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Democrats Singing ‘Suspicious Minds’

Posted on | June 30, 2024 | 1 Comment

Biden befuddled.

Democrats are caught in a trap. They can’t walk out. As much as they may want to dump Joe Biden, there are a few problems — perhaps insurmountable problems — with any scenario to replace him:

“We are monitoring the calls from across the country for President Biden to step aside, either now or before the election, and have concluded that the process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated. We will remain vigilant that appropriate election integrity procedures are followed,” said Mike Howell, Executive Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
The Heritage Oversight Project has identified three swing states — Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin — where they believe removing Biden from the Democratic ticket would prevent anyone else from replacing him.
Wisconsin does not allow withdrawal from the ballot for any reason besides death, while in Nevada, no changes can be made to the ballot after 5 p.m. on the fourth Friday in June of an election year unless ‘a nominee dies or is adjudicated insane or mentally incompetent.’ In Georgia, if Biden were to withdraw less than 60 days before the election, his name would remain on the ballot but no votes would be counted.

So, even if the Powers That Be in the Democratic Party were able to persuade Joe (and Dr. Jill) that it’s best for him to step aside, and even if an “open convention” in Chicago were able to agree on some replacement candidate, the attempt to put the replacement candidate’s name on the ballot would be contested in court in multiple states. Not to mention the dreadful optics of such a move:

All those votes for Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries would be negated — treated as null and void, “the will of the people” rendered moot — by a move to replace him as the nominee, and how could Democrats then argue that it is Trump who is the “threat to democracy”?

So the mortification Democrats experienced on Thursday night, watching Biden stumble and mumble his way through the debate — a debate that Team Biden had arranged, according to their own rules, at an early date with their choice of network — cannot be cured. They’re stuck with Joe now, and will have to suffer the consequences. It’s beautiful, really.

UPDATE: Maybe I should have made this a separate post, but I’ll go ahead and add it here — Democrats are being gaslit by the Biden campaign, and they know it:

A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week.
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a Saturday afternoon call with dozens of committee members across the country, a group of some of the most influential members of the party. They largely ignored Biden’s weak showing Thursday night or the avalanche of criticism that followed.
Multiple committee members on the call, most granted anonymity to talk about the private discussion, described feeling like they were being gaslighted — that they were being asked to ignore the dire nature of the party’s predicament. The call, they said, may have worsened a widespread sense of panic among elected officials, donors and other stakeholders.
Instead, the people said, Harrison offered what they described as a rosy assessment of Biden’s path forward. The chat function was disabled and there were no questions allowed.
“I was hoping for more of a substantive conversation instead of, ‘Hey, let’s go out there and just be cheerleaders,’ without actually addressing a very serious issue that unfolded on American television for millions of people to see,” said Joe Salazar, an elected DNC member from Colorado, who was on the call. “There were a number of things that could have been said in addressing the situation. But we didn’t get that. We were being gaslit.”



 

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | June 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Four females ages 17 to 21 were kidnapped in Pennsylvania, held captive in a shipping container in Monroe County, where two of them were raped in a crime that shocked residents of the Poconos region in the hill country near the New York state line. The victims were rescued by police in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Mount Pocono, after having been kidnapped in Wilkes-Barre (about 40 miles away) where the victims reportedly were witnesses to a shooting. During their ordeal, the victims were first transported to a building (which had once housed a Salvation Army center) that one of the accused kidnappers owns in Pen Argyl. From there, the victims were reportedly taken to a “remote property” that one of the kidnappers owns in Smithfield Township, about 15 miles from Pen Argyl. It was at the Smithfield Township property that the victims were held in a shipping container and two of them were raped.

Strange to say, this crime has apparently gotten zero attention from feminists, who have made violence against women a subject of their activism for more than three decades. Likewise, we have heard nothing from the White House about this horrific crime, despite the fact that President Joe Biden frequently touts his credentials on the issue, as in this March 2022 press release:

This week, President Biden signed into law the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022, bipartisan legislation passed by Congress as part of the Omnibus appropriations package.
One of the driving forces of President Biden’s career has been fighting back against abuses of power. That force led him to write and champion the groundbreaking Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as a U.S. Senator, landmark legislation that first passed in 1994. In the nearly three decades since, he has worked with Members of Congress from both parties to pass legislation to renew and strengthen VAWA three times: in 2000, 2005, and 2013. Each time, he worked to expand access to safety and support for all survivors and increase prevention efforts. Preventing and responding to gender-based violence wherever it occurs, and in all of its forms, has remained a cornerstone of the President’s career in public service . . .

Yes, we must “increase prevention efforts” to stop “gender-based violence wherever it occurs,” as the president says! We can therefore expect him to demand that the Department of Justice assist with the investigation and prosecution of the suspects in this crime. That presidential call for action should be forthcoming any minute now, right?

From ABC News: “Authorities have charged Davaun Carlon Jackson, 29, with a slew of charges, including kidnapping, rape, and other offenses. The second suspect, Isaiah Rogers-Keeney, 19, is also being charged as an accomplice.” Having read several news stories about this case, many details are confusing or mysterious, with different stories reporting the case differently. It seemed obvious to me that this probably wasn’t Jackson’s first crime, and research turned up a listing in a local weekly paper from November 2016: “Davaun Carlon Jackson, 21, of Tobyhanna – charged with retail theft, receiving stolen property and criminal attempt of theft by deception.” When I mentioned this to my brother Kirby, who is familiar with the area from his years as a long-haul trucker, he told me there was an Army facility in the area. This is Tobyhanna Army Depot which, with more than 3,000 employees, is “the largest employer in northeastern Pennsylvania.” It is logical to surmise that Davaun Jackson had some connection to this facility, either having been stationed there in the military, or working as a civilian employee, or possibly having family members working there.

Whatever the case may be, we don’t have any background about how Jackson became the owner of at least two properties in the area, one in Pen Argyl and one in Smithfield Township. What we do know is that, in Pen Argyl, “neighbors have been concerned about the building ever since it was sold by the Salvation Army”:

301 West Main Street, Pen Argyl

“They’d be in there working late at night. We’ve called the police several times because of the noise,” said the man. “In the morning, the kids sit on that steps over there to get the school bus, and there’s a lot of kids. So we were concerned because this guy seemed a little shady.”
He said there was even an incident with a young woman in distress running away from the property last winter.
“She was barefoot, knocking on doors, and nobody would let her in, but they did call the cops, and I guess by the time the cops got here, she was gone,” said the man.
The borough sent us a statement, saying police have investigated the complaints about the building.

Is this “incident” last winter with a barefoot woman fleeing the building owned by Jackson somehow related to what happened recently with the kidnapped women? We don’t know, although again I think it is logical to surmise some kind of connection between these two incidents.

This crime spans three counties in Pennsylvania — Pen Argyl is in Northampton County, while Smithfield Township is in Monroe County and Wilkes-Barre is in Luzerne County — and one would hope that state officials are coordinating the investigation involving so many jurisdictions. Monroe County District Attorney Michael Mancuso offers even more interesting information about this case:

Mancuso said his office has actually been following Jackson for some time.
“There has been an investigation that has involved him over the course of the last several months,” said Mancuso.
Jackson is facing 14 charges, and Rogers-Keeney is facing 23 charges. Both include kidnapping, sexual assault, and false imprisonment, but Mancuso said they could face more charges in the future.
“We needed to make the charges that we thought were most appropriate now, but everything’s on the table,” said Mancuso.

Feminists must be following the case closely, right?



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.28.24

Posted on | June 29, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.28.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Anime Girl Propaganda is having a sale this weekend before the proprietor goes off to Basic Training.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

More good news from the Supremes.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When You Defund The Police?, First He Was Shot Then He Was Arrested, What’s Going On Here?  – A Post-Debate Musical Interlude
EBL: Kinky Friedman RIP, So what do the Democrats do now? Supreme Court Rejects Chevron and Administrative Agency Deference, and Martin Mull RIP
Twitchy: SCOTUS Rules On Whether Governments Can Remove Homeless Encampments, Time Magazine Releases Brutal Joe Biden Cover In Wake Of Debate Disaster, and Even The NYT Thinks Biden Needs To Drop Out
Louder With Crowder: TikToker flabbergasted by massive grocery price hike over two years, but he doesn’t quite get it, Steven Crowder Dominates Presidential Debate Coverage; Crashes Rumble With #1 Live Stream Worldwide, and Trump just dropped his most BRUTAL ad – it’s nothing but Biden debate “highlights”
Vox Popoli: It’s Not Just Books, Elegy for European Civilization, AI Fears the SSH, A Mystery for the Ages, The Knives are Out, The Russian Historiography of WW2, and The Streets of Midnight
According To Hoyt: Winning The Dragon – A Blast From the Past from September 2022, Doom Doom Doom!, and Quality of Life
Monster Hunter Nation: Inclusivity and Respect in the CRIT Awards
Upstream Reviews: The Supply Closet Of Eternal Terror, 
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Elder Abuse

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Adam Piggott: Assange Freed
American Conservative: Biden Forgets Troops Have Died Under His Watch During Debate, SCOTUS Rules on J6 Case, and Biden’s Debate Catastrophe May Be His Last
American Greatness: Joe Biden’s Catastrophic Debate Performance Sends Dems into Panic Mode, Supreme Court Rules That Biden DOJ Misused Obstruction Law in January 6 Cases, and Tractor Supply Drops DEI, Apologizes Following Customer Feedback
American Thinker: Who Added an Algorithm to New York State’s Voter Registration Roll, and Why?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Terms You Shouldn’t Use Friday
Babalu Blog: Healthcare services at a hospital in Santiago de Cuba on the verge of collapse, WEF leaves communist Cuba off its list of the best countries for tourism, While Cubans suffer from floods, authorities speak of ‘revolutionary surveillance’, and Lots of leftist ‘amor’ for Claudia
BattleSwarm: Biden Recession Hits Hooters, Ukraine Hits Russian Space Tracking Center, Judicial Officers Behaving Badly, and LinkSwarm For June 28
Behind The Black: Amazon delays offering Kuiper broadband service to ’25, China: Chang’e-6 collected more than four pounds of material from Moon, Russian inspector satellite now approaching its eleventh communications satellite, European weather satellite company cancels launch contract with Ariane-6, switches to SpaceX, New update on SpaceX’s preparations for future Starship/Superheavy test launches, and Sixteen Nobel economists once again prove that our “expert” class is expert at nothing
Cafe Hayek: On Noncompete Clauses, Some of What Market Skeptics Likely Think, and More On Noncompete Clauses
CDR Salamander: Business Executives Not Understanding Naval Power, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Turks and Chinese, Help us Make the Ammunition, also, Dollars and Eyeballs
Da Tech Guy: Always Look on the Bright Side of the Ukraine War, One Debate Two Presidents No Mysteries (Well Maybe one), The cowardly Supreme Court took a giant proverbial dump on the First Amendment, and Six Debate Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: HOO BOY That Debate, also, Big Wins In SCOTUS
Don Surber: Journalists are panicking, also, Americans 6 Deep State 3
First Street Journal: The problem isn’t mass incarceration, also, With Joe Biden sinking into senility, who’s running the country?
Gates Of Vienna: Plot Against Dissident Iranian Journalist in the Netherlands Foiled, “The Chamber is Already Full of Devils”, “Islam is the Future for the West”, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 7, Enricher vs. Enricher in Solingen, and The Testimony of the Phones
The Geller Report: Paris Hotel Boots Jewish Family Over Israeli Passports, also, Supreme Court Hands Huge Defeat To Jan. 6 Prosecutors And Jack Smith, “Improperly Charged Hundreds of Jan. 6 Protesters”
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Post-Debate: Rage, Confusion and Deep Denial, Kevin Costner Swings for the Fences with Horizon, and Anarchy U Shows America’s Decline in Real Time
The Lid: Big Pharma Funding the Left’s Radical LGBTQ Agenda, also, Bidenomics Causes Independence Day BBQ Costs to Soar
Legal Insurrection: ‘Biden is Toast’: Democrats in Panic, Party Leaders Want New Candidate, NY Times Editorial Board Calls On Joe Biden To Abandon Reelection Campaign, New DEI Course Requirement at U. Arizona Slammed as ‘Academically Unserious’, Iowa Supreme Court Lifts Temporary Injunction on 6-Week Abortion Ban, SCOTUS Rules Anti-Camping Ordinances Applied to Homeless Are Constitutional, and Massachusetts Court Gives Haitian Illegal Alien Accused of Child Rape $500 Bond
Nebraska Energy Observer: Megyn, VDH, Turley, and more, Beautifully, and Debate Night
Outkick: Nike Is Having A Horrific Day On The Stock Market, Caitlin Clark Is An Excellent Trash Talker, According to Rival WNBA Coach, Bryson DeChambeau Offers to Host Trump, Biden Golf Match, ESPN Roasted For Kissing Up To Bronny James After Lakers’ Nepo Pick, Dodgers Bat Boy Saves Shohei Ohtani With Crazy Catch, MLB Stopped Hitters From Seeing Strike Zone On iPads To Protect Umpires, and Model Bri Teresi Teaches Biden How To Putt, ESPN Accused Of ‘Sexualizing’ Fan & Paulina Gretzky Goes Cowgirl
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, The Three Happiest Words in the English Language Today, Dems Sticking With Biden For Now, and Should Electric Vehicles Be Illegal?
Shark Tank:  Lawsuits Still A Florida Problem?
Shot In The Dark: Abolish The Electoral College? Dissolve The Republic, Squad – Scratch One, First Off The Boat, Focus, and That Spark Of Remorse
STUMP: International Lightning Safety Day 2024 – Lightning Death Toll Already At Three 
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – In Submission To Mother Earth: Praising Gaia In Medical School; Praising Gaia In Law School; Praising Gaia In The Netherlands, also, Firing Line Friday: What’s on Malcolm Muggeridge’s Mind?
This Ain’t Hell: DHS calls out potential terrorists, CNN Faces Defamation Lawsuit Over Afghan Evac, Valor Friday, Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, and Thanks!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Photo-Negative Ideology Of Wokeness, Light Blogging, In Which I’m Quoted, and Space Mining
Victory Girls: Jamaal Bowman Is A Big Loser, United Crew Deplanes Mom Over “Transgender” Slur, and The Replacements
Volokh Conspiracy: The Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling Chevron is Important—But Less so than You Might Think
Watts Up With That: Maldives Are Not Being Submerged After All – NYT , Joe Biden’s Energy Policies Are Based on Fantasies and Fairy Tales, and The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering
The Federalist: America Is In Shambles Because Of Democrat Policies, Not Just Joe Biden, ‘We Are Men And Women’: Texas Supreme Court Upholds State Protections Against Child Transing, Lawsuit Alleges Nevada’s Most Populous County Keeps Hundreds Of Commercial Addresses On Voter Rolls, Media Finally Admit Biden Poses Grave Danger To Country After Years Of Defensive Coverage, How James Clapper Rigged The 2016 And 2020 Debates Against Trump, Tractor Supply’s DEI Reversal Shows The Power Of Citizen Activism, Supreme Court Strikes Blow To Administrative State, Overturns Chevron Doctrine, and Is Christian Nonprofit Voter Outreach The Answer To Beating Democrats’ Election Machine?
Mark Steyn: Farewell to a Friend, Live Around the Planet – White Hat Welcome, A Judges’ Republic, Tournante After Tournante in the Widening Gyre, and Tumbling, Kicking, and Screaming

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MELTDOWN: Democrats Panic After Biden Has the ‘Single Worst Debate Performance in American History’

Posted on | June 28, 2024 | 8 Comments

WOW! Just . . . WOW!

My pre-debate prediction was that CNN had this “debate” pre-arranged to be a Biden victory, but if so, it certainly didn’t work as planned. Not only is CNN itself now admitting that Biden crashed like the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, but there is a universal consensus among Democrats and all their media mouthpieces that (a) Biden cannot win in November and (b) he therefore must be replaced as the party’s nominee.

That headline is from New York magazine, whose Matthew Steib said as soon as the debate was over, “There’s lot of panic in the Democratic party that did not exist a few hours ago. . . . Speculation is rampant about swapping out Biden at the top of the ticket.” Until about 10 p.m. ET Thursday, anyone talking like that was dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist,” but now everybody is saying the same thing.

Ditch Biden. That Debate
Performance Was a Disaster.

That’s the headline from the New Republic‘s Alex Shephard:

Thursday’s debate should have been a tap-in. All Biden had to do was appear mildly competent. All he had to do was let Donald Trump be Donald Trump. Then the rest would take care of itself.
It’s hard to see how the bar could have been set any lower. And yet Biden not only failed to meet it, he delivered what may very well be the single worst debate performance in American history. Again and again, with no prompting, he made his opponent’s case for him. He was often incoherent, frequently appeared to forget the question he was responding to . . . This was a disaster, from start to finish. It is impossible to see how Joe Biden can continue as the Democratic nominee for president.

That’s emphatic, and the same basic message was echoing universally across the media landscape as soon as Thursday’s debate ended.

That’s the headline from Politico:

All Joe Biden needed to do was deliver a repeat performance of his State of the Union address.
Instead, he stammered. He stumbled. And, with fewer than five months to November, he played straight into Democrats’ worst fears — that he’s fumbling away this election to Donald Trump.
The alarm bells for Democrats started ringing the second Biden started speaking in a haltingly hoarse voice. Minutes into the debate, he struggled to mount an effective defense of the economy on his watch and flubbed the description of key health initiatives he’s made central to his reelection bid, saying “we finally beat Medicare” and incorrectly stating how much his administration lowered the price of insulin. He talked himself into a corner on Afghanistan, bringing up his administration’s botched withdrawal unprompted. He repeatedly mixed up “billion” and “million,” and found himself stuck for long stretches of the 90-minute debate playing defense.
And when he wasn’t speaking, he stood frozen behind his podium, mouth agape, his eyes wide and unblinking for long stretches of time.

That was something a lot of people mentioned: Didn’t Biden realize he was on a split screen when Trump was talking? Never mind what either candidate said during the debate, the simple visual contrast between the two candidates on split-screen was disastrous for Biden.

From another Politico article Thursday night:

Democrats are so panicked over President Joe Biden’s faltering debate performance some are actively discussing what was once unspeakable: replacing him on the ticket. . . .
One major Democratic donor and Biden supporter said it was time for the president to end his campaign. This person described Biden’s night as “the worst performance in history” and said Biden was so “bad that no one will pay attention to Trump’s lies.”
“Biden needs to drop out. No question about it,” the donor said in a text message, proposing an alternate ticket led by the governors of Maryland and Michigan. . . .
One adviser to major Democratic Party donors said they were texting from a meeting of donors in Atlanta on Thursday night, some writing “wtf.”
“Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies,” the donor adviser said. “Otherwise we are f–king dead.” . . .
“No one expected a master class in debating from Joe Biden, but no one expected this nose dive,” said a senior adviser to top Democratic officials. “He was bad on message, bad on substance, bad on counter punching, bad on presentation, bad on non-verbals. There was no bright spot in this debate for him. The only bright spot is that this happened in June and not October.”

How bad was it? On MSNBC, former Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was practically in tears saying how bad it was:

“Joe Biden had one thing he had to do tonight and he didn’t do it. He had one thing he had to accomplish, and that was reassure America that he was up to the job at his age, and he failed at that tonight. . . . I’m not the only one whose heart is breaking right now. There’s a lot of people who watched this tonight and felt terribly for Joe Biden. And you know, you have to ask, how did we get here?”

Yes, how did we get here? With the surprising midnight discovery of “extra” mail-in ballots on Election Night 2020? How did we get here, with 51 intelligence operatives signing a letter swearing that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”? How did we get here, with a “cabal” of operatives bragging about how they “fortified” Biden’s alleged victory in 2020? You see, Ms. McCaskill, some of us know damned well how we got here, and we know who is responsible for this. Unlike you, however, we don’t “feel terribly for Joe Biden,” as this was the logical conclusion of his long and dishonest career in politics. His first presidential campaign collapsed because Biden was caught plagiarizing his speeches. In early 2020 — don’t you remember? — Biden was on the verge of losing the Democratic nomination to Bernie Sanders until James Carville swooped in, got James Clyburn to endorse Biden, then locked down the black vote to win the South Carolina primary. We watched it happen, and we have not forgotten how we got here, with Biden now seemingly doomed to leave office — next January, if not sooner — as the Worst President in American History. He’s earned it. Selah.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Grateful as always for visiting readers, perhaps this would be an opportune moment to remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

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In The Mailbox: 06.27.24

Posted on | June 27, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.27.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Just got home from Las Vegas, and I’m dead tired, but I had to put up the post so I could use this meme.
SOTD
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Your one-stop summary of tonight’s debate

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tucker Carlson Responds To Australian Media
Twitchy: Killer Of Two At Texas Chick-Fil-A Is Illegal Immigrant, We Are Reminded That Public Schools Aren’t Your Church, and Tractor Supply Does The Backdown After Massive DEI Backlash
Louder With Crowder: CNN tries to paint Trump as xenophobic, gets massive truth bomb dropped on them about the Biden Border Crisis
Vox Popoli: How the Hapsburgs Took Over England, Farage is Deep State 4, The History of War at Sea, Slowly, Then Suddenly, and The Return of the Princess
Upstream Reviews: The Marchioly Project, 

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CDR Salamander: INDOPACOM’s Most Likely COA Contra The PRC? I Think It’s Called “COA-Lotus”
Don Surber: Let this be the last debate
STUMP: Ohio STRS Drama Continues – No Bonuses, & Board Member Resigns

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An Hour and a Half That Cannot be Recovered

Posted on | June 27, 2024 | Comments Off on An Hour and a Half That Cannot be Recovered

by Smitty

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Prediction: Worst ‘Debate,’ Ever

Posted on | June 27, 2024 | 2 Comments

Every day, I watch CNN (so you don’t have to) and for the past several days, they’ve been hyping up tonight’s so-called “debate” between Joe Biden and Donald Trump as the Most Important Debate in World History. Like everything else on CNN, this is a lie.

There will be no actual debate tonight. That is to say, the way the rules are set up, there will be no back-and-forth between the candidates. In collusion with Team Biden, CNN decided that, to prevent interruptions, the microphones of the candidates will be shut off when it’s not their turn to speak. So when Biden predictably starts spewing arrant nonsense, Trump will not be able to say, “Wait a minute, that’s not true.” Or, if he does say that, you won’t be able to hear him say it.

Obviously, both “moderators” for the debate — CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash — are notoriously dishonest partisan Democrats and, my brother Kirby has predicted, CNN supplied Team Biden with copies of the “debate” questions in advance (cf., Donna Brazille in 2016). So if the CNN operatives appear to throw a “hardball” question at Biden, and he handles it so well that you might think, “Wow, that was pretty quick thinking,” do not be deceived. Biden has spent the past seven days practicing answering these questions — his team had them word-for-word, a week in advance — and no one should be surprised that he’s got his answers thoroughly prepared. It’s all a set-up, the result is pre-ordained. When the debate is over, everyone will proclaim Biden the winner, and they’ll have the 30-second sound-bite clips to prove it.

Trump supporters watching the debate tonight will be seething with anger the entire 90 minutes at the gross unfairness of it all, and guess what? There’s nothing you can do about it. Team Trump agreed to this debate six weeks ago, and if they expected CNN to do anything other than what they predictably will do — i.e., orchestrate the “debate” to be a free Biden campaign commercial — they were incredibly naïve.

Is it possible that I’m wrong about all this? Is it possible that this “debate” will be anything like a fair colloquy between the two candidates, so that Trump could win and Biden could somehow lose? Feel free to get back to me after the debate and tell me if I was wrong, but I expect to be completely vindicated. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash get paid to lie on behalf of Democrats, and I’m sure they’ll earn their pay tonight.



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.25.24

Posted on | June 26, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.25.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Of You Called 911 And The System Wouldn’t Answer Your Call?
EBL: Mr. Custer
Twitchy: The Mar-A-Lago Security Cameras Were Turned Off During FBI Raid “For Agents’ Safety”, Squad Favorite Bowman Gets Crushed In NY Primary, and Sixteen Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Raise Alarms Over Trump’s Re-Election
Louder With Crowder: Relive South Park’s PROPHETIC take on trans athletes competing in girls’ sports, Oakland’s woke mayor gets raided by the FBI, naturally she is blaming “right-wing forces”, NYC awards trans prisoner $350K after claims of “discrimination” being housed with other male prisoners, and NCAA champion trans athlete now vowing to break ALL the records set by real girls
Vox Popoli: The Harsh Lessons of History, The Sack of London, The Left Can’t Meme, Diversity and Finance, Judgment, Not Blessing, and Subscribe, Scan, and Stockpile
Stoic Observations: The Mathematics Of Piling On Kendi
Postcards From Barsoom: The Prophet Of The 20th Century

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: “This post is for paid subscribers”, also, My Thoughts on Viganò
American Conservative: Rand Paul Was Right About Covid, Trump’s Income Tax Repeal Promises an American Revolution, and You Have No Idea How Soviet We Really Are
American Greatness: The Logic in All the Madness, Illegal Aliens Receiving Voter Registration Forms Ahead of November Election, Resolution Declaring J6 Committee Illegitimate Awaits Action, and Pistol Packing Pedagogues
American Thinker: The 10 Commandments Are about More than the 10 Commandments, also, Do Angels Still Walk among Us in a Modern, Messed Up World?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Changing Sides News
Babalu Blog: Leaked documents reveal FAA gave Cuban communist officials tours of U.S. airports, Cuba remains on the lowest tier in State Department’s human trafficking report, and ‘This has been horrific’: Cubans in Havana describe disastrous flood, lack of government response
Baldilocks: Accounting
BattleSwarm: Mexican Cartels & Underground Chinese Bankers Team Up, Grandpa BUFF Gets An Upgrade, and All California’s 2023 Job Gains Were Fake
Behind The Black: France’s CNES space agency begins work adapting commercial launchpad at French Guiana for specific startup rocket companies, Are Chang’e-6’s lunar samples on the way back to Earth? Firefly to launch from Wallops instead of Cape Canaveral, Scientists surprised by new Webb data of the upper layers of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, Airbus forced to write off almost a billion dollars, and More garbage science about wildfires and global warming from Nature magazine
Cafe Hayek: Jerry Jordan on Trade Deficits, The Horse Being Beaten Isn’t (Alas) Dead, Economic Ignorance Fertilizes All Sorts of Nonsense, and U.S. Productivity Growth Relative to France and Germany
CDR Salamander: Soviets? Us? The Ones Who Won The Cold War?
Chicago Boyz: Takin’ Care of Business
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora Reality edition, I Don’t Know Art But I Know What I Don’t Like, Say his name: Jai’mani Amir Rivera, The Hamas Gonculator Caucus, Trump is Counting on the CNN Moderators being Themselves, and Making farming better
Don Surber: AOC draws Biden-sized crowd
First Street Journal:  Bad causes attract bad people, also, The United Nations caves to the Taliban
Gates Of Vienna: Progressive Indignation is Baloney, When Rape and Torture Are Expressions of Cultural Values, The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 19, Roland Freisler’s Coronafascist Heirs, and A Teenybopper Gang Rape
The Geller Report: L.A. Democrat Mayor Told Police to “Stand Down” in Face of Pogrom by Hamas Terror Mob, also, The Biden Regime Has Fundamentally Changed the Country for Decades
Glenn Reynolds: Crime & Punishment In The 21st Century
Hollywood In Toto: She Rises Up Praises Hard Work Not Victimhood, Shyamalan’s Imperfect Village Doesn’t Deserve Your Hate, How Youth Without Youth Led Coppola to Megalopolis, Batman at 35 – Bleak, Brooding and Worth the ’80s Hype, and SHOCK: Corporate Press Ignores Huge Disney Story
The Lid: 46% of American Electric Vehicle Owners Regret Buying an EV
Legal Insurrection: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Reaches Agreement With DOJ to Avoid Prison in U.S., Anti-Israel Rep. Jamaal Bowman Loses Democratic Primary, Democrats and the Media Have Spent Years Pushing Real ‘Cheap Fakes’, Biden’s Campaign Chair Admits Florida Is No Longer A Battleground State, Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Murdering Houston Teenager Wore ICE Ankle Monitor During the Attack, and Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Catholic Charter School Unconstitutional
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Debate Week, and I don’t think
Outkick: Jim Schlossnagle Officially Hired By Texas Longhorns, Eighteen Hours After Pledging His Love For Texas A&M, Black Woman Claims JJ Redick Called Her The N-Word In College, 20 Years Ago With No Proof, You Might Not Like Them, But Tennessee Winning A National Championship Is Great For College Baseball’s Future, The Cubs Hired The Highest Paid Manager In MLB And Got Worse, Panthers Take Stanley Cup For A Swim, Waterboard A Guy With Beer, Magic Johnson Weighs In On Caitlin Clark/Angel Reese Rivalry, But Gets Basic Facts Wrong, and Caitlin Clark/Angel Reese Rematch Draws Historic TV Ratings
Power Line: Jammin’ with Jamaal, The paranoid style in academic politics, and Another Biden Fruitcake
Shark Tank: Castor Introduces Bill To Accelerate Care For Metastatic Breast Care Patients
Shot In The Dark: Pogrom, Open Letter To A Honest Future US/MN Attorney General, Punching Laterally-To-Down, We Live In An Age Of Miracles, and A Little Soggy
The Political Hat: The Othering Of America
This Ain’t Hell: Yes, she really said it, Stolen Valor, UK Police Edition, End of Elko’s Stolen Valor and Chili Cookoff Assn., Airmen applying for conscientious objector status over US support for Israel, Remember Iraq in 1990? Fundraising Drive Again Already??!! and What is the Military doing about foreign nationals infiltrating US military installations?
Transterrestrial Musings: “Cultural Safety”, The “Ecocide” Of Easter Island, Debate Advice For Trump, and SV Preference Cascade For Trump?
Victory Girls: WH Issues Reprehensible Statement About Rachel Morin And Jocelyn Nungaray, The Culture War We Are Poised to Lose, and Focused On Needs Of Nonbinary Service Members – Pentagon
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Federal Courts Rule Against Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan on the Same Day
Watts Up With That: Exploding Batteries Spark Deadly S Korea Factory Fire, Queensland Petition Against Wind Farms in Protected Wilderness Regions, New York’s Energy Transition Guru Responds To Basic Questions, ESG and Stakeholder Capitalism: A Necessary Deconstruction, and Wash Post Editorial Board Denounces ‘De-Growth Communism’ – ‘Ending Growth Won’t Save the Planet’
The Federalist: Supreme Court Strikes A Blow Against Government’s Union Favoritism, Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange To Go Free After Striking Plea Deal With Biden DOJ, Read The False Flag Book Review Amazon Banned As ‘Hate Speech’ (Or Something), DoD Report Hides How Many Taxpayer Dollars It Sends To Chicom Labs, Trump Should Hit Biden For Completely Ignoring The Fentanyl Problem, 1,500 Illegal Immigrants From ISIS ‘Recruiting Ground’ Country Have Crossed The Border Since 2020, and 4 Policy Prescriptions For Turning Little Smartphone Zombies Into Happy, Healthy Kids
Mark Steyn: Steyn on the Sidewalk, Hot Topics: Telling the Truth in Chronicle of a Summer, Franz and Friend, Waxing and Wuthering, and Where Do You Go to, My Lovely?

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