with all his lies, and carefully refute them one-by-one. Instead, they have come up with a one-word ripost that everyone can remember - he's just weird. His ideas are weird, his appearance is weird, his obsessions are weird, his family is weird, his VP pick is weird, his supporters are weird, its all just strange and unAmerican and bizarre and...weird!

Fully agree. I've saying for years just how weird he is, and I'm glad Harris is just saying it directly. The guy is just a weirdo, and the people around him are weird, too. So many real things to criticize about Trump and Vance - including being authoritarians. https://t.co/Ih5OGpFL9O

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 28, 2024

Do people understand HOW FUCKING LONG some of us have been waiting for this kind of approach. We got a taste of it in the Fetterman campaign, but fucking hell this a just a joy to read. https://t.co/QgjSJnIs5p

— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) July 27, 2024

What people never seem to remember is that everyone who has ever been willing to work for Trump is incompetent, just second-rate.

Stephen Miller and JD Vance are the Axis of Weirdness. Donald Trump surrounds himself with some really cartoonishly buffoonish characters. Hollywood couldn't do a better job of inventing them. Peter Navarro. Jason Miller. Steven Cheung. Paul Manafort. Dangerous clowns. pic.twitter.com/7xnOLnHHdA

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) July 30, 2024

Pointing and laughing:

Trump and Vance are just too weird for America . And I attend Trek conventions. #TrumpIsWeird

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 28, 2024

This week, from her front porch, Sarah Palin can see her status as the worst VP pick of the 21st Century disappearing.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 29, 2024

I just want to personally thank @JDVance for knocking me out of the position of the worst Donald Trump hire. I didn’t think it would happen but here we are and I am grateful. 🙏

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 26, 2024

All these lame couch jokes about J.D. Vance only prove we are a nation in recline.

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 27, 2024

The White Dudes for Harris phone call was tonight - they raised $4 million in a few minutes:

The biggest Dude of them all has entered the chat over at #WhiteDudesForKamala!!! pic.twitter.com/QdSmw6UfiE

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) July 30, 2024

Wow - @MarkHamill on the call! #WhiteDudesForKamala pic.twitter.com/annF4ZKBac

— Leyl Black 💜 (@leylblack) July 30, 2024