1. We've been reading through the "book" written by Ryan Routh, the attempted assassin of Donald Trump. Its full title is "Ukraine's Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity," which is a good hint at the demented contents within. 🧵
2. The chapter titles are another hint to his state of mind
3. Routh is very energetic at the idea of nuclear war with Russia.
Since nobody in the press seems to be making a full list of the Democrat power players calling for Joe Biden to quit, my team thought we should. Today we added George Clooney:
Elected officials calling for Biden to step aside:
Rep. Angie Craig
Rep. Lloyd Doggett
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Seth Moulton
Rep. Mike Quigley
Rep. Mikie Sherrill
Rep. Adam Smith
Rep. Jerry Nadler (in a private call)
Rep. Joe Morelle (in a private call)
Other Democrats calling for Biden to step aside:
James Carville
Netflix founder Reed Hastings
Walmart heiress Christy Walton
Lawrence Lessig
George Clooney
Rob Reiner
Jon Stewart
Stephen King
Michael Moore
Atlanta Journal Constitution Editorial Board
New York Times Editorial Board
Left-wing NYT Opinion columnists Nicholas Kristof, Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, Frank Bruni, and David French
The Atlantic
Boston Globe Editorial Board
New Yorker Editorial Board
Multiple CNN analysts
George Stephanopoulos
Elected officials publicly saying Biden will lose or likely lose, but not quite calling for Joe Biden to step down:
Sen. Michael Bennet
Sen. Richard Blumenthal: "I am deeply concerned" about President Biden.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Rep. Jared Golden
Calling for cognitive tests of both candidates:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Calling for "soul-searching" by the Biden camp:
The Washington Post Editorial Board
Democrat Donors pausing giving:
Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney fortune, plans to withhold donations to Democrats until Joe Biden drops out.
Gideon Stein said he’s decided to pause planned donations of $3.5 million.
Karla Jurvetson, major Democratic donor, hinted as recently as Tuesday in a private donor call that she agrees with the sentiment on pausing donations until Biden steps down. She gave $30 million to Democrats in 2020.
Hollywood Democrat megadonor Ari Emanuel: "I had a father who died at 92 but at 81, I took away his car. It’s a very simple test for me."
Nameless Donors:
Told Politico: “The events of recent days have put at risk House and Senate Democrats, and we feel it around the country ... Clearly, Democratic donors are looking at down-ballot candidates to try to salvage the House or Senate.”
Told Variety: “There is a sense that the money dried up last night about 10 minutes into the debate.”
Who did we miss?
Adding Chuck Todd to the list!
More updates to the list:
Chuck Schumer now signaling to donors he's open to dumping Biden.
Rep. Pat Ryan became the eighth House Democrat to call for him to step down.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) became the first Senate Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to withdraw.
The kids are all right! A massive crowd has turned out at Cal Poly for our @TPUSA Change My Mind tabling event. In response to some protestors, a large group of students led an impromptu singing of the National Anthem. An incredible moment!
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Amazing experience at @CalPoly
@CalPoly The protesters made a nice sign just for me.
Hamas uses the EXACT lanugage as BLM. Watch closely—they are funded by some of the same groups, they have many of the same complaint—they even protest together.
What Hamas did to Israel is being watched closely by BLM race arsonists in America.
Playing into victim narratives can start a war.
Pay attention.
Angela Davis on Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and the Future of Radicalism
"Theories of Freedom are Always Tentative"
Mauritania was the world's last country to ban slavery. The country only made slaveholding a criminal offense in 2007, more recently than than the release of the iPhone. Even now, the law is hardly enforced, and one in 25 Mauritanians are still held in chattel slavery.
Besides slavery, other cultural practices in Mauritania include force-feeding girls to make them monstrously obese, because this is considered a desirable trait for marriage.
Mauritanian society, to say the least, has very little to offer the United States.
A 62-year-old Japanese diplomat, Yoshioka Yuzo, was just sent to the hospital in Portland after being maimed by a homeless person. An out-of-nowhere crime? Not at all. Portland worked for YEARS to make this happen. Here's how:
Yuzo's attacker, Arissa Robinson, has a long history of attacking random Asians. In 2021, she assaulted a mother and child in Chinatown, kicking over a baby stroller while a 1-year-old was in it. As is routine in Portland, she was arrested briefly, then released.
A year later, Arissa assaulted another Asian man, this one 76 years old. She punched him multiple times and attempted to strangle him with a chokehold.