More evidence the media got the signal to turn against Biden

 Thomas Lifson

Joe’s time is up. He is no longer useful to the people who really run things.  The media got the message, and soon enough Dr. Jill will, too. 

 . . ."That’s it for Biden. His dementia already is obvious and troubling, and now it sems that the corruption can no longer credibly be denied. It’s time to pressure him and Dr. Jill out of running again in 2024. Ideally, if The Kamala Problem can be solved and a chosen instrument 2024 candidate (now looking like Gavin Newsom) installed as vice president so as to become an incumbent after Joe resigns or is taken out via the 25th Amendment, this all can be taken care of before the nominating process gets underway and the troublesome RFK Jr. challenge becomes serious.

"My sense that an inflection point had been reached, that the powers-that-be have decided that Joe’s corruption no longer can be successfully buried, was reinforced when White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was hounded by the assembled reporters.". . .

NBC's Monica Alba says Karine Jean-Pierre's refusal to comment on explosive IRS whistleblower allegations "creates more questions than answers" in the Biden corruption scandal.

Chuck Todd agrees: "Sure does." pic.twitter.com/2Xc9LtN8oC

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 23, 2023

The Titanic tragedy, recapitulated

 Pandra Selivanov; American Thinker   . . ."Not everyone was willing to take the trip. Josh Gates, star of Expedition: Unknown, has taken some truly insane risks in his travels around the world. He took a short trip on the Titan but refused the opportunity to dive into the wreck of the Titanic because of safety concerns about the sub. Deepwater salvage master Robert Mester refused to go down in the Titan at any depth because of a number of safety issues, including off-the-shelf electronics. Arthur Loibl did go down to the Titanic on the Titan submersible after a part of it had been repaired with zip ties.  After it was over, Loibl called the trip a suicide mission.

"Clearly, the people who go on such adventures have a taste for endangering their lives. Now, the crew of the Titan, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani investor Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, have died in a catastrophic implosion. Their bodies are probably unrecoverable, leaving them to remain with the Titanic. It is a sorrowful addition to a tragedy that took place so long ago."

TITAN SUBMARINE | VIDEO THAT shows THE IMPLOSION | Submersible | TITANIC | AS - YouTube

The viral video that shows what happened to the Titan submarine. This video has millions of views and it shows how the implosion would have occurred with OceanGate’s Titan submersible.

Now, in Biden's America, it is the good guys who go to prison. When will any of the low-down thugs who have a grip on our nation go to prison?

. . ."If only we could send them all to prison for treason, the wholesale betrayal of the Founders and our Constitution, for they are surely guilty of that.". . .

Mohamed Hassan

 Patricia McCarthy   . . ."Adam Schiff is every bit the pathological creep that Hunter is and yet the Democrats in the House behaved like “zoo animals” when a majority voted to censure him for his years of lying about the Russia collusion hoax.  See Scott McKay’s column at American Spectator.  McKay marvels at the fact that they rally around this “face of the lying Deep State, a smarmy jackass no more likeable than Peter Strzok.”  Well said.  No one believes a word that comes out of Schiff’s mouth but the Dems pretend he is being targeted for telling the truth!  That is their narrative and they are sticking to it, no matter how outrageous and comical.  Read McKay’s whole piece.

"When will any of these low-down thugs who have a grip on our nation go to prison?  Probably never.  They lie with impunity and most of the Republicans in Congress are such squishes that the few that lobby for justice get nowhere when they try to make a Democrat pay for his or her crime.  We do have a two-tiered system of justice, and everyone knows it.  In this administration’s view, patriots and good Samaritans must go to prison, not drug dealers, car-jackers, shoplifters, murderers or pedophiles.  To our now far, far Marxist left, those folks are victims of white supremacy and must be spared the inconveniences of abiding by the rule of law. Sadly, there are too many Soros-seated judges who go along with the pro-criminal, anti-victim agenda of the left.". . .

When he did pay taxes, he deducted his payments to prostitutes, sex clubs and porn sites.  How’s that for chutzpah?  As someone commented the other day, this is a family of feral dogs!  They continue to disavow a biological granddaughter.  Hunter sells his pathetic paintings in some sort of obvious money laundering scheme.  And poor, old, demented Joe continues to deny any malfeasance.  He denies he ever had anything to do with Hunter’s business dealings.  Once a grifter, always a grifter.  The Biden family is essentially a mob of the mafia-like variety.

Transgender Lawsuits Reveal Horrors of Procedures

  Robyn Dolgin   "Kayla Lovdahl is the perfect test case as a 13-year-old who was approved for “transgender surgery:” She could not conceive, at the time, of the possibility of suffering a lifetime of disfigurement and chronic pain.

"Ms. Lovdahl, now 18, has retained an attorney, Charles Limandri, who has employed such emotionally charged words as “barbaric and cruel” to describe the medical team’s actions in causing his client deep physical and emotional wounds.

"Essential to his case is the claim that Lovdahl was hopelessly ignorant of the statistical reality that nearly half of trans surgeries result in serious and life-threatening complications. How can a 13-year-old grasp what it means to remove perfectly healthy breasts (in female-to-male transition)?

"Sanitizing the language, Lovdahl was informed she could opt for “top” and/or “bottom surgery.” She had never heard of the term “double mastectomy” as she was wheeled into surgery for what the medical team had described as “top surgery.” Her harrowing surgical experience was spared “bottom” mutilation.

"The four doctors named in the lawsuit, associated with Oakland-based hospital Kaiser Permanente, aren’t just being accused of medical malpractice. Attorney LiMandri will assert the physicians are subjecting children to an “indoctrination” process in which they apply undue influence as part of today’s wave of transgender activism.

"A crucial element to the case is the perfunctory evaluation his client was administered before authorizing the “injurious” protocols. “Off label puberty blockers and powerful male hormone drugs” were prescribed after a one-time 75-minute evaluation, along with approving surgical options, according to the attorney. The evaluation took place when Lovdahl was age 12, having decided at age 11 she was a boy." . . .

'Backlash starting' with LGBT movement 'losing control of itself': Douglas Murray

Comment to this video: There is a big difference between "informing" and "indoctrinating". I would agree a backlash is beginning, there is such a thing as overcooking something to the point where people become totally sick of it.

Riley Gaines calls out 'disingenuous' US soccer stars Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan for stance on trans athletes

 MSN   "Riley Gaines calls out 'disingenuous' US soccer stars Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan for stance on trans athletes

"Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines made it clear how she feels about U.S. Women's National Team players Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan defending the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports. 

" 'It's disingenuous and it's virtue signaling. They want to be seen as kind. They want to be seen as inclusive, but they know in their hearts, every single person knows they wouldn't have had the opportunities and the success they had without the women's sport and category," Gaines told "Fox & Friends" Thursday. 

" 'Now they've achieved what they've achieved. They've accomplished what they wanted to accomplish, so they don't care," she continued. "They would rather give girls up, give away our opportunities to be seen as kind and inclusive when in reality this isn't inclusive, it's exclusive."

SEN TUBERVILLE CALLS OUT USWNT STAR MEGAN RAPINOE OVER STANCE ON TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

https://youtube.com/shorts/iPfzV5VQNBw?feature=share

Hunter Biden's Lawyer Attacks the IRS Whistleblower, Paints Joe Biden Into a Corner –

 RedState

(See: Hunter Biden Claims Joe Biden Was in the Room While He Threatened Chinese Official to Pay Up, DOJ Sunk the Investigation)

. . ."If you’ve seen Hunter Biden’s lawyer on television, you know what kind of person he is. I’ll leave it at that and stick to what is in that statement, and there’s a lot to critique.

"For example, the idea that the investigation was so long because it was just so thorough is laughable. Five years is an eternity for a case that ultimately ended up with two misdemeanors of not filing taxes (resulting in no jail time) and pre-trial diversion. We know that the DOJ had Hunter Biden dead to rights as far as FARA violations and false statements go. We also know there were numerous other crimes evidenced on the infamous laptop, including possible sex-trafficking charges and drug charges. Yet, none of that made it into the final plea deal.

"The far more reasonable explanation for the length of the inquiry isn’t thoroughness but purposeful, politically motivated delay. Further, the investigation absolutely cut corners. Search warrants weren’t served, lawyers were tipped off, and charges in two venues other than Delaware were blocked by DOJ officials.

Five Quick Things: The George Floyd–ization of Adam Schiff -

"You can’t fight your war of attrition on local police without having a fraudulent hero like George Floyd to push the public relations, and so you can’t pursue the political annihilation of Trump without having an Adam Schiff being martyred to the cause of Our Democracy."

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

You can’t pursue the political annihilation of Trump without having a Schiff martyred to the cause of Our Democracy.

Jason Seiler

"Boy, what a spectacle the House Democrats made on Wednesday, no? You had to know they’d behave badly in response to efforts at holding Adam Schiff, their designated hitter when it came to spreading the Trump–Russia myth, accountable for his lies, but this?

"You’d look at that cast of characters straight out of the Star Wars cantina scene, and you’d struggle to find any coherent thinking behind it. (READ MORE: With Schiff, House Democrats Declare Moral Bankruptcy)

"The thing is, though, there is some.

"1. They’re Not Wild Animals; They’re Zoo Animals — And There Is a Zookeeper

"The impression you get from seeing the current batch of House Democrats, now that they’re not led by the doddering octogenarians Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and James Clyburn, is that they’re a collection of wackos, radicals, perverts, and hooligans: an unruly mob disguised as a congressional caucus.

"And that’s a rational impression. You can’t ascribe strategic thinking to a group that has, for example, the purple-haired cat-lady Rosa DeLauro so prominently included.

"But the Democrats in the House seem to have galvanized around three principles that they’ve made the core of their existence in this Congress — and that they’re hoping to ride back to power in 2024.

"The first is that they fight together. It would have been pretty easy to throw Schiff overboard and then go on the offensive against all the Republicans with so much as a hangnail of ethics. You’ve seen how the Senate Democrats have launched an unprecedented assault on the Supreme Court, which is a thinly veiled attempt to delegitimize the court before it explodes the regulatory welfare that is Chevron deference and, in so doing, knock out a key pillar of Deep State governance. 

"But they’ve closed ranks around Schiff, even though he’s a colossal liability. Think about it — poll after poll shows that Americans have lost faith in the government’s ability to operate honorably and to not meddle in elections, and what Schiff did was weaponize the source of that distrust. He’s literally the face of the lying Deep State, and he’s a smarmy jackass no more likable than Peter Strzok at that. And it doesn’t matter. They won’t leave any of their wounded in the field." . . .

Navy knew of Titan's implosion on Sunday, but allowed wall-to-wall media coverage to overshadow bad news for Biden and the Democrats

 Thomas Lifson   . . ."Hunter Biden’s wrist-slap plea deal, the Pentagon’s “accounting error” that is sending billions more to Ukraine, John Durham’s congressional testimony, and yesterday’s IRS whistleblower testimony were all shoved aside form media space by obsessive coverage of the “drama” whose grim conclusion the Navy picked up last Sunday.

"The technology of the SOSUS system that the Navy used to listen for the Titan may be top secret, but the existence of the system isn’t. There is a long Wikipedia article on it, for example. So, protecting national defense secrets was no cause to suppress the finding.

"Hey, the media got a compelling cliffhanger of a story to draw readers and eyeballs, the Coast Guard the useful information, and the Biden regime got a lot of silence on stories it didn’t want publicized, at least until the real powers-that-be decided to let the public know and signal the Bidens to prepare for the end of their grifting."

The Balancing Act: Who hates America more? Russia, China or Joe Biden and Democrats?

He wants to take our guns yet he just gave the Taliban some $83 billion in military equipment, making the group the best armed force of its size in the world.  

 Placerville, CA; Mountain Democrat  . . ."Who’s orchestrating this “defiling” of America? Is it avowed leftist Sandy Cortez (AOC), who has advocated thrift store shopping to her audiences while she is ensconced in the latest designer outfits. Maybe it’s leftist, “I own three homes” Bernie Sanders. Or other members of the leftist Cortez squad? Maybe Rashid Tlaib, “good for thee but not for me,” the leftist squad member who wants mask mandates for everyone but herself (ditto for ex-bartender Cortez  — and I write that in no derogation of an otherwise honorable profession). Maybe it’s George Soros.

"There are people buried deep in the bureaucracy who crave power against American ideals and work to destroy this country through the use of now meaningless words like racist and racism. If you don’t agree with the left, you’re a racist. But if you’re a white person, that in and of itself makes you a racist. 

"Most ironic is that this country was founded on merit, self-reliance, independence and hard work. The mantra of the left is a person’s failure is founded on victimhood and racism. The left wants everyone to be government dependent — part of the collective. Hard work and merit mean very little, if anything. That’s the reason socialism and communism fail; they defy human nature."

America's decline has to be by design

. . ."The cumulative effect of nearly two years of Democratic control has fundamentally changed the United States, just as the Biden administration  hoped it would."

Washington Examiner   "November 07, 2022 "Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ruffled a lot of feathers when he declared in a March Twitter post, “The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons. ... Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”

"Fox News’s Tucker Carlson played a clip from a forthcoming interview with Bukele on Tuesday night in which he expands on his tweet. “The demise of the U.S. has to come from within. The enemies have to be inside,” he begins. “No external enemies can cause so much damage as internal operations.”

"Sadly, he is right.

“Cities that were pristinely beautiful 30 years ago are wastelands,” Bukele tells Carlson. He cites Los Angeles, San Francisco , Philadelphia, and Baltimore and says he would not live in them.

"He continues, “When you look at how the cities are eroding so fast, this has to be by design. Who would make so many stupid decisions? ... They’re literally giving people drugs in some U.S. cities. Or they say we’re going to give you money if you don’t work.”

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“ 'They make all of these laws that make no sense. If you have high crime, [they say] ‘Okay, I have a solution. Let’s defund the police.’”

"He makes the obvious point that those who make these laws know very well what the consequences will be.

“ 'They can’t be so dumb,” he concludes. “Of course, they’re not. They’re smart. They’re very smart people. So, why are they doing these things? Because it’s by design. It has to be by design.' ”. . .

Tucker Carlson's 'Wannabe Dictator' satire master class the left desperately had to ignore -

What probably ground their gears was that Mr. Carlson was using a formerly favorite technique the left employs for "proving" that the Republicans, pro-freedom right, and later President Trump was fascist in some form.

  American Thinker   "The walls are closing in on the fascist far left's echo chamber; that's the reason they couldn't allow their outrage to show over Tucker Carlson's takedown of their dear leader.

"If you're one of the 30 million people who have viewed Ep. 4 of Tucker on Twitter, entitled Wannabe Dictator (or on Rumble, YouTube, or Odysee), you were treated to a master class in the deadpan satire that is the hallmark of Mr. Carlson as he mocked the left while having a rollicking good time doing it. " . . .

. . ."It's even more hilarious when you consider that they had to ignore this serious affront to their dear leader because he turned one of their formerly favorite techniques against them.  He invoked facts they are desperate to keep out of their echo chamber.  Mr. Carlson predicted this in his video presentation.

"No one is ever allowed to invoke the facts of history when it comes to Hitler or the Nazis unless the far left does it — as in the case of "Godwin's Law," where they get all authoritarian in shutting down historical debate unless it's framed a certain way.  According to the nation's socialist left, it is verboten to compare them to the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party." . . .

Hollywood just realized they committed “woke suicide” and there’s nothing they can do about it…

 Revolver News   "Hollywood is struggling big time in the age of wokeness. It’s a real challenge for them to juggle the intense pressure for diversity with the demand for captivating entertainment; as these two aspects don’t align. When Hollywood isn’t ruining old franchises like Indiana Jones with new, cringeworthy “girl power” remakes, they’re peddling LGBTQ+ flops that nobody wants to see." . . .

. . ."Many insiders are fuming over the quotas. Talk about stifling creativity, right? Movies will no longer be made to tell a captivating story. They’ll be made to meet diversity quotas. If you listen closely, you can actually hear the box office numbers dropping.

The New York Post:

Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they meet two out of four standards.

One of them is featuring a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” have a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).

A full outline of the standards can be found on the Academy site.

"Richard Hanania, the president of the CSPI center, wrote a fascinating blog post on this exact issue. He delved into the challenges that Hollywood is grappling with as they navigate this politically correct minefield of their own making.

Richard Hanania:

New stories need to avoid what are now seen as sexist tropes. Old ones, however, get grandfathered in. You don’t have to explain why The Lion King isn’t The Lion Queen. You can still make Spiderman movies, and you don’t have to justify why the lead is not a black lesbian. Or why a movie is called “X-Men” instead of “X-Persons.” There’s a subtle difference between the two titles. Think about what it means to say someone is a “good man” versus a “good person.” In the 1960s, you were free to choose either title, while today you would not only need new X-Men characters, but the name of the universe itself would have to pass a PC litmus test.