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.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 24, 2024
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.
CRINGEWORTHY: Kamala Blows It on the Border for CNN *and* Telemundo “And then there’s Kamala Harris, who usually ends up coming across as one of those weepy drunks who ruins the mood at every family gathering.”
THE GOOGLE NEWS BUSINESS SECTION TOP STORY, SECOND DAY IN A ROW:
McDonald’s allowed Trump to look good and for that, they must pay.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: My, What a Difference a Musk Makes. “If the Republic is pulled back from the brink by a Trump victory in the election, Elon Musk will have played no small part in it.”
THERE’S MANY A MAN HAS MORE COCKINESS THAN WIT:
The early voting blog is updated!
Out: Clark D firewall
In: Rural R firewall.
It's real: 16,500 votes because of massive landslides so far and higher than urban turnout percentage.
Dems need more mail, lots of indies, or big trouble in NV.https://t.co/Pl43XBMcPA
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 23, 2024
The early data are interesting, I suppose, but I’d much rather that election day was a day again.
ICYMI [VIP]: The Interlocking Genius of Elon Musk.
They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful… beautiful… so beautiful, so beautiful. I had no idea.” — Astronaut Dr. Ellie Arroway, humanity’s first interstellar traveler, on viewing the cosmos through the portal of an alien transport in the film version of Carl Sagan’s “Contact.”
We don’t have friendly aliens to share their blueprints for an interstellar spaceship so, here in the real world, we’ll have to make do with the interlocking genius of Elon Musk — and that might just be enough to start humanity on our way to the stars… or at least to that fourth rock from the Sun: Mars.
It’s the interlocking part that will make it work if anything can — and the poetry I’ll come back to shortly.
“I want to die on Mars, just not on impact,” Musk joked more than a decade ago. Getting there is easy, relatively speaking. Building a colony large and wealthy enough that an elderly man could immigrate there to die there of old age… that’s the tricky part.
“Why Mars?” you might ask, and I’ll answer that a bit further down. For the moment, it’s the HOW? that you’ll find most intriguing.
Much more at the link for our VIP subscribers.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
In the old days, the grizzled editor would remind his reporters, “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.”
Today it’s “Your best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl saw Trump pass out at 31 Flavors last night? Yeah, run it.”
HENCE THE CONSTANT REMINDERS NOT TO GET COCKY: Democrats Aren’t ‘Panicking’ — They’re Trying to Suppress GOP Voter Turnout.
October 23, 2024
EVEN IF YOU DON’T START COUNTING WITH ILLEGAL ENTRY: The Illegal Alien Crime Spree Is Real.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Carlos Mencia Shreds ‘Punching Down’ Rules. “That’s not what we’ve been fighting for. We haven’t been fighting so we could go to our corners… we’re supposed to get together and laugh at ourselves and at each other.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Interlocking Genius of Elon Musk.”
They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful… beautiful… so beautiful, so beautiful. I had no idea.” — Astronaut Dr. Ellie Arroway, humanity’s first interstellar traveler, on viewing the cosmos through the portal of an alien transport in the film version of Carl Sagan’s “Contact.”
We don’t have friendly aliens to share their blueprints for an interstellar spaceship so, here in the real world, we’ll have to make do with the interlocking genius of Elon Musk — and that might just be enough to start humanity on our way to the stars… or at least to that fourth rock from the Sun: Mars.
It’s the interlocking part that will make it work if anything can — and the poetry I’ll come back to shortly.
“I want to die on Mars, just not on impact,” Musk joked more than a decade ago. Getting there is easy, relatively speaking. Building a colony large and wealthy enough that an elderly man could immigrate there to die there of old age… that’s the tricky part.
“Why Mars?” you might ask, and I’ll answer that a bit further down. For the moment, it’s the HOW? that you’ll find most intriguing.
Much more at the link for our VIP subscribers.
CRISIS BY DESIGN (NYC EDITION):
The NYPD were not allowed to enter a migrant hotel near Times Square to respond to a call due to an apparent policy banning officers without a migrant program supervisor present. Video by @ViralNewsNYC: pic.twitter.com/9MKkXOw0ed
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 22, 2024
If that isn’t two-tiered justice, what is it?
OF COURSE SHE WON’T:
NEWS w/ @JarrettRenshaw @KamalaHarris will NOT be making a trip to Austin to speak with @joerogan during her upcoming Texas swing, several sources said. She will be in Houston on Friday to talk abortion rights and is expected to fly to Michigan right after.
It remains unclear…— Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) October 23, 2024
Harris can’t get through a softball mainstream media interview without flubbing it.
SLOUCHING TOWARD WORLD WAR III: 3,000 North Korean troops are in Russia preparing to fight in Ukraine, South Korea says.
About 3,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and they are now receiving training on drones and other equipment before being deployed to battlefields in Ukraine, South Korea’s spy chief told lawmakers Monday.
In a closed-door parliamentary committee briefing, National Intelligence Service Director Cho Tae-yong said another 1,500 North Korean troops have joined the 1,500 his agency estimated were in the country last week, according to lawmaker Park Sunwon, who attended the briefing.
Cho told lawmakers that his agency assessed that North Korea aims to deploy a total of 10,000 troops to Russia by December, Park told reporters.
Park cited Cho as saying the 3,000 North Korean soldiers sent to Russia have been split among multiple military bases and are in training. Cho told lawmakers that NIS believes they have yet to be deployed in battle, according to Park.
Speaking jointly with Park about the NIS briefing, lawmaker Lee Seong Kweun said that the NIS found that the Russian military is now teaching those North Korean soldiers how to use military equipment such as drones.
3,000 soldiers only represent about three days of Russians killed or wounded.
BEEGE WELBORN: Gwen Walz Reportedly in Full-Blown Snit After Being Told She’s ______________ ?
She seems fun, no?
NO.
Well, David had the first word on this yesterday when, suddenly, the delightful Mrs. Walz dropped out of a campaign event scheduled in Maine.
The more time went by, the more word got out that she’d “angrily” canceled after hearing some unflattering…um…critiques, I guess you could say, of her campaigning style. Instead of taking them to heart and maybe rejiggering her presentation, I guess she just got mad and threw a tantrum instead.
…
Telling that bastion of cuddly, shotgun-fumbling masculinity to get the old ball and chain to tone down the psychotic schoolmarm shrieking before the last three white dudes for Harris peel away was going to result in an epic eruption, guaranteed.
Much more at the link.
DOES THIS MEAN THEY’VE GIVEN UP ON ARIZONA? Biden-Harris admin shipping migrants to Arizona and Texas to hide border problem before Election Day: ‘It’s about optics.’
On the other hand, there’s this:
🚨 WTF?! Maricopa County, Arizona is now saying it could take 10-13 DAYS to tabulate the results for the election
HOW?
What the hell is going on?! pic.twitter.com/JAQcjY5Ibz
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 23, 2024
HOW IT STARTED: How Kamala Harris Took Command of the Democratic Party in 48 Hours.
How it’s going: Senate Democrats running away from Harris in ‘blue wall’ states.
Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump’s voters to keep their seats.
And Democratic candidates in those states have been careful about criticizing Trump during the high-stakes debates. They have focused on policy and their own records without taking many — or any — shots against the Republican nominee.
Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) has even embraced Trump’s tariff policies. His campaign launched an ad last week that described him as “independent” and touted how he “bucked” the Biden administration to protect fracking and “sided with Trump to end NAFTA.”
“There’s no party affiliation in Casey ads. I don’t recall seeing any that say ‘Democrat’ or anything like that. He’s running as an incumbent on his own record,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the Center for Public Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.
“He’s trying to distance himself a little bit from an administration that is viewed negatively by the most part. He doesn’t want to be tied to that either through Biden or Harris,” he said.
Out, damned cockiness.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: After nozzle failure, Space Force is ‘assessing’ impacts to Vulcan schedule.
Col. James Horne, who oversees launch execution for Space Systems Command, called the test flight a “successful launch” in an interview with Ars. The nozzle failure caused a “significant loss of thrust” from the damaged booster, he said.
The Vulcan rocket’s ability to overcome the dramatic nozzle failure, which was easily visible in video of the launch, “really demonstrated the robustness of the total Vulcan system,” Horne said.
“They nailed the orbit, probably one of the most accurate orbital insertions that I’ve seen them fly yet,” he said. “And at the end of the mission, they did some extended duration testing … which was not part of the orbital insertion. And even after that extended mission, they still had substantial performance reserve left over.”
That’s a good sign and “officials expect to approve certification for the Vulcan rocket.”
WELL, YES: Donald Trump Is Benefiting From a Huge Political Realignment Along Class Lines.
While the tactics of some members in the caucuses representing poorer communities might make useful content for a media and political environment that sets out to reaffirm the beliefs of their audiences, it neglects a deeper understanding of why and where these members are coming from.
In a post-COVID world, where white collar workers got ahead and poor communities fell further behind, it is beyond reasonable that these constituencies are looking to their representatives to fight like hell for the interests they believe have been disregarded.
When child poverty rates and measures of health and wealth exceed or even meet national averages, prioritizing norms is a luxury that other Americans living paycheck and paycheck cannot afford.
And in the absence of greater perspective from the narrative-makers to these real-life experiences, the political implications have been undeniable. CNN’s data reporter, Harry Enten, recently found that Donald Trump is poised for the best performance with Black voters since Richard Nixon and the best performance for a Republican with Hispanics in 14 years. Trump is also positioned to break the blue wall of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin with support from white, working class voters, driven by high levels of support from union members and households.
Furthermore, a recent NBC News poll shows that while college educated men and women overwhelmingly support Kamala Harris (+8 and +38 respectively), men and women without a college degree support Trump (+28 and + 3 respectively).
The GOP is shifting into the party of a diverse working class, while national Democrats are absorbing the highly educated and wealthier Americans.
The shift began at least as far back as the Tea Party in 2009 but that movement was effectively squashed by Barack Obama’s IRS, RINOs, and the media’s willingness (eagerness?) to portray Americans calling for fiscal responsibility as racists.
The Establishment GOP got one last at-bat with Mitt Romney in 2012, and we all saw how well that turned out — for the Washington Uniparty, anyway.
Trump filled a vacuum created by a GOP that no longer gave a damn about its core values and a Democrat party that no longer gave a damn about its core constituents.
COCKINESS BE GONE: Uh Oh! Democrats’ Silver Bullet Issue Is Losing Its Power This Election.
SUSTAINABILITY: U.S. National Debt’s Unbelievable Spike Over the Last Three Weeks. “We learn that the U.S. debt has jumped by another $473 billion in just the last three weeks.”
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It’s hard to see a way back from this disaster. This is six figures of debt for every American man, woman, child, and people of indeterminate gender. Everyone has a part in this. Everyone owns a piece of this debt. And the more the government soaks up debt, the more debt costs the business sector; this calamity affects the economy from top to bottom, and we just keep racking it up. The federal debt affects interest rates, affects stock market volatility, and has the potential to destabilize the entire financial system.
There are three ways out of this mess. We can repudiate the debt, which would send the global economy into a tailspin. We can inflate our way out of it, but that would take a Weimar Republic/Zimbabwe level of inflation at this point to pay off the national debt with worthless dollars.
Oh, we could grow our way out of it. But that would require a federal government that is willing to implement pro-growth policies.
But none of these tactics will work unless we stop the runaway spending.
I don’t know which way Washington will eventually use to get out from under this unsustainable debt. But I am certain Washington will wait until it’s far too late to do so in an orderly way.