KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: One Simple Way to Tell That the Dems Are Full of It Regarding FEMA Money. “It’s a safe bet that when the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media quickly sync up on the talking points that they’ve gotten instructions from on high.”
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October 8, 2024
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT THESE STORIES WERE MISINFORMATION: A Troubled Place: In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants.
IT’S COME TO THIS: FEMA hurricane aid stopped by ‘Road Closed’ sign? That’s Kamala Harris in a nutshell. “Yes, per on-the-ground reports out of tiny Bat Cave, NC, which was absolutely smashed by the storm, FEMA refused to enter the town because its workers are ‘not allowed’ to drive around a sign announcing a road closure. Even though the road was drivable, according to residents: just ‘officially’ closed. . . . Add in reports of authorities shutting down private-citizen rescue efforts — like that undertaken by heroic local helicopter pilot Jordan Seidhom.”
I HAD BEEN ASSURED MORE A YEAR AGO THAT THE PANDEMIC WAS OVER:
BREAKING: @fema's Disaster Relief Fund monthly report reveals that nearly $4 BILLION was spent on "COVID-19 aid" in September of 2024, the most of any month since October 2023.
Billions of dollars are being spent on a pandemic that's been over for years while Helene victims are… pic.twitter.com/5fbmdSkvft
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2024
We need to see the receipts.
ANDREA WOULD DISENFRANCHISE BOTH IF SHE COULD: Liberal Media Scream: Andrea Mitchell whines men and business supporting Trump.
AT AMAZON, Shop the Prime Day Deals. #Commission Earned
MATT TAIBBI: FOIA Files: Arizona State University: Our latest FOIA disclosures reveal that the Department of State was issuing grants to “anti-disinformation” researchers at ASU. Pretty clearly a domestic censorship scheme.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the Arms Business. This Time Selling to the Houthis.
Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.
The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law-enforcement sting operation.
Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter.
Heckuva trade, Joe.
MEN ARE EXPENDABLE:
Call Her Daddy Girl: “Are there any laws that give the government control over a man’s body?”
Kamala Harris: “No”
The correct answer is the draft
pic.twitter.com/zEIUV9mMZN— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) October 6, 2024
DON’T WORRY, IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING: China Enters the Economic Doom-Loop.
Beyond the money dump, China’s slashing interest rates across the board — which governments do to try and gin up some tissue-fire growth.
They’re slashing downpayment requirements on housies, opening a special credit facility so banks and hedge funds can gamble on stocks, and cutting the reserve requirements for banks — meaning banks can raid their vaults and go on a lending spree.
Put it together, and Beijing’s doing everything it can to get money out in the wild, down to bankrolling gamblers and pouring yet more trillions down the black hole of China’s comically over-built housing market.
You may have seen the ghost towns China’s built, here comes round two.
What Scares China
Why so desperate, you might ask?
Easy: China is panicked not only about a looming recession, but that it might be falling into the Japan-style doom-loop of structural stagnation thanks to President Xi’s anti-business jihad.
The key number here is the interest rate on 30-year government bonds, which is a classic indicator of a zombie economy in the spawning.
Ominously, China’s 30-year just fell blow Japan’s. Flirting with zombie territory.
Earlier:
● Evergrande crashes as China dumps ‘build, build, build’ playbook.
● Can China contain Evergrande’s collapse?
● China May Be Headed for a Lost Decade*.
● Flashback to November of 2019: How to Conduct Business with Chinese Companies That See a Dark Future.
* Given the previous four years of Bidenomics, we might be as well, depending upon what happens in November.
THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT LOSS PITCH: Did you know that every cell in your body contains six feet of DNA strands? And, since there are three trillion cells in your body, that means there are 18 trillion feet of DNA strands in each of us. Now that’s some serious irreducible complexity! Check it out today on HillFaith.
SHE HAS LITERALLY NOTHING TO SAY, FOR STARTERS: Ron DeSantis Is Blowing Off Calls From Kamala — and for Good Reason.
ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Columbia Student Protesters Celebrate Hamas on Anniversary of Attack. “Here’s the pro-Hamas student group. I’m not hearing any chants for a ceasefire. They are chanting ‘Intifada, people’s war.’ These Columbia students support Hamas. Notice their faces are all covered.”
SURVEY SAYS TRUMP LOSING MESSAGING WAR: Results from the latest Issues & Insights/TIPP Poll are a warning about the deepening power of the Left’s control of the Mainstream Media (MSM) one month out from the November election.
“Our latest poll, taken of 997 likely voters, finds that more voters say they trust Harris (who’s already announced $4 trillion in tax hikes) than Trump to cut taxes by a 48 percent -45 percent margin. Among the crucial independent voters, the margin is even greater – 49 percent to 36 percent. That’s not all. More trust Harris to bring about energy independence, 48 percent -47 percent.
But it’s not simply a matter of the MSM’s influence, according to I&I, which points to Donald Trump’s longstanding lack of ability to stay on message.
October 7, 2024
I NOTE, THOUGH, THAT NO ONE HAS SHOWN WHAT SHE SAID TO BE FALSE: NY Times Op-Ed: Amy Wax Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished.
I’M NOT GOING TO BE IGNORED, RON!
Shot:
She’s attacking the governor of a state about to be hit by its second hurricane in two weeks because he didn’t make time to let her cosplay as president during a contentious election.
Utterly shameful. https://t.co/sja7fOdx3U
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 7, 2024
Chaser:
Just listen to how businesslike and completely averse to letting politics even enter the discussion DeSantis is. Seems like the guy you want in charge when TSHTF. https://t.co/ldesFD62EM
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) October 7, 2024
Classical reference in headline:
UPDATE: Ron DeSantis Is Blowing Off Calls From Kamala — and for Good Reason.
UPDATE (9:47 PM):
OPEN THREAD: This is it, we’ll hit the heights.
THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING STRUGGLE SESSION: How Is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil.
Last week, CBS journalist Tony Dokoupil conducted an interview with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates whose new book, The Message, includes a one-sided polemic against Israel. Coates himself describes his book as an effort to debunk the complexities journalists invoke to obscure Israel’s occupation. He complained in an interview with New York magazine that the argument that the conflict was “complicated” was “horseshit,” that was how defenders of slavery and segregation described these plagues a century ago. “It’s complicated,” he said, “when you want to take something from somebody.”
So Dokoupil asked him about it.
“Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it?”
“Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?”
“Why not detail anything of the first and second intifada. . . the cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits?”
In other words, Tony Dokoupil did his job.
That’s when his troubles began.
One might think that respectfully challenging a source that presents misinformation or a picture so limited that it obscures the truth is what journalism’s all about. That’s exactly what CBS does in the aftermath of school shootings or when covering bans on critical race theory in local school districts.
But on this subject—or perhaps it’s this particular author—honesty and integrity are now an unforgivable act of editorial malpractice. At least that is what CBS News is telling its own staff when it comes to Dokoupil’s interview of Coates on September 30.
During its editorial meeting on Monday at 9 a.m.—the morning of October 7—the network’s top brass all but apologized for the interview to staff, saying that it did not meet the company’s “editorial standards.” After being introduced by Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, Adrienne Roark, who is in charge of news gathering at the network, began her remarks by saying covering a story like October 7 “requires empathy, respect, and a commitment to truth.”
After quoting extensively from the CBS News handbook, she said, “We will still ask tough questions. We will still hold people accountable. But we will do so objectively, which means checking our biases and opinions at the door.”
Does Roark know she works for CBS News, which hasn’t been objective for at least sixty years?
But like the New York Times’ young staffers melting down after the paper ran Tom Cotton’s op-ed on using federal troops to dispatch looters and rioters in 2020, the struggle session is just getting started:
This must be some of that objectivity that Adrienne Roark referred to above:
More objectivity from Grant here:
Exit quote:
Last month, I gave Tucker Carlson plenty of grief for staging a roadshow version of Springtime for Hitler with two months to go ‘til the election. With one month to go, witnessing CBS News holding struggle sessions and losing control of its staffers is an equally bad look. But then, bad things always seem to happen at CBS a month or two before a presidential election for some strange reason.
UPDATE (7:30 PM): CBS Anchor Ticks Off Network Brass by Committing Act of Journalism, Now Must Pay the Price.
So, the trauma session at CBS News will go just as you expect it will. Radical leftist nonsense words and shaming will be abundant, but common sense and reality will be in short supply.
It remains to be seen if Tony Dokoupil will have to issue a groveling apology for doing his job in order to keep his job, but we’ll keep an eye out for that.
As Kevin Williamson warned in 2018: Watch What You Say. Someone Else Is:
The generation that reached what passes for maturity in the age of social media is the most status-obsessed—and hence etiquette-obsessed—since the ancien régime. They are all miniaturists: There hasn’t been an important and original book of political ideas written by an American Millennial, and very few of them have read one, either. But they are very interested in individual pronouns and 280-character tweets. It is extraordinarily difficult for any one of them to raise his own status through doing interesting and imaginative intellectual work, because there is practically no audience for such work among his peers. Worse, the generation ahead of him stopped paying attention to Millennials years ago, and the generation behind him never started.
What that leaves is the takfiri tendency, scalp-hunting or engineering a court scandal at Versailles. Concurrent with that belief is the superstition that people such as Harvey Weinstein or Bret Stephens take up cultural space that might otherwise be filled by some more worthy person if only the infidel were removed, as though society were an inverted game of Tetris, with each little disintegration helping to enable everybody else to move up one slot at a time. Status obsession does funny things to one’s map of social reality. It leads to all manner of bizarre thinking.
In other words, the goal of the struggle session is for Dokoupil to issue that groveling apology and be fitted with his Maoist dunce cap while simultaneously on his way out of the building.
UPDATE (9:20 PM): Question asked:
DON’T EVER CHANGE, TATER: Brian Stelter Predicts ’60 Minutes’ And ‘The View’ Will Be ‘Tough’ Interviews For Kamala Harris.
STAY SAFE, FLORIDIANS: Evacuation panic in Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton sparks widespread backups and shortages.
I’M NOT CONVINCED THAT THE FAA IS ADDING ANY VALUE HERE: The Federal Aviation Administration has granted approval for the Falcon 9 launch of the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission, but is keeping the vehicle grounded for now for other missions.
When your “grievance” boils down to “Jews exist,” it never matters, and neither do you. Targets waiting to be serviced, and I’m glad Israel is finally treating them as such.