In an extensive interview with The New York Times published on Saturday morning, Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state, referring to voter support for Trump as "astonishing," and even suggesting that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's endorsement of the former president is "going to really matter":

There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists. And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing. I was doing an event in Indiana [Pa.] County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long.

[There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, 'Where does this all come from?' It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real.

Admire it or not, the often mercurial Democrat has the honesty to admit what he sees. And what he sees is Pennsylvania voters enthusiastically supporting Donald Trump like no presidential candidate in recent state history. //

Fetterman said he was "alarmed" when Musk began showing up on the campaign trail for Trump, and added he's a "bigger star than Trump" in "some sense." //

OrphanedRepublican
5 hours ago
I think Elon Musk is a big "star" for doing more to restore free speech than any politician.

It wasnt me OrphanedRepublican
5 hours ago
My hero this season is Scott Presler, @thepersistence.

He has been working signing up the Amish. 220,000 Amish went through the challenges of getting their first State ID's and then registering to vote.

It is difficult to poll people without telephones 📞. They had to get dispensation to allow for photographs on their ID's.

Republican candidate for the Senate in Virginia, Hung Cao, had a great response. Cao is a retired Navy captain and was a refugee from Vietnam:

Hung Cao
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Nope, that's not it. Americans of Asian heritage know full well what Kamala Harris would turn our country into: the places our families escaped from. That's why we are supporting @realDonaldTrump.
10:51 AM
Brent Scher
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Things are getting out of hand.

@KamalaHarris just dropped a new ad targeting Asian voters that suggests Trump will bring back internment camps, blames him for the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin
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12:00 PM · Oct 26, 2024 //

anon-h3mk
6 hours ago
Let’s take a trip in the way back machine to April 2021. Ted Cruz had offered an amendment (No. 1456) to prohibit federal funding for any colleges/ universities that discriminated against Asian Americans in their admissions process. All of the Republicans voted in favor of this amendment, all Democrats voted against. What a bunch of hypocrites.

https://www.financegeek.org/politics/democrats-vote-against-asians-1456/ //

NightTwister
6 hours ago
Only one political party has put American Citizens into camps. That party is the one that selected Kamala Harris.

CatsAliveInHim NightTwister
6 hours ago
Would it perchance be the same party that enslaved blacks and enforced Jim Crow laws…?

And who still treats women, blacks and other “minorities” as if they’re children in need of babysitters?

Andante From Piano Concerto No. 2 In F Major Op. 102
Dmitri Shostakovich

On Saturday, an advertisement not from the Trump campaign but from the "MAHA (Make American Healthy Again) Alliance" came out, and I have to say, it's one of the most powerful political advertisements I've seen in quite a while. It speaks to one of Harris' weaknesses - men. //

Dear Kamala Harris. Let's get one thing crystal clear. The vast majority of American men have no issue with electing a female president. Our issue lies solely with you. You were second in charge of California for 13 years. (New voice) As Attorney General of California, Harris promoted enforcement of a law that allowed prosecutors to seek jail time for parents of truant kids. //

MAHA Alliance's ad closes with this brutal message to Harris:

As men, and protectors of women and children, you are simply a risk we're not willing to take.

I have to agree, as an American man myself. I would have no issue voting for a woman for president if she represented my values: Liberty, private property, individual rights, minimal government, low taxes, and putting the liberty and rights of the American people above and beyond any other consideration. I'd vote for such a candidate in a trice, no matter what plumbing they had.

And as an American, I can agree with many other Americans, who are sending the message to Kamala Harris: "It's not us, Kamala. It's you."

Merz added: "I don't need to tell any of you how important it is that Leader Jeffries is serving as Speaker Jeffries when it comes time to certify the election on January 6, 2025."

Why? What have they got in mind? When it comes to certifying the election, which will be done by the incoming Congress, what difference does it make whether it's a Speaker Johnson or a Speaker Jeffries (shudder), if they are going to honestly follow the process defined by the Constitution and statute? Why is it important that Hakeem Jeffries be the speaker when this happens? What is Julie Merz driving at? What do Democrats have in mind, here? //

Democrat-controlled House will almost certainly start the Impeachment Express up again. //

SDN INTJ
an hour ago
They are planning on refusing to certify Trump's election.

DKnight SDN
43 minutes ago
Then it’s civil war time…

Biden and Harris can’t stay in the White House beyond Jan. 20th, 2025. It there’s no POTUS or VP available, who is 3rd in line for interim President? Yes, the Speaker of the House. So the one that hogties the succession directly benefits by becoming temporary king.

Like I said, civil war in the offing if that occurs.

Let's not forget the Democrats, like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who registered objections to the electoral count in the 2016 election. Then there were the efforts to undermine/threaten/flip electors away from Trump. Plus, there were more than 70 Democrats who boycotted Trump's inauguration. Oh, and let's not forget the leftist riots in the streets.

What will they do now? Kelly, a lawyer, mentioned the lawfare she thinks is coming. I think that's probably a given. If they act as insane as they were in 2016 after he won, how much more insane will they be now? //

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🚨REP. RASKIN: "It's gonna be up to us on January 6, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified."

"We need bodyguards for everybody and Civil War conditions, all because the nine Justices...do not want to do their job."

4:17 PM · Aug 5, 2024

Images emerging from trail cams placed on a family farm in a small Vermont town are a stark reminder that border security in the North is also a disaster under the Biden-Harris administration.

The images come from Newport Center, a town with a population of about 1,500. The cameras are situated roughly 2.5 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border.

The Newport Dispatch reports that multiple cameras on the LeBlanc family farm caught multiple groups of men traversing the property, including one image capturing "what appeared to be several men led by a guide wearing a turban."

The property owner notes that the man in the turban, eyes glowing in the images, was spotted making separate runs "back and forth" to guide different groups. //

LeBlanc indicates that the activity is consistent and widespread, claiming neighbors have witnessed groups of illegal aliens emerging from the woods.

“This is an everyday thing,” he explained. “It’s definitely concerning, and we definitely have an uneasy feeling. You can’t really let the kids go alone anymore. It just puts a spin on things that we’re not used to.” //

VTDigger published an extensive report in August indicating border patrol agents have been surging to the location as they battle "record numbers of migrants attempting to cross the Canadian border into Vermont and neighboring states."

A border patrol official overseeing operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, told the outlet his agency has "seen a number of apprehensions that we’ve never seen in our recorded history in this area.”

anon-x8p1
20 hours ago edited
Trump was lucky he lost in 2020, no matter how it happened.

Trump comes back much more seasoned. And American voters are much more chastened to what more Democrat mismanagement does to them.

Had Trump won in 2020, the Deep State would have destroyed him. Now all of America is on to what the Deep State can do to our lives.

Democrats and the Deep State now own draconian covid power grab and the the loss of trust in all government run institutions, lock stock and barrel. This is very healthy for America. No more Democrat hive mind shoved down our throats.

Deemocrats may have won in 2020, but they destroyed themselves in the process. It will be MAGA 2024 and the country is behind this need for change.

Back [to] all the things that he's been saying, and all the people in his administration who've said he's a fascist, he wants to be fascist, his friends are all dictators.

KELLY: I don't care about that at all. Not at all.

MAHER: Because?

KELLY: January 6th was not good.

MAHER: Wait, why don't you care about that at all?

KELLY: Because they've been saying that about Trump for years, they've been saying that about Republican candidates for years. It has like a long storied history. If you are at all center or center-right, you are used to having your candidate of choice completely demonized, whether it's the f-word, the r-word, the misogynist word.

They tried to tell us Mitt Romney was a raging sexist because of binders full of women. They tried to tell us John McCain was a raging racist not withstanding the fact that he adopted a daughter from Bangladesh. They've been doing this for every Republican and they get to Trump and we are not longer listening to them. Trump has incendiary rhetoric, there's no question, but we have four years to judge him by, and the country was going pretty well, unlike the four we've had with these two. //

MAHER: Well, first of all, Trump inherited somebody else's economy.

KELLY: That's what Barack Obama would like us to think.

MAHER: Well, it's true. Really, on day one, everything changed?

KELLY: So walk me through it. So Trump has Obama to thank for his economy, but Biden can't thank Trump for anything?

MAHER: Okay, let's get off this... //

KELLY: Trump did not go after his political enemies with the DOJ. That was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

MAHER: Well, we had Hitler in the 30s and things were okay, and then we had Hitler in the 40s, and they got way worse. Just because we had him...

KELLY: Oh, I see, he hid his Hitlerism the first four years and is going to come out in full force the second four years.

MAHER: Well, he tried to do things like that. He tried to do dictatorial fascist things, and he was stopped.

KELLY: Joe Biden has flouted the law when it comes to these student loan giveaway programs.

MAHER: Really, you're talking about...

KELLY: He's flouted the law, Supreme Court opinions that openly told him he didn't have the right to do it, and he openly said, "I will get around the Supreme Court." He did it with respect to rent abatement programs, the same exact thing, and then he and Kamala Harris unleashed this Department of Justice against their political enemy, Donald Trump, their number one chief rival for the presidency. Is it funny? Because they did it. You want to talk fascism? That's fascist.

MAHER: I don't think history is going to be kind to your point of view, but I appreciate you coming on again. //

GBenton
an hour ago
Kelly is sharp but she needs to get better about J6. It was a false flag. Most of what disturbed people like her and Guy Benson was planned and executed by the Democrats and Antifa. It was bad but not because of Trump. And the sheer hypocrisy of the left cheering on BLM riots and Antifa riots and all the rest utterly disqualifies them from selective outrage over a mild incident largely instigated by the left.

Cafeblue32
3 hours ago edited
Robert Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland — the disastrous Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs for most of the Biden-Harris Administration

And Bush and Obama. Funny how the one guy she didn't work for didn't have any wars.

After 5 years, I have canceled my subscription to the Washington Post.

It isn't an airport, Steve. You don't have to announce your departure. 35 years ago, I didn't have you as a pathetic drama queen on my dance card. Or Robert DeNiro. Or Howard Stern. Or...

What is going on with Bezos's decision not to let the Washington Post endorse Harris for President?

Oh, come off it. You know damned good and well why endorsements aren't pouring in. The fans demanded your team sign a new QB in the 4th quarter of the freaking game and put her in, and after a great deal of cheering and fanfare, you thought you were getting Tom Brady and ended up with Johnny Manziel.

We must choose the following:

*VA secure border and a sensible immigration system.

• Safer cities and support for law and order.
• A thriving, low-tax and low-regulation economy for all — fueled by an energy policy that supports, not penalizes, industry and households.
• Common-sense policies that restore the power of parents to choose what is best for their children on school choice, gender surgery and trans athletes playing in female sports.
• An America that’s respected on the world stage — feared by our enemies and trusted by our allies.
  Only one candidate can credibly claim to lead us there.

Donald Trump.

In 2021, when Biden-Harris took over, the country took a hard left turn, with disastrous results. //

Voters should ask themselves if they were better off under Trump or Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

His opponents focus on how Trump’s administration was marked by a relentless soap opera of high drama and chaos — much of which they fueled.

And yes, many find him offensive — and we say fair enough: He can be ridiculously hyperbolic.

But before COVID wreaked havoc across the globe, Trump’s first-term results were paychecks that grew markedly faster than inflation, the lowest unemployment in 50 years, a secure border and peace overseas. //

In 2021, when Biden-Harris took over, the country took a hard left turn, with disastrous results. //

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has rightly been criticized as an underqualified political lightweight because she refuses to answer almost any question about the last four years or reveal any detailed future policy plans.

What may also be just as true is that she doesn’t want the American people to know the full scale of her radical plans, because it would scare them off.

Indeed, any close study of her record shows it to be that of a San Francisco progressive.

If she wins, Harris will not only co-opt Bidenism but accelerate the progressive hurricane ripping through the fabric of American society. //

Voters this fall will decide if the future of our country bends toward prosperity, security, freedom, opportunity and innovation.

Or sticks with ruinous big government largesse, deliberately divisive policies, appeasement and stagnation.

Trump wants to free businesses from choking regulations and cut taxes for workers.

Harris would risk making inflation worse with even more government “freebies” to special interests — paid for with inflation-feeding debt or job-killing taxes.

In a surprise move, the New York Post announced on Friday that it's endorsing Donald Trump for President of the United States. //

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has rightly been criticized as an underqualified political lightweight because she refuses to answer almost any question about the last four years or reveal any detailed future policy plans.

What may also be just as true is that she doesn’t want the American people to know the full scale of her radical plans, because it would scare them off.

Indeed, any close study of her record shows it to be that of a San Francisco progressive.

If she wins, Harris will not only co-opt Bidenism but accelerate the progressive hurricane ripping through the fabric of American society. //

anon-89ic Terrible System
14 hours ago
No, this is HUUUUGE. The Post is conservative but in a blue sea, and part of its conservative outlook is that it doesn't offend its local advertisers and non-partisan readers. We read this endorsement and the way it is written as confidence that it speaks for the silent majority of NYC. This could be the canary in the coalmine that the decision to do the MSG rally was pure genius. Trump may be on the verge of winning New York State.

I was surprised at the traffic lineup as I approached the exit ramp for the road where the office is located. I figured it was construction, but the longer we sat, I thought it must be an accident. It was neither. It was the line of cars waiting to enter the parking lot of the Election Board. I waited in line in my car for 55 minutes just to park. Another 20 minutes in line to get my ballot.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, a – wait for it – Joe Biden appointee, ordered that 1,600 of those 6,000 names removed in August be put back on the voter rolls, saying the names were illegally removed too close to the election. The usual suspects are behind all of this:

Advocacy groups that sued — the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, the League of Women Voters of Virginia and others – said that data shared by the state for the case shows more than 1,600 people had their voter registrations canceled under the program during the quiet period.

Glenn Youngkin hit back hard at the "stunning" and blatantly political move: //

123FJB
10 hours ago
Put them back on the voter rolls and then put out a statement that those individuals will be arrested upon confirmation of their casting a ballot. //

Bobby Cheeky
10 hours ago
Reinstatement is a complicated process, and could take a few weeks! It probably can't happen until November 6.

Just play this corrupt judge like a fool, Gov. Youngkin, because that's exactly what they're trying to do you and the voters of VA. //
anon-v5qh
10 hours ago edited
Remember when the supreme court ordered PA to segregate and control the disputed ballots prior to the election in 2020? They of course ignored the order, counted the ballots and then mixed them in with the others so they couldn't be audited or identified. Oops, just another happy accident. Can't fix it.

VA should follow their law and let the activist judge twist in the wind here. This kind of ruling where the laws must not be enforced so you have to allow criminal acts is typical of the liberal judges with agendas (border law anyone? catch and release was a court ruling not a written law).

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Holocaust survivor Jerry Warstki condemns Kamala Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler.

"For her to accuse President Trump of being like H*tler is the worst thing I ever heard in my 75 years living in the United States."

12:34 PM · Oct 25, 2024

Wartski, a 94-year-old Jewish man who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, explained why this rhetoric is an insult to those who experienced Nazi Germany. //

They thought calling Trump a...FASCIST! (for the 50th time) would work. They apparently were convinced that undecided voters were just waiting for Kams and her campaign to call Trump a... FASCIST! — for the 51st time.

They moored their Hindenburg to a: "TRUMP'S A FASCIST!" mooring mast, and predictably, the campaign has gone up in a fireball. //

DavidW
6 hours ago
You need to show a closeup of the base of the tower. You might just see Joe Biden with a lighter. //

Battman7568
4 hours ago
If just one of Kamala’s interviewers would ask her point blank to define fascist, and then to explain how Trump fits the definition, she would be logically eviscerated. Just one.

As we've learned over the years watching tight presidential races, each state holds its own election and has its own set of rules as to how it is administered. This makes for some stark differences in, for instance, deadlines set by states for accepting absentee or mail-in ballots. Mississippi allows ballot receipt up to five days after Election Day.

Until now, that is. On Friday afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision holding that ballots must be both cast and received by Election Day and that Mississippi's law is preempted by federal law. //

The State’s problem is that it thinks a ballot can be “cast” before it is received. What if a State changes its law to allow voters to mark their ballots and place them in a drawer? Or what if a State allowed a voter to mark a ballot and then post a picture on social media? The hypotheticals are obviously absurd. But it should be equally obvious that a ballot is “cast” when the State takes custody of it. //

That is not to say all the ballots must be counted on Election Day. Even if the ballots have not been counted, the result is fixed when all of the ballots are received and the proverbial ballot box is closed. The selections are done and final. By contrast, while election officials are still receiving ballots, the election is ongoing: The result is not yet fixed, because live ballots are still being received. Although a single voter has made his final selection upon marking his ballot, the entire polity must do so for the overall election to conclude. So the election concludes when the final ballots are received and the electorate, not the individual selector, has chosen. //

In January 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 14 States and the District of Columbia accepted ballots postmarked by Election Day—with the other 36 requiring receipt on or before that date. //

As Justice Kavanaugh recently emphasized: “To state the obvious, a State cannot conduct an election without deadlines . . . A deadline is not unconstitutional merely because of voters' own failures to take timely steps to ensure their franchise.” //

Federal law requires voters to take timely steps to vote by Election Day. And federal law does not permit the State of Mississippi to extend the period for voting by one day, five days, or 100 days. The State’s contrary law is preempted. //

Tech in RL
3 hours ago edited
If this is such a Constitutional question, why did the Fifth Circuit limit its ruling to just the states under its jurisdiction when we know a single judge can make a ruling that covers the entire country? I’m rather surprised the RNC didn’t push the Fifth Circuit court to apply its ruling nationally since that ruling isn’t all that useful when not applied uniformly across the nation.

If the Democrats were wise, they wouldn’t appeal this ruling since it only really applies to one deep red state. If this goes to the Supreme Court and the High Court affirms the Fifth Circuit ruling, then it would apply nationally.

Pennsylvania is thought by many to be the key to the race. One of the seven swing states, the Keystone State's 19 electoral votes are critical, and the presidential candidates are scrapping and clawing for them. Not only is voter turnout key, but so is voter registration. And so we've witnessed an amazing amount of effort being put into the registration ground game this election cycle — with some positive results for the GOP. In 2020, there were 4,228,888 registered Democrats and 3,543,070 registered Republicans for the November election. As of October 21, 2024 (the last day for registering in Pennsylvania), there were 3,971,607 registered Democrats and 3,673,783 registered Republicans. Thus, Democrats have lost ground while Republicans have gained it. //

Late Friday morning, news broke that election officials in Lancaster County had discovered potential voter registration fraud implicating as many as 2,500 registrations.

QTTabBar is a Shell-Extension to add Tab functionality to Windows Explorer - folder window.
Besides, QTTabBar provides various features that certainly help you deal with files and folders.

What can it do?

Most of the functionalities are activated when you enable the toolbars offered by QTTabBar in a folder window.

Tab Bar realizes ... the tabbed browsing of folders. Command Bars offer various command buttons including ones added by Plug-Ins. Extra Views show extra folder view in a folder window.

Once you enable them, QTTabBar installs some kind of hooks into the folder window and change the behavior of the Explorer to suit the need of advanced users.

For example, a new tab will be opened by middle-clicking on a folder icon. Preview tooltip is displayed when you point image, text, and movie file by mouse cursor. Do you want to mark an important file? Change the color of the name of it. When you move mouse cursor over folder icons, you'll see a square with blue arrow. Click and access to contents of the folder instantly!

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”

No, it’s not true.

This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.

Cryptography is safe, and will be for a long time

Joe Swyers
12 hours ago
The following was written by Robert Teesdale decades ago.
I've not found it again on the net, yet. Maybe others here more adept at internet sleuthing
So I post it in full here. Please pass it along.
Maybe the censors got to it -- and you will see why when you read it.

Coming Trials
There are moments when one is chilled... when one feels the truth of a spoken word, or a gesture - or when one hears with the heart, and not merely with the imperfection of the ears.
Such a moment came to pass in my own life, many years ago.
It was a lingering summer in southern Ohio, hot and dusty and lazy in the dying afternoon. I sat in a small-town barbershop, having my hair cut and trading quiet conversation with the locals.
The conversation turned to hunting, and then to guns - and as always, to the inherent rights of our people which have always been held as a bulwark against the natural tyranny of Men.
We discussed the latest gun-control laws, and how they infringed upon those same rights. We spoke of the anger we each felt. Of the simple wrongness of it, and of the consequences of this progression.
Our words were carefully chosen - for even then, before the ascension of William Clinton to the presidency and the disgusting abrogations of freedom that followed - we were aware that such talk amongst the People was not approved of.
It was dangerous, we knew. Seditious. Militias ran amok, and the force of the law waited with eager anticipation to intervene.
Young and old, we sat there. Talking. Sharing our thoughts quietly... and asking each other where it was leading.
Someone said with a shake of the head, "I don't like where this is headed." We all nodded agreement... and then I sat in sorrowed fear as I heard the next words spoken.
An old man, sitting in a leather-and-steel chair by the entrance, leaned over and spat grimly into the dust of the Midwest that blew gently along the road outside. His words were cold, and contained a sad and unmistakable finality.
"It's coming," he said.
We all fell silent.
....

Our people are marching in the streets, demanding justice - and demanding that our rights be respected, lest they be defended by more than merely passionate arguments.
Men are no longer afraid to speak their minds. The power of fear that was held over those who dared to give voice to their patriotism has subsided... and now it is openly asked in our homes, in our shops and in our places of work.
What will happen when that line is crossed?
For there is no longer any question that it has been drawn... and no longer a question of whether to draw it was right.
In this day, when I speak to people and hear their words... when I look into their eyes and take their hands in my own - the question is no longer if revolution is possible, or if it could be done.
The questions now are how...
...and who will lead.
I fear for our nation.
For we stand at the brink. And those who bring us there, with a blind faith in their own special privilege and a dismissive contempt for the rights of the People - ignore the fearful resolve that burns within the breasts of millions of souls that will not acquiesce.
Our nation is not immune to civil war. It is not immune to the deadly and horrific strife of citizen against citizen... of brother against brother, of fathers leading sons against cousins.
There are ninety million firearm owners in America. Such a serpent should bear respecting... rather than used as a convenient scapegoat for the hypocritical lashes of those who seek to rule this nation.
And how close are we?
I see leaders arising. And rather than exhorting men to action, I see them working desperately to pacify.
I do not see them urging the loading of rifles... but rather a waiting, and a pleading for more patience and faith in the power of the vote to preserve our freedom.
I see them working to prevent bloodshed, not to instigate it. And this ominous sight fills me with foreboding.
We are not trying to create a revolution.
We are trying to stop one.
I hope that old man was wrong.
But in my heart, a sorrowed chill lingers.