The Democratic National Convention is August 19-22. Well who cares about that? We may find out on July 21 when the rules committee meets.
According to Bloomberg, the Democratic National Committee is considering formally nominating Joe Biden as early as mid-July to ensure that the president is on November ballots, while helping to stamp out intra-party chatter of replacing him after last week’s poor debate performance.
On July 21, the credentials committee meets virtually, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Democrats had already planned to nominate Biden, 81, before their August convention in order to ensure he appears on the ballot in Ohio, which had an Aug. 7 deadline for candidates to be certified.
Democrats were expected to have a virtual convention before August 7, but now they are discussion moving it up further to squash replacement talk.
Question of the Day
There was no primary to speak of so … Might I ask, why have a full convention either?
Nate Silver Chimes In
Nate Silver: “1) They still think they have a narrative/perception problem when they have an actual problem 2) It’s not going to squash all the talk because Biden can *still be replaced* afterward until ballots are printed: A new candidate would be chosen by the DNC”
Bear in mind, Silver has stated he cannot stand Trump and won’t vote for him. So that is not gaslighting.
A Legal VP Nominee
“An early nomination means there is also a legal VP nominee so pretty much impossible to dump Harris from the ticket without her consent afterwards.”
Tack Sharp
Thoughts on Sentencing
A Musical Tribute
RevShark “One of the most ridiculous excuses that they are making for Biden was the he was over prepared.”
The Supreme Court Immunity Decision on Trump
In case you missed it, please see The Left is Aghast at the Correct Supreme Court Immunity Decision on Trump
In a 6-3 decision, the SC that held the President has immunity for official acts. It was not a complete victory for Trump. In fact, the Court rejected Trump’s base case.
Favorable Comments
Other than Chris Temple, a friend at the National Investor, and an attorney friend who prefers to remain anonymous, “favorable “credit for playing it straight” comments were few and far between.
If you wish to rebut what I said, I ask people to read my article first, then rebut it, not the other way around as many did.
Fast Eddy – Anyone ….
Please don’t post energy links that are from 2006
Also cut down the number of links and length of comments
Thanks
Yes those links are terribly out of date… the energy situation is far more dire now than when shale was kicking off…
I will stay with the more recent info
Publishing Date 2023
Conventional Oil Sources peaked in 2008 and the Shale binge has now spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Even more recent… March 24, 2024:
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we’ll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD… before we can ever grow the new 3 MM.
Man, that is a slew of new wells! Thats gonna take like…four times the HZ wells we’ve already drilled in the US.
Where?
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What does this have to do with the subject of post?
It has to do with everything… it’s why the world is on the precipice of collapse.
Dear Fast –
Quite a number of folks here are perfectly capable of finding links to items of interest on their own using Duckduckgo or Google or whatever.
It would be helpful if you would confine your posts to YOUR opinion or observations.
Thanks, as you are usually worth listening to – usually.
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If Fast Eddy is on to something on oil, then it is relevant to ANY discussion on what the F is happening in America, Euro Zone, China, Russia, India, etc. In Fact, MISH should write more on OIL because OIL IS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!
Energy is the ENGINE of the World.
You could simply re-read PapaDave’s old posts.
YOU are on the precipice of collapse…the earth will be here long after you leave…the sooner the better…for the planet and the rest of us!!!
You are so cute when angry – let me give you a like 🙂
It’s up to Mish to set the subject theme. NOT the posters. Perhaps consider your own blog? Substack is free to publish on. You might even find people willing to actually pay you for your POV!
I know – based on your comment above… that you will refuse to read this https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-perfect-storm
Even though it explains why the GFC happened — why Liar Loans were approved at the highest levels including the Fed — why interest rates were reduced to 0 for many years — why the central banks have been unleashing gargantuan stimulus since the turn of the century — and last but not least … why the global economy is in the precipice of collapse.
Expensive energy destroys growth. Repeat after me – expensive energy destroys growth.
And all that we are finding now is expensive — shale, deep sea, tar sands. Pretend renewable is the most expensive of all … mainly because it is intermittent… therefore you need to operate two energy production systems so you have power when the sun is not shining and the wind not blowing (see Germany)
The only way to offset the deadly effects of expensive energy is with stimulus.
But eventually What Cannot Continue – Will Stop.
One Trillion every 3 months… do you think that can continue forever?
Maybe you should buy an EV
The reason I write SS articles is to save time having to rewrite the same things over and over on other sites
I will now explain why EVs – which are not in any way shape or form ‘Green’ – exist. https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-three-pillars-of-bullshit
Thanks, I appreciate your response, I get it fracking always has to drill more holes to keep up with production, they also drill under the water table and that is why I am not interested in any fracking company. Too much water is used in their production model. As far as EV’s as you probably know by now Tesla is not going bankrupt. Along with their increase in distribution, their energy storage sales are up. This site is excellent in figuring out an oversold bottom, when Mish dislikes I usual buy when others are tossing their shares out. Do your own research to figure out oversold disrupted stocks.
Doomberg’s energy analysis/thesis is the exact opposite of Fast Eddy’s.
Mike,
Please keep this Fast Eddy character on a short lease. He used to post on Gail Tverberg’s Our Finite World until 5-6 months ago, dominating the discussion with his obsessions and insults, sometimes posting hundreds of comments per article. Example:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/01/15/2024-too-many-things-going-wrong/
I was saddened to see him start posting here, thinking that he would do the same to the useful comment section of your articles.
Thanks
Nominating Biden to prevent calls for discussion of other candidates certainly isn’t something a group of people cherishing democracy do. Independent voters will vote for mean tweets over a coup on Democracy any day.
The Supreme Court decision will make it impossible for any lawyer to argue against immunity for official acts if a president claims any act was part of an official act or in an official capacity as president. Multiple constitutional lawyers have today stated this. The court may need to clarify its ruling.
Biden will be the Dem nominee, period.
This neuters the Dems’ election steal operation, because Biden cannot win this election & and absolutely NO ONE will believe or respect this result.
Dems should accept the loss, try mitigate the down-ballot damage, and plan for 2028.
OTOH, if they follow-through with their ballot harvesting/stuffing, illegal voter registration & pre-printed ballot schemes, then expect multiple state secession or worse, post-election.
IOW, Dems have to swallow the loss (that they fully deserve, btw), otherwise they catalyze the end of the republic, imo.
Just how desperate & stupid are establishment Dems? I think we will have to wait until November to find out.
Excellent! This is exactly what we need. We don’t want Biden or Harris to be replaced. This will guarantee Trump victory! Everything (economics, Biden dementia/gaffs/freezing up, etc.) will get worse every month between now and the election.
Sorry but I am not sure this is the correct way to think about the current constitutional crisis. Yes it is a constitutional crisis and a rather serious one at that. Last Thursday the President of the United States clearly demonstrated that he is now non compos mentis. In every jurisdiction he would be unable to renew his drivers license. Indeed Mr. Biden showed why Mr. Hur said that it was pointless prosecuting him for illegal document retention because Mr. Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial. Now the chasm opens and starts to swallow the careers of those that are in Mr. Biden’s inner circle whole. As we all know there are 3 branches of government in the United States. The President is the head of the Executive Branch and also fulfills the role of Commander and Chief. If Mr. Biden cannot put an intelligible sentence together, cannot stand trial or get a drivers license then he is not in command of his faculties. It is now even doubtful he posses the capacity to be of a sound mind sufficient to make out his will. How then can Mr. Biden reasonably be in a position to sign legislation or Presidential Executive Orders? If Mr. Biden cannot fulfill these duties then how can he be Commander and Chief?
Now it gets really interesting.Given the rather obvious fact that Mr. Biden now lacks the critical thinking skills to be President the problem immediately becomes much greater. Indeed the immediate question is how long has this situation existed? Whom is actually running the executive branch of the government? There is no mechanism in the Constitution to permit the usurpation of Presidential powers by an individual or group of individuals. Since the mechanism has been clearly co-opted one can conclude that there may have, in effect, been a soft coup in the United States. This activity is a serious breach of US constitutional law and is tantamount to treason. Executive orders have been signed and implemented by this cabal. If Mr. Biden was not capable of understanding the scope or purpose of those orders and merely signed as a some sort of automaton then that is the same as forging his signature and they are illegal. So which orders don’t actually have the force of law? Which orders should people follow? Which pieces of legislation have been fraudulently signed? Who is responsible? To say that this state of affairs is fiendishly complicated and frightening is an understatement.
The DNC has purchased rights to Beck’s “Loser”. It will be good for the Hispanic vote. Joe will come out on stage dancing to it. “Soy, un perdador, I’m a loser baby … etc.” Joe cant win, he can’t maintain the Presidency, any replacement is too little too late. Unless brain dead beyond belief, who would vote for a surrogate picked at last minute (at least in the eyes of the public via MSM propaganda organs) after being gaslit for 3 years about President Full Diaper being sharp as a tack. Then look at inflation, foreign policy confusion etc. ad nauseum. A friend who was a staunch gaslit Dem told me he’s going to vote for Trump.
Biden is the perfect front man for the Democrat Party: a brain dead grifter.
The President can’t be just a front man for the party. That isn’t how the system works.
??
what world are you living in?
this is EXACTLY the way “the system” works for democrats. both biden & obama were nothing but front men.
I found it odd that Biden attacked the SC ruling in his 5 min. post ruling speech, considering it gave him immunity for his own official acts while president. What president would not want that?
Maybe he’s pissed because the made a deal to throw the election in exchange for not getting prosecuted / impeached by a highly likely GOP majority across the board.
Here is a link and I would suggest, Mish, that you get some information out there on this corruption:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-campaign-money-kamala-harris-rcna159850
Essentially, there is a FOOD FIGHT going on to ensure that the BIDENS get to keep that 100 million.
The corruption is SO evident and you watch: NOTHING will be said about on CNN or any other mainstream news Org.
IF the BIDENS do not remain on the TICKET, KAMALA gets the LOOT!
Most of that money has already been spent and if Kamala isn’t the nominee it would have to be paid back.
“Steve Bannon speaks outside a prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he will surrender today for defying a January 6th congressional subpoena”
Meanwhile, Garland puts himself above the law, ignoring his own contempt of congress citation. When a congressional hearing is a sham, as the Jan 6, was, any subpoena by the committee should be null and void, due to congressional corruption. It should be illegal to hold a sham hearing and defraud the American people of the truth.
Imagine being a Democrat delegate and learning that your entire existence and the idea you had a voice was all just theatrical fiction.
What Seems possible, maybe even LIKELY OR GUARANTEED: Dems are IN TROUBLE.
Instead of hand-wringing over the election, they will BLOW THE WORLD UP IN A MILITARY CONFRONTATION which leads to a situation where the “election must be postponed.” THEN, they take a POWERFUL COUP situation into focus.
I am SMELLING A PILE OF RATS, not just one old Demented Character like “WEEKEND AT BERNIES.”
There is a powerful group SENSE, meaning that the handlers are taking control and are OUT of control mentally. THERE IS PANIC, blood letting.
PAY ATTENTION FOLKS: ROME IS BURNING.
Gen Z student are more afraid of Biden than Trump. There is no alternative. On one hand the Z have Trump : “a blatant liar, a convicted felon, who has been impeached twice”. On the other hand the Z Scores have a president with advance Lewy Body Dementia. The young savants support the Palestinians between the “River and the Sea”. Hakeem, the regime change, came to PGH airport to do damage control. Senator Casey supports Biden/Gamala for the next 4 years, bc Biden is fully capable mentally. In the last two years the Biden administration flooded W. PA with money. PA is an important swing state. Money talks. They hope.
You keep forgetting to mention the many Biden lies which have a long, long history.
They are not as colourful as Trump’s.
But they are much more dangerous to democracy.
Read my comment below from 12 hours ago : the D can’t stop lying…
PA ex gov Ed Rendell, a former DA who was born in NYC, perfected the art of eliminating evidence, a perfect crime. That’s what Ed Rendell said : there will be no proof !
From the river to the sea Palistine will be free! Time to mow Israel’s grass!
…of Palestinians. Yes mow the grass.
At first observation it could be said, that this would add to evidence that DNC already has the election sewn up and they simply do not care for what happens at the Ballot Box. Certainly some posters are in this camp.
The problem with that take on things is a person just has to look at the faces of people like David Axelrod or James Carville who look like they have been placed on suicide watch after Biden debate. Couple that with Nancy Pelosi appears needing to down a fifth of Scotch in order to make a pubic statement, says to me these people are worried.
And if they are worried then they ought to know if US Election has gotten to that stage where it is nothing but a rigged farce.
Thrash the economy and let your successor deal with it. W Bush to Obama. “Biden” to Trump.
Good luck fundraising off of that.
My question is why. Why take a guaranteed L? And why put Kamala on the ballot, any ballot ever?
An early nomination does nothing to fix the real problems. Joe is still Joe and Kamala is still Kamala.
There is an excellent reason for them to endorse Brandon quickly. Then there iwill be little reason to hold a national convention.
Such a convention will bring all the problems the Dems have into the spotlight with a fiery clash of factions that will make 1968 seem tame. Pro Israel V pro Hamas factions will be at least a loud shouting match but probably with some bloodshed from physical altercations. Then there is the old guard V the Squad, trans activists, ultra hard core Woke, union heavies, rich liberal donors, poor urban blacks, open border advocates etc all wanting the limelight.
And I have not even mentioned if such a convention might fight over if Pedo Joe gets the nomination.
Then the Repubs will have a wealth of footage to show the voters how disfunctional the Dems are.
Don’t forget the nominee’s 90-minute acceptance speech on the last day. I don’t see them letting Biden do that.
Good points. Maybe they can just have a mini-convention in Joe’s basement? Plenty of room there for just supporters.
Maybe they can re-use Joe’s acceptance speech from the 2020 convention? Better yet just one of Obama’s.
And the cops will watch it all
So apparently the Democrats wish to sew their own demise… Well then, Have At It! Makes it that much easier to Win and Replace this “Clown Show” and get some normalcy started in America once again. Get rid of All The Crap, and get back to the BASICS!
…sow their own demise. Your typical person hasn’t been able to sew for generations 😉
People forget the 7/11 wildcard. Trump gets some sort of jail sentence or home arrest with conditions that he cannot communicate with the public. It will be a giant diversion with emergency appeals while Trump is silenced. Will it work? Who knows. But not out of the realm of possibilities.
Trump’s sentencing has been delayed until September. After the Supreme Court’s recent ruling about presidential immunity, there’s no way the judge has the guts to do anything like you’re describing.
Whoa. Wait a second. Sure, that “sharp as a tack” video is funny and piling on, but it should have put the names, jobs, and organizations of each of the speakers on-screen. That would have been a slight genuflection toward truth-in-video. Like, are these all different people or are they the same people played over and over and over and over again? For instance.
Also, Biden should have moved enough – or blinked – to show he’s not a still photograph.
…….. Ah. Who cares. We’ll all soon enough be treated to infinite numbers of machine-made videos.
Don’t understand Americans anymore. Exactly how crappy can Dem/Rep candidates become before people start voting 3rd party massively?
Evidently VERY crappy
There really is no third party. The system is rigged against it.
Fingers.Crossed!
Fantastic theatre!!!
Pretty good for a guy who is (pretending to be) senile
“The American People Should Dissent, I Dissent” – President Biden Blasts Supreme Court’s “Dangerous Precedent”
Did I not say weeks ago on multiple occasions that Trump would not see a prison cell?
Because this is all nothing more than entertainment … it’s like sports … Dallas vs Washington.. pick your team… cheer wildly when your team scores… boo when the other team scores…
Which team are YOU on?
Team Trump?
Team Biden?
It matters even less than the score in that football game hahaha
Over to CNN or Fox where the pundits are screaming at each other hahaha
The Sharp As A Tack video speaks volumes about The Lying Legacy Media (coined by Greg Hunter) / Presstitutes (coined by Gerald Celente and Paul Craig Roberts). The CIA Operation Mockingbird scripts are slid under the doors at 4 a.m.
Love all three of those guys but Hunter will attack/ delete any comment even remotely critical of Israel He’s a good Christian I suppose
Don’t you know! Israel is our best friend! They assassinated troublesome people like James Forrestal and JFK, orchestrated the Lavon Affair, tried to sink the USS Liberty, danced in joy at the crumbling twin towers, take $ billions and return a poke in the eye, sell our defense technology, bribe our entire political class, drag us into a genocide and much, much more. Where would we be without this wonderful nation?
They were going to do this anyway because the Dem convention was scheduled later than the final ballot date for certain states.
I don’t know who is more at fault in this sorry scenario – whoever scheduled the Dem convention so late or the states that have too early a cutoff.
Regardless, it doesn’t preclude replacing Biden at the convention. People will be told that voting for a [hopefully] missing Biden on the ballot refers to the existing Dem presidential candidate.
The D can’t stop lying, lying to themselves, hallucinating, convincing themselves, blaming the other side for lying.
Projection is their strong suit.
Allowing people to vote is a threat to democracy.
DNC: “Joe Biden’s mental faculties have not diminished in the slightest. He’s always been an idiot.”
It’s worse than being an idiot Have you read some of the stories about him and his daughter ? He sure fits in well in the Swamplands of DC
As we’ve said, the ends justify the means. Norms. Rules. Laws. Don’t matter
The ends justify the means, so what scam are the Dems so desperate to keep going that they need to keep their decaying puppet on the stage?
…as has been shown during the primary/caucus excercises on occasion.
Dictators don’t care about the SC Libertadore refs.