Currently, Missouri has one of the strongest laws against abortion — triggered immediately by the Dobbs decision in 2022. If Amendment 3 passes, that law will essentially be gutted. //
Indylawyer
8 hours ago
If I were rich, I'd donate a bunch of money to the groups trying to defeat these ballot initiatives. The idea that there can be a constitutional right to kill an innocent human being is disgustingly repulsive. At stake is not just the lives of many children who deserve protection from abortion, but also the very bedrock of our constitutional order - the right to life recognized by the Declaration of Independence as a "self evident truth." //
Indylawyer anon-g76i
7 hours ago
Or people with "dangerous ideas" or "oppressor" heritage, or low IQs or high risk of disease, who were born into slavery, or whatever defect the government wants to play up at a given time. If rights come from the government and can be allocated based on attributes other than our mere humanity, then all sorts of abuses become possible.
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Megyn Kelly went off on the ABC Debate moderators obvious bias and blames their boss and Kamala’s closest friend for over 30 years, Dana Walden, who also just so happens to run ABC News as co-chairwoman at woke Disney. Kamala’s best friend is the moderators boss!
7:17 AM · Sep 11, 2024 //
etba_ss Orwell was right
20 minutes ago
So why did Trump not know this and publicize it ahead of the debate? Obviously, his staff should have known and told him. They should know everything about Harris and anyone she's ever dealt with on any level.
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“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."
- Donald Trump on Kamala Harris during the presidential debate
9:50 PM · Sep 10, 2024
As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. //
EJ @Ejmiller25
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Even more crazy is that it's 100% undeniably true.
https://t.co/ssEw3wVEw0
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What's even crazier is that Kamala Harris actually did support giving illegal aliens transgender surgeries (paid for by taxpayers).
Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill
"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison" is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER.
12:40 PM · Sep 11, 2024 //
Harris' positions are so ludicrous that not even her own supporters believe they're true. Perhaps that should cause a bit of introspection. It won't, but it should.
"I think that it's important for journalists to actually get on the ground and uncover this stuff for themselves," he said. "When you have a lot of people saying, “my pets are being abducted” or “geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered right in front of us, this is crazy stuff."
"This town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in, health care costs are up, housing costs are up," he continued. "Communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris's border policies have done. And I think it's interesting Kaitlan, that the media didn't care about the carnage wrought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats and that speaks to the media's failure to care about what's going on in these communities. If we have to meme about it to get the media to care, we're going to keep on doing it because the media could, should care about what's going on."
Collins tried to defend the media, saying they do care which is why the mainstream media is covering these stories, to which Vance noted it was only because of cat memes, and nobody would care about this story if the memes weren't doing damage to the Democrats." //
"Kaitlan, it's a totally fair point, but nobody's calling my office and saying that they saw Bigfoot," said Vance. "What they're calling and saying is we're seeing migrants kidnap our dogs and cats and city officials aren't doing anything about it. Now again, I have a responsibility as a United States Senator. I think the media has a responsibility as an institution that cares about truth, to actually take people seriously when they say their lives have been ruined by this migrant crisis and again, if every single thing that the media says about this story is false, the verifiable facts are that this community has had their lives destroyed by 20,000 migrants coming in and uprooting life."
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PENNSYLVANIA VOTER: President Trump "spoke facts" — while Kamala just "repeated everything that Biden has said in the past." Show more
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anon-g58b
2 hours ago
Muir was strong in his debate with Trump. Harris was a lousy moderator
Why would the debate moderators ask about Democrats inciting a would-be assassin when they can just keep recycling the lie that Trump incited a violent mob? //
Imagine refusing to ask the current vice president whether she regrets any of her hateful anti-Trump rhetoric and the Biden administration’s weaponization of the federal government against Trump that may have inspired an armed nutbag to fire at his head, but asking the former president whether he regrets “anything about what [he] did on” Jan. 6, 2021, even after he explicitly told his supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” (Which David Muir lied about, by the way.) You don’t hate the media enough.
As Trump said at the debate, he “probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I’m a threat to democracy. They’re the threat to democracy.” Correct. And the moment Trump brought up that uncomfy assassination topic, Muir pivoted because, you know, the moderators “ha[d] a lot to get to.” //
If the debate did nothing else, it reminded us of their true colors. They aren’t biased. They don’t have a slant. ABC News and CNN and NBC and all the rest of the establishment media don’t “lean left.”
They are propagandists. They live and die for the regime. They are wholly and completely corrupt, a hostile force that exists to accrue power for Democrats.
Here are some of the biggest falsehoods Harris told during her debate with Trump.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001 to 2021 — the latest year for which data is available. //
Von Spakovsky spoke about his experience as an election official in Fairfax County, Virginia, where his oversight in 2011 discovered nearly 300 aliens on the voter rolls in just that county alone. His research further revealed that 117 of them had actually voted.
The Fairfax County election board reported its findings to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which is responsible for prosecuting such crimes. At the time, that section was headed by Jack Smith, the same lawfare attorney appointed by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland to go after former President Donald Trump for posing questions about the integrity of the 2020 election.
“We took them off the rolls and then sent them over to DOJ, and DOJ did absolutely nothing about it,” von Spakovsky said. “They just ignored them.”
Despite reporting these people to the Justice Department at the time, BJS data shows that from 2010 to 2012 zero cases were brought under 18 U.S.C. 611: Voting by Aliens, a statute passed in the mid-1990s making it a crime for an alien to vote in federal elections. //
Last month, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia had removed 6,303 noncitizens from its voter rolls, who had either “accidentally or maliciously” registered. Youngkin did not go into detail about whether those voters had ever voted, but his state was not the only one with thousands of noncitizens registered to vote.
In 2019, the state of Pennsylvania admitted it had registered nearly 12,000 noncitizens to vote. The same year, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley had similarly found 95,000 noncitizens registered to vote, and further that 58,000 of them had voted at some point since 1996.
Earlier this year, research group Just Facts published a study showing that between 10 percent and 27 percent of noncitizens, or about two to five million, are illegally registered to vote. For more election news and updates, visit electionbriefing.com.
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Congressman Wesley Hunt Reveals Jaw-Dropping Trump Story
This is amazing.
In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want to leave Afghanistan, but it’s going to be a conditions-based withdrawal,” before issuing a stark warning.
“If you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you,” Trump said. The translator conveyed this exact message.
Trump then “reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban’s home, handed it to him, got up and walked out the room.”
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She spread every hoax about Trump that she could think of, starting with the lie that Trump had anything to do with Project 2025. //
But perhaps the two worst lies — and that was hard to pick because she told so many — were where she claimed police were killed on Jan. 6. and the "fine people" lie about Charlottesville. Both are provably false — the fine people lie has been debunked for years, is on video, and even the liberal Snopes has roundly debunked it. //
etba_ss Don't Tread
an hour ago
He missed a lot of openings, took too much bait and was unprepared. However, he was real, passionate and powerful under control. Harris was totally scripted, boring and all the faces and head shaking made her a real scold.
Trump gets a B-
Harris gets a D
ABC gets a D. They never followed up when she wouldn't answer, but would hit Trump over and over. //
Just Annoyed Billy Wallace
an hour ago
I think he lost but not badly. Kamala struggled at first and really seemed like she wanted to stamp her heels and throw a hissy when Trump got some zingers in early then the moderators tipped the scales. Once the game up on him Kamala relaxed and Trump allowed himself to he baited. After that he seemed angry in most of his responses until just about the very end when he started to recover. His closing was better than hers slightly, but was not seen by as many who tuned in earlier and likely tuned out midway. Just goes to show why "Anytime, anywhere" Kamala was afraid to debate him on fox. She can't do these things without emotional-support humans/moderators.
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President Trump UNLEASHED:
"I'm talking now. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?"
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9:47 PM · Sep 10, 2024
People enjoyed that one, especially when, with Trump going there, if she was planning it, she no longer could use it.
anon-klg1 Leontine
18 minutes ago
Trump said Harris went to negotiate with Russia and 3 days later they invaded Ukraine-
Harris said that wasn’t true - but that doesn’t mean it isn’t.
ABC asked Harris if she’d ever met Putin AND SHE DIDN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION. Starts talking about meeting Zelensky 5 times and then goes into some meaningless word salad.
And they just let her not answer. Didn’t pin her down at all as to whether this happened.
If - as Trump said- Harris was sent to negotiate with Russia and right after that they decide to invade Ukraine—- that’s important for people to know.
To see them not even clarify that point when they’d asked, iirc, repeated follow ups about January 6th, and whether Trump thought the election was stolen, was literally jaw dropping for me….and I didn’t think I had any illusions left about the MSM-
That‘s beyond just bias —- it’s covering for extreme incompetence —- it’s failing to even examine a candidate —
Anyway, the point I’m getting at is that I think the bias has gone so far-( to the point of outright irresponsiblity) that it will be off putting to more than just Republicans and will likely backfire on the Dems.
Re: Hard Hats and Hi-Viz...
When developing a task risk assessment process for a number of offshore drilling operations (for use by the drill crew) I set a rule a few basic rules:
• There should be no reference to what should be "givens" (e.g. if local rules already stipulate basic PPE requirements, assume it will be worn). That doesn't assume those givens will be realised, but processes for enforcement of those should already be in place. A task risk assessment needs to focus on what is not a given, that is different to the norm or an introduced hazard.
• The written report (usually a standardised format) should not normally exceed one page. If it needs more, the assessment probably needs to be elevated beyond local crew.
• Every non-standard action (i.e. the risk mitigations needed as a result of the assessment) should be itemised on the work permit - and in a box next to where the crew members sign it.
Not perfect, and wasn't liked by some of the company HSE management, but they were overruled whilst I was working there - and we didn't have any significant accidents whilst it was in place. After I left, HSE enforced their system that was probably sponsored by the local stationery supplier!
I wasn't part of the HSE department - I was hired direct by the company drilling management. //
Re: Hard Hats and Hi-Viz...
it generates a culture where people fly back to the shore in the same physical condition that they had when they flew out.
And that, and only that, is and should be the reason for any mandatory PPE and surrounding safety procedures.
One of the biggest issues I have with idiotic H&S rules is that they damage the core idea of care and attention to the health of staff in dangerous environments. They should be sane and safe, and not some power exercise by wannabe mini dictators because it devalues the whole concept.
“Plaintiff has neither pointed to any source of law that prescribes and defines a duty to withdraw a candidate’s name from the ballot nor demonstrated his clear legal right to performance of this specific duty, let alone identified a source of law written with ‘”such precision and certainty as to leave nothing to the exercise of discretion or judgment,'” the Monday order reads. “Thus, the plaintiff has not shown an entitlement to this extraordinary relief, and we reverse.”
Justices David F. Viviano and Brian K. Zahra dissented, saying the “ruling will do nothing to rebuild the public’s trust in the fairness and accuracy of our elections.”
“No statute prohibits a presidential candidate from withdrawing his or her candidacy. And there is no practical reason for denying a request to withdraw before the ballots have been printed for the general election,” the dissent reads.
The ruling has the potential to affect the election’s outcome with a “significant cost to the integrity of the election,” as “voters will be improperly denied a choice between persons who are actually candidates, and who are willing to serve if elected,” Viviano and Zahra argued. //
At the same time, Benson and state Democrats have been pushing to keep third-party candidate Cornel West off Michigan’s ballot, citing technicalities with his identity notarization and “and allegations that West’s petitions to get on the ballot were fraudulent,” according to The Detroit News.
The state supreme court declined to take up a Democrat appeal to an earlier decision by the court of appeals, which said West must remain on the ballot. West’s presence on the ballot could likely hurt Harris’ chances, as noted by PBS.
After being asked why Benson was working to keep Kennedy on the ballot and Cornel West off the ballot, Benander told The Federalist that Benson’s office “did not seek to overturn the Appellate Court’s decision on Cornel West.”
If appealed, I think it is likely that the SCOTUS will deny certiorari. California and Hawaii will continue to restrict citizens from carrying in public and it seems likely that state legislatures, hostile to the 2nd Amendment will deem more areas “sensitive” making concealed carry permits almost useless in some states.
What has been constantly and conveniently ignored by state legislators and courts in California and Hawaii is that citizens who take the time and effort to get a concealed carry permit aren’t abusing it – or shooting people in public without good cause.
And criminals don’t apply for concealed carry permits because - they are criminals. //
Black Magic
an hour ago
Thank God I live in PA which has extremely good concealed carry regulations, though I still question why the other Constitutional Rights are not so encumbered, i.e., I don't think there should be such encumbrances on our Constitutional Rights.
Having said that, I am still anticipating when it is finally adjudicated and approved by the Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional to halt my concealed carry rights at the state line and I am still wondering why it is that, I believe it is the 14 Amendment (which ensures equal protection), insures interstate cooperation in licensing driving for instance, but stops my ability to defend myself when I leave my state.
Trump has previously said he felt this should be addressed and corrected and I look forward to that.
Cafeblue32
3 hours ago
Dear undecided voters,
If Democrats have to tack to the right and pretend to be conservative to get elected, why not just vote for the right to begin with and be done with it?
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
The rest of of us. //
IdeClair
3 hours ago
Bernie Sanders summed it up : Dems are saying whatever it takes to get elected..but they don't mean it.. //
reddotbluestate
3 hours ago
Dems lie. Water is wet. The sun is hot.
BUSTED: Kamala Harris Copied Her Long-Awaited Policy Platform From Someone Else's Website – RedState
The policies themselves are what you'd expect. Some of them are incoherent word salads that never lay out any actual mechanism for accomplishing the promises being made. Others are just typical far-left slop, including on issues like energy and healthcare. At the very least, the release countered the idea that Harris is now a moderate. //
Perhaps there's a reason for that. According to a new report, Harris didn't even author some of the policy positions presented. Instead, they were lifted from Joe Biden's old campaign website. //
Kamala Harris is an idea, not a tangible candidate. She's a left-wing caricature dreamed up by the likes of CNN and MSNBC. There's no "there, there." She's simply a screen for the most radical factions of the political realm to project their deepest desires on. The problem for Harris? Most voters aren't radicals. They just want straight talk about the positions they care about. //
Further, if she's copying her policy ideas from Joe Biden, it's kind of hard to claim to be the candidate of "change." This exposes her as a continuation of the last four years, and that's something many Americans aren't too keen on. //
flguy
5 hours ago
Plagiarizing Biden...talk about irony! //
RedinOR
5 hours ago
For all the stuff in the world I don't know, I definitely know where I stand on basic issues. If I were running for office - for the fifth or sixth time - I and my team would have taken at least an hour or two to put together some ideas to post about how we might deal with those problems. Or is this more difficult than I imagine it to be?
Just based on lack of preparation, lack of any demonstrated ability and lack of seriousness, QueMala is the most unqualified person to run for president. Maybe for any office, ever.
Fishin'withFredo RedinOR
5 hours ago
Well, when all of your success in life has been the result of being somebody's box check or sex toy, you're definitely not prepared for the real world stuff.
chaz Fishin'withFredo
4 hours ago
We could also point out that this was the only way for an aspiring political novice to navigate the misogyny and institutional racism of the democrat party (not sarcasm)
The bottom line is that we don't know where Kamala stands in 2024 on mandatory gun buy-back schemes. What we do know is that she made that part of her platform in the 2020 race, and she has never disavowed that position. Though her "campaign" says she no longer supports it, one of her leading surrogates refuses to give a yes or no answer; in fact, he refuses to acknowledge the question.
All of this fits into Kamala's campaign of deception where she has minions tell the media what her positions are and she retains the ability to change them at whim by blaming an unnamed staffer. //
anon-x2cb
33 minutes ago
They CANNOT buy back something they DID NOT SELL ME!
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The argument's premise is that Trump left Biden and Kamala with no plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan. The fact is that Trump signed the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban on February 29, 2020. For graduates of Baltimore public schools and others challenged by mathematics, that is 534 days before the Kabul airlift began. If there was no plan for the withdrawal, that really isn't the direct responsibility of the guy who left office 207 days prior to the event. The responsibility for planning the operation lay with the Defense Department, specifically within the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
If Biden didn't have a plan, then it is the fault of service leaders who refused to do their duty and, in this telling of events, sat on their hands and refused to plan for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan. (During the big drawdown of the Army after the USSR went belly up, the Army refused to plan for a force reduction because it was felt that if word got out that we were planning, then the political people would think we were fine with the idea and make us do it. If we didn't plan, the reasoning went, we might not have to do it. I can see the same logic in effect in executing the end of our adventure in Afghanistan.) That would mean the very people blaming Trump for the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan include some of the people who were responsible for that withdrawal.
Thanks to the efforts of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, we know there was a plan, but Biden and the "last person" in the room overruled it. //
The real threat to our democracy are military officers who trade on their rank to tell lies in the name of partisan politics. //
Mike Ford
17 hours ago edited
One of AFNN’s best writers, COL Jack Tobin (rest his soul) wrote the initial plan well before Biden came on the scene….
It called for the use of Bagram as the evac base and its subsequent retention.
It also followed standard NEO doctrine whereby you evac the noncombatants and THEN extract troops.
You damned sure don’t put your evac point in a downtown version of Dien Ben Phu //
Hoover the Great
18 hours ago
This debacle really shows why we need to take a meat cleaver to the US army. And by that, I don't just mean replacing personnel, I mean reducing footprint and eliminating force and positions. Reduce the size by maybe 80-90%. As Eisenhower stated, a massive standing army like we have does not make America safer.
ECoolidge19 Hoover the Great
17 hours ago
I saw a post on RS sometime ago, it listed the number of 4 star Generals during WW 2 compared to now. It was like 1-8. I forget exactly but I remember being surprised. Sounds like a good starting point. At minimum, you don't fire but just put a freeze on hiring new //
Hoover the Great anon-x1lc
2 hours ago
There is no security benefit from maintaining a massive standing army like we have now. Or if there is one, it does not remotely approach the cost of it, both monetary cultural and spiritual. That position is essentially the one held by President and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Dwight Eisenhower.
We built this military machine after WWII. Before that, we had a skeleton military that we would quickly put the meat and muscles onto if we needed to fight a war. We never lost a war with that model. Since we built this military machine, the military's record is more mixed. That spans several decades, so is not just the result of bad people in leadership. It's the system itself.
[Republican consultant and Fox News contributor Ari] Fleischer's advice for Trump is, "Hit her on policy. Just like you did to Biden in the first debate. That was a disciplined, tough, policy-oriented Donald Trump. I would love to see the same Donald Trump against Kamala Harris." //
Louise1
18 hours ago
Two ideas:
1) Tell how your policies will help people, and protect the environment, better than Harris' policies.
Example: Don't say inflation is bad because we want good economic numbers. Say inflation is bad because it hurts people.
Example: Don't say that you're against EV mandates because of cost or convenience. Instead, say that EVs can actually hurt the environment. It's hard to recycle EV batteries. Tires on EVs pollute the air with more fine particles than the tires on ICE vehicles, because EV batteries are so heavy. ( https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/electric-vehicles-tires-wearing-out-particulates/674750/ ) Etc.
2) When you say a Harris policy is bad, offer a better policy. Example: To cut pollution, do these things:
a) Put pressure on China to stop polluting the air so much.
b) Tell people how to keep their houses cool or warm by using simple, cheap insulation in their windows such as bubble wrap.
c) Encourage research in extinguishing wildfires better, so that they don't release a huge amount of smoke. ( https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/08/29/canadas-carbon-footprint-is-massive-but-its-because-of-wildfires-n2178698 )
If you tell how your policies will help people and protect the environment, and if you tell how your policies are better than Harris', then people will be more likely to vote for you. //
Carey J
19 hours ago
I heard Trump was preparing for the debate by going to bars and arguing with drunks.
Carey J Randy Larson
12 hours ago
Yeah, I heard it from the Bee. You'll note I didn't say where I heard it.