YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Joe Biden’s Spectacularly Humiliating Campaign Visit to Michigan.

Including: Here Are Other Angles of the ‘PACKED HOUSE’ at Biden’s MASSIVE Rally in Michigan.

Biden hit the podium in full Trunalimunumaprzure! mode: Joe Biden’s ‘Debbie Haley’ name blunder mounts pressure on Democrats after Michigan rally.

There’s mounting pressure on the Democrats following another blunder by President Joe Biden at his rally in Michigan. The 81-year-old leader, who recently responded to calls from within his party to step down, mistakenly referred to Donald Trump as his VP during a NATO summit press conference last Thursday evening.

This occurred after an earlier gaffe where he incorrectly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin”. Biden was back on stage in Detroit on Friday night but ran into another naming mishap when he addressed “Debbie Haley” while he intended to reference Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, a five-term incumbent.

The mix-up occurred about 30 seconds into the event in Michigan, leaving many bemused. Some speculated that Biden confused Dingell with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Finally, why is the left such a cesspit of blatant xenophobia?

Breaking: A black Muslim woman heckles President Biden in Detroit before being shouted down and forced out. “Take her out,” the crowd chanted.

In 2016, liberal media said it was racist for Trump’s campaign to remove black BLM protesters from his rallies. pic.twitter.com/7rIjWlt8xj

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 13, 2024

UPDATE: Rally Crowd Boos As Biden Roasts Press For Giving Trump ‘Free Pass’ While They ‘Hammer Me’ For ‘Mixing Up Names.’

This is a dangerous attack by the president on the fourth estate. Why does this reactionary president, who has made a career of viciously attacking journalists, hate freedom of speech so much?

TEN YEARS GONE: Here’s Joe in 2013 discussing the operation to repair his aneurysms:

Pay attention to his stutter here. https://t.co/e5LSxtJpf3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 13, 2024

And here’s Joe recounting the same story — likely the same text cut and pasted into the teleprompters, last year: Joe Biden Tells Fire fighter Union: After Brain Aneurysm, Docs ‘Had to Take the Top of My Head off a Couple Times to See if I Had a Brain.’

Joe Biden has an on-stage aneurysm while talking about his multiple aneurysms:

"I was diagnosed with having a anyway they had to take the top of my head off a couple times to see if I had a brain"

pic.twitter.com/FEVPOdR0ZA

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 6, 2023

Related: Legacy media refused to ask Biden the only question that mattered: “The media can pat themselves on the back all they want, even after spending years telling us that any concern over Biden’s mental fitness was partisan nonsense, conspiratorial craziness, or Russian disinformation. But, by ignoring a Parkinson’s expert’s monthly visits to the White House, they showed their only true purpose: To act as the Democratic Party’s ministry of propaganda.”

UNGLAMOROUS BUT ESSENTIAL: Cornell researchers unveil urine collection, filtration system for astronaut spacesuits.

FAKE DRUGS ARE BAD, AND TOO COMMON: Fake Botox shots sicken 17 women in 9 states.

HEALTH CARE: Thousands of Oregon hospital patients may have been exposed to hepatitis, HIV.

SLOUCHING TOWARD SKYNET: New Rumor of an OpenAI Next Level Reasoning Breakthrough.

RIP: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96.

I DON’T KNOW, BUT IT CAN MAKE IT EXPENSIVE: Can a Federal Court Stop Antisemitism at Columbia?

After I attended a vigil last fall for the victims, many fellow students stopped talking to me. I was routinely called a murderer, and even a Nazi, as I walked to class. I received an anonymous death threat on social media. I usually remained in my off-campus apartment, skipping class because I would have had to walk past—or through—groups of students advocating violence against Jews. I canceled a job interview on campus because I feared for my safety. For much of the fall semester, I stayed away from New York City and took classes virtually.

When I returned for the spring semester, things got worse. While the media has fixated on the encampments and the student takeover of Hamilton Hall, the hatred hasn’t been limited to those areas. There have been constant “teach-ins” where students and outside organizers rail against Israel while praising Hamas. One teach-in, titled “Contextualizing the Humanitarian Collapse in Palestine,” denied that terrorism is a crime and described suicide bombings as “direct-action protests.” Twice a month there is a “glory to our martyrs vigil” on the medical campus.

Days before Passover, while walking through campus to work, I encountered a massive protest filled with calls for violence against Jews such as “intifada,” “from the river to the sea” and “by any means necessary.” Demonstrators also chanted “Zionists off campus now.” After Oct. 7, I stopped wearing my Star of David necklace for fear of assault, yet I had put it on that afternoon to connect with an Orthodox Jewish patient in the hospital. After seeing the crowd, I walked back home, where I took off the necklace and then took an alternative route to work.

I pay good money to attend Columbia, so I’ve complained to campus leaders about the climate of fear. In October I sent an email to 12 administrators and program directors in which I described the hate directed my way. No one responded. When I met with my program’s social worker in November, she thanked me for sharing my perspective while asserting that I was “the only Jewish student” who had raised concerns—a claim I knew was false.

They lie a lot. Plus:

No wonder the situation at Columbia has deteriorated. Passive and morally confused leaders have tacitly encouraged the threats of violence against Jewish students. By failing to oppose antisemitism from the outset, they’ve fostered the creation of a de facto no-go zone for Jews. The 2023-24 school year is over, but antisemitism remains rampant in the summer semester, and I expect it to become worse in the fall. If students are setting up encampments when the campus is less busy, they are unlikely to back down when it is bustling.

Columbia’s leaders can’t be trusted to do the right thing.

Nope. Make them pay.

WHOM THE GODS DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE NIXONIAN: If Biden is smart, he’ll follow Nixon’s example.

As the nation’s capital broiled in the summer heat, the president found himself increasingly isolated in the Oval Office.

During his decades in politics, he had charted a career from the Senate to the vice presidency, though after two terms in the nation’s second-highest office, most believed his political career to be over. Even so, he shocked the political establishment by winning the presidency, largely by promising to return a sense of calm following a time of crisis and public protest.

Suddenly, however, the president found himself fending off calls from members of his own party to step aside, as the media monitored his every word for signs of what he may be thinking.

Yes, 50 years ago this month, Richard Nixon faced a remarkably difficult choice. (Who did you think I was talking about?)

Bill Maher believes that Biden should really make history rhyme: Bill Maher predicts the EXACT date Biden will step down for historic reason… before making hilarious comparison.

Bill Maher predicted the exact date that he believes Joe Biden will step aside in the presidential race as he issued an optimistic look at who could replace him.

The comedian, 68, rattled through possible replacements including Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer, as he insisted that ‘Biden is toast.’

He joked that ‘when’ the 81-year-old bows out, he will pick August 9 as the date – the same day that Richard Nixon became the only president to resign in 1974.

After Democrats transformed impeachment as something they originally sold the public in the mid-1970s as a once-in-a-lifetime punishment for the eeeeeevil Nixon (whom some on the left later came to grudgingly respect) to something to routinely deploy against presidents simply because they have an “R” after their name, Biden resigning 50 years after Nixon would add an excellent sense of symmetry to DC’s otherwise completely dysfunctional politics.

Related: Joe Biden, at a Dead End, Faces Richard Nixon’s Choice. “Like Nixon, Mr. Biden must now write his last chapter — for one way or another, he’s reached the end of the book.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Anyway. . . “So this was the week Joe Biden and the Democratic machine, looking for a squirrel, any squirrel, discovered Project 2025, which—horror of horrors!—proposes conservative ideas for America. Ideas like sound fiscal policy, strong national defense, family values, lower taxes, less regulation, back to basics education, etc. In other words, for the left, a climate of hate. As Joe Biden might say, anyway. . . Now back to President Chauncey Gardner, Vice President Trump, and Ukrainian President Putin.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: PHILIPS 3000 Series Air Fryer Essential Compact with Rapid Air Technology. #CommissionEarned

#JOURNALISM:

The NYT *this morning* accused the right of pushing a “conspiracy theory” that Dems are secretly plotting to replace Biden at the top of the ticket…

Meanwhile, Axios is reporting *this morning* how Dems are secretly plotting to replace Biden at the top of the ticket.

Unreal. pic.twitter.com/MPhKFHtvtS

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 12, 2024

PJM WEEKEND UPDATE: A Big Week for a ‘Big Boy.’ “Make no mistake about it, Biden may have survived his ‘big boy’ press conference Thursday night, but the defining moment of the event was when he said, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if she wasn’t qualified to be president.’”

Here's Secretaries Blinken, Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan when President Biden said, "Vice President Trump." pic.twitter.com/chvT7eRqvY

— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy) July 12, 2024

SOFT ON HATE: Harvard reverses decision to suspend pro-Palestinian protesters.

PRIME DEAL: Calphalon Kitchen Knife Set with Self-Sharpening Block. #CommissionEarned

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT OUR GUYS THROW GAY PEOPLE OFF ROOFTOPS: National SJP calls on followers to resist ‘Zionist Pinkwashing.’ When you side with savages, messaging is hard.

LOSERS ON PARADE: Meet the Indiana University students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed encampment.

REPORT FROM ISRAEL, PART I: I went on a fact-finding mission to Israel via the World Jewish Congress with a dozen other law professors, some Jewish, some not. On Wednesday, we visited kibbutz Nir Oz, site of one of the worst massacres on 10/7, with 47 kibbutz members murdered, 71 taken captive, including children and elderly. During the visit, we saw the kibbutz dining hall, which still had a lingering smell of the dead bodies that were stored in the kibbutz refrigerator until they could be given a proper burial. Outside the dining hall, a sign (see Hebrew sign below) remained advertising a peace demonstration to be held on the evening of October 7 in Be’er Sheba, sponsored by Israeli/Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace. The sign says that “it will never end until we talk” and “we should leave the settlements and return to ourselves.”

Nir Oz is a left-wing kibbutz populated by peace activists. One elderly victim, still held hostage by Hamas, was a long time peace activist with many friends in Gaza. Two days a week he drove Gazans in need of medical care to Israeli hospitals. Palestinians living on the border near the kibbutz were undoubtedly aware of the kibbutz’s peacenik and humanitarian endeavors, but nevertheless after the first and second wave of attacks by Hamas, “civilian” mobs invaded and looted, tortured, and murdered. Indeed, we heard that Hamas had to protect its hostages from the “civilians,” who wanted to murder them on the spot. If anyone in Gaza tried to stop or even dissuade the marauders, I haven’t heard about it.

Going back to the elderly hostage, you can see the remains of his house in the pictures below. We met his daughter, who questioned why Hamas has been unwilling to release elderly, sick, hostages (some of whom undoubtedly are now dead), and small children on humanitarian grounds. After all, it would be good propaganda, and they would still have plenty of hostages for negotiating leverage. The obvious answer is that they know that Israelis are especially haunted by the elderly and child hostages, and Hamas prefers psychological torture of Israelis above other goals.

PAUL BEDARD: Trump is history’s ‘biggest comeback’ and the media is ignoring it. They’re certainly doing their best.

Totally unrelated: Support to cut immigration up ‘sharply’ to 55%: Poll.

MARTIN GURRI: Joe Biden and a Tear in the Fabric of Things. “Last month’s debate destroyed the carefully crafted myth of Biden as an empathetic, intelligent and resolute leader. For the establishment that perpetrated this hoax, what comes next won’t be pretty.”

PRIORITIES:

Never let it be forgotten that an attorney for the Biden Administration characterized girls' and women's concerns about sharing locker rooms with biological males as "niche."

This is, unfortunately, the kind of reckless arrogance that we have come to expect. Especially since… https://t.co/1opuauVJwK

— Brant Hadaway (@BrantHadaway) July 12, 2024

I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE TELLING ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: Climate Hawk John Kerry Jet Sets to Indian Oil Tycoon’s Wedding Alongside Global Elites: Biden’s former climate czar travels thousands of miles for star-studded wedding of the son of India’s richest man.

YOU’RE WELCOME: American Farmers Are Pretty Happy With That SCOTUS Fish Decision. “So many bogus, standard-of-living-impacting pet projects became law by virtue of department head wand-waving. It’s been a couple of weeks now, and there is an idea of what size tsunami of change, thanks to this decision, might actually wash through the office buildings in D.C.”

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Company Behind Ammo Vending Machines Says Hundreds More Are Coming to Stores.

Related: Community Notes: Giffords Gets Schooled On the Reality of Ammo Vending Machines.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.