New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump. Has he been arrested? Lost his job? Been publicly repudiated by his friends? Come on, man!

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/07/08/new-york-times-columnist-offers-a-novel-but-scary-solution-to-the-lefts-trump-problem-n4930466
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With some ambivalence I have admired John McWhorter as a bright, interesting, not entirely woke, black guy and a linguist to boot.

But clearly he is another unhinged violent bigot and I am in no way required to grant him any respect whatsoever.

The bottom line: After the full caucus meeting on Tuesday, the lawmaker who told Axios on Monday night that the revolt is “over” said the gathering only confirmed that view.

–“Scoop: Biden rebels in Congress see their revolt crumbling”
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/biden-house-democrats-withdraw-nominee
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The night is young.

ObloodyHell:

As to Cat Stevens — I don’t mean to make excuses though I suppose that I am.

In the late 70s he really did have a deep, deep conversion into Islam. If you buy that ticket, you take that ride.

Currently I find myself inveighing against conservative pessimism. Western civ is doomed. Immigration is killing us. Elections are rigged. People are weak, lazy, stupid, deluded or evil. Nothing will improve. Civil war is around the corner.

I replied to Richard F. Cook elsewhere:
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Pessimism is what I call “Whistling into the graveyard.”

Recall, if you will, that the present crew who run the US were once a splinter group called the New Left in the 1960s. They didn’t get where they are now by explaining how their cause was hopeless.
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Now I’m going to quote Marge Piercy, a great New Left feminist writer. I once wrote her fan mail.
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One thing I know is that nothing remains the same. No great problems in society have been solved, no wounds healed, no promises kept except that the rich shall inherit. What swept through us and cast us forward is a force that will gather and rise again. Two steps forward and a step and a half back. I will waste none of my life.

–Marge Piercy, “Vida” (197)
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I don’t hear that kind of steel much in conservative circles. Except from Donald Trump, one of the reasons I now love the man.

‘I believe that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government a bit faster than the Republicans do.’ – Neal Boortz. Sure do miss his show since 2013…

Let’s be clear first that Biden is not an Obama puppet, because Obama was himself a puppet. (Seriously. Obama had no major legislation until he went for the US Senate back in a time when R’s could still squeak out a statewide win in IL, at which point Emil Jones decided Obama would be the lead sponsor on a bunch of perfect soundbite legislation that his fellow legislators had been grinding out for years working to get passed. He was lazy, and outsourced to staff; ditto Biden.).

Biden and Obama are both political machine hacks/grifters. Obama grew up in Illinois politics, and learned from the masters of how to grift and not (usually) get caught, Mike Madigan and John Cullerton. The machine picked Obama, Biden, etc. Machine is key money people, strategy people, legal and tech, and they will be shadowy people whose names you never hear of in public unless you are an insider political junkie. (R’s have never been good at building this infrastructure).

The Dem Machine is very tech-supported. It knows to a pretty high accuracy how many votes from which precinct need to show up from where to secure D victory. It doesn’t matter who the candidate is, because their strategy for the last several cycles has been on ballots, not votes. And they are good at getting the ballots. As we’ve seen from the discussion in the media, there are people who would vote for a dead Biden over a live Trump (or any generic R, really).

So, discussing who are the string pullers is an interesting angle. But of course the media is decidedly uncurious. You won’t get them interested in sharing that info.

The issue that is worth discussing is, can the Machine sell the fraud this time around.

More specifically, operate under the theory that there was sufficient urban city/county voter fraud that went on to get Biden over the finish line in 2020 for, e.g., AZ, NV, PA, WI, GA.

(It can happen any number of ways, whether it is old school busing in people of color into white suburban neighborhoods on election day to vote anyone who hasn’t voted yet (and who count on Karen the nice election judge not wanting to be called racist for asking for ID), SEIU works the nursing homes, US post office worker ensures vote by mail ballots get marked as on time before the end of election day into the system when they aren’t, D precinct/pollworkers in key counties that control the scantrons and upload the data, the D election judges who allow any D vote by mail to go through, the county clerks who don’t clean up the voter rolls so that you have 10 people registered at one 2 BR apartment address, stealing ballots out of mailboxes/PO boxes, broken chains of custody for ballots, the teacher’s union having their teachers bring their mail in ballots to a “vote party” so they can ensure they are filled out correctly, Clyburn putting the squeeze in person on whoever needs to get many more drop boxes out in the right neighborhoods (and make them harder to poll watch), the 100 extra “test sheets” from the ballot printer for each precinct that manage to get lost but are somehow found for a table signature exercise once the early reports are in, whatever–the opportunities to cheat the system are endless).

The string pullers need to get enough ballots in the system for the Dem candidate, without making the normies/low information types “see” the fraud. And keep the media on board, as they did last time, which they will this time.

The media fussing over Biden today gives them cover tomorrow to say they are being objective to pronounce that it is totes clear that there were 94 million Biden ballots to have made their way into the system over Trump’s 93 (or whatever number – again, close enough to win with a court challenge, not enough to make it so obvious).

If Biden gets dumped, it would mean that the number crunchers need someone new because their data models are showing they can’t get over the finish line without more obvious fraud. (A new person makes it easier to say “what a surprise that they outperformed expectations!”). If Biden stays, then they have their ground game covered, and Trump only wins in 2024 if another “surprise” state flips (as PA was for them in 2016 — once Philly said they were 100% reporting, and Trump was ahead by around 2-3000 votes before western PA fully reported, it was clear they didn’t have enough to fraud the outcome). Possibly VA, NH, ME, NJ. Or somewhere that has a particularly contested election that brings people out who don’t usually show up.

This is of course my PSA to encourage everyone to contact their county party (or organizations like True the Vote) to become an election judge or poll watcher or phone banker (or text-message-sender). Even if you just show up one day to do signature challenges for the vote by mail, those hours help count. Just checking your local precinct block list to see if people there really live there, helps in advance (esp. if VBM votes come in from those addresses). If you live in PA or Georgia, those states are essential this cycle. (If both go red under the current map, Trump gets to 270). If you can invite a “connected” neighbor (as in, someone who knows lots of people) to come with to watch how signature verification is done (or, usually in blue metro areas, not done), that can be really eye opening for people as to how not-secure our elections are.

I would also say if anyone is in a red area and an election judge, on election night, please take your sweet, slothful time (your D counterpart will have been reporting estimates on turnout), and hold your numbers until the blue areas of the state report in first, or you have at least gotten until midnight. Makes it harder to stuff in states that have requirements that the ballots at least arrive or be postmarked by midnight.

Sorry to be so cynical, but I’ve seen a lot.

The Marine Corps band was instructed last fall to come up with an entrance theme for the first lady, a source told the Washington Examiner. The band now has in its repertoire an original composition titled “Fanfare for the First Lady.” The song, the source said, is essentially Jill Biden’s personal “Hail to the Chief,” in that it is to be performed and repeated at official White House functions, from her first appearance until she is ready to speak.

It’s not surprising that a galactic level narcisist like that would be loathe to give up power.