{"id":87814,"date":"2024-07-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87814"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:51:40","slug":"america-takes-a-six-month-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87814","title":{"rendered":"America Takes A Six Month &#8220;Lid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were told that Joe Biden is so on top of things, he can type in different languages on different iPhones at the same time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.35.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87815\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.35.47-PM.png 700w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.35.47-PM-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>most<\/em> credible people <em>ever<\/em>  &#8211; dare I say, our &#8220;best and brightest&#8221; &#8211; assured us that Joe Biden at 82 is like Chuck Norris at 40:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSmithKY\/status\/1806670112373567789\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then came Thursday night:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump vs Biden debate: five disastrous moments\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vq0G1TMCw4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And it took about four hours for all of that &#8220;Joe Biden is a modern titan!&#8221; to vanish down the memory hole:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.36.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.36.10-PM.png 703w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screen-Shot-2024-06-30-at-3.36.10-PM-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear in mind, that the Democrat establishment is panicked about their candidate&#8217;s electoral viability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the fact that he&#8217;s the guy with &#8220;the football&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the fact that America&#8217;s enemies, who&#8217;ve been feasting on America&#8217;s diminishing potency, have got to be looking at the fact that America is led by a senile man, his power-mad Edith Wilson-style wife, and a coterie of useless Ivy League political staffers and grifters, and seeing that the shelf date might just end in 2025, not 2029.  And maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/europe\/2024-06-30\/us-military-bases-germany-terrorism-threat-14342506.html\">planning accordingly<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>U.S. military bases in Europe were put on a heightened state of alert over the weekend as installations urged vigilance among their members. At U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, the Army garrison on Sunday issued a communitywide alert that the force protection threat level was elevated to condition \u201cCharlie\u201d until further notice. Similar directives were sent to other bases in Germany, including the Army\u2019s Rheinland-Pfalz and Ramstein Air Base, which together form the largest U.S. military community overseas. The Rheinland-Pfalz garrison alert includes Baumholder and outlying installations in Romania and Bulgaria. Aviano Air Base in Italy also rose its condition level to Charlie, and other installations in Italy introduced enhanced security measures. The Charlie threat level \u201capplies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely,\u201d according to the Army\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/europe\/2024-06-30\/us-military-bases-germany-terrorism-threat-14342506.html<br>Source &#8211; Stars and Stripes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a sneaking suspicion Iran and its proxies, and Red China and theirs, are seeing a six month opening to make hummus or kimchi while the sun shines on a world where the keepers of <em>Pax Americana <\/em>have taken an ice cream break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some are saying &#8220;I told you so&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1807757765655625890\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And they &#8211; we &#8211; are right, because that same media that ran interference and told us not to believe our lying eyes, is trying to gaslight us in the other direction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mckaycoppins\/status\/1807593757157605505\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So what options do they have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2024\/06\/29\/maher-matthews-why-wont-dems-just-hand-the-nomination-to-newsom-n3791163\">Pulling the plug on Biden may not be as simple as just having him step aside<\/a>, even if he releases the 99% of the convention delegates currently committed to him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>That brings us back to [Bill Maher&#8217;s proposal, in the post linked] of simply handing the nomination to the nearest white male while overlooking Biden&#8217;s current running mate, the black woman Biden selected to be the next in line. The center-Left part of the party might &#8212; <em>might<\/em> &#8212; go along with that idea out of desperation. The progressive Left, as Matthews astutely points out, would go into an utter meltdown. Harris&#8217; allies don&#8217;t want to win by giving up any power at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in a real sense, they&#8217;d be correct to oppose it. Harris may not have been on the primary ballots this year, but Biden won 99% of the delegates with Harris explicitly remaining on the ticket. Newsom never even bothered to enter the race. If Biden pulls out, those delegates may be released in a legal sense, but Harris and her progressive allies have a very good argument that primary voters endorsed her as well as Biden. And you&#8217;d better <em>believe<\/em> that the same progressives that are conducting Occupy operations on college campuses and highways to support radical jihadi terrorists in Gaza will show up in much more force if Democrats pull a back-room switcheroo that leaves Harris without a seat when the music ends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you&#8217;d better believe the center-Left knows it, too&#8230;having anointed her as capable of being One Heartbeat Away in not one but&nbsp;<em>two<\/em> presidential cycles now, Democrats can&#8217;t just toss her into the garbage now. How do they explain her being competent enough to be Biden&#8217;s backup but not to run in his place?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Long story short &#8211; the Dems may have no choice but to triple down on gaslighting the public.  They can count on it working with 33% of the population, anyway.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were told that Joe Biden is so on top of things, he can type in different languages on different iPhones at the same time. Remember this? The most credible people ever &#8211; dare I say, our &#8220;best and brightest&#8221; &#8211; assured us that Joe Biden at 82 is like Chuck Norris at 40: And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,425,20,13,421,367,368,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-campaign-defenestration","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-republicans","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting","category-trump","category-trump-derangement","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87814\/revisions\/87824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}