Big Nature Energy Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Basketball team runs 2,996 lines in honor of the victims of 9/11. (IG)
Harpy eagle is a fuzzy weirdo.
The lion may be king of the jungle, but definitely not in water.
A family of owls living in a hole in a tree.
Duck seeks vengeance for Springfield, Ohio.
"Smart sheep applying physics to get fruits!" Um, dude, let's not oversell this too much.
Speaking of big noses. (An old one but a fun one.)
Oldie but a goodie: Puppy can dance. Another oldie: A little kid teaches a puppy.
Evil river otter steals neighbor's cat to eat it. Or something. Who knows what goes on in the minds of evil river otters.
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Quack Hats
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktokWHOA. Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District in Massachusetts just announced that their girls' field hockey team is refusing to compete in their next game because the opposing girl’s team has male players.
Every school in the nation should adopt this policy.
Keep males out of female sports!
Is the American job market now #rigged so that job openings are advertised to illegal aliens before they're opened to Americans?
I was alarmed by claims that a non-governmental organization (NGO) called Switchboard appears to have insinuated itself into so many job application processes and procedures that it almost controls the market. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be using that dominance to help Americans - rather the opposite, if reports are correct.The Haitian Invasion of Ohio has created a lot of buzz. There are a lot of unexplained aspects of it that people find odd. One of these strange happenings is that locals reported that the jobs the Haitians came for were never advertised to the local population. So how did the Haitians find out about them?
It turns out that a network of federal grant recipient organizations have quietly seized control of nearly the entire job market in the US and work to ensure that openings remain "hidden" so that refugee's can take them ahead of American citizens. How many job openings remain hidden? The internal estimates of this network put the number of hidden openings at 80% of all available jobs.
EIGHTY PERCENT
The way that this network has seized control of the labor market of the United States is easy enough to understand. Firstly, it has positioned itself as a way to remove recruiting costs for employers. Next, it offers employers laborers who can work for lower wages by also providing it's "refugees" with a plethora of social welfare not available to a typical American worker. Finally, it can provide access to the entire global labor market by setting the conditions of "refugee" status to efectively cover anyone in the world.
If an employer needs nurses, janitors, programmers, police or literally any kind of worker the network can provide them to employers at a lower rate of pay than what an American citizen would require due to not having access to the same welfare benefits.
These globally sourced scab workers don't require health insurance and have all living expenses subsidized by federal programs. If the typical American had all their health, food, and housing costs covered they would also be able to work for a fraction of their existing wages.
This is only being reported by one guy on Twitter, so don't bet the farm on it. But I definitely will be hoping that Christoper Rufo looks into this and tells us what's what.
The Biden-Harris Administration is slow-rolling approvals for Space X test flights, once again weaponizing the federal government against a private citizen they have a political disagreement with.
SpaceX's Starship promises to revolutionize spaceflight by reducing launch costs by two orders of magnitude -- that's a 99% savings -- and vastly expanding current limits on the size and mass of what can be lifted into orbit and deep space.If SpaceX can get permission to perform the necessary flight tests, that is -- and the FAA is dragging its feet.
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The Starship has been ready for weeks. The Biden-Harris administration keeps finding new excuses for delays.
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Biden-Harris would have us lose the New Space Race -- putting our entire national security at risk -- in a fit of partisan pique against the man whose other company, X, had the temerity to restore free speech to just one social media platform.
That's damnably un-American.
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You're Not Going to Believe This, But Kamala Harris Lied Many Times Last Night and the Diligent "Fact"-Checking "Moderators" of the Disney Groomer News Network Allowed Her to Do So
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In fact, the Disney Groomer News Network "moderators" lied themselves in claiming that current abortion protocols don't allow doctors to "have a discussion" about the fate of a born-alive abortion-surviving baby, as the former Virginia Democrat Governor admitted on the air.
Democrat lawmakers have repeatedly expressed support for laws that would allow abortionists to end the lives of babies who survive abortions -- and voted against laws that protect babies who survive abortions.
That's a fact that former President Donald Trump highlighted during Tuesday night's debate, drawing the annoyance of Vice President Kamala Harris and the admonishment of debate moderator Linsey Davis.
"There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born," Davis said Tuesday evening, as Trump argued that some Democrats support executing babies after birth.
Trump was referring to 2019 comments made by former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, as he discussed Democrat Virginia state Rep. Kathy Tran's House Bill 2491.
"If a mother is in labor...the infant would be delivered," Northam explained. "The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated, if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and mother."
AdvertisementNortham did not specify what would happen next, after this discussion.
He continued then: "So I think this is really blown out of proportion. We want the government not to be involved in these decisions."
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Reuters Panel of 10 Undecided Voters Agree That Kamala Harris Won the Debate.
Six out of the Ten Say They're Now Voting for Trump.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Here's a point for those who say that the debate performance is much, much less important than the fundamentals of the race -- voters want a change from Biden, and voters saw through Kamala's well-rehearsed talking around the issue and realized she was double-talking while doubling down on Biden economic and immigration policies.
Or at least that's what I hope this single ten-person panel means. Panels are made for 1970s rumpus rooms.
Ed Morrissey, quoting from Reuters:
Reuters interviewed 10 people who were still unsure how they were going to vote in the Nov. 5 election before they watched the debate. Six said afterward they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing him. Three said they would now back Harris and one was still unsure how he would vote.
Reasons for backing Trump? I guess they were looking for Kamala Harris to perform so well she overcame the fundamentals of the race. But she didn't. She just turned in a well-rehearsed, canned-answer performance.
The Trump converts said they trusted him more on the economy, even though all said they did not like him as a person. They said their personal financial situation had been better when he was president between 2017-2021. Some singled out his proposal to tax foreign imports, although economists say that is likely to raise prices.Four of those six also said Harris did not convince them she would pursue different economic policies than Democratic President Joe Biden, a Democrat they largely blame for the high cost of living.
Ed Morrissey comments that Kamala Harris won on style points, and thought she was winning while continuing to hide her actual policy positions.
However, that's not what voters wanted out of the debate. Harris came into it as a cipher, and that's the way she left it as well, thanks in large part to the efforts by ABCs moderators. They rarely pressed her for specifics on policies, and only lightly challenged her wide-ranging flip-flops over the last eight weeks or so. Only a couple of days after finally producing an issues page and nearly two months of refusing to talk to reporters (except for 26 minutes on CNN), undecided voters wanted some "meat on the bones," as one focus-group member told Reuters.And they didn't get it. Harris may have succeeded in zinging Trump, but at least in this group, her strategy to skate on issues and just disqualify Trump failed to land.
One point I wish Trump made more forcefully is that Harris is trying to pretend that both of them are unknowns, and no one knows how either will perform in office.
But we do know how they'd perform in office. Trump was already president, and the world did not end, despite all the many, many claims from the "smart" set that it would. In fact, the economy rose to record heights and we had something close to world peace.
And we know how Kamala's performed in office, too.
This isn't a battle of two unknowns upon which we are free to project our wishes. These are two very known qualities (particularly in Trump's case).
Trump pointed out, at the end (when most stopped watching), that Kamala keeps saying "I'll do this, I'll do that" but never answers: Why aren't you doing that now, then? In fact, why hasn't it already been done?!
He equally should have pointed out that Kamala keeps claiming "Trump will do this, Trump will do that" while ignoring that Trump was in office for four years and did none of the things she's claiming he's determined to do.
This Pennsylvania voter from CNN's panel makes this point much more clearly than Trump did:
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Chris Rufo: Biden is Spending Billions, Under the Radar, to Take Over Apartment Buildings and Stuff Them Full of His Endless Stream of Foreign Invaders
—Disinformation Expert Ace
How Biden helped take over apartment buildings for Tren de Aragua:
Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal.Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had "taken over" a series of apartment buildings in Aurora--and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable.
An obvious question: How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in suburban Colorado? To answer this, we have conducted an exclusive investigation, which leads to a troubling conclusion: the Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs. And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
See the article for the details of that. Long story short, Biden is shelling out billions of taxpayer dollars to jurisdictions. The money is scooped up by non-governmental organizations acting as shady housing companies, many headed by people with no experience in the field, but very eager to take huge sums of money to set illegals up in rattrap buildings.
Basically, Biden is spending billions of taxypayer money to buy free apartments for illegals, and keeping it under the radar so that no one makes a fuss. Obviously the Invasionary Forces' media doesn't report on it.
This is certainly what's going on in Springfield, Ohio, as well. I saw reports of people complaining about "housing companies" who brought in the 15-20,000 Unhoused Newcomers without alerting the residents that an invasion was on the way.
Skipping ahead:
We spoke with a former CBZ Management employee, who, on condition of anonymity, explained how the process worked. Last summer, the employee said, representatives from Papagayo began working with CBZ Management to place Venezuelan migrants in the company's Aurora apartment complexes. When a Venezuelan individual or family needed housing, the NGO would contact the regional property manager, who then matched them with available apartments.It was a booming business. According to the employee, Papagayo arranged hundreds of contracts with the property manager. The NGO provided up to two months of rental assistance, as many migrants did not have, or were unable to open, bank accounts. Within six months, according to the employee, approximately 80 percent of the residents of these buildings were Venezuelan migrants. The employee also noted that the buildings saw gang activity and violence.
The employee, however, alleges that these agreements were made on false pretenses. To convince the hesitant employee to accept the migrants, Papagayo made assurances that the tenants had stable jobs and income. With limited English and facing a minimum six-month wait for work permits, though, many migrants were ineligible for legal employment, struggled to find stable jobs, and ultimately fell behind on rent.This was only the beginning. As the Venezuelan migrants settled in the apartments, they caused lots of trouble. According to a confidential legal report we have obtained, based on witness reports, the apartments saw a string of crimes, including trespassing, assault, extortion, drug use, illegal firearm possession, human trafficking, and sexual abuse of minors. Each of the three apartment complexes has since shown a localized spike in crime.
Volunteers who spoke with us on condition of anonymity said they were initially eager to assist with migrant resettlement but grew disillusioned with the NGOs running it. "I am passionate about helping migrants and I have been honestly shocked at the way the city is sending funds to an organization that clearly is not equipped to handle it," one volunteer said.
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NY Times: Undecided Voters Aren't Sure Who Won the Debate
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is just one poll, and, as I'm always told, polls are made for strippers.
Actually it's not even a poll -- it's just five reporters asking random undecided voters what they thought.
But if undecided voters really did think that Trump's bad, low-prep debate performance was good enough for a draw, I will certainly take that with a big smile.
Pundits Said Harris Won the Debate. Undecided Voters Weren't So Sure. Voters said the vice president talked about a sweeping vision to fix the country's most stubborn problems. But they wanted the fine print.
The reporters interviewed voters in five states and asked them whether the debate changed their views on the presidential race.For weeks, undecided voters have been asking for more substance.
So it was perhaps no accident that Vice President Kamala Harris's first words during the presidential debate on Tuesday were, "I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan."
Some Americans might need more convincing.
Bob and Sharon Reed, both 77-year-old retired teachers who live on a farm in central Pennsylvania, had high hopes for the debate between Ms. Harris and former President Donald Trump. They thought that they would come away with a candidate to support in November.
But, Ms. Reed said, "It was all disappointing."
The couple ended the night wondering how the costly programs each candidate supported -- Mr. Trump's tariffs and Ms. Harris's aid to young families and small businesses -- would help a couple like them, living on a fixed income that has not kept pace with inflation. They said they didn't hear detailed answers on immigration or foreign policy, either.
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[N]ot all voters, especially those undecided few who could sway the election, were effusive about the vice president's performance.In interviews, these undecided voters acknowledged that Ms. Harris seemed more presidential than Mr. Trump. And they said she laid out a sweeping vision to fix some of the country's most stubborn problems.
But they also said she did not seem much different from Mr. Biden, and they wanted change.
And most of all, what they wanted to hear -- and didn't -- was the fine print.
Voters said they were glad she has a tax and economic plan. But they want to know how it will become law when Washington is so polarized. They know she wants to give assistance to first-time home buyers, but doubted that it was realistic.
"She tried a couple times to say, 'I want to do this and I want to do that,' and that's nice promises," Ms. Reed said. "I hope she can get them through Congress."
This is helpful: Almost all voters already know Trump, including all of his weaknesses, so Trump showing his weaknesses last night isn't any kind of Late Breaking News to them.
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A vast majority -- 90 percent -- of likely voters nationwide said they pretty much know all they need to about him, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released this week before the debate.
And the debate seemed to contain few surprises for them.
House Report: Andrew Cuomo's Aides Knew He Was Consigning the Elderly to Death When He Filled the Nursing Homes with Covid Patients
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He also "edited" the death records to hide the number of grandmas and grandpas he murdered.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly himself "edited" a state report that deflated New York's COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes -- which his top aides pressured health officials into releasing, despite knowing the issue would turn into a "great debacle," according to the stunning results of an investigation by a US House committee.Cuomo's office "absolutely" signed off on the disastrous directive early in the pandemic forcing coronavirus patients back into nursing homes -- leading to as many as 9,000 excess COVID deaths -- the final congressional report and witness testimonies exclusively obtained by The Post show.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted the probe and majority staff released the findings ahead of a public hearing with the 66-year-old ex-governor on Tuesday.
The investigators accused Cuomo in a memo Monday of making "demonstrably false" statements as part of a "cover-up," citing conflicting testimony from his top aides.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "absolutely" signed off on the disastrous directive early in the pandemic that led to as many as 9,000 excess COVID deaths, a congressional report and witness testimonies exclusively obtained by The Post show."This is going to be the great debacle in the history books," wrote Cuomo aide Stephanie Benton in a June 7, 2020, email about the nursing home death count. "Don't u [sic] see how bad this is? Or do we admit error and give up?"
Four of Cuomo's aides told the House investigators they believed the email from Benton was likely dictated by the governor himself."Within hours" of the missive, New York health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker received "talking points" that were used to draft the audit on the nursing home deaths, which was released on July 6 and excluded out-of-facility fatalities.
The three-term Democrat and his inner circle "reviewed" and "edited" the state Department of Health report that vastly undercounted the fatalities, according to the documents.
According to Cuomo's then-director of operations, Dr. Jim Malatras, who served as a member of the governor's COVID task force, top aide Melissa DeRosa "laid out the points that she wanted to have touched upon in the report."
"The report that I was editing had the total number of fatalities in all the charts until Ms. DeRosa intervened," Malatras testified to the subcommittee.
"She was constantly editing it, Mr. Cuomo was editing it," Malatras said in his testimony.
The "editing" took the form of categorizing deaths caused by covid as "unknown" causes of death, claiming a death whose cause was known to be covid could have been any number of things. Note this is the exact opposite approach they took when they wanted to scare us all with covid, when they attributed even car accident deaths to covid if the person tested positive for covid.
Long story short: they constantly "edited" the reports and reclassified deaths so that they could not be attributed to Cuomo's murderous decision to fill nursing homes filled with those absolutely most endangered by covid with covid.
Also note that nursing homes simply do not have the expertise or equipment to properly isolate covid patients and sterilize all objects they come in contact with. Certainly they do not have the pressurized air wings to keep airborne diseases out.
But Cuomo's donors, the major hospital corporations, did not want to deal with all this, so into the nursing homes they went.
The Federalist: You're Not Going to Believe This, But the Corrupt Marxist Media Is Lying to You When They Claim Reports of Haitians Slaughtering Geese and Ducks Has Been "Debunked"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Happy Wednesday everyone. I hope that this latest anniversary of the time that Ilhan "Omar" Nur's cousins Did Some Things finds you healthy and happy.
Brian Stelter @brianstelter"Migrants are stealing and eating pets" is both a racist lie AND a meme. People like the owner of this website are spreading the claim and laughing about it at the same time -- further poisoning the info environment.
The creed of leftwing Marxist "fact"-checkers: "It's a lie because we need it to be."
I already mentioned the leftwing habit of denying a particular -- that the woman eating a neighbor's cat was a Haitian or an immigrant -- and letting that denial "stand in" for a denial of the entire story.
The Federalist has gotten hold of a police call about Haitians slaughtering four geese is Springfield. I assume the Racist Cops were making all of this up just so it could be later leaked to Far Right Extremist websites.
A caller reported to police a group of Haitian migrants carrying four geese in Springfield, Ohio in exclusive audio obtained by The Federalist.A recording of a police phone call obtained by The Federalist reveals a local resident reporting a group of Haitian migrants carrying four geese in Springfield, Ohio two weeks ago.
"I'm sitting here, I'm riding on the trail, I'm going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people, there was about four of 'em, they all had geese in their hand," the caller tells the public services dispatcher in the audio recording of the call.According to a police report reviewed by The Federalist, the call was placed on Aug. 26, before the Columbus suburb located roughly 50 miles from the state capital became nationally known this week for epitomizing the nation's migrant crisis. The caller told the dispatcher he saw four migrants in total, two men and two women, each carrying a single goose.
"I was trying to get my phone out and I was trying to make it to this orientation on time," the caller continued. "I'm time crunching here, and I saw that, I'm like, 'Yeah this has got to be reported," he tells the non-emergency police dispatcher.
"How many geese did they have?" the dispatcher asks the caller in the recording.
"Uh, they each had one," he replies.
The caller says he spotted the Haitians carrying the geese at an intersection between Water and Warder Street, a location that does exist in Springfield and is confirmed in the police report later filed about the incident.
You may be worried: "Because I read this racist post, am I now a racist?"
Good news -- you never weren't.
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
No, not the debate. Between the live threads yesterday and the analysis that is sure to follow, I probably have little to contribute on that topic. But debates are not the only theatrics this season, or even this week. There is another grand show going on, partially (or even largely) overshadowed by the debate. It's an old show. It's a tired old franchise with yet another in an interminable series of sequels.
That show is called "The Budget." The Budget: Episode XXIV (or whatever number - it doesn't matter) is out of pre-production and the live show is currently underway. As usual, Congress has failed to pass a budget. As usual, it is pursuing a continuing resolution. As usual, the amounts of money involved are staggering. As usual, the deficits are deep and broad. As usual, there are soundbites and passionate speeches. As usual, there are hostages in the form of riders. As usual, there are phony carrots and phonier sticks.
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The Morning Report — 9/11/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning Kids. 23 years ago our world was turned upside down. Beyond the sheer horrors of what we saw that day, and some of us felt (I lost a classmate who was trapped on the 108th floor of the south Tower) and in fact I was at the World Trade Center exactly a week before and were it not for a last second decision to return to Los Angeles likely would have been there that morning at the exact time the Towers collapsed.
The events of that day and their aftermath, along with the political high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas a decade earlier marked my personal political awakening and transformation. Considering what has happened and is happening both here and abroad, those events remain seminal in the eternal struggle between (pace Mark Levin) liberty and tyranny.
God bless the sacred memory of all those who perished on that horrible day, as well as those who gave their lives in the ensuing travesty of the so-called Global War on Terror that has done nothing to avenge their deaths nor to make America and civilization safer. All one has to do is peruse the website Religionofpeace dot com (linked here) and look at the body count since 9/11/01 of the practitioners of Islam as written and preached to understand that they will not stop until all of us are dead or subjugated, even if it means turning planet Earth into a nuclear wasteland.
Ditto their allies of convenience, the Globalist communist Left, especially in America and all over the world. Yet even Germany has had it up to here (pointing at my neck where Ahmed will cut along the dotted line) with unchecked migration from dark age Islamic hell holes. Of course, they like many other nations have only themselves to blame for allowing this as national policy for decades, be it for economic or other reasons. It's likely too late but still, at least they're doing something to try and restore something that resembles, if they're lucky, Springfield Ohio or Aurora Colorado, right? If they're lucky. As it stands, Europe is on course to become Kabul or Islamabad within the next 10 years, if not sooner.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who once boasted of being the "last person in the room" when President Joe Biden finalized America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, instead blamed former president Donald Trump for the botched evacuation during Tuesday night's debate.
As expected, it was about as horrible a rigged shit-show as you imagined. There are a number of links at the top of the Politics section to peruse vis a vis reactions.
What was supposed to be a presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC News, instead became a debate between the former president, his current challenger, and ABC’s two moderators: David Muir and Linsey Davis. Even as Kamala Harris lied about her positions on fracking, gun control, and Israel, Muir and Davis repeatedly jumped in to argue with Trump under the guise of ‘fact-checking’ him. The 3-on-1 debate format may very well mark the end of mainstream media presidential debates. It also represented a new low in not just media bias, but election interference. The media marks each year by giving the public new reasons to distrust it, and ABC News, Muir, and Davis were clearly so insecure about the performance of their candidate that they repeatedly felt called on to argue with Trump instead of letting Kamala rebut him. ABC News, Muir, and Davis also had no trust in the voters to decide for themselves. And so what was supposed to be a debate between two candidates instead became a debate between the establishment and an insurgent. Paradoxically this cut against efforts by the Kamala campaign to brand her an “underdog: and an insurgent candidate swimming upstream. . .. . . Kamala came into the debate with the same approach as her campaign. Unburdened by her past views or her administration’s current positions, she recited contradictory memorized speeches that reflected whatever her pollsters thought the public might want to hear.
That meant accusing Trump of being soft on China, blaming him for her administration’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan and claiming that crime was down. It also meant howlers like contending that “there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world” when American soldiers have been killed in Syria and wounded in Iraq, and just weeks ago took part in a raid in that same country.
None of the moderators thought that needed fact-checking.
Kamala claimed on the eve of 9/11 that January 6 was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” But the attacks of September 11 and the resurgence of Al Qaeda and ISIS in Afghanistan did not come up at the debate since it wasn’t nearly as important as abortion.
Instead, there was time for an extended conversation about abortion during which Kamala falsely claimed that women were being denied IVF procedures because of Trump. ABC’s Linsey Davis did not see fit to argue with that but did argue with Trump about partial-birth abortion.
Some have criticized Trump mostly for his angry reactions at the in-your-face bias of the moderators, but can you blame him? For sure, he had to know he was walking into a public execution. Had he refused, he' have been raked over the coals for that.
But will last night's farce really move the needle to anyone but the lowest of low information voters? Since Kamala now has the Taylor Swift endorsement, I guess that's good enough for them. And if that is the case, then we as a society are screwed.
In the end, I don't think last night will make that much of a difference. The election will boil down to the reality of open borders and a dead economy vs. how many dead voters show up for the Democrats after the polls close this November.
Have a good day.
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- When everything is free, you are the price.
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Daily Tech News 11 September 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro is here, priced at $699. (Tom's Hardware)
Or A$1200.
Not including a Blu-Ray drive or a stand.
Or any games worth playing, let alone games that would run better than on the regular PS5.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (9/10/24) Commie vs. Capitalist Post Debate ont
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Final Debate Thread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy ABC "News" was super-eager to "fact"-check Trump but they let Red Kam lie about Trump saying "very fine people on both sides" and "bloodbath" yet again -- no rebuke from the "moderators."
David Muir is continuing to debate Trump.
This was all against the rules.
But Kamala wanted "reassurances" that ABC would not allow her to lose. Because the mics being off stopped her from being "the prosecutor," ABC gave her reassurances they would prosecute the case for her.
Debate Thread Two
—Disinformation Expert Ace
ABC hasn't given the questions to the Harris campaign in advance.The Harris campaign gave ABC the questions in advance.
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>>>529 Unreal. ABC is frigging debating Trump.
Of course. Like I said, Kamala got "reassurances" that ABC would debate Trump on her behalf. She claimed that her mic being off would be a "great disadvantage," and ABC "News" told her: Don't even worry about it, Bae, *we got this.*
I wish Trump would point out that this isn't just about "plans" or hypotheticals, but realities: We all know what happened with the economy under Trump, and we're all living with what happened with the economy under Harris.
Why are we even talking about plans?
Debate Thread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
While you're waiting: Newbusters compiled some of the greatest leftwing propaganda hits of the immoderate "moderators" of tonight's debate.
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Ballers Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Alex Dawson, Turkey
Happy Tuesday evening. The debate is on at 9pm Eastern, on Disney-owned ABC. CBS says it will also be simulcasting the debate, and Pluto will show it on their CBS News channel (In the News + Opinion menu).
I'll put up a debate thread at 8:45 Eastern.
Aw, poor old lizard is crusty.
Staged video, but cute enough. I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?
Dog doing his best to empty the pool for winter.
A triple-glitch in the Matrix.
ICYMI: Real life Bambi and Thumper play date.
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Even the Marxist New Republic Is Now Blasting Kamala Harris for Refusing to Say What She Even Believes In
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Three days before the Times poll came out, amid growing consternation about her deliberate lack of a clear and detailed agenda, Kamala Harris's campaign announced a new policy--sort of. Harris, her campaign said, was no longer in favor of banning plastic straws.
Emphasis added for the humor value.
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The campaign's strategy, it seemed, was to ride those good summer vibes and avoid the risk of an aggressive policy agenda that would expose her to criticism. But having too few policies is also risky, not least because it makes Harris look like she doesn't stand for anything (and also because her few policy stances then get nitpicked to death: Her price-gouging solution was roundly criticized by economists across the political spectrum, while her tip policy has come under fire because it was first taken up by Trump).
The Harris campaign is only now, belatedly, realizing that this is a problem. On Sunday, they finally added an "Issues" section to her website. It includes a slew of policies that the campaign has previously outlined, as well as sections on reproductive and civil rights. Unfortunately for Harris, its release was undermined by a simple but telling error: The page's source code revealed that parts of the platform were copied directly from Biden's campaign page.
This is dangerous territory for Harris, given that the Times poll found that more than 60 percent of voters wanted the next president to represent a "major change" from Biden--and only a quarter felt that Harris represented that change.
The New Republic wants Kamala were to announce her real positions, to commit herself out loud to Marxism. It's so obvious she's a far-left Marxist that even CNN has been reporting on it -- and troubled by it.
John Sexton:
What does Kamala Harris actually believe? I don't think anyone knows for certain but looking back over her run for president in 2019, it is striking how committed she seemed to be to Medicare for All at the time.
And yet, she also had significant trouble defending the plan, not just once but multiple times. She famously raised her hand, along with Bernie Sanders, when asked during a debate who would give up private insurance for Medicare for All. But the next day she was walking it back, claiming she was talking about her personal insurance...or something.All of this is still very relevant because Harris has now abandoned Medicare for All, but it's still likely questions about her shifting position will come up during tonight's debate. In advance of that debate the Harris camp is doing its best, with the help of friendly media, to square the circle between what she was saying then and what she is saying now.
The Harris campaign and her White House office acknowledged that Harris's health-care positions have shifted since her last bid for the presidency. In interviews, officials said her previous support for Medicare-for-all and current pledge to build on private health insurance draw from a core conviction to expand health coverage and access to services....Just look how hard the Washington Post is working to make her past position something that happened a long time ago and far, far away.
Harris's allies say that her Medicare-for-all plan -- to paraphrase their candidate -- didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. The 2019 proposal needs to be understood in the context of all that came before it.
First came a memorable town hall in August 2017 -- more than 2,500 days ago, and more than 2,500 miles away from Tuesday's debate stage -- where the freshman senator made a promise that would help shape her first presidential campaign.
There were two big problems with Medicare for All, one political and one practical. The political problem was that it would end private insurance, meaning everyone would lose the insurance they currently have. That was always unpopular. Harris did her best to talk around this problem in 2019, but she wasn't very convincing (see the videos below).
The other problem is practical. The cost of any Medicare for All program would be tens of trillions of dollars over 10 years. An estimate of the cost of Harris' 2019 plan produced last month put the cost in the realm of $44 trillion over a decade.
Kamala Harris claims -- wait, I mean anonymous, unnamed staffers claim on her behalf to her Media shills -- that "three and a half years of serving as Vice President have informed her position" -- but she also wants you to know that "my values haven't changed." Wink.
Here's Kamala Harris talking about her never-changing values:
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Damn, I missed the National Mullet Championship!
USA Mullet Championships crown 2024 winners
I got news for ya, Chief: By wearing the mullet, they've already crowned themselves as winners.
The 2024 USA Mullet Championships wrapped up with bold, unique hairstyles from all corners of the country, celebrating the best in "business up front, party in the back." Contestants across three divisions--kids, teens, and adults--battled for the title of best mullet, with cash prizes and championship belts up for grabs.In the adult division, Todd Grubb of Galesburg, Michigan, was crowned champion, securing a $5,000 cash prize. Grubb, hailing from Kalamazoo County, showcased a mullet that impressed both judges and voters, who helped push him to the top.
The teen category saw California native Mason Padilla, 13, take first place with his voluminous "West Coast Wave" mullet. A veteran of the competition, Padilla has participated since 2019 and won over nearly 3,800 voters. Along with his $1,000 prize, Padilla also received a GoPro camera, adding to his growing reputation as a mullet icon.
In the kids division, 8-year-old Kamden Cunningham of Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, took the top spot. Kamden's mullet, representing his hometown in Luzerne County, won him a $5,000 prize, making him the youngest champion of this year's competition.
The Mullet Championships website is here.
This guy's mullet is sublime.
ABC "News" has 100% objectivity in the Trump-Harris race: Literally 100% of their coverage of Trump has been negative. 93% of their coverage of Vibe Auntie has been positive.
With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set to face off in their only scheduled debate Tuesday night, a new study from the Media Research Center (MRC) sheds light on the significant bias in ABC's election coverage leading up to the event. The study highlights how World News Tonight, ABC's flagship news program moderated by David Muir, has provided overwhelmingly favorable coverage of Harris while casting Trump in a predominantly negative light, raising concerns about the fairness of Tuesday's high-stakes debate, which will be hosted by ABC.From July 21st, the day Harris entered the race, through September 6th, MRC analysts reviewed 100 campaign stories aired on World News Tonight. Their analysis found that Harris received zero negative statements from nonpartisan sources, reporters, or anchors, giving her a perfect 100% positive spin. In contrast, Trump faced 66 negative comments and only five positive statements, resulting in 93% negative coverage.
The MRC report highlights the editorial choices that contributed to this imbalance. ABC avoided labeling Harris as a "liberal" or "progressive," unlike CBS and NBC, which made early efforts to identify her ideology. Instead, any mention of Harris's political stance came from Republicans, particularly Trump, while ABC's reporters and anchors sidestepped the topic altogether. Additionally, World News Tonight featured no voter opposition to Harris, in stark contrast to CBS and NBC, both of which included segments showing voter dissatisfaction with the vice president.
ABC's coverage of Trump, meanwhile, focused heavily on his controversies, offering extensive airtime to his remarks questioning Harris's racial background and his comments on military honors.
Don't believe those stories about illegal aliens killing American birds. This is all obviously fake. Illegal aliens would never do such a thing.
A second man has been arrested in the killing of a bald eagle last year in northeast Nebraska.Ramiro Hernandez Tziquin, a Guatemalan native, was found last month hiding from authorities using a fake identity, the Stanton County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
He has since entered a guilty plea in federal court, and a sentencing for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act is scheduled for October.
The sheriff's office said Hernandez Tziquin and Domingo Zetino Hernandez shot and killed a bald eagle at the Wood Duck State Wildlife Management Area on Feb. 28, 2023.
Deputies found the dead bald eagle in the trunk of their vehicle, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The men told deputies they planned to cook and eat the bird, the sheriff's office said.
Zetino Hernandez was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, but Hernandez Tziquin went on the lam for over a year.
He is charged with killing protected wildlife. Prosecutors want to give him additional time for "Painfully on-the-nose symbolism."
Nate Silver boosted Trump's chances of winning the electoral college to almost 64%.
Election analyst Nate Silver has boosted Donald Trump's probability of winning the 2024 election, citing momentum shifts in the latest polls. Trump now holds a significant lead over Kamala Harris.Key Details:
Nate Silver's model gives Trump a 63.8% probability of victory against Kamala Harris.
Trump's chances have increased nearly 5 points since Thursday, with a rise from 58.2%.
A new poll shows Trump favored in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona.Diving Deeper:
Election analyst Nate Silver has sharply raised Donald Trump's chances of winning the 2024 presidential election, giving him a 63.8% probability of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. This uptick comes in the wake of a New York Times/Sienna poll released Sunday, which Silver cites as highly reliable. The poll, along with other indicators, prompted Silver to increase Trump's odds from 58.2% just days earlier.
Silver's model now shows Trump with a strong advantage in several crucial swing states. Trump is given a 64% chance of winning Pennsylvania, 54% for Michigan, and 53% for Wisconsin. In traditionally conservative-leaning states like Arizona (77%), North Carolina (75%), and Georgia (68%), Trump holds even firmer ground. Harris, by comparison, faces an uphill battle as her support appears to erode.
Via Instapundit, Silver thinks that the defining of Red Kam as a hard-left San Francisco "progressive" is going to start biting even harder.
Harris's articulation of highly progressive positions on immigration and health care have become a talking point for the Trump campaign and one where the facts are mostly on their side. Harris has flip-flopped on some of these positions, like on Medicare for All and decriminalizing border crossings. Still, you'll probably see clips like the one above in heavy rotation in Republican attack ads.The flip-flopping may explain why Harris has been weirdly reluctant to do media hits or articulate policy specifics. This strategy may have worked well enough when she was riding high off the vibes of the Democrats' candidate swap, but it's causing her more problems now.
This morning's NYT/Siena poll contained a pair of questions on whether voters think Harris is too liberal/progressive3 and whether Trump is too conservative. The numbers were lopsided in Trump's favor. Only 32 percent of voters said Trump was too conservative, while 47 said Harris was too liberal. The demographics on this question are about what you might expect. Harris is faring poorly among white voters without college degrees, rural voters, and older voters: the types of voters who are plentiful in Blue Wall states like Pennsylvania.
I'm not a messaging-and-tactics guy like Dan Pfieffer, but I'm not quite sure how Harris is supposed to spin her way out of this perception.
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Chinese Spy Adulterer/Fornicator Eric Swalwell Is Having Yet Another Hysterical Fit Meltdown
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