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The Doug Emhoff Violent Drunk-O-Meter:

Biden finally left his beach vacation in Delaware to tour the hurricane-ravaged areas of North Carolina. He blamed global warming. Amazingly, this vegetable called anyone who denied that global warming caused the hurricane braindead.

People are noting that Harris-Biden have been "fighting global warming" for three and three quarters years and yet weren't able to stop this hurricane. So... more of the same, I guess?

Kamala Harris finally showed up. She says the federal government will make things right, starting with a huge 750 buck grant to anyone whose home was destroyed and who has no money left. Wow. Now that's Passion.

Biden is now taking credit for directing his government to permit Starlink internet service for those without it in ravaged North Carolina -- despite having ordered his malicious enemy of the people government to block that very same Starlink service in 2022, as part of his weaponization-of-government assault on Elon Musk.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox

First, Biden told the American people to fund their own disaster relief for Hurricane Helene.

Now, we are learning that the Biden admin's FCC nuked 20,000 Starlink terminals that could have saved lives in North Carolina.

This is happening because the Biden admin decided to prioritize political battles with Elon Musk over providing solutions to the American people.

In August 2022, the FCC blocked 20,000 Starlink terminals meant to deliver high-speed internet to rural areas, including those now suffering the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

These terminals could have been a lifeline for emergency communication. Instead, the administration left entire regions dangerously unprepared, risking countless lives.

As one frustrated X user put it perfectly, "This is a classic case of elections having real-world consequences. The Biden administration's grudge against Musk's companies is costing lives."

Link here.

Kamala Harris has previously been slammed by her own staff for refusing to read the briefing books they prepare for her, then attacking them when she's exposed as an uninformed airhead who doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about.

Now it's revealed that this Dick-Riding Ding-a-Ling has blown off hurricane preparedness briefings.

Vice President Kamala Harris is at the center of a new storm for forgoing annual hurricane season preparedness briefings that were a staple of her predecessor Mike Pence's calendar -- with critics arguing the omission reflects how she may govern as president.

Foes of the Democratic presidential nominee highlighted the missing briefings as the death toll from Hurricane Helene passed 143 in the Southeast -- as Harris scrambled back to Washington from Las Vegas Monday to attend a FEMA briefing and booked a trip Wednesday to storm-hit Augusta, Ga.

"Harris hasn't demonstrated the ability -- or desire -- to do the apolitical parts of the job that have a huge impact on our lives," a former Pence aide told The Post as criticism of the flat-footed federal response to Helene became a campaign issue. "Why should Americans trust her to start in the Oval Office?"

Flashback: Kamala Harris has stated that disaster relief should be allocated based on race.

Vice President Kamala Harris once suggested in 2022 that disaster relief should prioritize "equity" in distribution, with a focus on communities of color.

Key Details:

In a September 2022 event, Harris proposed disaster relief should be distributed based on equity, especially benefiting those hardest hit by natural disasters, including low-income and minority communities.

Harris stated, "We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity," stressing that addressing inequality is crucial when determining aid.

FEMA's 2022-2026 strategic plan aligns with Harris' comments, with its primary goal being to "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management."

Video at the link.

CBS is still issuing false "fact" checks after the debate:

Cruelty Enthusiast VDH on the debate:

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

Debate Postmortem

J.D. Vance, as anticipated, easily won the debate on demeanor, facts, and analysis. But in fairness to a sometimes herky-jerky and nervous Tim Walz, he had the harder task of defending the temporary make-over of Harris, her co-culpability for the last three-and-a-half-years of the Biden disaster, and her unwillingness to implement her supposedly "change" agenda in the last months of her vice-presidential tenure.

The moderators, Nora O'Donnell, and, especially, Margaret Brennan, also as expected, ganged up on Vance. The had learned nothing, and forgot nothing from the last disastrous, and biased debate moderators--now proving the wisdom of Donald Trump's refusal to do any more network debates other than on Fox.

The two moderators shamelessly broke their own rules by fact-checking (wrongly and solely) Vance. They ignored questions of the administration's reactions to Hurricane Helene, the Ukraine war, the recent Trump assassination attempts, or crime, while only briefly touching on Iran and a Middle East on the brink of total war.

Instead, they concentrated, as also expected, on climate change, abortion, health care, and childcare. All were issues they thought might more easily embarrass Vance. And, of course, as also expected, the two ended the debate pressing Vance on January 6.

And yet Vance again won decisively. In doing so, he dispelled the smear that he was somehow "mean", when, in fact, he proved calm and magnanimous as he dissected Walz.

The nation perhaps learned that Trump selected him to articulate his MAGA positions, and perhaps in a manner superior to Trump's own. In contrast, Harris picked Walz. assuming he would not upstage her and perhaps by his limitations would make her look more competent in comparison.

The debate will give some momentum to Trump-Vance in the last month of the campaign.

It follows the lethargic Biden-Harris reaction to Hurricane Helene, whose toll in human life and property had been initially and vastly ignored by the media.

It follows the growing specter of a theater-wide Middle East war, as Israel faces off against Iran and its appendages (all empowered after 2020 by Biden-Harris).

It follows the chaos of a longshoremen's strike intended to shut down the country.

And it follows Harris's continued inability to survive serial soft-ball interviews without her memorized and banal answers.

As a result, the slow hemorrhaging of Harris-Walz will likely still continue in the last month of the election.

Steve Cortes
@CortesSteve

.@JDVance's closing statement in the vice presidential debate was excellent and worth rewatching:

"I want to thank Governor Walz, you folks at CBS and, of course, the American people for tuning in this evening.

And one of the issues we didn't talk about was energy. And I remember when I was being raised by my grandmother, when she didn't have enough money to turn on the heat some nights because Ohio gets pretty cold at night and because money was often very tight. And I believe, as a person who wants to be your next Vice President, that we are a rich and prosperous enough country where every American, whether they're rich or poor, ought to be able to turn on their heat in the middle of a cold winter night.

That's gotten more difficult thanks to Kamala Harris's energy policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor, you ought to be able to afford a nice meal for your family. That's gotten harder because of Kamala Harris's policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor you ought to be able to afford to buy a house. You ought to be able to live in safe neighborhoods. You ought to not have your communities flooded with fentanyl. And that, too, has gotten harder with Kamala, because of Kamala Harris's policies.

Now, I've been in politics long enough to do what Kamala Harris does when she stands before the American people and says that on day one she's gonna work on all these challenges I just listed. She's been the Vice President for three and a half years. Day one was 1400 days ago. And her policies have made these problems worse.

Now I believe that we have the most beautiful country in the world. I meet people on the campaign trail who can't afford food, but have the grace and generosity to ask me how I'm doing and to tell me they're praying for my family. What that has taught me is that we have the greatest country, the most beautiful country, the most incredible people anywhere in the world. But they're not going to be able to achieve their full dreams with the broken leadership that we have in Washington. They're not going to be able to live their American Dream if we do the same thing that we've been doing for the last three and a half years. We need change. We need a new direction. We need a President who has already done this once before and did it well. Please vote for Donald Trump. And whether you vote for me or vote for Tim Walz, I just want to say I'm so proud to be doing this, and I'm rooting for you. God bless you and good night."

Video of that closing statement here. I missed this at the time because I was rounding up some reactions for a post.

posted by Ace at 06:32 PM

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