Politics

Sep102024

Episode 950 – Good News and Bad News

Donald Trump gets some good news.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get some bad news.

And it has been 50 days since Kamala Harris has answered any questions. The Associated Press has decided to give her a hand.

News

Here is some news:

  • Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing of former President Donald Trump in his Manhattan hush-money case until November 26, exactly three weeks after the general election.
    • Trump has maintained his innocence in the case, which stems from Trump being accused of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair by classifying them as legal expenses. The former president argues that the case, which was brought by Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg, is “election interference.”
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom killed a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to be eligible for a housing program where they could receive an interest-free loan worth up to $150,000 for a home purchase.
  • Several suspected ISIS terrorists were arrested in Indonesia last week for allegedly plotting to assassinate Pope Francis during his recent visit to the country.
    • Indonesia’s anti-terrorism police, Detachment-88, said in a statement that the seven suspects were arrested early in the week in various cities throughout the country, The Straits Times reported.
    • The terrorists were planning to kill the Pope because of his visit to Jakarta’s Istiqlal mosque and “the government’s appeal to television stations to refrain from the usual broadcasting of azan (Islamic call to prayer) while a live broadcast of Pope Francis’ visit was in session.”
  • The U.S. Department of Justice said late on Friday that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
    • Khan “attempted to travel from Canada to New York City, where he intended to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons to carry out a mass shooting in support of ISIS at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York,” prosecutors said.
    • He allegedly told undercover law enforcement sources that he was working with a U.S.-based ISIS terrorist to carry out the attack and that he was trying to create an “offline cell” of ISIS terrorists who could launch a coordinated attack killing Jews at synagogues.
  • About three months after Big Lots noted “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue” in a U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, the company said on Monday it has secured $707.5 million to support its operations and sell its business to private equity firm Nexus Capital.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sentencing-delayed-until-after-election?topStoryPosition=1
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pakistani-national-arrested-in-canada-for-allegedly-plotting-terror-attack-in-nyc?topStoryPosition=3
https://www.dailywire.com/news/several-islamic-terrorists-arrested-for-alleged-plot-to-assassinate-the-pope?topStoryPosition=3
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-kills-bill-that-would-give-illegal-immigrants-massive-help-to-buy-homes
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/big-lots-files-bankruptcy-close-some-stores-amid-sale-investment-firm

Dumbass of the Day

But it’s not just that. Here is the AP with an article about Kamala, talking about the most important aspects of Vice President Harris and why we should promote her to president:

One of the biggest challenges for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the campaign is introducing herself to voters before her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has a chance to define her.

Until her sudden election to the top of the Democratic ticket this summer, Harris was still a somewhat unknown figure in national politics, driven in part by her aversion to opening up and embracing the spotlight. And since she’s become the nominee, Republicans have criticized Harris for not doing many interviews or giving enough specifics on her policy plans.

But the vice president is sharing personal details about her childhood, cooking and food to show her more private side.

It is known that Harris is a foodie and likes to cook. In fact, she had just made a pancakes-and-bacon breakfast for her niece’s 6- and 8-year-old daughters on the July morning when Biden called with the news that he was dropping out of the race.

From talking about nacho cheese Doritos as her snack of choice to washing collard greens in the bathtub, Harris is aiming to connect with voters on a more personal level. While learning that she likes to munch tortilla chips at snack time likely isn’t enough on its own to sway anyone to vote for her, the small — and sometimes amusing — details could help Harris show she can relate to people and their concerns.

“She is trying to show that she is a full person beyond just her policy proposals,” Dana Brown, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University, said in an email.

https://apnews.com/article/harris-doritos-collard-greens-root-beer-food-82956ec65fcf24e6c57712716845d2af

More Bad News

According to the Washington Post:

Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, continuing a labor market cooling trend that has stoked fears that interest rates have been high for too long.

The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2 percent.

The August jobs report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the most closely watched snapshots of the labor market since the coronavirus pandemic. The jobs gains were weaker than forecasters’ predictions of 161,000 jobs, but improved on July’s weak showing of 114,000. Still, downward revisions from the two previous months suggest that the labor market is cooling faster than the initial data may indicate.

Later in the article, more news came out:

A few sectors are buoying the entire labor market: Construction led gains, adding 34,000 jobs in August, likely due to a boom in nonresidential construction fueled by the Biden administration’s infrastructure spending, analysts said. Health care added 31,000 jobs, as an aging population keeps demand steady, and the public sector created 24,000 jobs, mostly in local government, both smaller gains than the average over the past year.

Other industries added few positions or even lost jobs. That includes including wholesale trade, retail, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, as well as transportation and warehousing, which recently had showed signs of a recovery. Manufacturing lost 24,000 jobs, reflecting a decline in durable goods industries.

Job gains were revised downward by 86,000 for the previous two months, continuing an ongoing trend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/06/august-jobs-unemployment-labor-market

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Sep052024

Episode 948 – It’s Bad When You Lose CNN

It’s bad when Kamala Harris loses CNN.

The typical political talking points about gun control have come up over this shooting in Georgia. Once again, they all are falling short.

And Brazil decides Elon Musk’s X is too dangerous for their country. How long will it be before OUR country thinks the same?

Could They Finally Be Getting It?!

It’s Not About The Guns

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/georgia-school-shooting-september-5-2024

It Is Coming Here

According to CNBC:

Brazil’s supreme court on Friday ordered a nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s social network X after the company vowed to defy earlier court orders concerning content moderation and the appointment of a legal representative in the country.

Alexandre de Moraes, the court’s top judge, has also ordered daily fines for people or businesses in Brazil that use virtual private networks (VPNs) or other methods to access X while the site is banned in the country, G1 Globo reported.

The court issued a statement via its government website in Brazil on Friday, saying that it had ordered “the immediate and complete suspension of the operation of X, formerly Twitter, throughout the national territory until the Court’s judicial decisions are complied with and the fines applied are paid.” The statement also said that the order will be valid “until a representative of the company in the country is appointed.”

Hours later, the court issued a second order suspending some of the measures in its first 51-page order against X. Initially, de Moraes gave companies like Apple and Google 5 days to stop offering X downloads in their app stores, and to stop making VPN apps available to access X. The second order eliminated that deadline and put off implementation of these measures until further notice, giving time for X to pay fines and put a legal representative in place.

Let us remember that Brazil elected a communist government this year. Expect more of this.

Now, you might be saying, “Who cares? It’s Brazil.” Here’s the reality, a lot of the people with the same ideology are proclaiming the same things here.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who served during Bill Clinton’s presidency, wrote in a column published Friday that Elon Musk was “out of control,” and argued he needed to be reined in.

“He may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him.

“In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission should demand that Musk take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals – and if he does not, sue him under Section Five of the FTC Act. Musk’s free-speech rights under the first amendment don’t take precedence over the public interest.”

Actually, yes they do. The First Amendment protects an individual’s right to speech, not the collective’s. That is what communism tries to do.

“Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest? Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?”

Wait, what? Elon makes rocket launchers now? That’s news to me.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-labor-secretary-robert-reich-claims-elon-musk-out-control-says-regulators-should-threaten-arrest
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/30/brazil-orders-suspension-of-elon-musks-x.html

Why Do Dems Have This Problem?

According to the Daily Wire:

A former top aide to New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul was indicted in federal court this week for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in exchange for millions of dollars.

Linda Sun was indicted on charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy, the DOJ said. Her husband, Chris Hu, was charged with money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and misuse of means of identification.

Sun allegedly acted as a spy for China and the CCP while working for Hochul and in multiple state agencies, prosecutors said.

The DOJ said, “Acting at the request of PRC government officials and the CCP representatives, Sun engaged in numerous political activities in the interests of the PRC and the CCP, including blocking representatives of the Taiwanese government from having access to high-level New York State officers; changing high-level New York State officers’ messaging regarding issues of importance to the PRC and the CCP; obtaining official New York State proclamations for PRC government representatives without proper authorization; attempting to facilitate a trip to the PRC by a high-level New York State politician; and arranging meetings for visiting delegations from the PRC government with New York State government officials.”

She allegedly provided improper benefits to Chinese and CCP officials by giving them “unauthorized invitation letters from the office of high-level New York State officers that were used to facilitate travel by PRC government officials into the United States for meetings with New York State government officials.”

Her invitation letters reportedly facilitated bringing Chinese nationals into the U.S. illegally.

Investigators said that in return for her spying, she received “substantial” benefits, including “the facilitation of millions of dollars in transactions for the PRC-based business activities of Hu; travel benefits; tickets to events; promotion of a close family friend’s business; employment for Sun’s cousin in the PRC; and Nanjing-style salted ducks prepared by a PRC government official’s personal chef that were delivered to the residence of Sun’s parents.”

Sun and Hu are accused of laundering the money to purchase “real estate property in Manhasset, New York currently valued at $4.1 million, a condominium in Honolulu, Hawaii currently valued at $2.1 million, and various luxury automobiles, including a 2024 Ferrari.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/senior-aide-to-ny-gov-hochul-charged-with-spying-for-china-received-millions-feds

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Sep042024

Episode 947 – Well, It’s About Time!

In a shocking move, CNN allows one of their guests to speak wise words we all need to listen to.

We finally get to read the manifesto of the woman who walked into the Covenant School and killed six people (including three children). We now know why she did it and why the manifesto was hidden for so long.

And it has been 46 days since Kamala Harris became the nominee and she still hasn’t answered any questions. Will Kamala cancel next week’s debate?

Speaking Truth!

Dumbass of the Day

Well, It’s About Time

https://www.dailywire.com/news/covenant-shooters-entire-diary-published-revealing-obsession-with-white-privilege-transgenderism

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Sep032024

Episode 946 – Nope, That Doesn’t Count!

Hamas does what Hamas does and it’s Israel’s fault, of course.

A big social justice program in California is falling by the wayside and people are pissed. Not me. I’m loving it.

And it has been 45 days since Kamala Harris became the nominee and she still hasn’t answered any questions. No, the interview on Thursday does not count.

Where Are the Riots for This?

According to the Daily Wire:

The Israeli military found Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American-Israeli taken by Hamas from The Nova Music Festival in October, and five other hostages dead in Gaza on Sunday.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops found the bodies of the six hostages in a tunnel underneath Rafah, a city in southern Gaza that the Biden administration had previously pressured Israel to refrain from invading. A spokesman for the Israeli military said the hostages were killed not long before their bodies were found.

“According to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement. “Their bodies were found during combat in Rafah in an underground tunnel, approximately one kilometer from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan Alkadi a few days ago.”

Israeli forces rescued Israeli captive Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi from a tunnel underneath Rafah on Tuesday.

Alongside Goldberg-Polin, IDF forces found the bodies of Master Sgt. Ori Danino, 25, Carmel Gat, 40, Alexander Lobanov, 32, Almog Sarusi, 27, and Eden Yerushalmi, 24. All six were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 and were believed to be alive, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Later, Walz released a statement on Twitter:

The anguish of losing a child is something no family should have to endure. Gwen and I send our deepest condolences to the Goldberg-Polin family, after Hamas’ murder of their son Hersh.

Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization — and we condemn their continued atrocities against both Americans and Israelis in the strongest possible terms.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-israeli-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-six-dead-hostages-recovered-by-israeli-forces-in-rafah?topStoryPosition=1

How Would He Know?

According to the Daily Wire:

President Joe Biden claimed on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a deal to free hostages from Hamas.

Biden made the critique as he returned to the White House from a two-week vacation in California and at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The president said that negotiations for a deal to free over 100 hostages believed to be held by Hamas are “very close” to a deal. He added at “hope springs eternal” that a deal will be reached.

Dumbass of the Day

Give a Mouse a Cookie…

According to the New York Post:

Black activists at the California assembly threatened a “direct impact” on Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign after state Democratic lawmakers held off on two bills that would have greenlighted slavery reparations.

Last week, the California legislature approved proposals allowing for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unjustly seized by the government, and issuing a formal apology for laws and practices that have harmed Black people. But none of those bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans. After hours of heated debate and protests on Saturday, state lawmakers left out two bills – Senate Bills 1403 and 1331 – that would have created a fund and an agency to oversee reparation measures.

Oh, so much joy! I just love watching Leftists tearing each other apart.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/01/us-news/black-californians-warn-newsom-of-impact-on-harris-after-slavery-reparation-bills-nixed/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

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Aug272024

Episode 944 – Don’t Say That in Europe!

It won’t be long before anyone for free speech in Europe will be in prison.

The government has decided bring DEI to our nuclear programs.

And it has been 38 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question.

Here It Comes

According to the AP:

The founder and CEO of the messaging service Telegram was detained at a Paris airport on an arrest warrant alleging his platform has been used for money laundering, drug trafficking and other offenses, French media reported Sunday.

Pavel Durov, a dual citizen of France and Russia, was taken into custody at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday evening after landing in France from Azerbaijan, according to broadcasters LCI and TF1.

Investigators from the National Anti-Fraud Office, attached to the French customs department, notified Durov, 39, that he was being placed in police custody, the broadcasters said.

French media reported that the warrant for Durov was issued by France at the request of the special unit at the country’s interior ministry in charge of investigating crimes against minors. Those include online sexual exploitation, such as possession and distribution of child sexual abuse content and grooming for sexual purposes.

Telegram was founded by Durov and his brother in the wake of the Russian government’s crackdown after mass pro-democracy protests that rocked Moscow at the end of 2011 and 2012.

The demonstrations prompted Russian authorities to clamp down on the digital space, adopting regulations that forced internet providers to block websites and cellphone operators to store call records and messages that could be shared with security services.

In the increasingly repressive environment, Telegram and its pro-privacy rhetoric offered a convenient way for Russians to communicate and share news. In 2018, Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor moved to block Telegram over its refusal to hand over encryption keys, but ultimately failed to fully restrict access to the app.

Western governments have often criticized Telegram for lack of content moderating on the messaging service, which experts say opens up the messaging platform for potential use in money laundering, drug trafficking and allowing the sharing of content linked to sexual exploitation of minors.

Compared to other messaging platforms, Telegram is “less secure (and) more lax in terms of policy and detection of illegal content,” said David Thiel, a Stanford University researcher, who has investigated the use of online platforms for child exploitation, at its Internet Observatory.

In addition, Telegram “appears basically unresponsive to law enforcement,” Thiel said, adding that messaging service WhatsApp “submitted over 1.3 million CyberTipline reports in 2023 (and) Telegram submits none.”

In 2022, Germany issued fines of 5.125 million euros ($5 million) against the operators of Telegram for failing to comply with German law. The Federal Office of Justice said that Telegram FZ-LLC hasn’t established a lawful way for reporting illegal content or named an entity in Germany to receive official communication.

Both are required under German laws that regulate large online platforms.

Last year, Brazil temporarily suspended Telegram over its failure to surrender data on neo-Nazi activity related to a police inquiry into school shootings in November.

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of social media site X who’s called himself a “free speech absolutist” in the past, posted ”#freePavel” in support of Durov following the arrest.

Russian government officials expressed outrage at Durov’s arrest, with some highlighting what they said was the West’s double standard on freedom of speech.

“In 2018, a group of 26 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and others, condemned the Russian court’s decision to block Telegram,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

“Do you think this time they’ll appeal to Paris and demand Durov’s release?” Zakharova said in a post on her personal Telegram account.

https://apnews.com/article/france-russia-telegram-paris-durov-arrest-63cd8e5663c6b6f3404745866d662954

Dumbass of the Day

According to Axios:

If she’s elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called “un-American” during the Trump administration.

Why it matters: It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against.

  • Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump’s campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border.
  • But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration, opposing his approach to family separation and his plans for mass deportations.
  • Driving the news: In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill — which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it would help Democrats in the November elections.
  • That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.
  • “It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
  • Harris’ campaign says the border deal is a whole lot more than continuation of wall funding — and a tiny fraction of what Trump has proposed.

Driving the news: In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill — which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it would help Democrats in the November elections.

  • That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.
  • “It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
  • Harris’ campaign says the border deal is a whole lot more than continuation of wall funding — and a tiny fraction of what Trump has proposed.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall

These Are Her Policies

Not Dangerous at All

According to Fox News:

A recent hire at the nuclear security wing of the Department of Energy has previously called for disarmament policies – which reduce or eliminate nuclear weapons – arguing that advancing “queer theory” was essential to that agenda as well as important to America’s national security. 

The Biden-Harris administration announced Sneha Nair had been appointed as special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration in February 2024. Nair believes in eradicating purported “White supremacy” in the nuclear field as well as “queering nuclear weapons” as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion push she believes is essential for deterring threats to nuclear energy facilities in the U.S. 

“Finally, queer theory informs the struggle for nuclear justice and disarmament,” she wrote last year. “Queer theory helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security by telling the hidden stories of displacement, illness, and trauma caused by their production and testing.”

Nair argues that DEI, more broadly, “is essential for creating effective nuclear policy.” 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-harris-department-energy-official-calls-queering-nuclear-weapons-part-radical-dei-agenda

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Aug262024

Episode 943 – All Talk, No Substance!

Kamala Harris accepts the Presidential nomination with a very uninspiring speech.

The world is on fire and Joe Biden went from his vacation straight to another vacation. WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?!

And it has been 37 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question. Good news, No, she didn’t answer anything yesterday.

Just Nothing

Here are the eleven takeaways from Kamala Harris’ speech:

  1. No hard policies.
  2. She calls for unity and then blasts Republicans.
  3. She admits she is a career politician.
  4. Harris says she’s for “free and fair elections” despite not winning a single vote in a presidential primary. 
  5. Harris falsely claimed Trump trying to cut Social Security and Medicare.
  6. Harris highlights things she will do while in office, elides the fact that she is currently in office.
  7. Harris makes bogus claims about the southern border and the immigration crisis. 
  8. Harris claims that she will back military. Her administration has backed cutting military funding. 
  9. Harris makes false claims about Trump and NATO.
  10. Harris would not blame Hamas for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
  11. Harris claims she will stand up to Iran. 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/11-things-to-know-from-kamalas-dnc-speech?topStoryPosition=2

Not Working

WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?!

According to the Daily Wire:

After spending five days enjoying a vacation at the home of a billionaire Democrat donor, President Joe Biden headed for his Rehoboth beach house in Delaware for at least another three days, prompting the question of who is actually running the country?

On August 10, the Republican National Committee posted on X, “Biden — who held just one public event this week — is currently lounging on the beach in Delaware. He has spent 40% of his entire presidency on vacation. Who is running the country?”

Biden spent five days last week at the 8,000-acre home of billionaire donor Joe Kiani, the CEO of medical technology company Masimo, in Santa Ynez, California, north of Santa Barbara. Biden has described Kiani as “one of my closest friends.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-vacation-again-who-is-running-the-country?topStoryPosition=3

They Are Going to Try to Ignore This

According to the New York Post:

Houthi terrorists attacked and later set fire to a Greek oil tanker this week in the Red Sea, posting footage of the carnage to mock the US and its allies who are supposed to be protecting the region’s vital shipping lines.

In the video posted Friday of the Sounion — which was carrying 150,000 tons of crude oil– the Iran-backed terrorists can be heard chanting the group’s slogan: “God is the greatest! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curse the Jews! Victory to Islam!” as the fire rages.

It is the third merchant ship Yemeni terrorists have destroyed in the Red Sea, following the sinking of the M/V Tudor — also Greek-owned — in June and Belize-flagged Rubymar in March.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/24/world-news/greek-oil-tanker-taken-ot/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

And This Too

According to the Daily Wire:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched widespread strikes against Hezbollah terrorist positions in southern Lebanon during the early morning hours on Sunday after receiving intelligence that Hezbollah was about to launch a large scale attack on Israel.

Axios reported that the strike was launched after Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials obtained intelligence indicating that Hezbollah’s attack was imminent. Israel coordinated with the U.S. in advance of the strike.

“A short while ago, the IDF identified the Hezbollah terrorist organization preparing to fire missiles and rockets toward Israeli territory,” said IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari in a statement. ‌”‏In a self-defense act to remove these threats, the IDF is striking terror targets in Lebanon, from which Hezbollah was planning to launch their attacks on Israeli civilians.”

The strikes come after Hezbollah has fired more than 6,700 rockets, missiles, and explosive drones at Israeli families, homes, and communities since October 8th.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-launches-widespread-strikes-against-hezbollah
https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-intercepts-hundreds-of-hezbollah-rockets-drones-thwarts-much-larger-attack

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Aug232024

Episode 942 – No Wonder She Won’t Answer Questions

So, a report stated that the labor were corrected yesterday, removing 818,000 jobs. You’ll never guess who the Biden Administration is blaming for that report.

Let’s take a look at some of the speakers at the DNC. Guess what, I don’t think their message is taking hold. Let’s talk about it.

And it has been 33 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question. Good news, Republicans are answering our questions for her.

Some News

Here is some news:

  • Robert Kennedy Jr. will be dropping out of the race tomorrow and endorse Donald Trump tomorrow. Someone got a job in the Trump administration.
  • Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was called out during a live interview on Wednesday for falsely suggesting that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made up numbers that were released earlier in the day by President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • The 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).
  • The Republican National Committee created a website that defines all of Kamala Harris’ policies based on her stances and actions over the last 10 years. The website is https://kamala2024policies.com/.
  • Polls and as Vegas odds-makers have switched their favorite. Donald Trump has surged ahead of Kamala Harris. This is really bad news that it is happening during the DNC.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-dropping-out-of-race-will-address-nation-while-in-same-city-as-trump-report?itm_source=parsely-api
https://www.dailywire.com/news/commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-suggests-trump-made-up-numbers-that-bidens-labor-dept-released
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rnc-creates-website-laying-out-kamalas-policies-as-she-keeps-voters-in-the-dark?topStoryPosition=4
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-pulls-ahead-harris-betting-market-amid-dem-convention

Day 3 of the DNC

So much lack of opportunity in this country. You can tell by the list of speakers:

  • Bernie Sanders – $5 million.
  • Barrack Obama – $70 million.
  • Michelle Obama – $35 million.
  • By the way, Obama’s daughters have a net worth on $10 million. They’ve done nothing.
  • JB Pritzker – $6 billion.
  • Oprah Winfrey – $3.5 billion.

These are the people telling me there is wealth inequality?

Yeah, the media is beginning not to buy it. Here is Chris Cuomo saying it out loud. You know Democrats are in trouble if they lost Chris Cuomo:

This Is Insane

This is from TaxFoundation.org:

Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has a record of favoring steeper tax hikes on businesses and people than President Biden. While both President Biden and Vice President Harris aim their proposed tax hikes on businesses and high earners, key differences between their tax ideas in the past reveal where Harris may take her tax policy platform in the 2024 campaign.

Three questions stand out: (1) will Harris double down on more aggressive tax increases than President Biden, (2) is Harris open to stepping away from Biden’s $400,000 tax pledge, and (3) how would a President Harris approach the Trump-Biden tariffs levied on China and other trading partners? Additionally, Harris should clarify how she would address the upcoming expirations of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and the unsustainable trajectory of the federal debt.

So, what is she going to do?

Though Harris’s campaign proposals often lacked detail, they shared similarities with the policies included in the fiscal year 2025 budget proposed by the Biden-Harris administration:

  • Raising the top income tax rate on the top 1 percent of earners from 37 percent to 39.6 percent
  • Increasing the corporate income tax rate
  • Taxing capital gains and dividends at ordinary income tax rates
  • Increasing refundable tax credits for individuals

In many areas, however, Harris’ proposals differ in details and scope:

  • Harris proposed returning to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, while the FY 2025 budget would take it to 28 percent.
  • Harris did not clarify if ordinary tax rates on capital gains would apply to all earners or just a subset, while the FY 2025 budget would do so only for people making $1 million or more.
  • Harris supported a version of Medicare for All, financed by a proposed 4 percent tax on incomes above $100,000. Biden has avoided a Medicare for All-style proposal and taxing those earning less than $400,000 during his campaign and administration.
  • Harris proposed the LIFT the Middle-Class Act, a new refundable tax credit structured like the earned income tax credit that phases in with earned income, while the FY 2025 budget focuses on expanding the child tax credit and making it fully refundable on a permanent basis.
  • Harris proposed an financial transaction tax on certain Wall Street trades, including stocks, bonds, and derivatives, while the FY 2025 budget includes no such proposal.
  • Harris was silent on changes to the international tax system, while the FY 2025 budget proposes a significant overhaul. Additionally, the FY 2025 budget includes a novel minimum tax on high-wealth individuals designed to bring unrealized capital gains into the income tax system.
  • As a senator, Harris voted against the 2017 TCJA, while the FY 2025 budget indicates an extension of the expiring TCJA provisions for people earning under $400,000 without specifying exactly how that would be structured or how the revenue loss would be offset.

In all, Tax Foundation estimates the major tax increase proposals in the Biden-Harris FY 2025 budget would reduce economic output by 1.6 percent and employment by 666,000 full-time jobs. If Harris took the tax increases further, as she has supported in the past, the economic losses would be even larger.

.https://taxfoundation.org/blog/kamala-harris-tax-proposals-2024/

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Episode 941 – I Told You Not to Believe These Guys!

I shouldn’t say it but I’m going to anyway: I told you they were lying!

The Democratic National Convention is going on and it is just terrible.

And it has been 32 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question.

They’ve Been Lying to You

According to Fox News:

U.S. job growth during much of the past year was significantly weaker than previously believed, according to new data published Wednesday.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down its total tally of jobs created in the year through March by 818,000.

The agency’s annual benchmark revision is mostly derived from state unemployment tax records that employers are required to file. The figure released Wednesday is preliminary and may be updated when the government releases the final figure in February 2025.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-economy-created-818000-fewer-jobs-than-previously-reported

Oh, Jeez!

Overplaying Their Hand

According to Mother Jones:

Abortion is coming to the Democratic National Convention this week…and conservatives are not okay.

Access to reproductive health care—which both Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), have strongly supported—is sure to be front and center in some of the convention’s biggest speeches. Especially given its importance for voters and the fact that former President Donald Trump is responsible for appointing three of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, unleashing an avalanche of restrictions in over a dozen states.

But this week, the issue will not just be rhetorical, but literal as well. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which is based in neighboring Missouri, where abortion is banned, announced in a post on X earlier this week that it will be providing free medication abortions and vasectomies from a “mobile health clinic” in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago on Monday and Tuesday. That’s just under a mile northwest of the United Center, where many of the main DNC events will take place. By Saturday, Planned Parenthood announced that all the appointments had been filled—and, as you may expect, the right promptly began freaking out.

“I thought this was fake but it’s not,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on X. “It’s hard to even comprehend and it’s truly heartbreaking.” Kristan Hawkins, head of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America, argued that this action demonstrates the Democrats are “the party of death.” The right-wing Libs of TikTok account called it “demonic.” And a writer for the right-wing Daily Caller described the health clinic as “Kamala’s abortion bus”—though it was not requested by the Harris campaign, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Great Rivers said. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to questions.

.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/abortion-is-coming-to-the-dnc-and-the-right-is-freaking-out/

Thinking This Might Be an Issue

According to the Post Millennial:

The Biden-Harris administration’s Border Patrol released a notorious Peruvian gang leader into the US in May who is wanted in his home country for at least 23 murders. He was arrested by federal authorities in New York on Wednesday after illegally entering the country through the southern border. 

Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, 38, the leader of the “Los Killers” gang, was apprehended by Immigration Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and is being held in a facility near Buffalo. He illegally entered the US on May 16, was arrested by the Border Patrol, given a notice to appear in immigration court, and released into the US. 

Peruvian officials described Torres-Navarro as “highly dangerous” who “believed he was untouchable.”

Col. Franco Moreno, head of Peru’s High Complexity Crime Investigations Division,” told the Associated Press that Torres-Navarro was “responsible for 23 murders, including other gang leaders who ended up dead along with their families, all in order to increase his criminal leadership.”

The gang leader employed violence to eliminate rivals who were infiltrating the territory of “Los Killers de Ventanilla y Callao,” specifically through the extortion of construction companies. Torres-Navarro allegedly murdered retired police officer Cesar Quegua Herrera and a municipal employee at a restaurant in San Miguel in March.

At the beginning of July, Peruvian authorities issued an international capture order for Torres-Navarro. Peru’s High Complexity Crime Investigations Division reportedly tracked Torres-Navarro and at least 10 affiliated gang members, including phone calls, geolocations, and messages, in order to trace him.

Director Thomas Brophy of ICE ERO Buffalo said in a press release: “Gianfranco Torres-Navarro poses a significant threat to our communities, and we won’t allow New York to be a safe haven for dangerous noncitizens.” The gang leader’s girlfriend Mishelle Sol Ivanna Ortiz Ubillius, who is considered to be his accomplice, was also taken into custody. She is being held at an ICE detention center in Pennsylvania.

So, they could have vetted this guy and chose not to.

https://thepostmillennial.com/peruvian-gang-leader-wanted-for-23-murders-arrested-in-new-york-after-being-released-into-us-by-biden-harris-admin

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Episode 940 – It Will Be An Entertaining Week!

The Democratic National Convention starts today in Chicago and the chaos has started. This is going to be an entertaining week.

Kamala Harris has released her economic policy and it is definitely something no one in history has tried before (I’m being sarcastic).

And it has been 30 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question (sort of).

Just Something to Remember Before You Vote

Showing Her True Colors

Kamala had her big rally to announce her economic plans. We will get into those policies, but first, let’s get to actual rally itself.

  • This was in a high school gym in North Carolina.
  • Reports were that there were 109 people there. Seeing the media was directly in the line of sight, I believe the place was not crowded.
  • The audience looked like actors. The reacted to whatever Kamala said. They sat when she said, stood when they said and stopped themselves when they weren’t suppose to react.
  • The children were there also reacting joyfully to her economic plans. What does that happen?

So, it looked staged. That’s Kamala Harris. She’s a phony. She’s fake. She’s a liar. She’s a coward. Why shouldn’t her press conferences be any different.

So, what did Kamala Harris promise at this rally because this was suppose to be the release of her big economic plan. Guess what? Her plans are far more extreme than Biden’s and will do nothing but increase prices and create scarcity. In other words, this idea was right down the road of communism. We all saw how that worked out.

Here are her plans:

  • New housing.
    • Harris is calling for the construction of 3 million new housing units in her first four years in office. The Biden administration has previously called for the construction of 2 million new homes.
    • She wants to incentivize these new units with a tax break for builders who construct properties for first-time home buyers. She is also proposing a $40 billion fund to help local governments find solutions to the lack of housing supply. 
    • She said: “There’s a serious housing shortage. In many places, it’s too difficult to build, and it’s driving prices up. As president, I will work in partnership with industry to build the housing we need, both to rent and to buy. We will take down barriers and cut red tape, including at the state and local levels. And by the end of my first term, we will end America’s housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals that are affordable for the middle class.” 
    • She also said: “Some corporate landlords, some of them, buy dozens if not hundreds of houses and apartments. Then they turn them around and rent them out at extremely high prices. And it can make it impossible then for regular people to buy or even rent a home.”
    • Harris will also propose providing Americans who have paid their rent on time for two years with up to $25,000 in down-payment assistance, with more support for first-generation homeowners. 
    • Couple of things with this:
      • Housing has gone up because of the policies of her and Joe’s administration!
      • The worst housing is in California. Her state! Caused by policies she supported!
      • Regulation is what is killing low income housing. Get rid of the regulations! Let the market take care of the crisis!
      • $25,000 for new homeowners? Where’s that money coming from? What is going to happen to housing prices when sellers know the government is going to give them money? What about the credit of the new buyers?
    • Housing is a privilege, not a right.
  • Expansion of Child Tax Credit.
    • Harris is also proposing an expansion of the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborns.
    • GOP vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance has proposed a similar but more general $5,000 Child Tax Credit expansion. So she’s just copying another Republican policy.
    • I have no problem with this but it is insincere. This is a woman that want you to be able to abort your kid when he’s 15 years old.
    • How about lowering all taxes.
  • Addressing inflation by putting caps on products and services.. She calls it “ending price gouging”.
    • There is no price gouging.
    • There is no grocery store owners going into a room and colluding to raise prices.
    • All this is already illegal.
    • There is simply too much money chasing to few goods and that is causing inflation.
    • I have some questions though: Why is all this gouging now? Why didn’t it happen before the Biden/Harris administration?
    • By the way, price caps have been done before. Every communist and socialist country, including this one, has done price controls and all it has done is create scarcity.
    • The reason we are going through an insulin shortage is because of price controls established under the Biden/Harris administration.
  • Eliminating taxes on tips.
    • We addresses this already.

This is basically a socialist checklist.

Greg Gutfeld of Fox News had a response to all this on Friday. He had to hear Jessica Tarlov, the Leftist on the show and he went off. Though it is a little long, it is worth a listen:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-economic-plan-presidential-candidate/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=551146310
https://nypost.com/2024/08/16/us-news/no-upside-to-harris-soviet-style-grocery-price-fixing-likely-to-spark-worst-shortages-since-1970s-economists/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Dumbass of the Day

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Episode 939 – It Is Time for a New Emergency!

I don’t know what’s going on in Australia but they seem to be in the lead when in comes to the culture. We have another story from Australia.

The election is coming which means it’s time to find another disease that will shut everything down.

And it has been 27 days since Kamala Harris has become the nominee and she still has not been asked a question.

These People Need Bigger Problems

According to the New York Post:

An Australian school community has been left outraged after a cherished crossing guard was banned from high-fiving student following a parent complaint about the innocent gesture.

Students of Mount Dandenong Primary School in Greater Melbourne will no longer receive high fives from their beloved crossing supervisor, John Goulden, during drop off and pick up after he was reprimanded by Yarra Ranges Council.

Goulden, who was recently crowned one of Victoria’s top crossing supervisors, has been warned by the council against “initiating unnecessary physical contact” with the children.

Outraged parents have rallied behind the cherished lollipop man, with one beginning a petition to have the ban removed.

Parent and petition organizer Rohan Bradley said Goulden has an “infectious joy that leaves a lasting impression on students and parents.”

“His high fives in the morning and afternoon have become a tradition that many children look forward to, a small gesture that symbolizes the warmth and friendliness of our unique community,” he said.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/14/lifestyle/beloved-school-crossing-guard-banned-from-high-fiving-students-after-parent-complaint/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

Dumbass of the Day

Here We Go Again

It’s election time again! That means we need to have the disease of the year to shut down the economies so that the globalist communists can win their election.

Here is the WHO’s director Ghebreyesus Tedros introducing M-pox as a global health emergency:

According to ABC News:

In the U.S, there have been 1,634 cases of mpox reported so far this year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

That’s more than double the number of national cases seen at the same time last year but significantly lower than those seen during a U.S. mpox outbreak in 2022, CDC data shows.

PHEICs were most recently declared for the COVID-19 pandemic and the previous mpox outbreak of 2022.

Although mpox is endemic to parts of Central and Western Africa, cases have been rising dramatically in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

This year, there have already been more than 14,000 mpox cases and 524 deaths reported in the DRC, according to the WHO.

Some things:

  • Mpox used to be Monkey Pox but the name had to be changed. Not because the disease was first seen in monkeys, which it was, but because it is racist against blacks (for some reason).
  • Mpox is primarily spread through sexual contact with multiple partners. It became very common in the gay and bisexual community because of the free love these folks promote.
  • 584 deaths out of 14,000 (less than 4%) is not real high.
  • In the United States, in two years (2022-2024) there have been 32,063 with 58 deaths (.18%). That’s in the vicinity of chicken pox.
  • I think we can have standard elections without worrying about M-pox.

Mpox declared a public health emergency, WHO says (msn.com)

This Is the Way to Win

Some Questions Need to be Answered

According to the New York Post:

Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign admitted Friday that her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz “misspoke” about his past military service as a growing chorus of critics accuse him of “stolen valor.”

“Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country — in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country. It’s the American way,” Team Harris said in a statement to NBC News Friday.

“In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke. He did handle weapons of war and believes strongly that only military members trained to carry those deadly weapons should have access to them, unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance who prioritize the gun lobby over our children.”

Walz had been facing pressure to clarify his military record after a 2018 video surfaced of him touting his career in the National Guard as a reason for increased gun control.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/10/us-news/harris-campaign-admits-walz-misspoke-about-past-military-career/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

What is a Republican Did This?

According to the New York Post:

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team has been quietly editing news headlines in Google search ads to make it seem like major news outlets are on her side, according to a report.

The altered headlines — appearing on Google ads and paired with a “Paid for by Harris for President” banner — were changed without the news outlets’ knowledge, Axios reported Tuesday.

Nearly a dozen publishers were swept up in the faux headline campaign, including major companies like the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News, the Associated Press and PBS.

Even smaller publications like North Dakota’s WDay Radio also saw their headlines changed.

The ads include links to real articles from news outlets, but the headlines and descriptive text had been edited to cast a supportive light on the 59-year-old presidential hopeful.

For example, one ad that ran alongside an article from the Guardian shows a headline that reads “VP Harris Fights Abortion Bans – Harris Defends Repro Freedom” and includes supporting text underneath the headline that reads, “VP Harris is a champion for reproductive freedom and will stop Trump’s abortion bans.”

Another linking to an NPR story reads, “Harris Will Lower Health Costs,” with supporting text that says, “Kamala Harris will lower the cost of high-quality affordable health care,” Axios reported.

Spokespeople from the affected companies like CNN, USA Today and NPR — all of which have published flattering content about Harris in recent weeks — said they had no idea the companies were tied up in the campaign.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/us-news/harris-campaign-editing-news-headlines-in-her-favor-without-outlets-knowledge-report/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

The Corruption Continues

According to the Post Millennial:

Legal action is being prepared against the Biden-Harris administration after whistleblowers revealed that former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was subjected to increased travel surveillance and placed on a terror watchlist by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) because of her political views. Gabbard is a veteran of the US Armed Forces, a former congresswoman from Hawaii, and has run for president, seeking the 2020 Democrat nomination for president.

Jordan Sekulow, Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said in a statement that the Biden-Harris administration is “once again unconstitutionally targeting conservatives for their political views.”

He added, “This alarming abuse of power represents yet another example of government overreach and the erosion of our constitutional rights. We are preparing major legal action against the Biden-Harris Deep State over this unconstitutional targeting of an American for her political speech.”

Sekulow noted that Gabbard is a combat veteran “who has served our country honorably and still serves as an officer in the Army Reserves. Despite the fact that the military finds her fit to serve, whistleblowers report that she has been subjected to additional screening and harassment by the Biden-Harris Administration at airports across the nation.”

Several Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers alleged that Gabbard was put into the TSA’s “Quiet Skies” program, a surveillance program with its own “compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-harris-admin-faces-lawsuit-after-putting-tulsi-gabbard-on-terror-watchlist

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