WELL, SURE, BUT THAT’S NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT SHE’D DO TO THIS COUNTRY: Kamala Harris Would Be Disastrous for the Middle East.
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August 14, 2024
TRACKING SICK, DYING, OR DEAD PEOPLE MIGHT BE BETTER METRICS: University of Minnesota says it’s tracking a ‘summer surge’ of COVID using wastewater.
If you have to find it via wastewater, how serious is it, really?
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: After Two Weeks With Kamala, Tim Walz Announces He Has Signed Back Up With National Guard And Requested Deployment To Iraq.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Earth is covered in ‘Gates of Hell.’
THIS PARADE BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIDEN-HARRIS: Taliban parade US military vehicles, weapons to celebrate 3 years in power, AP reports.
Members of the Taliban on Wednesday celebrated three years since their return to power with a display at a former U.S. air base, according to the Associated Press.
Images circulating social media show uniformed troops flying helicopters and parading a convoy of armored trucks through what was once the Bagram Airfield. The hardware had reportedly been left abandoned since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
BREAKING:
The Taliban are holding a major military parade the former U.S. military base in Bagram to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of taking over Kabul.
Chinese and Iranian diplomats attended the ceremony. pic.twitter.com/RWRm1h7dfu
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 14, 2024
And it was quite a haul:
Flashback: Harris says she had key role in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal decision. The vice president confirmed she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision to move forward with withdrawing U.S. troops.
SPACEX TO THE RESCUE LOOKS MORE LIKELY, ALTHOUGH NASA WON’T ADMIT IT: NASA Delays Starliner Decision AGAIN.
I HOPE WE CAN ERADICATE IT LIKE WE DID MONKEYPOX, YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT THAT ANYMORE: What we know about the new mpox outbreak in Africa.
BIDENFLATION ISN’T OVER:
The owner of four restaurants made this video when inflation was at 3.5%. Today, we’re told that inflation is at 2.9%. He looked at the prices of some products and concluded that the government’s inflation numbers don’t make sense. Since February, food prices have increased:
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 14, 2024
It’s even worse than I thought.
MATT TAIBBI: FOIA Files: Did Special Counsel Robert Mueller Rely on Clinton Campaign Operatives to Point to Russia?
For over eight years, the world has been told that the United States government relied on a private firm called Crowdstrike to investigate the hack of the Democratic National Committee. Both former FBI Director James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller referred to Crowdstrike as a primary source that Russian “conspirators hacked the DNC.”
That narrative was troubling enough and the subject of questions at Congressional hearings. Attempts by members of the public to obtain Crowdstrike’s analysis through FOIA have been shot down time and again owing to corporate “trade secrets” involved, and with Special Counsel Mueller’s July 2018 indictment of those 12 Russians who are unlikely to ever be apprehended, key facts about their investigation were set to be sealed for decades.
New emails obtained by Racket through the Freedom of Information Act, however, suggest there is more to the story. Cyber researchers at Georgia Tech who were indirectly working with the Clinton campaign and Fusion GPS to produce the Alfa Bank claims, also appear to have influenced Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation of the DNC hack.
Read the whole thing.
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear wanders into California teacher’s classroom.
OBVIOUSLY NOT THAT STRONGLY LINKED: Many nonsmokers have lung nodules linked to risk of cancer.
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EXACTLY:
There are some journalists letting harris speak all kinds of falsehoods and there appears to be few in the mainstream legacy media fact checking all or any of her info.
it is though the entire legacy media has become a platform for Harris to come out and say whatever she wants. https://t.co/rAw0VGxFN5— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 12, 2024
HE MUST BE HURTING HARRIS MORE THAN TRUMP: RFK Jr. ballot access could be threatened in more than a dozen states after New York rejection.
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Colin Kaepernick Makes Delusional Comment About Potential NFL Return.
Colin Kaepernick seems to think he still has the ability to play in the NFL.
The former 49ers passer last took an NFL snap on January 1, 2017 in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks. It’s been more than 91 months since he last played pro football.
The man responsible for sparking massive national anthem protests in the league was simply not good for business, and teams never jumped to sign him after the 49ers cut him loose.
Despite it coming up on eight years out of the NFL, Kaepenrick still thinks he can help a team win the Super Bowl.
Blaine Gabbert smiles. This is getting into the same territory as Sports Illustrated putting Jim Brown on its cover in 1983 in an Oakland Raiders uniform at age 47. Except Brown had an longer and infinitely more successful career in the NFL before retiring to make movies in Hollywood in 1966. And didn’t kneel during the national anthem, wear socks depicting cops as pigs while in training camp, pro-Castro T-shirts, and didn’t refer to the NFL draft system as “slavery.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Morning Hate Speech: David Frum Compares Trump To Mass Murderer Charles Manson.
The Trump = Hitler analogy is getting old. We’ve been in desperate need of some fresh material! How jejune.
Unsurprisingly, Trump-loathing journalist David Frum appeared on CNN This Morning today to supply it.
Frum dug up, and approvingly quoted, this line from Republican consultant Mike Murphy — or to be completely up to date, “Republican Voters Against Trump” consultant Mike Murphy.
“Asking Donald Trump to talk about policy, it’s like teaching Charles Manson to foxtrot. He can manage a step or two, but then he’s going to put a pencil in your eye, because he’s Charles Manson. And Donald Trump is Donald Trump.”
Frum went on to call Trump an “insult comic” who “knows how to abuse and denigrate and humiliate and demean.”
The irony was apparently lost on Frum that whereas he trashed Trump for denigrating people, he himself had just analogized Trump to Charles Manson—the personification of pure evil. Maybe Frum could serve as the warm-up act for Trump’s next insult-comic appearance.
Even with the “Trump is Manson” comparison, I don’t think Rolling Stone is going to go for him. As Joe Hagen wrote Sticky Fingers, in his 2017 biography of Jann Wenner:
As the 1960s kept ending, the next installment was the arrest of Charles Manson and four of his followers for the horrific murder of five people, including actress Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski, at a luxury mansion north of Beverly Hills. When Manson’s trial began in 1970, Wenner leaped at the story with an idea for the headline: “Charles Manson Is Innocent!”
Wenner’s headline was less insane than it sounds to modern ears. Manson was already an object of media obsession, a former Haight-Ashbury denizen who drifted to L.A. and collected hippie acolytes for LSD orgies and quasi-biblical prophecies. While the straight world viewed him as a monster, much of Wenner’s audience saw him, at least hypothetically, as one of their own. The underground press of Los Angeles, including the Free Press, cast him as the victim of a hippie-hating media. Manson was a rock-and-roll hanger-on. Wenner was convinced of Manson’s innocence by his own writer David Dalton, who had lived for a time with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, a Manson believer. “I’d go out driving in the desert with Dennis, and he’d say things to me like ‘Charlie’s really cosmic, man.’”
And I doubt Weather Underground member-turned-Obama booster Bernadine Dohrn will, either:
Dig it! First they killed those pigs. Then they ate dinner in the same room with them. Then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!
Best stick to rehabbing Woodrow Wilson’s reputation then, David.
HELLUVA PICK, KAMALA:
It's not just that Zaman is a kook who digs Hitler and hates Jews. He's also head of the MN chapter of the Muslim American Society, which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and serves as a front for the Ikhwan. MAS is banned in the UAE for terrorism. Why did Walz donate $100K… https://t.co/QlyZXUdQ2c
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 13, 2024
MAYBE EVERYTHING: How Much Is Elon Musk Willing to Lose to Protect Free Speech? “Right now, Elon Musk is up there with Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Jordan Peterson: They’re the current Mount Rushmore of Men who Terrify the Crap Out of Left.”
MAKE THEM PAY: MSNBC Deceptively Edits Joe Rogan. Lawsuit? “Given how obviously blatant and deceptive the video editing was, you wonder why they even tried it in the first place. But given the outlandish, over-the-top lovefest the MSM has thrown to gaslight the American public into thinking that unpopular, perpetual mediocrity Harris is somehow smart, accomplished and popular despite all evidence to the contrary, I wonder if all MSNBC staffers are under specific orders to produce segments that make Harris look good by any means necessary.”
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Cornell student sentenced to 2 years in prison for threats against Jews.
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: I Once Tried to Get Michael Vick a Gigantic, 200-Pound Dog. Please Don’t Hate Me!