Victor Davis Hanson on the lies we have lived through.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
How Biden’s performance exposed the real cheap fakes;
None of the people on that panel understood the scope of the disaster last night. Biden just exposed a vast cover-up, nearly universal among elected Democrats and almost as much within the US national media, designed to keep people in the dark about the president’s mental capacity.
They spent the last four years foisting a near-senile old fool onto a nation at a moment of dire crisis. That includes Axelrod. It includes Bedingfield. It includes Van Jones. It includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, and practically every other establishment media outlet.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe
Joe may be ready to go.
A source has reportedly told NBC news that Biden may be deciding on whether he will stay in the race.
The source said that Biden will be meeting with his family to discuss this on Sunday.
Insurrection: The Democratic Coup
CNN Presidential Debate
Just 15 minutes out, and it’s a trainwreck for Biden. Open thread. (Or watch without the Timcast commentary on Youtube.)
Highlight clips are rolling out.
Biden tries to insult Trump over his physique and his golfing skills.
Biden ends his disastrous and humiliating debate performance just as he began — rambling incoherently
I don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence…
CNN’s John King immediate reaction, insists that Democrats are plotting a public intervention to remove Joe Biden.
Watch CNN anchor hand signal Joe on where to look
MSNBC is blaming Biden’s DEI campaign staff.
FACT CHECK: They want you to go, Joe
TYT: Epic disaster!
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Madness
The Biden administration’s agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades. – Victor Davis Hanson
Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
So what was Dementia Joe up to this week?
Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Hunter Biden being convicted of a firearms charge is the ultimate red herring of red herrings.
The DOJ allowed the statute of limitations expire on his most serious tax charges, buried evidence of the Bidens’ foreign bribery allegations, and attempted to give Hunter a sweetheart deal with broad immunity.
David Weiss wouldn’t go after him on the serious tax charges or on FARA because all of that would lead back to the shady business dealings involving his father.
Instead, they went after him for a much lesser charge, where the evidence was way too insurmountable to ignore, so they can scream “nobody is above the law” when they put President Trump in jail.
Leader Of The Free World
Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
So what was the puppet in the White House up to this week. Well, at least he didn’t mumble that his son Beau was killed on the beaches of Normandy, while trying to save his uncle from being eaten by German cannibals.
Let That Sink In
Probably no one person or group in the Twitter Files was impacted in more different ways by new quasi-secret digital enforcement mechanisms than [Brandon] Straka and #WalkAway. Two U.S.-government-funded organizations, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the U.K.-based Global Disinformation Index, became sources for a USA Today claim that the group was among “73 U.S.-based hate groups” and “insurrectionists” who “had access to at least 54 means of raising money online.” Straka at the time had been charged in connection with his presence outside the January 6th Capitol riots, but not convicted. He was blocked by PayPal on March 20th, then Venmo, and ultimately Stripe, Patreon, Constant Contact, MailChimp, Facebook, Instagram and many other companies.
The idea of federally-funded organizations preventing a person from raising money for his own criminal defense against federal charges seemed astonishing. Equally remarkable was USA Today’s behavior. Americans are innocent until proven guilty. We also have an absolute Sixth Amendment right to counsel. But the paper targeted defendants’ efforts to “crowdfund their legal fees,” even claiming it was a kind of scandal that they’d been forced — by people like their own reporters! — to “spring from one fundraising tool to another, utilizing new sites, usernames and accounts” […]
Straka and #WalkAway in other words provide an early test case in the incredible range of state-aided or state-administered punishments that can be piled on someone before they’re convicted of a crime. He ended up sentenced to a class B misdemeanor, essentially for being at the Capitol on January 6th, receiving a 30-page sentencing recommendation. I polled defense lawyers last year and asked if they’d ever seen a 30-page sentencing recommendation for disorderly conduct before. “Fuck no,” laughed one, before quickly stopping and checking, “Wait, we’re not using names with this, right?”
Our Favorite Felon
SF Standard article here.
Afraid Of The People
It is past time for the media and Democrats to drop the ruse of Biden’s neutrality and admit that they are terrified of the people in November and so are conniving to silence them. – Victor Davis Hanson
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Two Americas: the contrast between his treatment and Donald Trump’s couldn’t be sharper.
Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Operation Save Hamas: “Pier operations suspended after piece breaks off”
Kangaroo Court News
On Friday, special counsel Jack Smith asked the judge to issue a gag order on Donald Trump in his classified documents case. Taking a page out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s playbook, Smith thought he could successfully prevent Trump from being able to freely express his opinions about the case.
Unlike Bragg, who has a Biden donor as a judge, Smith had to convince Judge Aileen Cannon, a fair-minded, Trump-nominated judge, to buy into his argument that Trump should be silenced.
Cannon refused, calling Smith’s demand for a gag order “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.” […]
It gets better. Cannon didn’t just refuse to silence Trump the way Judge Juan Merchan has in New York, but she also warned Smith that she’s not going tolerate future ridiculousness from him.
Good.
Related: The probability that the last three Trump-related cases in New York would randomly be assigned to the same judge is one in 15,625.
The law is being trimmed to fit the man. Much of America is now institutionally rotted to the core: millions of citizens seem to have internalised that but reckon that, if they just keep their heads down, maybe it’ll be the guy three doors down who catches the state’s eye. You’ll understand that, after twelve years in the DC Superior Court, I’m less sanguine about that.
Still, if there is a “verdict” by 3pm Eastern, we shall certainly discuss it.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Yet Christopher Wray is still not in jail.
“The defendant’s laptop is real.” With those words and pictures like this one of Biden using crack, the Justice Department introduced the Hunter Biden laptop as evidence in his upcoming trial over federal gun violations. The federal prosecutors went on to denounce suggestions of Russian disinformation, long peddled by the Bidens, the media and former intelligence officials, as nothing more than a “conspiracy theory.”
The media eagerly spread the claim of Russian disinformation before the presidential election. Twitter and others suppressed the story. This was done through one of the most skillful disinformation campaigns in history.
It later came out that associates of the Biden campaign (including now Secretary of State Antony Blinken) pushed a long effort to get former intelligence officials to sign a letter making the claim, knowing that an ever-accommodating media would accept the claim without question or further inquiry.