[Townhall - Kurt Schlichter] I had resolved not to watch last Thursday night’s debate because I didn’t think it would change anything, and I was right to the extent that it didn’t change anything for me. I already knew President Crusty was a sundowning desiccated old weirdo. But it changed things for people who were on the fence or not paying attention. That’s not going to matter, though. Joe Biden is not going anywhere.
The fact is that Joe Biden is the nominee, and he will remain the nominee. By the next morning, the rallying and rationalization were in full effect. Obama tweeted about how it’s all going to be OK. So did many others after the deathwatch that was the immediate post-debate analysis on the communist channels. And they believe their revised spin.
You have a narcissist’s wounded ego at play, and he will never back down. For years, Barack Obama has run down Joe Biden privately and humiliated him in public, including by guiding him off-stage at that Hollywood fundraiser like the President was a short bus-riding toddler. Joe Biden hates the idea that people think he is being controlled by Barack Obama from behind the curtain.
It’s ego, combined with stupidity and senility, and that is quite a combination. Add to that the fact that Very Real Doctor Jill Biden and a whole bunch of straphangers depend on Joe Biden being President for their position, power, and prestige. They don’t want to go anywhere either. They have no choice but to play this out. It’s not like they can go get real jobs.
They are telling themselves — and us — that it really wasn’t that bad. But it was that bad because this was the one time that normal people paid attention. CNN Trump-Biden Debate Brings in 51 Million TV Viewers Across Networks, 30 Million More Online
The Democrats decided to democratize their primary nominating system and, well, it worked. They’re stuck with Dementia Boy. Heck, they must officially nominate him by August 7th or no Democrat gets on the Ohio ballot. It’s just too late to do anything else, even if Joe Biden was inclined to quit for the good of the party and the country. But he is not inclined as Joe Biden has never done anything for anyone who wasn’t named "Biden." He will never sacrifice his ego for an abstract notion of party loyalty or patriotism. Nope, the Democrats are stuck. And it is hilarious.
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They can't change it. They've already made up the bogus ballots and everything. Paid for them.
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From what I understand, if Biden doesn't step down they can't force him. So Obama will attempt to get the donors to cut him off to convince Biden. Realistically I don't think any of the Dems other options are any better.
[Jonathan Turley] Still waiting for release of all political prisoners...
Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court decision on Friday in Fischer v. U.S. to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings. For many cases, that will leave relatively minor offenses like trespass or unlawful entry. It is only the latest blow to efforts to portray the riot as a massive conspiracy to overthrow the government. While portrayed by pundits and press in strictly ideological terms, it actually produced an interesting line up with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voting with the majority and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voting in dissent.
Here is the column:
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday in Fischer v. U.S. struck down one of the most common charges against January 6 defendants. “Obstruction of an official proceeding” had been used in hundreds of cases, and those convictions are now invalid.
But the biggest impact of the decision may occur elsewhere.
For years, calling January 6 an “insurrection” has been a litmus test for press, pundits and politicians. Members of Congress such as Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) claimed a conspiracy of “armed and organized insurrectionists.” The claim is legally absurd but politically advantageous.
It now seems like the insurrection increasingly looks more like a legal case of mass trespass and unlawful entry.
I have always believed that criminal charges were warranted for the riot of Jan. 6, 2021. But this week’s decision shows how the Justice Department has wrongly prosecuted hundreds of people for the obstruction crime. It was all part of what Justice Department official Michael Sherwin proudly declared in a television interview, that “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.’ …We wanted to take out those individuals that essentially were thumbing their noses at the public for what they did.”
The Fischer opinion will bring an end to a minority of cases that were based entirely on the charge under 1512(c)(2). The section had been enacted after the Enron scandal in 2001 with the collapse of an energy company accused of corporate fraud. It was designed to allow criminal charges for the destruction of evidence in the form of documents and records.
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Stop and Imagine the Political Prison Stories we'd be reading just before Election time.
Now ask, who is gonna force the Regime to follow the SCOTUS decision?
What if the Regime decides to drag its heels, in releasing them, and continues to hold them? All to avoid the negative press of their treatment by the Regime?
Don't rule out a LAWFARE scenario & recharging them without bail?
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I don’t buy this. Obama is Biden’s handler. Someone(s) runObama. No one on this site or in the ether thought Biden has been running this country for some time, ergo Biden stays at Obamas behest. If he wanted Biden gone he would be gone without all this fanfare and they knew his condition. No one “miscaculated” his abilities. Something else is afoot.
[eugyppius: a plague chronicle] For years, the establishment press have told us there is nothing at all wrong with Joe Biden, that he’s extremely sharp, even a wise statesmen, and that rumours of his senility are a malicious right-wing conspiracy theory.
On 2 February 2024, for example, Welt assured us that "No, Joe Biden is not senile":
Recently, Joe Biden gave a speech that even sceptics had to admit was pretty brilliant. He recalled that his predecessor in office, Donald Trump, called fallen US soldiers "suckers" and "losers" and refused to visit an American military cemetery in France: "How dare he," said Biden quietly ... "If I see one loser here, it's Donald Trump."
A memorable moment. But it was not Joe Biden's first outstanding speech: Who could forget how he reacted in Tel Aviv to the pogrom of 7 October 2023? "I come to Israel today with a single message," he said at the time. "You are not alone. You are not alone." Also unforgettable is the appeal Joe Biden made to Congress in February 2022 after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, murdering and raping people.
It must also be reported that Joe Biden is sporty: He has repeatedly been spotted cycling along the Potomac; he sometimes enters podiums with an athletic leap ... Yes, he is a sprightly old gentleman. Sometimes he’s slow; sometimes he shuffles a little as he walks. Now and again he is doddery. So what? He’s still in surprisingly good condition for an 81-year-old.
So why does the myth persist that Joe Biden is senile? In fact there is only one piece of evidence in favour of this this assumption: he mumbles. If you do some research on YouTube, however, you’ll realise that he has always mumbled. It’s not a state secret where the mumbling comes from - Joe Biden is a stutterer, and like most stutterers of his generation, he has learned to hide his speech impediment behind a hasty rush of words. That’s it. That’s all there is to the rumour about Biden’s senility.
It’s not difficult to find out who started the false report that Biden is senile and won't be around much longer: It’s radical right-wing propaganda ...
[B]ut why does German journalism cling so faithfully to the narrative of Joe Biden’s frailty? Is it anti-Americanism? Stupidity? Is the realisation that a competent and fairly wise old man sits in the White House unbearable? Or do the Germans not forgive the Americans for the fact that they are about to bring about an energy transition that - unlike the German stillbirth - threatens to be a huge success?
On 30 April 2024, Der Spiegel brought in an "expert" to explain that "If Joe Biden were senile, rivals would be lining up to challenge him":
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Did anyone see the flicks just in front of the ear. The better half thought he was scratching, looked like someone from another generation trying to get a silent electronic device working, because he doesn't understand it goes silent when non one talks, you can't flick it back to life. Implants with bluetooth..you be the judge.
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[AmericanThinker] In this context, it’s instructive to consider an article in Axios that appeared some hours before last Thursday’s debate, purporting to explain why Michelle Obama was not campaigning for President Biden: her distaste for politics and her dislike of the way the Biden Family had treated her friend Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife. Both of these reasons were less than sturdy. After all, the “unwilling” political participant Michelle Obama coined what the media deemed the most memorable line of recent election cycles — “when they go low, we go high” — and the idea that a woman who famously values family cohesion would take offense at a family’s rallying around its son after a divorce seems like an anomaly. But, viewed politically, this information and the date of its release make sense. If Michelle Obama is seen by her husband or the party as a plausible replacement for President Biden, then there’s real incentive to make her lack of participation in the Biden re-election effort seem like something other than a potential candidate avoiding sullying-by-association.
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Viewed from this angle, the response of well placed Democrats to the Thursday debate disaster supports the view that the Biden implosion was part of a planned obsolescence. There was something ritualized about the self-described Democrat “freakout” after the debate: these spontaneous eruptions all used the same language. Biden, it was said, had one job — to “reassure” his “neurotic” party — and he failed. These Democrats were “heartbroken,” and their “voice[s] cracked” as they critiqued the President. Biden was “doing his best,” but his best was not good enough.
Meantime, members of the party’s right flank made their voices heard in distinctive ways. The financier William Ackman talked about the country “rally[ing] around” President Trump while also floating JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon as a replacement Democrat candidate. The message here seemed clear: certain big money players would reconsider their drift toward Trump were a suitably pro-corporate (and anti-antitrust) candidate selected in Biden’s stead.
It’s hard to believe, in an era where the presidency has become much more public, that similar interactions didn’t occur with President Biden and get widely reported this winter and spring. It’s also hard to believe that President Obama, living nearby, was not aware of these reports. In context of a failing President Biden being unwilling to step aside, a play may have gotten formulated: to allow for a planned disaster followed by a gentle replacement urged by President Obama, the one figure in the Party with near-universal authority.
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From an earlier note: BTW Obama's home and office in DC where he has been running the country from: 2446 Belmont Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008
Conveniently located within walking distance of both Embassy Row and the Islamic Center of DC.
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[REGNUM] On June 30, one of the main international sensations was the article by The Wall Street Journal, “Behind Davos, Accusations of a Toxic Workplace,” which talks about numerous accusations of sexual harassment, discrimination against women, blacks and older people against the leaders of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. The material is based on letters of complaints from 80 former and current employees of the WEF, starting from the 80s, and the accusations are also addressed to the permanent head, creator and ideological inspirer of the forum, Klaus Schwab.
According to the publication, senior managers harassed female employees, and this even happened to VIP guests of the forum. In addition, pregnant employees faced discrimination, were fired or forced to quit their jobs.
Black employees were subjected to racial slurs, the WSJ puts it this way: “The N-word was used repeatedly.
80-year-old Klaus Schwab, the newspaper writes, personally ordered the dismissal of some employees over 50 years of age in order to reduce the average age of workers and improve performance indicators, deciding to “carry out a youth transformation of the organization.”
The employee accuses him personally of harassment (sexual harassment) - “he offered the young employee informal communication.”
Jorum representatives declined to arrange an interview with Schwab, and a press service said the article "inaccurately describes the organization, culture and colleagues, including the founder."
"ARCHITECT OF TRANSHUMANIST REALITY"
Klaus Schwab is a legendary figure, and therefore any news about him invariably becomes a sensation. He has received all sorts of titles in both the Russian and foreign press: "head of the world government", "architect of transhumanist reality", "antichrist", "global economic conspirator", "conductor of Russian perestroika reforms".
They have been writing and talking about young girls (and boys) at the grand parties of the “world government” in the Schwab Palace for a long time, but this has never led to any consequences.
Many major American media also regularly reported that Schwab's World Economic Forum had long ago transformed from a platform for discussing current topics into a source of unlimited income.
Thus, according to Reuters and other sources, the WEF invested, according to some sources, $5 million in the startup Advanced Video Communications, which was then sold to the public technology company USWeb Corp, allegedly for $16 million.
Initially, in 1971, Schwab positioned the forum as a meeting of leading European businessmen and politicians to discuss the prospects for the development of European business in the global market.
But a few years later, a political agenda, environmental issues and gender inequality, global military threats and the education of “young world leaders” were added to purely economic issues.
The most important guest of the forum has long been considered former US Secretary of State, international relations expert and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Henry Kissinger, who is called Schwab's teacher. In 2023, his speech at the forum became the center of the program, and he spoke on all topics at the same time: anti-Russian sanctions, the slowdown of the Chinese economy, the energy crisis in Europe, demography, climate.
The theme of the 2024 forum was the adaptation of developed and developing countries to the “new unstable normal.” In particular, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, spoke about rising inflation, and the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, spoke about a global restructuring of logistics due to ongoing military operations in different parts of the world.
There were also scandals: Danish producer Damon Imani published a video in which he allegedly swore at Schwab while speaking at the WEF, cursing the “new world order” and globalists. The video turned out to be fake, but it was very actively discussed by all the world's media, some with the headlines “this guy said what all normal people would like to say.”
In turn, a statement that was not fake — and no less shocking — was made by Schwab's adviser, World Economic Forum expert Yuval Harari. He spoke about the imminent likely emergence of a new religion and the influence of artificial intelligence on modern life:
“Artificial intelligence can compose stories, create mythologies, entire religions. And I think in a couple of years there will be religions whose scriptures will be written by artificial intelligence. And what would a religion be like whose scriptures were created by an inanimate entity?
POSITION ON UKRAINE
As the architect of the “brave new world,” Schwab comments on any topical topic, and his words excite minds. In early June of this year, Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus called Schwab on behalf of the French economist Jacques Attali.
In a conversation with a “colleague,” Schwab said that he considered the most likely end to the Ukrainian conflict to be the “Korean option”—a freeze of military operations along the existing demarcation line, and spoke about his acquaintance with Russian President Vladimir Putin :
“But I have to say, off the record, that on my last trip before the coronavirus hit, I went to St. Petersburg, and I have known Putin since 1993, when I met him for the first time in St. Petersburg, where he was vice mayor. I talked with him for 75 minutes.
He to some extent already spoke about the history of Russia, as he did in an interview with Tucker Carlson. He told me that Russia is not Europe. “You’re wrong, Klaus, Russia has its own identity, its own soul, its own history and so on.”
Schwab also accused Ukraine of undermining Nord Stream and said that overall "everything must end in compromise."
UNIVERSAL ACCUSATION
Why is it that right now one of the leading Western publications is publishing a deafeningly incriminating article about Schwab and his forum?
Starting with the case of American film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexual harassment by such world stars as Angelina Jolie and Cara Delevingne, “harassment” has seemingly become a “universal” accusation in the West.
Most often, accusations of harassment are made against famous actors, musicians, directors, and showmen. Thus, recently, the talk has been about the actor and TV presenter Russell Brand, the illusionist David Copperfield, and the stand-up comedian Louis C.K. A slightly different (it was about his underage stepdaughter), but no less high-profile story concerned the American director Woody Allen.
Sometimes the targets of such scandals are people outside the world of art, and in this case the accusations are often politically motivated, and that a public figure has deviated from the general information mainstream.
Two weeks ago, for example, Bloomberg reported that several SpaceX employees (women and men) filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk, accusing him of sexual harassment.
In addition to direct harassment, the billionaire was accused of offensive statements, publishing other people's nude photos with humiliating comments, and discrimination against vulnerable social groups.
The investigation of this case with comments from the plaintiffs and anonymous testimonies was published by the same newspaper The Wall Street Journal. The topic predictably became an information bomb, especially due to Musk's regular statements about the conflict in Ukraine: he is skeptical about Western support for Volodymyr Zelensky and criticizes many anti-Russian decisions of the US and EU authorities.
Perhaps the suddenly emerging facts about Schwab, helpfully provided by The Wall Street Journal, which often sets the agenda, do not indicate harassment as such, but that there are those interested in denigrating the “eminence grise of the new world order.” Moreover, gothic scary gossip about entertainment in his castle circulated for many years, but no one was interested.
[F24] The head of the Israel Defence Forces said the army is facing troop shortages amid rising casualties in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Yet enlisting more troops is difficult due to rising public opposition to the war and an open conflict between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his defence minister.
'Mammoths are an excellent system for understanding the ongoing biodiversity crisis and what happens from a genetic point of view when a species goes through a population bottleneck because they mirror the fate of a lot of present-day populations,' Dehasque said. Like Humans.
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The takeaway: It's not clear, and it will likely never truly be known with exact specificity, but Dalén believes something like a bird flu could have doomed the species.
Via Open Source you will discover that there is a nano-diamond infused ash layer across the globe, called the Black Mat Layer, found in N.America, Europe, and S.America that sits right above the Clovis Layer - this layer is when the mega fauna was wiped out - lots of bones found in this layer. And they recently discovered a meteor impact crater up in Greenland (2018ish) that corresponds / matches the dates for this burn event.
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They don't know what they don't know, how can they know what they do know? Check out Boneyard AK. He has mega-fauna specimens that "aren't supposed to be there". But they are, in abundance. This would mean their population estimates and locations for modeling, of predator and prey, are incorrect. Feeding bad data into a modeling algorithm yields a pleasent result; a new problem, requiring a new theory and a new groundbreaking paper.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
