A GOOD TACTIC IS ONE YOUR PEOPLE ENJOY: The Right Finally Figured Out A Winning Narrative Against Biden.

For the first time in recent memory, conservatives have triumphed over the left’s control of mainstream thought. It’s a testament to their collective strength that hardly a person in America would deny the influence of pharmaceuticals on Biden’s behavior. While progressives may dominate the media and social media, conservatives have consistently proven their ability to reshape the narrative.

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This narrative has gained traction because it’s not a far stretch of the imagination to believe that Biden’s doctors have a drug cocktail they administer before he’s set to go out in public. His speeches often start with a high energy level, with him practically yelling at the crowd. As the speech progresses, he gradually lowers his voice, culminating in his signature smile and whisper routine before exiting the stage in the wrong direction.

Before the debate on June 27th, Biden’s handlers may want to dial things back a bit from whatever was in the adrenochrome cocktail they gave him before his State of the Union speech.

Or as Jim Geraghty wrote afterwards in March, “President Steroids Shouts His Way through the State of the Union:”  “Taken as a whole, Biden’s speech started to sound like Howard Beale’s monologue from Network. But keep in mind, the number of Americans who watched the whole speech, beginning to end, is considerably smaller than the number who will see brief excerpts on the television news, or YouTube, or other social media. By shouting through almost the entire speech, Biden maximized the odds that any clip or segment that went viral would have him looking fired up and impassioned rather than like the sleepy, whispery, mumbling octogenarian that Americans have soured on so thoroughly.”

Biden's drug cocktail team prepping for the State of the Union pic.twitter.com/x3Mpth29Bm

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 6, 2024

(Classical reference in headline.)

KEEP YOUR CAR COOL: EcoNour Car Windshield Sun Shade. #CommissionEarned

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Debate Details Emerging that Take Into Account Biden’s Age and Infirmities.

The Biden and Trump campaigns have put the finishing touches on their debate on June 27th. We already knew that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash would moderate. Now the two sides have agreed to several ground rules.

1. There will be two commercial breaks instead of one. No interaction with campaign staff will be allowed. Will they allow a bathroom break?

2. Mics will be muted when it’s not the candidate’s turn.

3. “Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip,” according to CNN.

4. No audience will be present.

5. No opening statements.

6. The moderators “will use all tools at their disposal to enforce timing and ensure a civilized discussion,” according to the network. That means no talking over the other guy.

As Rick Moran writes, “With the inability to interrupt the other, there probably won’t be a lot of fireworks. But given how much they hate each other, you have to wonder if they’re even going to shake hands before the debate. Other than that, I’m going to be watching the expressions on both their faces. Daggers and arrows, man. Daggers and arrows.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Premier scientific journal Nature takes on ‘climate of fear’ surrounding research on sex and gender.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Meet the UC Santa Cruz students arrested at Hamas-endorsed encampment.

HAHA, WEENIES. Henny Penny Alert: UK to Be ‘Blasted’ By Heatwave of Up to…79°.

We were there summer before last and they were having a similar panic with warning signs in the train stations, and temperatures hitting a high of . . . 81.

STANFORD DISINFORMATION PROJECT collapses under scrutiny.

I salute the name, “Stanford Internet Observatory.” I think of astronomy and the clean pursuit of star systems, with the telescope instead focused on something infinite and microscopic: the galaxies of the internet.

However, it was just a run-of-the-mill political op, small and grubby, gussied up to sound fancy.

An apt summary of a lot of “academic” efforts lately.

BUT OF COURSE: Liberal Media Scream: ‘The View’ says black people not allowed to leave the Democratic plantation.

Flashback: Chelsea Handler says 50 Cent ‘can’t vote for Donald Trump’ because he is Black.

Related: Donald Trump receives strong support from black voters in immigrant-weary Detroit: ‘Taking your jobs.’

GOOD:  “Federal Judge Blocks Biden Title IX Rule in 4 States:  “Abuse of Power.”

VICTORY IN THE SIXTH CIRCUIT:  The U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the District Court’s preliminary injunction against the Department of Education’s June 2021 transgender policy.  This applies only to that policy and not to the more recently promulgated Title IX regulations on transgenderism.  But it’s still a win.  Pete Kirsanow, Dan Morenoff and I filed an amicus brief in this case (which in turn was based on Pete’s and my earlier comment).

IVY LEAGUE DELENDA EST: ‘It Feels Hopeless’: Jewish Students at Columbia Say Disparaging Texts Reflect Administration’s Indifference Toward Anti-Semitism.

Flashback: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

THIS IS A VERY ODD PLACE:  California Senate Votes to Approve Bill that Would Prohibit Schools from Requiring Teachers to Inform Parents of Their Child’s “Transgender” Status.  It was a party line vote.  Surprise, surprise.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Drone with Camera. #CommissionEarned

WELL, YES: Hunter Biden is His Father’s Son. “Hunt has a better pedigree than Joe — Yale Law, not Syracuse. And, credit where it’s due, he’s highly appealing to a certain kind of young lady. (For a while this was the kind who planned to read her Yeats just as soon as the cocaine ran out. Eventually even those girls got wise to Hunter and he moved to a more transactional type.) But Hunter’s defining attribute is his selfishness.”

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Just walk away, Caitlin (while you can still walk) or prepare to be made a whipping girl for the sins of White and Hetero Privilege for the rest of your WNBA career.

REMEMBER, MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S THE GOAL: Their Strategy in the War on Food.

SHOCKER:

Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press.

Luckily, there was a paper trail so the problem was identified and vote tallies corrected.

What happens in jurisdictions…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 15, 2024

I’ve been calling for paper ballots since 2002.

UPDATE:

I was assured that this doesn’t happen. https://t.co/FsfxX6uXXX

— Brant Hadaway (@BrantHadaway) June 16, 2024

OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.

UPDATE: Sorry, didn’t publish on time. Fixed now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Moon ice in the Artemis era: what we still don’t know.

Also: China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft finds long-sought particles on far side of the moon.

RULE OF LAW: Speaker Mike Johnson Fights to Enforce Merrick Garland Subpoena.

THE DEEP SEVENS KNOW WHAT IT’S FOR. Earth’s Core Seems to Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure.

SPACE: NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes full ops, transmits valuable data after overcoming malfunction.

More: Houston, we no longer have a problem: NASA’s Voyager 1 back in operation.

Impressive.

WELL, GOOD: AI Transforms Sepsis Care With Faster, More Effective Treatments.

EDUCATION: What City Kids Learned on My Farm: ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’ “Overprotected as they are, a lot of city kids are missing out on so many important encounters with material reality: with death or danger or manual labor. These encounters can be unpleasant, even painful. It’s understandable that we want to save our children from them. But they lose something essential when we do.”

Plus: “Here’s one thing I’ve learned: children like being useful. They get a lot of freedom on the farm, but there’s one rule: everyone has to do chores. We use real tools and do real work. I teach them how to scrub a water trough, haul hay, muck a stall. They discover that manual labor is enjoyable, especially when you’re taking care of something other than yourself. Parents often tell me later that their children boast about the work they’ve accomplished. . . . Children like becoming competent, even the ones who have to be cajoled into working. When they come for return visits, as so many do, they dive in with even more enthusiasm, eager to go through the motions of the work they now know so well. ‘We have to fill the waters, right?’ they’ll say. Or, best of all: ‘When do we get to shovel the poop?'”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Hollywood Can’t Save Joe Biden This Time.

Reality can be the cruelest of mistresses.

This fact, one assumes, is not lost on Joe Biden.

Last month, the president’s public approval reached its lowest point in nearly two years. Biden’s approval rating among young Americans is particularly low.

His administration’s inability to connect with this crucial demographic spells trouble for the Democrats. The youth vote could prove to be a decisive factor in November.

Enter “Won’t PAC Down,” a new super PAC with a star-studded Hollywood lineup. The group’s mission? Rejuvenate Biden’s appeal among young voters.

Imagine writers and comedians from “Saturday Night Live” and “Parks and Recreation” joining forces with political strategists to inject some much-needed energy into Biden’s image.

Well, imagine no more.

Hollywood vets and Biden alums launch super PAC to shore up his youth vote problem https://t.co/JMvn7ZOKgi

— POLITICO (@politico) June 9, 2024

Their primary goal is to make Biden appear humorous (no easy feat). They intend to achieve this by using a potent mix of comedy and insight designed specifically for Millennials and Gen Zers. Instead of banking on tired celebrity endorsements, they’re enlisting young writers, directors and producers to craft stories that resonate with youth culture.

But is the goal to actually get Biden to the finish line, or simply keep some positive media attention on him in the interim? As Charles Cooke writes:

In life, as in science, it can be useful to extrapolate, and here, in the summer of 2024, it comes time to do just that. It is by now near-universally acknowledged that Joe Biden is too old to perform his duties. It is less universally acknowledged that this has serious implications — the chief among which is that, for all the rococo pageantry that attends his reelection campaign, Joe Biden is not, in fact, running to be president of the United States.

I do not offer this observation in a conspiratorial tone. Joe Biden won the 2020 election legitimately; he is currently serving as the rightful occupant of his office; and he remains eligible to run again, to win again, to take office again, and to exercise all the levers of power that the Constitution would grant his office during a second term. Instead, I mean that Biden is operating as a stand-in, a widget, or a MacGuffin, whose primary purpose is to make it to November 5 of this year without expiring. Most candidates have plans for their coveted four years; Biden has none. He does not expect to be there, and the public agrees with his hunch.

Exit quote: “Biden is little more than a political instrument, to be played for the benefit of his team. Presently, Biden’s utility lies in his staying in the race. Twenty-three seconds after he has won, this will change. And, when it does, the reversal will be astonishing in both speed and scope.”

UPDATE: Finally, a Hollywood superstar emerges, who will do wonders to jump-start Biden’s image among centrist pro-military voters, and those who think his handlers have pushed him far to the left on environmental issues…: Jane Fonda to join Jill Biden at Reno appearance to engage senior voters.