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Rule 5 Sunday: Cheesecake Armor & Other Delights

Posted on | July 1, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the longstanding arguments in fantasy tabletop roleplaying is the actual worth of chainmail bikinis. Are they actually useful in combat, or just there to provide eye candy? Perhaps the most famous example is the armor of Robert E. Howard’s sword-swinging heroine Red Sonja, which adorns hundreds of comic book and paperback covers. On the other hand, we have more “realistic” armor, here depicted on Barghest from Fate/Grand Order (yes, her boobs are actually that big under the armor) and some home-made scale armor from that_girl_with_the_hearse on Instagram. Here we have a young lady checking her gear before heading out for a day in the woods terrorizing the goblins and kobolds.
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All armored up with no place to go?

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Terms You Shouldn’t Use Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Will Joe Go?, MAGA Debate Night, The Battleship Potemkin – The Odessa Steps, Superfreak Down Under, Ride of the Valkyries, Elia Adams – Canadian Flasher, Beer Drinking For Clean Water, Milk Shaming, Brats, and Below Deck.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: April in June, Fish Pic Friday – Sharkfit Natalie, Maryland, My Maryland, Tattoo Thursday, Maryland, Virginia Fight Over Crabs, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Heat Wave and Sunday Sunrise 

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for June 28

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FMJRA 2.0: One Big Crunch

Posted on | June 30, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A tough week for my Senators, who lost two of three to Pete’s Brewers and then did the same against the Giants. Yeah, some of them were close losses, but an L is an L, and nobody cares about the point spread except the bookies. We’re still in fourth place at 41-49, just two games ahead of the cellar-dwelling A’s and five behind the Twins.
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This week in Senators baseball…

NY16 Primary Results: Challenger Latimer Defeats Jew-Hater Jamaal Bowman
The Daley Gator
The Pirate’s Cove
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
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MELTDOWN: Democrats Panic After Biden Has the ‘Single Worst Debate Performance in American History’
The Daley Gator
First Street Journal
Instapundit
Cold Fury
EBL
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Mass Murder in Fordyce, Arkansas
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Bullpen Blues
A View From The Beach
EBL
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AOC, ‘ADOS,’ and the Strange New Contours of ‘White Supremacy’
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Leave Room For Cream
Animal Magnetism
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Pro-Hamas Mob Targets L.A. Synagogue
The Daley Gator
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.24.24
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.25.24
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Prediction: Worst ‘Debate,’ Ever
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An Hour and a Half That Cannot be Recovered
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 06.27.24
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In The Mailbox: 06.28.24
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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.
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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

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
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.
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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

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