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Archive for 2024
November 4, 2024
PRIORITIES:
You can’t make this up.
The CO AG is investigating the management company of the apartment complex in Aurora, CO which was taken oven by Venezualan gangs. The gangs beat the manager, tried to extort him, and threatened him when he went to the property. The management company… pic.twitter.com/lka0dkTQT8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2024
Denver says the beatings will continue regardless of whether morale improves or not.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: High Stakes Week Is Here. “In this election, it’s important to remember that their elites are a lot scarier than ours.”
LIGHTNING DEAL: Aurosports 15×25 Compact Binoculars. #CommissionEarned
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
So in the end, NBC had to give up 90 seconds for free to the Trump campaign as "equal time" in response to the SNL Harris stunt. https://t.co/RHJCbkT6G6
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) November 4, 2024
But not enough.
In addition to illegally boosting @KamalaHarris, NBC's Saturday Night Live last night did a skit *literally* aimed at boosting the name recognition of Sen @timkaine. Why? Perhaps because Kaine's challenger @HungCao_VA just closed the gap & could win. It's election interference. pic.twitter.com/dolUILMhMU
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 3, 2024
The Blob looks after its own.
A SENSE OF CLASS SUPERIORITY IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF OUR RULING COHORT’S SELF-ESTEEM: From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?
NICE JOB, FELLAS: Elite Israeli commandos storm Lebanon beach to capture top Hezbollah official Imad Amhaz in speedboat.
The weekend operation involved commandos with the Israel Defense Force’s Shayetet 13 force, who were deployed along the coast in northern Lebanon and conducted the raid on a Hezbollah facility in Batroun, CNN reports.
The highly specialized soldiers rushed the beach to reach the terrorists’ hold and capture Imad Amhaz, throwing the suspected Hezbollah senior official into a speedboat and carting him off, according to the IDF.
Amhaz, who is believed to be a “significant source of knowledge” on Hezbollah’s naval force, was handed over to Israeli interrogators so they could try to get him to divulge details of the terror group’s maritime operations.
Meanwhile, in Gaza:
All the Hamas terrorists who paraded the body of Shani Louk in Gaza have been eliminated! pic.twitter.com/E4raaWnpSf
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) November 2, 2024
Somewhat further east: US Warns Tehran It Will Not Restrain Israel If Iran Retaliates.
FASTER, PLEASE: Trump has ‘momentum’ in Virginia, gaining on Harris.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Thoughts on the Post-Election.
MATT WALSH: Is America ready for its first DEI president?
Nobody ever talks about this anymore, but there was a time when Democrats were floating Kamala Harris as a potential Supreme Court pick. Shortly after the death of Antonin Scalia, the Los Angeles Times published an article about how she may be on Barack Obama’s shortlist. Speculation reached a “fever pitch,” they reported. Harris said she was flattered by the consideration, even as she declined the opportunity.
That’s a footnote in American history that’s worth revisiting, now that Election Day is almost here. Imagine the kind of people who would tell us, with a straight face, that Kamala Harris should replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. On the one hand, you have one of the leading legal minds in all of American history. On the other hand, you have Kamala Harris, who is incapable of telling us anything of substance, except perhaps that she was “raised in a middle-class family.”
It’s the perfect illustration of how brazenly — and for how long — Democrats have attempted to elevate Kamala Harris far beyond her competence, solely on the basis of her gender and ethnicity. Kamala Harris is the embodiment of the diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, policies that have taken hold across this country over the past decade.
Read the whole thing.
GIVEN KEIR STARMER’S PERFORMANCE, I DON’T THINK THEY SHOULD BE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO ANYONE: Don Surber: Oh no, the Brits hate The Donald.
SCHEDULED FOR 9:29 EST: Watch Live: NASA SpaceX 31st Resupply Launch to International Space Station. Routine, but not boring.
FORGET THE POLLS AND JUST GO VOTE TOMORROW: Brace Yourself for the Latest Poll from 2020’s Most Accurate Pollster. “As for the battleground states, the newest [Atlas Intel] poll has Trump ahead in all seven swing states, including Wisconsin. If that wasn’t good enough news for you, his lead is outside the margin of error in three states: Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada.”
KEMI BADENOCH IS THE NEW CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER IN THE U.K.: She is a fan of Thomas Sowell. What more could I ask for? Kicker: She really did work at McDonald’s in her younger days.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Harris Gives Up on Men, Courts Angsty Resistance Women Who Scream at Children.
DANA LOESCH: Peanut the Squirrel Was About Government Overreach: Also, RIP to his buddy, Fred the Racoon.
Fred the Racoon, like Fred Noonan, Amelia Earhart’s navigator, hasn’t gotten as much attention as Peanut. Seems unfair.
AND THEN THE MEN IN PORTLAND SHOUTED AT ME, “THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!” Gee, Why Would Pacific NW Governors Need to Activate National Guard for Election Week?
RUY TEIXEIRA: Democrats Undermined By Radical Agenda.
It wasn’t so long ago that progressives were riding high in the United States. Their radical views set the agenda and tone for the Democratic Party and, especially in cultural areas, dominated discourse. Building in the 2010s and cresting at the start of this decade with the Black Lives Matter protests and the heady early days of the Biden administration, few of their ideas seemed off the table.
Defund the police and empty the jails? Sure! Abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and decriminalise the border? Absolutely! Get rid of fossil fuels and have a Green New Deal? Definitely! Demand trillions of dollars for a “transformational” Build Back Better bill? We’re just getting started! Promote DEI and the struggle for “equity” (not equal opportunity) everywhere? It’s the only way to fight privilege! Insist that a new ideology around race and gender should be accepted by everyone? Only a bigot would resist!
In reality, a lot of these ideas were terrible and most voters outside the precincts of the progressive left itself were never interested in them. That was true from the get-go but now the backlash against these ideas is strong enough that it cannot be ignored. As a result, politics is adjusting and the progressive moment is well and truly over.
Astute observers on the left acknowledge this, albeit with an undertone of sadness. So how did the progressive moment fall apart? It is not hard to think of some reasons.
Loosening restrictions on illegal immigration was a terrible idea and voters hate it. When Joe Biden came into office, he immediately issued a series of executive orders loosening the rules for handling illegal immigrants, a move that was applauded by progressives.
The predictable result was a surge in illegal immigration and the diffusion of these immigrants into overburdened cities, which caused a spike in negative sentiment towards Democrats for letting the situation get out of control. This has resulted in huge advantages for Donald Trump and the Republicans that have continued even as the Biden administration moved in mid-2024 to tighten the border and Kamala Harris runs commercials promising to be tough on border security.
The Democrats should have seen this coming. Polling over the years has consistently shown overwhelming majorities in favour of more emphasis on border security. And now voters are increasingly open to draconian restriction measures. An astonishing 62 per cent of voters in a June CBS News survey supported starting a “new national programme to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the US illegally”. Progressives’ failure to understand this reality is a big reason why the progressive moment is over.
Promoting lax law enforcement and tolerance of social disorder was another terrible idea and voters hate it too. In the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, the climate for police and criminal justice reform was highly favourable. But Democrats blew the opportunity by allowing the party to be associated with unpopular slogans like “defund the police” that did not appear to take public safety concerns seriously. Democratic non-white and working-class voters tend to live in areas that have more crime and are therefore unlikely to look kindly on any approach that threatens public safety.
Yeah, that stuff mostly sells with woke white people.
Flashback: Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.
Also: Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues.
Plus: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Administration Working Overtime To Embed As Many Illegal Aliens In America As Possible Right Up To Inauguration Day. “It’s not just DHS that’s involved in importing illegal aliens into America, it’s also the State Department.”
I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM, YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME: Bloomberg’s ‘The Trace’ Warns a New Trump Administration Would Dismantle the White House Ministry of Gun Control.
ICYMI, MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Harris would be as much a figurehead as Biden — and we’d be ruled by the swamp.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Shot:
Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter." pic.twitter.com/OWj3uicQ1o
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 22, 2024
UPDATE:
It took my editor 3 minutes to show you what a scumbag liar Barack Obama is.
Here ya go… pic.twitter.com/VKkldECsXs
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) November 4, 2024
ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s No Longer Democrat Vs. Republican: It’s Us Vs. Them.