Why is it that every time this administration gives full disclosure, total clarity, open transparency, comprehensive reporting it is full of omissions, half truths, questionable data or facts and some out right lies.

But if course the 'other guy' was much worse. So I guess that makes it alright?

Democrats to roll out fleet of ‘Dark Brandon’ buses to cruise around GOP convention

https://www.washingtontimes.co...dark-brandon-buses-/

Democrats are plowing ahead with plans to drive a fleet of 57 buses, which include vehicles wrapped with President Biden’s face as “Dark Brandon,” around the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee.

Democratic lawmakers in Washington are still wrestling with the prospect of Mr. Biden remaining at the top of their ticket in November as he steadfastly refuses to withdraw from the race.

Despite these troubles, the Democratic National Committee is proceeding with counter-programing for the GOP convention. The Democrats have seven new campaign bus wraps that will run on 57 buses around the city during the convention.

Democrats say they will remind voters that Mr. Biden “is fighting for them as Trump and extreme Republicans prepare to descend on the city — which Donald Trump described as ‘horrible,’” a reference to a comment Mr. Trump made at a GOP meeting with lawmakers in Washington.

Mr. Trump and other Republicans said the remark was taken out of context when it was leaked to reporters and that he “loved” Milwaukee.

DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin said in a statement that there is just one candidate who will protect “democracy” and “protections for fundamental freedoms, health care, affordable prescription drugs, and good-paying jobs.”

“Ahead of the Republican National Convention, Democrats are making sure that Wisconsinites and all Americans understand that if Trump wins, America loses,” she said. “President Biden has Americans’ backs, and we’ll have his when we send him back to the Oval Office for four more years this November.”

The statement came just hours after the RNC released a Trump-inspired party platform that omits its previous embrace of a pro-life amendment to the Constitution and a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The DNC said the platform language “was the most extreme, out-of-touch, and dangerous proposals in his MAGA platform that would let him fulfill his pledge to be a dictator on ‘day one.’”

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The DNC said the platform language “was the most extreme, out-of-touch, and dangerous proposals in his MAGA platform that would let him fulfill his pledge to be a dictator on ‘day one.’”

Do they even see the irony here? Do they think everyone doesn’t?

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57 buses, which include vehicles wrapped with President Biden’s face as “Dark Brandon,” around the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee.

No pics?

I just don't see how our boy can make it to the election. Their one real chance to get rid of him will be at the convention. With each passing day, it becomes more acceptable to call for Biden's withdrawal. What is going to be like six weeks from now?

If Droolin' Joe manages to survive the convention, he might be a BAMF after all.

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The Democrats have seven new campaign bus wraps that will run on 57 buses around the city during the convention.

Why 57 busses. One for each state?

I know this much. The minute it becomes clear that it will be impossible to get rid of Joe, the very second, the media will again do a complete 180 and go all in for him like none of this ever happened. They'll say he's gotten better. Rather than the cancer he promised to cure, he in fact cured Alzheimer's!

When that moment comes, if it comes, Trump will be target numero uno once again, and Biden will be their man.

Of course, the prospect of Biden surviving the onslaught the next few weeks is indeed becoming less and less likely everyday. Karine Jean-Identity-Hire was nearly in tears today. She probably hates that old bastard more than anyone at this point. How long will she hang on with more press conferences like today?

Biden’s letter to his fellow Dems is pretty telling in the last paragraph.

Nothing said about securing the border, getting inflation under control, making the world safer, for that matter marking our streets safer.

Just this drivel: The question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for it to end. We have one job. And that is to beat Donald Trump. We have 42 days to the Democratic Convention and 119 days to the general election. Any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us. It is time to come together, move forward as a unified party, and defeat Donald Trump.

Their stated job is to beat Trump at any cost, everything goes by the wayside.

And Trump needs to point that out at every turn… exactly this. Make it all too clear that the Democrat goal is not healing the county’s woes, but beating an opponent. Hammer away at the fact that they have no intention of fixing anything.

We Were "Deceived & Gaslit For Years", All In The Name Of "Democracy"; Then "Poof", It Collapsed Overnight

Authored by Alastair Crooke,

The Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, Gerry Baker, says: ‘We’ve been “gaslit’ and deceived” – for years – “all in the name of ‘democracy’”. That deceit “collapsed” with the Presidential debate, Thursday’.

“Until the world saw the truth … [against] the ‘misinformation’ … the fiction of Mr. Biden’s competence … suggests they [the Democrats] evidently thought they could get away with promoting it. [Yet] by perpetuating that fiction they were also revealing their contempt for the voters and for democracy itself”.

Baker continues:

“Biden succeeded because he made toeing the party line his life’s work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led … Finally—in the ultimate act of partisan servility, he became Barack Obama’s vice president, the summit of achievement for those incapable, yet loyal: the apex position for the consummate ‘yes man’”.

“But then, just as he was ready to drift into a comfortable and well-deserved obscurity, his party needed a front man … They sought a loyal and reliable figurehead, a flag of convenience, under which they could sail the progressive vessel into the deepest reaches of American life — on a mission to advance statism, climate extremism and self-lacerating wokery. There was no more loyal and convenient vehicle than Joe”.

If so, then who actually has been ‘pulling America’s strings’ these past years?

“You [the Democratic machine] don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years about how this man was both brilliantly competent at the job and a healing force for national unity – and now tell us, when your deception is uncovered, that it’s ‘bedtime for Bonzo’ – thanks for your service, and let’s move on”, Baker warns.

“[Now] it is going horribly wrong. Much of his party has no use for him anymore … in a remarkably cynical act of bait-and-switch, [they are trying to] swap him out for someone more useful to their cause. Part of me thinks they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. I find myself in the odd position of wanting to root for poor mumbling Joe … It’s tempting to say to the Democratic machine frantically mobilizing against him: You don’t get to do this. You don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years”.

Something significant has snapped within ‘the system’. It is always tempting to situate such events in ‘immediate time’, but even Baker seems to allude to a longer cycle of gaslighting and deception – one that only now has suddenly burst into open view.

Such events – though seemingly ephemeral and of the moment – can be portents to deeper structural contradictions moving.

When Baker writes of Biden being the latest ‘flag of convenience’ under which the ruling strata could sail the progressive vessel into the deepest reaches of American life – “on a mission to advance statism, climate extremism and self-lacerating wokery” – it seems probable that he is referring to the 1970s era of the Trilateral Commission and the Club of Rome.

The 1970s and 1980s were the point at which the long arc of traditional liberalism gave place to an avowedly illiberal, mechanical ‘control system’ (managerial technocracy) that today fraudulently poses as liberal democracy.

Emmanuel Todd, the French anthropological historian, examines the longer dynamics to events unfolding in the present: The prime agent of change leading to the Decline of the West (La Défaite de l’Occident), he argues, was the implosion of ‘Anglo’ Protestantism in the U.S. (and England), with its entailed habits of work, individualism and industry – a creed whose qualities were held then to reflect God’s grace through material success, and, above all, to confirm membership of the divine ‘Elect’.

Whereas traditional liberalism had its mores, the decline of traditional values triggered the slide towards managerial technocracy, and to nihilism. Religion lingers on in the West, though in a ‘zombie’ state, Todd avers. Such societies, he argues, flounder – absent some guiding metaphysical sphere that provides people with non-material sustenance.

However, the incoming doctrine that only a wealthy financial élite, tech experts, leaders of multinational corporations and banks possess the required foresight and technological understanding to manipulate a complex and increasingly controlled system changed politics completely.

Mores were gone – and so was empathy. Many experienced the disconnect and the disregard of cold technocracy.

So when a senior WSJ editor tells us that the ‘deception and ‘gaslighting’ collapsed with the CNN Biden-Trump debate, we should surely pay attention; He is saying the scales finally fell from peoples’ eyes.

What was being gaslighted was the fiction of democracy and also that of America declaring itself – in its own scripture – to be the trailblazer and pathfinder of humanity: America as the exceptional nation: the singular, the pure-of-heart, the baptizer, and redeemer of all peoples despised and downtrodden; the “last, best hope of earth”.

The reality was very different. Of course, states can ‘live a lie’ for a long period. The underlying problem – the point Todd makes so compellingly – is that you can be successful in deceiving and manipulating public perceptions, but only up to a point.

The reality was, it simply was not working.

The same is true of ‘Europe’.

The EU’s aspiration to become a global geo-political actor too, was contingent on gaslighting the public that France, Italy and Germany et al could continue to be real national entities – even as the EU scooped up all national decision-making prerogatives, by deceit. The mutiny at the recent European elections reflected this discontent.

Of course, Biden’s condition has been long known. So who then has been running affairs; making critical daily decisions about war, peace, the composition of the judiciary and the boundaries of state authority? The WSJ piece gives one answer: “Unelected advisers, party hacks, scheming family members and random hangers-on make the critical daily decisions” on these issues.

Maybe we have to reconcile to the fact that Biden is an angry, senile man who yells at his staff: “During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction”.

“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said one senior administration official. “It’s very difficult and people are scared sh*tless of him.” The official added, “He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it”.

Seymour Hersh, the well-known investigative journalist reports:

“Biden’s drift into blankness has been ongoing for months, as he and his foreign policy aides have been urging a ceasefire that will not happen in Gaza whilst continuing to supply the weapons that make a ceasefire less likely. There’s a similar paradox in Ukraine, where Biden has been financing a war that cannot be won – yet refusing to participate in negotiations that could end the slaughter”.

“The reality behind all of this, as I’ve been told for months, is that Biden is simply ‘no longer there’ – in terms of understanding the contradictions of the policies he and his foreign policy advisers have been carrying out”.

On the one hand, Politico tells us: “Biden’s insular senior team are well acquainted with the longtime aides who continue to have the president’s ear: Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed, as well as Ted Kaufman and Klain on the outside”.

“It’s the same people — he has not changed those people for 40 years … The number of people who have access to the president has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller. They’ve been digging deeper into the bunker for months now.” And, the strategist said, “the more you get into the bunker, the less you listen to anyone”.

In Todd’s words then, decisions are made by a small ‘Washington village’.

Of course, Jake Sullivan and Blinken sit at the centre of what is called the ‘inter-agency’ view. This where policy mostly is discussed. It is not coherent – with its locus in the National Security Committee – but rather is spread through a matrix of interlocking ‘clusters’ that includes the Military Industrial Complex, Congressional leaders, Big Donors, Wall Street, the Treasury, the CIA, the FBI, a few cosmopolitan oligarchs and the princelings of the security-intelligence world.

All these ‘princes’ pretend to have a foreign policy view, and fight like cats to protect their fiefdom’s autonomy. Sometimes they channel their ‘take’ via the NSC, but if they can, they will ‘stovepipe’ it directly to one or other ‘key actor’ with the ear of one, or other, Washington ‘village’.

Nonetheless, at bottom, the 1992 Wolfowitz doctrine which underscored American supremacy at all costs, in a post-Soviet world – together with “stamping out rivals, wherever they may emerge” – still today remains the ‘current doctrine’ framing the ‘inter-agency’ baseline.

Dysfunction at the heart of a seemingly functioning organization may persist for years without any real public awareness or appreciation of the descent into dysfunctionality. But then suddenly – when a crisis hits, or Presidential debate misfires – ‘poof’ and we see clearly the collapse of the manipulation that has confined discourse to within the various Washington villages.

In this light, some of the structural contradictions that Todd noted as contributory factors to western decline become unexpectedly ‘illuminated’ by events: Baker highlighted one: The key Faustian bargain: the pretence of a liberal democracy operating in tandem with a ‘classic’ liberal economy versus the reality of an illiberal oligarchic leadership sitting atop a hyper-financialised corporate economy that has both sucked the life from the classic organic economy, and created toxic inequalities too.

The second agent of western decline is Todd’s observation that the implosion of the Soviet Union rendered the U.S. so cock-a-hoop that the latter triggered a paradoxical unleashing of global ‘Rules-Based Order’ expansion of empire versus the reality that the West was already being consumed from its roots upwards.

The third agent to decline lay, Todd argues, with America declaring itself to be the greatest military nation on earth – versus the reality of an America that has long rid itself of much of its manufacturing capacity (particularly the military capacity), yet elects to clash with a stabilized Russia, a great power returned, and with China which has instantiated itself as the world’s manufacturing Behemoth (including militarily).

These unresolved paradoxes became the agents of western decline, Todd maintained. He has a point.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...-collapsed-overnight

"Not even in the same book". LOL

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1810689629324222908

When is it time to move on...

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uh oh

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Re: Parkinson’s claim – “This is coming from a lifelong Democrat”

Keep in mind that many Dems now want Biden out so that the female Obama can run.

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so that the female Obama can run.

Braaack can't run again

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Braaack can't run again

He can't run for President... but can he run as a VP candidate?

Biden supporters contemplate using Obama as 'Plan C' ticket

That Joe Biden's re-election campaign is in disarray is evident for all to see. He's recently complained he gets tired so has to quit doing events after 8 p.m. and his debate performance has been panned on a bipartisan basis as a catastrophe.

So the solution? The Democrats' longtime hero and leftist who worked to expand government and reduce the rights of Americans: Barack Obama.

But hasn't he been elected twice already, and the Constitution limits presidents to two terms?

Yes, but then "Plan C" comes in, according to a report from Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ek?ocid=BingNewsVerp

He described the plan already being outlined to help Biden's "wounded re-election effort" involves replacing the widely disliked Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee with Obama, who was in the White House following 2008 and 2012 elections.

"A Biden-Obama ticket would have a much better chance of beating Trump," said John Banzhaf, a teacher at George Washington University Law School. "Barack Obama is probably one of the few persons whom a majority of Americans would want and trust as president, so Plan C might be the least objectionable of a number of very unpopular and dubious options now open to Biden and the Democratic Party."

While Americans' desire to have Biden as the Democrat nominee, or president, is collapsing, the desire for Kamala Harris is even less.

Banzhaf claimed that "constitutional scholars" would give Obama a pass on claims his position in the No. 2 slot on the Democrat nomination would violate the 12th and 22nd amendments.

"The 22nd Amendment, which is most frequently cited as a bar to Barack Obama ever serving as president again, doesn't — according to its carefully crafted and very narrow exclusionary language," Banzhaf alleged.

The Examiner reported, "The key sentence in the amendment says, 'No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice, and no person who has held the office of the president, or acted as president, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of the president more than once.'"

Banzhaf said that language "doesn't prohibit him from being elected as vice president, and subsequently becoming president by succession without ever being elected to the office again."

https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/bi...obama-plan-c-ticket/

Stop

while he declined to state a dx, Dr. Drew identified all of the parkinsonion markers except for tremors