COMPARE AND CONTRAST: US Foreign Policy: Words vs Deeds.
Archive for 2024
October 23, 2024
JUST REMEMBER THE FRAUD IS SEEMINGLY ENDLESS AND GETS A SAY: Have Americans finally awakened? Early voting suggests yes.
OF COURSE SHE IS. NO OTHER GODS BUT THE STATE: Harris is Against Religious Exemptions Regarding Abortions.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Report: British Advisors to Harris Campaign Want to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter’.
TRYING TO MAKE THE FRAUDULENT STEAL PLAUSIBLE: Fox News Polling Analysis Claims Massive Kamala Lead, Countering Other Polling.
ANOTHER BIDEN/HARRIS/BLINKEN MILESTONE: Intel leak shows how Israel is shutting US out of military operations as tension grows between allies.
IT’S AS IF THEY’VE NO FEAR OF THE LAW: Tren de Aragua member trafficked 15-year-old NYC runaway while free on attempted-slay rap: cops.
IT’S NOT COZY FOLLOWING CHRIST IN MUSLIM LANDS – AND IT’S NOT ISLAMOPHOBIC TO RECOGNIZE THAT: Kidnapped, raped and forced to marry – Christians in a living nightmare.
THEY TEND TO BE BETTER AT SCHEMING THAN THINKING: Democrats quietly panic over Harris campaign strategy as ‘Blue Wall’ crumbles: ‘They are just not thinking’.
GOOD THING HE ISN’T PRESIDENT: Biden on Trump 14 days before 2024 election: ‘We gotta lock him up!’
IT’S A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS CONDITION: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
COME ON, GUYS, LET’S PUSH IT OVER THE TOP. WE ALL NEED A WIN, AND THIS IS A WIN FOR A GOOD GUY: Rescue me from Costa Rica.
October 22, 2024
TWO CBS NEWS IN ONE!
Shot: Fake news headlines are going viral. Here’s what to know.
—CBS News headline, yesterday.
TV REPORTER STRUCK BY BULLET FRAGMENT AT CAMPAIGN EVENT FOR JOSH HAWLEY’S OPPONENT:
A Kansas City TV news reporter was hit by a piece of shrapnel Tuesday at a campaign event for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce.
According to NBC affiliate KSHB, reporter Ryan Gamboa was covering the event at a gun range near Kansas City.
Kunce was firing an AR-15 style weapon at the time Gamboa was struck. A piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a metal target and hit the reporter’s arm. Kunce was later seen wrapping a bandage around Gamboa’s injured arm.
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Republican incumbent Josh Hawley responded to the incident with a post on social media platform X, saying “I condemn all acts of violence against reporters and call on Kunce to never shoot another one.”
Great moments in shooting sports:
First Dick Cheney, now Kunce. What is it with Kamala’s endorsements and shooting incidents? Or as Doug Powers joked on Twitter, “This is why they didn’t give Tim Walz a gun that was loaded.”
UPDATE: Not surprisingly, this story is catnip to the London Daily Mail: Democrat accidentally ‘SHOOTS’ reporter with an AR-15 at campaign event.
The last two paragraphs explain Kunce’s sudden need for all of the commando cosplay: “Kunce won’t have any easy time trying to oust Hawley, who is seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate. An Emerson College/The Hill poll from September shows Hawley with 51 percent support to Kunce’s 40 percent.”
MORE: Bullet dodged, perhaps quite literally!
YEAH, IT CAN’T BE BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE THAT SHE’S AWFUL:
Stacey Abrams (D) claims that a lot of black men are not supporting Kamala Harris because they are sexist and racist. pic.twitter.com/svqAX26yPb
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 22, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Biden-Harris Iranian Spy Problem Blows Up. “Be sure to read it all. You won’t read much about this in the Protection Racket Media.”
MAKES SENSE, IT’S THE MULTIRACIAL WORKING-CLASS PARTY NOW: Tulsi Gabbard announces she’s joining the GOP while at NC campaign stop with Trump.
After walking out to loud cheers from supporters of the former president, Gabbard said she was joining “the party of the people, the party of equality, the party that was founded to fight against and end slavery in this country, and is the party of of common sense, and the party that is led by a president who has the courage and strength to fight for peace.”
I wonder if Manchin or Sinema will switch now. A switch from them is worth more now than it will be after election day, if the GOP takes the Senate, as many expect.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
THIS REMAKE OF MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE FIRST VERSION: We Are All on the Bus.
A single usage of “star-studded” was simply not enough to portray the majesty of a Kamala Harris campaign event with Oprah Winfrey, according to a Sept. 20 article in The Washington Post. “A star-studded online rally designed to showcase the enthusiasm and energy behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign turned somber as host Oprah Winfrey introduced the mother of a woman who died after waiting for health care in a state that has banned most abortions,” the report began. Several paragraphs later, readers learned that the event kicked off with “a star-studded opening as Winfrey called out other celebrities who were joining virtually—Jennifer Lopez, Bryan Cranston, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Meryl Streep among them.” The average age of the aforementioned stars is 64, once Oprah is factored in.
After leaving the undignifying grind of daily television way back in 2011, Oprah has remained at the rarefied upper summit of senior cultural figures, where she continues to embody national conscience and moral authority. She is the Eleos of the American Olympus, dispenser of compassion and mercy at the steep price of a full and honest public reckoning. Tim Walz, who has repeatedly stretched the truth about his military career and his travels in China, would have been an awesome Oprah guest. The same goes for Walz’s boss, who during her four months as a presidential candidate has carefully evaded any hazardous unscripted moments with the press. In the midst of their breathless coverage of a fake Oprah interview, The Washington Post writers—the article somehow carries the credits of two reporters—were too awestruck or subservient to note its obvious fakeness.
Would it really make that much of a difference if the paper took some other, less fawning approach, or showed even the slightest bit of skepticism about an overly stage-managed Democrat’s internet pageant of Clinton-era celebrities? In The Boys on the Bus, the classic 1972 study of that year’s campaign press, Rolling Stone writer Tim Crouse recounted the media’s powerlessness, and its interrelated lack of self-awareness and basic curiosity, in the face of a Nixon-level image-making operation. Today The Boys on the Bus is often remembered as a nostalgic chronicle of the fading glory days of American journalism. But it is really about the political media’s discovery that it might not really matter that much—that it isn’t a mighty tribune of democratic accountability, but a submissive player in someone else’s drama.
The media of the 1960s and 1970s at least pretended occasionally to have the aura of the penumbra of being objective. Beginning with the 2008 election (and arguably the preceding election), that’s all been entirely abandoned:
GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter." pic.twitter.com/OWj3uicQ1o
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 22, 2024
Yes, how indeed? As Jon Gabriel explored at the beginning 2017: President Obama’s Disastrous Record on Race.
On Election Day 2008, many Democrats welcomed a new post-racial America. The hideous blight of slavery and Jim Crow could never be forgotten, but our first African-American President would in some small way help atone for those sins and ultimately transcend them. Even Republicans shared the emotions of Grant Park, where thousands crying elderly blacks finally saw that America could elect a person of color.
Despite these bipartisan hopes, the nation is more racially obsessed than it has been in 25 years. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 63 percent of Americans think race relations are “generally bad.” Shortly after Obama took office, that number was 22 percent. In the same time period, those who think race relations are “generally good” plummeted from 66 percent to 32 percent.
Of course, Obama fans assert that this increase in racial division is due to white contempt for a black president. This is illogical since months after he took office, the American people thought racial harmony was higher than it had ever been. So what changed?
Watching Ferguson, MO go up in flames, I ironically remarked, “My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.” Little did I know how many times people would republish that line in the years that followed.
Eric Garner’s death created racial unrest in New York City. Baltimore was racked with days of violence following Freddie Gray’s death. Five officers were murdered by a black separatist in Dallas. Other law enforcement officers were ambushed in Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi. The police-involved shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile sparked more violent protests in New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, and elsewhere. In each case, the major media misreported the facts, stoked the literal fires, and characterized the rampages as “mostly peaceful.”
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Before getting into politics, Barack Obama was a community organizer. This anodyne term was created by Chicago leftist Saul Alinsky who created the position to “rub raw the sores of discontent.” Many thought Obama’s moderate sounding speeches meant he had tossed Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in the dustbin. Instead, upon entering the White House, Obama created Organizing for Action, which has trained 5 million Americans in Alinsky tactics.
Occupy Wall Street, Wisconsin’s anti-Walker protests, and Black Lives Matter didn’t arise of their own accord. They were the bitter fruit intentionally cultivated by OfA.
Which is why we now have a nearly annual riots in America. Or as Gabriel wrote in June: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same.
UPDATE: In accordance with the prophecy:
As Glenn noted when Gabbard headlined CPAC in 2022, “Hey, she got more Democratic delegates than Kamala. And this is more evidence of the political realignment that’s going on.”