I've always thought Harris Faulkner was great. She has the perfect demeanor for what she does; she is brilliant and cultured. She has a pleasant speaking tone, and she seems pretty unflappable. She's a professional by any measure, ... //

Harris just wasn't having any of that. She proceeded to let Aristimuno have it right in his barely-existent logic center.

“But Jose, you know that he has denied that,” Faulkner cut in. “He has denied that over and over and by the way, if he wanted to do that he would have – he would have done it when he was president already.” //

Look, the issue here isn't necessarily abortion, on which topic Donald Trump holds what appear to be fairly moderate views - and which issue former President Trump has also repeatedly said is now, thanks to the Supreme Court, where it belongs, with elected representatives in the various state legislatures. That's the Constitution, that's federalism, that's also the 10th Amendment.

No, the real issue is this: Why do Democrats, from Kamala Harris down to the lowest-ranking intern X-poster and bloviator, keep lying about this?

Part three of an investigation into how the Harris-Walz campaign is manipulating social media sites to artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws. //

But one activity I found on the Discord server was particularly concerning. After years of Democrats erroneously insisting that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election and otherwise warning of foreign election manipulation, the Harris-Walz campaign is actively recruiting foreigners to work on the campaign and is even encouraging them to donate to American political causes.

There appears to be no vetting, and given that the Harris-Walz campaign’s Discord community overtly engaged in disinformation campaigns, it was ripe for infiltration and abuse by foreign intelligence and other bad actors attempting to influence the election — although I saw no concrete proof of that. //

The Harris-Walz staff are clearly teaching foreigners how to skirt FEC regulations. This may not be illegal, but it is enticing foreign nationals to influence American elections — something that Democrats have spent years warning is a serious threat to democracy.

Whether this directly violates election laws is also beside the point for many Americans, who believe foreign nationals should not be allowed to volunteer for U.S. presidential campaigns. American elections should be for Americans, and the Harris-Walz campaign is actively inviting foreign influences into their campaign.

One of the best parts of that clip is that people start heckling her during her big applause line. The crowd then starts groaning and booing, leaving her to pretend they are actually cheering for what she said. Everything about her is so contrived, and it just oozes from every word and mannerism.

Harris has a record. She has a record of comparing those who disagree with her to fascists and claiming they are an existential threat to democracy. She has a record of attempting to jail her political opponents. She has a record of trying to score political points at the expense of vulnerable Americans. She is not looking to "make progress." She's looking to continue the prior four years of failed policies. //

No one is buying this stuff, and it's simply too late to change the narrative. You can't go from comparing your opponents to the Third Reich on the Washington Mall earlier in the week to preaching unity a day later. All that does is make her look even more inauthentic and fake. //

TurningTables
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"Harris Vows to Work With Nazis"

TurningTables -> TurningTables
an hour ago
Harris Pledges to Work with Garbage. //

SLOTown Hoosier
an hour ago
If that was a pivot, I call travelling. //

bintexas
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Former McDonalds fry cook and garbage collector becomes President of the United States. Trump may have just been trolling Biden/Harris but he also served as an example of the American Dream. With imagination, a positive attitude and hard work anything is possible. //

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Democrats: We have to unify! We have to lower the temperature!

Also Democrats: Except for those 90 million Trump supporters , their familes, and anyone aho has any connection to them. Then you can go all Maxine Waters on them.

Media / democrats: Trump voters are fascist garbage, and Trump is a totalitarian Nazi dictator who is Literally Hitler® and will kill women who have abortions, lock up anyone who supports it, deport every Latino in America, and is going to send the media to concentrationc camps based on his enemies list. He is an immediate threat to democracy and all we hold dear if he is elected. He will start WW3 and get a billion people killed. He must be stopped!

Trump: I love America and its people. There is no reason for these problems were have, and I intend to right this ship back to prosperity for everyone like we had before. The working men and women of America have been the backbone of the nation and give us everything we use, and I intend to give them a place at the table again. The elite ruling class has shut them out and mocked and impugned them for wanting back in. You can't lead America if you don't love all the American people. Let's make America great again for everyone.

Media / Democrats: Trump needs to tone down the hateful rhetoric and stop sending code words and dog whistles to his radical followers before someone gets hurt or worse.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office posted passwords to statewide voting systems online for anyone to access. The Colorado Republican Party, which uncovered the security breach, is seeking accountability.

The office of Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who tried but failed to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot, posted an Excel file online with a “hidden” page of 600 passwords to voting systems in every county but one, according to an email the Colorado GOP sent on Tuesday. Anyone could “unhide” the page and view the passwords.

On Wednesday, the Colorado GOP said it is seeking “legal relief in the courts” and calling on state lawmakers for an emergency audit, saying Griswold engaged in a “cover-up.” Colorado voting is already underway, according to the secretary’s website, with more than 1.27 million votes already cast.

“This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted,” Griswold’s office claimed in a press release. //

Just last week, Griswold held a press conference about voter fraud in Mesa County, according to KUSA. There, she claimed there was “no reason to believe that there are any security breaches or compromises in the state of Colorado.”

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But the left should keep this in mind: The people who are engaging in these acts tend, broadly speaking, to see political violence as a dial, like a dial on a stovetop, where the heat can be turned up a little, down a little, as the recipe calls for. But many on the right see political violence as a toggle - with the preferred OFF position marked "peaceful discourse," and the other, less desirable, to-be-avoided ON position marked "raise the black flag and start sorting some stuff out."

And I would also remind any would-be rioters or looters of an old Alaskan saying: "The wolf's strength lies not in its fangs but in its pack."

Part two of an investigation into how the Harris-Walz campaign is manipulating social media sites to artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws. //

In part one of this investigation into how Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is deceptively manipulating online platforms, it was revealed that the campaign is operating a Discord server that directs hordes of volunteers to use their social media accounts to deceptively push election propaganda.

The goal is to artificially manufacture consensus by making pro-Kamala Harris messages on social media appear more popular than they are, and it is often done in violation of the Terms of Service of the social media platforms. In more extreme cases, they are encouraging people to skirt election laws and using these “astroturfing” campaigns to spread disinformation they think will help win the upcoming election.

Yesterday’s report documented how the Harris-Walz campaign has seen great success in manipulating Reddit’s algorithm, but that isn’t the only social media site they’re manipulating. The campaign has also been targeting Elon Musk’s X, perhaps the most influential site for political news. One particular goal, according to a user of the Harris-Walz campaign Discord server, is to get campaign volunteers to swarm the site and “block [community notes] we don’t like.”

DUTCHESS COUNTY, New York — “I’m sorry sir, but you already voted.”

“No I didn’t,” 55-year-old Mike Miner told a Wappingers Falls election worker on Sunday — yet that’s not what election records showed.

Miner told The Federalist that he decided to vote early, just one day after early voting began on Saturday.

“I went up to the table and was told I already voted,” Miner said. “I ask, ‘Where did I vote?’ Because, of course, this is very surprising to me. And they told me I voted in the town of Fishkill [which is located next to Wappingers], 22 minutes after early voting began on Saturday.”

Miner was given an affidavit ballot, which is a provisional ballot that is secured inside an affidavit envelope. A bipartisan team at the Dutchess County Board of Elections investigated the situation and determined that since the signature provided Saturday did not match Miner’s actual signature, Miner’s affidavit ballot will count — but so will the fraudulent vote cast Saturday in Miner’s name. That’s because once a ballot is cast, the vote itself becomes anonymous, making it impossible to identify the fraudulent vote and remove it from the bunch. //

But Miner says it’s “ridiculous” that a system — which is supposedly “secure,” according to Haight — doesn’t require ID to vote, which could have prevented the fraudulent vote from being cast.

“You don’t have to show ID to vote, I think it’s ridiculous — anyone can walk in, just as what happened to me, and say ‘I’m so and so’ and vote. So I don’t believe the system is safe right now,” Miner said. “And I know I’m only one vote, but I have the right to vote and my vote should count. Someone shouldn’t steal your vote and that be able to count. I don’t know the outcome of that vote — what if it was opposite of what I voted? Then it cancels my vote out.”

But Miner’s situation could have been avoided if New York wanted to have an ounce of integrity in their elections. The Empire State is one of 14 states that do not require voters to show ID in order to vote.

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Heat and cold are now established health risk factors, with several studies reporting important mortality effects in populations around the world.1–3 The associated health burden is expected to increase with climate change, especially under the most extreme scenarios of global warming.4,5 ///

Many more cold-related excess deaths than heat-related excess deaths. However, the chart shows a different scale for heat- vs. cold-related deaths...

Historically, we could link to a certain part of the page only if that part had an ID. All we needed to do was to link to the URL and add the document fragment (ID). If we wanted to link to a certain part of the page, we needed to anchor that part to link to it. This was until we were blessed with the Text fragments!
What are Text fragments?

Text fragments are a powerful feature of the modern web platform that allows for precise linking to specific text within a web page without the need to add an anchor! This feature is complemented by the ::target-text CSS pseudo-element, which provides a way to style the highlighted text.

Text fragments work by appending a special syntax to the end of a URL; just like we used to append the ID after the hash symbol (#). The browser interprets this part of the URL, searches for the specified text on the page, and then scrolls to and highlights that text if it supports text fragments. If the user attempts to navigate the document by pressing tab, the focus will move on to the next focusable element after the text fragment.
How can we use it?

Here’s the basic syntax for a text fragment URL:

 https://example.com/page.html#:~:text=[prefix-,]textStart[,textEnd][,-suffix]

Following the hash symbol, we add this special syntax :~: also known as fragment directive then text= followed by:

1. prefix-: A text string preceded by a hyphen specifying what text should immediately precede the linked text. This helps the browser to link to the correct text in case of multiple matches. This part is not highlighted.
2. textStart: The beginning of the text you’re highlighting.
3. textEnd: The ending of the text you’re highlighting.
4. -suffix: A hyphen followed by a text string that behaves similarly to the prefix but comes after the text. Aslo helpful when multiple matches exist and doesn’t get highlighted with the linked text.

The answer is significantly dependent on how much aerodynamic pressure and heating you can tolerate, and whether it's possible to achieve high specific impulse from a rocket engine exhausting into Venusian atmosphere.

At 10km above the Venusian "reference altitude", a speed of only 46 m/s (~100 mph) puts you at a Q of 39.5kPa -- a little higher than "max Q" of most Earth-orbit launchers. If your Q limit is on that order of magnitude, it's going to take you a very long time to get out of the Searing Black Calm, which means you're going to lose a lot of delta-v to gravity -- it takes about 8 minutes going straight up before you can even think about pitching over into a gravity turn.

At least one person has estimated the delta-v to reach Venusian orbit at 27km/s, but they did not provide much detail on their methodology.

By having elfin engineers provide a magical rocket engine capable of ~240s specific impulse when exhausting into 60 atmospheres of pressure, I was able to reach orbit in my home-brewed simulation, lifting off from Maat (to save me 8km and 30 atmospheres of vertical suffering), with about 15000 m/s of delta-v. Max Q achieved was 55 kPa.

It would be physically possible, but there's no practical way to do it just with chemically-propelled rockets. The extremely high density of the atmosphere caps the top speed of the rocket until it's at high altitude, exacerbating gravity loss, so you'd need a ridiculous propellant mass ratio. (At only 100mph, the dynamic pressure at low altitude is comparable to the supersonic max-Q of a terrestrial rocket launch.)

What could conceivably work would be to use balloon ascent to get up to a high altitude "for free" and then use a chemical rocket from there. Designing and engineering something that can land, collect samples, inflate a balloon in the Venusian surface environment, and conduct an interplanetary launch from there is left as an exercise for the reader. //

@jwenting don't forget being chemically resilient to sulfuric acid at 700 K

"While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate. She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history," Trump's statement began.

This is in reference to Harris attempting to paint Trump as a Hitler figure, a lead many on the left followed by referring to Trump supporters as "Nazis," especially during his Madison Square Garden rally.

"Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters 'garbage,'" Trump continued, leading to the most important sentence in his statement. "You can't lead America if you don't love the American People."

"Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States. I am proud to lead the biggest, broadest, and most important political coalition in American history. We are welcoming historic numbers of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.". //

NavyVet Midwestern Copper
38 minutes ago
The campaign is supposed to be a debate about ideas and policies. President Trump has upheld his end of that.

In contrast, Harris has done nothing but lie, slander, demean, and defame her opponent. The only policy she has presented clearly is pro-abortion. That's it. The rest has been hateful bigoted lying spew hurled President Trump's way.

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Hasan has a history of whitewashing terrorism and peddling antisemitism. Hasan called Girdusky a Nazi. Girdusky made a hilarious joke. But Girdusky was fired, and Hasan is the aggrieved party.

This should be an object lesson for any conservative invited on one of the silly discussion shows on either CNN or MSNBC. You are a piñata. You are there as a punching bag. You are there as an object of hate and ridicule. Think of it as the political version of the old-school pro wrestling events. You are the villain. You must lose. So long as you follow the script, take the insults, and accept the lies, you've got a job. The moment a terrorist sympathizer calls you Hitler, and you respond, you're fired. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
3 hours ago
Legacy media rules. Calling a conservative a Nazi isn't offensive. Calling a bigot out for being a bigot is.

Walz's connections with the CCP have never been publicly explained. If DHS has doubts about those ties, America needs to know. America also needs to know why Kamala selected someone with deep ties to Communist China as a running mate. Mayrokas's refusal to comply with this subpoena should land him a criminal indictment if Trump wins next week. Of course, if Kamala wins, we'll find out about those ties pretty quickly. //

Random US Citizen
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How to invade Taiwan without repercussions:

1) Groom a Democrat politician using honey traps during his time in China. Blackmail him as needed.

2) Get him on a major party ticket as VP nominee by using your connections within the party.

3) Corrupt the election using money, lies, and voting machine hacking so his party wins

4) Assassinate the new President using one of the tens of thousands of illegals you've infiltrated into the US

5) Profit! //

anon-isiz
27 minutes ago
This would have been enough to deny him a security clearance in the days when DOD wasn’t giving classified Israeli defense plans to terrorist organizations. Now? He’s probably more trustworthy than anyone in the White House.

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There it is: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media, by Jeff Bezos

"Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion."

zerohedge @zerohedge
Readership of mainstream media has fallen off a cliff and they are scrambling to salvage something, anything
7:39 PM · Oct 28, 2024 //

etba_ss
11 hours ago
Well, Bezos is half right. They are failing to be believed to be accurate. But they are also not accurate. He never acknowledges this.

He talks about people believing they are bias is a problem. They are biased. The problem is them. Do better. Hire people in the middle and right.

I get the feeling he doesn't want to tell the truth or get rid of bias, but to get better at lying so that they are believed. Like the 90s. //

chris on the right ty
10 hours ago
"Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. " sorry Jeff but your failing on the first part is the why people do not believe you

What is the greatest political ad of all time? It is the below. Ok, sure, it's a spoof of political ads, but it’s also a pallet cleanser. This ad is by fake candidate “Gil Fulbright.” It's old — but timeless. It’s a product of Frank Riley. If you don’t find this funny – sorry we can’t be friends.

There is one thing, however, that Mr. Gingrich is missing here. There's a lot more to the state of the race, and Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, than just the near-impossible odds of Trump's taking New York. There's even more to it than the task of helping down-ballot Republicans in New York. There's a bigger picture; there's a bigger message being delivered here, and that message was trebly effective coming from New York.

New York, you see, isn't just an American city. More than any other city on the planet, perhaps, New York is an international city. It's the center of global finance. It's the economic epicenter of the planet, and what's more, it's a major cultural center. A significant event in New York, like Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, draws eyes from all over the planet. And by hosting a huge, boisterous, in-your-face MAGA rally in Madison Square Garden, Trump is in effect throwing down the gauntlet not only to American Democrats but to the whole world, and the message is "I'm coming back, and this time I'm not making the same mistakes I made the first time."

It was a powerful message. It remains a powerful message. What's more, it's a winning message. And delivered this close to the election, it's a game-changing message.

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It featured Israeli flags in the rafters, people chanting "Bring Them Home," and multiple speeches supporting Israel. Just like the Nazis would!
Larry Sabato @LarrySabato
I love historical documentaries. I’m currently watching one about the 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Oh wait, it’s a live Trump rally! My bad.
8:53 AM · Oct 28, 2024