A View from the Beach: Flotsam and Jetsam

Can you imagine that we're still talking about the fact that the person with the nuclear codes is nearly braindead and his wife wants to keep him in charge for another four years? Anyway. The Free Bacon has a video selection of Lowlights From Biden's 'Big Boy' Presser. At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed says Biden's Presser Extends Dem Nightmare and Dave Strom adds Press Conference: Democrats Face Doom. Matt Margolis at PJM, Rachel Maddow Appears to Panic After Biden’s 'Big Boy' Press Conference. Vicky Taft at PJM, I Don't Know What You're Talking About. Joe KILLED IT at His 'Big Boy' Presser! /sarc. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Biden's Popularity Skyrockets After He Announces Trump Is His VP." Dave Strom again, NATO Diplomats: 'It Was Awful'. The Telegraph, Biden’s gaffe has ruined months of our hard work, say European officials. Just ignore him. We do. Ace, NATO Diplomats: Biden Was "Embarrassing," His Verbal Slip-Up Destroyed All of Our World-Changing Accomplishments. "Before that: The House is subpoenaing Biden's inner circles to ask about them covering up and "aggressively stage-managing" the demented Fake President." Capt. Ed again, who reads Politico: Biden Presser Pushed 'Shocked' Allies Toward Trump. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair, O Biden, Where Art Thou? At Spiked Joe Biden is withering before our eyes "Confusing the president of Ukraine with the tyrant invading his country is no ordinary ‘gaffe’." Matt Vespa at TownHall reports CNN Has a Damning Report About What Went on During Biden's Cabinet Meetings, scripted, like his news conference. Jeff Charle at RedState reports President Biden Met With Hispanic Lawmakers - It Was a Complete Dumpster Fire. Nick Arama at RedState reports Bungling Biden Gets Cold Shoulder From Dems at MI Event, Descends to Lying, Sniffing, and Other Weirdness. Althouse, "Flares of unprompted anger. Glimpses of the politician’s inner monologue... spoken aloud... in all its narcissism and vulnerability." "Sounds like the way they talk about Trump, but it's David Frum, talking about Biden, in "Biden’s Heartbreaking Press Conference/His pathos should not become America’s tragedy" (The Atlantic)." Insty links JIM TREACHER: At Least Biden Won’t Remember What Happened This Week.

Althouse, "It felt like he was still the smart, witty guy we’ve all followed for many years, but the volume and speed are turned way down — to an alarming level." Said an unnamed female Democratic Party donor quoted in "Inside the glitzy fundraiser where Biden lost George Clooney/At the June 15 event at L.A.’s Peacock Theater, some donors said this week that they noticed Biden seemed slow. He seemed frail. As he greeted donors lined up for photos, he trailed off or spoke too quietly in small talk conversation to be heard" (WaPo).

At the Freep. It’s coup o’clock for the so-called defenders of democracy in the party, argues Batya Ungar-Sargon. "The Democrats’ Shameful Betrayal of Biden". Capt. Ed, "I understand where Batya's coming from and the argument, but the Bidens are every bit as complicit in this massive fraud as their 'allies'. I don't have any sympathy for any of them. Other than that point, Batya hits the nail on the head. Read it all." Capt. Ed, again sees NYT Taking Sledgehammer to Biden Campaign Pledges & Prospects. At Da Beast, Avengers Assemble! Heavyweight New Plan to Try to Force Biden Out. At WaEx, The conspiracy to replace Biden is real. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is Suffering a Serious Case of Whiplash With 'Does He Stay or Does He Go'. From 100% FedUp, ‘Dozens’ Of Congressional Democrats Allegedly Preparing To Publicly Call On Joe Biden To Drop Out. Hat Hair summarizes Richard Branson, Biden Needs to Go. Debby Saunders at Am Spec, thinks Democrats Face Two Options: The Pelosi Way or Clooney Way "Up until the situation threatened to undermine a Democratic win in November, operatives kept silent." Capt. Ed watches CNN: When Will Obama and Pelosi Ride to the Rescue? Sundance at CTH, James Clyburn Says Democrats Have Until August 19th to Remove and Replace Joe Biden Through an Open Convention. Da Fetched, MSNBC Hosts Concerned Biden Team is Feeding President False Poll Numbers: ‘Not Based on Reality’.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks Democrats Have Never Really Loved Joe Biden Enough to Spare Him This Humiliation. At Mediaite, Charles Barkley Calls on Biden to Step Down as Democratic Candidate: ‘Time for Him to Pass the Torch’. The torch is out. Capt. Ed notes The cultural preference cascade continues. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.12.24, From Twitchy, Molly Jong-Fast Is the Latest Leftist Entering The Anger Phase of Grief Regarding Biden Presidency. Sonny Bunch at the Bulwark explains Why Hollywood Turned on Biden First "Reason one is optics: Hollywood has always viewed politics as, essentially, performance, and Biden can no longer pull off a convincing performance as president." Dave Strom notes Even MSNBC Is Split on Biden. Capt. Ed, Breaking From NYT: The $90 Million Shoe Just Dropped on Biden. "Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC, Future Forward, that roughly $90 million in pledged donations is now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket, according to two people who have been briefed on the conversations." Ace, The Elites Begin to Starve Middle Class Joe of Campaign Funds.

At ZeroHedge, Biden Advisors Threaten To "Beat The Shit Out Of" Staffers Who Don't Keep Quiet. Ace, Biden's Inner Circle Threates to "Beat the Shit Out" of Any WH Staffers Talking to the Press About Biden's Cogntive Decline "What a great guy the head of the Biden Crime Family is." Stephen Kruiser, Biden Digs in and MSM Reaches for the Kid Gloves Again. Sunny@sunnyright "Yet another Biden email saying he's still in it and begging for money." Althouse, "That's the old saying — right? — if you're going to shoot at the king you better not miss." "Said the NYT White House correspondent Peter Baker on yesterday's episode of "The Daily."" The NYSun, While Union Leaders Line Up for Biden, Trump Has Backing of the Rank and File "Biden has created an affordability crisis for working families."

Dave Harsanyi at Da Fed, asks and answers, Would Kamala Harris Be A Better Candidate Than Joe Biden? Doubtful. Capt. Ed, "If Harris had any chance at the top of the ticket, she'd already be there. The fact that Democrats are still giving Biden opportunities to give them excuses into backing off speaks volumes about what they already know about Harris." Stream examines Kamala Harris and the Legacy of the Lunatic Left. Insty, ONE IS ALREADY RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND THE OTHER MIGHT SOON BE: Jill Biden’s grudge against Kamala Harris REVEALED: Power-hungry first lady’s grudge is so deep that the only thing worse than Joe stepping down is the VP replacing him. 'Becca Downs at TownHall, Is This Feud Why Joe Biden Won't Step Aside? Capt. Ed thinks it's Too Fun to Check: A Jill-Kamala Feud Keeping Biden in Race? Victory Girls, Fanfare For Doctor Jill, She Has Earned It, In Her Mind.

Dave Strom has provides A Short History of the Coverup. The Free Bacon notes Biden Struggled Through Fundraisers for Months Before the Debate. The Press Said Nothing. Capt. Ed, "There has been a massive fraud on the American people about Biden's cognitive disqualification, and the media are part of it. Read it all for a few of the many examples just from the fundraiser events." PJM's Athena Thorne sees the Lefty Media Throws Itself a Pity Party Because Mean Old Biden Deceived Them and Mark Tapscott asks Where Were the 'Big Boys' of the Mainstream Media at Biden's News Conference? Hat Hair cites the WSJ, Big Brother, Where Art Thou: Team Biden Tried to Stop NYT From Publishing Clooney Column. Capt. Ed asks "Who on that campaign thought they could silence George Clooney? And what does that tell us about how they want to deal with dissent from less-famous people, who are much easier to silence?" Matt Vespa, Here's What a Wisconsin Radio Station Edited Out of Their Interview With Biden. At Reason, Ukrainian President…Putin? "Plus: How Biden's handlers influenced journalists... and more". Capt. Ed, "If our media reported the truth rather than promote propaganda via "narrative journalism," would we have ever elected Joe Biden in the first place -- a serial plagiarist, notorious incompetent, and vicious demagogue who got sold as an empathetic eminence grise?" From RCP, the Great Victor Davis Hanson on Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union... Hat Hair cites Politico, 'It's Like Being Liberated' Capt. Ed, "Enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't last long. At some point, the activists in the narrative-journalism industry will calculate a way to blame Republicans for noticing Biden's senility before they admitted to it."

Althouse finds Biden said to have zero chance of winning even as FiveThirtyEight says that a Biden victory is more likely than not. I'm reading — at NBC News — "'No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path': Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall/The set of Democrats who think he should reconsider his decision to stay in the race has grown to include aides, operatives and officials tasked with guiding his campaign to victory":

Beege Welborn, It's Not the Creepy Whisper - It's the Economy, stupid. At WokeSpy, Top Biden Economist Proves He’s Just as Incompetent as You’d Expect. "Bernstein appeared in a new documentary called “Finding the Money,” which was made by proponents of Modern Monetary Theory, a crank theory that argues the government can endlessly print money without consequences. “The U.S. government can’t go bankrupt, because we can print our own money,” Bernstein says. The interviewer then asks, “Like you said, they print the dollar, so why does the government even borrow?”|

And more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.12.24, Twitchy, Unable To Run On His Own Record, Biden Says Project 2025 “Biggest Attack” On Our System Of Government, and Biden Insists In Vaguely Threatening Post That His Campaign Is About “Finishing The Job”, Louder With Crowder: The look on Biden officials’ faces when he praised “Vice President Trump” is amazeballs, Vox Popoli: Biden-bot Malfunction, American Greatness: Bidengate and the Doom Loop, also, Biden’s Dénouement Hurts U.S. Standing, Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Why Is Biden Hanging On Friday, Da Tech Guy: Joe Biden the MSM & The Splitting of the Niche, Dana Loesch: Biden’s Big Boy Press Conference, Power Line: Living Rent Free in Biden’s Head, The Federalist, Biden Mixes Up Vice President Kamala Harris With ‘Vice President Trump’ In Pivotal Speech, Exclusive: 88 Republicans Probe Army For Labeling Pro-Life Organizations As ‘Terrorist Groups’, Transgender Ideology Is Superstition, Not Science, 15 Lies Biden Told During His ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference, and Major Nevada County Pressured To Rubber-Stamp Election After Delaying Certification To Probe ‘Mishaps’.