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Democrats always put everything into division and identity politics, while counting on economic illiteracy from their voters. It works great when you have the propagadanda/censorship/gaslighting powerhouses of Big Tech, Big Entertainment, and Mainstream Media. Virtually every billionaire, celebrity, and career politician is liberal and anti-Trump, yet someone they still are able to convince the public that Trump represents the rich, while the Left stand up for the little guy. Nearly everyone in attendance at the DNC Convention flew in on private jets and sit in boxes that sell for $500,000 or more each, while they cheer on yet another candidate who was SELECTED, not elected.
It will always work with 45 percent of the country until the propaganda powers can be broken and the leftist brainwashing foundations of the public education system can be cracked. That is starting to happen, but we’re unfortunately in the early stages. We’ll get there eventually.
Why are nonprofit groups setting up voter registration booths outside of driver’s license offices in Texas?
By Olivia Murray
Every time I’ve ever applied for a new driver’s license while also being involved in the voting process (Arizona, Tennessee, and now Alabama), I’ve registered to vote while I was in the DMV getting my picture taken. Now apparently that process is true for Texas too—which makes this story all the more odd, unsettling, and condemning. From a report out yesterday by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News:
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches probe of groups allegedly registering non-citizens to vote
The AG’s Election Integrity Unit found that multiple nonprofit organizations have opened booths outside Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License offices to assist with voter registration. U.S. citizens have the opportunity to register to vote at the offices when they are being issued or renewing their driver’s license or identification card.
First of all, if my experience is any indicator of what the paperwork is like in Texas too, registering to vote is basically as simple as checking a “yes” or “no” box—even a first-grader could figure it out—and as long as you speak and read English at even the most basic levels, it’s not a confusing process. Even more so when you consider that there’s someone right across the counter from you who could answer any questions if they arose. But, if you’re an American and you can’t figure out how to properly fill-out a government form that’s about as straightforward as it gets, maybe you’re not exactly competent enough to have a say in public policy and representation.
So, it strikes me as very strange indeed that nonprofit voter registration groups would wait outside the DMV, “helping” people register to vote. Seems a bit redundant, right? I mean, only if you’re not registering illegals though, because all those legals would have just had the opportunity to register while in the Texas DMV.
But if your target demographic isn’t the American citizen…? Then it makes perfect sense.
Looking at Texas’s eligibility requirements for a driver’s license, it’s obviously more rigid than handing them out like candy from a pedophile’s van, like they do in Democrat-run states, but it’s hardly difficult for illegals to obtain one; “refugees and asylees” can procure one with one single document… a work permit, also known as Employment Authorization Document, or EAD. Yes, that’s the only documentation needed, while I need a birth certificate, my previous driver’s license, utility bills in my name, three letters of recommendation, and my kindergarten grades (slight exaggeration). And yes, the same work permit that Joe Biden handed out by the millions; in “record numbers” in fact. Here’s this, from Chicago Business:
The Resurrection Project and other nonprofits are helping migrants apply for work permits in Chicago. Migrants are eligible for a permit if they have temporary protective status, parole status or have been in the country 150 days after filing a petition for asylum.
While Mittelstadt’s report didn’t identify the names of the nonprofits “assisting” with voter registration outside the Texas DMVs, I have to wonder if any of them are affiliated with The Resurrection Project.
And, as of March of this year, “refugees” don’t even have to apply for a work permit, instead being automatically enrolled for one the moment they break into our nation and cross our borders illegally—it’s “streamlined” as they say. From the Utah Supreme Court’s immigration legal services publication:
Refugees to Receive Work Permits in Just 30 Days Under New USCIS Process
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new streamlined work authorization process for refugees in the U.S. Refugees will now have to wait only 30 days to receive their Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) after being admitted to the country. This significantly reduces wait time for work authorization (down from several months), so refugees can begin working in the U.S. soon after arriving.
Under the new system, as soon as a refugee enters the U.S., USCIS will digitally generate Form I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization) for them. Once approved, refugees will typically receive their EAD within one to two weeks by mail. Additionally, USCIS will now electronically provide the Social Security Administration with the necessary information to assign Social Security numbers and send Social Security cards to refugees so they can begin working.
With a Texas driver’s license, an illegal is not permitted to register to vote… in the office at least. What happens when they get that license and exit the building, only to be greeted by a friendly nonprofit worker that speaks Spanish, telling them all about the wonder of the Democrat party, or the “free” stuff they’re set to receive if they just vote blue, no matter who, or how evil anti-immigrant Donald Trump is?
Any guesses as to who might be funding these nonprofits?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/why_are_nonprofit_groups_setting_up_voter_registration_booths_outside_of_driver_s_license_offices_in_texas.html
The pragmatic reality of the November election
By Matthew G. Andersson
When retail politics takes center stage in mass public attention, as the political party conventions do, nearly everything but the facts tends to be laid out clearly for voters. These conventions are surely American in how they are corporate marketing events, and they are meant to entertain and generate feelings rather than thinking. Much marketing and many theories of mass psychology are brought to bear. In that way, they underscore how professional politicians view their constituents: with general low regard, as mere “consumers.”
But here are a few vital facts that need to be kept in mind as November approaches, if your view of the Republic is more enlightened or at least more aspirational.
The DNC established more than election irregularity in 2020. It created an “off balance sheet” voting system by three primary means:
First, by lifting the discipline and oversight function of the voting event itself by subjecting it to an open-ended periodicity — that is, rather than an organized and controlled method, it is now an unorganized and uncontrolled “season” that can stretch for many days, weeks, or longer, and thereby escape statistical quality control, numerical verification, and qualification standards.
Second, the definition of eligibility has been so expanded to unqualified, unidentified, unknown, or uncertain persons as to citizenship, residency, or registration that voting no longer captures voters, but merely bodies, or even virtual ones.
Third, over the last four years, up to 25 million (perhaps more) unknown illegal invaders have established a presence on U.S. soil and have been strategically transported by private charter aircraft, bus, and rail to key state locations and converted into voting bodies. As the previous election showed, all it takes to assert a victory in vote-counting is at most a few hundred thousand extra ballots. Twenty to thirty million illegal but voting aliens, spread out over just a dozen swing states, means that each such state, like Arizona, or Wisconsin, or previously stable “red” states like Texas and Florida, may have up to two million new “strategic voters,” established with identity documents, to be “counted” by any means of voting assertions, including of course absentee, mail-in, delayed counting, drop-off, and more.
Moreover, the Fourth Estate, or the media (in reality the “Fifth Column”) provides the digital voting results in major media outlets, and this too is subject to enormous irregular opportunism.
J.D. Vance was right when he recently stated that the DNC is running a fraudulent campaign — that is, its entire platform is itself a deception layered on top of a voting deception. This started over four years ago in technical means and, at the beginning of the first Obama administration, in ideological terms.
This is why Trump is more than a GOP candidate: his platform stands out even more, if you focus on facts and policy, as a fundamental conviction on national security in terms of maintaining a sovereign country defined in Western culture.
The DNC has, by contrast, been so radicalized that it is not an actual American party; it is a global network of international interests that seeks to effectively acquire the United States in terms of natural resources, manufacturing, education, defense, banking, agriculture, media, and even general population control and demographics.
And the DNC is willing to sell it, or even give it away, as Trump vitally called to everyone’s attention years ago. This continues to be the great dividing line between Trump and the radical left: a U.S. president acting as a U.S. chief executive and U.S. civilian commander of a sovereign American nation, or a foreign proxy deception that has contempt for American history, American independence, and especially the American people.
The DNC itself is a foreign invader.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/the_pragmatic_reality_of_the_november_election.html
It may be possible to stop Democrats from creating post-election votes for Kamala
By Andrea Widburg
One of the things that deeply worries those who are planning to vote for Donald Trump is the possibility of election fraud. The fraud that worries them most is that corrupt precincts will wait to see how the wind blows before finalizing their vote counts. If the honest vote count shows that Kamala Harris won their state, they’ll call it. However, if an honest vote count shows that Donald Trump won, they’ll start manufacturing votes. There may be a simple answer to this problem. Read on to learn.
None of us can forget how, on election night, heavily Democrat precincts in the six swing states shut down for several hours after it appeared Trump was winning. When they re-opened, Joe Biden had magically taken the lead.
Democrats assured us that this was because they were finally getting to all the mail-in and drop-boxed ballots, which leaned Democrat. Trump supporters had their doubts. They also had doubts when the votes were still being counted for days after the election, again ostensibly because of those magical mail-in ballots.
After seeing that voter rolls are riddled with non-existent voters—dead people, relocated people, illegal aliens, etc.—they concluded that what actually happened was that the Democrats manufactured ballots after the fact to push Biden over the top.
Little has been done since 2020 to address these concerns. The courts were useless. They were afraid to touch the substantive claims and relentlessly dismissed election fraud lawsuits on procedural grounds.
Under Ronna McDaniel’s aegis, the Republican National Committee, which should have been all over this like white on rice, was inert.
At the state level, most efforts to push back against fraud by going to paper ballots, cleaning up voter rolls, and stopping mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, and drop boxes were unavailing. Only recently did Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin suddenly, and to his great credit, announce that the election will use paper ballots and electronic counting machines that aren’t connected to the internet.
That’s a step in the right direction, although electronic counting machines are still inscrutable black boxes. In my state of South Carolina, we vote at electronic stations that print out paper ballots showing our votes in English and an inscrutable QR code. The counting machine ignores the English and reads the QR code—and we have no idea what it says.
Just today, the courts took steps to help election integrity. The United States Supreme Court stopped (for now) a lower court ruling allowing people to register without proving they are citizens. Also, the Fifth Circuit ordered an immediate hearing on a ruling from a federal district court in Mississippi that allowed absentee ballots to be counted as long as five days after the election.
The above are all important steps, but they’re slow-moving and require action through courts, legislatures, and high executive offices. My friend “Jonathan Gault,” however, emailed me a suggestion that can be implemented in every county in America—especially every Republican-leaning county: No precincts should release vote counts until every vote is counted across the state.
The beauty of this is that it makes it harder for Democrat-run precincts to manufacture after-the-fact votes to overcome a Republican lead. Currently, if a Republican precinct quickly and efficiently counts its votes and then announces that Trump won in that precinct by, say, 200 votes, a Democrat precinct in the same state can suddenly shut down and manufacture 210 votes for Kamala. However, if the Republican precinct sits on its final vote count until every precinct is ready to disclose results, that cheating is impossible.
Of course, the Democrat precinct can still preemptively manufacture fake votes for Kamala. Still, the whole system is harder to manipulate when the Democrats have no idea what kind of lead they need to overcome.
All that this proposal takes is discipline. If Democrat precincts take days to count votes, Republican precincts across America must sit tight until that counting ends.
And for those Democrats who cry foul...well, they shouldn’t. They also claim that they are worried about cheating, and this proposed system provides equal protection for them. If all the players show their hands simultaneously, all is fair.
If you think this is a good idea, please share this post. Maybe we can start something here.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/it_may_be_possible_to_stop_democrats_from_creating_post_election_votes_for_kamala.html
Patrick Howley Tells Paul Harrell: Kamala Harris Has A MASSIVE Child Sex Trafficking Scandal On Her Hands
What will come out next in National File's THE KAMALA FILES?
by Patrick Howley July 26, 2024 in News
https://nationalfile.com/patrick-howley-tells-paul-harrell-kamala-harris-has-a-massive-child-sex-trafficking-scandal-on-her-hands/
Sarah Palin Claims Kamala Harris ‘Prostituted’ Herself For The VP Nominee Position [UPDATED]
By Andrea Jefferson
August 19, 2020
https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/08/sarah-palin-claims-kamala-harris-prostituted-herself-for-the-vp-nominee-position/
https://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2020/08/hollywood-loves-prostitutes-kamala-harris-and-cuties-2476123.html
STAR NEWS - LEAKED FOOTAGE OF KAMALA HARRIS
https://rumble.com/v561v4l-leaked-footage-of-kamala-harris-as-prostitute-.html
https://amg-news.com/exclusive-report-former-prostitute-kamala-harris-is-a-double-agent-intent-on-destroying-the-united-states-of-america-matt-wallace/
The Enormity of What is Coming Will Shock The World!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYZHyhKGKB4L
Sarah Palin Claims Kamala Harris ‘Prostituted’ Herself For The VP Nominee Position [UPDATED]
By Andrea Jefferson
August 19, 2020
https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/08/sarah-palin-claims-kamala-harris-prostituted-herself-for-the-vp-nominee-position/
https://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2020/08/hollywood-loves-prostitutes-kamala-harris-and-cuties-2476123.html
STAR NEWS - LEAKED FOOTAGE OF KAMALA HARRIS
https://rumble.com/v561v4l-leaked-footage-of-kamala-harris-as-prostitute-.html
https://amg-news.com/exclusive-report-former-prostitute-kamala-harris-is-a-double-agent-intent-on-destroying-the-united-states-of-america-matt-wallace/
The Enormity of What is Coming Will Shock The World!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYZHyhKGKB4L
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspends campaign, backs Trump for president
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-endorse-trump-president-court-filing-shows
Fake News: Judy Woodruff does a Dan Rather
By Monica Showalter
It's a disgrace to news, and a good reason why the public doesn't trust the media at all. The apology was bad, the finger-pointing at others was bad, the effort to distract was bad, and the bias under the color of news was the worst.
NEWS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024
PBS’ Judy Woodruff has issued a clarification and an apology for her remarks in this clip which went viral.
“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East.
As I said, this was not based on my… pic.twitter.com/4nIhczmpj5
A Seattle museum’s Israel-hating staffers force the removal of an exhibit on antisemitism
By Andrea Widburg
Seattle used to be a nice place. Now, not so much. The city itself is still a lovely collection of buildings located on the beautiful Pacific, but the denizens are so leftist that they’ve abandoned human decency. Certainly, that’s the case for the employees at the Wing Luke Museum, which forced a Jewish group to withdraw an exhibit on antisemitism that the museum had allowed it to mount there. The problem, of course, was that the exhibit dared to paint Jews, not so-called “Palestinians,” as victims.
The Wing Luke Museum is dedicated to the history of Americans with roots in the Asian Pacific. However, as is true for all museums, it will host special exhibits that tie, even tangentially, into the museum’s core mission. According to the JTA, in the case of the Wing Luke Museum,
The Jewish Historical Society had spent 18 months crafting the exhibit alongside the Black Heritage Society and Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. Modeled after a World War II-era American Jewish Committee anti-hate campaign, the exhibit first opened at the Wing Luke in late May and included descriptions of how all three ethnic communities have experienced hate over the years.
The Jews—most or all of whom I assume are Democrats given the Seattle locale (see below)—naively believed that they had a bond with other groups that have been victimized over the years. They were probably even gracious enough not to point out that, unlike anti-black and anti-Asian victimization in the West, or anywhere for that matter, Jewish persecution spans millennia, empires, and continents.
What leftist Jews cannot seem to wrap their head around is that their persecution over the last century comes from the left. Marx built antisemitism into his theories. In every country that embraced socialism, the governments grafted Marx’s antisemitism onto whatever antisemitism already existed, leading to pogroms, the Holocaust, and the USSR’s relentless Jewish persecution and support for Israel’s enemies.
Nor can leftist Jews grasp that, just as Hitler loved Islam, so do leftists—and for the same reason. They like its muscularity, and they love its hatred for Christians and Jews. Marxists hate the Biblical faiths because they speak of a Supreme Being and a morality more powerful than either the government or each individual’s “self-actualization.” Muslims, meanwhile, Muslims hate the Biblical faiths because they know that Allah and Islam are poor photocopies. The differing roots of their hatred don’t matter. What matters is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.
Lacking these insights, leftist Jews are perpetually shocked when their fellow leftists turn on them—and that’s exactly what happened at the Wing Luke Museum when museum staffers, inflamed by Hamas’s suffering after it raped, tortured, and slaughtered over 1,200 Israeli civilians (including children and babies), demanded in May, complete with the slightly edited image, above, that the exhibition on antisemitism be removed:
A collective of Wing Luke Museum workers participated in a walkout on Wednesday, May 22, and have been withholding labor in protest of Zionist language in the new exhibit “Confronting Hate Together”.
We love the Wing Luke Museum and are consistently honored to steward the stories of our community members, many of whom have experienced the destructive harm of white supremacy, genocide, and violence that parallels the experience of Palestinians today. Our solidarity with Palestine should be reflected in our AA/NHPI institutions. It sets a dangerous precedent of platforming colonial, white supremacist perspectives and goes against the Museum’s mission as a community-based museum advancing racial and social equity.
We invite you to send an email to the Wing Luke Museum’s Executive Leadership to show your support for our cause, to emphasize the significant negative impact that platforming Zionist ideology has on our communities, and the Wing Luke Museum’s credibility as a museum representing marginalized communities.
What ties that Marxist gibberish together is deep and abiding antisemitism. For these feral people, (1) Jews are colonizers, even though they are Israel’s indigenous people going back almost four thousand years, while Muslim ties to the land are barely out of diapers; (2) Jews are white supremacists, even though they are the ultimate “other” who’s been hated and persecuted by the whites whom leftists hate so much; and (3) Jews shamefully dare to point out that they are the victims of the biggest single genocide in world history, a moral high ground leftists claim they’ve lost because Israel is fighting a careful defensive war against an enemy that is open about its genocidal desires.
The Jewish groups behind the boycott tried to work with these truly worthless, vicious, genocidal, antisemitic, amoral, Marxist losers, which was a mistake. They should have gone on the attack, but leftist Jews react as all Stockholm Syndrome victims do by embracing their persecutors’ alleged victimhood. Now, having failed to placate those who wish them dead, the Jews are retreating (or the museum is forcing them to retreat). Again, from the JTA report:
Months later, the Jewish groups are still planning to mount a version of the exhibit, called “Confronting Hate Together.” But they will do so without their original partners, the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and a museum dedicated to Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage. Instead, the Jewish groups say the exhibit will be housed in a Jewish space.
The groups cited “circumstances out of our control” and said that the experience had left local Jews feeling isolated at a time of great need.
“Immense harm has been caused to the Jewish community by not being able to show the exhibit,” the Washington State Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Seattle said in a joint statement. “Antisemitism today is at its highest levels in over 40 years, and more allyship is needed to help meet the moment.”
(That word “allyship” in the last sentence tells you why I say these Seattle Jews are leftists. Only leftists use that word.)
My friend Robin M. Itzler repeatedly says that Democrat Jews are building the cattle cars that will take them to the gas chambers. She’s right.
Whether it’s Chuck Schumer embracing the Squad while crying crocodile tears about antisemitism, Doug Emhoff pretending to know a damn thing about his Jewish religion and culture, or the various “Jewish” groups that seek Israel’s destruction, no one hates Jews with the passion of a Jew who hates the Torah (the first five books of the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, that serve as the moral basis of Western culture and values).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/a_seattle_museum_s_israel_hating_staffers_force_the_removal_of_an_exhibit_on_antisemitism.html
It ain't Trump, babe
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Day 3 and Trump is the word. How can many times have you heard the word? I am not counting, but it is a lot.
Let's check this out from Matt Margolis:
If you've been watching the Democratic National Convention this week, one theme stands out above all others: hatred of Donald Trump.
When it comes to the issues that matter to people, the Democratic Party is curiously silent -- so much so that a Democratic Chicago Councilman even blasted the DNC for not talking about the issues.
Cheer to Scott Jennings over at CNN for pointing this out on the air. I don't usually watch that channel but keeping track of Scott's common-sense contributions is worth the click.
This anti-Trump madness reminds of the old expression about going to the witchdoctor to get something out of your head.
It got more insane when Governor Tim Walz (the VP nominee) attacked Senator J.D. Vance for going to Yale. Didn't former President Clinton and others go to Yale? To my knowledge, Sen. Vance got in on merit.
So the "vibes" are vibing and everyone is happy. I guess they will keep on vibing until they see that the polls' "vibes" are back to Trump.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/it_ain_t_trump_babe.html
I vote for what Clinton calls 'Chaos'
By Ned Cosby
Listening to Bill Clinton’s speech at the DNC convention reminds me that he is older, but not wiser. I wonder if he can define what the word ‘is’ means yet.
Clinton, along with the Obamas, wants to see his party, the so-called Democrat Party, retain power after the upcoming November election. He and his old buddy James Carville see how bad the economy is. He sees the flood of illegals coming across our southwestern border. He knows that most of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction. He has witnessed the unrelenting sewer wash Pelosi, Biden, Obama, and Hillary have sprayed at Donald Trump since 2015. He won’t admit it, but he stands in awe of Trump’s ability to withstand their attacks. Clinton spoke for thirty minutes, yet there was a lot that Bill ‘I Got Rich in Politics’ Clinton did not say last night.
He did manage to accuse former President Trump of creating chaos with his MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN campaign. It must stick in Bill’s craw that MAGA is a repudiation of much of his own legacy as president. Hearing Trump call the NAFTA treaty stupid again and again must echo in his skull.
So, Bill came out swinging and called Trump a maker of chaos. Chaos means complete disorder and confusion. Many of us look at the Obama/Biden years and the Biden/Harris years as times of confusion caused by “leading from behind” leadership. For us Biden’s exit from Afghanistan is the very picture of chaos.
Many of us long for the Trump/Pence years when Americans could afford to buy groceries, fill up their cars, and take vacations.
I side with former President Trump. If draining the swamp means chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If expecting public schools to teach and encourage patriotism is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If going after Biden and any other politicians who make deals with the devil (China) is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If calling for honest one-day elections using paper ballots is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If recapturing the idea of public service, not grifting, is chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If affirming free speech and disavowing disinformation or hate speech creates chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If bringing manufacturing and industry back to America creates chaos, I will vote for chaos.
If tapping the energy resources that God has given us creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
If leading the world in demanding restitution from China for the Wuhan Flu creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
If agreeing with Trump that the Green Movement is a scam creates chaos, I vote for chaos.
What Slick Willie calls chaos, I call common sense.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/i_vote_for_what_clinton_calls_chaos.html
Trump is entitled to not turn the other cheek
By Peter Olsson
In typical flamboyant style, Donald Trump jokes at recent campaign rallies about whether he should be nice to political opponents or not, even taking a live voice poll with the rally audience. The being nice option usually loses. Perhaps, Trump like Leo Durocher of baseball fame, thinks that nice guys come in last in the pennant race.
In a North Carolina rally with the Rev. Franklin Graham present, Trump expressed admiration for Franklin and his father Billy Graham. Trump said that his father Fred Trump Senior admired Billy Graham and had taken Donald to Billy Graham rallies at Yankee Stadium. Trump quipped that Billy Graham, like Trump, liked big crowds which drew chuckles from the rally audience. Franklin Graham had written a letter of support to Trump but urged Trump not to curse during his speeches. Trump thanked Franklin Graham for his support but playfully rejected the advice about cussing.
Trump has been mellowly reflective -- even theologically contemplative -- after the assassin’s attempt on his life. However, Trump clearly rejects turning the biblical other cheek or embracing of the morally majestic Golden Rule when it comes to the relentless, politically calculated, and vicious personal attacks on him by Biden, Harris, the Obamas, the Clintons, and Democrats.
Trump states hyperbolically that he had rejected pushing for prosecution of Hillary Clinton after her destruction of evidence that had been duly subpoenaed by congressional investigators. Such kindness and respect toward Hillary Clinton has never been acknowledged by her or the mainstream media. The elite media that helped protect Biden and family in the 2020 election, Biden during his cognitive floundering, and now continues to protect Harris from vigorous questioning about her flip-flopping about domestic policy and silence on foreign policy details.
Trump went on to stoutly list his grievances about the baseless Mueller investigation against him, the two bogus impeachments, the inappropriate FBI raid on his home, and the politically motivated trials and prosecutions by attorneys general who ran for office touting their motivations to bring Trump down via the courts.
No! Trump will not heed his gentler advisors to heed the Golden Rule or turn the other cheek toward his vicious Democrat opponents for phony political purposes. No Mr. nice guy for Trump when it comes to the likes of Obama-Biden-Harris-Walz.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/trump_is_entitled_to_not_turn_the_other_cheek.html
Economic prosperity and environmental protection
By Joseph Ford Cotto
the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental policies have been defined by regulatory overreach and economic disruption; their approach to climate change and environmental protection has often been characterized by stringent regulations and ambitious goals that have led to increased energy costs and economic uncertainty. These policies have placed undue burdens on businesses and working-class Americans, who have borne the brunt of higher energy prices and reduced economic opportunities.
America Unburdened by What Has Been
By Phil D'Agostino
Every farmer, and most country people, know the insidious problem posed by rodents. The most common of these pesky rodents are, of course, mice and rats. And, because their nature is to hide and invade by night, they create a need for more devious means of eradication than mere trapping. The solution is to feed them a poison they won’t fear eating, so others will also ingest it and die.
Blood thinners are, by far, the most commonly used for this purpose. They usually require multiple feedings and do their work over a period of several days, allowing others to be comfortable with the environment and taking the bait for themselves. It all works very well, but how? Over a period of time, the blood is rendered unburdened by what it was meant to do. The platelets and other coagulants are similarly unburdened by their original purpose and the rodent dies without knowing why or what hit it.
To unburden someone or something of what “has been” is to unburden it from the lessons learned or the discoveries made that cumulatively create what we might call knowledge or wisdom. To “re-imagine” something is to reject it as it is, and find a replacement which may very well be inferior. But the current group of people who make up the Biden-Harris administration find “what has been” America, a burden. They look at the United States as a blank canvas as one may roller-paint the Mona Lisa with ceiling white and start over.
The political philosophies of Engels, Marx, and Hegel are the rat poison of a country. Call it by whatever form it takes (Marxian Socialism, Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, etc.), because built into each iteration are the same characteristics of the blood thinners of rat poison; that is, it is palatable at first, drawing you back again and again for more, taking you out in pieces without your knowing why, or what hit you. It unburdens you from the wonderment that was created by others and leaves you to re-imagine what lies in front of you like a whitewashed Da Vinci.
Capitalism
The problem we have with capitalism isn’t what it is, it’s the title of what we now call it. By calling it capitalism, it is taken to be an alternative “-ism.” It is not an ism. In fact, it isn’t anything. The word, most likely traced back to about 1855 or so, is simply a word for referring to what people do to make money, and nothing more. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
The first use of the English word ‘capitalism’ can be found in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel The Newcomes (1855, vol. 2: p. 45), where it seemed to refer to money-making activities and not an economic system.
There really isn’t a system we can reliably call capitalism. So, what is it? It is very simply the activity of people who have freely exchanged something of value to another for something of value to themselves. For example, if I have a knack for making arrows but can’t grow a stalk of corn to save my life, I might exchange my arrows for corn that someone else grew, and who is in need of reliable arrows for hunting. I may even make a bunch of arrows and keep them in storage to use as the need to trade comes up with others.
Today, we still trade things for things, or time for time, or job for job, or any combination of those and other things. We refer to it as trade or bartering. To accumulate a lot of what someone wants is a way of creating the ability to trade more and thereby have more. In most civilized societies, we accumulate money as a common exchange so we can increase the number of things for which we can barter. But, it’s still a trade of what I have for what you want, and vice versa.
Such trade is determined of value to the people in that exchange. For example, if I want you to mow my lawn for whatever reason, you may agree but you will want something in exchange. The most common, but not the only currency of exchange, is money. So, I want you to mow my lawn (time, work, output, or a job if you prefer) and I have nothing you would want from me, therefore we would agree to an amount of money which you can then use for what you do want from someone else. That is commonly called free trade; that is, you work for me mowing the lawn, and I work for you fixing toasters (or whatever I do for work) but handing you dollars as the currency. It’s called “free-trade” because we are free to determine all the elements of that exchange.
Socialism
Socialism, on the other hand, is an “-ism.” It is artificially created by others to superimpose onto a culture or society rules of engagement making our “trading” not free, but regulated according to some scheme. Like the rat poison, it seems palatable at first as it is usually packaged with the wrappings and trappings of fairness and equality (or worse, equity) as determined by that scheme as interpreted by a handful of Master Minds. Some examples of those who have interpreted and played master would be most famously: Vladimir Lenin, Mao Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung.
Inherent in this system is that all must participate. You must take only according to your need as determined by these “Master Minds,” and give according to your ability, again according to them. In the U.S., powerful Democrats believe they know what your ability to give is, as well as what you need, so they want to tax (take from) you what they think is equitable, and give it to those who they think have unmet needs. If you do not participate (i.e. pay whatever level of taxation they deem fit for you) you are deprived of your liberty or possessions by being imprisoned and/or having your possessions seized. This is deemed fair, as in “you’re paying your fair share.”
This unburdens us from the lessons learned by our founders, and centuries of testing their ideas across many countries and cultures. This allows the “Master Minds” to roller paint our history with white paint and makes our country a new canvas to be painted with whatever picture they envision it to be. It unburdens them from the lessons of history and allows them to see us, not as we are or what we want to be, but as they see we can be—if coerced and cudgeled enough.
To unburden us from what has been would be to make America a world in constant renewal, a kind of “Groundhog’s Day” world that never ends. But that isn’t what they mean when they say “unburdened by what has been.” What they mean is to unburden themselves from the limits and confines of the Constitution and to burden us instead with their dream of a New Utopia right here and right now. To make us become their version of John Lennon’s Imagine:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.
These words are the rat poison of our world; no borders, no God, nothing to kill or die for, and the world will be as one. But whose one? Whose world would it be as one? It sounds so palatable, so fair, so equitable. But what it is is poison. It poisons your freedom to think and act as you choose to think and act. It poisons your motivation to create or do whatever it takes to achieve your dreams, whatever they may be, for to do so would be inequitable. We don’t all “start at the same place” so your dreams may put you in a different place from another, thus requiring these Master Minds to take from you, the “privileged,” the fruits of your labors, and give it to others. It unburdens you from being charitable because they have already taken from you to give to others. It deprives you of being anything more than another brick in their edifice, all theirs and designed by them. They would deprive you of the burden of deciding what to do, where to live, what to drive, what to eat, or even what to drink. All the while they get to sit atop Mt. Olympus clinking their glasses as they toast each other for the wonderment they’ve created for us, their ant farm on Earth.
What “has been” is not a burden to Americans, not real Americans. What “has been” is a gift that is renewable each and every day. A gift of freedom to fail and the freedom to succeed, for without the freedom to fail, there is no such thing as success. No. The burden is on those who wish to impose their will and vision for that which “has been” has stood the test of time and remains that light which both starkly shows the flaws of their design, and continues to make us “that shining city upon a hill.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/america_unburdened_by_what_has_been.html
Senator Schumer Accuses Trump of Anti-Semitic Tropes While Promoting Al Sharpton
By Civis Americanus
Tell you what, Senator Schumer. When I hear Donald Trump call David Duke a civil rights leader, and depict the Ku Klux Klan as an organization “which fights for one standard of justice, decency, and equal opportunities for all people,” I may take you seriously. Until then, you, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and many other prominent Democrats are the ones who posed with a race hustler and/or appeared at the National Action Network.
LEAKED FOOTAGE OF KAMALA HARRIS
https://rumble.com/v561v4l-leaked-footage-of-kamala-harris-as-prostitute-.html
https://amg-news.com/exclusive-report-former-prostitute-kamala-harris-is-a-double-agent-intent-on-destroying-the-united-states-of-america-matt-wallace/
The Enormity of What is Coming Will Shock The World!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYZHyhKGKB4L
BREAKING NEWS: At least 5 Secret Service agents >
on leave after Trump assassination attempt .. !!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/multiple-secret-service-agents-put-on-leave-following-trump-assassination-attempt
Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be
By Stephen Helgesen
Will the American electorate wake up in time to realize that the White House should never be occupied by amateurs and vote accordingly? Or will the “Mad Men” have succeeded in selling the sizzle instead of the steak to a crowd hungry enough to eat anything?
Obama’s Proxy Presidencies: No, You Can’t!
By Vernon Roken
Mattieu Mabin, France 24’s Washington correspondent, reported on Barack Obama’s DNC 2024 speech Tuesday, noting:
It is remarkable to see how little Barack Obama has changed. What’s even more surprising is that, after leaving the White House nearly eight years ago, he can pick up his presidential rhetoric exactly where he left off, adding some required updates, and most notably, as if he were himself a candidate in 2024.
Oui, Monsieur Mabin, you’re right! Barack Obama is, in effect, seeking his fourth term.
Obama served two terms as president from 2009 until 2017. Following Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, Joe Biden was elected. The Trump-Biden debate and Joe’s ouster as the 2024 candidate made it clear that Biden was not capable of being in charge for much of the past three and half years. So who was?
There are several candidates among the Democrat elite, among them the power pair, Bill and Hillary Clinton; Nancy Pelosi; Chuck Shumer; and Barack Obama. There are certain indications that it was mostly the last.
Approximately three quarters of Biden’s key aides served under Obama.
Biden’s key foreign policy posts (Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state, Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs, and Jon Finer as deputy national security adviser) were primarily promotions from the Obama administration.
Even the leftist Washington Post reported on January 5, 2021 that the “concern around Washington is that the same people who crafted and defended President Barack Obama’s foreign policy won’t be willing or able to recognize, much less rectify, its shortcomings. “
Those concerns have turned out to be well founded.
The Biden administration replicated Obama’s policy of appeasement of the Iranian terrorist regime, which consistently violates the rights of its own people. Iran is now clearly implementing its stated plan to destroy Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.
Biden’s foreign policy team released billions of dollars and frozen Iranian assets — $6 billion alone for the release of American hostages. As a result, kidnapped Americans are among those being held in the tunnels of Gaza by the mullahs’ proxy, Hamas. Iran is providing drone technology that Russia and Hezb’allah use to pummel American allies in Ukraine and northern Israel.
The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan set off a chain reaction that has united Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China, bringing the planet to the brink of a third World War.
Four more years?
That’s what Barack Obama wants. Although the Constitution protects individuals from self-incrimination, the former president described his ideal third term to Stephen Colbert in 2020:
People would ask me, “Knowing what you know now, do you wish you could have had a third term?” And I used to say, you know what? If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or woman with an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in sweats, looking through the information and delivering the lines while someone else did all the talking and ceremonial stuff, I’d be fine with that.
There may be no definitive proof, but it seems safe to say that the front man was Joe Biden, and the front woman, should she win in November, will be Kamala Harris.
Mabin, the France 24 correspondent, reported that Obama’s “mastery of the crowd and the public makes him one of the candidate’s main assets.”
Oratory and charisma, the former president’s strong points, are not talents that can be passed on to a proxy, as we have learned from Joe Biden. In fact, they are among Kamala Harris’s most glaring inadequacies.
Victor David Hanson of the Hudson Institute says that the Dems have swapped a “cognitively challenged candidate” for a “linguistically challenged“ one.
One only need hear Kamala’s famous ruminations on “conceptualizing time” and “unburdening,” her false claim that she had been to the Mexican border, to understand that we are dealing with putty — a moldable candidate who can successfully serve as the next proxy.
No world leader, friend or foe, will take her seriously.
What’s more, she is being nominated literally by proxy. No primaries, no challengers, and no debates. There is something very undemocratic about the Democrat party!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only president to serve four terms. Faced with the Great Depression and the ensuing World War, Americans felt a compelling need for his leadership. Following FDR’s death, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms.
The treacherous world situation, Kamala Harris’s lack of credibility as leader of the free world, and the Dems’ big-deficit economic plan could be the inverse of FDR’s 12 years of service. A fourth Obama proxy presidency could very well generate economic depression and World War Three.
On November 5, Americans who care about democracy should go to the polls and send a resounding message to Barack Obama: no, you can’t!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/obama_s_proxy_presidencies_no_you_can_t.html
Open Borders America: Thousands of Migrant Children Missing
Victims of child labor, trafficking, or something else?
by Kelli Ballard | Aug 23, 2024
Where are the Unaccompanied Migrant Children?
A Homeland Security Inspector General’s report released Monday, August 19, revealed a disturbing trend. Thousands of unaccompanied migrant minors might be missing. As of May, 291,000 children who arrived in the US without their families were released but never given a date to appear in immigration court, meaning there’s no way to track their location or well-being. On top of that, there are about 32,000 minors that ICE released who did have hearing dates but didn’t appear in court. The report expressed concern that some of those children are at risk of being exploited by sex traffickers, forced labor, and other dangers.
Tara Rodas, who was recruited as a federal government employee to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with an influx of migrant minors in 2021, told the New York Post that she was shocked to find her job involved handing children off to “traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad actors, bad, bad, bad people.”
Before children are released, there has to be a sponsor for them. However, the sponsor does not have to be a family member, and agents do not usually meet them in person. According to Rodas, a phone interview is the only vetting usually required. “At the very beginning of the Biden administration, they stripped all the vetting out of the process,” she claims. Last year, 344 released unaccompanied migrant children were living with sponsors with no familial ties who were also hosting at least three other immigrant kids, NBC News reported.
“Without an ability to monitor the location and status of [unaccompanied migrant children], ICE has no assurance [they] are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor,” Inspector General Joseph Cuffari wrote in his interim report that was sent to Congress on Tuesday.
According to the report, which covered 2019–2023, officials transferred more than 448,000 migrant minors from ICE custody to HHS. However, many of them never showed up to their immigration hearings, which is how officials check on their well-being and look for signs that the children are being exploited. Of those that did show up, only 56% have counsel representation, according to the Department of Justice.
“Immigration court hearings are often ICE’s only opportunity to observe and screen [children] for trafficking indicators or other safety concerns,” the report explains. When ICE does not deliver the notices to appear or schedule court dates, that “reduces opportunities to verify safety.” ICE officials argue they are short-staffed and do not have the manpower or resources to do all that is required of them, including finding migrant children and serving them notices to appear. The report states that only one of eight of the ICE offices that were audited “attempted to locate” the missing migrant children.
While hundreds of thousands of migrant children are still unaccounted for, there is also another disturbing danger. Rodas said officials do not vet children, and she has seen adults claiming to be minors just to get through the system. “It is fraud on the part of the adult who’s pretending to be the unaccompanied child, but it’s also fraud on the part of the sponsor attempting to sponsor them. This is very serious,” she told The Post.
Criminal Immigrant Children
And then there is the crime issue involving young immigrants, some of them with gang ties, who are released without being vetted. On Wednesday, El Salvadorian national Walter Javier Martinez was sentenced to 70 years in prison for the rape and murder of Kayla Hamilton in July 2022. Martinez was reportedly smuggled into the US just four months prior to the crime, and officials allegedly did not even check to see if he had gang tattoos or call officials in El Salvador to see if he had a criminal record.
“Had they done so, El Salvador government officials would have confirmed that the assailant was a known MS-13 gang member with a prior criminal history,” Tammy Nobles, the victim’s mother, testified to Congress in January. Furthermore, HHS “neglected and recklessly failed to verify a legitimate family member of the assailant or sponsor before allowing him to enter U.S. soil.” She said the agency “allowed the MS-13 gang member, as a minor, to rent a room in a trailer park from another individual who was also an illegal immigrant.” The same trailer park where the victim lived and was murdered.
While in jail, Martinez wrote a letter where he allegedly confessed to four murders, two rapes, and other crimes.
The report raises alarming concerns. Where are the thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who were released to sponsors? Why aren’t minors being vetted as well? There are serious flaws in the system, and as a result, children are being exposed to trafficking, child labor, and other horrors. In the Democrats’ bid to provide rapid and humane ways to immigrate to the US, they’ve loosened the very procedures set in place to protect innocent youth.
What will next week bring us in Open Borders America?
https://www.libertynation.com/open-borders-america-thousands-of-migrant-children-missing/
Chuck Schumer Sets His Sights on the Filibuster Once Again
This time, there won’t be a Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema to save it.
by James Fite | Aug 23, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is yet again weighing his chances of entirely abolishing the filibuster should his party win the trifecta this year. The New York Democrat has held his seat for the last quarter century, and throughout that tenure, he has waffled back and forth on whether to protect or destroy this particular upper-chamber tradition – seemingly based entirely on which side of the majority he happens to be at the time. Well, Democrats currently hold a slim 51-vote majority, and Schumer made it clear this week that if Kamala Harris wins in November, Democrats maintain the Senate lead, and if they win even a razor-thin majority in the House, the filibuster is as good as dead.
Goodbye Filibuster, Hello Progressive Profusion
Schumer told Politico he was eyeing the end of the 60-vote rule for legislation in order to pass two voting rights bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Both were introduced but stalled in the 117th Congress and again in the 118th. Should Democrats see the kind of win in November their distinguished colleague from New York looks forward to, these bills almost certainly won’t fail in 2025 – but that’s far from all he’s planning. Schumer later said Democrats would also consider using the rule change to “codify abortion rights” and pass major economic legislation.
Only two obstacles prevented Schumer from doing precisely this in 2022: Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema. Both were Democrats at the time but then left the party, and neither is seeking re-election this year, meaning they can be replaced. As Schumer put it: “We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s why we couldn’t change the rules. Well, they’re both gone.”
In Remembrance
“The bottom line is this,” Senator Schumer said way back in 2003. “We are defending the Constitution, we are saying there should be some balance.” He criticized Republicans for trying to bend the rules whenever they didn’t get their way. “What my colleagues have done is taken the result they want … and then come up with an argument that all of a sudden filibusters are bad,” he argued.
Yet, when his party held a slight majority in 2013, then-House Speaker Harry Reid of Nevada first detonated the so-called nuclear option. President Barack Obama’s nominees weren’t getting confirmed, so Reid nuked the filibuster for all confirmation votes except Supreme Court Justices. Schumer dutifully toed the party line along with the rest.
Fast forward a few years, when Donald Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pulled a Reid and removed the filibuster from his path. Schumer, who was all in for ending the filibuster to get his team’s picks confirmed, once again defended the rule vociferously.
Yet once again he flip-flopped when Democrats next held power. He helped his party push through progressive legislation under the budget reconciliation rule and fought to end the filibuster entirely in 2022 once it became clear that year’s version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act wouldn’t have the requisite 60 votes in the Senate.
A Brave New World on the Horizon?
Schumer reportedly believes the party will lose Manchin’s West Virginia seat to a Republican. That seems likely; Manchin, now an independent, was the Mountain State’s lone Democrat in Congress. Both US representatives and the other senator are Republicans. The governor and all state executive offices are also red, and the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are ruled by Republicans 31-3 and 89-11, respectively. But Ruben Gallego, the Arizona Democrat looking to replace Kyrsten Sinema, “is for it,” as Schumer put it, leaving them with – assuming they can manage to not lose any others – 50 seats. Should Harris win the White House, that’s all they’ll need to kill the filibuster using Tim Walz as the tiebreaker. Should they also manage a slight majority in the House – or, for that matter, a tie and the speakership – there would be little to hold them back.
First, the plan is to tee up the voting bills in order to call the vote to end the filibuster once Republicans try to resist. Then, with that legislative safeguard out of the way – and, as a bonus, an end to voter ID and other election security measures – nationwide abortion access comes next, as does some progressive spending. This much we know, not speculate, because Schumer publicly declared it.
But where does it stop?
Biden’s White House and congressional Democrats tried multiple times to pass a full-blown “Green New Deal.” They also tried to pass a new, even stricter federal assault weapons ban – this time without an expiration date – and universal background checks even for private sales. Both endeavors failed only because Senators Manchin and Sinema refused to help end the filibuster, and even with that resistance, Democrats managed to get some concessions in both climate spending and gun control. There’s absolutely no reason to expect these agendas – or any of the various measures Biden tried unilaterally to implement only to have the courts shut him down – wouldn’t be rushed through in the first year of a Democrat trifecta sans Manchin and Sinema. Another popular idea among Democrats: Make Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, states, granting Democrats more senators, representatives, and presidential electors.
But what about the Supreme Court – surely, at least some of this would be unconstitutional, right? Well, the Constitution leaves it up to Congress to determine how many justices make up the High Court – so the easy solution there is to increase the total to some arbitrary number high enough that any conservative or originalist voices are drowned out and let Kamala Harris fill the bench with the most compliant progressive judges she can find. Regardless of what the nation’s founding document actually says, if the Supreme Court rules a law constitutional, then, legally speaking, it is.
Yes, this all hinges on Democrats winning control of both houses of Congress and the presidency – a tall order, to be sure. But trifectas are hardly unheard of, and this is precisely what the Democratic leader of the Senate is hoping for. Even if they don’t pull it off in 2024, Schumer’s plan goes in the back pocket for the next time his party holds a trifecta. And if they ever manage to change voting laws, add states they control, and stack the Court, the next election – whatever the year – might not matter.
https://www.libertynation.com/chuck-schumer-sets-his-sights-on-the-filibuster-once-again/
Kamala Unburdens Herself of Her Record at DNC
Heavy on rhetoric, light on policy, Harris woos the nation.
by Mark Angelides | Aug 23, 2024
Closing out the Democratic National Convention, VP Kamala Harris officially accepted her party’s nomination for president and delivered an address that – while hitting all the high notes on lofty goals – would have been better suited to a political neophyte. The viewing audience was treated to a mix of two parts hagiography and three parts emotional outreach with a dash of questionable hyperbole thrown in for flavor. And yet, as her maiden speech atop the ticket, Harris delivered just what her fans in the crowd and the media wanted: An unburdening of association with the last three years.
To borrow rhetoric from Mark Antony, she came not to bury Joe Biden but to praise him – the coincidental internment was merely icing on the convention cake for a candidate seeking to distance herself from her record in office.
A New Way Forward
The overall message was that Kamala Harris, as President of the United States, would set the nation on a different path. She said:
“And we are charting — and we are charting a new way forward. Forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to America’s success, and building that middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.
“We will provide access to capital for small-business owners and entrepreneurs and founders. And we will end America’s housing shortage and protect Social Security and Medicare.”
It was red meat stumping that the party faithful know well. They should. After all, it was the rubric that guided Joe Biden’s stint in the Oval Office. She also touted her foreign policy and National Security credentials, saying, “We must also be steadfast in advancing our security and values abroad. As vice president, I have confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances and engaged with our brave troops overseas.”
Critics in the press noted that the global situation has deteriorated rather than blossomed under her watch, specifically with regard to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 US servicemembers dead and more than $7 billion of weaponry and equipment in the hands of the Taliban, not to mention two bloody wars in different global theaters that seemingly have no end in sight.
Kamala Smoothly Navigates the Israel Question
The war in Israel has very much been a third-rail topic during the DNC, with speakers trying to juggle calls for peace without enraging the pro-Palestinian protestors who had camped outside the convention for the duration. Ms. Harris managed to balance her messaging well in this area, making a “both sides” argument that could be interpreted as an “all things to all people” stance. She said:
“With respect to the war in Gaza, President Biden and I are working around the clock, because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a cease-fire deal done.
“And let me be clear. And let me be clear. I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on Oct. 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.”
Supporters of Israel will be thrilled with her acknowledgment of the sexual violence that took place during the heinous attack. But she then followed up in a tentative outreach to those who are more sympathetic to the Palestinian side, noting, “At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.”
It was a smooth bit of politicking that threaded the proverbial needle.
Abortion Front and Center
In what will surely be the spark that launches a thousand memes, when Harris announced that she would “proudly sign” legislation that would make on-demand abortion the law of the land, the DNC footage cut from the stage to a sleeping baby in the crowd. Indeed, “reproductive rights” have been a significant theme both inside and outside the convention, with Planned Parenthood offering free vasectomies and medication abortions from August 19 to the 22nd, courtesy of its “mobile health clinic.”
She accused Trump of looking to enact a sweeping ban on the procedure, something he has firmly rejected, saying, “As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban, with or without Congress.”
And while centering campaigns on abortion access have proven a durable platform in midterm races, one must wonder why such laws were not passed during the early days of the Biden/Harris administration. After all, Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress from early 2021 until the midterms. Even if Republicans lose the House of Representatives, it remains doubtful that the Democrats will gain the 60 seats needed in the Senate to make this a realistic prospect.
Long on Talk, Short on Policy
Harris seems to believe that her personal story will be a defining aspect of her campaign, an assumption that may well be true. As such, she spent the first fifth of her address discussing her mother’s arrival in the US and her childhood in San Francisco. While newshounds were hoping for more on policy, in the age of identity politics, these blandishments – at least for certain parts of the electorate – provide voter motivation in a way that defined platform proposals rarely match. The other outside pillar would be that of demonizing one’s opponent.
More than a quarter of her time on stage was devoted to Donald Trump – notably highlighting points that even Washington, DC’s most prominent news outlet had previously awarded Three Pinocchios. Explicitly telling the crowd, “We are not going back to when Donald Trump tried to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
She once again raised the prospect of the end of Democracy:
“This election is not only the most important of our lives, it is one of the most important in the life of our nation. In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences — but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
And while the negative talk about Donald Trump is always a crowd-pleaser in Democrat circles, one can’t help but wonder if the attendees were hoping for more substance or even policy talking points that they could take away with them.
Don’t Mistake the Message
Kamala Harris had one job to do on the closing night of the convention: to unburden herself from the last three and a half years as Biden’s right hand. She spoke of the things she would do once she assumed the mantle of power, neglecting the fact that she has been, and still is, in office. The VP tried to draw a line under the Biden administration and distance herself from the pivotal role she played in it. While friendly media outlets may try to paint a picture of a new dawn under fresh leadership, her title and record could prove to be the albatross that stops her from achieving escape velocity from her past.
https://www.libertynation.com/kamala-unburdens-herself-of-her-record-at-dnc/
End of Hoaxes
“Kamala, you are supposed to drink AFTER the speech.” — Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA
James Howard Kunstler
Aug 23, 2024
“The entire Democrat campaign will now be focused on gaslighting the country into believing Trump has been president for the last 4 years and Kamala has been an innocent bystander the whole time. They can’t run on her record, so they’re going to invent one and lie about it.” — Sean Davis, The Federalist
Get this: there is one thing, one lurking terror, behind every fake and desperate move the Democratic Party has made this dire election cycle: the fear that hundreds of high officials might have to pay for their crimes of recent years if they lose on November 5. That’s why they lie about everything, and work so hard to construct false narratives, and struggle to obliterate the memory of Joe Biden’s ruinous term in power.
Of course, they can’t talk about it. It’s like the darkest secret in a wrecked human soul that has lost itself in mental illness, some abscess of shame and guilt sealed off in the mind’s attempt to protect itself — like the memory of an incest or an unsolved family murder — which explains the rich show of various derangements actually highlighted at this year’s Democratic Convention, their Cluster-B personality disorder freak show. It is an anguished, guilt-ridden collective mind leaking clues to its own disordered debasement.
So, the deed is done now. The odious “Joe Biden,” fake president, is dumped in the ditch of history, and a mighty operation is mounted to put over Veep Kamala Harris, who ignored “JB’s” incapacity to head the US government for four years, carrying out no duties meanwhile, hiding from the public, answering nothing, going nowhere, abetted by a treasonous news media bent on hiding her as she drank away the months in the old Naval Observatory.
The conventions are over and the contest is on. Have you heard enough of their fake war-cry: “defending our democracy?” From a party that has tortured the law to jail and silence its critics and scrape its challengers off every ballot. The pretense is perfect. Their “democracy” is actually a colossal “spoils” system — to the victor goes the spoils! — a grotesque political machine funneling trillions of federal dollars to their client voter groups, and especially to the non-profit orgs and NGOs that form a sinister secondary bureaucracy accountable to nobody. And all done with direct connivance of the federal intel blob at war with everyone outside this matrix of turpitude. And, by the way, the money is gone. Trillions. And nothing to show for it.
This is what Mr. Trump opposes, and has been fighting against since 2016. No wonder it wants to stuff him in prison or kill him. It is a mighty enemy because it holds the levers of official power, especially the federal prosecutors and the state and county prosecutors put in place by the Democrats’ chief “influencer,” the George and Alex Soros NGO empire. And the big picture includes the monumental crime against our country — against all the countries of Western Civ, really — which was the Covid-19 operation that left millions disabled or dead from a phony, poisonous “vaccine.”
And now we hear — as I write early this Friday morning, hours before any official announcement — that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is about to suspend his campaign, kneecapped by the Democratic Party so busy “defending our democracy,” and perhaps throw his support to Donald Trump in order to defeat this mafia of the mentally ill. I hope he does that. And I hope he denounces the party of his ancestors in the most vividly opprobrious terms so that no one can misunderstand the gravity of what has been going on.
I’d also look forward to Mr. Kennedy playing an important role in the second Trump government. Mr. Kennedy knows probably better than anyone in America exactly how the gigantic racketeering operation was constructed that grafted pharma onto the US public health agencies, the FDA, CDC, NIAID, and others. This monster that has left so many Americans dead and injured, and wrecked the health of the nation’s young people especially, must be slayed. It must be disassembled and its pieces reconstructed into institutions that actually serve the public. This includes the hospital holding companies, the private equity pirates out to asset-strip medicine, the insurance-driven, overgrown doctors’ practices, and the mendacious medical boards, professional orgs, and journals that unjustly punished dissident doctors and nurses who tried to oppose the extralegal Covid-19 vaxx mandates.
If it happens that Mr. Kennedy joins forces with Mr. Trump, it could be a momentous turn in an election so far marred by Democratic Party hoaxes, coups, and lawfare ops. Naturally, The New York Times played the story this morning in a tiny headline below-the-fold, saying nothing about the rumored stunning alliance between the Kennedy and Trump campaigns.
We await the Sept 18 sentencing hearing of Judge Juan Merchan in the Alvin Bragg book-keeping error (“34 felonies”) fake case that threatens to jam Mr. Trump into a Riker’s Island jail cell. I’d like to see them try that. I’d like to see Mr. Kennedy explain to readers of The New York Times and viewers of CNN how all that worked. Those news agencies, in turn, will not be able to get around the fact that “X” (Twitter) has become the dominant source of news for Americans, a platform the old news orgs have no control over, and may not be able to ignore.
Mr. Kennedy has the chance to elevate the argument against the now-debased party of his father and his uncle that has weirdly become a national wrecking crew. He has the ability to remind the voting public exactly what has gone wrong, in language that won’t be misunderstood or twisted, and to point a way back, with Mr. Trump, to being a country worth caring about.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/end-of-hoaxes?publication_id=2076970&post_id=148039607&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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American Thinker
Type of site News, commentary
Available in English
Founded March 2003; 21 years ago
Headquarters El Cerrito, California, United States
Founder(s) Ed Lasky, Richard Baehr, Thomas Lifson
Key people Thomas Lifson, editor-in-chief
Ed Lasky, news editor
URL americanthinker.com
Launched November 2003
Current status Active
American Thinker is a daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a politically conservative viewpoint. It was founded in 2003 by attorney Ed Lasky, health-care consultant Richard Baehr, and sociologist Thomas Lifson, and initially became prominent in the lead-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election for its attacks on then-candidate Barack Obama.[1] The magazine has been described as a conservative blog.[2][3] [color=red]The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication".[4][/color]
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud.[5] Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".[6] The American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."[7]
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In 2009, in the wake of the election of Barack Obama, the American Thinker joined a wave of conservative media publications discussing the possibility of a second Civil War. They forecast the possibility of "several regional republics" emerging following the "overbearing, oppressive leviathan" of Obama's presidency.[8]
A 2008 column in the American Thinker drew attention to a California plan to require programmable thermostats that could be controlled by officials in the event of power-supply difficulties. According to The New York Times, the column was "by turns populist..., free-market..., and civil libertarian".[9]
Right Wing Watch has written about American Thinker, including that the site had in 2014 published a complimentary piece on white nationalist Jared Taylor and in 2015 asserted that rainbow-colored Doritos are a "gateway snack to introduce children to the joys of homosexuality".[10] The site has also been described as sympathetic to the counter-jihad movement, having published writers such as Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Paul Weston.[11]
In a 2020 blog post on the site, Thomas Lifson referenced a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters to claim that sea level rise has been slow and constant, and that this rise pre-dated industrialization.[color=red]This claim went viral over social media in March 2020.[12] The author of the paper describes this interpretation as factually incorrect, constituting climate misinformation.[/color][12]
Under threat of litigation, in January 2021 American Thinker published a retraction of unsupported stories it published asserting that Dominion Voting Systems engaged in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 presidential election against President Donald Trump, acknowledging, "These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact."[13][14][15]
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Michelle Obama Exits DNC On 'Eat the Rich' Palanquin
CHICAGO, IL — Following her inspiring speech last night about the evils perpetrated by wealthy people, Michelle Obama exited the Democratic National Convention stage on a palanquin with "Eat the Rich" emblazoned on it.
The beloved former first lady had just finished raking the wealthy over the coals to the delight of the crowd of supporters and delegates before climbing into the custom-made litter to be carried out on the shoulders of peasants.
"Come, slaves! Carry me out and do not make eye contact!" Michelle shouted as a group of servants scrambled onto the stage with the palanquin. "A feast of Wagyu beef and caviar awaits Barack and I, and we will not be one moment late. Chop chop!"
The Obamas drew rave reviews for their convention speeches, recounting the plight they have suffered at the hands of the rich elites of the world. "They were mesmerizing," said one DNC attendee. "Dressed in their designer clothing, fresh off their private jet flight from their expansive Martha's Vineyard estate, you could really hear the passion in their voices as they talked about the hardships endured by normal, poorer people. It was magic. Then, she floated away in her ‘Eat the Rich' palanquin borne on the backs of their indentured servants."
Michelle was later seen scolding the catering staff at the DNC for not having any bottles of Duckhorn 2018 Vintage Cabernet Sauvignon before ordering her hair stylist and personal assistant to duel with knives for her amusement.
At publishing time, the Obamas were in talks to extend their $100 million Netflix production deal to include the release of a documentary on the evils of being wealthy.
https://babylonbee.com/news/michelle-obama-exits-dnc-on-eat-the-rich-palanquin
Oh No! Man At DNC Thinking He Was In Line For Food Truck Accidentally Gets Vasectomy
CHICAGO — A 34-year-old male identified as Damien Trevor, an out-of-state attendee at the Democratic National Convention, had his hopes dashed Wednesday when he thought he was waiting in line for a delicious burrito from a food truck but accidentally got a vasectomy instead.
"I thought it was weird when they asked me to get on the truck and take off my pants, but I thought, 'eh, this must be a great burrito,'" he recounted.
According to sources, it was not worth it.
"I just wanted a burrito!! No!!!" Damien Trevor reportedly cried after being snipped. "Why does this keep happening to me? This is worse than that time I accidentally got an abortion! Who puts a mobile vasectomy center next to a food truck anyway?"
Witnesses were reportedly empathetic to the plight of Damien Trevor but questioned his intelligence since there was no food signage on the truck. "There was even a sign that said, 'Free Vasectomies Here!' in large letters," said local bystander Joseph Wails as he was getting snipped for free.
"I just thought a vasectomy was some sort of hot sauce," Trevor admitted. "I mean, sure, I thought it was weird when they had me sign a waiver, but I just thought it was gonna be really really hot."
At publishing time, Damien Trevor was at least thankful he wouldn't be contributing to global warming by having any children.
https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-man-at-dnc-thinking-he-was-in-line-for-food-truck-accidentally-gets-vasectomy
Democrats launch new vote-buying scheme, plan to cancel $100 million in medical debt
By Olivia Murray
Well, isn’t this just great. Not only do we have student loans in our names that we didn’t take out, but now we’re fixing to have medical bills for services never rendered to us. Oh the “joys” of coexisting with Democrats and their voters.
Here’s the story, straight from the ugly horse’s mouth:
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Medical debt can follow someone for decades. We are wiping the slate clean for thousands and making a real impact on their lives.
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Now, according to a report from Lauren Irwin at The Hill, part of the “forgiveness” scheme seems to be Murphy’s office collaborating with a nonprofit organization known as Undue Medical Debt (UMD), a group leveraging more than half a million of our dollars from the federal government under the American Rescue Plan, and the people who will receive “forgiveness” will reportedly be individuals who are “four times or below the federal poverty level” or have medical debt that “equal[s] 5 percent or more” of their annual income.
Now, my first big question is why aren’t these low-income people on the state health insurance plan? Is that because they’re… illegals? Here’s this, from an article at the Gothamist:
Shabnam Salih, the director of Murphy’s Health Care Affordability and Transparency Office, told Gothamist that eligible people would start receiving letters in the mail as early as Aug. 19.
In New Jersey, about one in 10 people have medical debt that has been referred to collection agencies due to lack of payment as mounting bills become overwhelming, according to Salih. She said this number is ‘about double’ for Black and brown communities across the state.
“Black and brown” as in the invaders from the sub-Sahara and lower-Americas? I suspect so.
Of course this isn’t to advocate for the expansion of a socialist program like Medicaid as I vehemently oppose other people receiving “free” healthcare from my labor and skills—we’re literally already paying other people’s medical bills—but to merely point out that something doesn’t quite add up. Furthermore, I can’t exactly figure out how the other $99.5 million is supposed to materialize; the Gothamist leaves it at this, with no additional detail:
The administration is utilizing $550,000 in federal funds to wipe out $100 million worth of medical debt.
This really doesn’t add up.
How is Murphy accomplishing this clean slate? Debt between patient and facility is a contractual agreement between two-parties, sometimes three with insurance, so is he canceling contracts? Or, is he using taxpayer funds to pay off the outstanding debt?
My next question is, why does the bulk of this program (“$61.6 million”) apply to one provider, Prime Healthcare? Is that because founder and CEO Prem Reddy is a major donor to D.C.’s heavy-weights, on both sides of the aisle? (OpenSecrets had more than 500 records for him, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.) Names like Chuck Schumer, Kevin McCarthy, Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, John McCain, etc. can all be found on the list—and just two months ago, Reddy “received the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award” from the White House. What is really going on?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/democrats_launch_new_vote_buying_scheme_plan_to_cancel_100_million_in_medical_debt.html
Just how dirty are the Democrats? Nicole Shanahan describes a long string of outrageous acts against the RFK, Jr. campaign
By Monica Showalter
Is the Democrat party a political party, or an organized crime cartel?
This description of what they really did to the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign by RFK, Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, left even RealClearPolitics founder Tom Bevan reeling:
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RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan on how the DNC sabotaged their campaign and forced them to be a spoiler. She was a Democrat.
“They kept us off stages, manipulated polls, sued us in every possible state, and even planted insiders in our campaign.”
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RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan on how the DNC sabotaged their campaign and forced them to be a spoiler. She was a Democrat.
“They kept us off stages, manipulated polls, sued us in every possible state, and even planted insiders in our campaign.”pic.twitter.com/aNbiktWDfK
Where are all the expired and busted wind turbine blades going?
By Olivia Murray
This is pretty interesting, because wind turbine blades are gargantuan pieces of equipment, some more than 400 feet in length, and on the low end, weighing 16 tons—but they’re apparently disappearing without a trace. Nobody seems to know where they’re going, and the CEOs of the industry aren’t talking.
From a report by Pat Maio at Cowboy State Daily:
Until a few years ago, it was common for old wind turbine blades to be discarded in local landfills. That’s not happening much anymore as landfills require them to be ground up ‘into really tiny pieces,’ which is expensive.
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These landfills either won’t accept the fiberglass blades or won’t return phone calls to discuss their policies. Utility companies won’t explain the working relationship with landfills and the extent of their recycler efforts.
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GE Vernova spokeswoman Treacy Reynolds declined to comment on her company’s blade recycling program. GE is a leading maker of wind turbines and has a strong presence in the blade market.
The story’s the same for a “spokesman for the billionaire Warren Buffett-owned utility giant PacifiCorp,” who “couldn’t comment”; neither could “a spokeswoman with Black Hills Energy.” Furthermore:
Cindie Langston, the solid waste division manager for the city of Casper, said that the Oil City will accept wind turbines for disposal, but ‘no wind farm operators have called us for disposal services’ in a few years.
How do you hide something like a wind turbine? Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote about the wind turbine industry turning the modest Texas town of Sweetwater into a giant landfill (out of sight out of mind right?), but where are they going now? Per the article, landfill supervisor Ryan Bechtold revealed that new rules for his landfill require the blade owners to grind the blade down into “4-inch chunks or less,” which is entirely “cost-prohibitive” meaning the blade owners aren’t seeking out Bechtold’s services. Or Cindie Langston’s apparently.
Are they sinking them to the bottom of the ocean?
Now, it seems as though this phenomenon is widespread, affecting both decommissioned turbine blades and destroyed ones:
If you ask Amy DiSibio, who summers on the island of Nantucket, about where wind blades are getting dumped, she’ll tell you that no one seems to care.
She’s been picking up scraps of blade debris along the shoreline of Nantucket since last month when a 351-foot-long offshore wind turbine dropped into the sea. The chards [sic] of fiberglass and other ‘car-sized’ pieces of debris have washed up on beaches all along the New England coastline.
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‘They’ve hauled six or seven truckloads of debris out of here,’ she said. ‘Where does it go?’
I wrote on that disaster here, which occurred a little over a month ago.
So why did the landfills change their policy on wind turbine blades? Well the space of course, but also… they have a negative impact on the stability of the ground, and are presumably quite dangerous:
After the Sioux City landfill conducted a study on the blades, it found problems with compaction of the dirt and shards of the blades.
Air pockets underground and shards of fiberglass lurking just below the soil’s surface? Big deal! Don’t you trust science? Aren’t you concerned about the environment and humanity?!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/where_are_all_the_expired_and_busted_wind_turbine_blades_going.html
Did Kamala peak too soon?
By Andrea Widburg
The moment Kamala Harris, the least-liked Vice President in modern American history, became the Democrat party candidate, the media dedicated themselves to building her up as the only person who could save America from the myriad failures of the Biden administration (that is, her administration). She promptly popped in the polls. It appears, though, that she may have peaked too soon. According to the betting markets (which have proven remarkably reliable), even though Kamala refuses to speak off the teleprompter, Americans are beginning to see enough of her and learn enough about her to recoil.
I don’t have to rehash the manic love affair that the media promptly started with Kamala when she became first the unofficial and then the official Democrat party presidential candidate. What I can tell you is, per a Media Research Center study, 84% of the press’s coverage has been aggressively pro-Kamala, while 89% has been aggressively anti-Trump:
Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).
The MRC study also shows that the networks have downplayed Harris’s extremely far-left record, ignored any news from the Democrat party that isn’t positive, and insisted that Kamala is already leading the political parade, a claim that caters to people’s desire to back a winner.
What the media have given Kamala is the type of in-kind campaign contributions that no candidate can buy. Years ago, someone (Joe Klein?) guesstimated that the media’s pro-Democrat bias was worth 15 points in the polls. Now, given Kamala’s dismal polling as a Vice President (her disapproval has been incredibly high throughout her time in office, going as high as 56%) and her magical popularity as a presidential candidate (beating Trump by several points), that media bump must have been equal to 25 or 30 polling points.
Of course, what lies between the reality of Kamala’s role as Veep and her press as the presidential candidate is a bubble. Eventually, all bubbles pop. Moreover, in politics, nothing pops a bubble faster than when Democrat candidates can no longer hide their personality, values, or supporters behind the praetorian guard of the media.
Who can forget Howard Dean’s rapid collapse following the “Dean scream”? A decade before, Gary Hart threw away his candidacy through arrogance so great that even the media couldn’t cover for him. And half a decade before that, Mike Dukakis’s little head was popping out of that tank while he cold-bloodedly contemplated his wife’s horrible death. Once the curtain is pulled aside, like the Wizard of Oz before them, people see that these Democrat propaganda products are fake, radical, and unpleasant people.
When it comes to Kamala and Tim, the media is selling us “joy”—but this “joy” is a wholly manufactured product. When people see Kamala’s weird behaviors and hear her nasal whine (which I always liken to Fran Drescher’s voice without the comedic charm) or see Tim’s rictus grin and try to catch up with the explosion of revealed lies, the Dems dynamic duo seems to be less joyful than they are desperate. And when you get a load of their politics and supports—anti-middle- and working-class, anti-economy, anti-border, anti-Christian, anti-Israel and antisemitic, anti-military, anti-normal sexuality—that desperation reveals itself to be the hard work required to hide their hatred for the country they want to lead.
As the truth emerges and the bubble becomes ever more fragile, something interesting (and heartening) is happening: The more that Americans see of the unfiltered Democrat party, the more Trump’s odds of winning are increasing. Polymarket looks at betting trends rather than polling data and has seen a distinct shift away from Kamala:
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Indeed, if you go to the Polymarket site, you can see that today, Trump is at 52%, and Kamala is at 47%. The change comes from Trump’s renewed takeover of the swing state leads. A fascinating chart at the site shows Biden’s steady decline, followed by Kamala’s explosive ascendence. Through it all, Trump stayed the course.
Now, if one believes people who take odds-making seriously, it appears that Kamala’s ascendence peaked right before the Democrat convention started and is falling steadily. I know that betting is not a scientific poll, but most polls are so skewed toward Democrats that it seems just as reliable to look at where people are putting their money.
As Glenn Reynolds always says, though, don’t get cocky. We’re ten weeks away from the election, and that’s both incredibly soon and terribly far away. It’s incredibly soon because Kamala can still float into the White House on the media bubble. It’s also terribly far away because there’s so much time for cheating, lies, black swans, etc.
We voters have limited control over most of those things. What we can do, though, is make sure that we vote and that we politely nag our friends into voting. Don’t let anyone you know who votes conservatively fail to cast his or her vote before or on November 5.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/did_kamala_peak_too_soon.html
Public school crisis: seeking alternatives
By Sheri Few
If we don’t stop the indoctrination of children in government schools, we could lose what is left of our country’s freedoms.
I think you posted a cartoon of a woman wearing a shirt that said "Karma is a bitch" and a woman observer told her that she misspelled Kamala. I like that one!
You gotta love the guy! He isn't taking the bait:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13766739/donald-trump-interview-intelligence-briefings.html
al44: An important article to send to liberals. According to what I have heard on Steve Bannon's "War Room", Raskin, who is from Maryland, is the son of a Marxist.
Think he has anything in common with Carmela? I had a fight with a liberal friend about Sicknick a few weeks ago. I enlightened him. Great article.
The Many Lies of Jamie Raskin
By Jack Cashill
On the opening Monday of the Democratic National Convention, Rep. Jamie Raskin beguiled his audience with a litany of Donald Trump’s alleged crimes against the Constitution. The Javert to Trump’s Jean Valjean, Raskin wore his obsession on his sleeve.
As early as May 2019, Raskin was calling for Trump’s impeachment based on the “overwhelming evidence presented to us from the special counsel in the Mueller report of presidential obstruction of justice.” Any honest reading of the Mueller report would have shown the criminals to be those who conspired to frame President Trump for colluding with Vladimir Putin. Almost nothing Raskin says, however, is honest, right down to his reason for wearing that hideous do-rag.
Raskin achieved peak glory in his role as impeachment manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial, this one for the events of January 6. There, he helped convince the House to impeach Trump for “Incitement of Insurrection.” One could almost forgive his many deceptions in that rush to judgment, given how little was known at the time. Three-plus years later, Raskin has no such excuse.
Speaking before a convention crowd jazzed by the success of their coup against the sitting president, Raskin again accused Trump of “inciting insurrection against our own constitution.” By this time, as Raskin knew, not even special prosecutor Jack Smith had accused Trump of insurrection. For that matter, not a single one of the J6ers was charged with insurrection, a charge ludicrous on the face of it.
Although the House committee also shied from accusing Trump of insurrection, their deceptions helped seed the ground for Raskins’s DNC deceit. “The rioters were inside the halls of Congress,” wrote committee chairman Bennie Thompson, “because the head of the executive branch of our government, the then President of the United States, told them to attack.”
This is nonsense. Both the House committee and Jack Smith completely omitted from their reports Trump’s plea to the crowd, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” They leaned instead on Trump’s final exhortation, “We fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Trump made this remark about 1:10 P.M. At 12:53 P.M., Ray Epps and his crew first breached the Capitol perimeter. By 1:06 P.M., the undertrained Capitol Police began lobbing munitions into a still peaceful crowd on the west terrace of the Capitol. None of the people in that crowd heard Trump’s speech. The Capitol is a good 45-minute walk from the Ellipse, where the speech was given. If the protesters were incited to violence, it was not by Donald Trump.
In an impressively tasteless — and confusing — jibe, Raskin said of J.D. Vance, “They tried to kill your predecessor,” the “they” being the protesters, the “predecessor” being Mike Pence. According to Raskin, “the mob chanted ‘hang Mike Pence.’” A handful of people did say that, under whose provocation we do not know.
We do know, however, that the Capitol Police allowed a symbolic gallows to sit unmolested on Capitol grounds for more than five hours. One Washingtonian told me that when he and his pals set up a volleyball net on those same grounds, the police had taken it down within five minutes.
One P.M. seemed to be the witching hour. The Epps breach occurred just a few minutes before 1. A small crowd breached another lightly guarded barricade minutes later. At 12:58, a single individual pulled down the temporary fencing protecting the lawn. The leader of the gallows crew, whose face was fully exposed, hung the noose from the cross beam at 1 P.M. The pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC were each discovered within minutes of 1 P.M. Shortly after 1 P.M. a man climbed high atop the media scaffolding with an electric bullhorn and echoed Epps’s command to go into the Capitol.
The “scaffold commander,” the pipe bomber, the gallows leader, and the temporary fence remover have at least two things in common: none of them heard Trump’s speech, and none of them, conveniently, has been identified.
Epps, the most obvious of the provocateurs, was smoked out by other J6 protesters. Embarrassed into arresting him in late 2023, the DOJ slapped Epps on the wrist with a year’s probation. Rebecca Lavrenz, a great-grandmother I profile in my book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, received a harsher sentence for walking into the Capitol through an open door and praying for 10 minutes. Rachel Powell, another of the women I profile, got four years for helping to break a window.
Fond of hyperbole, Raskin painted a picture of the crowd as “extremists wielding baseball bats.” Among the very few bat-wielders was a young black man named Emanuel Jackson. Two weeks after January 6, the DOJ charged Jackson with “assault on a federal officer while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon.” Jackson repeated his attacks over a two-hour period. His were arguably the most violent acts committed by a protester during the day.
For all the obvious criminality, however, the DOJ allowed Jackson to slip back into his netherworld. In a hearing on March 17, 2021, his attorney argued successfully for his release, citing Jackson’s “severe intellectual disability.” Homeless at the time, Jackson had been given a bat and a few talking points about globalism by some unknown person. Unmentioned by any media is that this practice has a name. It’s called “bird-dogging.”
In 2016, Democrat operative Scott Foval told a Project Veritas undercover journalist how bird-dogging works. “I’m saying we have mentally ill people that we pay to do s---,” said Foval, unaware he was being recorded. “Make no mistake. Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff.” On January 6 and the days following, no one in the media wanted to know who gave the bat and the talking points to Jackson. He clearly did not fit their profile of a militant white supremacist.
One critical Raskin lie told was that “five people died that day.” Raskin is close enough to this subject to know that there were only four: Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed Air Force veteran shot without warning by a Capitol Police lieutenant (now captain), Michael Byrd; Rosanne Boyland, beaten mercilessly over the head with a stick by Metropolitan P.D. officer Lila Morris after Boyland had been pulled unconscious from under a human pile; Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack minutes after a police flash bang exploded next to his head; and Benjamin Phillips, who also died of a heart attack in the excitement of the day.
The fifth person, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, died of a series of strokes on January 7. Someone in authority — the New York Times would cite “two law enforcement officials” — made the conscious decision to have Sicknick “murdered” despite his death from natural causes unrelated to the events of January 6.
On January 8, the New York Times told its readers that “pro-Trump rioters” struck Sicknick with a fire extinguisher. The Times added this chillingly fraudulent detail: “With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.” To establish Sicknick’s martyrdom, authorities had his ashes placed in the Capitol rotunda. To sustain the illusion, the medical examiner’s office sat on his autopsy report for more than 100 days until forced out by a Judicial Watch lawsuit.
Good soldier that he is, Raskin refrained from talking about the pipe bombs. Everyone has, and none more conspicuously than Kamala Harris. The pipe bomb story, as they know, may yet blow up in all their faces.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/the_many_lies_of_jamie_raskin.html
Tweedle-Kam and Tweedle-Tim
By J.B. Shurk
there is little to differentiate the kooks setting things on fire outside the arena from the kooks setting rhetorical fires inside. They’re all communists
Fool Me Twice (Candidate Harris), Shame on Me
By Deane Waldman
Democrats believe they can fool us twice. The first was a fake existential CoViD scam they used to justify nullifying our First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of religion, and assembly. They even forced mass inoculations of a never-before-used, poorly-tested, ineffective, and medically dangerous genetic treatment with mRNA shots.
Using a fabricated CoViD danger as an excuse, the Biden/Harris administration reinstituted tyranny in the U.S.
Biden’s ‘Very Fine People’ Among Hamas Supporters
By Civis Americanus
“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.” (What, by the way, does that make Biden, Harris, and others who are calling for restraint by Israel, and/or a cease-fire with Hamas?)
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It is Your Economy .. yours, mine, our family, friends and neighbors -- EVERYONE to some degree is touched by the markets and their behavior. So we should be aware of the various mechanisms that make the markets and our economy tick. We live in a new era where politics, rumor, weather and just about anything you can think of effects the markets and our economy in some way, shape or form. Like it or not we are globally tied at the hip and in this new era where the advent of technology and the internet pushes information to the edge of the envelope, we can only hope to keep up with the many challenges ahead and the speed at which they develop. Technology is a double-edged sword and unfortunately can be used for good as well as evil, it just depends on who is holding the sword. This board was created to follow news, markets, stocks, cycles, trends, indicators and most of all to communicate and share ideas. Humor and Cartoons are welcome here, it breaks up the monotony from time to time and I am alays game for a good joke. I enjoy data mining, especially for info that the MSM (Main Stream Media) fail to or are not allowed to report. We must see things from all angles and aspects in order to verify what is true and what is false, basically becoming more atune to separating the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully in the long run this will help us all to make better and more sound decisions. This board is/was basically an information board, but all are welcome to post, (actually I encourage it because looking through another's eyes gives more perspective on issues). We can never learn too much about these ever changing times and the economy at hand.
* I have only a couple of rules and that is if you should post; NO PURE POLITICS or RELIGION and as always expected, please PLAY NICE !!!
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NOTE: What is meant by "pure politics" as stated in this boards' iBox decriptiion is just that.., it has no real ties to the economy and is mainly a composition of political innuendo. As I assume most of you know, it is difficult at times to separate politics from the economy due to the fact that politics plays a very large part in our everyday lives; be it on an economical, personal or other level altogether. Therefore this has created problems in the discernment of which posts should stay or go due to their leaning too far toward the political side and are slight on economic issues. As hard as my assistants and I try, we cannot please everyone. But we do what we do and want to be fair, we do want what should stay as part of this forums curricular. Everyone has an opinion and/or wants to be heard and I will do whatever I can to help ensure that is what takes place and hopefully most will not feel as though they are being targeted or alienated.
In the end all I can ask is that you be patient if a post of yours has been deleted, yet it has economic undertones that state otherwise and you feel should remain. If you feel you have been wronged - relax, sit back and PM me and I will make a final judgement. I am rather liberal, therefore more times than not I most likely will restore your post if it has merit and/or fallen between the cracks. Things happen or are interpreted differently and sometimes incorrectly, we are human. So do NOT throw a hissy fit nor become a foul mouth fool. Also PM harassment is frowned upon and should carry a level of disciplinary action, but I will leave that up to iHub Admin. Besides all that life is too precious to spend in a tirade. These types of behavior will get you no where except a closer view of the exit.. Treat people as you would like to be treated and we can work through most issues. It all starts with civil dialogue, respect for another's opinion even if not agreed upon. An agreement to disagree is the way I like to see things conclude when minds cannot meld. Just because an agreement cannot be reached does not mean we automatically have to trash another for their views and/or opinions. Let's face it, we all want better, we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves and we all want to gain an edge in the game of life. This cannot be accomplished without an open mind and a certain level of tolerance for all that speak out.
As a matter of fact I encourage as many of you as possible to post, even if it is just once a month. You don't have to take the world by storm, it could be about something as simple as a neighborhood observation such as more homes up for sale than in months past or how empty the parking lots are at a traditionally known hot spot. Post an article or commentary that hits close to home, test the waters and see if others have seen similar events around the country. We have at our fingertips virtually 100s of libraries of information and cyber chat connections we can use to find out how different aspects of the economy are doing all around the nation. I truly believe we all have a lot to contribute and share and while we all will never see eye to eye on every subject or then again maybe none at all, but different points of view may enhance our own outlook or the way we see and do things. Right or wrong, the world is constantly evolving and technology will begin to pick up speed by leaps and bounds So we could serve each other better if we take what is posted for face value instead of an opportunity to lambaste someone that sees things in a different light than our own preconditioned mindset. When opposing views are met with hostile impositions it is of no service to anyone. I certainly would not want a cult following or a bunch of "yes" men setting the tone for this forum, I want diversity !!! Variety is the spice of life !!! You cannot expand your horizons if you automatically shut down and feel as though you have it all figured out. I got news for you, you don't and you won't until you are lying on your death bed. I do not care who you are or how worldly and educated you may be, we never stop learning unless we hold ourselves back with preconceived notions. Knowledge IS Power...
AND if you should feel the need to post on an otherwise different, yet similar stage:
Your Economy OT - Conspiracy, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, War (whatever else you can think of) (YE2OT)
It's open and ready for business. Over there you can post whatever you like to your hearts content, especially political/economic articles and commentary that does not quite fit in at YE1. So now you have 2 boards - One for economics, markets, trends, data, news, commentary, etc. - a more serious site for those who want the straight dope. And now the YE2OT board for everything else. I will play Moderator, but I am taking applications for an assistant who would control 90%+ of the interaction over there.
If people choose, they can travel between boards if they need a fix of some controlled chaos at YE2OT and then want some cold hard facts as (YE1) was intended.
I want everyone to have a voice, now you have a choice .. enjoy
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