IT COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE THAT HARRIS IS SHALLOW, VAPID AND A BAD MANAGER: Jen Psaki says Kamala Harris is best alternative to Biden but worries America too ‘sexist and racist’.
July 12, 2024
GERMANY IS LEADING THE RACE: Will we be the North Korea of Europe?
SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH IS THE WHOLE OF CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISM: Systematic suppression of the truth – covid vaccines are linked to cancer and death.
EVERY WORD IS: The word ‘disgusting’ is too mild for this.
NO. YOU CAN HAWK TUAH YOUR WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT YOU STILL CAN’T DO THE JOB: Would Kamala Harris Be A Better Candidate Than Joe Biden? Doubtful.
THE BBC HAS NOTICED THE DIMS HAVE A PROBLEM “CAN BIDEN BE REPLACED AS NOMINEE? NOT SO EASILY”: Can Biden be replaced as nominee? Not so easily.
OUR BRAIN ISN’T READY TO COPE WITH IT. NOT IN FOOD, NOT IN INFORMATION: Glut.
AND HE DID IT ON THE ADVICE OF HIS COMMANDER IN CHIEF: My main takeaway from this press conference.
July 11, 2024
JOE BIDEN’S ‘BIG BOY’ PRESS CONFERENCE IS A DISASTER FOR THE DEMOCRATS:
On Thursday evening, Joe Biden held what was widely dubbed his “big boy” press conference. Originally scheduled for 5:30 pm ET, it was delayed an hour, before again being pushed to 7:00 pm and then 7:15 pm.
It was a rough start, for sure. Biden sounded hoarse at times, coughed quite a bit, and sounded like he had cotton in his mouth and nostrils. But, it was a campaign speech through and through. He repeated the same old stump speech lines that we’ve heard over and over and that haven’t resonated with the public.
Of course, the speech was irrelevant. The questions and answers are what matter, and it didn’t go very well.
For starters, his “big boy” press conference was made up of pre-approved reporters.
The press conference, which closed out the NATO summit in Washington, was the latest make-or-break moment for his presidential campaign. Frankly, the entire thing was a losing proposition for Biden, as even White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby were calling it the “big boy” conference.
More: Biden Strikes Defiant Tone in Bumbling Press Conference with Political Future at Stake.
Asked whether it would harm his legacy if he were to lose to Trump in November, he challenged the premise of the question, saying “I’m not in this for my legacy.” He subsequently explained why he abandoned his “bridge” candidate pledge instead of anointing a successor.
“What changed was the gravity of the situation I inherited,” Biden said, citing the economic turbulence and geopolitical crisis of his first term. “My long time in the Senate equipped me to have the wisdom on how to deal with the Congress to get things done.”
Biden did acknowledge his need to slow down and his staffers’s desire to add events to his schedule, a tendency he said angered First Lady Jill Biden.
“I love my staff, but they add things. They add things all the time. I’m catching hell from my wife,” Biden stated.
At times, Biden gave long-winded, rambling answers on foreign policy, going into detail about working with world leaders and cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. During these stream of conscious answers, Biden repeatedly lost his trains of thought and stumbled over his words, repeating “anyway” and “the idea” as verbal crutches.
Asked about how he would fare at the end of a second term, Biden maintained that he’d be ready to deal with the leaders of hostile countries.
“I’m ready to deal with them now and three years from now,” Biden said of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin, America’s two most powerful adversaries.
As usual, Biden’s ego and reality are inhabiting two extremely different planes of existence:
Reporter to Biden: Is Your Noticeable Decline Hurting America's Standing In The World?
Story: https://t.co/dLCUCtnfRr pic.twitter.com/2oS9qhyJVd
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) July 12, 2024
One of the single most incredible things about Biden is that he really does view himself on foreign policy as a combination of Metternich, Bismark, and Cardinal Richelieu, not as a guy who screws up everything he touches
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) July 11, 2024
Of course, you’d think that too, if your staff, such as Biden’s deputy press secretary, was blowing this much smoke up your fundament:
UPDATE: Past performance is no guarantee of Trunalimunumaprzure:
Fifty seconds apart. pic.twitter.com/Hps1XkhjIQ
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 12, 2024
MORE: Biden’s “mixed” NATO presser wasn’t enough for Capitol Hill.
I’M WITH ELON: Thermonuclear Blasts and New Species: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Mars.
As Robert Heinlein (PBUH) said, Earth is too fragile a basket to hold all of humanity’s eggs.
Flashback: The urgency of space colonization.
Also: James Fallows: The Coming Age of Space Colonization. Now that Elon is a Designated Party Enemy, The Atlantic probably wouldn’t give this topic such a sympathetic treatment, but this was in 2013.
STRAIGHT, NO CHASER: A Trump NATO? The 3% Solution
If you want peace, prepare for war. The maxim is attributed to Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal — but Plato mulled the idea.
If they want peace, for the next 10 years NATO nations and their Pacific allies must spend 3% of GDP on defense. Current U.S. defense spending? About 3%.
I wrote this essay Tuesday. As for Biden’s press conference this evening, he lied about his strong support for Ukraine. Recall Biden thought Russia would blitz Ukraine and he wanted Zelenskyy to flee. Zelenskyy replied to the effect, “I need ammunition, ‘not a ride.” Will the mainstream media call him on his lie?
OPEN THREAD: Yo, baby, yo. Good to go.
LOL, JEN RUBIN:
How is she a real person?
— D.E. (@tkdylan) July 12, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese commercial rocket firm suffers 4th launch failure.
It’s okay to blow up rockets, so long as you learn from each failure.
HERE WE GO: House Oversight Subpoenas Biden’s Handlers.
RUNNING VS. WALKING: Does Walking to Work Burn The Same Calories as Running? Here’s The Science.
SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND DURING THIS EVENING’S PRESS CONFERENCE:
Plot twist: Hunter Biden took millions from the "f***ing spy chief of China" and has now become the "acting chief of staff" at the White House pic.twitter.com/1uGMJMh6f2
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 10, 2024
The country is in the very best of hands.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
If you have to deny it… (that means you are already planning for it).https://t.co/hNMRJj6bht
— Jim Meigs (@jamesbmeigs) July 11, 2024
ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Observations During The Late Republic: Lawfare Part Deux.
THE PJ MEDIA CREW IS LIVEBLOGGING BIDEN’S 6:30 PM EASTERN PRESS CONFERENCE: Biden Faces the Nation at Post-Nap Presser.
I don’t know about everyone else but Kevin Downey Jr made himself a Manhattan and I just started into a martini.
UPDATE: We’re certainly having fun over there… blogging a press conference that is now expected to begin an hour late… if then?
Link was wrong before — sorry! Fixed now.
