SPRINGTIME FOR TUCKER:
I’m much less interested in Tucker’s erstwhile historian’s insane Pat Buchanan-esque reversal of who the good guys were in WWII, than why Tucker himself decided to bring up this particular topic a couple of months before election day.
Hey, if Kamala can drop into an election late in its cycle, why can’t SMOD? If ever there was a need for a candidate who can bring real, substantive change on a large scale, now’s the time!
THE POLITICO: Harris’ formula for national media interviews: Don’t make news.
Kamala Harris largely stuck to her script during an interview Tuesday with a panel of National Association of Black Journalists members, carefully parrying questions about hot-button issues like the war in Gaza, reparations and other critical election topics.
It was the vice president’s second high-profile national media interview since announcing her presidential run, and though she spoke passionately at times about abortion rights and other policies, she did not break much ground or stray far from her talking points during the near hour-long conversation.
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The panel of NABJ members who moderated the interview were POLITICO Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels, Fresh Air co-host Tonya Mosley and theGrio White House Correspondent Gerren Keith Gaynor.
Which means the official Politico policy is to do nothing to get her off her talking points. “Don’t make news?” They’re perfectly content to play along.
Just think of the Politico as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
Evergreen:
Meanwhile, in sharp contrast:
JD Vance nukes NYT reporter🔥
JD: "This is the New York Times, don't hold it against them."
NYT: "The paper of record, New York Times. What's something you're willing not to say to make a point?"
JD: "One thing I wouldn't be willing to say is that NYT is a respectable paper." pic.twitter.com/FFrcVMIXtq
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 17, 2024
UPDATE: Run silent, run not very deep!
IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR, SO…: The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates by a half point. Here’s what that means for your wallet.
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it will lower its benchmark rate by a half percentage point, or 50 basis points, paving the way for relief from the high borrowing costs that have hit consumers particularly hard.
The federal funds rate, which is set by the U.S. central bank, is the interest rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another overnight. Although that’s not the rate consumers pay, the Fed’s moves still affect the borrowing and savings rates they see every day.
A series of interest rate hikes starting in March of 2022 took the central bank’s benchmark to its highest in more than 22 years, which caused most consumer borrowing costs to skyrocket — and put many households under pressure.
Now, with inflation backing down, “there are reasons to be optimistic,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com.
However, “one rate cut isn’t a panacea for borrowers grappling with high financing costs and has a minimal impact on the overall household budget,” he said. “What will be more significant is the cumulative effect of a series of interest rate cuts over time.”
Earlier: “Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office will result in a hailstorm of bad economic data, and most of this will be due to the sudden end of statistical manipulations that have been in place for the last four years.”
CHANGE: ‘The party is over’ as Tupperware files for bankruptcy after years of troubles.
Tupperware, known the world over for its plastic food storage containers, has filed for bankruptcy after years of falling popularity and financial troubles.
“Over the last several years, the company’s financial position has been severely impacted by the challenging macroeconomic environment,” Laurie Ann Goldman, president and CEO of Tupperware Brands Corporation, said in a statement late Tuesday.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows companies to solve their financial problems by restructuring. “This process is meant to provide us with essential flexibility as we pursue strategic alternatives to support our transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company,” Goldman added.
Tupperware has historically sold to consumers only through so-called direct sales, most commonly at “Tupperware parties,” similar to cosmetic company Avon’s business model, and only began selling in Target in 2022. The 78-year-old brand empowered women to enter the sales business.“The party is over for Tupperware,” Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at UK investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, said in a note. “There is still a chance a buyer for the business can be found but, with plastic seen as far from fantastic among eco-aware consumers, revitalizing the brand will be an uphill struggle.”
Even though the brand was once a household name, it became less popular with younger consumers, in contrast with some of its competitors.
Gosh, thanks Greta. But what will brave missionaries such as Ted Striker and Elaine Dickinson use to teach proper food storage techniques to beleaguered natives in far off lands?
21st CENTURY QUESTIONS: If he really thinks he’s a woman, how can he be a drag queen – a man pretending to be a woman? “Alas, I fear that if we pull at that thread, the whole sweater may come unravelled. I mean, if, as we’ve been told, quite emphatically, women can’t be transwomen, on account of being, you know, women, then surely only a man can be a transwoman. Which sounds like another way of saying, a transwoman can only be a man. But hey, pile of yarn.”
UPDATE: Trans Women Are Bullies: J.K. Rowling DROPS Man Forcing a Woman to Say ‘Trans Women Are Women.’
KAMALA IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS, FOURTH AMENDMENT BE DAMNED: Kamala Harris once said police could pay surprise visits to legal gun owners’ homes for safe storage checks.
Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.”pic.twitter.com/PpFivXGzp8
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 18, 2024
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid?’
How would you react if your coworker told you his dog is transgender? With laughter? Confusion? Denial? For one unfortunate social worker, this very situation landed her in hot water with her employer and kick-started an absurd legal battle.
Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Pitt was employed as a social worker by Cambridgeshire County Council. In January 2023, Pitt, who is a lesbian, attended a meeting of the council’s LGBT employee group. A colleague piped up to say that his dog is ‘genderfluid’. This means that its gender identity supposedly fluctuates depending on the day, time or situation. One day, Fido is cocking his leg up over the fire hydrant, the next she is complaining that the term ‘sausage dog’ is outdated and cisheteronormative.
Somehow, this Dachshund with a brain the size of a walnut was able to not only understand and define its own ‘gender identity’, but also convey that to its owner. Given that dogs can barely get their heads around object permanence, I’m not convinced they’re capable of experiencing gender dysphoria or even ‘identifying’ as anything.
The 21st century isn’t working out as I had hoped, not least of which, on Airstrip One.
UPDATE: Trans Women Are Bullies: J.K. Rowling DROPS Man Forcing a Woman to Say ‘Trans Women Are Women.’
BREAKING: Walkie-Talkies Explode in Hezbollah Strongholds In Second Wave; UPDATE: ACME Again? “Operation 1980s Called And Want Their Tech Back may not yet have ended. According to multiple reports, a second wave of explosions have taken place in Lebanon, primarily in Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. This time, the explosions have been created by ‘networked devices’ and possibly walkie-talkies.”
REPORT: Mossad Intercepted Hezbollah Pager Shipment, Loaded Them With Explosives.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.
Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.
The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added.
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Imagine the long-term implications of this. Hezbollah nutcases will never again feel comfortable carrying a pager or cellular phone. At a minimum, the terror group will have to change its buying practices; it appears since Mossad was able to intercept one shipment and load the devices with PETN, they were placing mass orders from a single source. Smart money says that if they keep using pagers, they won’t do that anymore.
There’s always a way around things like this, but now Israel has Hezbollah reacting to them rather than the other way around, which is never a bad situation to be in.
Ace of Spades adds: Hundreds of Hezballah Terrorists Hurt By Online Hate Speech and Israel Remotely Detonating Their Pagers But Mostly by Israel Remotely Detonating Their Pagers.
My only reservation is that any brilliant cover operation can usually only be executed once. You rely on the target not even knowing that your exploit is even a possibility. Once you execute the exploit, your ignorance-based advantage is gone. Hezballah and all other terrorists now know to check their electronic devices regularly.
As with killing the Hamas leader in Iran with a bomb slipped under his bed, Israel is burning through a lot of the covert op tricks it’s been slipping up its sleeve for decades, and these tricks will be unavailable (or at least, less reliable) in the future.
Still, this is a pretty existential fight and I guess Israel doesn’t want to go down holding any of its arrows in its quivers, unused.
This Saturday’s Power Line Week in Pictures will no doubt contain many images assembled from today’s endless amount of social media memes inspired by the exploding pagers.
This exchange should come with its own rim shot sound effect:
UPDATE: Israel “just created an incredibly dense and *up-to-date* social graph of an entire terrorist network, across Lebanon as well as neighboring countries. It is incredible what they just did:”
KAMALA HARRIS SUGGESTS SHE WOULD BE OPEN TO EXPLORING REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY:
Kamala Harris has suggested she would be open to exploring reparations for slavery if she wins the White House.
The US vice president said the country needed “to speak truth about the generational impact of our history”, citing the legacy of redlining policies and Jim Crow laws as well as slavery.
Ms Harris made the comments during an interview with reporters from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia, an organisation Donald Trump also addressed last month.
Asked if she would use the executive powers of the presidency to create a commission to study reparations, she signalled her support for the idea.
“We need to speak truth about the generational impact of our history, in terms of the generational impact of slavery, the generational impact of redlining, of Jim Crow law,” she said.
Related: Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica. Hamilton Brown, from Ireland’s County Antrim, was paid equivalent of €11m in compensation by British government to free slaves after ban.
MSNBC: Kamala Must Lie about Being a Liberal and Pretend to Be a Moderate, Just Like Tim Walz Did.
Oops: MSNBC said the quiet part out loud.
Hayes Brown, an MSNBC writer and editor, wrote a new column today, entitled “What to make of Kamala Harris’ move to the center.” It’s an eye-opening observation and/or admission from the Democratic Party’s base. As you likely suspect, the Radical Left views the 2024 presidential election differently than Team MAGA: It’s not about making America great again, but tricking Americans into voting for a candidate who’s out of step with the voters’ ethos, goals, fears, and priorities.
And the role model for Kamala Harris’s trickery? None other than Tim Walz.
“[Kamala’s] attention is now fully on barnstorming the purple areas of swing states,” Brown wrote, “focused less on appeasing the progressive base of the party than on winning over whichever voters are still making up their minds about how to vote in November — or if at all. The result has been a campaign that’s burning through the fuel the base provided when she became the nominee.”
Alas, the only way to attract the middle, it seems, is to forego the wackier, more controversial positions of the Radical Left. In Brown’s mind, it’s a risky tradeoff.
“The goal is to convert that [progressive] energy into enough moderate votes to eke out a win against former President Donald Trump,” Brown noted. “In the process, she has steadily shed the stances she took when vying against 19 other candidates to court the progressive left in 2019.”
Sure, she’s lying and flip-flopping like mad, but it’s for everyone’s good that she does so, so we’ll look the other way when it happens. Dan Rather could not be reached for comment:
LOL! New Jersey’s Twitter Account Wins the Internet With Possible New State Motto.
I’ll allow it; as somebody who grew up in New Jersey, this seems very much on-brand for the state.
WHEN HEROIN HIT JAZZ: Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.
In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ambivalent reputation as “America’s classical music.” Americans under 40 are likely to consider it PBS stuff that not even their parents listened to—their grandparents, maybe. In the early postwar years, jazz had a different reputation. The music defined the counterculture, an identity powerfully reinforced by its association with heroin.
Drugs wrecked many jazzmen’s lives. Contrasting with the current addiction crisis, fatal overdoses were rarer, as the product was weaker. (In every year since 2009, more Americans have died from drug overdoses than car crashes.) But the older epidemic was catastrophic, too, when measured in terms of stifled promise.
When heroin hit, jazz’s day was already beginning to fade. The emergence of rock and roll and Motown would soon devastate jazz musicians’ ability to earn a living. After the 1960s, there would be no more superstars on the level of Coltrane and Miles. The music ceased to develop as rapidly and successfully as it had in previous decades, much of the action shifted toward revivals of older forms, and the audience contracted. The musicians didn’t appreciate how little time they had left, and they failed to make the most of it, partly because so many couldn’t shake their addiction to drugs.
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Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a different place from the rural communities devastated by opioids in the twenty-first century. In the current crisis, widespread drug addiction is seen as an effect of decline. In Harlem back then, widespread drug addiction was seen more as a cause of decline. Numerous observers, such as novelist Claude Brown, noted the startling abruptness with which heroin overtook Harlem and jazz in the postwar period. At mid-century, Harlem was teetering, though the cultural capital that the community had built up during its fabled renaissance in the 1920s had not been wholly exhausted and was being replenished, at least somewhat, by the ongoing Great Migration. Some jazz legends were Harlem natives, such as Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, and Jackie McLean. Those born elsewhere got there as quickly as they could. “You ain’t nothing till you come to New York,” said Coleman Hawkins, a Missourian. New York was where ambitious musicians felt they needed to be. Many also felt they needed to use.
The late 1940s and 1950s were the peak era of heroin consumption for jazz musicians. In The Making of Jazz (1978), historian James Lincoln Collier claims that as many as three-quarters of all musicians used heroin during this period. As for the rate of bona fide addiction, researcher Charles Winick, in a study appearing in the journal Social Problems in 1959, found that, of about 360 jazz musicians he was able to interview properly, 16 percent were “regular users” of heroin. Projecting that rate to New York as a whole meant 700 to 800 working jazz-musician addicts based in the city in 1955. Four out of the six musicians on Kind of Blue (1959), the best-selling jazz album of all time, were heroin addicts at some point.
In the 1970s, numerous prominent rockers became heroin addicts. It takes a special kind of hubris to think that you’ll be able to handle the effects of a drug that Miles Davis (who eventually kicked, but would have further bouts with hard drugs later in his career), Charlie Parker, and Chet Baker couldn’t.
JOHN PODHORETZ: The Assassination Wish Fulfillment.
On Tuesday, Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski introduced a report on the attempt by Garrett Haake, and then when the camera returned to her face, launched into a two-minute history (read off a teleprompter, so therefore pre-planned by the show’s producer and theoretically approved in some fashion by MSNBC’s senior management) of all the times Trump has encouraged violence. She stitched together the genuinely disturbing (January 6 is “gonna be wild,” went the Trump tweet) with the jokey (Trump’s line about how he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it) and the transparently dishonest (that he supported the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in 2017). The net result was a five-minute segment that, once again, was designed to make you think Trump was asking for it.
Let’s talk tachlis, as we say in Hebrew. Let’s talk straight. The reason so many people in this country seem determined not to consider the profound seriousness of a potential new age of assassination—a return to the destabilizing period that tormented this country and the West between JFK in 1963 and the Reagan/John Paul II attempts in 1981—is that it represents a dark wish fulfillment for so many people.
Donald Trump has refused to go away. He lost the 2020 election and wouldn’t admit it, wouldn’t stand down, wouldn’t stand for a peaceful transition if there could be a chaotic and dangerous one. And the minute the next president began to serve, he began to run again—something no one in his position as ex-president had done from within his own party for 130 years. People hate him. They revile him. They fear him. They despise him. What they would like, more than anything, is for him to go away.
A great many people, and most of the nation’s elites, secretly or not so secretly wish they could see the result sought by would-be killers Routh and Cheeks. And while they know they must pay lip service to the fact that assassinations are bad and wrong and shocking and all that, they simply cannot muster up the emotion of horror. That’s what’s missing here from the coverage and discussions of these two attempts: Horror. Because they’re not horrified.
And they should be.
This is the darkest kind of fantasy, because it can be fulfilled—and the consequences would be unthinkably dangerous for the future of this country.
Those who wish Trump gone think the future with him in it as president for the second time will be a nightmare come true. But they do not begin to grasp the nature of the future in which Trump is removed from life and history with an act of violence that—though they would be outraged at the very suggestion—would be understood by history as an emanation of their dark, raging wish. It would be “the monkey’s paw” overtaking the world.
In the New York Post, Daniel McCarthy writes: Dems’ apocalyptic rhetoric about Trump only increased after first assassination attempt.
Routh took both literally and seriously Democrats and progressives who say Trump is a threat to America’s institutions and the rule of law itself.
“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” Routh wrote in a tweet to President Biden in April.
You can’t lose if your opponent is dead — and if democracy itself is in danger, what conclusion can a desperate man of action draw?
Instead of moderating their rhetoric, Trump’s critics only doubled down after the first assassination attempt.
Days after the shooting, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project was again comparing Trump to Hitler.
On July 19, Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich called Trump “an existential danger to our democracy.”
As recently as last week’s presidential debate, Kamala Harris accused Trump of “attacking the foundations of our democracy.”
In response, America’s Newspaper of Record is once again doing straight up reportage:
ACE OF SPADES: Make America America Again.
It is just beyond revolting, if not completely predictable, that in the wake of the second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump that the loudest, shrillest voices within the Democrat Party and the media – which as we all know is in point of fact a redundancy – have the unmitigated, radioactive temerity to actually blame him for the attempts on his life. After almost every second of every day for nine straight years of comparing him to Adolph Hitler and sliming anyone who supports him as not only a racist bigot but of willing to throw those unlike them into concentration camps or worse to fulfill the alleged goal of turning America into a white Christian nationalist theocracy (a hoary old retread of a theme going back to Ronald Reagan if not to Barry Goldwater) Projection ain’t just a river in Egypt.
It’s kind of funny since mere days before the 2008 election, Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform” the United States of America. Into what, he never said, but judging from the poisoned rhetoric of his apostate priest and confessor, Jeremiah Wright, as well as the words and deeds of his likely real father and mentor Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Stalinist and Soviet agent, it was no stretch of the imagination to connect the dots. In point of fact, considering everything that is happening here at home and quite a bit of what’s going on abroad we are only beginning to reap the whirlwind of what Obama has just begun to sow.
All things considered, the fact that Donald Trump openly ran to stop that in an effort to Make America Great Again, and that he handily beat a machine intent on continuing the destruction with Hillary Clinton as the combined Eva Peron/Lucretia Borgia as its leader was in and of itself nothing short of miraculous.
As even Kamala now grudgingly admits, it’s time to “Turn the Page” on the failed policies of the incumbent, who is now seeking what would effectively be his fourth term in office.
CNN POUNCES ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: CNN Worries That Trump Assassination Attempts Are Helping Him Politically.
Juliette Kayyem, a former Department of Homeland Security official under Obama, labelled the situation a “problem” and “unfortunate” because it is making Trump more popular.
“I really don’t care what you feel about him, or Harris,” Kayyem said referring to Trump, adding “I mean, this is, this is the expectation that he will be safe.”
Kayyem continued, “And the reason why this is, you know, in some ways, you know, you said how close the election is, the problem is this is a safety issue that is being thrown into a very intense political environment in which the very fact of an assassination, a constitutional moment, because it’s, it could have impacted voters, will be used for political purposes.”
“And that, to me, is, is just as not as a, you know, exceptionally unfortunate, because whatever your beliefs are, we do deserve to have campaigns that are not part that where violence isn’t being used as either a sword or a shield,” she added.
Evergreen:
VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS BELIEVES IT’S TIME TO “TURN THE PAGE” ON THE INCUMBENT:
Harris has certainly failed over the last four years, so yes, let’s “turn the page” and move on from her time in office. As Scott Johnson writes, “Her campaign is run by Obama hands who want to serve up a fourth Obama term. She is the man, so to speak. War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength. Turn the page. Speaking for myself, we want to turn the page. We want to turn the page from the Biden-Harris administration. Truth in advertising would require a slight revision of the Harris campaign’s theme to Bookmark the page.”
OLD AND BUSTED: Exploding Cigars.
The New Hotness? Hundreds of Hezbollah members reportedly injured by exploding pagers.
No word yet on who could have done this:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This is great since it neutralizes a lot of key personnel while wrecking a “secure” communications network, at a crucial moment. It should also worry Raytheon, et al. The Biden Administration is trying to pressure Israel by stopping arms flows, but this hack did something that no million-dollar missile can do. As the war in Ukraine is demonstrating, there are a lot of capable low-budget alternatives to expensive missiles nowadays, and encouraging customers to come up with them is bad salesmanship.
And note the lack of collateral damage, as shown in this video:
BREAKING via Reuters
Hundreds of members of Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded.
Here is one video of one of the pager explosions. pic.twitter.com/UDepHvkkEe
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 17, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed): Paging Hezbollah: A Special Message Just For You From Your Friendly Neighborhood Mossad.
ED MORRISSEY ON BLOOMBERG’S TOP HEADLINE: Trump Pounces on Second Assassination Attempt! Update: WaPo Worse?
We just had the second attempt to assassinate a major-party nominee for president in the last two months. If you’re a major news media outlet, what would be the headline for today that leads your website? Trump Survives Second Assassination Attempt? Secret Service Fails to Secure Former President Again? Or perhaps just Suspect Arrested in Firearm Incident?
Not if you’re Bloomberg. They headline a story that went up late yesterday, just a couple of hours after the Secret Service managed to stop the second would-be assassin. Their big takeaway is … all of the pouncing Trump did:
Take a look at the headlines below that for a taste of Bloomberg’s priorities. The assassination attempt plays second fiddle to Trump’s reaction to it. This story went up at 8:13 pm ET and got updated this morning at 11:19, and it does nothing to inform its readers about the actual assassination attempt.
Instead, they seem most concerned that Trump blames Democrats for their incendiary rhetoric in creating an environment that fosters radicalism and irrational behavior:
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It’s never the actual story when it comes to news that plays against Democrats; the story is always about the Republican reaction to it.
Yes. As Jim Treacher has written:
Ed writes that “Bloomberg couldn’t even wait four hours after the story broke to spin it as a Republicans Pounce!™ issue.” His colleague Beege Welborn screenshotted an even more literal “Republicans Seize” headline from Bloomberg:
Her tweet was in response to former Ted Cruz flack Steve Guest’s screenshots of various DNC-MSM newspapers doing their best to sweep this latest assassination attempt on Trump down the memory hole:
And speaking of the memory hole, as Paula Bolyard asks: Why Were Social Media Companies So Quick to Scrub Ryan Routh’s Accounts?
UPDATE: Pouncing, seizing, and now seething! The Hill: Republicans seethe after second foiled Trump assassination attempt.
#HIMTOO? Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrested. The arrest comes amid a wave of lawsuits filed against the music mogul alleging sexual assault.
OHIO NEWSPAPER RIPPED TO SHREDS AFTER DRAMATIC ESCALATION OF TWISTED ‘TRUMP ASKED FOR IT’ BLAME GAME:
Though pretty much nothing the mainstream media does shocks me anymore, I still can’t help but be amazed sometimes at the sheer brazenness of some of the things they treat as news, the way more serious stories are either downplayed or framed, and how they make zero apologies for it – even after being called out.
Case in point, the sickening “it’s Trump’s fault” narrative they’ve shamelessly spun in the aftermath of the second assassination attempt on GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s life in three months.
For instance, some outlets declared Sunday it was Trump and not Democrats who should be calling for the rhetoric to be dialed down after the second attempt on his life, reportedly at the hands of a crazed left-winger. Perhaps most audacious was the “report” from NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who said “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants…”
But anyone who didn’t think it could get any worse than what they’ve already seen come from these people in response to Sunday’s chilling incident and subsequent arrest might want to take a look at a reader letter greenlighted for publication by the Cincinnati Enquirer that quite literally suggested that Trump “brings a lot of this stuff on himself”:
No, really — that’s not a paraphrase by Stacey Matthews (aka “Sister Toldjah”) above:
The paper didn’t have the guts to slam Trump directly, they instead promoted a letter to the editor:
As Matthews writes, “Yep, it’s a variation of the classic ‘some people are saying’ media tactic, and as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) observed, it’s utterly disgusting.”
Charles Cooke writes, “Why, given how fashionable it remains, has the term ‘stochastic terrorism’ not been swiftly applied to this case? As I have previously contended, I consider the notion of ‘stochastic terrorism’ to be a cynical, vague, hollow tool whose sole purpose is to permit America’s self-appointed ‘expert’ class to ‘prove’ scientifically that their ideological opponents are rotten. But others seem to take it seriously. So why not here?” As Cooke asks: What Are the Rules? “If those are, indeed, the rules, then what should we make of the man who tried to kill Donald Trump — that’s the second man to try to kill Donald Trump, for those keeping score at home — having echoed a literal Kamala Harris campaign slogan on his Twitter account”
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