THINK HOW MUCH MORE ATTENTION THIS WOULD BE GETTING IF BIDEN HADN’T ANNOUNCED HIS WITHDRAWAL YESTERDAY: Watch California Democrat Ro Khanna Eviscerate Evasive Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
Which may be one reason Biden announced his withdrawal yesterday.
MEANWHILE, THEY’RE HOPING YOU’LL FORGET ABOUT THE TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AMID ALL THE BIDEN HOOPLA: The Secret Service director isn’t answering basic questions for the Oversight Committee so Jim Jordan went nuclear on her.
MARK JUDGE: Are Republicans ready for Kamala Harris, the queen of opposition research? “At some point in the next 100 days, something awful and potentially career-ending is going to come out about Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick. It might involve a sexual scandal. The accusations will not be true, but that won’t matter.”
THE ELECTION IS COMING: CDC confirms sixth Colorado bird flu case.
I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A LARRY CORREIA NOVEL:
Oh boy, good question… Okay, professional writer hat on (and yes, I've got a trilogy of thrillers) after the assassination attempt and coup, here is how I would write this election story if I was going as ham fisted cheese as possible. Let's see what actually comes true-
While… https://t.co/tL0AjYRTAm
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) July 22, 2024
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Do I dare call it right now? Why not.
Biden will resign (or he may die?). Great drama to that, and a resignation (or funeral) capped by ascendency (& first weeks) of the 1st female prez will keep Trump (& the assassination attempt investigation) off the front pages for weeks.— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) July 22, 2024
SAY, where’s Joe Biden? In Rehoboth, still under the impression he’s running for a second term. Nobody’s told him he withdrew . . .
Hey, these days it’s totally believable.
Plus, a friend writes: “One note on the rhetoric here: there is tremendous pushback online from the left and Bulwark types — but I repeat myself — against the use of ‘coup d’état’ to describe events. This is a tell, and ought to signal that we should use it often. We should use it because it implies a series of things they wish to avoid, the top two being that the plotters ought to face public accountability, and the President unfit to run is therefore unfit to remain in office. And there is one other reason to use it: because it is true.”
UPDATE:
Can you hold up today's newspaper for us?
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 22, 2024
THE JOKES KEEP COMING, EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT REALLY FUNNY:
Sure did pic.twitter.com/9elNfzRH5T
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2024
Now the U-Hauls pull up with increasing frequency. They're taking down the signs, someone is changing the locks, somewhere a man with a walking broom is pushing the confetti into a corner. The caravan prepares for a new day. The show must go on. pic.twitter.com/wp5t77yFFR
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 22, 2024
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton agrees to be VP pick: "I'm honored to be next in line should Kamala tragically commit suicide."
— Cantaloupe News (@CantaloupeNews) July 21, 2024
FUN: Trump Demands Reparations Over Biden Dropping Out. “The GOP in general and specifically the Trump campaign have flushed countless millions of dollars into campaigning against Joe Biden, who continued to insist that he would be running for a second term. After he finally announced yesterday that he would be leaving the race, the entire picture changed. This led Donald Trump to take to his Truth Social media platform and posit a question. Should the GOP seek reimbursement for fraud after spending all of that money focusing on someone who clearly was not going to be serving a second term?”
WHEN WILL THE PRESS TELL US THAT DEMOCRATS “ASSERT, WITHOUT EVIDENCE” THAT BIDEN HAS WITHDRAWN? “So, yeah, what evidence do we have that Joe Biden knows he has given up his candidacy and released the delegates pledged to him? We haven’t seen him. He’s been sick with Covid. When last we heard from him in person he was defiantly clinging to the candidacy, apparently still believing that he is the one person who can save the world from Donald Trump. We were simply handed written statements.”
Plus: “Perhaps his people won’t tell him he has withdrawn. How would we know? I’ve read articles about caregivers for persons with dementia that advise us to go along with the errors and not correct all the mistaken beliefs. He shouldn’t be President though, of course, if things are this bad. Couldn’t they keep him in Rehoboth and call him Mr. President?”
HE EITHER GOT HIS PRICE, OR A WARNING, TO STAY OUT: Sen. Manchin confirms he won’t be running for president: ‘I don’t need that in my life.’
IT’S NOT BIDEN’S PROBLEM ANYMORE: Trump erases Biden’s 2020 victory margin, leads in five of six ‘blue wall’ states.
And I expect the polling to be unsettled for a few weeks, until there’s an official nominee and people have had time to process it.
I HAVE A CHAPTER IN THIS: Against the Corporate Media, edited by Michael Walsh, is coming out soon. Please put in a preorder if you’re interested, as that’s good for sales.
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW:
I remember days ago he just said this after donors cut him off.
He never cared about the people pic.twitter.com/sKhg1hagep
— Mathew V. Liberto (@The_Suntrip) July 21, 2024
ICYMI: IN A NUTSHELL:
Biden: I am not mentally capable of making important decisions….I think Kamala Harris should be president.
— Sam Morril (@sammorril) July 21, 2024
THAT’S WHY THEY’VE SPENT 3 YEARS PUNISHING LAWYERS WHO BRING CHALLENGES:
This means there definitely is, and GOP lawyers should be suing to hold states to their policies. https://t.co/yY9QbILNl9
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 21, 2024
POLAND DESERVES MORE ATTENTION:
Economic growth: China vs. Poland pic.twitter.com/QtFqyEdOX0
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 20, 2024
ROGER KIMBALL: Joe Biden Ushers in More Uncertainty by Stepping Aside: Here we have a party that really is preparing to disenfranchise voters.
The kicker is that Biden’s incapacity has been known to honest observers for as long as he has been president, indeed from before he was president. I have made a hobby of pointing out Biden’s porous relation to the English language for years.
What now? The Democratic convention is less than a month away. His letter thanks Kamala Harris but stops short of endorsing her (that came in a follow-up tweet just after: she was then backed by Bill and Hillary Clinton though not, curiously, Barack Obama). What about the 14 million people who voted for the Biden-Harris ticket in the primaries? One of the many things that Jack Smith was prosecuting Donald Trump for was attempting to disenfranchise voters in the 2020 election by questioning the election.
In fact, Trump did not seek to disenfranchise voters, merely to call attention to irregularities in the election process. But here we have a party that really is preparing to disenfranchise voters, all in the name of holding on to power.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has said repeatedly that any effort by the Democrats to slip in another candidate now would probably face legal challenges in some states. Biden was the clear and undisputed winner of the party’s primaries — and all those votes cannot simply be tossed out.
It’s been an interesting week. A nutter tried to murder Trump at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Biden returned to his home, apparently with Covid, indisputably to huddle with his puppet masters to work out an exit strategy. What was he offered to walk the plank?
What could they have offered a man with terminal dementia?
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
A (VERY) SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Campus Protests Led to More Than 3,100 Arrests, but Many Charges Have Been Dropped. The same sons and daughters of the elite who go on about how America’s justice system treats rich and poor differently are benefiting from the fact that America’s justice system treats rich and poor differently. It’s two-tier justice in an increasingly two-tier society.
HEH:
Of all the days pic.twitter.com/D6DhPAry79
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 21, 2024
WELL, THAT WOULD BE TELLING: Trump Says Nobody Warned Him About Gunman.
BAD STAFF WORK. BUT SHE EXCELS AT PISSING OFF HER STAFF.
How is this still up? https://t.co/2FNLCRRzaW
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 21, 2024
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