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Donald Trump understands war
By Earick Ward
War...huh…yeah…what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
This song caught my attention as a young man growing up in the seventies. Had a great tune, powerful energy, but most importantly invoked a “feeling” about war in general.
Much ink has been spilt discussing Joe Biden’s horrible debate performance and the media’s universal denunciation, but sadly, some critical policy distinctions have been overlooked. None is more important than the question of war — the Ukraine war in particular.
Trump spelled out his take on war at a CNN Townhall last year:
CNN Spokeshole: “Would you give Ukraine weapons and funding?”
Trump: “If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day. 24 hours. I’ll meet with Putin. I’ll meet with Zelenskyy. They both have weaknesses and strengths, and within 24 hours that war will be settled.”
CNN Spokeshole: “Do you want Ukraine to win this war?”
Trump: “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing.”
CNN Spokeshole: “Could you say if you want Ukraine or Russia to win the war?”
Trump: “I want everybody to stop dying! They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying.”
In the debate Thursday night, President Trump again stated,
I will have that war settled between Putin and Zelenskyy as President-Elect, before I take office on January 20th. I’ll have that war settled.
Hubris? Boastfulness? Possibly a little, but there is no doubt in my mind that he means exactly what he stated, and there is historical precedent for his proclamation. Recall the Iran hostage crisis and Jimmy Carter’s fecklessness in getting our hostages returned or rescued.
Fifty-three American diplomats and citizens were held hostage in Iran for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to their release on January 20, 1981. January 20, 1981, you might recall, was the day that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th president of the United States.
Peace through strength means two things.
One: Don’t want none, don’t start none. No new wars were started during Donald Trump’s term. Donald Trump exuded power and authority. Putin, Xi, Rocket-man, the Iranian mullahs — they respected Donald Trump. They likely feared Donald Trump. As President Trump states, Russia took Ukrainian land during Barack Obama’s term and Joe Biden’s term. The Russians didn’t take any land during his term. Putin knew better.
Two: Mess with the bull, and you’ll get the horns. The United States has (or had) the greatest fighting force ever assembled. Although we should not seek war, if it’s a just cause, and more particularly in defense of our country and/or our assets, we should execute that war as brutally and effectively as possible.
Donald Trump understands war. He understands our adversaries. And, sadly, he understands the influence that our military-industrial complex has in influencing our involvement in foreign entanglements.
Donald Trump asks: war, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/donald_trump_understands_war.html
Go back to your desk, Mr. Bureaucrat
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
The Supreme Court made it official: no more bureaucrats guessing what the law is. Justice Gorsuch & Roberts got it right:
“Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion. “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.”
Graphic: Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk. Joe Ravi. Wikimedia Commons.org. CC-BY-SA 3.0
Justice Neil Gorsuch, the son of a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, wrote separately to call Chevron Deference “a grave anomaly when viewed against the sweep of historic judicial practice.”
The 1984 decision, he said, “undermines core rule-of-law values ranging from the promise of fair notice to the promise of a fair hearing,” adding that it “operated to undermine rather than advance reliance interests, often to the detriment of ordinary Americans.”
Rule of law? Glad we are still thinking about that.
Wonder if any Democrat wants to be president again? Future Democrat presidents will have to get Congress to approve their ideas rather than having the EPA do it for them. Again, I am glad that someone in Washington is up to speed on how we govern in this land.
As expected, the other side is in full meltdown. They see this as a preview of the dictatorship around the corner if the Orange Man gets back in. Justice Kagan is concerned that her colleagues have forgotten about stare decisis, or respect for precedent.
Well, I think that Justice Kagan and others have forgotten that no one ever voted for a bureaucrat in an administrative agency. So let legislators legislate and put the bureaucrats back at their desks.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/go_back_to_your_desk_mr_bureaucrat.html
An affront to America
By Mike Johnson
I viewed the presidential debate as a partisan Republican, as an 88-year-old man, as an American, and as a human being.
President Biden entered first, stage right. He walked slowly to the podium. He appeared empty-eyed, slack-mouthed, and rather lost. Although Trump had yet to appear, I said to myself, that quickly, it’s over. I was saddened, the partisan me unexpectedly silent. My father had Alzheimer’s, my mother refused institutional help and looked like death warmed over at the time he passed. I know of the suffering within a family in a cognitively challenged situation.
The debate was set up under different rules from previous presidential debates, rules suggested by the Biden team and agreed to, without issue, by the Trump team. There was some concern that the new rules would lead to confusion. But they did not -- the rules were fine. There was some concern that the moderators would show bias. But they did not -- the moderators were fair and unobtrusive and their questions substantive. Would that all the answers were likewise.
Biden started out poorly and if anything, worsened (e.g., see here from 11:30 to 12:30 minutes). I became worried about a possible medical emergency. Early on, each man responded to the questions as asked; with time, their responses devolved into mutual disdain. The audience was overwhelmed by the confirmation of President Biden’s cognitive difficulties.
Think of Jill and Joe in the privacy of their own home. Is the old saw, “Take the pacifier away from the dog and give it back to the doddering old man” appropriate? Probably not.
But then think of Joe in the Oval Office and you should scream, “Take the nuclear football away from that doddering old man!”
Who is responsible for putting this man in the White House with his trembling finger on the nuclear button?
Jill and Joe, certainly. But they had somebody’s permission to run and simply rolled over for ambition, power, fame, and fortune.
Cackling Kamala? Hardly.
The Old Guard; Bill, Hillary, Barack? Maybe.
The Administrative State?
The Back Room? Robert Wolf says there are no more “back rooms.” I believe he believes this, I’m not sure I do.
Ultimately, the Democratic voters are responsible. But they’ll tell you they didn’t know. They’ve been lied to by the Democratic Party. The fabled and very effective Democratic propaganda machine lies to Democrats as well as us poor Republicans. You have to think for yourself lest the lying Wizard behind the Green Curtain leads us all into oblivion.
Joe Biden doesn’t like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump’s border control policies and we now have a disaster.
Joe Biden doesn’t like Donald Trump, so Joe blew away Trump’s energy independence policies and we now face an energy shortage.
Prices are 20% higher and interest rates more than doubled under Biden than under Trump.
With the high prices, high interests, and the influx of illegals, there is a housing crisis under Biden.
There is war in Europe under Biden, there was peace under Trump.
There is war in the Middle East under Biden. The Trump Abraham Accords, which promised Middle East peace, are on life-support and anti-Semitic violence rages throughout our country under Biden.
Wise up, Democrats, and help us Make America Great Again!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/an_affront_to_america.html
Obama's chickens come home to roost
By Dennis Lund
It was not too many years ago that Barack Obama was welcomed into the Presidency in messianic fashion. Change was needed, it was proclaimed, and Barack Obama was just the man to make that change. The death of the GOP was being joyously proclaimed, at home and abroad. Tears of joy streamed down the face of Jesse Jackson as “President” Obama became a reality.
In England the Guardian took a poll, just after Obama’s victory, asking the question: “Is the Republican party dead?”
They also editorialized: “Without a clear leader or direction, is this the end of the GOP?” 58 percent responded: Yes, start planning the funeral.
Eight years later the death of the GOP was affirmed as Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, posted on his blog: “I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in 2016. RIP.”
Obama was hailed as the Machiavellian genius who had engineered the death of the rival party.
Recent pieces here at AT proclaimed, first, that Obama was, as many have long believed, the mastermind who guided the Democrats first to victory over Trump, then through the nearly four years of Biden and now down the path of destiny to which they are now committed.
Last Thursday, the debate foreshadowed what even the staunchest of Democrats are conceding: The November election is now Trump’s to lose. States rarely in play for Republicans are now in play: Minnesota, Virginia and, hold your breath, New Jersey.
Admittedly schadenfreude among Trump supporters is running at peak levels. The misery of the CNN/MSNBC crowd has maxed out. There is no joy in Joy Reidville. The mighty Biden has struck out.
Editorials have been written in the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution pleading for Biden to withdraw. The key to that possible occurrence is held by Jill, who has made it clear she is not letting go. But it is too late, as yet another AT article confirms that destiny is now cast in concrete. Expectations of an alternate to Biden are delusional, as indeed, the Rubicon has been crossed and there is no turning back. Destiny and defeat now await.
How ironic that Obama, the mastermind of the imminent ‘death’ of the GOP in 2008, is now the man who is most likely responsible for the pending electoral bloodbath in November.
Indeed, the Democrat chickens have come home to roost. It could not have happened to a more deserving group.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/obama_s_chickens_come_home_to_roost.html
A cancelled trip
By Dawn Merrill
Well, I didn’t actually cancel the trip, but I will cancel my request for the vacation time (which had been approved).
You see, I told another family member about my AT article and she promptly forwarded it to the relative who had offered me the vacation. So far, I haven’t formally been told it is canceled, despite asking, but I have also not been given any indication it’s still on.
As someone who works hard for vacation time, and can’t simply change plans on a whim, I felt it best to reclaim the vacation time and forget about the trip.
In a way it is a very great relief. I am not a seasoned traveler, and I don’t particularly like planes (I used to love planes, but that was then, and this is now, and DEI has made planes unsafe). But the real reason for my relief is that I presented myself honestly, and if I suffer for that, well, okay.
Because here is what really happened, in as simple a format as possible:
Author privately expresses sorrow over a family rift.
Relative thinks it would be good to heal rift, offers trip.
Same family member then insults author and author’s community.
Author hits back, publicly, but not in an identifiable way.
Author admits writing public article to different family member.
Different family member informs original relative.
Original relative doubles down on insults, won’t give firm answer on trip.
Author reads tea leaves and cancels vacation time.
But the real takeaway that this author has is this: Nouveau Liberal/Progressive/leftists aren’t used to being opposed. If you hit back, they are mortified and suddenly become quite intolerant and exclusive.
They are used to playing the race card, the poverty card, the gay card, the oppressor card, the intersectionality card, and whatever else card. And Republicans/Conservatives/Classical Liberals roll over, every time. Then the magnanimous relative forgives the apostate and the apostate takes the all-expense paid vacation.
And validates the Left.
At least we used to. But not so much anymore. Finally, we are finding the spine to hit back! They hate that! But we must, for this is not a fair fight. This has been a beat down, over the decades, of all principles of conservatism. We never really conserved anything, we only rolled over, and by so doing we were steamrolled, flattened, destroyed.
Because we never wanted to give anything up in the service of upholding our principles. And now we stand to lose everything because we weren’t strong enough to save anything. We were too fearful of words, of being called “oppressors,” or “racists” or whatever, that we forgot how to say “NO.”
Then came Donald Trump. And he is showing us the way to fight back. A vote for any other candidate is a vote for self-destruction.
I will not apologize for my article. I will not apologize for my stance. I will not beg my relative to give me a second chance. The vacation that never was and never will be is not a loss. I never expected it in the first place.
But standing up for my community, my friends, and my country is a victory, and I will die on that hill any day.
It is in this sprit that each and every one of us who has a choice between losing something we might value in the short term, like a vacation, or a job, or a promotion, needs to realize that what really matters is the long run. If our forefathers were willing to give up life, liberty, and property to create freedom, the pursuit of happiness, and prosperity, we should be willing to do the same.
Today, right now, Donald Trump is doing exactly that, and it has given me the courage to do the same. May it inspire you, too.
Hit back, peacefully. Don’t allow the Left to define you. And always look a gift horse in the mouth: sometimes the price is too high.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/a_cancelled_trip.html
The Supreme's have Ruled *In-Favor* of Mr. Trump >link to follow ..
Who’s Behind This Show?
By David Prentice
Most now know Joe Biden has serious dementia problems. Many thought this was already true during the last election. They kept him in the basement, he never did much, never campaigned much, never gave many press conferences, and even they were scripted. Since he has been installed to the presidency, he rarely makes appearances, doesn’t really take unscripted questions, and has been set up to be hidden most of the time. Things have hit a tipping point with this debate. Many Democrat deniers have been shocked with the truth of this problem in spite of the feeble attempts to walk it back by Joe’s cabal.
There are much bigger issues than the cat being let out of the bag and announcing itself on the stage of this debate. Yes, there is a shock for too many, but there is a deeper, more nefarious problem very few have mentioned.
Joe is not capable of running the country. That’s a fact. The bigger question: Who is it that will actually now make the decisions? More important, who has been running this country these years while pretending Joe was President? This is a hard point to get beyond: These people, whoever they are, all knew. Not only did they know, they also pretended Joe was normal. Just Joe, the blue-collar guy from Scranton. Never mind the man behind the curtain.
This cabal extends to most of the leftist media and the tech oligarchs. They lied as well. These lies were promulgated to maintain and aggrandize their own power, wealth, and ideological beliefs. Done at the expense of an entire country, done at the expense of each and every citizen of this country. Heck, done at the expense of setting the world on fire, as they clearly and perhaps inadvertently have.
This is the issue: What kind of people would want to pull this travesty off? Answer: Very sick people, people awash in evil, people who value power over all, people who willingly lie and cheat to maintain their power. People who think their moral status is so high they are willing to go into the gutter and use a man with dementia so they can clandestinely run this country.
How does one go this far down the path to Hell jadedly thinking they are entitled to power? Entitled to do anything, no matter how horrid, to maintain that power.
Ladies and gentlemen, the mask is off. Behold the demons who are running this country. Preening fools who think they are smart enough to claim the emperor does, after all, have new clothes. Don’t believe your eyes, believe them because they are the superior ones.
God help them, especially Jill Biden. They’re going to need all the help they can get in the coming years because this will not go away.
The natural response to this has been shock for much of the country. Let me suggest this sense of shock is going to evolve into slow and deep anger from many. Recognizing you have been fooled by people you trusted is the problem for Democrats. There will be soul-searching by many of their voters. For those who knew, realizing there is a large group of people that propagated or knew about this disgrace should bring a slow, deep, righteous anger. Neither of those groups is likely to forget soon. That, in spite of the overtime the cabal must put in to try to blunt this truth.
The cat is not only out of the bag, but it’s dancing an Irish jig and won’t leave the stage for months.
This should be the singular issue of the rest of the campaign. Of course the cabal will try to change it with shiny objects they will dangle around. However, a dementia patient in charge of the world’s most powerful country will not fly. Those who propped him up will not fly either.
If I had one piece of advice to the Trump campaign it is this: Do not press for
Biden’s removal. Rather press to bring this cabal to its knees for what it has done. Don’t make fun of Joe, that’s not funny. Do make fun of the people who shoved him down our throats as a perfectly functioning, wonderful President. Remind all voters, every day, what they have done. The list of the failures of this cabal is huge, as Trump pointed out so well in the debate. Repeat that list daily because these failures are demonstrably true, because these combined fiascos are destructive and terrible for all. Just as important, remind us of this cabal who lied to the American public for all this time. Remind the public in multiple ways just how wrong it has been to run the country through a man who wasn’t really there. Remind the public the media who was so freaked out by Joe’s debate performance were fine with him running the country. Remind us how deranged and morally failing all of these people must be. Because what they have done is awful.
Side note: If they try to change the candidate, remind the voters this new candidate will be the choice of the group who was disgusting enough to do all this in the first place. If they make the change from Joe, nothing will change. The wrongdoing is too entrenched in the Democrat leadership. Trump should start making this point right away, tie these Democrat leaders to each other, remind people these party leaders all knew they were lying about Joe, and these are the ones who cannot be trusted to replace Joe. They cannot be allowed to be the ones to choose another person. Remind us they will lie about their new choice as they lied about Joe. Their failures will simply transfer to Joe’s replacement.
To all voters: If you once trusted the Democrat party leaders and the media, realize you can’t now. This lie is a bridge too far. For those that knew, however much you disliked these immoral people before, realize you should disdain them even more for what they have done here. This was a hateful thing done by people steeped in self-loathing. This was an arrogant thing done by people who are not half as smart as they think they are. It’s off the chart of awful.
So where do we go as Trump supporting conservatives?
We must not fall into the trap of thinking this election is over. It’s not. These people are still in power and will clearly try to cheat/lie themselves in an ongoing way to maintain their ill-gained status. Be aware of their ability to foster false flags, be aware they are cornered animals and will fight hard to survive.
Instead of misusing anger to simply be upset with this evil, channel that slow burning anger into resolve and into finishing this election as a seminal event in American history. Go to work with the new and revamped Lara Trump RNC to elect unstoppable majorities, become poll workers, sign up with Trump Force 47 Home | Trump Force 47, chase ballots with Charlie Kirk @TPUSA, work for and donate to candidates you know and trust. Do not stop until the swamp has been swamped.
Become part of this pivotal 1776 time in our history. Let’s get started. Work until Trump is safely elected. Don’t stop.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/who_s_behind_this_show.html
Biden, Age, and Elder Abuse
By Brian C. Joondeph
This is fraud on America, placing a puppet placeholder in the White House as a scapegoat for a far-left agenda of open borders, economic ruin, foreign wars, cultural rot, and weaponized government, destroying families, costing untold lives and treasure.
Lying. Their one iron-clad consistency.
Ups and Downs by Stilton Jarlsberg
MONDAY, JULY 1, 2024
You've got to give it to Joe Biden - when he falls down he gets right back up and explains to the officer who tackled him that he was only checking the little girl for head lice. And isn't that the kind of fighting spirit we need right now?
Apparently, there are still people who think so. Joe is already back on the campaign trail, alternately shouting and whispering whatever is on his teleprompters. Among the claims he's making is that his debate performance actually won over more independent voters than Trump got. And oddly enough, it's true.
Or at least, true-ish. Newsweek, which we didn't know existed anymore, trumpeted the headline "Undecided Voters Say They Now Support Joe Biden After Debate" and it's being tweeted by the Biden-Harris team. But Not The Bee, the funny, truth-telling partner website of The Babylon Bee pulled back the curtain on the story. Newsweek was citing a single poll of just 12 (count 'em!) undecided voters who were not native English speakers. No, really. They couldn't understand anything either candidate said during the debate so just read subtitles in Spanish, and God only knows what was being written there:
Trump: I'll execute all the Hispanic men and rape their wives and daughters.
Biden: I'll give them each a million dollars and make siesta time longer.
At the time of this writing, Joe Biden is sequestered at Camp David with Dr. Jill, discussing with advisors whether he should stay in the race or be released on a nice farm where he can wander to his heart's content and frolic and be happy.
Or at least, that's the story the party bosses will tell the kids...
https://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/
Remember no low is low enough and they are only going to get worse going forward. Useful idiots encourage this behavior. Plus power lust, of course.
Gullibility 101
By Deana Chadwell
Being an automatic leftist is also easy in that one doesn’t need to know history or geography.
If I hadn't stopped it at 20 seconds I'd have been put into a straight jacket!
Littered With Lies
By Trevor Thomas
according to the Left, merely wanting peace and quiet is now “white supremacy.” Similarly, being fit is racist, the Electoral College is racist, math is racist, and even being born white is racist.
And who can forget the left’s repeated lies on Trump-Russia collusion and the Hunter Biden laptop? What’s more, the Left has long lied about guns and gun violence, education, the economy, and even the nature of truth itself.
Hillary Clinton Has a New Climate Change Message for Kids
The failed presidential candidate is using her global foundation to scare more kids about climate change.
by Guest Author | Jul 1, 2024
By Paul R. Brian
Former first lady, Secretary of State, and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is back in the headlines for her support of more climate change messaging in children’s films, TV shows, and cartoons. Through the Clinton Global Initiative’s “Too Small to Fail” program, Clinton is helping fund writers, directors, and media makers to put more climate change content into their kids’ shows.
Making Young People More Alarmed About Climate Change
According to Clinton, children’s “mental and physical health” is being negatively impacted by climate change, which is why it’s necessary to educate children early on about the ecological disaster taking place. Here’s the truth: First and foremost, anxiety and alarmism about climate change is negatively impacting children’s mental health. Psychologists even have a term for it: “eco-anxiety” or “climate grief.” As Clinton explains, her team was motivated by the question:
“How do we reach as many people as possible to let them know they literally can build brain cells by reading, talking and singing to babies and toddlers?”
Young people are already very worried about the environment and climate change. A 2021 survey found that 60% of people aged 16 to 25 worldwide are “highly” worried about climate change already, 45% so much that they have trouble sleeping or eating properly. Now Clinton wants to make them more worried at a younger age, with a special event coming up to launch her initiative into high gear.
Clinton Is Back on Her High Horse
Ever since her humiliating 2016 defeat to Donald Trump, Clinton has refused to gracefully step out of the spotlight. Her 2017 book, What Happened, was about her loss and contained its own answer on the cover, since it had her name as the author. Along with Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, the European Union, the United Nations and many other powerful globalist individuals and organizations, Clinton is focused on climate change and on reducing humanity’s “carbon footprint.”
Her strong support of abortion and women prioritizing their careers over parenthood is part of a general dismissiveness of the societal importance of families. Clinton wants to target those who do have youngsters with intense messaging about climate change, ecological disaster, and a general alarm about overpopulation, resource consumption, and economic growth.
Here’s the thing: Even if Clinton and her cronies were entirely scientifically correct about man-made climate change and the evils of red meat, gas vehicles, and carbon, there’s no reason to trust them with implementing the solution. The fact is that “green socialism” is a very real and dangerous possibility for the future if the wrong people are put in charge, no matter the pretext or professed good intentions.
Clinton’s Past Policies on Climate Change
Clinton spoke extensively about climate change during her 2016 run for the Oval Office, emphasizing her plan to create green jobs. In my own coverage of Clinton’s run, I reported the following during one of her stops in the New Hampshire primary:
“According to Clinton, Republicans are also marginalizing half their own voters and ‘endangering the lives of future generations’ with their skepticism about man made climate change. Instead by positing to turn America into a ‘clean energy superpower’ Clinton claimed she would create ‘millions of jobs’ and put the US at the forefront of global energy. Indeed, Clinton said that by the end of her ‘second term’ she hopes to have enough clean energy to power every home in the United States.”
In other words, Clinton is willing to use big government to push climate change policies and clean energy even if it goes against the free market and puts millions of jobs at risk. After all, where are Joe Biden’s promised millions of green jobs?
Clinton is also deeply involved in activism relating to the global insurance industry. As Elizabeth Piper and Valerie Volcovici reported for Reuters in 2023, “Clinton earlier this year joined the Arsht-Rock Foundation Resilience Center as a global ambassador on heat, health and gender. The center has pioneered new forms of so-called parametric insurance that offer payments once disasters hit a pre-set extreme.”
This is a very slippery slope, as it creates entire new areas of the insurance industry that will be forced to consider climate change itself as a disaster like a hurricane or a tsunami. This will accelerate the exact climate crisis that Clinton and friends claim to be fighting against. There’s no doubt the environment matters and should be a priority, but there are strong reasons to protect liberty from the busybodies and bureaucrats who want to legislate America and the world into serfdom.
https://www.libertynation.com/hillary-clinton-has-a-new-climate-change-message-for-kids/
Replacing Biden – A Hail Mary Pass Destined to Fall Short
Back Biden or abandon him?
by James Fite | Jul 1, 2024
After Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on Thursday, June 27, even many Democrats have called for the president to withdraw from the White House race. But he is the presumptive nominee this far along in the process, which presents a major problem for the party – assuming there is even a way to replace him. Can Biden beat Trump now that the public has seen how far he has fallen? Could another candidate, at this point in the process, have a chance of winning over the voters or, for that matter, appearing on enough ballots to matter? Either way, by backing Biden to begin with, the Democratic Party seems to have stepped between a rock and a hard place with no path out.
Replacing Biden – Is It Even Possible?
First and foremost, it must be pointed out that Joe Biden won 99% of the bound delegates in the primaries. That means he has far more delegates required by law to vote for him than he needs to become the party’s nominee. The only way Joe Biden feasibly gets replaced at the nominating convention is if he chooses to step aside, which seems unlikely, given his ambition and stubbornness. Still, it remains an outside possibility.
Some, however, have speculated that it’s simply too late to replace him, as the state filing deadlines have already passed. That’s true for the primaries but not for the deadlines by which major parties – that’s Democrats and Republicans – must submit their candidate names to the various secretaries of state. Ballotpedia dug through the relevant regulations for each state and found that, for the most part, Democrats do indeed still have time to get a new candidate on the general election ballot nationwide. None have an explicit and clear deadline that has passed, but there are nine states – Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Rhode Island – that don’t specify a date by which the candidates must be reported, though some of them do give dates by which the delegates have to be assigned.
Some of those states could present a problem for Democrats if the powers that be decide to interpret the vague laws to mean it’s too late. That said, the states in which that seems likely to happen probably aren’t states he’d have won anyway – Florida and Kansas, for example. On the other hand, Connecticut’s confusion likely wouldn’t matter. With the massive trifecta of power Democrats hold in the legislature and governorship, changing the law to explicitly allow the candidate swap probably isn’t a big ask – assuming the Democrat secretary of state can’t or won’t simply issue an interpretation that covers it.
Swing states Arizona and Nevada could be a problem. And if the president and his colleagues dally too long, they’ll miss the July 9 deadline in Georgia – another swing state they can ill afford to lose. Should a replacement fail to make the ballot, he or she would have to rely on a write-in campaign to win those states. That’s possible, of course, but presumably not very likely – especially as Biden’s name would still be on those ballots, potentially confusing at least some voters into opting for a guy who isn’t at that point running.
Keep the Faith, Joey!
Joe Biden has oft quoted his grandfather as telling him to “keep the faith,” and his grandmother responding: “No, Joey. Spread it.” It seems his family is once again telling him to keep the faith. The president met with his family at Camp David over the weekend, and they reportedly told him to stick it out.
Moments after the debate, left-wing news organizations and talking heads began calling for his withdrawal, but by Sunday, the narrative had changed again. TV personalities now say it was just “a bad day” – everyone has those, you know. His family says he must stay in the race, and senior party members and big donors are exasperated at how his staff prepared him. Of course, in the face of all the chaos of attempting – and quite likely failing – to successfully pitch another candidate this late in the game, they’ve little choice but to stand by their man. All that, combined with what we know of Biden’s personality, suggests there’s no way he’s bowing out. Democrats are stuck with him, whether they like it or not.
And besides, there’s another debate on Tuesday, September 10. He can redeem himself! That’s the hope of the Democratic Party, in any case, as at that point it really will be too late to replace him. Biden and Trump will, by then, already be the official nominees, and the ballots in at least 40 states will be set in stone. If he decides to keep moving forward now, there’s simply no turning back later.
https://www.libertynation.com/replacing-biden-a-hail-mary-pass-destined-to-fall-short/
Monday's Energy Absurdity: They're Lying To You About Solar
David Blackmon
Jul 01, 2024
You are being lied to about Solar power.
From X user JohnLeePettimore:
The consumption of material resources using the photovoltaic technology is at least 64 times that of nuclear energy. For the production of the solar-grade silicon for one square meter of panel area it requires 3.5 kg of concentrated hydrochloric acid.
The weight of concrete, steel and chemicals used, such as acids/ bases, etchants, elemental gases, dopants, photolithographic chemicals etc. are never included. PV technology is more than 7 times more labor intensive than other energy sources. They never include disposing of the worn out panels, recycling copper wiring etc. after solar farms have reached end of life.
So when they tell you solar makes back the energy used to build and maintain them in X amount of time, they are actually lying to you.
[End]
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-theyre-lying?publication_id=712558&post_id=146159759&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Surprise, Surprise
James Howard Kunstler
Jul 01, 2024
“Joe Biden is the walking embodiment of the exhausted American Establishment. More and more people have simply lost their faith in our Ruling Class. You could scarcely have a more potent symbol of its impotence.” — Rod Dreher
Just before the weekend, a political prairie fire raced across a nation buffaloed, blind-sided, and buried deeply in bullshit, and the little critters who inhabit the landscape are still running around with their fur smoldering. What a surprise that “Joe Biden,” the mentally-disabled pretend-president, fell apart in the debate spotlight for all to see, like Captain Queeg in his fateful witness chair, or William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes trial (1925), or the Wizard of Oz when little Toto drew the curtain back — a brutal revelation of stark truth about how things actually are.
Since his hiding-in-the-basement campaign in 2020 “Joe Biden’s” Party of Chaos has pretended that he is fit and alert for the job and now all of sudden they pretend to be shocked to see how far gone in the head he really is. The bullshit shovelers of the mainstream news media were especially rocked, not by the truth of the situation per se, but at being unmasked as the contemptible, confabulating tools that they’ve become. The New York Times wheeled around on a dime from their servile lionizing of the presidential hologram they helped create to its editorial board abjectly yelling for him to drop out and get gone. They were joined instantly by a long list of other opinion-shapers, campaign donors, political celebs, and Beltway players.
Right after the debate, First lady Dr. Jill led a cheerleading session before a roomful of partisans that went beyond cringeworthy into uncharted territory of mortification. (“You were great, Joe! You answered all the questions!”). By the time the entourage moved to a pre-planned event at a nearby Atlanta Waffle House, “JB” had gone full-on zombie. If all that was intended to be reassuring, the effect was the opposite. Someone handed the blank-faced old grifter a milkshake and they beat it out of there.
The Bidens flew off to the Hamptons Saturday to milk the showbiz cows and hedge-funders for a campaign that might not still exist. “Everyone paid in advance. . .so it could be an opportunity to encourage him to drop out,” an invited guest told a New York Post reporter. “I wanted to go and see the train wreck” another donor said. “I’d rather choose someone from a phone book than have Biden.” That was generally the tone among the woke-gay-communist echelons all over the land — surprisingly vehement, considering that just forty-eight hours before they were all in on re-election. Some could probably see their lucrative hustles whirling around the drain, and others might fret about just how far and wide prosecutions under a Trump Attorney General might loom.
“JB” and his family circle attempted to regroup over the weekend at Camp David where first son, Hunter (“the smartest man I know,” the president often says), led the buoying-up session, perhaps mindful of the many bank accounts set up by his lawyers in the name of Biden family members (including little grandchildren) for receipt of influence-peddling revenue gathered sedulously from entities abroad during “Joe Biden’s” post-veep high-earning years. The family emerged from that meet-up triumphantly, ready forget the one bad evening and jump back into the election game.
Next, the biggest Dem dawgs — Obama, Schumer, Pelosi — stepped up with fulsome support for “Joe Biden” continuing to steer the party’s war canoe straight over Niagara Falls on November 5th. What possesses them? Misguided love for the monster they created? Fear of being called out as traitorous liars? Desperation to preserve the gigantic racketeering operation of the party they lead, with consideration for their big cuts of the action? Or are they just determined to complete the job of wrecking our country?
And where was She-Whose-Turn-It-Is, HRC, the only possible replacement candidate with name-recognition and no ruined state hanging over her as is the case with Newsom, Pritzker, and Whitmer (California, Illinois, Michigan)? Mrs. Clinton has so far stayed out of it, laying low, probably thinking that the party poohbahs will eventually have to come around to seeing she’s the obvious viable alternative. Since the Clinton Foundation bought and paid for the DNC some time ago, she might be able to get the nominating machinery lined up in her direction. There are myriad problems, for sure, with many state election laws that discourage switching-out a nominee who has already captured a winning share of party convention delegates — but Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and the Lawfare gang are already tasked to that set of problems now that their work is done cobbling together all those janky court cases to hamstring Mr. Trump.
We enter high summer with countless consequential things afoot. A grand new momentum is expressing itself throughout Western Civ against the Globalist insanity. Sunday, Marine LePen’s National Rally (RN) thrashed President Macron’s En Marche (EM) party, a shock equal to the “Joe Biden” debate fiasco here. British elections follow Thursday July 4, with PM Rishi Sunak sucking wind and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party ascending rapidly. Sunday July 7 France’s runoff election happens. A widened war threatens the Middle East as Iran and Turkey line up with Hezbollah in Lebanon against Israel. Ukraine cries for a negotiated settlement with no help from our own State Department. ISIS terrorists (among many other dangerous cadres) circulate on-the-loose around the USA, ready and able to perp atrocities.
Still hanging over the “Joe Biden” crisis — and it is a crisis — is the question as to how somebody no longer capable of leading a party in an election can also be capable of leading the executive branch of the USA as Commander-in-Chief. That quandary has been shoved aside for the moment but it still lurks ominously in the background.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/surprise-surprise?publication_id=2076970&post_id=146164827&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
GM Ayock-
No amount of excuses will justify Biden's performance at the debate. But go ahead and keep trying.
.....................al
Because...
“A much bigger deal is what it says that the television media and pundits so completely bought into Trump’s performance. They appear to have accepted Trump’s framing of the event—that he is dominant—so fully that the fact Trump unleashed a flood of lies and non-sequiturs simply didn’t register. And, since the format established that the CNN journalists running the debate did not challenge anything either candidate said, and [Daniel] Dale’s fact-checking spot came long after the debate ended, the takeaway of the event was a focus on Biden’s age rather than on Trump’s inability to tell the truth or form a coherent thought.”
Biden claimed this morning that Congressional Republicans have blocked his hiring of thousands of Border Patrol Agents. In reality, Republicans have actually funded more agents in recent appropriations bills in spite of Biden—not because of him.
We wish
@realDonaldTrump
luck tonight in the debate and hope he has enough time to point out all of the ways Biden's border policies have failed.
Biden claimed this morning that Congressional Republicans have blocked his hiring of thousands of Border Patrol Agents. In reality, Republicans have actually funded more agents in recent appropriations bills in spite of Biden—not because of him.
— Border Patrol Union - NBPC (@BPUnion) June 27, 2024
We wish @realDonaldTrump luck…
Kameltoe at her best:
Four minutes of Kamala. I defy you to listen to it without cracking a molar… pic.twitter.com/ylqmEDcxsu
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 28, 2024
And take Hillary with her!! Throw in AOC and the rest of the tw*ts and life be pleasant for a while.
Thank you ... We concur!!! That should get pretty interesting.....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/05/31/trump-protected-in-prison-by-secret-service-agents/
The FEMA Camps
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ekhU58ApqfQE
A friendly reminder for my friends here, LOL
THE BEST TRUMP ENDORSEMENT EVER IN PUBLIC!!! WOW
https://rumble.com/v54mq7w-the-best-trump-endorsement-ever-in-public-wow.html
David Sacks Explains the Evils of the Democrat Party
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54n7rp-david-sacks-explains-the-evils-of-the-democrat-party.html
RFK Jr Left Dr. Phil Stunned With the Amount of Kickbacks Fauci and NIH Get From the Moderna Vaccine
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54ipyp-rfk-jr-left-dr.-phil-stunned-with-the-amount-of-kickbacks-fauci-and-nih-get.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Biden Debate Disaster!
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54fqd6-shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-biden-debate.html
So, Mr. President, watch your back. But watch your front as well. The sirens are everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/be_careful_donald.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Pinocchio Joe Debate
Disaster [VIDEO]
Saturday, June 29, 2024 10:51
https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2024/06/shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-pinocchio-joe-debate-disaster-video-2822281.html
Macgregor Demands Early Elections After Biden's Debate Disaster
https://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=218224
COL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR CALLS FOR EARLY ELECTIONS, BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT IS CAPTURED
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/col-douglas-calls-for-early-elections-because-our-government-is-captured/
Mark Levin: They lied to us about Biden
Fox News
11.4M subscribers
Pelosi needs to mount her broom and fly far away and never return.
...............al
Hey Gmenfan-
Under the rules as I have read and understand they would have to accommodate the secret service protection even in the pokey.
................al
Pitiful .... just pitiful!!!!
A friendly reminder for my friends here, LOL
THE BEST TRUMP ENDORSEMENT EVER IN PUBLIC!!! WOW
https://rumble.com/v54mq7w-the-best-trump-endorsement-ever-in-public-wow.html
David Sacks Explains the Evils of the Democrat Party
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54n7rp-david-sacks-explains-the-evils-of-the-democrat-party.html
RFK Jr Left Dr. Phil Stunned With the Amount of Kickbacks Fauci and NIH Get From the Moderna Vaccine
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54ipyp-rfk-jr-left-dr.-phil-stunned-with-the-amount-of-kickbacks-fauci-and-nih-get.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Biden Debate Disaster!
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54fqd6-shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-biden-debate.html
So, Mr. President, watch your back. But watch your front as well. The sirens are everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/be_careful_donald.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Pinocchio Joe Debate
Disaster [VIDEO]
Saturday, June 29, 2024 10:51
https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2024/06/shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-pinocchio-joe-debate-disaster-video-2822281.html
Macgregor Demands Early Elections After Biden's Debate Disaster
https://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=218224
COL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR CALLS FOR EARLY ELECTIONS, BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT IS CAPTURED
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/col-douglas-calls-for-early-elections-because-our-government-is-captured/
Mark Levin: They lied to us about Biden
Fox News
11.4M subscribers
Typical lib strategy. Accuse the opposition of the same thing that your guy has been proven to have or to have done..
Pelosi: Trump Likely Has Dementia
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/06/30/pelosi-trump-likely-has-dementia/
Video at the link.
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump likely has dementia.
Host Dana Bash said, “Several newspaper editorial boards, or just simply calling for Biden to step decide for the good of the country. Tom Friedman, a friend of President Biden’s, wrote the following. He wrote ‘Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for reelection if he insists on running and he loses to Trump, Biden and his family and his staff and party members who enabled him will not be able to show their faces what do you say that? Is there any part of you that believes that President Biden should step aside?”
Pelosi said, “I want you to know I came home to California, south and north, and people are for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They have some judgment about a person who said, stood on that stage and lied, lied, lied, if you’re just talking about the debate. I am respectful of some of the opinions that people have, but it is also respectful of the grassroots. My people are very much Biden and Kamala Harris and this is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina.”
She added, “By the way, the press and for some reason they don’t, there are health care professionals who think is that Trump has dementia. That his connection of his thoughts do not go together. It’s not only that he just lies. He doesn’t even know the truth. So, if we’re talking about mental acuity, let’s be fair about it. I don’t think Tom Friedman thinks that Donald Trump should be president of the united states.”
THE BEST TRUMP ENDORSEMENT EVER IN PUBLIC!!! WOW
https://rumble.com/v54mq7w-the-best-trump-endorsement-ever-in-public-wow.html
David Sacks Explains the Evils of the Democrat Party
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54n7rp-david-sacks-explains-the-evils-of-the-democrat-party.html
RFK Jr Left Dr. Phil Stunned With the Amount of Kickbacks Fauci and NIH Get From the Moderna Vaccine
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54ipyp-rfk-jr-left-dr.-phil-stunned-with-the-amount-of-kickbacks-fauci-and-nih-get.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Biden Debate Disaster!
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54fqd6-shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-biden-debate.html
So, Mr. President, watch your back. But watch your front as well. The sirens are everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/be_careful_donald.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Pinocchio Joe Debate
Disaster [VIDEO]
Saturday, June 29, 2024 10:51
https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2024/06/shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-pinocchio-joe-debate-disaster-video-2822281.html
Macgregor Demands Early Elections After Biden's Debate Disaster
https://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=218224
COL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR CALLS FOR EARLY ELECTIONS, BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT IS CAPTURED
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/col-douglas-calls-for-early-elections-because-our-government-is-captured/
Mark Levin: They lied to us about Biden
Fox News
11.4M subscribers
RFK Jr Left Dr. Phil Stunned With the Amount of Kickbacks Fauci and NIH Get From the Moderna Vaccine
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54ipyp-rfk-jr-left-dr.-phil-stunned-with-the-amount-of-kickbacks-fauci-and-nih-get.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Biden Debate Disaster!
TheLibertyDaily
23.1K followers
https://rumble.com/v54fqd6-shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-biden-debate.html
So, Mr. President, watch your back. But watch your front as well. The sirens are everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/be_careful_donald.html
SHOCK: Colonel Douglas Macgregor Calls for EARLY ELECTIONS Amid Pinocchio Joe Debate
Disaster [VIDEO]
Saturday, June 29, 2024 10:51
https://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2024/06/shock-colonel-douglas-macgregor-calls-for-early-elections-amid-pinocchio-joe-debate-disaster-video-2822281.html
Macgregor Demands Early Elections After Biden's Debate Disaster
https://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=218224
COL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR CALLS FOR EARLY ELECTIONS, BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT IS CAPTURED
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/col-douglas-calls-for-early-elections-because-our-government-is-captured/
Mark Levin: They lied to us about Biden
Fox News
11.4M subscribers
Hi Al. Would Donald Trump's secret service protection be provided in jail?
I guess some folks set the bar low.
Worse yet....he's getting cheered not jeered!
If this doesn't fry your chestnuts nothing will.
DEI trainer says American flag symbolizes 'hate' and 'extremism'
By Eric Utter
Why is it so many of today’s self-proclaimed “educators” disdain the U.S., but believe themselves to be indispensable, the finest souls ever to trod the Earth? Especially the ones with multicolored hair, nose rings, and the LGBTQ flag proudly displayed in their classrooms?
Today’s “journalists” have a completely unwarranted sense of their own importance, as well.
Together, they are just another brick in the wall, obscuring the truth and preventing far too many from seeing the light.
Be careful, Donald
By M.B. Mathews
I am worried about President Trump. Now that he has demolished Joe Biden in this week's presidential debate, many on the Left would like to see him vanish.
Democrats are desperate, and likely to try to stop him by fair means or foul.
This tweet from RealClearPolitics founder and CEO Tom Bevan, a hard realist who doesn't go into hysterics, is hard to disagree with:
They are definitely throwing Trump in jail now on July 11.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 28, 2024
There is no shortage of evil people who would 'Epstein' someone if the incentive were big enough.
Already many people have mysteriously died if they crossed some former presidents, so it is no secret that assassins are out there (look up “arkancide” and then when you're done with that, ask why security cameras were “malfunctioning” when Epstein “hung himself” in his jail cell.)
Trump cannot afford to be put in a jail cell with iffy equipment.
Donald Trump is deeply hated by the Deep State, by many Democrats in politics, and by those with contacts in what passes in some pathetic circles for the media.
The communist, globalist, and Islamist agendas, foreign and domestic, are in grave danger from Trump and his voters.
The Left have diligently spent the last three and a half years tearing down America, weakening her in order to build their borderless communist-Islamist Utopia. They not only crashed our economy, they crashed the culture. They love Joe Biden and Barack Obama for making it possible, but now they are facing serious challenges. Like a threatened wolverine, they will viciously strike back using any methods by any person to gain lost ground. And they are losing ground. DEI, CRT and other Leftist agendas are beginning to fail because people are hurting at the grocery store, the gas station, home buying and repairing, and everywhere else in America. Small businesses can’t survive. People on the Left are seeing that the emperor is an egomaniacal exhibitionist. Even the willfully blind can now see his nakedness.
Trump is fearless and that puts him in even graver danger. My prayers are with him daily, especially as his following and potential stable of voters grows larger. Bad people want him gone. I know he knows that.
So, Mr. President, watch your back. But watch your front as well. The sirens are everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/be_careful_donald.html
Getting the police we deserve
By Mike McDaniel
Long before the “defund, harass and prosecute the police” madness, there was trouble aplenty in law enforcement at every level. Police administrators across the country were purposely hiring only people below average in intelligence.
What the…?!
There is method to their madness, as Shakespeare said. They figured smart people would quickly get bored, and after spending around a year, and lots of money, training them, would quit. Because they tend not to be themselves smart people, they didn’t think about arranging officer’s assignments to best use that kind of brain power, so anyone calling 911 and needing the police right now were not likely to get the sharpest knife in the drawer. Courts ruled that was just fine, and that problem has not changed.
That was then. This is now. Now is worse.
No police agency is overstaffed. When officers are sick, on vacation, or otherwise absent, shifts run short of personnel or others have to take overtime shifts. This increases stress on overworked officers and lengthens call response times. Defund the police lunacy, even in places it never took hold, has made the profession less enticing.
For example, the Seattle Police Department has lost more than 700 officers in the last five years. They’re so desperate, they’re recruiting illegal immigrants who can’t legally carry guns. Officers remaining on badly understaffed agencies in cities that harass and prosecute them for doing their jobs quickly learn to do as little as possible. They particularly avoid arresting the criminals of favored minority groups who ironically commit most crimes. It’s just not worth it to lose their careers or liberty. If they can’t get the benefit of the doubt, and if the criminal justice system won’t protect them, what’s the point?
The case of Meagan McCarthy, a former San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deputy is illustrative.
But her career ended after a schizophrenic suspect nearly killed her with her own gun, and a California jury let him off. She suffered post-traumatic stress and medically retired in 2022, she said.
A neighbor captured the chaos on cellphone video. Young scrambled to fire multiple shots, none of which struck her. Still, the struggle left her with a broken hand and black eye.
Backup arrived moments later, and deputies arrested him on the spot – but jurors later found him not guilty of attempted murder. McCarthy calls his lenient treatment the ‘Minneapolis Effect.’
That video at the link shows McCarthy’s attacker firing multiple rounds at close range at her. We don’t know why the jury didn’t convict, but it would be hard to imagine a stronger case for attempted murder.
Former NYC Officer Taylor Marino also abandoned police work:
Retention problems also took a heavy toll on officers who remained on the job after their colleagues left for greener pastures, he said.
‘The lack of manpower over the years … slowly but surely, a lot of people were starting to leave,’ he said. ‘There were less people to work with, and that's an increase in workload for you, an increase in liability. That was a huge concern.’
When he started in a busy Brooklyn precinct, he said, there were 12 cars on patrol. Two years later, there were just four.
Officers could often work 16-hour days, spend hours commuting home and then be expected to report back after barely five hours at home with their families, he said.
Any agency that loses 2/3 of its manpower can no longer serve the public. That kind of staffing problem puts officers and the public in imminent danger.
As one might expect, DEI is also involved in damaging public safety. The FBI is caught up in woke hiring. As long as an applicant checks the right DEI boxes, it doesn’t matter if they’re lazy, unqualified, functionally illiterate or actually dangerous, they’ve got a career.
Many agencies, particularly cities in blue states, are so desperate they’re reducing qualifications to desperate levels. They’re accepting people who can’t pass a rudimentary physical fitness test, have prior DWIs, histories of drug and alcohol abuse, even misdemeanor and felony convictions that in the near past would have been instant disqualifiers. Some recruits have so many piercings they set off airport metal detectors from the parking lot.
Americans get the politicians, and the police, they deserve. If they’re willing to live with rampant crime, defund the police, harass them, prevent them from doing their jobs, convince the police they’re more likely to be prosecuted than the felons they arrest, they’re not going to have professional police forces. To get the worst, discipline and prosecute the police for lawfully doing their jobs. That’s how cities lose dedicated, smart people like Meagan McCarthy and Taylor Marino.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/getting_the_police_we_deserve.html
Experts identify domestic terrorists
By Mike McDaniel
Isn’t the FBI still busy rounding up domestic terrorists who might have set foot on the Capital lawn on January 6? Where are they going to find the time and manpower to pursue an additional 171 million or so domestic terrorists? You know, the kind of people who hold down two or three jobs, raise families, go to church and salute the flag at July 4th parades?
Donald Trump does Saul Alinsky one better
By Warren Beatty
Trump followed to a T Alinsky’s rules about what not to react to. All he then had to do was smile and let the bumbling fool make an ass of himself.
Whom do you trust for 2024?
By Tony Lentini
They lied to us. They insulted us. They disenfranchised us. They conducted show trials against us. They imprisoned us. And now their true face has been laid bare for all to see, thanks to Biden’s revealing debate non-performance.
Boston to migrants: ‘Mi casa NO es tu casa’
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Maybe they will soon call them “racistas,” but don’t bet on it. That terminology applies only to Republicans who believe in orderly immigration.
Anyway, up in Boston, reality is creeping, and “mi casa no es tu casa” (my home is not your home) is the way to go.
This is the story:
Migrant families will soon be banned from sleeping overnight at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday.
Sleeping at the airport will be prohibited starting July 9. Instead, migrants staying at Logan will be offered a transfer to a controversial new safety-net site at an old prison in Norfolk. Staff at Logan will inform migrants of the new policy and help them get somewhere else “where they have family or another option for a safe place to say,” the state said.
For months, dozens of families have been spending the night at the airport, and sources told WBZ’s I-Team that Massachusetts State Police are being paid overtime to help them.
“We’ve never thought that Logan was an appropriate place for people to be staying overnight,” said Healey.
Indeed, it is not. An airport is for people flying in and out of Boston. Sleeping at an airport is a bad idea, even if your flight is delayed. It is an inconceivable option if the airport space turns into a homeless shelter.
So where are these people going to go? What other city is going to take them, or, frankly, what city can afford to receive them? What school district can take their children?
As we hear from Massachusetts, the state is sending people down to advise the migrants to skip Boston. This is the Bostonian version of “no hay más espacio,” or there is no space.
“No room in the inn” is replacing sanctuary city policies.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/boston_to_migrants_mi_casa_no_es_tu_casa.html
Replacing Biden: More facts
By J.R. Dunn
Do I have great timing or what?
No sooner did my short piece debunking the possibility of replacing SloJoe appear than the question attained new urgency with his complete collapse in the first… “debate,” I hear they’re calling it. It seems that everybody -- Democrats more than anyone -- are now clamoring for the replacement of the inhabitant of the White Nursing Home.
The problem is that it’s already too late.
Along with the factors previously discussed – major party registration deadlines, primaries, delegates – even more major obstacles have arisen.
Heritage Oversight has discovered that two critical swing states, Wisconsin and Nevada, have election laws that prevent any presidential candidate from being replaced on the ballot after a certain date. (With the exception of death in Wisconsin, and death or insanity in Nevada. Hmmm.) In Wisconsin, this is any time after the primary, while in Nevada, it was last Friday, only three hours after the debate ended. In addition, South Carolina forbids a withdrawal for political reasons, while withdrawal deadlines for Texas (74 days before the election) and Georgia (60 days before the election) are coming up.
Both Wisconsin and Nevada are necessary for a potential Dem victory. So this pretty much kills any daydream that Biden can simply be switched out and a new candidate slipped in before anybody notices.
Could Wisconsin and Nevada repeal those acts and open the door for the standard Donk chicanery? Sure. Look at the huge favor the ostensible Republican Mike DeWine, with no quid pro quo or reciprocation whatsoever, did the Dems in Ohio. But this will take time, occur under constant scrutiny likely leading to a public uproar, and result in further tarnishing the Democrat party’s rep, if that’s even possible. More to the point, it will tag Gavin or Gretchen or whatever other fool they drag in as a cheat and a pawn straight out of the gate.
It also turns out that DNC rules state that delegates pledged to a candidate are controlled by that candidate right up through the convention. As Major Garrett states: “Biden has the delegates… and there’s not much anybody can do about it.”
So, no Kamala, no Gavin, no Meeeshell. The dice have rolled, the hand is aces and eights, and Mephistopheles stands at the door. They are strapped into the barrel with their demented, deteriorating kingpin and there’s no way out. They are headed for the falls, and there’s nothing that Mitch, or Mike D., or Paul R. can do about it. My heart truly bleeds for ‘em all.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/replacing_biden_more_facts.html
A Biden Replacement? Obama Involved?
By Matt Wolfson
Conspiracy stories come out of Hollywood, and insider plays come out of Washington, D.C., but sometimes there doesn’t seem to be much difference between them.
Four years ago in March, before Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg, seen as a plausible contender against then–former vice president Biden, dropped out of the Democrat presidential primary, and within a year was appointed secretary of transportation. Reports indicated he’d spoken, before making his decision, with former president Obama. A little over a month later, Bernie Sanders, the left-wing candidate whom Biden’s Buttigieg-enabled consolidation of establishment backing had left facing a monolith, withdrew, and within a year was chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. A left-wing journalist in The Guardian at the time compared Biden to the Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev: an aging apparatchik guaranteed to push forward the prior Democrat president’s policies and not rock the boat.
Last Thursday, those leftists who saw this 2020 shift as a decisive Democrat turn away from authentic populism got some measure of satisfaction from a disastrous debate performance by the anointed apparatchik. Briahna Joy Gray, the leftist writer and commenter who is also a scourge of Washington shibboleths, was direct, connecting the night’s disaster to Super Tuesday four years before: “YOU people brought this on yourselves. ... You applauded Obama calling on the other candidates to drop out so Biden could win.” Matt Stoller, the antitrust crusader, accused the party of incompetence and wrote flatly: “No one’s in charge.”
This last statement may be true, or it may not be. What the party may do next is stick with President Biden, who does not seem fully in charge of anything. But Democrats also may revert to someone else being very much in charge: former president Obama, who in 2015 encouraged his vice president not to run for president as an exercise in political risk management, and who in 2020 lent him support for the same reason. This year, as a third exercise in risk management, President Obama might again attempt to slide his successor out.
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For the past seven and a half years, former president Obama’s post-presidency has been a great unwritten story: the strange piece of furniture in the room no one comments on yet everyone knows is there. Nominally spending his time increasing his net worth, he lives in Washington, D.C., the first ex-president to do so since Woodrow Wilson, who was incapacitated by a massive stroke. At first, this choice was explained as Obama’s second daughter, Sasha, wanting to finish her high school education in the city, but soon Sasha was out of the house, and the Obamas remained in Washington. By 2023, two Washington journalists, speaking anonymously to the reporter David Samuels, told him that Secret Service vehicles bearing White House officials were regularly seen pulling in and out of the Obama residence at night, but no one was reporting on the story.
Staffing at the Biden White House seemed to support what this fact implied — that Biden’s first term was Obama’s third. Susan Rice, Neera Tanden, Samantha Power, John Kerry, Antony Blinken, Robert Malley, Wendy Sherman, John Podesta, Anita Dunn, and Bob Bauer — from domestic to foreign policy to political operatives, the Biden administration has been a reformulation of the Obama world. When the former president visited the White House, footage captured staffers crowding around him as President Biden wandered, vacantly, through the crowd.
In this context, it’s instructive to consider an article in Axios that appeared some hours before last Thursday’s debate, purporting to explain why Michelle Obama was not campaigning for President Biden: her distaste for politics and her dislike of the way the Biden Family had treated her friend Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife. Both of these reasons were less than sturdy. After all, the “unwilling” political participant Michelle Obama coined what the media deemed the most memorable line of recent election cycles — “when they go low, we go high” — and the idea that a woman who famously values family cohesion would take offense at a family’s rallying around its son after a divorce seems like an anomaly. But, viewed politically, this information and the date of its release make sense. If Michelle Obama is seen by her husband or the party as a plausible replacement for President Biden, then there’s real incentive to make her lack of participation in the Biden re-election effort seem like something other than a potential candidate avoiding sullying-by-association.
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Viewed from this angle, well placed Democrats’ response to the Thursday debate disaster supports the view that the Biden implosion was part of a planned obsolescence. There was something ritualized about the self-described Democratic “freakout” after the debate: these spontaneous eruptions all used the same language. Biden, it was said, had one job — to “reassure” his “neurotic” party — and he failed. These Democrats were “heartbroken,” and their “voice[s] cracked” as they critiqued the President. Biden was “doing his best,” but his best was not good enough.
Meantime, members of the party’s right flank made their voices heard in distinctive ways. The financier William Ackman talked about the country “rally[ing] around” President Trump while also floating JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon as a replacement Democrat candidate. The message here seemed clear: certain big money players would reconsider their drift toward Trump were a suitably pro-corporate (and anti-antitrust) candidate selected in Biden’s stead.
Embracing this interpretation of what happened Thursday night means assuming that the signs of the president’s decline, and its irreversibility, were clear not just to his close advisers, but to a wide swath of Democratic insiders as well. Both common sense and historical precedent support this view, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s widely reported failing health in the winter of 1945, which was known around Capitol Hill.
It’s hard to believe, in an era where the presidency has become much more public, that similar interactions didn’t occur with President Biden and get widely reported this winter and spring. It’s also hard to believe that President Obama, living nearby, was not aware of these reports. In context of a failing President Biden being unwilling to step aside, a play may have gotten formulated: to allow for a planned disaster followed by a gentle replacement urged by President Obama, the one figure in the Party with near-universal authority.
Following this line of reasoning down a logical path, it makes sense that advisers close to President Biden who are also Democrat loyalists with ties to the Obamas (including, reportedly, Anita Dunn) might have supported the unprecedented debate framework, which allowed for an early debate — giving time for the party to take Biden off the ticket, but not too much time for a replacement candidate to be smeared by too much scrutiny other than in a second debate, which might not be too hard to handle. (As President Biden’s slow revival on Thursday showed, even the most frail of candidates can score shots in a 90-minute debate.) It also makes sense that many of the liberal columnists who set the terms for and justify the party’s policy and political shifts (Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof, Thomas Friedman) have been of one accord in their post-debate urgings for the president to step aside.
This wouldn’t be the first time such a play was made. Concerted insider aggression against elderly players deemed to be hurting the party’s interests has become common among Democrats these past few years. This aggression has ranged from plays against former Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer to those against the late senator Dianne Feinstein. The first play worked (Breyer resigned), and the second did not (Feinstein stayed on), but, in the context of a presidential election, making the same play against an elderly president might have seemed worth the risk.
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Politics is paradoxical because it’s both intensely human and intensely transactional. It turns on connection and persuasion, but also on negotiations and détentes. In times when power is closer to the ground, these two qualities intersect: interests get played out, and so do personal relationships, in the scrum of local political contestation and the quiet but known intensity of backroom politics.
But when politics centralizes, it enters the genre of theater, where scripted tableaus are staged by small coteries to gain public support for particular moves, whether out of Versailles in the 1780s or Northwest Washington in the 2020s. In the process, a gap gets created between what’s said to be happening and what’s actually happening, between narrative and reality.
Hypocrisy fills this gap, and so, sometimes, does collateral. That the collateral in the Biden debate tableaux may be a corrupt elderly man becoming an emperor with no clothes in full view of 48 million people is one of the more human, though not the most egregious, testimonies against our centralized style of government.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/a_biden_replacement_obama_involved.html
What Now that the Gaslighting is Over?
By Clarice Feldman
In the famous psychological drama, Gaslight, it took a Scotland Yard detective to prove the heroine had been driven half-mad by a gaslighting husband. All it took us to see how we had been deceived was a CNN debate. Who was the villain? How much was the American public the victim of gaslighting designed to dispel the notion that President Biden was mentally and physically unfit to hold the office of president? Let me count the ways.
The Villains
Jeremy Carl is on target about some of the villains. He says the party apparatchiks, and more specifically the Biden apparatchiks, were responsible for agreeing to the debate under terms they thought would be sure to help in hiding Biden’s decline:
They wouldn't enjoy anywhere near the same power and access with his successor. For better or worse, their fates are tied to Biden specifically. They had the debate early because they knew that while Biden was not in great shape, they had drunk the Kool-Aid and convinced themselves, at least to some degree, of the lies they have been telling for years to the American people about his mental state. They thought that if they worked with the most favorable rules, on the most favorable network with the most favorable moderators, and gave Biden a full week to prep, they would be able to get through it and even if they didn't "win" it would be far enough from the election that voters would ignore a mediocre performance. They were not counting on what a disaster it would be to have Biden fully unmasked 1:1 vs. a competent and energetic opponent. Yes, Biden's performance was such a disaster that it's tempting to think "this was all planned" but that's only if you ignore the levels of self-deception, lying and magical thinking that have dominated the Democrat party for years now.
(Agreeing to split screen coverage really helped disclose the choice was between a vigorous candidate and one on his last legs.)
To be sure, they were hardly alone in hiding Biden’s decline. Both Nate Silver and Bari Weiss have additional candidates.
Nate Silver says:
Biden has been graded on an incredibly generous curve, like after his substantively fine but poorly-delivered State of the Union address. And the White House has been playing hide-the-ball, from Biden’s declining to do a Super Bowl interview to reducing the number of debates from three to two to using executive privilege to block the release of the audio of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur -- who concluded that Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory” and was pilloried for it, even though Hur had been appointed by the White House’s own Attorney General, resistance hero Merrick Garland.
White House staffers who unskew the polls showing Biden trailing, charlatans selling you “hopium,” columnists who predicted (!) that Trump was going to drop out of the debate (!!) -- if you’re a Democrat, you should be angry at these people for putting you in this predicament. The same goes for special interest groups who insisted that Kamala Harris ought to be VP -- against Biden’s initial instincts -- even though she’d just run one of the most underperforming campaigns in primary history. Without that, Democrats would have a better set of options, or Biden might not have run again in the first place.
Bari Weiss is even more straightforward about the media’s gaslighting role:
It was a catastrophe for an entire class of experts, journalists, and pundits, who have, since 2020, insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack, on top of his game, basically doing handstands while peppering his staff with tough questions about care for migrant children and aid to Ukraine.
Anyone who committed the sin of using their own eyes on the 46th president was accused, variously, of being Trumpers; MAGA cult members who don’t want American democracy to survive; ageists; or just dummies easily duped by “disinformation,” “misinformation,” “fake news,” and, most recently, “cheapfakes.”
Cast your mind back to February, when Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to look into Biden’s handling of classified documents, came out with his report that included details about Biden’s health, which explained why he would not prosecute the president.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him -- by then a former president well into his eighties -- of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Can anyone doubt that characterization after watching Biden’s debate performance?
What Now?
Whether Biden willingly withdraws or not, his poor polling suggests the Democrats are in a very tough position, and I see no bright choices available to them.
A couple of days ago there was a rumor that Barack Obama was in a private meeting with Biden urging him to withdraw. But Obama scotched that in a tweet reiterating his support and dismissing the debate as a “bad night” which anyone even he could have. (I guess he’s hoping for yet a fourth term running the country, albeit once again under cover of a vastly diminished Biden.) I see no indication of his willingness to withdraw.
The truth is if Biden doesn’t willingly withdraw, the Democrats are in big trouble, and even if he does -- at this late stage -- they still are. The problems are legal, political, and financial.
The Heritage Oversight project has set their sights on three contentious swing states where they believe taking Biden off the Democratic ticket would not allow anyone else to replace him: Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Wisconsin does not allow withdrawal from the ballot for any reason besides death.
In Nevada, no changes can be made to the ballot after 5 p.m. on the fourth Friday in June of an election year or 'a nominee dies or is adjudicated insane or mentally incompetent.'
If Biden were to withdraw less than 60 days before the election Georgia his name will remain on the ballot but no votes will be counted.
In Texas, the two party's nominees have until the 74th day before the election to withdraw from the ballot. Some states, like South Carolina, do not allow candidates to withdraw for political reasons.
If he does not withdraw, Nate Silver is right -- he “will have to survive what will be both relentless media coverage and unsparing Republican attacks against his age on every slow news day between now and November.” (The media, after all, has been exposed and must try to cover its nakedness.)
Charles Lipson points out more reasons the Democrats are facing a deluge.
? Pres. Biden has already won enough votes to clinch the nomination. That means you cannot get rid of him unless he agrees to step down. Or Jill Biden does.
? There is no coherent party leadership to force him out, much less pick a replacement. That’s a big change from the two parties’ structure a few decades ago.
? Because there is no consensus replacement, there would be a fight at the convention. That would hurt Democrats up and down the ballot.
There are multiple plausible contenders. Even if Biden drops out, it will be hard to coalesce around a single replacement candidate. A fight for that spot would be extremely damaging to the party’s chances up and down the ballot in November, and it would be even worse because it comes so late in the cycle.
? As VP, Kamala Harris is heir apparent, but she's unpopular. Really, really unpopular, even in her party. The dreadful number two in the White House stands in the way of an effective replacement. She will naturally demand to step up as the presidential candidate. But she is a constituency of two: herself and her husband. The rest of the party, indeed the rest of the country, doesn’t want her. They loathe the prospect. They’d rather send her to Central America to find the root causes of the immigration crisis… and have her stay there.
? Replacing Harris would alienate a crucial Democratic constituency. If the Democrats manage to figure out a way to ditch Kamala as the nominee, they will pay a very heavy price. They will surely lose a constituency they must have to win: black women voters. They won’t vote for Trump; they won’t vote at all. It doesn’t matter that Governors Whitmer (of Michigan), Shapiro (of Pennsylvania) or Polis (of Colorado) would all be stronger candidates than Kamala or Joe in the general election, if they had they won a fair primary fight months ago. That didn’t happen. Joe stayed in and nobody could force him out. (Did Obama try? Seems like he didn’t, or at least didn’t try very hard.) Mr. Slick Hair from California is a sure loser. And a convention fight would be a bloody mess, yielding only a Pyrrhic victor.
Under the 12th Amendment Newsom and Harris can be on the same ticket only if the California voters pick one of them -- of course, as a practical matter the vice president -- from another state, which means a Republican and that seems unlikely.
As to finances, Biden has hosed in a lot of campaign cash, but he can’t turn that over to any other candidate, only to a super PAC, so any new contender would have to ramp up fundraising fast and would be fishing for it in a rather dry river.
The New York Times ignored the debate entirely on its front page, maybe to spare its loyal readers further shame, but the editors asked Biden to withdraw. It’s five months to the election, seven months to the inauguration, during which the nation’s enemies must certainly smell weakness.
A major campaign charge by the Democrats against Trump is that if he wins, he’ll be a dictator, instituting lawfare against his enemies, censoring the media, and engaging in intelligence meddling. Wherever did they get that idea? (From them.) To the contrary they should find some relief in that the Supreme Court just reduced the power of the executive in LoperBright Enterprises v. Raimondo, restoring legislative actions to the Congress, and in Fischer v. U.S. excised the power of prosecutors like Jack Smith to prosecute people for prosaic conduct using “novel interpretations” of the law.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/what_now_that_the_gaslighting_is_over.html
Barack Obama and the Stupidity of the American Voter
By Pete McArdle
So, as president, Barry pretty much had his way for eight years, growing government; siccing the FBI, CIA, and IRS on his opponents; using the imbecile Joe Biden as impeachment insurance; and making our country just as gay as a man who dreams daily about sodomy with other men could.
Biden’s Failing Brain Exposes Deep State Treachery
By J.B. Shurk
with Biden and Harris occupying the top two leadership spots at the same time, the American people feel as if they have been forced to watch another unwatchable Dumb and Dumber movie that refuses to come to an end.
Pride parade participant.... He must be proud!!!
A man with a bunny mask on with his junk exposed hops like a bunny during child-friendly ‘pride’ parade in Toronto.
A man with a bunny mask on with his junk exposed hops like a bunny during child-friendly ‘pride’ parade in Toronto. pic.twitter.com/2YdqAPV5y5
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 29, 2024
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