Xtrix already in defense mode. Didn’t take long.

Crazy photo.

Sure but he is President and campaigning for a second term, so he can't avoid going on TV, which means similar things will keep happening.

Yeah, I’m curious to see what his statement about the attempt will be, especially since he’s been saying we need to stop Trump for his whole presidency.

Never mind. His social media handlers have already pushed it.

Much of the details about Biden will be forgotten. But the image of Trump pumping his fist after an assassination attempt will reverberate through history. It’s quite profound to be privy to all this stuff.

Biden incited them to shoot Trump. Isn’t that how it works?

“We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."

- Joe Biden

Developing! Gunshots at rally! Trump shot in head!

In any case, if the difference between things depends (solely) on the relationships between them (e.g. position in space-time) then there is no value in considering the things.

It seems to me that the critical component is the relationships that differentiate.

I agree that relative position (relationships) individuate. Given this, individual substances have no intrinsic properties, essence or identity. In this light the distinction between one substance and many substances is moot.

The only thing of relevance to discuss is the relationships (position) that gives rise to the distinct perceptions.

The relationship is no big concern, in my view, nor of any particular relevance. What’s to discuss? The thing is everything, without which there would be no relationship or any other contrived measurement.

Federal whistleblowers testify against the Biden regime’s complicity in the exploitation and trafficking of migrant children.

What I discovered was horrifying… Make no mistake – children were not going to their parents they were being trafficked with billions of taxpayer dollars by a contractor failing to to vet sponsors and process children safely with government officials complicit in it.

Children were sent to addresses that were abandoned houses or non-existent in some cases

I like your account of it, but nominalism to me is a kind of metaphysical pluralism. There is no one substance, like matter, but an unfathomable many substances, individuated by their location in space and time. With this in mind it eliminates a whole host of metaphysical abstractions like universals, ideas, substances etc, at least wherever they are postulated to exist beyond body and language.

The Potemkin presidency

Biden accidentally calls Zelensky "President Putin" at NATO summit

"Now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies and gentlemen, President Putin,"

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/11/biden-zelensky-president-putin-nato

Glorious.

Essayist George Clooney drops some new propaganda.

George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html

We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.

That’s not how this works. Even though Democrat insouciance regarding democracy is well known, it becomes quite glaring when it is held against their rhetorical defense of it, something they’ve used to great effect in the ears of their base over the last few years.

Is it advisable for elites like Clooney to subvert the will of the voters at the same time they feign to protect us from threats to democracy? Probably not. But that’s the unprincipled and wind-sock mentality of that party in particular. Now that their great dictator isn’t operating at full steam, power escapes their grips, and power is the only thing they’ve wanted this whole time.

Imagine that.

What did Trump do that was authoritarian? Seriously? He tried to pressure the Republican Georgia secretary of state to "find" exactly the number of votes he needed to win.

Trump pressured Raffensperger to find the illegal votes, that is, he pressured him to find crime, as per his duty and mandate.

You aren’t limited to one act. At each moment there are an unfathomable series of acts being committed.

And it does matter. In one case the basic biology and metaphysics is dead wrong. Nothing else determines one’s actions. So why believe something else does?

Actual tears.

By the fact your conscious awareness, which is only in the top 10% of the brain, doesn't know all the processes that lead to a decision, only the final result. Yes, it's 'you' deciding, but you can't have decided differently.
It doesn't matter. We feel as if, think as if and act as if we were making original, independent decisions, so we may as well believe it.

I too think we should believe it. Nothing else in the universe is making these decisions, so in fact they are original and independent. Given this, we can conclude we could have acted differently for the simple reason we are not limited to only one act.

Rather, it appears that “conscious awareness” is the illusion.

Ouch. The New York Times is waging an all-out assault on Biden.

The Democratic Party Must Speak the Plain Truth to the President

The 2024 presidential election is not a contest between two men, or even between two political parties. It is a battle for who we are as a nation.

President Biden clearly understands the stakes. But he seems to have lost track of his own role in this national drama. As the situation has become more dire, he has come to regard himself as indispensable. He does not seem to understand that he is now the problem — and that the best hope for Democrats to retain the White House is for him to step aside.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/editorials/democrats-biden-truth.html

The arrogance of the media class is palpable, even more so when colliding against the arrogance of the Biden crime family. The best part is that this is the world they’ve made together. This is their vision, the product of their handiwork. And they can do no better than the dystopian future they imagine everyday in the midst of their moral panic.

If the “body and brain make the decisions”, and you are the body and brain, how are you not making decisions?

Are you not your brain and body?

Biden’s physician was also a family business associate

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/08/biden-physician-oconnor-family-business-00166934

They installed a corrupt vegetable to save us from the figments of their own fever dreams.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/us/politics/parkinsons-expert-white-house.html

You do. Each of us wills, controls, determines, decides, etc. our actions for the simple fact that nothing else does.

Biden is unequivocally staying in the race, despite the attempted coup against him and his voters.

The Achilles heel of modern totalitarian regimes is freedom of speech. It’s why they incessantly try to control the narrative with a mix of censorship, propaganda, and brute force. But all it takes is a small percentage of citizens to stop thinking in their terms and the downfall begins.

I agree with you. Whenever the state is weak, incompetent, or otherwise cannot reach, one can live relatively free. Nominal power, however frightening it may seem on paper, doesn’t necessarily translate into actual power.

These days “democracy” is largely an imposter term. All one needs to do is look at who is in power and notice the glaring fact that the demos is not one of them. The rhetoric serves only to butter up the demos so as to exploit them for votes.

Given this, it’s difficult to reconcile democracy and personal freedom, especially when the vast majority of human beings within these states are under a yoke of some kind, whether it be through taxation, regulation, or the myriad encroachments the state makes into their lives.

As for multiculturalism (as for all collectivisms), the theory suffers at its first and most basic metaphysical assumption, the existence of distinct groups, each with their own cultures, goals, and interests. There can be no ethnic and cultural pluralisms because there are no ethnicities and cultures.

When your own mental gymnastics convince you.

The President is both the head of state and head of government of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-executive-branch

After being embarrassingly outed for feeding the media questions in an effort to save the optics regarding his cognitive abilities, the Biden campaign is now saying it will stop doing so. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?

“Biden campaign will no longer feed questions to media after being outed by radio host: source”

https://nypost.com/2024/07/06/us-news/biden-campaign-will-no-longer-feed-questions-to-media-after-being-outed-by-radio-host-source/

Wow. A demented president and his crackheaded, deadbeat son are running the country.

As pliant minds blow in the wind like a wind-sock, another myth is dispelled.

They forgot that his agenda is called “Agenda 47”.

That's a dumb comment for a variety of reasons. How do they know the order changed? Because the FBI records. So we have a record of what was in it before the contents were shuffled. It's legally an inane point as to establishing what was kept and therefore no more than a delaying tactic. This was all from your link by the way. Maybe you should just learn to read instead of jerking off and getting excited because you think you're onto something everytime you read something critical about the government.

You’re parroting the government verbatim. You’re a lawyer, apparently, and you think the spoliation of evidence and lying about it to the court in one of the most unprecedented cases in the history of the country is irrelevant.Your readiness to believe everything you read has long been proven, so your characterizations don’t mean much to me. Maybe you shouldn’t feel so duty-bound to defend their actions every single time, for whatever reason.

First of all, I'm only quoting you so far. I assume you remember what you wrote a few hours ago so not sure what you're going on about. Whatever failings the investigation had, none of them gave rise to indictments, and none of them discount the multiple crimes Müller established in his investigation. The lie was yours to pretend the Müller report was fraudulent and didn't establish any crimes. It did. Multiple ones.

You quoted one clause out of an entire sentence, afraid to quote me in full, clearly trying to hide the context for whatever reason. Probably to draw attention away from the fact that you, like your fraudulent investigation, were duped by Clinton-campaign opposition research, which to this day a fact you refuse to mention. You, like Mueller, refuse to mention exculpatory evidence, or anything else that might point to how stupid the whole charade was.

The investigation was fraudulent, as is your continued parroting of it.

It's Müller where I'm from since we actually know how to spell a German name, so tough luck. In any case, Müller has repeatedly refused to exonerate Trump and he did so for a reason. So it's a misrepresentation on your part because you fail to include the fact that while the investigation doesn't prove it, it's because they were frustrated continuously in their investigation. In other words it was neither wasteful or fraudulent and should've been investigated further.

That’s right, you can’t name any evidence of Kremlin influence. You might want to stop lying about it.

In fact, it’s a double lie because you refuse to mention (even suspiciously removing it from the sentance you quoted) the failings of that investigation as discovered in subsequent investigations.

Irrelevant. If you think the order of the files in a specific box has any relevance as to the evidence of the content of that box then please make a cogent argument to that effect but on the face of it, it's just another delay.

If the files aren’t as one found there is no way to know the contents are accurate. Not only that but they lied to the court about it. Looks like you’re parrottting Jack Smith verbatim.

No. Those adjectives are unsuitable to something like The World. Only particular people are fair and just.

The level of fairness and justice increases and decreases according to the amount of fair and just people, by sheer force of addition and subtraction. Further, since he cannot improve society by any other means, the best one can do to bring about a fair and just world is to be fair and just, to present a fair and just unit.

This is a false representation of the Müller report. Stop lying.

His name is Mueller, not Müller.

Sorry, but “the investigation did not establish that the
Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities”.

What Kremlin influence on the presidency are you speaking about?

Not sure what you're referring to. Has there been a decision on this or are you just parroting Trump lawyers verbatim?

Of course you’re not sure. I’m referring to evidence and quotes as recorded in the case files. What are you referring to?

“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” prosecutors wrote, adding in a footnote: “The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/mar-a-lago-trump-classified-documents-00156124

That’s spoliation of evidence or mishandling of classified documents. What do you call it?

One of the more hilarious aspects about the tantrums one finds in American politics is that they are largely self-inflicted. The schemozzle about Biden's absent-mindedness, for instance, is the direct result of them lying to themselves. When a wasteful and fraud investigation didn't turn up Kremlin influence in the presidency, and implicated the opposing campaign, they blamed their victim and not their own lies. The recent Supreme Court rulings would not have happened had they not weaponized the justice system to go after their political opponents. The classified documents case might have occurred before the election had they not bungled it, tampered with evidence, or tried use it to influence the election.

Of course, there is always someone else to blame. Right at the moment when the delusion ought to be replaced with honest self-reflection, a new one takes its place, and the process begins all over again. No doubt, if/when Trump's felony conviction gets overturned for being a travesty of justice, they'll blame the ones who overturned it, and not the ones who brought and judged such a shit case. With this they can always remain in the delusion.

So much for democracy. Why do editorial boards believe they can speak for the voters?

Odd events.

Hunter Biden has joined White House meetings as he stays close to the president post-debate

While he is regularly at the White House residence and events, it is unusual for the president's son to be in and around meetings that his father is having with his team.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/hunter-biden-white-house-meetings-president-debate-rcna159975

According to the story Hunter Biden has been helping the elder Biden with his duties, for instance his most recent speech fear-mongering about the Supreme Court decision.

With all this rhetoric about convicted felons, it sounds like a convicted felon and drug addict is advising the president of the United States of America. These sort of ironies make politics fascinating to watch, even hilarious, if the stakes weren’t so high.

Sure, you name the timeframe and the example. I’m just curious.

I just wanted one example, actually, and for the reasons I’ve already mentioned. It’s common to think of the US as the great Satan, but when it comes from some panty-wasted fief in Europe I’m reminded of the hellish conditions hoisted upon the Earth by many countries there. But if you don’t want to do it, I’ll leave the issue alone.