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Good Morning Ks and all. I woke up so early this morning, I had to take a nap at 6 am lol
Yes, It's hard to believe they're people that stupid in this world!
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John Rich: Donald Trump, the Darkness of Eminem’s New Album, and the Song Inspired by God (Very Long video)
An Angry, Cranky Liar
OAN Guest Commentary – Kenin M. Spivak
4:00 PM – Friday, July 19, 2024
President Biden is under intense pressure from Democrats to withdraw from the race. Some news reports say he is on the verge of doing so. On the other hand, Biden is a cognitively impaired, angry, and corrupt old man who will do anything to cling to power.
Last week, in his post-NATO summit “big boy” press conference, Biden was asked if he would withdraw from the race if his team showed him data that Kamala Harris would fare better against Trump. His answer was “no.” He said he would only consider stepping down if, in addition, there was “no way” he could win. In his interview the previous week with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Biden explained that he would step down only if the “Lord Almighty” asked him to do so. In a conference call with moderate Democrats the morning of the Trump assassination attempt, Biden was not only “rambling,” according to participants, but also dismissive and aggressive toward those who asked him to consider withdrawing.
Biden sought the presidency for more than 30 years before winning. His first effort in 1988 ended when he was caught plagiarizing a speech made by British politician Neil Kinnock and exaggerating his law school performance. Biden’s refusal to consider withdrawing in 2024 shreds the media’s portrayal of a man who wants what’s best for America.
Concurrently, his lawless lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters; vituperative personal attacks on Trump as recently as the week before a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot Trump, killed former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, and wounded two others; and his acerbic dismissal of his role in heated political rhetoric during an interview with NBC anchor Lester Holt a few days after the attempted assassination, pulverize his claim to moral high ground.
Following the shooting on Saturday, Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday night. He said, “The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down. And we all have a responsibility to do that.” He added (disregarding his garbled delivery), “In America, we resolve our differences at the ballot box.” Biden meant none of what he said.
Just a few days earlier, Biden told donors, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Then, the day before the shooting, instead of describing policy differences, during a campaign appearance in Detroit, what the New York Times called a “fiery” Biden ripped into Trump as a “convicted criminal,” a “rapist,” and a “business fraud” to chants of “lock him up.” Biden added, “Most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation. He led a violent mob on January 6 to overturn the 2020 election to hold onto power despite an election I won by seven million votes.”
Trump has not been charged with leading any mobs, and until judgment is entered in the New York business records case, he is not a convicted felon. Trump has moved to set aside the verdict because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on immunity. Perhaps more relevant, last month, in Erlinger v. United States, the Supreme Court reiterated that a unanimous jury verdict is required for any factual finding that increases a potential sentence. Trial judge Juan Merchan did not require unanimity from the jury for the predicate crime that was used to convert an expired business records misdemeanor into a felony. As I explained last month, there are at least a dozen reasons Trump’s conviction should be, and likely will be, reversed.
Trump’s bump in polls and increase in donations after his conviction suggest that the farce of convicting him on facts never before prosecuted in New York, led by the former third-ranking official in Biden’s Justice Department, is understood as a corrupt abuse of power.
As to Biden’s incendiary attack on Trump as a rapist, if the target of the attack was anyone else, the media would be slamming Biden. Trump has never been prosecuted for rape, let alone convicted. In a civil proceeding 23 years after the alleged encounter that lacked any of the protections of a criminal trial, a jury found that Trump had improperly touched E. Jean Carroll. Abusing his position, the trial judge falsely wrote that the jury’s finding was the equivalent of a rape finding.
The alleged business fraud comes from the other highly politicized New York farce—an equally unprecedented case decided by a conflicted judge who should have recused himself. In a case with no victim and no losses, Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump liable under an unusual New York statute and ordered him to pay a fine of $455 million, forfeit his New York businesses, and take away the right to secure an appeal bond from any bank that does business in New York. The New York appeals court swiftly stayed most of Engoron’s ruling and allowed Trump to post a reduced bond of $175 million for his appeal.
While the quirks of New York law may ultimately support Engoron’s finding of liability, it is unlikely that the damages and other penalties will survive because they are so excessive that they violate the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I §5 of the New York Constitution. There is also no precedent in New York for the punitive order.
A president who seeks and endorses others who seek to keep his opponent off the ballot through unconstitutional means. To keep Trump off the campaign trail by gagging him and corralling him into courtrooms fighting farcical, selective, and excessively charged prosecutions that were timed to come to trial during the election cannot be taken seriously when he says elections should be won at the ballot box.
Underscoring Biden’s corruption, except in New York, his lawfare is imploding. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the cowardly effort to keep Trump off the ballot (Trump v. Anderson). In two 6-3 decisions, it rejected prosecutors’ overreach to convert federal laws prohibiting document tampering into laws prohibiting demonstrations (Fisher v. United States), and it held that a president is immune from prosecution for official acts (Trump v. United States), eliminating most of federal prosecutor Jack Smith’s election fraud case in Washington, D.C.
In a separate ruling, U.S. Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago classified records case, holding that Smith’s appointment as special prosecutor violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution (Article II, § 2, clause 2), and his use of a permanent indefinite appropriation violated the Appropriations Clause (Article I, § 9, clause 7). The government intends to appeal.
In Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis’s weak and overcharged election case is collapsing through a combination of dismissed charges, personal wrongdoing, and the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. That case is largely on hold as a Georgia appeals court decides whether to dismiss it because of Willis’ affair with the prosecutor she selected.
The day after his Oval Office address, Biden’s interview with NBC’s Holt left no doubt that his call to tone down the rhetoric was performative. Though it was somewhat cleansed of Biden’s malapropisms, the NBC transcript also captures Biden’s cognitive difficulties:
HOLT: Well, let’s talk about the conversation this has started. And it’s really about language, what we say out loud, and the consequences of those. You called your opponent an existential threat. On a call a week ago, you said, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.” There’s some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate that words matter.
BIDEN: I didn’t say cross-hairs. I was talking about focus on. Look, the truth of the matter was what I guess I was talking about at the time was there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.
HOLT: Yeah, the term was “bullseye.”
BIDEN: It was—it was a mistake to use the word. I didn’t mean– I didn’t say “cross-hairs.” I meant “bullseye,” I meant focus on him. Focus on what he’s doing. Focus on– on his– on his policies. Focus on the number of lies he told in the debate.
Focus on… I mean, there’s—there’s a whole range of things. Look, I’m not the guy that said *CLEARS THROAT* I want to be a dictator on day one. I’m not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election. I’m not the guy who said that wouldn’t accept the outcome of this election automatically. You can’t only love your country when you win. And so the focus was on what he’s saying and, I mean, the idea.
HOLT: But have… Have you taken a step back and done a little soul searching on things that you may have said that could incite people who are not balanced?
BIDEN: Well, I don’t think—look, how do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody? Look, I… I… I have not engaged in that rhetoric.
Now, my—my opponent has engaged in that rhetoric. Talks about there’d be a bloodbath if he loses. Talking about how he’s going to forgive all the—actually, I guess, suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened on—in the Capitol. I’m not out there making fun of—like, remember the picture of Donald Trump when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was hit with the hammer—going—talking about—joking about it.
HOLT: This doesn’t sound like you’re turning down the heat, though. You’ve talked about the…
BIDEN: Oh, no, no, no, no. Look, what I’m turning down—we have to stop the whole notion that there are certain things that are contrary to our democracy that we’re for. The idea of saying that you “didn’t win the election” when every court in the land—every court in the land, 120 appeals said—and including this conservative Supreme Court said we won—the idea about having a loyalty pledge from all the folks who are in the Republican MAGA—not all Republicans, the MAGA Republicans saying that, “No, we lost the election,” inflaming the people to say—II—you—I mean—
HOLT: So—so—what—what can you do and what will you do—at least things you can control to lower down the temperature—the rhetoric out there?
BIDEN: Continue to talk about the things that matter to the American public. It matters whether or not you accept the outcome of elections. It matters whether or not you, for example, talk about how you’re going to deal with the border instead of talking about people as being vermin and all—I mean, those things matter. That’s the kind of language that is inflammatory.
A sniper scope uses crosshairs, and a shooter’s goal is to put the kill shot in the center of the bullseye. A difference without a distinction. Not so long ago, Sarah Palin was savaged by Democrats and mainstream media for a commercial that placed targets over competitive congressional districts.
The time when Biden’s lies can be excused because of his purported “kindness” and “well-intentioned” purpose has long passed. His family business scams, autocratic governance, lawfare, and scorched earth campaign for re-election make it clear that if that version of Biden was ever honest, it is no longer the case.
There is an old joke about lawyers. How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving. Whether the subject is his life, his family business, or his commitment to doing the right thing, how do you know when Joe Biden is lying? His lips are moving. The only uncertainty is which lies are intentional and which are the result of dementia-based anger or a memory lapse.
(Views expressed by guest commentators may not reflect the views of OAN or its affiliates.)
https://www.oann.com/commentary/an-angry-cranky-liar/
1 in 3 Democrats believe Trump faked assassination attempt. I talked to one
Mark likes his Italian food with a side of liberal media lunacy
If some polls are to be believed, one in three Democrats think that Donald Trump faked his own assassination attempt. When I read that, I thought, could this possibly be true? But this weekend on my drive home to West Virginia from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, I got the theory first hand. And it's a fascinating doozy.
Station Square Ristorante, just off of I-80 in Liberty, Ohio, is an absolute gem. Ottavio and Bridget Musumeci have somehow managed to create a legitimate fine-dining experience attached to the Super 8 motel. And no, I’m not kidding. In the wood-paneled bar, as I ordered oysters and antipasto for a late lunch, I met Mark, originally from northern New Jersey, which his accent revealed before he did. And Mark, well, he had some very interesting things to say.
As is my way, I turned the conversation to politics and the assassination came up.
"That whole thing was a setup," Mark told me.
Before I could even respond, John, the bartender, who I would learn doesn’t like Trump or Biden, said, "Nah, two people are dead. No way."
Mark’s response was, "this is Donald Trump, he’s capable of anything."
So I dug in a bit. How did they get the kid to do it? Mark was ready with answers. They paid off the family, or maybe told him he’d get off with just a few years in jail, he suggested.
"And the death of Corey Comperatore?" I asked, referring to the retired fire chief who died shielding his family from the assassin's bullets.
"Donald Trump doesn’t care if his supporters die," Mark shot back, quite certain of himself.
You should know that Mark did not come off as some kind of lunatic. A bit prone to conspiracy theories maybe, but by no means crazy. So how could he believe all this with no evidence whatsoever?
He also had a good appetite, and as he wolfed down his caesar salad and veal piccante topped with mussels, he made it clear that it all came down to one simple precept: Trump is capable of anything.
I couldn’t help but think that the fact that Mark shares this kind of weird, irrational thinking with a third of his party faithful is because it is exactly what Democrats and their media allies have been feeding them.
Why wouldn’t Mark, if he has a steady diet of liberal media, think that Trump is capable of killing innocent people? After all, they say he will deny women their rights, he won’t let black people vote, he will destroy democracy, and on and on and on. Mark is conditioned to believe that Trump is a unique evil and nothing should be put past him.
I said to Mark that if I thought one party, one side, or call it what you will, was willing to kill innocent Americans in this way, then it might be time to buy some guns. Then he said something that surprised me.
"It’s not the other side, it’s just Trump."
It made little sense, but in a strange way, I was glad to hear him say it. At least Mark doesn’t blame his fellow citizens who support Trump. Not yet, anyway. Mark finished and left before I did, and we had a wholesome and sincere goodbye. After the door closed, I asked to John, "What do you make of that?" "It’s crazy," he shrugged.
Yes it is, but here we are.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/1-3-democrats-believe-trump-faked-assassination-attempt-i-talked-one-them
Yahoo is a POS just like Google, YT is getting bad too. May be time to switch to Rumble soon. Not sure if Rumble has a lot of music videos, but going to start looking into it.
JMO.
Pink Floyd - Animals (Full Album) 1977
Have A Cigar
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
Correction... What I read was the shooter had 3 foreign accounts, it didn't specifically say they were bank accounts.
Later.
Cook some Popcorn I guess. It's a damn shame there's so much corruption in this world. I was reading an article this morning about how the shooter had 3 encrypted foreign bank accounts, but not going to post it yet until I figure out if it's real or not.
Have a good one.
Rep. Burchett: Secret Service Chief Must Answer For Failure To Protect Trump
‘She’s subpoenaed, and I would say if she does not show up, we bring her in — by force if necessary,’ Rep. Burchett said.
MILWAUKEE — The embattled U.S. Secret Service chief can run, but she can’t hide from the agency’s fatal failures leading up to and in the moment of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., tells me that there must be consequences if Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle doesn’t appear Monday before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee as ordered.
“She’s subpoenaed, and I would say if she does not show up, we bring her in — by force if necessary,” said Burchett, a member of the Oversight Committee.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Wednesday issued the subpoena to the recalcitrant Secret Service director.
“Americans demand accountability and transparency about the Secret Service’s failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump, but they aren’t getting that from President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security,” Comer said in a statement. “We have many questions for Director Cheatle about the Secret Service’s historic failure and she must appear before the House Oversight Committee next week.”
But the Biden administration hasn’t been good at obeying congressional subpoenas, even as the Justice Department goes about throwing conservatives in jail for doing the same. (See former Trump aide Peter Navarro and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.)
‘You’re Supposed to Protect the President’
Cheatle has refused to step down as Republicans demand that Biden fire the evasive security chief. Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday said he was “prepared” to call on the president to sack Cheatle.
Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., confronted Cheatle Wednesday evening while she was on-site at the Republican National Convention in downtown Milwaukee. She refused to answer the questions of the senators, who surrounded her outside a hospitality suite at the Fiserv Forum. At one point, as caught on a video that has since gone viral, Cheatle and others turn from the senators and briskly walk away. The senators follow behind the Secret Service director, with Cramer catching up to her and telling her, “You answer to us.”
“There’s no shame. There’s no concern. You’re supposed to protect the president of the United States,” Barrasso says on the video.
Republican lawmakers were furious following a briefing from Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Cheatle and Wray provided senators a timeline that remarkably revealed that Secret Service sharpshooters first saw the gunman on the slanted rooftop 20 minutes before the moment he attempted to murder Trump, law enforcement officials told ABC News.
Shattered Faith
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., whose swing state is hosting this week’s Republican National Convention, told me that only four lawmakers were allowed to pose questions, without follow-ups. He said the limited session was filled with “gobbledygook” and “bureaucratic B.S.”
“The director admitted that there were mistakes and gaffes. They went through a timeline but glossed over the shooting. They didn’t provide any detail in terms of when they found out about the shooter,” Johnson said Thursday between convention speeches.
He’s very concerned the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the committee that he chaired before Democrats took control of the Senate in 2021, will do nothing to get answers and hold Biden administration officials accountable. Johnson said if he were chairman, he’d be calling in Secret Service agents at the scene, particularly the snipers.
“I’d interview them and transcribe their testimony immediately before memories fade,” he said. “We need to do that. We need independence on this. I have no power to do it, and that’s frustrating to me having been chairman.”
Mark Morgan, former acting head of Customs and Border Protection in the Trump administration, is calling for the creation of a bipartisan commission to look into the assassination attempt. He told Fox News Digital that the public has lost trust in federal agencies.
“Here’s the reality that we have to face for those of us who were past and even those that are currently involved in these agencies. … America’s trust in the Department of Justice, the FBI, Congress, it has dropped precipitously the past few years. That’s just the reality,” Morgan, who served 20 years with the FBI, told the news outlet this week. Biden has ordered an “independent” investigation. His FBI also is investigating.
Morgan said he’d like to see Johnson lead the independent commission.
Burchett said he’s not holding his breath that Cheatle will show up to Monday’s Oversight Committee hearing. If she does, he’s doubtful the Secret Service director will answer questions.
“If she had any integrity whatsoever, she would resign,” Johnson said.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/18/rep-burchett-secret-service-chief-must-answer-for-failure-to-protect-trump/https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/18/rep-burchett-secret-service-chief-must-answer-for-failure-to-protect-trump/
He did well IMO.
I agree. BTW Kid Rock is supposedly doing some music at the RNC tonight.
Ok, thanks.
Not I.
Must be LOL!
From what I heard on the news today, it has to be Kamala because of the Money? Not sure if that's true or not.
Wow, it's been a long time since I heard that name.
Oh man, I used to watch Lou all the time. RIP.
I wore that one out back in the day!
I wonder why Brandon doesn't have his snout guard on since he's been diagnosed with COVID?
Nice mellow vocals IMO.
Nice, hope you enjoyed it.
LOL! I'm so looking forward to that show. Might have to order a Pizza :)
I hear ya there, Bull.
You too, have a good one.
It's a shame these Soros backed DAs are in power. Something needs to be done about it.
Indeed.
Good morning Larry, just cooling off before some guitar work. Have one that needs a tune up lol
"intentional incompetence" That's the way that I see it right now and heads need to roll!
Lots of evil in this world.
Good morning Ks and all. Yes, it's hot! I just got finished with the Mower.
Who Do You Love - The Band w/ Ronnie Hawkins - The Last Waltz
:) That's a good one.
LOL, true!
They said Pelosi has been working the phones all day, looking for support to call for Brandon to step down. I wonder who they have in mind. LOL
Biden tested positive for COVID today.