Dear Mrs. Jill Biden

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Unless you have been living under a rock you are aware that Joe Biden is mentally and physically unfit to continue as POTUS let alone serve another four years. This was on full display Thursday June 27th Presidential Debate.

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Music H/T: Hadrian The Seventh
Meme H/T: CBD

Thank you Gentlemen.

Good morning Horde, boys, girls and everything in between. Before we get to the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping items to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Richland Center)

1. This is an open thread, please feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate away.
2. Be nice to one another. Let's not stop this thread.
3. Running with sharp objects is highly frowned upon. Run at your own risk.
4. Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 29 June 2024

Top Story

• Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators. (Tech Crunch)
  
  There has been plenty of coverage of what the reversal of the 1984 Chevron decision means - the emasculation of the administrative state - so I'll just examine the tech industry impact of this, via the same liberal fascist wailing that we see everywhere else.
  
  Net neutrality:

  The entire concept of net neutrality is perched atop the FCC's interpretation of whether broadband data is an "information service" or a "communications service," the terms written in the act empowering that agency.

  Wrong right out of the gate. Net neutrality is a universal concept. The FCC is trying to arrogate the power to enforce net neutrality by twisting the definitions in its charter until they squeak, but that is a different question.

  If the FCC is not empowered to settle this ambiguity in a very old law that was written well before today's broadband and mobile networks

  It is not so empowered and never has been.

  who is?

  Congress.

  Whatever court takes the case brought by the telecommunications industry, which hates net neutrality and would prefer an interpretation where the FCC doesn't regulate them at all.

  No, Congress.

  And if the industry doesn't like that court's interpretation, it gets a few more shots as the case rises towards - oh, the Supreme Court.

  And Congress.

  Why is this so consequential for tech? Because the tech industry has been facing down a wave of regulatory activity led by these agencies, operating in the vacuum of Congressional action. Due to a lack of effective federal laws in tech, agencies have had to step up and offer updated interpretations of the laws on the books.

  Which was never within their authority.
  
  I support net neutrality. ISPs and cable companies amply demonstrated themselves to be hideously untrustworthy.
  
  It's just that the FCC has no authority to make such a regulation.
  
  AI:

  Let us be optimistic for once and imagine that Congress passes a big law on AI, protecting certain information, requiring certain disclosures, and so on. It's impossible that such a law would contain no ambiguities or purposeful vagueness to allow for the law to apply to as-yet-unknown situations or applications. Thanks to the Supreme Court, those ambiguities will no longer be resolved by experts.

  The experts can resolve the issues when the laws are enforced. There is no problem with that.
  
  The only change here is that the courts are not required to defer to experts within the regulatory agencies on their interpretations of the laws.

  (As an example of how this will play out, in the very decision issued today, Justice Gorsuch repeatedly referred to nitrogen oxide, a pollutant at issue, as nitrous oxide, laughing gas. This is the level of expertise we may expect.)

  Face first on a rake.
  
  There are at least a dozen compounds under the generic label "nitrogen oxide", and it is not the proper name for any of them.
  

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ELEMENONT

We used to be a proper country.

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Water Hazards Cafe

An osprey catching a meal

I chomp you!

Gonna guess this is scenic Australia.

Orcas playing with their food.

Orcas just swimming towards a human, not meaning no harm...

Orcas have been ramming and sinking boats lately.

On Sunday (May 12), an unknown number of orcas (Orcinus orca) attacked the 49-foot-long (15 meters) sailing yacht named the Alboran Cognac in the Strait of Gibraltar -- a narrow body of water between southern Spain and North Africa that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. During the attack, which began at around 9 a.m. local time, the killer whales repeatedly rammed the boat's hull and rudder, Reuters reported.

The yacht's two-person crew radioed for help and was rescued by a passing oil tanker. But the vessel's hull sustained serious damage during the attack and the yacht began to take on water, which eventually caused it to sink, Reuters reported.

The attack was likely carried out by a growing number of individuals from the Iberian subpopulation of orcas -- a group of around 40 killer whales that live off the coasts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Gibraltar -- that have been attacking boats across their range since 2020.

Most of the attacks occur between May and August each year in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. However, earlier this year, some of the highly social apex predators were spotted circling a boat in northern Spain, suggesting they have spread out much further and earlier than normal.

They've sunk five yachts in three years.

Can we get them to take an interest in Jeff Bezos...? Maybe douse him with tuna water.

Major water hazard.

A shark stalking through the tall grass.

I must eat you.

The dark and menacing sea.

Baby crocs, doo-doo-do-do-do-do, baby crock! Sound on. They have a strange vocalization. Sounds like Star Wars blasters.

This jellyfish is probably dangerous.

Which of these sea creatures will successfully make off with the food? The answer will surprise you!!!

So I was swimming with some alligators, no big whoop, mindin' my own, and then one of these gators decides to get fresh! Why I never!

A glass octopus.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

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French President Macron: If You Vote for "Populists," It Could Lead to "Civil War"

We're hearing, increasingly, the same from American left. In one breath they say people cannot vote for the right, as the right would destroy our precious democracy.

In the very next breath, they warn of political violence from the left, warning us that we dare not contest their control of government or they will revolt.

It can't be both, guys. You cannot have it both ways. Either you support Our Precious Democracy, or you're violent revolutionaries who will kill people to retain power.

Macron is a fine example of a leftwing technocratic shitlib. He's supposed to be some kind of Third Way centrist, and a "reasonable" person.

But here is threatening violent, bloody revolution unless people reelect his party.

French President Emmanuel Macron cautions that voting for populist parties in the upcoming elections could lead to "civil war," prompting accusations of fearmongering as his own leadership faces severe criticism.

Key Details:

Alarmist Statements: Macron claimed that electing right-wing National Rally or leftist-socialist New Popular Front could divide the nation, sparking civil unrest.

Opposition Response: Jordan Bardella, National Rally's candidate, criticized Macron's divisive comments, pointing to ongoing unrest as a persistent issue under Macron's presidency.

Historical Context: Macron's tenure has been marked by numerous protests and riots, including the recent racially charged riots and contentious pension reform strikes.

Diving Deeper:

President Emmanuel Macron has issued a hyperbolic warning about the potential for "civil war" should populist parties gain power in the forthcoming legislative elections. Macron has labeled the "political extremes" represented by Marine Le Pen's right-wing National Rally and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-wing New Popular Front as dangerous.

The President argues that both the right-wing and leftist-populist agendas could exacerbate national divisions, citing the right's focus on identity and the left's push toward communitarianism. His claims are supported by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who accuses both parties of nurturing a cycle of hatred and division that threatens the social fabric of France.

Do you remember Zack Beauchamp? That's the guy who wrote "battle reports" from Iraq, supposedly true but one has one's doubts, for the New Republic. His stories were full of US soldiers shooting dogs for no reason and even one guy wearing a dead human skull for a hat.

In other words, he was a creative writing drop-out who knew what his leftwing audience at the New Republic already believed about US soldiers and was eager to serve them up a big plate of Confirmation Bias.

Now he's warning about Republican "authoritarianism" in terms so strident and stark it sure sounds like the only thing a good leftist can do to resist this authoritarianism is... outlaw the opposition party and impose "peace" through violence.

Mark Judge, one of the men smeared by lunatic leftwing fabulist Crissy Blowsey-Ford, reviews his paranoid conspiracy-addled call to arms.

Submit to leftism or you're an authoritarian

Beauchamp is a writer for the leftist website Vox. In The Reactionary Spirit, he spends a lot of time arguing that former President Donald Trump and the new political populism represent authoritarianism -- despite the fact that most political and cultural repression today is coming from the Left. Leftists such as Beauchamp keep preaching that Republicans are authoritarians, then in the next breath demand that you submit to the Left's policies, no matter how irrational, immoral, unconstitutional, or bizarre.

Here is the sleight of hand that Beauchamp uses. He takes old cases of people resisting moral and necessary social change and declares that such attitudes are still a driving force on the Right. Are you against a boy claiming to be transgender sharing a locker with your daughter? You're no different from the goons who beat up civil rights marchers. You're an authoritarian.

Someone once observed that "for liberals, it will forever be Selma, Alabama, in 1965." This is where Beauchamp lives. He never considers that in the last 50 years, liberalism itself has changed, going from being focused on equality, common sense, and due process to becoming hysterical, punitive, and irrational -- not to mention authoritarian.

Judge relays Beauchamp's message that the right is authoritarian, while ignoring Obama's crackdown on the press and drone strikes against American citizens.

...

Beauchamp uses academic jargon to disguise the weakness of his premise. He can't call Trump an outright authoritarian because Trump gives press conferences, is for gay rights, tries to keep America out of wars, and tries to remove regulations on businesses. Trump can also be an infantile crybaby, but that's petulance, not authoritarianism. Instead, Beauchamp warns of "powerful political factions in established democracies" that "worked to alter the very fabric of the democratic system" and "were able to replace democracy with something altogether different: a system that appeared democratic at first glance but was fundamentally rigged in favor of the ruling party." This, Beauchamp declares, is "competitive authoritarianism."

Competitive authoritarianism "maintains formal democratic rules but breaks those rules in order to protect a special class."

Huh, you mean like a cadre of powerful bureaucrats conspiring with propaganda media to rig elections and subvert a democratically elected president?

...

In 2024, everybody in America is an oppressed group. Regardless of whether an objection to their elevation and the eradication of tradition is based on religion, human reason, science, natural law, or logic, it must be steamrolled. Guys like Beauchamp will be driving the truck.

It's a good piece, worth your time.

Below, a "Democracy Defender" promises that their will be blood in the streets, and "people will die, people will die!" if Trump is elected.

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The End of "Pride:" The Wages of Woke Is Death

An antifa tranny accused of murdering a trans activist is being held in a women's prison, naturally.

Margot "Myles" Lewis, the trans-identified male suspect arrested on Saturday after being found with the dead body of trans activist Liara Tsai in Lewis's backseat, is being held in jail with females.

The Olmsted County Adult Detention Center told The Post Millennial's Andy Ngo that Lewis "identifies as a female" and has been booked and housed with females.

According to ABC 6, Lewis has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder, with and without intent. The charges were handed down by the Hennepin County Court.

Lewis, of New Liberty, Iowa, was arrested on Saturday at around 7 am after Lewis crashed into a guardrail on I-90 near Eyota, Minnesota. Authorities discovered the body of Tsai, formerly known as Thomas Omar Stavlo, in the backseat of Lewis' vehicle wrapped in a bed sheet, blanket, futon-style mattress, and a tarp.

A deputy noted that Tsai was found with a large wound to the neck near the carotid artery. A Minneapolis police officer's report filed on Saturday classified Tsai's death as murder by a deadly weapon, such as a knife or "cutting instrument."

Following Lewis' arrest and Tsai's death, reports have referred to both the victim and the suspect as women, with some claiming that transphobia played a part in the killing.

See Andy Ngo's article for a round-up of media liars claiming that this involved one "woman" killing someone. And these liars are claiming this might have been a transphobic killing, pretending that the killer is not a tranny himself.

Here's GLAAD calling for an investigation into this obviously transphobic murder.

Chip Roy is demanding that the "stutterer" Biden turn over documents about the DOJ's latest political witch-hunt, this time about the brave doctor who turned whistleblower on Texas Children's Hospital, illegally continuing trans mutilations of children in defiance of Texas law.

Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, demanding documents related to the prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim. Dr. Haim faces up to 10 years in prison for speaking out against child sex change procedures at Texas Children's Hospital. The DOJ has accused Haim of "obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without authorization."

In 2022, Texas AG Ken Paxton issued an opinion stating that procedures performed at Texas Children's Hospital amounted to child abuse. Despite the hospital's announcement a month later to cease such procedures on minors, Haim revealed in 2023 that these interventions were still occurring.

"While DR. Haim's bravery to come forward led Texas to enact bipartisan legislation banning 'transgender medical interventions' for minors, the Department of Justice chose to prosecute Dr. Haim," Roy wrote in his letter.

More Hawaiian judge interference in state law:

A Missoula County District Court judge has ruled that Montana's law which provided a legal definition of "sex" and referred to a person only as a male or female is unconstitutional.

Judge Shane Vannatta struck down the law, implemented last year, following a lawsuit from plaintiffs identifying as transgender, nonbinary, and other gender-nonconforming identities. They argued that the law denied legal recognition to gender-nonconforming individuals.

Judge Vannatta, while he did not address claims that the law failed to provide legal recognition to transgender individuals, determined that the law failed to adequately explain what the term "sex" referred to--whether it meant gender or sexual intercourse--and did not indicate the words "male" or "female" would be defined in the body of the bill, according to the Associated Press.

Any guesses as to what Shane Vannatta might look like?

Fewer piercings than I was expecting. If he had more hair, I bet it would be blue.

Another illegal alien is suspected of murdering a 21-year-old girl on her birthday and burying her in a park.

Happy birthday! Blue Collar Joe got you a Central American Killer!

A 21-year-old Ecuadorian illegal immigrant has been charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse after allegedly suffocating a woman on her 21st birthday and hiding her body in a Syracuse park in New York.

Jhon Mosies Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, is accused of burying 21-year-old Joselym Jhoana Toaquiza in a shallow grave, 15 feet beyond the tree line in Lincoln Park, according to prosecutors in the case. Chacaguasay-Ilbis traveled to central New York to meet Toaquiza, who he knew from school in Ecuador, per the Post Standard.

Surveillance footage from an Airbnb showed Chacaguasay-Ilbis carrying an apparently limp Toaquiza on his back. Blood was also found in the Airbnb, according to the owner who shared the video footage with family and police. Additional video footage showed Chacaguasay-Ilbis returning to the Airbnb three hours later before quickly leaving in different clothes and taking a Lyft to a local bus station.

You probably already know about the Albany girl raped by a brigand in Biden's Army of Criminal Illegals.

A Turkish illegal immigrant has been arrested over a month after he allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl in the back of his car in Albany, New York. Sakir Akkan, 21, was subsequently charged with first degree rape. He was previously arrested when he crossed the border last year but was released by Border Patrol due to a lack of bed space.

Akkan, originally from Turkey, was apprehended by border security after crossing into the United States illegally via San Diego last November, but quickly released due to a lack of space in detention facilities. After telling agents he was trying to get to Philadelphia, he was ordered to appear in court in Pennsylvania in February 2025, per the New York Post.

The New York Times runs cover for another criminal illegal alien murderer:

Always remember, Bigots: Only non-Americans have dreams.

LibsofTikTok spotlighted a Texas teacher posting fetish-gear/Speedo pictures of his fat self and videos of him pretending to be a sexy genie. Content advisory.

A Gays Against Groomers guy trolled a library hosting a drag queen story hour about how super-excited he is that a "van full of children" would soon be his for the enjoying. Note: This guy is NOT David French. This guy has a jawline. (And also note, this guy is trolling the library, he's not really into the "van full of children.")

When you oppose Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' constant racial pandering," she'll accuse you of "bringing race into it."

Nassau County, NY, lawmakers ban boys and men from competing with girls.

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Is This Something?

Kevin Costner's two part (at least!) would-be epic western opens today:

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The DNC is Funding Lawfare Against Trump Directly, Sending Payments to Non-Rape Victim and Fabulist E. Jean Carroll's Law Firm
Update: Democrats Threaten "Retribution" in "Lock Him Up" Chant

Oh.

Gee I never would have suspected this. I was sure it was just a "conspiracy theory" that Biden and the Democrats were paying for the lawfare on Trump.

Fake Jake told me so!

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has sent millions of dollars to law firms that are intimately involved in an "unprecedented lawfare" campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller.

The DNC has paid close to $2 million since August of 2021 to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP for "legal services," according to the DNC's FEC filings. Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP founding partner Roberta A. Kaplan represented E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault and defamation suits against Trump. The New York Times previously reported that Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, helped pay for Carroll's lawsuits.

The DNC did not pay the firm for any services from its founding in 2017 until August of 2021. Carroll initiated her first lawsuit against Trump in 2019.

The firm states that it was founded to "build a law firm for the future rooted in principles of equity, integrity, and justice." Partner Joshua Matz served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment trial. He was invited back to serve on the second impeachment trial, according to the firm's website. The firm also touts "representing former U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson as a court-appointed amicus in United States of America v. Michael T. Flynn."

The DNC has also paid Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP several million dollars for "legal services" since 2021, according to FEC filings. ABC News previously reported the firm has "represented the DNC for a long time." Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP has filed numerous Amicus briefs in the United States v. Donald Trump case, which concerns Trump's potential criminal liability for actions related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6, and currently sits before the Supreme Court.

Several alumni from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have ended up with major roles in the Biden administration, including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is also a WilmerHale alumnus.

"There is now clear and explosive evidence that the Biden DNC is paying Democrat law firms to engage in in this unprecedented lawfare and election interference against President Trump," Mike Davis, a legal adviser to Trump and the founder and president of the Article III Project, told the Caller.

Can't be. I know the DNC has an impregnable firewall between themselves and the Trump lawfare that they're paying for, just like Joe Biden had an impregnable wall between his brother's and his crackhead son's foreign buckraking "businesses."

Oh wait, Biden met with their business partners and used Hunter's "business" partner as his accountant?

Doesn't matter, still a conspiracy theory, Bigot.

Bonus: A prog idiot, before and after the debate.

Update: Suddenly "lock him up" chants are not corrosive to Muh Precious Democracy.

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The Boycott of Tractor Supply for Supporting "Pride" Causes, DEI, and Open Borders Organizations Costs the Company Bigly

Internet activist Robby Starbuck discovered that a Tractor Supply company, which of course played up the whole Good Old Country Family Business thing, was simultaneously spending a lot of money on "Pride" events and supporting leftwing causes. He called attention to it.

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck

It's time to expose Tractor Supply.

It's one of the most beloved brands in America by conservatives but what do they REALLY stand for under CEO @hallawton's leadership?

* LGBTQIA+ training for employees
* Funding pride/drag events
* They have a DEI Council
* Funding sex changes
* Climate change activism
* Pride month decorations in the office
* DEI hiring practices
*
LGBTQIA+ events at work

Hal also liked posts attacking unvaccinated people and @AllisonW_Sports when she left ESPN over the COVID vaccine. Let's just say those likes make it appear he's NOT fond of people who chose to skip the vaccine.

I take no pleasure in bringing this all to light. I'm a Tennessean who loves to support TN companies but as a proud Tennessean I know these woke priorities don't align with our state or @TractorSupply's customer base.

We must make our voices heard. Hal Lawton needs to understand that we don't want our hard earned money spent on these woke priorities. If he supports this stuff then he should spend some of his $11M salary or tens of millions in stock on it instead of using the money we spend at Tractor Supply.

The kind of sex you like is not an appropriate topic for work. Events built around the kind of sex people like to have should not have kids at them and should not be funded with the money we spend at Tractor Supply.

Here's his first video about the company.

Obviously the company was also all-in on Didn't Earn It:

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck

Over the past 2 weeks I've exposed how the CEO of @TractorSupply
has made woke policy and DEI "a strategic priority" for Tractor Supply but now you get to hear him say it himself.

Here he explains how important DEI is to him and credits his DEI push for a white employee helping a black customer as if that wouldn't have happened before DEI.

"You mentioned DEI, that's a critical, strategic priority for us... It's just the right thing to do"

Interviewer: "So it's embedded in your culture"

*CEO nods yes*

The story about the white employee is really insulting in my view because it suggests that previous to his ESG push, white employees wouldn't do that or somehow black customers were treated badly. People who buy into this DEI garbage want to convince us that it's helping end racism when in fact it's putting more of a focus on race that divides us.

No matter what the intentions are, this is an embrace of the left wing ESG/DEI agenda. The way many of us see it, diversity has become division, equity has become unfairness and inclusion has become indoctrination + silencing of dissent.

Forcing other people's political views on you at work doesn't make you virtuous.

If you've been a tractor supply customer, how do you feel about the direction @hallawton has taken the company? Sound off in the comments.

He then publicized Tractor Supply's support of a Soros-funded open borders group. He discusses this in a video there, but here's the text:

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck

Tractor Supply gave $100,000 to an activist group that "worked around the clock" to stop deportations during the Trump presidency.

The group is Conexion Americas'. Their founder also previously headed the National Council of La Raza which got $2+ Million from George Soros.

How do you feel about them using money you spend there to fund this garbage? It would be good to let @hallawton @TractorSupply know!

The boycott, which lasted three weeks, cost Tractor Supply two billion in lost market capital due to their stock price tanking.

And now:

The company has sent an email to all employees admitting that the corporation has "veered off course" by so heavily promoting divisive extremist leftwing political isssues.

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There Was a Massive Earthquake Last Night and the Geography of the Political World Is Now Changed

The Bee:

Politco:

Dems freak out over Biden's debate performance: 'Biden is toast'

One prominent operative texted, "Time for an open convention."

Really?

That surprises me, that really surprises me, because the Lying Media's claim for the past two weeks has been that all videos showing Biden wandering or stiffly trying to sit down when all other dignitaries knew to stand were just "cheap fakes."

CBS told me so. They deleted a video of Biden wandering and posted instead a note saying it was fake.

But now the Lying Press is telling me, all that was real?

Is the media once again just going to pretend it wasn't caught outrageously lying to aid the Democrat Party?

That's one of those rhetorical questions. Of course they'll lie. It's literally all the do.

The Gaslight Media does nothing but gaslight the public, often with psyops cooked up by their communist anti-American partners in the treasonous and, I dare say, delightfully prosecutable "Intelligence Community."

President Joe Biden opened the debate with a raspy voice and disjointed, rambling answers, reigniting Democratic concerns about his age and ability to take on former President Donald Trump.

Many of the president's answers were hard to follow. At one point, seemingly losing his train of thought, Biden said "we finally beat Medicare," misspeaking about his own policy on earned benefits.

In text messages with POLITICO, Democrats expressed confusion and concern as they watched the first minutes of the event. One former Biden White House and campaign aide called it "terrible," adding that they have had to ask themselves over and over "What did he just say? This is crazy."

Another veteran Democratic operative texted, "Biden seems to have needed a few minutes to warm up. I wonder if the lack of an audience was the right decision. And poor guy needs a tea. Maybe a whiskey."

Jay Surdukowski, an attorney and Democratic activist from New Hampshire who co-chaired Martin O'Malley's 2016 presidential campaign in the state, said, "Biden is toast -- calling it now."

Biden's rambling answers provided Trump multiple opportunities to jump in with retorts. At one point, after an answer ostensibly on immigration, Trump said, "I don't know what he said at the end there. I don't think he knows what he said."

A commenter said, about an hour in, that the excuse that would be proffered is that Biden had a cold.

I immediately, vigorously endorsed that speculation.

It was correct -- and even Politico is throwing doubts at Biden's camp for making this claim only after the debate.

A person familiar with Biden's health claimed that his performance is due to a cold. But the president's team hadn't mentioned that to reporters until Biden began to answer questions in the debate.

MSNBC is all-in on that lie, and saying the Real Villains Here were the White House staffers who failed to set expectations lower by telling us about his non-existent cold.

Another Politico article quotes Democrat donors daydreaming wistfully about Joe Biden's death.

'WTF': Panicked Dems start looking for alternatives to Biden

Three strategists close to three potential Democratic presidential candidates said they were bombarded with text messages.

Democrats are so panicked over President Joe Biden's faltering debate performance some are actively discussing what was once unspeakable: replacing him on the ticket.

Three strategists close to three potential Democratic presidential candidates said they had been bombarded with text messages throughout the debate. One adviser said they received pleas for their candidate to step forward as an alternative to Biden.

Another adviser said they had "taken no less than half a dozen key donors texting 'disaster' and [the] party needs to do something," but acknowledged that "not much is possible unless" Biden steps aside.

They were among more than a dozen Democrats who spoke with POLITICO, most of whom were granted anonymity to speak freely.

One major Democratic donor and Biden supporter said it was time for the president to end his campaign. This person described Biden's night as "the worst performance in history" and said Biden was so "bad that no one will pay attention to Trump's lies."

"Biden needs to drop out. No question about it," the donor said in a text message, proposing an alternate ticket led by the governors of Maryland and Michigan.
Biden stumbles, rambles at first presidential debate beside Trump

...

Biden struggled throughout much of the debate, the first 2024 general election matchup between the president and former President Donald Trump. The 81-year-old president has long faced questions about his fitness for office, and the debate -- the earliest general election matchup of its kind in modern political history -- had been a gambit by the Biden campaign to reset the narrative around the race.

For weeks, Democrats had hoped a strong performance by Biden in the debate could ease concerns about his age. Instead, it did the opposite.

...

The pleas from within the party, while unlikely to actually result in a change atop the ticket, reflect a major turn in the campaign. Incumbent presidents have traditionally underperformed during their first debates -- inundated by the demands of the job and often unable to dedicate serious time to preparation. But Thursday's debate was unique in that it affirmed an existing preconception of Biden among many voters as a candidate past his sell-by date.

One adviser to major Democratic Party donors said they were texting from a meeting of donors in Atlanta on Thursday night, some writing "wtf."

"Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies," the donor adviser said. "Otherwise we are fucking dead."

Nonetheless, the likelihood of a brokered convention or Biden stepping aside are unlikely, a reality that even those who privately complained about Biden's performance acknowledged.

"Only one guy can decide, and it's him," said one Democratic strategist.

Talking about the death of politicians is okay if you're a Regime progressive.

So any of you who want to talk about Biden's death -- just announce you're a Democrat donor.

Chuck Todd admits the "conservative media" was telling the truth when we said Biden was too old to do the job as president. But he fails to admit he and the other Gaslight Media propagandists lied. He's pretending they just didn't know.

Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro

The real question you should be asking tonight is why the entire media and Democratic Party have been obviously lying to you for years about Joe Biden's mental incapacity.

Yes that's my point, Ben. Stop copying my homework. (This whole post was written at 11:20 pm last night.)

My fren Erielle Azarad:

Erielle Azerrad
@politicalelle

Americans should be very angry that Biden's entire administration hid this decline for so long. They've put our nation at risk in so many ways. Enraging. Now we know why Garland has been hiding the tapes. Maddening. They all knew. Every single one.

Not just the administration -- every reporter in DC knew about this and concealed it from their readers/viewers.

Marina Medvin
@MarinaMedvin

They didn't just actively conceal it -- Biden's team and the entire Democratic Party actively, aggressively, and intentionally deceived the nation about his mental state. They ran cover for him just days ago. It was nonstop propaganda. Absolute fraud upon the nation.

Yes but, let's be serious, their job is to lie to voters.

What's Jake Tapper's excuse? What's CBS' excuse for lying about videos being "cheap fakes"?

THEY ALL KNEW. THEY LIED, AND LIED, AND LIED, AND LIED.

And, as usual, they smeared anyone telling the truth.

GregGutfeld
@greggutfeld

This is officially the longest most elaborate cheap fake in history

That's the only theory that makes sense to me, too.

Isn't she a peach?

Mark Hemingway

@Heminator

MSNBC's Jen Psaki, a former Biden employee, literally just asked Newsom what influencers online should say to show their support for Biden.

#GreatMomentsInJournalism

Jen Rubin holds out hope that "the voters" didn't see it the same way that smart TV pundits like she did.

Jennifer "Trump Convicted Felon" Rubin
@JRubinBlogger

Maybe ordinary voters simply don't think and analyze like tv pundits. Might explain a lot

Inhale the medical-grade copium, Jen! I don't mean about Biden, I mean about your conceit that you are superior in intelligence to anyone in America.

Thanks to former coblogger Slublog for that.

As you know, the White House's big way to change impressions is deploy their Ultimate Communicator, Kamala Harris, to convince people they didn't see what they saw. She's spinning that he "started slow" but "finished strong." The play is to hope that most people tuned out after a half-hour (I almost did), and to concede that yes, he did do badly in the half hour you saw, but in the hour you didn't watch, Joe Biden did great!

Because they didn't see it, you can maybe, kinda convince them.

If you were someone who didn't have a Charisma score of 4, like Kamala Harris.

Here Harris melts down under questioning from... um, Democrat hack and Nepo Baby Anderson Cooper.

Mark Levin
@marklevinshow

Jill Biden, the White House staff, the media, congressional Democrats tried to fool the American people and don’t give a damn about the country.

Yes, of course!

Rich Lowry
@RichLowry

Democrats and much of the left-of-center media had the alternative of not lying about Biden's mental and physical state and doing something about it in time to avoid a debacle--but this the path they chose

So obvious that even a National Review editor understands it.

This guy has a comment that I certainly cannot repeat.

Biden had to be, get this, gently led off the stage by his nursewife.

And CNN kept the camera on Biden as he was led off, almost as if they were in on the Op.

Ex-CNN Thumb Chris Cillizza is sad! Video of the Thumb here.

I've said several times that I want Trump to beat Biden, but to beat him in a way that Biden still seems viable as a candidate. He needs to keep it close. Make it look winnable for Biden.

Because the moment Trump jumps out to a six point lead, that's it, they get out the hook and pull Shanghai Joe off the stage.

Alas, last night, Biden imploded.

Trump was pretty good for Trump -- he looked cool, kept his cool, and pounded his message. He did fail to really finish off some punches. He often starts making a good point, but then gets distracted by another thought that drifts into his head, and winds up barely making two points instead of really making one single point, strong and powerful and with good follow-through.

But the real problem was Biden. He failed me. He failed me by not projecting the Illusion of Viability. His "Talking Pills" -- the medical grade cocaine, the amphetamines, whatever cocktail they give him -- did not work. He needs so much of the stuff now that they are literally flirting with the charge of murdering the president of the United States if they give him a dose big enough to try to make him appear coherent for 90 minutes.

So I think this part of the campaign is over. Trump is already four points ahead (that the leftwing pollsters will confess to). He will surge by another 2-4 points and that is a wrap for Biden.

The Democrats aren't even waiting for the polls. They can't wait to take Middle-Class Joe out to the pond and tell him about rabbits and eating off the fat of the land.

Of Mice and Middle-Class Joe:

The next phase is picking out a new candidate, and then we'll have to restart the campaign with Trump taking on some other Democrat, probably Gavin Newsom. And of course a lot of judges will set aside state laws to order Newsom's name on to ballots.

The Torricelli Option again. They did in New Jersey, they'll do it almost all of the states. We might even have the Supreme Court weigh in, with Amy Coney Barrett writing the opinion which Kavanaugh, Roberts, and their three liberal colleagues declaring that the Democrats must have a do-over.

L A R R Y
@LarryOConnor

Kinda funny to watch the "Trump is a threat to Democracy" crowd openly strategize how to thwart the will of every Democrat who voted in the primaries by engineering a coup at the convention and placing a candidate on the ticket without a single person casting a vote.

Ben Shapiro: "Biden is staring into the afterlife.... It was his resting death-is-upon me face. It's the look that you give at 3am when the Grim Reaper is at the door with a scythe."

He pronouces it "sith" with a short i. It's ScIthe, with a long I. But the point stands.

And he says the wrong th sound. Did you know there are two th sounds? One is "voiced" -- your vocal cords vibrate -- and one is unvoiced. The voiced th is in mother, the unvoiced is in moth. It's like the difference between "s" and "z" -- they're the same sound, mostly, except the s is unvoiced, and the z is voiced, with your vocal cords vibrating like Kamala Harris's electric friend Nigel.

For those saying last night was a "set-up" of Biden, I agree. There was that guy I wrote about who suggested this, but I poo-pooed it because Biden would not agree to an early debate just to give the Democrat Party the ammunition to dump him.

But I do now believe they snookered Shanghai Joe, telling him that he had to debate to "reassure the donors" but secretly planning to use the outcome of the debate -- which, knowing Joe's condition better that voters do, they knew would be a disaster -- to then force him to drop out of the race.

Was that why Tapper and Bash were (relatively) unobtrusive in the debate? Did they know the plan was to let Joe sink or swim under his own steam so that the party would have enough time to coalesce behind another candidate, and get Democrat judges ready to throw out state ballot laws to force Newsom's name on to the ballots?

Maybe!

I will say that Trump did himself a lot of good last night. His personality -- the blustering, the anger, the self-pity -- has always been his downfall. But last night he was calm and cool and coherent. Though he still needs to learn to follow through on a punch. Just weakly throwing one and then changing his mind and throwing a different one is still a problem.

But Trump kept the unappealing parts of his personality in check last night and gave a performance worthy of a president. If Trump can get his personality problem under control, it won't matter much who the Democrats nominate as their Double Secret Probation Candidate.

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HUGE: SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES THE TORTURED INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW USED TO CHARGE 350 OF THE JANUARY 6 PROTESTERS

Before that: Happy Friday!

The word "Friday" come's from Freya or Frey (or, um, Frigga or Frig), who was Thor's mom. The Romans equated her with Venus.

Old English Frīgedæg 'day of Frigga', named after the Germanic goddess Frigga, wife of the supreme god Odin and goddess of married love; translation of late Latin Veneris dies 'day of Venus', Frigga being equated with the Roman goddess of love, Venus. Compare with Dutch vrijdag and German Freitag .

Italian Venerdi, French vendredi. In Spanish it's viern-Olé!, from which we get the term "Fri-Yay!"

On to the Mainstream-Media Level News Product.

@KurtSchlichter

Wow. This has to be the worst 24 hours for the Democrats since Appomattox

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

The Supreme Court announced three big decisions.

The Court overruled the Ninth Circuit's incredibly destructive ruling that cities could not forbid homeless people from camping out in public places until they did the impossible, which was to provide for good housing for every homeless drug addict everywhere. No one can do that, so the real meaning of the ruling was that public spaces -- parks, sidewalks -- belong the the homeless.

But this ruling only affected the states of the Ninth Circuit, the west coast states, so the damage of this was limited to Oregon, Washington, and California. Now, there are other states in the Ninth Circuit -- in addition to the three coastal states, it includes Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam-- but it's in the progressive coast states where the homeless really made their presence felt in public spaces in the cities.

That ruling is now overturned, and the states and cities of the Ninth Circuit may now clear out the homeless encampments and arrest people for squatting on public land.

The justices overturned the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision upholding a 2020 lower court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson that invalidated a southern Oregon city's anti-camping ordinances. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, concluded that the power to decide how to address homelessness largely rests with local officials.

"A handful of federal judges cannot begin to 'match' the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding 'how best to handle' a pressing social question like homelessness," Gorsuch wrote.

Friday's ruling centered on a determination that fining or arresting people for violating local camping bans did not constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. The court's three liberal justices dissented.

The Supreme Court also overturned the extremely tendentious twisting of federal law to overcharge the January 6th protesters. They applied the Sarbane-Oxley law, which is all about transparency in corporate governance, and criminalizes burning business records and shredding documents in a federal prosecution.

They twisted the law to claim it applies when protesters challenge an election, because they're trying to "destroy" electoral college ballots, or something.

The law had never, ever been even suspected of applying to protesters -- it's about burning business records while being sued or prosecuted, that kind of thing -- but the lawless criminal gang at the DOJ has removed all guardrails so that they could hunt down the opponents of the Regime.

Legal Insurrection:

In a big decision today, the Supreme Court, in a split that saw KBJ siding with the Roberts majority and ACB writing the dissent joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, rejected the use of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 against a J6 defendant, ruling the statute only applied to interference with records or evidence, not interference with an official proceeding. This has implications not only for other J6 defendants, but also the DC court charges against Trump.

From the Majority Opinion:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposes criminal liability on anyone who corruptly "alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding." 18 U. S. C. s. 1512(c)(1). The next subsection extends that prohibition to anyone who "otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so." s. 1512(c)(2). We consider whether this "otherwise" clause should be read in light of the limited reach of the specific provision that precedes it.

In other words, you cannot use a vague catchall term like "otherwise" to mean "We can use this law to jail anyone you want." The meaning of "otherwise" must be read in the context of the other things specified. It's not an all-purpose endlessly-mutable grant of unlimited authority to jail anyone you feel like jailing.

Note that Trump is charged with this in his DC case.

Does this mean the J6 protesters will be released? Mostly no. The DOJ prosecutors really explored the studio space in dreaming up ways to jail the protesters, and overcharged them with a lot of crimes. This only directly affects those charged only with this particular nonsense non-crime.

And a lot of J6ers pled guilty when threatened with this crap charge. The law usually doesn't allow plea deals to be undone when the law used to obtain them changes. We'll see if there's any wiggle room on that.

Full opinion here.

If you can believe it, those aren't even the biggest decisions handed down.

In the modern administrative state, the Executive branch largely writes the laws, contrary to the intent of the Constitution, by calling these laws "rules" and granting the Executive bureaucracy the power to write "rules."

Furthermore, the Supreme Court decided (dreadfully) in 1984 that courts were obligated to defer to the "experts" in the bureaucracy. If the "expert" paper-pushers decided that, in their collective civil servant wisdom, that bump stocks should be illegal, well, the courts would have to grant "Chevron deference" to this ruling.

Despite this bureaucrat-made "rule" being created by the branch of government the Constitution says cannot make law.

The Supreme Court has overturned this pernicious, anti-constitutional doctrine of Chevron deference, and all the bureaucrats and Deep Staters are seething at the loss of their unconstitutional authority.

What it means for the Supreme Court to throw out Chevron decision, undercutting federal regulators

Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court.

Oh dear!

The court's 6-3 ruling on Friday overturned a 1984 decision colloquially known as Chevron that has instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when laws passed by Congress are not crystal clear.

In other words, federal regulators were not only illegally writing the law -- in the guise of "rules" -- but courts were required to take their interpretation of the law as authoritative. They didn't just write the laws, but also were empowered to act as courts in construing what the law supposedly means.

The 40-year-old decision has been the basis for upholding thousands of regulations by dozens of federal agencies, but has long been a target of conservatives and business groups who argue that it grants too much power to the executive branch, or what some critics call the administrative state.

The Biden administration has defended the law, warning that overturning so-called Chevron deference would be destabilizing and could bring a "convulsive shock" to the nation's legal system.

Oh no, not a convulsive shock to the nation's legal system and the petty tyrannies of the bureaucracy. Anything but that.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said federal judges "must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority."

The ruling does not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron doctrine, Roberts wrote.

As earlier stated, "thousands" and thousands of cases have been disposed of by courts just saying "defer to the bureaucrats."

Now all those thousands and thousands of cases are re-opened.

...

With a closely divided Congress, presidential administrations have increasingly turned to federal regulation to implement policy changes. Federal rules impact virtually every aspect of everyday life, from the food we eat and the cars we drive to the air we breathe and homes we live in.

So this lawmaking-by-rulemaking regime allows the Executive to make up its own laws when Congress cannot agree on the law.

If Congress cannot agree to pass a law, that should be the end of the matter.

But no, there's a workaround, the bureaucracy can just write "rules" "supplementing" the existing law.

This ruling does not stop that, but it at least tells courts to stop deferring to federal bureaucrats about their interpretation of federal law. Courts must decide this independently, and not defer to an unelected bureaucrat.

President Joe Biden's administration, for example, has issued a host of new regulations on the environment and other priorities, including restrictions on emissions from power plants and vehicle tailpipes, and rules on student loan forgiveness, overtime pay and affordable housing.

Those actions and others could be opened up to legal challenges if judges are allowed to discount or disregard the expertise of the executive-branch agencies that put them into place.

With billions of dollars potentially at stake, groups representing the gun industry and other businesses such as tobacco, agriculture, timber and homebuilding, were among those pressing the justices to overturn the Chevron doctrine and weaken government regulation.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief last year on behalf of business groups arguing that modern application of Chevron has "fostered aggrandizement'' of the executive branch at the expense of Congress and the courts.

David Doniger, a lawyer and longtime Natural Resources Defense Council official who argued the original Chevron case in 1984, said he feared that a ruling to overturn the doctrine could "free judges to be radical activists" who could "effectively rewrite our laws and block the protections they are supposed to provide."

"The net effect will be to weaken our government's ability to meet the real problems the world is throwing at us -- big things like COVID and climate change,″ Doniger said.

Oh no, not that.

Senile hard-left professor of law Lawrence Tribe cries out for the Real Victims here -- all of the lawyers who have built specialty practices around arguing about the Chevron deference doctrine. Won't anyone think of these high-paid lawyers' precious careers?!

Again, this ruling does not end the unconstitutional practice of the Executive writing the "rules" that will "fill in the details" of actual laws.

But at least it tells judges they must interpret the actual laws as Congress wrote them, not as a bureaucrat has decided the law really means.

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THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Update on the EV Follies [6/28/2024]

It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these EV roundups, so there is a lot to cover. I’ll try to keep each item short, but I do want to start with a few quick things regarding the political battle against EV mandates…

“Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry” [WaPo – 5/09/2024]

I believe Trump when he says he will scrap Biden’s EV mandates. (If a “polite” and “respectable” Republican such as Romney/McCain/Ryan/Bush said this, I would assume I am being lied to.) The moment Trump takes office in January 2025, I’ll use whatever forum I have to push him and his administration to deliver on this promise.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is proving his conservative bona fides with this announcement, decoupling Virginia from California’s EV mandates:

“Youngkin says Virginia will not adopt California electric vehicle standard” [The Hill – 06/05/2024]

“Once again, Virginia is declaring independence – this time from a misguided electric vehicle mandate imposed by unelected leaders nearly 3,000 miles away from the Commonwealth,” Youngkin said in a statement. “The idea that government should tell people what kind of car they can or can’t purchase is fundamentally wrong. Virginians deserve the freedom to choose which vehicles best fit the needs of their families and businesses. The law is clear, and I am proud to announce Virginians will no longer be forced to live under this out-of-touch policy.”

This is so important beyond the state of Virginia, as those of us who live in free states cannot let the eco-communists in California control and regulate major industries on behalf of the entire country.

Virginia’s Democratic Senate Leader, Scott Surovell, protested that not allowing the state of California to establish laws and regulations for the state of Virginia is ”reckless, illegal, and unconstitutional.” Leftists think that freedom-suppressing tyranny is more palatable so long as it is outsourced to a government that the people can’t vote against.

*****

Blue on Blue Crime – EV Edition

This must be a conundrum for pro-crime Democrats, as their beloved street criminals are now targeting EV charging stations, leaving urban EV drivers in a bind when it comes to finding a facility to charge their cars.

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles [AP – 6/12/2024]

Thieves have been targeting EV charging stations, intent on stealing the cables, which contain copper wiring. The price of copper is near a record high on global markets, which means criminals stand to collect rising sums of cash from selling the material.

If the criminals are hungry and need to feed their families, who can complain about them destroying EV chargers to get the valuable copper wire?

The stolen cables often disable entire stations, forcing EV owners on the road to search desperately for a working charger. For the owners, the predicament can be exasperating and stressful.

I am strongly opposed to theft and vandalism, but in areas where crime is celebrated and not prosecuted, then I’d much prefer EV charging stations be the criminals’ target than the establishments run by mom and pop shop-owners.

*****

GM Will Continue to be Caught off Guard by “Unexpected” Consumer Rejection of EVs

Other than the date on the calendar, there is not much difference between the “Five Year Plans” published by Soviet commissars in days gone by and the comically preposterous projections from legacy automakers about their EV sales. They are projections that will not be met and cannot be met, yet auto executives keep producing these absurd forecasts.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

On the Bank of an African River
Briton Riviere

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The Morning Report — 6//28/24

Good Morning Kids. Last night's debate, if you could call it that, was an abject isaster for Biden and the Dems. He looked like a reanimated corpse, and between the coughing fits and mumbling, declared that women can be raped by their sisters and that "we beat Medicare" among other incoherent ravings. Trump reacted by declaring and stating the obvious that he couldn't understand what Joe was saying but then again, neither could Joe! Despite Tapper and Bash's best efforts to save Joe from himself and sabotage Trump. they failed. At the end of it all, there was Jill leading the burned out husk off stage and then whisking him off to a Waffle House. Yikes.

The Democrats are in full freak out mode. But there's not much they can do to make him exit if he, or Jill refuse. Of course this presupposes that they are not going to be able to engineer a cheat even more massive than 2020 to drag his rotting corpse over the finish line without making it so obvious that the whole world would see it, as if that would even matter.

As for Trump, he acquitted himself well, mostly by keeping his cool, smiling and then pouncing especially when Biden made the mistake of calling him a convicted felon, to which Trump responded by pinning that label on Hunter. Heck, even Ace was impressed with how Trump did and that says a lot. Not to toot our own horns but our threads were terrific and fun.

I doubt that there will be any more debates before the election, based on this shit-show for the Dems.

It’s a good thing for Joe Biden that the debate wasn’t held in Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater. The audience would have given him the hook and hooted him off the stage.
That’s how bad he was. 
Our president is not fit to serve. Forget concerns about how old and infirm he would be after a second term. 
He’s a basket case now. 

Biden took the debate stage looking like he just escaped from a wax museum and spent much of his speaking time chewing his words before trailing off. Several times he confused millions with billions and ended one incoherent sentence by saying “we finally beat Medicare.”
The leader of the free world doesn’t look well enough to have a driver’s license or dress ­himself. 
Confused old man
For his part, Trump was solid and hit all the main areas where Biden has failed: inflation, the border and the economy. 
In a bid to broaden his appeal, he talked about helping black and Latino citizens and several times focused on how the millions of illegal migrants pose economic threats to the poorest Americans. 
The former president seemed well prepared and, I believe, minimized the danger the abortion issue presents by stressing that each state gets to decide and that whatever limits are imposed, there must be exceptions for the health of the mother. 

Several times Trump looked like he was getting hot over Biden’s insults, but managed to steady himself without saying anything that would scare ­voters. 
That was his main objective and he achieved it despite Biden’s clear goal of trying to get under his skin. 
But ordinary score-keeping does an injustice to what Americans witnessed. In an unprecedented event, a sitting president of the United States looked like a confused old man knocking on death’s door. 
I say that not out of cruelty or with joy. It is simply a matter of fact that the condition of our [spurious] president should alarm all of us. 

Biden’s undeniable decline must also be scaring our allies, who already worry that America is a diminished superpower on a turbulent global stage. 
Whatever concerns they had before last night were certainly magnified by the appearance of a frail, shrunken president.
Indeed, 10 minutes into the debate, an ardent Democrat texted me that the election was over and fumed that Dems should have stopped Biden from running. 

The only question now is how Democrats are going to find a way to usher him off the stage and give the nomination to someone else. That’s their problem. 
The problem for the rest of us is that Biden will likely remain as president until January. Now that every despot in the world has seen how serious his condition is, what happens between now and then? 

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Despite the burden they put on the country, the departments are deeply rooted in Washington. No matter who is in the White House and which party has the majority in Congress, abolishing them is nearly impossible.
  Terminate This Federal Department With Extreme Prejudice

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Daily Tech News 28 June 2024

Top Story

• OpenAI has a new version of ChatGPT, designed specifically to get into arguments with the previous version of ChatGPT. (Ars Technica)
  
  Okay. Sure. Why not?

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For All Sad Words Of Tongue And Pen, The Saddest Are These, “The ONT's In”.

Welcome to the last Thursday ONT of June. Here's a helpful tip: Don't tell this guy any secrets.

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Post-Debate Spin: Democrats in Panic, They Know It's Over.

I've asked WeirdDave to let me keep the debate threads up until 11 pm.

MAJOR UPDATE: Democrats are panicking, even Hasie K*nt says so.

Kasie Hunt
@kasie

The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I'm talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate

CNN's Jonathan Karl says Democrats are saying "Biden is so diminished it's undeniable now."

They're wargaming replacing him.

CNN commentators declaring panic.

"I don't think there's any way to slice it."

"A sense of shock," says Axelrod.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

More CNN commentary:

"That was painful. He didn't do well at all."
--Van Jones

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention. Someone like @gretchenwhitmer or @SherrodBrown or @SecRaimondo
could still jump in and beat Trump.

From the ARC! of History.

Let's just look at some discussion thread titles from DU:

1- Incumbent presidents always have a bad first debate.

2- sounds like the msnbc panel is having a funeral of some sort....

3- Well ok.......got lotsa work to do. What do we do??? This debate was a disaster.

4- I was only able to watch the summing up. It's a disaster. Trump is going to be our fascist dictator.

5- The debate I want to see: Harris vs Trump

6- There was not enough liquor in the fridge...

7- No more debates

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 27, 2024 10:49 PM (ycI94)

Daily Mail:

Democrats in full-blown panic over Biden's disaster debate: Party members call for Joe to be REPLACED after 'gamechanger' showdown with Trump where he glitched after MINUTES

Posted by: Don Black

Like I told everyone: Biden. Is. Not. Going. To be. the Candidate.

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Update: Knockout

MAJOR UPDATE: Democrats are panicking, even Hasie K*nt says so.

Kasie Hunt
@kasie

The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I'm talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate

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Call the Police, Trump Is Committing Elder Abuse the Likes of Which We Have Never Before Seen

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