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.
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.