Jul 232024
 


Salvador Dali The Madonna of Port Lligat 1950

 

Does America Have a Future? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Kamala Harris’ Second Presidential Campaign to Fail – Just Like Her First (Sp.)
Kamala Harris Cannot Use Biden’s Election Campaign Funds – WaPo (RT)
Kamala Harris Breaks Fundraising Record (RT)
Democratic Voters May Get Angry at Party After Biden’s Dropout (Sp.)
How Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger a 25th Amendment Fight (Turley)
RFK Jr. Accuses US Democrats of ‘Rigging’ Nomination (RT)
Secret Service’s Failure-to-Protect Blamed on “Operational Failure” (PCR)
Acoustic Evidence Proves More Than One Shooter (Paul Craig Roberts)
Who Are Kamala Harris’ Apparent Puppeteers? (Sp.)
Scott Ritter: Biden Election Withdrawal: Who is Actually Running America (Sp.)
China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029 (Pepe Escobar)
Only Half Gone (Kunstler)
Tesla To Produce ‘Humanoid’ Robots Next Year – Musk (RT)

 

 

First picture I’ve seen since he was released. That’s a lot of happiness.

 

 

Cheatle


https://twitter.com/i/status/1815454670367699258

 

 

 

 

Ron Johnson
https://twitter.com/i/status/1815055060906266868

 

 

Vivek

 

 

Tulsi

 

 

 

 

 

 

“America cannot be unified. Trump’s statement that he is going to unify America is fatuous. I expect that there will be more attempts on Trump’s life.”

Does America Have a Future? (Paul Craig Roberts)

As readers know, I expected Biden to be moved aside. I wondered why the Democrats were waiting so long. They might have been waiting to see if the planned assassination of Trump succeeded. Biden is an issue because he cannot win or come close enough to winning for the Democrats to be able to steal the election as they did in 2020. As the assassination failed, the Democrats need a more viable candidate, one the media can hype as one who can run a close race and win. Fake polls will be published that show the Democrat to be leading Trump. This allows the Democrats to steal the election if necessary. As there is not sufficient time for the Democrats to create a winning persona for a new presidential candidate, they need someone with name recognition and existing support, such as Hillary Clinton. Hillary and Obama are the main political figures in the Democrat Party. If Hillary has Obama’s support, she is likely to be the candidate. Kamala Harris is not regarded as having any better chance than Biden.

I do not think the Democrats can come up with a candidate who can defeat Trump. Democrats in the swing states have legalized the theft mechanisms they used in 2020 and 2022. If the race can be presented as close, the Democrats can steal the election, but they cannot win it. Donald Trump’s presidency was disrupted by the ruling elite/deep state because he presented as a threat to them. When he said he intended to normalize relations with Russia Trump threatened the budget and power of the military/security complex, which needs Russia as an enemy. The director of the CIA, John Brennan, declared Trump to be a “traitor to America.” This set the ruling establishment working against Trump. There was Russia-gate, two impeachments, porn star-gate, documents-gate, insurrection-gate and then 4 criminal indictments and several civil indictments. The Democrats acting for the Deep State believed they could get rid of Trump in these ways.

When these attempts failed, they turned to assassination. Acoustic evidence of the shootings make it completely clear that there were more than one shooter. Crooks was the patsy. Trump survived the assassination, because he turned his head. The attempted assassination has given Trump a large sympathy vote. He cannot be honestly defeated. The real question is: Will the deep state get away with its assassination attempt and will it attempt another? In order to keep the public’s focus off the attempted assassination. The Secret Service is being blamed for withholding sufficient resources necessary to protect Trump. This focuses attention away from a plot to kill Trump and places it on the sufficiency of the Secret Service’s budget and the appropriateness of its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” personnel policy.

The Republicans are likely to agree to sweep the intent issue under the rug in order to “protect America’s reputation.” It wouldn’t do to showcase the US as a country where presidents and would-be presidents are shot down by the opposition. What America faces is a population more divided than in 1861. One party, the Democrats, has as an agenda the normalization and legitimization of sexual perversion. The other party, the Republicans, are protective of traditional sexual morality. One party, the Democrats, has an agenda of open borders and a Tower of Babel instead of a nation. The other party, the Republicans, desire an ethnic-based nation. These agendas cannot be reconciled. To put it bluntly, America cannot be unified. Trump’s statement that he is going to unify America is fatuous. I expect that there will be more attempts on Trump’s life.

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“..Harris had the lowest approval rating of any first-term US vice president since Dan Quayle..”

Kamala Harris’ Second Presidential Campaign to Fail – Just Like Her First (Sp.)

With Joe Biden endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee after his decision to exit the presidential race on Sunday, the first female US vice president “will likely have to answer questions” about her last botched campaign for the top job, the Washington Post has reported. Harris, who has said that she intends to “earn and win” the nomination, is now facing “an abrupt launch” of her surprise second presidential campaign, the success of which will depend on how she resolves the problems that hampered the first campaign, according to the newspaper. In this vein, the Washington Post cited an unnamed Democratic strategist as saying that Harris previously failed to live up to Democrats’ expectations because “she ran a terrible campaign (which kicked off in January 2019).”

Her efforts, which notably collapsed before a single ballot was cast, were disrupted by “declining cash, an inability to articulate a cohesive campaign message, and a steady patter of departing staffers”, the newspaper pointed out. The report comes after Harris’ approval numbers dropped, following Biden’s “catastrophic” debate against former US President Donald Trump on June 27. According to FiveThirtyEight’s average, the vice president’s disapproval rating stood at 51.2 % on July 5, compared to 49.4 % on June 27. Last year’s polls showed that Harris had the lowest approval rating of any first-term US vice president since Dan Quayle in the early 1990s. The surveys indicated that the 49th vice president’s approval rating dropped from 41.7% to 36.3% in early 2023. Previous polls revealed that Harris, who has been repeatedly criticized for turning a blind eye to the US migration crisis, and keeping mum on America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, is “not qualified” or “not at all qualified” to be US president.

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Not everyone agrees…

Kamala Harris Cannot Use Biden’s Election Campaign Funds – WaPo (RT)

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been tapped by US President Joe Biden to run in his place, has no authority to control funds raised by his election campaign, the Washington Post (WaPo) has reported, citing finance lawyers for the Republican Party (GOP). An attempt to use the money could result in a lawsuit, the publication added. After announcing his withdrawal from the US presidential election race on Sunday, Biden endorsed Harris, his running mate, to replace him on the ballot. His campaign committee quickly filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the campaign to be re-designated as “Harris for President.” According to WaPo, Democratic lawyers and operatives have argued that installing Harris as the nominee was the easiest solution for the party, as her name is already on the paperwork, and the money was raised for Harris, alongside Biden, meaning that she is allowed to use it. As of the end of June, the Biden campaign reported having $95 million in its coffers.

Another option under the campaign legislation would be to refund the money to donors. Any new presidential candidates would have to launch their fundraising campaigns from scratch, as just over three months are left until the election. According to GOP-aligned campaign finance lawyers, the Biden campaign does not have the legal authority to appoint Harris and give her control of the funds. The step “is all but certain” to be challenged before the FEC or in court, they argue, as cited by WaPo. Prominent GOP campaign finance lawyer Charlie Spies told the publication that both Biden and Harris would have to have been officially nominated by the Democratic Party at its convention next month before any kind of funding handoff could occur. Only in that situation, campaign finance law allows a vice-presidential nominee to take control of the campaign’s depository if the presidential nominee withdraws, he noted.

”Biden can’t transfer his money to Harris because it was raised under his own name, and there is no legal mechanism for it to have been raised jointly with Harris before they were their party’s nominees,” Spies said. ”A campaign cannot keep money for an election the candidate isn’t running in.” Craig Engle, a former lawyer for an FEC commission told CNN. The six-member FEC panel that would rule on such matters has long been evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, WaPo notes. The partisan divide means the commissioners could deadlock on the issue, potentially leading to litigation in court. According to Sean Cooksey, a Republican who holds the post of FEC chairman, the situation is unprecedented under current campaign finance law, and it “raises a host of open questions about whether it is legal, what limits apply and what contributors’ rights are.”

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She doesn’t need Biden’s funds anymore.

Kamala Harris Breaks Fundraising Record (RT)

US Vice President Kamala Harris has received $81 million in contributions in the first 24 hours since Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her candidacy. According to the campaign, it has received more than 888,000 contributions from “grassroots donors,” 60% of whom have donated for the first time during the 2024 election cycle. “The historic outpouring of support for Vice President Harris represents exactly the kind of grassroots energy and enthusiasm that wins elections,” campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said. Separately, Future Forward – the largest Democratic political action committee in the US – told Politico magazine on Monday that it has received $150 million in new commitments from major donors in the last 24 hours. Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris on Sunday, following weeks of calls from Democratic politicians, donors and journalists for him to leave the race due to growing concerns over his mental fitness and ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in November.

Although Biden had repeatedly refused to abandon his reelection campaign, he eventually conceded, arguing that the move was “in the best interest of my party and the country.” According to CNN, Harris has since been endorsed by more than 40 Democratic senators and nearly 100 House members, as well as several governors, including Gavin Newsom of California, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. The Democrats will finally decide on the nominee during their convention in August. Last week, Republicans nominated Trump as their candidate for the president and J.D. Vance, a senator from Ohio, as his running mate. Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13; the gunman’s bullet grazed his right ear. The FBI have said that they have not yet identified a clear motive; the shooter was neutralized during the altercation.

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“The American people have already rejected Kamala Harris when she ran for president last time — she won zero delegates and the least number of votes. She is deeply unpopular and for good reason.”

Democratic Voters May Get Angry at Party After Biden’s Dropout (Sp.)

The American voters were betrayed by the Democratic Party when they were told that US President Joe Biden was fine, while the party itself and the media knew it, and that may suppress the enthusiasm of the Democratic Party voters, Daniel McAdams, the Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity told Sputnik. “What does this mean for the millions of people who already voted for Biden? What is the Democratic Party going to tell them after they had been lied to throughout the entire primary process?,” McAdams said. “They were told that Biden is fine so they voted for him. But the claim was fraudulent and the Democratic Party officials and media knew it. They were betrayed by their own party. That may well suppress enthusiasm among Democratic Party voters.” US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he would withdraw from the presidential race. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for US president.

“I am not surprised at the news, as the media has been pushing this narrative since the late June presidential debate,” McAdams said. “Before that they had been pushing the false narrative for three years that Biden was just fine and that anyone who questioned it was just a right wing extremist. Anyone with a brain could notice that Biden was having problems with his brain.” McAdams went on to say that right now, especially after the assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump’s chances of winning are growing by the day. “There is no Democrat candidate waiting in the wings who can hope to gain the necessary traction in the short period between now and the election,” he said. “The American people have already rejected Kamala Harris when she ran for president last time — she won zero delegates and the least number of votes. She is deeply unpopular and for good reason.”

“Likewise Hillary Clinton, who has been resoundingly rejected by voters and remains deeply unpopular with Americans,” McAdams added. “California’s Gavin Newsom has destroyed the state and his candidacy would play into Trump’s hands. Who else? One wag suggested the Democrats should nominate Mitt Romney. Good luck with that.” McAdams concluded by saying that the US electoral process is in a state of “total chaos.” “Chaos favors the ambitious and avaricious. Look for bad things to happen,” he said. US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday called on President Joe Biden to resign after he announced withdrawal from the presidential race. US presidential candidate Donald Trump in response to Biden’s decision said his former rival was never fit to serve as US president, adding that the country has suffered greatly because of his presidency.

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“..a House investigation into Biden’s continuing capacity to serve in an office that he no longer believes he can run to occupy after January 2025.”

How Biden’s Withdrawal Could Trigger a 25th Amendment Fight (Turley)

President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s nominee solved an immediate problem for his party. Biden has plummeted in the polls as the vast majority of voters concluded that he is too diminished by age to serve another term. Yet, it has now created several new problems, including the obvious problem of a president who is viewed as incapable of running for an office that he continues to hold. The Democratic Party essentially created its own political version of the 25th Amendment in forcing Biden off the ticket. This decision was about as voluntary as leaving a building by way of a window on the 46th floor. That is particularly the case when you are thrown out of the window by your closest friends. The unseemly image of succession by defenestration will soon be whitewashed by a media that will praise Biden after weeks of declaring him incompetent and enfeebled.

That, however, leaves the lingering question after the fall. How can Biden remain in office when he is incapable of running for the office? Biden is notably vague about the reason for his withdrawal after maintaining for days that he will be the party’s nominee. He simply says that it is in the best interests of the country. The Democratic establishment has two equally unappealing options. First, it could argue that Biden was withdrawing out of recognition that he is no longer politically viable. But that makes a mockery out of the democratic process. Millions of people went through the primary elections to select him as their nominee. Now he would be set aside and replaced by a vote of the party establishment like a shift in the Russian politburo. Second, it could admit that Biden was, as stated for weeks in the media and by figures like Special Counsel Robert Hur, greatly diminished both mentally and physically. However, that makes this withdrawal an admission that could trigger a fight under the 25th Amendment.

The development could create a new constitutional controversy. The 25th Amendment was written with largely physical disabilities in mind. If a president is comatose, the incapacity is obvious and Section 4 allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to sign a declaration to Congress that a president is incapable of holding office. However, Harris is eager to avoid the image of Brutus in the dispatching of the president. To support such a declaration would risk Biden proclaiming “Et tu, Kamala?” to the nation. The key to succession by defenestration is not to be seen as the hand that pushes the president out the window. Politics follows the same rules as the mafia for capo di tutti i capi: Kill a don, never be a don. While sometimes honored in the breach in the mob, it is hardly an auspicious path for a politician.

There is, however, another intriguing possibility. Section 4 provides that a president’s fitness can be put before Congress when the “Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or such other body as Congress may by law provide.” Previously Democrats have cited that language to suggest that they could create their own body to force former President Donald Trump out of office. Indeed, Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) sponsored legislation called the Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity Act to create a commission empowered to examine a president to Congress on the president’s capacity. It would circumvent the necessity of getting Harris to be the primary hand that dispatched a president. The question is whether Congress will now make this decision to warrant an investigation or even a Raskin-like bill.

This is different than President Lyndon Johnson’s decision on March 31, 1968, that “I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.” That was before any primaries. In this case, Biden won a primary in which the Democratic Party obstructed anyone who would challenge him and barred any debate. Millions voted for him, and tens of millions of dollars were contributed to his campaign. He is now withdrawing weeks before accepting the nomination. That unprecedented decision alone would warrant a House investigation into Biden’s continuing capacity to serve in an office that he no longer believes he can run to occupy after January 2025.

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He wants back in.

RFK Jr. Accuses US Democrats of ‘Rigging’ Nomination (RT)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused the Democratic Party of “anointing a candidate hand-picked by elites” and urged them to return to an “open process” of selecting a nominee for the upcoming November elections—while also claiming that only he can beat former President Trump. Following US President Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would not be seeking re-election, RFK Jr. commended him “for stepping down,” saying that Biden’s “infirmities were evident to any unbiased observer from the beginning.” “It was this progressive deterioration—and his abandonment of Democratic Party principles—that prompted me to enter the race and ensure American voters had a viable, vigorous alternative to Donald Trump,” RFK Jr., who initially entered the presidential race as a Democrat but dropped out after being blocked by the party from challenging Biden in the primaries, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.

He then slammed the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for “rigging” the nomination process by getting “a monumentally unpopular vice president to step into President Biden’s shoes,” arguing that “it’s the easiest way to hold onto the money,” referring to campaign finance rules that make transferring funds from the incumbent president to his running mate possible during the election cycle. “I call on the Democratic Party to return to its traditional commitment to democracy and exemplify it with an open process. Instead of anointing a candidate hand-picked by DNC elites, the party should use neutral polling to identify the candidate who can best beat Donald Trump. The delegates should then select a nominee based on this information,” RFK Jr. concluded. Later in the day, he called a press conference at his family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where he criticized the DNC for trying to hide Biden’s health issues, claiming that it had been done to prevent any other candidate from competing with the incumbent “in a way that would expose his deficiencies.”

Kennedy also took a jab at both Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who was endorsed by President Biden for the Democratic Party nomination, saying that they conceal “the real purpose of their objective” and represent “corporate interests rather than the interests of the American public.” RFK Jr. then stated that he would be willing to accept the Democratic nomination if it was offered to him, arguing that he is “the only presidential candidate who can beat Donald Trump.” “I believe at this point it’s a two-man race or two-person race. Let me put it that way. And, you know, I’m in the best position to win,” he stated. According to various polls, Kennedy currently stands to win around 10% of the national vote. His campaign claims to be pro-choice and pro-environment and has condemned “corporate capture,” the affordability crisis, and “forever wars.”

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“Cheatle is correct that the Secret Service failed. It failed to assassinate Trump.”

Secret Service’s Failure-to-Protect Blamed on “Operational Failure” (PCR)

Secret Service Director admits “significant operational failure.” No Deep State plot. Just an operational failure. The official narrative has taken the form I said it would. The issue for the Republicans is Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s resignation and not whether there was a Deep State attempt on Trump’s life. For example, Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, defined the issue as the Secret Service “lacks the proper management.” The fight over whether Cheatle’s “significant operational failure” is consistent with her remaining in command will exhaust the subject of the assassination. The acoustic evidence showing more than one shooter will not be reported and carefully investigated. The issue of a Democrat/Deep State plot will not be raised. Cheatle is correct that the Secret Service failed. It failed to assassinate Trump.

As the Secret Service now operates in the failure-to-protect mode, there will be another try. An established excuse is in place. Prior to the next attempt, watch for media articles about how difficult it is to protect presidents and presidential candidates. “An almost impossible job,” we will be told, the proof being success for most attempts. Trump survived not due to the Secret Service but to turning his head at precisely the right moment to escape death. Liberals will say the Second Amendment enables mass shootings and attempts on presidents and turn the issue into one of gun control. Or perhaps Trump has finally got the message and will pull in his horns. Maybe he already has. Unifying America is taking the place of fight, fight, fight. Unifying America means giving in.

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Pretty convincing.

Acoustic Evidence Proves More Than One Shooter (Paul Craig Roberts)

I and others have pointed out astonishing voids in the Secret Service’s protection of Trump. The voids are so egregious that they cannot be blamed on incompetence. Scott Ritter says that intent is the only explanation. Now these conclusions are backed by acoustic evidence. The fact that bullets travel faster than sound means that the time between hearing the bullet pass the microphone and then the sound allows the calculation of the distance from which the bullet was fired. The time differences reveal different distances. Therefore the conclusion is unavoidable that there was more than one shooter. Mike Adams walks us through one approximately 30 minute analysis, and Chris Martenson walks us through another 30 minute analysis. Mike Adams concludes that there were 7 shots fired, 5 from the distance of Crooks’ location, and 2 from two different longer distances.

Martenson makes the point that the shot at Trump that hit a man in the upper row was traveling on an upward trajectory, which implies it did not come from the top of the building where Crooks was positioned. The first shots are easy to identify. Some of the following shots are polluted with echos and require careful attention. Both Adams and Martenson provide competent reports. Both say that the analysis requires credentialed independent forensic experts and that the accuracy of the results can be tightened once the calibers of the weapons are known. As I said, let’s hope the bullets were collected by honest and trustworthy authorities. Keep in mind that expert acoustic analysis of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination definitely showed two different caliber of weapons fired. There is no doubt about this, but the official story remains “lone gunman.”

The American whore media will brand the factual analysis a “conspiracy theory” and will endorse the official narrative as the truth. However, at this point the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, NSA and presstitute media have zero credibility. No one should believe a word they say. Here are the videos:

https://www.brighteon.com/a2ec2cff-0d92-4870-9629-e1fa9eb3fb09

In addition to the security failures and acoustic evidence, there is the absence of a Secret Service camera drone. The only reason not to have camera coverage is that it would have made Crooks obvious and other shooters obvious. The only way the Democrats or the Deep State operating through the Democrats can get away with their attempted assassination of Donald Trump is for the Republicans to do nothing on the grounds that it would be divisive or too embarrassing to the US to admit a government plot against Trump. The Rinos will argue that the plot has to be covered up in order to save America’s reputation. Trump will be told he has to unify the country, not divide it by holding his would be murderers accountable. No one will explain how good can be united with evil.

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“..the Clinton entourage claims that Hillary and Kamala have a strong bond..”

Who Are Kamala Harris’ Apparent Puppeteers? (Sp.)

Alex Soros, the son and heir of the Democratic Party’s longtime donor George Soros, was quick to endorse Harris for president after Joe Biden dropped out. After Alex Soros endorsed Kamala Harris for the presidency on X, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted: “I’d just like to thank Alexander Soros for not keeping everyone in suspense about who the next puppet would be.” Harris has been repeatedly called a part of “cabal”, a “deep state” creature who allegedly advanced her career through nepotism. Influence Watch, a project launched by DC-based think tank Capital Research Center, refers to media criticism of Harris’ affair with then-Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown, who reportedly promoted her to top positions in the 1990s.

The watchdog particularly quoted the San Francisco Chronicle that claimed that Harris had long been beholden to Brown, who used to be one of the most powerful politicians in California for almost three decades. “[Harris] is part of a home state Democratic cabal, an insiders’ machine,” the Los Angeles Times remarked in December 2019. Despite her rapid rise to power, Kamala’s ambitions often exceeded her abilities, the newspaper noted, adding that she didn’t excel in her job as an attorney general, failed to establish herself as a US senator, and had a botched presidential campaign in 2020 which ended quickly due to lack of funds and popularity.

This time, however, a number of liberal donors and political heavyweights have signaled their support to her. Besides Alex Soros, Wall Street executive Marc Lasry and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman have endorsed Harris for president. Hoffmann might donate over $10 million to her campaign, as per CNBC. Harris has already raised over $60 million and is due to get access to Biden’s $95+ million “war chest.” Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also rushed to throw their weight behind Harris. In February 2023, Hillary was quoted as saying in private that Harris lacked the “political instincts” to win a Democratic primary. Still, the Clinton entourage claims that Hillary and Kamala have a strong bond. The New York Times reported in December 2021 that Harris regularly sought Clinton’s counsel after becoming Biden’s veep.

It appears that the Clintons and the Soroses are seeking to become “queen-makers” by pushing ahead with Kamala’s candidacy. Former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard recently slammed Harris for being the “maidservant of queen of warmongers” Hillary Clinton and a “new figurehead for the deep state”. Meanwhile, a number of top Democrats and wealthy liberal donors, including Stewart Bainum Jr., remain skeptical about Harris’ chances of winning the 2024 presidential election. Former President Barack Obama, ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are yet to endorse her, while some Democrats propose holding a mini-primary before the August 19 convention or are calling for an open nomination process.

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“America is in a crisis, a crisis of democracy, a crisis of identity..”

Scott Ritter: Biden Election Withdrawal: Who is Actually Running America (Sp.)

“There’s no doubt that Joe Biden is unfit to be president of the United States. No doubt. But here’s the question. If he’s unfit to run as the candidate of the Democratic Party, why did they put him up?” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and ex-weapons inspector Scott Ritter said, noting that signs of Biden’s frailty were visible during the G7 summit in Italy last month. According to him, the fact that Biden is unfit to be the POTUS but was still allowed to “function” begets the question: who is really in charge in the United States? “Who’s running America? Because it’s not Joe Biden. We don’t know who. It’s an unelected group of handlers who are drawn from what I guess we can call the establishment.

Some people might refer to it as the deep state. And these are the people who are calling the shots,” Ritter stated, noting that “the critical decisions of governance” this group makes are made “for the American people, but not necessarily on behalf of the American people.” He describes the 2024 presidential election in the US as “a test of American democracy” and a “contest between established elites that are found in the Democratic Party and this surge of populism in the form of Donald Trump who is taking control of the Republican Party.”

Yet while Americans are normally allowed to “have a say in the outcome” of this process, the Democratic Party and the “elites known and unknown” now opted to meddle in this process and “will be selecting who their candidate will be for the presidency in the 2024 elections,” which is “not the way it’s supposed to be,” he noted. “America is in a crisis, a crisis of democracy, a crisis of identity. And it doesn’t look like we have a solution because for the most part, the American people have been confused and misled and manipulated by the mainstream media into somehow thinking that this is normal,” Ritter lamented.

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“socialism with Chinese characteristics”

China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029 (Pepe Escobar)

There can hardly be a better place to track the four-day, twice-a-decade plenum of the Communist Party of China than dynamic, “one country, two systems” Hong Kong. Hong Kong is right at the heart of East Asia – halfway between Northeast Asia (Japan, the Koreas) and Southeast Asia. To the west is not only China but the Eurasia landmass, linking it to India, Persia, Turkiye and Europe. To the east, sailing forward, is the Pacific and the US’s West Coast. Moreover, Hong Kong is the ultimate multipolar, multi-nodal (italics mine) hub: a frenzied global metropolis forged by trade routes going back centuries, attracting people from every latitude keen on interconnecting commerce, ideas, technologies, shipping, commodities, markets. Now, reinvented for 21stcentury Eurasia integration, Hong Kong has all it takes to profit as a key node of the Greater Bay Area, the southern hub propelling China to economic superpower status.

The plenum in Beijing was a quite serious/sober affair – trying to strike a balance between sustainable economic growth and national security all the way to 2029, when the PRC celebrates its 80th anniversary. The proverbial comprador elites, 5th columnists and outright Sinophobes across the West have gone bonkers on the current slowdown of the Chinese economy – complete with slumps in the financial and property fronts – running in parallel to all hybrid war strands of Chinese containment emanating from Washington. Fact: China’s GDP grew roughly 5% in the first semester; and the final plenum communique, released at the end of the four-day meeting, stressed that this should remain the “unwavering” target for the second semester. The official rhetoric of course was heavy on stimulation of domestic consumption, and “new momentum” to drive exports and imports. This key passage in the final communique breaks it all down when it comes to the new iteration of “socialism with Chinese characteristics”:

“We must purposefully give more prominence to reform and further deepen reform comprehensively with a view to advancing Chinese modernization in order to better deal with the complex developments both at home and abroad, adapt to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and live up to the new expectations of our people. It was stressed that, to further deepen reform comprehensively, we must stay committed to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Theory of Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development and fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new ideas, viewpoints, and conclusions on comprehensively deepening reform and fully and faithfully apply the new development philosophy on all fronts.”

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“The GOP Convention nominates war goddess Nikki for president and Pompeo for veep. The DC war party carries on in triumph. Fait accompli.”

Only Half Gone (Kunstler)

[..] the marvelous statement by HRC (a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-it-Ever-Is or Rodan the Flying Reptile), who put out this smarmy gem: President Biden has capped his extraordinary career of service with a Presidency that has lifted America out of an unprecedented pandemic, created millions of new jobs, rebuilt a battered economy, strengthened our democracy, and restored our standing in the world. By any measure, he has advanced our founders’ charge to build a more perfect union and his own stated goal of restoring the soul of our nation.”

“Joe Biden” did all that? Hillary, you see, is buttering up the cloacal vent of the party so that she can wriggle up there and eat its brain, like one of those parasitical wasp larvae that get into a caterpillar. She’s supporting Kamala until it becomes opportune not to, which is to say when the Deep State blob gets the heebie-jeebies about failing to steal the election, losing its positions of power and perqs, and very possibly facing prosecution for serious crimes. Of course, the weekend developments suggest that “Joe Biden” will have to vacate his position as Commander-in-Chief altogether. It’s too self-evident to even rehearse the particulars. It’s only a matter of when, and that probably hinges on his negotiated severance package — basically something that keeps his various family members out of prison. Kamala will then rise to the Oval, ha ha ha.

In this moment of maximum uncertainty, then, the Party of Chaos will pretend to go along with Ms. Harris for a week or two, allowing the first woman president of-color many chances to utter world-scaring inanities and fall into cackling fits so as to demonstrate she can’t possibly be taken seriously. Suddenly you will see the long knives come out slicing and dicing Kamala like a daikon radish on the hibachi table, and anyone else besides HRC who dares to step up will get the same treatment. Notice that Mr. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hakim, and Chuck (Nine-Ways-From-Sunday) Schumer haven’t chimed in for Kamala. They will, by God, get their convention free-for-all, though every bit of it will be scrupulously managed by the Big Dawgs. And out of that pandemonium will fly the indomitable Hillary, screeching, “Caw caw, abortion! Caw caw, Russia!” Could it work? No way. In a truly fair election, Hillary would be run over by the Trump-Vance convoy and left a bit of smoldering roadkill, drawing flies, a sad end to all that coruscating ambition.

Not to change the subject too abruptly, but here goes. . . have you caught that little convo on YouTube between George Gammon and Robert Barnes on the Trump assassination attempt? Woo-wee, this one will rock your weltanschauung. Here it is in a nutshell:

The attempted rub-out at Butler, PA, (Mr. Barnes theorizes) was a NeverTrumper / blob / neo-con joint operation that was supposed to work as follows: Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo, Deep Staters both, are on the outs with a GOP solidifying around Mr. Trump. Before the Milwaukee GOP Convention opens, they are chatting-up delegates in preparation for a kind of coup. The Butler, PA, op is timed before any nomination can occur. It’s (obviously) intended to eliminate the former president for once and for all and make sure there’s no veep candidate to step into his shoes. The blob then blames the Trump assassination on Iran, instantly conjuring up a fresh new war to distract the nation. The GOP Convention nominates war goddess Nikki for president and Pompeo for veep. The DC war party carries on in triumph. Fait accompli.

Notice, Mr. Barnes says, that CNN and other news networks that usually avoid broadcasting Trump rallies, are actually covering the Butler, PA, event live. They want all of America to see Donald Trump’s head explode like a Crenshaw melon on TV — sending the message: this is what happens to anyone who challenges the blob. Many other observers and investigators unconnected with the government are busy looking into the site forensics, lines of fire, shot acoustics, the strange facts around the alleged “shooter” (possibly patsy) Thomas Matthew Crooks, the stupendous failures of the Secret Service. A picture is resolving.

The old Sicilian adage goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. Surely, Mr. Trump knows a thing or two about what really went down July 13. His adversaries know he knows, and he knows they know he knows. Notice Mr. Trump is not jumping up and down going woo-woo-woo over all this. Rather, he’s sitting tight and calmly holding his cards close to his chest. He will eventually be coming to settle accounts. So, you must suppose they’ll try again. Or figure out a way to postpone the election indefinitely. Nothing is beneath these fiends. Strangely — a lot of people have noticed — it seems that God is on our side. Stand by and keep your hats on.

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“Musk has said previously that robot sales could become a larger part of the Tesla business than other segments, including its car manufacturing.”

Tesla To Produce ‘Humanoid’ Robots Next Year – Musk (RT)

Electric-vehicle manufacturer Tesla plans to introduce humanoid robots for internal purposes starting next year, with plans for broader production by 2026, the company’s chief executive Elon Musk has revealed. Posting to X on Monday, Musk said the robots will be in “low production” at the company’s factories. He said they will “hopefully” be in high production for other companies in 2026. The announcement comes after the CEO said in April that the Tesla robot Optimus would be able to perform factory tasks by the end of this year and could be ready for sale by the end of 2025. Tesla first unveiled plans to work on humanoid robots in 2021 at an AI Day event. A year later, the company unveiled Optimus, dubbed Bumblebee, saying that its expected cost will be less than a Tesla car and that it would be manufactured in large numbers. Musk said at the time that many robots that came before the Tesla bot were “missing a brain” and don’t have the intelligence to navigate the world on their own.

He said Optimus will be an “extremely capable robot” and with a reasonable price tag of less than $20,000. “Optimus is going to be incredible in five or ten years, like mind-blowing,” Musk claimed. Humanoid robots are made to resemble and act like humans, imitating facial expressions and movements. Several companies, including Japan’s Honda and Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics, have been betting on humanoid robots to meet potential labor shortages in certain industries by performing repetitive tasks that may be seen as dangerous or tedious. Musk has said previously that robot sales could become a larger part of the Tesla business than other segments, including its car manufacturing. Valued at $1.8 billion in 2023, the global humanoid robot market is projected to soar to more than $13 billion over the next five years, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets.

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  • #164575
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kamala La-la is the hood ornament above

    #164576

    DBS- I am glad you’re doing okay.

    #164577
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #164578

    The dems know the down ballot is the focus now. Take the House. Keep the Senate. Gain state offices.
    That video showing all the executive orders that were robo-signed…. It would be pretty cool to just make EOs and have the President’s signature at hand. Who wrote those EOs? Who ran the machine?
    (You can get an Indian knock-off for only $250,000.)

    I’ve lost it now, but I’m pretty sure Cheatle said that local security handled the two story building.

    #164579
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Meanwhile, the local cops said SS/Cheatle claims are lies, they had zero people on security and were only working traffic!

    #164580

    There’s nothing like a state funeral to rivet the press.
    It’ll be like an early televised Democratic convention- each top conten-duh blathering on about themselves and how they admired and adored what’s his name. And probably a rino stampede, as well.

    #164581
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ DBS

    noticed

    I was looking for and reading your comments

    life time change

    #164587
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @DBS: Time to get a robot valet. Just make sure he’s named something sensible like Jenkins. Also, have you looked into lottery tickets as an investment vehicle?

    #164588
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Some people have been doing some indescribably bad things around the world recently. Far more than the average daily vile mayhem reflected in the historical record in quite some time by historical standards). The last time it looked this consistently bad was in the time of Jesus of Nazareth 2000 years ago, and before that was 1500 earlier during the Bronze Age Collapse. There were, of course, crises of comparable magnitude earlier still, but the record gets pretty fuzzy and opinions vary about timing and content, but the one before the Bronze Age probably involved a lot of water followed by seriously bad conditions and hard times.

    Anyway, here’s the point. There are bad people doing those bad things out there today and more often than not those bad people hold positions of power, wealth and authority over other, less powerful people, who those powerful people are intentionally and purposefully HARMING. It’s the purposeful intentionality that I want to bring to everyone’s attention, because right now we aren’t allowed to say that a problem like that exists. We are currently heavily FORBIDDEN (in a myriad of ways large and small) from suggesting or inquiring about the fact or possibility that there openly evil persons run our world from officially protected positions, much less talk about it openly, identify individual miscreants or wonder WHY the situation was able to happen at all or get so bad when it did.

    It is simply undeniable that such explicitly deliberate evil people infest our public and private institutions, or that they are organized. It should also be acknowledged that it is virtually impossible to remove or replace them with better people if it is FORBIDDEN to publicly acknowledge their existence in the first place, or seek to address real or perceived problems.

    So I’m raising TWO points, actually, and they are, 1) That such people really do exist within our organized society AND that , 2) It is entirely good and proper to FREELY talk about that fact within any and all social settings. Such open discussion of REALITY must no longer be censured or prted or discouraged in any way whatsoever.

    That would include EVERYWHERE, by the way, and not limited to just here on TAE where a bunch of almost-intellectuals like us sound off about controversial stuff all the time, like it’s our daily food and drink. I mean that we need to support such free and open discussion of this important subject everywhere and any time that it shows up. That’s 100% all the time, no exceptions. If some guy says that Satan wears scarlet satin underpants at Royal tea parties, then let’s just call for the evidence and line of reasoning, but we DON’T just arrogantly censor the entire subject or “cancel” the theorist himself with dismissive derision, lies or black listing.

    Be courageous, because it IS appropriate to discuss such things out in the open, especially in these times where broad spectrum censorship of that topic exists practically everywhere public and private… and ESPECIALLY in the wide public forum of current ts where this unacceptably censorious state of affairs is LITERALLY killing us.

    #164589

    “Auto-pen” not robo-sign”
    Sorry.
    What is the legal status of those things?

    #164590
    Dimitri
    Participant

    @DBS glad you are fine. I wish you a speedy recovery.

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    #164591
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @thomasjkenney

    Also, have you looked into lottery tickets as an investment vehicle?

    I almost tore stitches at that one. I’m still chuckling as I write about it. Thank you man. Made my day.

    #164592

    Jimmy Carter’s funeral would be an even more clever ploy- everything could go on behind the scenes while the press is distracted, and heads of state could come join the plotting relatively unnoticed.
    I don’t wish him ill, but 99 makes it believable.

    I have suspected he died a while back and they were keeping him until they needed a funeral.

    I have a soft spot for Carter, and it would be a rotten thing to do, but the Ds are fairly rotten to the core at this time.
    Amy is a Republican, says goggle.

    #164593
    zerosum
    Participant

    Kamala Harris first speech was full of political promises. (Never to be realized).

    #164594
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Good NEWS FLASH:

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    Finnish-English dictionary

    kamala
    adjective grammar

    ~ terrible
    adjective

    very bad

    En tiedä millainen otus pitää niin kamala melua ulkona tänä iltana.

    I don’t know what kind of creature is making such a terrible noise outside tonight.

    ~ ghastly
    adjective

    horrifyingly shocking

    Osan jonka olin kokonaan unohtanut koska loppu oli niin kamala.

    A part I’d completely forgotten about because the rest was so ghastly.
    en.wiktionary.org

    ~ dire
    adjective

    expressing bad consequences

    Mutta jos mielessänne on lepääminen, sanoisin, ettei tilanteenne ole kamala.

    But if resting was on your mind, I’d say your situation wasn’t as dire.

    #164596
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    I used to love V-8 juice before I saw this!

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    #164597
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #164598
    zerosum
    Participant

    Vote getting political promises. (Never to be realized).
    Remember – student loans forgiveness programs for the lucky qualifiers.

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/21/fact-sheet-president-biden-cancels-student-debt-for-more-than-150000-student-loan-borrowers-ahead-of-schedule/

    #164599
    aspnaz
    Participant

    MUSK: I was tricked into giving puberty blockers to my son.

    Sure you were. You are either a total idiot or a liar. Well, your claims to be a free speech absolutist was a lie, you rclaims to self driving cars was a big lie, but profitable, and now you are trying to justify your “foot in each camp” position to the US democrat voters with yet another lie. Jesus, is there anything for real in the USA or is it all bullshit, like the “Democracy” is bullshit, the “POTUS” is bullshit, the “Superpower” is bullshit, the “Morality” is bullshit, everything USA is bullshit.

    #164600
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Oroboros said

    Another Coincedence

    Shazam!

    One day the American people might wake up and see who is running their country, but I doubt it, they still worship the Jesus fantasy. The USA is the slave to the Israel it created. Thank God most of these people are in previously white countries (now brown countries) and not over in Asia; USA helping Asia.

    #164601
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Here’s the 2nd story window behind the erroneous shooter and offset from the real shooter. Local PD say they were called out and the room was empty and the window open at the time of the shooting.

    To Congress. As expected, the locals are not lying or covering anything.

    #164602
    Dr. D
    Participant

    If only anyone in America believed in the Jesus myth. At least then they might behave on general principles.

    #164603
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Jesus only ever performed good works and told the truth, for which people flocked to both him and his simple message, which was to acknowledge God as God, and to act TOWARD others as they wanted to be acted upon BY others.

    That truth and message were instantly recognized by good people as salvation and by bad people as an opportunity for evil that exceeded all others. The con was simple. Pretend to be carrying out the loving will of God in building a heavenly world, so as to be paid and protected for doing the exact opposite in the construction of a lethal Hell.


    @aspnaz
    exhorts you to dismiss the works and truths of Jesus because there are people who do the OPPOSITE and call it Christian. Oh, no? Alright then, tell me ONE bad thing about the works and advices of the Nazarene, or one good thing about lying, hatred, and self-serving greed.

    #164604
    Dr. D
    Participant

    The Nazarene worked on Sunday and was committing assault and general disturbance. In a Church of all places.

    #164605
    Susan C
    Participant

    To: D. Benton Smith

    Glad to see you back!

    I’d like to know
    what this whole show
    is about
    before it’s out.
    ~ Grooks by Piet Hein

    #164606
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS: Glad you made it, Amigo. Welcome Back!
    🙂

    #164607
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Was there any clear communication of questions and answers about police in the building with the open second story window? All I got is that 2 local SWAT cops were in the building and at some time looked out some 2nd story window, and at some time went “looking for the shooter”, not from any window and not necessarily in the time that he was climbing the roof, crawling and shooting.
    Nobody mentioned at all whether there were spent brass casings found on the floor of the room with that window.
    How come nobody can think of that except on the internet?
    It seems like they should test that window area for nitrates, right?

    #164608
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    One of the realizations I had in those long watches of the night as I lay there uncertain of being alive in the morning is that absolutely everything we have, without exception, are GIFTS for which we have no reasonable explanation or deservedness. We are simply here and we simply have them. We are, alive, and aware, with feelings and agency in a world that is both beautiful and responsive to our efforts to shape it to our purposes. To my way of thinking it is only sensible to be grateful to have them and more grateful still to the supreme agency who gave them to us.

    So how do we choose to use those unearned gifts to shape this miraculously malleable world that was simply handed to us as an act of selfless love? Do we use those inexplicably inherited gifts in the spirit with which they were given, or do we not? The free will to make that choice is another of those gifts.

    Do we use them to help others in the same way that enables us to enjoy life, love, awareness, agency and happiness? Or do we use those truly God given abilities to serve our selves at others’ expense, treating people in ways that we ourselves would abhor being treated by anyone?

    We are completely free to choose whichever strategy we wish, but thank God (literally) that we are not left to only our own wits and devices to do the work. You can get all of the help you could possibly need by just asking. Go ahead, ask. What should you do next that will produce the consequences which are in your own and everyone’s most enlightened BEST interests?

    You will receive your answer immediately and truthfully, and it will then be your choice of whether to do the thing that will achieve the best result (the good choice) or do something else entirely that will certainly fail because it is the bad choice. Your ability to know that difference (the one between good and bad) is possibly the greatest gift of all.

    #164609
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    When someone hates you for telling them the truth then be aware that they are currently of the belief that some untruth (a lie, in other words) is what is good for them at this now or future moment.

    To believe that a lie is good is the quintessence of evil. Don’t do it because not only will the lie harm the intended victim, it will have no lasting benefit to the liar either. In fact, it will harm the deceiver even more badly than the deceived, which is why it is the enemy’s favorite weapon.

    When it comes to bad consequences from bad choices, lying is second only to hatred of that which is good.

    That sort of condemnation (hatred is a form of condemnation) is a lot different than being angry about personal suffering or hating something that caused something bad to happen. The hatred that truly kills is the hatred that springs from knowing that something is true and good, and hating it BECAUSE it is true and good. That’s Satanic territory, and the road to that Hellish condition is paved with the lesser kind. A good choice is to avoid both with every gift you’ve got.

    #164610
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks for the thoughts from the edge, DBS.
    ;-}

    #164611
    John Day
    Participant

    Chuck Schumer Endorses Kamala Harris During DC Press Conference, Asks For Applause, Doesn’t Get Any

    Chuck Schumer Endorses Kamala Harris During DC Press Conference, Asks For Applause, Doesn’t Get Any

    #164612
    John Day
    Participant

    “He’s Alive!!” (At least one of them, anyway, a babbling one…)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/president-biden-alive

    #164613
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Genuine Presidementia

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    #164614
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Night School Course

    Sheeple Programming 101

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    #164615
    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    #164617
    Oroboros
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    #164618
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    “He’s Alive!!” (At least one of them, anyway, a babbling one…)”

    Imagine a public figure whose most fundamental defining characteristic (the one he is identified by) is his decrepitude.

    “That can’t be (or alternately, “that MUST be”) the real Joe Biden! That’s not (or “that is”) the Joe that we know because he isn’t (or alternately, “he IS”) as demented and degraded as we know Biden to be.”

    Legacy-wise that’s gotta be pretty near the worst case possible, like “winning” an ugly contest.

    #164619
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merican History Lesson

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    #164620
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hahahahahahaha!

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