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June 27, 2024
RON HART: I’m with Hur. “No matter what you think of either candidate, only one has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial, and that is Trump. And stand trial he has, facing the Dems’ lawfare offensive. Robert Hur, the DOJ Special Counsel looking into Biden’s handling of classified documents, concluded that our president is too old and incompetent to stand trial. So, what do we do in America when our DOJ tells us that someone is not clear-headed enough to withstand a trial for a crime he clearly committed? We run him for president. That would be elder abuse in most cases.”
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: “Jamaal Bowman’s loss signals uncertainty of where the first member of ‘the Squad’ to lose went wrong,” according to AP’s first draft headline yesterday:
It’s since been revised to: What Jamaal Bowman’s loss in New York means for the future of ‘the Squad.’
Perhaps a news and opinion organization that isn’t so close to the issue that they had(?) an office in Gaza in the same building as Hamas and Al-Jazeera might be able to figure this one out. Such as Batya Ungar-Sargon at Spiked, who explains: Why Americans are rejecting the Squad’s ‘anti-Zionism.’
The American left’s obsession with Palestine is a marker of its privilege. You need immense economic security to prioritise foreign policy during a cost-of-living crisis, where housing costs have skyrocketed and the price of groceries is up by double digits compared with 2020. Indeed, when Bowman won his seat four years ago, he criticised his then opponent for ‘spending too much time on issues so far from his district’. Oh the irony!
Bowman is the first Squad member to be ousted, but he won’t be the last. At the end of the day, the Squad, like the progressive left more broadly, represents only a small elite. Its views were fomented in the lab of American universities and are totally at odds with both the cultural and economic interests of the working class.
That’s the real story behind Bowman’s stinging defeat.
Much more like this, please. Or as Seth Mandel wrote at Commentary before Bowman’s defeat on Tuesday: Let Them Fear Our Voice.
(Classical reference in headline — to an earlier election year showstopper from AP, back in 2008.)
MATT TAIBBI: The Supreme Court Punts on Censorship.
The Supreme Court, predictably, sides with the corporate-gentry class. It doesn’t always do that, but . . . it’s the way to bet.
Though Jonathan Adler thinks it’s more about conservative justices’ enthusiasm for narrow standing. I, cynically, view standing as mostly a way for courts to get rid of cases they don’t want without having to take a position on the merits. Not everyone agrees with me. But I’m basically right.
Related: Ilya Somin: The Supreme Court’s Dangerous Standing Ruling in Murthy v. Missouri.
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Two souls collide in the middle of a deadly war.
Sylvie Lyons, of Her Majesties’ Royal Engineers, had joined the Army to follow in the footsteps of her granddad, despite everything the old man had warned her about. Now a Sergeant, she promised herself as she sat in her truck and sweated in the heat of an Afghanistan summer, she would pay more attention to his advice. Being in some politicians’ bright idea of an experimental unit didn’t mean a bloody thing when an IED went off or an RPG decided that it had your number.
Sergeant Hondo Cassidy, United States Marine Corps, loved his job as an artilleryman. Nothing in life is better than throwing hate at the Taliban, along with anybody else who wants to buy in for a whipping. He was, however, looking forward to heading out of the sandbox, as the Marines called anything in the Middle East, shortly. When the word came down that Cassidy’s platoon was being kept in Afghanistan to provide security for Lyons’ engineers, he was more than a bit ticked off, but orders were orders.
ARE WE DEAD YET? I WAS RELIABLY ASSURED WE’D PASS THE POINT OF NO RETURN SOMETIME LAST YEAR: Global boiling? Phew, what a con-trick.
IT’S CUTE THAT THEY THINK CNN HAS THE CREDIBILITY TO ‘FACT CHECK’ ANYTHING: Biden Aides Furious CNN Won’t Fact Check Trump During Debate.
I’LL TAKE “WHAT IS LEBANON” FOR $500: Other Nations Are Telling Their Citizens to Flee This Country, but It’s Crickets From the Biden Admin.
”IRREGULAR TROOP MOVEMENTS” IN BOLIVIA? Well, That’s One Way to Describe a Military Coup.
IT WILL WORK LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THAT TOTALITARIAN HELLHOLE. VERY WELL ON PAPER, NOT SO WELL IN REALITY: China food security law comes into force, aims for absolute self-sufficiency.
IT’S INTENTIONAL: DHS Identifies 400 Illegals With ISIS Ties, Can’t Find 50 Of Them.
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST TIMELINE: NYC Pays $350,000 to Male Identifying as Muslim Female for Putting Him in Male Prison.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: Confidence in Colleges and Universities Drops Following Campus Anti-Israel Encampments.
THE DINGY LADY IS DIRTY: NY Times Under Fire for Blaming Jamaal Bowman’s Primary Defeat on ‘Flood of Pro-Israel Money’.
IT’S NOT AS ADVERTISED: Doom Doom Doom!
June 26, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s state-owned SAST performs reusable rocket test.
MARK JUDGE: CNN Tried to Slime Me. They Made Me Sound Awesome.
For the entire summer of 2018 opposition researchers were digging through everything I’ve ever done—and not done—and sending it to the media. This included books I wrote, girls I dated, and videos I’d made. What interested CNN, aside from the bullshit of Blasey Ford and Avenatti, were my movies. They reflected my interest in Hollywood, Catholicism, literature and women. I’d started getting paid for making films when Georgetown University purchased a video I made on the Fourth of July around 2010. Shortly after that I was at the “D.C Pool Party,” which was gathering spot for young people in Washington who went to dance, meet, drink, and have a good time. It was a multicultural rave a mile from Capitol Hill that has nothing to do with lawyers or politics, or the election. It was the kind of thing you’d come across in Brazil.
I was there for about an hour and getting ready to leave when Eric, one of the party organizers saw my camera bag. “Are you a photographer?” he said. I said yes. “Listen, our photographer didn’t make it today,” he said. “Can you take some pictures for the next three hours? You know, people having fun, pretty girls.” He then named a good price. Eric was happy with the result. This led to more shoots, including one of a girl who went on American Idol—and made it into the Top 10. Suddenly I was negotiating licensing fees and signing waivers for my work.
Then the Kavanaugh war erupted. CNN was looking for dirt, and thought they found it with my films.
Read the whole thing.
GREAT MOMENTS IN BANANA REPUBLICS: Bolivian Military Withdraw from Square Outside Presidential Palace After President Slams Coup.
Bolivian armed forces with armored vehicles pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday evening, after President Luis Arce slammed a “coup” attempt against the government and called for international support.
Earlier in the day, military units led by General Juan Jose Zuniga, recently stripped of his military command, had gathered in the central Plaza Murillo square, home to the presidential palace and Congress. A Reuters witness saw an armored vehicle ram a door of the presidential palace and soldiers rush in.
Bolivian authorities arrested General Juan Jose Zuniga on Wednesday afternoon, a Reuters witness saw, hours after troops stormed into the presidential palace amid a military coup attempt.
Bolivia’s government and international leaders denounced the attempted coup. It is unclear where Zuniga is being taken.
Also unclear:
So Fielding Mellish will *not* be the new ruler? https://t.co/j47k0zFvpQ
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) June 26, 2024
THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES, OR GAIA WORSHIPERS IN AN ELECTION YEAR: You’ll Never Believe Who Biden Is Using Now to Buy Votes in November.
There’s tension inside the Biden Cabal between White House officials who want to soft-pedal oil sanctions on nasty foreign producers like Putinist Russia and Islamist Iran and Treasury Department staffers who have a soul.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Biden “wants to keep gas prices stable ahead of the election by encouraging oil to flow into global markets,” and if that means imposing “softer-than-expected sanctions on major oil producers” like two to nasties mentioned above, then so be it.
Oh, and also Venezuela. What’s the big deal in appeasing a socialist basket case like Nicolás Maduro when you’re already servicing Vladimir Putin and whoever is in charge of Iran since President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month.
(Two cheers for gravity!)
An unnamed senior administration official told the WSJ, “The president has wanted to do everything that he could to make sure that American consumers have the lowest price possible at the pump, as it affects families’ daily lives.”
Every dollar of oil revenue that goes into Caracas, Moscow, and Tehran’s coffers is another dollar that can be spent propping up the socialist Maduro regime, prolonging the Russo-Ukraine War, or providing the missiles, guns, and ammo that Hamas uses to murder Jews.
ASIDE: I don’t mind paying a little extra for each gallon when it supports producers in this country, or producers in countries that aren’t endstage socialist hellholes, warmongering neoimperialists, or Islamic terror states. I do mind paying a little extra when it’s American producers getting shut down by overregulation.
I was kidding with the headline — of course, you believe that Biden would suck up to Moscow and Tehran to keep gas prices lower to save his overinflated ego from the historical ignominy of becoming the next Jimmy Carter.
Will any DNC operatives with bylines have the guts to ask Pete Buttigieg what he thinks about the (p)resident’s change of heart? Flashback: Pete Buttigieg blasted for touting ‘benefit’ for electric vehicle owners from ‘pain’ of high gas prices.