KRUISER: More Than Anything, Survival of the Constitution Is on the Ballot in 2024. “If Kamala Harris’s ‘Duck and Cackle’ campaign helps her get to the White House, the executive branch will unleash a full-scale assault on free speech, the right to bear arms, and due process. The Biden administration’s thuggish ways will seem reasonable by comparison.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 4, 2024
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS SITTING AT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE RESORT SWIM-UP BAR: Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters.
“Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said Future Forward super PAC president Chauncey McLean said during a Monday event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
Now, the Washington Times reports that some pollsters are even sounding the alarm over Vice President Kamala Harris’ so-called ‘surge’ in the polls – which Harris pulled ahead in after replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee on July 21.
Since the switch, Harris is leading Trump nationally by nearly 2 percentage points and is either leading or tied with him in all seven battleground states. However, Republican analysts argue that these polling numbers may not accurately reflect voter sentiment due to biased polling methodology.
Polls in 2016 and 2020 underestimated Trump’s support by a few points and, even with today’s news, 2024 Trump is outperforming ’16 & ’20 Trump.
Still, don’t get cocky.
HE’S CURRENTLY HOLDING AT “COINCIDENCE”: Seriously, What the Hell Is Wrong with Tucker Carlson? “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PRESIDENT:
Ahhhh… the tiny desk.
The White House now using forced perspective to try and make Joe look “big”.
Good luck with that, Gandalf.— The Loftus Party (@theloftusparty) September 3, 2024
Alleged president, anyway.
IT’S DIFFICULT ENOUGH FOR A COUNTRY TO DEAL WITH ITS HOMEGROWN CRIMINALS: Illegal Alien Stabs 14-Year-Old Girl at Baseball Game.
PRIVACY: Cops’ favorite face image search engine fined $33M for privacy violation.
A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy violations.
According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), Clearview AI “built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces” by crawling the web and without gaining consent, including from people in the Netherlands.
Clearview AI’s technology—which has been banned in some US cities over concerns that it gives law enforcement unlimited power to track people in their daily lives—works by pulling in more than 40 billion face images from the web without setting “any limitations in terms of geographical location or nationality,” the Dutch DPA found. Perhaps most concerning, the Dutch DPA said, Clearview AI also provides “facial recognition software for identifying children,” therefore indiscriminately processing personal data of minors.
Add another zero or two to that fine.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: More Awful ‘Migrant’ Madness for Trump to Bury Harris With in Debate. “Trump will no doubt use the border like a cudgel to attempt to score a knockout over Kamala Harris in their debate. The ABC Dem water-carriers moderating the debate may not let him, however. At least they’ll do their level best to run interference for Madame Veep.”
CHANGE: Cable TV’s collapse deepens: ‘It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor.’
Those 1.6 million subscribers lost in the second quarter account for 6.9% of the industry’s base, and there’s no reason to think the slide is going to slow down at all, analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson write: “It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no longer any floor.”
As we’ve discussed here before, a few years ago there was a thought that digital pay-TV distributors like YouTube TV and Hulu Live would replace losses at conventional distributors, but that’s no longer true.
And those digital distributors are increasingly seeing “seasonality” in their business — consumers sign up for them in the fall to watch the NFL, and churn them out at the beginning of the year. That’s why YouTube TV lost subscribers for the first time in Q1, and only added 50,000 subscribers in Q2. The service added 300,000 subscribers in the same quarter last year.
When the content was free, people watched. When the content is worth paying for, people pay for it. But expecting people to pay for content that isn’t worth it is a stretch, particularly with so many competing options from videogames to Twitter/X.
YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON CNN! Kevin O’Leary Explains Why Blue States Are ‘Uninvestable.’
UM, OK: Maduro decrees Christmas will start in October as Venezuela cracks down on dissent.
“September smells like Christmas!” Maduro said in his weekly television show on Monday, to the apparent delight of his audience.
“This year and to honor you all, to thank you all, I am going to decree the beginning of Christmas on October 1. Christmas arrived for everyone, in peace, joy and security!” he said.
Maduro’s decree – not the first of its kind, but the earliest – comes as Venezuela grapples with the fallout from July’s presidential election, which saw Maduro claim a third term despite global skepticism and outcry from the country’s opposition movement.
Also by decree, underwear will be changed every half hour and worn on the outside so he can check.
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING [VIP]: Tighten That Belt Even More Because Here Comes the Dreaded S-Word.
September 3, 2024
LIVE RESULTS: Massachusetts Primaries.
THE MARKET WILL FLUCTUATE: Record Nvidia Sell-Off Fuels Market Expectations Breaker.
Related:
Kamala's admin crashing the market by destroying the most important stock in the world 2 months before the election is a bold strategy. https://t.co/KbYeegquMr
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 3, 2024
IT’S LOVELY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR:
The Atlantic has had no named storm formations since #Ernesto on August 12. The last time that the Atlantic had no named storm formations between August 13 – September 3 was in 1968. The remarkably quiet period for Atlantic #hurricane activity continues. pic.twitter.com/pLqE7I5PHn
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 3, 2024
“The climate is what you expect; the weather is what you get,” the wise man once said.
OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD: Boeing’s Starliner to Return to Earth on Friday but Will It Ever Fly Again?
INCENTIVES MATTER:
Most of Earth should move to California!
Illegals get free medical care in California as of January and now get “payback optional” $150k loans, funded by California taxpayers, among many other benefits. https://t.co/uwthE2bzY2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2024
If you’re a citizen and a net taxpayer (pay more in taxes than any benefits you receive) and still living in California… WHY?
DEEPLY DISTURBED: More of the Nashville Trans Shooter’s Manifesto Has Been Released.
TWO CHEERS FOR COLONIALISM: Which nonwhite country is still putting up statues of its dead white colonizers? “It’s the most successful country in the Global South, Singapore, which is one degree north of the equator.”
HE’S ALWAYS BEEN NASTY AND SENILITY BRINGS OUT MORE OF THAT: Is Biden Trying to Help Kamala Lose?
SHE DON’T FEEL NO WAYS TAHR’D:
WATCH: Over 3 minutes of Kamala Harris using different phony accents throughout the years.
Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent,… pic.twitter.com/A07WzWMGkr
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 2, 2024
I barely made it to the one-minute mark.
VIDEO: You’re Gonna Burn. “Leave it to the Ukrainians to make yet another terrifying innovation in drone warfare. I’m sure the Russian soldiers were none to thrilled to be targeted by this drone-based Martian heat ray. Thermite is easy to come by, being just powdered aluminum and rust, and burns at an infernal 4,000°F. But I do wonder how they’ve rigged it so that it does its Sparkler Rain of Death trick without catching fire itself.”
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Midtown ‘Migrants’ Are Just Doing 75% of the Crimes Americans Won’t Do. “Across New York, recently arrived migrants are flooding the criminal justice system — at far higher rates than public officials have acknowledged.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Michell Obama and Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush wrote a letter about the children that were being separated from their families at the border when Donald Trump was president.
Do you notice the radio silence by all of these hypocrites and hacks that 320,000 children have gone… pic.twitter.com/nc4ebmoJDd
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 2, 2024
320,000 trafficked children was a small price to pay to end the mean tweets.
HELLUVA PICK, KAMALA: Whoa! Tim Walz May Actually Be Hurting Kamala’s Chances of Winning Minnesota.