I HAD BEEN ASSURED BIDEN-HARRIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BORDER CRISIS: ‘We pray Trump DOESN’T win’: 150,000 migrants in Mexico are rushing to the border before the election – and tell TODD BENSMAN they’re terrified Donald will lock them out!
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 25, 2024
KRUISER: Trump Derangement Syndrome Meltdown of the Week — ‘ZOMG! THE DEPORTATIONS!’ Edition.
UPDATE (From Ed): Talk about an October Surprise — I wasn’t expecting Trump’s proposal to get this endorsement so late in the game, but here we are in 2024:
Hillary screams into the mic, "DEPORT THEM!!! THEY'RE GONE!!!" Democrats cheer, media praises her "tough stance on border security" as she demands they need to learn English.
Oh, how times have changed… 🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/qZLB6241ux
— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) October 25, 2024
CHANGE:
The moment when Miami Dade County flipped to republicans.
Hillary won Miami Dade by 31 pts.
Let that sink in.
Trump is dominating in early voting. https://t.co/wgKrYs8ojw
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 24, 2024
Trump is running a solid campaign and DeSantis has done wonders turning Florida into a solid Red state.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Survey Says… LET FREEDOM RING! “Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ know I don’t focus much on polls but this one is exciting.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Sales on Track for Worst Year Since 1995.
Sales of existing homes in the U.S. are on track for the worst year since 1995—for the second year in a row.
Persistently high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are keeping potential home buyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously owned homes in the first nine months of the year were lower than the same period last year, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.
Existing-home sales in September fell 1% from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.84 million, NAR said, the lowest monthly rate since October 2010. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a monthly decrease of 0.5%.
September sales fell 3.5% from a year earlier.
After a sluggish 2023, economists and real-estate executives widely expected activity to pick up in 2024.
Based on what, exactly?
Buying a home, like having a baby, is a Yea vote on the future — and Americans aren’t doing much of either lately.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Isn’t Hitlering Enough to Help Kamala. “The “Trump is Hitler 2.0″ pitch is so desperate I can almost smell Harris’s flop sweat through my computer. Seriously, the Opinion sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post have been trying to sell that hard all year and it hasn’t stuck. Perhaps that’s because it’s such tired shtick.”
COLORADO:
11/16/2023 Subject line: Tren de Aragua
ICE notifies the @AuroraPD that "TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters due to sanctuary policies and location." (Thank you @GovofCO) Did anyone reach out to the state? Did the Denver Mayor know this? Did Commander Chris Poppe… pic.twitter.com/Zc3ROB4zVz— Danielle Jurinsky (@DaniJurinsky) October 24, 2024
Danielle Jurinsky is an Aurora City Council member and these Aurora PD email exchanges about Tren de Aragua’s growing presence in the city that Jurinsky is now making public go back to at least November of last year.
There’s much more on her personal X timeline.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: How Safe Are Our Elections? A Cyber Security Expert Gives Her ‘God’s Honest’ Opinion, and It’s Not Good.
A WHALE OF A GOOD TIME: Who Is Polymarket’s Trump Whale? Site Reveals French Trader Bet $28 Million On Trump Win.
A French national is behind four of the five biggest Polymarket bettors on a Trump victory next month, a company spokesperson told several outlets Thursday.
Those four accounts – Fredi9999, Theo4, PrincessCaro and Michie – have a combined $28.6 million on Trump election bets, according to CNBC, making up four of the five largest holders of Trump victory shares.
That makes up more than 1% of the $2.4 billion wagered on Polymarket’s $2.4 billion presidential election winner market.
The big Trump backer is someone with “extensive trading experience and a financial services background,” a Polymarket spokesperson told Bloomberg, adding the trader “is taking a directional position based on personal views of the election.”
The blockchain-based platform “has not identified any information to suggest that this user manipulated, or attempted to manipulate, the market,” the spokesperson added.
Here’s to hoping he makes a killing.
October 24, 2024
CHANGE (IT BACK): Anti-Shoplifting Ballot Measure Set to Pass Easily in California.
ARIZONA: What happens when you mail in your early ballot?
After all those steps are completed, the ballots — still in their affidavit envelopes — are taken out of the secure vault at the Runbeck facility to make their way to be tabulated. The ballots are then removed from the envelopes to be inspected and confirmed to be from this election before being tabulated.
Bipartisan teams of two ensure that every ballot and affidavit envelope are separated to ensure that the integrity of a voter’s secret ballot remains intact. If the ballot cannot be read or has an overvote — when a ballot has more votes for a race than is allowed — it is sent to adjudication.
If that happens, a bipartisan team evaluates the ballot to determine what the voter’s intent was, and both members of the team have to agree on the decision.
Finally, those tabulated results are then stored on computer servers that are air-gapped, meaning they have no way to connect to the internet. Those computers are inaccessible except to the highest ranked non-elected election officials until Election Day. These early ballots will be the first set of results released on election night.
Except, it seems, in Maricopa County.
This isn’t a projection or a prediction or anything like that.
Just cruelty.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) October 24, 2024
ACTUALLY SOURCED, UNLIKE THAT “TRUMP LOVES HITLER” NONSENSE, BUT THE PRESS ISN’T INTERESTED: Harris’s Husband’s Ex Dishes Details About the Slap in Cannes.
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Is ‘The New York Times’ Not Disclosing a Source’s Ties to Hamas?
I SWEAR I’M NOT GETTING COCKY: Deja Vu All Over Again: Harris Giving off Those Clinton 2016 Vibes.
OF COURSE HE DID: Tim Walz Welcomed Chinese Communist Party Officials Into His Nebraska Classroom. “In February 1996, a delegation of three ‘educators’ from southeast China visited Walz’s Alliance High School social studies class ‘to study the education system,’ according to an unearthed Alliance Times-Herald article. However, the delegation included CCP officials who at the time worked for an institute serving a Chinese influence and intelligence agency, according to a DCNF review of Chinese government records.”
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, MS. HARRIS, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE SHOW? Kamala’s CNN Town Hall Was a Masterclass in Political Self-Destruction.
WOEING: Boeing reports $6 billion quarterly loss as striking workers vote whether to accept contract offer.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers were voting at union halls on a contract that would raise pay by 35% over four years. Before the doors opened at a hall near Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington, workers joined a snaking line outside, where there were a few scattered calls for the offer’s rejection.
“It’s going to be a split vote,” predicted Brian Hatcher, who has worked at Boeing for 15 years and said he voted “no” largely because the proposal did not restore pensions that were eliminated a decade ago.
The strike, which started Sept. 13, Their strike since mid-September has served as an early test for Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who became chief executive in August.
In his first remarks to investors, Ortberg said Boeing needs “a fundamental culture change,” and he laid out his plan to turn the company around after years of heavy losses and damage to the aerospace giant’s reputation.
It’s the self-inflicted wounds to Boeing’s reputation that could take the longest to heal.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THE DEMOCRAT-MEDIA COMPLEX:
If you’re going to tell a Gold Star Family that you, a reporter, have absolute moral authority, not them, you should have a named source on the record. Maybe two! What Gold Star families say about their experiences, with their names attached, should matter no matter who they… https://t.co/qXxM2hscTb
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 23, 2024
Exit quote: “I could not get a similarly sourced piece published on a fantastic claim about Kamala at any major outlet, and that’s as it should be.”
As for Jake Tapper, whatever credibility he might have once had, he squandered long ago.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin launches 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket, nails landing.
Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company launched its uncrewed NS-27 mission at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT) today, sending a brand-new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo on a brief trip to suborbital space. No people launched aboard NS-27, but the mission flew 12 research payloads, five of them on the booster and seven inside the capsule. The rocket reached a maximum altitude of around 332,000 feet (101 kilometers) before returning for a landing around seven minutes and 20 seconds later.
Roughly three minutes after that, the company’s new crew capsule, the RSS Kármán Line, came in for a parachute landing in the West Texas desert.
Nice job, sticking the landing. Next up: reusability.
WHAT BREITBART CALLED THE “DEMOCRAT-MEDIA COMPLEX” IS NO MYTH:
3 Days ago, NBC News and MSNBC presented Al Sharpton, who is a paid contributor, as a moderator and interviewer of Harris.
Now he's going to Michigan to campaign for her. https://t.co/LXuAZv3Xdz
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 24, 2024
Related: Donald Trump Leads Kamala Harris Among Arab Americans. “While Arab and Muslim Americans overwhelmingly backed President Joe Biden in 2020, that support has significantly eroded amid anger over the Biden administration’s ongoing support for Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.”
And yet it’s Biden-Harris whose support for Israel is equivocal at the very best — when the administration isn’t actively undermining Israel’s war effort. And it’s Trump who has fully embraced Bibi Netanyahu doing whatever he needs to do.
THEY ALL KNEW, EVERYONE WITH EYES KNEW, BUT THEY CALLED US LIARS ANYWAY: Just As Harris Insists Biden Is ‘Capable In Every Way,’ Some Inconvenient Facts Come to Light.
SPOILER: THEY WILL NOT EASE UP ON THE BULLSHIT.
So you mean to tell me Trump said “I need the kind of generals Hitler had” four whole years ago and no one said anything about it until 12 days before the election.
Would you just ease up on the bullshit, people?
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) October 23, 2024
Trump is likely the most vetted presidential candidate in history. Anything “good” came out years ago.