The Morning Report — 7/23/24

Good Morning Kids. Horrendous a human being as Joe Biden is (or was assuming he is still alive let alone compos mentis or compost) what the Democrat Left and the other powers that be did to him and to all of us, regardless of our politics, is every bit as disgusting as what has been done to Donald Trump vis a vis the shampeachments and kangaroo court show trials, let alone the assassination attempt. I get no schadenfreude from it, as it is yet another indication that whatever last vestiges of our nation as founded, and any shred of decency, morality and ethics have been completely eviscerated, or are on the verge of it.

Because those who installed Biden after sabotaging and then stealing the 2020 election somehow now feel as if their hold on power and their chance to seize and cement it once and for all sense that that ultimate goal might be slipping away, for a host of reasons, felt it necessary to get rid of him via what was and is in fact a textbook coup.

The putschists who prevailed against President Biden therefore err badly in their assumptions, chief among them the belief that the office, not the man, is the singular thing conferring meaning and therefore power. This is an easily arrived-at error in the fantasyland of propositional civics, which replaces people with concepts, and in fact expects the people to conform to the concept: a coerced reversion to the pre-political state. But the truth is that a nation, contrary to propositionalism’s core thesis, is both man and law, both persons and forms. Moreover, the man and the person are the most important elements. In 1798 a predecessor in the presidency wrote to the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, then preparing to go to war with the French Republic, reminding its officers that “[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Solemn affirmations of basic rights are after all commonplaces in the constitutions and laws of nearly every autocratic society.

. . . This, the ranks of dead collectivities, is where the United States finds itself under the present regime. The coup d’état of July 21st is merely a dramatic symptom. Note the artifice of it all, shot through with the cant and strictures of propositionalism. We could list the details at length, from the rapid coordination of the involved elites, each pursuing the fiction of reaction to affairs that they themselves authored, to the overthrow of the expressed will of tens of millions of primary voters. That process now lies exposed not as mass democracy, but as mass theater. One of the minor historical ironies here is that when Joe Biden first assumed elected office — a moment in time closer to the existence of a Habsburg Emperor than to now — the American presidential-selection system was undergoing a convulsive change, from party-elder diktat mostly via caucuses, to truly democratic primaries. What we just saw in the coup was supposed to have been rendered impossible back when our grandfathers were in middle age. Now we know better. We saw, and we know.

Meanwhile Joe Biden who, despite being pulled out of the race by the powers that be is nowhere to be seen. He is after all still supposedly the alleged president. And as Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the US neither Biden nor his presumptive replacement Kamala Harris were there to greet him. Despite the fact that this is their function, and that Israel is or at least was a staunch ally, their absence is telling. Even heads of state who visit that are not our allies, and some who are even considered rivals or enemies are traditionally met by the President.

The fact that greeting Bibi could lose the Democrats Minnesota and Michigan and the support of those who harass or assault Jews on campuses and even in the streets in broad daylight I'm sure was part of the calculus, as well as not wanting to anger their friends in Tehran.

So, Biden and Harris are absent, so who is running the show.

Meanwhile, this Kim Cheatle hack got roasted alive on Capitol Hill by the GOP and viciously and surprisingly by the Democrats. Many of whom have called for her resignation. I guess it's good theater.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• A disturbing and haunting record.
  Who is Kamala Harris?

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
• IDF: “Hamas has embedded terrorist infrastructure in the area defined as the Humanitarian Area.”
  IDF Orders Evacuation of Part of Gaza Humanitarian Zone, As Hamas Embeds Terrorists in Area
  
• Texas senator investigating lapse in U.S. sanctions enabling Tehran’s proxies to fund war on Israel
  Iranian Suicide Drones Used in Tel Aviv Attack Constructed With American Components, Cruz Says
  
• Biden has been too politically scared to ensure the release of US hostages. Trump will be far stronger.
  Trump Must Be Bold To Free Hamas Hostages
  
• In a video that the Israeli Embassy to the U.S. posted, Netanyahu was seen walking down the steps of an airplane and shaking hands with several people waiting at the bottom.
  Benjamin Netanyahu Lands in U.S., Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Absent to Greet Him

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: Just what a weary world needs.
  Biden Regime to Release New ‘Guidance’ On Fighting ‘Islamophobia’

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• A New York court appears to allow onerous regulation of religious schools but fails to resolve the underlying issue conclusively—leaving the road open to further challenges.
  Substantially Uncertain

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens says [so-called quote-unquote] Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Joe Biden put in charge of the U.S. border crisis in March 2021, has not spoken with him since he assumed office last July. Owens’s predecessor, Raul Ortiz, who retired in May 2023, revealed this March that he “never had one conversation with the President or Vice President” during two years in office.Vice President Harris’s status as “Border Czar”—which her corporate media allies are now denying—is likely to hamstring her efforts to present her presidential candidacy as a clean break from that of Joe Biden, who endorsed her after abandoning the race on Sunday.
  VP Harris Has Not Met Border Patrol Chief Since He Assumed Office a Year Ago.

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AFTERMATH

• Raskin: “I think that this relationship is irretrievably at this point and I think the Director has lost the confidence of Congress.”
  Raskin and Comer Send Joint Letter to Cheatle: ‘We Call on You to Resign as Director’ of Secret Service
  
• 'If you have an assassination attempt on a president, a former president, or a candidate, you need to resign,' Rep. Ro Khanna told Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle
  Secret Service Director Gives Most Disastrous Congressional Testimony Since Claudine Gay
  
• The Secret Service has been widely criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for failing to prevent a gunman from shooting at and injuring Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Cheatle appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Monday to take questions from lawmakers on the Secret Service’s security failures surrounding the rally but said she had not visited Butler following the attack and did speak to the Secret Service agents who protected Trump until the day after the assassination attempt.
  Secret Service Director Says She Has Not Been To Butler 9 Days After Trump Assassination Attempt
  
• Republican Texas Rep. Pat Fallon on Monday became incensed at Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during a hearing on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
  ‘Go Back To Guarding Doritos’: GOP Rep Goes Ballistic On Secret Service Director For ‘Shameful’ Answers

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Daniel Greenfield: Does the Left actually regret nearly killing Trump?
  Mostly Peaceful Assassinations
  
• It’s difficult to see how these profound antipathies and fears will dissipate soon through any normal political processes. (assuming they're normal in the first place - jjs)
  Are We Living Through Another 1850s?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Michael Walsh: Starting today and running to the second week in September, we will present brief excerpts from each of the forty-two essays. The roster of talent recruited for this volume speaks for itself; many if not most of these names will be familiar to you
  Coming Sept. 10: 'Against the Corporate Media'
  
• Looking back on the reality of the network news shows’ bias, there’s a good case to be made for the social media news era
  There Never Was A Mythical Time When ‘The News Was Just the News’

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• For every retiree hitting the cruise ship circuit or playing golf, many others have learned too late that they may have to work much longer than they anticipated.
  The Big Divide

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• But now, just as it did in the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, and North Korea, the reality of markets overcoming fascist “EV” cronyism, the truth of economics overcoming central planning, and the true destructive consequences of corporations counting on central planners (rather than consumer interests) for their future, are becoming clear.
  Ford Shifts Focus from EVs to Gas Trucks, Ending Billion-Dollar Electric Plans

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The ails of our criminal justice system center on the failure to check abuse by politicized prosecutors.
  Destroying Our Criminal Justice System

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Democrats’ success in removing Biden from the ballot should serve as a wake-up call to normie America about the security of our elections.
  Democrats Are Rigging Their Own Election. Does Anyone Still Think They Didn’t Rig 2020?

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Is an advocate of foreign policy restraint being railroaded?
  Gaetz Ethics Inquiry Takes Dubious Turn

  BIDEN's DEPARTURE and AFTERMATH

• This type of coup was supposed to have been rendered impossible back when our grandfathers were in middle age. Now we know better.
  The Ousting Of Biden Was A Textbook Coup D’état
  
• David Harsanyi i:Maybe Democrats have no other choice. But please don’t tell me this is “democracy.”
  ‘Defenders of democracy’ staged a cover-up and coup
  
• If you want a lot of security you vote Democrat. If you want a little security you vote Republican.
  Who’s in Charge: Pelosi, Obama, or the Clintons?
  
• “Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” one Democrat source, speaking anonymously and familiar with the conversations, told the outlet. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”
  Report: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Told Biden ‘They Could Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way’ to Make Him Quit the Race
  
• Sources told Reuters that Harris aims to secure a majority of the nearly 3,900 convention delegates by Wednesday as her campaign and allies work the phones in an effort to ward off any potential challengers.
  Harris Locks In More Than Half Of Delegates Needed To Win Nomination: Report
  
• “I am proud to be the governor of Michigan. I’ve been consistent. I know everyone is always suspicious…I’m not going anywhere,”
  Gov. Wretched Whitmer on Being Kamala Harris’s VP: ‘I’m Not Leaving Michigan’
  
• To say Harris is an empty pantsuit is an insult to empty pantsuits. . . No matter how much Harris tries to distance herself from Joe Biden, she will carry the burden of answering for his failures. Among them.
  Kamala Harris Will Be Burdened By What Has Been
  
• The papers are now full of sycophantic tributes to Biden’s statesmanship and far-seeing wisdom.
  The Unraveling of the Biden Coalition

  POLITICS

• The schedule, which was released on Sunday night, has resulted in questions and speculation on social media surrounding Biden, who has not been seen or heard from publicly since being diagnosed with COVID last Wednesday. Jason Miller, Senior Advisor to former President Donald Trump, commented on Biden’s schedule, posting on X, “Kamala Harris needs to be asked if she believes Joe Biden is still competent enough to do the job of President. Next week’s schedule doesn’t give one much confidence.”
  Where’s Joe? [so-called quote-unquote] President’s Schedule Wiped Clean After Ending Campaign Via Letter
  
• Biden, who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, has been “self-isolating” in Rehoboth, Delaware. The source explained to the outlet that Biden was supposed to leave from Delaware on Monday and make trips to California; Denver, Colorado; and Houston and Austin, Texas.
  Report: Joe Biden Cancels Nearly Ten Trips After Exiting Presidential Race
  
• Biden was no legislative mastermind — the idea is laughable. His buddies on Capitol Hill larded up his bills with enough fat to bribe the votes they needed in Congress. Want to know how we got so much further into debt on Biden's watch with nothing to show for it and no end in sight? 
  Presidentish Joe Biden: A Look Back Without Fondness
  
• While it’s not final or official yet, since Democrat President Joe Biden formally dropped out of the race on Sunday afternoon, it looks as though Vice President Kamala Harris might end up locking down the Democratic nomination. She’s raised tens of millions of dollars and won the endorsements of a vast majority of her party’s elected leaders including Biden himself. Some big names like former President Barack Obama have yet to endorse, but Harris seems well on her way to becoming the Democrat nominee.
  Exclusive — JD Vance: Donald Trump and I Ready for Whoever Democrats Nominate as President, VP
  
• Biden, however, holds a greater negative net favorability rating of -17.5 (39.1 -56.6 percent) than Harris, according to RealClearPolitics. The vice president holds a -14.2 percent net favorability rating (38.1 – 52.3).
  Polling Average: Harris Has Lower Favorability Rating than Biden
  
• “This lack of core convictions followed Harris into the vice president’s office.”
  A Candidate Without Convictions
  
• From this admittedly early vantage point, it certainly looks like nobody wants to run against Trump — but that Trump is eager to run against Harris. As they're about to say in Paris, let the games begin.
  It's Official: Nobody Wants to Run Against Trump
  
• It’s not exactly a secret that the Republican Party has been going through a seismic realignment of its core beliefs. And it is no secret that those are less and less the Ronald Reagan, limited government, free market, tax-cutting, deregulation, global policeman tenets.
  J.D. Vance was the long play — and the most disruptive choice

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• The current options in front of Zelensky risk “political suicide,”  warned former heavyweight boxing champ turned Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, in an interview with Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper.
  Kyiv Mayor Klitschko Calls on Zelensky to Hold Referendum on Russian War

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Trump's policy of opposing leftist dictatorships in the Western hemisphere helps the American economy.
  Trump and the Economics of Freedom

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  

• Grant to Swedish automaker with Chinese ties 'is what investing in America looks like,' Energy Dept. says
  Chinese Billionaire Who Works To Spread CCP Influence Worldwide Is Benefiting From $208M Biden-Harris Grant

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• 5 workers were stricken after culling an infected flock without proper personal protection. Meanwhile, the virus has been detected in Oklahoma dairy herd.
  Colorado Human Bird Flu Cases Being Tied to Heat Wave
  
• “Mandatory genomic sequencing of all newborns—it sounds like something out of a dystopian sci-fi story. But it could become a reality in New Jersey, where health officials are considering adding this analysis to the state's mandatory newborn testing regime.”
  NJ Gov't Readies Mandatory Genomic Sequencing of All Newborn Baby Blood

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said the language was a 'tool' attorneys could use 'in defending access to care'
  Top Transgender Health Group Said Hormones, Surgeries Were 'Medically Necessary' So That Insurance Would Cover Them, Documents Show

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• In a video posted to social media over the weekend, O’Donnell called the impeding election “very, very unnerving.”
  Rosie O'Donnell Says Even Therapy Isn't Helping Her Fears Over the Election

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