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July 9, 2024
LET THE LEAKS COMMENCE! How Biden’s inner circle worked to keep signs of aging under wraps.
Senior White House advisers for more than a year have aggressively stage-managed President Biden’s schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history.
The White House has limited Biden’s daily itinerary and shielded him from impromptu exchanges. Advisers have restricted news conferences and media appearances, twice declining Super Bowl halftime interviews — an easy way to reach millions of voters — and sought to make sure meetings with donors stuck to scripted pleasantries.
Senior aides dismissed travel suggestions over worries the president didn’t have the stamina for them, including an idea for Biden to make weekly cross-country trips in 2022 to tout the benefits of his infrastructure law.
All of this unfolded as Biden’s slips became increasingly obvious, and his top advisers were assuring everyone the president was fine.
When the 81-year-old president took the stage at last month’s debate, his abysmal performance in the 90-minute event stunned members of his party, including some White House staffers who rarely spend one-on-one time with Biden.Now, many donors and lawmakers say they feel misled by what they say is an effort to tamp down concerns, raised well before the debate, about whether Biden is fit for a second term. Some high-ranking Democrats said they worry that few in the party have the courage to tell Biden face-to-face that he needs to step aside.
But when you begin to lose the palace guard late night hosts, the writing is on the wall: Colbert: Biden a ‘Great President’ Without a Brain. Far-left host shreds ‘ancient’ leader, shoves him toward the exit. “‘Biden debated as well as Abe Lincoln … if you dug him up right now,’ he said before shredding the White House spin on Biden’s terrible, awful debate performance as being due to a cold. He had the kind of cold “where your voice gets hoarse and your brain explodes.’ ‘I guess you could say he’s … Sleepy Joe,’ he added, referencing Trump’s nickname for Biden with a comical wince.”
THIS HAS BEEN TRUE OF FULLTIME JOBS SINCE THE “BIDEN RECOVERY” STARTED: Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it.
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Inhofe, a Republican, was the state’s longest serving senator from 1994 to 2023 and passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by his wife Kay, his children and other family members, a former senior aide tells Fox News.
Flashback: When Al Gore emerged from his energy-guzzling mansion to address the Senate in 2007 only to refuse to take his own energy reduction pledge from An Inconvenient Truth when presented to him by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ann Coulter quipped, “I kind of respect him more, it shows he is not stupid enough to believe all this global warming nonsense. He’s trying to get us to believe. Okay, fine, he may be a hypocrite but at least he’s not a moron.”
UPDATE: Former Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe Passes, and the Press Turn Into Disgusting Animals.
QED:
One of these guys was a KKK member, another left a young woman to die in a car he crashed. The third threw a snowball on the Senate floor once.
Guess which is which? pic.twitter.com/23QcyqiIvm
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) July 9, 2024
A DAY OLD BUT STILL FRESH: MAGA Monday: All the Lefty Lunacy That’s Fit to Print.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Urgent warning to change all of your logins NOW as hacker leaks 10BILLION passwords from dozens of popular websites.
‘Xmas came early this year,’ ObamaCare wrote on the forum.
‘I present to you a new rockyou2024 password list with over 9.9 billion passwords.’
The hacker added that they ‘also cracked some old ones with [their] new 4090,’ – a high-end Nvidia graphics card – containing ‘actual new real passwords from users.’
The file was released in a 45.6-gigabyte .zip archive using leaked records from sites like X (formerly Twitter), AdultFriendFinder, MyFitnessPal, LinkedIn and Adobe.
The top two impacted brands are Chinese-based companies that far surpass other online companies.
They include 1.5 billion from Tencent – a tech company that provides internet services – and 504 million from social media platform Weibo.
No better time than now to update your password for Twitter, Adobe, LinkedIn, Evite, and others.
BIDEN CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE TRACKER: Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt. “It’s Day Five of my Biden Campaign Collapse Tracker and I’m here to tell you that the Aswan Dam couldn’t hold back all the denial that various Democrats have for you today. It’s an ugly thing to see and, if you’re at all concerned about the fate of our Republic, also glorious.”
NOW HE TELLS US?
Kevin McCarthy just disclosed Jill Biden was in meetings with him while he was Speaker. This is chilling
— Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) July 8, 2024
More:
When special counsel Robert K. Hur concluded in a February report that President Biden should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents in part because a jury would view the president as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden and his aides hit back hard.
The 81-year-old president called an impromptu news conference where he angrily denied that he was forgetful. “I’m well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. … My memory is fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I’ve become president,” Biden shot back.
But at the same news conference — about 12 minutes long — after discussing the complexities of the current state of the Israel-Gaza war, Biden referred to President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, the leader of Egypt, as the president of Mexico. That followed a week in which Biden described contacts he’d had as president with former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, and former French president François Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
The president’s aides and allies then went on a blitz to showcase people who had vouched for the president’s fitness, including former Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy.
He knew — and let the White House use him as a talking point, anyway.
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Chicago Mayor Blames Richard Nixon as Over 100 People Shot at Weekend.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared to suggest President Richard Nixon was to blame for the city’s pervasive gun violence problem.
More than 100 people were injured in shootings in Chicago, at least 19 of them fatally, over the Fourth of July weekend, when there is often a spike in gun violence.
“We are standing here today talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment and deep disenfranchisement in the exact communities where so much of the violence has taken place,” Johnson, a Democrat who took office last year, said during a press conference on Monday.
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“Black death has been unfortunately been accepted in this country for a very long time. We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes. And people mocked President Johnson, and we ended up with Richard Nixon. I’m going to work hard every day to transform this city. That’s what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.”
Johnson did not elaborate further on his remarks about Nixon. His office has been contacted for comment via email.
The Richard Nixon Foundation responded to Johnson’s remarks on social media.
“Mayor Johnson’s reference to President Nixon is gratuitous and the facts are not on his side in his characterization of Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration’s civil rights record,” the foundation wrote in a thread on X, formerly Twitter, along with a list of the administration’s accomplishments.
Mayor Johnson’s reference to President Nixon is gratuitous and the facts are not on his side in his characterization of Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration’s civil rights record.
Here are the facts: 🧵 https://t.co/bWBx5v7DJd
— Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) July 9, 2024
Although as a big government Rockefeller Republican, Nixon’s record was far from perfect: Gun control: Richard Nixon wished for total handgun ban.
THEY’LL ALSO SOON FAVOR INCREASING VOTER TURNOUT BY CASTING VOTES FOR VOTERS WITHOUT EVEN ASKING THEM WHO THEY FAVOR: Colleges aim to increase enrollment by admitting students who didn’t apply: Direct admissions saves money, reduces ‘barriers,’ scholar says. “Scholar says.”
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: Planned Parenthood Is a Leader in Transing Kids.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HOME OF UNREPENTANT ANTI-SEMITISM: Columbia admin complain about ‘privilege’ of Jewish students: ‘Amazing what $$$$ can do.’
True privilege is being able to say stuff like this and keep your job.
IS IT REALLY ALL THAT LOW KEY? The low-key lunacy of Britain’s new ruling class: The new Labour government is full of people who believe the craziest things.
To be fair, our entire ruling class monoculture throughout the West — including much of the political leadership on the right — believes crazy things, or at least feels as if it has to pretend to.