https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Hochstein

A Biden Confidant Emerges as a Crucial Mideast Diplomat

Amos Hochstein, an energy policy official who was born in Israel, is playing diplomatic firefighter along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Mr. Hochstein has made at least five trips to Israel and Lebanon since the war in Gaza prompted Hezbollah to launch rocket attacks on northern Israel in solidarity with Hamas. He speaks constantly with Lebanese officials as well as top Israeli officials, sometimes including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“He’s a very close adviser of the president,� said Edward M. Gabriel, the president of the American Task Force on Lebanon, a nonprofit organization in Washington that seeks better relations between the United States and Lebanon. “As a consequence, I think he can speak with a lot of authority when he’s in the field.�

Mr. Hochstein’s background — he is not a trained foreign service officer — has raised some eyebrows among diplomats who note that he is carrying out the sort of sensitive work typically handled by State Department regional experts.

Arab officials and media outlets also remark frequently on Mr. Hochstein’s Jewish heritage and service in the Israeli Defense Forces.

In 2021 Lebanon’s foreign minister, whose country prohibits visits by Israelis, said that he would deal with Mr. Hochstein as a U.S. envoy “and not in his Israeli capacity.� (Mr. Hochstein, born in Israel to American parents, no longer holds Israeli citizenship. He has lived in the United States since the 1990s.)

Israel is going to be the biggest issue during the first term because the regional war will break out. There needs to be a competent leader at the White House who can represents Israel’s interests.

Poster John Johnson is still under the opinion that Kamala Harris is not going to be the Democrats official nominee for the 2024 election in November.

I know, right? Fairly asinine. Choosing a running mate, like, how much more evidence that Harris is the party’s official choice does one need?

But for some, this kind of thing will be explained away as a total conspiracy.

Nominate a strong independent white woman to hector both Trump and the white working class. And take the L.

The Democrats will get four years to trash the last Republican president ever and focus on 2028. Meanwhile, they can try not to lose the Senate and the House.

She’s kind of in a jam there. Does she humiliate a white male like Gavin Newsom, or does she (in accordance with the Law of Intersectionality) pick another black female in order to ensure that a white male doesn’t succeed her? She gains some clout by making a white man her subordinate, but she also incurs risk aa the VP may ascend to the Presidency. Another black or Hispanic woman keeps white males out of the line of succession.

Kamala has held her first campaign event:

With barely more than 100 days until the election, Ms. Harris immediately pressed her case against former President Donald J. Trump during a visit to her new campaign headquarters, invoking her early career as a prosecutor who took on “predators� and “fraudsters.�

“Hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,� she said to cheers.

The vice president compared her day-old campaign to the civil rights and voting rights battles of the past, placing it on a continuum with “abolitionists and suffragettes.� And she said that Mr. Trump’s potential return would undo some of those victories and take the country backward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-trump-2024-election.html

I am very impressed with the speed and efficiency with which this transition was affected. Actually, a bit too fast and too efficient for my taste. I can hardly think of another country of any significance where the head of state simply says I am not good enough anymore and will call it quits and someone else picks up the baton.

Who fucking cares?

Is this Beshear guy ever going to go national?

Can Doug Emhoff be a twofer, in the mold of Bill Clinton’s campaign promise of “two for the price of one”?

The betting markets are predicting she’s going to pick a white male. Currently, the two favorites are Governor Shapiro of PA and Senator Kelly of Arizona. My bet is it’ll be Kelly, because Shapiro’s probably smart enough to decline the offer.

Caption contest :

I invite everyone to submit captions to the photo below :

I have four entries of my own.

i) “One of the rapid first-round eliminations during Kamala Harris’ Jewish husband selection tournament in 2012, titled “Who Wants to be First Gentleman?��

ii) “No, Ron, I don’t want to go to your Palo Alto pad with you to see your ‘Very Important Software Work’!�

iii) “Keep up the good work, Ron. You got a generous cut of the profits from the scheduled pandemic. Now, we will need you for the next staged situation we are brewing.�

iv) “Strange things happen when the woman’s grip strength is stronger than the man’s.�

Post your own captions below.

Bonus video :

Hulk Hogan (who recently spoke at the RNC to a standing ovation) wants to feast on Kamala :

By a quirk of the US constitution, a VP must be US-born.

How about Greg Cochran? He seems pretty good at slinging impromptu political bullshit. He could justify more Covid Lockdowns or make up laughable theories about Ukraine or push a crazy war against Russia.

Just imagine all the ways he could demand young white men suffer and die for the sake of little brown people all over the world. Just like the boys at Normandy.

So, who should she pick as her VP running mate?

Judah P. Benjamin–Notorious RBG’s heartthrob–is the perfect ticket balancing pick for her.

She won’t pick Newsom if only because having two California residents on the ballot would make a victory for the both of them difficult.

Another black or Hispanic woman keeps white males out of the line of succession.

Hillary was smart enough to pick a white guy, so Kamala will be as well. Tom Vilsack would be an excellent choice, but he is 73 so that may scare people off. I will say that the more Vance speaks, the more it looks like Trump botched the pick.

Poster John Johnson is still under the opinion that Kamala Harris is not going to be the Democrats official nominee for the 2024 election in November.

I haven’t even posted and you are thinking about me. How sweet. Another ex-girlfriend at Unz.

At least get my opinion correct when I’m not here.

I said 60/40 in favor of another candidate. That is different than saying she will not be the candidate. I think the fear of Trump by the donors tips the scales even if the current message is to rally around Harris.

In the last two elections the MSM initially favored the female and then backslid.

This is HER time!!! – MSM on Edwards and Clinton

From a strategic level she is a poor candidate. So was Biden and they pressured him out.

The donors clearly have more sway than some PMSing CNN host.

Trump botched the pick.

The Biden episode will concentrate people’s mind on 80-year-old in charge of the ‘Football’. And, if the actuarial gods want to have some more fun, putting a 39-year-old with zero political or any other experience (besides writing a good book) in that spot is hardly more assuring.

Israel is going to be the biggest issue during the first term because the regional war will break out. There needs to be a competent leader at the White House who can represents Israel’s interests.

That’s funny, I thought the purpose of the American government was to represent America’s interests.

But, surely, you are correct. Israel’s interests just don’t get enough representation in the Halls of the American government

Kelly would be a good pick for a Democratic ticket. He’s military and he was an astronaut. People like astronauts. Largely because they don’t any. He’d be a good point-man for gutting the 2nd amendment. And maybe a few other amendments too, while he’s at it. He’d be a reliable deep-state tool.

Plus, he has an identical twin. So if they ever need a body-double, they’ve got that going for them.

The betting markets are predicting she’s going to pick a white male. Currently, the two favorites are Governor Shapiro of PA and Senator Kelly of Arizona. My bet is it’ll be Kelly, because Shapiro’s probably smart enough to decline the offer.

Thanks Dave. I honestly hadn’t given the “decline” option a whole lot of thought.

I expect Harris to lose, though I also expect she’ll still get 47%ish of the vote and Trump will win with a similar number simply by sweeping most of the swingable states. (With a lot of people voting for neither.) The question is does her stink rub off on the VP guy? Or does he benefit from being a good soldier, or even looking–“why can’t we have him as President instead”–better by contrast?

During my entire life only one VP candidate who was never elected VP, even secured their party’s nomination. That’s Bob Dole. Even the overall record of actual serving VPs is so-so:

VPs and VP candidates during my life:
Candidate VP record Pres record
Nixon 2-0 2-1 (very close loss first time; resigned during #2 term)
LBJ 1-0 1-0 (huge win, then dropped out of taking shot at #2)
Humprey 1-0 0-1 (very close loss)
Ford 0-0 0-1 (only appointed VP; reasonably close loss)
Dole 0-1 0-1 (only failed VP, to get party nomination–after 20yr gap, solid loss)
Mondale 1-1 0-1 (blown out 60-40)
Bush 2-0 1-1 (solid win, solid loss)
Gore 2-0 0-1 (though very, very, very close loss)
Biden 2-0 1-0 (close win, dropped out of taking shot at #2)

Looking at this it’s a mixed bag, but of course these guys actually got their party’s nomination–lots of other candidates did not. Still skipping any association with Kamala might be the best play.

Cooper of NC or Shapiro of PA. Shapiro would be likelier if he didn’t give off a slightly creepy vibe.

I’m looking forward to the Kamala / Trump debate. Just kidding. It’ll be a fiasco with her word salads and his ignorant bloviating. And everyone knows she can shut down debate at any time by simply stating some form of “Black Woman!”

Because that’s basically where this train wreck of a country is right now.

PS: Mark Kelly looks like Uncle Fester. But who remembers him? Well, there were the AF movies…

My guess is North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. Democrats want to win NC and this could make it happen. Kentucky also has a boring white male Governor she might pick but KY will vote for Trump no matter what. Too many “bad whites” live there for Harris to have a chance..

Robert Downey, Jr.

I mean, come on: who wouldn’t want President Iron Man?

Me personally, I’d prefer President War Pigs or President Planet Caravan, but you gotta give the people what they want!

Plus, his uncle Jim Downey is the Funniest Man Alive.

What this whole discussion brings home to me is that we need separate nations.

Our differences are not about taxes, or state (taxes) provision of medical care or even about the wisdom of some war. I am simply thoroughly alienated–genes, culture, values and thinking–of huge numbers of nominal “Americans”. And I am hardly alone. There’s a 100 million plus people like me–if not exactly the analytically rabid loon I am.

This is not supposed to be how it works. A nation is not supposed to be some random collection of people jammed together under the sway of a state. Definitionally that’s not a “nation” at all, but an “empire”.

The most important right is not “freedom of speech” or “religion” or “the press”. The most important right–the really useful one–is to be able to make community, share community with the people you want–common culture, norms, values. To be in a community that is actually *your* community. Americans no longer have that. No longer have that right.

Conservatives need to raise these issues–not just in America but across the West. We must start drawing hard lines. Even if we have to accommodate weirdos doing minoritarian nonsense, in their patch, we must demand the right to our nations, our right to survive.

So you’re saying Kelly?

A nation is not supposed to be some random collection of people jammed together under the sway of a state.

Say what? This upends everything my social studies teacher taught me.

The other issue that I’ve been thinking about with regard to “privilege” and the like: why wouldn’t someone want as much competitive advantage as they could get? Why wouldn’t they want their group to do as well as possible?

It’ll be Newsom. You can’t run him as the candidate since once you fail an election as the candidate unless your name is Donald Trump (Or have some kind of actual political purpose) you’re done. No sense wasting anybody you want to line up (As I’ve said before, the establishment is running out of politicians, you think Newsom is a charisma-void careerist hollowman? Check out what is down the line behind him. For a preview see the British Conservative party the last few years or reflect on the living dead Biden or the open Zionist pawn in Keri Starmer also in the UK.)

They’ll like that he’ll get in contact with all the right media and donors and be presented before the public for 2028. It’ll also be a test of if the general public of the US feel about him.

For her efforts falling on the sword Kamala will probably get a John Kerry political afterlife being involved in lots of “commissions” and international agencies.

Ideally you might put a black candidate with Kamala since, despite her protestations, she isn’t read as black by anyone, particularly blacks and particularly black women. But they probably fear that might overdo it so they’ll get a white WASP guy to prop her up.

Tiny Duck?

More seriously, the rush to anoint Kamala and unite behind her before they reveal Joe’s passing reminds me of how quickly the D’s rushed to anoint and unite behind Biden in 2020 after he won the 2020 South Carolina Democrat primary. Despite Joe’s less-than-stellar showings in Iowa and NH, his win of SC somehow caused lots of contenders to drop out like flies; many of whom seemed to get plum do-nothing jobs afterwards (e.g. Kamala as VP, Buttigeg as Transportation Secretary).

Almost like they were bribed/blackmailed to do so by the Deep State/Democrat donors in order to make sure Vanilla Frosting Joe could be stored in his basement (COVID restrictions, remember) and brought out to cover up the Shit Sandwich (all the D’s hate-white groups) and plausibly steal the election.

Anyway, been listening to a lot of NPR since Sunday’s bombshell, and they are acting as if Cackles is both absolutely new and absolutely awesome. The denial and the positivity is amusing and surprising. I think they genuinely forgot about Kamala, as the corporate news doesn’t report her gaffes, and were so depressed about Biden’s debate disaster and following weeks crackup that they are pleased with any change outside of him. Plus Cackles has seemingly struck a deal: keep Biden’s staff and campaign (therefore they all have jobs) in return for all of their support for her and covering up Biden’s not having actually written that resignation letter or made that phone call. As a result, they delivered the delegates to her, or so the news is reporting.

VP? I’m always confused by the eventual choices. Biden’s choice was the only one that made sense to me; a vapid double DEI case to color up the ticket and please three grievance groups in the D’s: blacks, South Asians, and women. Trump picking Pence or Vance never made sense, Hillary picking Kaine never made sense, Obama picking Biden never made sense, etc. I assume its about the money and the access; while VP isn’t worth a warm bucket of piss in terms of power, it does grant access to the White House, so that can be paid for by bribers, so a VP slot is worth it for the venial (like Joe did using Hunter as the bag man). So a venial person who don’t want to work or gain power but do want to collect easy dough will seek it. Yes, its less dough than Secretary of State or AG, but its a pretty good scheme—just ask Hunter and Joe.

I assume Cackles, therefore, will pick a VP based on which politician can shore up delegates/money who at the same time wants the easier, lower bribes a VP gets. They keep saying she’ll pick a governor of a swing state, but they always say that. While that makes great copy for Hollywood and “conventional wisdom”, how often does that work? Almost never recently.

For example: Trump picked Pence (IN is a safe red state) and Vance (Ohio is considered in the bag for Trump already), Hillary picked Kaine (VA was already trending blue, so maybe it worked, but she still lost the rust belt, so how much did she actually care about swing states to begin with?), Obama picked Biden (DE is always D), Romney picked Ryan (Wisconsin was lost to D’s), Kerry picked Edwards (lost NC). Maybe Gore got TN for Clinton in 92, but by 2000 Gore couldn’t get it for himself. Bush 43 didn’t bother with that nonsense and chose Cheney (safe Red state) for his power and abilities than for his geographic area.

Look for the person who can deliver Cackles either the most money in donations or delegates at the convention. Remember that since the delegates are not pledged to anyone since Biden’s Twitter resignation a dark horse could make it a brokered convention and try for the nom. So Kamala’s team, as it has been doing, wants to lock down delegates now to prevent any challengers from thinking they have a chance.

Yes, I meant Kelly. A big deal has been made of the fact that J.D. was a Marine. But the fact is his entire enlistment was spent in public-relations. Kelly’s hundreds of carrier landings, 54 days in space, shuttle redesign work, etc. etc., on and on…severely erodes the cache of JD The Marine. (But I still greatly respect any Marine, especially one who did not kill anyone or break anything.)

Two more things. First, A female president causes people to doubt she has a grasp for “how things work� in the science/ technology realms. With Kelly as an active VP, that worry is reduced. Second, a rap on Kamala is that she got where she is the non-meritorious way. Kelly neutralizes this, at least to some degree, by bringing to the ticket a superb example of hard work, and courage, and meritocracy.

Except, of course, Kelly got his job as Senator because his wife, who was the politician, was shot by a crazy who should have been institutionalized.

We have this very unmentioned but totally undemocratic thing that’s been going on for the last 100 years where spouses are the “natural” choice to replace their spouse in a political job and are often selected for it if the original spouse can no longer serve. It’s very 3rd world and sick.

Mr. Hochstein, born in Israel to American parents, no longer holds Israeli citizenship.

Oh, that’s OK then. He’s as patriotic a red blooded American as any of us. Better even!

They really must think we’re dumb.

I think “selecting governor of PA as a VP running mate” is in the Hollywood Writer’s Book of Cliches. IIRC in House of Cards the president had a VP who was the former governor of PA whom Kevin Spacey convinces into resigning to go back to being PA governor (because VP is boring and governor was more exciting).

A big deal has been made of the fact that J.D. was a Marine. But the fact is his entire enlistment was spent in public-relations.

You gotta be shitting me! Does he think he’s Mickey Spillane?

Seriously, though, the point is that like Pvt. Joker, he did enlist, so he’s “one of those” weird people who serve in the military. Unlike those who had “other obligations” or heel spurs. That alone makes him “alien.” To the Kamala Krowd, being “in the Marines” is as problematic as “being in the Gestapo.”

But I still greatly respect any Marine, especially one who did not kill anyone or break anything.

So did I, until I found out Ed McMahon was a Marine. High-ho!

I can hardly think of another country of any significance where the head of state simply says I am not good enough anymore and will call it quits and someone else picks up the baton.

Really? Off hand, I can’t think of any “country of significance” where that isn’t the case. I’d say it’s part of the definition.

“Sure, we have a huge population, massive GDP, and nukes, but the Big Guy isn’t allowed to resign, because we have no mechanism in place to replace him, and the whole thing will go Mad Max in minutes.”

“Marines are not allowed to die without permission!”

The question is does her stink rub off on the VP guy? Or does he benefit from being a good soldier, or even looking–“why can’t we have him as President instead�–better by contrast?

Does anyone remember Hillary’s VP nominee?

Frankly, there needs to be a competent leader at the White House who will represent the interests of the United States of America!

Shapiro seems to be out as a possible VP because he is Jewish. All the Establishment pundits are pretty shocked that there is so much anti-Semitism among the Dem base (hint: it’s going to get stronger).

It’s as if these people aren’t really very smart after all. They had a thin view of how their anti-white coalition would be held together.

And they are just now coming to terms with the fact that young males of color look at the ruling class of Democrats and liberal society and think: what a buncha fags.

No. Anymore than the former Republican governors of Vermont, Massachusetts, or Maryland managed to go national.

What a pity that Boris Johnson renounced his American citizenship. He’d have brought fun, flair and articulacy to American federal politics. Plus even more little bastards, I dare say.

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. His son was Antifa, I think he was arrested either for arson or rioting and got a wrist slap.

IIRC Virginia had a Democratic governor who could appoint the replacement, so no lost seat. I think the governor at the time was Clinton apparatchik Terry McAuliffe.

Mr. Sailer has to pretend to care about the Establishment’s intramural politics, in order not to alienate a substantial portion of his audience.

None of whom seems to Notice that he, once again, offers no opinion. He’s too smart for that.

What about Pete Buttigieg? Former mayor of a mid-sized city. U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Graduated from Harvard & Oxford (Rhodes Scholar). Was in the military in Afghanistan. And of course he is totally gay and in a gay marriage (a virtue in modern America).

If I were Kamala, I’d pick someone lousy like Julian Castro because this would be my insurance against assassination if elected.

If she picked Hillary, she probably ought not buy any green bananas.

While the commercial parody is funny, what does Jim Downey have to do with it? Also, the song that was used in the original airing was Beautiful Girls (Van Halen, 1979) but for clearance reasons they substituted a generic sound-alike instead.

Cochrane is a mentally ill lunatic.
His spontaneous human combustion theory for the disposal of holocaust victims bodies? LMAO

I remember “Beautiful Girls” from the 8 track of Van Halen 2 that I got from the Columbia House record club in 1979. It was one of my favorite cuts off the album.

How about Sen. John Fetterman? They would make a perfect retard ticket together.

Or how about Bernie?

I still think she will pick Stacy Abrams, to please the black women voters and claim to be the Diversity Ticket. Also, Stacy makes Kami (pronounced Commie) look thin, and no one would dare impeach her.

By a quirk of the US constitution, a VP must be US-born.

Okay then: Boris Johnson.

Born in New York State, plenty of experience, far from a conservative, pro-Israel, pro- war in Ukraine, a mischling, great choice.

Exactly – personally, I don’t think Harris has it in her to pick someone who might shine brighter politically than herself and Shapiro has more natural skill, aside from the fact he ought to recognize even if she does win it does his WH aspirations no good to be her veep for 4-8 years.

Kelly seems like he’s not exactly a dynamo and will do what he’s told, a much better fit for Harris.

The vice president compared her day-old campaign to the civil rights and voting rights battles of the past, placing it on a continuum with “abolitionists and suffragettes.� And she said that Mr. Trump’s potential return would undo some of those victories and take the country backward.

Yeah, it’s gonna be this 24/7 for the next 100 days.

“Muh Civil Rights! A Woman’s Right to Kill Her Baby! Trump Patriarchal Fascist!” Etc., etc., ad infinitum.

It’s really their only platform, their only campaign.

It does not make any difference who Harris picks. The 20th century produced three forms of socialism: national socialism, international socialism and democratic socialism. National socialism failed first, followed about 40 years later by international socialism.

Democratic socialism is now failing. It would have happened sooner but a large Boomer generation was working and paying taxes. The combination of the Boomers retiring and the dysgenic effects of our welfare and immigration systems is bringing it to a close.

We are now running two trillion dollar a year federal deficits. Social Security and Medicare are headed for insolvency. We continue to spend 900 billion dollars a year for a military we can no longer afford. Interest costs on the national debt are rising. The current system is not sustainable.

In many countries the head of state is not the chief executive.

However British prime minister Harold Wilson suddenly resigned for health reasons. Two other leading Labor Party politicians, Hugh Gaitskill and John Smith suddenly dropped dead.

It happens, so countries have to have a Plan B.

The question now is whether Biden is a PINO, which is what he seems to have been for a long time.

It would be a surprise, but perhaps not a total surprise, if Biden were to pass away before the Democratic Convention, which would clarify the situation.

The only questions media should be asking Harris right now:
1. Where is Joe Biden and when is he appearing on camera?
2. Who is running the country right now?
3. Why was Joe Biden removed — after saying he would never leave?
4. If Joe Biden was removed due to mental impairment,…

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) July 22, 2024

Stephen Miller:

The only questions media should be asking Harris right now:
1. Where is Joe Biden and when is he appearing on camera?
2. Who is running the country right now?
3. Why was Joe Biden removed — after saying he would never leave?
4. If Joe Biden was removed due to mental impairment, how can he run the country?
5. How long has Harris and the WH covered up his mental condition?
5. And if Joe Biden was not removed due to mental impairment, then how is this not a coup? (You can’t nullify duly-constituted primary elections that already occurred based on bad polls).

Julia Louis-Dreyfus seems to be the most qualified for the job. She’s got the glasses. Come on, man !

Roy Cooper has had Republican legislatures (sometimes veto-proof) restraining his and his party’s worst instincts for 8 years, which may help him nationally. OTOH, he can’t point to many real accomplishments besides two elections.

As state AG, he finally ended the Duke rape hoax, but he let those families twist in the wind as long as he could to avoid offending black Durham voters crucial for his narrow gubernatorial win.

Plenty of theories that Harold got couped but the reality seems to be that he had early stage senile dementia and retired to the beautiful and peaceful Scilly Isles to live out his remaining years.

The Republicans should be talking about invoking the 25th amendment unless cognitive testing can show Biden is still fit for office.

Maybe we should be asking if we even need a president. I mean, I get it, we kinda do. But maybe not that much.

We’ve had a string of losers for decades.

Give it up

It didn’t fail. It required the liberal democracies to throw a fortune at it and get 50,000,000 killed to stop it.

Harris likes to surround herself with familiar faces, one of her many Biden-like traits. She and Cooper have been friends for many years, so he has the inside track right now. I think Kelly and Shapiro would be smarter choices- each is likelier to deliver his state than Cooper is to deliver North Carolina, and neither is as old as Cooper. Also, each of them is just a few inches taller than Harris, so the photographers will have an easier time making her look like the boss in their pictures together.

Shapiro also was Guvner, the executive as Trump was shot.

I don’t know if it would have made political sense but I’d have been okay if Trump picked Tulsi Gabbard. She’s not an establishment type.

Harris will follow the advise of the party if personal chemistry permits

Biden’s out, Kamala is in. Don’t be fooled: policies won’t change. Just like Biden wasn’t the one calling the shots, Kamala Harris won’t be either. She is the new figurehead for the deep state and the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers. They will… pic.twitter.com/pdwLQwJzR8

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 21, 2024

HBCU

Did you go to Howard or Mo’house?
Whichever, you made it a ho-house.
No house, if it yo house,
cain’t not be a ho-house—
that’s Mo’house, the White House, not no house.

Don’t whim this one, Steve. After all, what do you care, you’re just an absentee landlord here any more.

RFK jr.

Y’all may be mocking her but don’t underestimate the broad appeal of Kamala’s mantra :

We must get reparations for what it was.

And justice for what it is.

While looking forward to what it’s gonna be like.

Hispanic male.

The Republicans should be talking about invoking the 25th amendment unless cognitive testing can show Biden is still fit for office.

At this point, a writ of Habeus Corpus might be more in order. Kamala might already be POTUS.

Yeah, it doesn’t really matter all that much who’s on the D ticket since their voters are basically NPCs anyway, so the Rs should be making hay out of what may have been an actual coup against the pResident, and what was certainly at least a moral coup against the primary voters who voted for him.

They really must think we’re dumb.

You must admit that the evidence is on their side.

It was remarkable to see Jim Goad describe this week’s turn of events as:

“Joe Biden announced on Twitter/X that he was dropping out of the race and threw his full, spindly, brittle-boned weight behind the charmless half-breed whore Kamala Harris.”

P.S. Wouldn’t every journalist enjoy the opportunity to speak with such clarity?

Harris is a fascinating case, a perfect exemplar of her most fervent fan club: the clapped out, barren wine aunts.

As an attractive young woman, Harris made her way in “politics” by letting powerful men pass her around like a beer-can bong at a Grateful Dead concert. She failed upward over and over. Finally, as the wall became inevitable, she found a classic beta schlub provider in her Jewish lawyer husband Doug Emhoff, whom Harris married when she was 50. Her party girl years behind her, she probably snagged Emhoff by being willing to do all the pervy stuff his repressed Jewish porn actor soul so long wanted. Because you gotta figure Kamala swallows and lets Dougy take her up the dirty back road now and then. A perfect match.

Emhoff also brought along two step daughters, one of whom is obviously an emotionally damaged wreck, as every picture of her clearly illustrates. What a family.

Harris herself is an oddball mix of two toxic cultures, Jamaican and Indian. So she’s low IQ yet crafty, show-offy and outgoing yet a back stabbing pole climber. She takes on whatever points of view the woke zeitgeist tells her to parrot, because she’s too stupid to understand the issues (Jamaican) yet instinctively knows where the power centers are (Indian caste culture).

She never had a child of her own, and probably never cared to. It might ruin her figure, which is still impressive one must admit, and that was always her ticket to success. The wine aunts both love her, because just like them she rode a thousand saddles, yet hate her, because she’s stayed slim and actually managed to snag the nebbish beta provider they all long for during their long, lonely nights drunk ragging on Twitter.

We live in interesting times.

“Mr. Sailer has to pretend to care about the Establishment’s intramural politics, in order not to alienate a substantial portion of his audience�

Hey, that’s MY line. Stay on your side of the street.

I have no doubt that atrocities happened in world war II. But there’s one line of argument that doesn’t make sense to me. Steve has said something like Jews didn’t talk about their relatives dying at the time in order to protect children’s feelings? Do I have that right? And I believe he said it was like people saying a dog has gone to the country or whatever instead of saying it was dead.

But with all due respect, Jews don’t strike me as stoic people who don’t like to complain. And they don’t seem to protect their children from knowledge of mistreatment. In fact I would say they revel in it. It’s a lot of how they define themselves.

LOL, leave it to a tribe gaslighter to deflect from the GOP nominee’s own significant cognitive decline, moral failings, and pathologies.

1. Where is Joe Biden and when is he appearing on camera?

—He is in the White House and will make an appearance after D strategy sessions.

2. Who is running the country right now?

The President and his team of advisors, Nothing has changed.

3. Why was Joe Biden removed — after saying he would never leave?

Pressured most likely due to his cognitive decline. He still wanted to run. But he stepped aside. People change their minds.

4. If Joe Biden was removed due to mental impairment, how can he run the country?

With his team of advisors, the same way Reagan did late in his second term.

5. How long has Harris and the WH covered up his mental condition?

Assuming facts not into evidence.

5. And if Joe Biden was not removed due to mental impairment, then how is this not a coup? (You can’t nullify duly-constituted primary elections that already occurred based on bad polls).

See answer to Number 3.

Hey, that’s MY line.

Citation, please.

Things change fast. Maybe a day ago 60/40 in favor of another candidate would have been a somewhat reasonable assessment (wrong but not outrageously wrong) but as of today it would be more like 5/95. The bandwagon has swung totally in Kamala’s favor. Everyone has hopped on board. Time to update your priors.

“The question now is whether Biden is a PINO, which is what he seems to have been for a long time.”

At minimum since 2022 but possibly from the very beginning. Bet the latter if you believe (as many do) that he was just a sock puppet wielded by his old boss.

Shapiro is a Jew. Can’t win in the must-win state of Michigan with a Jew on the ticket. We must all bow to Dearbornastan!

You can’t nullify duly-constituted primary elections that already occurred based on bad polls.

Actually you can. Primary voters vote for delegates. Under the Democrat party rules, delegates are supposed to vote for the candidate that they are pledged to but they are not absolutely required to do so, especially if their candidate has released them.

The media is not going to ask any tough questions of Kamala. They are breathing a sigh of relief that “disaster” (a certain Trump victory) has been averted and are openly in favor of Kamala. They are going to do nothing but give her softball questions and cover for her. If Trump or anyone mentions that she has totally botched everything she has touched, especially the border situation, if they cover what Trump said at all (they will try not to – remember how Trump’s attempted assassination was initially and for many hours until it became ridiculous to keep saying this, covered as “Trump fell down”) they are going to tell you right there in the same news article that Trump is lying and that they have “fact checked” what Trump said and that the border was totally not Kamala’s responsibility, etc. From now on it is only going to be testimonials – “Kamala Harris is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”

They don’t even pretend to hide this anymore. Remember (because you are going to hear this a lot in the next 3.5 months) that the choice in this election is not between a Republican and Democrat but between democracy (Kamala) and dictatorship (Trump) so it’s a no brainer that the press should do everything possible to save our democracy. It’s their civic duty. It’s a totally non partisan thing and has nothing to do with the fact that 99% of the MSM are liberal Democrats. They have completely convinced themselves of this so they do what they are doing with a completely clear conscience and do not feel that they are breaching their professional ethics.

Ok, last question: If it’s all so straightforward, why doesn’t *the public* have clear, definitive answers to these basic questions?

(Generous of you to accept the role of unpaid spokesman for the administration, though.)

Obama picked Biden to make even the vilest White supremmiciss
assassin think twice, and then once more; Biden for the same reason picked
Kamala; so where is Kamala going to find someone that much worse than her?
Logical progression and name recognition sez Hunter.

“Assuming facts not into evidence.”

Why not? It’s a reasonable conclusion, based upon what we have observed over at least the past two years. We’re not in a courtroom.

Shapiro would be likelier if he didn’t give off a slightly creepy vibe.

What about Shapiro is creepy to you? I’ve met Shapiro and he seems to be completely normal and not at all creepy. Since he is a Democrat I don’t always agree with him politically but I would not hesitate to leave my children in his custody.

And I don’t say this about all Jewish politicians. Rendell (who I have also met) was a glutton and a philanderer (as well as a highly skilled politician) but Shapiro is an exemplary family man. Perhaps not coincidentally, although both are Jewish, Shapiro takes his religion quite seriously whereas Rendell is Jewish by birth but completely atheist in practice.

Ye gods, imagine the cringe. Levels of cringe previously not thought possible. The Cringe Singularity.

Things change fast. Maybe a day ago 60/40 in favor of another candidate would have been a somewhat reasonable assessment (wrong but not outrageously wrong) but as of today it would be more like 5/95. The bandwagon has swung totally in Kamala’s favor. Everyone has hopped on board. Time to update your priors.

I see your point but I’d give it a week.

Have you watched any MSM recently? They are mentally unstable from the events of the past week. Not that they were ever mentally healthy but the shooting and having to change positions on Biden has put them into a state of duress.

Liberals in general right now are having a hard time and are running to Harris in desperation and solidarity.

But that doesn’t change the data which suggests that running Harris is simply a bad idea. Harris just doesn’t poll well in swing states. Another case where it will come down to DEI fanatics against cooler heads that look at the data.

How well Kamala’s Jewish husband is taken up by actual ADOS blacks remains to be seen. There is a not insignificant number of blacks who have no great love for the Jews.

“Another case where it will come down to DEI fanatics against cooler heads that look at the data.”

The “cooler heads” know that DEI doesn’t play in Peoria.

The more concerning thing is Steve is still pushing the falsehood that Joe Biden is making any of these decisions.

Further, I seriously doubt Komoto Harris has any say in who her VP will be.

Things change fast… Everyone has hopped on board.

Yeah, kind of creepy. I’m thinking there may be some mileage in portraying the Dems as shambling political zombies, lurching from one brain meal to the next.

But the insult algorithm is maxed out; and this is a mild trait compared to their other self-hatred practices.

Nominate a strong independent white woman to hector both Trump and the white working class.

Speaking of hectoring:

The simple reason why Kamala Harris has Donald Trump running scared:
Trump is terrified of Kamala Harris because she will put his violent misogyny in the spotlight

It’s time to pull out Juanita again.

Also, remind people that their own gang wants to register women with Selective Service. Now that is anti-choice! Besides, why would they need fifteen million more names? What do they have in mind?

Get Tulsi out in front as well.

There never was any such thing as a Biden supporter, these were people who hated Trump and accepted Biden as the alternative. They would have been equally enthusiastic about a ficus. So it really doesn’t matter. It’s not a vote for Biden or Harris or whoever gets to be the VP’l candidate, it’s a vote for Anthony Blinken and the Obama cabinet.
———
OT — A German anon reports: unredacted covid files from German CDC leaked, proves conspiracy theorists were correct all along

Press conference in 5 minutes

NEW – The unredacted coronavirus protocols of the German RKI Institute have been leaked by a whistleblower today.

They reportedly contain explosive details, including that the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was a hoax.

Wir beenden das Drama um die Schwärzungen der #RKIProtokolle an dieser Stelle. Hier kommt der komplette Datensatz aller Sitzungsprotokolle des @rki_de-Krisenstabs, von 2020 bis 2023, ungeschwärzt, inklusive 10 GB Zusatzmaterial:https://t.co/EAhOHF4lSo

Ein/e Whistleblower/in,… pic.twitter.com/lledRjeyCM

— Aya Velázquez (@aya_velazquez) July 23, 2024

A press conference about the leak is scheduled for 10 am German time (in German language):

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrXPngmzJX

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/gesundheit-oekologie/das-wird-lauterbach-nicht-gefallen-rki-files-des-corona-krisenstabs-komplett-entschwaerzt-veroeffentlicht-li.2237725

https://www.schwaebische.de/politik/corona-rki-files-protokolle-drosten-spahn-das-wollte-die-regierung-den-deutschen-verheimlichen-2726483

Yeah, I agree with all of that. Miller’s real point is that the press is totally incompetent, corrupt, and partisan, and won’t ask obvious, relevant questions to obviously relevant parties. And yes, the delegate system means the delegates can do whatever, but the voters may not understand or care, so it’s a reasonable line of inquiry that the press would certainly pursue if it were the R party doing these shenanigans.

No he was a marine, served abroad. Worked in the Valley with Thiel in VC, went to law school etc.

As Sailer will tell you its all about driving the White vote in Wisconsin Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Excellent pick.

By a quirk of the US constitution, a VP must be US-born.

Okay then: Boris Johnson.

Born in New York State…

Another quirk is that electors must vote for one candidate from a state not their own. Now that Joe is off the ballot, Wilmington native Krišj�nis Kariņš is available:

Latvia’s foreign minister will step down after a probe over his office’s use of private flights

France has Macron; we can have a macron, two haÄ�eks, and a cedilla! On an N, ņo less — that beats Portuguese, which puts tildes on vowels.

Where was he flying? Latvia isn’t large, but is almost exactly ten Delawares in total area.

The evidence continues to accumulate that Corvinus and Will Stancil are the same person.

will stancil destroyed yet again, i guess nobody sent this low-level loser the memo. https://t.co/RhQZpdZcin

— eugyppius (@eugyppius1) July 21, 2024

The simple reason why Kamala Harris has Donald Trump running scared:
Trump is terrified of Kamala Harris because she will put his violent misogyny in the spotlight

Well I think the MSM broke an overnight record for number of White shaming articles. If you don’t like our subpar candidate then you must be ______.

Get Tulsi out in front as well.

Tulsi would have a much better chance against Trump.

Harris is the boneheaded dumb move.

American politics……what a disaster. Both parties are running a candidate that most Americans rate as unfavorable.

hey I remember Tiny Dick…oh sorry I mean Tiny Duck. What ever happened to him? I guess he moved on the bigger and greater things-or else he changed his nom-de-plume, I wonder who he is now?

The Republicans should be talking about invoking the 25th amendment

It’s not theirs to invoke. The VP and a majority of the cabinet must invoke it and they are all Democrats and are not going to do so unless Biden becomes comatose.

So any Republican demands that it be invoked are just aimed at securing a political advantage in the coming election (admittedly, a legitimate goal) but will do nothing to actually remove Biden whether he is unfit or not.

You should be GLAD that Harris is such a shitty candidate. If the Dems actually took your advice and ran a moderate then that person might actually be competitive with Trump.

I’m hoping that Harris will be as bad as you think in the swing states but be prepared for a nonstop barrage in the MSM for the next 3.5 months about how Harris is the best thing since sliced bread and Trump is a filthy racist, misogynist felon who hates blacks, women, puppies, working men and all that is pure and good.

By a quirk of the US constitution, a VP must be US-born.

Really? Where does it say that?

Salon still exists?

According to her bio on Salon, Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of “Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself.”

She is some cat lady who lives in Brooklyn. After she dies alone, the neighbors will be alerted by the smell. The super will find that the cats have eaten her eyeballs because they have not been fed.

I wouldn’t trust Amanda Marcotte to know “Truth Itself” if it bit her like her undisciplined cat babies do.

“Whoa, he’s funny-looking. Thank god he wasn’t mayor of S.F. when I wanted to begin my political career.”

Brock Hussein Sotero or his husband. Unstoppable, even by a comically yuge ear tampon. Is it legal? Nobody cares cuz da constuhtoooshun wroten by raciss white slaveowners.

What about a woman whose husband is a Jew? Same rule of thumb?

P.S. What sort of Indian was her mother? Hindu? Moslems don’t like them either.

Shapiro. Jewish. ultra competent

Mark Kelly. war hero nice guy

Andy Bashear. Inoffensive white guy

Pick any of these three and its a done deal

Even if we have to accommodate weirdos doing minoritarian nonsense, in their patch, we must demand the right to our nations, our right to survive.

Instead of demanding, or pleading, or complaining, how about the age-old action of taking? Solves the “minoritarian nonsense, in their patch� problem as well.

Supposedly the 14 th amendment requires the ballot not have a presidential and vp candidate from the same state.

Legal eagles please chime in if this is incorrect

You should be GLAD that Harris is such a shitty candidate. If the Dems actually took your advice and ran a moderate then that person might actually be competitive with Trump.

I’m not glad at all. I don’t like the possibility of her being president. That’s like saying a monkey may be flying your plane but probably not.

There is a massive underestimation of her incompetence.

Harris made her career by giving blowjobs to Willie Brown.

An AA politician who got the nod by giving head to another AA politician.

Harris is a dingbat whore that should not have been VP let alone a last minute presidential candidate.

This country has gone insane trying to avoid the unfortunate reality of race. Sticking with Harris is a White guilt based decision. If Harris was Irish then she never would have left California. She would be the red-headed attorney that gave blowjobs to the mayor.

I’m hoping that Harris will be as bad as you think in the swing states but be prepared for a nonstop barrage in the MSM for the next 3.5 months about how Harris is the best thing since sliced bread and Trump is a filthy racist, misogynist felon who hates blacks, women, puppies, working men and all that is pure and good.

Well sure and they have already started the articles on how everyone who is against Harris must be a dirty evil racist who hates women.

Just hope she doesn’t win the election. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse candidate.

The story of that plane crash, assuming the truth is out there, is pretty damn sad. I imagine Putin had his head in his hands when he got the news.

a) conditions were foggy and unsuitable for a landing – a Russian plane had already diverted to Moscow after two failed attempts

b) the airport didn’t have precision landing aids

c) the bulbs in the approach lights didn’t all work (and trees around the airport had been allowed to grow above safety regulation height)

d) two of the pilots, including the current captain, had flown the President in a 2008 incident where the President had changed the destination mid-flight – the then captain of the flight considered the changes dangerous (he had no airport charts for the changed destination), refused to implement the change and landed as previously planned. The captain never flew the President again and the other pilots were aware of this.

e) they also had on the flight deck the Chief of Protocol and the Air Force Chief.

f) the captain was handling comms as well as flying, as the best Russian speaker in the flight crew

The Poles had crammed a lot of Great and Good on board …the president of Poland, Lech KaczyÅ„ski, and his wife, Maria; the former president of Poland-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski; the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers; the president of the National Bank of Poland; Polish government officials; 18 members of the Polish parliament; senior members of the Polish clergy; and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre.

They should have aborted and gone somewhere else. Pres would have been late, but alive.

I want to see billboards saying “Trump golfs with known rapists!”

“be prepared for a nonstop barrage in the MSM for the next 3.5 months about how Harris is the best thing since sliced bread”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/kamala-harris-cheat-sheet-19-things-to-know-woman-might-be-president

“Rush Limbaugh – inspired by a piece in the Spectator that described her as a “mattressâ€� – speciously asserted that she had slept her way to the top.”

To be fair, I’m not sure the Guardian’s Zoe Williams will ever have heard of Willie Brown.

Man….this blog is really mailing it in these days…just asking the commentariot for materials really. Time to seek other grievance mines lol

Cation: “Thank you Mr. Unz…..I’ll do a better job on the bathrooms next week.”

The Dems got Biden to bow out now so they can run him again in 2028

Buttfudge is a distinct possibility. WEF graduate, psychopath and rectilian to the core.

Kamala is the anointed successor until the polling says she isn’t. When the polling comes in saying that she will get hammered, they will drop her like a bad habit, just like they did President Magoo.

Of course the Dems have don’t have anybody that 1) isn’t profoundly repellent and 2) is approved by the Ruling Class.

Pritzker, Hillary, Whitmer, Newsome, Butty and Kamala all fail the first test. Bernie passes the first test but fails the second.

The Dems should have stuck with the zombie. They didn’t have an alternative when they ditched him. They won’t have an alternative when they ditch Kamala.

And they are just now coming to terms with the fact that young males of color look at the ruling class of Democrats and liberal society and think: what a buncha fags.

And their analysis would be correct!

Harris/Sailer in 2024

Amanda Marcotte!

Her Mother was born in Chennai India and her father in Jamaica.

Spent some of her childhood living in Canada, never viewed hereself as American in any meaningful sense until adulthood. Of course that is increasingly common in a nation of 50-60 million foreign born peoples.

It will almost certainly be Josh Shapiro.

Zionist warmongers Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff led the effort to force out Biden. Peaceniks such as Ilhan Omar and AOC were Biden’s last defenders. The obvious implication is that Kamala’s VP will be more Zionist than Biden, and a bigger warmonger.

Josh Shapiro is one of the few major Democrats who fits this profile:

https://www.newarab.com/news/who-josh-shapiro-harris-potential-pro-israel-running-mate

Shapiro fully supports Netanyahu’s stated goal of exterminating Hamas supporters, and he fully supports the ADL / Bill Ackman agenda of gutting the first amendment to crack down on pro-Palestinian free speech.

Shapiro has a proven record of winning a majority of voters in Pennsylvania, the largest swing state.

How should Trump respond? By heartily embracing a true America First (not Israel First) agenda.

This will give his movement intellectual coherence and moral respectability.

It will also attract the disaffected antiwar voters he needs to win the swing states, especially in the rust belt.

Furthermore, it will completely shut down “Russia gate” – he will be able to truthfully say “I am not a Russian puppet, and unlike the Democrats I am also not an Israeli puppet.”

“Ok, last question: If it’s all so straightforward, why doesn’t *the public* have clear, definitive answers to these basic questions?�

They do. Are you this insistent with the GOP nominee and the controversies surrounding him?

“Why not? It’s a reasonable conclusion�.

No, it’s based on confirmation bias and begging the question.

As you can tell by my declaration earlier today, I don’t think much of the world’s current rulers and certainly don’t care to watch their special olympics race to ‘the presidency’ whatever that is.

It’s literally bores me more than sports.

But for sake of those infrequent moments of minor entertainment they offer I’m rootin for camela.

There’s no way camela beats trump that isn’t either the effect or the cause of a great show.

And even if not (cause trump keels over in a couple of days), camela is definitely the funniest mascot for feminism anyone could possibly hope to have play president. ….

Continued (and illustrated!) here: https://ydydy.substack.com/p/is-there-any-commandment-more-fun

‘Israel is going to be the biggest issue during the first term because the regional war will break out. There needs to be a competent leader at the White House who can represents Israel’s interests pull the plug on Israel.’

“It didn’t fail.”

Right before the war, the Nazi government was starting to run increasingly large yearly deficits. Massive government spending had stimulated the economy but, as is usual with government stimulus spending, the effect was only temporary. If Hitler had not gotten into the war, the failure of his socialist economic policies would have become more obvious. Socialism does not work because it takes wealth away from the productive, therefore discouraging hard work.

It is also not a coincidence that welfare states also tend to be warfare states. Big government at home and abroad go together. This was true with Hitler’s Germany but is also true of the U.S. It was the socialist leaning Wilson, FDR, Truman and LBJ who dragged us into wars. More recently, big government neocon Bush took us into Iraq and now socialist Biden has us involved in a proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine.

“Ok, last question: If it’s all so straightforward, why doesn’t *the public* have clear, definitive answers to these basic questions?�

They do.

Well, that settles it then.

‘…The Dems should have stuck with the zombie. They didn’t have an alternative when they ditched him. They won’t have an alternative when they ditch Kamala.’

The problems with that were two-fold. First, the ‘zombie’ was rapidly getting worse. Even if they did reelect him, there’d just be an interval of rapidly accelerating decline and an unedifying struggle over applying the Twenty Fifth Amendment and disposing of him.

Second, in that scenario, Harris becomes presidentrix — and she really is awful. Everyone knows it. Yet she would have to be allowed to run in 2028 — and go down to crushing defeat. That’s all the more certain now that the Republicans have selected J.D. Vance and have a credible successor to Trump.

So allowing Biden to run means the Democrats are quite likely screwed through 2037. Twelve years of fiasco and defeat — sixteen years if you count from 2021. That could leave the Democrats filed with the Whigs — a bit of past Americana.

Dump Biden now, let Kamala go down to crushing defeat and discredit the DEI/Progressive wing of the party, reposition, work on finding a new Bill Clinton while sabotaging Trump’s presidency, and come roaring back in 2028.

Better.

Must be a born citizen, which Hochstein is.

Twelfth Amendment: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

It just doesn’t apply here.

What this whole discussion brings home to me is that we need separate nations.

Not this old dead horse idea again…

While I’m in favor of the Republic of Texas (and others, maybe) not gonna happen.

At least not in our lifetime here.

Like repealing the 19th Amendment (which might have merit) it ain’t gonna happen.

You make vague arguments but for instance. how to divide up the nukes? You want Hillary to have one as Prez of the NY Republic? That’s just one…

You need new material here…

Just because he’s a Jew (or even Israeli born) doesn’t mean he’d represent Israel’s interests. To the contrary: Jews high up in the foreign policy hierarchy are almost always antagonistic to Israel. It’s probably a job requirement.

Hunter Crackhead, whoremonger, Grifter, Embezzeler, kicked-out-of-the-navy-over-coke, international man-of-mystery, porn star Biden?

Jill Biden I could conceivably see, but I’d be genuinely surprised if it were Hunter.

I mention Julian Castro in pseudo-jest, but a Latino male would make sense.

White lefties think they are “allies” of all the races here, but the other races probably see white lefties as temporary useful fools. Very few people genuinely like condescending-know-whats-good-for-you lefty whiter-people. They aren’t any fun

Supposedly the 14 th amendment requires the ballot not have a presidential and vp candidate from the same state.

The Twelfth. It says each elector must vote for at least one candidate not from his state. Two from the same state can indeed run, but that means one would have to forfeit that state’s electors. They are free and clear in the other 49.

You should be GLAD that Harris is such a 💩 candidate.

Kim Cheatle has just resigned. Which gives her even more time to post here as “John Johnson”.

Sen. Kelly has only been in office since 2020. So no real political record. Nothing prior.

No civilian career or occupation,

Other than military “graduate schools” he was a Merchant Marine Academy grad.

Yes, a decent military/astronaut record but very thin record of anything else.

He’s 60 years old from a far SW state. Barry Goldwater was the only prior major politician from there.

Barely 3 1/2 years as a Junior Senator isn’t much to brag about.

His space career was piloting/commanding several space shuttle missions to and from the original space station.

However, his main asset is that he might take some of the gay/fem/commie stink off of the Dem ticket as it is, policy wise. Of course he’s a White Man (not gay or trans) so his chances are quite slim.

“Tweed, Ronnie; TWEED?! We’re supposed to be going for a young, hip demographic, (sigh, doesn’t anyone read my memos?).

Shapiro. Jewish. ultra competent

Ultra-Zionist warmonger, enemy of free speech.

The end of the 12 amendment: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

I think everyone understands that Hochstein is an Israeli agent.

Barry Goldwater was the only prior major politician from there.

John McCain spins in his grave that you’ve forgotten him already. Three funerals!

the must-win state of Michigan

I took a look at Michigan’s county-level results for every presidential election of the past 3 decades.

The best the Republicans ever did in Wayne county was 2016, when Trump was running as a strident America First candidate. (66.36% Democrat, 29.26% Republican :: Gap 37.1%)

The worst the Republicans ever did in Wayne county was 2008, when McCain was singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”. (74.02% Democrat, 24.62% Republican :: Gap 49.4%)

Well, what are YOU going to do about it?

Yeah, it doesn’t really matter all that much who’s on the D ticket since their voters are basically NPCs anyway

As I’ve said on Twitter, their slogan is #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

Democrats call Trump supporters a cult, but they’d vote for a rock if (D) was next to it.

To be fair, I’m not sure the Guardian’s Zoe Williams will ever have heard of Willie Brown.

Of course they know about the blowjobs.

They’re not going to add that to her bio. Zoe Williams is a bitter left-wing feminist that wants a female president.

It isn’t a spurious accusation made up by Limbaugh. Nice try Zoe.

Harris claimed that she was dating him. A pretty 29 year old was dating Willie Brown on personality I guess. It came out in the last election:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/01/222799/kamala-harris-willie-brown-relationship-sexist-coverage

Kamala Harris got her first job by giving Willie Brown a blow job https://t.co/RsxDW0W28r pic.twitter.com/eqkL9cMayx

— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) March 29, 2024

I think DJT can very credibly counter that he knows Kamala’s type, too.

You should be GLAD that Harris is such a 💩 candidate.

Kim Cheatle has just resigned. Which gives her even more time to post here as “John Johnson�.

A new accusation! I’ll add it to the list.

If I was any part of the secret service I would not have let an incel looking dork walk around with a rangefinder.

I wouldn’t care if they fired me. There is no way I would let him walk around if my job was to protect the president.

But I’m so glad you guys aren’t worried about Trump losing…………………………………..again.

“There is no way that Biden can win” – Trump’s dedicated voters in the last election that lambasted me for being skeptical.

Yes I can see that Trump is favored. This is still a monkey with a hand grenade scenario. It’s like saying the last four monkeys put the hand grenade down so there is nothing to worry about. Yes I get the odds but I would like the hand grenade to be taken from the monkey.

Can’t wait for the era of slick back buns to finally die and for the volume renaissance to ensue. pic.twitter.com/GoC4AxykAn

— robyn☦ï¸� (@RRR0BYN) July 22, 2024

May I suggest SteveSailer.net?

they have already started the articles on how everyone who is against Harris must be a dirty evil racist who hates women.

Today’s NY Times imagines that Harris will attack Trump thusly:

1. Harris will portray herself as a prosecutor and Trump as a felon. Who would your rather have for President, dear swing voter – a prosecutor or a felon?

2. If Trump doesn’t respond, the accusation will stick. But if Trump responds in “personal terms” (apparently calling someone a felon is nothing personal) then he has blown his cool and has lost, not to mention that criticizing Harris in any way makes him a dirty evil racist who hates women .

The prosecutor-versus-felon approach may appeal to undecided voters who had been sour on both Mr. Trump and President Biden. It may also goad Mr. Trump, who reacts strongly to criticism, into resurrecting the language he has used against other Black female prosecutors, such as Letitia James in New York and Fani Willis in Georgia, both of whom he has called “racist� and attacked in personal terms.

Is it ok to portray Harris as a coyote or is that racist too? I suspect that it must be racist somehow. From now on all criticism of Harris is going to be racist or sexist or both.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/politics/trump-harris-attack-lines.html

Well, boys, this is checkmate for sure. We all know that Trump is unable to control himself and will surely call Harris a pickaninny or something. They’ve got old Trump (remember it’s ok to talk about old now – wow is Trump old, mention it frequently) painted into a corner. There’s no way Roadrunner will ever escape this trap which is a fine product of the Acme company.

I’m ok with the bun but WTH is going on with eyebrows? They look like Groucho Marx’s moustache painted on with shoe polish. And what are they doing to their lips? Did they eat something they are allergic to? Did a bee sting them? Not only does this make women look awful but they all look the same like they came thru the same photoshop filter.

For Frau K,

I just found someone intelligent on the Intertubes. Hugh Hewitt. Smart. And knows a lot of history. High content. Not just a circle-jerker “fill the radio time” moron like Hannity. He doesn’t seem to have forums or articles. Just podcasts. But I guess I could 2 speed them, on the right platform.

But I still miss the old Internet. Higher signal to noise. Used to be some awesome forums and blogs.

The 20th century produced three forms of socialism: national socialism, international socialism and democratic socialism. National socialism failed first, followed about 40 years later by international socialism.

Democratic socialism is now failing….

Mark, you’re trying to tie some sort of “socialism” bow around a whole bunch of different stuff. “National Socialism” was defeated in a war, but seemed to be fairly functional. Communism functioned for a while, but was quite mediocre in producing (quality and quantity) what people wanted compared to capitalism. Competition is much better.

What a flailing disaster for the West right now is not “democratic socialism” it is minoritarianism and immigrationism. That’s more like “undemocratic socialism” where the state party brings in paid ringers. It is not my cup of tea, but if Sweden had not gone down the road of immigrationism, it would probably be chunking along with its high tax rate welfare state just fine. Swedes can produce goods at a comfortable level for Swedes to consume. The problem is providing that level for a whole bunch of useless non-Swedes.

We are now running two trillion dollar a year federal deficits. Social Security and Medicare are headed for insolvency. We continue to spend 900 billion dollars a year for a military we can no longer afford. Interest costs on the national debt are rising. The current system is not sustainable.

The US has been wracking up some big deficits. I think the feds spend around 23% of GDP and tax at 17%–so there’s a 6% gap (a trillion and a half) which is too big. But there’s isn’t some sort of intractable crisis. The US can easily afford its defense budget–it’s less than 3% of GDP.
SS and Medicare for old folks like me are the big issue. But the gap can be reined in by squeezing at both ends–payments and taxes. And with a stroke of a pen, the feds could vaporize all the US debt held by the Fed–interest on that is essentially phony.

More controversial, we could–and should–move to full reserve banking with the people (through lower taxes than otherwise) rather than the banking industry collect the loot from an expanding economy. Then have the Fed directly monetize all the federal deficit, rather than accumulate more debt. Let the inflation hit right away and force politicians to react to that setting spending and taxes appropriately to keep the inflation political backlash in check.

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But my point here isn’t the specifics, it’s that the crisis in the West is not economic. It is demographic.

A West full of Westerners is more than capable of producing the goods necessary to run reasonable Western style welfare states–state financed medical care, state mandated old age pensions–with taxes supporting that. The problem is we no longer have a West full of Westerners.

It’s been YEARS and you STILL haven’t learned how to use BLOCKQUOTE.

Are you mentally deficient?

Rhetorical.

Trump on Truth Social yesterday refers to Harris’s ‘Pole Numbers’.

No. They don’t need Kentucky, and he may not flip it.

They’ll definitely take Shapiro and try to get PA.

From now on all criticism of Harris is going to be racist or sexist or both.

Absolutely.

I wasn’t expecting such an exuberant reaction from NYT’s readers. Most of them are wildly excited: Kamala is wonderful!

There are detractors, but other commenters call them racist and sexist.

True, but this is the blogosphere. Where, unlike the courtroom, anything goes. C’est la vie.

“National Socialism� was defeated in a war, but seemed to be fairly functional.

Hitler made the trains run on time! Your idea of “fairly functional” is ridiculous. The Nazi economy was not sustainable any more than the Southern slave plantation economy was. Wealth based on plunder and exploitation stinks even if it can be sustained but it can’t.

The Men of Unz never cease to amaze me. Are there really people who hold Nazis in high regard?

Harris will portray herself as a prosecutor and Trump as a felon. Who would your rather have for President, dear swing voter – a prosecutor or a felon?

Were I Jamal Truelove, or related, acquainted or similar in any way, I would go with the felon.

SAN FRANCISCO IS PAYING FOR JAMAL TRULOVE’S WRONGFUL CONVICTION. WILL KAMALA HARRIS?

https://www.quora.com/Did-Kamala-Harris-really-send-an-innocent-man-Jamal-Trulove-to-jail

Keep innocent men in jail, but let the homicidal loose. She is anarcho-tyranny personified!

He’s 60 years old from a far SW state. Barry Goldwater was the only prior major politician from there.

John McCain.

We all know that Trump is unable to control himself and will surely call Harris a pickaninny or something.

Given that she’s one-half Tamil, tikkaninny would be more appropriate. She’s not a coalburner, but…

Hitler made the trains run on time! Your idea of “fairly functional� is ridiculous. The Nazi economy was not sustainable any more than the Southern slave plantation economy was. Wealth based on plunder and exploitation stinks even if it can be sustained but it can’t.

I think it is interesting that his chief economist was against the invasion of the USSR on the basis that it would be less economically beneficial than trading with them. Had nothing to do with the cruelty of war. It was a calculation he actually worked out and concluded would be a mistake.

The Nazi plundering seen in the Indian Jones movie really did happen.

They plundered national banks and museums like modern Vikings.

Their economy depended on slave labor and stealing gold from treasuries.

But it should be noted that National Socialism was an economic success up until the wars.

Germany would be the leading economy today if Hitler stopped at the Munich agreement and then traded with everyone. The wars were costly in both resources and lives. They had all these plans to colonize Eastern Europe and they couldn’t even find enough Germans to move into Poland.

The Men of Unz never cease to amaze me. Are there really people who hold Nazis in high regard?

Well we have a lot of posters that think Putin killing Ukrainian Orthodox will somehow stick it to American and British Jews.

If they see a Jew in a luxury car in America I hope they yell out:

PUTIN GOT U GOOD
DONT U MESS WITH WHITE RIGHT

The Germans were doing many productive things before the war. Jets, TV, missiles, power tools etc.

They were the greatest metal bangers on the planet.

Wasn’t Kamala the Biden administration’s Border Czar there for a minute? Didn’t she supposedly go and see the border situation for herself?
I’d make her answer for that.

She was in the Senate, was California’s Attorney General, and San Fransisco’s Attorney General. I’d go after her voting record, and I’d attempt to tie California’s lax-on-crime policies now to her, and make her disavow them. I’d imprint her buddy Gavin Newsome’s signing into law a bill that will allow California schools to administer hormonal blockers and hormones to sex-change kids behind their parents backs if they don’t approve. I’d make her disavow that at least. I’d harp on this issue. It’s the most genuinely evil thing a nation could do, wreck the lives of kids, making them sterile sexual freaks while at a young, impressionable age, under the influence of lefty teachers and councilors, some of whom are predators.

In a way, I really hope this woman picks a white-hating minority for a running mate. I want white liberals to see their future. Senator Mazi Hirono of Hawaii would be perfect. Jamaal Bowman is out of office and available, but Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tliab, or Julian Castro would be good also. I want someone way left who proposes special taxes on white people, a freeze on white hiring in the federal government, no white judicial nominations, etc. I really want the mostly white Deep State to see that these people will someday come after them, confiscate their money via fines and settlements, and pretty much treat them like they want to treat Trump. I’d especially appreciate them suggesting a no nepotism policy for whites only at DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, and a freeze on white hires there. I’d get a kick out of that.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/23/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-united-states-secret-service-director-kim-cheatle/

Statement from President Joe Biden on United States Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle
JULY 23, 2024

Jill and I are grateful to Director Kim Cheatle for her decades of public service. She has selflessly dedicated and risked her life to protect our nation throughout her career in the United States Secret Service. We especially thank her for answering the call to lead the Secret Service during our Administration and we are grateful for her service to our family.

As a leader, it takes honor, courage, and incredible integrity to take full responsibility for an organization tasked with one of the most challenging jobs in public service.

The independent review to get to the bottom of what happened on July 13 continues, and I look forward to assessing its conclusions. We all know what happened that day can never happen again. As we move forward, I wish Kim all the best, and I will plan to appoint a new Director soon.

I think Tulsi Gabbard is a good-looking woman with a bit of “go” about her.

If it were a choice between her and Trump I think I might vote for her. But is she blessed with luck? For example, bullet-dodging luck?

I do wonder whether the attempted assassination of Trump will lead to tit-for-tat assassination attempts, or even false flag tit-for-tat assassination attempts. What a bloody mess it all is.

“National Socialism was an economic success up until the wars”

Hitler was not only running deficits but was also selling off the German government’s gold reserves to pay for his government programs.

https://reason.com/1999/08/01/nazi-economics/

Needless to say, that could not have continued much longer. He needed to invade other countries and get his hands on their gold to keep it going.

The real German economic miracle happened after the war. One of the first things the new government did was to abolish the Nazi era wage and price controls. The free market economy put in place led to prosperity, except for the eastern part of the country under Marxism.

Something to take into account if you are a betting man.

“The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election,� Nikki Haley said six months ago.

Lol. Jesus Christ, you Libertarians.

“Rush Limbaugh – inspired by a piece in the Spectator that described her as a “mattress� – speciously asserted that she had slept her way to the top.�

“Specious? I’ll say it’s specious! I didn’t sleep my way to the top! I clawed my way to the top! I slept my way to the middle.”

PETER BRIMELOW: Why We’ve Suspended VDARE and I’ve Resigned After 25 Years pic.twitter.com/tnWSz3L0xs

— VDARE (@vdare) July 23, 2024

The National Socialist economy was viable right up until Barbarossa. Which the Germans can now see repeated in Ukraine under American pressure.

My guess is North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper

Age might be a drawback for Cooper. While 67 isn’t old, if he were to try to succeed a two-term Harris in 2032 he’d be 75.

Speaking of age, another VP possibility is Minnesota governor Tim Walz, and he’s got to be one of the oldest looking 60-year-olds anywhere.

Hitler was not only running deficits but was also selling off the German government’s gold reserves to pay for his government programs.

https://reason.com/1999/08/01/nazi-economics/

Wow and from a libertarian website where they hold an ideological belief that the government should do absolutely nothing to help workers. A completely unbiased source.

Hitler won Time’s Man of the year for turning their economy around.

Going from 6 million unemployed to 302k is impressive and I’m usually the one here that aggravates the Hitler defenders.

He did that with Big Government and yes it costs money. Had he stuck with Munich he would not have needed to massively fund their military. But all signs point to him planning on invading Poland since the early 1930s.

Still waiting for Reason to explain why Haiti isn’t a minimal government miracle. Not sure why they ignore so many Randian paradises like Haiti and Somalia that didn’t follow any Big Government spending plans. Quite ironic that Reason has to reach back into the 1930s to lecture us on how the government can’t do anything right. As a reminder these people support open borders and selling full-auto machine guns to Black felons.

Al Franken.

like Montell Williams ??

yes, this slore banged montel williams

Kamala will probably pick Mark Kelly, astronaut and swing state senator. She’s apparently considering Josh Shapiro, but far left will not accept that because his name is Josh Shapiro.

The “cooler heads� know that DEI doesn’t play in Peoria.

Or in Moline, which is only about 90 miles from Peoria.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/17/john-deere-dei-programs/74443276007/

OT — Nova Scotian Men once again rear their ugly, violently homophobic heads. If only there were some common factor to zero in on. Surely the police will catch them, inshallah. Bad guy advice: DON’T YELL BACK. Emphasis added.

Emma MacLean and her girlfriend, Tori, were out celebrating a birthday Saturday night when a group of men began accosting them. What started as “sexually degrading” comments quickly turned into homophobic slurs when the crowd of about ten men realized the two women were a couple. It was after the women dared to yell back that the group became violent.

“A group of men walking on the other direction made a comment to me. My girlfriend, Tori, said ‘hey that’s my girlfriend,’” MacLean told CTVNews. “They continued walking and Tori followed them to basically say: ‘That is not OK’.â€� Video obtained by the outlet shows the men kicking one of the women while she lays on the ground in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. MacLean said that the group pushed Tori down to the concrete and began attacking her, which she attempted to stop before they beat her as well.

MacLean suffered a chipped tooth and broken nose from the incident, with both her and Tori left covered in bruises under their eyes and across their bodies. MacLean said that her treatment was delayed after she went to the emergency room the night of, with staff saying that her nose “was too swollen for surgery.â€� “I felt punches and kicks and then I felt it on my nose and there was blood. I just thought this needs to stop now,” MacLean said.

Law enforcement is investigating the incident, but have not yet filed charges or made arrests. MacLean urged other witnesses or those with information to come forward. “I’m terrified to go downtown again in Halifax. I just feel like it’s so out of your control on what could happen,” she said. “It’s overwhelming. I didn’t expect something like this to happen, especially with it happening during Pride Month as well.â€�

https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbian-couple-group-men-assault-halifax

What this whole discussion brings home to me is that we need separate nations.

Not this old dead horse idea again…
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You need new material here…

Oh God, more of your sorry ass “we can’t do that”, bwaa, bwaa, bwaa bleating again. Your ancestors must have been a real treat at the Founding. “Oh no we can’t do that. We’re subjects of the King! It can’t happen. It’ll never work. …” Amazing they weren’t just taken down to the river and held under.

You’re right. Separation is not about to happen anytime soon. Duh. But this idea that it can’t happen is ludicrous. Separation can certainly happen if enough people find their situation intolerable and would rather separate then continue. Then it not only can happen, but most likely will happen. The first step is raising awareness of the possibility, getting people to think “Hey, we don’t have to put up with this.” (I already think fewer and fewer people feel they must be in an “America” with all the other “Americans” and coterminous with our boundaries now.)

You, me, everyone dissatisfied with the current arc have only three choices:

1) Winning.
Winning a political counter-revolution. Convincing enough voters that the current minoritarian/immigrationist ideology is deeply wrong/destructive/evil and we need to return to much more traditional and nationalist American politics and culture. Then continuously winning elections–suppressing the inevitable fraud–actually routing the minoritarian regime (bureaucracy, kritarchy, etc.) and taking America back. Go luck with that!

2) Acceptance.
Accepting defeat. That you–and your children, grandchildren, posterity–are going to be ruled by the likes of Cackles. (Most likely they’ll post up better, less immediately ludicrous–but equally vile and destructive–people.) That you are in for endless minoritarian mau-mauing–DEI, CRT, trannies, immigration without end. And if you’re a productive normie you’ll be taxed out the gills to pay for endless parasitism. And that we’ll slump toward Latin American mediocrity–my “slumping toward Brazil”. (Hopefully, as we slump, we’ll get the practical self-interest of Latinos and Asians joining the white remnant and we’ll end the whole Jewish “must have immigration!” ideology before we start eating Steve’s “World’s Most Important Graph” and slump on past Brazil toward South Africa.)

3) Separation.
As some point in the next few decades the American remnant starts to think #2 is unacceptable and pushes successfully for separation.

You can buck and holler all you want on iSteve, but those are the actual choices. I’m deeply skeptical that #1–winning and rolling back the minoritarian ideology, now deeply enmeshed in the deep state–is going to happen. So I see the choice as acceptance of our decline or separation.