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October 02, 2024

The Morning Report — 10/2/24


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Good Morning Kids. How fitting that on the 100th birthday of Jimmy Carter, Iran decided to celebrate by launching nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Were it not for the fact that Carter stabbed the Shah of Iran in the back by recognizing the kullahocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini that overthrew the country and precipitated the hostage crisis, along with installing the world's largest state sponsor and exporter of global terrorism.

In the event, there evidently was only one casualty. Turns out it was a "palestinian" killed by a piece of debris from an intercepted missile that fell on him. So far, there has been no military response from the Israelis but given the magnitude and nature of the attack, and that it obviously was in response to Israel's so far incredibly effective campaign aimed at dismantling Iran's proxy armies of Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel is going to have to respond. Despite the blather from Kalorama or the Oval Offie, and Foggy Bottom that the US is standing behind Israel in the wake of the missile barrage, I think the Iranians sense exactly the opposite and are itching to retaliate in a way that would force the Israelis to respond in a way that the current pro-Iran junta in DC would not approve. Remember, it's always the damned Jews that are at fault for "escalating" the cycle of violence. /sarc!!!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Tuesday night by saying that they would pay dearly for their actions. Netanyahu’s words, delivered to the Israeli people in Hebrew, came after Iran fired approximately 180 ballistic missiles into Israel, most of which were shot down or landed in areas where they caused minimal damage.

“This evening, Iran made a big mistake – and it will pay for it,” he said. “The regime in Tehran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and to exact a price from our enemies.”

Israel vowed that there would be a “significant response” to Iran and the U.S. said that Iran’s attack was result in “severe consequences” for the Islamic regime.


Meanwhile, as the missiles were raining down on Israel, this happened:

Two terrorists opened fire Tuesday evening on civilians along Jerusalem Boulevard in the city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv in an apparent terror attack, killing six and wounding several other people. . . Several people took shelter in a nearby Hasidic synagogue, according to Army Radio. Jerusalem Boulevard is one of the main thoroughfares in Jaffa, the oldest part of the Tel Aviv metro area. The city has a significant Arab population, and Jews live alongside Arabs in the area.

Of course, last night was the Vice-Presidential candidates debate and Tampon/Tiananmen Tim and the Democrats must feel like the "Palestinian" that got hit by falling flaming missile wreckage. Because that's what happened. Vance delivered a few body blows himself to Walz and the media but much of the damage was self-inflicted. Calling yourself a knucklehead on national television when you're trying to convince people to vote for you to my untrained eye seems like a suboptimal move. But what the hell do I know?

Gov. Tim Walz may not have been in Tiananmen Square, but tonight he got hit by a tank.

Walz lost on issues, to which the Harris-Walz campaign has a congenital allergy, he lost on style, defaulting to word salads about being a regular guy from a small town whenever a question (like lying about Tiananmen Square when he was befriending members of China’s Bureau of Foreign Affairs) made him uncomfortable, but he lost on television.

Kamala had gotten rid of one confused old white man only to replace him with another.

Not since the Kennedy vs. Nixon matchup has there been a candidate who performed so much worse when people could see his face. And Walz’s bugged-out eyes, quivering apple pie chin, and the profile of a decaying jack o’lantern lost the debate more eloquently than any words 

. . . Walz need not have really shown up. The talented moderating team of Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell put in their late bid for the presidency and vice presidency by debating Vance more effectively than Walz had. It helped that they had control of the microphones. Brennan and O’Donnell, whose greatest previous taste of power had been yelling at CBS News interns for bringing them the wrong kind of coffee, joyfully smirked at the power to win a losing argument by announcing that Vance’s microphone had been cut off.


All things considered, Tim Walz probably was at Tiananmen Square. He was inside the tank, in the driver's seat when he stepped on the gas pedal and ran over the demonstrator!

In the days leading up to Tuesday’s debate, Democrats went out of their way to say they were nervous about how Gov. Tim Walz would perform.
It was an obvious effort to lower expectations in the hopes Walz would beat the gloomy forecasts and thus look like an upset winner.
They didn’t lower expectations far enough.
Walz had occasional moments of clarity, but he spent most of the night giving rambling answers that filled the allotted time without reaching a clear conclusion. The only thing he won was finishing first in the number of non-sequiturs.
Voters looking for a point where they could say “aha, that’s what the policy would be” had to be frustrated.

I know I was. . .

. . . His opponent, Republican Sen. JD Vance, was by far the smarter, more thoughtful and more organized thinker on the stage. His tone was pleasantly even, whether he was defending Donald Trump or attacking Kamala Harris.
Because VP debates are largely seen as referendums on the presidential nominees, Vance’s performance was a boost for Trump and the GOP ticket.
Walz, on the other hand, added to doubts about his readiness to serve, and thus was a minus for Harris.
The difference in temperament was so stark that Walz at times looked bug-eyed as he speed-talked his way through answers that often veered off course, as if his brain couldn’t keep up with his mouth.
“I’ve become friends with school shooters,” he said during an answer on school safety. “I’m a knucklehead at times” was his final weird answer to a question about why he falsely claimed to be in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Vance, by contrast, was cool, deliberate and polite to a fault. He called the moderators by their first names,and began some answers by saying “I agree with Tim” or saying they had common ground, an obvious move to be the one creating a civil and substantive tone.

Have a good day.


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