Flotsam and Jetsam - Rebel Forces Attack The Biden Death Star

But will they hit the vulnerable spot? The world continued to turn while I was out fishing yesterday. The Democrat's attempts to evict Biden from the nomination appear to be reaching a breaking point, while Joe Biden, vaxxed and boosted, catches the WuFlu, and has to stop campaigning. Meanwhile the story of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump doesn't smell any better as time goes on. The coronation of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee continues to irritate most of the media and Democrats, but I redund. 

As to the first, Stacy McCain notes Adam Schiff Joins Dump-Biden Coup. At Hat Hair, Larry, Chuck Schumer Begs Biden to Step Aside in Private Meeting, Capt. Ed sees Schumer, Katzenberg to Biden: Get Out and Establishment Mutinies: Schumer, Jeffries Tell DNC to Stop Biden Vote,  Vote of No Confidence: 65% of Dems Want Biden to Withdraw and Jazz Shaw hears a Report: Pelosi Told Biden He Can't Win. AP, Most say Biden should withdraw from the Presidential race. The Telegraph has a list of All the Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to quit. At NRO, Biden’s Favorite Cable Host Joe Scarborough Urges President to ‘Do the Right Thing’ as Pressure to Withdraw Mounts. Althouse, "Behind the scenes, Obama has been deeply engaged in conversations about the future of Biden’s campaign, taking calls from many anxious Democrats..."   Twitchy, KNEW It! Could THIS Be the Real Reason Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats Want Biden Out Because Just WOW. Losing beyond the ability of Democrats to cheat and cover it up? Matt Vespa at TownHall, Biden Faces More Than Bad Polling and a Total Dem Rebellion. His Campaign Is Running Out of Money. Bummer, dude. The Peacock, Biden left feeling angry and betrayed by top Democratic leaders wavering on his campaign, "The president is furious at how the party has tried to force him out, two sources say, as Democrats in Congress increasingly believe the question is when, not if, he will end his campaign." Paul Mirengoff at the Ringside, Biden's woes grow. "And the hard left's support for him explained." Capt. Ed comments "Indeed. And you're not hearing any calls from that wing of the party for Biden to step down now. As long as Biden keeps tacking to the Left, they'll stand by him, and that will be enough to keep Biden from withdrawing." PM claims Obama suggests Biden should consider ‘viability of his candidacy’ "Obama has "told allies" that perhaps Biden does not have a path to victory and ought to reconsider his plan to seek a second term in the White House."  Anxious anxiously claims Behind the Curtain: Top Dems now believe Biden will exit. Chicago Trib, People close to President Biden say he appears to accept he may have to leave the race. Althouse, "He’s gone from saying, ‘Kamala can’t win,’ to ‘Do you think Kamala can win?' It’s still unclear where he’s going to land but seems to be listening." "Says "one senior Democratic adviser," quoted in "Biden now being ‘receptive’ about possibility of giving up 2024 re-election campaign: new report" (NY Post)."  Ace reports Democrats Claim They Can Bully Middle Class Joe Into Withdrawing By the Weekend. At Fox, Biden campaign insists president ‘staying in this race’ despite reports he’s wavering. 'Bonchie' at RedState, Defiant Biden Handlers Just Threw Obama, Schumer, and Pelosi Under the Bus and Then Backed Over Them. Dave Harsanyi at Da Fed wonders Why Would Any Legit Dem Presidential Prospect Jump Into This Mess? Capt. Ed, "That's been my question too, and I suspect the reason that the Dump Biden movement dropped off the radar for a couple of days after the assassination attempt on Trump. The alternatives probably all figured that Trump's demonstration of strength and defiance won the election and that it's better to let Biden take the beating."

Stacy McCain, Exit Strategy? Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Retreats to Delaware.  Matt Margolis at PJM thinks CNN's Van Jones Just Wrote the Democratic Party's 2024 Eulogy. “A bullet couldn’t stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden,” he said. Even Althouse notices, "A bullet couldn't stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden. The nominees of this party getting their butts kissed. Biden getting his butt kicked by his own party." From Fox, Keith Olbermann calls on CNN to 'fire this a--hole' Van Jones for criticizing Biden. "Olbermann argued this would be the best way for CNN to serve its 'remaining 837 viewers.'" Politico notes the irony ‘Poor Son of a B---h’: Biden Once Pitied an Older Politician Reluctant to Leave the Stage.  Da Mail, Biden, 81, posts bizarre tweet saying 'I'm sick' just an hour after testing positive for COVID and slowly walking maskless up the small Air Force One steps. Laughing Wolf, Biden Has Covid "The very cynical part of me wonders about this. Timing is almost too good, coming on the heels of his saying that if the docs told him he needed to drop out he would. And on top of Chuckie and others delivering messages about dropping out." Da Mail, MSNBC's Joy Reid says Biden COVID diagnosis is 'exactly the same' as Trump getting shot - while branding ex-president's assassination attempt as a 'photo op'. Jazz Shaw, Joy Reid: Biden Getting COVID is the Same as Trump Being Shot. At PJM VodkaPundit wonders Will Biden Choose Medically Assisted Political Suicide? He could always claim "long Covid." The Bablyon Bee snarks, Democrat Leaders Make Tough Decision To Place Biden On Hospice Following COVID Diagnosis. 

Dave Strom sees Biden Campaign Going Lower and Lower. Anxious@axios "To save his candidacy, President Biden has embraced a laundry list of left-wing policy proposals, strong-armed the party's nomination process and tried to limit spontaneous, unscripted moments." At Insty, THE FORWARD THINKING JOE BIDEN: “We’re make sure there’s access to affordable internet, just like in in Roosevelt’s time:” Paul Bedard at WaEx hears Voters say Biden attacks ‘led directly’ to assassination attempt on Trump. At Am Think Jack Cashill draws The ‘Through Line’ from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump. From the Conservative Brief, Biden Held Horrid Zoom Call With Dems Just Before Trump Attack: Report “The president was rambling, dismissive of concerns, unable or unprepared to present a campaign strategy, and had a particularly troubling exchange with Jason Crow, saying to him, ‘Tell me something you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son,'” Matt Margolis, Biden Forgets Name of His DefSec, Calls Him 'the Black Man' in Dumpster-Fire Interview. To be fair, he's fairly forgettable. Nick Arama at RedState is concerned about Biden's Insane Comments About Lloyd Austin, Black Neighborhoods in Trainwreck BET Interview. Hat Hair, Biden to BET: Remember When I Picked That Black Guy? Capt. Ed, Gold Star Fury: Roll Call of Abbey Gate Dead that Biden Forgot and Medal of Honor Recipient: "Are Our Enemies Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago?" Althouse, "She's talking about J.D. Vance, someone who enlisted in the Marine Corps after... 9/11... putting his own life on the line in service to our country...."

Kamala Harris claims “JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.” @JDVance1 enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country.

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— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 18, 2024

At Althouse, "Law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump told lawmakers Wednesday that 20 minutes passed between the time U.S. Secret Service snipers first spotted the gunman on a rooftop..." Matt Margolis, New Development in Trump Assassination Attempt Raises More Troubling Questions. Spencer Brown at TownHall, Whistleblowers Reveal What Secret Service Said During Briefings Before Trump Assassination Attempt "The USSS Special Agent in Charge Tim Burke reportedly told law enforcement partners that the USSS had limited resources that week because the agency was covering the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, D.C.,"  Ace, It Gets Worse: Secret Service Warned of Armed Gunman Ten Minutes Before Trump Walked on Stage. "And they didn't delay him from going on." From John Hinderacker at Power Line, The Latest on the Attempted Assassination. Ace, Assassination Retardation Update: The Shooter Had Been Caught Trying to Enter the Main Area for the Speech Carrying a Rifle Rangefinder. "No big deal, just your taxpayer dollars being used for Girlboss Secret Service Fantasy Camp instead of for protecting the once and future President of the United States." Also, three of the counter-snipers perfectly positioned inside the building with the perfect rooftop sniper's nest were able to take photos of the killer before he shot. From Shooting News, There’s Competent, Professional Executive Protection, And Then There’s What Happened in Butler, Pennsylvania. From Zero Hedge, Secret Service Explanations For Security Failures Not Adding Up; DHS Inspector General Launches Investigation. Mary Chastain at LI, Trump Assassination Attempt: Line of Sight Questions Go Beyond a Sloped Roof “Agents would have conducted a site ‘sweep’ that included assessing where a sniper might position themselves.” Sarah Arnold at TownHall reports Ex-Secret Service Agent Goes Scorched Earth on Agency Over Trump Assassination Attempt, Dan Bongino. At Liberties Torch, Lots of “130 yards.” Why No Perspective? “If you were at an event where just about everybody was at one end of the football stadium, how likely would it be that not a single law enforcement would see a lone gunman at the far end of the stadium setting up his strike-point?” Nick Arama at Red State sees Things Do Not Go Well When Secret Service Head Kim Cheatle Shows Up at the RNC. Ace, Senators Confront PepsiCop Kim Cheatle at Convention, Demanding She Answer Questions About Her Incompetence. Why would she go anywhere near the place in public? Lisa De Pasquale at GetBright, A Dope and the Slope. Mary Harrington, Sex Realism Means Sex Realism A"t the very least if they were going to assign a woman, it should have been one as tall as Trump, who is 6ft3. No available 6ft3 women in the Secret Service? Don’t assign any women then." At Security and Cigars, The Revenge Of The Diversity Non-Warriors "DEI and Bureaucrats are running the show." At Twitchy, Rep. Jasmine Crockett Makes it Clear Tweeps Aren't On Her Level and Trump Still Shouldn't Have Security.

Jazz Shaw reports the FBI Claims Trump Shooter Remains an 'Elusive Enigma' "assuming the FBI is being fully transparent with us about all of this (a significant assumption these days), perhaps this will wind up being a case of an extremely odd duck deciding to do something incredibly violent based on little more than a whim. But it just defies logic that we came that close to seeing Donald Trump lose his life because of some random twist of fate." Da Caller, ‘Shouldn’t You Hate Trump?’: Former Classmate Recounts Being Called ‘Stupid’ For Backing Trump By Would-Be Assassin. Ace, Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Was a Trump-Hater, Classmate Claims, "The media and Deep State's eight years of Assassination Preparation did the trick." Sarah Hoyt has an amusing short story, Told By An Idiot.

At Insty, Time drops the iconic photo from it's cover, and replaces it, HOW IT STARTED: "The bland new cover won’t sell many commemorative issues of the type people like to keep in a drawer or on a bookshelf after a major historical event (see also: 9/11, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, and JFK’s assassination), but Time feels it’s much more important to be Democratic party operatives than actually sell magazines. Not to mention, who wants to go through the hell of being pummeled by your fellow leftists on social media because you were perceived as helping the Bad Orange Man?" At Ace, Donald Trump is Now an African Legend On Par With Shaka Zulu and Elon Musk. Cathy Salgado at PJM, Undaunted, Unafraid, ‘Serene’: Trump Details His ‘Painful’ Assassination Attempt Experience. Matt Margolis, Donald Trump Calls Corey Comperatore's Widow.

From Campus Reform, Carnegie Mellon University prof says Trump assassination attempt was 'staged' like 'stupid Tubi movie set.' "“People dying doesn’t make the attack any less staged,” professor Uju Anya posted to X." The College Fix hears Pro-Palestinian student group claims Trump assassination attempt ‘staged,’ distraction from Gaza war. The Victory Girls explore a Rising Tide of Leftwing Crazy: From Marcotte to “Bandagegate.” Hat Hair's Dave Strom notes The Lincoln Project Turns Down the Heat By Calling Trump Hitler. Jazz Show notes even John Hinkley says You Shouldn't Shoot Presidents.

Kevin Downey at PJM, A 'New' Trump Blows the Lid Off RNC With Unity Speech. Althouse liked it, Trump's convention speech had 2 phases, both brilliant, but very different, "But you can see on the chart that saved my life. That was the chart that saved my life. I said, 'Look at, I’m so proud of it,'" and cite MauDo, "At the convention, he had a new role: He played the Roman emperor, like a Julius Caesar who survived that 'foul deed' and 'bleeding piece of earth,' fist in the air..." Don Surber, It almost was a funeral. The DiploMad 2.0 says A New GOP? Maybe. "Maybe, just maybe, we are witnessing an historic AND positive event."  At Hat Hair, Tucker Stuns the RNC: 'That Moment Donald Trump... Became the Leader of This Nation!' Hat Hair cites Politico, DeSantis Endorses Biden ... Kinda. Cam Edwards at BA, enjoyed the anecdote about J.D. Vance and Meemaw's Guns. Kira Davis, speaks of The Blooming of Amber Rose, "Don't look down your nose at the significance of Rose's RNC speech." From the CoinDesk, 'It's a Bitcoin Play': Mark Cuban Says Silicon Valley's Embrace of Trump Revolves Around Crypto. "Cuban: "You can't align the stars any better for a BTC price acceleration."" Matt Vespa, Was This the Most Shameful Liberal Media Moment From the Republican Convention?. Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck, "MSNBC didn't carry a single second of the Gold Star families at the #RNC2024. Not the video, not any of the speeches by family members of the fallen in Afghanistan, not the reading of names." Mary Chastain at LI, Peter Navarro at RNC: ‘If They Can Come for Me, if They Can Come for Donald Trump, They Will Come for You’. "“I went to prison so you won’t have to. I am your WAKE-UP CALL.”" Capt. Ed, 'Mine Eyes Have Been Opened': Madeline Brame's Ferocious Indictment of Alvin Bragg, Joe Biden at the convention. 

Ace, Post-Shooting Poll: Biden Loses Two Points Nationally, Trump Gets a Bump in the Battleground States. The Babylon Bee snarks, Republicans Concerned It’s Going To Be Harder Than Usual To Blow This Election.

Da Caller, Jack Smith Appeals Judge’s Ruling Finding His Appointment Unconstitutional, of course. Capt. Ed, "Had Garland appointed a US Attorney or another Senate-confirmed "inferior officer," it might have passed muster. But Smith was in private practice when Garland appointed him, which makes this case different from the earlier precedents."  The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Am Great pleads Can We Let the Voters Decide—Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges? "Why not, at last, just let the people choose their own president?"

Stacy McCain is amused that Never Trumper Max Boot’s Ex-CIA Wife Arrested as Illegal Foreign Agent, "The best week ever continues to get even better:" Mike LaChance at LI, Wife of Never-Trump Columnist Max Boot Indicted in Foreign Spying Scandal. Mia Cathell at TownHall, A Secret Agent of South Korea Was Just Arrested by the FBI. Guess Who She's Married to.

FIRE threatens lawsuit against officials who kicked out man for wearing pro-life sweatshirt inside Colorado Capitol.

From Ace, Gavin Newsom Signs Law Empowering Woke Bluehair Teachers to Trans Children Behind Their Parents' Back. At Althouse, Stephen King helps J.K. Rowling with the mathematics of fuck-giving.

The Wombat makes up time with FMJRA 2.0: A Glimmer of Hope.