WHEN TRUMP IS PRESIDENT HE NEEDS TO UNDO ALL THIS BS, WHICH HAS NO BASIS IN THE ACTUAL STATUTE: Law Student Faces Expulsion for ‘Aggressive Pointing: ’Title IX laws were created to protect women from discrimination. Now they’re being used to punish acts once seen as ‘completely protected speech.’
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November 4, 2024
GRAY LADY BURIES LEDE: In an article titled “Kareem Rahma’s American Dream,” on the “comedian and media personality” who hosts an “internet talk show, ‘Subway Takes,’ is this astounding detail:
Two-and-a-half weeks after our initial meeting, I visited Rahma again. He seemed harried and wore a faded T-shirt and relaxed-fit jeans. The interview with Harris hadn’t gone as planned.
What happened was a dispute over Harris’s take. Rahma said he had been told that the vice president would be taking a stand against removing one’s shoes on airplanes. When they sat down, however, Harris had surprised him with a different take: “Bacon is a spice.” (Two senior campaign officials said this topic had been raised in advance. Rahma and his manager dispute this.)
Rahma, who doesn’t eat pork for religious reasons, was taken aback. “I don’t know,” he says, in an unpublished video recording of the interview, his voice rising to an unusually high pitch. Harris elaborates that bits of cooked bacon can be used to enhance a meal like any other seasoning. “Think about it, it’s pure flavor,” she says.
Rahma asks Harris if he can use beef or turkey and what kinds of dishes would benefit from bacon. He then pauses the interview and tells her that he doesn’t eat it. He asks if they can do the airplanes take instead. But, on the advice of a staffer, Harris decides to declare her love of anchovies on pizza — an alternative the campaign had floated earlier in an email. Rahma wraps the discussion one minute later.
“Well,” he says, with an awkward laugh. “I’m 100 percent unsure on both of those.”
The Walz interview, in which the governor deplored the national decline of home gutter maintenance, went more smoothly. Afterward, Rahma said, he felt unsure of what to make of the sit-down with Harris. He had been apprehensive about potential criticism from other Muslims, and the bacon talk had thrown him off.
“It was so complicated because I’m Muslim and there’s something going on in the world that 100 percent of Muslims care about,” he said. “And then they made it worse by talking about anchovies. Boring!”
The campaign apologized for the bacon take and proposed a reshoot. But, after publishing the Walz interview, Rahma ultimately decided not to move forward with it.
“I never wanted to be a politics person,” he said. “The more I think about it, the more I feel like I got lucky.”
Call me crazy, but I suspect that if Trump or Vance had pitched cooking with bacon to a Muslim-American, it wouldn’t be buried about 25 paragraphs into a New York Times article.
THE HAND THAT HOLDS THE CAN OPENER: Preventing obesity in very young children could be in the palm of parents’ hands.
One of the most recent—and notable—changes is that the company intends to bring back a “human touch” by writing customer names on their coffee cup. Originally, the idea was to “honor everyone who walked through the door as an individual.” That’s according to Starbucks, which adopted the practice in 2012.
During the pandemic, Starbucks mostly shifted away from writing on cups, instead putting a sticky label on the cup with the customer’s name and order. Now, however, Niccol has said his top priority is “getting back to Starbucks.” What he means is getting back to the things customers genuinely love about Starbucks, and positioning the company as a premium brand. That’s not just about the coffee, but about the experience.
“One of the other things we’re gonna be bringing back to is bringing the Sharpies back to our baristas and it’s going to give them the opportunity to put that additional human touch on every coffee experience as well,” said Niccol on the company’s recent earnings call. “So there’s a lot of — I think there’s a lot of just simple things that go a long way of saying, you know what, this is a community place, this is a special place where people are here to connect. And I think we can do that in a really meaningful way”
People do like a personal touch. I’d like it if they didn’t burn the coffee.
RENOUNCE SYSTEMIC COCKSUREDNESS! Emerson Finale: Trump On Track For 281 Electoral College Votes. “Party-ID shifts in a cycle on this scale — from D+5 in a narrow 2020 election to R+3 now — indicate voter intent on a broad scale. That analysis gets reflected in the major early-voting gains for the GOP this cycle, as well as polls that may be still afflicted by shy-voter polling syndrome. But there’s no better way to win elections than to actually vote — and to take friends with you to do the same. Cautious optimism is no replacement for victory, and this election is still very close in the data we have.”
AND THEN HE SHOUTED, “DC IS MAGA COUNTRY!” Authorities Put Up Security Fences Around D.C. Locations Ahead Of Election Day.
As Jon Gabriel wrote in June about America’s never-ending protests: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”
Forget George Soros. Are we sure Big Plywood isn’t funding these riots?
COCKINESS IS NOT A GOOD LOOK: Growing Signs of a Trump Landslide: Has the Media Tipped Their Hand?
SPEAKING OF HARRIS AND TRUMP: Richard Pollock has a bunch of evidence that Arab-American voters will indeed decide who carries Michigan and there’s a good chance it won’t be her. This is the kind of deep-dive, smart reporting that is seen too little in today’s MSM.
THIS:
So here’s the thing … pic.twitter.com/X9En85Qw1Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2024
They went after a squirrel to remind people who’s the boss but the election is our chance to remind them that we’re the boss.
WEAPONIZATION OF FBI PROOF: That interim staff report issued October 30 by the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government got zero coverage. Maybe that’s understandable in view of the elections, maybe not.
What’s inarguable is the report establishes beyond all doubt that the FBI spent a year or more pre-bunking media coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop and the abundant evidence it provides of impeachable offenses by Joe Biden.
Thus my latest PJ Media column: Put the Weaponization Report beside the Church Committee report from 1976 and you have a mountain of evidence demonstrating that as far back as FDR the Intelligence Community and Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI) cannot be trusted to respect Americans’ constitutional rights.
But, as important as who the President is come January 20, 2025, what is vastly more significant is who Americans elect to represent them in Congress because only Congress has the ultimate constitutional weapons to identify the offenders, recommend their prosecution to DOJ and then withhold funding to whatever degree is necessary to force both those prosecutions and the fundamental reforms required to prevent recurrence of the abuses of the past 75 years.
BE PREPARED: Gerber Gear Suspension-NXT 15-in-1 EDC Multi tool with Pocket Knife. #CommissionEarned
PENNSYLVANIA BLUES: Tim Walz, Josh Shapiro, and Kamala Harris’s Buyer’s Remorse.
WATCH: Harris Refuses to Comment on Crime Measure Because ‘It’s the Sunday Before the Election.’
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to say whether or not she would vote for California’s Proposition 36 because “it’s the Sunday before the election.”
Harris’s refusal to articulate a position on the measure underscores her strategy to not irritate the radical left while trying to remain ambiguous to attract moderates.
California’s Proposition 36 would give drug traffickers and serial shoplifters tougher penalties.
“How did you vote on Prop 36?” a reporter in Detroit asked Harris.
“So, I have — my ballot is on its way to California and I’m gonna trust the system that it will arrive there and I am not gonna talk about the vote on that because, honestly, it’s the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it,” she replied:
🚨 Kamala was just asked how she voted on California's Proposition 36, which would increase criminal penalties for shoplifters and drug traffickers:
"I am not gonna talk about the vote on that because, honestly, it's the Sunday before the election."pic.twitter.com/3wlkWkM0Ax
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 3, 2024
No matter what their actual worldview may be, most Democrats running for president at least pay lip service to law and order, locking up the miscreants, etc. It seems safe to assume that Kamala wants to keep California shoplifter and drug trafficking heaven, and would bring those policies to your town if elected president.
OBAMA: HOW DID EVERYTHING GET SO DIVISIVE? NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL: Voting Republican makes you anti-American.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Who Put Quartermaster Bloomfield in Charge of Defending Guam? Another environmental impact statement will deter China.
WHAT’S THE MANDARIN FOR DEI? China’s Next ‘Great Leap Forward.’ “Following a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and State Council, Beijing issued a new directive to develop an advanced industrial workforce aimed at driving Chinese-style modernization. The plan calls for organizing workers into groups and strengthening ideological and political guidance. To achieve this, central leadership will increase training and support for industrial workers to improve both the quality and quantity of production. Professional educators will lead these groups, providing both technical training and ideological instruction, while efforts will be made to make manufacturing jobs more attractive, especially for young people and migrant workers, potentially including ‘reeducation’ programs.”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: A Little Sweet Revenge Against Democrats Threatening to Kill Careers of Trump Lawyers.
VOTER SUPPRESSION: Active-Duty U.S. Service Members Complain of Lack of Absentee Ballots, GOP Congressmen Demand Answers. “The service members, who were not named in the letter, also complained there has been ‘inadequate education’ on how they are meant to vote while deployed on active duty, and with just four days until Election Day.”
FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION: George Mason U. disciplines law students who objected to tampons in men’s restrooms: Lawsuit says school violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Two female law students at George Mason University have filed a federal lawsuit against the school for “silencing” them after they opposed a policy of putting tampons in men’s restrooms.
According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, after opposing the measure, third-year law students Selene Cerankosky and Maria Arcara received “no-contact” orders from the university “prohibit[ing] them from having any contact with [another] student.”
The ADF says George Mason “unlawfully” used its Title IX and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion harassment policies against the students, violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
According to the complaint, Cerankosky and Arcara let their concerns be known in a law school GroupMe chat, whereupon a male classmate (pseudonymously “Mr. Doe”) “mocked” them and called their opinions “bigoted.”
The pair were never notified of any complaint against them, and two weeks after the chat they received the non-contact order regarding Mr. Doe. They say they were not given a chance to defend themselves.
Go after the officials personally. Make some examples. Teach some lessons.
WARGAMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ Edition.