WE WIN, OH, WE WIN, BUT THE DAMAGE MIGHT BE IMMENSE: The Coming Storm.
I trust us to fight back, but how many good people we’ll lose.
Archive for 2024
October 30, 2024
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN (BUT DON’T BET THE FARM ON IT): Dutch court orders Bill Gates to appear in vaccine injury case.
HAS THE STATE FINALLY STRIPPED LANDLORDS OF ALL RIGHTS? Who’d be a landlord?
OFFICER! I WANT TO REPORT A MUGGING BY REALITY! Homelessness, drug addiction drive public safety concerns in Vermont’s largest — and lefty — city: ‘I don’t walk at night’.
FOR SOMEONE WITH HER MENTAL IMPAIRMENTS, SHE’S A PRETTY GOOD MIMIC: AOC: ‘This Was a Hate Rally’.
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED? Germany Reports Its First Case of Virulent New Monkeypox Variant.
I HOPE HE GETS HIS PAGER SOON: Terror Group Hezbollah Appoints Naim Qassem as New Leader to Replace Nasrallah.
CHASER: CNN Keeps Mehdi Hassan Despite Nazi Smear, Bans Ryan Girdusky Over Pager Joke.
WITH ALL THE OTHER CHEATS THEY STILL NEED THIS? Nevada Can Count Mailed Ballots Without Postmark 3 Days After Election Day.
NO LONGER DEPLORABLE. NOW WE’RE GARBAGE. ONE MAN’S GARBAGE IS ANOTHER MAN’S REPUBLIC. ULTRA-MAGA ASSEMBLE! Biden: ‘The Only Garbage I See Floating Out There’ are Trump Supporters.
It’s like all of Biden is gone except the stupidity and the pit of hatred. On the other hand, was there ever anything else?
DON’T GET COCKY AND DON’T DESPAIR: A Tide of Fraud.
RELATED TO THE LAST AND ABSOLUTELY TRUE: Voting Machine Requirements.
THIS OF COURSE IS A WAY TO CHEAT WITH NO TRACING AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY: Colorado GOP: Hundreds of voting system passwords were publicly shared by secretary of state’s office.
It doesn’t matter if they change the codes. Someone will have saved it.
But take the anti-black-pill: they’re cheating in Colorado. Colorado which even our side’s most blue-sky projections is deep blue. Take heart.
YES, THEY ARE. THIS IS TERRIFYING. IT MAKES NO SENSE, BUT THEY BELIEVE IT: They Are Actually Serious.
ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE ARE ACTING OUT OF CHARACTER, AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT: Not who I expected to nail it on media bias, even if he didn’t go far enough.
October 29, 2024
OPEN THEAD: This is where the magic happens.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell to leave namesake show, move to correspondent role at NBC.
Veteran political journalist Andrea Mitchell announced that she will exit her namesake MSNBC show after the inauguration, but will remain as a correspondent at NBC News.
Mitchell, who occupied the anchor chair at the left-leaning network for nearly two decades, will continue in her role as NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington corespondent.
The anchor– who turns 78 on Wednesday — broke the news to viewers on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Tuesday.
“And after sixteen years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: more connecting, listening and reporting in the field,” Mitchell said. “Especially as whoever is elected next week is going to undertake the monumental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home.”
Mitchell has been a reliable Democratic Party operative with a Chyron for decades. In addition to this Media Research Center compilation from 2013: “Andrea Mitchell: 35 Years of Liberal Advocacy,” there was this classic moment from last year: Did Andrea Mitchell climb down to fake a grovel to Ron DeSantis? Why, yes – yes, she did.
BIDEN: Trump Supporters are “Garbage.”
I wonder how much longer Gutierrez will be with NBC News after allowing Biden to bigfoot Kamala’s closing speech?
Video of Biden’s “Deplorables” moment here:
BREAKING: Biden calls Trump supporters “garbage” pic.twitter.com/CU7WZEyKpl
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 30, 2024
John Gill’s staffers tried to walk the boss’s slur back, but…:
UPDATE: Oh My: Joe Biden Sabotages Kamala’s ‘Unity’ Speech by Opening Mouth, Inserting Foot on ‘Voto Latino’ Call. “So, just to recap, on the night Harris gave what is probably the biggest speech she’ll ever give in her political career just one week before the election, a speech where she claimed Trump was a divider and not a uniter, her boss Joe Biden tells the country that Trump’s supporters are ‘garbage,’ completely upending yet another anti-Trump news cycle that they hoped would be favorable to them. You just can’t make it up. As some of my colleagues have suggested, it’s almost like Biden’s doing this stuff on purpose to hurt her campaign. If so, all I have to say is ‘Thanks, Joe!’ Oh, and more, please.”
AND THIS IS WHY SHE’S NOT DOING JOE ROGAN:
🚨Wow. This is a horrific answer from Kamala Harris:
Reporter: “Voters ask, why haven't you done any of it already?”
Kamala: “I'm not President!”
Reporter: “You're Vice President!”
Kamala: “I'm gonna tell you what I'm doing as president when I have the ability, then, to do… pic.twitter.com/LKsGyCFdwU
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 29, 2024
She can do word salads as soundbites, not three hour+ interviews:
I love that she tried to limit this to one hour. One hour with Joe is called "the introduction." https://t.co/Gs5cg8UYPX
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
TONIGHT ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF HBO’S VEEP: Harris Pivots to Unity in Closing Argument after Embracing ‘Threat-to-Democracy’ Charge Throughout Campaign.
Good luck with that, when her boss just called half the country “garbage.”
I THOUGHT BLACK-BAG JOBS WENT OUT WITH HOOVER: Report: Whistleblower Claims There Was an Off-Book FBI Investigation Into Trump Ordered by Comey. “The existence of this investigation, which preceded Crossfire Hurricane, was never entered into any FBI system and was later hidden from Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.”
There is a Deep State, and it was violently opposed to Trump from thet beginning. Democrats used to pretend both ideas were conspiracy theory, now they just praise them.
THE SPINAL TAP ELECTION: Everything Is Turned Up to 11.
For many women, abortion is a hard-won right and they believe that they alone should decide whether to keep their pregnancy or terminate it. Achieving that right (codified in the 1973 Roe v .Wade decision) was the most important feminist victory since the advent of voting rights for women. Their political opponents say pregnant women should not have unfettered discretion to deal with pregnancy since it involves another, innocent life. The debate over women’s rights, human autonomy, and the protection of innocents is suffused with both practical consequences and symbolic weight.
The same is true for transgender rights. The right of adults to choose their gender is now widely accepted, a major change from 20 or 30 years ago. The battles now are whether children should be subject to irreversible changes, who should make those decisions, whether transgender women (born men) should compete against biological women and girls in sports, whether biological and transgender girls should use the same bathrooms and locker rooms, and whether taxpayers should pay for gender-changing operations on prison inmates and illegal aliens. The numbers involved in these issues are relatively small, but their symbolic weight is large. Opposing sides face each other across a cultural chasm, drenched with contempt for the opposition.
These differences are playing out against a disorienting background condition, which is often ignored when we discuss politics and culture. The basic structure of modern economies is changing rapidly. The last such disorienting economic change was the Great Depression and, before that, the Second Industrial Revolution in the 1890s (the advent of big steel, oil, chemicals, and large corporations to manage them). Both the 1890s and 1930s produced long-lasting shifts in voters’ political alignments.
We are seeing another great realignment now, driven (on the economic side) by rapid innovation in computer technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. When those are combined with low-cost transportation, virtually free communication, and trade rules that encourage globalization, the result is social dislocation and disorientation. There is a palpable threat to employment in American manufacturing and, increasingly, in service industries.
Both political parties have responded by supporting trade protection, with Trump taking the lead. Doing so has helped him forge a populist Republican Party, centered on the working-class.
Amid these vast changes and bitter ideological differences, it is hardly surprising to see our political discourse becoming more virulent, depicting the opposition as “enemies,” as Trump has done for some elected representatives (and not just violent extremists).
The only way to contain those differences peacefully is to channel them through established democratic institutions, using well-established procedures. That’s the only hope the losing side will accept the results as legitimate.
Supporters of Al Gore and John Kerry could not be reached for comment.