ONE IS ALREADY RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND THE OTHER MIGHT SOON BE: Jill Biden’s grudge against Kamala Harris REVEALED: Power-hungry first lady’s grudge is so deep that the only thing worse than Joe stepping down is the VP replacing him.

The relationship between the two women – that began badly enough during that contentious battle for the presidential nomination – has only gone downhill from there.

Now, political insiders have told DailyMail.com that Democratic advisors are struggling to push past the powerful role that Jill Biden’s loathing of Harris, 59, is playing in Joe’s resistance to pass the mantle to his VP as pressure ratchets up for him to step down as presidential candidate and allow another Democrat tackle Donald Trump.

According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside.

Because the truth, according to a source who knows the First Couple well, is that Jill’s is now the only voice to which the 46th president listens.

Well, hers and Hunter’s — the country is in the very best of hands.

CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Lefty Media Throws Itself a Pity Party Because Mean Old Biden Deceived Them.

ALL THE TRUTH THAT’S LEFT AFTER EDITS DEMANDED BY THE WHITE HOUSE: Another Scandal Drops: Milwaukee Radio Station That ‘Interviewed’ Biden Makes a Rather Damning Admission.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Democrats Have Never Really Loved Joe Biden Enough to Spare Him This Humiliation. “Now, all the Dem faithful who are asking him to step aside are telling us what a great guy he is for hanging around Washington all these years. It’s crap.”

WELL, YES — BUT TO TODAY’S DEMOCRATS, THAT MAKES HIM AN EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER: The truth about Trump? He’s a moderate.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Digs In and MSM Reaches for the Kid Gloves Again. “Celebrities and elected officials can continue to call for Biden to yield to another candidate, but the flying monkeys in the mainstream media will eventually have to get back to covering for the work of fiction which they created in 2020.”

HMM: While Union Leaders Line Up for Biden, Trump Has Backing of the Rank and File.

Give President Biden the union elites, while President Trump takes the rank and file.

Mr. Biden met with the AFL-CIO union leaders Wednesday, repeating his boast that he’s the most pro-union President in American history. So you say, Mr. Biden, but we shall see.

In fact, while the liberal, left-wing union leaders are lining up for Mr. Biden, you can bet that Trump is going to take a record share of the rank and file.

Actually, the Teamsters president, Sean O’Brien, plans to speak at the Republican National Convention at Milwaukee next week.

He’s got 1.3 million members, and I’m going to guess Trump is going to win a big majority of that group.

Here’s what’s bothering the Teamsters and the rank and file of the other unions as well: Mr. Biden has created an affordability crisis for working families.

For whatever they’re worth, polls showed that traditionally Democrat union guys who voted for Trump in 2016 “came home” for Biden four years later — an expensive mistake they’re unlikely to make again.

TO BE FAIR, YOU HAVE TO SPOT ME THE G, THE P, AND THE Z: You Can’t Spell ‘Another National Humiliation Under Biden’ Without ‘Gaza Pier.’

HE FIGHTS: Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win.

There was always a certain danger inherent to this assault on Biden’s faculties. If Wiles and LaCivita were too successful—if too many Democrats decided, too quickly, that Biden was no longer capable of defeating Trump, much less serving another four years thereafter—then they risked losing an ideal opponent against whom their every tactical maneuver had already been deliberated, poll-tested, and prepared. Campaigns are usually on guard against peaking too soon; in this case, the risk for Trump’s team was Biden bottoming out too early.

In my conversations with LaCivita and Wiles over the past six months, they assured me multiple times that the campaign was planning for all contingencies, that they took quite seriously the possibility of a substitution and would be ready if Biden forfeited the nomination.

I’m not underestimating Kamala Harris if she ends up the nominee. Or to be more precise, I’m not underestimating the lengths the DNC-Media Complex will go to to drag her over the finish line.

THEY WISH THEY KNEW HOW TO QUIT HIM: Why Democrats Can’t Cancel Joe Biden. “In practice, Cancel Culture seems random. But it’s actually not.”

SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND DURING THIS EVENING’S PRESS CONFERENCE:

Plot twist: Hunter Biden took millions from the "f***ing spy chief of China" and has now become the "acting chief of staff" at the White House pic.twitter.com/1uGMJMh6f2

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 10, 2024

The country is in the very best of hands.

THE PJ MEDIA CREW IS LIVEBLOGGING BIDEN’S 6:30 PM EASTERN PRESS CONFERENCE: Biden Faces the Nation at Post-Nap Presser.

I don’t know about everyone else but Kevin Downey Jr made himself a Manhattan and I just started into a martini.

UPDATE: We’re certainly having fun over there… blogging a press conference that is now expected to begin an hour late… if then?

Link was wrong before — sorry! Fixed now.

KRUISER: NY Times: Biden Campaign Is ‘Quietly’ Looking Into Harris vs. Trump Polling. “There are various and sundry alternative Biden replacement theories, most of which are acid-trip fantastical. For any of them to have the slightest chance of being put into motion, the Democratic National Committee will have to give Madame Vice President a chance to fail. It’s a bit much to immediately leap to a scenario where the party that’s all in on diversity casts aside the historic first black and female VEEP.”

OH NOES! Scary Report Reveals SpaceX Manly Men Get Things Done. “I also can’t help but think that ‘bro culture,’ which isn’t limited to men any longer, still has a place in American life — and ought to.”

THIS DIDN’T EXACTLY REQUIRE TOP-NOTCH SPYCRAFT*: Foreign spies likely knew of Biden’s age-related decline, former NSA counterspy says.

*Yet was still beyond the intelligence-gathering abilities of American journalism.

THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO PLAY: Cultural Appropriation — You Sure You Wanna Play That Game?

Christian Allaire is upset. As Senior Fashion and Style Writer at Vogue magazine and self-described “champion” of Indigenous stories and artists, he laments the sight of his Native culture being “reduced to a kind of gimmick” and “reduced to caricature” in the fashion world. He calls this “appropriation.”

Per his online biography, Allaire hails from the Nipissing First Nation in Ontario, Canada, from which he derives his Ojibwe heritage. You would never know it from the pictures, which betray a whiter-than-white effeminate marshmallow who looks less like a proud Indigenous “champion” of anything and more like a backup dancer. If Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill had a love child…

Allaire isn’t alone in his outrage. Jeremy Helligar at Reader’s Digest is in a tizzy because Bo Derek wore her hair in cornrows. In 1979. And he’s upset that the crows in the cartoon Dumbo had caricatured black voices. In 1941.

Read the whole thing.

ENGINEERING MARVEL: What Does It Take To Keep the Lights On and the Traffic Flowing Through the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels? “Fifty-one years after the first bore opened, the tunnels are undergoing the largest overhaul in their history. The upgrades will be significant—but will they be enough to keep the critical east-west passage open for decades to come?”

More:

The inability to green-light ambitious infrastructure projects is happening all over the country. Most of President Joe Biden’s lauded $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, for example, will go toward repairing or upgrading existing infrastructure instead of funding new projects on the scale of the EJMT. Even that $1.2 trillion is half of what the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates the United States would need to invest over the next decade to simply maintain its ports, electrical grids, bridges, and transportation networks in a “state of good repair.” “There is something kind of nostalgic [about the EJMT]—that they could gather the will and the funding and the common commitment to build these kinds of incredible engineering marvels,” says Steven Jackson, a Cornell University professor whose areas of study include the maintenance of infrastructure systems. “There’s some question if we even remember how to do that or know how to do it together anymore.”

Sad.

HEH: Democrats Stage Insurrection, Destroy Democracy to Depose President Who Refuses to Leave Office,

SCHADENFREUDE:

Good.

We all warned them. We told them over and over he was senile and that it would blow up in their faces. They called us liars and went full-steam ahead.

Now, they get to learn what consequences are. https://t.co/H2JfQTBkKl

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 10, 2024

What I’m waiting for is just one head to roll at any of the major news outlets for four years spent sitting on the biggest presidential news since Watergate.

I’ll be waiting a good, long while, it seems, because none of the major news outlets give a damn about their credibility.

WELL, YEAH: Dems Privately Admit Trump Is No Threat to Democracy. “‘I can live with Donald Trump winning,’ is what elected Democrats privately admit to New York Times columnist and Vox cofounder Ezra Klein, in discussions that are so far off the record that Klein’s notes have been tucked away in that Indiana Jones warehouse.”

UPDATE (From Ed):

I dunno how this sort of deranged rhetoric became normal. If Dems actually believed this, they would be moving assets off shore and fleeing the country in makeshift boats given the current polling. https://t.co/IzyJl1FyHV

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) July 11, 2024

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, LOWER YOUR STANDARDS: Up, up and away: ‘Recalibration’ is raising AP exam scores.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: AOC Files Articles of Impeachment Against Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito.

COLORADO: Inflation closes our favorite restaurants.

“It’s something that we’ve seen statewide,” said Colin Larson, director of affairs for the Colorado Restaurant Association, as quoted by Fox 21 News in Colorado Springs.

Restaurateurs — those holding on and those closing their doors — say inflation is crushing them and their customers. Restaurants can’t find food supplies at prices affordable to consumers who have less to spend because of inflation affecting other goods and services they need.

No state has suffered more restaurant inflation in the past year than Colorado, which saw a whopping increase of 24% in 2023 based on U.S. Census Bureau data. For average wage earners, eating out is no longer an option.

This is not a slight increase relative to the rest of the country. While prices at Colorado restaurants increased 24%, they decreased by 6% in Alaska. Florida’s restaurant prices decreased by 2%, Hawaii’s by 3% and Tennessee’s by 5%.

The cause for Colorado’s problem is no mystery. Only seven states have a higher nontip minimum wage mandates than Colorado’s $14.42. Denver’s minimum is a whopping $18.29. Few states, if any, have imposed more rules and restrictions on small employers.

The economic beatings will continue until conditions improve.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Delegates Are Revolting! Biden Campaign Collapse Tracker Day 7. “The operation appears to be proceeding with the finesse we’ve come to expect from Team Biden.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rolls Starship Super Heavy booster to launch pad ahead of 5th test flight.