Would President Joe Biden Become 25th Amendment Material?

Victor Davis Hanson

The epic hero Biden has repeatedly offered up fantasies in which he poses as a crusading avenger, either eager to beat up bullies or in fact as a veteran of such knight-in-shining-armor intercessions.He has now on two occasions mentioned Trump as just the sort of tormenter that Biden in his youth used to take behind the gym, and would thus “beat the hell out of him.”  . . .

"I speculate only because since January 2017 our popular culture and intelligentsia have suggested President Trump is crazy and should be removed under the 25th Amendment. Apparently, accusations about the mental health of presidents and would-be presidents are now legitimate political attack strategies under the new progressive rules.

"After all, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe once bragged that he tried with former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to remove a supposedly unhinged Trump. Democratic members of Congress called in a Yale psychologist, Bandy X. Lee, to brief them that such Ivy League experts had diagnosed Trump in absentia as certainly unhinged. (She later attempted to walk back those claims.) The 25th Amendment, along with impeachment, the ossified Logan Act, and the Emoluments Clause, have now been mainlined by progressives as the sort of natural suspicions we cast on an elected president of the opposite party.

"Yet, under these new progressive protocols, could a President Joe Biden be written off as delusional?

"Addled Biden?"Biden once suggested that George Bush get on TV after the 2008 meltdown in the manner that President Roosevelt had addressed the nation after the 1929 market crash: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.” Biden was referring to a time when neither FDR was president nor was television commercially available."  . . .

Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won (Basic Books).

CNN does ‘disservice to voters’ by naming Don Lemon debate moderator, critic says

Watching Don Lemon "arguing" in the video at the bottom brings to mind this argument in Monty Python, does it not?:

Fox News  "CNN announced on Monday that Don Lemon will follow in the footsteps of MSNBC’s far-left opinion host Rachel Maddow as a Democratic presidential primary debate moderator -- and one critic called the decision a "disservice to voters all across the political spectrum.”
"Lemon will join Dana Bash and Jake Tapper for the two-night event on July 30-31 from Detroit. Debate moderators are historically straight-news journalists, as opposed to partisan pundits, but CNN’s decision mirrors NBC’s strategy to allow Maddow to moderate last month’s Democratic Debate.

THIS IS CNN? PRIMETIME SHOWS FILLED WITH LIBERAL OPINION, NOT STRAIGHT NEWS AS NETWORK CLAIMS

"The New York Times reportedly forbids its reporters from appearing on both Maddow and Lemon’s programs, because they are considered too partisan even for the Times – which is often criticized for leaning left itself. Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News that CNN’s decision is “a disservice to voters all across the political spectrum” because Lemon is so open about his own views.
“ 'They are more interested in the political version of a church revival than an actual debate,” Barron said.
"The far-left Maddow was front and center during NBC’s technical-issue-plagued debate and conservatives critics condemned her performance. BlazeTV White House correspondent Jon Miller told Fox News that Maddow “served up questions about her favorite conspiracy theories” that were “unbefitting of a news organization. ' ” . . .

Watch Lemon drown the conservative out. It appears to me to be, well, Python-esque. TD

Allie Long, Megan Rapinoe Drop American Flag During World Cup Celebration

The late-night talk show hosts will praise you for this, ladies.

Daily Caller
"U.S. women’s national soccer team members Allie Long and Megan Rapinoe stepped on an American flag after Long dropped it on the ground as they posed for post-game photos Sunday." . . .

Watch the Twitter video

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. . . "Benghazi hero John “TIG” Tiegen spotted the dropped flag and responded to the team via Instagram." . . .
. . . Crediting the original video to @Mikewishniausa, Tiegen added the caption, “What should be an amazing occurrence, is hijacked by the clown show to promote disrespect …” 
"Noting that the USWNT had likely given a briefing on proper flag etiquette, Tiegen continued, “I know dragging it on the ground and throwing it down like it’s a piece of paper isn’t part of that. It’s not hard to hand it off and celebrate. Your coaching staff or trainers are there to take it. Damn Amazing disrespect for a photo op. Thank you to I think @kelleyohara for running in there and picking it up.' ”

Yahoo Sports called Rapinoe "a national hero"

Rapinoe’s insults toward America are not edgy or a form of productive activism but simply demeaning to the people that live here and love it here. If Rapinoe feels differently, she’s free to move, but her decision to use her position to disparage her home country on an international stage is a disgrace.

 Kelley O’Hara RESCUES the American flag after teammate drops it during a World Cup victory dance 

Kelley O'Hara wins over the internet with US flag rescue, post-game kiss, locker room
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Kelley O’Hara Saves Old Glory After Rapinoe, Teammates Drop American Flag

The ugly Americans

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. . . "Will they continue to show disrespect towards the President and nation or will they attend a reception with Trump and most likely a McDonalds buffet.
"After their victory, Rapinoe and several teammates once again disrespected their country by throwing the American flag on the turf and walking on it, before Old Glory was rescued by teammate Kelley O'Hara*.
"Despite Rapinoe being the ‘star’ of the team on the field, off the field, O'Hara has won over millions of Americans after she recovered Rapinoe’s shoddy flag handling." . . .

*Spelling corrected by TD

Latest outrage: Air Conditioning Is Sexist!

Legal Insurrection

Deplorable!

"I honestly do not know where to start with this insanity. Penelope Green at The New York Times asked in a recent article if Americans need an air conditioner.

"The Atlantic staff writer Taylor Lorenz jumped onto this notion by declaring air conditioning is sexist because, of course, it is.

"Green noted in her article a study performed by Nature.com that stated “how building temperatures, once set to the comfort preferences of 1960s-era men in suits, disregard the ‘thermal comfort’ of female staffers.”

"However, Green pointed out that building managers control the temperatures, often relying on industry standards set by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers. These standards suggest 67 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

"I give Green credit because she shows both sides of the story, including one business in Philadelphia that tried to go a summer without air conditioning, which failed because employees complained about the sweltering summer heat.

"Here is a significant portion of Green’s article (emphasis mine):" . . .

Democrats being Democrats; Why is this nation not outraged?

The Democrats’ Situational Racism  . . . "MSNBC regular and Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson, “related the flag to other symbols of hate such as the Nazi

swastika and burning crosses.” Why? Because the situation called for it. Anything to fan the flames of racism at a time when minority unemployment is at an all-time low in advance of a presidential election.

"Yet the situation was different just a few years ago when the left was celebrating the first black president. In 2013, behind Barack Obama at his second inaugural, flew not one, but two Betsy Ross flags." . . .

When you stand for nothing, it’s easy to live in the moment, from one situation to the next, outrage burning in the eyes of the beholder, regardless of the past. After Joe Biden, who’s next?

 A congresswoman sending paid staff to Mexico to teach illegals how to cheat their way into the US?  "If there's any question left about Democrats having a political interest in fuelling the border surge, read no farther than this shocking straight news item in the Washington Examiner:  . . ."

This is clearly a crime that the congresswoman must be held to account for.  If illegals can't be held responsible for crimes they commit, then maybe holding their sponsors to account should send the message.

 Ritual Suicide of the Democratic Party  . . . "Equal pay for totally different jobs! The Democrats raise high the banner of injustice and wave it enthusiastically.

Under [Warren's] proposed executive order, contractors would be barred from asking about past salaries and criminal records, and from using forced arbitration and noncompete clauses.

"It won’t be long before one of the Democratic contenders offers a proposal to require random hiring and pay for all private sector jobs. To which one might respond to the government: you go first."

Did You Know Democrats Are Packing Congressional Seats Via Millions Of Non-Citizen Votes?

A little sarcasm shouldn't hurt: The Democratic Clown Car Caravan Rolls On- Dispatches From The Campaign Trail  . . . "And finally, in a wide-ranging interview, Joe Biden said that Russian interference on his watch did not occur.  He stated he came to that conclusion after consulting with many world leaders including Margaret Thatcher and Charles de Gaulle.  He further noted that China was a big threat to the United States and things would be better of Mao Tse-Tung were removed from office."

Former DNC public relations consultant furious he was told to leave restaurant after berating diner in MAGA hat   . . . "A mere few years ago, I wouldn’t have thought it possible that anyone would see a hat on someone’s head and then behave so far outside the bounds of civility, of decency, of socially acceptable behavior. But the progressive/socialist/anarchist left has sunk to these lows in astounding numbers and with astonishing frequency over the past three or so years." . . .

We Were Told That Kaepernick Was Protesting Police Brutality, Not The Flag. Now The Truth Has Finally Come Out.

Daily Wire:  "There is almost nothing to say about the fact that Nike recalled a patriotic American flag shoe after Colin Kaepernick complained. It is so self-evidently absurd and disgraceful — such a cowardly surrender to political correctness — that analysis is rendered moot." . . .

. . . "Kaepernick, who started it all, said that he was trying to call attention to "police violence" and "systematic oppression." He and his fellow kneelers always insisted that this was not about the flag itself. Well, in case anyone was ever fooled by all of the misdirection, the truth should now be clear: It was indeed about the flag. It was always about the flag.

"Colin Kaepernick does not like this country. That much is clear, by now. He is rich and famous and free — all things that he would not be if he lived in any number of other countries around the globe — but his privilege has made him bitter to his core. And he is free to be bitter. He is free to hate the United States and its flag and all it stands for. But he should be honest about where he really stands (or kneels) on the issue.". . . 

Gold Star Mom Unloads On Colin Kaepernick In Emotional Speech

"When I look at this country today and I tell people, and I've wanted to say this loud so many times, Colin Kaepernick was getting paid $14 million dollars a year to throw a ball," Jacobs said. "My son died for $14,000 a year and he's given more than any football player, any athlete, has ever given."

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How Can Presidential Candidates Be So Silly?

George Will:

Many Democrats striving to replace Donald Trump are, while execrating him, paying him the sincerest form of flattery: imitation.

"If California senator Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: private health insurance. Her 22 weeks of contradictory statements, and her Trumpian meretriciousness*  about her contradictions, reveal a frivolity about upending health care’s complex 18 percent of America’s economy. And her bumblings illustrate how many of the Democratic presidential aspirants, snug in their intellectual silos, have lost — if they ever had — an aptitude for talking like, and to, normal Americans.

"Seven days after announcing her candidacy in January, Harris, appearing on CNN, endorsed “Medicare for All” and was asked: So, people “who like their [private] insurance, they don’t get to keep it?” She answered: “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. . . . Let’s eliminate all of that.” More government, less paperwork. Really.

"She subsequently, as the New York Times — not an unsympathetic auditor of her campaign — says, “waffled” regarding private insurance. But at the second Miami debate she raised her hand (“just as quickly as Mr. Sanders,” the Times reported) when a moderator asked: “Many people watching at home have health insurance through their employer. Who here would abolish their private insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Harris also raised her hand just as quickly as Senator Elizabeth Warren had done the night before, who exclaimed, “I’m with Bernie.” Senator Bernie Sanders is the purest advocate of a government-only health care system." . . .

*In my eighty years of life, nobody but George Will has been seen to use this word. George is showing off again.

Democratic Candidates Aren’t on a Winning Track

Victor Davis Hanson

"Nearly all of them are running so hard to the left that the successful nominee will never be able to appear moderate."

"Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. But for the general election, the nominees move to the center to pick off swing voters and centrist independents.
"Voters put up with the scripted tactic as long as a candidate had not gone too extreme in the primaries and endorsed positions too far out of the mainstream.
"A good example of this successful ploy was Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. In the primary against Hillary Clinton, Obama ran to her left. But he was still careful not to get caught on the record going too far left. That way, he was still able to tack to the center against John McCain in the general election.
"As a general election candidate, Obama rejected the idea of gay marriage. He blasted illegal immigration. He railed against deficit spending. And he went so far as to label then-President George W. Bush as “unpatriotic” for taking out “a credit card from the bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt.”
"The result was that Obama was elected. After taking office, in cynical fashion he endorsed gay marriage, ran up far more red ink than did Bush, offered blanket amnesties, and relaxed immigration enforcement." . . .

NRO contributor VICTOR DAVIS HANSON is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump. @vdhanson

Hey CNN: The Latest Economic Numbers Are Pure Fire … Is That News?

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Clash Daily  . . . "And what other economic news can we report?

"Here’s how ‘Investopedia’ is describing it:

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this chart is how bullish every sector has been during June and early July. The stock market is gaining bullish momentum. This tells me that – unless we see some surprisingly negative news during the upcoming earnings season – the uptrend on Wall Street is going to continue during Q3.

Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average came into the Independence Day holiday at their highest levels ever. The S&P 500 is currently sitting at 2,995.82, and the Dow is sitting at 26,966.

"But of course — the Democrats are fighting over who can hit the brakes on the very policies that unleashed the roaring engine of the US Economy in the first place — cutting taxes and red tape and getting big government the hell out of the way of those who actually produce the wealth in this great nation.

"So… are we to believe then, that this robust economy we are all looking at is a PROBLEM that needs to be solved?

"The party that swung so far left they’re leaving Obama behind may not have a ‘magic wand’ to breathe LIFE into an economy…

"… but they’ve more than proven they know where the brake pedal is." . . .

Trump Congratulates U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on Winning the World Cup

Conservative Media  "President Trump congratulated the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team for winning the 2019 World Cup against the Netherlands in a tweet on Sunday, despite a dispute with one of its co-captains, Megan Rapinoe.
“ 'Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!” he tweeted:

Donald J. Trump

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Congratulations to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!

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"First lady Melania Trump also congratulated the team, saying, "Congratulations to 2019 Women’s World Cup Champions”:

"One of its star players and co-captain, Megan Rapinoe, stoked controversy last month for saying she would not go to the “f-cking White House” if the team won the World Cup and the president invited them. She has also refused to sing the national anthem before games.
"Trump responded to her comment by tweeting to her, “I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job! We haven’t yet invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose.' ” . . .

How far would your friends go to remain a Democrat?

Barbara Leber and Carol Greenwald  "Many of our friends emphatically state their loyalty to the Democratic Party. They have always been a Democrat. It is their political home. They feel good and right-minded with Democrats. They agree with most of their positions, especially on domestic issues important to them.

"They will go very far to stay with the Democrats, but are they willing to go this far? Ask yourself: would you willing to go this far?" .  .  .

. . . "Bear False Witness. Democrats do that when they label President Trump as an anti-Semite and enabler of anti-Semitism, even though he has expressed his determination not to tolerate anti-Semitism: “We will fight with all of our strength and everything that we have in our bodies to defeat anti-Semitism, to end the attacks on the Jewish people, and to conquer all forms of persecution, intolerance, and hate.” (Trump: National Day of Prayer Service, 5/2/19)?

"Distort what Trump said at Charlottesville as the proof that he is an anti-Semite, even though the full quote makes clear that Trump excepted neo-Nazis “who are very bad guys,” and he was speaking about good people on both sides of the debate over removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

"Go Along with the outlandish view that Trump is somehow responsible for the rise in anti-Semitism world-wide, even though it is denial to believe that anti-Semitism ever disappeared and delusional to hold one man, who just happens to be the leader of the opposing party, responsible for its resurgence in France and Syria and Sweden, Germany, Malaysia…"

. . . 

Barbara Leber and Carol Greenwald are on the board of JewsChooseTrump.org

The Republican platform language—touted by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and others as the most pro-Israel “of all time”—clearly diverges from its Democratic counterpart.

Kamala Harris may live to regret exposing her ruthlessness with bogus busing attack on Biden

Thomas Lifson  "Kamala Harris is scary in her pathological ambition, moral flexibility, comfort with deception, and sheer ruthlessness.  She may have erred in prematurely exposing those traits in the very first round of Democrat presidential debates, allowing her competitors to recognize the threat she poses to all of them and to formulate appropriate countermeasures."  . . .

"The Democrats' presidential field can be likened to 20-some scorpions in a bottle.  Kamala was the first among them to sting, attacking Joe Biden for a purported flaw that even his worst enemies concede is bogus: racism. By starting her attack with the classic "I do not believe you are a racist..." trick, she placed "racism" squarely in focus as the topic of her words that followed.  She then began offering the obviously well planned rhetoric about school busing — obvious because her campaign had already prepared merchandise with the little girl picture of her — that placed Biden in league with arch-segregationist senators, whose membership in the Democratic Party went unnoted." . . .

As the group she declared support for would chant, "What do we want? DEAD COPS! When do we want 'em? NOW!"