NATION
Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan
How Can Mail-In Voting Be ‘Secure’ When Postal Theft Is Rampant?
Congressman Threatens to Cut DHS and DOJ Funding Ahead of Spending Fight
Fresno Lab: China’s Operation to Exterminate Americans
The Left is Having Money Problems
Vermont Law Bans Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Counseling Women
Instead, every few months a sanitized report appears on some aspect of the ex-president’s outside public advocacy, presented within limits that are clearly being set by Obama’s political operatives—which conveniently elide the problems that are inherent in having a person with no constitutional role or congressional oversight take an active role in executive decision-making. Near the end of June, for example, Politico ran a long article noting Biden’s cognitive decline, with the coy headline “Is Obama Ready to Reassert Himself?”—as if the ex-president hadn’t been living in the middle of Washington and playing politics since the day he left office. Indeed, in previous weeks Obama had continued his role as central advocate for government censorship of the internet while launching a new campaign against gun ownership, claiming it is historically linked to racism. Surely, the spectacle of an ex-president simultaneously leading campaigns against both the First and Second Amendments might have led even a spectacularly incurious old-school D.C. reporter to file a story on the nuts and bolts of Obama’s political operation and on who was going in and out of his mansion. But the D.C. press was no longer in the business of maintaining transparency. Instead, they had become servants of power, whose job was to broadcast whatever myths helped advance the interests of the powerful.
There is another interpretation of Obama’s post-presidency, of course—one shared by many Republicans and Democrats. In that interpretation, Obama was never the leader of much of anything, neither during the Trump years nor now. Instead, he was focused on buying trophy properties, hanging out with billionaires, and vacationing on private yachts while grifting large checks from marks like Spotify and Netflix—even if his now-stratospheric levels of personal vanity also demanded that every so often he show up President Biden for the sin of occupying his chair in the White House.
In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.
WORLD
Sahel deaths are surging, contradicting juntas’ security claims
The differences between Poland’s and Hungary’s approach to Russia and the war in Ukraine explained
Japan’s nuke wastewater discharge plan is a crime against humanity
US Navy Deploys 3,000 Personnel To MidEast To Counter Iran Threat
HEMISPHERE
UNICEF warns of rising Kidnappings of women and children in Haiti
Central Bank recognizes that the disinflationary effect in Costa Rica will be greater than expected
Has Narco-Money Once Again Infiltrated Political Campaigns in Colombia?
HEALTH
“Nobody Ever Said The Vaxx Would Stop The Transmission Of Covid Virus” X
MACRO
Covid Learning Loss Isn’t Confined To The Classroom — It’s Hurting Our Economy Editor’s Note: This article summarizes a WSJ report. We cannot link to WSJ because they have a paywall.
The U.S. Has Just 22 EV Charging Points Per 1,000 Road Miles
Flashback Hoot of the Day: When Will China Overtake the US?
MICRO
The Economic Impact Of Puppy MIll Closures
The Economics Of Greyhound Racing
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
PARAHERESY
Hotties Talking Rumble
MONDO
BIGGEST GREYHOUND COMEBACK OF ALL TIME!!! YT
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