Bummer: Senate Dems Avoiding Harris In “Blue Wall” States

By William Teach October 25, 2024 – 6:45 am

It’s almost like she’s an albatross

Senate Democrats running away from Harris in ‘blue wall’ states

Democrats running for the Senate in “blue wall” states that will be critical to determining the outcome of the 2024 election are running away from Vice President Harris, signaling that they are hoping to win over some of former President Trump’s voters to keep their seats.

And Democratic candidates in those states have been careful about criticizing Trump during the high-stakes debates. They have focused on policy and their own records without taking many — or any — shots against the Republican nominee.

Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) has even embraced Trump’s tariff policies. His campaign launched an ad last week that described him as “independent” and touted how he “bucked” the Biden administration to protect fracking and “sided with Trump to end NAFTA.”

“There’s no party affiliation in Casey ads. I don’t recall seeing any that say ‘Democrat’ or anything like that. He’s running as an incumbent on his own record,” said Berwood Yost, the director of the Center for Public Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College.

“He’s trying to distance himself a little bit from an administration that is viewed negatively by the most part. He doesn’t want to be tied to that either through Biden or Harris,” he said.

He’s not the only one. And plenty of Democrats running for the House and state positions are avoiding Harris if they are in competitive races, because they know she won’t help them. This reminds me of how Democrats avoided Obama in 2012 and 2014, after they took a shellacking in 2010. In fairness, Obama was one of the best campaigners of all time. He was good. Really good. But, he was only good really for Obama. And Harris isn’t anywhere near as good as Obama. Obama had a PhD. Kamala is in 3rd grade.

Meanwhile, after hanging with Bruce Springsteen in Georgia on Thursday, here’s Friday

Seriously, why waste time in Texas? It’s great for Trump if she’s wasting time, but, this is a really, really dumb move with less than two weeks to go.

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NY Times Blows Gasket On Trump Flirting With Ending Income Tax

By William Teach October 24, 2024 – 3:28 pm

They think they got Trump on this one!

Trump Flirts With the Ultimate Tax Cut: No Income Taxes at All

Former President Donald J. Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.

During a Fox News segment on Monday, Mr. Trump took questions at a barbershop in the Bronx. When asked if the United States could potentially end all federal taxation, Mr. Trump said the country could return to the economic policies in the late 19th century, when there was no federal income tax.

“It had all tariffs — it didn’t have an income tax,” Mr. Trump said. “Now we have income taxes, and we have people that are dying. They’re paying tax, and they don’t have the money to pay the tax.”

In June, Mr. Trump floated the idea of replacing federal revenue from income taxes with money received from tariffs. Mr. Trump has not provided specific details of how that would work, and it is unclear if he wants to eliminate all federal taxes, including corporate income taxes and payroll taxes, or only end the individual income tax.

LOL: “not provided specific details.” What specific details has Kamala offered on anything? She can barely articulate her sticky note ideas. Regardless, it seemed to work back then, till greedy Congress Critters decided they wanted more and more money for pet projects and to repay campaign contributors, as the federal government took more and more power that was not given by the Constitution. Most money should go to the state coffers, and just enough to run the assigned Constitutional duties of the federal government

Either way, both liberal and conservative experts have dismissed his idea as mathematically impossible and economically destructive. Even if Republicans control Congress, lawmakers are unlikely to dismantle the income tax system. Yet Mr. Trump’s combination of tax cuts and tariff increases has been central to his political pitch.

You know who the Times cites as a conservative expert?

The potential for such an outcome helped prompt William McKinley, the 25th president, a Republican, whose support for tariffs Mr. Trump often celebrates, to ultimately moderate his position on tariffs. To help American exporters, Mr. McKinley had started to support the possibility of lowering tariffs in the United States in exchange for other countries doing the same before he was assassinated in 1901.

This is not the dunk the Times thinks it is. Really, though, a flat tax with a balanced budget amendment would be best, while paired with a massive reduction in federal government spending, coupled with a massive reduction in federal agencies and employees. Regardless, lower taxation plays well with citizens. Remove federal income tax and replace it with tariffs. It has zero chance of passing. There are too many squishy Republicans. The chances of even having a low tax rate with no deductions for anything, which would come out in citizen’s favor, won’t happen. Read the book Showdown At Gucci Gulf about the attempt at this under Reagan. It’s actually a ver good, interesting read on tax policy.

Also, the idea of tariffs is to force other countries to lower theirs on imported American goods. The NY Times thinks that everyone loves being taxed so that morons can misspend their hard earned money.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 24, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland sea created by too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Kamala’s inane talking points.

That’s Caroline Monroe from The Spy Who Loved Me.

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Harris Word Salads Her Way Through CNN Town Hall

By William Teach October 24, 2024 – 10:30 am

You can bet she was given the answers beforehand in some fashion, and her answers were still ridiculous. But, were you expecting something different? Anderson Cooper started out by giving Kamala a softball, asking her what she would say to voters who support Trump, so, she immediately went to calling Trump a Fascist, because she really has nothing else, and it’s a nice bit of projection.

And then

(Yahoo) Asked by an Independent, undecided voter who was to blame, Biden or Trump, for the spike in inflation, and what she would do to bring grocery prices down, Harris started by acknowledging that “the price of groceries is still too high.”

She then added that it would be her priority to bring prices down, and touted her work as California’s Attorney General to take on price gouging as well as her new plan to enact a “national ban” to address the practice.

She also promoted her plan to build affordable housing units to bring rent prices down for the average American. “I bring to it my experience, knowing what has been happening in terms of corporations buying up blocks of property to diminish competition and then rents get jacked up,” she said.

What experience does she have on building homes? She’s not wrong about corporations jacking up prices by purchasing homes at absurd prices. She couldn’t build more than 8 EV chargers or connect one home to the Internet over the past 4 years of the Biden-Harris admin. Oh, and how did her work as AG help in the People’s Republik Of California? Their grocery costs, energy costs, etc, are totally low, right?

Harris then offered her first mild criticism of President Biden, saying, “for too long, frankly, both administrations, both administrations and both parties, Democrats and Republicans, haven’t done enough to deal with the issue of housing. We need a new approach.”

Cooper quoted Harris’s plan on price gouging, noting that it specifically related to times of emergency. “How does that help someone like” the man who asked the question? Cooper asked.

Harris said that price gouging was a real and ongoing issue in states like Georgia and North Carolina that are trying to recover from Hurricane Helene. “I took this issue on because it affects a lot of people,” she said.

Seriously, we are less than two weeks from the election, and this is all she can offer? 100% canned basic responses. No digging into the issues. And, really, if there was price gouging going on in western NC I would have heard about it. It would be all over our local news. Current AG Josh Stein would be all over it, regardless of him being a Democrat. The state has a long history of quashing gouging after disasters. Cooper forgot to ask her if she had any proof of this occurring in Georgia and North Carolina.

She was then asked about the border

A registered Republican voter who said he was leaning toward voting for Harris asked her how she would ensure that “every immigrant to the U.S. is integrated into American society safely” and what benefits and subsidies they would be provided with, whether American taxpayers would pay for them and how much would be spent.

Right, a registered Republican totally wants all those illegals/migrants integrated. Uh huh. She babbled on about the trash border bill, and, wow, Cooper demolished her for not doing anything in 2022 and 2023. Her answer was simply a basic talking point again. She’s really not good at this.

She also wants to end the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade, failing to realize that the Supreme Court would kill that legislation for being un-Constitutional. Congress doesn’t have the authority to impose this. Again, I’m 100% against the GOP passing legislation that ends abortion. Trump has stated numerous times that he wouldn’t sign it.

Another female undecided voter then asked Harris how she would combat “the growing trend” of anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses.

“We have seen a rise in anti-Semitism, and it is something that we have to be honest about,” Harris said, noting her work on the subject as attorney general of California. “Part of what we’ve got to do is talk with people so that they understand what are the tropes, what are the roots of what we are seeing so that we can actually have people be more understanding. We need to have laws in place that make those who would commit crimes on behalf of anti-Semitism and hate — that they pay a serious consequence.”

Harris then pivoted back to Trump. “I’m going to tell you what doesn’t help, again I invite you to go online and listen to John Kelly, the former chief of staff of Donald Trump who has told us Donald Trump said essentially, ‘Why aren’t my generals like those of Hitler’s?’”

So, word salad then Orange Man Bad. You know, the guy who worked to secure Middle East peace, did Abraham Accords, has visited the Holy Land and prayed at the Western Wall.

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Surprise: World Bank Lost Track Of $24 Billion In Climate (scam) Funds

By William Teach October 24, 2024 – 7:15 am

These are the same grand poobahs of the climate cult who want trillions redistributed from taxpayers in 1st World Nations

World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24B in funds fighting climate change: ‘Could be twice or 10 times more’

Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group.

An investigation by Oxfam revealed “poor record-keeping practices” by the DC-based international lender that resulted in anywhere between $24 billion and $41 billion in misplaced funds.

The agency’s audit showed “a lack of traceable spending” over the past seven years — partly because of an oddball accounting practice in which the bank accounts for its climate financing at the time of a project’s approval rather than at the time of project completion, according to the report release last week.

“This is like asking your doctor to assess your diet only by looking at your grocery list, without ever checking what actually ends up in your fridge,” said Kate Donald, the head of Oxfam’s Washington DC office.

A World Bank insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggested the figure for the missing money “could be twice or 10 times more.”

How much of this money is ending up in the pockets of World Bank employees? How much goes to graft, especially in 3rd World shitholes?

“All the figures are routinely made up,” the source said. “Nobody has a clue about who spends what.”

This sounds like another international agency which needs to be cut of from U.S. funding unless they get it together and stop being shady.

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Kamala Tries The “Trump Is Hitler” Card For An October Surprise

By William Teach October 24, 2024 – 7:00 am

Isn’t this the same guy Democrats have been calling literally Hitler since 2016? How he was going to do Hitler stuff? But, of course, not during his first term, totally his second

Yeah, yeah. This was the lead story for the 630pm news from ABC and NBC (Planet Fitness didn’t have a CBS station on where I could see, which was simply looking between sets while doing balancing yoga). I’m not going to bother with any of them, and, really, CNN isn’t even bothering with a top page story. The NY Times has a tiny little middle of the page piece. The Washington Post does have a near the top of the page one. But, they all ran something without bothering to do News. None demanded that John Kelly prove his assertion, where Kelly said he  “believed the former president was a fascist and that Trump had told him multiple times Adolf Hitler had “done some good things.””

And, of course, Cackles took it much further, as the video above shows

(Breitbart) The Trump campaign on Wednesday issued a statement slamming Vice President Kamala Harris’s “dangerous rhetoric” after she delivered an address from her official residence claiming that former President Donald Trump “invoked Hitler,” citing a debunked hit piece from The Atlantic.

The Trump campaign said in the statement:

Kamala’s dangerous rhetoric is directly to blame for the multiple assassination attempts against President Trump and she continues to stoke the flames of violence all in the name of politics.

She is despicable and her grotesque behavior proves she is wholly unfit for office.

One has to wonder why Kelly trotted this out now. He didn’t do it in 2020. He waits till there is less than two weeks till election day. This is completely desperate, and Kamala shows her desperation.

I wonder if it’s possible for Trump to sue Kelly and Harris for defamation?

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Kamala Gets Pressed On Transgender “Care”, Still Can’t Answer A Question

By William Teach October 23, 2024 – 2:59 pm

This should have been an easy question for her to answer, but, she doesn’t want most Americans to know what she really believes. She knows her unhinged moonbat base will vote for her no matter what….but, then, will they? How many Arab-Americans will refuse to mark the box for her on their ballot because of the Biden-Harris all over the place Mideast policies?

Harris pressed on transgender rights, potentially pardoning Trump: 5 key moments from NBC interview

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“I think part of what is important in this election is really not only turning the page, but closing the page and the chapter on an era that suggests that Americans are divided,” she told NBC network anchor Hallie Jackson.

Um, she’s been that page for almost 4 years. Anyhow

Harris didn’t give a specific answer when asked whether she believes transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care.

“I think we should follow the law. I mean, I think you’re probably pointing to the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars…,” Harris said before Jackson cut her off and asked her the question again.

Harris then said she won’t put herself in the position of doctors, whom she said have the right to make the decision “in terms of what is medically necessary.”

It was less word salad, more blaming Trump, and you could tell she was struggling to format an answer without giving anything away. One would think a professional politician running for POTUS would be much, much better

Good on Jackson for doing her “hold up, this is not about Trump, this is about you.”

I think the answer should be easy “if you are an adult, if you want all the drugs and surgeries and stuff, have at it. You’re an adult. This should not be done to children, they should be left along. No drugs, no surgeries, no indoctrination. Go for it if you’re an adult. Doesn’t hurt my life. But, you pay for it. Not the government. Insurance companies should not be required to pay for it. And the taxpayer should not be paying for felons to get it done.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 23, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds rising over mountains, which are the only safe spot from extreme sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post wondering why parts from weapons owned by the FBI and DEA are being found on ghost guns.

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Trump Campaign Files FEC Complaint Over British Labour Party Members Campaigning For Cackles

By William Teach October 23, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’m sure nothing will come of this, but, one has to wonder what the visas of these elected government members will say the purpose of their visit is, and, really, how would the British take it if Trump came over to the UK to campaign for specific politicians

Trump accuses Labour of interfering in US election in extraordinary statement calling Starmer’s party far left

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team has formally accused Sir Keir Starmer’s “far-left” Labour Party of interfering in the US election in an extraordinary attack.

The Trump-Vance campaign filed a complaint with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) accusing Labour of illegal foreign campaign donations.

It comes after scores of Labour activists including frontline politicians flew across the Atlantic to help campaign for Kamala Harris’s election on 5 November.

In a statement, the Trump campaign’s co-manager Susie Wiles claimed: “The far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric.

“In recent weeks, they have recruited and sent party members to campaign for Kamala in critical battleground states, attempting to influence our election.”

Supposedly, this has happened with previous elections with Brits helping Democrats and Republicans. Should this be happening at all?

The Trump campaign complaint cited a Daily Telegraph report suggesting Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, his director of communications, “attended a convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris’s campaign team”.

The complaint also cited a now-deleted LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, head of operations at the Labour Party, who wrote that “nearly 100” current and former Labour Party staff would be travelling to the US to help elect Ms Harris.

Mr Trump’s lawyers argue such support amounts to “contributions” from foreign actors, in violation of US campaign finance laws.

Not direct contributions, but, “in-kind”.

Of course, how much damage could they really do? But, now, imagine it was a whole bunch of Brit government officials coming over to campaign for Trump: does anyone think the Credentialed Media wouldn’t be blowing their stacks over “election interference”?

This tipp insights article is really about Democrats claiming they represent Democracy! while systematically dismantling it, but, the beginning is interesting

Campaigning at a town hall on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the theme of globalism as a direct challenge to former President Trump’s MAGA movement. She was in a friendly setting again, promoting the Uniparty’s NeoCon vision for America’s standing in the world that did not permit audience questions – and allowed only pre-determined questions that presumably had been shared with Harris prior to the event.

So I’ve now, as Vice President, met over 150 world leaders, presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, and kings; many of them multiple times to the point where we are on first name terms. And the last few times I’ve seen them on the eve of this election, they are very concerned, our allies [about former President Trump returning to the White House]. (snip through a few more quotes on how non-Americans feel)

It was downright absurd for Harris to inject the needs of foreign leaders into an American presidential election. Harris was saying that Americans should vote for her because she would protect the interests of foreign allies. If a foreigner had engaged in a campaign to influence a federal election, they would have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) or the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Hmm, is that not what these Brits are doing?

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Whoops: EV Fire Truck Burns Down Fire Station In Germany

By William Teach October 23, 2024 – 7:00 am

Irony can be pretty ironic

Electric fire truck burns down brand new German fire station

Unfortunately, homes and businesses burn down every day. However, you don’t often hear about fire stations loaded with vital firefighting gear and professionals burning to the ground. That is, however, precisely what happened after an emergency vehicle with lithium-ion batteries like those in an electric fire truck caught fire and spread quickly.

The Feuerwehr station in Stadtallendorf is new. Really new. In fact, the new fire station opened its bay doors less than one year ago. The station could accommodate 10 fire engines and many firefighters. However, a tragic fire destroyed the station, despite its firefighting purposes.

According to euronews, the fire originated with “an emergency vehicle belonging to the fire department, which contained lithium-ion batteries and an external power connection.” Unfortunately, the electric emergency vehicle’s blaze destroyed at least 10 fire truck models and caused around 25 million Euros (27.05 million USD) in damage.

Well, that sure blew out a lot of money simply because politicians who mostly do not drive EVs are forcing EVs on everyone else, and not caring if this all makes sense when it comes to protecting people’s homes and lives.

Here’s the kicker, though. The brand-new, cutting-edge Feuerwehr station didn’t have a functioning fire alarm. I know, I know. A fire station with no fire alarm? The International Association of Fire and Rescue Services (CTIF) reports that first responders were outraged to find out that the expensive new facility lacked an alarm system.

Maybe it should be a paraphrase of the Jurassic Park quote “Your politicians were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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