OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: New York Liberals Turns Backs on Independence Day, Have Pro-Palestine Parade and Burn U.S. Flags Instead.

Democrats in New York City had a big parade on July fourth… but not for the reasons an American would on that same day. No, the Democrats in New York City had a big pro-Palestine parade so they could burn U.S. flags and advocate for the murder of Jews.

You know… as one does if you are a New Yorker.

The video of the event began going viral on social media.

WATCH:

This is not a video from the 1938 Kristallnacht in Germany.

This is a video from July 4th Independence Day in New York as a terrifying mob march through the streets waving flames in a show of force against Jews.

pic.twitter.com/cVc8Xa3Xk3

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 5, 2024

I watched the debut of the fourth season of Babylon Berlin on the MHz Choice channel on Amazon Video earlier this week, which begins in 1930 with (spoiler alert), the show’s star, playing a Berlin police detective infiltrating Hitler’s SA, as they go on a wilding attack on Jews and Jewish-owned businesses. Since the episode was actually shot in 2022, I doubt very much that the show’s producers intended to give a preview of New York in 2024, but sadly, here we are. Or as Seth Mandel tweeted in April, it’s Charlottesvilles all the way down in Joe Biden’s America:

UPDATE: Are Palestinian flags permitted as “flair” among Delta flight attendants?

Hey @Delta – did you add Palestine as a new summer route?

Your customers on a Boston to West Palm Beach flight yesterday were perplexed to see your flight attendant adorning a flag of Palestine pin. pic.twitter.com/Ia79COL2ea

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) July 6, 2024

At the beginning of the month, the Jewish Chronicle reported: Heathrow Airport backtracks on Palestinian flag badges. Lawyers said the badges create a ‘hostile environment for Jews.’

Will Delta take a similar stance?

MICHAEL WALSH: ‘A Tide in the Affairs of Men.’

All of the social changes pushed through by the far left over the past few decades, including expanded abortion, open celebration of exhibitionistic sexual fetishism, decriminalized drug use, weakening national militaries, turning a blind eye to street crime, and the constant propaganda drumbeat of political correctness (as they define it), have finally occasioned a Newtonian reaction, including here in the U.S. Despite their best efforts to criminalize him, Trump is not only leading in the polls but widening his lead as the Biden campaigned has hit a brick wall.

The only question now is whether the Democrats — who are always bleating about “our democracy” — will do the profoundly undemocratic thing and depose Biden in favor of Kamala Harris or Your Name Here after an open convention in August. That Biden already has won enough delegates to claim the nomination matters not one whit to the party that mastered the Torricelli Maneuver in 2002 and whose motto is, “by any means necessary.” Who would be surprised if they junk “their democracy”? If you’re looking for a historical parallel, we’re nearing the moment politically when, with the aged emperor Tiberius nearing his end, his successor Caligula was reaching for a handy pillow.

Read the whole thing.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Orange Revolution Edition.

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YOU REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST:

A meme floating around Facebook actually prompted this story.

In an October 1903 article, the New York Times predicted it would take “one to ten million years” for man to develop a working “flying machine.”

We all know how that turned out. Sixty-nine days later, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic first successful flight in the heavier-than-air Wright Flyer in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

The New York Times was wrong then, and they continue to be wrong about many important things. One of the most dangerous in recent years was the Russia collusion story, for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize. For months before the 2016 election, the Times shouted Russia, Russia, Russia! from the rooftops, even after it became clear that the story was a psyops pushed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That was the real “election interference,” not the nonsense the Times was pushing.

There were also the myriad conspiracy theories: Hunter’s laptop was fake, Trump told people to inject bleach into their lungs and suggested they take horse pills, and conservatives (especially the scary Christian ones) are the biggest threat to democracy anyone has ever seen.

More recently, the Times, desperate to protect Joe Biden, claimed that videos showing him to be frail and confused are “cheap fakes.”

Having learned nothing from their mistake regarding terrestrial flight, in 1920, the Gray Lady mocked the idea of space flight: The Correction Heard ‘Round The World: When The New York Times Apologized to Robert Goddard.

And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space:

“That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”

Goddard pushed back against the wave of criticism in a Scientific American article later that year, but Newton’s Third Law doesn’t apply to public relations, and his response was mostly drowned out by the attacks. He retreated from the public eye, and from most interaction with other scientists, but continued his research.

Eventually, of course, Goddard would be vindicated by the 1944 launch of a German V-2 guided ballistic missile. But it took until July 17, 1969, the day after the launch of a crewed mission to the Moon, for the New York Times to take back its harsh words. The 1969 correction is almost comically dry and conspicuously doesn’t mention the Apollo mission.

“Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere,” the Times editors wrote. They added, “The Times regrets the error.”

On the flip side, don’t get the Timesmen started gushing over those nice young men from Austria and Georgia:

● In 1922, The New York Times published its first article about Adolf Hitler. The reporter, Cyril Brown, was aware of his subject’s anti-Jewish animus but he wasn’t buying it.

● The Times’ necrophiliac 1953 obit for one of the 20th century’s most brutal mass murderers was headlined: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.

DISASTER: Biden Completely Out of Touch With Reality in ABC Interview. “After watching the 23-minute interview, it was obvious that Stephanopoulos was sent out to stab Caesar to death on [pre-recorded] television. There’s no other way to spin it. After the interview, ABC political hacks piled on. Rather than reassuring skittish Democrat operatives (let alone the public) that Biden is fine, it reinforced the narrative that he is too old and feeble to remain as the nominee.”

These answers didn’t help:

Asked if he’s had a full neurological exam since the debate, Biden retorted, “I get a full neurological test every day with me.” It was clearly a scripted line and he repeated it twice more in the interview.

“Have you had the specific cognitive tests?”

“No. No one said I had to,” Biden said.

He tried to offer proof of his wellness by ticking off world leaders he’s spoken to recently but stumbled over names and events.

Shockingly, Stephanopoulos continued to demand answers about Biden’s cognitive condition.

“Watch me. There’s a lot of time left in this campaign,” said the president.

“George, I’m the guy who put NATO together,” he lied. “I’m the guy that shut Putin down,” he lied again.

There’s a small chance that last answer could come back to haunt him:

A good GOP strategist would come out tomorrow and say "The president said he shut Putin down, so no more American financial military aid to Ukraine is necessary." https://t.co/jDDRYB1xP9

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 6, 2024

In the meantime:

When George cut to the team…their faces. pic.twitter.com/xOB3fUTi3r

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) July 6, 2024

Axios sums it up: “He’s toast:” Biden’s ABC interview flops with Hill Democrats.

Steve Hayward adds: It’s Over: Only the When and How to Be Determined. “Biden’s eventual departure from the ticket rates an 11 on John McLaughlin’s old ten-point scale of metaphysical certitude.”

UPDATE: To add to Paula Bolyard’s comment at the start of this post that “After watching the 23-minute interview, it was obvious that Stephanopoulos was sent out to stab Caesar to death on [pre-recorded] television. There’s no other way to spin it,” Jazz Shaw adds further proof to that theory: ABC’s Transcript of the Biden Interview is Revealing.

If you read through the full transcript, you will see that ABC included the instances where there were pauses and repeated words, by both Biden and Stephanopoulos. I didn’t take the time to walk through it line by line while listening to the full interview (which you can watch here if you missed it) but if there was any “cleanup” work done on the transcript it wasn’t much.

If the media are no longer correcting Biden’s yammering and gaffes, they no longer wish to portray him as anything remotely approaching competent, and are using the largest stage they can muster to demonstrate that he’s unfit to serve as president. ABC’s Martha Raddatz, another member of the House of Stephanopoulos even admitted on camera with a pained expression that “Jill” is “lashing out at those who want him to get out of the race.” As Nick Arama of Red State spotted, “Oh, and notice they didn’t refer to her as ‘Dr. Biden’ either, that appears to have gone out the window,” adding that it “Looks like the media is throwing them under the bus at this point.”

WELL, TO BE FAIR, THEY ARE MURDERERS: Jewish professor fully exonerated after removal for saying ‘Hamas are murderers.’

DEMOCRATS GETTING READY TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1861 AGAIN: The Democrats’ civil war has begun.

AXIOS: BIDEN STAFF “MISERABLE,” ALARMED AS PRESSURE BUILDS.

Many White House, Biden campaign and Democratic officials are increasingly worried that President Biden isn’t up to continuing his campaign or finishing a second term, despite his insistence that he won’t be pushed out.

Why it matters: Outside pressure for Biden to drop his re-election bid grew wider and louder on the Fourth of July, especially from major donors. Doubts also are rising inside the house.

The big picture: “Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole,” a White House official told Axios. “Even if you’re trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment” from bosses.

• A high-ranking Democratic National Committee official told Axios: “The only thing that can really allay concerns is for the president to demonstrate that he’s capable of running this campaign.”

• “Everything else feels like ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ by his inner circle to prop him up.”

Spotted by Ed Morrissey yesterday, Axios also noted that ‘The President Has Lost All Independence.’ Ed responded:

Have readers ever heard of Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, or Ashley Williams? I’ve worked in politics for over 20 years now, and only Williams’ name seems vaguely familiar. Only Bernal’s name comes up in our archives, once almost exactly two years ago and only as brief mention in someone else’s statement. Presidents hire aides to help and support their work, but those aides are supposed to work for the president, not run him.

It almost makes the sudden appearance of Hunter Biden in policy meetings look explicable. Why else would Biden have “a convicted felon” in meetings with officials? Is it to break through a cabal of aides desperately trying to keep Biden’s incapacitation under wraps?

Meanwhile, here’s Ben Smith at Semafor: A ‘scared’ Biden aide sounds an alarm.

Midday on the Fourth of July, I received a call from a government official with regular access to the West Wing, who said they had reached a breaking point and wanted to sound the alarm.

The person insisted on careful ground rules: No details on the specific policy area they’d work on, no gender, age, or sexual orientation. Their credibility basically depends on my vouching that they’re a serious person, which I can do — though I should also say this person has nothing to say about the president’s physical condition, and was limited to their own experience outside Biden’s tight inner circle.

Here is the assertion this person would like to get across: It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded. (The big exception to this pattern, they said, is foreign policy.)

This pattern had already been a topic of discussion, and curiosity, among the high-powered aides who work in and around the White House. The rituals of paperflow are technical, but they say they’re surprised by the lack of briefings to the president, and of readouts from consultations with the president and worry about the possibility of decisions “being made without him.”

My source has no reputation for being involved in factional fights on hot button issues, and no obvious ulterior motive for picking up the phone.

“I’m super proud of the policies,” the person said. “I’m talking to you because I’m incredibly upset and scared for the country and I would like to do what I can.”

Or as PJM alum David Steinberg tweets:

If only there had been signs before:

● Who’s our real president? Joe Biden — or the staffers who keep walking back his comments?

—Glenn in the New York Post, September 23rd, 2022.

● Former Top Obama Advisor David Axelrod Shreds Biden, Says He’s ‘Not in Command.’

—Bob Hoge, Red State, July 1st, 2022.

● Who’s In Charge?

—Matthew Continetti, the Washington Free Beacon, July 1st, 2022.

● Joe Biden Doesn’t Know What You’re Talking About. “To watch Biden at the lectern was to experience shock and dismay interspersed with moments of alarm and dark humor. No wonder he hides from the media.”

—Continetti, NRO, January 22nd, 2022.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Bye!: UPenn suspends four students who participated in anti-Israel occupation.

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NOBODY LIKES HER: Voters want Biden out, reject Harris as replacement.

MARK STEYN: What the “Conservatives” Have Wrought.

So we are seeing the emergence of an explicitly Islamic domestic politics with members elected on explicitly Islamic tickets. Four “pro-Gaza” MPs doesn’t sound like a lot, but, for purposes of comparison, it’s exactly the same number as Nigel Farage’s Reform party managed to elect. I would account the rise of a separate Islamic political force that no longer needs to work within the established parties as the most significant development of last night – and not in a good way: this is Britain’s future.

As for Reform, Nigel took the name and strategy from Preston Manning’s breakaway party from the Canadian Tories three decades ago. On their first election campaign in 1993, Mr Manning’s Reformers won 52 seats out of the 295 in the Ottawa House of Commons – and under exactly the same first-past-the-post system as at Westminster. By contrast, last night began with a BBC exit poll showing Farage winning thirteen seats and establishing Reform as the fourth largest party in the House. In the cold reality of dawn, that’s shrunk to just four seats – compared to, say, seven for Sinn Féin, which has now replaced the Democratic Unionists as the biggest party in Northern Ireland. In North Antrim, Nigel endorsed the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jr – but, in a seat his family has held for fifty-four years, Mr Paisley lost.

Where do we go from here? Nowhere good. Under a quintet of failed prime ministers, the Tories have brought a once great nation to near collapse and delivered the nation into the hands of “opponents” who will merely crank up the worsening of things to Ludicrous Speed. Mrs Thatcher’s famous line was: First you win the argument; then you win the election. The “Conservative” party spent fourteen years not making any conservative arguments, and thus last night was entirely predictable.

Labour has studied 1984 as a how-to guide for efficient government: Sick of woke censorship? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

I’M OKAY WITH IT TOO: Dem Rep Says Trump’s Going to Win—And That’s OK.

THE COLOR OF MALARKEY: Joe Rogan mocks NY Times for op-ed comparing Biden to Beethoven, Martin Scorsese.

Joe Rogan mocked a New York Times op-ed from earlier this year in which the author wrote that President Joe Biden’s aging was actually part of his “style” and that he had “something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.”

“Oh, OK. I feel better now,” Rogan, the Spotify podcaster who hosts “The Joe Rogan Experience,” sarcastically wrote in an X post on Thursday which included a screenshot of a March 8 commentary piece by literary critic A.O. Scott.

“For Joe Biden, What Seems Like Age Might Instead Be Style,” the headline of Scott’s piece read.

In the essay, Scott argued that Biden’s apparent signs of cognitive decline should instead be looked at as a “late style” similar to that of “certain artists” who “at the end of their careers, enter a new and distinctive phase of creativity.”

Scott referenced several individuals who produced “a succession of masterpieces” that “fulfill and transcend the promise of the earlier work” including Richard Wagner, Henry James, Scorsese and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Related: Jack Posobiec Wrecks Reporter’s Shock Claim With One Question, One Screenshot.

Jack Posobiec hit back at a New York Times reporter after she reached out to him for comment on a Mar-a-Lago story while calling him a misinformation spreader.

Posobiec shared an email from the reporter named Karen Yourish on X.

“The story will describe you as a hard-right podcaster who has promoted disinformation,” the email stated at one point.

Yourish told Posobiec she was reaching out to him because he’s a part of a group that has visited Mar-a-Lago “at least three times since Donald Trump left the White House.”

Posobiec will also be included in the story because he has “questioned the results of the 2020 election”–Yourish claimed–and “said [January 6, 2021] was incited by the federal government.”

Yourish added at the end of her email that the story, “will note that [Posobiec] had dinner with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago and attended multiple galas.”

Posobiec shared his fiery one sentence response to Yourish on X.

“Do you mean disinformation like this?” he quipped, accompanied by a screenshot of a New York Times article from June 21–just ahead of the debate–that blasted “misleading videos” about Biden as “he battles age doubts.”

Charles Cooke asks: You Gonna Investigate That?

I think that the press helped to cover up Joe Biden’s condition, and that it did so as a matter of habit, out of a corrupt desire to help the Democratic Party. Some in the press strongly deny this. They insist that they didn’t know how bad it was. They say that they were as shocked as anyone by what they saw last Thursday night. They contend that they are not the perpetrators but the victims.

Okay, then. If that’s true, we ought to talk through its implications. If it’s true, then the press was duped — and duped by the federal government of the United States of America. If it’s true, then the executive branch has been engaged in a massive — and effective — conspiracy to keep Biden’s infirmity from the people who are supposed to report the news. If it’s true, then the White House fooled the media; it outwitted the media; it embarrassed the media. If it’s true, then the president and his political party colluded to suppress the ability of the sacred Fourth Estate to relay matters of public interest to the voters, and, in the process, it made a mockery of the First Amendment.

So . . . is the press gonna investigate that? It certainly sounds like a big story to me.

Stephen Miller is much more succinct:

Fuck all of you. Fuck every single one of you, Our media is what destroyed truth. Just look at this. Look at it. pic.twitter.com/m3JoieIbJ2

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 5, 2024

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

ICYMI, it appears that the only operating aircraft carriers in the western Pacific are Chinese ones.
(And no, VSTOL amphibs and helicopter carriers don’t count.)https://t.co/VnXpByUrMl

— Tom Shugart (@tshugart3) July 5, 2024

HOW IT STARTED: This Is Biden’s LBJ Moment.

—Robert Reich, Newsweek, March 8th, 2021.

How It’s Going: Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit race.

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.

Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance, according to the people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. The Virginia senator has told others that he is deeply concerned Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump.

Nonsense — Biden is fine, just fine:

POTUS: "I'm staying in the race. I'll beat Donald Trump. I will beat him again in 2020."

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) July 5, 2024

FROM RACONTEUR PRESS:  Moggie Noir.

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After all, who better than a cat might convey the contradictions of a ruthless killer enrobed in the most exquisite package of sumptuous fur with glittering emerald eyes? No one, see? Cats are the ultimate expression of the noir aesthetic, and we hope you will agree, but fasten your seatbelts: it’s going to be a bumpy read.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt 4th of July celebrations in NYC and chant “d*ath to America” on Independence Day.

Are you paying attention yet? pic.twitter.com/y6IIOYfic6

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 5, 2024

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A REMEDY FOR OIKOPHOBIA:  The World At Large.

THEY LIED AND LIED AND LIED AND LIED ABOUT THE LIES:  They Lied to You.

REMEMBER WHEN DEMS WERE ALL AGOG DEMANDING TRUMP BE REMOVED VIA THE 25TH AMENDMENT?  The History of Democrats Hiding Presidential Disabilities.

VIA JEWISH WORLD REVIEW: Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.
—   Chaim Weizman