Posts on Friday, October 18, 2024
Donald Trump served up a “Turkey” roast to Eric Adams at the Al Smith Dinner — and the mayor is gobbling it up.
The former president peppered the star-studded crowd at Thursday’s swanky white-tie event with jokes and gripes, including a zinger aimed at both Adams’ plant-based diet and alleged taste for Turkish graft.
“I’ve never met a person who’s a vegan who liked Turkey so much,” Trump said about Adams, who was seated nearby. (Photo) Adams laughed off the burn when asked about it Friday, describing it as par the course for the annual Catholic fundraiser, where muckety-mucks yuck it up at each others’ expense.
Former President Donald Trump campaigned in Michigan on Friday with the Arab American mayor who previously endorsed him.
Trump visited the city of Hamtramck, and was seen campaigning with Hamtramck Mayor Ameer Ghalib during a press conference. Ghalib noted that the Democrat Party was trying to “scare” legal second and third-generation immigrants in the Arab American and Muslim-American community that Trump was coming to “deport them.” “They say every week — they have a different concept for me, ‘I’m going to be the biggest dictator in the world. I’m going to destroy the world,'” Trump said.
It shouldn't be considered incredibly brave for Vice President Kamala Harris to consent to an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News. J.D. Vance has been doing hostile Sunday shows for months while Harris resorted to the basement strategy. Then, once Team Kamala booked a "media blitz," they bizarrely went on offense. Mediaite posted this headline: "Kamala Harris Hammers Trump Avoiding Debate and Tough Interviews: He'd 'Rather Cocoon Himself in Safe Spaces' of Conservative Media." This was after she appeared in a cavalcade of cocoon interviews with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and the unanimous Democrats on "The View."
Kamala Harris is continuing to underperform across the polling spectrum.
Pick any average from the multitude of polling views — two-way, multicandidate, battleground states, and even individual battleground states — and Harris is running consistently below where Joe Biden was in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. So it’s no surprise Democrats are growing nervous.
There’s a reason the Harris campaign is suddenly making her available for softball media opportunities, such as her recent appearances on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as well as ABC’s “The View,” and even for riskier ones like her Wednesday appearance on Fox News.
Kamala Harris is getting desperate as Trump sprints ahead in the polls.
Harris trashed Trump as she spoke to union members in Lansing, Michigan after going on an unhinged rant in Grand Rapids on Friday.
“[Trump] thinks that the value of your work is essentially meaningless,” Harris told the union workers after she played a clip of Trump. “That’s what he’s saying. To compare it to child’s work? When we here know the work you do is complex. You do it with great care. You work hard. You are highly skilled. You are highly trained, and the best auto workers in the world is who you are.”
He was looking for the Bronx shear.
Former President Donald Trump dropped in at Knockout Barber in The Bronx Thursday — his second recent Boogie-Down visit as the presidential election inches closer.
The visit — which was part of an upcoming “Fox & Friends” segment — took the shop’s co-owner Javier Rodriguez, 33, by surprise.
“This happened out of, honestly, nowhere,” he told reporters afterward. (Photo) Former President Donald Trump and Fox Reporter Lawrence Jones sitting in barber chairs during an interview at Knockout Barbershop on Castle Hill Avenue, Bronx, NY 5
Trump was interview by “Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones at the shop.
Fox News Channel's Bret Baier made a stunning admission about a mistake he made during his sit-down with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Baier sat down with Harris Wednesday in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania after she held an event with Republicans who supported her presidential bid.
The contentious interview received the highest ratings - nearly 8 million viewers - of any Fox News Channel segment of the entire 2024 campaign cycle. During Thursday night's episode of his show, Special Report, Baier told panelists Harris Faulkner and Harold Ford Jr. that there had been one big screw-up.
'Harold, I did make a mistake. And I did want to say
A desperate Kamala Harris had to bus supporters to her rally in Grand Rapids on Friday. (Photo) A desperate Kamala Harris had to bus supporters to her rally in Grand Rapids on Friday. (Photo) Both Harris and Trump are campaigning in the crucial swing state of Michigan on Friday.
A new highly weighted Michigan poll shows 21% of Democrats now support Trump.
Kamala Harris buckled under the pressure on Friday and went on an unhinged Hillary-style rant.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is beefing up police presence in the prostitute-ridden borough of Queens to combat the sex trafficking crisis, leading to raids on alleged brothels in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (AOC) (D) “red light” district.
At least 19 alleged prostitutes were spotted on just one block of Roosevelt Avenue in September, Fox News reported. There were no fewer than seven more around the corner, with the outlet’s camera crew witnessing a woman offer sex for $60.
Bill Maher questions media avoiding Doug
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher questioned whether it was wise for the liberal media to continue avoiding the growing controversies surrounding second gentleman Doug Emhoff."There's a lot of scuttlebutt in the news this week about Doug," Maher said in a panel discussion on Friday's "Overtime" online segment of his HBO show. "If people don't know what's going on, the Daily Mail is reporting that three women [Emhoff's ex-girlfriend] talked to contemporaneously, which has been the standard very often in these cases, that she said back in, I think,
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to social media platform X to sound the alarm on a disturbing incident reported by a voter in Whitfield County, Georgia’s 14th district.
According to Greene, a constituent in Whitfield County noticed that their printed ballot did not reflect the selections they made on the voting machine, particularly changing their vote away from candidates they had chosen.
According to a viral Facebook post:
“FYI to all my voting friends and family a friend of mine in Whitfield County yesterday voted/ checked his selections then printed it checked the printed version and it was not marked the same !!!
Experts largely agree that Pennsylvania is the most important state in this election. The candidate who wins Pennsylvania is highly favored to win the entire election.This year, a key Senate race is also happening in the state, as Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) fights what is likely his toughest election yet. Polls have shown a tight race, and Donald Trump’s recent momentum could shift some races in favor of down-ballot Republicans as well.
That’s why Casey’s latest ad caught my attention.
The ad features a couple, Marygrace and Joe, from Old Forge, Pa.
"I'm a Republican," says Marygrace in the ad.
"And I'm a Democrat," says Joe.
Fans at Florida’s Disney World theme park are furious and offended over the extremely high prices of the food at a new bakery opening this fall with a single slice of cake priced as high as $26, and a Coca Cola at $8 a cup.
The Cake Bake Shop by Gwendolyn Rogers which will open soon on the BoardWalk at Disney World in Orland, Florida, is set to replace the ESPN Club which was closed in 2020. But Disney fans are already ripping the new shop before it has even opened after the bakery’s price list was revealed on Reddit.
On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party's ruthless midsummer coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, this column predicted that the elevation of dimwitted cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris to the party's presidential slot would "spectacularly backfire." More specifically, I wrote: "Practically, the path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history."
CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said Friday on “News Central” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has “stalled” while former President Donald Trump is “more popular” compared to 2016 and 2020.
Enten said, “If you believe Donald Trump has somehow become less popular over time, let me change your mind about that. In fact, he is more popular at this point in the campaign than he was at this point in the 2020 campaign or the 2016 campaign.”
He continued, “I think there’s this real question in. Kamala Harris’s mind, in the campaign’s mind, why is Trump more popular now than he was at this point in 2020 and 2016?.
Democrat Senate candidates in key swing states are pleading to Trump voters for support – a bad sign for their own campaigns and a flashing warning sign to Kamala Harris.
In Michigan, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is openly courting voters who support Trump. In Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) campaign released an ad showing Donald Trump signing a bill in the Oval Office, with the narrator touting Casey sided with Trump on his historic trade deal ending NAFTA. And in Wisconsin, leftwing Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) campaign released an ad broadcasting her alignment with Trump on trade policies.
Candidates on the ground often have a better sense
Al Smith, the beloved four-term governor of New York, was the first Catholic to appear on a major party ballot for president.
The 1928 presidential campaign was marred by the Herbert Hoover organization unleashing a wave of anti-Catholic bigotry, aided by the Klu Klux Klan and other nativist groups, that accused Smith of being an agent of the papacy and hence the devil himself. Protestant preachers railed against him from the pulpit. Even mainstream protestant churches warned against Smith's "dual loyalties."
The Smith campaign was such a disaster that neither major party would put up a Catholic candidate for thirty years, when Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy.
Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey Runs an
Ad Boasting He ‘Bucked Biden’ and
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Ad Boasting He ‘Bucked Biden’ and
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A new ad for Pennsylvania Democratic senator Bob Casey features a married couple with different politics but who find common ground on the incumbent senator. On politics, we just don’t agree — except for Bob Casey. He’s independent. That’s right! Casey’s leading the effort to stop corporate greed-flation and price gouging. Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.
First, don’t buy the spin that Bob Casey is some independent maverick; he voted with the Biden administration’s position 98.5 percent of the time.
Second, note Casey isn’t
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President Trump appeared at the Al Smith Dinner in New York yesterday. The New York Post covered his appearance here, Fox News here. I have posted the video of his speech at the bottom. The video posted by C-SPAN includes Jim Gaffigan’s introduction (C-SPAN video posted on YouTube here).
Harris herself was absent from the dinner. She appeared only by video. Cardinal Dolan was unforgiving in his comments on her absence. He was disappointed and and he didn’t hide his disappointment. He’s quoted in both the Post and the Fox News stories. If she wins, we will have to pray for him.
I found Trump’s remarks of interest throughout.
Watch: FCC commissioner explains if CBS
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Nathan Simington said his priority is making sure the public was not misled after an accusation of "significant and intentional news distortion" in a formal complaint regarding the "60 Minutes" interview last week with Vice President Kamala Harris.
"This complaint might come before the commission for adjudication," Simington told Fox News Digital.
CBS News has taken heat in recent days for airing two different answers to the same question in its "60 Minutes" interview last week with the Democratic nominee. Harris was mocked by conservatives when footage of her offering a lengthy "word salad" was aired by CBS' "Face the Nation"
In another episode of the continuing series: You Don’t Hate the Media Enough," The Washington Post (Where Journalism Went to Die) is all over a major news story: Trump’s Al Smith Dinner jokes. Who wrote his jokes? And when did he know it?...
No, I am not kidding. Trump “killed it” on Thursday. I mean, his jokes and delivery were excellent. He Killed. My buddy Jennifer Oliver O'Connell wrote about Trump's best moments:
The Al Smith Dinner is a tradition as honored as the State of the Union and raises money for all the good causes Catholics hold dear. Vice President and selected Democrat nominee Kamala Harris decided
Joe Biden flew to Berlin on Thursday in what is likely his last trip there as his time occupying the Oval Office winds down. The purpose is what it usually is with Biden: focus on Ukraine, although he also met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to talk about security, trade, and other economic issues, and he received an award from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
After meeting with Scholz, he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron to talk about the fighting in Ukraine. “The key question is the nature of security guarantees and so that’s what we will talk about tomorrow,” Macron said.
Translation? Sounds like
Around 100 British left-wing activists are being funded to campaign for Kamala Harris in swing states, leading to allegations of election interference and even American electoral law being broken.
A social media post by the Director of Operations of the UK’s governing party, Labour, recruiting “Labour Party staff” for campaigning in North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia has caused concern. The message from Labour’s Sofia Patel promised paid-for accommodation for those taking up the offer. She wrote, in the now-deleted post:
I have nearly 100 Labour Party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to
As Townhall has been covering, Vice President Kamala Harris skipped out on the Al Smith dinner event benefiting Catholic Charities on Thursday night to instead campaign in Wisconsin, a key battleground state. During the event, she took to her favorite talking points, harping on January 6. In doing so, and while attacking former and potentially future President Donald Trump, she ended up lying about the day in question. Harris' remarks were a trending topic over X for Thursday night, especially when it comes to January 6, as she claimed, "140 law enforcement officers were injured that day, law enforcement officers were killed that day."
You’ve probably noticed that Kamala Harris has abandoned her original campaign strategy of “joy” and “vibes” and replaced it with fear, anger, and attacks on Trump. She’s been attacking Trump forever, but there’s something markedly different about her tone in the past few days.
Obviously, a big part of the reason is that her efforts to sell her agenda to the public aren’t working. But it goes deeper than that. At the core of this strategy shift is the undeniable reality that Trump is more popular today than he ever has been before, and she’s trying to do something about that.
As CNN’s Harry Enten
The jubilant headline on the front page of Friday's New York Times was "Democrats Lose Fear of Calling Trump a Fascist." Reporter Jonathan Weisman's first paragraph seemed daft. The F-bomb has "hovered" around Trump since 2015. "But for most top Democrats, it was a provocative term loaded with dread, historical import and potential incitement -- best left unsaid." It was? Is the Times somehow skipping over Morning Joe and all the other liberals and Democrats who love comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini? Then there's the question of "fact checking." The "independent fact checkers" aligned with the Democrats never find calling Trump "fascist" or "Hitler"
New texts have emerged of alleged secret communication between Liz Cheney, former January 6 committee vice chair, and a key witness. Former White House official Cassidy Hutchinson was due to testify that she saw then-President Donald Trump agreeing with January 6 rioters who were chanting "Hang Mike Pence," the then-vice president.
Republican National Committee member, Harmeet Dhillon, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday: "This is a very serious ethical violation and lawyers can be disciplined by the bar for contacting a represented party concerning the subject matter of the representation, without the permission and knowledge of that party's lawyer."
More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same. The 2024 response is most similar to 1992 among presidential election years in which Gallup has asked the question. The latest findings are from a Sept. 16-28 poll, which also finds differences among partisans’ perceptions on this measure -- Democrats (72%) are much more likely than independents (35%) or Republicans (7%) to view themselves as “better off.”
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier for a half-hour interview in which Baier politely took no prisoners, pressing Harris on the issues most voters cite as their top concerns. Harris took almost zero accountability for the Biden-Harris administration’s failures and offered few answers on her specific policy positions, pivoting instead to besmirching rival Donald Trump and provide offerings from her platitude grab-bag.
Baier hit the ground running by asking Harris how many illegal immigrants she thought her administration has released to date — “One, 2 million?” Harris replied, “It’s an important discussion people want to have,”
A coalition of Muslim and Arab American leaders has expanded its movement into the swing states of Wisconsin and Georgia to keep Vice President Kamala Harris out of the White House, saying she is a “pro-genocide candidate.”
The group, which operates as “Abandon Harris,” announced the push into the battleground states on Friday. It also plans an extensive get-out-the-vote effort to steer voters away from Ms. Harris and toward Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate whom Abandon Harris has endorsed.
Hassan Abdel Salam, a spokesman for the group, said they cannot support Ms. Harris because she has not aggressively pushed for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza
Washington— The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.
The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office.
The information that could be seen in the redacted version released Friday appeared to be material that for the most part
Former President Donald Trump acted to mend fences with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer backstage at Thursday night’s Al Smith Dinner — before kicking them down again with a joke about the Brooklyn Democrat’s odds of becoming the “first woman president.”
“You’re my guy, you’re my guy,” Trump, 78, said as he warmly shook Schumer’s hand with both of his ahead of the $5,000-a-plate charity soiree, according to a source close to both men.
Schumer, 73, was seated center stage at the white-tie event, but stood up and clapped for the 45th president, who was seated just two places away — next to host Cardinal Timothy Dolan and
HAVANA — A massive outage left millions of Cubans without power and prompted the government Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand, including suspending classes, shutting down some state-owned workplaces and canceling non-essential services.
Cuban officials said that the blackout, which started late Thursday, saw 1.64 gigawatts go offline during peak hours in the early evening, about half the total demand at the time.
“The situation has worsened in recent days,” Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said in a special address on national television in the early hours of Friday. “We must be fully transparent ... we have been halting economic activities to ensure energy for the population.”
Lizzo is reportedly joining Vice President Kamala Harris for a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit this weekend.
The rapper will campaign with the Democratic presidential nominee on Saturday, according to CNN's White House correspondent Priscilla Alvarez. This comes as the Harris-Walz campaign tries to "harness celebrity figures to boost early voting." (X) Lizzo has been an outspoken supporter of Harris and showed support for the candidate immediately following President Joe Biden's forced exit from the 2024 race.
Democrat Bob Casey Cosplays As a Trump
Supporter, and It Tells Us Everything
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Incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey is panicking in Pennsylvania, and the surest sign of that comes from his latest political ad.
With challenger Dave McCormick closing in and Donald Trump holding a small but steady lead in the key swing state, Casey has begun running ads that paint him as a supporter of the former president. No, I'm not kidding. The rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer and his cohorts is claiming to have "bucked Biden" while standing behind Trump's trade policies.
(X Video) NARRATOR: Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking, and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to
Report: Left-Wing Dark Money Floods Nevada
To Enshrine Abortion, Ranked-Choice Voting
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Left-wing dark money is being dumped into Nevada to enshrine abortion and ranked-choice voting into the state’s constitution, according to a new report. [Snip]
The Tides Foundation similarly acts as a prominent donor that doles out grants to left-wing nonprofits and causes. The data showed Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom also received $1 million from the Open Society Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) tied to the Soros family. [Snip] Even more money is being spent by left-wing groups to approve Question 3, a ballot initiative that would enshrine a top-five ranked-choice voting (RCV) system into the Nevada Constitution.
Another Rust Belt town in southwest Ohio is becoming overwhelmed by overseas migrants who’ve nearly doubled the town’s population of 3,500. A local Cincinnati television station reported last month that while Springfield copes with tens of thousands of Haitian arrivals, “the small village of Lockland is grappling with its own crisis.” “Estimates suggested that there are up to 3,000 asylum-seeking immigrants, primarily from Mauritania, residing in the Cincinnati suburb,” Local 12 reported. “Lockland Fire Chief and Village Administrator Doug Wehmeyer said the Mauritanians are living in several apartment buildings, often with as many as 10 people in units designed for four.”
Judge Releases Tranche of Redacted Documents
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District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan released a redacted version of the appendix to special counsel Jack Smith’s immunity motion on Oct. 18, offering more insight into the evidence undergirding his prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
So far, the tranche of released evidence consists of four volumes and nearly 1,900 pages, although large portions of the files are sealed or redacted.
Volume I consists of a series of interviews from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 while Volume II is mostly tweets from the former president.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
With just 19 days to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris has adopted a frantic, discombobulated strategy of throwing everything she can find at Donald Trump to see if anything sticks.
It’s become obvious that with millions of hardworking Americans struggling to make ends meet due to inflation, illegal immigrants being prioritized over U.S. citizens and wars raging around the globe, Ms. Harris’ message of more of the same isn’t resonating with voters. Liberals have found themselves in panic mode. It seems the agreed-upon tactic for the closing days of the Harris campaign is
No, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” in spite of the schizophrenic stock market since our remarkably resilient capitalistic economy ran head-on into the socialist-cum-communist Biden-Harris regime, with its $1.8-trillion deficit.
And no, it’s not domestic policy, where we have had the luxury of being on the receiving end of these:
High taxes.
High food prices.
High gas prices.
Sky-high regulations.
Alarmingly high crime rates throughout the country, particularly in states run by Democrats, where arrests are few, bail is nonexistent, and raging criminals enjoy no consequences for their assaults, rapes, murders, racist attacks, etc.
Eleven million illegal and unvetted aliens are further draining our economy thanks to the largesse of this regime,
As RedState previously reported, Hamas leader and mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar, was eliminated by the IDF earlier today. It is a day of justice and celebration, though there is still grief over the hostages who have not been returned yet.
The grief is now turning to rage as once again, we discover just how corrupt the U.N.'s relief agency, UNWRA, is and how it has been infiltrated with Hamas operatives. Yahya Sinwar was killed along with two other terrorists, one being his bodyguard, and an ID card found on Sinwar's body shows that the man was also a UNWRA teacher.
Go to Kamala Harris’ campaign website and among the very short list of alleged achievements is this: “She cast the deciding vote to lower drug prices and cap insulin prices for our seniors.”
The only problem is that drug costs for seniors have skyrocketed since Harris signed that bill.
Harris is pointing to the criminally misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” which got zero Republican votes, and which was supposed to lower the cost of prescription drugs by giving, as Harris puts it, “Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices with Big Pharma.”
Western powers, often suppliers of advanced weaponry to Israel, are pushing the Jewish state to stop fighting Hamas and Hezbollah. Why?
You would probably laugh. Orthodox Jews do not use electronic or electrical devices during the Sabbath and holidays. Smartphones, computers, and the like are generally turned off with the entry of a holy day and only turned back on when the day goes out the following night. So what happens when Israel assassinates Hassan Nasrallah or kills Yahya Sinwar on one of these days? Orthodox Jews are still curious people, even if their internet-connected devices are off.
Haitian migration roils town in key battleground
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A small Pennsylvania town has been thrown into a national conversation about immigration into the U.S, after former President Trump pointed to it as a victim of mass Haitian migration --with some residents saying they believe the town is now backing the former president in November. "The small 4,000-person town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, have you heard of it?" Trump said in September in Tucson, Arizona. "What a beautiful name, but it's not so beautiful now. It has experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris."
SpaceX sues California agency, alleging
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SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against a California agency this week after the body rejected a proposal to increase the company’s launches from the state’s coastline to 50 per year.
The California Coastal Commission (CCC) made its decision at an October 10 meeting, despite the U.S. Air Force (USAF) endorsing the plan on the grounds that more launches of Starlink and Starshield, the defense-focused unit, are critical to national security.
In the lawsuit, SpaceX says that the commission engaged in “naked political discrimination” when some commissioners cited the political activity of CEO Elon Musk, while also attempting to unlawfully regulate federal agency activities.
For over a decade now, the issue of trangenderism has gained increasing prominence in American politics, which is natural when personal choices begin to intersect with public policy, and for Kamala Harris it has risen above the surface at the worst possible time. There have always been policy concerns around the idea that men can simply decide they are women. There were questions about women’s shelters and prisons, locker rooms and bathrooms, but nothing puts quite as fine a point on the issue as men competing in women’s sports. For his part, Donald Trump has a clear and concise answer to the troubling phenomenon
We now have two polls that show the Trump-Vance ticket topping the Harris-Walz ticket in favorability and caring.
Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,683 likely voters between October 14-16 and asked a straightforward question: “Which candidate for president cares the most about people like you?” Sitting Vice President Kamala Harris earned just 45 percent of the vote. Former President Trump topped her with 49 percent.
On this question, Trump won the male vote by a 12 percent margin, 53 to 41 percent. Harris topped Trump by five points with women but still hit a ceiling at 50 percent to Trump’s 45 percent.
Among black voters, Trump earned an incredible (for a Republican)
Four mystery accounts dished out $30 million
of crypto on bets that Trump will win
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of crypto on bets that Trump will win
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Four mysterious accounts have reportedly bet $30 million on Trump to win the presidency in November.
Bettors on Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market, have increased their wagers that the Republican nominee would win the election in recent weeks.
While National polling averages by FiveThirtyEight show Harris with a 2.5-point lead over Trump, on Friday, Trump had 60 per cent betting odds on Polymarket compared to Harris’ 39 per cent. The online market showed odds for the political opponents as neck-and-neck until October 7, when the former president started making significant gains.
The flood of support for Trump, the Wall Street Journal first reported, could be attributed to four Polymarket accounts
Vice President Kamala Harris dumped her so-called “campaign of joy” messaging for a more angry, bitter, and nasty tone with less than three weeks until Election Day.
Polling shows Harris lost momentum in the past weeks while using the “campaign of joy.” Her new strategy appears to be the use of President Joe Biden’s 2020 and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 playbook that demonizes former President Donald Trump as unhinged, unstable, and unchecked.
Politico Playbook reported the shift on Friday:
You can see the change on the campaign trail, where Harris’ early emphasis on joy has given way to more direct verbal attacks on Trump, including playing video of him,
Gaffigan repeatedly took shots at the Democratic nominee during Thursday night’s glitzy event in Manhattan after Harris became the first presidential candidate in 40 years to skip the light-hearted Catholic charity bash.
“You know, this event has been referred to as the Catholic Met Gala. Twenty-two percent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I’m sorry, why is Vice President Harris not here?” the jokester said as he emceed the charity dinner.
A majority of Americans (52 percent) feel worse off today than four years ago under former President Donald Trump, Gallup polling found Friday.
Four years ago the nation was in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which greatly impacted the economy and the lives of millions of Americans. Despite the crises, Americans believe they were better off.
Costs increased by about 20 percent across the board after the Biden-Harris administration assumed office and instituted “Bidenomics.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who is also a Co-Chair of the Harris Campaign, responded to arguments that former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar would still be alive if Israel had listened to calls for a ceasefire from President Joe Biden and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris by saying that Biden stands with Israel and the Mossad would have “eventually” killed Sinwar.
Co-host John Roberts said, “You mentioned a moment ago that Yahya Sinwar was responsible for killing Palestinians, and he has, in many different ways. He became known as the butcher of Khan Younis
If anyone needs proof that the Kamala Harris campaign has cracked its axle gear at high speed and is spinning off into wild and crazy directions, take a look at Kamala Harris's campaign's own bizarre response to President Trump's appearance at the Al Smith dinner to raise money for Catholic Charities: It's as if Harris were describing herself. Everyone knows she can't talk without a teleprompter and memorized lines, and that she word-salads her speech. Her minion described a combination of Harris and Joe Biden in all their personal failures, and then weirdly called it 'Trump.'
Her allies at the Washington Post responded in similar fashion: Here is the Trump
America’s enemies aren’t afraid of ethical scolding from Democrats, and U.S. allies don’t view it as especially helpful. In a Gallup poll released this September, voters in the United States revealed they trust Republicans as the “party better able to keep America safe from international threats” by a margin of 54 percent to 40 percent. In today’s hard-fought U.S. political system, a fourteen-point edge for one party over the other is something close to a landslide. Yet, most academics believe that the superiority of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy approach is self-evident. So, who’s right—the voters or the academics? Let’s consider the evidence of the last eight years.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan, who recently portrayed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on SNL, took sharp jabs at Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party during the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, where Harris was notably absent.
Instead of attending the long-standing bipartisan Catholic charity event, Harris opted for a pre-recorded video message.
Gaffigan did not waste the opportunity to mock her avoidance of real public engagement while prioritizing softball media appearances.
Former Hamas head Yahya Sinwar could be seen throwing a stick at the IDF drone that targeted him on Thursday moments before his assassination, Israel's military showed in released footage.
In the footage, a masked Sinwar is circled in red with the stick that he threw at the drone. Sinwar can then be seen throwing the stick in the direction of the drone as he sits on a couch surrounded by the rubble of the building he was located within. IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari released the footage late on Thursday night during his statement confirming Sinwar's death, where he described the events leading up to the assassination.
No one was safe from former President Donald Trump’s zingers Thursday night at the Al Smith Dinner — as he panned Vice President Kamala Harris for skipping the event, roasted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and dragged top Democrats in the rowdy audience.
Trump, 78, blasted Harris for being the first presidential candidate to decline the invitation to the Manhattan event, which raises funds for Catholic charities supporting children, since former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984.
“I guess you should have told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis and she would have been here guaranteed,” Trump needled.
Republicans should keep the champagne on ice until the election results are official and act like we’re trailing due to the institutional goliaths we’re facing this election cycle—but one thing cannot be denied: we’re in good shape to win the election. It’s not over, but Joe Biden had a seven-point advantage over Trump in 2024. There’s no pandemic. And Kamala Harris is irritating everyone. Even the most ardent Trump-hater cannot deny that the former president is polling better than ever. While it’s a tight race, Trump has reclaimed the advantage in Nate Silver’s Electoral College projection:
No, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” in spite of the schizophrenic stock market since our remarkably resilient capitalistic economy ran head-on into the socialist-cum-communist Biden-Harris regime, with its $1.8-trillion deficit.
And no, it’s not domestic policy, where we have had the luxury of being on the receiving end of these:
High taxes.
High food prices.
High gas prices.
Sky-high regulations.
Alarmingly high crime rates throughout the country, particularly in states run by Democrats, where arrests are few, bail is nonexistent, and raging criminals enjoy no consequences for their assaults, rapes, murders, racist attacks, etc.
As Election Day approaches, Democrats are struggling to find positions on issues that resonate with voters. On most topics important to the electorate—such as the border crisis and immigration, the economy and inflation, and crime and public safety—Republicans hold a significant lead. However, one issue where the left has an advantage is abortion, prompting them to heavily lean on this topic to drive their voters to the polls. This focus has led to a narrative surrounding abortion that is both shocking and deeply troubling.
One year ago, on the last day of the celebratory Feast of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the unthinkable happened, and a living hell was unleashed on the people of Israel. That was October 7, 2023, a day that will live on infamy in the decades to come, a day that has still not ended for the hostages and the families of the victims. One year later, on the first day of Sukkot, Yahyah Sinwar, the mastermind of the massacre, was dead.
To add to the poetic justice of the moment, Sinwar, who had eluded the best efforts of combined Israeli and American intelligence for more than one full year, was “accidentally” killed
Western powers, often suppliers of advanced weaponry to Israel, are pushing the Jewish state to stop fighting Hamas and Hezbollah. Why?
You would probably laugh. Orthodox Jews do not use electronic or electrical devices during the Sabbath and holidays. Smartphones, computers, and the like are generally turned off with the entry of a holy day and only turned back on when the day goes out the following night. So what happens when Israel assassinates Hassan Nasrallah or kills Yahya Sinwar on one of these days? Orthodox Jews are still curious people, even if their internet-connected devices are off.
Readers of I&I know all about how the Biden-Harris regime has been fudging jobs numbers to make monthly gains look bigger than they really are. Turns out, it’s been doing the same with crime statistics … this time to make it look like violent crime is on the way down.
RealClearInvestigations dug into the FBI’s data and found that the law enforcement agency had been criminally misreporting crime statistics in a way that just happened to help Biden-Harris look like it’s been tough on crime.
Last fall, for example, the FBI reported that violent crime had dropped by 2.1% in 2022.
Trump vs. the Celebrities
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Onscreen-tough guy Robert De Niro says Donald Trump is “an idiot” who, “wants to destroy this country.”
Renowned historian Rosie O’Donnell famously maintains that Trump is, “the worst thing that ever happened to the United States.”
Good-humored Will Smith — who famously introduced “throwing hands” to the Oscars — called American citizen’s support for Trump “absolute collective insanity.”
Constitutional authority Bruce Springsteen says Trump is “a moron,” and “The most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.”
Public intellectual and role model Howard Stern says he, “hates Trump voters and they are stupid.”
At some point, the hippies in the '60s learned that if they took a bath and put on nicer looking clothes, then people would think their insane ramblings actually had some intellectual weight to them. They wormed their way into universities and media, pushing government reforms and slowly but surely injecting leftist radicalism into the government. Now, we have open socialists winning seats in government, a socialist healthcare system, and a legitimate communist as the chosen and installed candidate for the Democrat Party's attempt at the White House.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made a curious slip after she was asked about Biden’s curious exchange with Barack Obama at Ethel Kennedy’s memorial service.
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s mother, Ethel Kennedy, passed away last week. She was 96. (X) Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden attended the service and delivered remarks.
The memorial service was held in Washington DC at the CaBarack Obama and Joe Biden shared a tense exchange before the memorial service began.
It is unclear what they said. WATCH: (X Video)
Remember when British comedian Ricky Gervais absolutely destroyed the Hollywood elite at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards? It was a beautiful moment worth revisiting—multiple times. Gervais eviscerated Tinseltown progressives for being so stunningly out of touch with the struggles of real people, and it is a thrill to watch even after all these years. He laid into the vapid nature of all too many “celebrities": On Thursday night, however, it was time for the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York City, where dignitaries from the entertainment, politics, and business worlds all showed up to raise money for Catholic charities.
Former President Bill Clinton busted out a bizarre and confusing impression of Donald Trump Thursday, during which he suggested that the GOP nominee might send him to “supermax” prison for life.
Clinton, 78, made no real attempt at capturing Trump’s distinctive voice or mannerisms when he spoke as the 45th president during a North Carolina rally with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – with the intention of conveying that he might be considered by Trump to be “the danger within.”
“When you sign up, the oath says you promise to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Clinton told the crowd
Awkward moment comedian points out who
is lurking behind Donald Trump at glitzy
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is lurking behind Donald Trump at glitzy
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Donald Trump had an awkward moment before his riotous comedy routine at the Al Smith Charity Dinner when host Jim Gaffigan noted a longtime foe behind him in the crowd.
Gaffigan, the top comedian who is currently portraying Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live, pointed out how awkward the crowd was, containing Democrats, Republicans and even independent RFK Jr. with Cheryl Hines.
'This seating arrangement is weird, right? I mean, it looks like the plutocrats are about to play Family Feud! And the survey says... whatever you want!'
Former President Donald Trump flamed Vice President Kamala Harris for snubbing the Al Smith Dinner in New York City on Thursday, joking that she is “receiving communion” from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI).
Trump brought down the house with his speech at the 79th annual Al Smith Dinner to benefit Catholic charities, but Harris became the first major nominee since Walter Mondale (D) in 1984 to forgo the event.“All polls are indicating I’m leading big with the Catholic vote, as I should be, but I don’t think Kamala has given up yet. She hasn’t. Instead of attending tonight, she’s in Michigan receiving Communion from Gretchen Whitmer,”
The Collapse of Kamala Harris
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On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party's ruthless midsummer coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, this column predicted that the elevation of dimwitted cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris to the party's presidential slot would "spectacularly backfire." More specifically, I wrote: "Practically, the path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history."
I'm feeling pretty good these days about that prognosis.
The killing of Yahya Sinwar
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Some people here in Israel are reportedly crying tears of joy over the killing by the Israel Defence Forces of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Rafah area of Gaza yesterday. Others are jubilant.
I am not.
Yes, there’s enormous relief. There’s huge satisfaction that at last Sinwar has met his long over-due fate.The world is a better place this morning without him.
(Snip)Sinwar didn’t create this evil. He was the product of it, and was one of its many diabolical avatars. What created him was fanatical, genocidal Jew-hatred, the desire to remove Israel and the Jewish people from the face of the earth as an Islamic religious duty
If Kamala Harris Wins
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Sometimes “What if?” questions are merely counterfactual academic exercises. Sometimes, however, they are existential conundrums. The question, “What if Kamala Harris wins the 2024 presidential election?” belongs firmly in the latter category. As I have noted elsewhere, I believe Donald Trump will not only win, but win resoundingly. All the same, the huge influx of illegal immigrants, strategically managed by Biden and Harris to be maximally advantageous, combined with the disastrous state of our voter rolls, might mean even if Trump wins, he doesn’t end up in the Oval Office. So: what if?
Imagine you are a mini-Rip Van Winkle. You sink into a deep slumber
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly revised its crime data for 2022, less than three weeks until the Nov. 5 election and conveniently after presidential and vice presidential debates.
Vice President Kamala Harris must be breathing a sigh of relief knowing that the FBI waited until the last possible moment to correct the nation’s 2023 violent crime data report. It initially reported that the rate fell by 2.1% in 2022 but has since been updated to show it actually increased by 4.5%, proving Republicans’ claims that violent crime is plaguing the nation.
Donald Trump spoke at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City tonight and showed off his humorous side, telling joke after joke and getting plenty of laughs in the process.
Watching some of the clips below, it is starting to make sense that Kamala Harris decided not to show up in person.
Trump took aim at various elected officials and people in media.
First, some background on the event from FOX News: Trump speaks at annual Al Smith dinner, Harris sends pre-recorded vid
The 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner kicked off on Thursday evening, which will spotlight former President Trump during the bipartisan political event
The panic on the left is international.
U.K. Labour, which is collapsing before our eyes a mere few months after winning a massive majority in the Parliament, is engaging in a massive election interference program here in the United States. When Russia spent a few hundred thousand dollars on grossly ineffective ads aimed at stirring up trouble in 2016, the world went wild.
The ruling party of the United Kingdom is literally sending foreign agents to the United States to help the Kamala Harris campaign. So far nobody is making a stink about it.
ALBANY, Georgia — The pews were filling up inside Mount Zion Baptist Church, where former President Bill Clinton was set to launch his rural campaign swing for Vice President Kamala Harris in this Democratic stronghold bordering a sea of rural red Georgia.
In the back, Joseph Parker said he was thrilled the Arkansan was coming. But it had been nearly a quarter-century since Clinton left office and, Parker said, “Things were really different then.” This year, he said he’s voting for former President Donald Trump, the first time the 72-year-old has cast a ballot for a Republican presidential candidate.
“Trump’s a man of his word.
Mitzi Gaynor, 'South Pacific' star who
worked with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby,
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worked with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby,
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Mitzi Gaynor, known for her iconic role as Nellie Forbush in the classic 1958 film "South Pacific," died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 93. Gaynor died from natural causes, [Snip] Gaynor's career in Hollywood endured for eight decades as the entertainer appeared on television, in movies and performed on stage. [Snip] Gaynor's husband and manager, Jack Bean, helped her launch her stage performance career. The two married in 1954. The couple had no children, and Bean passed away in 2006.