NBC: ‘We’re close to the end:’ Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside.
How odd! Here’s NBC back on February 28th: White House doctor says Biden is ‘fit for duty’ after the president’s annual physical.
And NBC back on June 17th: Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.
And of course, MSNBC’s Morning Joe have spent the year prior to the debate extolling Biden’s mental and physical acuity.
OR HAVE CHOSEN FOR HIM: Biden Has Four Options. Which One Will He Choose?
GOOGLE RUINS EVERYTHING, IT’S ALREADY RUINED GOOGLE: “Extraordinarily disappointed” users reckon with the Google-fication of Fitbit.
No, really, it has:
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
BREAKING: NEFSA obtained an exclusive photo Monday night of the broken offshore wind turbine that has Nantucket beaches closed during the height of summer – Vineyard Wind claimed the turbine blade was still mostly intact. pic.twitter.com/gkAYrISwew
— NE Fishermen's Stewardship Assoc. (@fishstewardship) July 18, 2024
Plus: “The Biden admin rushed approval for wind farms off the shores of Nantucket to meet their climate goals.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA ships critical rocket stage to Florida for Artemis II mission to moon.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Wargaming the Electoral College: The Battlefield Expands As the Fat Lady Warms Up
UNTIL A SEMI TRUCK RUNS YOU DOWN: Biking to work confers great health benefits.
CHANGE! Politico Now Running “Walls Are Closing In” Headlines About a Democrat: Playbook: The walls close in around Biden.
THE BOSS HAS SPOKEN: Obama suggests Biden should consider ‘viability of his candidacy:’ report.
THE FORWARD THINKING JOE BIDEN: “We’re make sure there’s access to affordable internet, just like in in Roosevelt’s time:”
BIDEN (COOKED): "We're make sure there's access to affordable internet, just like in in Roosevelt's time, you know, back in, earlier than that, making sure there was electricity in agriculture in the rural areas." pic.twitter.com/uIvJG6UYB0
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2024
Long before Biden’s brain was “cooked,” he was putting FDR on the television in 1929, in this classic 2008 gaffe with Katie Couric:
As Reason’s Jesse Walker responded back then at the absurdity of Joe’s line, “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, ‘Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'”
But trust me, the man knows the era well — in fact, he’s still there:
"Elect me. I'm in the 20th Century." – Joe Biden
If this was your elderly parent or grandparent, you would pull them off the stage.
Not allow them to run for reelection of the most powerful country on Earth.
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) April 10, 2024
READ IT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY: J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. #CommissionEarned
HE’S FINE: Biden Forgets Name of His DefSec, Calls Him ‘the Black Man’ in Dumpster-Fire Interview.
The best part didn’t make the headline. Biden was being interviewed by BET.
IT’S VERY EFFECTIVE AT PRODUCING GRIFT AND GRAFT, THOUGH.
Nevermind the evidence that DEI training is ineffective and at times counterproductive — a governor is spending money to identify "opportunities" to put state employees through more such trainings. https://t.co/dQdmKHnjVk
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 16, 2024
Meanwhile, sensing a gap in the market, I’m announcing a new business:
(Actually, this was a gift from Mike Williamson, some of whose stories involve Ripple Creek Security. I’m not at their level, though to be honest I think I might be overqualified for the Secret Service. . . . But so are you.)
How it’s going: What an incredible cover! It tells its story brilliantly, because its photographer, the AP’s Evan Vucci, working purely on instinct, shot a perfectly composed photo in a split second, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
But.
On Monday, Democrat house organ Axios ran a column headlined, “How photographers view the photos of Trump’s assassination attempt.”
Zoom in: Multiple photographers worried privately in conversations with Axios that the images from the rally could turn into a kind of “photoganda,” with the Trump campaign using them to further their agenda despite the photographers’ intent of capturing a news event.
None would comment on the record for fear of losing future work.
A photo editor and photographer from a major news outlet said the “amount that publications have been using Evan’s photo is kind of free P.R. for Trump in a way, and its dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is.”
And inevitably, Time magazine, which began in 1923 as a center-right publication, but since the mid-’60s has been just another small cog in the establishment left blob, lost its bottle. As a result, this is currently the much more watered-down planned cover.
The bland new cover won’t sell many commemorative issues of the type people like to keep in a drawer or on a bookshelf after a major historical event (see also: 9/11, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, and JFK’s assassination), but Time feels it’s much more important to be Democratic party operatives than actually sell magazines. Not to mention, who wants to go through the hell of being pummeled by your fellow leftists on social media because you were perceived as helping the Bad Orange Man?
PIC OF THE DAY: Hamas: We are going to liberate Jerusalem. Netanyahu: How about I destroy you and hang out with the IDF in Rafah instead.
LAUGHING WOLF: Biden Has Covid.
The very cynical part of me wonders about this. Timing is almost too good, coming on the heels of his saying that if the docs told him he needed to drop out he would. And on top of Chuckie and others delivering messages about dropping out.
If I’m being darkly cynical, one might see it as Ol’ Yeller being taken back behind the barn. Yes, a doctor can and does travel with him. Yet, in DC he has access to a top-flight clinic in the White House, Walter Reed, Bethesda, etc. etc. etc. (). But, the man who had trouble getting up the low stairs on AF1 is going to Delaware.
If you are deeply, darkly, coldly cynical, one might even wonder if Jill and/or Hunter got made an offer. Perhaps one that could not be refused even.
Hunter gets a pardon. DOCTOR Jill gets… what, a Senate seat?
IT MIGHT BE ALMOST TIME TO RETIRE MY BIDEN CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE TRACKER: Will Biden Choose Medically Assisted Political Suicide?
Canada’s progressives created Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) — a euthanasia program that they promised was just for really very quite sick people who were in a lot of pain and had no hope of recovery. Since then, MAID has been expanded to include turning the lights off, forever, for people suffering from depression, poverty, and the heartache of halitosis.
I MAID up that last one (heh) but the first two have happened.
America’s progressives — ie, Democrats — introduced this week their own euthanasia program called Medically Assisted Political Suicide (MAPS). Unlike MAID, MAPS is narrowly targeted. It’s aimed at just one man, actually. One Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Much more at the link.
STAY TUNED: Axios: “Several top Democrats privately tell us the rising pressure of party congressional leaders and close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presidential race, as soon as this weekend.”
BIDENOMICS EXPLAINED IN ONE CHART:
US Consumer Sentiment has nosedived to its lowest point of the year and is at levels which in the past have been associated with recessions or bear markets. Unprecedented to see such a strong stock market (S&P 500 +20% YTD, 38 all-time highs) coincide with such a low reading. pic.twitter.com/FvC2Vwcl58
— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) July 17, 2024
Consumer sentiment is no longer an indicator Washington cares about because the well-connected are well-shielded from the consequences of their decisions.
MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES: Pro-Palestinian student group claims Trump assassination attempt ‘staged,’ distraction from Gaza war.
SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND MISINFORMATION: Carnegie Mellon University prof says Trump assassination attempt was ‘staged’ like ‘stupid Tubi movie set.’
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