Republican Voters Want ‘Blood’—Will Their Leaders Deliver?

After the much-hyped John Durham probe ends with a whimper and House Democrats ratchet up their public pursuit of Trump associates, the Republican base wants action, not more sternly worded letters.

by Julie Kelly for American Greatness

The U.S. Department of Justice will soon decide whether to close down the investigation into the origins of Russiagate, a lie fabricated by Barack Obama’s FBI, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and the Democratic National Committee among other bad actors seeking to ruin Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney John Durham, named special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr in October 2020 after more than 18 months of dawdling, has uncovered a damning trail of evidence to show “collusion” existed not between Trump and the Kremlin but between Democratic Party interests, including the national news media, in an attempt to rig the 2016 presidential election.

It’s unclear whether Durham will issue a final report on the matter; what is clear, however, is Durham’s effort has been an abysmal failure in terms of holding anyone criminally responsible for the biggest political fraud in modern history. 

Rather than targeting those at the top of the scheme, including former FBI Director James Comey and U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to name a few, Durham has pursued minor offenses against low-level operatives resulting so far in one guilty plea and one acquittal.

If Joe Biden’s Justice Department doesn’t extend the inquiry—and there is no reason at this point to believe it will—the Durham investigation will go down as yet another massive failure in the face of provable and destructive Democratic Party corruption at the highest levels. Those same escape artists instead are now emboldened, brazenly using the Justice Department to prosecute Trump voters and advisors to build a long-desired criminal case against the former president for his alleged role in the “attack” on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Americans are witnessing something unprecedented: a congressional committee handpicked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi working seamlessly with a highly partisan Justice Department to criminalize political dissent. Contrary to the solemn insistence of known liars like Schiff and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), none of it has anything to do with the four-hour disturbance on Capitol Hill more than 18 months ago but everything to do with dragging America into banana republic-style territory complete with political prisoners, kangaroo courts, secret police, forced confessions, and nonstop propaganda under the guise of “news.”

As this Democratic Party crusade has unfolded over the past year and a half, most Republican officials have been silent as the regime flagrantly flouts the Constitution and the boundaries of decency and tradition. Some leaders, most notably Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have embraced the description of January 6 as an “insurrection” and blame Trump for what happened that day.

While congressional Republicans bury their heads in the Democrats’ latest pit of political quicksand, their voters are not as gullible. According to a report this week by Axios, a GOP-led House is planning to retaliate for the conduct of the January 6 selection committee by launching an investigation into the committee itself—not necessarily because top Republicans have the stomach for the fight but because they are getting an earful from their constituents. “The base is out for blood on subpoenas,” tied to investigations of January 6, Hunter Biden, the coronavirus response, and the Afghanistan withdrawal, a House Republican aide told Axios.

The only question, the aide said, is “how far [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy wants to go” should he become speaker of the House in 2023.

That remains an open, and unsettling, question. McCarthy has been loath to punish Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for accepting Pelosi’s appointment to the committee. Only after significant blowback did McCarthy replace Cheney as his hand-picked conference chairman in May 2021; she remains on the House Armed Services Committee. A few days after the Capitol protest, McCarthy urged Trump to “accept his share of the responsibility” and floated the idea of censuring the president as an alternative to impeachment.

As dozens of Capitol protesters have languished for months, some for more than a year, in a political prison in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol building where he works, McCarthy has said nothing in their defense. When confronted recently by Fox Business News host Maria Bartiromo about the plight of the political prisoners, McCarthy said “they shouldn’t be held for this long” then quickly pivoted to concerns over inflation and the open border.

One would be hard pressed to find McCarthy criticizing the FBI even after agents arrested Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro at Reagan National Airport and placed him leg shackles on a contempt of Congress charge: ditto for FBI harassment of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump campaign lawyer John Eastman. Yet McCarthy was quick to call for Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) to resign after a California jury found him guilty of lying to federal investigators in a clear case of FBI entrapment. (Fortenberry is appealing the verdict.)

Some members of McCarthy’s caucus, thankfully, are taking a more aggressive approach. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and a few others are demanding justice for the January 6 detainees and condemning D.C. correctional officials for harsh treatment of Trump supporters in custody. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), who lost his Republican primary last week, asked Capitol Police and Pelosi’s office to preserve all documents pertaining to January 6, accusing Pelosi of obstructing “Republican access to House records relating to the security preparedness of the Capitol complex.”

Rep. James Banks (R-Ind.) just asked the Secret Service to clarify questionable testimony last week by White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed Trump engaged in a physical altercation with his security detail on January 6.

But sternly worded letters and empty promises won’t do the trick this time around; rank-and-file Republicans won’t be fooled again. After a much-hyped Durham probe ends with a whimper, House Democrats ratchet up their public pursuit of Trump associates, and the Justice Department continues to arrest Capitol trespassers and seek lengthy jail sentences for minor offenses, the base’s appetite for political blood will only increase. GOP leaders will need a cutthroat approach if they retake power next year.

X22, On the Fringe, and more- July 8

 

Busy day. Spent the day with Mom, napped, and got some good news from a couple of sources. Here's tonight's news:

Summer Fun with the New York Times

Western opinion leaders continue to offer preposterous 

and dangerous “solutions” to world problems.

by Daniel Oliver for American Greatness

Pick a card—any card. Actually, pick a New York Times editorial, any editorial, and have some fun.

Here’s one by Mark Malloch-Brown who, the Times tells us, is president of the Open Society Foundations and a former U.N. deputy secretary general—so you know trouble’s on the way. The title of the column is “The World Needs More Than Crumbs From the G7’s Table,” which means the man has an idea of how to save the world.

Such men are dangerous.

He tells us that “the Group of 7 summit in Germany ended last week with leaders of the world’s richest countries pledging to support Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes’” and that a call for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine is appropriate. But Malloch-Brown says G-7 leaders are “missing the bigger picture.”

Malloch-Brown is a big-picture man. And he says the big picture is “terrifying.” 

“Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” he writes, “global food prices were near record highs. But the ripple effects of the war now threaten to cause hunger and suffering on an enormous scale.”

Well, yes: wars have a way of doing things like that. Actions have consequences. That may have been why some people opposed the war. In 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was overheard to ask at a meeting of G-7 foreign ministers, “Why should U.S. taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?” Listen carefully and you can still hear the cries of anguish.

“Besides food prices,” Malloch-Brown tells us, “crude oil breached $120 a barrel recently, fertilizer costs have soared, and interest rates have shot up. Add in extreme weather, unsustainable farming practices, high debt in many countries, lingering effects of the pandemic and other violent conflicts, and more than a billion people are at risk from what the United Nations has called a ‘perfect storm’ of hardship.”

How much of that is a surprise to “professionals” like Malloch-Brown who are paid to worry about precisely those things?

Malloch-Brown tells us that “the summit’s headline announcement was $4.5 billion for food security—a fraction of the $22.2 billion that the World Food Program needs now, and a minuscule pledge for a bloc that accounts for around 45 percent of global G.D.P.”

Then the Madison Avenue punchline: “The world needs a Marshall Plan. It got a Band-Aid.” Nice.

Malloch-Brown gets petty and complains about where the meeting was held: “a luxury resort and spa nestled in the Bavarian Alps.” Where did he expect the big-wigs to go? A Motel 6?

“The leaders of Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa were invited to discuss problems such as food, health and climate, but just 90 minutes of the three-day gathering were devoted to those concerns,” he laments.

“By treating the global food, energy and debt pressures as secondary to the war in Ukraine, the Group of 7 missed a golden opportunity to help the world’s hungry and disprove Vladimir Putin’s narrative of the liberal world order as a spent force that cares nothing for the poor,” Malloch-Brown writes. Do we know Putin thinks that? Does Putin think about anything other than how to make Russia great?

But why are all those people so poor, hungry, and sick? Whose fault is that, anyway? Ronald Reagan’s? Donald Trump’s? Donald Duck’s?

Maybe it’s Malloch-Brown’s fault. As a former high-ranking U.N. official, he’s an expert, presumably, at spending other people’s money to solve precisely these problems. Does he know how to do even that effectively? His only business experience seems to have been working at a public relations firm. Does he know anything about economics and production, markets and incentives? What was he doing all that time at the U.N.? Dining at fancy New York restaurants?

“Three months ago,” Malloch-Brown tells us, “the Western world mustered global support for a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with 141 countries voting in favor. But even then, China, India and half of Africa abstained. As the war has progressed, the West has found it more difficult to rally the world, with subsequent resolutions drawing fewer votes partly out of concern that further measures to punish Mr. Putin could add to the global economic volatility.”

Why is he so surprised? And could he really have wanted unanimity? Isn’t diversity our strength? Do we really want everyone saying the same thing? And isn’t it correct that “rallying the world” to punish Putin further will add to the global economic volatility, precisely the point Malloch-Brown is making in this piece?

Maybe the people in those countries who think Putin could and would make even more trouble than he has already are on to something. If Ukraine is destroyed—destroyed even more than it already has been—who’s going to pay for rebuilding it? The United States? The G-7? George Soros?

And then how much will be left over to feed the world’s poor, whose diverse economic systems seem, er, inadequate—as they have for decades.

Naturally, something has to be done about Russia’s exports of oil and gas that are funding their war effort. “The Ukraine war also has laid bare the security risks of fossil-fuel addiction, which gives leaders like Mr. Putin leverage.”

Malloch-Brown’s solution? You know what’s coming. “[T]he most critical long-term step regarding energy is the transition to renewable sources.” Oh, please! South Africa, he tells us, plans to do that, at a cost of about three percent of its GDP. Other countries must do it too, which means another Marshall Plan—which means, he says, the U.S. must contribute around two percent of its GDP toward the effort.

Surely the whole world shouldn’t go renewable. What about the diversity angle?

Besides, shouldn’t Americans—Malloch-Brown’s piece was published in an American newspaper—worry about crime in Chicago (where 68 people were shot and eight were killed in shootings over the July 4 holiday weekend) and about poverty in Detroit (which has the highest rate of people living below the poverty line of all U.S. cities) before worrying about crime and disease in places they couldn’t find on a color-coded map with coaching?

We’re going to sacrifice Chicago and Detroit for the world’s poor and their decrepit and utterly corrupt economic systems? The economist Lord Peter Bauer described foreign aid as poor people in rich countries sending money to rich people in poor countries. And Malloch-Brown wants more of it?

This man is batty.

But then you knew that when you opened the pages of the New York Times. And tomorrow there’ll be another piece just like this one.

The Democrats Created the Monsters That Are Now Eating Them Alive

Brandon Morse reporting for RedState 

Democrats are now finding themselves locked in battle, not with Republicans, but with each other. The establishment Democrats and the radical Democrats are at each other’s throats, but the establishment Dems only have themselves to blame.

After all, they created these radicals.

In this RedState LIVE! highlight I show you how leftists have begun turning on each other over the erasure of women by the trans community, and how hard-left celebrities are suddenly finding themselves the target of people even further left than them.

The Democrat Civil War is going to be a sight to see.

Be sure to like the video and sub to RedState’s YouTube!

Wonderful GAC Family news from Jen Lilley and Bill Abbott

 

Source: https://itsawonderfulmovie.blogspot.com/2022/07/exciting-gac-family-fall-and-christmas.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The CEO of GAC Family, Bill Abbott, revealed with Jen Lilley in a new Instagram story - GAC Family will be airing NEW Movies (with the exception of Labor Day weekend) EVERY Saturday night starting August 20th until the end of the year!!! Isn't that great news? We knew they were bringing back new movies on that date, but we had no idea they would keep rolling out new movies every Saturday night. This is very exciting!!!

Also, Bill shared some wonderful news with Jen Lilley regarding GAC Family's Christmas movies! They are currently planning 16-18 NEW Christmas Movie Premieres for the 2022 Great American Christmas Season!!! He also said they are planning movies with a faith element that celebrates the true meaning! Yes!!!! I'm truly ecstatic! I couldn't wait to share this fantastic news with all of you! Stay tuned - as I'll be sharing even more details as soon as GAC Family shares it!

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My take: 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 I absolutely love this!! I'll also be very happy to promote the movies on here and in the comment threads when I see the network's Tweets. :)

Good Government Groups Ask State Officials To Stop Biden’s Federal Takeover Of Elections

Mollie Hemingway reporting for The Federalist

Governors and other state officials don’t have to stand idly by as the Biden administration plots a federal takeover of elections. That’s the message being sent by the heads of two good government groups in a new memo to state officials.

“The Biden administration wants to use federal government resources for political, get-out-the-vote purposes, and it’s up to strong leaders in state and local government to stop them,” wrote Russ Vought of the Center for Renewing America and Tarren Bragdon of the Foundation for Government Accountability. “We strongly urge those in positions of power to stop President Biden’s power grab and act soon.”

Biden issued an executive order on March 7, 2021, directing all 600 federal agencies to submit a plan to the White House to increase voter registration and turnout. Many agencies subsequently developed a plan to turn federal facilities, particularly those that deliver federal benefits, into voter registration agencies.

For example, Housing and Urban Development is trying to turn assisted housing centers into get-out-the-vote hubs. Health and Human Services is doing the same with its public health centers. Even as labor problems are out of control, the Department of Labor is turning its American Job Centers into voter registration agencies.

The agencies are allowed to work with voting groups approved by left-wing partisans in the White House, reminiscent of the Zuckerbucks plot to destabilize the 2020 election by running get-out-the-vote operations in the Democrat areas of swing states.

It’s a “backdoor approach that’s designed to ensure Democratic victories at the polls in 2022 and beyond,” Vought and Bragdon wrote.

The two recommend that state officials take action to prevent Biden’s plot. Since the National Voting Rights Act provides states the authority to designate voter registration agencies beyond those already required by federal law, the federal government cannot designate additional agencies without a change to federal law enacted by Congress.

So when federal agencies send “guidance” memorandums to state agencies about turning federal benefit centers into voter registration agencies, Vought and Bragdon recommend state officials contact those agencies and “order them not to implement that guidance because it is illegal at worst and unethical and partisan at best.”

Further, they remind states that they can issue a gubernatorial executive order or the legislature can pass a law or resolution prohibiting state agencies from applying to become voter registration agencies.    

“With increasing brazenness, President Biden is taking advantage of a loyal federal bureaucracy to wield the power and influence of the federal government to influence elections by increasing Democratic voter registration and turnout,” write Bragdon and Vought. They say the actions are particularly troubling given recent lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice against conservative efforts to fortify election integrity and make it more difficult to cheat.

Republicans Play the Fool After Compromising on 'Gun Control'

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

With the recent mass shooting in Highland Park that took the lives of seven people, a renewed call for “gun control” from Democrats has begun. That comes just weeks after Republicans lined up to sign on to a gun control bill (now passed into law) with the idea that doing so would provide common ground on the issue.

As predicted, though, that didn’t even buy the GOP enough goodwill to make it through the next mass shooting, much less did it put the issue to bed for any length of time. Here’s what I wrote when Sen. John Cornyn was first announced to be negotiating with Democrats on gun control.

Here’s the thing, though. When whatever red flag laws that get passed fail to stop the next mass shooter, the call to “do something” will only grow louder. And the next “something” will be an even further encroachment. I understand the desire to act in good faith and attempt to take some of the heat off, but Republicans have to understand that the Democrat push for gun confiscation and an “assault weapons” ban will not stop with whatever compromise legislation arises here.

That leaves the obvious question for Republicans: Is it smart to give ground when the end goal of the Democrats is being telegraphed to you? I know my answer.

In the case of the Highland Park shooter, he had every red flag imaginable and Illinois’ red flag law still failed to stop him from obtaining guns. That was always the problem with any GOP compromise on this issue. When you concede ground, all you are doing is providing gun control proponents fodder to say “See, your solutions didn’t work so we need to do it my way now.”

I also shared similar thoughts on social media after the text of the then-bill was leaked.

Bookmark it, indeed. To be honest, I didn’t expect to be proven right so soon, but here we are, with Democrats once again going full bore on “assault weapon” and “high-capacity magazine” bans, both of which have already been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. It doesn’t matter, though, and you can expect the cries to “do something” to increase from here. If Republicans thought their rush to compromise would help take some of the heat off, they were mistaken.

NBC News provides a few examples.

Mass shootings won’t stop “until more members of Congress expand their definition of freedom to include freedom from massacre by semi-automatic weapon,” Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., told NBC News on Tuesday…

…“As families come together to celebrate America, they are gunned down in the scourge of gun violence plaguing it. This is a tragedy,” Markey said in a tweet. “The Bipartisan Gun Law was a first step, but Congress must do more to stop this deadly epidemic and save lives.”…

…“Last month, Congress proved that bipartisan compromises on gun safety are possible. Today proved that we can’t stop there,” Duckworth said in a statement on Monday. “We have to do more to keep our communities safe. We have to pass additional commonsense reforms that wide majorities of Americans are crying out for — that 6 Illinoisans can no longer cry out for. I won’t let their memories be forgotten.”

Comments like “Congress must do more” and “We can’t stop there” are so laughably predictable. The Democrats were never going to accept the GOP’s olive branch. Instead, they just took the inch and will proceed to fight for the mile. That’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats never stop. There is no end game for them. Progressivism is always marching forward toward an ever-restrictive state. Compromise doesn’t defuse such an ideology, it only emboldens it.

Republican voters deserve better than this. They deserve leadership in Washington that cares about more than just the next news cycle. Mass shootings are, unfortunately, inevitable until the nation gets ahold of the mental health crisis gripping isolated, depressed young men. The foolish decision to pretend as if passing some federal law would stop them has only backed Republicans further into the corner. Will any lessons be learned? Don’t count on it.

White House Press Secretary Claims Current U.S. Status is Best Economy in Our Nation’s History

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is, at this point, transparently identified as the least qualified and capable person to hold that position in modern history.  She genuinely is lacking the ability to articulate intelligent responses to any questions.

It is also obvious to those who have followed Biden personnel decisions, that KJP was selected because she would spout the information given to her by Chief-of-Staff Ron Klain without a moment’s hesitation.  She is not intelligent enough to know the talking points are complete nonsense.  She spouts the most ridiculous talking points in a manner that reflects she believes them.  That said, her capacity to stumble through nonsense and pretend it is real is only surpassed by Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.

Today from the White House podium, Ms. Karine Jean-Pierre actually made the claim that our current economy is the strongest in our nation’s history.  WATCH:

It is one thing to politically ‘spin’ reality, it is another thing entirely to politically manufacture reality.

Biden offers to appoint UK’s first black woman prime minister

EXCLUSIVE from the Wildly Inaccurate Dianny News Service

posted by Dianny at Patriot Retort

EXCLUSIVE: The Wildly Inaccurate Dianny News Service has learned that just minutes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned, President Biden placed a call to Buckingham Palace to speak with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, offering to appoint Britain’s first black woman prime minister.

A source familiar with the call, who spoke with the Wildly Inaccurate Dianny News Service anonymously, said the president told the Queen that he got a lot of great press after he nominated the first black woman Supreme Court justice in US history, Jumanji Brown Jackson.

According to the source, the president told the Queen, “It’ll be HISTORIC” and added that he would be happy to use his influence with the blacks to choose the ideal first black woman prime minister.

Initially, the president suggested the Queen’s granddaughter-in-law Meghan Markle, but dismissed the idea, telling the Queen, “If you’re as pale as Audrey Hepburn, then you ain’t black enough to make history!”

The source was unable to hear both sides of the phone call but said Queen Elizabeth’s voice was loud enough at times to hear snippets of what she said.

The Queen reportedly used the phrases “cheerio,” “that’s barmy,” “what, what,” and “Oi, mate” during the course of the call.

While the source couldn’t remember in what context all of these phrases were used, the Queen reportedly said “that’s barmy” after the president first offered to appoint the first black woman prime minister.

“I’m fairly sure she wasn’t saying a first black woman prime minister was barmy,” our source explained, “only that it was barmy for the President of the United States to be the one to appoint the first black woman prime minister.”

According to the source, the Queen ended the conversation by saying, “I don’t believe so, but ta very much, President Bodleian.”

CORRECTION:

After this report was published, it was learned that the call was not put through to Buckingham Palace as initially reported. Instead, chief of staff Ron Klain directed the call to the sous-chef in the White House kitchen who reportedly does a spot-on impersonation of Her Majesty the Queen.

Our source reached out to confirm this detail, adding that the sous-chef in question can also pull off the most convincing Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey.

The source also confirmed that this sous-chef is a man.

CORRECTION #2:

After this report and the above correction were published, we received an email from our source who clarified that the president did not under any circumstances refer to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as “Jumanji Brown Jackson.”

The president referred to her as “Jumanji Jackson Five.”

“When I went down to the White House kitchen,” the source explained in the email, “everyone there was singing ‘ABC is easy as one, two, three, as simple as Do Re Mi’ and I realized I got it wrong.”

 

Article by Michael Barone in Townhall

Who's Behind Joe Biden's Leftward Lunge?

What's going on with Joe Biden? Why is a president who ran and was elected as a centrist Democrat supporting one left-wing proposal after another? What has prompted the politician whose sensitivity to public opinion was finely honed for four decades to take one unpopular stand after another?

As a senator from Delaware when it voted like the national average, from 1972 to 1996, he opposed school busing and Medicaid-funded abortion. Starting in 2000, Delaware has been a safe Democratic state, and Biden has veered left, opposing the killing of Osama bin Laden and backing same-sex marriage before former President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

But as president, he's defied public opinion, insisting on a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and, most recently, backing gender-altering surgery for minor children. Why has he veered so far from his constituents?

Let me offer something in the way of a hypothesis, starting with a few clues.

One is that this president doesn't like to go to Camp David. Some presidents like the wooded mountain retreat, which Franklin Roosevelt called Shangri-La and Dwight Eisenhower renamed after his grandson. Others don't.

Ronald Reagan preferred his mountaintop hut, high above Santa Barbara. George H. W. Bush in summertime adored his family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bill Clinton just wasn't the woodsy type.

Biden prefers Delaware. Since his first wife and infant daughter died in a car crash a month after he was elected to the Senate 50 years ago, he has owned a large house at the edge of Delaware's "chateau country," one of the nation's most beautiful suburbs. His sister Valerie and her husband helped raise his two surviving sons, and he famously took the Amtrak home from Washington each night.

As president, he now heads home on weekends, often at Friday noon, to his big house in the Wilmington suburbs or his large house in Delaware's charming Rehoboth Beach. Pleasant surroundings -- and with ready access to some family members and fond memories of others.

A second, perhaps minor, clue, came on one of his few public interviews this year -- with the late-night talk host Jimmy Kimmel. An obviously sympathetic Kimmel, aware of Biden's declining job approval, commiserated, "What a terrible job you have." Biden insisted he's optimistic about the country's future.

"Why are you so optimistic?" Kimmel replied. "It makes no sense." The president replied, "This generation is going to change everything."

Whom does he have in mind? Which members of younger generations does he have the most contact with? His children and grandchildren, I'm guessing, whom he gets to see or remember back in Delaware most weekends.

The third clue comes from a possibly unreliable source, and I advance it only as a possible explanation -- and as one likely to be overlooked by sympathetic press that have been uninterested in how Biden has accumulated prime real estate and that dismissed the New York Post's October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on the preposterous excuse that it was "a Russian information operation."

Actually, now even the New York Times admits the laptop contents have been verified, and the Washington Examiner reported extensively last month on the contents. "He'll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in," Hunter Biden says in a tape recorded in December 2018. "If I say it's important to me, then he will work in a way in which to make it part of his platform. My dad respects me more than anyone in the world, and I know that to be certain, so it's not going to be about whether it affects his politics."

Is Hunter Biden a reliable source? Not necessarily. He has admitted he's a former crack addict who has been in rehabilitation programs and has had a tangled personal life. And is Hunter Biden, at 52 years old, the next generation?

Well, maybe to "my dad." A parent looking at an adult child sometimes in his mind's eye sees a younger person, even a child. Joe Biden, in looking at him, may see the 2-year-old Hunter in the hospital after the terrible accident with his 3-year-old brother Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.

You'd have to be a hardhearted person to doubt that Biden has a poignant affection for Hunter and for his daughter Ashley, 41, who has had her own drug problems.

So are Biden's two surviving children or his grandchildren behind his unpopular leftward lunge? I don't know. I just advance a hypothesis. But have you seen a more plausible one?

https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2022/07/08/whos-behind-joe-bidens-leftward-lunge-n2609901 

 

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Official Disneyland Instagram page hacked

 

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UPDATED 6:40 PM PT – Thursday, July 7, 2022

The official Disneyland Instagram page appeared to have been briefly hacked. According to reports on Thursday, a hacker posted at least four posts containing racial slurs and vulgar language.

The hacker also uploaded a picture of himself and wrote “I am a super hacker that is here to bring revenge upon Disneyland.” 

The post went on to say he is sick of employees mocking him. The account was temporarily taken down shortly after the incident and has since been reinstated without the hacked posts.

Disneyland has 8.4 million followers on Instagram and its page is otherwise filled with photos of families, children and activities at the California resort  

“We worked quickly to remove the reprehensible content, secure our accounts and our security teams are conducting an investigation,” a Disneyland official said.  

The hacker has not made any public demands so far. Disneyland’s other social media pages seem to be unaffected.  

https://www.oann.com/official-disneyland-instagram-page-hacked/   

Biden Faces Open Rebellion From His Own Party

Joe Cunningham reporting for RedState 

Over the past couple of days, mainstream outlets have hosted a number of headlines that should make the Biden administration at best very nervous. The President, overseeing a terrible economy, crisis after crisis, and an outright exodus from his administration, can add open rebellion to his list of woes.

As my colleague Nick Arama pointed out yesterday, the Democrats are getting extremely frustrated and are now blaming the Biden White House for the party’s woes come November.

“‘He’s Missing the Boat Here’: Democrats Slam Biden Over Flailing Leadership, Lack of Fight on Guns and Abortion,” wrote Mediaite. “Frustrated Democrats express alarm over Biden’s powerlessness,” stated The Hill. “‘Be absolutely furious’: Dems want more from Biden after Highland Park,” said POLITICO.

And it only gets worse.

From CNN: “After a string of Supreme Court setbacks, Democrats wonder whether Biden White House is capable of urgency moment demands.” It’s just brutal.

Debra Messing was fed up. The former “Will & Grace” star was among dozens of celebrity Democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with White House aides last Monday to discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

The mood was fatalistic, according to three people on the call, which was also co-organized by the advocacy group Build Back Better Together.

Messing said she’d gotten Joe Biden elected and wanted to know why she was being asked to do anything at all, yelling that there didn’t even seem a point to voting. Others wondered why the call was happening.

That afternoon, participants received a follow-up email with a list of basic talking points and suggestions of Biden speech clips to share on TikTok.

The call, three days after the decision eliminating federal abortion rights, encapsulates the overwhelming sense of frustration among Democrats with Biden. It offers a new window into what many in the President’s party describe as a mismanagement permeating the White House.

Top Democrats complain the President isn’t acting with — or perhaps is even capable of — the urgency the moment demands.

And from the Washington Post, we get the headline “As some Democrats grow impatient with Biden, alternative voices emerge.” As Nick and others at RedState have previously mentioned, the Democrats are indeed eyeing other politicians outside of Washington who might be able to come in and do cleanup work in 2024. This is what the Post had to say.

In the view of many distraught Democrats, the country is facing a full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force. Democracy is under direct attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law. Shootings are routine, a constitutional right to abortion has ended and Democrats could suffer big losses in the next election.

Biden’s response is often a mix of scolding Republicans, urging Americans to vote Democratic and voicing broad optimism about the country. For some Democrats, that risks a dangerous failure to meet the moment.
“There is a leadership vacuum right now, and he’s not filling it,” said Adam Jentleson, a Democratic consultant and former top adviser to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid of Nevada. “I sympathize with the argument that there’s very little they can do legislatively. But in moments of crisis, the president is called upon to be a leader. And when people are feeling scared and angry and outraged, they look to him for that, and they’re not getting much.”

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The Democrats are fully aware that the lay of the land is not in their favor come November. They are now willing (some of them on the record) to blast the Biden administration as inefficient, rudderless, etc., and in dire need of some energy at the very least. And they are absolutely correct on that note, by the way. Biden gives public statements and just sounds like a tired old man.

His statements, as well as those from his administration officials, are a mix of blame-shifting or claims of ignorance. They aren’t addressing any of the issues facing Americans, and they are losing not just independent voters, but large swaths of their base to the Republican Party.

But that isn’t even the biggest reason why the Democrats are mad. You can expect shifts in voter allegiance in midterm elections. It’s a historic trend. No, the biggest reason so many Democrats are mad right now is Biden’s inability to even keep his own base energized.

They lost on abortion as a constitutional right, they lost on gun control, and they lost on environmental activism from the bureaucracy. They know that their most active base voters are going to be depressed to the point that they just stay home in November and there is nothing they can do about it.

When George H.W. Bush was President, Congressional Republicans ran their midterm campaigns against Bush’s record. As a result, they were able to mitigate some of their losses in the midterms. It would not be too much of a surprise to see something similar in this election cycle. The Democrats need to find a way to re-energize their base. If that means knocking the Biden administration for not being progressive enough, then they’ll do it. They want to hold on to what power they have.

Biden will undoubtedly be in an even weaker position after November because of it, paving the way to perhaps announce his retirement and give the party enough time to find a replacement.

 

Article by Pat Buchanan in Townhall

Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation

In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"

"Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground."

Today, it would be untruthful to answer to the soul of Webster that our Union is "rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible."

For the divisions among us replicate those Webster witnessed in his last years before the War Between the States.

A Gallup survey reports the lowest figure ever recorded, 38%, for that share of our population that proclaims itself to be "extremely proud" to be Americans. Another 27% say they are "very proud."

But the share of our people who say they are only "moderately proud" or a "little proud" or "not at all proud" to be Americans adds up to a third of the nation.

In the past, those "extremely" or "very proud" to be Americans used to average 80% of the country. Now it is down to 65%.

To love one's country, Edmund Burke said, one's country ought to be lovely. It would appear that 1 in 3 Americans, more than 100 million of us, no longer see our country as truly lovely.

While patriotism and pride in U.S. citizenship and in being part of this national community are eroding, other problems are being revealed by public surveys.

In a new AP-NORC poll, 85% of all Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, with 92% of Republicans believing this to be true and 78% of Democrats agreeing.

On July 5, a Monmouth poll reported that President Joe Biden's approval rating had sunk to 36%, with 59% disapproving of his presidency.

As for our Democratic-led Congress, 15% of all Americans approved of its performance, with 85% disapproving.

Another Gallup survey from July 5 reported that this last year has seen a fall in public confidence in every one of 16 major U.S. institutions.

The institutions in which Americans now place the least confidence are the presidency, newspapers, the criminal justice system, big business, television news and, at rock bottom, Congress. Only 7% of Americans have great confidence or quite a bit of confidence in Capitol Hill.

The institutions that enjoy the greatest measures of confidence -- though here, too, the levels are receding like Lake Mead -- are small business, the military, the police, the medical system and religious institutions.

That small business is the most trusted of American institutions suggests that Biden's attack on the alleged greed of gas station owners may not be politically wise.

American institutions that tend to be conservative -- small business, the military, cops -- are where the American people repose the greatest confidence. Journalistic institutions -- newspapers and TV news -- both largely liberal, appear to be ones in which the nation reposes the lowest levels of confidence and the greatest deposits of distrust.

Why are Americans so down on their country and disapproving of its direction, and of their president who is leading them?

Surely, the pandemic, which has taken a million lives in 30 months and infects 10 times as many of us today as it did a year ago, with the death toll roughly the same now as then, is a primary cause.

The crisis at the Mexican border where a quarter of a million illegal migrants enter our country, uninvited, every month, with cartel mules ferrying the fentanyl and other narcotics that kill tens of thousands of young Americans every year is surely another.

Then there is the worst inflation in 40 years and the record rise in the price of food and fuel for America's families.

Also, since the first of the year, there have been an average of 10 "mass shootings" a week, where a criminal gunman wounds or kills four or more victims. Major atrocities like Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Highland Park, Illinois, dominate the news for days.

And each weekend seems to bring a new casualty report of the dead and wounded from Chicago's streets that reminds us of the early days of Vietnam.

Then there is the poisonous character of American politics.

In the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton famously described half of the supporters of Donald Trump as a "basket of deplorables."

They are, said Hillary, "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic ... irredeemable ... bigots" all.

Following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the issue of abortion back to the states for decision, the term "fascist" has been applied by the left to its right-to-life opponents.

Which makes one wonder.

If Republicans capture two or three dozen House seats in this fall's midterm elections, would that constitute a triumph of American fascism?

And how does the left argue that we should come together and stand on "common ground" with folks such as those Clinton describes?

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2022/07/08/latest-symptoms-of-a-disintegrating-nation-n2609893 

 

 

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