August 3, 2024
PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE: Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris.
As his 100th birthday nears, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has revealed his ultimate birthday wish—to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Carter, who has been in hospice care since Feb. 2023, could make history on Oct. 1 as the first president to reach their [sic–Ed] 100th birthday. But he told his family a bigger goal for him would be to see the defeat of Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
His grandson Jason Carter said he told his son Chip a few days ago, when asked whether he was trying to make it to his 100th birthday, that he is “only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”
No need to worry, he’ll make it — one way or another:
Last month, Howie Carr wrote that Joe Biden has finally supplanted Carter as “the worst president, ever.” Both men may be looking to Kamala to best them in the Red Queen’s Race for that ignominious title. However, as Carr wrote:
The biggest difference between Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden was that Carter was at least trying to do the right thing by the United States of America.
Everything Biden’s handlers conspired to accomplish was designed to subvert not just American society, but western civilization in general.
That’s Kamala’s goal as well.
Flashback: “I see the contrast coming into view. Joe Biden is making Jimmy Carter look like a good president.”
Was this the moment when everything went pear-shaped?
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THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Why the man that ‘gets s— done’ might not be able to save Kamala Harris in the rust belt.
If Josh Shapiro has a political philosophy, it is to “get s— done”. The Pennsylvania governor constantly uses the phrase, whether he is repairing a collapsed highway in a matter of days, negotiating a budget through a divided legislature, or posting on TikTok.
He even keeps a mug stamped with the mantra on his desk.
While less inspiring than some political slogans, it has helped Mr Shapiro position himself as a down-to-earth dealmaker who cares more about results than politics.
Now Kamala Harris looks likely to ask the popular, plain-talking governor to get something else done: to win her the key battleground state of Pennsylvania in the forthcoming presidential election.
While she has yet to formally anoint a running mate, there are several clues that suggest Mr Shapiro, one of an ambitious new generation of Democrats, is in pole position to be the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee.
While Kamala is, as the Ministry of Truth AP would say, “calibrating her policy pitch” to downplay her far left views as she feigns tacking towards the center for the general election, Shapiro is also busy airbrushing his record to minimize the damage his presence on the ticket would cause from other extreme elements in the current version of the Democrats’ “Big Tent:” Josh Shapiro Doesn’t Want You To Know This About Him.
Shapiro now insists he supports a two-state solution.
“I was 20,” he said. “I have said for years, years before October 7, that I favor a two-state solution — Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully side-by-side, being able to determine their own futures and their own destiny.”
For sure, views can evolve, but Shapiro is also now sadly downplaying something he shouldn’t. In the same aforementioned op-ed, he identified himself as a former volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Today, however, his campaign is downplaying that.
“While he was in high school, Josh Shapiro was required to do a service project, which he and several classmates completed through a program that took them to a kibbutz in Israel where he worked on a farm and at a fishery,” Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Shapiro, told The Times of Israel. “The program also included volunteering on service projects on an Israeli army base. At no time was he engaged in any military activities.”
Simultaneously, Shapiro’s volunteering for the IDF has been scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.
Imagine being so desperate to be chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate that you would look at volunteering for the IDF as something not to be proud of because you’re trying to appease the antisemitic and anti-Zionist wing of the Democratic Party. This is the Democratic Party of today.
Or to put it more bluntly, as Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) tweeted on Thursday, “These Progressives don’t want a Jew. Let’s say it out loud. Imagine if moderate Dems said they didn’t want a certain minority. The condemnations would be deafening. Yet now we hear much silence.”
Incidentally, “Getting s___ done” apparently has all sorts of meanings for Shapiro:
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HEATHER MAC DONALD: Girling the Boy Scouts. Progressives notch another victory in their war on American institutions.
RICK BEATO: A WHITER SHADE OF BURN (Video).
JULY WAS BAD ENOUGH: Watch Out for August! Think July was historic? Tevi Troy looks back on previous summers and concludes: Beware the eighth month.
CONSEQUENCES: Acquitted former student sues 15 groups for defamation after they called him a rapist: Experienced prosecutor should have known better than to call an acquitted person a rapist, filing says. “Saifullah Khan is suing fifteen organizations including the National Women’s Law Center, the Fierberg National Law Group, and the National Crime Victim Law Institute, along with attorney Jennifer Becker, for ‘defamation, false light, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and abuse of process action.’ Khan (pictured) is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages.”
DRAW THE LINE: Aerosmith retires from touring, citing permanent damage to Steven Tyler’s voice last year.
Aerosmith says Steven Tyler’s voice has been permanently damaged by a vocal cord injury last year and the band will no longer tour.
The iconic band behind hits like “Love in an Elevator” and “Livin’ on the Edge” posted a statement Friday announcing the cancellation of remaining dates on its tour and provided an update on Tyler’s voice.
“He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury. We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side. Sadly, it is clear, that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible,” the statement said. “We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”
Tyler announced he injured his vocal cords in September during a show on its Peace Out: The Farewell Tour. Tyler said in an Instagram statement at the time that the injury caused bleeding but that he hoped the band would be back after postponing a few shows.
Hopefully the band can continue in the studio. Very worst case scenario, last year, it was reported that British singer Sam Brown, whose vocal chords were damaged in 2007, used the pitch correction software Melodyne so that she could sing again in the studio. Between resting his voice by not touring, pitch correction software and/or the latest advancements in vocal AI, perhaps Tyler can at least still make records.
DARWIN ON MEN AND WOMEN: Yep, he said it, men are more highly evolved than women in all respects. Then the next question becomes is Darwin accountable for how those who followed in his analytical footsteps read or misread him?
DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER: Voters fail Harris on border, 60% say it’s key to their vote.
JOHN NOLTE: Imploding CNN Shutters ‘Opinion’ Site (No One Read).
Well, the delusion is over. CNN has announced an end to the ludicrous fantasy. CNN Opinion is no more. And I mean “CNN Opinion” is no more. Obviously CNN itself is all opinion, and lies and bullying to back up that opinion, but the vertical has shuttered.
Now that I’m looking at CNN Opinion for the first time (that’s not a joke), you can tell it was nothing more than an affirmative action program for leftists like Dean Obeidallah—people who could never survive on merit.
Here are some of the more recent headlines:
- The galling mistake that led the US to its current debt problem
- How Billie Eilish is unleashing queer imagination
- The real significance of the Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron deference’ ruling
- Andrew McCarthy deserves to be taken seriously
- Dear Joe, it’s time to go
- The real loser in Thursday’s debate
- The female gaze is taking over page and screen, and it is hot
- My teenage son had an influencer in his class. This is what it was like
- Fighting antisemitism, one curl at a time
CNN paid for that shit.
Here’s how CNN’s valued opinion contributors were informed they might have to get real jobs now…
“Just a quick note to let you know that unfortunately CNN has decided to shut down the opinion section,” an opinion editor sent in an email, per the Hill. “I hope our paths cross elsewhere!”
That’s it. That was the whole goodbye.
Well, that’s par for the course at CNN. Flashback to 2022: CNN+ (hey, remember them?!) folded so quickly that some staffers actually received welcome packages after the network pulled the plug on it.
REMEMBER THE ‘AMERICAN TALIBAN,’ JOHN WALKER LINDH? If you do, you may also recognize the name of one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ new advisors, Tony West. The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo remembers all of this stuff and, among much else, his latest report suggests being a Far-Left radical is a Harris family affair.
#JOURNALISM:
The Slack won't allow it! https://t.co/rP9ZwHwgnd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 1, 2024
I’D RATHER HAVE THE REAL DR. PHIL: Who Is Kamala’s Dr. Phil? As Harris’s national security adviser, Phil Gordon brings a ton of experience to the job—and none of it good.
WE WE’RE THIS CLOSE IN GIVING HIM TO THE RUSSIANS:
Joe Biden climbed back up the stairs of an airplane he wasn't supposed to be on, as Kamala Harris and the Secret Service watched in disbelief. He clearly has no idea where he is or what he's doing. h/t @ianmSC pic.twitter.com/O82qcXyRzu
— @amuse (@amuse) August 2, 2024
FASTER AND MORE OF THIS, PLEASE: Ohio removes hundreds more illegal immigrants from voter rolls.
