It's time for several Republicans to quit the presidential race . . . The biggest loser of the Republican Party’s presidential debate last week was former President Donald Trump. According to Ipsos polling of Republican primary voters, every participant
in Wednesday night’s debate gained voters who are considering supporting them in the primary. Trump and all other candidates who failed to make the stage lost possible voters. Some candidates performed better than others, and some, irrespective of their debate performance, are to be preferred over others. It is time for several candidates to exit the race. Four candidates have what it takes to take command in the Oval Office. All would also be much more effective general election candidates, and
presidents, than Trump. Washington Examiner
Hmm. We shall see about that. Isn't it what The Commentariat were saying in 2016? What do y'all think?
Wagner
warlord’s reported death is straight out of Putin’s blood-spilling playbook . . . By Rebekah Koffler. A former KGB operative, Putin has always been unambiguous about treason and traitors, who, in his view, deserve severe punishment. "Treason is the biggest crime on earth, and traitors must be punished," Putin said in 2019.
There are multiple punishment tools in Putin’s playbook. It is underpinned by an entire doctrine called "Wet Deeds" (mokryye
dela, in Russian), which was developed by Soviet intelligence, to eliminate "the enemies of the state." "Wet deeds" — also translated as "wet affairs" or "wet works" — are targeted assassinations, bearing a codename that refers to the spilling of blood. They include killings, kidnappings, poisonings, "forced suicides" and other acts of intimidation and murder. Fox News
ALERT:
Catch me today on Fox Business at 11:50 am Eastern. Unpacking Russia-Ukraine endless war and Putin's probable
assassination of Wagner warlord Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
Politics
The Race to
Succeed President Biden Is Heating Up on the 2024 Campaign Trail . . . High-profile Democratic governors are stumping for President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and simultaneously auditioning to become the party’s next standard-bearer. Their efforts signal they are unlikely to cede that role in 2028 to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose sluggish approval ratings have raised doubts among some donors and party officials about whether she can effectively succeed Biden. California
Gov. Gavin Newsom has toured red states such as Idaho, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama to campaign for Biden and other Democrats, and earlier this year launched a political-action committee targeting Republican policies. He has found a foil in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a contender for the 2024 Republican nomination. They have run attack ads against each other, sparred over issues such as climate change, abortion rights and gun control and agreed to a debate moderated by Sean Hannity on Fox
News. Wall Street Journal
Republican contender Tim Scott wins early edge in battle for airwaves . . . Republican senator Tim Scott and groups backing his US presidential campaign have spent almost $50mn on adverts in this election cycle — more than any other contender — giving him a head start in the battle for the airwaves ahead of the party’s nomination contest. A majority of the ads —
more than $36mn worth — will air after Labor Day (next Monday. Scott has been one of the earliest beneficiaries of the faltering campaign of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Financial Times
Nikki Haley Says Trump Is The Most ‘Disliked Politician’ In America, Polling Shows It’s Mitch McConnell . . . Nikki Haley is out with a new talking point. At Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, the ex-U.N. ambassador called former President Donald Trump “the most disliked
politician in all of America.” The former South Carolina governor repeated the line Thursday in a mid-day interview on Fox News. “He’s the most disliked politician in all of America. That’s reality. And that person can’t win a general election,” Haley said on “America’s Newsroom.” Except on this question, the polling is not even close. That title belongs to Senate Minority Mitch McConnell. Federalist
The lady is such a Washington Establishment operative.
Ramaswamy camp uses Haley’s first name in attack that has critics raising eyebrows . . .
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is hitting back at GOP nomination rival Vivek Ramaswamy, who called her "lying Namrata (sic)," referencing her given Indian name and originally misspelling it on the website. In an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday, the former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as ambassador to the United Nations said she's "not going to get into the childish name-calling" and that Ramaswamy should "know better than that." Fox News
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China,
Russia behind largest cross-platform misinformation operation, Meta report finds . . . An explosive new report Meta released Tuesday exposes covert misinformation operations from China and Russia targeting the United States. Organizations which were targeted include The Washington Post and NATO. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, reported that the campaigns were designed to turn China’s human rights record in a positive light and twist the perception of Russia’s war in Ukraine as a
Ukrainian attack on democracy. For the first time ever, Meta was able to attribute the massive disinformation campaign to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement. Fox News
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FBI scrambling to track migrants who entered US with help of ISIS-linked smuggler . . . The FBI is reportedly scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who sought asylum in the US earlier this year after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who
has ties to ISIS.
Officials are working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry into the country. NY
Post
Russian man charged with spying on United States, Sweden . . .
Sweden charged a man on Monday with spying on it and the United States on behalf of Russia and unlawfully transferring advanced technology to Russia's armed forces over a nine-year period. Prosecutors indicted Sergej Skvortsov, a citizen of both Sweden and Russia, on charges of gross unlawful intelligence activity against the two countries between 2013 and 2022. The 60-year-old's lawyer said he denied any wrongdoing. Fox News
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U.S.,
Allies Seek Long-Term Military Aid for Ukraine to Show West’s Resolve . . . The Biden administration and its European allies are laying plans for long-term military assistance to Ukraine to ensure Russia won’t be able to win on the battlefield and persuade the Kremlin that Western support for Kyiv won’t waver. The effort, building on commitments made at a Group of Seven leaders meeting on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in July in Vilnius, Lithuania, so
far involves bilateral negotiations between the U.S. and Ukraine and the U.K. and Ukraine. About 18 non-G-7 countries have signed up to the group’s pledge to provide long-term assistance to Kyiv, including the Netherlands, Sweden and other European countries. Wall Street Journal
Ukraine is Biden's Afghanistan 2.0. The establishment creatures are very slow learners. Took'em 20 years, $2.2 trillion, and 6000 American lives to realize that
Afghanistan is not a democracy material, only to have Taliban back in charge.
Money
IRS announces changes impacting catch-up contributions . . . The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is changing limits on Americans’ catch-up contributions to their retirement accounts that will be in effect through 2025. The IRS announced Friday that it’s
putting an administrative transition period in place until 2026 to extend the new requirement that catch-up contributions made by higher-income individuals participating in a 401(k) or similar retirement plan be treated as after-tax Roth contributions. The change delays the implementation of a rule that Congress approved last year as part of the Secure 2.0 Act. Fox Business
Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations . . . The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled the first 10 prescription drugs that will be subject to price negotiations between manufacturers and Medicare, kicking off a controversial process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans. President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in a party-line vote last year, gave Medicare the power to directly
hash out drug prices with manufacturers for the first time in the federal program's nearly 60-year history. The agreed-upon prices for the first round of drugs are scheduled to go into effect in 2026. Here are the 10 drugs subject to the initial talks this year. CNBC
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Mayors Who Cut Police Budgets Get Their Own Security . . . DetailsPolice departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as those mayors cut funding
and positions in those departments. The Los Angeles Police Department’s more than $1.8 billion budget initially was cut by $150 million in 2020 (a portion of the cut was restored in 2021), eliminating about 500 officer jobs. Daily Signal
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Hunter
biz partner Devon Archer met with then-Secretary of State John Kerry . . . Hunter Biden’s former business partner and fellow Burisma board member, Devon Archer, met with then-Secretary of State John Kerry just weeks before the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma was fired in 2016. Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired on March 29, 2016, less than four weeks after Archer met with Kerry at the State Department in Washington, D.C., according to a State
Department email. White House Dossier
Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations . . . The Associated Press, the country's top wire service, is now bankrolled in part by millions of dollars from left-wing foundations, including one founded by "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah-Jones. The news organization last year announced a series of "partnerships" to subsidize
reporters covering climate change, race, and democracy. A review of the donor roster shows that the vast majority fund left-wing political causes, while none are supporters of conservative initiatives. Free Beacon
One At
Renaissance Faire Wearing Deodorant . . . SOUTH JORDAN, UT — Attendees at this weekend's popular Renaissance Faire kept with the spirit of the event by not wearing deodorant or taking a shower before donning heavy tunics and cloaks in the 90-plus degree weather.
"HERE YE HERE YE!" Marus T. Whetherford, Renaissance Faire Town Cryer and local GameStop employee bellowed at guests entering the fair. "In keeping with a decree from the King himself, all citizens caught using underarm witchcraft to cloak their scents will be forthrightly expelled from the premises!"
In a long parchment scroll hung by the ticket booth, guests were informed deodorant and antiperspirants were an anachronistic affront to the spirit of the event and all who wished to enter the fairgrounds would need to have at least a 4-day stank on them. Babylon Bee
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