Sorry Virginia, but this is funny. They’re going crazy in the land of the zombies. Harris deniers are demanding a recount or some kind of audit. They have been all over twitter. And the tweets are getting millions of views. I’m sorry, but that’s hilarious.
To my lurkers on the left. The election of 2024 was “the most secure in American history.”
Why Harris lost. Culture.
There were numerous reasons why Trump was elected President. But one that sticks out are the Culture wars that Harris embraced. Ann Coulter says it best. Here is how you wage a culture war:
You ban teachers from telling parents that their child has “changed” his gender. You require everyone around that child to adhere to the child’s new counterfactual “pronouns.” You pass regulations making opposition to male athletes competing against female athletes in female sports a civil rights offense. You assign graphic novels depicting sex, in this case, gay sex, to school children. You make celebrations of sexual identity, in this case, “queer” and every other type of “non-heteronormative” sexual identity, a routine part of the school curriculum and calendar. You make race and sex, that is, non-white race and non-male sex, a qualification for scientific hiring and research grants. Opposing those radical changes is not waging a war; it is belatedly trying to play defense.)”
Before the election, the New York Times newsroom had brought in popcorn and cotton candy machines, fake sparklers, and goodie bags in anticipation of the coronation of “Madame President.” On November 6, the popcorn machine stood unceremoniously in a corner behind yellow police tape and an orange rubber traffic cone.
Latest on the 2024 Election. Let’s see what the latest is on Harris and Trump.
Some Harris nonsense.
WHITAKER: Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was, how are you going to pay for it?
HARRIS: Well, one of the things, I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share of taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations, and I plan on making that fair.
WHITAKER: But we are dealing with the real world here.
HARRIS: But the real world includes…
WHITAKER: How are you going to get this through Congress?
HARRIS: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about because their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.
Looking good.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1843020451993338134The RNC and Michigan GOP won a major lawsuit against Michigan Democrat officials for failing to verify absentee ballots.
In September Michigan Republicans sued Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for violating election security law.
The lawsuit alleged that SOS Benson failed to follow Michigan laws that require implementation of ballot number matching on the ballot, poll book, and ballot return envelope to ensure that ballots are accurately cast and counted. Win number 10 in Michigan.
The Republican National Committee (RNC), along with the Georgia Republican Party and the Fulton County Republican Party, has filed a lawsuit against Nadine Williams, the Director of Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections.
The lawsuit alleges that Williams intentionally excluded qualified Republican poll workers from the hiring process for the upcoming November 2024 election, hiring only 15 Republicans out of 804 total election staff.
An Ohio judicial panel on Saturday rejected an attempt by a far-left nonprofit group to issue arrest warrants for former President Donald Trump and Ohio Senator JD Vance.
The group had accused the two Republican leaders of spreading “false claims” regarding Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, including reports of migrants consuming pets and wildlife.
How funny is this?
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Harris supports striking dock workers. How can one live on 150-300-K? Let’s face it, according to Harris and the strikers, it’s tough to make a living on the kind of money the dock workers are making.
The company offered a 50% pay raise ( even that’s crazy ). But the workers said you can’t live on that. 77% is more like it. So let’s see if Harris gets out there and joins the picket line.
And finally the Union President only has a 700K salary, yacht, and a Bentley. How sad that he must live with only that to show for his hard work.
This is sick. Trump has to move rally in doors because Biden-Harris ally was speaking at the UN. Trump had an outdoor rally planned in Wisconsin. It was to be at an airport that could hold 40-50,000. What happened nex was sickening.
Because the President of Iran was at the UN, they took some of Trumps Secret Service personel to protect Joe and Kamala’s bud. Why not take from Joe? He was hanging out at the WH at the time that already had a detail that’s there.
“We were going to have a thing outside someplace in an area where we could have held the people and I would say what do you think, 40,000, 50,000 people at least out there…thousands and thousands of people and they all could have had a lot of fun,” Trump said. “Instead, now they’re probably leaving and walking back home because we have a nice little room that probably holds 1,500, 2000, maybe less, and outside you have 40,000 or 50,000 people because the administration couldn’t give us the Secret Service necessary because they’re guarding the Iranian president who’s looking to kill Trump.”
Progressive Supporters of Harris mourn the death of Hezbollah Terrorist in Dearborn. It’s bad when several US media outlets did an obituary for one of the Terrorists, but now Harris supports have a religious service honoring this person?
On Saturday, a memorial service for slain Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place at the Hadi Youth Community Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The event, which was live-streamed on YouTube, featured fiery speeches from local religious leaders and activists who praised Nasrallah and Iran’s leadership while condemning America.
Imam Usama Abdulghani, who led the memorial, declared that Nasrallah was now “happy,” and that his martyrdom “at the hands of the wickedest and most evil of Allah’s creations” was a “reward” from Allah for all of the “jihad’ he has waged.
Yes Virginia, Harris and friends are Trumps best advertisement for his victory. It looks like Harris and friends are making Trumps political adds for him.
You have Biden saying Harris has been running the government, Biden administration calling for the elimination of Trump. And even Harris saying how bad things have been the last four years.
Even with softball questions, Harris was dazed and confused.
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How many more dictators will come out and support Harris? Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, and even the Ukraine want Harris to be the next President.
You may not know it but Ukraine’s President was supposed to have had elections in May. But Zelensky declared Marshal Law. No elections. So can we not say that he’s a dictator?
Don’t be surprised if we end up seeing Hamas, ISIS, The Taliban, and Hezbollah endorsing Kamala.
No Virginia, you don’t joke about shooting someone. Especially to a person who was wounded in a shooting. A survivor of the Georgia school shooting earlier this month spoke before Harris. She was in class when she was shot twice and appeared at the event still in a cast.
Harris thought that serious comments from someone who could have died was time for a joke. Do you think it was an appropriate comment?
Harris’ campaign manager, Keisha Lance Bottoms, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday that it was a “joke.”
Facts from Jonathan Turley. Below are the facts as Turley saw them. If folks with an open mind look at how ABC did this debate and how Harris answered, you can only have one choice. Donald J. Trump. “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
That famous line from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) remains a virtual mantra for politicians and pundits. Yet, judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, we have officially entered the post-truth political era.
ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris go unchallenged.
Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media. Here are three legal “facts” that are being repeated despite being clearly untrue.
“Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration. “
One of the most notable slap downs by ABC followed Trump commenting that crime rates have drastically risen during the Biden-Harris administration. Muir immediately balked and declared: “As you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
Harris and her allies have been repeating the claim by ABC. But the actual statistics show that Trump was right. The Justice Department’s released survey found that, under the Biden administration, there has been a significant increase in crime. Violent crime was up 37 percent from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42 percent, robbery is up 63 percent and stranger violence is up 61 percent. Other reports had shown startling increases such as a doubling of carjackings in D.C. in 2023.
“Harris has not supported transgender operations for undocumented migrants.”
Some of the greatest mocking in the media concerned Trump’s statement that Harris has supported transgender conversion treatment for undocumented persons.
New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser immediately wrote. “What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point.”
On CNN, Wolf Blitzer declared how “outlandish” it was for Trump to make such a claim. But it’s true.
In 2019, Harris told the ACLU that she not only supported such operations but actively worked for at least one such procedure to take place. Erin Burnett of CNN was gobsmacked by the notion of taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants. “She actually supported that?”
Even the New York Times later admitted that the “wildest sounding attack line” from Trump was “ true.”
Harris does not support the right to abortion in the final three months of a pregnancy.
Trump said Harris supports laws allowing abortions in “the seventh month, the eighth month, [and] the ninth month,” to which Harris retorted: “C’mon,” “no,” and “that’s not true,”
But in fact, many states, including Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D), protect the right of a woman to abort a baby into the ninth month. While it is often said that this is left to the mother and her doctor, the law gives the decision to the mother.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report estimated in 2019 that about 4,882 abortions were performed that year at least 21 weeks or later into pregnancy.
Nine states permit abortions throughout the entirety of pregnancy. Harris has supported these state laws and certainly did not answer the question on what limits she would support, other than saying that she supports Roe v. Wade.
The issue is not fact-checking, but the failure to do so equally and accurately. ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem.
Moderator Linsey Davis admitted later that ABC did not want a repeat of what had happened in the last debate. Trump was given free rein, and the moderators limited themselves to asking questions and enforcing time limits. CNN was praised in that debate across the political spectrum for being even-handed.
While Trump can legitimately object to a three-against-one debate format, Harris’s victory was clear not dependent on bad calls by the refs. However, there has been little overall movement in the polls, even though 67 million people were watching.
The era of post-truth politics is evident in Harris repeating false claims about Trump’s support for “Project 2025” and debunked claims regarding his comments about an extreme-right Charlottesville rally in 2017. Leading Democrats continue to make these false claims, in some cases despite knowing that they are false.
With the help of the media, we have reduced our election to a political Slurpee. It’s all sugar rush and no nutritional value. We now have pundits supporting the idea of no further debates and even arguing that Harris shouldn’t give any interviews because it’s too risky.
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) explained that Harris should avoid one-on-one media interviews. I suppose, as president, she will need to insist on meeting foreign leaders only in CNN town hall events.
If you do not say anything, there are no facts to check. The election then becomes a vote over whether you are for or against “joy.”
What is clear from the ABC debate is that citizens are on their own in the election.
