Good Morning Viet Nam

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Today would have been Robin William’s birthday (born in 1951 and died August 11, 2014) and I think Good Morning Viet Nam is one of his most memorable movies.  Mental Floss had an article detailing 12 “surprising” things we might not know about him.  

From Mental Floss:

Robin Williams had a larger-than-life personality. On screen and on stage, he embodied what he referred to as “hyper-comedy.” Offscreen, he was involved in humanitarian causes and raised three children—Zak, Zelda, and Cody.

Since his untimely death on August 11, 2014, HBO has released the documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, directed by Marina Zenovich, which chronicles his rise on the stand-up comedy scenes during the 1970s, to his more dramatic roles in the 1980s and ‘90s in award-winning films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; Awakenings; The Fisher King; and Good Will Hunting. In 2018, a mural with Williams’s face on it went up in Chicago, his hometown; that same year, journalist Dave Iztkoff published the book Robin.

Here are some things you might not have known about the iconic funnyman.

1 Robin Williams got his start in comedy at a church.

After leaving Juilliard, Robin Williams found himself back in his hometown of San Francisco, but he couldn’t find work as an actor. Then he saw something for a comedy workshop in a church and decided to give it a shot. “So I went to this workshop in the basement of a Lutheran church, and it was stand-up comedy, so you don’t get to improvise with others, but I started off doing, ostensibly, it was just like improvising but solo,” he told NPR. “And then I started to realize, ‘Oh.’ [I started] building an act from there.”

2 He formed a friendship with Koko the gorilla.

In 2001, Williams visited Koko the gorilla, who passed away in June, at The Gorilla Foundation in Northern California. Her caregivers had shown her one of his movies, and she seemed to recognize him. Koko repeatedly signed for Williams to tickle her. “We shared something extraordinary: laughter,” Williams said of the encounter. On the day Williams died, The Foundation shared the news with Koko and reported that she fell into sadness.

3 He spent some time working as a mime in Central Park.

In 1974, photographer Daniel Sorine captured photos of two mimes in New York’s Central Park. As it turned out, one of the mimes was Williams, who was attending Juilliard at the time. “What attracted me to Robin Williams and his fellow mime, Todd Oppenheimer, was an unusual amount of intensity, personality, and physical fluidity,” Sorine said. In 1991, Williams revisited the craft by playing Mime Jerry in Bobcat Goldthwait’s film Shakes the Clown. In the movie, Williams hilariously leads a how-to class in mime.

4 He tried to get Lydia from Mrs. Doubtfire back in school.

As a teen, Lisa Jakub played Robin Williams’s daughter Lydia Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire. “When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film Mrs. Doubtfire for five months, and my high school was not happy,” Jakub wrote on her blog. “My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a ‘non-traditional’ student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.”

Sensing Jakub’s distress over the situation, Williams typed a letter and sent it to her school. “A student of her caliber and talent should be encouraged to go out in the world and learn through her work,” he wrote. “She should also be encouraged to return to the classroom when she’s done to share those experiences and motivate her classmates to soar to their own higher achievements … she is an asset to any classroom.”

Apparently, the school framed the letter but didn’t allow Jakub to return. “But here’s what matters from that story—Robin stood up for me,” Jakub wrote. “I was only 14, but I had already seen that I was in an industry that was full of back-stabbing. And it was entirely clear that Robin had my back.”

5 He wasn’t the producers’ first choice to play Mork on Mork & Mindy.

Anson Williams, Marion Ross, and Don Most told The Hallmark Channel that a different actor was originally hired to play Mork for the February 1978 Happy Days episode “My Favorite Orkan,” which introduced the alien character to the world. “Mork & Mindy was like the worst script in the history of Happy Days. It was unreadable, it was so bad,” Anson Williams said. “So they hire some guy for Mork—bad actor, bad part.” The actor quit, and producer Garry Marshall came to the set and asked: “Does anyone know a funny Martian?” They hired Williams to play Mork, and from September 1978 to May 1982, Williams co-headlined the spinoff Mork & Mindy for four seasons.

6 Williams “risked” a role in an Off-Broadway play.

In 1988, Williams made his professional stage debut as Estragon in the Mike Nichols-directed Waiting for Godot, which also starred Steve Martin and F. Murray Abraham. The play was held off-Broadway at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. The New York Times asked Williams if he felt the show was a career risk, and he responded with: “Risk! Of never working on the stage again! Oh, no! You’re ruined! It’s like you’re ruined socially in Tustin,” a town in Orange County, California. “If there’s risk, you can’t think about it,” he said, “or you’ll never be able to do the play.” Williams had to restrain himself and not improvise during his performance. “You can do physical things,” he said, “but you don’t ad lib [Samuel] Beckett, just like you don’t riff Beethoven.” In 1996, Nichols and Williams once again worked together, this time in the movie The Birdcage.

7 He ushered in the era of celebrity voice acting.

The 1992 success of Aladdin, in which Williams voiced Genie, led to more celebrities voicing animated characters. According to a 2011 article in The Atlantic, “Less than 20 years ago, voice acting was almost exclusively the realm of voice actors—people specifically trained to provide voices for animated characters. As it turns out, the rise of the celebrity voice actor can be traced to a single film: Disney’s 1992 breakout animated hit Aladdin.” Since then, big names have attached themselves to animated films, from The Lion King to Toy Story to Shrek. Williams continued to do voice acting in animated films, including Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Happy Feet, and Happy Feet 2.

8 He forgot to thank his mother during his 1998 Oscar speech.

In March 1998, Williams won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting. In 2011, Williams appeared on The Graham Norton Show, and Norton asked him what it was like to win the award. “For a week it was like, ‘Hey congratulations! Good Will Hunting, way to go,’” Williams said. “Two weeks later: ‘Hey, Mork.’”

Then Williams mentioned how his speech accidentally left out one of the most important people in his life. “I forgot to thank my mother and she was in the audience,” he said. “Even the therapist went, ‘Get out!’ That was rough for the next few years. [Mom voice] ‘You came through here [points to his pants]! How’s the award?’”

9 He comforted Steven Spielberg during the filming of Schindler’s List.

At this year’s 25th anniversary screening of Schindler’s List, held at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Steven Spielberg shared that Williams—who played Peter Pan in Spielberg’s Hook—would call him and make him laugh. “Robin knew what I was going through, and once a week, Robin would call me on schedule and he would do 15 minutes of stand-up on the phone,” Spielberg said. “I would laugh hysterically, because I had to release so much.”

10 Williams helped Ethan Hawke get an agent.

During a June 2018 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ethan Hawke recalled how, while working on Dead Poets Society, Williams was hard on him. “I really wanted to be a serious actor,” Hawke said. “I really wanted to be in character, and I really didn’t want to laugh. The more I didn’t laugh, the more insane [Williams] got. He would make fun of me. ‘Oh this one doesn’t want to laugh.’ And the more smoke would come out of my ears. He didn’t understand I was trying to do a good job.” Hawke had assumed Williams hated him during filming.

After filming ended, Hawke went back to school, but he received a surprising phone call. It was from Williams’s agent, who—at Williams’s suggestion—wanted to sign Hawke. Hawke said he still has the same agent today.

11 He was almost cast in Midnight Run.

In February 1988, Williams told Rolling Stone how he sometimes still had to audition for roles. “I read for a movie with [Robert] De Niro, [Midnight Run], to be directed by Marty Brest,” Williams said. “I met with them three or four times, and it got real close, it was almost there, and then they went with somebody else. The character was supposed to be an accountant for the Mafia. Charles Grodin got the part. I was craving it. I thought, ‘I can be as funny,’ but they wanted someone obviously more in type. And in the end, he was better for it. But it was rough for me. I had to remind myself, ‘Okay, come on, you’ve got other things.’”

In July 1988, Universal released Midnight Run. Just two years later, Williams finally worked with De Niro, on Awakenings.

12 Williams and Billy Crystal used to talk on the phone for hours.

Starting in 1986, Williams, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg co-hosted HBO’s Comic Relief to raise money for the homeless. Soon after Williams’s death, Crystal went on The View and spoke with Goldberg about his friendship with Williams. “We were like two jazz musicians,” Crystal said. “Late at night I get these calls and we’d go for hours. And we never spoke as ourselves. When it was announced I was coming to Broadway, I had 50 phone messages, in one day, from somebody named Gary, who wanted to be my backstage dresser.”

“Gary” turned out to be Williams.

SOURCE: MENTALFOSS.COM

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    1. Morning, Pat! Cool here, too – 66 – and pea soup outside – thick, thick fog and probably close to 100% humidity – there are drops clinging on the front door screen.

      After shutting Jake in the BR, I opened the patio door and stepped out to see if Wheezer was around – w/in 2 minutes, here she came thru the doggie door. Waiting outside, I guess. I retrieved the tuna and went out to add some to the dry food remaining – she kept trying to eat before I had it mixed up. She also continued eating while I petted her a little more today.

      It was kind of odd – she ate all the portion that was mixed with the tuna, then came inside – this time, she didn’t wander over thru the kitchen but walked straight over to my recliner, turned her butt to it and left her scent on the back of it. I didn’t see any spray so if there was any actual pee, it was minuscule. Then she went back and ate more dry food! Ah, cats! Fascinating creatures, trying to figure them out.

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    2. Ah! Of course, who didn’t love GMVN??? I used to always watch Mork & Mindy and loved all of his movies. And, of course, all the kid’s cartoon movies since HB loved them all.

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        1. That last one applies to my issues in this town!!! I’m just too “different” for them to include in their lives.

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  3. TheseTruths

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    July 21, 2024 00:31

    Every one of them needs to be fired and held liable.

    Secret Service honchos denied Trump additional security for 2 years before assassination attempt: damning revelation

    Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned.

    The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation.

    Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported…

    Outrage at the security lapse led the federal security agency to up Trump’s detail to the same level as President Biden, The Post exclusively reported earlier this week.

    The Secret Service initially denied claims that someone from Trump’s camp asked for more help ahead of the deadly shooting as “absolutely false.”

    Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced mounting pressure to resign in the last week, doubled down on the denials in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday, the insiders said.

    After massive holes in the ex-president’s security team were revealed, however, the agency has changed its tune.

    Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, admitted to The Washington Post that the agency had denied Trump’s request for additional security, but claimed it had only learned about the new information in the wake of the tragedy.

    Guglielmi told The Post that there were “some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided,” but that the agency instead utilized state or local partners to add protections…

    Insiders told The Post that local law enforcement was recruited for the Butler, Pennsylvania rally because Secret Service headquarters denied the ex-president’s request for extra resources.

    Trump’s personal detail asks Secret Service headquarters for resources –manpower, equipment, tech — headquarters approves or denies at their discretion.

    Only when denied would the detail inquire with the field office, which would backfill with any available resources, including local law enforcement.

    The extent to what security Trump is provided varies from event to event depending on what the local field office can provide, sources told The Post.

    Ultimately, the Secret Service headquarters is the authority on what resources are permitted to be doled out.

    The Secret Service has been strongly criticized for failing to stop Crooks before he fired on the ex-president.

    Trump has continued on the campaign trail despite the terrifying experience, this time with beefed-up security at his disposal.

    He was given a “pretty unprecedented level of police officers” Saturday for his indoor event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the presidential hopeful and his new running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, were welcomed by roughly 14,000 adoring supporters.

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  8. Just The News: “Former President Donald Trump told a Michigan rally Saturday evening that he “took a bullet for democracy” as he polled the crowd on their preferred Democrat opponent for November. “Let’s do a poll,” Trump said. “I love doing polls……….let’s do a poll on candidates.”

    While there is a huge pressure campaign from the media and leading Democrats to get President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, Biden’s campaign has insisted that he is staying in. Trump asked his audience at the rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, if they would prefer he run against Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. While both of them got loud boos, the audience clearly indicated they would prefer to run against Biden.

    The 45th president went on to joke about running against Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, calling her a “terrible governor.” “Whitmer…..I’d like to run against her actually,” he joked. He then said that the Democratic Party is working frantically to drop Biden before the election.

    Trump also reenacted how he survived an assassin’s bullet one week ago, saying it was a miracle. I stand before you only by the grace of the all-mighty God,” he said. “Something very special happened.”

    His wounded right ear sporting a smaller bandage than the one he wore at last week’s Republican national convention, Trump added: “Last week I took a bullet for democracy.”

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  9. Just The News: “GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday during a Trump rally for saying he has more loyalty to former President Donald Trump than America.

    “Kamala Harris said something to the effect that I have no loyalty to this country,” Vance said during his speech. “Well I don’t know Kamala. I did serve in the U.S. Marine Corps and built a business. “What the hell have you done other than collect a check?”

    Harris said in a video earlier this week that Vance would be a “rubber stamp” for Trump’s “extreme” agenda. “Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda,” she said in the video. “Make no mistake: JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”

    Vance also criticized Harris’s job regarding the southern border. 

    “She did serve as ‘border czar’ during the biggest open border disaster that we’ve ever had in this country,” he said. “Let’s get President Trump back there, close down that border and bring some common sense and security back to this country.”

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      1. Yeah, they would get all up in arms about it but the actual danger that might result is non-existent – there is no comparison possible between the two ideologies.

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  12. It is hard not to get a chuckle out of this one:

    “Researchers find babies make ‘cry’ faces in the womb when mothers eat kale”

    Fetuses exposed to carrot flavor (n = 35) showed “lip-corner puller” and “laughter-face gestalt” more frequently, whereas fetuses exposed to kale flavor (n = 34) showed more “upper-lip raiser,” “lower-lip depressor,” “lip stretch,” “lip presser,” and “cry-face gestalt” in comparison with the carrot group and a control group not exposed to any flavors (n = 30). The complexity of facial gestalts increased from 32 to 36 weeks in the kale condition, but not in the carrot condition.

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  15. Just The News: “Senator Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., added his name on Sunday to the list of politicians calling on President Joe Biden to end his campaign. “I say this, and I came to the decision with a heavy heart, that I think it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation,” Manchin told Jake Tapper on Sunday’s “State of the Union,” CNN reported.

    Manchin called for an “open process” to pick a new candidate if Biden drops out, suggesting Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro or Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as possible successors. When asked if he has noticed a decline in Biden’s mental state, Manchin told Tapper, “I have not.”

    Manchin now becomes the fifth U.S. senator to have called for Biden to drop out of the race. The others are Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).”

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      1. I don’t think so – the point is that the delegates (i.e., voters) have already voted to make FJB their nominee. In an open convention, the delegates can change that and the $$$ would then go to the NEW nominee. At least, that’s my understanding of it.

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          1. If he drops out now as their approved candidate, then it would go to the Ho. If the delegates select a new candidate, then it would go to that candidate and should something happen to take that one out, the new announced VP would get the $$$. Again, that’s just my understanding.

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            1. i dunno. i can’t believe he’s drop out unless they meet all his demands–cash, pardons, etc.
              and there are a lot of wealthy dem donors…
              i think they will use a cheaper method

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              1. Ah! I don’t even have a smart phone – all of my internet activity is strictly via my laptop so as long as I can get the signal, I don’t have to worry much about the weather in that regard.

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              4. And I used to like thundershowers, too. Last evening, Speckles and sat inside, with the screen door open, for the cool air and to watch the light show. Crashes were so loud, and in the yard, and all around, I was relieved when the rain slowed and finally stopped, around midnight. Poor Specs was nervous, but finally calmed. He has been crowing since before dawn.

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              5. I, too, enjoy watching the storms – I’ll often sit out on my patio, depending on how much wind there is, but I don’t if there’s much lightning in my area. The patio roof is metal.

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              6. My guest house roof is metal. I thought about that last evening, but lived through the storm and the evening. I did have a nightmare of almost drowning, holding my breath in salt water. It scared me enough to wake up with a jolt, at 4:30 am. Storm over. Speckles, Lollipop, and I all survived. And now I have ice. Hallelujah!

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              9. I’ll never forget a powerful dream I had, maybe 40 years ago, that I was at the beach with a boyfriend of the time. In the surf he held me underwater with his foot. His head was above the water. I struggled to get up, but couldn’t. Then I decided to try to breathe and found I could breathe under water. I survived, but the relationship didn’t.

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              10. Well, I should hope not! LOL – I had a dream when I was a young child that put me off of swimming in lakes or the ocean for the rest of my life. Mind you, I swam like the proverbial fish in a swimming pool and, until that dream, the small lake where we had a cabin. It was on a lagoon that was only about waist high out to a certain spot, where it sloped down quickly. IDK how deep it was but I dreamed that I was trapped on the bottom, stuck in a big dead tree, and there was a huge snapping turtle coming for me. I yelled and yelled but my Father, whom I could see far above swimming on the surface, couldn’t hear me.

                Thankfully, I woke up at that point but that was all she wrote for me! And then I saw Jaws, which totally sealed the deal. I have swum in the ocean, indeed, the Gulf of Mexico, but only for very short periods and rarely further than neck-deep. I did swim once in the Chesapeake Bay off the boat of a British guy I dated briefly but not for long, let me tell you!

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              11. I haven’t gone swimming in years, although I have considered it recently, in this heat. But I would have to pick a time of near-high tide. It’s easier to run the hose over my head.

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              17. No. It’s a very slippery android phone through Verizon. My brother in law is helping me decide what to do about the phone situation. We live in the boonies, so I’m pretty dependent on my phone and neighbors to keep me connected. Slade is heavily wired, but I’m a minimalist.

                Thanks for asking.

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              24. OK, that’s a “smart” phone. They can track my movements with my flip phone, even though I’ve supposedly “disabled” them but that’s all they’ll get from me there! I can go on-line with it but I never have and don’t plan to. Of course my on-line discourse is out there in the open but I’ve never been particularly worried about it.

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    1. I always try to watch Maria’s Sunday show. She’s not quite as compromised as everyone else. It’s the only Fox show I make sure to watch, altho since the shooting, I’ve kept it on Fox most of the time.

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  21. The SS wasn’t even present at the 9 am meeting of the planning team on the morning of the rally per Ron Johnson.

    Re: pictures of dead shooter: “Somebody told them to send the pictures to an ATF agent, which I think is very strange, we called up that ATF agent and that individual that said that he was with ATF and now he’s gone dark. We’ve also reached out to the SS agents in charge on the ground, all we’re getting there is the runaround.

    So we are getting info from local law enforcement and we appreciate that, but unfortunately, Federal law enforcement agents are just saying, ‘Well, go through your Congressional liaison’ – and, again, that’s going to be unacceptable. I wish I could rely and have faith in the FBI and SS to do a truthful accounting of this, but that’s not been my experience with the Russian collusion hoax and for years dealing with Federal law enforcement. We need completely separate and independent investigations and it has to start now.

    Maria: So are you questioning whether or not there was a 2nd shooter, is that what you’re questioning, or if the shooter had a different gun?

    Johnson: “You know, I saw extremely convincing video on-line — I know it’s all over the place –there were 3 distinct shots early on followed by another 5 that were more staccato, more rapidly fired, and then the final one when we took the shooter out. How do you explain that? I don’t know, I’m not an expert but the individual putting that video out says it clearly shows there were at least 3 different weapons fired that day. Again, I don’t know but we can’t trust the FBI and SS to do an honest, open and transparent investigation. That’s just a very sad fact. So, we’ve gotta rely on other sources, independent, to really find out what the truth of the matter was.”

    The person who said to send the pictures to that cell phone: he thinks that was a county law enforcement rep. He has a website set up for people to send their evidence/videos.

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  22. “Political Suicide: Why Only Two Democrat Candidates Are Being Seriously Considered to Replace Joe Biden — It’s not Michelle Obama. It’s not Gavin Newsom. It’s not even Gretchen Whitmer.”

    JD RUCKER, JUL 21, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, and Pete Buttigieg all want to be President of the United States. Josh Shapiro, Wes Moore, and Andy Beshear may want the job, though there hasn’t been any indication as such. Michelle Obama allegedly doesn’t want the job.

    But other than Obama, all of these people have one thing in common. They all have a political career that will continue beyond 2024 if they do NOT replace Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for president. Their names are being floated and they’re being courted by various powerbrokers behind the scenes, but it seems unlikely that any of them would jeopardize their future to take on an increasingly strong Donald J. Trump. Doing so would subvert their potential for 2028 or beyond.

    This is why it seems like only two people are being floated by the Democrats’ communication team, also known as corporate media. Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton have been the most common names being proposed the last few days as replacements for Biden because neither has a political future whether they take over the nomination or not.Subscribe

    Harris is young enough but her time as Vice President has not endeared her to… well… anyone. She has alienated herself from Biden’s staff and rumors indicate many in her own staff don’t even like her. If Biden drops out of the race, she will have the unique advantage of taking over his campaign war chest which is why she’s being floated, but polls show she might perform even worse than her dementia-ridden boss.

    If Biden stays in the race and they lose, Harris would have a harder time mounting a 2028 run than Mike Pence did this primary season.

    As for Clinton, why not? She’ll be 77-years-old on Election Day. Nobody will be looking to her in 2028 whether she’s in this race or not so she has nothing to lose by replacing Biden. Some rumors say she’s being considered. Other say she and her husband are backing Biden. Who knows? More importantly, who cares?

    Barack Obama and his cronies in the Globalist Elite Cabal are working on their options. If they really wanted to, they could force Newsom, Whitmer, or anyone else with better chances than Clinton or Harris. If any among the younger group do end up being the nominee, it will be because Obama and his cronies made it happen.

    Personally, I’d love to see either Harris or Clinton as nominee because of the entertainment value. Watching Biden on the campaign trail or in another (God forbid) debate makes me cringe. And if Obama gets one of the younger guns to play ball, then we’ll get to target Democrat policies as a whole and litigate them in front of voters. There’s a silver lining to pretty much any circumstance.

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  23. And here it is! It was always just a matter of time before they brought the hammer down!

    “Turkey Declares Hijab Mandatory, ‘Commandment of Allah,’ Debunking Left’s ‘Personal Choice’ Lie”

    by RAIR Foundation,  July 21, 2024

    EXCERPT: “The mask has come off, and the facade of the Left-Islamic alliance has been removed. The insistence that Islamic dress for women is a matter of modesty and personal choice has been debunked by a top Islamic authority. But will the Western, Islam-enabling left-wing media report this truth or continue to assist Islam in its quest for dominance in the West?

    The latest breaking news from Turkey reveals a troubling reality: the Turkish government’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), which controls approximately 90,000 mosques globally and employs around 140,000 people, including imams and other religious workers, declared in a Friday sermon that “Hijab is not a personal choice.” This state institution’s proclamation exposes the oppressive nature of the hijab within Islamic doctrine and practice, directly contradicting the narrative often propagated by Muslim and left-wing apologists in the West, who insist that the hijab represents modesty, personal freedom, and choice.

    In this sermon, which is read in all mosques across Turkey and published on the Diyanet’s website, it was explicitly stated, “For women, the areas that must be covered when in the presence of strange men and when going out of their homes are the entire body except the face, hands, and feet. For men, it is between the navel and the knees.” Furthermore, it asserted, “It should not be forgotten that veiling is, first and foremost, a commandment of Allah and not a personal choice.”

    This directive from the Diyanet, a state institution with a budget exceeding that of many ministries, is not merely a local issue. The Diyanet’s influence extends globally, reaching all mosques under its control in Western nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, and the United States. This message, now being propagated through thousands of mosques, highlights the broader Islamic agenda to enforce Sharia norms and suppress individual freedoms….”

    https://rairfoundation.com/breaking-turkey-declares-hijab-mandatory-commandment-allah-debunking/

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  25. nichan
    nichan
    July 21, 2024 11:59 am

    Agenda 2030
    You have heard about fake lab grown meat – But now the new thing is fake lab made butter.

    And you can never guess who is supporting and promoting this? None other than Bill Gates…

    The company is called Savor and is making butter out of thin air. They capture CO2 out of the air and then turn it into butter in their lab. They use a therm o-chemical process to build fat molecules and making chains of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen. This is not margarine, and it is not butter. It is completely chemically made in a lab without dairy and without vegetable oils like margarine.

    And all of this is supposed to stop climate change

    Sludge and waste mass gassification :

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  26. Scarlett

    July 21, 2024 12:37 pm

    OMG!

    A verrrrrry interesting timeline about Nikki Haley inviting herself to speak at the GOP convention:Haley posted she was invited to the RNC at 5:42 on J13. Trump said she invited herself. He was shot at 6:11. @barnes_law reported Pompeo told Iowa delegates he would be VP. Was never on DJT’s list. With Trump gone you would have seen a Haley/Pompeo ticket. They knew.— Valley Frog 1776 (@ValleyFrog1776) July 20, 2024

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  27. Speaker Johnson on Breitbart

    Pam Key

    21 Jul 2024

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that if Democrats to substitute a new candidate in place of President Joe Biden there will be legal challenges.

    Partial transcript as follows:

    RADDATZ: They — Mr. Speaker, first of all, I will dispute. Those aren’t necessarily objective facts that you are saying.

    But I want to turn to what is happening with President Biden. As of this morning, it does not look like he is going anywhere. But if he does step down, you said this week the Republicans are likely to bring legal challenges against any attempts to replace Biden on a Democratic ticket. How would that work?

    JOHNSON: Well, these elections are handled at the state level. Every state has its own system and in some of these, it’s not possible to simply just switch out a candidate who has been chosen through the democratic, small D, democratic process over such a long period of time. Fourteen million Democrats voted to make Joe Biden the nominee.

    So, it would be wrong and I think unlawful in accordance to some of these state rules for a handful of people to go in the backroom and switch it out because they don’t like the candidate any longer. That’s not how this is supposed to work.

    So, I think they would run into some legal impediments in at least a few of these jurisdictions and I think they’ll be a compelling case to be made that that shouldn’t happen, and so I think they got legal trouble if that’s their intention and that’s their plan. So, we’ll how it plays out. We don’t know.

    I know the Democrats are in total disarray and I know the Republican Party is united like never before. So, we’re looking forward to November in this election cycle. It’s going to be an interesting time for the American people.

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  29. “Looks like the people who help make ‘The happiest place on earth’ happy ain’t so fuckin’ happy after all. More than 14,000 workers across four unions at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and Disney-owned hotels are ready to walk out, their unions said on Friday.”

    “Coconuts falling from their trees and striking individuals can cause serious injury to the back, neck, shoulders and head, and are occasionally fatal.

    Following a 1984 study on “Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts”, exaggerated claims spread concerning the number of deaths by falling coconuts. 

    Falling coconuts, according to urban legend, kill a few people a year. This legend gained momentum after the 2002 work of a noted expert on shark attacks was characterized as saying that falling coconuts kill 150 people each year worldwide. This statistic has often been contrasted with the number of shark-caused deaths per year, which is around five.”

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  30. the maggot ends re election bid

    What to know

    • President Joe Biden announced that he is ending his campaign for president. “It is in the best interest of my part and the country for me to stand down,” he said.
    • Biden, who has been home in Delaware with Covid symptoms, has been facing pressure to exit the race following his poor debate performance against Donald Trump in June.
    • A grassroots group called “Pass the Torch” held a rally outside of the White House calling on Biden to drop out.
    • A growing number of Democrats had called on Biden to step aside, with many warning that his candidacy could harm party candidates in down-ballot races. Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, went further and suggested yesterday that Biden should leave office.

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    1. Never mind:

      Just The News: “President Joe Biden dropped Sunday from the presidential race after disastrous debate performance renewed concerns that he wasn’t fit for another four years. 

      Biden made the announcement in a letter posted on social media. 

      Biden said he will address the public in a speech about his decision at a later date.”

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    2. So, they finally gave him enough to bribe him/Jill/Hunter into it….bet there are concessions about protecting Hunter included!!!

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  31. Huh….once I click on dashboard, now it brings up the same type of page as before. Some progress, at least.

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  35. Liked by 2 people

    1. Anyone who brings it up will be poohed-poohed and they will spout the 14th Amendment and ignore it, just as they did with the MIC.

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  37. Elise Stefanik

    @EliseStefanik

    Back-room donors, Democrat elites, and their stenographers in the mainstream media conspired in this direct attack on democracy by successfully forcing out the candidate who secured the necessary votes to serve as the general election candidate. As I have consistently said, it is the Democrat Party and elected Democrats who are attacking democracy. They are disenfranchising the votes of 14 million voters in the Democrat primary – all because they hid Joe Biden’s unfitness for office and now are reaping the deserved plummeting polls. Newsflash: Kamala Harris – the open border czar – is an even weaker candidate than Joe Biden.

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  39. Just The News: “DNC Chair Jaime Harrison announced “a firm commitment to nominating and electing a Democratic president” after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race today.

    “In short order, the American people will hear from the Democratic Party on next steps and the path forward for the nomination process,” Harrison’s statement read. The commitment came after Democratic heavyweights like the Clintons and Biden himself gave Vice President Kamala Harris their support.

    Harrison praised Biden’s record: “The American people owe President Biden an enormous debt of gratitude for the unparalleled progress he has delivered over the last four years.”

    He pledged to “honor [Biden’s] legacy” with an open nomination. “The Party will undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November,” Harrison promised.

    Harrison highlighted his party’s “values as Democrats,” including “lowering costs, restoring freedom, protecting the rights of all people, and saving our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.”

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  40. “14 Whistleblower Allegations About Trump Assassination Attempt, Secret Service, and Poor Security. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is scheduled to testify to Congress Monday”

    SHARYL ATTKISSON, JUL 21, 2024

    “As Democrats prepare to battle over who will become their nominee now that President Biden has stepped aside, there’s also news continuing to develop related to the Republican nominee: Donald Trump.

    The head of the Secret Service, Kim Cheatle, testifies before Congress tomorrow about the fatal security lapses at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally. We already know what some whistleblowers are stepping forward and giving members of Congress information behind the scenes. Here are 14 allegations coming from insiders and others so far:

    1. The Trump campaign repeatedly requested but was denied additional security resources. The Secret Service spokesman denied that was the case, but on Saturday, July 20, the Secret Service issued a statement indicating it was true.

    2. The Secret Service had relinquished some key security responsibilities at the rally to local police.

    3. Local law enforcement authorities, snipers, and SWAT teams weren’t on the same communications channels as the Secret Service, so information couldn’t be relayed efficiently.

    4. The Secret Service team that put together the site visits for the Butler, Pennsylvania rally wasn’t there the day of the rally.

    5. Police canines weren’t used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual matter.

    6. People without proper designation got into backstage areas at the rally.

    7. The security buffer around Trump’s podium was not appropriately policed.

    8. Security officials were not stationed at regular intervals around the event security perimeter.

    9. The local sniper team photographed shooter Thomas Crooks at 5:14pm (Trump was shot at 6:11pm).

    10. The Department of Homeland Security, led by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, blocked the House Oversight Committee from talking to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

    11. The Department of Homeland Security is stiff-arming initial Congressional questions, telling members to work through the agency’s Congressional “liaison.”

    12. Homeland Security officials with little to no practical experience at guarding a presidential figure were tasked alongside Secret Service agents at the rally.

    13. Locals tasked with guarding the security perimeter at the rally were stationed at the AGR building at 10:30am on the second floor. This is the building that Crooks climbed. They noticed a suspicious character, Crooks, at 5:10pm, and took a photo of him at 5:14pm, nearly an hour before he shot Trump.

    14. A man in a gray suit climbed the ladder to the roof shortly after Crooks was killed. He instructed local law enforcement to send photos of the dead Crooks to a certain phone number. The photos were sent to the number. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) says the number belonged to an Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agent who won’t respond to questions.

    Republican Senators Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, and Marsha Blackburn are closely following developments and asking the Democrat in charge of the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing with Cheatle.

    The House Oversight Committee, led by Republican James Comer (R-Kentucky), subpoenaed Cheatle to appear at a hearing Monday, July 22 at 10am. The hearing can be seen live online at: https://oversight.house.gov/

    The Secret Service has a $3.1 billion dollar budget.”

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  41. “Dems Pull Off Successful Insurrection”

    POLITICS · Jul 21, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — The Democratic Party in the United States has pulled off a successful insurrection, completing a coup d’etat to remove the current President from power.

    “The President has fallen!” cried Democratic party elites joyfully, having seized power. “Yay insurrection!”

    According to sources, Democratic party elites have worked tirelessly to overthrow the candidate chosen by voters, using everything from donation boycotts to blackmail. “It took everything we have, but we have deposed the democratically elected candidate of our party,” said former President Obama proudly. “Democracy has been saved.”

    At publishing time, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had come on TV to explain how some insurrections are actually very good.

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  42. “Jill Biden Drops Out Of Presidential Race”

    POLITICS · Jul 21, 2024 · BabylonBee.com 

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jill Biden has formally dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, she announced today at a press conference that was supposed to be for her husband.

    “I cannot in good conscience continue,” the acting president said as her husband wandered around somewhere backstage.

    Journalists expressed shock and disappointment to learn that not only has Joe Biden been a decrepit old man for the last three years — he hasn’t even been president.

    “Well, this is news to me!” said CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I could’ve sworn she was the first lady, and that Biden was a normal person just two weeks ago.”

    Jill Biden said she would not seek a second term because she was tired of everyone thinking her husband was the real president. “He’s a skeleton in a skin suit that has been reanimated by dark magicks to nod and smile at people. Frankly, I’m insulted no one has caught on that I’m the actual president,” she complained. “I’m tired of him getting all the glory!”

    Neither Jill nor her husband took any questions.

    At publishing time, Jill Biden had begun working on plans for her husband’s presidential library — which she would make sure was all about her.

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  43. “Aides Struggling To Figure Out How To Break The News To Biden That He Dropped Out”

    POLITICS · Jul 21, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — After the announcement broke that President Biden would no longer seek re-election, aides have struggled to figure out how exactly to break the news to President Biden.

    “Oh man, he’s not going to like this,” said longtime aide Sally Connors. “Maybe we can wait until after four, and then he won’t remember?”

    According to sources, aides plan to try to sandwich the news between bits of good news in an effort to soften the blow. “We could start off by reminding him that it’s National Ice Cream Day,” said aide Mike Thomas. “Then, breeze real fast through the ‘you have dementia, no one likes you, your career is over, and your party betrayed you’, then tell him that the cafeteria is serving shepherd’s pie for lunch tomorrow? Eh?”

    After a week considering the best time and manner to withdraw from the Presidential race, those closest to the President described finding the right time and place to break the news to President Biden even harder. “Well for starters, you only have a six-hour window in which he is lucid,” said Connors. “Take out meals, naps, angry tirades, you’ve only got about thirty minutes per day to begin with. Trying to catch him in the right mood to tell him he’s being put out to pasture – it’s tough, you know?”

    At publishing time, aides had decided to wait until tomorrow as the ice cream shop was out of chocolate chip, so today was just not a good day.

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  45. Annie

    July 21, 2024 3:43 pm

    Biden must resign the Presidency!

    Jonathan Turley:

    The decision of Joe Biden to withdraw from his reelection bid raises the obvious question of how he can continue as president if he is incapable of running for that office. The Democratic Party seems to have created its own 25th Amendment, but there remains the “other” 25th Amendment.

    This is a type of 25th-lite option where you lack capacity to run but not to serve for an office.

    It also focuses attention on the efforts of Democrats to drop any challengers or hold any debates through the primary as millions voted for Biden. Holding a party “primary” in a matter of weeks is hardly a substitute for a primary campaign to expose candidates to prolonged.

    The problem for the White House is the glaring disconnect between pulling out of the election but holding on to the office. Pulling out as simply politically incapable of winning makes a mockery of the unopposed primary process.

    Yet, pulling out do to diminished capacity makes a mockery of his political office. There is a striking lack of clarity on the basis for this historic action…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-dropping-out-2024-race

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  48. Just The News: “GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said Sunday to “bring it on” in response to President Joe Biden withdrawing from the 2024 race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. 

    “President Trump and I are ready to save America, whoever’s at the top of the Democrat ticket. Bring it on,” Vance wrote on the social media platform, X.

    Biden announced Sunday that he would be dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Harris.

    “Joe Biden has been the worst President in my lifetime and Kamala Harris has been right there with him every step of the way,” Vance’s statement continued. 

    He went on to criticize her for lying about Biden’s mental capacity and his ability to run the country.

    “Over the last four years she co-signed Biden’s open border and green scam policies that drove up the cost of housing and groceries,” Vance wrote. “She owns all of these failures, and she lied for nearly four years about Biden’s mental capacity–saddling the nation with a president who can’t do the job.”

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  49. Just The News: “Former President Donald Trump rushed to criticize President Joe Biden after he dropped out of the race. Trump posted a message on Truth Social calling out “crooked Joe Biden” less than an hour after the announcement.

    “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve – And never was,” read Trump’s statement. Trump accused Biden of “attain[ing] the position of President by lies, Fake News, and not leaving his Basement.”

    Trump also attacked the media and Biden’s physician for allegedly concealing Biden’s faltering mental state: “All those around him, including his Doctor and the Media, knew that he wasn’t capable of being President, and he wasn’t.”

    “Look what he’s done to our Country, with millions of people coming across our Border, totally unchecked and unvetted, many from prisons, mental institutions, and record numbers of terrorists,” Trump said.

    “We will suffer greatly because of his presidency, but we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

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