CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Exceptional’: Intense Rainfall Has Transformed The Sahara Desert. I’m sure this is awful for some reason, though the Sahara has been wet before.

IT’S THE PARTY’S HISTORY:

Look at all those democrats

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) October 29, 2024

Democrats started the Racist KKK.

This photo was taken at the
1924 Democratic National Convention.

It was known as the “KLANBAKE”.
(just in case you want to google it) pic.twitter.com/jvWmlxQQL6

— Rose Renner (@RoseRenner50) October 24, 2024

THE CLIMATE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: New Study Reveals Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought.

THE DEMOCRATS’ INSANITY DEFENSE:

In the September debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump said something so ludicrous that many viewers must have dismissed it out of hand. “She did things that nobody would ever think of,” Trump said, while rattling off a list of some of the vice president’s most radical past positions. “Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”

The idea that the vice president “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” seemed so patently absurd that The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser cited it in a column posted the next morning as an example of Trump’s lunacy: “What the hell was he talking about?” Glasser wrote of the trans operation lines. “No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’ point.”

That reaction was understandable—the idea of the operations was, as Trump himself said, a “thing nobody would ever think of.” The problem was that it is true.

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The same GOP staffer, who is currently working on a competitive congressional race, told me that one problem his campaign regularly faces is that aspects of Democratic governance are simply too insane for voters to find credible, even when they are documented as official U.S. government policy. “When you outline the Democratic agenda, you have to water it down, because in both polling and focus groups, people just don’t believe it,” he said. “They are critical of things like boys in girls’ sports, but they tune out stuff about schools not informing parents about transitioning their children. They just don’t believe it’s true. It can’t be.”

Another Republican operative made a related point on the failure of the party’s attempt to message on trans issues in 2022, which was that the reality of the procedures was so gruesome that voters simply preferred not to think about it. “Phrases like ‘genital mutilation’ are disgusting and viscerally off-putting, even to voters who may be sympathetic to the Republicans’ position but will just write you off as a freak for talking about it that way.”

A similar dynamic plays out in foreign policy. On the one hand the Democrats conjured out of thin air the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, which was, we now know, a conspiracy theory concocted by ex-spies and Clinton campaign operatives and seeded in the intelligence agencies and media by the outgoing Obama administration to cripple the new administration. That is to say that it is not a matter of partisan political opinion; it is simply false. Yet as of 2022, nearly half of U.S. voters, and a majority of Democrats, still believed that Trump was elected in 2016 due to Russian interference, and the hoax remains a mainstay of Democratic rhetoric. It even played a major role in the 2020 election, providing the predicate for the Biden campaign to collude with tech companies and retired spooks to censor reporting about Hunter Biden’s foreign influence-peddling schemes, which turned out to be entirely real.

If the past decade of politics has felt like staring into endless funhouse mirrors, needless to say, read the whole thing.

Related:

● Jake Tapper Is Lying About CNN’s Key Role In The Russia Collusion Hoax.

● Fake News Beetlejuice! Ace of Spades Shreds Jake Tapper in Brutal Thread Titled ‘The Tapper Files’ (Pt 1).

I THOUGHT THE “HITLER LEARNS…” VIDEOS WERE PLAYED OUT BUT THEN THIS ONE CAME ALONG:

I love you, Internet. pic.twitter.com/6TrRISs5f4

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) October 29, 2024

OTHER REPORTS INDICATE SHE’S SHORING UP… VIRGINIA: Democrat Kamala Harris Surrenders in North Carolina, Withdraws Nearly $2 Million in Planned Ad Spend from State.

Update: For what it’s worth, both Nate Silver and Atlas Intel think Harris has a very slight edge in NC.

HMM: Scientists can reverse brain aging in fruit flies by preventing buildup of a common protein.

STEVE BANNON RELEASED:

BANNON: “I am finally out of being a political prisoner by the Merrick Garland, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi regime.” pic.twitter.com/2YYobLA6FO

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 29, 2024

SCORPION, WASP AGREE TO STING FROG: New York Times Caught Colluding With Democrats to INTERFERE in the Election.

I WAS TOLD I WOULD BE WATCHING A FASCIST RALLY AND ALL I GOT WAS A DON RICKLES CONCERT: Jon Stewart defends Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial MSG Trump rally joke.

THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Porsche Now Considering Gasoline Variants of EVs. “Porsche already builds an all-electric version of the Macan and the brand has the Taycan EV — not to mention a slew of hybridized models — with an electrified version of the 718 soon to follow. However, the business has noticed that plug-in vehicles aren’t seeing the same kind of demand as vehicles that continue to rely on gasoline. This came up during the Q3 call for investors, with leadership hinting that one future strategy could be to build combustion variants of electric models.”

CHANGE:

When I became an American citizen, I registered as a Democrat as I thought it was the kind, caring party. Now it’s the party of dishonesty, corruption and malice. I have resigned, and am looking forward to voting Republican. I love America. Vote! ❤️🇺🇸 https://t.co/inkg0sYyps

— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) October 29, 2024

HEH: Turnabout Is Fair Play: 20 Ways Kamala Harris Is ‘Literally HITLER!’

SHOOTING: My Guns Don’t Suit Me Anymore: As an older shooter, your accuracy is not what it used to be with your favorite pistol.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA Reveals Nine Potential Landing Sites for Artemis III Mission to the Lunar South Pole.

READER FAVORITE: Doctor-Developed Gym Wrist Wraps/Lifting Wrist Straps for Weightlifting. #CommissionEarned

I’VE BEEN A DONOR SINCE I TURNED 18 BUT YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE I’M RECONSIDERING: People Opting Out of Organ Donor Programs After Reports of a Donor Mistakenly Declared Dead.

REMINDER: The Washington Post committed massive election interference on behalf of Joe Biden to help him win in 2020. “The fact checkers at the WP straight up lied about other aspects of the story. They lied about the content of a speech given by Ambassador Pyatt and they lied about dates of incidents, all to smear Shokin and help Biden. Berruyer did a number of videos exposing all of it. Nothing complex, he just doubled checked what the WP claimed, and easily found they had repeatedly lied.”

NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE ELITES AREN’T TAKING IT VERY WELL: ‘They Have No Compassion’: Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Down How Trump ‘Terrifies’ The ‘Out-Of-Touch Wealthy Elite.’ “Hanson argued that Trump has redefined the Republican Party by recasting it as a coalition of upper-middle and lower-middle class citizens, leaving both traditional Republicans and Democrats scrambling to respond. Hanson reflected on Trump’s ability to energize his base by shifting the GOP’s focus from the elite class to a broad cross-section of American workers.”

ABOUT TIME: Some of Apple’s last holdout accessories have switched from Lightning to USB-C.

RIP: Teri Garr, ‘Young Frankenstein’ actress, dead at 79.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. ‘Take a Chill Pill’: JD Vance Thinks ‘We Have to Stop Getting Offended at Every Little Thing.’

OUT: THE ENLIGHTENMENT.  In: The Endarkenment. Martin Gurri has a name for our age.

The Endarkenment is the pathological disorientation that convulses a society after it has extinguished all sources of meaning and lost sight of all paths to a happier future. It’s the triumph of wish over facts, the infantilization of top echelons of the social pyramid—of hyper-credentialed, globally mobile people, wielders of power and wealth and media, who, on a routine basis, confuse their self-important imaginings with the world itself. It’s the widespread descent of everyone else, now deprived of teachers, preachers, and role models, into a cognitive underclass, prone to the most bizarre theories about how things work.

The Endarkenment is experienced collectively as the disintegration of institutions, a traumatic fracturing of social life, and the seemingly ceaseless perpetuation of political conflict. But it is also experienced at the personal level in the form of heightened anxiety, depression, drug addiction, “deaths of despair,” and a loss of interest in family and procreation—even in sex.

Read the whole thing.

TEVI TROY: The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry. An excellent chronicle from the best-selling historian on the White House’s long-running battles against entrepreneurs from John D. Rockefeller to Elon Musk.

I AM THE KEYMASTER: Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key. “They’re the original odd couple: One is massive, spherical and unmoving. The other is tiny, has a tail and never stops swimming. Yet the union of egg and sperm is critical for every sexually reproducing animal on Earth. Exactly how that union occurs has long been a mystery to scientists. A study published Thursday in the journal Cell that relied on Nobel Prize-honored artificial intelligence technology shows that an interlocked bundle of three proteins is the key that lets sperm and egg bind together. That crucial bundle is shared by animals as distantly related as fish and mammals, and most likely including humans.”