HERE’S THE SLIGHTLY LONGER — BUT MUCH MORE REVEALING — VERSION OF THE CLIP I RAN EARLIER TODAY:
Reporter: Will you drop out of the race?
Joe Biden: *runs away* pic.twitter.com/jrhGCAQFsg
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 2, 2024
He’s running… for cover.
DON’T GET COCKY BUT THIS LOOKS VERY, VERY BAD FOR THEM: Nate Silver Has Some Bad News for Biden and the Democrats.
READER FAVORITE: Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser. #CommissionEarned
MON DIEU: Is France Heading for a Civil War?
If the National Rally passes the 289 seats limit, Mr. Macron is supposed to call upon Mr. Bardella to form the cabinet. This would be seen as a casus belli by the militant far left. Alternatively, Mr. Macron may cite law and order concerns to bar Mr. Bardella from the premiership and form an “apolitical” or “technical” cabinet. A move that the right may construe as a coup d’Etat.
The far left’s “civil war” threats should not be ignored and are not. Shops and restaurants are already barricading. Mayors — including the most liberal ones — are begging for police and gendarmerie deployment.
They fear “punitive raids” by the well-trained urban guerilla fighters known as the black bloc — a kind of left-wing “Invisible Empire” that periodically pops up in France and in other European countries — and large scale youth riots and arsons, just like one year ago.
Even more ominous is the ethnic/religious dimension of the crisis. The French take much pride in laïcité, their traditional “wall of separation” between government and organized religion. Only religion — both as faith, culture, and community identity — is back on the map with a vengeance.
It is, first and foremost, a consequence of Islam’s spectacular rise over the past 50 years: a 1,100 percent growth, to about 12 million in 2024 from 1 million in the early 1970s, thanks to high communal birth rates, mass immigration, and conversions.
No matter how it plays out, this dangerous moment is the result of decades of French elites actively working against French interests.
WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: Leftists Call for Trump’s Assassination Online.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New Jersey SJP group urges students to apply to West Bank university with Hamas ties.
THIS HAS BEEN THE NORM FROM BIDEN FOR MORE THAN THREE YEARS:
Good morning to everyone except people who pretended this all hasn’t been obvious for years. pic.twitter.com/H4YasGUFrg
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 2, 2024
Although watching the press try to cover its tracks has been a delight.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There’s Poetry in Clarence Thomas Being a Thorn in Joe Biden’s Lawfare. “The kindly uniter story that the MSM hacks told about Biden in 2020 had absolutely no basis in reality, and no one knew that better than Clarence Thomas.”
WELL, GOOD: Court blocks Biden admin’s ban on new LNG exports. “A federal judge issued a ruling Monday that blocks the Biden administration’s ban on new exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) following a challenge by a group of more than a dozen states.”
HAVING FAILED MISERABLY AT INFECTIOUS DISEASE: The Surgeon General Aims at Guns. “If we cannot trust the authorities to protect us, and they have repeatedly shown themselves to be malevolent and self-interested, then we should at least have arms to protect ourselves.”
NOT FAST ENOUGH OR HARD ENOUGH: The Establishment is Getting Crushed. “What seems to be going on is a universal dissatisfaction with how the ruling elite have been running things, and with good reason. Whether it is conservatives, liberals, or ‘moderates,’ the ruling elite has been committed to policies that have eroded the power of individuals and vastly increased the power of the state. Moreover, Western governments have made abundantly clear that their commitment has been to a form of transnationalism that has grown increasingly unpopular. As borders have opened up throughout the West, citizens have grown restless as crime has skyrocketed, economic growth has slowed, and national cultures have been diluted.”
PARENTING BEGINS AT HOME: Teachers don’t have time to be therapists, cops, nurses and social workers.
CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW: Biden Admin Flying Migrants Deported by Trump Back Into the US.
OUT TODAY: From Randy Barnett A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist.
DON’T GET COCKY: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer warns Michigan isn’t winnable for Biden after debate.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer doesn’t think Michigan is winnable for President Joe Biden.
In a call with Biden’s campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the Michigan Democrat said the highly important swing state may no longer be in play after the President’s disastrous debate performance.
Following a chaotic debate where Biden stumbled over his words, lost his train of thought and was oftentimes hard to understand, Democrats are scrambling and some are calling for him to drop out.
Whitmer’s name is being floated as a potential replacement on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
But Whitmer, according to Politico, said on her call with Dillon that she didn’t like her name coming up as a fill-in should Biden be ousted from November’s ballot.
Whitmer — you’ll be shocked to learn — is lying. Maybe not about Michigan being in play, although she’s certainly going to pump Trump’s chances there so long as she hasn’t replaced Biden.
And her people have been working Washington since last year — just in case, wink-wink — that might become necessary.
BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT VULTURES: They actually perform a public health service that is hugely important to man and animals. Yes, the (man-made?) Coronavirus Pandemic was bad but we can thank these ugly creatures for there not being more and worse.
SORRY, KAMALA, YOU CAN’T LIE AT ELON’S PLACE LIKE YOU CAN ON MORNING JOE:
When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore? pic.twitter.com/wP7H4AJFwG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2024
Related: Trump Stakes Out Middle Ground in Abortion Wars. It’s Kamala and Joe who are the extremists here.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Embrace the Deep State, Comrades! “Just in time for the end of a mostly low-key Pride Month, various lefties came out of the closet to publicly announce their unabashed love of the Deep State after their four-year dalliance with Muh Democracy™.”
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