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July 21, 2025
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: President Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House just four months before Election Day.
Biden, 81, could not reverse growing sentiment within his party that he was too frail to serve and destined to lose to Donald Trump in November.
—NBC News, July 21st, 2024. Curiously, all that “too frail to serve” talk was dismissed by NBC News as “cheap fakes” as recently as June 19th.
The “Politburo” would go on to endorse Kamela a half-hour later:
Politico published a blog post claiming that Biden’s White House and campaign aides learned about Joe dropping out from his Twitter announcement, but as Glenn asked that day, “Conspiracy Theory Update: Did some staffer just send this out in his name, then they told him later it was his idea?”
America’s Newspaper of Record was doing straight-up reportage when they wrote: Jill Biden Drops Out Of Presidential Race.
Today, Kamala does an airbrush worthy of Stalin:
UPDATE: In yet another new interview, Hunter blames Pelosi for Joe leaving the presidential race:
Hate Grandma Vodka all you want, but she has been one of the most powerful people in politics for decades. She ran the President himself out of the White House.
Now that’s power. https://t.co/cabf0IXTNm
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) July 21, 2025
HOW TO RUIN A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR FRANCHISE WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK: Marvel’s President Kevin Feige Proves He’s Learned Nothing From Failures, Will Continue Pushing Wokeness.
DIS shares continue to badly underperform the market, down roughly 40% from the company’s 2021 high.
WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? He’s Back! Hunter Biden Is Back In the Spotlight, Dropping Profanities Defending Radical Policies.
This post is emphatically NSFW, not because I want to drop the F-bomb a thousand times, but because Hunter Biden apparently cannot speak without doing so.
And, given that he was co-president along with Jill and the so-called “politburo,” what he says is newsworthy.
You have been warned.
In what may be a move to insert himself into the 2026 and 2028 elections–yes, he talks about his being president in 2028, although I am not sure if that could be called an announcement–Hunter Biden sat down for a wide-ranging interview in which he explains that illegal immigrants are the best thing since the invention of the cotton gin, that he thinks we should invade El Salvador to get back the illegal aliens Trump deported there, and how illegals are necessary to clean up the hotel rooms he made toxic with his drug-fueled sex romps with hookers.
Hunter Biden goes on obscenity laced tirade while making the case for illegal aliens to work for low wages in America.
Democrats love their slaves.pic.twitter.com/rmxt0icwL8
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) July 21, 2025
See what I mean? Presidential material for sure. He makes a compelling case that illegal immigrants are far more important than native-born Americans, who are nothing but criminal knuckle-draggers.
Is there any doubt that this guy was helping run America during Biden’s regency? It explains a lot.
And possibly letting dad dip into his snuffbox: Hunter Biden Says Joe Biden Was Taking Ambien While President.
Hunter Biden said in an interview published Monday that his father, then-President Joe Biden, took Ambien before his “absolutely horrible debate” with President Donald Trump in 2024.
Hunter broke his media silence in a three-hour Channel 5 interview with Andrew Callaghan regarding his addiction recovery, offering a behind-the-scenes look at his father’s failed presidential campaign in 2024. (RELATED: ‘I Learned How To Make My Own’: Hunter Biden Details Depths Of Cocaine Addiction)
“I know exactly what happened in that debate. He flew around the world, basically at the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times,” Hunter said. “He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep. He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights.”
Scott Jennings asks:
Not an insignificant question: how much Ambien was Joe Biden taking everyday as president? https://t.co/jJkNfVvweM
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 21, 2025
And then there’s Hunter himself, who comports himself in a rather exuberant fashion during his interview, leading to some Twitter/X users speculating:
Oh he’s high as hell https://t.co/FVfTPLFMjF
— Magills (@magills_) July 21, 2025
And the circular firing squad begins to assemble! Obama Bro Tommy Vietor Fires Back After Hunter Biden’s Profane Rant About the Dems.
In fairness, you guys have made a pretty good living of working at the whitehouse for 3 years lmfao
— George Santos for NYC Mayor (@woulhgjkfd) July 21, 2025
CROWDSOURCING: NASA issues challenge for public design of ejection system.
In between all this, an important detail is being lost. Democrats are hammering an “apples and oranges” argument, saying documents showing intelligence officials planned a Presidential Daily Briefing on December 9th, 2016 that would say “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome” and “We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results” were meaningless.
As Himes put it, the fact that “Russians could not use cyber tools to mess with the voting infrastructure, the machines that tally our votes” was “true then, and it is true now.” Two things about this statement, disingenuous in multiple ways:
One is a crucial fact left out of Saturday’s Racket article on the DNI releases. Had the intelligence community gone forward with a Presidential Daily Briefing that said Russia had not attacked infrastructure in a way “intended to alter results,” it would have been seen by a key audience: Donald Trump. Presidents-elect are entitled to read Presidential Daily Briefings. During the transition, Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was already being read in, and would have seen the planned December 9th text downplaying Russian interference.
“I would have seen it,” Flynn says now. “I was reading the PDBs at that point.” Asked yesterday if he thought that might have been a reason for holding the planned draft, Flynn said, “Very likely.”
Second, the notion that Russia interfered with actual vote tallies was no fringe conspiracy theory then. It was widely believed by Democratic voters. This was almost certainly a consequence of a two stage process that began with the flood of news stories based on leaks from intelligence sources beginning on December 9th, 2016. These not only alleged Russia interfered to help Donald Trump in an abrupt about-face from pre-election stories, but focused heavily on Russian hacking.
Within a week — by December 16th, 2016 — Hillary Clinton was publicly calling the election “unfair, not free, illegitimate,” adding, “Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyberattacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me.” . . .
Notwithstanding either the Himes comments (“This is Epstein all over again”) or Trump’s apocalyptic Guy Fawkes-themed Truth Social post, the meeting on December 9th that switched out a tepid PDB for a dramatic narrative about Russian interference to help Trump was hugely meaningful. It positioned Steele Dossier conclusions as mainstream news, set up Trump to be investigated by his own incoming FBI Director, and made sure the incoming administration did not see dissenting intelligence about Russian meddling. More to come.
It was all bullshit, and all the key figures knew it was from the beginning.
TOO FUN TO NOT CHECK: Ninth Circuit Rules Biden Didn’t Know What He Was Talking About.
Say, remember that time that Joe Biden decided to unilaterally amend the Constitution just because he felt like it? No, seriously. With just three days left in the Biden Regency, the outgoing (p)resident declared that the Equal Rights Amendment had become “the law of the land,” because he believed it.
No, seriously seriously!
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At any rate, we now have yet another court decision ruling that the ERA never got successfully ratified. That should put an end to the chicanery of Democrats who cheered Biden’s proclamation in January and who insisted that the National Archives ignore the record and adopt it anyway. The should in this case is pretty much equal to the should in the previous paragraph, however, because Democrats and their allies in the Protection Racket Media will continue to scream about the rule of law while arguing that presidents can unilaterally amend the Constitution. Shamelessness is the main feature of this political age.
What was Biden’s “Politburo” thinking when they wrote that tweet under his name? I understand wanting to throw a bone to the Democrats’ base, and/or some sand in the gears of the then-incoming second Trump administration. But did they really want to give the man they were declaring to be Hitler just a couple of months before the power to amend the Constitution via Twitter? (Or TikTok, or BlueSky or whatever the hip social media platform du jour is.)
WHAT DOES NEUROSCIENCE HAVE TO DO WITH FREE SPEECH? TURNS OUT A LOT! Enroll in the new (free!) Coursera online course from Barbara Oakley, Terrence Sejnowski, Cristina Koppel, & me (feat. Ilya Shapiro) to find out.
IT’S A BAD IDEA: The hidden dangers of feeding wild animals.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
BREAKING: Calla Walsh, a proud member of Democratic Socialists of America, flew to the Islamic Republic of Iran and declares:
“Glory to all the martyrs, glory to the axis of resistance. May we see victory within our lifetimes. Death to America!”
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 21, 2025
THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF TRUTH, FREE THOUGHT, AND FREE SPEECH FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF: My latest (w/ Adam Goldstein) for National Review.
OUCH:
Random young white guy from Texas with no college degree absolutely destroys 46 year old journalist who does this for a living to the point where he has to ask if he’s an economist 👑pic.twitter.com/A3ILcDexDZ
— Sarah Stock ✟ (@sarahcstock) July 20, 2025
DON’T GET COCKY, BUT DO ENJOY THESE NUMBERS:
Cash on hand as of June 30:
Republican National Committee: $80.8 million
Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) July 21, 2025
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Billionaire In-N-Out heiress Lynsi Snyder and family leaving California for Tennessee.
“We’re building an office in Franklin [Tennessee,] so I’m actually moving out there,” Snyder said on an episode of the podcast Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey that aired on Friday, per Fox 11.
“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,” Snyder said. “Doing business is not easy here now.”
Last year, the company closed a location in Oakland that had been operating for 18 years, citing crime issues that impacted customers and employees. It was the only location to have closed in its 77-year history. It currently operates more than 400 locations.
“I mean, there was a lot,” Lynsi Snyder told the PragerU video network in December, SFGate reported. “There was actually — gunshots went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”
“For the safety of our associates, we just felt like, this is not OK,” she added.
It really isn’t.
IT’S TIME FOR SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS THAN CUTE SOCIAL MEDIA SHARES: Trump Shared Hysterical AI Video of Obama in Jail But I’m Not Laughing.
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‘TRUTH TO POWER:’ Democrats Prove the Point in Salty Tribute Tweets to Stephen Colbert.
When last we left you, it had been reported that the show was losing around $40 million a year, which, more than anything else, including alleged political considerations, would appear to explain why he, in essence, was handed his walking papers:
Puck News’ Matt Belloni reported the late-night show “has been losing more than $40 million a year” for CBS and that it had a budget of “more than $100 million per season,” contrasting it with network’s daytime and primetime programming, which he noted were “still profitable.”
“‘Late Show,’ with its topical humor and celebrity interviews pegged to specific projects, has struggled on Paramount+. And of the three network late-night shows, ‘Late Show’ has by far the smallest digital footprint on YouTube and other platforms,” Belloni wrote. “So from a business perspective, the cancellation makes sense.”
Belloni said the sources he spoke with at CBS and Skydance Media, the company that is set to buy the network’s parent company Paramount Global as part of an $8 billion merger, insist Colbert’s cancellation was “based on economics, not politics”….
Regardless, fauxfended Democrats are now on the case, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who appears to be conducting her own little investigation:
Yesterday morning, I rounded up tweets by Warren and loads of other Democrats and their operatives with bylines melting down that their late night network infomercial was being cancelled next year by CBS. Most were arguing that the network news division whose anchors once declared Barry Goldwater a crypto-Nazi, that George W. Bush shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard, and gave pro-Obamacare poetry readings on-air was bending the knee to the Bad Orange Man with an (R) after his name. Which is far more melodramatic than understanding that the network is trying to stop the hemorrhaging from, as Stacey Matthews writes above, a $40 million annual loss caused in by a combination of a lack of viewers, and those who are tuning having an advanced average age that makes them undesirable to television advertisers.
Here’s another, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT):
In his Entertainment Weekly profile last year, Colbert compared himself to Walter Cronkite. Similarly, notice that Himes is comparing the CBS replacement for David Letterman (who Johnny Carson viewed as his successor in the late 1980s), to a widely-respected CBS news anchor from TV’s golden era rather than a comedian or late night host. Back in the previous decade, it was the man who gave Colbert his start who was often compared to Morrow, including this 2010 New York Times article co-written by Bill Carter (the author of several books on late-night TV) and (of course) Brian Stelter, who was then about 25-years old: In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow.
There have been other instances when an advocate on a television show turned around public policy almost immediately by concerted focus on an issue but not recently, and in much different circumstances.
“The two that come instantly to mind are Murrow and Cronkite,” said Robert J. Thompson, a professor of television at Syracuse University.
Edward R. Murrow turned public opinion against the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Mr. Thompson noted that Mr. Murrow had an even more direct effect when he reported on the case of Milo Radulovich, an Air Force lieutenant who was stripped of his commission after he was charged with associating with communists. Mr. Murrow’s broadcast resulted in Mr. Radulovich’s reinstatement.
Walter Cronkite’s editorial about the stalemate in the war in Vietnam after the Tet Offensive in 1968 convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson that he had lost public support and influenced his decision a month later to decline to run for re-election.
I can already hear the gnashing of Media Myth Alert author Joseph Campbell’s teeth as he reads the above quoted paragraphs:
● Murrow ‘risked his career to confront demagogic Joe McCarthy’? Hardly.
● Murrow: No white knight–and not above the political fray.
● After the ‘Cronkite Moment,’ LBJ doubled down on Viet policy.
But setting the media myths aside, why was the successor to Chevy Chase’s SNL “Weekend Update” segment and why is the successor to David Letterman being compared to a serious newsman like Murrow?
Related: Stars No More: Colbert Treated ‘Journos’ and Dems Like Celebrities — No Wonder They’re So Upset!
UPDATE: Molly Jong-Fast: Cancelling CBS cancelling a low-rated late-night show is the equivalent of the blacklist or something:
Huh — I didn’t realize Colbert’s politics were that far to the left. Also, I don’t recall Les Crane, Dick Cavett, Tom Snyder, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall ever playing the blacklist card when their late night shows were cancelled due to poor ratings.
I’M NOT SAYING THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS, BUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS:
The Left is working very hard to normalize their final position: existence itself is bad https://t.co/j8Q4U8tBcJ
— Sulla (@gaulicsmith) July 20, 2025
It isn’t all bad, of course. People who hate people taking themselves out of the gene pool is likely a net benefit to the gene pool.
THEY COULD DO WORSE — AND PROBABLY WILL: Will the 2028 Democratic nominee be ‘none of the above’?
In a recent poll from a company called Echelon Insights — which describes itself as “erasing old industry lines that separate the process of conducting research from the tools to act on it” — Harris was leading the Democratic field with 26 percent of the primary vote, followed by Buttigieg at 11 percent, Newsom at 10 percent, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) at 7 percent and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at 6 percent.
I have spoken with numerous Democrats in or around the business of politics over the last few months. Not one believes that Harris will — or should be — the nominee. Similarly, none believe the other four names topping the poll will be the standard-bearer come November 2028.
As has been stated many times in the past, a good lawyer can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. The same holds true for polling. Depending on where you poll and how you shade the questions, a poll can bolster the views and desires of one partisan entity over the other, be they Democrats or Republicans.
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Not only has the party not done so, but it has doubled and tripled down on “woke” and “DEI” rhetoric while still loudly pushing its main “policy” plank from 2024: “We hate Trump.”
The ’28 Dem primaries promise to be a wild ride, but the most fun might be watching party elders try to rig the process for their version of a winning candidate.
NOTHING LIKE FLYING A PLANE WHOSE FUEL COULD MELT ITS PILOT: The Me-163 Komet: Nazi Wunder Weapon? Or the Worst Aircraft of WW2?