WELL, MARXIST-ADJACENT: Is Kamala Harris truly a Marxist? Understanding Marxism With Ben Shapiro and Paul Kengor.

Shapiro asked Kengor if he agrees with identifying Harris as a Marxist, and Kengor expressed caution about simply labeling all leftists as Marxists. (READ MORE: Kamala Harris Borrows From Karl Marx)

“I want to call a Marxist a Marxist only if we’re dealing with a legitimate Marxist,” Kengor responded. Kengor proceeded to explain the different classifications of Marxism that have developed throughout history — from proletariat against bourgeoisie and oppressed against oppressor to pitting the sexes against each other.

“I’d stay away from saying in a national debate [that] she’s a Marxist unless you can really defend it and explain it,” Kengor said. Shapiro agreed with Kengor’s sentiment, elaborating that baseless name-calling “waters down what Marxism is and makes it more palatable for the masses.”

Kengor, who is a political science professor and teaches about Marxism at Grove City College, told Shapiro that the best definition of Marxism was already given by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their Communist Manifesto.

“I would argue — others have too — that the primary virtue in Marxism is envy,” Kengor added.

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OH, CANADA: Why Trudeau and Harris face similar troubles with voters.

Related: ‘Gutless’ CEOs Jolted by Attacks From Trudeau’s Surging Rival: Pierre Poilievre is the clear frontrunner to win next election. Conservative intends to tackle feeble business competition

The crowd gathered on the 54th floor of TD Bank Tower, an imposing glass-and-steel edifice in Toronto’s financial district, was a who’s who of the Canadian business elite. There were CEOs and tech moguls and bankers who had paid as much as C$1,725 ($1,240) each for a chance to hear from Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party.

Poilievre isn’t your traditional Conservative leader or, for that matter, your typical Canadian. He’s brash and confrontational, even with his supporters in the C-suite. Weeks before this June fundraiser on Bay Street, he publicly ripped into CEOs in an opinion piece for failing to push back against the environmental policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the man he appears poised to defeat at the polls next year. “Gutless executives,” he’d written.

Corporate types are tools, not opponents, of the Deep State.

WELL, GOOD: High levels of omega-3, omega-6 may protect against cancer.

UNITY! President Biden Won’t Attend Kamala’s Election Night Watch Party.

Based on her choice of election day togs, it seems safe to say that Jill’s not going to be there, either:

OH: President Biden Won’t Attend Kamala’s Election Night Watch Party. “Harris’ election night watch party is being held at her alma mater, Howard University, which is located in Washington, D.C., less than two miles from the White House.”

ANDREW STILES: Election Day 2024: What’s Going To Happen? And How Did We Get Here?

Today is Election Day. Who’s going to win? Trump? Harris? Nobody knows. It might be very close, or maybe not. God willing, we’ll have an answer by the end of the night. Until then, please enjoy this definitive preview (and insightful recap) of the 2024 presidential election.

If Harris Wins: The mainstream media are going to congratulate themselves for saving democracy. For many journalists, it will be the best thing that will ever happen to them for the rest of their miserable lives. Eventually, reality will set in as their companies continue to hemorrhage money in the post-Trump era. They won’t know what to do when their mostly liberal readers and viewers have no interest in hearing or reading about why House Republicans are a bunch of fascists for voting down the Harris-Schumer Common Sense Solutions Act of 2025. Harris will be so obnoxious and ineffectual as president, there might be rumblings of a Hillary Clinton primary challenge or coup. We’ll never find out what she actually believes, and we’ll spend another four years wondering who is actually running the country. China will definitely invade Taiwan.

If Trump Wins: Millions of college degree holders will suffer debilitating mental breakdowns. We’ll witness a collective tantrum the likes of which the world has never known. The media will run a bunch of headlines about how American voters “chose fascism” because they “hate women.” A bunch of celebrities will insist they were serious about leaving the country but never follow through beyond changing their official residences to some offshore tax haven. Journalists will anoint themselves again as guardians of democracy, only harder. Their behavior will grow increasingly unhinged, perhaps to the point where they start doing sit-ins on the White House lawn or reading the Constitution in a Guy Fawkes mask or quitting their jobs to go live on a compound with armed separatists in California. No one will ever ask Kamala Harris to run for public office ever again.

Read the whole thing.

FIGHTING A COLOR REVOLUTION IS THE DUTY OF THE (THEN) SITTING PRESIDENT:  Let’s Stop Using the Words “Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election” (It’s Unprofessional Journalism).

And everything about 2020 stank, and investigation of it was deliberately obstructed lending credence to “color revolution.”

HMM: Tested! Volvo Makes a $115K Minivan, and It’s Worth Every Penny.

THEY EVEN STOLE THE NAME: China to unveil J-35A stealth fighter jet as air force aims to match US aerial power.

WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE FIRST RESULT OF THE ELECTION, AS THE SILLY PARTY TAKE LUTON!

KAM’S CAMERA CON?

NEXT LEVEL FAKE: Kamala pretends to talk to voter on the phone before revealing she was talking with her camera app open 🥴 pic.twitter.com/lI9VL7P2HQ

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 5, 2024

ROUNDUP: Election Chicanery Update: Is It Happening? Sure Looks Like It.

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QUICK, CALL REP. HANK JOHNSON! Guam Didn’t Capsize, but Does Flip Republican for First Time Since 2008.

GROWTH SECTOR: October Was the 63rd Consecutive Month With More Than 1 Million Guns Sold.

WIN OR LOSE THERE’S A Looming Political Earthquake.

If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloomberg headline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as big as $41 billion. The missing funds in question were for “climate finance” projects, “financed by taxpayer dollars from its member countries, the biggest being the US.”

According to the Oxfam report that was the source for the Bloomberg story, “There is no clear public record showing where this money went or how it was used, which makes any assessment of its impacts impossible.” It is possible that much, maybe even most, of the missing money went to the intended people and purposes. But only the hopelessly naïve would dismiss the probability of rampant waste, malfeasance, graft, and outright theft as explanations for that “gap.” Spending of such magnitude and velocity with sloppy oversight is an invitation to thieves.

But the oversight scandal at the World Bank is chump change compared with the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and its massive planned “climate finance” program. The misnamed IRA is, in the words of its advocates, the “largest climate policy in US history.” [emphasis added] The law’s ambitions dwarf those of the World Bank. By various estimates, the IRA will lead to some $3 trillion in direct spending on grants, subsidies, and the like, plus another $3 trillion in related spending induced by mandates and rules. For perspective, that’s far more than the cost of Obamacare, and even more than the $4 trillion the U.S. spent (inflation adjusted) to fight World War II.

It makes zero difference which side you’re on regarding the urgency of climate change: the associated policies and spending are almost entirely about trying to create an “energy transition.” Nor does it matter what you think about whether such a transition is sensible (it isn’t): the sheer immensity of IRA spending represents a “whole of government” opportunity for waste, abuse, and fraud on an unprecedented scale.

Just like the 2009 “stimulus” that Barack Obama put Biden in charge of, “waste, abuse, and fraud” was the whole point.

The only thing that matters is getting money out of the Treasury and into the hands of the well-connected.

IT DOESN’T NEED AN OVERT CONSPIRACY: An Election Denial of Service Is More Insidious Than Outright Fraud

A COCKINESS-FREE SNEAK PREVIEW: All the Glorious Things a Trump 47 Administration Will Do. “‘POTUS-for-life,’ you ask, ‘can he really do that?’ What more trusted news source is there than Oprah Winfrey?”

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PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION WAS A MISTAKE. “The Philly juries?” Nobody believes Larry Krasner cares about enforcing the law because it’s the law. Again, it’s always, “Who, whom?”

Philadelphia DA issues warning to anyone who wants to “play militia” or engage in voter intimidation tomorrow:

“We do have the cuffs. We do have the jail cells. We do have the Philly juries. … F around and find out.” pic.twitter.com/dAv0lafwPb

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) November 5, 2024

REMINDER: Ignore the exit polls. And vote.

This is a great point. Exit polls have one utility: studying single silos within the electorate well after the election is over. They are totally incapable of predicting election results on election day. The science required to make them do that is as impossible as cold fusion. https://t.co/kC8hFttYLN

— Brad Todd (@BradOnMessage) November 5, 2024

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Kamala Harris Confused By Process Where She Needs To Get Votes To Be Selected https://t.co/SpaxZbzZWn pic.twitter.com/NHa3uNhDqY

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2024

Checks out.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

WELL, THE MURDER HORNETS DIDN’T PAN OUT: Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall.

WELL, LET’S HOPE SO: ‘Your dad’s favorite film of the year:’ early Gladiator II reactions revealed.

With Gladiator, [Ridley Scott] appears to have belatedly rediscovered his talent for grand storytelling. That’s judging by the social media responses that have been published (the embargo for full-blown reviews doesn’t lift until next Monday, 11 November).

“He’s still got it – absolutely buzzing,” tweeted FilmSpeak’s Griffin Schiller. “An epic Shakespearean tale of hope, futility and power within a crumbling system,” he added – which sounds more like a Manchester United biopic than a Roman epic, but there you go.

Other reviewers were just as effusive. “‘Welcome back to the f–king movies.’ That sums up Gladiator II,” says Clayton Davis of Variety, while Simon Thompson of The Playlist felt that it “dovetailed stylishly with the original”. Luke Hearfield, meanwhile, tipped his hat to Scott’s direction: “This swords & sandals epic is easily his best film in ages and will be your dad’s fav film of 2024.”

At least going by the trailers, it seems like the best of an otherwise glum slate of movies scheduled to come out around Thanksgiving.