“It’s worth examining why Vice President Harris is now behind,” Kennedy told [host Brian] Kilmeade. “I think she’s behind because of all her gauzy rhetoric. People are uncertain about her. They don’t know if she has the right stuff to be president. They’re worried that she doesn’t, they’re worried that she was that kid in grade school who ate paste, they just don’t know. She hasn’t — she won’t be pinned down, I think in some cases she’s lying. People are worried that if she walked by a polygraph machine, the dang thing would explode.”

“People want to know what their president is going to do,” Kennedy continued. “Now, I’ll tell you the other thing that’s changed in this race other than the vice president behind. Vice President Harris has adopted a new strategy. Joy is out. She’s adopted the Hillary Clinton deplorable strategy of 2016, which is if you vote for President Trump, you are a bad person.”

During the conversation, Trump importantly contrasted his ability to handle unscripted questions with Harris’s public engagements, confidently asserting that she would struggle in a long-form interview. While Trump’s casual and unfiltered approach resonates with many, Harris' performances come across as contrived and disconnected. Her laughter is disingenuous and forced, her answers are vague or unserious, and her accents are put-on like costumes. Harris struggles to connect with voters on a genuine level, making Trump's straightforward style all the more appealing.

Although I didn't find the discussion to be particularly exciting—often leaning towards the mundane—it was reminiscent of Trump’s unexpected moment working a fryer at McDonald's, which showcased a relatable and refreshing personal side of him. It's these personable moments that have become crystallized in Trump's campaign: his fist raised in the air after a bullet clipped his ear, the sadness and indignation in his eyes during his mugshot, his iconic image working the drive-through, and now this candid conversation on the Rogan podcast. Together, these moments create a multifaceted portrait of Trump that resonates with his supporters, emphasizing his humanity amidst the political chaos.

Another notable aspect was how unbitter Trump comes across, despite the persecution he has faced. This was especially striking given that his opponent had called the press to the Naval Observatory this week to compare him to Hitler. President Joe Biden has gone so far as to say Trump needs to be locked up while the Harris campaign continues to insist that Trump has an "enemies list." In the discussion, Rogan highlights how Trump chose not to incarcerate his opponent Hillary Clinton, quoting him on the rationale that it would be "bad for the country." This effectively undercuts both the Hitler narrative and the hyperbole surrounding potential retaliations in a second Trump administration.

Ultimately, this podcast highlights not just Trump's appeal, but also the stark challenges Harris faces in connecting with the electorate. In a time when voters crave realness, it’s clear that authenticity will always outshine artifice. The Rogan podcast serves as yet another victory for the media-savvy Trump, reinforcing his ability to resonate with the electorate in a way that Harris struggles to replicate.

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
@HungCao_VA
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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
@BrentScher
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?

What JD Vance did here was not only turn Trump's attack into a positive thing, but he also framed the issue as a populist "people against the powerful" theme that puts much of the political establishment of both parties in the "enemy forces" column. Yes, Pelosi is vile, but she had a lot of help from both party establishments in opening our borders for the sake of cheap labor, sending our industry to an enemy country for cheap imports, and fighting all attempts to strengthen the American working class.

Gone are the glory days of the Boeing 747, the 'Queen of the Skies'. The first commercial double-decker aircraft flew in 1969, and though several are still flying today, only a few airlines operate the type on commercial passenger flights. According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, there are only four airlines operating 747s this month: Air China, Korean Air, Lufthansa, and Aeroflot. //

In October 2014, 33 airlines operated 747 passenger flights, and British Airways (BA) had the most. Ten years ago, 12,171 747 flights were scheduled worldwide, more than 2,000 of which were operated by BA. More than half of BA's 747 flights were to and from the United States (US). //

Data shows that in October 2014, 1,112 flights were scheduled to and from the US on BA 747s. This included 11 cities and more than 350,000 seats. It should come as no surprise that the busiest 747 route was from Heathrow to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York. Ten years ago, there were 215 flights scheduled in each direction to JFK on 747s, up to eight flights in one day.

“My answer is no. I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime looks like.

"I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature [emphasis mine].” //

The embattled mayor was indicted on corruption charges in September and is facing his own challenges. Many pundits noted, however, that the government came after him only after he’d criticized the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris disaster at the border. //

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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President Trump on Eric Adams: "I watched about a year ago when he talked about how the illegal migrants are hurting our city... and I said, you know what, he'll be indicted within a year — and I was exactly right."

5:33 PM · Sep 26, 2024 //

Adams may or may not be guilty of the charges against him; that story is for another day. What he said Saturday, nevertheless, rings true: This is America. Kamala and Co. seem to have forgotten that, or more likely, they don’t care about such niceties in their desperate attempts to cling to power.

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.

In this tutorial, we will show you how you can use the Syncthing software on your Raspberry Pi.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
WHEN I’M PRESIDENT THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WILL WORK GREAT AGAIN!
9:21 PM · Oct 26, 2024

Now we know why Biden is wearing a Trump hat. If Trump manages to pull that off, he just may get Biden's endorsement too.

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.

JENNINGS: "But he was the president and he has a record and she was the vice president. And she has a record."

CUBAN: "But, you know, that whole comparison isn't legit because the vice president doesn't do anything."

What?

“The vice president sat around and didn’t do anything for four years so she has no record” is one hell of an argument, Mark.

You’re supposed to be campaigning for Kamala.

This wasn’t a fair fight. //

LeftCoast1776
4 hours ago
Kamala has a record. She cast the tie breaking vote on a couple of bills that have literally bankrupted America.

The Los Angeles Times won’t endorse her. The Washington Post won’t endorse her. The firefighters union won’t endorse her. The Teamsters won’t endorse her.

Now, the Harris-Walz trainwreck campaign has taken another body blow: influential billionaire investor Warren Buffett has also refused to get on board, saying he needs to protect his employees. Translation, he’s a legendary prognosticator—or he wouldn’t be a billionaire financier—and he sees the writing on the wall.

Although the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has been a Democrat supporter in the past, he is sitting on the sidelines for this one: //

...the 94-year-old billionaire explained why he's now keeping his mouth shut during Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in 2022. Buffett said he'd learned that "you can make a whole lot more people sustainably mad than you can make temporarily happy by speaking out on any subject." //

That doesn't explain why he found it just fine to get behind Democrat candidates in the past (although, to be fair, he did not formally endorse another hopelessly flawed candidate in 2020, Joe Biden).