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Analysis: Mass Immigration Drastically ‘Reshaping’ the American South
JOHN BINDER 2 Jul 2024 3:23
(I feel sick.)
Mass immigration, both illegal and legal, is dramatically “reshaping the American South” more than any other region of the United States, research from the Center for Immigration Studies shows.
The analysis, conducted by Steven Camarota, looks at the expansive growth of the nation’s foreign-born population, which has reached an unprecedented 51.6 million — the largest ever in American history.
“Immigration policy is reshaping the American South more than any other part of the country,” Camarota writes.
The South has the largest share of the foreign-born population today where 19 million foreign-born residents live, followed by the West with almost 16 million, the Northeast with 10.3 million, and the Midwest with 5.7 million.
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
Today, the South’s foreign-born population is nearly equivalent to what the foreign-born population was in 1990 when 19.7 million foreign-born residents lived in the U.S. In the last 34 years, the foreign-born population in the South has exploded by 317 percent.
Meanwhile, the foreign-born population in the Midwest has grown 172 percent and 104 percent in the West, as well as 97 percent in the Northeast, Camarota finds:
By 2024, the South accounted for 37.3 percent of the total foreign-born population in the United States, compared to 23.2 percent in 1990 or 31.9 percent as recently as 2010. [Emphasis added]
In 1990, 5.4 percent of the South’s total population was foreign-born; this was the highest percent ever recorded up to that time for the region. At almost 15 percent today, the share has nearly tripled since 1990, which is unprecedented in southern history. [Emphasis added]
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
Some southern states have been more impacted than others by mass immigration.
For example, in 1990, Texas and Florida were the only two southern states that had more than half a million foreign-born residents. Today, six southern states had foreign-born populations that exceed a million: Texas, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
At the same time, Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia have seen little growth in their foreign-born populations. In each state, the foreign-born population represents less than five percent of the total population.
The findings are significant as they could help shift the nation’s electorate.
Annually, the U.S. admits more than a million foreign nationals on green cards — about 7-in-10 of whom arrive through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.
In addition, another million foreign nationals are admitted on temporary work visas every year. On top of this historically high level of legal immigration, potentially millions of illegal aliens arrive in the U.S. every few years in the hopes of resettling permanently without being deported.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/02/analysis-mass-immigration-drastically-reshaping-the-american-south/
Threat Level on U.S. Military Bases in Europe Raised After Biden’s Poor Debate Performance
KRISTINA WONG 2 Jul 2024 3:19
The United States military commander for forces in Europe raised the protection level for U.S. military bases and forces after President Joe Biden’s weak debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said it was due to a “combination of factors and not related to a single threat.”
“This was done out of an abundance of caution. I won’t get into more specifics, other than that, but I’d refer you to [European Command] for any more questions that you have on force protection measures,” she said at a press conference on Monday.
She said she could not speak to the reasons behind the decision, but that the commander, Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli felt additional steps were needed to “increase vigilance for our service members, for their families.”
Trump Campaign Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday linked Biden’s doddering debate performance to an increased risk to the U.S.
“This past weekend, after the debate performance, U.S. military bases in Europe have been put on high alert for a credible terrorist threat. The world is taking advantage of our country because it sees how weak it is,” she said during an interview on Fox News.
According to military newspaper Stars and Stripes, the Stuttgart Army garrison issued a community-wide alert that the force protection level was elevated to condition “Charlie” until further notice, and similar directives were sent to bases in Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Italy.
The U.S. Army’s website explained that the Charlie threat level “applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely.”
Charlie is the second highest protection level, after Delta, which applies in “the immediate area where a terrorist attack has occurred or when intelligence has been received that terrorist action against a specific location or person is imminent.”
Troops in Italy were advised not to wear their uniforms to and from work, a source told military whistleblowers at Terminal CWO. The source said his or her command sent the following message:
Due to increase [sic] security posture, all transit to and from work in uniform is prohibited effective immediately and until further notice. This proactive measure is part of our commitment to ensuring the safety and security of all personnel, families, and assets. Personnel are advised to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities or behaviors to installation security immediately.
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress in April about a heightened risk from a terrorist attack in the United States.
In written testimony, he said since Hamas’s attack in Israel on October 7, “we’ve seen a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and our allies.”
“Given those calls for action, our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” he said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/02/threat-level-on-u-s-military-bases-in-europe-raised-after-bidens-poor-debate-performance/
Good Evening, hap.
... if we saw another world leader -- say Putin or Xi etc. in an incoherent babble meltdown such as we watched last Thursday for 90 min. We would surely wonder how they could continue as a leader of their country.
Second Democratic Congress member declares no confidence in Biden’s 2024 candidacy, says Trump ‘is going to win’
By Josh Christenson Published July 2, 2024 Updated July 2, 2024, 4:50 p.m. ET
(Thus proving there are Democrats with brains. I like what this man has to say.)
As of Tuesday afternoon, just one sitting Congressional Democrat — Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas — had called on Biden to bow out of the race, and another — Rep. Jared Golden of Maine — suggested it did not matter since it “has been clear … for months … Donald Trump is going to win.”
Golden (D-Me.) wrote in an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News that the 81-year-old president’s “poor performance” in his debate last week against Donald Trump “was not a surprise” but demurred about whether Biden should actually step aside and allow another Democrat to top the ticket, dismissing it as “post-debate hand-wringing.”
“Biden’s poor performance in the debate was not a surprise,” Golden wrote. “It also didn’t rattle me as it has others, because the outcome of this election has been clear to me for months: While I don’t plan to vote for him, Donald Trump is going to win. And I’m OK with that.”
According to a CNN/SSRS poll released on Tuesday, 75% of registered voters after the disastrous debate say the Democratic Party has a better shot at keeping the White House if Biden steps down.
Notably, 56% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents who were surveyed agreed with that.
Maine Rep. Jared Golden on Tuesday became the second member of Congress to declare he had no confidence in his party’s frontrunner, President Biden.
CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
“There are winners and losers in every election,” Golden went on. “Democrats’ post-debate hand-wringing is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political loss, but a unique threat to our democracy.”
“I reject the premise,” Golden said in a shot across the bow to the president’s re-election campaign messaging. “Unlike Biden and many others, I refuse to participate in a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic system.”
The co-chair of the moderate House Blue Dog Coalition also rejected any “pearl-clutching” from Democrats over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“This election is about the economy, not democracy,” Golden insisted. “And when it comes to our economy, our Congress matters far more than who occupies the White House.”
Golden represents Maine’s rural 2nd Congressional District, which Trump carried in both the 2016 and 2020 elections — and opposed efforts by his state’s secretary of state earlier this year to deny the former president access to the 2024 ballot.
He has also not shied away from criticizing Biden or his administration for abandoning successful Trump-era border policies or stifling his state’s flagship lobster business with heavy-handed environmental regulations.
“Some of Congress’ best work in recent years has happened in spite of the president, not because of him,” Golden jabbed at Biden in his op-ed, thanking “responsible Democrats, including myself and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, [who] rejected Biden’s bloated ‘Build Back Better’ bill and instead passed a law that supercharged American energy production, saved Medicare billions of dollars and reduced the deficit.”
“It was Congress that wrote and passed the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act to bring back manufacturing so we can once again be a nation of producers, not just consumers,” he also said, further denying Biden’s involvement in two of his administration’s signature legislative wins.
“We don’t need party insiders in smoke-filled back rooms to save us. We can defend our democracy without them,” Golden concluded.
“This Independence Day, we should reflect on the history and strength of our great democracy, safe in the knowledge that no one man is strong enough to take it away from us.”
https://nypost.com/2024/07/02/us-news/second-democratic-congress-member-declares-no-confidence-in-bidens-2024-candidacy-says-trump-is-going-to-win/
Father Time is, indeed, undefeated. Biden didn’t break his leg, or get a knee replacement. His brain power is withering in front of our very eyes.
... Biden will be remembered not as a spry, verbal sparrer with the gift of gab, but as the picture of aging and senility.
Confused, doddering and in decline.
... the Bidens have their priorities. And Dr. Jill can now add another Vogue cover to her wall. It’s her third. Hopefully they give her comfort when she’s watching Trump’s acceptance speech.
Jill Biden’s Vogue interview proves she’s clinging to the reins of power
By Post Editorial Board Published July 1, 2024, 7:29 p.m. ET
If anyone had any doubts as to why First Lady Jill Biden is still pushing hubby Joe to fight on for re-election, the unctious Vogue puff piece released Monday should settle it: Jill adores the spotlight.
The August issue will be her third Vogue cover in just three years. (Michelle Obama only agreed to three in eight years as first lady; the magazine shunned Melania Trump entirely).
And this “news” broke just a day after the Biden clan’s shoot with ultimate-celeb-photographer Annie Lebovitz at Camp David.
Status anxiety much?
Jill, after all, insists on being called “Dr. Jill Biden” because she has an Ed.D (a doctorate in education, not a PhD, let alone an MD); her thesis was on community-college student retention.
And never mind that Vogue long ago lost whatever prestige it had in Jill’s younger days.
Peppered with glossy photographs of FLOTUS in designer clothes, the interview centers on how very much she has long influenced Joe’s decisions — “in so many different areas,” she says. Was the interview supposed to help him win in November?
Or was it just a vehicle for flattery, like this from New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers: “People don’t mention her when they talk about Biden’s key advisers, but she’s his gut check and his closest confidant,” and “she’s fighting so hard for him to get a second term, because there are things they’ve got left on the agenda.”
Hmm: If Rogers is so deep in the First Family’s affairs, shouldn’t she have noticed that the president can’t function reliably after 4 p.m., and reported on it for the “all the news that’s fit to print” paper? Or are Times “journalists” expected to do nothing but brown-nose when a Democrat’s in the White House?
FLOTUS insists that the Bidens “will not let those 90 minutes” of Thursday’s debate “define the four years he’s been president. We will continue to fight.”
Yet what the debate defined was Joe’s current unfitness for office — which Jill won’t admit because she’s not done being first lady.
Staying in the race can’t be good for Joe Biden’s failing health; it puts him on course to end his career in a landslide, humiliated after trying to hang on when he obviously can’t function.
But Jill wants him to “continue to fight” because she has her eye on four Vogue covers in a second term.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/jill-bidens-vogue-interview-proves-shes-clinging-to-the-reins-of-power/
Donald Trump’s ‘hush-money’ sentencing delayed until Sept. 18 after SCOTUS immunity ruling
By Ben Kochman Published July 2, 2024, 3:10 p.m. ET
Donald Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan hush money trial was postponed to September after prosecutors agreed Tuesday that the historic event should be delayed in light of the US Supreme Court’s ruling granting presidents immunity for “official acts.”
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan approved prosecutors’ request to push back the July 11 sentencing in the felony fudging business records case so that he can rule on Trump’s claim that prosecutors inappropriately used trial evidence from the former president’s time in the White House.
Merchan said he would make a decision on if and how the immunity ruling affects the case by Sept. 6, and that the sentencing would take place Sept. 18 “if such is still necessary.”
Trump, 78, faces up to four years in prison, but could also be handed probation or community service, after a Manhattan jury convicted him May 30 of covering up a $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy Daniels to hide alleged details of a sexual encounter from voters before the 2016 presidential election.
Merchan’s ruling came after prosecutors — writing that they believe Trump’s arguments are “without merit” — nonetheless agreed earlier Tuesday that the sentencing should be delayed while the court rules on the ex-president’s claim that jurors should not have heard trial evidence from Trump’s time in the Oval Office.
The delay means that Trump’s penalty in the case will remain up in the air until after he formally wins the GOP nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which starts on July 15.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/02/us-news/donald-trumps-hush-money-sentencing-pushed-to-september-18/
Rep. Lloyd Doggett first House Dem to go public with calls for Biden to drop out
By Ryan King Published July 2, 2024, 12:57 p.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2024/07/02/us-news/first-house-democrat-goes-public-with-calls-for-biden-to-drop-out/
What a lovely greeting to start my day.
Thanks and GM, cap.
So glad you're back on board.
I believe hap and his dearly beloved celebrate monthly anniversaries. < g >
If I'm correct, that means they'll be celebrating their 8th year together in 2 months.
They are good for each other. You can see in in their faces.
Have a good one.
I'll be out of here for the morning (soon).
Hey, hap. You two are adorable and still having fun I see.
Thanks for sharing your 94th Anniversary picture.
Here's to your 95th. Enjoy every day.
Blessings to you both!
The left’s $7 trillion lie: Biden far outpaces Trump in racking up the national debt
By Stephen Moore and E. J. Antoni Published June 30, 2024, 3:13 p.m. ET
Projection is blaming someone else for your own bad behavior.
We saw a classic case of projection in Thursday’s presidential debate, when President Biden — who is overseeing annual budget deficits of $2 trillion — asserted that his predecessor, Donald Trump, added more to the federal debt than anyone else.
It’s part of the latest leftist argument: that if Trump wins the election, he will run deficits twice as large as Biden would.
Debate moderator Jake Tapper joined the chorus of federal finance falsehoods when he claimed Trump had “approved $8.4 trillion in new debt,” while Biden’s actions will increase the debt by (merely) $4.3 trillion over a decade.
Tapper was referencing a recent report by the left-leaning Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which twisted and turned the debt statistics in every contortionary way it could to reach its incredible conclusion.
CRFB, by the way, is a group that opposed the successful Trump tax reform in 2017 — yet supported several of Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending bills.
It’s not nonpartisan, but a front group for the policies of the political left.
The fundamental flaw of the CRFB analysis is revealed if we examine the projections of the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO’s projection for 2021, the last fiscal year of the Trump administration, forecast the federal debt to reach about $35.3 trillion by 2031, that is, over the next decade.
Today, 3½ years into the Biden administration, the latest estimates from the CBO project the debt will hit over $42.5 trillion by 2031.
The Congressional Budge Office forecasts an increase in debt.
In other words, the CBO now expects the debt to be $7.2 trillion higher than it had projected when Trump left office — all because of Biden’s reckless spending policies.
Treasury Department figures also show the debt growing much faster under Biden.
Over Trump’s entire term, including the 2020 spate of emergency COVID spending, the debt increased by $7.7 trillion — a staggering total, to be sure.
However, about 15% of that debt total was the result of Treasury’s choice to keep additional cash on hand during the pandemic.
Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, unsure how much tax revenue would be collected, borrowed well over $1 trillion — but kept it in reserve, without ever spending it.
Biden, however, spent that reserve, then borrowed another $7 trillion on top of it.
Instead of simply allowing that one-time emergency COVID spending to expire, Biden and the Democratic Congress continued spending at that same COVID-era level, thus institutionalizing multitrillion-dollar deficits.
Accounting for the changes in cash balances at the Treasury, the debt actually rose $6.5 trillion during Trump’s entire term — and is up $7.9 trillion in less than four years of Biden’s tenure.
Worse, the Treasury has announced that it anticipates needing to borrow another $800 billion from July through September of this year, followed by hundreds of billions more from October to December as federal finances further deteriorate.
All told, Biden will likely oversee a net increase in the debt of more than $9 trillion in a single term — a new record.
Biden wanted to spend $2 trillion more in the last year and a half, but conservatives in the House blocked the added bloat.
You can bet the farm that if the radical left wins the White House and Congress in 2024, that $2 trillion outlay will be first on their legislative agenda.
Biden’s other big lie, backed by the CRFB analysis, is that extending Trump’s tax reform will drown the economy in debt.
Yet federal tax revenues have increased since that tax reform was enacted — and federal revenues as a share of GDP have not fallen.
All of the increase in today’s debt has been due to massive, out-of-control federal spending — by both parties.
Trump spent and borrowed too much, full stop.
But with a debt headed to $50 trillion if reelected and a political agenda that stifles economic growth, Biden has set America on an unsustainable fiscal path that will lead to financial oblivion.
Stephen Moore and E.J. Antoni are Heritage Foundation fellows.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/30/opinion/a-7-trillion-lie-biden-worse-than-trump-on-national-debt/
I'm there for ya, Larry. < g >
The Post article I posted shortly after the Breitbart one is a bit more explicit.
Anyway, it looks like Trump will not have to worry about prosecutions before the election.
That's a definite win.
We'll see what happens after that.
These times are far too interesting for my tastes.
The Biden cabal is probably breathing a sigh of relief, too.
More details: Supreme Court affirms ‘absolute immunity’ for official acts in Trump case
By Ryan King Published July 1, 2024 Updated July 1, 2024, 10:42 a.m. ET
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump enjoys “absolute” immunity from prosecution for “official acts” during his presidency, although it left the exact extent of that protection for lower courts to decide.
The high court’s 6-3 ruling vacated an earlier decision by a DC federal judge and cleared the way for more appeals by Trump’s legal team that could set the trial schedule in the 2020 election case against him back months or years — if it ever happens.
“The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”
“The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts,” Roberts added. “That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party.”
Lawyers for Trump, 78, who appointed three of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, unfurled a legal theory of sweeping protection from prosecution for any acts undertaken while in office in a bid to quash the four-count case against the former president.
The 45th president is accused of criminally attempting “to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit” to obstruct the electoral vote process, “impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified” and working “against the right to vote and to have that vote counted.”
The former president’s camp claimed his efforts were “official acts” protected by his office, but special counsel Jack Smith argued they are still subject to criminal prosecution.
Last week, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that narrowed the use of an obstruction charge in the case, but prosecutors have conveyed confidence that the decision won’t thwart the main thrust of their case.
Presiding US District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s “immunity” theory last year in a decision that was later upheld by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in February.
Chutkan put proceedings in the case on hold pending the Supreme Court appeal.
During one eye-catching exchange in the circuit court, Judge Florence Pan posed a hypothetical scenario featuring “a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival (and is) not impeached” and asked, “Would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”
Trump lawyer John Sauer answered that a president would have to be impeached and convicted first. He claimed that immunity applied to presidential but not personal conduct.
Sauer claimed that such immunity was covered by the Constitution and Executive Vesting Clause, which bestows the president with executive power.
Slam dunk? Not so fast
Initially, many legal experts posited that Smith’s position against “absolute” immunity was a slam-dunk and anticipated the Supreme Court would spurn Trump’s plea for a get-out-of-jail-free card.
But during oral arguments before the top court in April, it was clear that its conservative majority was agonizing over the question, seemingly hunting for some sort of middle ground and insinuating that the lower courts didn’t do enough due diligence on it.
Arguments from both sides lasted about two hours and 40 minutes, notably longer than usual. The conservative justices fretted that tossing out Trump’s immunity case carte blanche could pave the way for politically laced tit-for-tat prosecutions against presidents down the road.
“I’m not concerned about this case, but I am concerned about future uses of the criminal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives,” Justice Neil Gorsuch stressed at one point.
“We’re writing a rule for the ages.”
The justices mused that most prosecutors are easily able to get a grand jury to hand down indictments and fretted that an absence of any presidential immunity could be destabilizing because chief executives would become prime targets for such tactics.
In the run-up to the top court’s decision, President Biden stayed largely mum but said he “can’t think of one” reason why presidents should have total immunity from prosecution.
Trump didn’t need to win
Former President Trump only needed to delay the case because of the upcoming election — and he succeeded.
If he wins a second term Nov. 5, he could theoretically tell the Justice Department to unravel the federal cases against him.
Another possibility — although an untested one — is that Trump could attempt to pardon himself.
“We’ve never answered whether a president can do that,” Gorsuch mused during oral arguments. “Happily, it’s never been presented to us.”
In addition to the 2020 election subversion case, Smith is prosecuting Trump in the 40-count Mar-a-Lago document case, in which he is accused of illegally hoarding troves of classified papers after leaving the White House.
Trump is also facing a 10-count racketeering indictment for 2020 election tampering in Georgia, bringing his total pending charges up to 54. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all of them.
Thus far, none of those three cases have trial start dates. Trump is waging a separate effort to derail the Georgia case.
Trump was already found guilty in May on 34 counts in his Manhattan hush-money case and is set to face sentencing on July 11 — just days before the Republican National Convention.
SCOTUS finishes up its term
Monday marks a rare foray into July for the Supreme Court in recent years, as it typically wraps up its term by the end of June.
But its term had proven to be jammed-packed with politically fraught and consequential cases, including those involving abortion, firearms, unions, Big Tech censorship, redistricting, Chevron Deference and more.
Earlier this year, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained about the grueling schedule. She is facing pressure from some progressives to step down while Dems still have political power to replace her.
“Cases are bigger. They’re more demanding. The number of amici are greater, and you know that our emergency calendar is so much more active. I’m tired,” she said, according to Bloomberg Law.
“There used to be a time when we had a good chunk of the summer break. Not anymore. The emergency calendar is busy almost on a weekly basis.”
At the moment, the high court has just shy of two dozen cases on its list for the next term, which is due to begin Oct. 7. One of them is a high-profile challenge against a Tennessee law on transgenderism.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/supreme-court-affirms-absolute-immunity-for-official-acts-in-trump-case/
Trump Wins: Supreme Court Says Presidents Covered by Limited Immunity
JOEL B. POLLAK 1 Jul 2024 3:35
(Wonder how this affects the charges brought by the different states?)
The case will now be remanded, and will likely result in the dismissal of some or all of the charges facing the former president in federal court in Washington, D.C., relating to the Capitol riot of January 6.
Blistering: Jill Biden’s delusional if she believes she can save her husband, the country after debate debacle
By Miranda Devine Published June 30, 2024, 10:45 p.m. ET
And they call Trump a liar...
... Scott Adams, the author and cartoonist, says on X, “Trump’s hyperbole is directionally accurate and benign. Biden’s lies (Fine People Hoax, J6 insurrection Hoax, stealing your democracy, dictator for a day) are dangerous.”
Joe and his boosters pretend that he is “decent” while Trump is morally deranged. Yet Trump has five well-adjusted adult children who adore him, while Biden’s two adult children are drug addicts, and Hunter got his widowed sister-in-law hooked on crack when he had an affair with her...
Everything Joe has ever told you about himself for 50 years is a lie.
Jellyhead makes the NY Post cover again...
Gee. Wonder why Need-a-Pardon-Hunter wants Daddy to stay in the race.
@rollingrock
Legal Expert: Supreme Court Jan. 6 Ruling Downgraded ‘Insurrection’ to Mere Trespassing
PAUL BOIS 30 Jun 2024 4:45
DOJ official Michael Sherwin... said, “Our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe.”
“It worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because they’re, like, ‘If we go there, we’re gonna get charged,'” said Sherwin. “We wanted to take out those individuals that essentially were thumbing their noses at the public for what they did.”
The Mess Democrats Have Made, Kamala Harris Edition
Imagine if Biden had chosen a Vice President for competence rather than identity politics.
By The Editorial Board June 30, 2024 5:23 pm ET
(My morning smirk... I wish I could post the whole piece.)
When the Democratic media complex decides on a political question, the unified choreography is something to behold. So it is with the new establishment chorus after Thursday’s debate that President Biden should withdraw his candidacy for a second term. Suddenly, the columnists and editorial pages that denied the truth are sounding like these columns.
The problem is that Democrats are now left with a likely nominee who is in obvious mental decline, and a Vice President in Kamala Harris who is even less popular than Mr. Biden. Finding a better nominee will be messy, no matter how desirable, but keep in mind how Democrats and their media allies got themselves and the country into this mess.
* * *
One reason is that they happily covered for White House deceptions. The Democratic press barely questioned Mr. Biden’s limited workday, his reliance on a teleprompter, and his rare unscripted media interviews. “Eighty is the new 40,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last year. “Didn’t you hear?” Ms. Jean-Pierre said in 2022 that Mr. Biden displays such stamina that she, not yet age 50, “can’t even keep up with him.” Conservatives mocked this but the press laughed it off...
The path out of this nightmare might be easier if not for another problem the press refused to recognize—that Kamala Harris wasn’t remotely qualified to be Vice President when Mr. Biden chose her. He had promised to pick a woman as his Vice President, and Mr. Biden selected Ms. Harris because she was a woman of color, not because of her qualifications...
A Biden withdrawal and an open August convention are still desirable—in the best interests of the country as much as those of the Democratic Party. Mr. Biden’s frailties are an invitation to adversaries to exploit in a second term, and Ms. Harris doesn’t appear up to the job. An open convention carries risks, but it’s the best way Democrats and their media allies can clean up the mess they’ve made.
(We'll see. They may have dug themselves in way too deep at this point.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mess-democrats-have-made-kamala-harris-edition-biden-debate-election-24b7a214?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Sorry, Mr. G. I value my teeth. No listening for me.
I defy you to listen to it without cracking a molar…
New details emerge about Biden’s mental state — and the steps staffers take to shield him
By Ryan King Published June 30, 2024, 5:19 p.m. ET
(In addition to being up past his bedtime, Biden was not allowed to use a teleprompter for the debate.
This is long but a good read... IMO)
Biden put on an energetic performance during his State of the Union address (when he stood behind a teleprompter)
“This is no longer about Joe Biden’s family or his emotions,” an adviser in touch with the West Wing fumed to Axios. “This is about our country. It’s an utter f–king disaster that has to be addressed.
lol I just saw that on Breitbart.
Pelosi: Trump Likely Has Dementia
The event may have been during his 6 good hours a day...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174680883
Didn't notice how fast he was talking because I can't bear to watch any of the political clowns speak.
I read about the events when they're over.
JMO... there's no way they can erase the image of his pathetic performance at the first debate.
I doubt the Long Island and Jersey events got as much coverage as the debacle did.
Who knows what's going to happen? The electorate has the attention span of a gnat.
And it's a long way to November 5th.
... these lefties always think that they are the superior intellect.
There are two newspapers in the Twin Cities, MN. Left and further left...
They both decried "Trump's lies" in their post debate coverage
Once we were represented by our national bird -- the Eagle.
The new symbol is the national vegetable -- Joe Biden.
So sad.
... this son of a used car salesman...
While he has now finally been unmasked for all the world to see, stop for a minute and consider how Joe Biden could have completely reversed a legacy now irreparably damaged by a performance that had some Democrats even openly expressing thoughts of suicide. That’s how bad it was.
How nice of you to say that...
Too close to the election not to be here with you fine folks!
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Howdy, cap.
Welcome home. You just made my day.
I'll get to Tucker in a bit.
Watching Jailhouse Rock on TCM.
Biden claims at posh NJ fundraiser that his debate debacle impressed undecided voters
By Katherine Donlevy Published June 30, 2024, 12:21 a.m. ET
During the star-studded event, a plane toting a streamer reading “BI-DONE!” soared across the sky
A party of shameless liars, how did Dems let this happen? and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board Published June 29, 2024, 12:18 p.m. ET
From the right: A Party of Shameless Liars
Thursday “night, over the course of about five minutes, the mainstream press and the Democratic Party’s establishment shifted positions on Joe Biden’s fitness for office,” but “that does not in any way change the fact that they have been lying to us about this,” fumes National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke.
“When they complained about ‘right-wing media,’ they were lying to us. When they insisted that worries about Biden’s age were just cynical cover for Donald Trump, they were lying to us. When they suggested that Biden was impressive and sharp behind closed doors, they were lying to us.”
“That they have ceased lying for a moment does not change the fact that they are liars who will lie to you for any political advantage they can gain.”
Conservative: How Did Dems Let This Happen?
Just “how did the Democrats let this happen?” marvels the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
President Biden’s performance in Thursday’s debate made clear that “there is no way” he’s fit “to serve four more years.”
Yet for years Democrats “looked the other way” and “lied to themselves about Biden’s condition.”
They cheered when journalists dismissed troubling videos of him as “cheapfakes.”
But “at about 9:01 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, the self-deception stopped. The CNN debate presented a brutal picture of the president’s condition.”
And the contrast with President Donald Trump was “unavoidable.”
Dems should “look back to 2020 and to the first three years of the Biden presidency, years in which the president was in observable decline, and ask themselves: Why didn’t we do something?”
Democrat: Joe Has Got To Go
“Nothing has made a certain type of politically-engaged Democrat angrier at me than my insistence that Democrats needed to take the electorate’s concerns about Joe Biden’s age seriously,” observes Nate Silver at his Silver Bulletin.
But “voters were incredibly consistent about mentioning Biden’s age in polls” and “it’s not just that Joe Biden is 81 now — it’s that he’s seeking a second term and wants to continue being president until he’s 86!”
This isn’t “the sort of thing Democrats were going to be able to spin their way out of.”
People “should be angry at Joe Biden.” Yes, maybe he “can still win.”
But it’s time for him “to consider what’s best for his party, what’s best for the country and what’s best for his legacy.”
Centrist: A ‘Heartbreaking’ & ‘Alarming’ Night
“The debate was not just a catastrophe for President Biden,” but “a catastrophe for an entire class of experts, journalists, and pundits, who have, since 2020, insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack,” thunders The Free Press’ Bari Weiss; rarely “are so many people exposed as liars and sycophants.”
“Jill Biden” and “all those savvy staffers” should’ve “ encouraged Biden to bow out gracefully.”
The debate “was heartbreaking. It debased Biden as a man. It was also alarming — the person we saw onstage is our commander in chief. He holds the nuclear football.”
If Democrats truly believe “democracy is on the line in a race against Trump, the solution is as straightforward as it was before the debate clock started last night on CNN: Replace Biden.”
Pollster: Trump’s Wise Decision
By the debate’s end, “President Biden’s appearance left a nation questioning his ability to govern for another term,” observes Mark Penn at Fox News.
“Just about every focus group and pundit agrees that the Biden campaign took on a lot of water.”
Yet this early faceoff “was supposed to be the game changer that lifted [Biden’s campaign] up.”
“On the issues, Trump generally played it smart” as “Biden threw every name and negative story he had in his bin against Trump.”
For most viewers, “it really didn’t matter what the candidates said, but rather how they said it.”
Trump decided “to accept the opportunity” to debate because “he was confident that he would show up stronger and more coherent than Biden. Ultimately, he was right.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/opinion/a-party-of-shameless-liars-how-did-dems-let-this-happen-and-other-commentary/
Slipping Joe Biden needs to take the same approach as LBJ did and drop out
By Michael Goodwin Published June 29, 2024, 7:41 p.m. ET
Would any of the also-rans make a better candidate or a better president?
Who knows?
The Trump-haters will rally around a dead raccoon if they think it can win the White House.
Biden, 81, has difficulty functioning outside of 6-hour window as aides attempt to spin prez’s horrid debate performance: alarming report
By Jon Levine and Matthew Sedacca Published June 29, 2024, 5:19 p.m. ET
Octogenarian President Biden has difficulty functioning outside a six-hour window of daylight, according to an alarming new report.
The 81-year-old commander in chief is prone to absent-minded gaffes and fatigue outside of the hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or while traveling abroad, White House aides told Axios in a bizarre attempt to spin his disastrous debate performance.
During the 90-minute trainwreck of a presidential debate — which kicked off five hours after the president’s peak performance window, at 9 p.m. — Biden often appeared vacant or slack-jawed, and on several occasions froze mid-thought, misspoke, or struggled to form coherent sentences.
The shocking late-night performance escalated fears about whether Biden is capable of serving another four years. He would be aged 86 by the end of his second term.
Biden attempted to quell voters’ concerns about his mental acuity with a much more energetic speech at a rally Friday in Raleigh, N.C. — during his more preferred time frame in the early afternoon.
“I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to,” he said to a cheering crowd in the battleground state just after 1 p.m.
“But I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job, I know how to get things done.”
Despite his better daytime showing Friday, Biden has faced a slew of calls from donors and pundits to drop out of the race.
Biden, however, has refused to step aside, suggesting the party leaders will maintain their support for him as well. Former Democrat Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have also publicly expressed their continued support.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/us-news/president-biden-has-difficulty-functioning-outside-of-6-hour-window-report/
Bill Clinton Defends Biden After Debate Performance: ‘Given Us 3 Years of Solid Leadership’
ELIZABETH WEIBEL 28 Jun 2024 2:11
(Once a liar -- "I did not have sex with that woman" -- always a liar.)
Former President Bill Clinton defended President Joe Biden after his performance at the presidential debate on Thursday night against former President Donald Trump.
In a post on X, Clinton highlighted how Biden had “given us 3 years of solid leadership,” and created a “record number of new jobs,” and was “making real progress solving the climate crisis,” among other things.
“I’ll leave the debate rating to the pundits, but here’s what I know: fact and history matter,” Clinton wrote. “Joe Biden has given us 3 years of solid leadership, steadying us after the pandemic, creating a record number of new jobs, making real progress solving the climate crisis, and launching a successful effort in reducing inflation, all while pulling us out of the quagmire Donald Trump left us in. That’s what’s really at stake in November.”
Clinton’s words come after former President Barack Obama also came to Biden’s defense, noting that “bad debate nights happen.”
“This election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama wrote in a post on X.
Biden’s debate performance left Democrats, several members of the media, and donors for the Democrat Party feeling panicked. Several people suggested that Biden should be replaced and pointed out that it had been a “disappointing debate performance.”
At several moments in the debate, the president looked confused, appeared to freeze, spoke with a hoarse voice, and mumbled. Biden also repeated several false claims – including the debunked “very fine people” hoax and the false “suckers and losers” claim.
The president was also unable to get through his closing statement without making many errors.
While many suggested replacing Biden, and several donors have backed out of their support for the president, the Biden campaign has insisted that Biden is not dropping out of the presidential race.
Biden admitted in a post on X that he “might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly,” or even “debate as well” as he used to.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/28/bill-clinton-defends-biden-after-debate-performance-given-us-3-years-of-solid-leadership/
Martin Mull, Hip Comic and Actor from ‘Fernwood Tonight’ and ‘Roseanne,’ Dies at 80
The Associated Press 28 Jun 2024
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Mull, whose droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including “Roseanne” and “Arrested Development,” has died, his daughter said Friday.
Mull’s daughter, TV writer and comic artist Maggie Mull, said her father died at home on Thursday after “a valiant fight against a long illness.”
Mull, who was also a guitarist and painter, came to national fame with a recurring role on the Norman Lear-created satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” and the starring role in its spinoff, “Fernwood Tonight.”
“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” Maggie Mull said in an Instagram post. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs.”
Known for his blonde hair and well-trimmed mustache, Mull was born in Chicago, raised in Ohio and Connecticut and studied art in Rhode Island and Rome.
His first foray into show business was as a songwriter, penning the 1970 semi-hit “A Girl Named Johnny Cash” for singer Jane Morgan.
He would combine music and comedy in an act that he brought to hip Hollywood clubs in the 1970s.
“In 1976 I was a guitar player and sit-down comic appearing at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip when Norman Lear walked in and heard me,” Mull told The Associated Press in 1980. “He cast me as the wife beater on ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.’ Four months later I was spun off on my own show.”
His time on the Strip was memorialized in the 1973 country rock classic “Lonesome L.A. Cowboy” where the Riders of the Purple Sage give him a shoutout along with music luminaries Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.
“I know Kris and Rita and Marty Mull are hangin’ at the Troubadour,” the song says.
On “Fernwood Tonight” (sometimes styled as “Fernwood 2 Night”), he played Barth Gimble, the host of a local talk show in a midwestern town and twin to his “Mary Hartman” character. Fred Willard, a frequent collaborator with very similar comic sensibilities, played his sidekick. It was later revamped as “America 2 Night” and set in Southern California.
He would get to be a real talk show host as a substitute for Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show.”
Mull often played slightly sleazy, somewhat slimy and often smarmy characters as he did as Teri Garr’s boss and Michael Keaton’s foe in 1983’s “Mr. Mom.” He played Colonel Mustard in the 1985 movie adaptation of the board game “Clue,” which, like many things Mull appeared in, has become a cult classic.
The 1980s also brought what many thought was his best work, “A History of White People in America,” a mockumentary that first aired on Cinemax. Mull co-created the show and starred as a “60 Minutes” style investigative reporter investigating all things milquetoast and mundane. Willard was again a co-star.
He wrote and starred in 1988’s “Rented Lips” alongside Robert Downey Jr., whose father, Robert Sr., directed.
His co-star Jennifer Tilly said in an X post Friday that Mull was “such a witty charismatic and kind person.”
In the 1990s he was best known for his recurring role on several seasons on “Roseanne,” in which he played a warmer, less sleazy boss to the title character, an openly gay man whose partner was played by Willard, who died in 2020.
Mull would later play private eye Gene Parmesan on “Arrested Development,” a cult-classic character on a cult-classic show, and would be nominated for an Emmy, his first, in 2016 for a guest run on “Veep.”
“What I did on ‘Veep’ I’m very proud of, but I’d like to think it’s probably more collective, at my age it’s more collective,” Mull told the AP after his nomination. “It might go all the way back to ‘Fernwood.’”
Other comedians and actors were often his biggest fans.
“Martin was the greatest,” “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig said on X. “So funny, so talented, such a nice guy. Was lucky enough to act with him on The Jackie Thomas Show and treasured every moment being with a legend. Fernwood Tonight was so influential in my life.”
Mull is survived by his daughter and musician Wendy Haas, his wife since 1982.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/martin-mull-hip-comic-and-actor-from-fernwood-tonight-and-roseanne-dies-at-80/
Pinocchio Joe... works for me. < g >
You may never hear from him again...
if the nation gets lucky and Jellyhead Joe gets the well-deserved boot.
Good luck to us all.
Nowhere left for the lying Dems and media to cover up for jellyhead Joe Biden
By David Harsanyi Published June 28, 2024, 5:51 p.m. ET
(Jellyhead Joe... I'm going to steal that one.)
They lied to you.
And after Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, there is no amount of gaslighting or deceit that’s going to fool voters again.
Biden’s mental acuity, never something to write home about, has considerably deteriorated over the past couple of years.
It’s not his fault.
He’s an octogenarian.
Time comes for everyone.
Yet it’s now clear that Democrats and the sycophantic major media mobilized to conceal Biden’s mental and physical decline from the public.
The effort began when Biden was running for president from the comfort of his home in 2020, and it’s only picked up steam since.
When Robert Hur let Biden slide for pilfering classified documents, describing him as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” the entire left wing maligned the special counsel’s character and professionalism.
The White House accused Hur of leveling “gratuitous and inappropriate criticisms.”
Biden toady Joe Scarborough, who spent months swearing the president was the sharpest man he’d ever met, accused Hur of coming “from Trump university” and called the report “garbage.”
They knew Hur was right.
Why do you think Merrick Garland is refusing to hand over audio of Biden’s rambling interview with Hur, in which he forgets when his son died?
Where does Hur go for his apology?
For that matter, where does The Post go?
After highlighting the president’s bizarre wander-off at the G-7, where Italian Prime Minister Georgi had to rescue him, and his freeze-ups at an LA fundraiser and a Juneteenth event, The Post was skewered for suggesting he’s suffering from mental decline.
Does anyone doubt the veracity of The Post’s reporting now?
Only last week, a concerted effort by major media outlets like NBC News and The New York Times was meant to convince voters that a video of Biden freezing up at the fundraiser and being led off the stage by former president Barack Obama was misinformation.
Talk about projection.
The White House also claimed videos of the president wandering off into a field during the G7 summit in Italy or struggling to sit down at a D-Day commemoration in France were “cheap fakes.”
Unscrupulous media fact-checkers helped Democrats deceive the public by smearing a veneer of alleged journalistic credibility over this dangerous lie.
Thursday’s debate exposed them all.
In mere days, the entire left-wing punditsphere has gone from praising Biden’s uncanny mental acuteness to demanding Democrats start a conversation about replacing the president as the nominee.
They are shameless.
Democrats aren’t freaking out because they’ve just discovered Biden isn’t up for the job.
They are freaking out because everyone else has discovered it.
There is no going back.
Replacing Biden has always seemed somewhat farfetched.
It’s a logistical nightmare for Democrats.
Plus, there are so many built-in advantages to the incumbency.
But Biden’s performance changes the calculus for Democrats.
Or rather, the truth does.
It’s still a big lift, of course.
First, there is the question of convincing the president, who has a huge ego, to step aside — no small task.
Would Democrats really use the 25th Amendment and declare Biden unable to discharge his duties and powers of the president?
It seems unlikely.
The unintended political fallout could be devastating.
Then there is the matter of who takes over.
Surely there would be a fight between top Democrats for the nomination.
Why wouldn’t they back Kamala Harris, who was put on the ticket for this very eventuality?
And if not Kamala, why are Democrats throwing the first black woman vice president to the curb?
Whoever it is, how can voters ever trust a political media that not only abdicated its duty to the American people but became a propaganda arm for a dangerously inept president?
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/opinion/nowhere-left-for-the-lying-dems-and-media-to-cover-up-for-jellyhead-joe-biden/