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WAS IT OVER WHEN KIM JONG UN BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?!

ROGER KIMBALL: We should be grateful that Biden is going nowhere… for now.

In the meantime, I will be interested to see how Biden’s address plays in the media. The thing that struck me were the number of lies it contained. Consider just this one passage, which occurred near the end of Biden’s address. We are, Biden said, “stronger, more prosperous and more secure” today than before, but that is not true. Nor is it true that “today we have the strongest economy in the world.” Wages are not up, as Biden claimed, nor is inflation tamed. Biden claimed that “violent crime” is at “a fifteen-year low,” but in fact it is soaring. Biden even said that he was “securing our border” and that “border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office.”

These are but a few of the gross misstatements — indeed, gross and obvious lies, with which the president regaled the American people in his address, probably his last such address as president.

The bottom line of this curious — probably unprecedented — performance is that Biden will cling to power as long as possible. He will not — not now, anyway — endow Kamala Harris with the perquisites of incumbency. For that, I suppose, we should be modestly grateful.

Certainly the photographs shot tonight of the Bidens during and after Joe’s speech have a funereal pall about them. How much longer can the regime keep John Gill’s desiccated husk in the Oval Office?

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE BORDER CZAR:

More airbrushing here: GovTrack Tells Axios to Hold Its Beer, ERASES Kamala’s Record As ‘Most Left-Leaning Senator.’

UPDATE: Gaslighting the Public on Kamala Harris as ‘Border Czar.’ “We can be sure of this much: If the border was not a mess, if this was not a winning GOP issue, Kamala Harris would be running on it right now. And her media sock-puppet friends—who seem to believe in nothing except making sure she wins—would be celebrating ‘The Greatest Border Czar Who Ever Was.’”

POUNCE!

As Jim Treacher has said:

Today’s shameful protests are yet another reminder that it’s Charlottesvilles all the way down in Joe and Kamala’s America:

UPDATE: Republicans pounced all right:

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SaxaVord prepares for first orbital launch. “A spaceport in the Shetland Islands expects to soon be ready to host the first vertical orbital launch from U.K. soil. In a presentation at the Farnborough International Airshow here July 23, Scott Hammond, deputy chief executive and operations director of SaxaVord Spaceport, said he expected the spaceport to receive the last of the licenses from U.K. regulators in September needed to host the inaugural launch of Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA ONE rocket there.”

NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR KAMALA HARRIS: “Selected, not elected.” She got no votes for the Democratic nomination. The Democrats will be putting forward someone no Democrats voted for in the primary, all while talking about “our democracy.”

WELL, BIDEN ISN’T RESIGNING, BUT HE’S GIVING WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH — FOR HIS NEXT 6 MONTHS IN OFFICE. It would help if he could speak like a normal person. His voice sounds weird and his enunciation is off. And his condemnation of extremism and violence would play better if angry mobs of terrorist sympathizers hadn’t invaded the Capitol and burned American flags while desecrating monuments around Washington.

It would be nice if we had a president who would protect our monuments.

UPDATE: Jesse Watters’ sum-up: “Damage control for a failed presidency.”

NEXT THEY’LL TELL US THAT OIL CAN BE PRODUCED ABIOTICALLY: Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovered at Bottom of Ocean Stuns Scientists. “Chugging quietly away in the dark depths of Earth’s ocean floors, a spontaneous chemical reaction is unobtrusively creating oxygen, all without the involvement of life. This unexpected discovery upends the long-standing consensus that it takes photosynthesizing organisms to produce the oxygen we need to breathe.”

WILL JOE BIDEN RESIGN TONIGHT? “Do I want him to resign? Do you? I don’t know how bad he is right now, and I don’t know if Kamala Harris is ready to jump into the job at the same time she’s got to hit the ground running as the candidate in a big time crunch. I don’t know which way puts our country and the world in the most danger. And maybe you’re also concerned with whether one party or the other has a better chance of winning in November if Kamala Harris ascends to the presidency right away.”

My first thought abut tonight’s address is that he was going to resign, so Kamala could run as an incumbent. My second thought was that he wouldn’t resign, because then Kamala couldn’t run on being the first black woman president.

GOOD START FOR KAMALA’S CAMPAIGN:

Insurrection!