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there's a new debate hoax raging. It centers on Trump's comments about threatening "Abdul," who he cited as a Taliban leader he negotiated with in 2020. The mention sent the fingers of journalists everywhere scurrying on keyboards. Multiple major news outlets, including The Hill and Forbes, wrote mocking headlines and suggested it was "unclear" who Trump was referring to because he's just so darn stupid.
“I got involved. And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban,” Trump said. “And I told Abdul, ‘Don’t do it anymore. You do it anymore, you’re going to have problems.’ And he said, ‘Why do you send me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You’re going to have to figure that out, Abdul.’ And for 18 months we had nobody killed.”
It’s not clear who Trump was referring to.
Hibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban’s leader, having been in charge since 2016.
It wasn't unclear, though. I know that because if you read the very same articles I linked above, both go on to explain exactly who Trump was talking about.
Abdul Ghani Baradar is not an obscure figure. He is the co-founder of the Taliban and currently serves as the terrorist government's "prime minister." He was also the lead negotiator and head of policy during the 2020 negotiations. So who is dumber? Trump for citing "Abdul," or the know-nothing journalists who couldn't be bothered to use Google for two minutes? //
RedDog_FLA
an hour ago
This is Golden:
Cable news is filled with over-credentialed mediocrities with the common sense of a lima bean.
That tells everything. //
anon-dion
25 minutes ago
It doesn't matter Journalists can't seem to do their job anymore. Used to be an investigative reporter would run down all the fact and report the results without bias. Now only a handful do. I can think of Catherine Harris, Glen Greenwald, and Matt Tiabi. Everyone else is just trying to score points and get clicks. A sign of a dying media is the need for sensationalism and yellow journalist tactics. //
Arik
27 minutes ago
Wait a minute. Did Kamala mean MANDATORY transgender surgeries for illegals in prison???
Puts a whole new light on it. 😁 //
Rogue Rose
23 minutes ago
Their endless lies are exhausting
KJSpeed Rogue Rose
4 minutes ago
I concur. Kind of like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. They're trying to push us to the point that we challenge everything they say as a lie, then they spin it as "those right-wing MAGA nuts are trying to say that everything we tell you is a lie. Don't believe them!" John and Jane Doe begin to think the liars are telling the truth and everyone that disagrees with them is a liar. Right before the wolf eats them.
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Megyn Kelly went off on the ABC Debate moderators obvious bias and blames their boss and Kamala’s closest friend for over 30 years, Dana Walden, who also just so happens to run ABC News as co-chairwoman at woke Disney. Kamala’s best friend is the moderators boss!
7:17 AM · Sep 11, 2024 //
etba_ss Orwell was right
20 minutes ago
So why did Trump not know this and publicize it ahead of the debate? Obviously, his staff should have known and told him. They should know everything about Harris and anyone she's ever dealt with on any level.
Pop Crave @PopCrave
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“Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."
- Donald Trump on Kamala Harris during the presidential debate
9:50 PM · Sep 10, 2024
As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. //
EJ @Ejmiller25
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Even more crazy is that it's 100% undeniably true.
https://t.co/ssEw3wVEw0
JD Vance @JDVance
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What's even crazier is that Kamala Harris actually did support giving illegal aliens transgender surgeries (paid for by taxpayers).
Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill
"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens who are in prison" is the WILDEST thing I've ever heard in any debate. EVER.
12:40 PM · Sep 11, 2024 //
Harris' positions are so ludicrous that not even her own supporters believe they're true. Perhaps that should cause a bit of introspection. It won't, but it should.
Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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PENNSYLVANIA VOTER: President Trump "spoke facts" — while Kamala just "repeated everything that Biden has said in the past." Show more
12:02 AM · Sep 11, 2024 //
anon-g58b
2 hours ago
Muir was strong in his debate with Trump. Harris was a lousy moderator
Here are some of the biggest falsehoods Harris told during her debate with Trump.
She spread every hoax about Trump that she could think of, starting with the lie that Trump had anything to do with Project 2025. //
But perhaps the two worst lies — and that was hard to pick because she told so many — were where she claimed police were killed on Jan. 6. and the "fine people" lie about Charlottesville. Both are provably false — the fine people lie has been debunked for years, is on video, and even the liberal Snopes has roundly debunked it. //
etba_ss Don't Tread
an hour ago
He missed a lot of openings, took too much bait and was unprepared. However, he was real, passionate and powerful under control. Harris was totally scripted, boring and all the faces and head shaking made her a real scold.
Trump gets a B-
Harris gets a D
ABC gets a D. They never followed up when she wouldn't answer, but would hit Trump over and over. //
Just Annoyed Billy Wallace
an hour ago
I think he lost but not badly. Kamala struggled at first and really seemed like she wanted to stamp her heels and throw a hissy when Trump got some zingers in early then the moderators tipped the scales. Once the game up on him Kamala relaxed and Trump allowed himself to he baited. After that he seemed angry in most of his responses until just about the very end when he started to recover. His closing was better than hers slightly, but was not seen by as many who tuned in earlier and likely tuned out midway. Just goes to show why "Anytime, anywhere" Kamala was afraid to debate him on fox. She can't do these things without emotional-support humans/moderators.
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President Trump UNLEASHED:
"I'm talking now. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?"
🔥🔥🔥
9:47 PM · Sep 10, 2024
People enjoyed that one, especially when, with Trump going there, if she was planning it, she no longer could use it.
anon-klg1 Leontine
18 minutes ago
Trump said Harris went to negotiate with Russia and 3 days later they invaded Ukraine-
Harris said that wasn’t true - but that doesn’t mean it isn’t.
ABC asked Harris if she’d ever met Putin AND SHE DIDN’T ANSWER THE QUESTION. Starts talking about meeting Zelensky 5 times and then goes into some meaningless word salad.
And they just let her not answer. Didn’t pin her down at all as to whether this happened.
If - as Trump said- Harris was sent to negotiate with Russia and right after that they decide to invade Ukraine—- that’s important for people to know.
To see them not even clarify that point when they’d asked, iirc, repeated follow ups about January 6th, and whether Trump thought the election was stolen, was literally jaw dropping for me….and I didn’t think I had any illusions left about the MSM-
That‘s beyond just bias —- it’s covering for extreme incompetence —- it’s failing to even examine a candidate —
Anyway, the point I’m getting at is that I think the bias has gone so far-( to the point of outright irresponsiblity) that it will be off putting to more than just Republicans and will likely backfire on the Dems.
BUSTED: Kamala Harris Copied Her Long-Awaited Policy Platform From Someone Else's Website – RedState
The policies themselves are what you'd expect. Some of them are incoherent word salads that never lay out any actual mechanism for accomplishing the promises being made. Others are just typical far-left slop, including on issues like energy and healthcare. At the very least, the release countered the idea that Harris is now a moderate. //
Perhaps there's a reason for that. According to a new report, Harris didn't even author some of the policy positions presented. Instead, they were lifted from Joe Biden's old campaign website. //
Kamala Harris is an idea, not a tangible candidate. She's a left-wing caricature dreamed up by the likes of CNN and MSNBC. There's no "there, there." She's simply a screen for the most radical factions of the political realm to project their deepest desires on. The problem for Harris? Most voters aren't radicals. They just want straight talk about the positions they care about. //
Further, if she's copying her policy ideas from Joe Biden, it's kind of hard to claim to be the candidate of "change." This exposes her as a continuation of the last four years, and that's something many Americans aren't too keen on. //
flguy
5 hours ago
Plagiarizing Biden...talk about irony! //
RedinOR
5 hours ago
For all the stuff in the world I don't know, I definitely know where I stand on basic issues. If I were running for office - for the fifth or sixth time - I and my team would have taken at least an hour or two to put together some ideas to post about how we might deal with those problems. Or is this more difficult than I imagine it to be?
Just based on lack of preparation, lack of any demonstrated ability and lack of seriousness, QueMala is the most unqualified person to run for president. Maybe for any office, ever.
Fishin'withFredo RedinOR
5 hours ago
Well, when all of your success in life has been the result of being somebody's box check or sex toy, you're definitely not prepared for the real world stuff.
chaz Fishin'withFredo
4 hours ago
We could also point out that this was the only way for an aspiring political novice to navigate the misogyny and institutional racism of the democrat party (not sarcasm)
The bottom line is that we don't know where Kamala stands in 2024 on mandatory gun buy-back schemes. What we do know is that she made that part of her platform in the 2020 race, and she has never disavowed that position. Though her "campaign" says she no longer supports it, one of her leading surrogates refuses to give a yes or no answer; in fact, he refuses to acknowledge the question.
All of this fits into Kamala's campaign of deception where she has minions tell the media what her positions are and she retains the ability to change them at whim by blaming an unnamed staffer. //
anon-x2cb
33 minutes ago
They CANNOT buy back something they DID NOT SELL ME!
[Republican consultant and Fox News contributor Ari] Fleischer's advice for Trump is, "Hit her on policy. Just like you did to Biden in the first debate. That was a disciplined, tough, policy-oriented Donald Trump. I would love to see the same Donald Trump against Kamala Harris." //
Louise1
18 hours ago
Two ideas:
1) Tell how your policies will help people, and protect the environment, better than Harris' policies.
Example: Don't say inflation is bad because we want good economic numbers. Say inflation is bad because it hurts people.
Example: Don't say that you're against EV mandates because of cost or convenience. Instead, say that EVs can actually hurt the environment. It's hard to recycle EV batteries. Tires on EVs pollute the air with more fine particles than the tires on ICE vehicles, because EV batteries are so heavy. ( https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/electric-vehicles-tires-wearing-out-particulates/674750/ ) Etc.
2) When you say a Harris policy is bad, offer a better policy. Example: To cut pollution, do these things:
a) Put pressure on China to stop polluting the air so much.
b) Tell people how to keep their houses cool or warm by using simple, cheap insulation in their windows such as bubble wrap.
c) Encourage research in extinguishing wildfires better, so that they don't release a huge amount of smoke. ( https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/08/29/canadas-carbon-footprint-is-massive-but-its-because-of-wildfires-n2178698 )
If you tell how your policies will help people and protect the environment, and if you tell how your policies are better than Harris', then people will be more likely to vote for you. //
Carey J
19 hours ago
I heard Trump was preparing for the debate by going to bars and arguing with drunks.
Carey J Randy Larson
12 hours ago
Yeah, I heard it from the Bee. You'll note I didn't say where I heard it.
Sanders let viewers in on an insider analysis/preview for the debate Tuesday, and why she thinks we aren't really hearing about Trump but pages and pages of stories on Harris' debate prep:
This Week @ThisWeekABC
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells @JonKarl that “every day is debate prep for Donald Trump.”
“He'll go in game time ready just as he does for every interview, every rally that he does. This is not something that is a heavy lift for him.” https://trib.al/oEgjREO
0:12 / 1:59
11:42 AM · Sep 8, 2024 //
This Week @ThisWeekABC
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on former Rep. Liz Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris: “I’m not trying to be rude, but you don't get to call yourself a conservative or a Republican when you support the most radical nominee that the Democrats have ever put up.” https://trib.al/eFffgiO
12:06 PM · Sep 8, 2024 //
That doesn’t make you a conservative, it certainly doesn’t make you a Republican. I think it makes you somebody who wants to protect the establishment.
Steve Guest @SteveGuest
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Kamala’s Harris’s campaign is completely detached from reality.
Here is Kamala on video bragging about being the last person in the room when the admin made the political and soon to be catastrophic decision to leave Afghanistan.
Alex Thompson @AlexThomp
In a new statement, Harris’ campaign argues that “Trump’s chaotic actions led to catastrophic consequences in Afghanistan.”
Some R’s agree that Trump cut a bad deal with the Taliban but the new Biden admin debated options on trying to change the deal and went w/ Biden’s plan
5:00 PM · Sep 7, 2024 //
Shelby Talcott @ShelbyTalcott
The Harris campaign is blaming the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal on Donald Trump, arguing that he “left the Biden-Harris Administration with zero plans for an orderly withdrawal.”
Comes as Trump has ramped up his criticism of the administration over the withdrawal & the deadly…
4:39 PM · Sep 7, 2024
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
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That wasn't Trump who closed the airfields, bottlenecked everyone into Kabul Airport which resulted in bodies falling from the sky, the death of 13 US Service members by a suicide bomber , and drone strikes a van full of innocent kids in return.
And then only took 6 questions… Show more
Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock
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Kamala in 2021: I was the last person in the room to advise Biden before he made this momentous decision
Kamala in 2024: Trump made us do it.
Come on lol. //
This is astonishing.
First, the Biden-Harris administration extended the deadline for months anyway, so the point about the timing doesn't even make sense. They didn't comply with what had been worked out to begin with. As I said at the time, Biden's response was sociopathic. He said that he disagreed with people who said he should have started getting people out earlier. Because he didn't do that and pulled the military out before that, he then needed to surge more military in after everything blew up.
Second, are they really saying they failed and had such a disaster because they were too ignorant and had to depend on plans left over from the Trump administration? Was that what was necessary to get it done right? That's what they seemed to be admitting. How incompetent are they?
Plus, let's review what the Biden-Harris team previously claimed something about the withdrawal. Biden claimed it was an "extraordinary success." And Kamala Harris? She bragged that she was the last person in the room; she was "comfortable" with the decision: //
So, was Kamala lying then and/or is she lying now? Either way, she's lying and it's not a good look when, once again, they take no responsibility and try to blame someone else for their own actions. No one has been held accountable for any of the failures over Afghanistan, including the deaths of the 13 Americans, and the Biden-Harris team has refused to even speak with the families of the 13.
She is absolutely shameless.
JENNINGS: Well, I mean, I mean normally that's the case. She's had a very consequential vice presidency. She's cast, I think the most ever tie-breaking votes in the Senate of any vice president including on Joe Biden's specific economic program which drove the country into a massive inflation, inflationary spiral, which everyone is mad about.
And on top of that, she, in her own words, last person in the room with Joe Biden when they made the disastrous decision on Afghanistan. So I think in some cases you're right Van, the vice president is relatively inconsequential. She has been a consequential vice president, and I think the consequences have been bad. //
Harris defenders want to have it both ways. On the one hand, they want to tout her vice presidential experience as evidence of her qualifications to be president. On the other hand, they want to claim she did nothing and is responsible for nothing. Wouldn't that logically mean her "experience" is null and void then? //
Orwell was right
3 hours ago edited
Harris touting her VP experience is like the 1st mate on the Titanic bragging about his successful seamanship.
Sean Agnew @seanagnew
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She’s a bad candidate with no policy proposals but be prepared for the YAASS QUEEN moment
NBC News @NBCNews
VP Harris is preparing for a variety of potential unscripted — and perhaps history-making — moments, including the possibility that former President Trump makes derogatory comments about her, according to sources familiar with her preparations. https://nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-prepares-volatile-moments-trump-debate-rcna170013
Brittany @bccover
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We know. That’s always been the plan. To have a comeback that goes viral, rather than be clear about policy which actually informs Americans. //
It shows how empty she is, if she's not concentrating on conveying her policies, but working more on "comebacks" and anticipating what he might do. It's wrongheaded, so quite frankly, keep it up for Tuesday.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
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If Trump trounces Kamala at the debate, get ready for some very strange things to happen before November. They’ve already sued him, prosecuted him, tried to kick him off the ballot, and swapped out his opponent. All of it could be just a preview of what’s to come.
11:11 AM · Sep 7, 2024 //
He did not outline any of the "tricks" that he thinks might be pulled. But there is one obvious move they haven't played yet. If Kamala tanks badly, they may pull something big out, assuming they can. That's making Biden resign and giving her the Oval Office before November, so she can have the title going into the election. //
Bottom line, the folks in power don't want to release control and we need to be ready for anything. They've already thrown out a lot and failed. //
Hank Reardon
25 minutes ago
”Prepare for "strange things" to happen before November, he warns, if Harris "tanks."
The left will do whatever it takes.
Read that again and recall how the b. hussein obama regime weaponized the DOJ/FBI and intell agencies against candidate and then President Trump, beginning in 2016.
- The FBI’s fraudulent FISA warrants against Carter Page. (Peter Strzok, et. al.)
- The FBI’s illegal alteration of an email to frame Carter Page. (FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith.)
- The FBI’s ”insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. (Sexmates Strzok, Lisa Page and then FBI Dep. Dir. Andy McCabe.)
- The framing of Trump Natl. Security Advisor Micheal Flynn. (Strzok. Again.)
- The FBI’s assistance in creating and hyping Marc Elias’s DNC ‘dossier’, through Fusion GPS staffer Nellie Ohr, and her husband, FBI deputy assistant director Bruce Ohr.
- James Clapper’s ‘Russia Collusion’ October surprises in both 2016 and again 2020.
- Nanzi Pelosi’s faux articles of impeachment; numbers I and II.
- The democrat’s willful leveraging of the Chinese WuFlu in 2020 to destroy Trump’s economic gains.
They will do whatever it takes to hold power and protect themselves from We The People. What ever it takes. //
Desertball
an hour ago
October surprise is the 25th amendment and President Harris emphatically stating that the government will not be turned over to a felon awaiting a Supreme Court emergency ruling on whether or not the DC judge can order Pres Trump gagged. Or something
Her senior spokesperson, Ian Sams — late of the White House Counsel's Office — was on CNN, and Kasie Hunt raised this very question to him, saying Harris has been part of the Biden administration for the last three-plus years. Hunt said working-class people are telling CNN, "More of them are with Donald Trump than Kamala Harris. Why — what is it about what you guys have been doing for the last three plus years that explains that?" she asked. His response was incredible.
Well, I think, again, we're trying to talk to the voters and explain this message," he said.
"We've got 60 days until the election. You know, we don't have time to sit around and think about why, over the last few years, certain things may have happened or may not have happened. We've got to go win an election."
It's "really different," he insisted. "It's a new way forward." Yeah, they have a new, communistic-like slogan. How is that different? //
It's also funny when Sams complains the media isn't giving her policies enough attention — when she herself won't even put them on her website to let the greater public even know what they are. The first thing that does pop up on the site is a request for money.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) also weighed in on the BLS report, with thoughts similar to those of Trump:
This disastrous report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows what Americans have known for years: illegal immigration drives down the wages and jobs of American citizens, pushing out struggling families.
Statistics show that all of the job growth Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s claim to have created has not been for American citizens.
It has entirely gone to illegal immigrants whom they have imported at great harm to our country.It appears that the primary beneficiaries of the Biden-Harris economy are illegal aliens. > The ones shouldering the burden of their suppressed wages, inflated cost of living, and migrant crime are the American people.
This is the most disastrous presidency of the last 50 years, a great betrayal of our nation.
Not to nitpick with Sen. Lee, but a strong argument can be made that the Biden presidency is the worst in American history.
Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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RADIO HOST: Still, people believe that President Trump can handle the economy better. What would you say to them?
COMRADE KAMALA: Well, you should look at what I've accomplished so far.
Does she mean 40-year high inflation, 45% more expensive gasoline, 22% more expensive… Show more
10:28 AM · Sep 6, 2024 //
Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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You can literally hear Kamala Harris turning pages during her radio interview with Univision as she is saying we need to "turn the page on" President Trump.
10:53 AM · Sep 6, 2024
Over at Newsweek, Gad Saad wrote an incredible piece detailing this phenomenon:
It's this peripheral, emotive route of persuasion that the Harris campaign has embraced with the "positive vibes" campaign rooted in joy, excitement, and fun. Her managers are willfully hijacking your decision-making process by ensuring that you focus only on your affective, peripheral system.
It's deeply cynical, for the obvious reason that when selecting the leader of the free world, you should be engaging your cognitive system. A rational voter should evaluate the respective positions of the two candidates on fiscal policy, immigration policy, border security, foreign policy, criminal justice policy, commitment to the First and Second Amendments, the tension between the rights of biological women versus trans women (biological males), and their stance on meritocracy versus diversity, inclusion, and equity.
And yet, the great majority of voters are utterly oblivious about these issues, and prefer to love or hate a given candidate based on irrelevant affective processing. //
The Harris campaign doesn't want you thinking too hard about it. Don't explore the issues and really think about the solutions. Just feel the vibes, man. Just let the joy in and take it easy. Let it take you away. //
The Harris campaign is a lot more like a drug pusher in this regard, much like many a psychologist and back alley dealers are today. Feeling anxious? Take this pill. Feeling depressed. This prescription medication will give you the sensation of a normal life back. It's all just too much? Smoke this. Inject this right into your veins and you'll feel like you're flying. //
It's a dangerous thing to believe a politician who talks more about smiling than about policy. As the late great George Carlin once said:
"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley. Smiley." //
Raoul Bilbao
an hour ago
I know of another leftist group that sold "Happiness" back in the 1930s and 40s..................
Louis Rukeyser's Ghost Raoul Bilbao
8 minutes ago
Oh yeah. Leo Reisman and His Orchestra singing "Happy Days Are Here Again" pushing FDR. Great point! //
anon-1l9q
an hour ago
Harris is selling the wrong religion. There's a better one that has joy unspeakable, and full of glory
On Friday, Axios finally noticed that Harris has been purposely avoiding them.
With 60 days left in the race, and at the very moment she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris isn't getting subjected to the media scrutiny typical for a presidential nominee.
Why it matters: Harris is copying President Biden's self-protection media strategy — duck tough interviews and limit improvisational moments. //
I'm not sure what's more frustrating. That Kamala Harris doesn't even have an official policy platform yet and early voting is already starting, or that the supposed news outlets are trying to play the victim in the face of that. If only there was a massive "fourth estate" with enormous, worldwide influence that could report honestly on Harris and pressure her into doing interviews and press conferences.
If you are to believe Axios' framing, they and other mainstream news sources are helpless. There's just nothing they can do. //
Do you know what the press could do if they want to make Harris speak clearly and publicly about her policy positions? They could stop publishing anonymous sources like the one cited above. Every single time an anonymous "aide" is allowed to change a Harris position with no further details or explanation, her campaign is given every incentive to continue hiding the candidate behind a teleprompter.