WHITE DUDES FOR HARRIS: You can't get any better than this.

Taken from this Instapundit post #JOURNALISM.

HONORARY? REALLY? Kamala told Harvey Milk Democratic Club she wanted to be ‘honorary sex worker.’

I TOLD YOU it would be a clown show.

And not a funny one, either.

AT THE BOTTOM? Where does Joe Biden rank among America's worst presidents?

THE 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES HAVE COMMENCED IN PARIS; will it make money?

Frankly, I hope not. The Olympics has been a clown show for several olympiads and today it's not even a funny clown show.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Ivy League is a moron factory. A very expensive moron factory.

FORTY-TWO MILES: The most important miles in American politics.

The miles most Democrats have never traveled....

YOU MAY THINK YOU HATE THE MEDIA but you can’t hate it enough. Mainstream media's immediate reaction to the Trump assassination attempt.

KURT SCHLICHTER: It’s good that noted idiot Alec Baldwin walked.

I didn't like the outcome, but Schlicter's right. And there's still the civil action to play out.

DISCOURSE MAGAZINE: The Secret Service in the line of fire.

Read it all. And expect there will be more attempts to come. In their desperation the 'progressive' Left -- and their nutcase minions -- are not about to give up.

THEY TRIED TO KILL TRUMP; now we're going to fight twice as hard.

Raise your fists, patriots.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TRUMP is not nearly as surprising as it should have been.

At least not to anyone with a few working brain cells.

And I'm not convinced it will stop. The new head of the Secret Service had better be at the top of his game.

CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel scolds Trump for saying 'Fight!' in immediate aftermath of assassination attempt.

He should have been canned immediately but it's CNN -- he'll be canonized. Well, secularly.

ABC NEWS took less than 24 hours to blame Trump for the assassination attempt on his own life.

The media had already put their reputation in the toilet and now they're reaching up to flush themselves into oblivion.

Flush twice and it still won't be enough.

MELANIA TRUMP'S STATEMENT on her husband's near assassination. Quoted in full:

I am thinking of you now, my fellow Americans.

We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle union is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one.

When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband.

To the families of the innocent victims who are now suffering from this heinous act, I humbly offer my sincerest sympathy. Your need to summon your inner strength for such a terrible reason saddens me.

A monster who recognized my husband as an inhumane political machine attempted to ring out Donald's passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband's life — his human side — were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.

Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment — until death — is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings.

We are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another. American politics are only one vehicle that can uplift our communities. Love, compassion, kindness and empathy are necessities.

And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm.

Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.

This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends. We can realize this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect fills the cornerstone of our relationships, again.

I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans.

The winds of change have arrived. For those of you who cry in support, I thank you. I commend those of you who have reached out beyond the political divide — thank you for remembering that every single politician is a man or a woman with a loving family."

That, my friends, is an eminently worthy First Lady. We need her back.

Ben Carson: 'Bankrupt Him,' Slander, Imprison, Now 'Kill Him'.

They are desperate indeed.

ROOT CAUSE of the Trump assassination attempt.

It started with [progressive] politics.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Biden Titanic.

Just sank....

RANDOM THOUGHT: What leads anyone to believe that Joe Biden is even aware he's left the race?

FINALLY! Biden quits. Running, that is. He still plans to finish his term -- if his administration can survive that long.

PREDICTION: "[Now] through Jan 20 will be the first six months of the second Trump administration."

WHOA: Young voters abandoning the Democrats in droves.

AGENDA 47: President Trump’s plan to dismantle the deep state and return power to the American People.

FACT CHECK: No, Biden has never been a good, honest, or decent man.

RANDOM THOUGHT predicted by Erma Bombeck: "If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?"

SCOTUS GIRLS GONE WILD: The right to crap in the streets.

Well, not all of them. Amy Coney Barett's still on the sensible side of the Supreme Court.

PUNISH THE INNOCENT FOR THE SINS OF THE GUILTY: San Francisco sets curfew for some businesses to combat retail crime.

EVEN TODAY I THINK I AGREE: Biden will stagger on all the way to the election.

Where he will lose.

BIDEN ASIDE the regime media is toast too.

THANK YOU. Ellen DeGeneres to leave Hollywood after Netflix special: 'This is the last time you're going to see me.'

IS IT JANUARY 6TH AGAIN? Democrats stage insurrection, destroy democracy to depose President who refuses to leave office.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Why does my 'smart' television only show commercials of unkempt hypochondriacs who can only communicate through song and dance?

IT'S NEW YORK: State to roll out small shampoo bottle ban at hotels.

They have nothing better to do....

NOT A PROBLEM: Defiant Gazans vow to 'Die as Martyrs' as IDF hunts Hamas among them.

HEH: "[I]t’s astonishing the mop can talk. Expecting her to tell the truth as well is a bit much."

LIBERAL MEN ARE WELL-TRAINED BY LIBERAL WOMEN: 'Liberal woman' complains that it’s hard to find masculine men who aren’t conservative.

SHAKES HEAD SADLY: Sacramento city attorney reportedly threatened to fine Target store for reporting theft crimes.

It's the progressive way: punish the innocent to protect the guilty.

JOE BIDEN IS A GOOD MAN? Please don’t insult our intelligence.

Linked from Instapundit.

WELL HE HAS MANY MORE TO WORK WITH: Biden is now deporting more people than Trump.

GOING, GOING, GONE: That way madness of a kind lies.

TOOLS AND FOOLS: It is impossible to exaggerate the role of the press in ignoring and suppressing President Biden’s incapacity over the years.

CARTOON OF THE WEEK:

I can live with that.

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM paints a rosy picture of a state that is failing badly.

So we should replace Joe Biden with Gavin Newsom as the 2024 Democrat presidential candidate?

RANDOM THOUGHT. The Democrat party proudly calls itself the only one representing the marinalized. Like Elizabeth Warren (teepees); Kamala Harris (teehees); ad infinitum.

I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE:

And now I'm beginning to believe it.

CAMPUS REFORM: Meet the Indiana University students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed encampment.

The students should be expelled and their academic records withheld. The faculty should have tenure revoked and be fired.

I DISAGREE: Stupid makes woke politics.

HOLD OFF THE DEATH SQUADS: Highly misleading coverage of SCOTUS immunity decision.

On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow warned that the Supreme Court had just unleashed death squads to roam our streets. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen announced that murder was now legal (at least for presidents), while others predicted that the ruling on presidential immunity would invite “tyranny.”

Anyone reading the coverage would conclude that James Madison has been replaced by John Wick in a new “Baba Yaga” Republic.

John Wick for president? Oh, wait ... he's dead. I guess we'll have to go with Biden. He's not dead ... yet.

OH, THE IRONY: Leftists fret that Trump would refuse to leave the White House.

Leftists across the country have been pushing the same panic as the Biden campaign: If you let Donald Trump back into the White House, he will never leave! He’ll become a dictator and refuse to honor the end of his term!! Just like when he marshaled his army and attempted a coup d’état on January 6! And it just might work this time! … Because, you know, the nearly three million people who work in the federal apparatus, along with the House, the Senate, the U.S. armed forces, and the 335 million residents of the United States will all be helpless to do otherwise than toe the line and follow Trump's orders. It’s incredible what a handful of wacky rioters wearing horned helmets and wielding bear spray can accomplish.

Read the rest.

I'LL CUT MY OWN TAXES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH: The Blue state wealth exodus continues.

Linked from Instapundit.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures this one seems particular appropriate this week:

Now go see the rest. Trust me, they're good.

QUESTION: Why don't the Democrats care?

Because they are content to have our government run by anonymous White House aides and administrative state bureaucrats.

What do they need a president for? To issue Pride Month proclamations and appoint liberal judges? But anyone can do that. Thus, there is no obligation to talk about the fact that the president might as well be a waxwork effigy.

And as for foreign policy, they are embarrassed by American power and don’t want the U.S. to play a strong role in the world. So a weak president is fine there, too.

They are happy with government by people no one voted for because they are the people no one voted for.

AMMO GRRRLL: "Who are the 37 percent who, immediately following the debate, expressed the opinion that Biden had ‘won’ the debate?"

And much more.

THE LIES WE HAVE LIVED THROUGH: After last Thursday’s debate, Biden himself laid to rest the Democratic lie that he was robust and in control of his faculties.

Now what?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: California, the great destroyer.

California’s lesson for the nation?

If you want to topple a statue, re-label an historically named street, burn up millions of pine and fir trees, blow up a dam, turn parks and the public square into dangerous and toxic squatter cities, then the state can do all of that and in record time.

But try building something to ensure Californians can travel quickly and in safety, or have affordable power, homes, and fuel, and assured water?

All that is simply beyond the current state’s comprehension, ability, and desire.

So ... Gavin Newsom for President?

TRUMP CHALLENGES JOE BIDEN TO ANOTHER DEBATE -- a Lincoln-Douglas debate.

I FIND THIS A BIT HARD TO BELIEVE: The ten most patriotic U.S. states for July 4th.

Off the top of my head, there isn't one that isn't blue or 'bluish'.

FIRE THE CLOWNS: Biden Justice Department to continue witch hunt against Trump even if he wins election.

As soon as humanly possible.

Unfortunately it's the DoJ itself that are the clowns; so only we can fire them by electing Donald Trump.

THE TRUTH HURTS, but yes, the Democrats have gone stark raving mad.

ROGUE GALLERY: Meet the rich kids, professors, and activists arrested at Columbia University in April.

I think this says something about America's 'elites'. Don't you?

NOT A JOKE: Rapper on probation must run all lyrics by U.S. government in advance.

Also not a joke: the government is too damn big.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Biden will stagger on all the way to the election.

I'm conflicted; don't know whether that's good or bad for America.

AND IT'S ABOUT TIME: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas takes aim at Trump special counsel prosecutor.

WELL IT IS THE MORON STATE: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claims those who think Biden can’t win Michigan are ‘full of s---’.

And she's the chief moron....

SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY:

RETIRED U.S. ARMY LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER is amazed that Americans are willing to give up their rights.

It's amazing because the people who are the most willing to give up those rights and undermine our system are the ones who would be subjugated in any other system.

These are the kinds of people for whom 'eat me last' is a strategy.

A VERY GOOD QUESTION: It's July 4th, and Americans are burning our flag. Why are these people even here?

EXCELLENT! Rescued Israeli hostage suing a U.S. nonprofit linked to Hamas operative who held him.

WE NOW KNOW BEYOND QUESTION that competence is not a requirement for a Democrat candidate.

Even normal Democrats are now learning....

THE SUPREME COURT isn't paying attention to my toddler tantrums.

Nor should it.

THE DAILY CHART: Record heat, then and now.

For the record, it's 76 degrees at my house right now (5:10 pm).

SO MAKE AMERICA CALIFORNIA: Bill Maher advocates for Biden to bow out, prefers Gavin Newsom.

'MORNING JOE' COHOST sold her soul to Joe Biden.

She had a soul to sell?

BIDEN IN PICTURES:

Now go see the rest.

I DIDN'T KNOW: Are there giant Flemish rabbit channels on streaming services like YouTube and TikTok?

Calling Bernie Sanders....

THE LAWYER REDUCTION ACT: Overruling the Chevron doctrine.

Good for America.

AMMO GRRRLL recalls life in America before ....

So do I: And I want one too.

IF YOU'RE THINKING OF BECOMING A POLICE OFFICER, DON'T: Police officers driven out by progressive treatment offer next-generation law enforcement a blunt warning.

JUST PLAIN UGLY: How to ruin a film franchise.

The sneer on Leslye Headland's face tells you all you need to know....

TILTING AT WINDMILLS: The trouble with (many) teachers.

The problem, simply put, is unionization. The purpose of a union is to support the interests of its membership. Students are not members of the union.

Now do you understand?

THIS IS WHY we need President Trump back in the Oval Office.

As I recall the old Soviet Union thought Ronald Reagan was crazy. The Soviet Union is now Russia....

IS IT TIME TO CALL IT THE HARRIS-BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? Did Kamala Harris nearly admit who's really running the country?

Check the curtains in the Oval Office....

RANDOM THOUGHT: I may be old but I got to see the world before it went to shit.

Seen on a T-shirt ad online. I want one.

IF YOU'RE A FAMILY WITH MINOR CHILDREN, get the hell out of California as soon as humanly possible.

OH DEAR GOD, PLEASE NO: The Democrats' 'PLAN C' presidential ticket is Biden-Obama.

RANDOM OBSERVATION: A potato isn't a vegetable but our Potatus is.

THAT'S ALL for this Independence Day special. Normal blogging resumes tomorrow.

WHY DO YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY? Susie Moore explains.

REAL AMERICA NEVER FORGETS: It forgives, but never forgets.

THE FOURTH OF JULY: America celebrates a history of freedom won by firearms.

I prefer to live in that "Shining City on a Hill".

IT'S NOT JUST THE SPIRIT OF 1776: July 4th is the anniversary of more than just American independence.

PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE explains the Declaration of Independence. here'sthe gist:

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

Now go read the rest.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: Abraham Lincoln explains its meaning (back in 1858; still true today).

UNFORTUNATELY, TOO TRUE: Country singer Craig Morgan says many young people don't apprecciate the freedom this great Nation offers.

MIKE ROWE'S "Something to Stand For" movie trailer. I haven't seen it yet, but I will when it comes to town.

RED STATE presents fireworks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US: It's OUR day, our US of A day - the day WE took and no one can take from us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

And let's make it great (again).

It's Independence Day. Celebrate!

THE DAM BREAKS: Lloyd Doggett becomes first sitting Democratic member of Congress to call on Biden to withdraw.

Lloyd Doggett [D-TX] is a 15--term progressive back bencher who won't say or do anything without at least tacit approval of his deep-state leadership. I know; I lived adjacent to his original home base of Austin, TX for a number of years.

THAT WAS YESTERDAY, THE FLOOD BEGINS TODAY: Twenty-five House Democrats poised to call for Biden to leave race.

And every time I check the news it's clearer and clearer that the S.S. Biden is taking water rapidly. Another few days -- or weeks -- I expect Kamala will get her chance to be [interim] President....

HAVE TRUMP DROP OUT? Biden campaign email details how to defend president’s 'rough' debate performance.

Can you write 'desperation' any better?

THE BABYLON BEE DOES JOURNALISM AGAIN: Democrats stick with Biden as it would be a real pain to reprint those ballots they already filled out.