The Morning Report — 8/30/24

Good Morning Kids. Well, to be perfectly fair, when Kamala Harris states, in response to the accusations of her flip-flopping on her positions regarding every issue under the sun, her assertion that her "values have not changed" is indeed 1,000% truthful, honest and accurate. That's because she is a committed Marxist-Leninist whose entire adult life has been devoted to the dismantling of this nation as founded, all in service to that goal as she attains power and influence and a prime position on top of the smoldering ruins.

Like every other Leftist politician, flip-flopping on issues, is merely the stock in trade that they see as necessary to convince us despicable, "DEPLORABLE!" rubes in flyover country who "bitterly cling to our guns and Bibles" to not believe our lying eyes and convince us that they're as American as baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet, as opposed to gulags, tree bark soup and drag queen story hour.

Unfortuntately, considering the track records of far too many in the GOP over the course of many election cycles now (even going back to IKE who didn't lift a finger to try and reverse any of the New Deal) who promise the moon if we only vote harder, flip-flopping is not the lone purview of Leftists.

while this pre-canned, pre-digested "interview" of Harris and her emotional support white man was a dumpster fire, the true believers who will still reflexively vote for them and stuff ballot boxes for them will likely not see it that way.

Did you catch Kamala Harris' first "interview" as the Democrat Party nominee for president? It was pretty much everything you'd expect from an interview conducted by CNN. Lots of softball questions, lots of word salad responses. 

CNN anchor Dana Bash actually asked some decent questions, but what really struck me about the interview was that Kamala Harris, more often than not, avoided answering most of the questions, and Bash didn't seem to be concerned with getting an actual answer.

You knew things were going to be bad when Harris really struggled to give a coherent answer to the cliché question about what she would do on "on day one."

. . . While Dana Bash asked some decent questions of Harris and Walz, she also asked plenty of softball questions that were a complete waste of time. Now, again, this was 18 minutes of actual interview that was aired, reportedly trimmed down from something longer, so it's no shock that so much of the interview was fluff and softball questions, and it's no shock that Dana Bash never called Harris out for blatantly lying. It's also not shocking that Kamala was never presented with clips of her own words endorsing the exact opposite of what she claims to be about now. And Walz wasn't pressured to explain why he lied about his service, his DUI arrest, and about using IVF. Bash just accepted his longwinded and weak response about his "grammar" sometimes being wrong as a legitimate explanation. . .

. . . Trust me, you'll never see Donald Trump get such an easy interview. Not even from Fox News. Kamala was asked about the "iconic" photo of her giving her speech at the DNC, and Walz got a question about his son being so proud of him at the convention.

The nation, that is to say what still remains of it, would have been better served, Had RFK Jr.s running mate Nicole Shanahan been allowed to say her peace:

But she is a traitor to the counter-American revolution and as such is to be eradicated.

Until recently, Shanahan’s political orientation was Democrat. For 20 years, she’s donated to Democrat candidates and funded Democrat issues. However, she’s also suspicious of big-tech and big-pharm medicine. She distrusts IVF for infertility and thinks that women aren’t getting enough sunlight. (This isn’t as crazy as it sounds. As COVID shows, Americans are sorely lacking in Vitamin D, which is a necessary ingredient in our immune systems.) Also, because her daughter is autistic, she’s interested in non-standard approaches. (As this luminous novel reveals, the scientific community has been awful at autism.)

In March 2024, Shanahan joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as his running mate in his independent presidential campaign. By this time, Shanahan had already witnessed the Democrat party freeze Kennedy out of the primaries, and from March forward, she saw Democrats ensure that Kennedy couldn’t get on most state ballots.
Now that the campaign is over and Kennedy has endorsed Trump, Shanahan has done a few press appearances—with conservatives, everyone from Jesse Watters to Adam Carolla. What’s interesting is that this exposure to actual conservatives, rather than to the leftist caricature of conservatives, is that, as she told Dave Smith, she now understands how the media and the Democrat establishment have consistently lied about conservatives and the MAGA movement:

. . . You know, actually, the best part of joining forces with Trump has been seeing MAGA, which I'm learning so much about. I was completely misinformed about what MAGA is. I don't know if you've taken any deep dives into MAGA-world, but I was just under the impression that they were gun-toting radicals who wanted to come to my doorstep and rip my liberal family out of my house, and, I don't know, do horrible things to liberals. And that's how that's how MAGA has been sold to a huge portion of America by the mainstream media.

And I have to say that what I have learned about MAGA is that they're actually their own party. They're their own grassroots organization that chose Donald Trump. They have so much power in deciding where to point their energy and support.

And they are really, really smart, thoughtful, intellectual people within MAGA. I’ve received beautifully written notes from MAGA supporters, and they were...

You know, our base didn't know how to engage with MAGA. Our base was not, you know, MAGA-oriented in the sense of even knowing who and what MAGA was and what their infrastructure was. In many ways, it's an online, viral movement.

An open mind is a terrible thing to waste. Are Shanahan, and RFK Jr. merely outliers, if this is merely sour grapes at the Democrats for screwing them over, then blasting their erstwhile compatriots, and theoretical fellow travelers seems quite counterproductive in long-term political strategy. Or is there a significant percentage of people out there who are having the scales fall from their eyes, to greater or lesser extents about who and what the source of all the ills of this nation really are?

Regardless of what I still disagree on issue-wise with these two, it's vital to build a bridge and find common ground, now that an opportunity exists with two influential people that do have an audience. Compromise where we can and try our best to not just sway them to our side but convince them we indeed are on the same side vis a vis creating a society that elevates liberty and the individual over the state.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Robert Telles, a Democrat politician in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been convicted of murdering Jeff German, a 69-year-old investigative journalist reporting on bullying, retaliation, and favoritism in exchange for sexual favors in his office.Telles, described merely as an “ex-politician” or “former Las Vegas official” rather than a Democrat in headlines by the likes of Axios, ABC, AP, and CBS, stabbed German to death outside his home on September 2, 2022. German had been reporting on crime and corruption in Las Vegas for 44 years.
  Vegas Democrat Convicted of Murdering Journalist Who Investigated Him.
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The ugly truth that the Biden coup really exposed.
  America is Run By a Movement, Not a Man

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• Mohammed Jaber, the commander of the "Palestinian" Islamic Jihad-led Tulkarm battalion, was one of five militants Israeli forces fatally targeted inside a mosque in Tulkarm on Thursday as Israel’s major operation in the West Bank rolled into its second day. Israeli forces stormed Jenin and Tulkarm, two key militant strongholds, killing at least 10 Hamas militants and arresting thousands of suspected terrorists.
  IDF Eliminates Key "Palestinian" Islamic Jihad Commander in Major West Bank Operation
  
• No ‘two-state solution’ will bring about peace in the Middle East.
  It’s about religion!
  
• A new book by the terrorist-turned-Israeli-spy offers surprising insights.
  From Hamas to America
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• The Rev. Frederick Haynes has also praised anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan as a 'wonderful and great man'
  Kamala's Criminal Justice Reform Comrade Accused Israel and America of 'Apartheid' in Fiery Sermon After Hamas Attack

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Austrian officials said the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian man, was inspired by the Islamic State group. He allegedly planned to attack outside the stadium, where upwards of 30,000 fans were expected to gather, with knives or homemade explosives. Another 65,000 fans were likely to be inside the venue. Investigators discovered chemical substances and technical devices during a raid of the suspect’s home.
  Taylor Swift Terror Plot Suspects Planned to Kill ‘Tens of Thousands’, CIA Says

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• Brenda Abdelall comments came at a convention featuring prominent anti-Semite Cynthia McKinney
  Kamala Harris' New Arab Outreach Director Said 'Zionists' Are 'Controlling' American Politics

  "BIDEN, And HARRIS, BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• A California school district is announcing it will no longer allow its school buses to make stops where large numbers of illegal immigrants are present. The move comes after at least two incidents involving groups of illegal immigrants attempting to force their way on board school buses near San Diego.Superintendent Liz Bystedt informed families that the school district’s new policy means buses will proceed to the next stop on their route if illegal immigrants are present at their designated stop. The decision follows two incidents earlier this week. On Tuesday afternoon, near the intersection of Highway 94 and Cochera Via along Route A, three men walked tried to stop a school bus in the middle of the highway. The driver had to navigate around the group to ensure safety.
  Illegal Aliens Storm School Buses on Freeway.
  
• A resident who moved out of the apartment building on Wednesday because of the gang activity told Fox News on the condition of anonymity, “This is organized. They patrol the property with guns visibly, like they’re not trying to hide them. There’s no repercussion. These are ghosts.” The resident added that gang members are dealing drugs in the building.
  Video Shows Armed Men Walking Through CO Apt Building After Official Warned Of Venezuelan Gang Takeover
  
• “Until [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden and Vice President Harris secure the border, Texas won’t back down from the fight to secure the border by building more miles of border wall,” the governor said in a written statement this week. “Texas is the ONLY state in U.S. history to build our own border wall.”
  Texas Continues Border Wall Projects Abandoned by Biden-Harris Junta
  
• Douglas Murray: The choice for the country would boil down to “Which direction America?” And if you boiled that question down further the question would be “California or Florida?” Both states are sunshine states. Both have a huge amount going for them in their weather, their natural beauty and much more. But they are also polar opposites — geographically and, more importantly, politically.
  Harris would turn nation into Kamalafornia, where illegal immigrants get free money

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Mollie Hemingway; Del Ray leftists aren’t alone in their authoritarian tactics — or in their inability to recognize their authoritarianism.
  J.D. Vance’s D.C. Suburb Is Only ‘Hate-Free’ If You Agree With Democrat Authoritarians
  
• Daniel Greenfield: “This sin of race is so deep - America is going to go down."
  Kamala’s Racist ‘White Devil’ Pastor
  
• This might sadly be only a Pyrrhic victory, but it is a victory. . . The victory is not only that Moorehead won his lawsuit, he won actual financial penalties from the pockets of two school board members, who apparently did what is now routine, went public with slanderous statements against him without evidence. The defeat is that he is no longer a teacher at Allentown. That corrupt school district — in a city that is largely dominated by Democrats — will now be free to replace him with someone who will do the leftist indoctrination it wants.
  Pushback: Teacher fired for daring to attend rally on January 6th wins lawsuit
  
• In a definitive book, a distinguished historian demolishes the academic consensus.
  How the Anglosphere Eradicated Racism

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Having been told that MAGA people were hate-filled, brainwashed, stupid cultists, Nicole Shanahan was shocked to meet friendly, interesting, and well-informed people.
  RFK Jr’s running mate was shocked to learn that the media lied about MAGA
  
• Trump, who garnered 12% support from black voters in 2020 according to a CNN exit poll, exceeds that level of support in recent general election polls by CBS, which shows the former president getting 17%, and Fox News, which has 26%. Commentator Angela Rye claimed that pollsters were talking to “imaginary black folks” when asked about polling by CNN guest host Pamela Brown.
  ‘Some Of Them Might Be Paid’: CNN Guest Dismisses Black Trump Supporters As ‘Imaginary’
  
• Abracadabra! This is a magic trick so epic, even David Copperfield wouldn’t try it. (Although, let’s be honest: David Copperfield’s greatest trick was landing Claudia Schiffer.) Still, the attempt to portray the White House’s utter incompetence as an “everyone’s hands are messy, guys!” situation is chutzpah with an exponent.
  NPR Blames TRUMP for the Biden-Harris Junta's Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal!
  
• "This guy Alexandre de Moraes is an outright criminal of the worst kind, masquerading as a judge."...
  Brazil's top court freezes Starlink financial assets as Supreme Court judge continues to target Elon Musk
  
• AFL filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests Thursday with the State Department, citing “reporting” from former State Department official Mike Benz as a “serious reason to believe” the Biden-Harris junta may have known about Durov’s arrest in advance.
  Legal Group Launches Investigation Into Whether Biden-Harris Junta Had Possible Role In Telegram CEO’s Arrest

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Vice President Kamala Harris took ownership of the policies that led to costs soaring about 20 percent across the board during CNN’s Thursday interview.
  Kamala Harris on CNN: ‘Bidenomics’ Is ‘Good Work’

• . . .Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan for an unrealized capital gains tax was “un-American.” O’Leary said, “Of all the suggestions I’ve heard on taxation, I find that the most offensive because just think about America. 62% of jobs are created by my people, small businesses that have between five and 500 employees. We watch the value of our companies go up each year even though we’re struggling to keep them going with all the regulatory
  Shark Tank’s O’Leary: Harris-Walz Capital Gains Tax Plan Is ‘Un-American’
  
• Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos said  “softer sales trends are partially attributable to a core customer who feels financially constrained.” Imagine that, even after Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. Strange how that worked out economically, isn’t it?
  Dollar General Demoted Under Biden-Harris Economy: Lower Income Customers Struggle

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• Dale said, “The fact check bottom line is that she did not actually make clear at a 2020 debate that she had changed her previous support for a fracking ban. So let me take you through this kind of saga so here’s what she said at a CNN climate town hall in 2019 on the subject of a fracking ban.”
  CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale: Harris Was Not Accurate on Fracking Comments
  
• At the center of the potentially disastrous halting of Gulf oil projects is a convoluted intersection of issues involving the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and a biological assessment for the region that began in the final days of the Trump administration.
  15% of All U.S. Oil Production Might End in a Matter of Months. Here’s Why
  
• For whatever reason, ocean temps are up a full degree Celsius or so since the mid-'80s but 2024 is showing cooling like we've never seen before. Then again, if our data only goes back to the mid-'80s, how much do we really know about oceans that are billions of years old, and surround continents that slowly drift around?
  So About Those Oceans That Were Just About to Boil Away...
  
• The SEC and the State of California aspire to set policy for the whole nation—at the expense of doing their jobs.
  Saviors of the Climate?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Harris did not dispute Fazio’s claims, simply responding, "Leadership, working with different communities as a career prosecutor, I've done that, which is why I, not you, have every law enforcement organization's endorsement."
  'Not To Be Trusted': Harris Caught Inflating Prosecutorial Record in 2003 DA Campaign

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• A federal appeals court found the law violated the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
  Missouri Loses Court Bid to Nullify Federal Gun Laws

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Holding colleges and universities financially responsible is the quickest way to ensure that higher education provides good value.
  Make Schools Bear Some of the Risk of Student Loans

  ABORTION

• A Trump campaign spokesperson said after the brief interview that the former president was not making a declaration on how he would vote on the ballot measure. 
  Trump appears to suggest that he’ll vote to overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban: ‘Too short’ 
  
• “It’s helping women and men and families,” he said, adding, “We need great children, beautiful children in our country; we actually need them. Under the Trump administration, we are going to be paying for that treatment … for all Americans to get it.”
  Trump Promises Government Will Pay For IVF For ‘All Americans’ Under His Administration

  THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus 2024 Shenanigans

• Allegations of fraud have been tied to Black Fork Strategies, a left-wing Ohio firm committed to ‘building long-term progressive power.’
  ‘This Is Fraud’: Ohio Investigators Looking Into Suspect Voter Registrations Tied To Left-Wing Firm

  POLITICS

• You knew things were going to be bad when Harris really struggled to give a coherent answer to the cliché question about what she would do on "on day one."
  Kamala's First 'Interview' Was the Dumpster Fire You Expected It Would Be
  
• The pre-taped interview on Thursday, in which Harris appeared with her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, featured questions probing her dubious past on matters related to border security, fracking, and more. CNN anchor Dana Bash challenged Harris to answer whether Americans can trust her leading the White House despite jumping around on issues over the years.
  Kamala Defends Flip-Flops In CNN Interview, Says Her ‘Values Have Not Changed’
  
• Conservatives tear apart Kamala Harris’ performance in first interview since Biden’s exit: ‘So incompetent’
  KAM-RAD RAD RAD WORLD
  
• CNN’s Dana Bash said, “Vice President Harris, you were a very staunch defender of President Biden’s capacity to serve another four years right after the debate. You insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong, given where we are now, do you have any regrets? about what you told the American people?”
  Harris: No Regrets on Defending Biden’s Fitness to Serve, Presidency Was Transformative
  
• “I’m equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or the governor,” Walz continued, first suggesting that his false claims were just the result of his manner of speaking. “My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me, I speak like they do.”
  Asked Directly About Stolen Valor, Walz Hides Behind School Shooting, Bad Grammar
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• A book written by progressives, about progressives, blasted Kamala Harris at a time when political observers speculated whether she would be replaced as Joe Biden’s vice president. In it, White House aides outlined Harris’s inability to define a political agenda and her total reliance on personality.
  ‘She Ain’t Made For This’: Harris Aides, White House Staffers Vilify Her In Expository Book
  
• Remember also that she’s pandering to the center, to independents who haven’t made up their minds yet – and she will go right back to the Democrats’ Obama-dictated leftist agenda the moment she finishes taking the oath of office. That is, unless voters say no, we’re not taking this country any further down the road of decline, division and despair.
  A Most Obvious Lie
  
• The announcement substantiates claims that the Harris campaign attempted to redirect the media’s focus on debate drama to distract from this week’s third anniversary of the Biden-Harris junta's deadly Afghan withdrawal.
  ABC News to Keep Debate Mics Muted, Rejecting Kamala Harris’ Sudden Bid to Change Rules
  
• Kamlaa's honeymoon bounce is now on a downward trajectory, and a slew of battleground state polling is looking really good for Donald Trump. But perhaps even more devastating for the Democrats is that Nate Silver's famous election projection model has Trump ahead for the first time in weeks.
  The Left Is Going to Freak Out Over Nate Silver's Latest Election Model
  
• Whatever the reason, the first polls released after Harris’s “powerful,” “electric,” and “joyous” acceptance speech show it did little to move the needle.
  DNC bounce or no bounce for Kamala?
  
• In the video, Harris appeared to be over-enunciating every syllable, speaking slowly as if she didn’t think the students would be able to keep up with what she was saying.
  Kamala Uses Preschool Voice To Speak To High School Band
  
• For eight years, one group’s response bias has been playing havoc with poll accuracy.
  Older Liberals Are Destroying Polling
  
• Nothing is authentic or real, it’s all a show.
  The Democrats ignore the issues because they want to ignore the people
  
• Here’s a look inside Bobby Kennedy’s campaign, and a look at the kind of people who support him.
  You’re Welcome, Mr. Kennedy

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping granted an audience to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Beijing on Thursday in which, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Xi lectured Sullivan to pressure America to reject “exclusion or regress” and “develop a right strategic perception” regarding China’s political agenda. (We Rove Kamara, Warz and arr!!! - jjs)
  Xi Jinping Lectures Jake Sullivan in Beijing: Be ‘Positive and Rational’ with China
  
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The pope said the issue would not be resolved through the "militarization of borders".
  Pope Francis Says Failing to Destroy Christianity is a “Grave Sin”

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• “To have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened but wants to yell at Donald Trump for showing up.
  JD Vance Tells Vice President Kamala Harris to ‘Go to Hell’ for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Unfortunately, when it comes to our military's officer class, I fear Vindman is merely an ugly symptom of a deeper foundational rot. His gleeful participation in the Trump impeachment sham introduced us not to a selfless patriot courageously playing the part of a whistleblower but rather to a narcissistic mid-level bureaucrat who felt that he himself, rather than the commander-in-chief to whom he swore an oath, should dictate foreign policy.
  Alexander Vindman Represents Everything That's Wrong With Our Officer Class

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• With the addition of Lockheed Martin, there are now at least four companies building inflatable modules for sale to space station companies.
  Lockheed Martin testing its own inflatable module design
  
• Even if the FAA backs down, that it even attempted any grounding in this situation was an egregious abuse of its regulatory power.
  Has the FAA grounded SpaceX?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Dennis Quaid leads earnest biopic capturing a leader of consequence
  ‘Reagan’ – A Cinematic Tribute Long Overdue
  
• If 2023 was peak woke, 2024 will be known as the year that DEI died — with corporations finally admitting it’s all a shakedown by lefty activists.
  Bud Light smartly tapped Shane Gillis for ads — the latest brand doing post-DEI damage control
  
• Bud Light’s executives apparently think red-blooded American men are mindless lemmings ready to be force-fed anything with a cool logo on it, principles be damned. The beer-turned-trans-juice brand announced this week they’re releasing limited edition College Football cans in partnership with 26 different teams across the country. Sadly, one of Mr. Right’s Alma Maters is even on this list.
  Bud Light’s Latest Marketing Scheme Proves They Think You’re Stupid

  HITHER & YON

• A new history of the Soviet dissident movement tries to make heroes of an underwhelming lot.
  When Soviet Dissidents Disappoint
  
• And I have come home—at last.
  No, I Wasn’t Born This Way

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