Posts on Thursday, September 19, 2024
Axios has a story about the Harris/Walz strategy of avoiding media interviews and press conferences, and the obvious question is not whether it is fair to the American people, but rather "could it work?" Fairness and politics rarely mix, so there is no point in whinging about the strategy. It may annoy you, me, and the political obsessives, but if it works, then it works. I get upset about the lies and hoaxes because they are flat-out corruption that the media should be pointing out, but Biden's basement strategy worked for him and perhaps Harris's arms-length strategy will work for her. Axios' analysis lays out the numbers,
Gavin Newsom just got publicly humiliated. Newsom and group of elected Democrats in Sacramento have been campaigning for months to kill a ballot initiative called Prop. 36. Prop. 36 would rollback an earlier crime-related proposition called Prop. 47. If that sounds familiar that's because Prop. 47 is viewed by many as partially responsible for the rise in open drug use and rampant property crime California has been experiencing for the past several years.
The effort to get Prop. 36 on the ballot was funded by a bunch of big retailers who were on the wrong end of California's crime problem. But from the start of this year. Newsom
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.
The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times following an argument inside the courthouse, according to Kentucky State Police. Mullins, who held the judgeship for 15 years, died at the scene, and Stines surrendered without incident
Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter said he was “shocked by this act of violence” and that the court system was “shaken by this news.”
Donald Trump Implores Gun Owners to Vote:
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Former President Donald Trump addressed low voter turnout among gun owners and urged them to get out and vote in November during his Wednesday campaign rally in Uniondale, New York.
Trump said, “You know, it’s an interesting thing — Evangelical Christians, they tend not to vote very much; if they did, you’d never lose.”
He added, “Gun owners…don’t vote — meaning they don’t vote in a proportion that they should; very small numbers vote…The gun owners have to get out and vote.”
Trump has been a consistent defender of the Second Amendment and is endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) in this race, as he was in 2016 and 2020.
Crime is a major issue in this year’s election, yet major media ignored the release of a significant new government report showing a surge in violent crime. The increase in violent crime during the Biden administration is a record increase.
The latest data released last Thursday from the Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reveal a sharp increase in violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration compared to when Trump left office. During the debate, Mr. Muir noted: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” But Mr. Muir would have been much more accurate if he said
A new car safety study has proven that electric vehicles (EVs) are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails that line roads in case of accidents, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said.
As the amount of EVs such as Teslas and Chevrolet Bolts take over the roads amid concerns over the environmental impact of gasoline-powered vehicles, one of the lead researchers from the university’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) warned that there needs to be “some urgency to address this issue.”
In a study sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and partnered with Auburn University’s Transportation Research Institute, MwRSF conducted a “first-of-its-kind crash test”
A new study suggests that as many as 2.7 million non-citizens could vote in the 2024 election, leading some to voice concerns about coming election results potentially not reflecting the will of Americans citizens, who are the only ones permitted to vote in federal elections.
Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, “found that about 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote,” an overview of the study states.
“The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022,” it says. “Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them
The wisdom of the MAGA crowd continues to be grossly underestimated by liberal media propagandists across America, causing them to get humiliated time and again.
In a segment aired on Anderson Cooper 360° Wednesday evening, CNN reporter Elle Reeve went to Florida to interview Trump supporters attending a MAGA flotilla/boat parade organized by the Bay County Republican Party in Panama City Beach’s Shell Island. The purpose of her trip was supposedly to gauge opinions on the issues important to Trump supporters.
Things then went south for Reeve, who eventually encountered a shirtless, beer-drinking man named Joe Harner. She started by asking him what his most important issue was,
How a circle of spies, Blinken covered
up Biden scandals: Miranda Devine’s
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up Biden scandals: Miranda Devine’s
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Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family business, a secret international influence peddling operation. New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who exposed many of Hunter’s secrets in her book “Laptop from Hell,” returns with “The Big Guy,” the story of how the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the IRS and the Department of Justice conspired to protect Joe Biden and his family. Here, an exclusive first excerpt:
With his floppy hair, European reserve, and bilingual fluency, Antony Blinken’s foreign affairs pedigree could not have been designed better to impress Joe Biden.
t's hard to blend into the crowd when you're six foot nine.
Add the fact that you're the son of a former president, flanked by a secret service detail and driven to school in a motorcade of blacked-out SUVs.
Barron Trump was always going to be the biggest noise on campus no matter how he tried to play it. Now, video obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com provided a glimpse into the 18-year-old New York University freshman's very particular student life.With his backpack slung over one shoulder and low-key casual vibe – polo shirt, pants and the season's must-have sneakers, Adidas Gazelles – Barron, who started his studies
The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly probing Elon Musk’s X post pointing out that “no one” is “trying to assassinate” President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris following two attempted assassinations on former President Donald Trump’s life. Musk later deleted his post, claiming it was a joke.
On Sunday, after Trump survived the second assassination attempt on his life within the span of two months, an X account asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” to which Musk replied, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala ????”
The office of Ohio governor Mike DeWine is not disclosing which country is responsible for some of the bomb-threat hoaxes called into Springfield schools. The aim is to “discourage further threats to the schools and other buildings.”
This is more than a little frustrating because the general public already has a short suspect list. The FBI has already publicly discussed the desire of Russia, China, and Iran to influence the 2024 election and how “sowing discord and undermining democracy is consistent across the board.” Earlier this month, an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters:
California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened legal action against Elon Musk for sharing a funny meme on X.
Newsom this week signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to ‘knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content, including deepfakes.’
Who determines what is ‘materially deceptive?” Gavin Newsom?
Of course, this law will only be used to criminally charge Trump supporters for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Dozens of Left-Wing Immigration Groups
'Trust Harris' to Abandon 'Harmful' Border
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'Trust Harris' to Abandon 'Harmful' Border
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Is there any doubt? Meaning, is there any doubt that if Kamala Harris wins the presidential election, she'll flip-flop right back to her previous position on the free flow of illegal aliens into the country? No. Which is exactly what dozens of left-wing immigration groups and other progressive groups are betting on.
The groups, which are backing Harris' efforts to beat former President Donald Trump, plan to pressure the San Francisco radical if she wins in November to abandon the recent, bipartisan border security bill she promised to sign if elected, according to sources who spoke to Axios.
The groups referred to that bill as "harmful"
On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly with a vote of 124-14 to strip away Israel's right to self-defense in the region, calling for the IDF to withdraw to pre-1967 territory lines. Forty-three countries abstained. Especially given that there is no mention of the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel perpetrated by Hamas, the vote was a particularly egregious one from the anti-Israel body.
The resolution was not only supported by 124 members, but by the body's Secretary-General. As the Jerusalem Post reported:
OSLO/BUDAPEST/LONDON - Bulgaria and Norway became new focal points on Thursday of a global hunt for who supplied Hezbollah with the thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon this week in a deadly blow to the militant group.
Security sources said that Israel was responsible for the explosions on Tuesday that killed 12 people, injured more than 2,300 and raised the stakes in a growing conflict between the two sides. Israel has not directly commented on the attacks. How and with whose help the pager attack was carried out was not yet known, although so far there were possible
We're just 47 days away from Election Day and talk about who would fill the Cabinet for either President Donald Trump or President Kamala Harris is heating up.
During an interview this week, former Secretary of State and twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hinted at a comeback should Harris win. She's making herself readily available in an "unofficial" capacity during the final weeks of the election. [Tweet, video]
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump plans to put Elon Musk and RFK Jr. is his Cabinet, or other high profile and powerful federal government positions, should he be victorious in November.
As Leah reported last week, former President Donald Trump sent Americans to tears after a heartfelt moment between him and a New York boy, Liam, who suffers from a rare brain disorder and growth hormone deficiency.
Trump wrote a letter to Liam, wishing him a happy 8th birthday, which brought the boy to tears as he read the note out loud.
Following his sweet reaction to Trump’s letter, Liam received the ultimate birthday gift from the former president during his New York rally on Wednesday night.
Liam’s family was invited to Trump’s rally as VIP guests where they got the chance to meet the 45th president himself.
CNN sent a reporter down to Panama City, Fla., to cover the MAGA boat parade on Thursday. Reporter Elle Reeve talked about the issues parade-goers were concerned with in this election, and one shirtless Trump supporter gave Reeve an epic reality check about the struggles Americans face under the Biden-Harris administration.
When Reeve asked, “What’s your most important issue?” the shirtless Trump supporter, drink in hand, didn’t hesitate.
“The economy,” he replied. “Getting the interest rates down. Getting it where we can afford to live in America. Right now, it’s too expensive.”
This is a straightforward, common-sense concern.
If you gave Kamala Harris a fire hydrant, a fire hose, one of those hydrant wrenches, and instructions to fill the little blue kiddie pool in your front yard, she couldn't get enough water in that thing to make a tissue damp. At least that's my takeaway after FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr's scorching congressional review of Harris's oversight of Joe Biden's multibillion-dollar plan to wire rural homes with high-speed internet.
"In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead a $42 billion effort to expand internet access to millions. It's been 1,039 days, and no one has been connected—no homes, no businesses, not even a shovel in the ground."
Did Hassan Nasrallah learn a lesson from the last two days? Losing over 3,000 operatives in a 48-hour period over your own incompetent strategic planning and execution should have provided an impulse toward introspection, at the very least. Right?
Apparently not. While the leader of Hezbollah acknowledged that Israel's Pagercide dealt them a "severe blow," Nasrallah insisted that he would continue chucking missiles at northern Israel, as his terror army has done for the last eleven months. Oh, and he also complained that exploding pagers were "an act of war," too:
Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah called the two days of deadly blasts linked to electronic devices
‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee
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Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.
Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.” The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics
tax-funded organization sent “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Belonging Kits” to 300 daycares in Wisconsin this year that push leftist activism and expose very young children to racial hatred and queer relationships. The kits included nearly two dozen identity politics books for toddlers, “multicultural” play dough in six skin tones, a “Chilean rain stick,” and 12 “Diverse Family Structures” posters from Kaplan Early Learning Company that depict homosexual couples with children.
“It’s okay to wonder: Am I a girl? Am I a boy? Am I both? Am I neither?”
In just under 24 hours of its release, without any radio play, Breitbart’s Jon Kahn’s moving tribute to President Donald Trump “FIGHTER” landed at #1 on the iTunes charts across all genres.
With millions of views of the video on X alone, “FIGHTER” surpassed songs from the music industry’s biggest artists like The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, and Billie Eilish, Luke Combs, and Jelly Roll.
After hearing the news of the #1, Kahn told us: “I know I speak for my co-writer, Chris Wallin, when I say we are beyond grateful that the song is resonating so strongly and that folks responded to a portrayal of President Trump that reflects his resilience, passion
Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A look at the first 72 hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights — finds that while the attempted assassination dominated campaign coverage, these networks’ anti-Trump spin was nearly as bad as it could be: 95% negative, vs. just five percent positive.
MRC analysts analyzed all 69 minutes of campaign coverage on the evening newscasts from September 15 through September 17. The attempted assassination was by far the dominant story: .
Amidst all the shocks of the 2024 presidential race, who expected Hillary Clinton to ride in like Joan of Arc to rescue truth — or at least to call for the crushing of government critics?
On Monday, Hillary declared on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC talk show that the federal government should criminally prosecute Americans who share “propaganda” — which she made no effort to define.
Hillary has long been one of America’s foremost censorship advocates. In 2022, she wailed that “tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability” and endorsed European Union legislation to obliterate free speech.
Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said in an interview this week that it does not feel safe to work in politics and that she’s been the target of threats.Luna made the remarks in an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation.
“The rhetoric that continues to be pushed…when you label people a threat to democracy…we get, unfortunately, these types of responses,” Luna said in the interview.
Cuomo asked Luna if it was true that she “felt more worried for [her] safety then [she was] in the military.” Luna served in the United States Air Force.
“I feel like, as a member of Congress, that right now, especially,
Some lawmakers are suspicious of a potential mole in the U.S. Secret Service following the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Host Mike Slater pointed to the fact that now, after the second assassination attempt on Trump, the “aura of invincibility of the Secret Service” is disappearing, which could lead to more individuals with ill-intent attempting to go after the former president.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily that there are currently five known assassination teams in the United States, three of which are foreign and out to kill former President Donald Trump.
“Tragic. Avoidable,” Gaetz said when asked for his thoughts on the second assassination attempt against the former president.“I am starting to get the impression that we do not have enough force protection of supporting President Trump that we ought to have, given the threat environment,” he said, noting that he recently met with a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security
Senator JD Vance (R-OH), running mate of former and potentially future President Donald Trump, has been lauded as a fitting mouthpiece for the Trump-Vance campaign. An undeniable point about the 2024 presidential race is that Vance is out there speaking to the people and the press. Since July 21, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Vance has done 59 interviews. Trump has done 14. Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has given just three interviews, while her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), has given four interviews. Vance has given seven times more interviews on his own than the Harris-Walz ticket combined.
What Is It With Dems Lying About Military
Service? Hawley Opponent Kunce Accused
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Service? Hawley Opponent Kunce Accused
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We Americans take the service of our military members extremely seriously. They are the cream of the crop, the very best America has to offer, and we thank them for that service every chance we get. So when someone comes along who has either never served or did serve but is embellishing their record, it is not going to endear you to others, especially actual veterans. And if you decide to go into politics and stretch the truth about your record, let's just say it's a really bad idea.In the 2024 election cycle, it's Democrats that appear to be all in on military record tall tales. The latest one
Hezbollah has accused Israel of crossing “all red lines” with its deadly detonation of walkie-talkies and pagers, as Israeli forces launched a fresh wave of strikes across Lebanon.
Sonic booms from low-flying Israeli jets shook the buildings in Beirut during a televised speech by the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in which he warned this week’s unprecedented action “could be called a declaration of war”. Israel has yet to confirm or deny it was behind the remote explosions, which killed at least 37 people including two children. More than 3,000 people were also wounded, according to the Lebanese health ministry, whose top medics told The Independent that they were struggling
Democrats love to call Donald Trump a “threat to democracy.” Ask one what they think of the former President and they’ll belch it out. Ask what time it is and there’s least and 80 percent chance they’ll tell you it’s “Threat to democracy o’clock.” I’d say it’s Pavlovian, but that would be an insult to dogs that were trained to behave a certain way by comparing them people who simply obey for its own sake. The reality is, however, that the true threat to democracy – and your life and liberty – is Democrats, all of them.
As of this writing, Democrats have inspired two assassination attempts against Donald Trump. Two.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — In the early hours of December 1, 2023, at around 5:40 a.m., a Haitian national ran down 71-year-old Kathy Lynn Heaton, a Springfield grandmother known affectionately as "Mawmaw" by her beloved, in the quaint Midwestern community. The collision killed her, but the driver got off scot-free.
It was the morning after her 71st birthday, and Heaton, "a like-to-keep-busy kind of woman," was collecting trash cans outside her century-old home on Springfield-Xenia Road, a chore she's performed thousands of times for forty years.
That was when 38-year-old Robenson Louis, driving a 2012 Chrysler 200 at 45 mph, hit Heaton with so much blunt force
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to visit Springfield, Ohio, “in the next two weeks” after claims of whether Haitians are eating people’s pets have been widely debated.
“You may never see me again, but that's OK, gotta do what I gotta do,” Trump joked. "'Whatever happened to Trump?! Well, he never got outta Springfield.'" [Tweet, video]
Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, a Republican, said he would be “fine” with presidential candidates from either party not visiting the Ohio town, claiming it would be a financial burden on the city.
“It would be an extreme strain on our resources," he said.
Over the course of two days, Hezbollah terrorists have been blown up when it comes to pagers and walkie-talkies exploding, with Hezbollah blaming Israel. Earlier on Thursday, Israel also reportedly struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. For all of the complaining from the usual suspects, including members of the anti-Israel Squad and the White House press corps, the attacks got the job done in taking out or at least seriously injuring terrorists. But what about the Biden-Harris administration? CNN's Scott Jennings offered some quick but nevertheless telling thoughts about that on Tuesday night.
The Department of Justice announced the arrest of Alaska man Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday after he threatened a number of Supreme Court Justices and their families with fatal violence.
"We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with," Attorney General Merrick Garland released in a statement Thursday. "Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear banned the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky on Wednesday, calling his executive order a necessary step to protect children from a widely discredited practice that tries to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.
The governor used his executive powers. [SNIP] “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God," Beshear said during the signing ceremony at the Kentucky Capitol. "And where practices are endangering and even harming those children, we must act. The practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy’ hurts our children.”
New York City, with a population of over 8.8 million, had some of the most iron-fisted COVID lockdown policies in America. While the ridiculous, unscientific COVID policies in America’s largest city, which is run almost exclusively by Democrats, were destroying businesses and lives, the person in charge of setting those policies was hosting private sex parties with his wife on Wall Street.
In an undercover meeting with a reporter working for Steven Crowder’s popular Mug Club show, Dr. Jay Varma, the former Socialist Mayor Bill De Blasio’s COVID Czar for NYC, was caught revealing stunning details about how he ignored the mandates he pushed on citizens,
Voters view Harris more favorably as she
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WASHINGTON — Until recently, Lillian Dunsmuir of Bullhead City, Arizona, “didn’t really think about” Kamala Harris and had no opinion of the vice president. But now she likes what she’s seeing.
“She’s funny. I think she’s very smart. She can speak well,” said Dunsmuir, a 58-year-old real estate agent. “I would feel safe with her because I think she can handle herself with foreign leaders. I like her because she’s for pro-choice, and so am I.”
Voters view Harris slightly more favorably than they did in July, just after President Joe Biden dropped out
The events of the last few years have confirmed that we are no longer a democracy in the sense that we once thought we were – and I know we’re a republic, but follow along with me. The premise of a democracy is that individual citizens can participate in the political process by making their positions known and voting for representatives who they understand will support their views. But those components are under attack here and throughout the West. They are under attack because our garbage elite considers our participation in our own governance to be both morally illegitimate and a practical nuisance.
Kamala Harris to Give Abortion Speech
Blaming Trump for 2 Deaths in Georgia,
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Blaming Trump for 2 Deaths in Georgia,
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Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver an address in Georgia blaming former President Donald Trump for two deaths in Georgia that, she will claim, were due to the state’s abortion laws, but where the causal links are dubious.
Georgia has banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The New York Times reported Wednesday that Harris intends to give a speech based on claims by ProPublica, a liberal outlet, that the law caused the deaths of two women.
The Times said:
Vice President Kamala Harris will give remarks in Atlanta on Friday focused on the stories of two Georgia mothers whose deaths she has argued show the consequences of the strict abortion
On Wednesday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” POLITICO Playbook Co-author and White House Correspondent Eugene Daniels, who interviewed 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris for an event with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), stated that Harris “didn’t answer” his question on a federal response to help Springfield, Ohio with the issues of lack of resources it faced before and faces after an influx of migrants and she instead took the moment to attack her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.
Harris Maintains Narrow Lead over Trump
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Vice President Kamala Harris continues to lead former president Donald Trump in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new post-debate poll, while the race remains a dead heat nationally.
Half of Pennsylvanians said they would vote for Harris if the election were held today compared to 46 percent who said they’d back Trump, according to a set of polls conducted by the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College in the week after the September 10 ABC News debate. Harris’s 4-point lead is slightly outside the Pennsylvania survey’s margin of error of 3.8 percentage points.
The unconventional Harris-Walz affinity group for white male supporters, “White Dudes for Harris,” is out with a new ad urging its target demographic to support the Democratic campaign because they’re “actually talking to guys like us.”
The spot, which is part of a more than $10 million ad buy that will run in several key swing states, begins with a tough-guy narrator acknowledging that “white dudes” are “pretty sick of hearing how much we suck every time you go online.”
But the 60-second ad then claims that “some white dudes” are in fact the problem, pointing to “Trump and all his MAGA buddies.”
“Evangelicals for Harris” — the phrase alone is quite possibly the biggest oxymoron of this election cycle.
Look closely and you’ll find they’re an alliance of disgruntled anti-Trumpers clinging to the title of “Evangelical” like they know what it means, while proudly planting their cross in Kamala’s camp this November. Dig a little deeper and it’s really just an orchestrated coup by the who’s who of the “Orange Man Bad” fan club to pick off votes from a lucrative demographic that overwhelmingly supports the former president.
In a tweet not long after launching, Evangelicals for Harris announced their “ultimate allegiance is to Christ and His eternal Kingdom,” and
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If we thought yesterday was astonishing enough, that astonishment has deepened further today.
Yesterday, an audacious and unprecedented attack on Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and Syria somehow caused thousands of electronic pagers to blow up simultaneously, killing at least 12 Hezbollah men and wounding at least 3000
(Snip) Even worse was their humiliation as the Arab world, no less than Israel’s supporters, erupted on social media in a blizzard of hilarious memes. Israel has made Hezbollah into an international laughing stock. In the Arab world, that’s deadly.
The further brilliance of the operation was to target the enemy with absolutely minimal civilian casualties
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For the second time in as many months, an assassin targeted Donald Trump, and the left blamed … Donald Trump. It’s his violent rhetoric, you see, that is poisoning the body politic and causing everyone to go crazy. Or something like that.
Never mind that the second would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, had written a book in which he called on Iran to assassinate Trump, gave money to Democrats, and posted on X in April using the exact same language Democrats have been pushing for years – “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.”
David Frum,
Former Democratic operative Evan Barker has penned a scathing rebuke of the party on whose behalf she once worked tirelessly, raising millions in the process. In her words, her eyes began opening when she attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago: Initially, I was thrilled to attend this rite of passage for every political operative. But once there, wandering amidst the glitz and glam, imbibing the gloss and schmaltz of it all, I couldn't escape a sinking feeling. I felt submersed in a hollow chamber whose mottos were "Brat summer" and "Joy"—totally out of touch with regular, every-day Americans and their pressing needs;
Jill Biden is going to honor the cast members of the TV show ‘The West Wing’ at the White House on Friday to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the show.
This is the same administration that couldn’t even be bothered to honor Gold Star families by showing up at Arlington National Cemetery this summer and then had the nerve to criticize Trump for doing so.
This tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats. This is who they really care about. This is who they want approval from.
Deadline reports:
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Democrats and corporate media keep getting away with it. What they’re getting away with is inciting violence -- against Donald Trump, first and foremost. Two assassination attempts didn’t happen in a void. Trump didn’t provoke Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh to try to kill him, despite Lester Holt’s spin. Holt’s broadside is predictable: project blame -- in this case, blame the victim. Democrats and their media watercarriers refuse to accept responsibility for wrongs, even when the proof is hiding in plain sight.
Wrote Buck Sexton, via X, September 16:
Problem the Democrats have run into – again -- is they cannot say “this person is as bad as Hitler"
Back in the late 1980s to early 1990s, the only people with pagers were doctors and drug dealers. And if you happened to be friends with a doctor or drug dealer, you learned to call the pager and leave a numeric code. (We even figured out a way to pass along football scores.) This communication process wasn’t turnkey, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. But pagers, of course, went the way of the typewriter and telegraph machine. Nowadays, the only people who still use pagers are, well, doctors and drug dealers. (Lots of hospitals have lousy cell reception, so the medical staff is armed with pagers.)
Today's second wave of electronic bombings on Hezb'allah members in Lebanon, apparently by Israel, has got to have the Iran-backed terrorists freaking out.
Yesterday, some 3,000 terrorists got their Hezb'allah-approved pagers detonated on them at once, killing a few and leaving a lot with blown off hands, eyes, or private parts.
At least one of them got it on the toilet: Their communications networks were cut, and most likely, Israel had already tracked their entire network location from the rigged devices in the weeks previously.
This short video segment highlights exactly what professional gaslighting looks like. The White House staff, Joe Biden and the White House press secretary have repeatedly called President Trump “a threat to democracy.” And now, following the second assassination attempt on President Trump’s life, the White House press secretary is appalled that anyone would say their rhetoric and calling President Trump a “threat” was any form of incitement. In fact, asking the White House about their own language choices is akin to attacking them. Within the clip the Press Secretary immediately claims victim status, and then decries the effort to ask her questions about her statements.
On Sunday, Hawaii resident and convicted felon Ryan Routh was arrested after allegedly attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at the former president’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Although Routh’s precise motive remains unclear, his self-published book—Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen—Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the End of Humanity (2023)—offer some insights into his worldview. Part political manifesto, part memoir, the book provides a wellspring of information about Routh’s eccentric political opinions and bizarre personality. Here are several key takeaways:
From Sweden and Germany, to Australia and New Zealand, to France and Finland, to America and Canada, to Armenia and Italy, to Britain and Ireland, a network of censorship has been developing and steadily solidifying. Censorship has even been imposed on scientists. Ironically, this blanket of darkness has occurred in those countries with the longest tradition of freedom, specifically of freedom of speech, assembly and of writing. Soon, the peoples of those countries will have to resort to samizdat.
When Musk took over Twitter and exposed the systematic censorship apparatus within the organization,
President Joe Biden, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, said he had but one fixed criterion. The nominee must be a black female. California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown did not set out to become the first black female nominated to the United States Supreme Court. But had it not been for then-Sen. Joe Biden standing in her way 20 years ago, Brown might well have been on the road to "breaking this ceiling."
Brown, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, was born in Alabama during Jim Crow.
To avoid alienating voters, Kamala Harris is staying mum on the details of her presidential agenda. Yet she’s already left enough clues about her intentions toward Israel for its supporters to be highly alarmed.
Her interview Tuesday at the National Association of Black Journalists made that clear yet again.
Harris would stick 100% to her team’s current approach, which has dragged out the war by impeding Israeli military progress. She’s blasting Israel and pushing a “cease-fire” that would set up another horrifying round of warfare.
She’s proud of the Harris-Biden halt on US weapons to Israel:
Nobody likes to see humans writhing in agony, but Israel’s daring operation to simultaneously explode pagers in the pockets of Hezbollah terrorists and their associates this week was a ruthless tactical masterstroke.
In bloody scenes captured on video on social media, men could be seen shopping or sitting on a motorbike one minute and on the ground moaning and covered in blood the next.
At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 people were injured in Lebanon Tuesday, and a similar detonation of Hezbollah walkie-talkies the next day killed another 20 people and injured 450.
Former Navy SEAL Johnathan Gilliam appeared on FOX News to discuss the latest assassination attempts against the life of President Trump.
After outlining the reality of President Trump’s perimeter proximity not being secured by Secret Service, Mr Gilliam expands the conversation to ask if this is continual mistakes or whether a systemic security issue exists. Gilliam notes the rhetoric of the Democrat Party over the last several years that support the contention that “democrats want President Trump dead,” Fox News host Stuart Varney gets upset calling such a perspective “a conspiracy theory.” Immediately thereafter the interview was ended.
O]ne of the key fronts in this war is not in the Middle East. It's in the United States.
[T]he political battle over the war in Gaza has been going pretty much the way the terrorists wanted it to. That's reflected in Mashaal's confidence, as well as Hamas's negotiating tactics and its strategy in Gaza. After Oct. 7, the terrorists have been doing nothing but playing for time. And they expected that the time they needed to outlast the Israeli offensive would be provided to them by Israel's closest ally.
Uniondale, N.Y. — Former President Donald Trump basked in the adulation of thousands of supporters on Long Island Wednesday night — insisting that recent attempts to kill him had “hardened my resolve” and predicting he would be the first Republican candidate to win New York state in 40 years.
“These encounters with death have not broken my will,” the Republican presidential nominee, 78, told roughly 16,000 fans at the Nassau Coliseum three days after a gunman was found hiding in the bushes of Trump’s namesake Florida golf course as he played a round.
“They have really given me a much bigger and stronger mission. They’ve only hardened my resolve
An 11-year-old Florida student got a big surprise after he showed classmates a picture of his arsenal of weapons and bragged about a “kill list” of targets at two different schools.
Carlo “Kingston” Dorelli found out the hard way that Florida doesn’t play around when it comes to school shootings when he was arrested, cuffed, and perp-walked by police who locked him up and then posted the video to social media. [Video]
“As promised, we just arrested a Creekside Middle School student who made threats to commit a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands Middle School. He had written a list of names and targets.
So-called shock jock Howard Stern declared on Monday that he doesn’t “hate” former President Trump, but he hates the “stupid” people who vote for him.
Then again, with a net worth of $650 million and his 5-year deal with Sirius, estimated to be worth as much as $100 million a year, set to expire at the end of this year, Stern understands that at the age of 70, his schtick has run its course and he doesn’t have to worry about turning off half the nation.
“This whole idea of you like me, you are good, and if you don’t, you are bad… I’ve been the victim of this,”
Car insurance rates have skyrocketed under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Americans are feeling the squeeze.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that car insurance prices rose 55 percent from January 2021 — when Biden and Harris first took office — to July 2024 — the last year of their first term.
Once again, their policies are to blame. As Breitbart News previously reported, Americans’ auto insurance rates are rapidly rising due to the pro-migration policies of Biden and Harris, putting millions of these new migrant drivers — “often without driver training or English language lessons” — on the road, increasing risk.
Retired Border Patrol agents on Wednesday accused Democrat U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri Lucas Kunce of “stolen valor” after he claimed to have been “certified by the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC),” a certification he could not have.
Kunce released an ad in August in which he claimed that he “trained with the border patrol at our southern border” and is “certified by the Border Patrol Tactical Unit.” [Video]
However, retired Border Patrol agents have disputed Kunce’s claim, saying there is no way he could have been certified by BORTAC.
BORTAC is an elite unit compromising less than one percent of the border patrol
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) condemned Israel for a pager attack that killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon on Tuesday, most of whom were officials within or connected to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), AOC blamed Israel (which has not formally claimed responsibility) for the attack, and said it had killed and injured civilians. She did not mention Hezbollah, or the fact that terrorists were targeted. [Tweet]
As Breitbart News reported, the pagers were apparently carried by senior Hezbollah members.
The city of Springfield, Ohio, has unwittingly become Ground Zero in the political maelstrom of this election, buffeted by the crosswinds of opportunism and the politicization of the press. While the Trump-Vance campaign has been highlighting what may be taking place in this small town the news outlets have been more eager to accuse the campaign of hatefulness and division, rather than looking into the matter. As a result, a surreal battle of will is swirling and the facts are completely lost in the debris.We are in an era in which this country's legacy news media displays an abject lack of regard for their journalistic reputations.
A Secret Service whistleblower has made a bombshell claim about a security lapse at former President Donald Trump's Florida golf course where a would-be assassin was found with an AK-47.
The 78-year-old former president was enjoying a round of golf in West Palm Beach on Sunday, when Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly stuck the barrel of his weapon through the chain-link fence.
But it was later revealed that agents had spotted Routh prior to the assassination attempt, and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley now says the Secret Service failed to secure the perimeter.
Kamala Harris Debuts Fake Hispanic Accent
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Kamala Harris on Wednesday debuted a fake Hispanic accent as she delivered remarks to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
“And to everyone, happy Hispanic Heritage Month – which, in my book, is every month of the year,” Kamala Harris said cackling.
Harris told the Hispanic Caucus that her mother was mistreated when she came to the US because she was a short “brown woman with an accent.”
“So, this is a room of long-standing friends. And many of you know my background. My mother arrived in the United States when she was 19 years old by herself. And I spoke about it recently, actually. You know, my mother — I was the eldest child.
COMMIES FOR KAMALA? Hanoi Jane Fonda Campaigning
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Hanoi Jane Fonda is back and she is campaigning for Kamala Harris by knocking on doors in Michigan.
Democrats and the media think this looks good for Harris. You know they do because there are lots of news stories about it right now.
They don’t understand that this actually repels millions of Americans who remember Jane Fonda’s behavior years ago during the Vietnam War.
The Daily Mail reports:
Jane Fonda goes door-to-door for Kamala in Michigan – to the fury of veterans still reeling over 1972 Hanoi stunt
Jane Fonda went door-to-door in Michigan to campaign for Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential election – leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some Americans
Walz Again Repeats Preposterous Lie That
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Trump Plans to 'Monitor All Pregnancies'
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In this episode of "There Walz Goes Again"...
When Tim Walz's lips are moving, like Kamala Harris, chances are he's lying. The exception with Harris, of course, is that she could also be laughing like a hyena.
Anyway, speaking at a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Waz said former President Donald “Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their abortion bans.” The claim is categorically false, which we'll revisit in a bit.
You might remember that Kamala Harris made the same unfounded claim at the Democrat National Convention in August, and again during the 3-on-1 presidential debate on ABC —
We have a very heartwarming update for you on a story RedState's Nick Arama covered last week about a young Trump super fan who got the surprise of his life when he received a personal letter from his hero. Little Liam, who has a brain disorder, was overwhelmed at receiving the birthday greetings from President and Mrs. Trump. (X Video) If you're not moved by the reaction of that sweet boy, you must be a Democrat.
Here's the text of that letter the former president wrote to Liam:
Because Democrats know that Vice President Kamala Harris is not very quick on her feet when answering off-the-cuff questions, they have attempted to run a Joe Biden-like basement campaign. But at least with undecided voters, not answering questions is proving not to be a winning strategy. But now, in some crucial swing states, that game plan is becoming downright annoying to those on-the-fence voters. It's so annoying that they feel her non-answers are insulting. [Tweet]
Two undecided voters appeared in a video recorded on Monday on a new platform called 2Way, in which they both stated that they feel "insulted" by Kamala Harris's weak and void-of-information answers
Donald Trump made an in-studio appearance on the Greg Gutfeld show on FOX News tonight. This is huge because Gutfeld reaches a massive audience. His ratings even eclipse network shows like Colbert and Kimmel on a regular basis.
Plus, the atmosphere is much different on Gutfeld than other FOX News shows. This isn’t like an appearance on Hannity or Laura Ingraham’s show. It’s a fun and laid back environment.
The live audience gave Trump a standing ovation when he was introduced.
From FOX News: Trump’s appearance was taped Wednesday afternoon at FOX News Media’s New York City headquarters before the former president headed to Long Island for a campaign rally.
Former President Donald Trump said Wedesday that when he left the stage last week he thought he had the 'best debate' and didn't challenge the moderators because he 'wanted to be elegant.'
Trump recapped his showdown last Tuesday against Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News' late night show Gutfeld.
While most polls showed that viewers believed Harris had definitively won last week's debate in Philadelphia, Trump admitted he came away from it with a different impression.
The Biden Justice Department has announced it's filing a lawsuit against the owner of the ship that crashed into a major, Baltimore bridge in March, which resulted in catastrophic damage to the bridge and the deaths of six people. RedState covered the disaster:
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland collapsed after a large container ship crashed into one of its supports just before 1:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time. An unknown number of vehicles and possibly a tractor-trailer went into the Patapsco River as a result of the collapse. As of 3 AM Baltimore time, officials were searching for seven people in the water.
With less than two months to go before Election Day, all eyes are on not just the presidential race between GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, but on the key Senate races across the country that will determine who controls the upper chamber in 2025 regardless of which side wins the presidency.
As we previously reported, Republican Senate nominee Dave McCormick is giving Democrat Sen. Bob Casey nightmares in Pennsylvania. Further, there's a strong possibility West Virginia will flip red thanks to Gov. Jim Justice's Senate candidacy and Sen. Joe Manchin's retirement.
The repeated attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life have deepened conservatives’ distrust of the government and the criminal justice system, including suspicions that Democrats and high-ranking officials are rooting for attempted assassins.
White House officials aren’t backing off their rhetoric. A day after the assassination attempt Sunday, they framed Mr. Trump as “dangerous” and a “threat” to Democracy. At the same time, Republicans are intensifying scrutiny of the Secret Service and whether it is purposefully leaving the former president vulnerable.
Rep. Elijah Crane, Arizona Republican, said Mr. Trump should increase his use of private bodyguards rather than rely on government agents to protect him.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not having the best week, with a Georgia judge denied her request to quash a subpoena from the Georgia state senate.
And now, her biggest nemesis in the Fulton County RICO case against former president Donald Trump is back on the attack, one day ahead of an evidentiary hearing Willis is supposed to attend.
Ashleigh Merchant, a defense attorney for one of the former president's co-defendants in Georgia, has filed a motion for contempt of court against Willis on the evening before Willis is supposed to attend a hearing related an open records lawsuit Merchant filed against her.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a strict new censorship law Tuesday that will make it illegal to produce or distribute AI political videos around election season. Tell me that this doesn't sound like it infringes on the First Amendment:
The new law, the strictest in the country, takes effect immediately and aims to crack down on deceptive content which uses artificial intelligence to create false images or videos.
The law makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes ahead of Election Day and 60 days thereafter. It also allows courts to stop distribution of the materials and impose civil penalties, per The Associated Press.
The blowback was immediate.