. . ."Kozlov described the constant dread that he might be killed at any moment. “Maybe in one minute, maybe in one hour,” he told Channel 13, adding that the terrorists always had a big knife handy." . . .
"A video of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces field observer Daniella Gilboa, who is still being held hostage by Hamas, was released to the public on Tuesday with the family’s consent. "In what Hamas filmed for propaganda purposes, Gilboa is heard blaming the Israeli government for her continued confinement. (The video is available for viewing in certain locations.)
“I’m under constant bombardment and gunfire around the clock, and I’m terrified for my life,” she said in the clip. “Why should I feel like I’ve been abandoned and forgotten? Pull yourselves together, dear government, and start doing your job properly. Bring us home alive.” . . .
Namas, as with all hostage takers, reduces victims to their most helpless state, and with their cry for help, apply psychological pressure on the objects of their anger. It seems to always work because even on the most valiant of targets. Every noble nation has its Greta Thunbergs and Columbia University scarf people.
. . ."Joe Biden may indeed have given Hunter the job of acting as his "gatekeeper," as Miranda Devine states. He's living at the White House now full time and is constantly by his father's side. Of course, that doesn't mean that he's necessarily doing a good job, but it may be his job." . . .
"This story sort of popped up out of the blue this week and I'll be the first to admit that it sounds a bit preposterous on the surface. Could Hunter Biden actually be the mastermind behind whatever is going on in the White House right now? Instead of his Mother Jill being the driving force behind Joe Biden's decisions, might it be the First Son who is actually the Crackhead in Chief running the country? I won't mock anyone who is scoffing at the idea right now because there are plenty of reasons to do so. But the hot take in question is coming to us from Miranda Devine at the New York Post and she has been following Hunter's antics for a very long time now, more closely than almost anyone else in the media. By this point, we should have learned that if Devine believes she's caught a scent of something potentially important in the wind, we should probably pay attention." ...
..."Therein lies Hunter's main problem in terms of the political realities underlying this entire situation. If the Democrats have reached the point where they see Joe Biden as a hindrance in terms of hanging onto their control in Washington, they will cast him aside, as many have already begun showing a willingness to do. But Joe Biden was at least useful to them for a very long time. None of them have any loyalty whatsoever to Hunter. He's been nothing but a political embarrassment to them and an albatross around their necks. Joe is all Hunter has left, so you can rest assured that he will be hanging on with both hands as tightly as he possibly can and trying to ride this train as far as it can take him."
Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)•Wallet Hub reports Americans spent $17 billion on food, drinks and fireworks on Independence Day celebrations. I hope everyone had a great Fourth. I paid a 9% tax on fireworks to celebrate a war that erupted over a 2% tax on tea. It's not too late to ask King Charles to forgive us and take us back.
• The British Open will lure the top golfers in the world to the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland beginning Sunday. I could really use the break and watch it. I haven't been able to watch golf or tennis or baseball the past month on TV. I'm too busy watching the final episode of the United States.
• The CDC warned of pandemic Tuesday after Bird Flu was detected in dairy cows in twelve states and infected four humans, causing panic. If you are already wearing a mask while driving alone in your electric vehicle you don't need that Biden in 2024 bumper sticker on the back of your car. We know.
• President Biden is hosting a summit at the White House of NATO nation leaders who will discuss how to counter aggression and prevent a world war. The summit gives me a crisis of conscience. If I know someone with dementia that has nuclear weapons, should I report him under the Red Flag Law?
• Senator Mark Warner and House Leader Hakeem Jeffries will try to persuade President Biden to step aside as the party's nominee this week. Biden had declared Friday he will step down only if the Lord Almighty tells him to step down. Morgan Freeman told Democrats he'll get to it when he gets to it.
• The White House last week kept adding new explanations for Biden's poor debate performance against Trump. It went through three phases. First Joe had a cold, and then he was jet-lagged, and finally you'd be distracted too if there was a dangerous convicted felon standing ten feet away from you.
• President Biden endured a tough interview with George Stephanopoulos Friday as he tried to salvage his candidacy. He won over one constituency. Joe's got the comedians on his side after he leaned forward and told Stephanopoulos he's the only candidate who can beat Donald Reagan in 2020.
• President Biden declared to a rally in Wisconsin Saturday that he is staying in the presidential race and added that no one is going to push him out. During a Philadelphia radio interview last weekend, Joe Biden referred to himself as a black woman. That was shrewd, now he's impossible to fire.
• The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Democrats are beginning to rally around the idea of Kamala Harris replacing Biden at the top of the ticket. They didn't always feel this way, When Kamala dropped out of the 2020 presidential primaries, she was polling at 3.2%, tied with Coors.
Senior White House advisers for more than a year have aggressively stage-managed President Biden’s schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history.
The White House has limited Biden’s daily itinerary and shielded him from impromptu exchanges. Advisers have restricted news conferences and media appearances, twice declining Super Bowl halftime interviews—an easy way to reach millions of voters—and sought to make sure meetings with donors stuck to scripted pleasantries.
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At a fundraiser in New York around the time of the United Nations General Assembly last fall, Biden seemed at a loss trying to answer questions about the Middle East from people in a photo line, according to a person there. An aide whispered in Biden’s ear, the person said, and the president then answered.
"Yes, they'd given the boy the good stuff that night.
"The result they got was a very wired, angry Joe Biden. At the time, that was a thing to celebrate. Dems wanted him to seem vital and ready to go after Donald Trump. It was nothing but a party for them. The few days after that were all about how fiery and combative he was.
"It was party time for the Dems and their media lap dogs.
"Well, the combative, divisive Joe Biden who the Democrats had hoped was manageable is still the guy who wants to battle, even if it means he has to push against the will of his party." . . .
Biden’s failure vs. Trump’s success - Joseph Ford Cotto. . ."In stark contrast, the Biden administration’s approach has been marked by inefficiency and misplaced priorities, resulting in four tumultuous years marred by insecurity and economic instability. From lax border enforcement to policies that inadvertently incentivized illegal immigration, Biden’s tenure left American workers vulnerable to displacement and taxpayers burdened by the costs of unchecked migration.
"The lack of strategic foresight and effective policy implementation has undermined national security and economic progress, jeopardizing the future prosperity of the American people."...
"Popcorn stocked, wings sauced, and feet firmly planted on the ottoman. Bring it on, Baghdad Karine, because we are so here for it."
"It's got to be 50 shades of exhausting having to not just speak on behalf of Joe Biden but to cover for his incoherency and penchant for looking out of it and generally unwell. Couple that with having to spin his epic policy failures like the border crisis and the deadly Afghanistan debacle, and it pretty much becomes a no-win situation for those tasked with getting "the message" out, whatever it may be.
"But that is what White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is paid a lot of money to do. And though she as one of his senior-most handlers hasn't done it particularly well throughout her tenure as Biden's second press secretary, it is her job description and one she wants people to believe she takes very seriously.
"On Monday, though, there was a crack in Jean-Pierre's usually oblivious veneer as the press briefing devolved into pandemonium over the explosive story of the Parkinson's expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, who was said to have visited the Biden White House some eight times over a period of eight months starting in July 2023 as questions about Biden's mental acuity were reaching a fever pitch.
"Watch the post-Independence Day fireworks below between some reporters in the press corps and Jean-Pierre over her attempts at dodging and evading more probing and important questions about the expert and what he was doing related to Biden, especially on the issue of meeting with his physician: . . ."
Why Biden Staffers Are Probably Hoping No One Saw This MSNBC Segment (townhall.com) "We could be having another Parkinson’s Disease discussion about Joe Biden soon. Or at least, we should since the explanation for why an expert on the disease visited the White House at least eight times since August 2023, maybe more since there are no visitor logs at Biden’s Delaware home. A letter was released by Dr. Kevin O’Connor explaining Dr. Kevin Cannard’s visits to Biden. Given that the White House is secretive, I doubt this letter will quell concerns about whether the president has the disease.
"Second, Dr. Tom Pitts, a neurologist, was interviewed by MSNBC’s Tom Llamas this morning, where he pretty much said that the president has the hallmark early symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Pitts is also a self-identified Democrat and voiced his frustration over the White House’s handling of Biden’s declining health, likening it to a Soviet-style cover-up.
Joe Biden is not a good man and the many who have claimed he is know better. But in the same way, Biden’s mental and physical infirmities have been covered up, Scranton Joe’s nastiness has been concealed, as well. God help us if this unprincipled man who has served only himself and his family is reelected in November.
"The talking points must have gone out within minutes of the end of President Joe Biden’s lame debate performance. Among the first to tell us just how fine a man Biden was Barack Obama, who called his former vice president “someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life.” It is, of course, a lie. Biden is not a good man, and the idea he’s “fought for ordinary folks” for even a single day of his “public service” is risible.
"Obama’s tweet also claimed that Biden is the candidate “who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight.” From there, the gaslighting grew exponentially worse.
"At a July 2 fundraiser in Virginia, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer, whom Biden once called “Doug,” compared our disabled president to Jesus.
“ 'He has been a good, good man. He’s resilient, optimistic, indefatigable, and above all courageous,” said Boyer.
"On the day after the debate, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who admitted that watching the debate made him “weep,” assured us that Biden is “a good man and a good president.”
"There are too many post-debate examples to list all the “good man” encomia, but here are few more:" . . . The list.
. . ."Joe Biden is not a good man and the many who have claimed he is know better. But in the same way, Biden’s mental and physical infirmities have been covered up, Scranton Joe’s nastiness has been concealed, as well. God help us if this unprincipled man who has served only himself and his family is reelected in November." . . .
Compulsive liars will “bend the truth about everything, large or small.”
“Their stories usually do not add up.”
They “display the classic lying behaviors, such as avoiding eye contact, breaking out into a sweat, and tripping over their words or rambling.”
“They often lie for no clear reason, and sometimes, for no real benefit, they make lies up more spontaneously, don’t do much thinking, and prefer to tell the sorts of lies that they think people want to hear.”
"Here were the commander in chief’s biggest fibs and gaffes: . . ."
Hitler phones Biden Comment to this post: @TheGel69 "As a Frenchman I really laughed when Sleepy Joe mentioned chatting with Mittterrand, deceased 28 years ago......we Don t need four more years of this."
"Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is urging French Jewry to flee France, warning that “there is no time” following the far-left’s triumph in the country’s parliamentary elections.
"As Breitbart News reported, French President Emmanuel Macron’s alliance with the New Popular Front delivered a victory over Marine Le Pen’s populist right, which has raised concerns about antisemitism, with many French Jews feeling increasingly uncertain about their place in France.
"The unexpected shift in political power has sparked fears within the roughly 500,000-strong Jewish community, boosting worries about the potential implications for its safety and rights.
"In response, Lieberman expressed his concerns regarding the matter.
“ 'In light of the victory of the radical left in France, I call on all French Jews to immigrate to the State of Israel,” the Israeli parliamentarian wrote on Monday, warning that “there is no time.”
"Prominent French Rabbi Moshe Sebbag of Synagogue de la Victoire told the Times of Israel that it appears that France has “no future for Jews” and advised young Jews to move to Israel." . . .
Comment to this video: "The book is amazing, based on facts, the theme song is one of the best. My father bought it and I read it as soon as I was interested in that genre of books (1960's). They fought so hard to build a barren land into the successful country it is now."
And they made the land beautiful, building neat, clean villages, homes, and schools. Then the predators of Gaza entered, raping, murdering, and burning from the infants to the aged while their families watched; their children bleeding out in front of them. TD
"As an Israeli, I am so grateful to have intelligent, thoughtful people like Douglas Murray supporting us and recognizing what we’ve been through.
"He is worth 100,000 screaming anti-Israel protesters!"
Comments: A scene that I saw were two girls were one was sat and one was laid down in a pick up truck driving through a group of Palestinians who did not rescue these girls but spat on them they had been raped by hamas gun men. This image will never leave me .these girls were later murdered .Israel will always have my support.
"Many Palestinians cheered on when a naked young girl was paraded through their streets. I will never foget it or forgive that association with Hamas. Never."
The logs show Dr. Cannard traveled to the White House residence medical clinic each time. He met either with the president’s personal physician or the naval nurse who coordinates care for the president and other top officials, the logs show.
"It would require Biden to step down as the head of the ticket by mid-July to pave the way for other Democrats to throw their hats in the ring for a 'blitz primary' that would feature celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Oprah, according to Semafor.
"The six candidates with the most votes from delegates would also have to vow to run a positive-only campaign.
"The plan is the brainchild of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the 2020 Biden campaign, as well as Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist and education philanthropist who has donated to a number of Democratic campaigns.
"They have already circulated the plan to Democrat donors, as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration - and say they have widespread support." . . .
. . ."As vice president, she was tapped in March 2021 as the point person to lead the administration’s efforts to secure our southern border. After one trip to Mexico and Guatemala, she released her strategy to address the “root causes” of migration. The strategy identifies the root causes of migration as corruption, violence, trafficking, and poverty. Duh! She further identified the pandemic and “extreme weather conditions” as exacerbating factors. (Seriously!) No mention of illegal immigrants from over 100 countries around the world. No mention of the tens of thousands of military-age males arriving from the Middle East, China, and Russia. No specific plan of action to stem the tide or secure the border. We can see the results." . . .
. . ."This is why it's so important to re-elect him," Pelosi said in a televised interview. "As concerned as we may be about President Biden's cognitive health, the only reasonable answer is to keep him in office and really find out just how mentally defective he has become. It's the only way."
"The uncertainty surrounding Biden's mental fitness has drawn questions from the media and calls from prominent Democrats and campaign donors to have him replaced as the nominee, which Pelosi said would be a serious mistake. "If we fail to re-elect Joe Biden, we will never know just how senile he is," she said emphatically. "A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to make Joe Biden's level of dementia a permanent mystery. What better way to learn how far he has declined mentally than in real-time on the global stage, with the fate of the world at stake?' " ...
Bob Hoge – RedState "Cover the windows, batten down the hatches, and gird your loins because Joe Biden said on Sunday during a rally in Philadelphia that “Dark Brandon” is set for a sequel. If you remember, the Dark Brandon meme started on the internet early in the Biden administration and Team Joe tried to use it to his advantage to tout the president’s achievements.
"Remember this malarkey?"
The reason it's so dumb in my opinion is because it unintentionally highlights the contrast between the vigorous (though evil)- looking guy with lasers in his eyes and the black-eyed, vacant-looking commander-in-chief that we saw on the debate stage (and elsewhere).
"Well, unfortunately for us all, Biden evidently thought it was effective enough that it needs to be resurrected:
“Dark Brandon is coming back,” he joked to one supporter in Harrisburg who asked him about the meme, one that developed into a unifying force to fight off concerns about Biden’s age early in his campaign. [Yeah, not so much.]
While he faces increasing calls from members of Congress to leave the campaign after a faltering debate performance last month, Biden said he hasn’t seen the same response from voters.
“We’ve been drawing big crowds. Ever since the debate, not joking, even that night we had big crowds afterwards,” Biden said.
"Biden’s scowls and outbursts grew as he seemed to come alive only when slurring and slandering half the country as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” deplorables. So, in the recent debate, Biden at least admitted that he had written off half the nation that voted for Trump." Victor Davis Hanson
"Edith Wilson was President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife. She ran the country for a year and a half after Wilson was incapacitated following a massive stroke in 1919.
"The public never knew.
"This is not to say that First Lady Jill Biden, 73, is running the country today. It is to point out that she is running Joe Biden, 81, which may amount to the same thing.
"Edith Wilson’s first move after Wilson’s debilitating stroke was to mislead the nation regarding the bedridden Wilson’s ability to function, let alone continue to serve as president.
"The stroke was of such an intensity that it incapacitated Wilson, leaving him permanently paralyzed on the left side of his body and blind in one eye.
"While Wilson was confined to his White House bed and barely conscious or rational, Edith Wilson, in effect, took over the presidency—and the country.
"Even after Wilson went from a sick bed to a wheelchair, his health continued to deteriorate. His mind wandered and his memory diminished.
"There was no 25th Amendment to allow for the replacement of an incapacitated president as there is now. That amendment was only passed in 1967." . . .
Biden’s Blackmail . . ."By foisting Joe Biden on America, the Democrat’s “best and brightest” granted a reprobate the ultimate upper hand in this election cycle: the threat to use the president’s unlimited power to grant pre-emptive pardons to himself and whomever he chooses." . . .
Democrats wheeling old Joe off the cliff? - M. Walter . . ."It’s hard to think of a bigger grandparent to throw over a cliff than a sitting president of the United States, but here we are. We are being told by a variety of legacy media they — House and Senate Democrats — want grandpa gone by Friday, with tomorrow, Tuesday, being a critical day on the way to that cliff’s edge." . . .
"The entire 2019-20 Biden candidacy and subsequent presidency were predicated on a rotten Faustian bargain. A hale Joe Biden would feign his aw-shucks, Joe from Scranton schtick. And an ossified working-class Joe’s camouflage would get the hard left elected—especially thanks to the changes in balloting laws that often saw only 30 percent of the electorate voting on Election Day in key states.
"In exchange, the two narcissistic Bidens would bask in the power and attention of the presidency. From the start, Jill and the media would orchestrate deep cover for Joe’s escalating dementia as well as the true intentions of the now-in-power radical Democratic Party with its neo-socialist agenda. The former Obama acolytes would get their long-dreamed-of third presidential term. And this time they would enact a truly radical agenda while their string puppet mumbled to everyone that he was just old, familiar Joe working for the middle class."
