Attorney Natalie Khawam @WhistleblowerLF
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After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.
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The Atlantic @TheAtlantic
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: Trump’s obsession with dictators and disdain for America’s military are deepening, @JeffreyGoldberg reports: https://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?taid=6717ffe956474d000110c05d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
7:13 PM · Oct 22, 2024. //

Mark Meadows
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I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this.

Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.

He was nothing but kind, gracious, and… Show more
4:42 PM · Oct 22, 2024 //

This calls to mind Goldberg's infamous fable, when he told his readers in a Sept. 3, 2020, piece, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’” that Trump ridiculed fallen warriors when the decision was made not to visit the Belleau Wood military cemetery in France during the centennial commemoration of the end of World War I.

A senior Army officer traveling with the president that day told RedState the trip to Belleau Wood, which is sacred to the Marines, was scrubbed because the foul weather grounded the helicopters.

Without helicopters, the president and his entourage would be a slow-moving motorcade on country roads for 45 minutes, a target too rich to provide to an adversary—coupled with the fact that without helicopters, there could be no medevac by air if something happened.

Greg Price @greg_price11
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Wow.

Kamala Harris says that she does not believe in any religious exemptions for abortion.

5:47 PM · Oct 22, 2024

And there you have it. Kamala Harris would force Christian hospitals to perform abortions. There's no other way to read her answer, which specifically said there will be no concessions made regarding the issue.

The incredible gender gap and Trump leading in most age and education brackets combined with nearly a fifth of Black voters saying they are undecided all say that Georgia will go for Trump. In the words of St. Augustine, we must "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." And we must be vigilant because, in the words of Josef Stalin, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

I would suggest that the primary reason why so many of us are stressed out about politics is because the federal government has become so bloated, so intrusive into our lives, that it matters quite a bit which politicians are in charge at a given time. The people we elect can determine whether we can carry a firearm, consume a substance, be sent to war, or be victimized by violent criminals.

Indeed, if a disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic hits, we have to worry about whether our elected officials will push for onerous lockdown orders or impose mandates requiring us to choose between a vaccine or being able to make a living.

This is all because the federal government has expanded much further than the framers of the Constitution would have desired. We have an overabundance of laws that cannot even be reliably counted because they are so plentiful.

What if we could wave a magic wand and cut the government down to about half its size? Yes, that would still be too much government for my tastes, but it would be far better than what we have right now. If the government were smaller and weaker, then decisions over who should be running it would matter far less than they do now because the state would not have as much power to affect our lives.

Less government would amount to less stress because we are freer to live as we see fit without Big Brother looking over our shoulders. The fact that almost two-thirds of the populace is stressed about the upcoming election highlights the real issue we should be facing: The federal government is far too powerful, and until this changes, we will continue to be stressed about who occupies the White House and Capitol building.

"And it is because of my love for our country — and specifically, because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican Party and bring it back to the party of the people and the party of peace — that I'm proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I'm joining the Republican Party. I'm joining the party of the people, the party of equality, the party that was founded to fight against and end slavery in this country. It is the party of common sense and the party that is led by a president who has the courage and strength to fight for peace."

But she's not cowed by the haters on the left and is now using her platform to endorse Donald Trump:

"I think that he has a great sense of humor," she began. "I think that he is a man amongst the people. I feel like when you wrap that up with the humility that he has, the sense of humor that he has, the off-the-cuff confidence that he has. His ability to go so unscripted and be in so many scenarios where he has to essentially be himself, it’s pretty much all of them. That’s not just something you see from the other side, which I think is one of the most endearing and important qualities about him is that he is just being him."

When it comes down to it, here's why Danica Patrick is casting her first-ever presidential vote for Donald Trump: "I am passionate because it feels like voting for Donald Trump is like the vote of reason. The rational, reasonable choice."

A group of eleven former Republican prosecutors and elected officials have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to open an investigation into Elon Musk for paying registered voters in seven states to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. //

As Musk has elevated his profile in politics (see 'To Hell With Them': Elon Knocks Those Who Are 'Fundamentally Anti-American' As He Stumps for Trump in PA), he has become a target of the US government. Sunday, the New York Times wrote a gleeful story on all the federal agencies investigating either Musk or his business ventures, complete with a helpful infographic. //

If Harris wins in November, Musk's grim prediction to Tucker Carlson will probably be vindicated: "If he loses, I’m f—-d.”. //

Mr. Bear
3 hours ago
Someone suggested to me that they would check their pursuit of Elon Musk because SpaceX IS the US space program now. I warned them that they didn't understand leftists at all. Leftists care that you conform or get destroyed; nothing else matters to them. Hell, they don't like the space program anyway, and never have ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 )

Pol Pot was a typical leftist at the end of the movement. He murdered everyone who could do something useful. People who can do things tend to be rational thinkers, which is dangerous to leftist regimes. They murdered millions and wrecked their country and economy for decades, and I don't think they ever regretted it. And they will do it here if good people don't stand up and stop them. It's going to get messy. //

mopani Mr. Bear
3 minutes ago edited
"This perfume could have been sold for a year's wages and the money given to the poor!" said the man who was helping himself to the purse.

"This space program is wasting money that could be given to the poor! And it's only beneficial to rich people!" //

Laocoön of Troy streiff
3 hours ago
Ran across this story: George Washington was running for a seat in the VA House of Delegates. As usual Washington leveraged his sterling reputation in his campaign. His opponant fortified his own appeal by delivering alcohol to his speeches. It was customary, but Washington wanted to eliminate any suggestion of impropriety. He lost. When Washington ran again he delivered rum, beer, whisky, and other beverages from the distillery he ran on his farm to his events. He won.

Lesson learned: Washington may have been the most careful American leader in terms of his reputation and cultivating the power of it. But he was also mindful of the customs of his day. America was blessed by God for the leadership of Washington. He was the essential man for his time.

Harris’ campaign is promising that if she is elected and the numbers in Congress work, Democrats will eliminate the Senate filibuster. //

The Dems are not promising to eliminate the filibuster to break a few ties, with the understanding that there will likely be future turnabout and their worst Republican policy nightmares will come true. This time they are playing for keeps.

If they can broadly eliminate the filibuster, buy four more senators, make millions of illegal aliens citizens with a 51-senator vote, rig our voting system processes, and rejigger the Supreme Court to create a roster of 13 mostly leftist justices, then they can entirely stop speaking to the Republican side of the aisle because they will have a permanent filibuster-proof Senate majority. And the Republicans will never have enough voters to reinstate legislative bumpers for both sides. It is not that Democrats have evaluated the likely conservative counter-offensive and determined that the risk is a good one. They perceive no risk. With all these sweeping changes, they can do whatever they want until the end of time with no practical oversight or influence of the people. The only two things holding them back are a Harris victory in November and a conscience they sorely lack. We will be a functional leftist autocracy. //

The question is who wants to live in a place in which only a single point of view is mandated from the top of government down by people who have proven themselves to be too ineffective to lead under the rules that have existed for generations? Who will support a Republican Party that sees all of this partisan rule breaking coming and does nothing to stop it? This presidential election is a referendum on both parties, neither of which seems able to look to the future to understand its gravity. //

Regardless of how many times Democrat candidates tell us that they are protecting democracy, they are not doing anything of the sort. Democracy is mob rule, one more vote than the other team. The filibuster is not contained in the Constitution but instead is the logical outgrowth of the long-developed Senate rule-making process. For a bill to be filibuster-proof, it required the support of 67 senators until a rule change reduced that number to 60 in 1975. Legislative processes are not designed so one party or the other, with 51 votes, can trade radical swings in our country’s laws and policies. They are designed for the opposite result, to force legislation down the middle and away from both ideological extremes.

Our Constitution and Senate and House rules are written to compel legislators, who work for the people, to stand eye-to-eye, communicate, and compromise for the greater good. The 60 votes serve as an effective buffer against radicalism. Harris and her party have utter disdain for that rule book.

A new documentary on the vice presidency gives a fresh perspective on the complications of American governance. //

No constitutional structure can know or predict every possible scenario that leads down the road of autocracy and anarchy. For this reason, Ben Franklin reportedly told a passerby at the end of the Constitutional Convention that the delegates had created “a republic, if you can keep it.” It falls on all of us — each successive generation of Americans — to rise to Franklin’s challenge. //

“The American Vice President” is available on PBS stations (check your local listings) and can be streamed online and via the PBS app.

This isn’t just about the election, though, but also about the changing nature between users — again, the product — and the online services we allow ourselves to be pimped out for. The disparities between the results for Trump and Harris simply highlight how stark the problem is.

Whether it’s Google or Facebook or Instagram, the initial premise of expanding easy access to information and apprising us of stories we might have otherwise missed has been largely destroyed. Google and Meta show us what they want us to see, not what we signed up to see, and it’s starting to turn people off. Maybe that’s a good thing, because most people need to spend more time in the real world. But when we’re trying to find a restaurant or information about voting or see pictures of a friend’s new landscaping or figure out how to get Elmer’s glue off the hardwood floors, burying those things under a mountain of nonsense makes us more likely to tune out.

Which is probably not just a good thing but a great thing — but initially the internet and social media were supposed to be about connecting us, about decreasing barriers to information. It would be nice if our tech overlords could remember what their initial goals were — in Google’s case, it was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” — and return to those ideals instead of pushing us toward full “Idiocracy.”

I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen, though, particularly as Google itself deems such queries unworthy of answering.

Howard Mortman @HowardMortman
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“Can you simply picture Donald Trump working at a McDonald’s, trying to make a McFlurry or something? He couldn’t run that damn McFlurry machine if it cost him anything.”

-- Tim Walz AFSCME 8-13-2024

2:27 PM · Aug 14, 2024 //

justpaul
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If you want mass rioting without criminal charges against those who perpetrate it, vote for Harris and Walz.

If you want mass rioting with criminal charges against those who perpetrate it, vote for Trump and Vance.

You're going to get the mass rioting either way; the election is about what happens next. //

big_tex_1
15 hours ago
The left is truly in a bad place if they think Trump working side by side with McDonalds employees is being disrespectful to them. The smell of desperation is overpowering. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
16 hours ago
Just for the record Walz hasn’t done a damn thing to help the minority neighborhoods he sacrificed to BLM. Some private companies stepped up on their own to rebuild what they lost, but that was it.

If you didn’t have insurance you were screwed. Did I mention that civil unrest is excluded from most insurance policies? Oh yeah, most of what burned down belonged to minority families, many of which were immigrants.

Will Scharf @willscharf
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Remember: November 18, 2022 was THE key day when all four criminal cases kicked off.

• Nathan Wade was at the White House for 8 hours.

• Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel.

• Matthew Colangelo quits DOJ, and shows up a few weeks later at Bragg’s office in New York.

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat

BREAKING: Prosecutor Nathan Wade admitted to multiple meetings with the Biden-Harris White House during Fani Willis's prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia but repeatedly claimed, "I don't recall" or "I don't remember" the details of those meetings.
10:01 PM · Oct 21, 2024

The observant reader might also note that Trump announced his candidacy on...November 15, 2022.

Harris, the daughter of two college professors, who grew up attending private schools in Canada, was not, in the least, economically or socially disadvantaged. But there she is, claiming she was. //

There is no information on what Kamala Harris scored on her LSAT. We do know that she didn't pass the Bar on the first try when 80 percent of her classmates did pass. So how did a run-of-the-mill student, and daughter of a “privileged” upbringing get into Hastings School of Law?

Easy – she fudged her application. Harris was admitted under a program called LEOP. //

To get into law school, Harris was a beneficiary of a program that wasn’t intended for someone of her economic or social status. She almost certainly lied on her application or at a minimum knew that her politics would fit with the LEOP selection committee. Harris was “waved in” because of a lie or because of politics. Harris has consistently used the "system" she decries, and she gained positions that she did not deserve and did not earn. She gamed the system.

Not very “equitable” of her, it seems. //

PJ The Ref
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So what is the black equivalent of a Fauxchahantas? Asking for a Liz Warren.

There’s going to be a presidential election in a couple weeks, but few think that we’ll know for sure the next president on November 5—what used to be known, quaintly, as “Election Day.”

Most likely, it’s going to be weeks, maybe even months, before we see a victor. And here’s a prediction: The Sturm und Drang will come in five phases: litigation, negotiation, discreditation, devolution, and then, monetization. I can explain.

According to President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, it is now a federal crime to prevent illegal ballots in presidential elections.

Barely 30 days before the 2024 election, the Justice Department sued the state of Virginia to prohibit its removal of the names of noncitizens from voting rolls. //

The Virginia lawsuit is simply the latest in Democrats’ long war against honest voting, which began with the Clinton administration’s Motor Voter Act. That 1993 law mandated voter registration in every welfare and food-stamp office in the nation. Brent Thompson, executive director of the Fair Government Foundation, observed in 1996, “The Motor Voter law did away with a panoply of anti-fraud mechanisms long relied on by the states to police and deter fraudulent voting.”

In 2015, the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned voter identification requirements as part of a “sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people.” //

But the panic induced by Covid-19 enabled politicians to radically loosen the rules for the next presidential election. Many states made it easier—if not automatic—to vote by mail, even though a 2012 New York Times analysis concluded that “fraud in voting by mail is… vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud that has attracted far more attention.” Some states abandoned any effort to verify mail ballots, dropping requirements for matching signatures, return addresses, or having a witness verify the person and the vote. Civil Rights Commissioner J. Christian Adams noted that “Democrats succeeded in tossing out state laws related to absentee ballot verification, deadlines and a whole range of laws all in the name of Covid.” //

A week after Election Day, the New York Times ran a banner headline across the top of the front page: “Election Officials Nationwide Find No Fraud.” How did the Times know? Their reporters basically called election officials in each state and asked, “Did y’all have any fraud?” A total lack of fraud in an election with more than 100 million voters would have required divine intervention to achieve. Biden’s 2020 victory became the election equivalent of the Immaculate Conception. //

Preventing bogus ballots should not be treated like a moral or theological issue. When did verifying votes become a crime against democracy? Why is the Justice Department crusading to turn voting into an entitlement program for non-citizens? Do Democrats seek to make the actual voting as fraud-ridden as politicians’ campaign promises? Elections need rigorous safeguards against fraud because, as Thomas Paine warned long ago, “the trade of governing has always been monopolized by… the most rascally individuals of mankind.” Four presidential elections since 2000 have been heavily tainted by allegations of foul play. American democracy has zero legitimacy to spare at this point.

Democrats and the Left are silent in light of actual voter suppression that happened in the 2022 election, when many Pennsylvanians in Luzerne County showed up to vote in the morning, only to be told there were no more paper ballots available to cast their votes.

At least 40 polling places did not have the minimum number of ballots required by state law. When paper ballots ran out shortly after voting began, election officials and poll workers directed voters to come back later. //

The very simple matter of providing enough paper for ballots apparently fell by the wayside, resulting in disenfranchised voters in a swing state and a potential swing county.

Where was Biden to cry voter suppression? Where was the Democrats’ unlimited dark money-funded election law consigliere, Marc Elias, to file a case? The fact is the Left and Democrats did not care, as most of the affected voters in Luzerne County were Republicans. //

The lawsuit was necessary because the problems of Luzerne County are not a one-off for Election Day ballot shortages. Similar “voting irregularities” occurred during the gubernatorial races in New Jersey in 2021 and Mississippi in 2023. In both cases, it was Republican voters who were impacted. //

Because of CEC’s legal victory in Luzerne County, counties and elections authorities are on notice that they will literally pay the price if they suppress votes. But don’t expect Democrats to care when it is not their voters who are being suppressed.

So, what are Democrats doing now in light of election officials’ errors like those in Luzerne? Literally the same night the Luzerne County Council approved the settlement and admitted they suppressed votes, a liberal group parroted the Democrats and Left, calling for a new local ordinance to protect election officials from criticism.

As a county in the most targeted state in the 2024 election, Luzerne serves as a microcosm for the country.

The Left cries “voter suppression” as a political talking point but ignores real voter suppression when it doesn’t suit their interests. They don’t try to make the process more transparent, but instead try to make it impossible to critique election officials and improve the process. //

It wasnt me
2 hours ago
When Legislators make laws that I might break, like Window Tint, it comes with fines that if I don't pay I can go to prison or be shot during my arrest.

When Legislators make laws government employees may break intentionally, there is no penalty to the perpetrator.

How about if there are no Ballots, I get to fire a Taser at the Precinct Captain? Do you think 🤔 they would forget to have the required Ballots? //

Forget what Kamala Harris is saying. Look at who she's hiring — in this case, someone who is an unrepentant climate scold, a fanatical anti-child, anti-energy, anti-modern lifestyle (except for herself, we feel sure) lunatic. //

Key campaign workers like this frequently go on to take related positions in the staff of election winners when they assume office. There can be little doubt that a Harris administration would include Camila Thorndike, almost certainly in some position having to do with energy and climate policy. She would be pushing policies that would make energy more expensive, and in so doing make everything more expensive; she would be pushing policies that would damage, if not destroy, our modern technological lifestyle.

Harris has "theater kid syndrome." Because she's such a laughably inauthentic politician molded and led by a group of handlers, she has the tendency to go overboard. When she gets in front of a camera, she's playing a role, and because she's a terrible actor, it's immediately obvious to anyone watching. Further, Harris has no ability to remain in character, which leads to the odd trend of her randomly laughing at things that aren't funny.

That means that when the vice president does try to stay serious, she comes across as a lame schoolmarm. //

RBe @RBPundit
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The look on Liz Cheney's face when it starts to dawn on her that there's not going to be a Harris administration for her to get a job in.
3:33 PM · Oct 21, 2024 //

It's too late for Cheney, though. She chose this path, and there's a decent chance she'll suffer one, final humiliation in a few weeks. It couldn't happen to a better person.

There is a compelling reason that the Supreme Court has regularly ruled that falsehoods are protected speech. The Court openly recognizes that falsehoods can be harmful and may sometimes be quite harmful, but the Court also recognizes that efforts to determine which information is true and which is false are far more harmful to our democracy. The line between whether content can be labeled true or false, or whether it is simply viewpoint disagreement can be blurry and very much in the eye of the beholder. This is especially true of political content and policy debates. This is also the fundamental premise of the First Amendment, which protects free speech and free press. //

Those who wish for regulatory power to ensure “politically correct” content moderation need to answer these fundamental questions: Should the political party who temporarily runs the government be allowed to act as arbiter of what’s true or false, ... //

How will such regulatory power work if the governing political party in the White House switches every four or eight years and the rules dramatically change when a new political party wins? Today, private companies acting as news organizations have their own free speech rights to publish and label their own opinions as true and opposing opinions as false. This works as long as there are multiple competing news companies... //

Rather than attempting to legislate definitions of online safety and viewpoint neutrality, which seems exceedingly difficult in the current deeply divided partisan environment of Washington, D.C., there is another simpler solution.

The simple solution is to mandate full and detailed transparency of:

1. All enforcement actions taken by the online platforms...
   ... //

Such transparency would allow the online platforms to be compared on a peer-to-peer basis for online safety and viewpoint neutrality. Such transparency would also shine the harsh light of publicity on all government efforts to influence online platforms, ...

Israel has temporarily shifted the focus of its air campaign in Lebanon and Syria from plinking jihadists cowering in bunkers to wiping out Hezbollah's infrastructure. Israeli strike fighters hit eleven locations associated with Hezbollah's financial operation after giving people in the target areas 20 minutes' notice to evacuate. //

This has created a cash shortage for an organization that needs a large cash flow to pay fighters, benefits to the families of slain fighters, and to carry out the social work that propelled Hezbollah into prominence in Lebanese politics. Because Hezbollah doesn't have access to international banking channels, it requires large quantities of cash to operate. Recall that when the Israelis bounced a JDAM off Hasan Nasrallah's turban, over $500 million in cash and gold was also lost. //

“I’m hearing from Lebanese bankers, including Hezbollah financiers, that Lebanon’s wealthiest bankers who can afford to fly have fled to Europe and the Gulf, fearing they could be targeted next by Israel for helping Hezbollah,” Asher noted.

“I’ve heard from my Israeli counterparts that the Iranians are scared to send money to Lebanon right now because Israel is threatening to target flights into Beirut. The Israelis are warning they will target flights full of money, not just weapons,” he added.