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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, the policies Harris championed are already taking root in other parts of the country, with the same results. What's happening is devastating on so many levels, but perhaps the most devastating impact is the loss of humanity. Addicts and mentally ill people are left to their own devices, to suffer and be victimized and assaulted - and likely die - on the streets, and everyday citizens are looked at by politicians as acceptable collateral damage on the path to radical societal change. Hopefully, these stories can reach enough middle-of-the-road voters to make a difference.

Author and Newsweek Opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon put out a video for The Free Press explaining the real reason why many men would rather crawl naked over broken glass than pull the lever for Kamala Harris.

Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon
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The real reason men of all races are fleeing Harris’ campaign is because it's not for them—it's for women. Liberal women want their men to dress like ranchers but vote like podcasters, to LARP as masculine men until it comes to their political selves; then women want submission.

8:47 PM · Oct 19, 2024. //

“I don’t think that this is messaging designed to convince men, but to reassure women. Like so much about the Harris campaign, it’s acting, and bad acting at that,” Ungar-Sargon said.

This assessment is spot on. In fact, even when Harris was anointed as President Joe Biden’s running mate, I pointed out that she wasn’t there to appeal to Black people, but to White women. She provided a way for female voters to support a woman and a racial minority.

Now, you might be asking yourself what incredible evidence the two Times "journalists" who wrote this piece came across to show that "Trump's latest allegation also appears to be false." Did they find tax records? Did they figure out what location she worked at? Did they speak to a former co-worker or manager? Did they find a mention of the job in her early resumes or writings? Nope. The entire claim that Trump is lying comes down to "the Harris campaign and a friend told us." //

As the above post mentions, Harris never said anything about working at McDonald's for her entire political career until she needed a talking point in 2019. It was also not listed on her college-era resume, where you would expect recent work history to be disclosed. In short, aside from one anonymous "friend" who suddenly decided to come forward, there is not an ounce of evidence that Harris ever worked at McDonald's.

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.

Today, Politico, following on its improbable claim that Trump is eluding the media by holding rallies and cooking fries at Mcdonald's (see EPIC: Trump Trolls Kamala in Hilarious Move As He Works Fries, Drive-Thru Window at McDonald's) by claiming he has a way to seize power even if he loses on Election Day...or whenever Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin finally get around to counting their votes: The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway - POLITICO.

In the words of Donald Rumsfeld, they start with "an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion." //

So, a Trump who has less power today than he had in 2020 and in a legal environment that has foreclosed some avenues that could have been exploited last time around is more likely to try to overthrow the election results. With this assertion, Donald Trump officially has achieved Super Villain status. //

An overwhelming Harris victory would make it harder for Trump to rally Republicans to his side. (If Trump wins, no one expects a comparable effort by Democrats to subvert the election.) //

The article goes on to spin a tale that would make Tom Clancy proud. All of it is predicated on two improbable events. First and foremost, the idea that a twice-defeated Trump has enough clout in state legislatures to convince them to contravene state law and just flip the electoral votes to Trump is, bluntly, both dishonest and quite possibly stupid as well. Second, the idea that a Republican House majority that literally can't pass a single budget bill has the unity to change the rules of certifying electors requires a level of dimwittery rarely witnessed, even among political journalists.

They have no concern about Kamala Harris, who serves as the presiding officer for the joint session of Congress that will elect the president, having an unresolvable conflict of interest in both corrupting the process and outcome and engaging in shenanigans of her own. //

anon-n4c1
4 hours ago
It's all projection. The DemoCommies just assume that their opponents are as corrupt and malicious as they are. Anything and everything they accuse Trump of, they have already done or they are planning to do themselves.

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. //

Greg Price @greg_price11
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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.

Grant said it was only about making a point about their faith, not about Trump. He said he was pushed, which you can see on the video. They were cursed at, heckled, and mocked, he added. Grant explained it was important for young people like themselves to understand, "This is what you're going to get with a Kamala Harris presidency. You're going to get the Kamala Harris that alienates over 50 percent of the U.S. population which is Christian. You're going to get the Kamala Harris who skips the Al Smith memorial dinner which no major candidate has skipped since Walter Mondale [Democrat] in 1984." He said it just proved what kind of person she is, and what kind of leader she would be. //

The response to these students was in sharp contrast to how she responded to a Gaza protester who interrupted her earlier in the day at another event in Wisconsin.

Ben Shapiro
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Over the last two days, Harris was confronted with two sets of protesters.

One shouted, "Jesus Is Lord!"

She said, "You guys are at the wrong rally."

The other shouted that Israel is committing "genocide."

She said, "It's real."

She's radical and awful.
11:57 PM · Oct 19, 2024

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. //

Marc Caputo
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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.

CurtTX53
2 hours ago
Seems to me many people liked Obama, because of his charisma, his supposed, coolness. I’ll give him this, he was good at reading speeches, but would fumble and stumble about when answering questions, would draw out his answer to the point of everyone wanting to go home after he answered just one question, in the last hour and ten minutes. He sure could filibuster with the best of them in response. He stood at the podium for an hour and forty five minutes answering all three questions asked, in the allotted time.

In my experience he is and was the most divisive leader this Country has ever seen ! Set the racial divide back seventy years at least. Definitely did nothing to unite the people. A sad chapter for the US of America. //

anon-jzji
2 hours ago edited
Obama has wildly succeeded in turning this country into bitter factions- it is he who started the woke movement. He continues to work behind the scenes to Cloward & Piven the country. He's done untold illegal things in the shadows, emboldened by the media's compliance. In terms of effectiveness, I'd say he was a success. //

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: