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Archive for 2024
October 29, 2024
WHICH IS A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR HER WHEN IT COMES TO MEN: Report: Kamala Harris Keeping Joe Biden at Arm’s Length.
HE REALLY LOVES THE CHINESE: Top Chinese Communist Official’s Daughter Details Fling With Tim Walz.
THANK HEAVENS FOR BIBI: The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: World Bank Bureaucrats Can’t Account for up to $41 Billion for ‘Climate Change’ Funds.
October 28, 2024
INEVITABLE: Hitler tunes in to video of Trump’s MSG rally:
Brilliant. Replace the faces of the Nazi officers with Kamala, Tim and Morning Joe gang and you've essentially got a documentary. https://t.co/hM9VocfqXl
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 29, 2024
WHERE WE ARE:
Everyone knows that if Trump doesn’t win this election, it means we don’t have actual elections anymore, because there is no way Kamala Harris wins a lawful election. Everyone sees it and everyone knows it.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 24, 2024
ROGER KIMBALL: Trump calls for America’s New Golden Age at Madison Square Garden: What we saw at his Sunday rally was the opposite of divisive.
No one with an open mind — you can even scratch the adjective — no sentient sapiens period can have witnessed Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally without a frisson of awe. Even the most tireless Trump supporter must be a little jaded with Trump’s rallies by now. Just as in 2016, they have been building to a crescendo in both size and frequency. And even avid politicos might be forgiven for thinking they had been there, done that.
But Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden was something different. Perhaps other rallies were as large. We’re told that the MSG event boasted a capacity crowd of nearly 20,000 with more than 70,000 lined up to view the festivities on screens set up outside. I gather Trump’s second Butler, Pennsylvania, rally broke 100,000, as perhaps did a few others.
But it wasn’t just the size of Sunday’s rally that made it special. It was also the location, the vibrancy of the speakers and that ineffable, electric feeling that follows closely on impending victory. The Democrats have tried fitfully to claim that Trump is “exhausted” and perhaps not up to the task of being president. Meanwhile, Harris abruptly departed a rally in Detroit after only six minutes while Trump’s daily regime would fell a man half his age.
Madison Square Garden is situated is the belly of the deep-blue beast. How many decades has it been since a Republican won New York in a presidential race? (The answer is four: Reagan won New York in 1984.) Then why was Trump expending precious resources in the state? Why did he hold a rally in the Bronx this summer, on Long Island a month ago? Because the times they are a-changin’. . . .
Will Trump take New York? I am assured that that is unlikely. I note, however, that many of the wise people who say that told me it was impossible only a couple of months ago. Reality does count for something, and the reality is that Trump speaks to a core constituency not only in New York but also across the country. Call it the constituency of normality, the non-trans, pro-capitalist, pro-American demographic that understands that men cannot be women, that you cannot have a country without a secure border and that big government is essentially at odds with individual liberty and general prosperity.
I say that “Trump speaks” to this population, but the red-pilled former Democrat investor Bill Ackman was right when he noted that he now supports Trump not just because of the man himself but also because of his “team” versus Team Harris. In the left corner we have Kamala Harris, “Tampon Tim” Walz, Liz Cheney and assorted other neocons and globalists. In the right corner we have Trump, his running mate J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy and assorted former Democrats like Bill Ackman. Which is more impressive? Which is more likely to save the country? Take your time.
Among my favorite moments in Sunday’s rally was J.D. Vance’s naughty suggestion that Kamala Harris’s new slogan ought to be “Nothing comes to mind,” after her response when a friendly newscaster asked her how her policy positions differed from those of Joe Biden. “Nothing comes to mind,” she said, a phrase that Trump deployed with stiletto-like efficacy in a brief video montage during his speech.
A second favorite moment came in Tucker Carlson’s talk when he noted that: 1) Republicans were going to win and 2) the people would be forearmed against Dem claims that Kamala, a supremely unpopular candidate whom no one voted for had really won by garnering 88 million votes (or whatever). The Dems put that over in 2020 at the height of Covid. That ship has sailed.
People are tired of the bullshit. And the bullying.
“IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS:” Ben Shapiro Does an Epic Reverse Uno on ‘The NY Times’ and Exposes Their Lame October Surprise.
3/ That's the entire game here. Run an article in America's "most trusted newspaper" that declares pretty much every major conservative a purveyor of "misinformation" on YouTube, thus strong-arming YouTube into taking action against conservatives.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
Tucker Carlson also received an identical request from the same Timesperson:
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 29, 2024
So the L.A. Times, the WaPo and now the New York Times have all decided to commit ritual seppuku in the last two weeks of the election? I hope it was worth it for all concerned.
(Classical reference in headline.)
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Progress: Trump Holds Most Ethnically Diverse, Pro-Israel Nazi Rally In History.
TONIGHT ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF HBO’S VEEP:
The Vice President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen.
Kamala at a semiconductor plant: "Can I touch it?"
Worker: "Do not touch it… Please do not touch any of the poly — it is very sharp."
Kamala: "And shiny!
This is straight out of Veep.
pic.twitter.com/af9rjje3OE— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 28, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: DIPLOMACY ROLLS ON. Chile and Cyprus sign the Artemis Accords. “The two countries bring to 47 the number of nations that have signed the Artemis Accords since 2020. Four of those countries have signed in October.”
JEFF BEZOS IN THE WASHINGTON POST: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right.
Good for him, though the way to restore credibility is to be credible — which you do by being honest — and not by taking shots at “unresearched podcasts.” The Post’s journalistic record in recent years, and the records of its newspaper brethren, do not justify a high-horse position. You want to be trusted? Stop lying, and stop covering up for Democrats and Democratic administrations.
JEFF BEZOS GOES OUT ON A LIMB: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Good luck with that, Jeff. Four years before Bezos bought the Post, it claimed on the cover of its then-subsidiary weekly publication Newsweek that, with the Obama entering office, “We Are All Socialists Now.”
A few months prior to that, the late Deborah Howell, then the Post’s ombudswoman wrote:
Thousands of conservatives and even some moderates have complained during my more than three-year term that The Post is too liberal; many have stopped subscribing, including more than 900 in the past four weeks.
It pains me to see lost subscribers and revenue, especially when newspapers are shrinking. Conservative complaints can be wrong: The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss; Barack Obama’s more effective campaign and the financial crisis were.
But some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt are valid. Journalism naturally draws liberals; we like to change the world. I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo.
Back in 1992, the late Ginny Carroll, bureau chief in first Detroit and then Houston of the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek, appeared on C-Span after admitting she wore a button labeled “Yeah, I’m In The Media, Screw You!” at the 1992 Republican convention, and defended it:
“My reaction to that button [‘Rather Biased’] and others, in part, is a button I bought yesterday that says `Yeah, I’m In The Media, Screw You!’….I do understand why a lot of people are upset with us, why we rank somewhere between terrorists and bank robbers on the approval scale. We do criticize. That’s part of our role. Our role is not just to parrot what people say, it’s to make people think. I think that sometimes I want to say to the electorate `Grow up!’”
Only now, with 200,000 subscriber cancellations and counting, is the Post forced to say “Grow up!” to its own leftist readers, and Bezos is forced to pretend he cares about balancing the paper’s coverage. But then, these sorts of mea culpas happen at the end, or shortly after every presidential election from the DNC-MSM, but curiously, their coverage only seems to get worse when the next election rolls around.
JUST NBC THE AIRBRUSHING! NBC Cuts Out Nick Bosa And His MAGA Hat In Edited Postgame Video, Deletes It After Being Called Out.
San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa crashed Brock Purdy’s postgame interview following their team’s 30-24 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night. Bosa didn’t say a word during his two-second appearance in the video, but instead pointed to the white and gold ‘Make America Great Again’ hat atop his head.
NBC, however, couldn’t stomach the fact that one of the most popular players in all of football would wear a MAGA hat and publicly endorse former President Donald Trump. So, naturally, they cut Bosa’s brief appearance from the video and shared the edited version to Sunday Night Football’s 1.3 million followers on X as if nothing happened.
We can’t show you the edited clip that the Sunday Night Football account shared because they decided to delete it after it was up overnight and their mentions were flooded with people calling them out for trying to hide the moment.
In other news from the world of football: ‘Coach’ Tim Walz gets mocked for fumbling simple football term: ‘You don’t ‘run a pick 6.’
Tim Walz dropped a wide-open pass on NFL Sunday.
The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate livestreamed himself playing video games with Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in an appeal to younger male voters — only to be mocked after misusing a common football term.
Walz, a former defensive coordinator at Mankato West High School, tweeted afterward that the far-left Bronx and Queens rep “could run a mean pick 6” — referring to an interception returned for a touchdown — in the Madden video game series.
The post was later deleted, but not before conservatives jumped on the malapropism.
“This was a real deleted tweet from alleged football coach Tampon Tim. ‘Can run a mean pick 6’ Lmfao,” commentator Greg Price wrote on X.
How do you do, fellow NFL enthusiasts!
BRENDAN O’NEILL: Trump’s New York invasion exposed the MAGA madness powering him to victory.
And the expletives! I’m not coy but even I was shaken by all the swearing.
Someone had scrawled “EAT A—, TRUMP” across the sidewalk of 8th Avenue. A gang of sad-looking antifa activists waved a black-and-white flag that said “F— TRUMP”. “Get the f— out of New York City!”, Kamala fanboys yelled at Trump supporters.
The Trumpists gave as good as they got. One of them played on a loudspeaker a rap version of Trump saying “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs”, in reference to his thin claims about Haitian migrants cooking pets in Ohio.
It was at that point that I felt like I’d been transported into a farce. One side yelling about Nazis and psychopaths, the other blasting out a tinny ditty about cat-eating.
It felt like a comedy version of the American Civil War. It was a mostly pantomime clash, where the point was not to convince the other side, or even to engage with it, but just to hurl insults and make fun.
There were some surreal moments. I saw a black lady draped in a neon-pink Trump 2024 flag being called racist by a bunch of white TikTok kids. Eh? And it struck me as insensitive – to say the least – when a man holding up a “Jews for Trump” banner was told “Welcome to your Nazi rally”.
My takeaway is that both sides are a tad crazy, but the MAGA side at least has some fun with it. There was a knowingness to their provocations. Like when they played Trump saying “They’re eating the cats” – it’s not necessarily that they think Haitians are chowing down on moggies, but rather that they know this tall tale irritates the hell out of PC New Yorkers.
The Kamala camp, by contrast, seemed to be in the grip of existential dread. They really believe Trump is a psychopath who will turn this great republic into a Nazi hellhole.
Calm down? Such fretting is not only fact-lite – Trump might be annoying, but he’s not Hitler. It also can’t be good for one’s health. I worry whether “aunti-fascist” is getting any sleep.
So there, on 8th Avenue, was America’s tribal divide. Fearful Leftists pitted against mocking Right-wingers. Not one mind was changed, but it was a good day out.
If Trump wins (don’t get cocky, given the size of Kamala’s war chest), as Steve wrote for the PJM Mothership: How to Stage an Intervention on 70 Million TDS Sufferers.
Our most pressing issue is the mental health crisis affecting tens of millions of Americans, a toxic combination of persecution fantasies, narcissism, and outright delusion. Weirdly enough, neither drugs nor alcohol seem to be involved in anything more than typical amounts.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) began more than 20 years ago as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) — remember “Bushitler” and “Darth Cheney?” But that was then and this is now. Bush is now an elder statesman who has grown respectable because he won’t endorse Trump, and Cheney — who up until recently was regularly denounced by our lefty friends as a war criminal — is now more beloved by Democrats than the son of Robert F. Kennedy.
“See? Not even HITLER would vote for HITLER!” is the rationalization currently percolating in various lefty skulls around the nation.
Earlier this month, Stephen Miller tweeted:
I thought he was only talking about the media — not half the residents of Manhattan.
MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Michelle Obama just dropped a clue about who will win the election. Simply follow the plain-spoken truth.
The Bidens, the billionaire class and rational voters everywhere all know that Trump isn’t going to unleash the military on U.S. citizens, or ‘be a dictator on day one’, or prosecute his political enemies.
Hell — Trump even said he’d consider pardoning Hunter Biden if elected!
‘I wouldn’t take it off the books,’ Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. ‘Unlike Joe Biden, despite what they’ve done to me, where they’ve gone after me so viciously… I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.’
Look at that. If only the left-leaning media would amplify that message. Instead, we got Michelle Obama stumping for Harris over the weekend, remonstrating the crowd much as her husband has been unsuccessfully doing to black male voters.
‘I hope you’ll forgive me,’ Michelle said in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday, ‘if I’m a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn.’
Dazzle us? At this point, we’re just looking for a coherent, specific answer to any question. Just one.
But in Michelle’s telling, voters who are concerned about the border crisis, rising crime, the affordable housing shortage, and a Middle East on fire just need to lower their expectations.
‘We pick apart Kamala’s answers from interviews that [Trump] doesn’t even have the courage to do,’ she continued.
Please. Trump sat down for three hours with Joe Rogan last week, an appearance that has already racked up over 34 million views on YouTube alone. And this billionaire spoke the lingua franca of his working-class supporters: MMA fighters, what he learned about UFOs, and his sheer awe at moving into the White House and standing in the Lincoln bedroom.
Trump also noted that, unlike Harris, he can speak discursively before circling back to his initial thought — what he calls ‘the weave’.
The vice president, he said, ‘couldn’t put two sentences together’.
That is some plain-spoken truth. It certainly lands better than hysterical cries of fascism.
And:
Tight as the polls are, it feels like Donald Trump will win.
After all, why else would the left-wing media call him Hitler?
Why else would MSNBC shamelessly intersperse footage of the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden with Trump’s Sunday MSG event, overflowing with middle and working-class voters — in effect, calling those voters Nazis?
Why else would the New York Times plaster the front page of its Sunday op-ed section with huge block type, font size otherwise reserved for the outbreak of world wars, to what Trump will do if he wins — including ‘USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS’?
Not to mention the furor over the refusal by both the L.A. Times and Washington Post (owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) to endorse either candidate, which sent the left into a tizzy of canceled subscriptions and social-media virtue-signaling.
Author Stephen King: ‘After five years, I have cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post’ — a statement King posted on X, which happens to be owned by another Trump-supporting billionaire. The left can’t win for trying.
Although, if King were serious about being an agent for #Resistence, he’d really put his money where his keyboard is:
Related: WaPo Loses 200,000 Subscribers Because Liberals Are Insane.
SOME OF US HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS FOR QUITE A WHILE: Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Don’t Talk About. “The first recorded evidence for this, found in India, is over 1,500 years old. The Dharmatrāta Meditation Scripture, written by a community of Buddhists, describes various practices and includes reports of symptoms of depression and anxiety that can occur after meditation. It also details cognitive anomalies associated with episodes of psychosis, dissociation, and depersonalisation (when people feel the world is ‘unreal’). In the past eight years there has been a surge of scientific research in this area. These studies show that adverse effects are not rare. . . . However, many meditation and mindfulness instructors believe that these practices can only do good and don’t know about the potential for adverse effects. The most common account I hear from people who have suffered adverse meditation effects is that the teachers don’t believe them. They’re usually told to just keep meditating and it will go away.”
THE NEW GENERATION OF THE GOP IS TAKING NO BULLSHIT:
“GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE!”
Vivek leaves CNN host in SILENCE after exposing her fake outrage over comedian at a Trump rally, indifference to voter fraud.
Another masterful moment by @VivekGRamaswamy flipping the script on humorless, virtue signaling scolds on corporate media: pic.twitter.com/hcky1WAb3c
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 28, 2024
THE ’80S CALLED AND WOULD LIKE THEIR FOREIGN POLICY BACK: Tim Walz Once Had An Affair With Daughter of Top Chinese Communist Official.
Alternate explanation: This is a Harris camp psyop to make Walz appear masculine.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD US OTHERWISE: Standing desks are bad for your health, according to a new study.
WHITE SUPREMACY — YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG: Rainbow Coalition at “Nazi” Rally. “Quotable quote: ‘I’m the black Nazi.’”
The next generation of Nazi's and White supremacists were spotted at the Trump rally. America is in trouble. @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/VbLuuM8l7V
— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) October 28, 2024