- “The dire warning from Nancy Pelosi that pushed Biden to change his mind” – Despite insisting for three weeks that he was still in the race, the President’s withdrawal was ultimately swift and dramatic, writes Nick Squires in the Telegraph.
- “White House covered up Biden decline, BBC presenter claims” – Justin Webb, who presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and the Americast podcast, says there was “no question” that the Democrats had been untruthful about the state of Joe Biden’s health, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris the giggling fool will doom America” – In chasing Joe Biden out, the Democratic party has foisted an even worse candidate on voters, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Kamala Harris will be a disaster for the Democrats – and for America” – Biden was just about able to keep his party together, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. Now the Left’s identity obsession will be unleashed.
- “This is the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it” – Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “‘Bullying’ leaves Kamala Harris without a top team for White House bid” – Kamala Harris faces a staffing crisis for her 2024 bid, thanks to a history of high turnover and claims of bullying during her Vice-Presidency, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘It would be potty to vote for Kamala Harris simply because she’s a woman’” – Nigel Farage says it would be “absolutely potty” for Americans to vote for Kamala Harris on the basis she could be the first female President, according to the Telegraph.
- “The American people are finished with the shameful Democrats” – Donald Trump’s new message of unity and reconciliation stands in sharp contrast to the chaos left by the Biden administration, says Richard Porter in the Telegraph.
- “America is paying the price for the monstrous Biden lie” – Had Mr. Biden prepared a succession plan, or been honest about his limitations at an earlier date, the path to a Democratic Presidency would be far clearer, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “It’s been almost 24 hours since he quit his Presidential campaign – where is Joe Biden?” – The world must hear and see Joe Biden announce and explain his decision to step down from the Presidential campaign himself, says Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “Green leader sorry for praising Joe Biden after Gaza backlash” – The co-leader of the English Green Party Carla Denyer has been forced to apologise to her party’s nutty members after praising Joe Biden, reports the Mail.
- “Secret Service chief takes ‘full responsibility’ for failing to prevent Trump shooting” – Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was accused of being “full of s***” as she was ripped to shreds by Rep. Nancy Mace during a grilling over Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, says the Mail.
- “Snippets from Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony today to make you mad” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass highlights the many questions that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle failed to answer at the House Committee hearing.
- “Could Biden’s exit turn out to be Ukraine’s gain?” – Donald Trump may be more open to working with President Zelensky with his main rival off the scene, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “We need to talk about the Harehills riot” – The violent disorder in Leeds speaks to a catastrophic failure of integration, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Elite schools set to become even wealthier under new VAT rules” – Analysis suggests that wealthy private schools may end up making a profit from the Government’s introduction of VAT on fees, according to the Times. They’ll charge parents for the VAT in full, then claim it back on capital projects.
- “Only a barrister could say ‘there’s no evidence’” – Starmer’s insistence that there’s no evidence of harm to schools from an education tax is at odds with… well, the only time it’s ever been tried, which was in Greece, only to be abandoned six months later, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “Labour throws decades of cross-party consensus on schools into reverse” – Less focus, less rigour, less discipline, less choice – Keir Starmer has let his party’s worst instincts set its agenda on education, writes Henry Hill in Conservative Home.
- “Labour is about to wreck your child’s education” – Professor of Education and social justice zealot Becky Francis is conducting a review of the national curriculum. Parents should be afraid, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy’s lament” – What David Lammy fails to see is that, because of the attempt on Trump’s life, his invectives are more than just painful words, writes Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “‘We have lost control of our economy. The next Tory PM must reclaim it’” – Liberalism has infested all areas of policy making. The challenge is to find a cure for this sickness, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak to remain Tory leader until November” – Rishi Sunak is to remain as leader of the Tory party until November 2nd, when he will be replaced by the victorious leadership candidate, reports Sky News.
- “Robert Jenrick emerges as Tory leadership frontrunner in new poll” – A new poll of Conservative Party members finds that 55% list the former Immigration Minister as one of their top choices for the next leader, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives are doomed if they cling to the dying two-party system” – Tory Party moderates always insist that the key to winning elections is moving to the centre – but history tells another story, writes William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
- “‘Cordon sanitaire’ descends on hard-Right politicians” – Despite their significant gains across Europe, hard-Right parties remain relegated to the sidelines in most of the EU’s member states, says Anne-Laure Dufeal in Brussels Signal.
- “The People’s Court of new normal Germany” – On Substack, American playwright C.J. Hopkins provides an update on his second trial in Berlin for thoughtcrime.
- “Lockdown ‘anxiety’ ignored, says court as it overturns life sentence for girlfriend killer” – A top Italian court has overturned the life sentence handed to a nurse who strangled his doctor girlfriend to death during lockdown because a lower court failed to account for ‘Covid stress’, reports the Mail.
- “The Covid coverup still haunts the world” – The U.S. under Biden has effectively let Beijing off the hook for obscuring the origins of the Covid virus, writes Brahma Chellaney in the Hill.
- “The great bird flu myth – the next ‘pandemic threat’ Big Pharma needs” – Big Pharma’s profits are down; a pandemic of H9N7 would put it back on the government teat, says Paula Jardine in TCW.
- “Cosmetic surgery company that sued over bad reviews settles cases” – A cosmetic surgery company accused of trying to silence patients after they posted negative online reviews has climbed down on its lawsuits and paid costs in a victory for the Free Speech Union, reports the Times.
- “Climate justice vs criminal justice” – XR and JSO co-founder Roger Hallam is one of five road-blocking activists to have been given significant prison sentences. What should we make of the claims that these sentences are ‘harsh’? asks Ben Pile on his Net Zero Scandal Substack.
- “Saintly quest of eco-zealot will lead more astray” – The apocalyptic views of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam are shared by rising numbers of green supporters, warns Will Lloyd in the Times.
- “A waste of energy” – In Taki’s Mag, Theodore Dalrymple denounces the devastating and absurd radical green policies of the new British Government.
- “Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals” – Western miners, battling cheaper Chinese supply, are pushing for premium pricing on sustainable metals, potentially raising consumer costs, reports Reuters.
- “Details of PSNI transgender training course which force wanted to keep hidden” – Police officers in Northern Ireland have been given training to accept that being male or female “is a social construct”, according to the Belfast News Letter.
- “John Swinney could scrap SNP’s ‘extreme’ conversion therapy ban” –Scotland’s First Minister is poised to scrap plans for a Scottish ban on conversion therapy and instead rubber-stamp Labour’s version of the policy, reports the Telegraph.
- “Won’t somebody please think of the drag queens?” – The BBC’s obsession with crossdressing men is now bleeding into its coverage of the cost-of-living crisis, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “‘This is bulls**t! You are full of sh**!’” – Watch as Rep. Nancy Mace ends the career of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during a fiery congressional hearing.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 22, 2024
WOW! TOTAL SAVAGE MODE
Rep. Nancy Mace just ENDED the career of Disgraced Secret Service Director Cheatle on LIVE-TV:
"This is Bulls**t! You are FULL of SH**!"
Got Cheatle to admit her "colossal failure"
Trump assassination "was preventable"
And leaks to press
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/kPOphfSubO
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“White House covered up Biden decline, BBC presenter claims” – Justin Webb, who presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and the Americast podcast, says there was “no question” that the Democrats had been untruthful about the state of Joe Biden’s health, according to the Telegraph.
Here’s the thing BBC. If there was “no question” about it, then YOU knew, but you didn’t report it.
I knew, because I have eyes, and I stopped listening at ANY BBC output years ago. And I’ve been saying it since Biden took office.
There is this thing called truth. Now go and recalibrate and understand, you knowing, “NO QUESTION” means you are equally as corrupt as Biden. YOU KNEW BUT YOU SAID NOTHING.
Either you have no understanding what journalism means, or you are disgracefully corrupt. Sorry can’t type anymore. My mind has fused. Have no idea how to relate to your mentality. It is simply wrong. You are all wronguns. You wouldn’t know reporting truth if it hit you in the face.
Let me try again. Actually it isn’t about truth. It’s about authenticity. Authentically striving for truth. We don’t always get it right, we don’t always know the truth for sure. If you want to know what that is, listen to a Joe Rogan podcast. I know – he knows and will fully acknowledge – not everything he says is turns out to be correct. But he TRIES to be.
You on the other hand entered the BBC and striving to tell the truth instantly took second place to what your boss wanted. You made yourself an NPC. It’s that simple.
Think about it Justin and you will know I’m right.
It isn’t just over Biden that the BBC fails.
It fails to properly report on the Climate Wars because only one side is being supported, and only by appealing to Authority, which is not correct, It should be understanding the basic Science and reporting on.the evidence found by recent investigations. And that requires well informed discussion, with the many disciplines represented.
Having several people, from the same ideological camp, is an abuse of a public service.
Paul Homewood, on NotALotOfPeopleKnowThat, has much on the BBC propaganda, while there is plenty of evidence that the Sun plays a significant role in the Earth’s changing Climate/Weather and triggering earthquakes.
Quite. I don’t really understand why anyone that knows that the BBC is simply the Ministry of Truth would ever subject themselves to their propaganda. If they can’t be destroyed then the next best thing is to ignore.
Monday morning Windsor Rd & London Road Ascot
Claims that Biden suffered an unspecified medical emergency in Vegas last Weds.
https://www.dossier.today/p/exclusive-president-biden-suffered
PILES !
Could Biden’s exit turn out to be Ukraine’s gain?
‘….one hopes (Trump) may see political advantage in taking a lead to help Ukraine.’
What’s really going on?
Trump will try and freeze the conflict.
That means a patrolled buffer zone of 1,000 km. That will require an Army Corps (including a British Division, President Zelensky insists).
No-one has an Army Corps, (and Britain does not have a deployable Division (!)), certainly not one that would be acceptable to Russia, for such a purpose.
So Trump may get a ceasefire, but the war will go on, dying down, flaring up, each side jockeying for an advantage.
Why?
‘This war has thus become a testing ground for the Kremlin in creating new tools of population management. It is developing a new type of biopolitical imperialism to manage the crisis in social reproduction.’
‘And, if you believe the forecasts and the estimates are based on actual work, the real work of people who understand this, who have devoted their whole lives to this, in 15 years, there may be 22 million fewer Russians. I ask you to think about this figure: a seventh of the country’s population. If the current trend continues, the nation’s survival will be in jeopardy’
Putin, 2000
‘…..the Kremlin accumulates cheap labor power, appropriating Ukrainian state investment in the birth, care, and education of its former citizens; their reproductive labor; and even their personal relations that allow them to survive in Russia without state support. This — together with the appropriation of companies and the devastation of territories now to be redeveloped — is a typical process of imperialist accumulation by dispossession.’
Sasha Talaver, 2023
That is the point of Putin’s ‘Union State’ strategy, to return Russia to the size and, therefore, influence of the USSR, 250 million or more population, dominating Europe, with a new iron curtain from Kaliningrad to Odessa.
There you go again. What an imagination.
Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Tatyana Berezhnaya reported that the country lacks 4.5 million workers to improve GDP.
The number of officially employed citizens in the labor market in Ukraine decreased in 2023 by 2.5 million people compared to 2021.
I wonder where all the people went.
Not sure what you are implying by your rhetorical statement. Many were killed in battle (plus a few civilian casualties) and many left the country.
That is precisely what I was implying but I do not have any reliable figures as to how they are split between those two categories, nor how it is split between men and women. You also have to figure how many have received life changing injuries or are suffering from battle-induced stress conditions, rendering them incapable of work.
The situation is a tragedy of major proportions and the longer there is a failure to appreciate the facts on the ground, rather than the fairy tales from Western military analysts, then the longer the tragedy will run.
Sadly the Western military must have some appreciation of the real state of things, as they have been losing their own “advisers” on the ground, with a report only recently that 18 British officers and some French lost their lives in Odessa, reputedly there to assist with the marine drones being targeted at Crimea and other Black Sea targets.
Thank you, and well said.
It would be a mistake to think that time is on Russia’s side. That is not a mistake that President Trump is likely to make. Russian forces will peak in late 2024 with increasing material challenges over the course of 2025.
‘Defeating Russia’s attempt to subjugate Ukraine must be based upon an understanding of what Russia is trying to achieve, how it is intending to achieve its objectives, and its capacity to implement this plan. The Russian theory of victory has been through various iterations over the course of the war, but Moscow now has a clear plan for how it intends to proceed.
Russia still maintains the strategic objective of bringing about the subjugation of Ukraine. It now believes that it is winning.
Surrender terms currently being proposed by Russian intermediaries include Ukraine ceding the territory already under Russian control along with Kharkiv, and in some versions Odessa; agreeing not to join NATO; and maintaining a head of state approved by Russia.
The only significant concession Russia proposes is that what is left of Ukraine can join the EU.
The process by which Russia aims to bring about this outcome is in three stages. The first requires the continuation of pressure along the length of the Ukrainian front to drain the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s (AFU) munitions and reserves of personnel. Parallel to this effort, the Russian Special Services are tasked with breaking the resolve of Ukraine’s international partners to continue to provide military aid. Once military aid has been significantly limited such that Ukrainian munition stocks become depleted, Russia intends to initiate further offensive operations to make significant – if slow – gains on the battlefield. These gains are then intended to be used as leverage against Kyiv to force capitulation on Russian terms.
The planning horizon for the implementation of these objectives, which is providing the baseline for Russian force generation and industrial outputs, is that victory should be achieved by 2026.
It is vital to appreciate that Russian goals may expand with success, and given that the Kremlin has violated almost all significant agreements both with Ukraine and NATO, there is no assurance that even if Russia got what it wanted out of negotiations it would not subsequently endeavour to physically occupy the rest of Ukraine or be emboldened to use force elsewhere…….
By the beginning of 2024, the Russian Operational Group of Forces in the occupied territories comprised 470,000 troops……..
Russian forces have reverted above battalion level to the traditional Soviet order of battle of regiments, divisions and combined arms armies, but have been significantly altered below the level of the regiment.
Battalions are organised as line and storm battalions, and tend to operate in company groups which fight in small, dispersed detachments. This reflects not only adaptation to battlefield conditions, but also the shortage of trained officers….
In terms of combat equipment, the Russian Group of Forces holds approximately 4,780 barrel artillery pieces, of which 20% are self-propelled; 1,130 MLRS; 2,060 tanks; and 7,080 other armoured fighting vehicles, primarily consisting of MT-LBs, BMPs and BTRs. These continue to be supported by 290 helicopters, of which 110 are attack helicopters, and 310 fast jets.
These equipment sets are limited in how they can be employed by ammunition shortages, especially for key natures like 220 mm multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and fluctuating availability of 152mm ammunition.
Some sets, like fast air, are constrained by the availability of pilots with sufficient experience to carry out key missions. Russian air crew losses – including operators in the Il-20 Coot and A-50U Mainstay, shot down – amount to 159 personnel, which given the unevenness of flight hours in Russian squadrons amounts to a serious loss of capability………
Russia faces significant limitations in the longevity and reliability of its industrial output. Of the tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, for example, approximately 80% are not new production but are instead refurbished and modernised from Russian war stocks. The number of systems held in storage means that while Russia can maintain a consistent output through 2024, it will begin to find that vehicles require deeper refurbishment through 2025, and by 2026 it will have exhausted most of the available stocks. As the number of refurbished vehicles goes down, industrial capacity can go into making new platforms, but this will necessarily mean a significant decrease in vehicles delivered to the military.
if Ukraine’s partners continue to provide sufficient ammunition and training support to the AFU to enable the blunting of Russian attacks in 2024, then Russia is unlikely to achieve significant gains in 2025.
If Russia lacks the prospect of gains in 2025, given its inability to improve force quality for offensive operations, then it follows that it will struggle to force Kyiv to capitulate by 2026.
Beyond 2026, attrition of systems will begin to materially degrade Russian combat power, while Russian industry could be disrupted sufficiently by that point, making Russia’s prospects decline over time.’
RUSI
Firstly, Trump has zero leverage on Putin unless he wants a nuclear war which the Russians, with their hypersonic, multiple head missiles would win hands down. Of course, there would be nobody left anywhere to celebrate, so let us hope that Trump does not go down that path.
If the Russians have lost 100,000 men, it means Ukraine has lost at least 5 times as many. But Russia had at the beginning of the war 100 million people more than Ukraine, so Russia will not be the first to give on that count.
Whereas Russia’s economic outlook is excellent, Ukraine is living on life support provided by the West and the West is broke. Furthermore, the citizens in the West are slowly asking their leaders why so much of their tax money is being given to the corrupt Ukrainian government, led by an illegitimate ex-president, instead of being spent in their own country.
In short, Russia has plenty of time. Ukraine is on life support.
This Cheatle woman is so hard-faced and as cold as ice. Another good one here;
“You have perjured yourself. I ask that we bring perjury charges against the Director. We are prepared to hold you in contempt!”
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1815454670367699258
She admitted to using encrypted apps on bother her phones despite answering earlier on that she didn’t;
”BREAKING: Secret Service Director admits that she is using ENCRYPTED Apps to communicate on BOTH her personal and Government issued phones!!”
https://x.com/AlecLace/status/1815452283242483843
”Go back to guarding Doritos”, haha.. How she keeps such a calm demeanor while getting thoroughly roasted can only be explained by the fact she’s a total psychopath, surely.
https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1815455693291614348
Well if it looks like a coup and sounds like a coup…
”Think about this: Trump almost gets assassinated.
Days later, Biden has a medical emergency in Vegas requiring “self isolation” at home.
Last public appearance reported to be July 17, when deboarding a plane in Delaware.
In the time since: Trump shows up at the RNC, accepts the GOP nomination.
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries ramp up pressure campaign to push Biden out.
Leaks abound. WaPo reports Obama not happy with Biden’s election chances.
Pelosi starts operation: “Get Joe Out, the Hard Way.”
Biden aides Ricchetti, Donilon execute plan to push him out.
Hunter, Jill reportedly have a screaming fest.
A resignation letter with a suspect, digital signature with no official letterhead is issued on X.
White House staff is blindsided. Chief of Staff informs Cabinet, takes over comms.
Endorsements begin: Hillary. Bill. Newsom.
Finally, Obama speaks out: “Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents…”
Kamala shows up to take over.
Family members Frank and Valerie Biden say that ‘health was a factor.’
FEC filings changed. Donations transferred over to her campaign.
Kamala somehow raises $81 million in 24 hours. $81 MILLION.
Kamala reportedly gets the delegates to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Joe Biden hasn’t been seen in public *the whole time.*
How is this not a COUP?”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1815592073145495913
I was just writing this message to a friend who is teetering on the edge of waking-up, but it relates to your comment so I’ll put it here:
Joe Biden is dead. But the press just aren’t telling us yet. IMO it’s obvious why. Kamala Harris is now suddenly and unexpectedly in the driving seat and the plan to replace the Biden/Harris ticket at the election with a new candidate (breaking all the rules BTW) has just been scuppered. They know Harris is deeply unpopular and will lose to Trump. But the machine, realising they now have no choice because they have to keep up the pretence of the Presidents Office being in charge, has gone into action for Harris anyway so now we are suddenly seeing total guff like this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-white-guy-running-mate-presidential-election/
And we are seeing all this BEFORE we even hear anything about Biden’s death because this is a desperate attempt to write a new narrative. Until just yesterday the press narrative, to prep “the audience” for the candidate switch the machine wanted at the election, was that she (Harris) can be nothing but a disaster. Oh what difference a day makes, and how clear the hand that guides the press is to those who know.
We might get some short statement from a fake mask-wearing Biden like this one:
https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1791929019459371026?s=42
But I doubt, given how inevitable the outcome has become, they are now even going to risk that.
We don’t have newspapers. Haven’t had for years. It’s all fake.
Yeah, I’m reluctant to believe he’s actually dead though. I dunno, it just seems a conspiracy step too far, which makes me uncomfortable because it would obviously mean he was bumped off, because nobody has such a perfectly timed natural demise, even if they’ve multiple comorbidities and a stair or two may pose a lethal obstacle when you’re as doddery as Biden. Having said that I’d put nothing past them, given they tried to kill Trump, so I look forward to seeing how this all pans out. If he is eventually declared dead then literally nobody with two functioning brain cells to rub together will ever accept it was ”natural causes”, and there’s no way these professional criminals can put that amount of spin on it for people to believe such obvious baloney.
Yes it was probably unwise for me to publish that since it was intended as a private message to a friend. And reading your comment I suddenly had the urge to reply with it. But if writing a comment from scratch in a public forum I would normally have been more circumspect. So I agree there is not yet strong evidence in support. There is however IMO quite a picture of evidence. There are the rumours of stroke and an abandoned journey to hospital (it’s speculated because he died).The resignation letter he “subsequently wrote” is not on official paper and is not his signature. There is Kamala Harris talking to what sounded like a recording of him yesterday – and nearly slipping up and calling it a recording. There is the fact she has been quite clearly ELATED for the three days since the rumoured stroke. So my belief the death was really unexpected and that those truly in charge don’t actually want Harris and are playing for time, because otherwise why not just allow the truth to come out? However there is too long to go and it is inevitable the truth will come out and they can’t switch candidates in the way they wanted to, so now they have no choice but to switch narrative to incorporate Kamala Harris. A complete 180 narrative switch from literally everyone saying she is a disaster, to yesterday even Telegraph (Telegraph US reporters are creatures apart) doing a puff piece.
Be afraid!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/we-can-stop-the-next-pandemic-but-to-do-so-we-must-act-now/
“‘This is bulls**t! You are full of sh**!’”
The Chairman was right to interrupt the speaker to tell her
“We have to maintain decorum in this committee.”
The Foulmouthed Female Legislator continued to talk over him, ignoring him completely.
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“Sunak to remain Tory leader until November”
Well, what a remarkable coincidence! Sunak the Klingon will be allowed to cling to power for months, until the Tories elect their leader on November 2nd, only three days before the Americans elect their President on November 5th. How creepy is that?
The Tory membership is being allowed the choices of at least 3 Indian Subcontinental females, 2 African males, 1 African female, 1 failed-ex-PM- for-50-days Indigenous British female, and 2 Indigenous British males.
All six of the Third World Ethnic candidates chose to marry white people instead of their own ethnic group, and all nine candidates are either Catholic, Jewish or Third World religion, and therefore ineligible to hold the post of Prime Minister, according to the Law of This Land.
Justin Webb’s days must surely be numbered at the BBC. A few weeks ago he referred to a trans woman as biologically male. Now he states there is no question that the Democrats had been untruthful about Bidens health.
How dare he! Does he know who he works for.