A third assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump was thwarted at the last minute Saturday when local cops stopped a man armed with guns and fake passes outside his rally at Coachella Valley, the local sheriff said.

The suspect was caught about a mile from the rally venue with a phony-entry pass, according to police. He was also carrying a loaded shotgun, handgun and high capacity magazine.

“We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said.

The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from the rally entrance. He was carrying a fake phony [sic] press and VIP passes. //

UPDATED [5:52 p.m. EST]: The NY Post (linked above) has updated its report, adding additional details, including the circumstances of the car being searched:

The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.

Miller did not have a valid ID when he was stopped at the rally checkpoint, and was detained after police searched his vehicle and found the weapons, law enforcement sources told The Post.

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So let’s review….the license plate on his car was fake. The officer also found several passports with different names on them inside the car. How do you even obtain passports with different names? I have a passport and there is a fairly rigorous process to obtain one. He has an handgun with an additional clip with ammo? No mention of whether or not he had a license to carry a gun in California. And what name was the gun license in with all his fake passports? And with all this damning evidence, the FBI immediately comes out and states it wasn’t an assassination attempt and he is released on $5,000 bail? And it was the local sheriffs department that arrested him. Curious that there is absolutely no comment from the Secret Service. Was this guy on their bad guy list to watch for? This whole episode stinks to high heaven and fuels the deep state conspiracy theories. And confirms that the FBI will need a deep cleaning from top to bottom when Trump is sworn in. //

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If this guy were supposedly from a right wing organization, the MSM would be shouting these stories from the rooftops. That means they don’t know what he is, but they don’t want to admit another assassination attemp was thwarted. The guy went through security at a Trump rally with a weapon. Why else would he be going there? Denying this was another assassination attempt is foolhardy and shouldn’t be ruled out that quickly. The guy is obviously going to deny it because he doesn’t want to be charged with it, so any statements he makes should be disregarded as to motive.

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, retired Army General Mark Milley, fears that a Trump win in November will see him recalled to active duty and court-martialed. //

Milley's fear is based on a couple of things. At one point, President Trump told Milley he intended to do that to two of his most vociferous critics among retired general officers, and Milley was able to talk him out of it. //

The other reason is that Milley went out of his way to sabotage President Trump. Milley made a big production out of letting everyone in the media know that during the BLM riots, he considered resigning if President Trump ordered out federal troops under the Insurrection Act; he even made his alleged resignation letter public. He also made two calls to his "counterpart" in China's People's Liberation Army during the last three months of the Trump administration, assuring them the US would not attack China and again let the "right" people know.

We now know that Milley was a prime mover in the decision to ignore President Trump's directive that either the National Guard or active duty military be on hand to preserve order on January 6. That failure led directly to the disorder on Capitol Hill and Trump's second impeachment. //

One of the critical first steps an incoming President Trump has to be to gain control of the military, the Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community. That will entail him demanding the resignation or retirement of hundreds, if not thousands, of hostile bureaucrats. He should take a page from General George C. Marshall's playbook and remove virtually everyone holding three- or four-star rank; see President Trump's Alleged War With His Generals Shows How the Military Is Producing Self-Centered Careerists Not Leaders – RedState.

If Trump is unable or unwilling to do this, then his second term will be the same squandered opportunity at national renewal as his first.

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JD Vance schools the host on negative impact illegal immigration has on the economy.

Host: The reason that there is a housing crisis is that not enough houses have been built.

Vance: … And that we have 25 million people who shouldn't be here.

1:17 PM · Oct 12, 2024 //

There she goes again. Does she believe that only Hispanic illegal immigrants are capable of doing construction work? That's quite the assumption to make when arguing in favor of continuing to break American laws. //

It's incredible to me how open mainstream journalists are about their desire to facilitate human trafficking for them to live their upper-crust lifestyles. Bringing in illegal immigrants to work for quasi-slave wages is not a solution to the housing crisis. It exacerbates the problem, distorting the market, both regarding demand for housing and wages to build homes. //

Vance knows this topic better than anyone, and I'm dumbstruck how any reporter still thinks they can corner him on it. Garcia-Navarro, continually attempting to interrupt to inject her talking points, ends up looking ill-informed and supportive of abusive immigration and labor policies. That's probably because she is. //

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A clear, logical mind making rational points is such a rarity in public discourse these days. Media hacks left sputtering is so satisfying to witness.

Thanks, J.D. I knew you were good, and was pulling for ya to be the VP pick, but you are better than I even imagined.

Facts are stubborn things, and we are forced to live within a framework of facts. But all too often, dogma is pushed to take precedence over facts, and that's a recipe for bad policy.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ongoing climate change discussion. Now, a new study by German engineer and scientist Moritz Büsing has shown some serious flaws in the methods of measuring temperatures, and the release of this work will no doubt draw fire from climate scolds in Germany, the rest of Europe - and the United States.

But facts are stubborn things.

According to a new study, weather station data has been shown to non-climatically and erroneously record warmer-than-actual temperatures due to the steady and perpetual aging process almost universally observed in temperature gauges.

When a weather station temperature gauge’s white paint or white plastic ages and darkens, this allows more solar radiation to be absorbed by the gauge than when the gauge is bright white and new. Within a span of just 2 to 5 years, a gauge has been observed to record maximum temperatures 0.46°C to 0.49°C warmer than in gauges that have not undergone an aging process. This artificial warming is not corrected in modern data sets, and it builds up over time – even when the gauges are cleaned or resurfaced every few years.

If these systematic artificial warming errors were to be corrected rather than ignored, the 140-year (1880-’90 to 2010-’20) GISTEMP global warming trend plummets from the current estimate of +1.43°C down to +0.83°C, a 42% differential. The temperature reduction can be even more pronounced – from +1.43°C down to +0.41°C – if a set of conservative assumptions (described in detail in the paper) are removed.

https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Buesing-Weather-Station-Ageing-V4.2.pdf

My reading list is varied, and sometimes a little on the odd side. It's pretty evenly mixed between fiction and non-fiction and between contemporary and historical works. At present, I'm making my way through Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West," which prompts some interesting and uncomfortable comparisons to the United States today. I'd probably get more out of it were I able to read it in the original German, but my sprechen sie is inadequate to the task; ask me to order a pilsener and a plate of schnitzel, and I can manage, but a treatise on politics of the Weimar Republic? Not so much.

I've always been addicted to reading. My parents were as well; Dad in particular hated television but whenever he was sitting still, he always had a book at hand. Mom, too, was addicted to reading and was fond of murder mysteries and Jane Austen novels. My own reading was limited to Louis L'Amour novels, and Pat McManus' short story collections such as "A Fine and Pleasant Misery," until I was about 16. //

[My American Lit teacher] handed me a book with a bookmark in place and said, "Read this." I looked at the cover; it was a compilation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Nick Adams Stories." I opened the book to the bookmark and found a story called "The Big Two-Hearted River." I read that. Then I read the rest of the book. Then I went back to the teacher asking for more. I was hooked. //

Reading - and writing - are great endeavors. It's a pity that so many in our political class seem to do neither. //

In June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew "Sandy" Irvine set off for the summit of Mount Everest and disappeared—two more casualties of a peak that has claimed over 300 lives to date. Mallory's body was found in 1999, but Irvine's was never found—until now. An expedition led by National Geographic Explorer and professional climber Jimmy Chin—who won an Oscar for the 2019 documentary Free Solo, which he co-directed—has located a boot and a sock marked with Irvine's initials at a lower altitude than where Mallory's body had been found.

The team took a DNA sample from the remains, and members of the Irvine family have volunteered to compare DNA test results to confirm the identification. “It’s an object that belonged to him and has a bit of him in it,” Irvine’s great-niece Julie Summers told National Geographic. "It tells the whole story about what probably happened. I'm regarding it as something close to closure.” //

A Chinese climber reported stumbling across "an English dead" at 26,570 feet (8,100 meters) in 1975, but the man was killed in an avalanche the following day before the report could be verified. //

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It would certainly be amazing if anything is ever found that makes it conclusive whether or not they made it. For anyone familiar with the details, it is entirely plausible that they did make it and beat Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay by 29 years. It's just impossible to tell if they died on the way up or the way down.

One bit of - admittedly entirely inconclusive - evidence is that George Mallory had a photograph of his wife with him in his pocket which he intended to leave at the top if he made it. When his body was discovered in 1999, the photo was no longer in his pocket.

Now, who knows. Maybe when things got desperate, he needed something else from his pocket and just floundered desperately for it with frozen hands, beyond caring that the picture of his wife fell out and blew away when he was near death. Or after his fall, his body was broken and death was imminent, but he wasn't quite dead and pulled the photo from his pocket to look at as he died, then it blew away. Who knows? The missing photo is far from proof. But it's some indication he may have made it.

It'll be amazing if that camera ever turns up, with film that can still be developed, and it has a picture from the summit. //

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IIRC there's some contention that the Chinese got to the top of the mountain first (before the known Edmund Hillary summiting) and the camera would prove whether or not Mallory and Irvine got there first.

You can get to Everest from the Nepal side, or the Chinese/Tibetan side. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (can't forget him) climbed the Nepal side (they did it first). Mallory and Irvine tried the Chinese side. The Chinese are the first known to successfully climb the Chinese side. That was a Communist party effort. If Mallory and Irvine did successfully climb Everest from the Chinese side, that would mean the Chinese are no longer the first to climb Everest from the that side. In theory that would mean a loss of prestige to the Chinese if you believe those sort things. //

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More Everest climbers die on the descent than on the ascent. About 56%.

To be expected. People think climbing to the summit is the hardest part.

The hardest part is that the whole mountain is trying to kill you. People are exhausted on the way back down and are careless as the physical exhaustion/limitations catches up. Saying "Failure is not an option" is not accurate in places where failure and death is the default. Survival is an option.

More than 86 percent of healthcare providers surveyed across the US are experiencing shortages of intravenous fluids after Hurricane Helene's rampage took out a manufacturing plant in western North Carolina that makes 60 percent of the country's supply.

IV fluids are used for everything from intravenous rehydration to drug delivery. The plant also made peritoneal dialysis fluids used to treat kidney failure. //

In one bright spot in the current disruptions, fears that Hurricane Milton would disrupt another IV fluid manufacturing plant in Florida were not realized this week. B. Braun Medical’s manufacturing site in Daytona Beach was not seriously impacted by the storm, the company announced, and production resumed normally Friday. Prior to the storm, with the help of the federal government, B. Braun reportedly moved more than 60 truckloads of IV fluid inventory north of Florida for safekeeping. That inventory will be returned to the Daytona facility, according to reporting by the Associated Press.

One would think that removing noncitizens from your voting rolls would be a smart thing to do to ensure a fair election in November—but the Harris-Biden Department of Justice evidently disagrees.

They’re suing the state of Virginia on technical grounds—it’s too close to the election for such procedures, they say. //

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The “quiet period” makes no sense from a legal or moral standpoint. All it does is announce to the public that people who are ineligible to vote can slide in under the radar as long as they do their registration inside that 90 day period. This same DOJ demands states also allow same day registration is limiting their ability to correct any ineligible registrations.

Imagine what would happen if the Feds announced that between 3 am and 6 am, cops are not allowed to be patrolling the streets and no crimes would be investigated. What do you suppose will happen?

Venture capitalist David Magerman, who previously donated $5 million to the University of Pennsylvania, halted his financial support of the institution shortly after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. His decision was prompted by the school’s refusal to take action against the spread of antisemitism on campus and its failure to protect Jewish students from members of the pro-Hamas crowd, which held numerous demonstrations on the premises while threatening Jewish students.

Magerman recently announced that he plans to reallocate the funds he previously sent to UPenn to five Israeli colleges in $1 million increments. These include Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, and Jerusalem College of Technology.

“I don’t see much value generated by giving to American universities. I think that liberal colleges in America are flawed institutions that are doing a poor job of preparing students for the real world,” he told Fox News.

Magerman urged other donors to follow his lead, arguing that universities are not “reformable.”

Asked what his message is to other prominent Jewish donors still contributing to Ivy League schools, Magerman said pointedly, "Stop." He said it's naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are "reformable."

"They're fulfilling the mission they want to fulfill. Their goal, it seems, is to indoctrinate their students to question the validity of Western civilization, to question the value of the Founding Fathers and to criticize Western society. I don't think that's what these philanthropists believe and I don't think that they should be donating money to support propagating that ideology," said Magerman.

Other high-profile donors have taken similar steps. Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, canceled a $100 million donation to UPenn in December over similar concerns.

This is a short-term forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. This product is based on the OVATION model and provides a 30 to 90 minute forecast of the location and intensity of the aurora. The forecast lead time is the time it takes for the solar wind to travel from the L1 observation point to Earth.

It's honestly hilarious how much some of this language mirrors the things Republicans have been lambasted for in the past. Anytime a GOP politician even suggests that they will only certify the results if the election is "fair," they are piledriven by the press as promoting "insurrection." Yet, when Democrats do the same thing, the mainstream journalists give a collective shrug.

Raskin wasn't the only one singing that tune, though. Several others with a history of objecting to the Electoral College also mused that things must go "as we expect it to" for them to certify a Trump victory. //

So are Democrats teeing up a claim that election fraud happened and, thus, certification must be delayed? Because if so, that would break every irony meter in existence.

Expectedly, Axios finished out its piece by defending Raskin and his colleagues, claiming that while both parties have objected to certification, it's different when Democrats do it.

She thought that October 7, the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Israel, was the right day to get all dolled up and pretend she's some sort of fashion icon? This speaks directly to the incredibly tone-deaf ways and poor judgment that have come to define Kamala Harris. And it's precisely because of her repeated missteps that the media is trying to come to her rescue. //

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Her priorities are always her. Always. She couldn’t have pushed it back one day? One? Just disgusting.
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We’re still finding bodies from the devastating hurricane that destroyed parts of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris was busy posing for Vogue magazine at the same time.

She doesn’t care about Americans.

All she cares about is power.
7:37 AM · Oct 11, 2024

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The hurricane “machine” is climate change.

Cooler ocean temperatures slow hurricane development.

As temps rise, more hurricanes grow.

The Gulf of Mexico is a major location for warming water.

The people who bear responsibility are fossil fuel co’s + the politicians they buy.
4:32 PM · Oct 9, 2024

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Hi there, @AOC. 👋

You seem to like science. So, I figured I would give ya an education about this topic. 📚

I took the liberty to plot the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) for June-August (JJA) for the period 1900 to 2023. The base period used for this analysis is 1991-2020 and JJA was used because that is what the SSTs are to work with in the GoM going into North Atlantic peak hurricane season (August-October) and SSTs are slow to change due to water's high heat capacity.  I'll drop the link to the KNMI Climate Explorer for you to reproduce this chart at your own will. Give that a lil' click-sy and knock yourself out.  https://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi (the bounding box I used was 20-30°N, 80-100°W) The diamonds overlain represent instances when a major hurricane (i.e., a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained wind speeds of ≥111 mph according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale) formed in the GoM. Some years have more than major hurricane in the Gulf, so they're represented by one dot.

A total of 75 hurricanes have either formed or tracked through the GoM since 1900.[1] Of those 75, 40 (53.3%) formed with SSTAs 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 the 1991-2020 mean. That's more than half of the subset.

• [1] 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑦 (1957) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑎 (1966) 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒.

What we can conclude from this analysis is that the formation of major hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico is not contingent on warming SSTs. The Gulf gets warm enough every year to sustain a major hurricane, even of category four or five status. So, higher SSTs aren't going to add much additional effect, especially if you consider the fact tropical cyclone kinematics require far more environmental parameters to be favorable in order for a major hurricane to form (e.g., pre-existing disturbance, low deep-layer [200-850 hPa] vertical wind shear and no dry air / Saharan dust).

You are oversimplifying a very complex issue that you have little understanding about.

But also, how bad off are you that this is what you are saying to campaign volunteers? Are you really saying they don't want to vote for women? //

Really, just so offensive and insulting to black men. Sounds like they're already trying to blame black men for losing as opposed to Kamala just being a lousy candidate. //

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Voting for someone solely based on the color of their skin is a shallow approach that undermines the value of true leadership and character. Judging a candidate on their principles, vision, and ability to lead, rather than relying on racial identity should be the deciding factor.

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Wow. Obama’s message to Black men in PA tonight, per pooler @EricaLG

“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.”
7:33 PM · Oct 10, 2024. //

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Who is denigrating black folks? Here's a short list...
Who is saying Blacks can't get an ID that no other race has a problem getting?
Who is saying math is racist?
Who is saying reading is racist?
Who is saying testing is racist?
Who is saying criminal laws are racist?
Who is saying bail is racist?
Who is saying you ain't Black if you don't vote like you are told.

Lots of denigrating going on, but is ain't from who Obama wants you to think it is. //

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What did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans related to retaliation

Biden: He's coming over to help with the storm

3:05 PM · Oct 10, 2024

Ironically, he's sort of right. Netanyahu is dealing with the "storm" that Obama/Biden/Harris created in the Middle East by continuing to prop up the mullahs. //

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Biden tells Trump to "get a life, man" and "help these people" who were victims of the hurricanes.

Pres. Trump visited NC and GA and raised millions of dollars for the victims even though he is not the one currently in charge of the government.

2:21 PM · Oct 10, 2024 //

He scolded the media for not holding up the narrative enough, saying the public would hold Trump accountable. He also said that, "You, the press, should hold him accountable because you know the truth," pointing his finger at them in an accusatory manner.

"Do you plan to speak with former President Trump at all?" a reporter asked.

"No!" Biden retorted, as he went out the door.

Hold Trump accountable for what? //

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For the love of God, would someone just ask him if he is happy he stole the 2020 election already?
I want to hear him admit it before he croaks.

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He did admit it. Before it happened. Bragged about it, but.......................He miss spoke or some crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

Specifically, Judge John Bush said that judges should discern the original understanding of free speech in “linguistical meaning” and “evidence of how Americans ordered their lives” in the 1790s.

The Second Amendment case to which the authors referred was New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the Supreme Court ruled that, among other considerations, gun control laws must be consistent with the “historical” standard of restrictions on firearms.

The primary argument the authors made is that relying solely, or mostly, on historical interpretations of the law to define the scope of free speech is problematic. They contend that taking such an approach could lead to inconsistent, regressive, and ultimately tyrannical rulings that would roll back protections on speech.

“If rules from the 1790s were enforced today, citizens could be jailed for criticizing politicians, public figures could freely use defamation law to punish critics, and schoolchildren would have few if any free speech rights,” the authors stated.

The authors also noted court cases that expanded the right to free speech, specifically a 1943 case where a court “held that the government could not compel students to salute the flag because ‘no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.’”

They also brought up a 1971 case that “held that the government could not ban vulgar or offensive speech.”

Yet, in the 17th and 19th centuries, the government had no problem with restricting speech in a way that seems foreign to us today:

Historically, the wrong kind of speech could land you in jail. Laws criminalizing blasphemy, government criticism, tepid sexual content, and other speech viewed to be bad or harmful were commonplace at the country’s founding.

Another historical example the authors offer is the prohibition of abolitionist speech in Southern states, showing how restrictions on speech were used to uphold oppressive institutions such as slavery. //

any court decision should be made through the lens of liberty, seeking to ensure the state does not infringe on any of our rights without an exceedingly good reason. The Framers sought to create a system of governance that would make it difficult for the state to impose laws or policies that make it more intrusive in our lives. The goal was to cultivate a society free from oppressive and unnecessary restrictions imposed with the threat of government violence.

The north star for any court should be liberty, regardless of whether it is in line with historical precedent. Otherwise, those seeking to violate our rights will find it far easier to do so.

When the government is this big, this overbearing, this out of control, the opportunities for graft likewise grow out of control too - and the attraction to people who are seeking that kind of graft grows out of control along with it.

That's where you get the federal government sending almost $400k to a Chinese company for one magic bus and that same company shoveling campaign contributions to the politicians who made the funding happen.

One hand washes the other. //

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Electric buses are having issues. An article from Government Technology (govtech.com) on March 2024:

The director of the New York Association for Pupil Transportation said 20 out of 100 electric school buses are down on any given day, due to problems with the buses or with their charging devices.

The article goes on to say:

Traditional diesel buses, for instance, have a failure rate of 1 or 2 percent, meaning that out of a fleet of 100 buses, one or two would be down for repairs on a given day, said David Christopher, executive director

And the electric buses cost about $100,000 more per bus.

REPORTER: Is the increase in tornados [caused by] global warming?

DESANTIS: I think you can back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure, and especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of (looks at the man behind him), what was it? About 950 millibars when it hit?

Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960, and the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the State of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure 892 millibars.

It totally wiped out the Keys. We've never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the State of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928, the Okichobi hurricane. Killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane, but even ones like Ian, it wasn't anything close to that. Yeah, I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something. There's nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it's something that we'll continue to deal with.

REPORTER: In your history, sir, how many storms form as rapidly as they have between Helena and Milton.

DESANTIS: I think most people remember 2004 where it seemed like we had them every other week in 2004. Then there's also time period. From 2006-16, we had no hurricanes at all in Florida. There's also been times where we had a lot. In the 1940s, we were hit a lot. Now, more recently, we've had a spate for more. That's just kind of the nature of it, but this really does, it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season.

His new film “Line in the Sand,” however, may go down as his biggest achievement yet, as it is a powerful, moving look at the border crisis, the human trafficking that goes with it, and the moral rot at the center. /)

I asked him what surprised him most while making this film, and he said it was the endless grift:

All the people that are on the take, all the people that were making money off of this. All the people that were not willing to do the right thing because they wanted to benefit. I don't know if that was surprising—but it was shocking to hear what people were saying.

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Perhaps the most interesting thing he revealed, however, is just how much money is involved in perpetuating the problem and how many people on both sides of the boundary are benefitting from it—even as it endangers our country and causes misery for untold thousands (millions?).

Although O’Keefe didn’t get especially political in the film, the reality that he deftly portrays is one of a humanitarian disaster in large part caused by the corrupt Biden-Harris regime, aided and abetted by NGOs and others profiting from pain.