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Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Argus Hamilton

By Argus Hamilton

Published July 1, 2024

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas came to the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday to deny charges that 400 ISIS terrorists have slipped into the U.S. as reported by NBC News. Mattel just released Palestinian Talking Barbie but nobody knows what she says. Everyone's afraid to pull the string.

President Biden alarmed the most loyal Democrats by his debate performance Thursday night in which he zoned out and stammered incoherently a few times. Pundits say the night was a disaster for the president. I don't want to say the bar has been set even lower, but the next debate will be open casket.

NBC News reported Democrats were thinking of asking Joe to exit the ticket and throw open the presidential nomination to the Democratic convention in Chicago. That may be jumping the gun. Joe will do fine in the next debate if they'll change the rules and turn off the mike when it's his turn to speak.

President Biden raised a few angry eyebrows among liberal Democrats while discussing illegal immigration during the debate Thursday night when Joe described the migrants as illegal aliens. President Biden discussed how women got raped by their in-laws. In fairness he was thinking of Hunter.

Anheuser-Busch reported huge beer sales Thursday on the day of the debate. Is there anything more exciting than election year in America? I saw the presidential debate between Trump and Biden Thursday night, and now I'm looking forward to seeing the next one between Trump and Hillary.

Donald Trump revealed he'd rather be playing golf but he needed to run for president to save the country. It sparked the funniest part of the debate when Trump and Biden starting arguing about their golf handicaps. The truth is, for the last eight years they've both had the same handicap, Congress.

CNN drew huge ratings for the presidential debate in Atlanta Thursday as millions and millions of Americans were riveted to their TVs to watch President Biden face off against Donald Trump. Unluckily for the president, during the debate, Biden lost his train of thought. There were no survivors.

CNN's agreed-upon debate ground rules required Biden and Trump to stay on their feet all 90 minutes. They also had no audience and microphone cutoffs. I would have opened the debate with both Trump and Biden seated by their lecterns, and Jake Tapper ordering that the defendants please rise.

Fox News, CNN and MSNBC spent all day Thursday speculating on what might happen during the presidential debate that night. The debate rules allowed for no audience sitting in the auditorium. It bothered me, if I wanted to watch a competition with no one in the audience, I'd watch a WNBA game.

The Commission on Presidential Debates sanctioned the debate between President Joe Biden and Trump. If you buy the partisan hyperbole, it was Mr. Magoo vs. Hitler. As for the debate itself, it's only fitting that in the final days of Pride Month, we celebrate an evening of shame and embarrassment.

The New York Times said the Trump-Biden debate ratings would exceed the 84 million viewers who saw the Trump-Hillary debate. Last night the cultural clash between Woke and MAGA drew 100 million viewers. Normally we have to stage a Super Bowl or bomb Baghdad at night to enjoy TV ratings like this.

President Biden arrived for Thursday's debate after nine days at Camp David with 16 advisors where he studied and prepared for the debate. It reminded me of the Christian Science Monitor poll which found that old people read the Bible more than young people. It's like they're cramming for finals.

Ford Motors reports that it's losing $100,000 per EV as EV sales plummet to 8% of all cars sold in the U.S. A lot of them don't work when you need them most. Here in West Hollywood, I have a Generation Z neighbor who tried to kill herself by sitting inside the garage with her electric car running.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange flew home to Australia a free man after his lawyers and the U.S. reached a deal. In 2010 Assange hacked into government computers worldwide and revealed all kinds of national secrets. No one really believed Obama was born in Hawaii until Julian confirmed it.

NATO plans to offer Ukraine a bridge to eventual membership, risking Russian fury. That'd be the equivalent of hostile foreign powers using Mexico as a staging base to invade the U.S. I think it's only right for Russians to endure what we're going through, but they're going to love the Mexican food.

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