#JOURNALISM:
They write this as the Harris campaign is lying and saying that Trump is hiding and has dementia.
We don't hate the media enough.
These people have to lose. https://t.co/boYEjDDQas
— RBe (@RBPundit) October 21, 2024
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October 22, 2024
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On the left: I sent Atlantic a comment saying President Trump “absolutely did not say that,” referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen they printed.
On the right: Atlantic translated that comment to “didn’t hear Trump say it.”
Treat this dishonest piece accordingly. pic.twitter.com/pM1o1c9fEm
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) October 22, 2024
As Ben Shapiro notes:
It's election time again, so that means it's also Jeffrey Goldberg Unverified Trash From Anonymous Sources Time™! Barack Obama's favorite stenographer is nothing if not predictable. pic.twitter.com/VJLxYxUQrR
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 22, 2024
Flashback to 2014, when in order to prop up Obama’s base, Goldberg claimed that a” senior Obama administration official recently described” Benjamin Netanyahu as “chickenshit,” using his patented anonymous sources technique of inventing timely quotes.
UPDATE: Mr. Goldberg’s Profession.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY: Kamala Harris Once Suggested It ‘Would Be Great’ To Ban All Gun Ownership.
Related: Kamala Flip Flops on Fracking Pledge Just Weeks Before Polling Day.
Combine those issues and: Houston? She Has a Problem. “Perhaps we’ll get surprised by the results, but this looks like a very bizarre campaign strategy. Harris is losing where she needs to win and campaigning where she doesn’t as the clock runs out. I’d bet this gets a big mention in the post-mortems after November 5 if the current trends hold up.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE AND THE BANANA REPUBLIC: Biden calls for Trump to be jailed 14 days before 2024 election: ‘We gotta lock him up!’
Retiring President Biden stunned listeners Tuesday by calling for his predecessor Donald Trump to be jailed — 14 days before the presidential election in which Trump is the Republican nominee.
“If I said this 5 years ago, you’d lock me up: we gotta lock him up,” Biden, 81, said during a visit to a Democratic campaign office in New Hampshire.
After a four-second pause during which his audience enthusiastically applauded, Biden added: “politically lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do.”
The president and his aides typically refrain from commenting on the four pending criminal cases against Trump, who contends that a quartet of local and federal indictments last year were politically motivated to aid Biden’s then-re-election campaign.
Biden has tauntingly referenced Trump’s legal woes before, including saying last week, “I think he’s running to stay out of jail.”
All the best people told me during Trump’s first term that wanting to lock your political opponents up is the stuff of fascism:
By trying to have Mrs. Clinton prosecuted, Mr. Trump was following through on a campaign promise. At rallies, he often stood on stage denouncing her as crowds chanted, “Lock her up!”
“This reeks of a typical practice in authoritarian regimes where whoever attains power, they don’t just take over power peacefully, but they punish and jail their opponents,” said Matthew Dallek, a political historian and professor at George Washington University.
I eagerly await equally strong condemnations of Biden’s rhetoric as well. (But I won’t be holding my breath in the meantime.)
Simultaneously, I’m eagerly awaiting discussions about the 25th Amendment:
“I’M NOT DEAD YET! I THINK I’LL GO FOR A WALK!” “SHUT UP, YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE.” Man Declared Brain Dead Wakes Up as Organs About to Be Removed. “That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right? Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open and take your body parts out?”
BETRAYALS:
🚨 BREAKING: Biden-Harris’ Department of Veterans Affairs has offered reinstatement to 1,700 disgraced employees who were fired under Trump for mistreating veterans. Altogether, they will receive $134 million in back pay from taxpayers. Our investigation reveals that number could…
— Chad Wolf (@ChadFWolf) October 22, 2024
IT DID FOR AMY WAX AND SCOTT GERBER: Speaking Out against Law Schools’ Discrimination Comes with Severe Consequences.
MEN, WOMEN SUFFER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AT ABOUT EQUAL RATES: That headline likely seems “off” because the standard media narrative for decades has put men in the position of virtually always being the guilty party in a domestic violence incident.
Well, time to re-think this one, according to a new study analyzed earlier this week by Wintery Knight, who explains three key points:
- Scholars typically ignore violence against men committed by women: “However, there has been a paucity of studies on the severity and risk factors of IPV against men by female partners.”
- Men and women commit domestic violence at roughly equal rates: “This study revealed that there is a symmetry in the experiences of physical violence between male and female victims.”
- Men are the victims of more severe violence than women: “This study also revealed that male victims experience more severe violence than female victims.”
And thus another media myth bites the dust.
SOMETHING’S HAPPENING HERE: Los Angeles Times won’t endorse for president. “The paper’s editorial board, which has endorsed Democratic candidates in every presidential race since it first endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, was preparing to do so once again this election. But according to two people familiar with the situation, executive editor Terry Tang told editorial board staff earlier this month that the paper would not be endorsing a candidate in the presidential election this cycle, a decision that came from the paper’s owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor who made his fortune in the healthcare industry.”
HMM: Hidden Vitamin B1 Deficiencies: How Common Drugs May Be Starving Your Brain. “Brain-specific deficiencies are especially dangerous because they can occur even when our blood levels of B1 are normal, making them undetectable by standard blood tests. This hidden deficiency can quietly lead to serious, potentially fatal brain dysfunction.”
OPENAI: The Mask Comes Off: At What Price? “The Information reports that OpenAI is close to finalizing its transformation to an ordinary Public Benefit B-Corporation. OpenAI has tossed its cap over the wall on this, giving its investors the right to demand refunds with interest if they don’t finish the transition in two years. . . . The $37.5 billion question is, what stake will the non-profit get in the new OpenAI? For various reasons that I will explore here, I think they should fight to get quite a lot.”
OF ALL THE UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY THINGS HARRIS HAS EVER SAID, THIS MIGHT BE THE FUNNIEST:
KAMALA: I was just with one of the opinion leaders in the Republican Party, Liz Cheney.
(Warmonger Liz Cheney is neither an opinion leader nor a Republican) pic.twitter.com/8rjF21wYl1
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 22, 2024
She’s flailing.
SHOT:
The lawfare against @elonmusk, as gleefully described by the New York Times: pic.twitter.com/jPLtLyaYaK
— Stephen Pimentel (@StephenPiment) October 21, 2024
“Toe the line,” they explained.
Chaser:
THE E.V. BUBBLE NEEDS INFLATING: Ford is paying dealers $20K+ to order 2024 F-150 Lightning trucks.
GET THEE BEHIND ME, COCKINESS:
Two weeks until Election Day! Here’s how the 2024 presidential race compares to the same point in the 2020 and 2016 elections, according to the RCP poll averages. pic.twitter.com/Cf8y2x6QTZ
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) October 22, 2024
Pollsters say they’ve found ways to correct for underestimating Trump’s support like they did in 2016 and 2020 but there’s no way to tell until the votes are counted.
OOF:
Indeed. https://t.co/LccDzv5BRE
— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) October 22, 2024
But strong, empowered women or whatever.
SURE, HE WASN’T A FASCIST DURING HIS FIRST TERM BUT THIS TIME, THE DEMOCRATS MEAN IT: Democrats Must Face the Fact that the American People Don’t Believe Donald Trump Is a ‘Fascist.’
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EUROPE CONTINUING TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1939: Antisemitism has made life in Ireland unbearable, say Israelis.
Israeli people living in Ireland have said their lives here have become “unbearable” in the past year with many afraid to leave their homes and some emigrating to other countries.
According to the 2016 census, 664 Israelis and about 2,500 Jewish people live in Ireland. However, the community claims that Ireland’s pro-Palestine stance has led to an increase in antisemitism that has left many families and their children feeling unsafe.
Bar Clara Mendez McConnon, 33, is originally from the upper Galilee region, which borders Lebanon, but has lived in Dublin on and off since 2012. McConnon is currently in Tel Aviv with her Irish husband and their two young children due to the discrimination they have received.
She said: “For me personally it’s just been heartbreaking. I’ve always been very proud to live in Ireland and was actually deep into my naturalisation process of becoming Irish, but the level of mistrust and isolation got to a point that was just unbearable.
“My eldest son who is seven got bullied at his GAA club a few times by his team-mates and the coach for being Israeli.
“We’ve completely avoided the city centre since October 7 because of the violent graffiti and posters of Hamas terrorists — my son is old enough that he’s able to read them. First he was scared and then he started being ashamed of who he is.
“We had families and friends of years that turned on us. I explained that I can only share the Israeli perspective because that’s my life. My family is being evacuated from the north and one of my childhood friends is one of the hostages that is still there [in Gaza].”
How bad has antisemitism gotten in Ireland? This bad: Bibi banned from Galway.
In a unanimous vote of all 16 councillors present in City Hall last Monday, a motion was carried that the City Council will not welcome any future visits to Galway by Netanyahu, Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, or ministers and ambassadors of the current administration after its military incursions into Lebanon.
The motion, tabled by Councillor Níall McNelis (Lab ), spells out that no senior Israeli officials are welcome here ‘for as long as illegal occupation of Palestine and bordering countries continues, and war crimes are being perpetrated by the Israeli state’. The measure mandates the city council to communicate its ban to President Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Simon Harris, and minister for foreign affairs, Tánaiste Micheál Martin.
“Look, I know it’s just a motion, and I doubt Israel’s government will pay much heed, but we have to be seen to do something, especially as there are lads from Renmore [Barracks] in Camp Shamrock, and that just brings close to home what this bullying, bully state is doing,” said McNelis after the vote.
Creating no-go zones for Jews in Europe. What could possibly go wrong?
HMM: Where are Trump, Harris, JD Vance and Tim Walz campaigning today? “Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff.”
That seems like a strange priority with just two weeks left.
FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”
REGRETS? THEY’VE HAD A FEW: Is the Left Realizing That It Was Better Off With Joe Biden as Its Candidate?