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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
15 hours ago edited
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.

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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.

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Senior editor of @TheAtlantic doesn't know the difference between deep frying in hot oil and grilling on a barbecue.

Elites are out of touch: Exhibit #9,745

David Frum @davidfrum
Candidates for the presidency frying food. It's not a new move.
8:41 PM · Oct 20, 2024. //

surfcat50
a few seconds ago
If Trump’s short stint in the drive-thru window means nothing, why are all the leftists losing their minds over it?

Captain James Heise
@OvertempMarine
Jesse James was on apprentice he made a Facebook post supporting Trump, under the post, people were telling interesting story’s, an escalator installation guy, Trump bought pizza for everyone and sat and ate with everyone. But the story that stuck most with me was.

From a Limo driver, Trump used to bring vouchers for food to all the drivers waiting in the Casino parking garage, and stay and talk to the drivers, he could have any employee do that if it was just about rewarding drivers so they would bring their customers to his casino,

This driver was talking about how it was a personal touch to get to know the drivers ask about their lives and families, he’s been a huge celebrity since the early 80’s, it meant allot to this driver, enough to recount the story.

Erich Hartmann
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True story: I've made a LOT of commercials, and one thing the industry gossips about is which celebrities are jerks & which aren't. Eg., Everyone loves Tom Cruise. Directors/gaffers who've worked with him says he's super gung-ho and supportive.

Also…Trump! 👇

In the mid 2000's a good buddy of mine shot a spot with The Donald, and he raved about how nice and accommodating he was. It was surprising to me at the time, because in NYC he was known as a total bastard with business deals. And based on his Playboy personality, you might expect him to be a total douche IRL. Not so, said my friend.

Then, in 2009 I was on a long business trip w/ a different friend of mine, who had worked with Trump on a different ad campaign, and he said the exact same thing: that Trump was surprisingly cool. Again, I was a bit surprised. So I asked him to give me the deets.

And this is the story he told me:

His team was booked to film Trump for one spot in a larger national campaign, and they had arranged to go to Trump Tower for a very tight window of time to film. Trump had gotten the script beforehand, too but non-actor celebrities are notoriously bad at doing their homework. Although it wasn't a complicated production, the team was nervous.

So they all went to Trump tower, pre-set up all the cameras, lights and equipment. But Trump was a few minutes late! They were very worried that they wouldn't have enough time to properly film him. Eventually, about 20 minutes past start time there was a huge flurry of activity as Trump emerged from the elevator. But instead of being harried and curt, he was upset at himself, and extremely apologetic about being late. Of course the team said "Oh, it's okay" etc, but Trump was insistent. He explained he was at a big deal that had gone long (because of some other asshole), and that he understood how valuable everyone's time was for this. And he promised to make it up to them.

Everyone was pleasantly surprised by his demeanor, and he announced to his team that he would be taking "as much time as needed" to make things right, and he xnsrudted them to push everything else in his afternoon schedule. He then proceeded to NAIL the script (because, surprisingly, he had actually practiced it), and when the director and team told him "Thanks Mr. Trump, we think we got it!" he said "Nah, we can do better!" and proceeded to do several more takes over the next hour, with ad libs and wild lines. My buddy said he was absolutely hilarious, game for anything fun, and everyone had a blast.

Then, after they had gotten all the takes they could thank of, he starts walking around the room glad handing and talking with every single one of them, person-to-person, for minutes at a time. This was way before he was even considering running for president, so this wasn't political. It was just… him.

The last point my buddy made about this was that after Trump had met all the bigwig clients, important agency people, the director and the crew, he made a point to go over and talk to the craft service guy: the lowest dude on the production totem pole, sitting there with his basket of kind bars and various gums and mints. And Trump had a super long conversation with the guy about his life, his family, and his hopes and dreams. Trump gave the kid some life advice, and then thanked everyone, apologized for being late (again), and exited the room.

To a round of applause. //

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Trump can pull it off because he’s having fun. “I could do this all day. I wouldn’t mind this job. I like this job. I think I might come back and do it again,” he said. //

Everyone knows Trump’s trip to Mickey Dees was a stroke of political genius, which is why they have been melting down over it ever since the footage began going viral on social media. It may not decide the outcome of the election, but it will certainly help Trump, which is why the left-wing press is currently on a campaign to discredit the move. Desperate times do call for desperate measures, do they not?

"Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened."

Those stark words are contained in a damning House Task Force report about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt against former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. //

The report also points to logistical issues – particularly on the part of USSS – in the hours before the rally took place. For instance, there were two command centers set up for the event, with a witness testifying that no one from the Butler Police Department was invited to the USSS’ hub. //

Roughly an hour after the local officers first noticed Crooks, the would-be assassin fired eight shots into the rally, hitting Trump and the three attendees before being killed by a Secret Service sniper. //

"To date, the Task Force has not received any evidence to suggest that message reached the former President’s USSS detail prior to shots fired," the report said.

The report also quoted a witness from the Butler County Emergency Services United (ESU) whose account of shooting Crooks appears to undercut the USSS’s assertion that one of its snipers killed the gunman.

"He fired a single shot from a standing position at Crooks, who was in a prone position on the roof. Butler ESU Witness 5 told the Task Force that he believes his shot hit Crooks," the report said.

Kamala Harris was offered an opportunity to finally work at a McDonald's restaurant but never responded to the invite, a statement circulating on social media indicates.

A franchisee on X posted what they describe as "an internal statement to the McDonald’s system from the US Senior Leadership Team" regarding Donald Trump's visit to a McDonald’s in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

They describe the memo as "100% real." //

"Earlier today, former President Trump visited a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania following a request made to our local franchisee," it reads. "As we've seen, our brand has been a fixture of conversation this election cycle. While we've not sought this, it's a testament to how much McDonald's resonates with so many Americans."

"McDonald's does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next President. We are not red or blue - we are golden." //

"Upon learning of the former President's request, we approached it through the lens of one of our core values: we open our doors to everyone," the company writes.

"It's with that same approach that franchisees have invited Vice President Harris and Governor Walz to their restaurants, in order to share how McDonald's provides meaningful pathways to economic opportunity and feeds and fosters local communities."

Speaking to a source familiar with the internal statement, they confirmed that the Harris campaign failed to respond to the invite. //

How hard would it have been to accept the invite and, based on your alleged experience having worked there, run circles around Trump? Wonder why she wouldn't jump at the chance. If she held a similar event, legacy media outlets left and right would have fawned over it. It would have disarmed Trump's line of attack. She could have even argued he was lying, not her.

But she didn't.

So, when Vice President Kamala Harris, in an apparent bid to pad a resume heavy on the government payroll and political appointment side and light on the middle-class street cred, claimed she had "worked fries" while in college, and when various attempts to dig up any corroboration of that claim produced nothing, Trump sensed an opportunity.

Sunday, he made good on it and spent time at a Pennsylvania McDonald's learning how to cook and serve fries and bag them up to hand to drive-thru customers. The only people who seem not to be entertained by Trump's adventures in spud-making are the sourpuses on the left who've forgotten how to have a sense of humor and are incensed at the notion of a candidate staging a campaign photo op.

I say kudos to Donald McRonald on this one. Seems he found a way to turn those golden arches into a W. //

surfcat50
an hour ago edited
At first I thought this was just an amusing campaign event.

Seeing all the leftists in a huff insisting it was some terrible thing made me realize what an epic troll it really was on various levels. //

anon-n4c1
2 hours ago
One of Alinsky's rules for radicals asserts, more or less, that you're not winning if you and your people aren't having fun. This is a great example of how to win by having fun. //

Hank Reardon
an hour ago
Waaay back in 1991, shortly after taking office, Slick Willie attempted to show himself as a ‘man of the masses’ by putting on his jogging shorts for a three-block jog and stopping by McD’s for a coffee. His fawning media LOVED it!

Thirty-three years later, what was once “genuine mingling with the common man” is now just a “silly campaign stunt by the Orange Man!”

Hahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
The lefist media exposes itself once again.

While we don’t know precisely what a second Trump term will look like, it’ll surely be chaotic and bleak, and could mark the end of something we certainly don’t want to lose: democracy as we know it.

That last paragraph isn't new ground. It isn't a new sermon. It has been repeated ad nauseum by the media, and Kamala Harris is getting shriller repeating it. Do people like Jong-Fast really believe their nonsense? Some do, but I think the majority of talking heads are simply in the final stages of losing their bet. They put all their money on a losing horse, and they are getting very shrill about losing. Simply, they don’t want to lose with the shame of picking the wrong horse. That their predictions of doom will never come true is what bothers them the most. In four years, they fear being collectively reminded of their "Heaven’s Gate” prediction - and that it didn’t come to pass. They also know that if Trump isn't elected, they can avoid the mockery of "I told you so". //

Media and nutty influencers are scared of one thing, and it's not a Trump presidency. Sure, they don't want to see a "President Trump", but they are mostly terrified of being wrong. Deep down, media types know that Trump isn’t going to round them up. //

Mocked relentlessly for being massively wrong is their fear. They're terrified of preaching a false religion.

Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.

60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. //

What is written above is simply a lie. As the above transcripts show, in no way, shape, or form were the two answers the "same." Further, to call Trump a liar when he is absolutely correct about what "60 Minutes" did just shows how far gone CBS News is. That statement is not from a news organization. It's a statement from the Harris campaign, and that wasn't lost on anyone, including the Trump camp. //

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The way you know that 60 Minutes is 100% guilty and just pissed off about being caught is they released this pathetically defensive statement that almost immediately goes "but Trump" instead of releasing the full transcript of Kamala's interview.
60 Minutes @60Minutes
A statement from 60 Minutes: https://cbsn.ws/4eRVNZo
7:51 PM · Oct 20, 2024

GBenton
2 hours ago edited
The right understands the left. The left does not understand the right.

In sparring here with Trump haters for years I have noticed that they do not understand him. Their image of him is a simplistic charicature. In reality, Trump confounds easy categorization. He's got huge self confidence and ego and yet is unafraid to make fun of himself or get roasted. That's why he was able to thrive at the Al Smith dinner and Kamala could not - she cannot tolerate any jokes at her expense because she's so insecure and fake.

Trump is a billionaire who loves the common man and speaks in the language of the common man, including coarse language and jokes - and he's a genuine populist (where Bernie Sanders is not, trust me, he does not like the average American).

Kamala is not built for this contest. Trump is - and the things that some people don't like about his personality is part of why he is able to withstand all the hate and attacks and do things like this anyway.

Even though I make fun of losers like Billy Wallace, the truth is I feel sorry sometimes that they can only wake up and hate this man to the point of obsession. That's their right, of course, but it's still a pathetic way to go through life and warped way to experience this unique moment in American history.

He's the fighter we need to take down their Machine. He's part of the New Right that is willing to reach regular Americans where they live, unlike the Bushes and Cheneys and Romneys who look down at us (though GWB and Jeb! were somewhat better in this aspect).

Vote. Vote. Vote (even in blue districts). Let your voice be heard. Our leaders are NOT above us, they should serve us - and in this case, Trump was serving fries.

BJW#IStandWithTX GBenton
2 hours ago
You make a good point, ike they watched too many episodes of DALLAS and believed it was a documentary.

GBenton BJW#IStandWithTX
an hour ago
They love House of Cards, West Wing, Veep, Madame President, etc.

They think people on the right are the stereotype they hear about on MSNBC. And they stay in their bubble. That's why folks like Scott Jennings on CNN are so disruptive because they're speaking truth to stupid right to their faces.

What the left can't accept is that regardless of their level of intelligence, their ideology is fraudulent and their ideas are childish and quite stupid.

Their cancel culture seals the deal because they do not allow any "heretics" to stray from the narrative, which is why they get so blindsided when the people do not behave as they expect.

Tolly GBenton
an hour ago edited
"They love House of Cards, West Wing, Veep, Madame President, etc."

And this is why they have such a distorted and false understanding of how DC works and what the functions of the different branches of the government. It is their only source.

I noticed that in each of the shows you enumerate, the liberals were always portrayed as benevolent and saint like, and played by somewhat attractive actors, and the conservatives depicted as gruff, unstable, mean-spirited ogres, mostly played by the dorkiest of actors.
I wonder why that most always seemed to be the case.

Actually, I don't.

GBenton Tolly
an hour ago
They see the Republicans as fascists and tyrants and war mongers, religious zealots. And they grew up on Watergate and the fantasy that lefties are the good guys (and the ends justify the means).

They're pretty big fans of Game of Thrones, too.

President Donald Trump was having a great time working at McDonald's on Sunday.

If anyone else had done it, they probably would have looked awkward. But he looked like he was in his element, especially when he was greeting people at the drive-thru window and handing out orders. This was the "joy" and the fun that the Kamala campaign can't duplicate. The customers and the crowd outside just loved it, and you could tell he was having a great time. //

The reason? He naturally likes interacting with people, unlike Kamala. But it's also an indication that he'll stop at nothing to serve the people and do better for them. And that he isn't shy about doing any job and that he appreciates workers -- something that we don't see from Harris. //

Naturally, MSNBC had a meltdown. They're mystified and can't figure out, why he would be interacting with the working people in Pennsylvania? They really have no sense of how to reach out to people or run an effective campaign, but we already see that with Kamala's effort. This got massive attention and shows just how clueless they are: //

What's unstable about working at McDonald's? Are they really going that route to insult the people who work there? Every politician running for office does things like this traditionally.

MSNBC also tried to float Kamala's desperate last-ditch propaganda that Trump was "unstable," which was a silly rebuttal, seeing as he just worked with the folks at McDonald's to serve folks.

On Sunday, Trump made good on that promise as he went to work at a Mickey D’s in Feasterville-Trevose, which is in Bucks County, a swing county northeast of Philadelphia.

Police closed the busy streets around the McDonald’s he was visiting and cordoned off the restaurant as a crowd a couple blocks long gathered, sometimes 10- to 15-deep, across the street straining to catch a glimpse of Trump. Horns honked and music blared as Trump supporters waved flags, held signs and took pictures. //

The AP ran a title that said, "Trump Visiting McDonald's While Offering No Evidence for Saying Harris Didn't Work There in College." Astounding. This has gotten simply ridiculous -- he has to offer evidence that she didn't work there when she has offered up zero evidence that she did? Even Snopes said they found no evidence she worked there. It just shows how in the tank the media can be. //

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala" at McDonald's 🤣

2:18 PM · Oct 20, 2024 //

DaveM
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Why does someone like Dukakis and Harris look fake when they do this?
Because Trump is actually having fun here. It's clear he likes people and can talk to people without talking down at them and it shows. That's the whole difference- Trump is enjoying himself.

Tech in RL DaveM
an hour ago
It helps Trump because he’s always been known as a guy who loves McDonalds. That makes his positive attitude very genuine. No one would believe Harris would ever deign to go into a place where there are the unwashed masses. If she ever did, she’d throw out all the patrons and import her people to fake being McDonalds customers. //

Trump has had anything but a "media blackout." As of October 18, Trump has done 59 interviews compared to 26 for Kamala. He outscores her in every form of media. //

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Trump’s schedule since Oct 1

✅28 in-person events

✅25 cities

✅12 states

✅21 interviews (including 7 long form podcasts)

✅Little sleep
Sam Stein
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NEW -- Is Trump tired?

“Of course he’s tired,” said one adviser. “Who wouldn’t be tired? I know the campaign isn’t supposed to say that. But it’s true. And it’s also true he’s kicking ass.”

Via @MarcACaputo

https://thebulwark.com/p/inside-trumps-sleepless-exhausting
8:24 AM · Oct 19, 2024 //

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Kamala: "He's not doing interviews... We need to ask if he's exhausted being on the campaign trail."

Media interviews since becoming the nominee:
Trump: 59
Kamala: 26

Press conferences since becoming the nominee:
Trump: 6
Kamala: 0

Total campaign events in the month of…

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This is a good visual of the media appearances for both parties over time. Clearly Trump isn't slowing down. //

Trump is doing anything but engaging in a 'media blackout.' He's accessible and, unlike Kamala, he is able to talk policy and string a noun-verb-noun sentence together. What he is doing is engaging his base and persuadable voters. He's not spending any time giving people who hate him the opportunity to define him. This is a lesson I hope all future GOP candidates take to heart.

The idea that Trump’s second term would usher in fascism isn’t just absurd—it’s a slap in the face to the millions who have suffered under actual fascist regimes throughout history. Fascism, by definition, involves the total suppression of opposition, the abolition of free elections, and the merging of state and corporate power into authoritarian control.

Think Benito Mussolini’s Italy or Adolf Hitler’s Germany, where dissent was brutally crushed, political opponents were jailed or executed, and the press was reduced to a government propaganda machine.

In comparison, Trump’s four years in office look like a model of democratic dysfunction, not dictatorship. During his first term, Americans were free to protest, criticize him openly, and vote him out of office. The 2020 election happened as scheduled, and despite the noise about election challenges, Trump left the White House on January 20, 2021. No coup, no military takeover, no indefinite suspension of power—just Trump boarding Marine One and Biden taking the oath of office. The peaceful transition may not have been pretty, but it happened.

If Trump was aiming for fascism, he did a spectacularly poor job.

Real fascism doesn't entertain opposing viewpoints—it eliminates them. Yet, under Trump, media outlets relentlessly attacked him without fear of government retaliation. There were no state-run news channels or purges of journalists. Compare that with Mussolini’s control over Italy’s press or Hitler’s use of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to manipulate information. In Trump’s America, CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times freely published critical stories every day.

That’s not fascism—it’s freedom, even if it makes the media’s portrayal of Trump as a dictator seem laughably detached from reality. //

Fascist regimes historically centralize power by shutting down elections and political opposition. Hitler’s Nazi party outlawed opposition parties, while Mussolini dismantled Italy’s parliament entirely. Trump, by contrast, lost re-election after being dragged through two impeachment trials. His critics and political opponents—including members of his own party—remained vocal and visible throughout his presidency. Far from silencing dissent, Trump was often criticized for being unable to rein in factions within his own administration.

The media’s obsession with labeling Trump a “fascist” is little more than political theater designed to distract voters from the issues that matter. Poll after poll shows that Americans care most about inflation, crime, immigration, and the economy—not recycled narratives about January 6 or imaginary authoritarian takeovers.

Trump, for all his flaws, resonates with voters because he addresses these concerns directly, while his opponents—Biden and Harris—deflect or dodge tough questions.

Ultimately, the “fascist Trump” storyline reveals more about the media than it does about Trump. Americans know the difference between a leader who promises law and order and a dictator who seizes total control. //

writeofcenter
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I’ve studied history my whole life (I’m 4 months short of 70). Especially the study of the quest for State power in the 20th century. The universal response of socialists, Bolsheviks, communists, Marxists to their opponents is to portray them as fascists. It’s automatic. Trumps opponents are basically socialists. Socialism has infiltrated our society and culture to such a degree that they no longer have to hide their political agenda. Everyone else is to the right of them and hence, fascists.

The portrayal of this election as close or neck and neck is a myth. The left will be shocked at (and will willfully deny) how wide Trumps margin of victory proves to be.

Americans love their liberty and freedom and abhor left powered bureaucracy and control. We are fortunate indeed that Americans still prefer to vote to change things. The alternative will be ugly. //

hy dudgeon writeofcenter
7 minutes ago
Any political system which depends on consolidation of power in the hands of elites who then administer/rule from a massively powerful Central Authority is, by definition, a Leftist system.

The claims that Trump was "authoritarian" are based on the fact that he rescinded so many extra-constitutional executive orders implemented by Obama as he exercised his "power of the phone and pen" to bypass Congress and simply declare things to be law. //

Cafeblue32
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Trump is perhaps the most moderate President we've had since Eisenhower. Fascism is not a right wing ideology, it is an economic system whereby government colludes with corporations to do things government cannot do in exchange for preferential treatment and increased profits. COVID was the perfect example of it. Corporations got all kinds of exemptions, breaks, incentives, etc to implement and enforce vax and mask mandates by threatening them with loss of employment. Most of those companies were declared' ''essential businesses" and made record profits, while those who declined to jump on the panic bandwagon were shut down. Lots of them are out of business now.

Hitler was a committed socialist before he was a fascist. He realized socialism wouldn't keep up with war production for his ambitions, so he partnered with German industrialists to produce his materials for profit. In no time at all, Hitler had more new weapons designs come across his desk than anyone could ever build. And most of them were of high quality. It also made Daimler-Benz, Porsche, Will Messerschmitt and a bunch of other industrialists very rich.

That's fascism in a nutshell. It's socialism with a business license. Only now we call it corporatism, as if it were a good thing. //

Tommy
38 minutes ago
Hmmm. Well, for starters, fascists are socialists. Nazis, the real ones, are National Socialists. They demand social and political conformity and use violence to enforce it. They also sooner or later always go after jews because, well, maintaining a unique identity and culture for 3000 years is the opposite of conformity. The bolsheviks went after jews, the national socialists went after jews, the only reason the maoists didn't is because there are any jews in china. And they never wave national flags. They make their own (the nazis used a good luck symbol) and cram it down everyone elses throat with a constant threat of retribution if you don't wave the flag. I see alot of this, but not from trump.

ConservativeInMinnesota Tommy
14 minutes ago
They did have some Jews in China before the Communist revolution. The Maoists took them out.

https://breakingmatzo.com/history-of-jews/harbin-china-the-city-that-jews-built/

When CNN pundits are asking questions, you know it smells. Though the outlet is famous for their hatred for Trump, even their senior legal analyst Elie Honig is wondering, just what the heck is going on here?

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Friday said he is unaware of “any precedent” for Judge Tanya Chutkan releasing redacted documents of special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump, given the November election is approaching. //

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More blatant lawfare and election interference by Biden-Kamala’s Jack Smith and DC Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan.

They’re publicly dumping a one-sided political narrative tomorrow.

With the election less than 3 weeks away.

After waiting nearly 3 years to bring the (bogus) charges.
9:09 PM · Oct 17, 2024 //

Is it election interference? "It’s very much a Rorschach test,” Honig said. I sure as heck know what I'm reading from that test.

He argued that the matter is open to interpretation, which is damning enough considering that even the appearance of banana republic justice is problematic after all the abuses of the Justice Department since Biden-Harris came into power. //

The Justice Department flatly states in their manual:

Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.

So today, I was at "Fox and Friends" at seven in the morning. I then went to two different other appearances. I then made about 15 phone calls. I've gone 48 days now without a rest, and I've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rabbit.

Let me tell you something. She should have been last night with the Catholics. So all they do is put out soundbites. Tell me when you've seen me take even a little bit of a rest. Not only am I, I'm not even tired. I'm really exhilarated. You know why? We're killing her in the polls because the American people don't want her. She didn't pass her bar exam. She's not a smart person. She's not a person that should represent our country so I just want to let you know that very clearly.

How do you know Kamala Harris is in trouble, and that the momentum is with former President Donald Trump?

Endangered Democrats in tight Senate races are boasting about their ties to Trump, as they try to run to the middle to appeal to the voters.

We reported earlier about Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) saying in an ad that he bucked Joe Biden to "protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China." That indicates he knows he needs to align with Trump to improve his chances (even if he doesn't actually align with Trump generally). //

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) put up an ad, featuring Trump, saying she "got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill": //

Rep. Elissa Slotkin's (D-Mich.) campaign for Senate also spent more than a $1 million starting mid-August on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices," according to AdImpact. [....]

Tester ads have featured Montanans who say they are "lifelong Republicans" or plan to vote for Trump, but back Tester for Senate.

An ad from earlier this year boasts that Brown "wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border."

That last candidate mentioned is Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

They're blowing up Kamala Harris' narrative that Trump is unstable/Hitler when they're including him in ads. Plus, they're also acknowledging that mentioning Trump is going to help them in their elections, which is a nod to his strength in those swing states. If they thought Harris was winning, they wouldn't see a need to do that:

On Thursday, Trump's team filed a motion to continue the stay until November 14, arguing, in part, that allowing the “asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference.” Chutkan denied that motion, however, and indicated that she would lift the stay of her prior order on Friday, which she then did, directing the Clerk of the Court to docket the Government's redacted appendices (laying out their evidence) on the public docket.

Of note, in making that ruling, Chutkan determined that publicly docketing the Government's evidence against Trump less than three weeks ahead of Election Day did not create such a concerning appearance. Rather, Chutkan reasoned that not doing so would run the risk of creating the appearance of election interference: //

So, in one breath, she says she's going to allow the Government to present its case publicly (when Trump's response isn't due to be filed until after the election) for fear that not doing so would appear to be election interference, and in the next, she's saying that the court will "continue to keep political considerations out of its decisionmaking."