ANOTHER REASON NOT TO GET COCKY:
I think they would want to stay out of the news no matter what they planned or knew.
I also think they want Biden to win because that means they call the shots. Dirty tricks seem inevitable. https://t.co/HK58YINt9e
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 1, 2024
IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: Orange Man BAD Takes on HILARIOUS New Meaning After Bronzed Biden Appearance and X Takes are Comedy GOLD.
LAWRENCE LESSIG: The Constitution Protects ‘Fake Electors.’
Arizona has joined Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in seeking to prosecute Donald Trump’s 2020 electors. Mr. Trump and his party’s lawyers encouraged them to meet and vote on the date set by Congress, Dec. 15. Because Joe Biden carried those states, Democrats and journalists call these Trump electors “fake.” But the effort to prosecute them is unconstitutional, and the campaign to vilify them is stupid. A twist on a plotline from the HBO series “Succession” illustrates why.
In season 4, episode 8, a fire at a Milwaukee “vote count center” destroys more than 100,000 ballots, throwing Wisconsin—and the election—to the Republican candidate. Imagine a more complicated story: After the fire, the governor invokes federal law to order voting in Milwaukee be reopened. A state court holds that action unconstitutional. Democrats appeal.
While the litigation unfolds, the clock ticks.
Read the whole thing. I’d just add that anything being stupid or unconstitutional has never stopped Democrats in pursuit of power.
THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED: Trump Spox Sneaks Onto Collapsing Biden Campaign’s Conference Call.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: ‘Turning Classrooms Into Arenas Of Radicalism’: Teachers Union Tasks Anti-Israel Activist To Create Curriculum About Israel. “The Director of Training & Professional Learning for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Ricardo Rosa, has a record of disseminating anti-American and anti-Israel rhetoric. He referred to the United States as a ‘settler colony,’ glorified Leila Khaled, a terrorist who hijacked a plane, supported a professor who labeled Zionists ‘swine,’ encouraged protests in Jewish neighborhoods, and advocated for a ‘Free Palestine in the immediate days after the October 7 massacre by Hamas on civilians in southern Israel.”
STRAIGHT TO THE CIRCULAR FILE: AOC to File Articles of Impeachment Over Immunity Ruling.
BAD THINGS LEAK — OR TALL TALES BECOME BELIEVABLE — WHEN A CAMPAIGN FLOUNDERS: Grab the Popcorn: Tucker Reveals What ‘Unusually Good Source’ Shared About Obama/Biden Relationship. “According to the source, Obama supports an open Democratic National Convention at this point.”
Is it true about Obama? Or is some other high-level Democrat trying to force an open convention?
CORN, POPPED: The Biden Campaign Is in Chaos.
On Saturday afternoon, DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a conference call with dozens of DNC members nationwide, and it did not go well. In fact, it arguably made things worse.
“Multiple committee members on the call, most granted anonymity to talk about the private discussion, described feeling like they were being gaslighted — that they were being asked to ignore the dire nature of the party’s predicament,” the AP reported. “The call, they said, may have worsened a widespread sense of panic among elected officials, donors and other stakeholders.”
Participants on the call said Harrison offered “a rosy assessment of Biden’s path forward,” and no questions were allowed during the call.
Taking questions runs the risk of puncturing the bubble.
HERE’S THE SLIGHTLY LONGER — BUT MUCH MORE REVEALING — VERSION OF THE CLIP I RAN EARLIER TODAY:
Reporter: Will you drop out of the race?
Joe Biden: *runs away* pic.twitter.com/jrhGCAQFsg
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 2, 2024
He’s running… for cover.
DON’T GET COCKY BUT THIS LOOKS VERY, VERY BAD FOR THEM: Nate Silver Has Some Bad News for Biden and the Democrats.
MON DIEU: Is France Heading for a Civil War?
If the National Rally passes the 289 seats limit, Mr. Macron is supposed to call upon Mr. Bardella to form the cabinet. This would be seen as a casus belli by the militant far left. Alternatively, Mr. Macron may cite law and order concerns to bar Mr. Bardella from the premiership and form an “apolitical” or “technical” cabinet. A move that the right may construe as a coup d’Etat.
The far left’s “civil war” threats should not be ignored and are not. Shops and restaurants are already barricading. Mayors — including the most liberal ones — are begging for police and gendarmerie deployment.
They fear “punitive raids” by the well-trained urban guerilla fighters known as the black bloc — a kind of left-wing “Invisible Empire” that periodically pops up in France and in other European countries — and large scale youth riots and arsons, just like one year ago.
Even more ominous is the ethnic/religious dimension of the crisis. The French take much pride in laïcité, their traditional “wall of separation” between government and organized religion. Only religion — both as faith, culture, and community identity — is back on the map with a vengeance.
It is, first and foremost, a consequence of Islam’s spectacular rise over the past 50 years: a 1,100 percent growth, to about 12 million in 2024 from 1 million in the early 1970s, thanks to high communal birth rates, mass immigration, and conversions.
No matter how it plays out, this dangerous moment is the result of decades of French elites actively working against French interests.
WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: Leftists Call for Trump’s Assassination Online.
THIS HAS BEEN THE NORM FROM BIDEN FOR MORE THAN THREE YEARS:
Good morning to everyone except people who pretended this all hasn’t been obvious for years. pic.twitter.com/H4YasGUFrg
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 2, 2024
Although watching the press try to cover its tracks has been a delight.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There’s Poetry in Clarence Thomas Being a Thorn in Joe Biden’s Lawfare. “The kindly uniter story that the MSM hacks told about Biden in 2020 had absolutely no basis in reality, and no one knew that better than Clarence Thomas.”
PARENTING BEGINS AT HOME: Teachers don’t have time to be therapists, cops, nurses and social workers.
DON’T GET COCKY: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer warns Michigan isn’t winnable for Biden after debate.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer doesn’t think Michigan is winnable for President Joe Biden.
In a call with Biden’s campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the Michigan Democrat said the highly important swing state may no longer be in play after the President’s disastrous debate performance.
Following a chaotic debate where Biden stumbled over his words, lost his train of thought and was oftentimes hard to understand, Democrats are scrambling and some are calling for him to drop out.
Whitmer’s name is being floated as a potential replacement on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
But Whitmer, according to Politico, said on her call with Dillon that she didn’t like her name coming up as a fill-in should Biden be ousted from November’s ballot.
Whitmer — you’ll be shocked to learn — is lying. Maybe not about Michigan being in play, although she’s certainly going to pump Trump’s chances there so long as she hasn’t replaced Biden.
And her people have been working Washington since last year — just in case, wink-wink — that might become necessary.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Embrace the Deep State, Comrades! “Just in time for the end of a mostly low-key Pride Month, various lefties came out of the closet to publicly announce their unabashed love of the Deep State after their four-year dalliance with Muh Democracy™.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (CHINA EDITION): China factory activity contracts for second straight month in June.
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Supreme Court Justice Thomas Takes Aim at Trump Special Counsel Prosecutor.
THERE’S PLENTY TO GO AROUND: Roundup Of Dem Panic Over Slow Joe.
GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: The (De)Population Bomb.
U.S. birth rates have plummeted, and what we face in 2024 is not “over-population”, but “de-population.”
And here it seems that the environmental activists, Leftists all, have finally outsmarted themselves.
A declining population is catastrophic for the Leftist project. For one thing, it threatens to destroy the welfare state Ponzi scheme, which is dependent on an ever-growing supply of young workers to pay into the system. For another, a declining population reduces the chances that the human race will produce the sort of game-changing scientists and entrepreneurs who will one day develop the ability to solve complex environmental problems without bankrupting all the nations of the Earth and casting billions into poverty and despair.
The way I see it, there’s really only one option left if we want to save the planet…
Sex!
It’s certainly worth trying — again and again.
“WE WILL DECIDE OUR FUTURE”: You’ll Never Guess Who Just Made a Power Play on the Cover of Vogue.
THIS IS WHAT WINNING LOOKS LIKE:
BREAKING:
Javier Milei has disbanded the Ministry of Women and fired 85% of its employees.
The rest were redirected to work in the old Department of Gender Protection, which will now be renamed as the “Department of Family Protection”
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 30, 2024
Plus: “The changes mean that the department will now help all people who are in abusive relationships, not just women.”
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