DON’T GET COCKY: Sen. Lindsey Graham predicts midterms will be ‘1994 all over again.’
Related: Democrats’ Third Wave: Victory or Death. If they don’t act now, they may not have another chance to enact their agenda for decades to come.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Really, don’t get cocky: GENERIC BALLOT: DEMOCRATS 41% REPUBLICANS 38%. If you want to win, donate and volunteer. Winning takes work, and commenting on Internet blogs, even this one, doesn’t count.
READER BOOK SUGGESTION: Commenter Agesileos mentioned Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae. Rather than just post my own book suggestions, please drop your own suggestions in the comments for books you think readers here would like. Maybe we can start an online book club.
UPDATE: Great suggestions so far, thanks everyone!
WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTY WHO’S LOST THE NATION…: What happened to Andrew Cuomo?
“OFF THE PRESS”: Former Drudge Report Editor Launches Conservative Alternative.
Related (From Ed): Does founder Matt Drudge even work at The Drudge Report anymore?
MARK PULLIAM: An Elegy for the Boy Scouts. “With recent moves more closely resembling the actions of a Fortune 500 HR department, the BSA now has a Chief Diversity Officer, boasts a Diversity and Inclusion Statement, and in 2020 even proposed an Eagle-required merit badge requiring mastery of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to achieve scouting’s highest rank. . . . Change is inevitable, of course, but what does the impending demise of the BSA portend? Is scouting merely a cultural relic of 20th-century America, the obsolescence of which is no more consequential than the disappearance of drive-in movie theaters, Roy Rogers lunch boxes, transistor radios, or poodle skirts? Or does the BSA represent a canary on our cultural coal mine—a warning sign of a mortal threat to our collective well-being that we ignore at our peril?”
Get woke, go broke. Leftism is poison, for organizations and for societies.
DEFUND WHAT? Dallas Mayor Wants To Hire 275 More Police.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: ICE Snags 302 Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders.
GOODER AND HARDER: ‘We won’t be coming’: Washington state police reform goes into effect, law enforcement warns of consequences.
Washington state legislators passed a series of new police reform bills that went into effect on Sunday, the most noteworthy being HB 1310 where law enforcement officers can only make arrests on the grounds of “probable cause” instead of “reasonable suspicion,” giving a green light for criminals to commit crimes without being held accountable.
Signed into law by Democratic Governor Jay Inslee without a vote from the people, HB 1310 also called the “use of force bill” drastically limits the way police officers respond to calls.
“It’s going to change the level of service we give to our citizens. Not because we want to, but because we have to,” Moses Lake Police Chief Fuhr said, according to Columbia Basin Herald.
“This is changing completely the way we’ve responded to some of these calls … and there will be some calls that we just absolutely don’t respond to from here on out,” Fuhr added.
Yet another Democrat crisis-by-design.
BIDEN, INC. IS A PARTLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE CCP: Hunter Biden’s ‘Art’ Dealer Has Ties to China. Because Of Course He Does.
MAKE THEM PAY: U Alabama in Huntsville violates 1A rights, YAL lawsuit says. “The lawsuit claims that the university’s speech policy, which requires students to seek a permit to speak on campus three days in advance, is in direct violation of Alabama state law.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: It’s a Good Time to Purge the ‘Pelosi Republicans.’ “The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media have been talking a lot this year about the Big Lie. The real big lie is the nonsense about Jan. 6, 2021 being an insurrection that was caused by President Trump, neither of which is true. Republicans feeding that lie deserve to be marginalized, weakened, and eventually replaced. These guys don’t deserve a second chance. They’re too far on the dark side for a shot at redemption.”
OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS LOOKING TO CHINA AS A MODEL: Hong Kong protester convicted in 1st trial under Chinese security law. “Leon Tong Ying-kit, a former restaurant cook, volunteered as a medic during the 2019 pro-democracy protests that rocked the city. He was convicted of terrorism and secession and faces a possible sentence of life in prison.”
All around the world, the global ruling classes are trying to bring the proles under firm control.
IT’S A BAD OLYMPIC YEAR FOR AMERICA: US women’s gymnastics team claims silver in team final after Simone Biles withdraws at Tokyo Olympics.
I’m hearing people say that her problem is mental, and it’s plausible. As Arnold once said, the mind generally fails before the body. I used to be on the same schedule as a female competitive powerlifter, who was quite serious and successful — she could lift nearly as much as me, despite only weighing like 150 lbs. We usually wound up next to each other in the racks. We were both squatting, and she missed her lift, the only time I ever saw her do that. 60 seconds or so later, I started my next set — and missed my lift, the only time I’ve ever done that. It was purely psychological: Seeing her do that put it in my mind. It was then that I realized that sports psychologists probably do earn their money . . . .
UPDATE: More: “The Olympics broadcast said it was not injury related, but instead a ‘mental health issue.’ USA Gymnastics said Biles dropped out over a ‘medical issue.'” The stress of being expected to perform at a superhuman level, even as the Olympic Committee makes special rules changes to disadvantage you, must be enormous.
AGENDA FIRST, LAST, AND ALWAYS: For Democrats, the pain of inflation is no reason to stop spending.
IT WAS, OF COURSE, ANOTHER WOMAN WHO BLOCKED HER: Woman says she was refused entry to garage over ‘inappropriate’ top. “In a follow-up video Tia explained how a female member of staff had asked whether she had another shirt she could put on and when she said no she was asked to wait outside the garage until the inspection was finished.”
#METOO COVERUP COLLUSION: Biden, Mark Kelly Worked With Intel Firm Hired To Smear Harvey Weinstein Accuser: Disgraced mogul’s legal team hired K2 Intelligence to discredit rape allegations.
Flashback:
Wife of Boston Marathon Hero Claims Biden Groped Her.
Flashback: It’s time to talk about former Vice President Joe Biden, the open sexual predator.
Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents:
“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.
“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.
“Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe,” an unnamed agent told Kessler. “But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”
Plus: Washington Post: What Are We Going To Do About Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?
Also: Joe Biden’s Woman-Touching Habit.
Related: Talking Points Memo: Why Does Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Get A Pass From Liberals?
Plus:
And the lefty press would even talk about this stuff, until all of a sudden it wouldn’t.
Exit question: Which sold out faster: Toilet paper during the pandemic, or #MeToo when Biden was nominated?
IF HE WERE A REPUBLICAN, THIS WOULD LEAD THE NETWORK NEWS. ALERT: Biden’s COVID-19 Death Count Hits 200K, the Equivalent of 83 Pearl Harbors.
Is a plane full of Democratic Party superspreaders headed for your community?
FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: It’s the third installment in HillFaith’s look at Jesus’ seven great “I AM” claims.
OH, PLEASE: So the vaccinated are “running out of patience,” eh?
It seems as if every day we see another slew of headlines about the Delta variant and “resurgence” of the virus in this or that place. In reality, even some of these surges involve a number of new positive tests that are still vastly lower than during the height of the pandemic last winter. Still, there are cities that are bringing back mask mandates and complaining loudly about the slow vaccination rates. These complaints are being picked up in the liberal media, with the vast majority of the blame being cast at a predictable group: white, Republican Trump voters. If you think I’m making that up, I’ll prove it in a moment, but I wanted to briefly address a couple of these liberal talking points and the threats being tossed around today.
In my community, the loudest opposition to the Covid vaccine seems to come from yoga instructors. Plus:
Did you note the highlighted portions? Marshall is quick to point out that these are “Latino immigrants.” That means that everyone on the left has to rush to the bulwarks and make sure nobody suggests there’s anything disruptive or “bad” about their decision to wait this long to get a shot. And of course, there was nothing political about it. (Perish the thought.) And yet for the “couple dozen” people who bothered to show up in one of the most populous cities in the world (great sample size, by the way) they cited reasons including “apprehension about a vaccine without a long testing history,” and a previous satisfaction with their own antibodies since they had already survived the disease.
Pardon me, but the vast majority of unvaccinated people I’ve heard from among the “stereotypical Trumpers refusing for reasons tied to political commitment and ideology,” (that’s Josh’s description one paragraph later of the real bad guys in this story) have cited the exact same reasons. But somehow, if a white Republican Trump voter says the exact same thing, one is political warfare while the other is “justifiable apprehension.” Does anyone proofread this stuff before it’s published?
Oh, it says exactly what they want it to.
Also: “There’s also a huge assumption in these arguments being put forward by both Marshall and Stelter, along with the rest of their cohort. That assumption is that being ‘fed up’ with the choices of others somehow implies that they have the right to enact some course of action to correct the perceived errors of their political opponents’ ways.”
Yeah, I don’t care much about Democrats’ feelings. I’m out of patience with a lot of folks myself.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: PayPal Teams Up With Left-Leaning Group to Combat ‘Hate’ Funding.
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