THIS JUST IN: FANS OF DISTAFF METRIC FOOTBALL NOT KEEN ON TRUMP. ‘I’m very embarrassed to be American’: Watch soccer fans who shouted ‘F– Trump’ on Fox after World Cup give post-chant interviews. The fans heard round the world had some pretty embarrassing things to say, themselves.
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THE INDICTMENT: U S v Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite the dry language, it isn’t an easy read.
DELTA BREAKOUT: The Navy’s Blue Angels perform their Delta Breakout maneuver over the Lincoln Memorial on July 4th.
CAMPUS KANGAROO COURT UPDATE: Judge stops UVA from expelling student for off-campus, non-student rape claim.
BIGOTS BACK DOWN: Detroit music festival removes race-based ticket prices.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: In Democrats’ war on Donald Trump, ‘stupid’ economy still stubbornly good.
As Richard Fernandez says on Facebook — and I wish I’d seen this before I wrote the column — “Trump is vulnerable to economic downturn or big foreign war. But he is not vulnerable to shaming, which his opponents have focused on so far, because the elites have clay feet and the public know it.”
Related: Small business seeing the best economy in 50 years, report finds.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Rich Clinton Foundation Donor Epstein Busted for Underage Sex Trafficking. “Reuters also wants you to know that the prosecutor who made that deal was Alex Acosta, who is President Trump’s Secretary of Labor but didn’t bother to mention Mueller was running the FBI at the time Epstein got a slap on the hand. USA Today, which is just total garbage, wants you to know there is a Trump-Epstein connection because they put it in the title that Epstein was a “associate” of Trump.”
THE MEDIA MADE JULY 4TH ALL ABOUT TRUMP, WHILE TRUMP MADE IT ALL ABOUT AMERICA: Trump outmaneuvers the media on the 4th.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats are trying their best to keep Trump in the White House. Jon Gabriel’s column in the Arizona Central.
RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Billionaire Tom Steyer to join crowded 2020 presidential race. Does this mean the West Coast money crowd doesn’t think Kamala Harris can pull it off?
CHANGE: Government Dependency Plunges Under Trump. “In a less biased news media world, the decline in government dependency would be front-page news. Instead, when they’re acknowledged at all, these enrollment drops are treated as bad news by the Left, which treats any declining benefit programs as a problem that needs to be fixed — usually by expanding these programs.”
JOHN NOLTE: Democrats Just Had Their Worst Week in 47 Years. “Not since the 1972 discovery that George McGovern’s vice presidential pick, Thomas Eagleton, had been hospitalized and given electroshock treatments have the Democrats had a worse week than the one we just concluded.”
The Fake News Media Is the Only Shrinking Institution in America’s Booming Economy
Before 2019 is over, there will be upwards of 12,000 job cuts within the American media. That’s 12,000 fewer Democrat foot soldiers; 12,000 fewer propagandists, serial liars, cheerleaders, and toadies to hold Antifa’s jacket as they beat elderly Trump supporters to death with crowbars.
Every industry in Trump’s America is expanding and thriving … except for the media.
What’s more, the Democrats primary propaganda outlet, the far-left CNN, is hemorrhaging viewers like an Ebola victim hemorrhages solid foods.
Where’s your god now, Jeff Zucker?
Democrats Lost “The Sane One” Joe Biden
Slow Joe will always be the stupid one, the gaffe machine on the verge of imploding, but he has now openly embraced gun confiscation, taxpayer-funded abortions, the banning of every gun currently being manufactured (except those stupid “smart guns”), raising everyone’s taxes, and putting an end to deportations of illegal immigrants. And now, we don’t really know where Creepy Joe stands on awarding health insurance to illegals and decriminalizing illegal immigration because he’s flip-flopping all over the place on those two.
The so-called “sane one” is an aging moron ready to take our guns, ban all the others, and force us to pay for an illegal alien’s abortion.
Much more at the link, but as always, don’t get cocky.
THOUGHTCRIME AMONG THE ELITE, COMMON SENSE AMONG THE ELECTORATE: Majority want citizenship question on census, 53%-32%.
HONESTLY, WHAT DID HE THINK HE WAS GOING TO DO? Bill Weld Raises a Pathetic $688,000 in Second Quarter.
ROD DREHER: Woke Capitalism’s Cultural Imperialism.
WELL, HAVE YOU SEEN THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD? Why Trump has reason for optimism in 2020. But don’t get cocky, kids. If you care, you’re better spending your time as a campaign volunteer than surfing the Internet.
HISTORY THAT WASN’T: Why the Air Force Almost Blasted the Moon with an H-Bomb.
Blame Sputnik, the beach-ball-sized satellite slung into space by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, which jolted U.S. officials and citizens alike into a state of high alert. As the two Cold War superpowers duked it out for postwar world dominance—framed by many as a titanic struggle between freedom and tyranny—the prospect of America’s arch enemy gaining any measure of military-industrial advantage seemed chilling indeed.
America needed to show the world it was squarely in the race. And it needed something big—like nuking the moon.
Sometime before May 1958, the U.S. Air Force asked the ARF team to investigate something truly out of the ordinary: the visibility and effects of a hypothetical nuclear explosion on the moon. The Air Force wanted to surprise the Soviets and the world: Hey, look at what we can do. We can blow the hell out of the moon.
Well, it was a “realistic plan for world peace.”
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY & CARRIE SEVERINO: How a climate of outrage persecuted 2 women who refused to take down Brett Kavanaugh.
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