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Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow legged ants. I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Admission is free, so pay at the door, pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys arose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill those two dead boys. If you do not believe this lie is true, ask the blind man – he saw it too.
The Longshoremen union strike is now over after a tentative agreement was made on wages.
They could be striking again in January since they’ve only extended their current contract until mid January:
I was hoping this would go on a little longer since it would have likely helped Trump win, with prices going up and supply going down. That’s the last thing Kamala would have wanted ahead of the election. And if I had to guess, that probably factored in on this to some small degree.
Now richy rich can go back to his ritzy home and wait to shake them down again in a few months.
If Trump wins and they do strike, he should do like Reagan did with the ATC union. The average LS makes 200k/year and they just turned down a 50% pay increase. F 'em.
As a group, gay people may overwhelmingly hate Donald Trump. But they couldn’t help but fall in love with JD Vance on the debate stage Tuesday night.
In the words of Gay America, he came out looking snatched.
Now, these poll numbers might be made up, but they’re making fun of a very real phenomenon: Gay Twitter absolutely lost their minds for Vance last night. Some said he’d make a “hot AF VP” while others said he’s “[g]iving the gays everything we want.” Some speculated the “pink tie” was sending a signal, wink wink. What that signal is, I can’t share here — but the consensus was overwhelmingly suggestive. As noted conservative activist (and gay man) Andy Ngo noted, “I was not expecting gay X responses to the VP debate to be so XXX.”
Over the years, due to changing consumer habits, Schwan's iconic yellow trucks seemed to become less visible. But there's online evidence showing that deliveries are still very active in some parts of the U.S.
In 2019, Schwan's Company, but not the home delivery business, was acquired by CJ Foods. Schwan's Home Delivery was later rebranded as Yelloh in 2023. As for why Yelloh is closing, a press release cited economic and market forces and supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. Schwan's Company, however, is still in business and supplies grocery stores and other food-service outlets.
“These challenges, combined with changing consumer lifestyles and competitive pressures that have been building for over 20 years, made success very difficult," said board member Michael Ziebell, who has been at the company since the 1990s. "Digital shopping has replaced the personal, at-the-door customer interaction that was the hallmark of the company."
While I haven't eaten a Schwan's frozen food item in years, I feel a sadness. The yellow Schwan's truck was an exciting part of Midwestern suburban life and almost as thrilling as an actual ice cream truck. Despite our thirst for nostalgia and anything circa 2000, our digital reality, sadly, doesn't have room for the Schwan's guy.
Some of their offerings have changed over the years, but many are still available now, if you want to stock up. If you're looking to purchase products via a Schwan's Yelloh truck, November 8 will be the last day.
Did you have Schwan's where you grew up?
Remember
Jimmy Carter's family rolled him out for a press event on his 100th birthday, saying he was “excited to vote for Kamala Harris” It was pretty disgusting, but remember what this asshole wrought.
“The documents clearly show that Khomeini was less heroic, and far craftier, behind the scenes,” Fattahi said. “He quietly courted the US government, making all kinds of promises about the future of core US interests in Iran.”
“The documents are significant because they show Khomeini’s legacy is complicated, as it involves the ayatollah courting two US presidents behind the scenes. They illustrate a pattern of behaviour – that Khomeini at critical moments during his long struggle for an Islamic republic, secretly engaged what he would call ‘the Great Satan’.”
We're still dealing with the bloody fallout from Carter abandoning the Shah almost 50 years later.
J. D. Vance fans, last night your man won his own personal Super Bowl. Tim Walz fans, your guy may not be ready for the major leagues. The good news for the Minnesota governor is that there’s not a single smudge on any of his timepieces, and he can clearly see what time it is . . . because Vance absolutely cleaned his clock.
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.
Maybe they should go back to Fun With Dick And Jane. Seriously though, I can't get my 19 YO son to read a book for anything. He just has no interest. Fortunately he's in trade school so it doesn't matter as much, but I think it's very sad that he will never get everything I've gotten from reading over the years.
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by inviting Doug Emhoff to your party:
This cat's feet and ass look like a tribute to Che Guevara. Or maybe Paul McCartney from Yellow Submarine. I don't know. It's definitely a face and it's freaking me out.
Absolutely irrefutable, 100% convincing proof that Bigfoot exists is finally here.
A makeup artist sued Garth Brooks on Thursday, alleging that the country star raped her in a hotel room, and subjected to her to unwanted sexual conduct on other occasions, including sending her lewd text messages and groping her breasts.
The woman, identified as Jane Roe in the lawsuit, also accused Brooks of exposing himself to her on multiple occasions. She alleges that the trauma from the rape was so severe that she contemplated suicide.
"Brooks is desperate to prevent his millions of fans from learning about the horrific things he has said and done to a junior female employee who did nothing to deserve such treatment," the lawsuit states.
According to the complaint, Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit last month against the woman in federal court in Mississippi.
The plaintiff in that suit alleges that the woman threatened to ruin his reputation by filing a sexual abuse lawsuit unless he gave her a multimillion dollar payout.
By the way, that's not blackmail. The law of blackmail specifically excludes threats made regarding legal action. I think the law probably specifies that the legal action must be bona-fide. But people literally threaten to sue each other unless redress is made every single day and if this were blackmail the prisons would be overflowing.
The federal suit was filed anonymously, describing the plaintiff only as a "celebrity and public figure who resides in Tennessee." The plaintiff, John Doe, states claims of attempted extortion, defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
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The woman is represented by Douglas Wigdor, who has filed numerous #MeToo lawsuits against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful figures.
"We applaud our client's courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks," Wigdor and his co-counsels, Jeanne Christensen and Hayley Baker, said in a statement. "The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music. We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation."
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The suit alleges that she was at Brooks' home, when he emerged from the shower naked with an erection. She alleges that Brooks forced her to touch his penis, and urged her to perform oral sex. She refused, but continued to work for him.
In May 2019, she alleges that Brooks traveled to Los Angeles for a Grammy tribute, and booked a hotel where they would both stay. She alleges that Brooks violently raped her in the hotel room.
Afterward, she alleges that Brooks would often discuss sexual fantasies in front of her, would send her lascivious text messages, and would stare at her breasts. She alleges that he would pressure her to open her shirt, so that he could grope her breasts and then masturbate.
So, I imagine these texts exist. That doesn't mean her other allegations are true, but assuming there are inappropriate texts like this from Brooks, that scotches his "she's making it all up, she's a fantasist and extortionist" defense.
Again: If they exist. If they don't, she's lying.
Speaking of another woman-abuser, Kamala Harris's trophy husband Doug "the 'Hoff" Emhoff, I saw someone comment that she didn't know if the woman-punching allegations are true (I think they probably are, there are multiple witnesses), but she does know that Kamala Harris did not ask for evidence when attempting to lynch Brett Kavanaugh.
That's the Harris Standard of guilt, and her Beard Husband is guilty.
Liz Cheney Will Campaign With Kamala Harris In "The Symbolic Birthplace of the Republican Party" in Wisconsin
—Ace
From redridinghood: Super-duper True Conservative Liz Cheney is campaigning with Kamala Harris in Wisconsin.
I've never heard this was the "symbolic birthplace of the Republican Party" but the Democrat-Media Party says it is and it is a crime to question The Party.
Mona Salama
@ByMonaSalama
The Princess of Iraq War, former Rep. Liz Cheney will be campaign with Kamala Harris today in Ripon, Wisconsin -- the birthplace of the Republican Party
Both Liz & Kamala agree on anything politically, except for their common TDS hatred for former President Trump
According to a senior Harris' campaign official, Harris is planning to play into the "symbolism" of the Republican Party by "recognizing" its history & founding principles and making her pledge to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law if elected and place the good governance above ideology. Harris will also at the event praise Cheney for her cross endorsement
Trump-supporting account Johnny MAGA (duh) says this is another Fake Event filled with Industry Plants.
Johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Wow. Kamala's big "republicans for Harris" event tonight in Ripon, Wisconsin -- the birthplace of the GOP -- is INVITE ONLY.
Buses are going to bring people in from out of town to fill the seats.
3 years ago, Liz Cheney on Fox News said President Trump's policies, in which she supported over 90% of the time as a congresswoman "were much better for America" & firmly declared that she would never "vote for a Democrat ever"
Politico: Tim Walz Sometimes Has a Tendency to "Misspeak"
—Ace
Politico just femsplained to us yesterday that Tim Walz's panicky Coward's Eyes were just a sign of "passion" and "emotional intensity" that will make women hot and bothered, but that JD Vance's beard demonstrates toxic masculinity that will make women disgusted.
Tim Walz has a tendency to misspeak. It may haunt the campaign.
Key members of Harris' circle weren't aware of some of Walz's inaccurate statements until they became public, despite the vetting process.
Tim Walz has a problem misspeaking.
Strange. That's not the word you use when Republicans misspeak.
Since being tapped as Kamala Harris' running mate, the folksy, plain-speaking Minnesota governor has had to explain a growing number of inaccurate statements -- and at times embellishments -- about his past. They range from comments about his military service to his visit to Hong Kong more than three decades ago to clarifying that his family didn't specifically use in vitro fertilization.
It's unclear whether Walz's verbal errors will undercut his credibility with voters. But the need to continually clean up those claims could politically hurt Walz and Harris, who are locked in a tight race with Donald Trump and JD Vance. And in some cases, key members of Harris' circle weren't aware of some of the inaccurate statements until they became public despite the vetting process, according to four people familiar with the conversations who were granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
Of course Kamala Harris didn't know-- she doesn't know anything.
How many times have we read articles, planted by Kamala Harris's embarrassed and abused staffers, stating that Kamala Harris doesn't bother to do the most basic homework and read their digests of the current cycle's news and the Administration's policies, and then she rips them for leaving her "unprepared"?
That's where Kamala Harris's favorite excuse originated -- she would respond to these articles by having another of her aides leak to the press that sometimes her staff "Fails to Position Kamala for Success." Her loyal aides also leaked it that Joe Biden and the White House staff were also "Failing to Position Kamala for Success."
Well, your staff can write your reports for you, Kamala, but they can't read them for you. If you want to get schnockered by 2:30 pm every single day and spend the rest of the day in a drunken daze, it's really your alcoholism that is Failing to Position You For Success.
She's a DEI hire. Always has been. It's always on the White Man to do her homework for her and rig things so that she gets Social Promotion after Social Promotion up the career ladder.
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The most recent example came Tuesday, when a CBS debate moderator pressed Walz over his claim that he had been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, when Hong Kong was still under British rule (Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997). Walz over the years had said publicly he had been in Hong Kong during the crackdown in Beijing, including 10 years ago in Congress.
But on Tuesday during the debate, he awkwardly responded that "all I said on this was, is, I got there that summer," and "I'm a knucklehead at times" before conceding he "misspoke."
On Wednesday, Walz sought to clean up his debate comments during a campaign stop in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where polling shows Harris and Trump virtually tied.
"Yeah, look, I have my dates wrong," Walz told reporters in Harrisburg. "I was in Hong Kong in China in 1989. ... I speak like everybody else speaks. I need to be clearer."
Candidates running for higher office have long embellished their records or personal histories. President Joe Biden had long been known to overstate even minor details of his personal life, like his academic achievements. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2010 had to explain why he misstated his military record when he claimed he served in Vietnam when he in fact served in the Marine Corps Reserves during the Vietnam War -- but stateside. Former Rep. George Santos is well known for lying about a number of things, including that his mother was killed in the 9/11 attacks
Walz's misstatements could contradict the image that the campaign has painted of him as an upstanding, everyday Midwest guy.
"He's just honest," Bob Frisby, 70, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, recalled of Walz in an interview shortly after Harris tapped the governor as her running mate.
What an incredible claim Politico has inserted in an article about Walz's problem being that he's just not honest.
One of the earliest claims that came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign centered on Walz's military record. Walz has repeatedly and inaccurately described himself as a "retired command sergeant major" including in radio ads from his very first congressional bid. But he never finished the final coursework to retire at such a rank. The Harris campaign quietly changed its website description, after questions from reporters, to say Walz once served at the command sergeant major rank.
In 2018 while campaigning for governor, he stated that he didn't want "those weapons of war, that I carried in war" accessible to everyday Americans during a discussion about why he was reversing his position from his congressional days to support an assault weapons ban, giving the incorrect impression that he served in combat. Harris' campaign later said he "misspoke."
He also drew criticism for using his family's struggles with fertility during the campaign as a way to highlight his stance on reproductive rights, a key issue during the campaign. He even attacked Vance over it, saying, "if it was up to him, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF." The Harris campaign had to clarify that Walz and his wife, Gwen, didn't specifically use in vitro fertilization, but another similar treatment that Republicans haven't talked about banning.
Walz himself raised some of these issues with Harris and her team during the vice presidential vetting process, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Harris' circle, for example, knew of Walz's 1995 DUI arrest when he was a school teacher in Nebraska, despite Walz's past campaign and official staff trying to downplay and in some cases outright mislead reporters about the circumstances of the arrest.
Harris' vetting team called some of Walz's former House colleagues and other allies to check out that episode, his drinking habits and temperament since then, according to two other people familiar with the calls at the time.
"As the governor has said, he sometimes misspeaks. He speaks like a normal person and speaks passionately about issues he cares deeply about including democracy and stopping gun violence in our school," a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign said, adding Trump and Vance "repeatedly lie and mislead about their plan to ban abortion nationwide" and other topics.
"Lying" is "just speaking passionately" -- when a Marxist does it.
BDW
@BryanDeanWright
What a regime headline.
Chris Stigall
@ChrisStigall
I think the word you're looking for is "lie." Walz has a tendency to lie.
WATCH: Scott Jennings leaves CNN panel speechless as he torches Tim Walz's lame excuse of being "too dumb to tell the truth."
This is glorious.
Jennings quickly pointed out that "everybody seems to be worried" about Trump and Vance's dishonesty, but nobody is looking at Tim Walz, "who gave the most disastrous response to a question about his own dishonesty, about being in Tiananmen Square that I've ever heard in a debate."
Walz made claims that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. However, he admitted during the VP debate that he "misspoke" and called himself a "knucklehead" for doing so.
Jennings is not happy with that answer.
"He also did the same thing with Dan Bash when questioned about dishonesty a couple of months ago. And effectively, what he has said is, 'Sorry, guys, I'm too dumb to tell the truth.' I mean, he called himself a knucklehead. I have bad grammar. This is a guy who holds himself up to be a schoolteacher and a coach. Is that the life lesson he's giving the kids that are under his care?" he asked.
"We spend 99% of our time going down rabbit holes about Vance and Trump and honesty in campaigns, and we spend no time, no time at all holding Walz and Harris to the same standard, and I don't understand it."
@ScottJenningsKY nailed it. This is 56 seconds well worth watching.
WATCH: Scott Jennings leaves CNN panel speechless as he torches Tim Walz's lame excuse of being "too dumb to tell the truth."
This is glorious.
Jennings quickly pointed out that “everybody seems to be worried” about Trump and Vance's dishonesty, but nobody is looking at… pic.twitter.com/ZMdzFyrKAW
Jen Psaki Interviews the Guy Who Impregnated His Nanny and Demanded She Abort It and Later Allegedly Punched His Girlfriend in Public; She Asks Him What It Feels Like to be the New Model of Masculinity Update: Even More Redefining of Masculinity
—Ace
Megyn Kelly sets it up, then plays the Jen Psaki propaganda package at 1:38:
By the way, the "punched" in the headline might not be hyperbole. The friends of the lawyer that The 'Hoff hit were not clear about whether the blow was a slap or punch.
The 'Hoff continues to decline to comment.
Stu Burguiere
@StuDoesAmerica
"Hey Doug! You're redefining masculinity!" is low-key one of the most devastating insults of all time
Update: British leftwing PM Keir Starmer is also redefining masculinity:
Chris Murphy Proposes Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory: Netanyahu Isn't Fighting the War to Save His Nation, But Just to Deny Harris the Ceasefire She Craves and Thereby "Influence" the US Elections
Didn't Zelenskyy literally just campaign with Democrats in Pennsylvania? A state I'm guessing has a good-sized Ukranian population?
The background for this antisemitic conspiracy theory is that American Muslims insanely believe that Kamala Harris is "pro-Israel" (meaning, she is not courageous enough to speak the truth, which is that she supports all terrorism and all crimes against "non-diverse" people, of whatever country). They're withholding their support and votes, and the Democrat Party needs to give them a political deliverable -- saving their terrorist allies from a final reckoning.
This is the "Uncommitted" movement, Muslims declaring they will not vote for Harris until she demands an arms embargo against Israel. (While we continue giving Hamas and Iran money, naturally.)
The Democrats can't go that far, at least not openly. So what they need as a second-best option is for Netanyahu to voluntarily pull their fat out of the fire by allowing murderous terrorists to escape to maim, kill, and rape again.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says he's worried Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be trying to influence the U.S. presidential election by showing little interest in striking a peace deal with Hamas and instead escalating the threat of a broader war in the Middle East by aggressively confronting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Murphy acknowledged that the prospect of peace in Gaza before Election Day does not seem likely and that Netanyahu appears to have an eye on domestic U.S. politics as he wages a bombing campaign deep into Lebanon targeting Hezbollah.
"I certainly worry that Prime Minister Netanyahu is watching the American election as he makes decisions about his military campaigns in the north and in Gaza," Murphy told CNN's Erin Burnett.
"I hope this is not true, but it is certainly a possibility that the Israeli government is not going to sign any diplomatic agreement prior to the American election as a means, potentially, to try to influence the result," Murphy said, alluding to the deep divisions among the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza.
Murphy said he hopes he is wrong in that assessment but stated that the evidence is pointing toward that conclusion.
"I don't think you have to be a hopeless cynic to read some of Israel's actions, some of Prime Minister Netanyahu's actions, as connected to the American election," Murphy said.
The lack of a peace deal in Gaza is a politically liability for President Biden and Vice President Harris most prominently in Michigan, which is home to a large population of Palestinian Americans and other people of Middle Eastern heritage.
How small-minded and provincial. Murphy is obsessed with winning the American presidential election, so he assumes everyone else in the world must have this same priority. Netanyahu isn't fighting a three-front war against Hamas, Hezballah, and Murphy's pals in Iran because of 10/7 and an intolerable 30+ years of nonstop terrorism; no, it must be because he rilly cares who's in the White House.
In addition, this is an antisemitic conspiracy theory straight up: No one would have any doubts about this if someone the left could claim was "on the right" said that American politics were controlled from Tel Aviv.
But when a leftist says the same thing, it's... what? Just Askin' Questions?
Noted Right-Wing Extremist amateur webzine Slate has written that Kamala Harris is, get this, lying about Israel. This article -- which I bet was pitched to Slate by a Harris staffer -- tries to explain to American Muslims that Kamala Harris actually supports Hamas, she's just using vague and deceptive language to say so.
It wasn't so much what she said. It was how she said it.
"Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas," Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Aug. 10. It was a standard line, used many, many times by officials seeking to defend Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.
But watch the video of the moment: Her discomfort is obvious. She raises her hands, palms outward, as if to say, Look. "I mean, Israel has a right ..."--and she pauses.
"... to ..."--her hands circle in the air, as if she's searching for adequate words for the situation.
"... go after the terrorists that are Hamas," she finishes at last. She sounds deeply exasperated. "But," she adds--and now her hands are clasped, her words fluent--"as I have said many, many times: They also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties."
These are the same words President Joe Biden himself has used many times to condemn civilian deaths, even as his administration has shoveled money to the Israeli war machine and provided diplomatic cover for its leaders. The difference is largely in Harris' tone.
"Sometimes, it's the music and not the words," says Jeremy Ben-Ami, director of the advocacy group J Street, which supports Palestinian self-determination. "I think there's a real sense that this is not just lip service, but she really means it, and I think that comes across."
Slate gives away the game here: This article is directed at pro-Hamas Muslims. It wants to decode Harris' Yassir Arafat-like language for them, and let them know what she's really saying:
But not everyone in the Palestinian-advocacy world is picking up the melody that Ben-Ami is hearing. For them, Harris' statements on Israel are frustratingly vague or infuriatingly routine.
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There remain several unknowns in terms of Harris' beliefs about and plans for policy in the region if she's elected. Is it possible that Harris, who has built her campaign on a distaste for bullies, feels a true moral outrage about Israel's brutal and asymmetrical war? Does she view anti-Zionists as a voter bloc worth listening to? Would her administration depart from her predecessor's unwavering support for the Israel Defense Forces? Americans who care about the slaughter in Gaza are waiting for an unambiguous answer.
"We need more than words," says (Hamas activist] Latif. "We need action, which means an arms embargo."
But Harris can't personally take that action, as the vice president--at least not now, not without great political cost. Nor does she have much room for explicit statements of support. There is reason to believe Harris is trying to signal that she is sympathetic with the cause of Uncommitted or open to their goals. But a small yet significant number of voters, on all sides of the issue, are waiting on a more definitive answer to decide whether to cast a ballot for her. And in an election as close as this, what those voters decide she believes and plans to do in Israel-Palestine could help determine whether she wins the White House. For Latif and others, subtle signs might not be enough.
Harris may be singing their tune, but they might not hear her.
So she is "singing this tune," "subtly."
That's not me, a right-wing extremist conspiracy-theorist disinformation-pushing racist who obviously hates women, saying that. Obviously I'm a RUSSIAN operative and an unindicted J6 insurrectionist incel working with Macedonian Content Farmers to subvert our precious democracy.
Me, you can and should dismiss.
But I'm not saying this.
It's leftwing propaganda organ Slate saying this. And obviously, all claims made by leftwing propaganda mills are self-verifying and unquestionably true.
Meanwhile, Chris Murphy has himself met with Islamic State terrorists to undermine Trump's Iran policy:
David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyi
Remember when @ChrisMurphyCT secretly met with Islamic State terror regime officials in Munich -- of all places -- to undermine the Trump administration's Iranian policy?
Dem Iran coddling is a big reason Israel finds itself under attack.
A friend tells me that Chris Murphy is also Qatar's man in the Senate -- Qatar is the sponsor and protector of Hamas, of course. I imagine Iran is a bigger sponsor, but Qatar is the second-biggest sponsor and protector.
Iran launched the largest ballistic missile attack in history against Israeli civilians yesterday and the New York Times, “paper of record,” calls it a “flare up.” pic.twitter.com/Pquo807oyT
Iran launching 200 ballistic missiles at Israel is a "flare up," and they bemoan this attack because it "poses problems for Democrats" and because it means that Kamala Harris may have to say something about it. This will interfere with her extremely anti-democratic election strategy on absolutely refusing to say what her policies might end up one day being.
My my my! How small-minded and provincial are our "cosmopolitan elites"! Everything is always about their local trivial political obsessions!
FEMA runs out of money as Trump Jr. blasts admin for diverting $1 billion to illegal immigrants
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has warned that FEMA "does not have the funds to make it through [hurricane] season" as it continues to respond to natural disasters. Donald Trump Jr. blasted the Biden administration in response, criticizing it for diverting nearly $1 billion in FEMA funds to shelter illegal immigrants, arguing the money should have been allocated for disaster relief efforts.
Key Details:
Mayorkas, during a press briefing on Wednesday, stated that FEMA "does not have the funds to make it through the season" as the agency grapples with ongoing disaster recovery from Hurricane Helene.
Trump Jr. accused the Biden administration of depleting FEMA's emergency response funds by funneling nearly $1 billion into the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), which supports illegal immigrants.
Critics, including Trump Jr., argue that the diverted funds could have been better used for disaster relief, particularly as FEMA faces a shortfall during an intense hurricane season.
Trucker Ryan Tyre, who has done private-sector disaster relief -- you know, providing the stuff that shows up on time and under budget -- laid bare yesterday FEMA's dirty little secret. While his group was trying to bring in supplies to the Florida Keys, isolated by Hurricane Irma in 2017, authorities tried turning them away:
The federal agencies had US1 shut down just South of Key Largo and wouldn't let anyone in or out, even though the road was okay to pass.
We explained to them that we had boats, Jet skis, food, water, chainsaws and fuel to bring these people.
They didn't care and wouldn't let us in.
Tyre and his people snuck in by boat anyway, and a Key West local -- thrilled to be getting water and other necessities from Tyre -- explained that "FEMA had set up a command center at a local high school on the island, but that they weren't doing anything to help the residents, not even bringing them WATER!"
For five days.
It's much the same in North Carolina, where state and federal officials have been leaving American citizens stranded in the floods. Helicopters are needed to save people, and the feds have sent... a couple. And are blocking civilian rescuers from flying.
Jonathan Howard with Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit assisting with aerial recovery in North Carolina following the damage of Hurricane Helene, delivered a video message explaining what is really happening on the ground.
"I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don't have a f*cking clue and they're lying," Howard said.
"I don't know why they're doing it," Howard said of the federal response. "I don't know what kind of conspiracy I've heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to f*cking die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the f*cking world right now."
I'll say this now. I'll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.
If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.
They're 10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There's no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we're dropping down and saving them.
What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they're showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she'd be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them.
I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That's it.
No one's out there doing rescues. I have my entire team up here from Florida right now and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to. And the people that are in dire need, they're out in the mountains.
They are completely cut off. Now I will say I spoke to my Congresswoman down in Florida and she's a badass and she made a bunch of phone calls and now we got two contracted 60s coming up here tomorrow, which is great. I love that, but like I still don't understand why we don't have more helicopters.
Like we'll get a lot of work done with that, but there's no, there's no military. There's no, no one's doing nothing. I just, it blows my mind.
And they're not even allowing people to see what's really going on. One of our friends yesterday, they were actually escorting CNN down to Lake Lure and they wouldn't even let CNN, the sheriff department would not let them go videotape the bad areas of how destructive it is. I don't know why they don't want to show you all that, but I mean, it is bad.
He says that his public pressure campaign has worked, and now civilians are donating their helicopters to save people. I guess the feds still have their thumbs up their asses, booking hotel rooms for illegals.
🚨Update from Jonathan Howard🚨
You guys made Jonathan’s post go viral and it blew everything up. Title 10 bullshit was resolved, more helicopters on the way…..
If Jonathan hadn’t gone viral, 100’s of thousands of people would have died.
Shana Tova! The year is starting out rather well, with the stupendous military and intelligence achievements of the last few weeks showing the Muslim and Arab world that there is indeed a fist inside the glove of Israel.
As any student of Islam will tell you, it is a religion (or more accurately a political philosophy) that recognizes power, and more importantly for the future fortunes of the West...it recognizes weakness. Sadly it sees weakness in abundance in every Western capitol, and Islam will continue its march across the West until a 21st Century King Sobieski leads his Hussars against it and crushes its expansionism...for now.
But we have Israel...tiny little Israel...leading the charge. It is not big enough or strong enough, nor does it have the support of the West; in fact quite the opposite. But at least it will defend its neighborhood against the depredations of Islam and its current representative: Iran. Even the Mullahs are reeling, with Khamenei in hiding and their vaunted missile force neutered in an attack against Israel just a few nights ago. Israel's very Western love of life and its people was the driving force behind the incredible success of its defenses...shelters for its people, and a technological marvel in its missile defenses.
Contrast that with the billions that Hamas and Hezbollah spent on terrorist infrastructure... under the homes of their so-called people!
That is the difference...and that is what will save the West. When we rise up and say, "Enough!" and begin to defend our people and our culture and our institutions from the hordes that mean to drag us back to the 7th Century.
When will that happen? Who knows! Will it happen at all? Yes. There is a spark in all of us that desires freedom and liberty. Eventually it will win out. Perhaps not before we descend into the darkness of totalitarianism, or perhaps we will rise up before that...
Good Morning Kids. And I want to wish all of you, Jew and Gentile alike L'shona tovah for a sweet new year ahead. As we look at what's happening in Israel, we are once again reminded of the cost of freedom. As of this morning's report, there are at least 8 Israeli soldiers who are reported KIA in the latest battle with Hezbollah, along with however many who gave their lives in eradicating Hamas in Gaza, along with unarmed civilians shot, beaten, raped and abused to death, including babies roasted alive in front of their parents. On top of the past 75 years of wars and terrorist attacks since the modern nation state of Eretz Israel was RE-established in 1948 on the land where it had always been for thousands of years prior. It is after all the new year of 5785.
The American experiment, lest we forget, was given life by men who patterned it on Judeo-Christian tradition and history. Also, as our national cemeteries, and your own family histories can attest, paid many times over in blood and treasure to preserve. And as you scan the links, and in bitter truth, experience economic and even social hardships as a result of the gradual and now rapid abandonment and dissolution of the American experiment by a political movement and its party that is every bit as evil and implacable as Islam is in its multi-generational zeal to eradicate Judaism and Christianity around the globe, in its quest for absolute permanent power.
Given not just the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, but those of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, JFK and Reagan. By any means necessary is not just blather coming from Al Sharpton's bullhorn. They mean business.
So, Doug Emhoff pimp-slapped his girlfriend in public at Cannes back in 2012. Trump said "pussy" and was falsely accused of rape while committing the heinous crime against humanity of throwing a monkey wrench into the Left Globalists' plan of Fundamental transformation of America into a shithole socialist state. And for that he and all of us who stand in the way of that need to be put in our place. Ultimately, as history sadly teaches us, if we do nothing and continue on the path we are headed, will be a mass grave or the lake of ashes at Birkenau.
MSNBC host Joy Reid said Tuesday night during her network’s vice-presidential debate analysis that the Democratic Party base wants a “fist fight” debate with former President Donald Trump getting a “knuckle sandwich.”
Ah yes, that keen, highly cultured insight that elevates the discourse. They keep talking about how Kamala is bringing "JOY" to the election, or something. Maybe this is the Joy they mean? Or is it Behar. It sure isn't dishwashing liquid. Speaking of knuckle sandwiches, maybe we can get Doug Emhoff to the MSNSDAP set for a demo. As I await the man in the van from the ministry of truth and reconciliation.
Now that the Great Walz of China has flamed out, and Trump seems to be on the rise across most key demographics and in swing states, even so-called Democrat blue wall states and every state in the union, is this moldy oldie all that's left for the Left. Heck, the USSS is understaffed and underfunded (pfft), surely they can dig up another patsy with a gun from Central casting, nein?
Special Counsel Jack Smith regurgitated Democrats’ phony “fake electors” smear in his latest brief filed against Donald Trump in federal court on Wednesday. Smith previously indicted Trump for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Writing in his 165-page screed about Trump’s legal efforts challenging the results of the 2020 contest, Smith claimed that Trump engaged in criminal activity by, among other alleged actions, “manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states.” This “plan,” the Merrick Garland appointee contended, was designed to “cause” Trump electors in these states to “sign and send to [Vice President Mike Pence], as President of the Senate, certifications in which they falsely represented themselves as legitimate electors who had cast electoral votes for [Trump].”
. . . It’s worth mentioning that Democrats had no problem advocating for electors to vote differently during the 2016 election following Trump’s victory against Hillary Clinton. As my colleague Jordan Boyd previously highlighted, corporate media ran “[a]rticles demanding state electors ‘prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office’ and overrule Americans to install Hillary Clinton as president” as part of their efforts to keep Trump from taking office.
Smith’s brief comes months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents possess “absolute immunity” for “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” and “at least presumptive immunity” for “official acts.” The high court separately noted, however, that “[t]here is no immunity for unofficial acts,” and remanded the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s get-Trump lawfare back to the lower courts to determine whether certain actions alleged by Smith constitute “official acts.”
The entire case, along with the 1/6/21 as a Trump-led insurrection against the government reeks to high heaven. But to do this literally weeks before the election and just one day after the VP debate which could prove to have been a pretty big-ass nail in their chances to legitimately win said election, given the world going up in flames all around us, and Kamala and Biden holding a can of gasoline and matches for everyone to see, seems to me as if they know they've got nothing left.
Have a good day.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
A look at the Biden junta's key players show shocking antipathy for the United States and one of our greatest allies. The War against America and Israel
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
Israel is determined to respond and says that it will do so in a place, time, and manner of its choosing. But the Biden junta, which told Israel to limit its response to the first attack in April, appears to want to restrain Israel again. Biden Says Israel Should Not Hit Iran’s Nuclear Program; Act ‘Proportionally’
Additionally, by lifting political and economic pressure on Iran, the Biden-Harris government has allowed for the proliferation and rearmament of Iranian terrorist proxies throughout the region, including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The rearmament of these three terror groups culminated in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, which saw nearly 1,200 Israelis killed by a gunman who mostly paraglided into the Jewish state from Gaza. Biden-Harris Ended Trump’s Squeeze on Iran. Now The Region is at War Again.
Robert Spencer: The twentieth-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen states a standard Muslim view when he asserts that while human beings cannot see jinn, “undoubtedly the jinn can have a harmful effect on humans, and they could even kill them.” Hmmm. Did the jinns not only lead the Israelis to Nasrallah but do him in themselves? Iranian Muslim Cleric Says Israelis Had Supernatural Help to Kill Hezbollah’s Nasrallah
Robert Spencer Part Deux: Are the “Palestinians” really the indigenous people of the area? Indigenous People? Really?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
It’s high time we come to know the Mexican Martyrs, as we face the anti-Catholic beast prowling about in America. (Hat tip to commenter Kathy from Kansas - jjs) American Cristeros
Multiple conservative news sources are reporting on the latest: the massive fine and potential property seizure that Trudeau’s government will impose on Amish farmers for not complying to his insane, privacy-invading, travel surveillance diktats. Castreau-Cescu Fines Amish For Not Putting COVID App on Phones They Don't Own
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
As of July 2024, ICE has allowed over 662,000 criminal non-citizens, including those convicted or charged with serious crimes like homicide and sex offenses, into the country. The New Data on Migrant Crime
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: In the ever-evolving coverup of the coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop, it was instructive to hear a recent interchange between Dan Goldman, the odious New York Democrat, and Texas Republican August Pfluger, a decorated former fighter pilot, in the House Homeland Security Committee last week. Hunter Biden’s 51 spies who lied are well overdue for their day in court
Chutkan wrote there is “no support” for Trump’s attorneys’ accusations that the government is driven by “bad-faith partisan bias,” ordering Smith’s 165-page brief on presidential immunity to be filed on the public docket. For weeks, Trump’s attorneys have argued Smith should not be allowed to file the motion, which they claimed would do little more than allow prosecutors to make their case in the “court of public opinion” ahead of the election. Judge Chutkan Releases Jack Smith’s Massive Brief Detailing Evidence Against Trump
Special Counsel Jack Smith regurgitated Democrats’ phony “fake electors” smear in his latest brief filed against Donald Trump in federal court on Wednesday. Smith previously indicted Trump for questioning the administration of the 2020 election. Jack Smith Parrots Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Smear In Latest Get-Trump Court Brief
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the Democrat Party was “weaponizing” the DOJ against him “because they know” he is winning, pointing out that this unsealed motion came after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s vice presidential running mate, “humiliated” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday. Trump Slams DOJ, Jack Smith Over Unsealed Motion in Election Interference Case: ‘Hit Job’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Heading into the debate, media members appeared to believe Vance would perform well considering his experience of winning a bruising Senate Republican primary in 2022. Vance’s performance fulfilled their expectations.“Vance’s Dominant Debate Performance Shows Why He’s Trump’s Running Mate,” Ross Douthat titled a New York Times column: Debate Reviews: Media Elite Admit JD Vance’s Performance Was Spectacular
While it’s no secret Democrats have become increasingly totalitarian in their views on what should be considered protected free speech, Walz solidified the Harris campaign’s position on the matter while trying to pull a “gotcha” moment on vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance at Tuesday’s debate. Walz Solidifies Harris Policy Position That Would Transform Country As We Know It
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Climate alarmists, despite what CBS debate moderators asserted, “can't demonstrate that emissions are really having any effects on anything other than maybe they're helping the planet get greener, which means there's more life,” Junk Science’s Steve Milloy told PJ Media. Exclusive: Expert Calls Out VP Debate Moderators’ Climate Lies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Schools should be secure, hard targets. School shooters should face severe punishment, including execution, if caught alive. Our stance on mass murderers must be unrelenting. How to Stop School Shootings
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Remizov, a senior originally from Russia, set up the display with permission from the administration. It involved an array of American flags, and a banner showing the 9/11 Memorial in New York, as well as the 9/11 Memorial in Israel. Students at Saint Louis University Disciplined for 9/11 Memorial
The amazing thing is that Carter does not dispute the premise of Novak's question. He simply says he does not know at what point in the preborn child's development you cross the line from abortion to murder. While I see this as a distinction without a difference, Carter is at least acknowledging the humanity of the preborn child. That is something the modern Democrat Party and politicians like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz reject out of hand. Jimmy Carter Asks: When Is Abortion Murder?
THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus Anticipated 2024 Shenanigans
“Smurfing” is actually quite dangerous. It relates to taking large donations and breaking them into a series of smaller donations to mask that they are large donations in order to get around campaign finance law limits, Schweizer explains. The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is currently investigating about fifty different threats to American elections, and “smurfing” campaign contributions is one of the least understood ways of corrupting American elections. Peter Schweizer Explains: What Is ‘Smurfing,’ and How Does It Threaten Election Integrity?
According to the memo from the RNC’s director of election integrity, Gineen Bresso, and senior advisor for election integrity, Josh Helton, the RNC has “devoted unprecedented resources” to making sure election integrity is in place across the country. The memo explains their achievements and what else they hope to accomplish before the elections. The memo also states that the RNC has hired over 115 paid staff to facilitate volunteer training at the state level. EXCLUSIVE: RNC Recruited Hundreds Of Thousands Of Volunteers, Thousands Of Lawyers To Ensure Election Integrity
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
his virtuoso close summarizing the entire campaign’s core issues in a nutshell: how it’s more difficult for Americans to “turn on their heat,” “afford a nice meal,” “buy a house,” “live in safe neighborhoods” and “not have your communities flooded with fentanyl.” Beyond ‘Defining’ To Shining: 5 Ways JD Vance Flipped The Script
Last night, J.D. Vance made the MAGA worldview – nationalism, populism, Trumpism, or whatever you call it – sound not just smart, or substantive, but rather, like something that could form the basis for a new bipartisan American consensus. JD Vance didn’t just win, he showed America how issues should be debated
Last night’s vice presidential debate showcased more than just the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates. A Revealing Exchange
Walz failed in his primary mission: to humanize Mrs. Kamala Harris and seal the deal with America’s voters. Little Timmy's failed mission
“Democrats keep saying [Trump] is going to bring down the economy, but he was already president for four years, and taxes were lower,” former Hillary Clinton supporter Gabriel Lopez told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday. “We’re tired of the same politics. We got a different type of guy, and the people actually love him.” Working-Class Voters in Philadelphia Realign with Republicans
During her tenure in the Senate, Harris was a known progressive ally and supported liberal policies such as the Green New Deal, decriminalizing illegal immigration, and banning fracking. Harris’s legislative record won her the title of most liberal senator. Since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has walked back several of those far-left policies, but Omar said she is encouraged by Harris’s far-left Senate record, the Post reported. 'It’s About Seeing How Far We Can Push Her Once She Wins': Bro-Fo Omar and Fellow Progressives Plot To Push Harris Further Left Post-Election
Despite young people in many European countries, including Germany and France, opting for the populist right in recent elections, the think tank alleged that the preponderance of native European politicians in the EU Parliament could undermine backing from “young people” in the bloc for the globalist political project. Europe Being Held Back by ‘Whiteness’, Claims Soros-Backed Think Tank
While it is unknown whether the disruptions may be related to possible cyber attacks, hostile hacking operations against the United States have increased in recent years. Last year, Iran-backed hackers broke into critical U.S. infrastructure in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where the local Municipal Water Authority announced that a water pump on a drinking water supply line had been taken over. Bank of America Outage Leaves Customers with Zeroed Out Account Balances.
HURRICANE HELENE AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS DEBACLE
“I try not to cuss but I am just so mad at the lack of Government support and I need people to hear how desperate this situation is,” Howard wrote in his caption. “I don’t have time to be nice or gentle right now. People are literally dying by the day here and it can all be fixed with Helicopters. It’s like our Government wants these people to die. They’re so incompetent, disorganized, and dishonest it’s disgusting.” Politicians Are Hindering Rescue Efforts in North Carolina, and One Rescuer Has Had Enough
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“A Democrat-run city or state is more likely to take away your plastic straw.Progressives of an earlier era understood that carrots had to accompany sticks.” The Death and Life of Progressive Urbanism
It must be emphasized that this notice is from the Coast Guard, not the FAA. The FAA has said nothing new about SpaceX’s launch license application. This notice suggests several possiblilites, all or none of
which may be true. Mid-October date for the 5th Starship/Superheavy test orbital launch?
While some might argue that Matt Walsh happened to highlight a few imbeciles at the top of the DEI hierarchy, my own little experiment suggests gullibility is endemic to the field. Was Am I Racist? a one-off?
Sources close to the situation confirmed the deal has gone firm, according to Variety. The iconic British Rock Band holds one of the most valuable collections in contemporary music, and the band was involved in negotiations with Sony for several years before they were able to find common ground. Their classic albums including “Dark Side of the Moon,” “The Wall,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Meddle,” and “Animals” are among the long list believed to be included in the sale, according to Variety. Pink Floyd Reportedly Sells Music Rights To Sony For A Whopping $400 Million
Bernard-Henri Lévy deems Israel a “hearth that radiates a light and a language without which a part of humanity would be lost.” A Beacon of Hope
NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
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The FBI obtained two of the New York mayor's phones under a warrant served almost a year ago, but they still haven't managed to access any data.
Adams changed the password after the warrant was served - to prevent staff from deleting information that was required for the investigation, he says - and then promptly forgot it.
The Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 PC limited edition PC case is winging its way toward me as we speak. Or as I write and you read. Or trucking its way.
The shipment of Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 limited edition PC cases to Australia disappeared into the Nether, so I broke down and finally ordered it directly from the US, exorbitant shipping and all.
The site took my money and then promptly crashed, because of course it did.
It competes with Asus' Flashtor models, which come in 6 and 12 slot versions, but has more oomph. The 8 core N305 CPU is more than twice as fast as the older 4 core model in the Asus unit.
It's a bit fiddly to install and the operating system is meh, but it can deliver a steady 9Gbps over the network.
The Spruce Pine quartz mine - the source of the purest natural quartz in the world - supplies critical materials used in every single leading-edge chip manufacturing plant.
"This is second order of priority," The Quartz Corp said in a statement. "Our top priority remains the health and safety of our employees and their families."
“I got one of those bills from the IRS saying, you owe this much on this year, you owe this much on this year because of failure to pay on time — here’s the interest that’s accrued,” a former hostage who is a Washington Post reporter, Jason Rezaian, told NPR. Mr. Rezaian faced more than $6,000 in fees for unpaid taxes following his release after 544 days of detention in Iran. “This is an oversight that nobody really thought about.” Washington Post reporter, Jason Rezaian
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"It sucks that after the reduction I now don't have breasts to fill up bras", Esmerelda, 21,
I want you Morons to know, it is your fault that this adolescent grown man is homeless. OK, it's 15 minutes long that you will never get back. And your BP may spike into stroke range. You have been warned.
'CRITICAL WORK' Kamala Harris boasted about locking up domestic abusers weeks before husband Doug Emhoff’s ‘attack on ex’ was exposed
Emhoff previously spoke out about an affair with his daughter's nanny during his first marriage
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It's that time of year again. No not the run up to the election. Pumpkin crap galore.
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Does anyone have the address for Hezbollah? The ONT has a cake for it.
HORROR TRIP Man amputates his OWN penis and stores it in a jar – as doctors issue harrowing drug warning
The man smuggled magic mushrooms into the hospital, stashing them on his bedside table
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I thought about saving this for the Saturday ONT. But, I thought it was too good to wait. (No. I'm not using this as filler material.)
I don’t have the precise reference, but I am confident that someone somewhere told us that women’s advancement would not be at the expense of men. A rising tide lifts all boats, they say.
Feminists might not have wanted to use the phrase, because it makes them sound stupid, but they have promised women that they could have it all.
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Eco Loons Who Threw Soup On Van Gogh Painting Sent To Prison,
Two attention seeking Just Stop Oil loons have been sentenced to two years and twenty months in prison respectively after they threw soup at the priceless Sunflowers painting by Van Gogh.
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L'Shana Tova to the Jewish members of the Horde, and well-done on starting holiday on Wednesday night, rolling right into that coveted four-day weekend. (I got "L'Shana Tova" from Peaches.)
And: Whoops! I forget to hit publish. I've been busy zapping the 300+ tabs I've opened the past couple of weeks.
Biden finally left his beach vacation in Delaware to tour the hurricane-ravaged areas of North Carolina. He blamed global warming. Amazingly, this vegetable called anyone who denied that global warming caused the hurricane braindead.
People are noting that Harris-Biden have been "fighting global warming" for three and three quarters years and yet weren't able to stop this hurricane. So... more of the same, I guess?
First, Biden told the American people to fund their own disaster relief for Hurricane Helene.
Now, we are learning that the Biden admin's FCC nuked 20,000 Starlink terminals that could have saved lives in North Carolina.
This is happening because the Biden admin decided to prioritize political battles with Elon Musk over providing solutions to the American people.
In August 2022, the FCC blocked 20,000 Starlink terminals meant to deliver high-speed internet to rural areas, including those now suffering the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
These terminals could have been a lifeline for emergency communication. Instead, the administration left entire regions dangerously unprepared, risking countless lives.
As one frustrated X user put it perfectly, "This is a classic case of elections having real-world consequences. The Biden administration's grudge against Musk's companies is costing lives."
Kamala Harris has previously been slammed by her own staff for refusing to read the briefing books they prepare for her, then attacking them when she's exposed as an uninformed airhead who doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about.
Vice President Kamala Harris is at the center of a new storm for forgoing annual hurricane season preparedness briefings that were a staple of her predecessor Mike Pence's calendar -- with critics arguing the omission reflects how she may govern as president.
Foes of the Democratic presidential nominee highlighted the missing briefings as the death toll from Hurricane Helene passed 143 in the Southeast -- as Harris scrambled back to Washington from Las Vegas Monday to attend a FEMA briefing and booked a trip Wednesday to storm-hit Augusta, Ga.
"Harris hasn't demonstrated the ability -- or desire -- to do the apolitical parts of the job that have a huge impact on our lives," a former Pence aide told The Post as criticism of the flat-footed federal response to Helene became a campaign issue. "Why should Americans trust her to start in the Oval Office?"
Flashback: Kamala Harris has stated that disaster relief should be allocated based on race.
Vice President Kamala Harris once suggested in 2022 that disaster relief should prioritize "equity" in distribution, with a focus on communities of color.
Key Details:
In a September 2022 event, Harris proposed disaster relief should be distributed based on equity, especially benefiting those hardest hit by natural disasters, including low-income and minority communities.
Harris stated, "We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity," stressing that addressing inequality is crucial when determining aid.
FEMA's 2022-2026 strategic plan aligns with Harris' comments, with its primary goal being to "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management."
— Brad Slager: A Folksy Coach & Joyful As a K-Hive! (@MartiniShark) October 2, 2024
Cruelty Enthusiast VDH on the debate:
Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
Debate Postmortem
J.D. Vance, as anticipated, easily won the debate on demeanor, facts, and analysis. But in fairness to a sometimes herky-jerky and nervous Tim Walz, he had the harder task of defending the temporary make-over of Harris, her co-culpability for the last three-and-a-half-years of the Biden disaster, and her unwillingness to implement her supposedly "change" agenda in the last months of her vice-presidential tenure.
The moderators, Nora O'Donnell, and, especially, Margaret Brennan, also as expected, ganged up on Vance. The had learned nothing, and forgot nothing from the last disastrous, and biased debate moderators--now proving the wisdom of Donald Trump's refusal to do any more network debates other than on Fox.
The two moderators shamelessly broke their own rules by fact-checking (wrongly and solely) Vance. They ignored questions of the administration's reactions to Hurricane Helene, the Ukraine war, the recent Trump assassination attempts, or crime, while only briefly touching on Iran and a Middle East on the brink of total war.
Instead, they concentrated, as also expected, on climate change, abortion, health care, and childcare. All were issues they thought might more easily embarrass Vance. And, of course, as also expected, the two ended the debate pressing Vance on January 6.
And yet Vance again won decisively. In doing so, he dispelled the smear that he was somehow "mean", when, in fact, he proved calm and magnanimous as he dissected Walz.
The nation perhaps learned that Trump selected him to articulate his MAGA positions, and perhaps in a manner superior to Trump's own. In contrast, Harris picked Walz. assuming he would not upstage her and perhaps by his limitations would make her look more competent in comparison.
The debate will give some momentum to Trump-Vance in the last month of the campaign.
It follows the lethargic Biden-Harris reaction to Hurricane Helene, whose toll in human life and property had been initially and vastly ignored by the media.
It follows the growing specter of a theater-wide Middle East war, as Israel faces off against Iran and its appendages (all empowered after 2020 by Biden-Harris).
It follows the chaos of a longshoremen's strike intended to shut down the country.
And it follows Harris's continued inability to survive serial soft-ball interviews without her memorized and banal answers.
As a result, the slow hemorrhaging of Harris-Walz will likely still continue in the last month of the election.
Steve Cortes
@CortesSteve
.@JDVance's closing statement in the vice presidential debate was excellent and worth rewatching:
"I want to thank Governor Walz, you folks at CBS and, of course, the American people for tuning in this evening.
And one of the issues we didn't talk about was energy. And I remember when I was being raised by my grandmother, when she didn't have enough money to turn on the heat some nights because Ohio gets pretty cold at night and because money was often very tight. And I believe, as a person who wants to be your next Vice President, that we are a rich and prosperous enough country where every American, whether they're rich or poor, ought to be able to turn on their heat in the middle of a cold winter night.
That's gotten more difficult thanks to Kamala Harris's energy policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor, you ought to be able to afford a nice meal for your family. That's gotten harder because of Kamala Harris's policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor you ought to be able to afford to buy a house. You ought to be able to live in safe neighborhoods. You ought to not have your communities flooded with fentanyl. And that, too, has gotten harder with Kamala, because of Kamala Harris's policies.
Now, I've been in politics long enough to do what Kamala Harris does when she stands before the American people and says that on day one she's gonna work on all these challenges I just listed. She's been the Vice President for three and a half years. Day one was 1400 days ago. And her policies have made these problems worse.
Now I believe that we have the most beautiful country in the world. I meet people on the campaign trail who can't afford food, but have the grace and generosity to ask me how I'm doing and to tell me they're praying for my family. What that has taught me is that we have the greatest country, the most beautiful country, the most incredible people anywhere in the world. But they're not going to be able to achieve their full dreams with the broken leadership that we have in Washington. They're not going to be able to live their American Dream if we do the same thing that we've been doing for the last three and a half years. We need change. We need a new direction. We need a President who has already done this once before and did it well. Please vote for Donald Trump. And whether you vote for me or vote for Tim Walz, I just want to say I'm so proud to be doing this, and I'm rooting for you. God bless you and good night."
Real News Site Politico: Walz's Deer-In-the-Headlights Look Showed "Passion," Whereas JD Vance's Beard Demonstrated Toxic Masculinity Which Is Off-Putting to Strong Empowered Women
—Ace
Did Margaret Brennan seem personally invested in attacking JD Vance?
It wasn't just ideology -- it's her Biden-"advisor" husband.
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Records reveal CBS News host and last night's VP debate moderator Margaret Brennan's husband worked as as foreign policy adviser to Sen. Joe Biden in 2000 and 2001
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: The real name of the anti-Trump husband of CBS debate moderator Margaret Brennan is Ali Iyad Yakub, a Muslim born to Syrian parents who wrote a 2005 paper for Miami University titled "The Islamic Roots of Democracy," arguing Sharia law embodies "justice and tolerance."
Both from JackStraw.
That's a little conflict of interest that should have been disclosed, yes? Or caused Brennan to recuse herself?
One Politico writer's "passion" is another man's "sheer terror and complete bafflement."
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
My VP debate wrap in @latimes: The political media says Trump made a terrible choice & Harris an inspired pick. The charade is over... [Walz] was barely functional... perfected a look of sheer terror and complete bafflement all at the same time."
One of my favorite copes last night was from angry Female Supremacists claiming that it was "mansplaining" for JD Vance to talk over the female "moderators," who, by the rules they agreed to, were not allowed to "fact" check at all.
They actually claimed that the man actually vying for the second highest office should be silent as two wannabe-prom-queen bitches held the floor and talked down to him:
MSNBC is now accusing JD Vance of mansplaining for trying to correct a false fact check pic.twitter.com/7uK2iUNocH
Note that she says that he should have given these bitches "the respect" they "commanded" -- but there was no reciprocal obligation to honor the debate rules agreed to with Vance.
And, of course, Norah O'Donnell actually silenced Vance by pushing the button to mute him as he corrected Brennan:
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Rewatching this, as soon as Vance corrects Walz that the CBP One app has not been around since 1990, Norah O'Donnell pushes the button under the desk.
They didn't cut the mics because there was insulting and abusive cross talk or yelling. They cut it because Vance was making a point and was right.
.@JDVance calls out moderator Margaret Brennan for attempting to "fact-check" him despite promising they wouldn't do that.
You know how I know that this app, which allows illegal aliens into the country via an illegal assertion of kingly presidential power by Savior of Democracy Joe Biden, did not exist in 1990?
Because no one was even on the internet in 1990 except for Darpa, hackers, and Star Trek nerds. The internet did not start getting big until 1994-1995. And "apps" -- by which we mean smartphone apps -- did not exist until the smartphone, which debuted, when? 2007? Something like that?
But a Man was Mansplaining the actual law and actual facts to dumb bitches who need to Assert Their Dominance, so they cut his mic so that their lies could stand as "facts."
Feminists believe that Women should talk, always, and men must humble themselves and listen, even when there are two men running for office who the country tuned into to hear from and these two bitches were just allowed on the stage to be time-keepers.
That's female supremacy.
Ace of Spades
@AceofSpadesHQ
There were two people on the stage whose beliefs and thoughts are critical to this election, and it was NOT the mouth bitches who, quite dishonorably, violated the terms of the agreement they signed.
But the voices of an anchor and a sunday talk show are "marginalized."
This was not just something that gross Cougar Whore Adulteress Nicole Wallace said. Many female supremacist, including Jessica Valenti, insisted that Women Talking must trump everyone else's right to speak, including a man whose thoughts the public was tuning in specifically to hear:
Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti
There was no way that Vance wasn't going to interrupt and talk over two female moderators.
Let's check in with a Real Strong Empowered Woman to see if she was offended by Vance's "mansplaining" or his Toxic Beard.
Gina Carano
@ginacarano
I didn't know who @JDVance was before his name was brought up to be the running mate with Donald Trump but I sure do know his name now.
Great debater, incredibly composed and well spoken.
Classy, strong, precise someone we can all be proud to call Mr. Vice President.
@realDonaldTrump made a great pick on this one.
He's chosen a loyal man who will stand next to him instead of betray him. Let's go JD Vance. Trump has also picked so many others who have joined his A- list team, u couldn't imagine a better group of people to fix this country. I'm so excited to vote.
Let's all get out and vote as a nation. Let's bring back some dignity and respect to this country especially after these disastrous last 4 years of utter embarrassment and chaos.
Margaret Brennan challenged J.D. Vance's assertion that a federal report noted that housing prices were higher partly due to illegal aliens driving up the prices for housing. She strongly implied that there was no such report -- apparently being ignorant of the supply-demand curve, that says, of course, that the higher demand for something, the higher prices will be.
But JD Vance linked the report for her, from the Fed's board of governors.
I haven't seen Norah O'Donnell, Margaret Brennan, or CBS "News" acknowledge this actual fact-check, because of course it defeats the disinformation CBS "News" specializes in.
Max Abrahms
@MaxAbrahms
Americans saw tonight how badly the media lied about Vance being weird.
Notice how the media had to stop saying that when Americans actually saw him just as the media had to stop saying Biden is sharp as a tack the moment the president was forced to debate & Americans saw him?
Walz performed so poorly that the Kamala Harris campaign is scrambling to come up with a new Fake Accent to debut this week. The front-runners are Cockney Beggar-Boy and Crocodile Dundee.
"I was born in a middle-class family. Spare a tuppence for an orphan, guv'ner?"
Our Media Betters: Noted Whore Olivia Nuzzi Alleges In Court Filings That, After This Bottle-Blonde Jezebel Porn-Bombed RFKJr. With Dirty Pictures and Sexts, Her Politico "Reporter" and Soyboy Beta Cuck Ex-Fiancee Started "Blackmailing" Her
Political scribe Ryan Lizza is taking a leave of absence from Politico after he was accused of mounting a harassment and blackmail campaign against his former fiancée, star New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, his employer said Tuesday night.
I love it. I want to marry this sentence and raise children and golden retrievers with it.
Lizza, who co-authors the outlet's popular Playbook, and Politico bosses agreed that he should step away from the job while an investigation is conducted into the allegations that first came to light in a court filing Tuesday.
"POLITICO and Ryan Lizza have mutually agreed that it is in everyone's best interest for him to step back and take a leave of absence while an investigation is conducted," the outlet told The Post in an email.
Nuzzi, 31, claims Lizza, 50, harassed her following the couple's breakup -- and amid her tryst with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to CNN, which cited court docs.
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Nuzzi was placed on leave by her employers last month after the dalliance between her and Kennedy, 70, came to light.
The two reportedly sexted each other during the fling, and sometime earlier this year, Nuzzi and Lizza broke off their engagement.
The illicit couple allegedly Toobined each other:
Sources told Page Six last week Nuzzi and Kennedy had "incredible" FaceTime sex after they had talked over text.
Has cybersex ever really been "incredible"? I mean, sure, it's better than, say, Dynasty, but isn't it just synchronized wanking?
Here comes the blackmail allegation:
Nuzzi, in a bombshell court filing revealed Tuesday, alleged Lizza "explicitly threatened to make public personal information about me to destroy my life, career, and reputation -- a threat he has since carried out," CNN reported on Tuesday.
That alone is not blackmail. Blackmail is a threat to reveal information unless the target renders some money or takes some action he doesn't want to take.
You can threaten to reveal information all you like. It's not polite, but you're allowed to tell nasty (true) stories about someone, and you're allowed to threaten to reveal it. What the law forbids is the threat plus a demand for money or an action.
What would he have demanded of her? I'm not really sure what profit he could extract from her.
But she claims he wanted to... force her to come back to him?
That would be blackmail.
And pathetic! Ugh! Who the hell would want this whore back?
And to only have her back due to coercion!
Wow, what a prize to be won!
Nuzzi claimed Lizza started the harassment at the start of July to force her back into a relationship with him, and by the next month, he allegedly stole a personal electronic device and hacked her devices, according to the filing.
He also allegedly anonymously shopped information about her to the media, with some of that intel possibly "doctored," to hurt her, the filing states.
She must have Hunter Biden's lawyers -- she's suing him for "hacking" her devices, alleging he stole private information, but also, he made it all up so it wasn't really private information at all and you should just accept these two completely contradictory claims at the same time, thank you, drive through.
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She accused him of potentially, "through a third party or anonymous channel," tipping off New York Magazine last month about what she only referred to as "the matter."
Well he's allowed to do that. It's better when adults keep each other's sexual secrets, but no one is required by law to keep them.
If you cheat on your fiance, you can expect him to take that poorly, and not share your interest in keeping your whorish behaviors on the DL.
Lizza told The Post earlier Tuesday that he is "saddened that my ex-fiancée would resort to making a series of false accusations against me as a way to divert attention from her own personal and professional failings."
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A no-contact order was reportedly granted by a judge on Tuesday that orders Lizza to stay away from Nuzzi -- a common step in domestic disputes, CNN reported.
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Lizza was ousted from the New Yorker in 2017 over what the publication called "improper sexual contact," though Lizza at the time pushed back against that assertion.
"I am dismayed that The New Yorker has decided to characterize a respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate," he said at the time, though the woman's lawyer dismissed that claim as nonsense.
As a friend remarked: these people do nothing but pose and preen as "the elite" and the New Aristocracy but every damn one of them is gross white trash.
But we need to heed their wisdom. They are all intelligent, self-disciplined, morally incorruptible, virtuous and wise.
Drive electric vehicles, you inbred low-class planet-hating bigots.
Hollywood Can't Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough: "They're Destroying Their Leases and Walking Away"
Tesla is reportedly planning a reveal of its self-driving robotaxi on the Warner Bros. lot amid widespread anger in the industry over the brand's controversial CEO, Elon Musk, resulting in a rejection of its cars.
But what of the Pharisees, O Christ?
"Journalists" have all the morals of actors and all the learning of bag-ladies.
The guy is a billionaire and everyone smells blood in the water so a lot of these allegations may just be opportunistic fabrications to get a payout. The "120 new victims" are all being represented by a lawyer and presumably they intend to sue Diddler for damages.
So room for caution. We've seen a lot of false sex abuse allegations lately. We've seen so many that they're burned into our hippocampi.
But here are the nasty allegations:
In bombshell allegations, an additional 120 victims have come forward to accuse rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs of sex abuse over a span of 25 years, with several underage victims, including a 9-year-old, among them.
The claims where made by Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee who announced he's representing 120 new victims who he believes have legitimate cases against the rapper turned media mogul.
Of the 120 new victims, 25 were underage when the alleged abuse happened between 1991 and as recently as this year, Buzbee revealed.
The youngest victims were 9, 14, 15 when they were victimized, the high-profile lawyer announced at a press conference in Houston Tuesday.
'This individual, who was 9 years old at the time, was taken to an audition in New York City with Bad Boy Records,' the attorney disclosed.
'This individual was sexually abused allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio in the promise to both his parents and to him himself of getting a record deal.'
Some of these allegations are so rancid that it makes me skeptical: Could a group of people be this evil?
'Another minor told allegedly by Sean Combs that he would make him a star, but he needed to visit with him in private about it away from his parents. Once they were in private area, allegedly Mr. Combs made the victim perform oral sex upon him,' Buzbee said.
Thousands of calls with fresh accusations have flooded Buzbee's law firm since federal prosecutors announced a federal indictment against Diddy and arrested him last week.
'An individual, 15 years old at the time, flown to New York City to attend a party was drugged and then taken into a private room allegedly in the presence of Mr. Combs where this female individual-- minor-- was raped and then other individuals took turns raping her,' Buzbee detailed.
I guess this sort of thing does happen. It's so monstrous, though, I wonder if fabrication isn't the more likely possibility.
We should try to keep two conflicting ideas in mind: First, in the American tradition, a man is innocent until proven guilty.
Second, this here c*cks*cker is obviously guilty.
He called his company "Bad Boy Records." I mean, come on.
Plus, he hangs out with this known closeted homosexual:
ABC News and its local stations group got hit with 75 job cuts Wednesday as part of an ongoing restructuring at parent company Disney.
ABC News president Almin Karmehmedovic broke the news to staffers in a memo obtained by The Post, telling them that the network has had to make some "tough decisions."
"Across the various ranks of ABC News, a limited number of our colleagues are being impacted by staff reductions," he said. "As you know this has been happening across the broader company and the industry at large in recent weeks and months."
The exec -- who was promoted to the role of president in August after serving as executive producer of top-ranked "World News Tonight with David Muir" -- said his task is "shaping a team that embraces the new media landscape" who "evolve along with it."
What It Means:
A source familiar with the situation confirmed that the layoffs impacted 75 jobs across ABC News and ABC's stations group, split about evenly.
The source added that no on air talent has been impacted at either division.
The ABC News debate may have drawn some 67 million viewers, but the network has faced nothing but headaches since. "ABC News is spiraling at the moment because there has been so much negative feedback as a result of that debate," Megyn noted. "Fair-minded people know what they did and just how biased and one-sided it was."
In addition to the bombshell accusations of journalistic malfeasance from an alleged whistleblower, viewers seem to be voicing their frustration with their remotes. Muir's World News Tonight averaged 6.7 million viewers on the three days following the debate, which is about one million less than he had been averaging in the lead-up to the event.
While the program remains the number one evening newscast on broadcast television, the 12 percent ratings drop was higher than the more negligible declines CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News saw over the same period.
Allegation: Doug Emhoff Slapped His Girlfriend In Public for Flirting with Another Man
—Ace
Wait, a woman dating Doug Emhoff flirted with another man?
That makes no sense. Doug Emhoff is a Super Alpha that men want to be and women want to be with. No woman would ever seek another man's company if she had The 'Hoff.
A new report has surfaced alleging that Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, slapped an ex-girlfriend at a gala in 2012 over claims of flirting with another man. Three unnamed sources have come forward with the accusation, citing the incident occurred during the Cannes Film Festival.
Key Details:
The alleged altercation reportedly took place in May 2012 after an event at the Cannes Film Festival, where Emhoff is said to have slapped his then-girlfriend, a New York attorney.
Three friends of the woman, known only as "Jane," claim she recounted the incident to them at different points, with one calling the friend sobbing right after it happened.
Jane's friends provided the Daily Mail with photos and documents they say support the story, though Jane herself declined to comment, reportedly fearing retaliation from Emhoff.
Male Feminist Ally. Every single time. They're practically made of Rufies.
2009: Impregnated his chiId's nanny 2012: Physically assauIts his girlfriend 2023: Lectures us on toxic masculinity 2024: Hailed for redefining masculinity pic.twitter.com/Ow18xQpHlI
Pitch Meeting: Megalopolis It's all spoilers, I guess, if this mad mess can even be spoiled. I don't think the story is the main thing here. Not sure what the main thing is. It sounds like something you dream, and you're super-excited about how cool it is, but then you start to write it down and as your mind becomes clearer you say, "Wait a minute, none of this makes any sense! This is just all stupid nonsense-gibberish!" It sounds like a pipe dream. By which I mean, I think someone beat Coppola with a pipe and he went into a coma and when he woke up he said "Sell my vineyard, I've got a script."
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Some time from now you'll bow to pressure
Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees
I'm between the poles and the equator
Don't send no private investigator
to find me please
'Less he speaks Chinese
And can dance like Astaire overseas
Yacht or Nyacht? I'd say no. It's an 80s song, a bit out of the Yacht Rock Era, and Yacht or Nyacht doesn't even list it. I think this is what MTV used to call "alternative," which wound up just meaning "neither metal, nor hard rock, nor rap, nor outright dance-pop." (Which actually is kind of Yacht Rock's playing field but I still say no, too much accoustic guitar and no electric piano.)
Maddow: JD Vance is a "slicker" speaker only because he, who entered politics like four years ago, has more experience speaking in debates than the 12-year-congressman, current governor of Minnesota. Note that this insane spin -- that a 20-year politician (he deserted his unit in 2004 to run in 2005) has "more experience" debating policy than a neophyte who just joined the game a couple of years ago -- was put out by Walz campaign before the debate, to lower expectations. (Spoiler: He did not lower expectations enough.) And here's the bitter disinformation-pushing conspiracy-queen Rachel Maddow dutifully propagating it.
Asked for comment about the allegations he publicly slapped a woman at Cannes, Doug Emhoff responded, "Kamala was raised in a middle-class household and her mother is nice."
Rich Lowry observed that while both Vance and Walz agreed with each other and polite, it hit different with each. Vance was clearly beating up this fat retard, so his agreement was seen as magnanimous to a clearly-outclassed opponent. Walz's agreement back did not seem magnanimous, as he was not in any position of strength, but seemed like the stupid kid in class agreeing with the smart kid so that the teacher would move on to the next kid. (On Megyn Kelly's post-debate show.)
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
You know it wasn't a good night when the best your allies can say on text or email is, "Don't worry, vice presidential debates don't matter."
Not even Bill Kristol can lower himself to the Jen Rubin standard.
Mollie
@MZHemingway
My favorite thing is that NOT ONCE has Walz had a coherent answer and yet it's VANCE who these clown ladies keep asking to explain what he's just said. Really not smart.
A commenter noted that when these "ladies" asked Vance about what Walz babbled, they cleaned it up to make it sound semi-coherent. They couldn't just use his words because his words were Bidenesque.
I saw someone note that -- what people just saw was a smart, capable, nice-mannered fellow against Fat Joe Biden.
Levi opened the event by explaining that he initially was backing RFK Jr. in the 2024 presidential election, and when Kennedy suspended his campaign, Levi knew to whom he was sending his support.
I've had a feeling about this guy. A while ago he condemned the "attacks" on Brie Larson and the Captain Marvel movie, but I got the sense he felt he had to do that, because he's in a compromised position: a non-leftist in Hollywood. Glad to have him. I mean he's not Gary Oldman or Nicholas Cage or Star of Stage and Screen Nick Seacy, but he'll do.
Yacht or Nyacht? With a combined score of 49.5 on Yacht or Nyacht, I'd say this one is a "Nyacht." No Hoe Snow snap. Not bouncy. Pretty dreary. No smooth groove. You won't be able to snort cocaine out of the cleavage of a "Naval Mabel" or "Poopdeck Patty." Or even if you do, it will be half-hearted at best.
Joe Biden, nominal president of the United States, sat down with the ladies of The View for an interview on Wednesday. "It's like having one of the Beatles at the table," co-host Sarah Haines said as the audience roared and her colleagues cackled.
Haines wasn't entirely wrong, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check. Biden doesn't have much in common with the Beatles, but they're both half-dead, half-octogenarian relics who haven't accomplished anything of substance since the 1970s. We rate Haines's claim "mostly true."
I guess that's true if you're talking about the Beatles. But individual members of the Beatles did some decent stuff in the 80s.
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