Did Joe Biden Suffer a Medical Emergency? Was this a False Report? Elon Musk Weighs In | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO)

Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top 5 stories throughout the week in around 10 minutes.

ARTICLE 1: Reports of Joe Biden Having Medical Emergency on Air Force One as Democrats Scramble to Replace Him APPEAR TO BE INACCURATE – Elon Musk Responds 

ARTICLE 2:  Livid Jill Biden “Lashing Out” at Those Who Want Dementia Joe to Step Aside

ARTICLE 3: Internet Goes Wild: Biden’s Speech in Wisconsin Sparks Meme Frenzy — ‘I’m Gonna COME in the Overflow Room’

ARTICLE 4: “You Saw It Today!” – Joe Biden Brags About His “Large Crowds” in Middle School Gyms – Then Makes Strange Remarks About Trump’s MAGA Crowds (VIDEO)

ARTICLE 5:  Disgraceful Behavior: Rude Elderly Biden Supporter Appears to Berate Young Black Woman Then Joe Biden Ignores Her

 Please leave your opinions / comments on these stories below as Elijah reads every single one and appreciates your perspective.

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National Embarrassment: Biden Campaign to Stop Feeding Questions to Media After Being Exposed on Live Television

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The Biden campaign has been forced to abandon its controversial practice of feeding pre-scripted questions to media outlets after a humiliating exposure on national television.

The Gateway Pundit reported that radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders confirmed that the questions she asked to Joe Biden in a recent interview were provided by the White House ahead of time. This comes after Biden’s widely criticized debate performance.

Biden participated in two pre-recorded interviews post-debate; one with Wisconsin-based WAUK and another with Philly-based WURD. In both instances, Biden seemed to struggle with articulating his thoughts clearly. During the interview with WURD, Biden told Lawful-Sanders that he was proud to be the first black woman to serve with a black president.

“And by the way, I’m proud to be – as I’ve said – the first Vice President – first black woman to serve with a black president,” Biden said.

Following these interviews, Lawful-Sanders spoke with CNN’s Victor Blackwell about the process leading up to her conversation with Biden. When asked whether the questions she asked Biden were sent to her by the White House or if she had to submit them for approval beforehand, Lawful-Sanders responded: “The questions were sent to me for approval. I approved them.”

Upon further questioning by CNN, Lawful-Sanders confirmed that the White House did indeed send her the questions prior to the interview. Out of eight potential questions provided, she chose four that she felt were most appropriate for their discussion.

“If the White House is trying now to prove the vim, vigor, acuity of the President I don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview so that the President knows what’s coming,” Blackwell said.’

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Radio Host Reveals White House Provided Questions Ahead of Time Following Biden’s Gaffe Claiming to Be ‘First Black Woman to Serve with a Black President’

In a similar revelation, Earl Ingram of CivicMedia told ABC News that he was provided a list of questions in advance of his interview with President Joe Biden this week. “Yes, I was given some questions for Biden,” Ingram confirmed. He was given five questions and ended up asking four of them.

Following these disclosures, the Biden campaign will no longer feed media outlets questions for future interviews after being embarrassingly exposed on national television, as reported by the New York Post and ABC News.

“While interview hosts have always been free to ask whatever questions they please, moving forward we will refrain from offering suggested questions,” a source familiar with Biden’s booking operation for media outlets told The Post Saturday.

The Biden campaign later claimed it’s common to send interviewers suggested talking points.

“Hosts are always free to ask the questions they think will best inform their listeners,” Biden spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said in a statement.

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FAST AND FURIOUS II: Understanding the Mexico Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers

This article originally appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission.

The Obama administration’s disastrous “Operation Fast and Furious” scandal, where the U.S. government deliberately allowed firearms to be trafficked to Mexican drug cartels, is a prime example of how the current lawsuit against gun manufacturers by Mexico is rooted in the misguided decisions of American politicians, not the actions of lawful companies.

Fast and Furious

Under Fast and Furious during the Obama/Biden Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) instructed gun store owners to sell weapons to suspected criminals linked to Mexican cartels, with over 650 firearms purchased by straw purchasers as part of the operation.

Many of these guns went missing and were later found at crime scenes on both sides of the border, including the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Despite mounting evidence and internal dissent from ATF agents, the Obama administration obstructed congressional investigations into Fast and Furious, demonstrating a lack of transparency and accountability.

This Fast and Furious scandal, in which the U.S. government became a de facto arms dealer to Mexican criminal organizations, should be considered one of the greatest scandals in American history and it highlights how the current lawsuit between Mexico and US gun manufacturers is misguided and unjust.

The Obama administration’s Fast and Furious Operation involved ATF agents instructing gun store owners to unlawfully sell firearms to suspected criminals linked to Mexican drug cartels. Over 650 firearms were purchased by straw purchasers as part of Fast and Furious.

Many of these guns went missing and were later found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexican American border, including at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Despite mounting evidence and internal dissent from ATF agents who raised concerns about the flawed strategy of allowing guns to “walk” into criminal hands, the Obama administration obstructed congressional investigations into Fast and Furious.

The Justice Department issued new policies prohibiting gunwalking only after being forced to do so by congressional hearings in 2011.

Six years later, Congress was still seeking documents related to the Justice Department’s response to the Fast and Furious investigation, highlighting the administration’s lack of transparency and accountability.

The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the U.S. government deliberately armed Mexican criminal organizations, should be considered one of the greatest scandals in American history.

Fast and Furious II

The Biden/Obama Administration appears to be engaged in another Fast and Furious campaign involving guns and Mexico. Since the Biden/Obama Administration cannot shut down gun manufacturers in the United States, it appears that they are relying on Mexico to do their dirty work.

Mexico is suing American gun manufacturers and some Democratic politicians and state attorneys general are supporting Mexico in its lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers:

Thirteen states and Washington D.C., all led by Democratic attorneys general, have filed a brief opposing the gun manufacturers’ motion to dismiss the case. They argue the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) does not shield the companies from accountability.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta stated that while the PLCAA may grant some protection, it does not provide a “free pass” for manufacturers to allow their products to end up in dangerous hands in Mexico.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey urged the court to acknowledge that gun manufacturers, dealers, and distributors can be held accountable for how their products are marketed or sold in ways that facilitate illegal trafficking to Mexico.
The countries of Antigua and Barbuda and Belize have also filed amicus briefs in support of Mexico’s lawsuit, as well as a coalition of U.S. gun violence prevention organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Law Center.

The opposition to the Mexico lawsuit appears to be coming primarily from Republican state attorneys general and lawmakers who have filed briefs urging the Supreme Court to hear the case and dismiss Mexico’s lawsuit.

Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, Beretta, and Ruger, alleges that these companies deliberately designed and marketed firearms to appeal to criminal organizations in Mexico. However, this lawsuit is misguided and unjust for several reasons:

Guns are designed for lawful purposes: Firearms are tools primarily intended for self-defense, hunting, and sport shooting. While criminals can misuse them, the features Mexico cites, like compatibility with high-capacity magazines and removable serial numbers, are common on many firearms and do not necessarily make them attractive to criminals. The U.S. gun industry operates under strict regulations, and deliberately designing guns to appeal to criminals would be unethical and illegal.
Marketing claims are unfounded: Mexico alleges that U.S. gun manufacturers’ marketing promises buyers a “tactical military experience” for civilians, encouraging illegal use. However, this claim is not supported by evidence. Responsible gun companies promote the lawful use of their products through educational materials and safety programs.
The Obama administration’s Fast and Furious scandal: In a misguided attempt to track weapons, the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious allowed a significant number of firearms to potentially end up with Mexican drug cartels. The U.S. government became a de facto arms dealer to Mexican criminals, a scandal that should be considered one of the greatest in American history. This was not the gun manufacturers’ idea or doing.
The Iran-Contra affair: During the Reagan administration, the U.S. government secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was then used to fund the Contras rebel group in Nicaragua. This scandal, like Fast and Furious, demonstrates that the U.S. government has a history of involvement in the illicit arms trade, not the gun manufacturers.
Holding manufacturers accountable for criminals’ actions: Merely selling a product that someone later uses in a crime does not make the manufacturer responsible. Criminals, not manufacturers, are to blame for gun violence in Mexico. Holding U.S. companies accountable for the criminal misuse of their products sets a dangerous precedent and could bankrupt the firearms industry.

In conclusion, the Supreme Court should reject Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers. The claims are unfounded, and the lawsuit seeks to hold companies responsible for the actions of criminals and the U.S. government’s own misguided policies. Upholding this lawsuit would set a dangerous precedent and undermine the lawful firearms industry.

Biden/Obama’s Fast and Furious II appears to be the continuation of this regime’s attack on the 2nd amendment.

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‘Just Say The N-Word’: Leftists Melt Down After New York Post Warns Kamala Harris Would Be a ‘DEI President’

Leftists went into full meltdown after Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post newspaper declared that Vice President Kamala Harris would be a president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Harris, who was chosen as Biden’s running mate for the sole reason that she is black woman, is currently in a position to replace Old Joe on the presidential ticket if he is forced out of the running because of his declining condition.

The article, written by columnist Charles Gasparino, explains:

There is a raging debate in corporate America on the future of DEI, aka Diversity ­Equity and Inclusion, because it is literally destroying businesses that go there.

And yet the American public may soon be subjected to DEI writ large in the next president of the United States, if Kamala Harris finds her way to the top of the Democratic ticket while Joe Biden wilts away as the party’s presidential nominee after his horrific ­debate performance.

Yes, maybe the most irrepressibly fatuous politician in America may become the leader of the free world because the Democratic Party is unable to break its DEI stranglehold.

Such a warning clearly got close to the bone as Democrats and left-wing activists were unable to contain their disgust and horror.

California Governor Gavin Newsom described it as “straight up racist.”

1 – @JoeBiden is our next President.

2 – This is straight up racist. pic.twitter.com/Zpb3oYV6yO

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 6, 2024

Others suggested that the Post were effectively calling Harris a “n****r.”

So the New York Post just called Kamala Harris a n****r. In case anyone was curious about the state of the presidential race. https://t.co/J50hfkmige

— Christopher Rhodes (@PReligions) July 6, 2024

More proof that “DEI” as a perjorative has nothing to do with actual qualifications and is just a way for people to be racist

— Thorne (@ExistentialEnso) July 6, 2024

DEI is just the n-word now

— meyou (@whatsmeyou) July 6, 2024

.@nypost still rooting for Hitlers nephew.

— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) July 6, 2024

Oh look! A photo of the inside of the New York Post editorial office. pic.twitter.com/w6914TxeYI

— Kes Bretagne (@KesendraB) July 6, 2024

At this point just say the N word, you’re on Twitter you can do that now. At least have a fucking spine about it. https://t.co/6CALT6w6w0

— Epic Prawn EN-PNGTuber (@epicprawn) July 6, 2024

At this point just say the N word, you’re on Twitter you can do that now. At least have a fucking spine about it. https://t.co/6CALT6w6w0

— Epic Prawn EN-PNGTuber (@epicprawn) July 6, 2024

Go on, say the word. You know you want to. https://t.co/G2yuNpTs44

— Monkey Shakespeare (@nfinitemonkey) July 7, 2024

Regardless of one’s views on Kamala’s political talents, the probability of her being elected president seems relatively slim. According to most polling data, she is even more unpopular than Biden himself.

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Hope for 2024: Today There Is Technology to Stop the Postal Service Steal in the 2024 Election

Alleged fraudulent registrations delivered by mail to a Michigan clerk’s office weeks before the 2020 election.

 

Mail-in ballots, from ineligible locations, in 15 counties, across 7 swing states will determine the next president.  Several senators as well.

The Republican Party has no visibility to even one of these locations.

Fractal technology, across most swing states, sees thousands of these locations, their millions of ineligible voters, registered at Walmarts, gas stations and abandoned strip malls – now.

Leftists, currently operating most of the U.S. Government, aren’t going to let Trump win.

America is about to see the convergence of every type of election fraud, some subtle and some in-your-face, to retain the Left’s power.

Mail-in ballots from ineligible locations constitute the largest single entity that can be manipulated – and voted – by the Left.  NGOs spent every waking moment for the last 4 years registering – often illegals – now it’s time to harvest the crop.

Just this week, the Left is marshaling their “big guns” to make sure no law is passed to stop illegal alien voting – they know they need those votes.

500,000 such illegal ballots – in each swing state.  Republicans have zero technology to find them.

Mail-in ballot fraud requires the cooperation of the United States Postal Service, or some of its employees, to get ballots into Leftist’s hands – to be voted by NGOs against Trump and counted securely by the 100,000 poll watchers Republicans and Democrats are hiring.

Here’s how the Left is going to do it, and here’s how quantum technology is going to screw them up.

When Fractal started publishing videos of the “voters living in places without bedrooms,” we received emails – leading to phone calls, sometimes meetings, several times testimony under oath with one of the field teams.

Those emails were from Postal Service mail carriers.

That is the postman, the person with the large leather bag, filled with junk mail, your dog probably loves.

Several carriers told us they collected undeliverable mail-in ballots, in 2020 and 2022 and returned them to the central office.  Carriers were told to put these ballots in a special bin.  They testified these were given to Leftist groups.

There were enough emails, from different states, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan come to mind, indicating organization.

We cannot stop Post Office employees giving undeliverable ballots to Leftists.  Neither can you.

We can, and will, in 2024, stop many of these undeliverable ballots from going to ineligible addresses – with the Undeliverable Ballot Database, keeping them out of the grasp of the Post Office.

Some election scams are more subtle – and one only discovers them long after the horse departed the barn.

The Wisconsin team interviewed Postal Service workers – as opposed to mail carriers.  They met with whistle-blowers who worked in the central sorting facilities.  Here’s what they learned.

In 2020 and 2022, particularly in Milwaukee, the Postal Service workers were able to discern electronically if a mail-in ballot came from a Republican or a Democrat.  There was, according to this witness, an indicator on the envelope.

Maybe, maybe not.

The Wisconsin voter integrity team was contacted by Republican voters and registrars across Wisconsin – complaining their ballots were never counted in the recent election.  The registrar determined they were sent a ballot.  The voter knows they filled it out and mailed it back.  It was never counted.  Go figure.

Since the voter cannot tell if their ballot was counted until 45 days after the election, where it shows in their voter history file, they were pretty much out of luck.

It is interesting that in Wisconsin, perhaps other states, all mail, even to the guy down the street, goes centrally to the Milwaukee Postal Service facility, is sorted and sent back to the town.

There is a central point of control for mail-in ballots – which is helpful for this sort of thing.

The witness, still employed at the Postal Service, said of Republican ballots, many of them were shredded – while other ballots were not.

Hundreds of ballots were collected, and 6 rubber bands were placed around them.  They were placed into a “recycle bin” outside the central Post Office.  Our witness saw people climb into the recycle dumpster, remove only the ballots with the rubber bands and depart.

Nobody will ever prove this – one way or the other.

It doesn’t matter, either way, because for 2024, we are going to cut the cards and make sure we stop the Postal Service from ever receiving such a charge again.

The Fractal team is implementing mail-in ballot tracking for every ballot, mail-in or in-person, throughout the election – in most, we hope, every swing state.

Here’s how it works.

Teams using Fractal in swing states currently have the voter rolls for their state operational in Fractal – so with one click they can see all the data for any voter across many databases.  Those include property tax rolls.

There is an informative video titled “Who Won Georgia 2020” that shows how to do it – so check that out.

Fractal has visibility to every voter in every swing state, plus shortly Colorado, Virginia, Texas and a few others.

The teams in each state connected Fractal systems with some of the voter apparatus to track to whom a ballot is sent.

This is complicated stuff.  In North Carolina, the voter systems are primitive, but the interfaces are modern.  Fractal gets voter data instantly, but it has lots of control characters embedded that must be removed.

In Wisconsin, Fractal ties to their cast ballot system – and can track who has yet to vote.

In Virginia, where Fractal is just getting started, the voter rolls are $17,000 so the team hit up some donors.

In Texas, when the Secretary of State heard it was the Fractal team who paid the $1,500 for the current voter roll, that department refused to work with us – even after we wrote a check – until we had the Attorney General office force the issue.  If you watch the Texas videos on the Omega4America.com site, you will see why the Texas Secretary of State did not want Fractal in those voter rolls.

Fractal tracks when the ballot is returned to the registrar – filled in and voted.

This is where the fun happens.

Remember, our strategy is to stop mail-in ballots from going to ineligible addresses.

That keeps them out of the hands of the NGOs and the Postal Service.  No fake ballots from the Walmart or strip mall – no inventory with which to commit trouble.

Illegal aliens NGOs registered for the last 4 years reside about 90% at ballot farms which show up in Fractal via time series analysis – so they can be taken out.

While Leftists are stopping Congress from preventing illegal alien voting, the states using Fractal pretty much know who the illegals are because they show up at common addresses.

Fractal teams are challenging illegal aliens BEFORE ballots are mailed to them.

That screws up the Left – the Wisconsin team is executing this today and the Leftist screams are loud enough we almost hear them here in Texas.

Lawyers from several states spent a good part of the 4th of July holiday with the Virginia and Wisconsin and Texas team going over legal strategies being used in their states plus Pennsylvania – so this can be successfully executed.  Be hopeful!

Using quantum technology, Fractal tracks every ballot that goes out.  If it goes to an ineligible address, teams challenge it that day!

All other legitimate mail-in ballots are tracked through their lifecycle.

Fractal tracks when the ballot returns – with a close to real-time view of every mail-in ballot in every swing state from a profiled address to know if it was “lost” in a Postal Service shredder.

Since the Left sold the swing states on mail-in ballots for everything, the Left over-invested in the easy fraud of NGO ballot mills and shredding Republican ballots with their union friends in the Postal Service.

Surprise! Now, we have a close-to-real-time inventory of who voted and whose ballot should have been counted but was not.

Any Republican ballot not back at the registrar within 72 hours is flagged and the voter notified.  Welcome to quantum computing!

Every profiled voter (a voter with a likelihood to vote Republican) is tracked up to election day and harassed/gently encouraged until they vote.

The RNC and some of the grifter groups in its orbit are all-in on ballot harvesting.  They are registering people in bars and gas stations.  Many get a cut of the funding for these expensive efforts.

Yet, they do not have the technology to track their voters to see if they voted.  The RNC strategy is to register everyone, and hope they vote.

Read that again. 

The RNC does NOT have the real time technology, to track every voter, determine if they voted, send their info instantly to a caller who then gets them to the polls.

We do.  Fortunately, we do not need the RNC to help win this election.

With Fractal and the teams in the swing states – every voter can be tracked to see if they received a ballot – if they returned it – and IF IT WAS COUNTED or shredded – BEFORE THE ELECTION, NOT MONTHS LATER!

This creates a new narrative.

The Lefties go wild because some high-tech guys are “disenfranchising” their voters.  Oh my!  Call the Justice Department.

Aha, Fractal teams aren’t disenfranchising anyone.

If Phineas, who the Lefties admit lives in a Walmart and Dottie who lives in a 7-11 want to vote, they just show up in person, put down their Big Gulp, grab a Sharpie and vote at the polling place.  No disenfranchisement.

The Fractal team – in each state – creates videos, by the hour, publishing the physical street view of each address – showing everyone, even the Leftist reporter in her Birkenstocks, the address is a closed coffee shop in an empty strip mall, next to a decrepit JC Penney – and it is illegal to knowingly send a ballot to such an address.

The Left knew in 2024 they might need those 500,000 souls in each swing state to vote their way.  The Left invested in illegal aliens being registered.  They invested in mail-in ballots to ineligible locations – collected by ballot mill NGO operators.

The Left knew the RNC had neither the technology nor the will to stop illegal aliens from voting.

The Left knew there might be friendlies in the Postal Service who would lend a hand – and some did.

Now it’s way too late to change course.  Live by mail-in ballot fraud, lose by mail-in ballot fraud that has been thwarted.

Fractal technology sees what relational technology – used by the RNC and the Left – cannot see.

Fractal turns the lights on – across key counties in the swing states – and now everyone can see a ballot that should not go to a gas station – and enough ballots can be impacted to stop the Left, and its Postal Service pals, from interfering again in a national election.

In 2024, teams using Fractal technology don’t want to believe the Postal Service will interfere in a national election.

They are cutting the cards – removing that possibility.

Jay Valentine led the team that built the TSA No-Fly List, the eBay fraud engine and the fraud systems for over 70% of the auto insurance industry.  The Fractal team runs the largest election database ever created and built the Dark Money Tracking System.  Jay can be contacted at Omega4America.com

 

 

 

 

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Retired 2-Star General Found Dead at California Base

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is investigating the death of a retired 2-star general whose body was discovered at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California.

San Bernardino County coroner’s records revealed Major General William Mullen, 59, was found dead at the Twentynine Palms military base on Saturday.

Mara Rodriguez, who serves as the San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokesperson, shared the NCIS is investigating Mullen’s death at the base.

The Marine Corps Times reported Mullen’s body was discovered in Building 1651, which is part of the Marine Corps Communication–Electronics School.

Mullens was at the base to attend the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group change of command event.

NCIS investigating after major general is found dead at Twentynine Palms Marine base https://t.co/Bil8tqkzgp

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 2, 2024

Per The Marine Corps Times:

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a retired major general whose body was discovered at a Marine base on Saturday.

Maj. Gen. William Mullen, age 59, was found deceased at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, the San Bernardino County coroner’s office confirmed.

His body was found in Building 1651, according to coroner records, Military.com reported. The building is home to the Marine Corps Communication–Electronics School, according to an online base directory.

The Marine Corps provided a statement to Marine Corps Times stating that Mullen was at the base attending the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group change of command ceremony.

Retired Marine 2-star general found dead at sprawling California basehttps://t.co/YZ2SPb5B7S

— Sweetcaligurl (@Sweetcaligurl07) July 6, 2024

The cause of Mullen’s death has yet to be determined.

Currently, an autopsy report by the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Department is pending.

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The Bomb Is Still With Us

The Bomb Is Still With Us

A harrowing depiction of a nuclear apocalypse made this reviewer lose sleep.

Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen. Dutton, 400 pages.

There are two characteristic genres of American non-fiction in the 20th century: the self-help book and the disaster book. One might identify them as the secularized forms of two strains in American Protestantism, the Calvinistic work ethic and the doctrine of a predestined and very sticky end for the mass of humanity. Indeed, you can find a fair amount of overlap between the secular and the still explicitly religious iterations: The Late Great Planet Earth. 

The disaster book is, frankly, more interesting. The menu of options for being happier has been pretty fixed since the dawn of antiquity—get rich, get good, or lower your standards. The onward march of science and technology, however, means that the gloomy among us usually have some fresh material to work with when turning to prophecy. Paul Ehrlich gives way to Al Gore; the human race keeps trotting along, sometimes doing things in reaction to the doomsayers—often very regrettable things, retrospectively—but mostly not doing much that they haven’t done for the past twelve millennia. The publishers stay more or less solvent, the prophets get to do a few TV hits and give a reading at the 92nd Street Y, and life goes on. It’s a fine system.

Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario is an instant classic of the genre. Jacobsen’s previous numbers have been sensational (some have said sensationalist) popular histories of the various bumps and protuberances on the shaggy beast of our military–industrial complex. In her vision of a possible future, North Korea launches a sneak attack on the Pentagon and a nuclear power plant in California; by a series of regrettable but plausible circumstantial occurrences, the Russians mistake our retaliation for a first-strike attack on Moscow and light us up, but good. Civilization and possibly the human race go up in a (very large, very unpleasant) puff of smoke. Perhaps worst of all, one of the only possible survival zones is Australia. 

Her “scenario” is replete with the gory details: people getting vaporized, people whose skin is burned off, people whose insides are liquefied by radiation poisoning, people suffocating in subway tunnels, everything on fire, and the air, water, and earth turned to poison on a permanent basis, at least as far as human timescales are concerned.

This horror—and it is horrible; this reviewer literally lost sleep—is not without its virtues. It is in fact true that, so long as the Bomb with a capital B is with us, we have the capacity to make the human race a thing of the past. When we look away from the hideous, it becomes more possible. Nuclear War makes you understand the triumphalism and the tragedy of the 1990s: We had survived the end of the world. We had been put to the test and been found of quality. And we thought we would never have to worry about that kind of danger again. Yet that kind of danger is closest when you aren’t worrying about it. 

Nations have still evinced a basic rationality when it comes to the Bomb. Think of the early support for a U.S.–enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine; as soon as people (including our collectively rather dim policymakers) figured out what exactly that entailed, the proposal was relegated to the sidelines among the unserious and the loony. Here is the basic weakness of Nuclear War. Jacobsen repeatedly refers to “madness” in the outbreak of nuclear war, and particularly the “mad king scenario”—she posits, more or less, that one day North Korea just lights the candle for reasons unknowable. Nuclear War uses the words “mad” and “madness” 22 times, “insane” or “insanity” seven times, and “irrational” twice. This is not how states, or any human institutions, behave—even North Korea. Sometimes they are obscure, sometimes they are mistaken, but they are rational. They do things for reasons, and those reasons are knowable. The fact that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction has kept great power war on ice for 80 years is a testament to the basic rationality of the international order.

There are some clear upshots here that nonetheless seem to get lost in the hurly-burly of foreign-affairs rhetoric. First and most blindingly obvious: There must always be a clear reason to prefer not going to nuclear war, an oddly hard lesson after the Second World War gave Americans an addiction to unconditional surrender. Attacks on the core territory of another nuclear power and the armed overthrow of a nuclear power’s government—in other words, existential threats—must be visibly off the table. (A lesson for our dangerous Ukraine fantasists.) A corollary to this is that a vigorous bilateralism must be cultivated even with—indeed, especially with—the absolute worst people you can imagine. You have to know what keeps them preferring not to go to nuclear war, what interests they regard as existential, how to bang out some kind of order where you are both kept short of the threshold of mass death.

Living with the Bomb in this always-aware, always-alert way seems to be the only way to go about life. Jacobsen seems sympathetic to banning the bomb. She ends a tangential account about an evolutionary biologist’s experiment with the comment, “A question remains: If the apes know how to get off the treadmill, why don’t we?” But to her credit, she does not engage in complicated imaginary constructs about how this could come to be. She’s just here to put the fear into you.

There is no doubt that she does so, tinny, fragmentary prose notwithstanding. (“When a 300-kiloton nuclear bomb detonates, it releases 300 trillion calories of energy within one-millionth [sic] of a second, a ridiculous amount of force for the average human mind to comprehend.” If it’s so ridiculous, why am I not laughing? “A grand evolutionary shift is underway. [graf break] Like after the dinosaurs.” Who writes like this? Am I reading Twitter?) Most frightening to the sober mind in daylight are the holes she identifies in the system: the shabbiness of American missile defense, the unreliability of Russian warning systems, the aporia about how to handle an electromagnetic pulse attack. The complacency of the ’90s, the feeling that all that is over, means these are not popular things for policymakers to talk about, especially in the abject embarrassment of the post-Bush, post-Obama national security establishment. Talking about weapons of mass destruction is an automatic hit to credibility. Yet they are still gaps, and gaps are dangerous. 

Yes, Jacobsen puts the fear in you. Yet there is a beauty there, too. The nuclear weapons system is the most intricate, elaborate, and vast man-made endeavor in human history—high technology in its ultimate form, physics, electronics, computing, communications, systems engineering. It is like one of the ancient liturgies, or like a horrible Busby Berkeley routine. Occult forces have always been checked or deployed by elaborate processes, Keys of Solomon and glyphs and seals and summoning rings. “We are as gods, and might as well get good at it,” as a counterculture sage of the Cold War era wrote. Might as well—or must.

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Christian Army Rises in San Francisco: A Response of Hope and True Freedom Following the Naked Pride Parade

Screenshot: @SophiaSLorey/X

Less than a week after one of America’s largest Pride festivals, where explicit displays of sexual behavior took place publicly, a Christian movement known as “California Will Be Saved” is taking a stand.

Look:

SAN FRANCISCO- First look at SF Pride where multiple men are fully exposed in front of young children and teens

Public nudity was outlawed in San Francisco back in 2012, but is still apparently legal at any parade, fair or festival held under a city- or government-issued permit pic.twitter.com/EdZooYrVwS

— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 30, 2024

This group is mobilizing an army of Christians and worshippers to flood the streets of San Francisco with a message of hope, true freedom, and the light of Jesus Christ.

“California Will Be Saved” is a movement that envisions a future where California is recognized for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The initiative seeks to spread the message of Christianity and the Great Commission throughout California, believing that transformative changes here can have a ripple effect across the globe.

Sophia Lorey, Outreach Director of CA Family Council, shared clips on her social media account showing Christians filling the streets with worship, prayer, and joy on Saturday.

“Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion. WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY,” Lorey wrote.

WATCH:

HAPPENING NOW in SAN FRANCISCO

Christians are flooding the streets with worship, prayer, and JOY

Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion.

WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY ‍ pic.twitter.com/aC9maiFUHG

— Sophia Lorey (@SophiaSLorey) July 6, 2024

In another post, she shared: “Mid – Jesus March to worship and dance in the streets. Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion. WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY.”

WATCH:

Tenderloin San Francisco

Mid – Jesus March to worship and dance in the streets.

Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion.

WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY ‍ @cawillbesaved pic.twitter.com/h6rz1Vd1On

— Sophia Lorey (@SophiaSLorey) July 6, 2024

The march has drawn people from all walks of life. “Jesus March! Truck Drivers are showing their Bibles, homeless are leaving their tents joining the march, neighbors are looking out the windows! Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion. WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY,” Lorey added.

WATCH:

Tenderloin San Francisco

Jesus March! Truck Drivers are showing their Bibles, homeless are leaving their tents joining the march, neighbors are looking out the windows!

Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion.

WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY‍ pic.twitter.com/CBXorN8REQ

— Sophia Lorey (@SophiaSLorey) July 6, 2024

In another post, Lorey posted a video with marchers singing “You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever God you reign.”

WATCH:

@cawillbesaved in San Francisco!

Singing “You have no rival, you have no equal, now and forever God you reign”

Last week they flooded these exact streets with sexual perversion.

TODAY WE ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT STORY ‍ pic.twitter.com/zNfrZ0nmlf

— Sophia Lorey (@SophiaSLorey) July 7, 2024

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Pennsylvania State Capitol Evacuated: Pro-Hamas Protestor Allegedly Sends Email Bomb Threat and Death Warnings ‘In the Name of Palestine’

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The Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex was evacuated on Saturday following an alarming bomb threat.

An email, sent to over 250 individuals including all Republican and Democratic members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, threatened to detonate “highly lethal” devices until President Joe Biden publicly denounces Israel.

The email was sent around 5:45 p.m. with the subject line “My manifesto,” claiming that lead azide devices were hidden in and around the Pennsylvania State Capitol and Pennsylvania Judicial Center, according to Pennlive.

The sender declared his intentions to trigger one device every few hours until Biden goes on national television to denounce Israel. He also claimed to be inside one of the buildings armed with a knife, vowing to remain there until his last breath.

The email reads:

“My manifesto

In the name of Palestine, I have hidden highly lethal lead azide devices in and around Pennsylvania State Capitol as well as the Pennsylvania Judicial Center.

I plan on triggering one device every few hours until Joe Biden goes on national television and publicly denounces the illegitimate state of Israel. Keep in mind I am inside one of the 2 buildings armed w/ a knife, and plan on remaining here to my dying breath!”

State Rep. Ryan Bizzarro confirmed the email, saying, “Can confirm. I’m tired of the foolery and unhinged behavior. Let’s hope they find this menace.”

Can confirm. I’m tired of the foolery and unhinged behavior. Let’s hope they find this menace. https://t.co/Pou315jmEZ

— REP. RYAN BIZZARRO (@RyanBizzarro) July 6, 2024

“Attention House Members and Staff — Vacate the Capitol Complex immediately. Do not reenter until cleared by Capitol Police,” instructed Michelle Richwine, a key official in the House of Representatives.

The Capitol Police, FBI, Pennsylvania State Police, House and Senate security, and the Dauphin County Sheriff’s office were all involved in ensuring the safety of the area.

No explosives were found during a K9 search of the perimeter, but a comprehensive search and investigation remained underway.

The communications director of the Pennsylvania Department of General Services issued a statement to WGAL regarding the incident:

“On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Capitol Police evacuated the Pennsylvania Capitol Complex and Judicial Center after a bomb threat was emailed to all members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The Capitol Police immediately worked with House and Senate security, as well as the Office of the PA Courts, to issue an immediate evacuation notice to those in the buildings.

“Capitol Police did not find any explosives during a K9 search of the perimeter of the Capitol Complex. Capitol Police and the FBI are still actively conducting a comprehensive search and investigation in coordination with the Pennsylvania State Police, House and Senate security, and the Dauphin County Sheriff’s office to ensure the safety of the area.”

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President Biden Has a Cold

President Biden Has a Cold

Medicalization comes for electoral politics.


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By my count, at least four major excuses have been offered for President Joe Biden’s astonishingly awful debate performance against the former President Donald Trump. 

It has been asserted that the 46th president and (at press time) presumptive Democratic nominee was suffering from some form of rebound jet lag resulting from prior international travel; has not been receiving sufficient sleep during the 18 hours that fall outside of his usual 10 a.m.–4 p.m. workday; was driven to exhaustion by debate prep; and was contending with a case of the common cold.

Among these alleged mitigating circumstances, the last claim is being pushed most consistently and aggressively by Team Biden. During her Wednesday briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre talked about Biden like he was a preschooler at home with a runny nose.

“You heard from him during the debate—he had a hoarse voice,” Jean-Pierre said of the president. “Many of you reached out to me and my team and some other members of the White House, asking what was going on, and we confirmed that he had a cold.”

Oh, and there was more:

“Have you had a cold before?” Jean-Pierre asked a Fox News reporter.

“Yes, his schedule did have something to do with it—it was the schedule and the cold,” she said.

“It’s a cold, guys,” she said. 

“He still has a lingering cold,” she said.

Stealthily, Jean-Pierre linked Biden’s cold diagnosis merely with his vocal hoarseness—a conceivable symptom of having a cold—but the cold story is obviously meant to cover a multitude of debate sins. Of course, none of this special pleading was trotted out to defend then-President Donald Trump’s poor showing in the first 2020 presidential debate—even though Trump tested positive for Covid-19 just a few days after the debate and his emergent unwellness might have plausibly explained his unsually combative, truculent mood that evening. 

In the case of Biden, however, the White House wants the public to believe that the common cold can result in an incredible assortment of “symptoms,” including the propensity to ramble, the tendency to stare with one’s mouth ajar, the temporary belief in the existence of trillionaires, and the possibility of confusing tax policy (or something) with Covid policy (or something). Colds apparently also now cause their victims to not just appear mildly ill but to take on the appearance of the host of Tales from the Crypt. (While watching the debate, my head was ringing with the immortal words of Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie Freaky Friday: “I’m like the Crypt Keeper!”) 

Strangely, none of the above-named “symptoms” are identified on the Mayo Clinic’s list of actual common-cold symptoms, which include the more predictable and well-known sore throat, cough, sneezing, and so on. Left unanswered, too, is just how long Biden has had this cold, since his particular suite of “symptoms”—the rambling and the staring and all that—have been apparent for months and even years. We’ve all heard of the mysterious “long Covid,” but what about “long common cold”?

Why, then, is the Biden campaign banking its political fortunes on the president’s cold? 

In fact, the reason has a certain logic—even a certain devious brilliance—to it. Like everyone else, Team Biden has observed just how neurotic, germophobic, and willing to accept medical explanations for everything many Americans have become in the 21st century. Coming down with a cold is the preferred excuse for skipping school, missing work, fobbing off chores on a spouse, child, or neighbor, not being up to par during a meeting, and watching Netflix all day long. I do not exempt myself from using colds as catch-all excuses for not doing something or going somewhere. 

Similarly, the fear of coming down with a cold inspires its own sort of madness, including offering fist-bumps rather than handshakes, compulsively using hand sanitizer, and dodging coughers or sneezers in grocery store aisles. 

Since it governs a country mired in such behavior, the White House can hardly be faulted for assuming that Biden’s cold narrative will carry weight with some portion of the public.

Team Biden also remembers Covid, when nearly everything that had gone wrong in American life was attributed to “the pandemic.” A store is out of stock of something? It’s the pandemic. An escalator is broken and won’t get fixed for months? It’s the pandemic. A contractor estimates that it will take something like nine years to complete a home-renovation project? It’s the pandemic. And a president can’t put two thoughts together? He has a cold, guys!

On the heels of the debate, Biden relayed to Democratic governors that he had gotten a check-up, according to POLITICO. But the check-up was supposedly for the cold itself—as though the president’s problem was nasal congestion rather than cognitive decline! “The exam . . . was brief and did not include any major tests,” the website reported, citing a source familiar with Biden’s schedule. Indeed, presumably the tests administered were along the lines of Say aah.

In many ways, this pathetic explanation for Biden’s ongoing mental meltdown is what we deserve. We have come to live our lives in thrall to the power of illnesses, however fleeting and benign. We over-worry about getting sick, and we over-medicate when we do fall ill. We all display a conspicuous lack of hardiness. Is it so surprising, then, that the minders of the leader of the free world would attempt to excuse his incoherence by saying he had the sniffles? 

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