DONALD TRUMP AND FRANKLIN GRAHAM talk about North Carolina and disaster relief.

VACCINES USED TO LAST A LONG TIME: Mpox vaccine protection fades within 1 year, boosters needed.

THE PRESS COVERAGE IS DIFFERENTER, THOUGH: A former Army Logistics officer: “Don’t let any Democrat voter tell you Biden and Harris have responded to Helene appropriately because the Katrina response tells an entirely different story.”

THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY OF ANTI-SEMITISM: WATCH: On Eve of October 7th, Kamala Harris Refuses to Call Israel Our Ally During ’60 Minutes’ Interview.

EVERYTHING IS GOING, ER, SWIMMINGLY: The E.V. Flameout.

IN VINO, VERITAS: Did She Really Just Say That?: Hillary Clinton Lets the Cat Out of Bag on Dems and Controlling Speech. “Total control.”

I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT, BUT THE E.V. BUBBLE SEEMS TO BE DEFLATING: Can “The Grid” Handle America’s Switch to EVs? We Ask An Expert.

WHY SHOULD THEY BE DIFFERENT THAN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Nissan is speeding toward a financial cliff. Can they turn things around in time?

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Schrodinger’s Election. (Bumped).

I’M GOING WITH A TENTATIVE YES: Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research, but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself.

SOUNDS FAMILIAR: How effective is the flu shot this year? New report reveals ‘disappointing’ data.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s use of rover prototype on Earth will pave way for Artemis V lunar surface travel.

WELL, GOOD: Colonoscopies among young people on the rise.

WELL, YES: Culture Drift Predicts Decadence. “We now push less for conformity to traditional norms, and more tolerate and even celebrate defiance of many pro-coordination norms, such as anti-crime and pro-work-org norms. We work less, are more promiscuous, and consume more entertainment. We invest less in fertility, and more in education, which is at our margins a poor investment. We less promote and more hinder innovation. We are less ready to die in war for our community. And we are in less awe of religion and other sacred things larger than ourselves.”

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter will return.

OH, DRY UP, LOSER: Virginia Tech academic: Stop sending humans into space — it’s ‘imperialist.’

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: NIH gives $3.7M to Rutgers and Michigan State to explore effects of ‘structural racism’ on aging.

WESTERN POLICYMAKERS WILL IGNORE THIS. Because if they took Iran’s leadership seriously, the correct approach would be brutal and obvious, and they hate that.

Dictator and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his first sermon yesterday in nearly 5 years.

He stated:

“God willing, we will destroy Israel.”

Western policy makers should note that he didn’t say “God willing, we will have a two-state solution” pic.twitter.com/rmXN92MJMo

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2024

WHITE HOUSE REPORT CARD: Katrina moment for Biden-Harris overshadows wins.

JOHN LUCAS: Fall in Line, You Proles!

AS THEY SHOULD: Israel Takes The Gloves Off.

WE’RE NOT LED BY THE BEST:

Mayorkas 3 months ago: FEMA is "tremendously prepared" for hurricane season

Mayorkas today: FEMA is out of money and can't make it through hurricane season. "We do not have the funds"

Look at this. 3 months apart: pic.twitter.com/aX3o0NGihb

— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) October 4, 2024

The first instinct of an incompetent is to explain failure and then take control of everything.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024

THE DESPERATION BEGINS TO SHOW: That’s Politico, where they seem to have lost their mind. “Trump is everywhere. Anxious Dems begin to wonder why Harris isn’t.”

Because she can’t think or speak in public. She’s paralyzed if her teleprompter fails, and pretty bad even when it works.

JUST IN: Kamala Harris has no clue what to say after her teleprompter appears to stop working, keeps repeating herself.

The Vice President kept repeating “32 days.”

“Remember his number 32 today? We got 32 days until the election.”

“So 32 days… 32 days… Okay. We got some… pic.twitter.com/2fIl1nyEkq

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 4, 2024

OUR WORTHLESS RULING CLASS:

Usually it is we the public who have failed them. Taxes will increase and regulations redoubled until everyone is doing his fair share. Notice that the concept that they actually work for us has completely disappeared in the shuffle.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024

What is hardest to forgive is the abuse of trust, the cheapening of the sacred symbols and the exploitation of esteem by conmen who would burn a Rembrandt to toast a marshmallow.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024

So long as it’s their marshmallow.

OPEN THREAD: I do it all for you.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China aims to breed zebrafish aboard Tiangong space station (video).