Biden’s Stubbornness Defines Who He Is

Two weeks after Joe Biden’s nightmare debate, the White House is navigating an increasingly turbulent political landscape amid calls from within the Democratic Party for the President to step aside ahead of the 2024 election. The embattled President faces perhaps the most pivotal moment of his political career as a growing chorus of detractors from within his own party publicly question his ability to lead.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Joe Biden hates bullies. And right now, he’s giving signs that he feels like he’s on the receiving end of the mother of all beatings from his own party’s worst offenders. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] As he hosted world leaders at the White House for dinner Wednesday night, the President spoke about countering Russia’s hostilities in Europe.

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to do it. In Project 2025’s plan for the Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, a former Trump administration HHS official, writes the following: The undeniable reality of abortion is that it does not always result in a dead baby, and these born-alive babies are left to die.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N. Y.) wants justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas removed from the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the congresswoman filed articles of impeachment against the two justices, alleging in a speech on the House floor that they have a “yearslong pattern of misconduct and failure to recuse in cases bearing their clear personal and financial involvement.” Ocasio-Cortz said these represent “an abuse of power and threat to our democracy fundamentally incompatible with continued service on our nation’s highest court.” The filing to impeach Thomas focuses on his failures to disclose financial gifts from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow—as first reported by ProPublica last year.

On the same day that Russia was celebrating Russia's presidency of the U. N. Security Council, its ambassador to the UN blamed Ukraine for the bombing of the children's cancer hospital in Kyiv. And if that wasn't ghoulish enough, Ukraine noticed they served Chicken Kyiv as the main course. To give these psychopaths a small taste of their own medicine, Ben Wittes (aka Lord Laser) had the Russian ambassador's home in Washington lit up with "CHILD KILLERS." Appropriate. Source: Kyiv Independent The Russian Federation hosted a luncheon on July 9 to celebrate Russia's presidency of the U.

Pundits are refusing to look at the insane elephant in the room -- a man who has been incoherently rambling for years. This is happening because our media wants to pick the nominee simply for clicks and airtime. But sure, let's put a dangerous sociopath back in the White House.