F.A., MEET F.O.: Armed Citizen Shoots Robber Who Used Toy Gun in Stick-Up.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Uh-Oh. Now, Even Barbells Are Problematic. “A CrossFit coach shared that a female who attended his class freaked out after he mentioned that the gym had both men’s and women’s barbells and suggested the latter might be a better fit for her. The woman got angry, accused him of discrimination, and went to the gym owner to complain about said discrimination.”

WHERE IS THE GOP?

NEW

The FCC just released the text of its 3-2 decision to approve a Soros backed group’s purchase of 200+ radio stations.

The Commission’s decision today is unprecedented. Never before has the Commission voted to approve the transfer of a broadcast license—let alone the… pic.twitter.com/gnMbl2z8Jb

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) September 30, 2024

More:

Federal law requires applicants like these with excessive foreign ownership to file a petition for declaratory ruling at the same time that they seek FCC approval for the relevant licenses, they must then complete that process before the FCC can approve the assignment of licenses, and that process must enable Executive Branch agencies with national security and specific policy expertise to weigh in.

But in this case, the Applicants decided that they did not need to comply with any of those legal requirements. The Applicants expressly state that they will have foreign investment in excess of the statutory 25 percent benchmark.

Did they file the petition for declaratory ruling required by the Code of Federal Regulations? No, they did not.

Did they obtain approval from the FCC for their excessive foreign ownership? No, they did not.

Did the Applicants afford the Executive Branch agencies with national security and relevant policy expertise an opportunity to consider their application as well as the source and amount of foreign investment? No, they did not.

The Commission has never done this before. So why are we voting for a first-ever fast track today?

We know the why.

From the replies: “I thank God that Elon Musk bought Twitter.”

Indeed.

WELL, THEY AREN’T WRONG:

TRUTH BOMB 💣

Dockworkers who have officially gone on strike say that the biggest reason is because their wages have not kept up with Kamala's inflation crisis. pic.twitter.com/k9xJoni47a

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 1, 2024

The irony is that if the strike goes on long enough, the next big round of price hikes will be on the strikers.

REMEMBER JOE? Biden Can Check Out Any Time He Likes (And He’s Basically Left).

The chat on X at zero-dark-thirty on Tuesday — unconfirmed as yet — is that “the first numbers of deceased Western North Carolinians are in the mid-hundreds,” and that’s just in Asheville. Meanwhile, the old man on the beach griped — our POTUS in name only — on Monday that he “was on the phone for at least two hours” on Saturday and Sunday, so he’d done all he could for Hurricane Helene relief.

Whether or not Biden was actually in “command,” as he put it during a press conference that he coughed his way through before another one of his curt exits, the optics of POTUS lounging on the beach while his fellow Americans waited on rooftops for rescue were awful.

Besides, few people believe Biden is in command of anything anymore. World leaders — particularly Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, thank goodness — no longer give a rat’s patootie what the Formerly Most Powerful Man in the World™ has to say about anything. So why should his cabinet? Or FEMA?

Much more at the link.

DEFLECTION DURING A NATURAL DISASTER IS NOT A GOOD LOOK, GOVERNOR:

And yet, NC Gov. Roy Cooper shamed his citizens at today's press conference, saying that "people in low-lying areas were told to evacuate."

This isn't a low-lying area, Gov. Many of the hard-hit areas were not. This is a point so many are missing. https://t.co/BQqsDaZjHc

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) September 30, 2024

YOU START BY IGNORING THE PENTAGON: Hey Pentagon, Pay Attention. Israel Is Showing You How to Win Wars.

WELL, GOOD: Taiwanese military report says China lacks full invasion force.

China has stepped up deployments of new types of anti-ship ballistic missiles and ultra-high-speed hypersonic missiles, which will provide opportunities for strikes against foreign military forces in the seas between the Chinese coast and what Beijing calls the “second island chain” — islands stretching from Japan to Guam, the report said.

The report also disclosed that the Chinese coast guard is being bolstered with new weapons and the addition of small warships from the Chinese navy.

But despite China’s overall buildup, the report concludes that China’s current capabilities are not sufficient to move large amounts of forces across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait that would be needed in a military strike. The lack of amphibious forces and supply capabilities for cross-strait warfare means the Chinese military is “not fully prepared to conduct a full-scale invasion on Taiwan,” the report said.

A military source said one of the lessons China has learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that an assault on Taiwan will be much more difficult than originally anticipated.

Giving China pause gives us time to fix our Navy.

FORGET IT, HE’S RESTING:

They are called "helicopters," Joe.

UH-60s and CH-47s, to be precise.

And there are a whole crapload of them on Fort Campbell and Fort Bragg (not that woke name), just a couple of hundred of miles away from the carnage in each direction.

They can: (i) bring in supplies,… https://t.co/Oi33mNbTgN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 1, 2024

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: More Helene Destruction — Kamala’s ‘President for All Americans’ Shtick. “I’m in Michigan right now and there is a Harris ad in heavy rotation in which she promises to be a president for all Americans because she doesn’t ask people in need if they’re Republican or Democrat.”

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:

CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?

Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."

😳 pic.twitter.com/Q6rpqsoiO8

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024

What do ports and dockworkers have to do with commerce, anyway?

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Next on Israel’s Target List?

REMINDER: WHAT THE LEFT CANNOT CONTROL, IT WILL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY. Inside the Biden Admin’s Plot to Destroy Silvergate and Debank Crypto for Good. “New information suggests Biden admin regulators deliberately killed off crypto-friendly Silvergate in an attempt to decapitate the US crypto industry.”

More:

New bankruptcy filings and exclusive interviews with confidential sources suggest Silvergate could have survived if not for pressure from regulators, which allegedly included an informal mandate to cap its crypto deposits at 15 percent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren all but accused Silvergate of aiding and abetting FTX’s crimes, creating an “atmosphere of concern” around Silvergate that possibly contributed to a run on the bank.

Sources told us the FHLB (Federal Home Loan Banks) refused to renew their monthly loan agreement with Silvergate due to political pressure from Warren, accelerating the bank’s losses.

Claims of criminal wrongdoing related to Silvergate’s association with FTX have never been proven, and no criminal charges have ever been filed against the bank.

Silvergate’s downfall may have been a primary cause of the 2023 regional banking crisis, which ultimately took down Signature, Silicon Valley Bank, and First Republic.

Those are just the bullet points. Full details at the link.

Related: This Is What Trump’s Crypto Play Is Really About.

KRUISER: The V.P. Debate Hasn’t Happened Yet, But J.D. Vance Has Already Won.

ISRAEL SETTLING ALL THE FAMILY BUSINESS: Third loud blast heard by BBC team.

For those who remain in Dahieh – the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs – it’s becoming a familiar message.

The IDF sent out a fresh warning late this evening, external that residents of three areas needed to evacuate. It meant Israeli air strikes were coming, and less than an hour later we heard two separate attacks.

The second was the louder, a long boom rumbling around the capital, the sound echoing and bouncing off the tall buildings around us.

As I write this update, we hear a third strike. Once again, it’s a tense and frightening night for people in the capital, some of whom are still sleeping out on the streets.

The IAF is putting on quite a show.

Footage showing one of the Israeli Airstrikes earlier on the Dahieh Suburb of Southern Beirut, less than a Mile from Rafic Hariri International Airport. With the Size of the Explosion suggesting that a Major Weapons Storage Site was likely Targeted. pic.twitter.com/rA4XiGWDzA

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 30, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

Meanwhile, back in America, the @FAANews is smothering the national space program in kafkaesque paperwork! https://t.co/7sIpVu7zZ6

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2024

BREAKING:

BREAKING: Whistleblower says DHS employees expressed "serious concerns" about Tim Walz's ties to China in group chat

WASHINGTON (House Oversight Committee / News release) — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to… pic.twitter.com/dkkUoB2ZDM

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 30, 2024

WELL, YES: The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster.

TEXASL Fort Worth ISD Bets On ‘Equity,’ Loses.

There’s a recurring pattern where conservatives point out the obvious negative effects of leftwing policies, Democrats ignore them, and then are stunned by the obvious, foreseeable consequences of their actions. Be it the inflation from deficit spending and flu manchu shutdowns to Austin’s decision to let drug addict transients camp in the streets increasing the number of drug addicted transients camping in the streets, leftists are constantly making things worse and then throwing up their hands and proclaiming “How could I have possibly known?”

Which brings us to Fort Worth ISD. In 2022, over protesting parents, they hired a social justice superintendent eager to impose DEI on the district.

What happened next required the expected number of unexpectedlies.

JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR — UNTIL IT ISN’T: Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Next on Israel’s Target List?

THE HIGH COST OF CRONY CAPITALISM:

FYI – North Carolina would have 19,522 working @Starlink kits available today after Hurricane Helene had the FCC not revoked in bad faith the grant that was awarded to SpaceX as the winning bidder. pic.twitter.com/oXqTuyFBAc

— ALEX (@ajtourville) September 30, 2024

Left unsaid: Every time the FAA delays another Starship flight test, it pushes back radically reducing the cost of getting more capable Gen2 Starlink satellites — and everything else — into orbit.

CATHERINE SALGADO: Gold Star Family’s Day and the Price of Freedom.

GOOD GRIEF: DOJ sues Alabama, state’s top election official for allegedly purging noncitizen voters too close to election.

UNTIL THE NEXT ONE: This Might Be the Most Poorly Staged ‘Presidential’ Photo of Kamala Ever.

DEI KILLS:

In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real pic.twitter.com/bPFTmfkndE

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 30, 2024

More from Jerry Dunleavy:

FEMA’s “Strategic Plan” (2022-2026)

“Goal 1” — “Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management”

“Goal 2” — “Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience”

“Goal 3” — “Promote & Sustain a Ready FEMA & Prepared Nation”

Full strategic plan, such as it is, here.

Related (From Ed): Jon Gabriel in the Arizona Republic: DEI efforts are a distraction that more Arizona towns should reject.