Joe Biden’s decision last weekend to drop out of the 2024 presidential race may have been somewhat sudden, but it was hardly shocking. The president’s poll numbers were approaching abysmal — especially given his incumbent status — and it was clear that the Democratic elite and big media had had it with Ol’ Joe. What has been considerably more shocking is the Democratic Party’s prompt and seemingly unanimous decision to fall in line behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Sure, there were sizable campaign funds tied to her candidacy, but Harris is hardly the ideal; her California record follows her, as does her vice-presidential approval rating. All of that, of course, puts a fair amount of pressure on Democrats to choose a running mate for her who can at least spar with JD Vance and at most make the Democratic ticket feel more presidential. (READ MORE: Kamala Almost Slid Into the White House by Disguise) As the week has progressed, it’s become clear that there are a number of Democrats coveting the spot, but the one who comes out of left field as potentially the best match against Vance is Gov. Andy Beshear, who managed to win reelection by a large margin in deep-red Kentucky just last November. Beshear is certainly aware that he’s on the shortlist. Shots Fired Over Authentic Appalachian Identity It didn’t take him long to endorse Harris and declare war on Vance on the now-dying Morning Joe show on MSNBC. “I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like, because let me just tell you that JD Vance ain’t from here,” Beshear said. “The nerve that he has to call the people of Kentucky, of Eastern Kentucky, lazy. Listen, these are the hard-working coal miners that powered the Industrial Revolution, that created the strongest middle class the world has ever seen, powered us through two world wars. We should be thanking them, not calling them lazy.” (READ MORE: Ten Days That Changed the World?) Vance heard shots fired and wasted little time in firing back, telling reporters: “Eastern Kentucky will always have a special place in my heart…. It’s very weird to have a guy whose first job was at his dad’s law firm and inherited governorship from his father criticize my origin story.” Somehow, in an unexpected turn of events, it looks like the 2024 presidential election may just turn into a squabble over the Appalachian vote. Vance is right to call out Beshear’s criticism as “weird.” If we’re going to compare backstories, Beshear’s father served in the Kentucky House of Representatives, as the state’s attorney general, and as the lieutenant governor before serving as the governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. Beshear has followed in his footsteps closely. He was hired by Stites & Harbison — the law firm where his father was a partner — in 2005, just two years after getting his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Sure, Vance ended up making his fortune in Silicon Valley, but he didn’t start out that way. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, in a family marked by poverty, abuse, and drug addiction. His ticket out was the Marines and hard work, not his parents’ networking abilities and fundraising hacks. Beshear’s Bipartisan Appeal Isn’t as Impressive as It Seems What Beshear has going for him, as far as Democrats are concerned, is his record of appealing to Republican voters. Kentucky isn’t exactly a purple state. In 2016, Donald Trump won 62.5 percent of the vote while Hillary Clinton managed to pull just 32.7 percent. In 2020, Trump won 62.1 percent of the vote compared to Joe Biden’s 36.2 percent. Additionally, Republicans have maintained control of the Kentucky Legislature (both House and Senate) since 2017. But despite a history of leaning very Republican, Kentucky voters seem to like Andy Beshear. Not only did they reelect him just last November, but he is the second-most-popular governor in the country, with an approval rating of 65 percent. How has he pulled off that miracle in America’s hyper-polarized political landscape? In 2023, Beshear didn’t campaign on Biden administration talking points — he didn’t even get Biden to endorse him. He campaigned on mundane issues we all agree on: Fix the infrastructure and reduce the cost of living. (READ MORE: Harris Has Virtually Disavowed Her Career as a Prosecutor) That strategy doesn’t exactly work when you’re campaigning alongside Kamala Harris. Besides, even if Beshear didn’t campaign on his progressive strategies in Kentucky, he still has a very progressive record. He’s allowed felons to vote, toed the Democrat COVID line obediently in 2020, and has led the charge on legalized sports betting, marijuana decriminalization, and abortion. And while he likes to position himself as someone who can work across the aisle, Republicans in the state say otherwise. “He likes to portray himself like Mr. Rogers, which is totally ridiculous. He comes from a very partisan family,” GOP Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer told NBC. “We have overridden more than 100 of his vetoes.” To be fair to Democrats, Beshear doesn’t look too bad on paper. What they may discover, however, is that voters outside of Kentucky may find him less than charming when paired with Kamala Harris. The post Andy Beshear: The Surprising Player In Kamala’s Veepstakes appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

A crazy thing happened on the way to the glue factory. George Clooney, the New York Times editorial board, and other truly powerful Democrats allowed the president of the United States to say goodbye before he reincarnated inside a squeeze bottle of Elmer’s. A glassy-eyed and marble-mouthed Joe Biden told the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday that he “cherry that cause” of democracy and that he planned to “keep keep speaking out.” The line, “We finally beat Big Pharma,” told viewers without telling them that he meant to say just that when he strangely spoke about defeating Medicare during June’s politically fatal debate with Donald Trump. Similarly, he never explicitly said why he dropped out of the presidential race. He did not need to. His mechanical, albeit in a rumble-seat jalopy way, reading of the speech told everyone why without telling anyone why. He claimed, “I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation.” He did not decide this. A bunch of people with impressive bank accounts and unfamiliar names did. Yes, a man who said a sober truck driver “drank his lunch” before the fatal crash that killed his daughter and wife and maintained that his son “lost his life in Iraq” when he died of brain cancer in Maryland six years after his service abroad ended also lied about the manner of death of his political career. He also invented a preposterous creation story of meeting his second wife, which supposedly involved a chance sighting of a beautiful woman in an airport advertisement leading to a date to see A Man and a Woman, a movie about a widower given a second chance at love, which in turn led to marriage. In reality, according Jill Biden’s former husband, they met while the very married Jill volunteered for his campaign (and presumably much else). In 1987, he falsely told a New Hampshire voter asking about his credentials that he won “the outstanding student in the political science department” at the University of Delaware, where he “graduated with three degrees,” before going “to law school on a full academic scholarship” and finishing “in the top half.” He expropriated the life story of British politician Neil Kinnock by claiming, in plagiarizing nearly verbatim Kinnock’s stump speech from the same year, that “my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeastern Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours,” exposure of which forced a 1987 exit from the 1988 presidential race. He recounted holding “the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see” Nelson Mandela. This never happened. He repeatedly claimed that he logged more miles on Amtrak than on Air Force 2, which would mean a million miles on the train service (or Washington to Wilmington every day for a quarter century). The Amtrak employee who Biden insisted told him this retired in the early 1990s and died before the then-vice president hit the million mark on Air Force 2. Joe Biden never drove a tractor trailer for a living, never experienced his house burning down with his wife in it, and never played football for the University of Delaware. “When you elected me to this office, I promised to always level with you, to tell you the truth,” Biden told the American people on Wednesday. “And the truth, the sacred cause of this country, is larger than any one of us.” Indeed, it is. But Joe Biden, who stands out as a liar in a profession known for them, has never conducted himself in a way that suggests that he believes that. This seems especially applicable to his continued, unsubtle framing of the upcoming election as a choice between democracy and dictatorship even as he, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, exhorts listeners to “see those we disagree with not as enemies but as fellow Americans.” The latter followed from the former not logically but as self-absolution. He, or his speechwriters, want the cake and to eat it too, i.e., they want to affix the nastiest political swearwords to their enemy (fascist, dictator, authoritarian, etc.) without taking responsibility for how such demagoguery inspires the feeble-minded or feeble-souled. One can only call someone Hitler so many times before someone acts upon the information. “America’s going to have to choose between moving forward and backward, between hope and hate, between unity and division,” the octogenarian warned Wednesday. In turning away from his candidacy, maybe America already has. READ MORE: Kamala Almost Slid Into the White House by Disguise Obama Decided Biden’s Fate, and Democratic Elite Got Their Way The post To the Glue Factory — <i>Go</i>! appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Luckily for JD Vance, Kamala Harris showed her lack of respect for her position as president of the Senate while aiming for a cheap point against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to maintain her radical left creds, when he addressed a joint session of Congress this week. Her low and discourteous gesture aligns her with the representative from Michigan who was there brandishing signs accusing Netanyahu of war crimes while anti-American thugs outside soiled Union Station and nearby statues while burning Old Glory and raising Hamas’s Jolly Roger. Such ugly gestures overshadow Vance’s absence from what should have been a must-attend event; but he would be well advised to hurry up and find a way to make up what could be held against him later as the slighting of an ally. Israel’s fighting prime minister evoked an address in the same place by Winston Churchill with the same inspiring effect. He hammered at the same theme the great Englishman brought to Washington during another crisis, 80 years ago: indispensable allies must stand together in a fight between civilization and barbarism, and since we — England in 1940, Israel today — are at the front line, you must not flag in your support: “Give us the tools,” Netanyahu quoted Churchill, “we’ll do the job.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was rousing, but it was also quietly reassuring. Such a seeming contradiction is possible: read the Psalms and you find again and again the deep confidence to stay the course against all difficulties, combined with a fierce determination to trust the Lord to bring you to success. The young Israeli soldiers who were present reminded Americans that Israel is a free country, with rights for all faiths and backgrounds, and they also were there to express the quiet strength and courage that Israel’s fight requires, as did England’s. One of the prime minister’s compatriots is a young sergeant who lost an arm and an eye protecting his men in Gaza: when fully rehabbed, Netanyahu said, he will return to the front as a tank commander. The others, including one from a Muslim-majority village and another from an Ethiopian family, had done feats of valor no less admirable; Israel represents the fight for life against the cult of death. Harris has, by all evidence, chosen her side; rioting and killing are fine if in service of a righteous cause, such as the destruction of a civilized society based on liberal democratic principles. This, after all, is what she labored for in cheering on and raising money for rampaging anti-American mobs during the summer of 2020, or promoting the decriminalization reforms in the judicial system that, along with the subversion of police departments’ ability to do their jobs, has contributed mightily to putting us on a path to perdition. But Vance nowise partakes of this way of thinking; his absence from the joint session represents a serious lapse of manners or a flawed political judgment. Does he mean to reinforce his image as a Jacksonian isolationist, unmoved by the heroism of our strongest allies in their time of need? But the Jacksonian tradition in America is quick to fight as soon as a cause we can readily understand comes to our attention. The line between Jacksonian and Wilsonian foreign policy is very clear: we go not abroad in search of dragons to destroy, says the former (which actually is a line from John Quincy Adams, who was no friend of Andrew Jackson!), and certainly not in search of strange faraway lands to turn into free and democratic societies like ours. But we never turn away from a righteous fight, either, and we get it done as quickly as possible. By contrast, the Wilsonian line, indeed from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (in sharp contrast with his father), is to get us into a briar patch from which we can never extricate ourselves. Vance surely knows this. He surely knows, as well, that the Trump-inspired Abraham Accords, which Netanyahu saluted in his speech, represents the best chance, after so many decades of failed solutions, to bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East. To give them a fresh momentum, with a security as well as an economic and political-diplomatic dimension, would be, as the prime minister said, a bold and grand vision for the next U.S. administration’s foreign policy. The post Where Was JD Vance? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

There is a connection between the conduct of Vice President Kamala Harris and the recent pro-Palestine violence that swarmed this week around Washington’s Union Station, mere blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Fox News has headlined:    Anti-Israel agitators stage massive protest in Washington, DC, amid Netanyahu’s US visit Hundreds of pro-Hamas agitators gathered near Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. At least one agitator was spotted with a Hamas flag. Others ripped American flags down, burning them on the ground. A large effigy of Benjamin Netanyahu was burned. The Fox story reported:  Anti-Israel protesters raised the Palestinian flag over Washington, D.C.’s Union Square on Wednesday during a chaotic protest in which an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an American flag were also burned. The protesters were demonstrating against Netanyahu’s address to Congress. To her credit, the vice president and soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee issued this statement:  I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews. Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation,” the vice president said in the statement issued by her office. “I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way. The problem? Those protestors were all leftists and “progressives.” The hard fact of the matter is that the American Left — the base of the Democratic Party — is hardcore anti-Semitic. And Harris is careful not to antagonize them. While Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was addressing the Congress this week, Harris made a point of snubbing him, choosing to be in Indiana talking to a sorority rather than, as is custom, presiding over the session by sitting behind Netanyahu with House Speaker Mike Johnson. The snubbing was noticed.  Former President Trump took notice, saying this of the flag burning protestors: If those people rioting in Washington yesterday were Republicans/Conservatives, they’d all be in jail right now, facing 10 to 20 year sentences. Under this Crooked Administration, nothing will happen to them! Exactly. So where is the Harris demand that the rioters and flag burners and monument defacers at Union Station be arrested and prosecuted as were those who rioted on Jan. 6? Nowhere.  Recall Harris saying this of Jan. 6:  On Jan. 6, we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful: The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos. … The answer to whether we will meet that test resides where it has always resided in our country – with you, the people,” she said. “We cannot let our future be decided by those bent on silencing our voices, overturning our votes, and peddling lies and misinformation. Right again. But there is a decided reason why Harris is not demanding the Netanyahu rioters be arrested and jailed for their violence. That reason is, but of course, that she cannot afford to antagonize the considerable anti-Semitic wing of her party.  There’s even more to this problem that the Democrats have with anti-Semitism. Over in the New Republic, there is this headline:  The One Vice Presidential Pick Who Could Ruin Democratic Unity Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party. And why would Shapiro — my governor here in Pennsylvania — be capable of ruining “Democratic Unity”? Because — buckle in — Shapiro is Jewish. The New Republic story says:   This is a hopeful moment for the whole left-liberal coalition. The vibes, for once, are good. Almost every leftist I know is excited about Harris and thinks Trump is beatable. With a newly united party behind her, there are only so many ways Harris can screw it up, but one seems all too plausible: She could select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate. … Unfortunately, Shapiro also stands out among the current field of potential running mates as being egregiously bad on Palestine. … Shapiro is an observant Jew with personal ties to Israel; on October 7, he tweeted, “Our family has shared many special moments in Israel and our hearts break for those living this horror now.” If selected as Harris’s running mate and subsequently elected, he would become the first Jewish vice president in American history (a distinction narrowly missed by the late Joe Lieberman when Republicans stole the 2000 election). … Picking Josh Shapiro as her running mate would send a very different message, and would discourage precisely the people she needs to ensure her victory over Trump. In other words? Josh Shapiro is Jewish. And in today’s political world, on the left there is no room for a Jew on the Democrat ticket with Kamala Harris. Will Harris have the guts to pick Shapiro anyway? Will she have the courage at a minimum to publicly rebuke the anti-Semites in the Democrat Party? So far — all too predictably — there is nothing but silence from the soon-to-be Democrat presidential nominee when it comes to rebuking the anti-Semitic wing of her party.  And Pennsylvania’s Gov. Josh Shapiro? He may be paying the price for Harris’s kowtowing to her party’s considerably visible base of anti-Semites. Simply because he’s Jewish. Not good. Not good at all. The post Kamala’s Anti-Semitism Problem appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

In the rare moments when Democrats aren’t painting former President Donald Trump as the greatest threat to democracy and the future of our nation, they remember the other existential threat: climate change.  Take it from President Joe Biden, who managed to squeeze in two references to the so-called climate crisis while addressing the nation about all the other crises facing the nation. During his Monday call-in to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign event in Delaware, Biden reminded his loyal listeners of the stakes of the election.  After warning the audience that “Trump is still a danger to the community, he’s a danger to the nation,” he upped the ante: “Climate still is the existential threat that we face, and we have — if we don’t — if we don’t win this thing, it’s all in jeopardy.” Biden revisited the theme in his Wednesday night address to the nation, promising to “keep speaking out to protect our kids from gun violence, our planet from the climate crisis” during his remaining time in office. After all, “It is the existential threat.”  If Democrats don’t win in November, democracy will die — and so will the planet. But while this rhetoric may sit well with the Biden–Harris administration and rank-and-file Democrat voters, several individuals on Harris’s roster of vice presidential options have adopted a more moderate approach to the climate issue. And if Harris wants to win Pennsylvania and its coveted 19 electoral votes, she may need to do the same.  Harris’s record on climate issues is anything but moderate. As a senator, she was an original sponsor of the Green New Deal, working with far-left legislators Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders to push a radical climate agenda. As vice president, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote for Biden’s disastrous Inflation Reduction Act. On the international stage, Harris has been an outspoken proponent of extreme climate action. (RELATED: Climate Change Socialism on the Attack) Just last year, she flew to Dubai to wax poetic on the existential threat of climate change. (Carbon emissions don’t count if you’re flying to save the planet.) “The urgency of this moment is clear,” Harris said. “The clock is no longer just ticking, it is banging. And we must make up for lost time.” But it’s not clear that all her potential running mates are as attuned to the, um, banging clock.  Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has been floated as a frontrunner in the veepstakes — a more traditional Democrat with swing-state appeal capable of making Kamala’s California progressivism palatable to non-coastal voters. As the governor of Pennsylvania, which is the nation’s second-largest net supplier of energy after Texas and the second-largest producer of natural gas, Shapiro takes a more moderate approach to the Left’s climate fanaticism. Where Harris supports a ban on fracking — a ban that even Biden opposed — Shapiro has green-lit the practice in Pennsylvania, albeit with additional hoops for oil and gas companies to jump through. Vehement opposition to domestic energy production might play well for California Democrats, but it’s political suicide in Pennsylvania.  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, another member of the shortlist, takes a more pragmatic approach than Harris. As governor of one of the nation’s top coal-producing states, Beshear “doesn’t discuss the climate crisis while tangling with a legislature run by a Republican supermajority,” per the New York Times.  Other individuals currently undergoing the vetting process, like Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, have managed climate issues with less political tact, pushing ahead liberal climate legislation and putting ideology ahead of pragmatism.  The vast majority of power players in the Democrat party are comfortable trotting out boilerplate language about how climate change is an existential threat to the nation, though few can actually substantiate the claim. At this point, it’s a given: the Left fights against fossil fuels and domestic energy production as a matter of principle. But a number of blue-collar Democrat voters — the dying breed of moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin — aren’t on board with radical policies designed to handicap American industry and energy security. And with Biden out of the presidential race, Kamala has little tie to her party’s traditional working-class roots.  Ultimately, her choice is a false binary. Though the VP field may seem divided between individuals who would either moderate her West Coast progressivism or double down on her Green New Deal-style radicalism, the eventual vice presidential candidate will be playing second-fiddle to a presidential candidate who has already made her position clear. Harris has no qualms about desiccating American energy production. Freed from their gubernatorial handcuffs, Shapiro and Beshear would quickly fall into line, even if they maintained a pragmatic posture on the campaign trail.  Voters should take note: half-measures don’t suffice when the stakes of an election are “existential.”  Mary Frances Myler is a contributing editor at The American Spectator. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2022.  READ MORE by Mary Frances Myler:  Want to Be a Rebel? Be a Conservative. Poland Caves to Foreign Pressure, Introduces Bill to Allow Same-Sex Unions  Six States Put Abortion on the Ballot, With More to Follow The post Kamala Supports a Radical Climate Agenda — But Will Her VP? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The Democratic Party ruling class’s bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than I have been alive. Biden had been defiant ever since the June 27 presidential debate debacle that he was not going anywhere, despite overwhelming pressure from party elites and sycophantic media lapdogs demanding he do precisely that. He has a Lady Macbeth-like wife who craves power, and he has a felonious son in desperate need of a presidential pardon. Yet the coup succeeded. Biden became the first incumbent president to not seek reelection after his first term since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Biden made the much-anticipated announcement not with a solemn Oval Office address — that came three days later, and he didn’t even explain his decision. Rather, he issued a bedridden tweet — from a personal, not even official, account. It’s the equivalent of divorcing your wife over text message. As if that weren’t crazy enough, the announcement came smack in the middle of a five-day period in which Biden was not publicly seen, and during which he apparently experienced an unspecified medical emergency. Suspicious much? The Democrats’ decision to coup their own president is a curious one, on the political merits. Hold aside the galling hypocrisy of the purported party of “democracy” trying to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under an outlandish constitutional theory while simultaneously attempting to bankrupt, prosecute, and incarcerate him on equally spurious grounds. Hold aside the self-proclaimed party of “democracy” feigning ignorance over how its overheated rhetoric laid the seeds for their political opponent’s recent near-assassination, and its continuing to depict that opponent as an existential threat to the American constitutional order. And hold aside that purportedly “democratic” party deposing its own presumptive elected nominee — a stark reversal from its presidential primary, when party poobahs worked hard to shut out all viable competition. Somewhere in Minnesota, Dean Phillips would like a word. Hold all that aside. Because even on its own terms, the coup of Biden for cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris is going to spectacularly backfire on the Democrats. Already, Democrats and the corporate media have been working hard to “define” Harris for the American people. At times, this has included some rather dubious retconning, such as magically pretending she wasn’t the Biden administration’s appointed “border czar.” (She was.) But the even bigger problem for Democrats is that Harris is not an unknown commodity. On the contrary, she is a very well-known commodity — one who just happens to be about as popular with the American public as venereal disease. Harris’ current average approval rating is under 38 percent, and an NBC News poll last June found her to be the single least popular vice president in American history — only 32 percent of Americans had a positive view of her, putting her 17 points underwater. Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign was an absolute dud, self-imploding well before the first primary votes were cast. And as recently as a month or two ago, Democratic elites were openly discussing whether she could still be dropped as Biden’s 2024 running mate. Funny how quickly one can go from weakest link to great savior of “Our Democracy.” Practically, the path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history. Do Democrats really think Harris’ support for the Green New Deal and a national fracking ban will play well in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania, or in the auto factories of Detroit? Will white working- and middle-class voters concerned about skyrocketing crime look favorably upon Harris’ enthusiastic support for the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which racked up $2 billion worth of property damage? It’s not that Uncle Joe, seemingly about to keel over and die at any moment, found himself in much better political shape. But in addition to the gross hypocrisy of their coup that has dealt yet another fatal blow to their specious claim to “defend democracy,” Democrats have also set themselves up for political failure. They would have been better off trying to limp across the finish line with their grievously wounded incumbent of a nominee, rather than changing horses mid-race. The 14 million people who voted for Biden in the Democratic primaries ought to be livid. Rust Belt voters ought to be bemused. But Trump and running mate J.D. Vance ought to be ecstatic. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The post The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

7/20 Butcher Babies (pictured above) announce via social media they have parted ways with singer Carla Harvey (pictured above). The band thanks Harvey for her dedication and Harvey thanks fans for their support. She was with Butcher Babies for fifteen years (5 albums/2 EPs). 7/21 Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash cancels four tour dates of his “S.E.R.P.E.N.T.” (Solidarity, Engagement, Restore, Peace, Equality N’ Tolerance) Blues tour to mourn the death of his stepdaughter Lucy-Bleu Knight (daughter of Meegan Hodges), who died on July19th at the age of 25. 7/21 The Who’s “Tommy” closes on Broadway. The Rock opera originally ran on Broadway from ’93 through ’95. The revival of the show at the Nederlander Theater opened earlier this year and closes after 132 standard performances and 20 previews. 7/22 John Mayall, legendary Blues musician and founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, has dies at the age of 90. As a singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned decades and was often referred to as the “godfather of the British Blues.” 7/24 Jane’s Addiction unveil “Imminent Redemption,” the first release by the ‘classic lineup’ consisting of vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery, in 34 years. 7/26 Ghost deliver the “Rite Here Rite Now Soundtrack.” The concert film was recorded at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA on the final two North American dates of the band’s ’23 Re-Imperatour tour. “The Future Is A Foreign Land,” a “newly uncovered 1969-era” track is included. 7/26 Verni’s second solo effort “Dreadful Company” arrives. “So psyched to finally do a Punk-ish record,” enthused D.D. Verni, a founding member of Thrash Metal’s Overkill. The singles are “Lunkhead” and “Cemetery Safari.” ### The post The Week In Rock: July 20th – July 26th appeared first on RockinTown.

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by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics: FBI Director Wray has made it clear, and now we know why the snipers could not soot the assassin before he shot Trump. It is so obvious; why did we not understand this? The sniper was aiming at an area that is outside the Security Zone, but he was not […]