Harris wins Pelosi endorsement, claims
many of the delegates she needs for the nomination
Posted By: Dreadnought, 7/22/2024 2:02:58 PM
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly Monday to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their party that he would be unable to defeat Republican Donald Trump. Biden’s exit Sunday, prompted by Democratic worries over his fitness for office, was a seismic shift to the presidential contest that upended both major political parties’ carefully honed plans for the 2024 race. Aiming to put weeks of intraparty drama over Biden’s candidacy behind them, prominent Democratic elected officials, party leaders and political organizations quickly lined up behind Harris in the hours
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General Motors had kind of a biggish announcement this morning, which should anger progressives and the Green grifters.
So, pretty encouraging for normal people hoping to see manufacturing claw their way free of the madness.
General Motors said Tuesday it is again slowing its plans for all-electric vehicles by further delaying a second U.S. electric truck plant and the Buick brand’s first EV.
The six-month delay in retooling the electric truck plant in Michigan, until mid-2026, also means GM will not achieve a prior target of having North American production capacity of 1 million EVs by 2025.
Ike Perlmutter reportedly dumps entire
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Disney stake after proxy loss, expects
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Ike Perlmutter, one of Disney’s largest independent shareholders, reportedly dumped his entire stake in the media giant after losing a bruising proxy fight against Mouse House CEO Bob Iger — saying he expects the slumping stock to keep tanking.
The former Marvel chair Disney claimed he doesn’t have confidence in the company’s current management after selling off 25.6 million shares in the months after April’s vote, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday, which cited communications with the former exec’s investment adviser. The stock is down 26% since April 2 — when it closed at a 52-week high of $122.82
Things are weird.
Like, super weird. Super duper weird that could not be scripted by a 2nd-rate writer-type weird.
I turned 60 today, and my first awareness of politics was in 1972, during the Nixon-McGovern campaign. My parents were supporters of McGovern, and I collected donations (very little) and passed out bumper stickers for the Democrat.
So, in a sense, I have followed politics now for 52 years and studied politics in college and grad school. My educational focus wasn't contemporary American politics--I studied political philosophy--but I certainly have been an avid follower of our current political scene.
I have never lived through a weirder political month
Former President Donald Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies like the one where he was shot during an assassination attempt this month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations.
The sources said current plans are to hold indoor rallies, but they also said it's possible Trump will participate in smaller outdoor events or larger rallies in facilities where entrances are more fully controlled and there are not issues with high ground nearby, like stadiums. Spokespeople for the Trump campaign and the Secret Service did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday night.
The Democratic power brokers are trying to pump up the excitement for Kamala Harris because she has a limited amount of time to lock up the nomination before the convention and avoid any effort to have a floor fight that might dethrone her. She's gotten some consequential endorsements from the elite. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to have come around now and George Clooney is on board as well.
Of course, that doesn't say anything about the rest of the country, who don't care much what the elite think and that's really the problem for Harris. She's not popular, in fact she's even less popular
The Democrat Party did a lot more this month than just torpedo its own incumbent president and ignore the will of 14 million of its voters. Both in process and result, the Democrat establishment has sent its only real connection to its past identity to the trashbin. And in rushing to anoint Joe Biden's replacement rather than trust even a representative-democracy process, they have gone all-in on a radical new identity, based largely on radical identitarianism and hard-Left progressivism -- and all-in on elitism.
That shift began during the Obama presidency, which came to power in the wake of an unpopular war and a financial crisis.
You have to hand it to the Trump team. They managed to work in The Don's signature line 'You're Fired," into their campaign narrative on Day 1 of the Kamala Harris campaign for president.
Whether the Trump team is happy or not that Joe Biden's replacement on the ticket is Kamala Harris--my bet is that they are, for obvious reasons--they certainly have their talking points prepared, their opposition research already in the books, and their strategy laid out for the coming fight. The campaign memo released by Trump's team is pretty brutal:
After being thoroughly decimated by President Trump three weeks ago at the debate in Atlanta, Joe Biden was fired.
The International Olympic Committee was Tuesday weighing a Palestinian call for Israeli athletes to be barred from the Games over the war in Gaza, three days before the Opening Ceremony in Paris.
As the Israeli Olympic team settled into the Athletes’ Village, the IOC was studying a letter sent by the Palestine Olympic Committee to President Thomas Bach asking him to ban the Israelis, citing the bombings of the besieged Gaza Strip as a breach of the Olympic truce.
The letter sent on Monday “emphasized that Palestinian athletes, particularly those in Gaza, are denied safe passage and have suffered significantly due to the ongoing conflict.”
A video circulating on social media shows a masked figure threatening that “rivers of blood will flow” at the upcoming Olympics in Paris, which Israel is set to compete in.
In the minute-long clip released on Tuesday, an Arabic-speaking man whose face is concealed by a keffiyeh addresses “the people of France and the French President [Emmanuel] Macron” and warns them that they will be punished for supporting “the Zionist regime in its criminal war against the people of Palestine.”
“You provided Zionists with weapons, you helped murder our brothers and sisters, our children,” the man, standing before a slate grey background, says to the camera.
Just 37 percent of respondents said Vice President Kamala Harris should be the Democrat nominee in place of President Joe Biden, a YouGov survey taken July 21, the day President Joe Biden announced that he is not seeking reelection, found.
The survey asked, “Who should Democrats nominate as their new candidate for president?”
Just 37 percent, overall, said that Democrats should nominate Vice President Kamala Harris. Over one-third, 35 percent, said “someone else,” and over a quarter, 27 percent, said they are “not sure.”
Independents are not in favor of Harris, as a plurality, 36 percent, said the Democrat nominee should be “someone else.”
President Biden’s decision to drop his reelection bid and Vice President Harris’s emergence as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination has vulnerable Senate Democrats scrambling to fend off new GOP attacks on her record.
Biden’s biggest vulnerability was his age and doubts about his fitness for office, but the silver lining for Democrats was that Biden’s biggest problems were confined to him as a candidate and did not substantially impact Democratic senators downballot, according to polls.
But now incumbents such as Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) are being pressed on Harris’s most controversial policy statements, stretching back to the 2020 Democratic primary.
Former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in 13 national polls published in the month of July.
The surveys indicate Harris might not have any better chance of defeating Trump than President Joe Biden did. Harris’s favorability rating is one point less than Biden’s, RealClearPolitics polling average found.
Harris will be an easier candidate to defeat in November than Biden, Trump said Sunday after Biden dropped out as the Democrat’s de facto nominee.
The 13 polls also contradicts polling from former pollster for President Barack Obama, Fernand Amandi, who published an internal survey on July 9 that found Harris led Trump by one point.
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Black Americans risk being shunned by their communities if they do not fall in line and vote for Kamala Harris, Joy Reid has warned her followers.
The MSNBC host told them they were going to look 'real weird and real lonely' if they do not back the 'woman of color extraordinaire' in November's presidential election.
And she renewed hostilities with black model Amber Rose who infuriated her by speaking in support of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention last week.
Mattel is adding a more diverse selection of Barbie dolls to its latest collection. [SNIP] “We recognize that Barbie is much more than just a doll; she represents self-expression and can create a sense of belonging," said Krista Berger, senior vice president of Barbie and global head of dolls, in a press release. “We proudly introduce a new blind Barbie doll and Black doll with Down syndrome to our Barbie Fashionistas line, reinforcing our commitment to creating products that represent global belonging and inclusivity in the doll aisle.”
Kamala Harris will likely be the next president of the United States – and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and equality. Joe Biden’s decision on Sunday to bow out of the presidential race clears the path for the country to elect its first woman and first woman of color as president.
Even though the electoral fundamentals for this year’s election have always favored the Democrats – despite what numerous misleading polls have been showing (and with most of the news media reacting purely off those polls) – Harris’s selection will largely shore up the weaknesses that were dragging down Biden’s poll numbers.
(Warning: The images described in this article is graphic in nature. Viewer discretion is advised.)
On Saturday July 13th, there was a “colossal failure” of security, according to the Director of the Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle. (Photo)
The ‘colossal failure’ resulted in an alleged sniper Thomas M. Crooks taking shots at President Trump from the rooftop of the AGR Building in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photo) Details from the incident have been sparse, but the few that emerged have been wildly inconsistent.The Gateway Pundit conducted an interview with Dr. Mollie James, an expert in Emergency Room gunshot wounds, having had nearly 20 years experience dealing with such situations.
Democrats Have Put Corrupt Obama
AG Eric Holder in Charge of Vetting VP
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AG Eric Holder in Charge of Vetting VP
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Democrats have reportedly put Obama’s corrupt attorney general Eric Holder in charge of vetting VP candidates for Kamala Harris.
What could possibly go wrong?
How much do you suppose Democrats are paying Holder’s law firm for this service?
Politico reports: Eric Holder is running Harris’ veep vetting process.Former attorney general Eric Holder is in charge of vetting of running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris, Reuters reported.
The news that Holder and his law firm would be overseeing the operation was confirmed to POLITICO by a person with knowledge of the process.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday in the wake of mounting pressure following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, The Associated Press reports. Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee Monday, just over a week after a would-be assassin Thomas Crooks attempted to take the life of Trump at his rally in Butler, Pa. on July 13.
The International Olympic Committee was Tuesday weighing a Palestinian call for Israeli athletes to be barred from the Games over the war in Gaza, three days before the Opening Ceremony in Paris.
As the Israeli Olympic team settled into the Athletes’ Village, the IOC was studying a letter sent by the Palestine Olympic Committee to President Thomas Bach asking him to ban the Israelis, citing the bombings of the besieged Gaza Strip as a breach of the Olympic truce.
The letter sent on Monday “emphasized that Palestinian athletes, particularly those in Gaza, are denied safe passage and have suffered significantly due to the ongoing conflict.”
Soon after Joe Biden dropped out of the race, he endorsed Kamala Harris as his successor, and within a day and a half, she reportedly had secured support from enough delegates to win the nomination at the Democrats' upcoming convention. I'm not sure if that really means anything anymore, since Joe Biden had earned the necessary delegates democratically through the primary election process, and he's no longer in the race.
Call me crazy, but I won't believe Harris will be the nominee until she formally accepts the nomination. Why? Because there are whispers that Democrats aren't exactly jazzed about her being the nominee, either,
Kamala Harris is descended from an owner of 120-plus slaves who ran a Jamaican plantation and fought against the abolition of the abhorrent trade, a British historian claimed today.
The Democrat would-be President is of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent with her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, born in Madras, now Chennai, while her father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica.
The Vice-President's father, a Stanford University academic who is 85, was born in Brown's Town on the Caribbean island – named after Hamilton Brown, who is believed to be Kamala's slave-owning great-great-great-great grandfather.
In an article published by the Jamaica Globe in 2019, Kamala's father Professor Harris wrote: 'My roots go back, within my lifetime,
On the frontlines near this old industrial city, soldiers in the trenches say a shortage of an all-important munition – the 155 millimeter artillery shell – has turned the war in Russia’s favor. The causes of the shell crisis began years ago. They are rooted in decisions and miscalculations made by the U.S. military and its NATO allies that occurred well before Russia’s 2022 invasion, a Reuters investigation found. A decade of strategic, funding and production mistakes played a far greater role in the shell shortage than did the recent U.S. congressional delays of aid, Reuters found.
President Biden will address the nation at 8 p.m. Wednesday about his decision to abandon his campaign for a second term amid mounting questions about his mental acuity.
“Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden, 81, tweeted Tuesday.
The president hasn’t been seen in public since last Wednesday when he traveled to his Delaware vacation home to recuperate from COVID-19 and is expected to return to the White House Tuesday afternoon.
Biden will address the nation tomorrow about dropping out of the presidential race.
President Biden will be back at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he announced he was abandoning his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden is scheduled to leave his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — where he had been recovering from COVID-19 — in the afternoon and arrive at the Executive Mansion by 2:30 p.m., according to his schedule.
The 81-year-old president was originally expected to leave the beach town, where he had been under quarantine, on Monday to hit the campaign trail, but he extended his stay after announcing that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race the day before.