WELL, TO BE FAIR, SHE HAS NO EXECUTIVE SKILLS: Kamala: Walz was a mistake.. “Nobody visits China 30 times. Nobody. I’ve never been anywhere 30 times in my life. Let alone a foreign nation. Just imagine the dirt China has on Walz.”
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October 1, 2024
REMINDER: WHAT THE LEFT CANNOT CONTROL, IT WILL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY. Inside the Biden Admin’s Plot to Destroy Silvergate and Debank Crypto for Good. “New information suggests Biden admin regulators deliberately killed off crypto-friendly Silvergate in an attempt to decapitate the US crypto industry.”
More:
New bankruptcy filings and exclusive interviews with confidential sources suggest Silvergate could have survived if not for pressure from regulators, which allegedly included an informal mandate to cap its crypto deposits at 15 percent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren all but accused Silvergate of aiding and abetting FTX’s crimes, creating an “atmosphere of concern” around Silvergate that possibly contributed to a run on the bank.
Sources told us the FHLB (Federal Home Loan Banks) refused to renew their monthly loan agreement with Silvergate due to political pressure from Warren, accelerating the bank’s losses.
Claims of criminal wrongdoing related to Silvergate’s association with FTX have never been proven, and no criminal charges have ever been filed against the bank.
Silvergate’s downfall may have been a primary cause of the 2023 regional banking crisis, which ultimately took down Signature, Silicon Valley Bank, and First Republic.
Those are just the bullet points. Full details at the link.
AT LEAST IT’S NOT A PEARL NECKLACE: ‘Border czar’ Kamala Harris panned for wearing reported $62K necklace to southern border: ‘You look ridiculous.’
RIGHT THERE BETWEEN YOUR EARS: The most amazing, marvelous, incredible supercomputer ever seen on this good Earth, that is. It’s your brain, which, as John 10:10’s “Three Pounds of Wonder” video on HillFaith demonstrates, far outdistances even Frontier at Oak Ridge, presently the world’s most powerful manmade supercomputer.
SALENA ZITO: Appalachia: A ballad of the unseen.
Think East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailed in 2021. The media were slow to show up, and the White House took weeks to acknowledge it. President Joe Biden famously went to Ukraine at the height of the Ohio crisis, and he took a year to show up in the Columbiana County village forever changed by the incident and subsequent controlled burn of toxic chemicals that left still-unknown effects on communal health.
There are a handful of “large” cities in Appalachia, with Pittsburgh being the largest. Others are Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Erie, Pennsylvania; Youngstown, Ohio; and Asheville, North Carolina.
The region also is home to state-recognized Native American tribal communities in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, and North Carolina. . . .
In the days since Hurricane Helene hit the heart of Appalachian Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, it has been remarkable to see, once again, the news media barely mentioning the devastating impact that has destroyed a large chunk of the region. As of Monday, there were 116 confirmed deaths as a result of the storm. The hardest hit county was Buncombe, North Carolina, which includes Asheville, where at least 35 people died.
The number of people missing as of publication in one county in North Carolina alone has reached 600. The people have been cut off from the world more than they usually are. Cell service, which has always been well below national averages, is almost nonexistent, and entire communities have been physically cut off because of downed bridges and washed-out roadways. Power is out, access to water and food supply is also cut off, and entire blocks of homes and business districts are now memories.
The images of cars, homes, and bridges being swept away, along with people desperate for water, food, and shelter, have been hard to consume. We are looking at our fellow citizens, our neighbors, and our families, and not understanding where the help is. We also don’t understand where the national news has been, as the story of Helene has earned scant coverage from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Only Fox, which has a lot of local affiliates spread out across the region, was on top of the story.
So why is that? Well, in part, this region has no center of power among U.S. cultural curators; no Hollywood studios, only a few corporate headquarters compared to those located in places such as New York and Washington; and no big centers of wealth. . . .
Nonetheless, despite the lack of political power, the people of Appalachia are more likely to be the first to sign up to serve their country, and they place value in faith, place, and community.
In 2012, when Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast and affected New York and New Jersey, the national media covered the devastation that came with it nonstop, and the White House was quick to respond. Conversely, when Oliver Anthony sang his haunting ballad “Rich Men North of Richmond” last year, it was the people of Appalachia of all races, who sang along.
When reports started flickering through X over the weekend about Helene’s devastation, both David Axelrod and Brandon Friedman, former Obama administration officials, immediately pointed to climate change, an issue elites often blame on the very working class who work in the industries they disapprove of.
Read the whole thing.
UNEXPECTEDLY:
The German family who hosted fake Muslim asylum seeker wants to send him away but he doesn't want to leave and takes a knife: "It's my home now!" pic.twitter.com/ufY2TyLHvp
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) September 29, 2024
HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, JIMMY!
Earlier: Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris.
As his 100th birthday nears, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has revealed his ultimate birthday wish—to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Carter, who has been in hospice care since Feb. 2023, could make history on Oct. 1 as the first president to reach their [sic–Ed] 100th birthday. But he told his family a bigger goal for him would be to see the defeat of Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
His grandson Jason Carter said he told his son Chip a few days ago, when asked whether he was trying to make it to his 100th birthday, that he is “only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”
No need to worry, he’ll make it — one way or another:
In July, Howie Carr wrote that Joe Biden has finally supplanted Carter as “the worst president, ever.” Both men may be looking to Kamala to best them in the Red Queen’s Race for that ignominious title. However, as Carr wrote:
The biggest difference between Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden was that Carter was at least trying to do the right thing by the United States of America.
Everything Biden’s handlers conspired to accomplish was designed to subvert not just American society, but western civilization in general.
That’s Kamala’s goal as well.
Flashback: “I see the contrast coming into view. Joe Biden is making Jimmy Carter look like a good president.”
Was this the moment when everything went pear-shaped?
September 30, 2024
HURRICANES: When then-President Trump visited Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, he got criticized in the press (and by my colleagues at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) for tossing paper towels to the crowd. The crowd was cheering, so I was never sure why the point was supposed to be. Ultimately, the press was unable able to make Maria the equivalent for Trump that Hurricane Katrina had been for Bush.
Biden and Harris are evidently hoping avoid the “Katrina” label too. We’ll see ….
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
DOING THE JOBS AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WON’T DO: Gov. DeSantis launches ‘Operation Blue Ridge’ to help rescue Floridians trapped in North Carolina. “He said that thousands of rescue missions were successfully completed across the state, and now that those are behind us, Florida crews will head north to rescue Floridians trapped in western North Carolina in ‘Operation Blue Ridge’. ‘Operation Blue Ridge’ puts people from the State Guard, the National Guard, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on the ground in western North Carolina, which was devastated by flooding from Hurricane Helene.”
Flashback: Ron DeSantis has emerged as America’s awesome ‘shadow president.’
WELL, YES:
It’s been 2 months since the media conceded Biden was mentally gone, party donors crowned Kamala, and for all practical purposes Kamala became acting President.
Kamala’s failed response—or lack thereof—to Hurricane Helene proves in the most tragic way she’s unfit to be POTUS.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 30, 2024
NOW THERE’S A RINGING ENDORSEMENT! Kamala Harris says insomnia hit after Biden dropped out, was sleep deprived the day of Walz pick.
Vice President Kamala Harris revealed Monday that she suffered from insomnia after President Biden endorsed her as his successor — and that she was sleep deprived the morning she picked her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Harris, 59, told “All The Smoke” hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that she made her “gut” decision to select Walz after being unable to sleep much the night before, waking up early that Tuesday morning in Washington and using cooking to calm her mind.
“From the time that the president called me and told me he wasn’t running, I mean, it’s just like everything was in speedy, speedy motion, and I was not sleeping so well,” Harris told the basketball stars, who both played for the Harris-supported Golden State Warriors.
“And that one morning I just, I mean, I had, I don’t know, a few hours’ sleep — and I, you know, I like to sleep. I just got up,” she said. “I was like — so I just went out and got a pork roast and started marinating it.”
Despite Kamala’s usual nonsensical word salad, as Matt Margolis writes in a PJM VIP post: Don’t Fall for the Lowering Expectations Game.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Position of Defibrillator Pads Makes a Huge Difference to Restarting Hearts.
RIP: Pete Rose Dies at 83.
MY SERVICE IS STILL FINE. But I was at the Verizon store today to pick up my my new iPhone 16 Pro (review forthcoming) and there was a steady stream of people who had no service. When will the Verizon outage be fixed? Here’s what we know.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Preterm births rising in United States. “The rise dovetailed with an increase in some factors that make an early delivery more likely, including rates of diabetes, sexually transmitted infections and mental health conditions, along with a corresponding decline in factors that protect against it.”
ISRAEL SETTLING ALL THE FAMILY BUSINESS: Third loud blast heard by BBC team.
For those who remain in Dahieh – the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs – it’s becoming a familiar message.
The IDF sent out a fresh warning late this evening, external that residents of three areas needed to evacuate. It meant Israeli air strikes were coming, and less than an hour later we heard two separate attacks.
The second was the louder, a long boom rumbling around the capital, the sound echoing and bouncing off the tall buildings around us.
As I write this update, we hear a third strike. Once again, it’s a tense and frightening night for people in the capital, some of whom are still sleeping out on the streets.
The IAF is putting on quite a show.
Footage showing one of the Israeli Airstrikes earlier on the Dahieh Suburb of Southern Beirut, less than a Mile from Rafic Hariri International Airport. With the Size of the Explosion suggesting that a Major Weapons Storage Site was likely Targeted. pic.twitter.com/rA4XiGWDzA
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 30, 2024
JAMES LILEKS: Show Me the Pillows.
Last stop: I made up the guest room, and thought: perfect! Looks nice.
But I was so very, very wrong. At the end of the night my sister-in-law came out holding a pillow, and asked . . . is this right? My wife was present, and from her expression I gathered I had committed a social blunder on par with giving the Queen a brisk Dutch Rub. What? What had I done?
I’ll tell you what I did. I had given them the Show Pillows. TO SLEEP ON.
The female need to pile a bed with useless pillows is an old and not particularly novel observation. It mystifies men. It’s like serving a meal where the plate is loaded with Show Potatoes, and you have to remove ten tubers before you can start. It’s like having a workbench in the garage with Show Hammers. Don’t pound with that! That’s the nice hammer we want company to see! It’ll get nicked and dinged. Or like going to someone’s house and finding out they have a Show Dog. No, no, don’t pat him on the head. Here, use this dog. And there’s some panting happy mutt they pull out of a closet. This is the company dog.
It reminds me of the bathrooms of my childhood, which were stocked with forbidden things: decorative soap in a nice dish engraved with intricate patterns that evaporated on contact with water, and decorative towels. You ended up drying your hands on the curtains, or patting them dry on the inevitable polyester shag toilet-seat cover.
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™
EVERYONE IS CONSERVATIVE ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS BEST: Workers at left-leaning PBS station WNET Thirteen demand halt to ‘union-busting,’ insist on higher pay.
(Classical reference in headline.)
Q AND M MUST BE SMILING: When the Mossad-hacked-the-pagers story broke, I alternated between thinking, “The producers of the Bond movies must be kicking themselves for not thinking of this,” and “if you put that in a movie, nobody would believe it.” Rinse and repeat both angles:
Related: From America’s Newspaper of Record:
