The Slow Death of Kamala’s ‘Joy’

Posted on | September 24, 2024 | Comments Off on The Slow Death of Kamala’s ‘Joy’

Notice something about that picture of Vice President Kamala Harris? She’s wearing sneakers. Is this supposed to be some kind of message? At age 59, she is the candidate of youth, or something? In a campaign short on substance and long on symbolism, we can be certain that having the candidate onstage in a pair of Chuck Taylors is not mere coincidence.

Maybe the fashion editors at Vogue or Cosmo can fill us in on Kamala’s footwear choices, but my point is that the Harris campaign has spent the first two months of its existence inside a bubble of media-generated unreality. Remember how the trained seals of journalism mindlessly repeated the “joy” theme of the Democratic National Convention? Remember all the talk about the sudden groundswell of “energy” and “enthusiasm” once Joe quit and Kamala stepped in?

“Kamala Is Underperforming,” as I explained 10 days ago, and that reality is starting to become apparent even to her sycophants in the media. Worry lines have begun to furrow the foreheads of CNN and MSNBC personalities as they contemplate such signs as the most recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing the race a dead heat between Harris and Trump. This is not good news for Harris, because if the race is a tie nationally and we know that Democrats always do better in the popular vote than in the Electoral College, a tie in the polls almost certainly augurs a Republican victory in November.

So I went back to the well of “underperforming” Kamala:

Nobody wants Kamala Harris to win this election more than do her celebrity media friends, who are willing to forfeit their credibility to drag her across the finish line. ABC News, whose blatantly one-sided “fact-checking” during Harris’s debate with Donald Trump was widely criticized, has seen its ratings tumble in the aftermath.
What’s remarkable is not just the absolute shamelessness of the media’s pro-Democrat bias — they’re so far in the tank for her, their “news coverage” is just an endless campaign ad for Harris — but the fact that it doesn’t seem to be helping. The one story they’re not reporting is the most important of all: Kamala Harris is losing this election.
Don’t take my word for it. Go look at where Harris stands in the polls today, and then compare her numbers to what the polls showed for Joe Biden on the same day in his 2020 race against Trump, and for Hillary Clinton in her 2016 race against Trump. In both of those previous two elections, most polls were slanted in favor of the Democratic candidates, so that Trump did better in the final official vote tallies than he did in the polls. This track record of error in favor of Democrats provides the proverbial “grain of salt” with which everyone should consume public polling.
Fortunately, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon and the rest of the crew at RealClearPolitics (RCP) have made it easy for anyone to compare current presidential poll numbers to those in 2020 and 2016. These comparisons show Harris to be underperforming Biden and Clinton to such an extent that a Trump victory in November is the most likely outcome. . . .

Read the rest of my column in The American Spectator. It’s more than 2,500 words, but I think it’s worth the effort.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Moving Indoors

Posted on | September 23, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Moving Indoors

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Even in Las Vegas, it’s getting cool enough outside so wet T-shirt contests need to start moving indoor to the bars from the pools. This week’s appetizer courtesy of kbdabear on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Border Crisis Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Gabi Champ, Border Chief Told To Shut Up about Special Interest Aliens, Fish Pic Friday – Chezney, Sharks in the Bay?, Secret Service Encountered Routh at 10 Ft!, Gymnpedie No.1, Dogs, Man’s Best Friend, but Not Neanderthal’s, Where Did All the Crabs Go?, Post Assassination Attempt Hump Day, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Half a Million for 10 Acres?, Trump Assassination Attempts, Round Two, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for September 20th

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!
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FMJRA 2.0: One Last Series

Posted on | September 22, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: One Last Series

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We lost two out of three games against Boston and then split the two-game series against the O’s at home, which leaves us at 67-92, still in last place and five games behind the A’s. This week we’re facing the Pirates at home; we’re 1-2 against them so far this season, and it would be nice if we did at least that well in the last series of the season. Already looking at the roster for next year and seeing I’m going to have some hard choices to make in the draft since some of my stud players this year are turning into pumpkins next year.
Next week I’ll be in Oak Ridge for the Security Site Advisory Board Chairs meeting, and I have no idea what my schedule is going to be like, except that I’ll be flying into Knoxville on Monday and back to Las Vegas on Friday.
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In The Mailbox: 09.18.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 9.20.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.20.24 (Evening Edition)
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Top linkers for the week ending September 20:

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(tied) 357 Magnum & A View From The Beach (10)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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In The Mailbox: 09.20.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 21, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.20.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, so much for that plan.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Funny how we’re not hearing so much about “stochastic terrorism” any more.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Digital Fahrenheit 451
EBL: Kamala: What’s The Plan? also, Hezbollah leader finds out about the Israeli pager attack
Twitchy: Eco Loon Wants To Destroy Your Quality Of Life With Communal Dining & Doing Laundry By Hand, Occasional Cortex Gets Schooled About “Islamophobia” After Whining About Cartoon, and “No One Is Coming For Your Gas Stove”
Louder With Crowder: Alleged gun owner Kamala Harris now claims she will shoot you if you do this
Vox Popoli: Attack on Trump Rally, DBD Arrives on Arktoons, Diddy and Biggie, and The Last Nine
According To Hoyt: Button Counting, Nations and Charities, and The Stodgy Past Generations
Monster Hunter Nation: 17 years ago today I started this blog, also, The Five Points Ripper, out now FREE on Audible
Upstream Reviews: Ordeal In Otherwhere,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsie Princess Effie’s Diary #10 – Laethland Moving Day!
Gab: Embracing Joyful Warriorship

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Adam Piggott: Edward Feser and the law of non-contradiction, Bergoglio is the perfect Vatican II pope, and When Men Lead, Women will Follow
American Conservative: Why Do the Neocons Deserve the Right’s Loyalty?
American Greatness: DHS and Secret Service Face Lawsuit for Refusing to Release Documents on First Trump Assassination Attempt, House Judiciary Committee Demands Briefing From Wray on Iran Hack of Trump Campaign, DHS Whistleblower Claims Five Assassination Teams Are Currently Pursuing Trump, 58 Dems Voted Against Deporting ‘Non-Citizens’ Who Commit Violence Against Women, and Can Harris’s Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
American Power: Renee DiResta, The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
American Thinker: Three Types of Assassination: The Desperate Effort to Eliminate Trump, Arrested by Kamala: A Black Mother’s Story, and Trump Supporters Apparently Attacked At Rally With Clandestine Weapon
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Assassination Attempt News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 20 – Visions of Seattle and The Downfall of Our Cities, and Rule Five Border Crisis Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship sentences man to prison for sharing memes ridiculing the regime, New regulations on Cuba’s private sector gives Castro dictatorship more tools, and US Senate to vote on $100 million reward for arrest & conviction of Venezuelan dictator Maduro
BattleSwarm: Texas #1! The Hezbollah Pager Attack: How? Israel’s Supply Chain Hack – Manufactured, Not Altered, and LinkSwarm For September 20
Behind The Black: SpaceX and Elon Musk blast the FAA’s red tape again, Brazil approves space bill that appears to crush that country’s future in space, A review of Firefly’s new launch facilities in both the U.S. and Sweden, Land of cracks, and Boeing replaces the head of its defense/space/security division
Cafe Hayek: Some Economic Fundamentals, Busting Myths About NAFTA, Facebook Protects Defenders of Censorship, and We All Pay the Price for Protectionism
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: You Don’t Hate the Media Enough (3): Chaffapalooza Edition, The Most Wrecked House on the Market, Life in the Fully Politicized Society, and Loud Exhaust and Public Space
Da Tech Guy: If I’m Trump I Hire the Mossad to Guard Me, Paging Hezbollah – Not Anti-War, Just in Favor of Dead Jews, and I very much prefer the Heinleinian universe over the Asimovian universe
Don Surber: Making a House seat an inheritance
First Street Journal: Passenger rail in France, #Hezbollah’s pagers go boom, #AntiSemites wax wroth, In the end, hiding from your enemies just doesn’t work, and Democrisy! The party of more and more gun control are now buying themselves more guns
Gates Of Vienna: French People Need Not Apply, An Intifada in Paris, Geert Wilders: Our Prisons Are Full of Non-Western Foreigners, An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Rotterdam, and Alice Weidel: “You Are Robbing Millions of Voters of Their Full Parliamentary Representation”
The Geller Report: Antisemitic Activist Says Calls to Kill Jews ‘Not Hate Speech’ During Senate Anti-Semitism Hearing, Biden and Harris Ordered Border Patrol Agents to Hide the Number of Terrorists Crossing Over Our Border, and New Bombshell Transcript: General Mark Milley Admits Trump Ordered the National Guard Deployed to Ensure a Peaceful Protest on J6
Hollywood In Toto: Lorne Michaels In Shocking Denial About ‘SNL’s’ Liberal Bias, CNN’s ‘News’ Mocks Trumps, Joke Implodes on Cast, Six Myths That Define the American Psyche in Cinema, The Substance Turns Body Horror Into Sheer Revulsion, and Civil War Will Be Watched, and Studied for Years
The Lid: California’s Jobs-Killing Minimum Wage Law Ends 6,000 Jobs In Fast Food Sector In Just 5 Months
Legal Insurrection: WHO Authorizes First Monkeypox Vaccine to Combat Africa’s Current Outbreak, 158 Democrats Oppose Bill Deporting Noncitizens Convicted of Sex Crimes, Experts Predict Illegal Aliens Will Cast Almost Three Million Ballots in Election, Harris’s Profound Vapidity on Display at Livestream Event With Oprah Winfrey, and Jill Biden Kicks Off Joe Biden’s First Cabinet Meeting in 11 Months
Nebraska Energy Observer: Straight from, They’re Eating the Dawgs, College , and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Norman Buzzing As Boos Welcome Tennessee Fans Strolling Campus, While Oklahoma Fans ‘Grateful’ For Josh Heupel, If Florida Loses To Miss State, That Should Be It For Billy Napier, And Scott Stricklin Won’t Make Next Hire, USA Today Tries To Bully Caitlin Clark And Patrick Mahomes Into Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Already Wild MLB Playoff Picture Just Got A Lot Crazier, and Crystal Hefner Finds A New Lover After Bashing Hugh, Horny Seniors Have The CDC On Alert & Lane Kiffin’s GF
Power Line: It only hurts when I laugh, Pondering Pomo Perversity, Further Bureau Intrigue, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental Sorbet 2
Shark Tank: Walz & Moskowitz Introduce Bill Increasing Law Enforcement Access To DoD Gear
Shot In The Dark: School’s Out, Self-Fulfilling, The Minnesota Prototype, Jackboots Of Joy, and Berg’s 20th Law Goes 33 For 33
STUMP: Cuomo, COVID, & The Nursing Homes Part II
The Political Hat: Welcoming Wolves Into The Flock, Eco-Nazi Germans Fantasizing About Murdering Their Enemies…Again, Quick Takes – University DEI Offices Die, and Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 4)
This Ain’t Hell: Israelis End Beirut Bomber, Marine veteran sentenced to prison for selling ‘ghost guns’, Antony Blinken sez US not involved with exploding Hezbollah pagers, Germans testing gas-piston ARs in Panama, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The Shame At Turtle Bay, The Latest In The People’s Republic Of California, The Ideology Of Societal Collapse, How Democrats Vote and What Is Really Happening In Springfield
Victory Girls: “Casual cruelty” of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Dig At Kamala Harris, New Columbia President Apologizes To Protesters For Their “Hurt”, Despite Rank & File Support For Trump, Teamsters Punt On Endorsement, Kamala Harris Cannot Be Parodied, and Dems And Media: OUR Violent Rhetoric Isn’t The Problem, Trump’s Is
Volokh Conspiracy: A Critique of Justice Kagan’s Supreme Court Ethics Reform Proposal
Watts Up With That: The Math Does Not Support New York’s Climate Plan, Replace Green Giveaways with Development of Fossil Fuels, Just Another Frivolous Climate Lawsuit, and EV Sales Collapse in Germany
The Federalist: Pennsylvania County Ditches Drop Boxes, Citing Security Concerns, Election Integrity Advocates Can Inspect South Carolina Voter Rolls, Federal Judge Rules, A Christian Fantasy Series That’s Sure To Delight All Ages, Leftist ‘Voter Guide’ Group Pushes Its Way Into Universities, and Calls Grow For Nebraska Republicans To Adopt Winner-Take-All System Before 2024 Election
Mark Steyn: Ring, Ring, Live Around the Planet, Beyond the Margin of Steal, Incuriouser and Incuriouser, and The Last Photocopier in the Woods

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In The Mailbox: 9.20.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 20, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 9.20.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for all the late & abbreviated posts this week. Been really tired in the evenings lately, which doesn’t bode well for my hajj to the holy city of Oak Ridge next week. I’ll pitch into this evening’s linkfest immediately after my Senators face the O’s tonight.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Reporting A Rape In The UK Is A Crime
Director Blue: A Few Thoughts On Operation Grim Beeper
EBL: An Important Message From Democrat Gavin Newsom, also, “So, I grew up in a middle class family…”
Twitchy: WaPo Reports Study Corona-chan Came From Wuhan Wet Market After All, CNN Talking Head Admits Dems Haven’t Had A Cool Guy Candidate, and Occasional Cortex Didn’t Appreciate Teamster Official’s Reminder About Members In Her District
Louder With Crowder: Teamsters Refuse To Release Endorsement After Members Pick Trump In Landslide Union Vote, also, Exclusive: Former NYC Covid Czar Held Secret Drug-Fueled Sex Parties During Global Pandemic
Vox Popoli: Interviewing the Victim, Clown vs Clown, The Economic Decline of Germany, and Very Bad Business
Upstream Reviews: Upstream Reviews Presents!

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CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Dropped Charges Edition, also, On Mark Robinson
Don Surber: What a Never Trumper Believes
Protein Wisdom Reborn: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The F-Bomb
STUMP: Drug Overdose Deaths Down…It’s Good News, I Guess

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In The Mailbox: 09.19.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 19, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.19.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Med School Researchers Find Gun Control Has No Impact On Homicide Rate
EBL: Israel makes Hezbollah pagers explode in hack attack, Lefties losing it – Rita Panahi reacts to Gwen Walz’s ‘deranged’ Trump rant, El Beeper, Diddy and the Democrats, and Israel strikes again – Hezbollah Walkie Talkies Explode in Lebanon
Twitchy: The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations In Chicago, J.D. Vance Leaves NYT Reporter Speechless, and Trump’s Appearance On Gutfeld Show Proves He’ll Make America Great Again
Louder With Crowder: RFK Jr identifies the one issue that ALL Americans should disqualify Kamala Harris over, By his own words, Gavin Newsom signs law making Kamala Harris’s X account illegal in California, Doocy lets KJP have it, blames WH rhetoric for second Trump assassination attempt, and “You’re Fired, Go Back To San Francisco”
Vox Popoli: Douhet Wept, The Extreme Elderly Don’t Exist, Pager Terror Attacks, Shots Fired, and Loomer or Lunatic?
Ammo.com: Gun Laws v. Crime Rates
Stoic Observations: Calling All Cars

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The New CNO Has Her Navigation Plan Out
Don Surber: Mossad & Springfield Cats
Protein Wisdom Reborn: More Humpday Shrapnel
STUMP: 2024 U.S. Lightning Deaths Up To 10

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The Only Trick in Their Bag

Posted on | September 19, 2024 | Comments Off on The Only Trick in Their Bag

Look, I get it: Biden put Democrats in a bad spot. He could have — and should have — announced in early 2023 that he would not seek a second term, thereby making it possible for Democrats to have a primary to choose their 2024 presidential candidate. Unfortunately for Democrats, while senile dementia diminishes many cognitive functions, it does not diminish egotism, and therefore Joe insisted that at age 81, he was still perfectly capable of enduring the rigors of a reelection campaign.

Biden did the wrong thing (“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up,” as Obama famously said) and the consequences are that now Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris as the nominee. She has never been popular, doesn’t have a record of accomplishment, and the Biden administration’s policies are unpopular, so the whole basis of the Democratic campaign is demonizing Trump: “ORANGE MAN BAD!”

During a press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre, “How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and vice president and you pick a different word to describe Trump, other than ‘threat’?”
Jean-Pierre told Doocy she completely disagreed with the premise of his question, calling the way he asked it “incredibly dangerous” because Americans are watching.

This is disgraceful and bordering on conspiracy at this point.

The Dems can’t run on policy so they are running on demonizing @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/SVVnd3U7pN

— Derrick Van Orden (@derrickvanorden) September 17, 2024

If it is your misfortune to reside in one of the “battleground” states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, etc. — you can’t turn on your TV without being bombarded by Democratic ads portraying Trump as a menace. Meanwhile, the news media let Kamala Harris go unquestioned as she blabbers word-salad nonsense, and almost no one in the media mentions the real truth: Kamala is underperforming.

We are now 47 days away from Election Day. Early voting has already started in Pennsylvania. God willing, we only have to put up with this for another seven weeks. Try not to let it drive you crazy.

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A Message From the Mossad

Posted on | September 18, 2024 | Comments Off on A Message From the Mossad

This is some next-level 007-type stuff:

The day after thousands of Hezbollah terror suspects were injured, and reportedly a dozen people killed, by their pagers almost simultaneously exploding, Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of radio device detonations.
The second wave appears to involve two-way radio devices, such as walkie-talkies.
At least one of these explosions was reported near the funeral of a Hezbollah operative killed by the Tuesday pager explosions.
“We came out to try and find out what the sound was and people were running. People were covered in blood,” said Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford, who was in attendance at the funeral.
“There was blood on a car. One young man was running and he was very stressed. He said a walkie-talkie – which the Hezbollah security people around here are using for the funeral – exploded,” she said.
“The Hezbollah people then gathered up all the walkie-talkies and have been taking the batteries out of them. Our cameraman was surrounded by very tense and angry Hezbollah security, who told him to stop filming,” she reported.
Crawford said the funeral was “still going ahead” despite the explosions, but the crowd was “extremely tense,” and Hezbollah operatives were “furious.”
Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV news reported three new fatalities and dozens of injuries in the Bekaa region. The Lebanese health ministry reported more than a hundred injuries across southern Beirut and its suburbs. Most of the patients were treated for injuries in their hands or abdomen.
Lebanese Red Cross reported 30 of its ambulance teams are on “high alert” and responding to “multiple explosions in different areas.”
Lebanese state media also claimed some of the explosions were due not to radio devices, but home solar energy systems exploding.

Apparently, Mossad agents penetrated the supply chain by which Hezbollah was obtaining its electronic communications devices, but there’s a lot of finger-point between the Taiwanese manufacturer and the Hungarian middleman about how this could have happened. At any rate, the Mossad reportedly inserted pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), “a highly explosive material,” inside the batteries of the devices, which “were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat.” That was Tuesday’s pager attack. The second wave of explosions on Wednesday were reportedly a result of the Mossad fearing that Hezbollah would figure out that their Japanese-made walkie-talkies were also rigged, so they faced a “use-it-or-lose it” choice and BOOM!

A witness who was at a Hezbollah funeral in the southern suburbs of Beirut has described to CNN the chaos as walkie-talkies appeared to explode at around 5 p.m. local time (10 a.m. ET).
The witness, who cannot be named for security reasons, told CNN that a loud bang went off, followed by screaming.
They said that the man whose wireless device exploded was covered in blood and his hands had been blown off.

Well, well, well . . .