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FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue Until The Season Concludes

Posted on | September 15, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue Until The Season Concludes

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m trying to figure out what a miracle meant.
What an awful week. We were hoping to sweep the A’s and Dodgers, or at least take two out of three from them, but they both beat us like the family mule (especially embarrassing because the Dodgers have no hitting but still managed to score 11 runs off us in three games) so we’re in last place again at 65-89, four games behind the A’s.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Another week and a half of suffering to go.

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Yes, Kamala ‘Won’ That Debate (and Why It Probably Won’t Matter in November)
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In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.13.24
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Kamala Is Underperforming

Posted on | September 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Kamala Is Underperforming

Keep that word in mind — “underperforming” — as you contemplate the fact that Kamala Harris is campaigning in Pennsylvania, a state that Joe Biden (allegedly) won by more than 80,000 votes in 2020.

Let’s compare Kamala’s polls to Biden’s polls four years ago. On this date in 2020, the Real Clear Politics average showed Biden with a 4.3-point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania, and some polls (i.e., NBC News/Marist and Quinnipiac) had Biden leading by as many eight or nine points. In the end, Biden won by a margin of 1.2%, so we can say that the September RCP average in 2020 had D+3 bias. Now look at the current RCP average for Pennsylvania — Harris is up by one-10th of a percentage point, three of the four most recent polls show a tie, and the biggest lead she’s ever had (the most recent Bloomberg poll and an NYT/Siena poll in early August) was 4 points. Most importantly, no polls are showing Harris +8 or +9 in Pennsylvania, as there were for Biden four years ago.

Nate Silver has suggested that one reason Harris is underperforming in Pennsylvania is because she picked Tim Walz as her running mate, snubbing Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — and, let’s not kid ourselves, we know why she snubbed Shapiro. She was pandering to the Jew-hating pro-Hamas voters of Dearbornistan, and why? Because 100,000 Michigan voters in the Democratic primary voted “uncommitted” as a protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel. In 2020, Biden (allegedly) won Michigan by a margin of more than 150,000 votes. In other words, the pro-Hamas vote probably isn’t enough, by itself, to swing Michigan’s 15 Electoral College votes into Trump’s column. However, by snubbing Shapiro to pander to her party’s Jew-haters, Harris may lose Pennsylvania’s 19 Electoral College votes. Oops.

If Trump wins Pennsylvania — and with Arizona now leaning toward Trump — Harris’s path to 270 Electoral College votes is narrow. And it’s not just a couple of battleground states where Harris is underperforming. The RCP average of national polls has her at +1.7, but at this point in 2020, the RCP average had Biden +7.1 — meaning that Harris is underperforming Biden by more than five points and guess what? Biden’s final margin in 2020 was 4.5 points, meaning that if the Democrat-leaning bias of polls hasn’t changed, Harris is likely to lose the national popular vote. But, but, but . . . Yes, I know: We don’t have much polling data since Tuesday’s debate, and Harris is likely to get a poll “bounce” from that. So let’s look at one of the post-debate polls that is most favorable to Harris. Reuters has Harris +5 — 47% to Trump’s 42% — and guess what? At this point in 2020, Reuters had Biden +9.

Despite everything, in other words, Harris is still underperforming Biden by at least four points. We are still more than seven weeks away from Election Day, and a lot of things could change between now and then, but as matters stand today, Harris is on track to lose this election.

And gosh, I wonder why?

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In The Mailbox: 09.13.24

Posted on | September 14, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“Anybody who lets a rock star tell them how to vote is a moron. Because we’re idiots.” – Alice Cooper

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The WSJ Covers Video Games – Ubisoft In The Spotlight
EBL: MAGA Biden, also, So what does Kamala stand for? 
Twitchy: Man Who Allegedly Shot Pro-Hamas Protester Appears In Court, JK Rowling Shares Damning Report On Problems At UK Rape Crisis Center Stemming From (Former) Trans Director , and “Curious” CNN Consumer Reporter Asks What Happened To Shoplifting Crisis, Gets ALL The Answers
Louder With Crowder: WHOA! Debate moderator admits OUT LOUD why they ganged up on Donald Trump
Vox Popoli: BackerKit is Converged, The Minestrippers, Putin Gives Clear Warning, Sad Puppy Stupidity, Slay Your Darlings, and Hypergamouse Lives!
According To Hoyt: The Times We Live In, The Curious Case of The Winner Who Didn’t Act It, and Ave Atque Vale Holly Lisle
Monster Hunter Nation: Jealousy in the Writing Business
Upstream Reviews: Rachel & The Many-Splendored Dreamland,  
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #9 – The Lodestone
Gab: The “Crunchy Mom” – A Beacon of Hope In A Toxic World

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Faith over Fear
American Conservative: ‘Evangelicals for Harris’ Is Astroturf
American Greatness: Yes, Trump Won the Debate, The Democrats’ War on America, Part One: What ‘Saving our Democracy’ Really Means, and Massie: FBI, CDC & Legacy Media Conspire to Hide Armed Self Defense Data
American Thinker: The Real Tim Walz
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 19 – Alaska Seasons and Politics, also, Rule Five Major Embarrassment Friday
Babalu Blog: Over 100 acts of repression documented in communist Cuba during August, Russian tourist reveals multiple ways in which Cubans scam visitors from abroad, and Why are Cubans having so few children?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 13
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 21 more Starlink satellites, Boeing employees reject deal of union and company, go on strike, New gravity map of Mars released, Perseverance looks back from on high, and Bad consequences from the medical profession’s panic/lies over COVID continue to build
Cafe Hayek: American Compass Churns Out More Fallacies
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, 
Da Tech Guy: Ohio State Troopers Sent to Town David Muir Says Nothing is Happening In
Dana Loesch: The GAP – Gaming & Politics – Is Closing, 
Don Surber: Darth Cheney cannot save Kamala
First Street Journal: Biden-Harris Admin Upset Over “False” Pets Eating Stories, Fish Wrap Wonders When Climate Homicide Charges Are Coming, Bernie Sanders tells us the truth, and Could Daniel Pearson be a conservative?
Gates Of Vienna: Pale Rain-Flawed Phantom of the Place, also, Papers, Please: “You No Longer Have the Right to Say No”
The Geller Report: ABC WHISTLEBLOWER Alleges Kamala Was Given The Questions, Promised Trump Would Be “Fact-Checked” and Kamala Would Not
Hollywood In Toto: The Onion Mocks Corey Comperatore’s Death, Scott Baio Defends Cheryl Hines Against Hollywood Bullies, Kathy Griffin Calls Gina Carano a ‘Holocaust Denier’, Deadpool & Wolverine Mocks Woke Hollywood with a Smile, The Real Questions Answered by Am I Racist? Adam Carolla Says Howard Stern Has Trump Derangement Syndrome, and Am I Racist? Already Year’s Top-Grossing Documentary
The Lid: Mark Levin’s full remarks at the RJC Annual Leadership Summit
Legal Insurrection: Apparently I’m Blacklisted in Tampa-Area Liberal Jewish Circles, MA Intifada Self-Defense Case – Right Of Israel Supporters To Defend Themselves On Trial, Poll Finds Many Jewish Voters Sticking With Democrats Despite Anti-Israel Displays From the Left, Kamala’s Vanishing Moral Clarity on 9/11, Pro-Israel MA Veteran Charged For Shooting Anti-Israel Perpetrator Who Violently Assaulted Him, Anti-Israel Activists Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Chicago O’Hare Airport Blockade, and Trial Set To Begin in Naval Academy Affirmative Action Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: ESPN’s Elle Duncan Fires Back As C-Section Speech During Tua CTE Chat Goes Viral, Georgia DB Daniel Harris Arrested On Reckless Driving, Multiple Traffic-Related Misdemeanors, Caitlin Clark Breaks Another WNBA Record, Gets Technical Foul Against Las Vegas Aces, Dodgers Won’t Rule Out Using Shohei Ohtani As A Reliever In The Playoffs, Sports Analyst Darren Rovell Proudly Ruins Newlywed’s Gift From Michael Jordan, NFL on Prime Wants You To Ignore Truth And Believe Communist Cuba Is Lots Of Fun, and Kay Adams Gives A Poolside Parlay, Megan Fox Sex Robot Scene Is A Talker & The Cocks Are Ready For Livvy Dunne
Power Line: Republicans for Suicide, Unsafe To Be a Jew, Is Minnesota In Play? and Thoughts from the ammo line
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Mental Sorbet
Shark Tank: DeSantis Asks All FL GOP Leaders To Bankroll Anti-Amendment 4 Campaign Despite lawsuit Alleging Election Interference
Shot In The Dark: The Terrorists/Communists/Nazis/King George III Won, also, Functional
The Political Hat: Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 3)
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, White House official dismissive of a group of US veterans, JD Vance on privatizing some VA services, and Soldier arrested at Schofield Barracks for January 6 assault
Victory Girls: Secret Service Testimony Has Congress “Shocked” By Its Failures
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Watts Up With That: OCEAN INTEGRITY vs. Offshore Wind, Brits BRACE for ‘economic CATASTROPHE’ as Labour ‘sacrifices jobs’ for green ‘OBSESSION’, and Gag on Climate Reporting Is Another French Obscenity
The Federalist: First Ballots Mailed Out Closer To The Biden-Harris Switcheroo Than Election Day, RNC Sues Michigan Secretary Of State, Claiming ‘Thousands’ Of Improperly Processed Ballots, Judge Dismisses Two Counts Against Trump In Georgia Lawfare Case, Young Ladies Can’t Help Noticing It’s ‘Lovely To Be A Woman’, Democrat-Led Lawfare Campaign Gets Third-Party Candidates Kicked Off Georgia Ballot, Garland Says DOJ Is Not A ‘Political Weapon’ While Waging Lawfare Against Trump For Opposing Democrats, and Democrats’ Immigration Crisis Pushes Ohioans To The Breaking Point: ‘Who’s Protecting Us?’
Mark Steyn: Falling Arms

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In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not sure what I did right this time, but I got home to Tonopah FULL OF ENERGY.
SF author Chuck Gannon has a Patreon. Free this month, 20% off October & November.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Government Is Hiding Data About Good Guys With Guns
EBL: Megyn Kelly: Trump vs. Harris AND Moderators in Biased ABC Debate, also, The Debate
Twitchy: Conflict of Interest Much? ABC Whistleblower Reportedly Coming Forward With Deets Proving Kamala Had Questions Before Debate, and Matt Walsh Helps The Trash Take Itself Out
Louder With Crowder: Watch as JD Vance levels CNN’s Kaitlin Collins with a massive truth bomb on migrants and “cat memes”, Shocker: 60% of voters moved to Trump after Kamala Harris’s failure to answer one important question, and Trump beats Kamala in a LANDSLIDE… according to cookies sold at this popular swing state bakery
Vox Popoli: Europe’s Economic Suicide, Clown World’s Candidate, And the Wall Fell Down, The Pragmatic Phase, and Radical Optimism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Harris Will Take America Back Into the Past
American Greatness: Despite ABC’s Thumb on Scale For Harris, Most Undecided Voters Favored Trump After Debate, Liz Cheney’s Kamala Endorsement Is A Symptom of Elite Panic, A Forgettable Warped Debate, and National Security Spokesman John Kirby Insults Veterans in 9/11 Email Accidentally Sent to Fox News
American Thinker: AG Garland Refuses to ‘Quibble’ Over Ruined Lives, also, President Trump Won the Debate with Harris
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship holds gourmet food festival as Cubans face unprecedented food crisis, UN official praises Cuba for being a world leader in healthcare, and US House of Representatives considers revoking visas of foreign officials who sponsor Cuban slave doctor program
BattleSwarm: Kerch Crumples, also, Venezuelan Gang Takes Over El Paso Hotel
Behind The Black: Polaris Dawn successfully reaches highest orbit for a human since Apollo, Space industry and Congress blast FAA for its so-called “streamlined” regulations, A new study, commissioned by NASA, endorses giving NASA more power and money, even as NASA becomes more irrelevant, SpaceX launches AST SpaceMobile’s first five operational cellphone satellites, FAA attempts to justify its red tape, and Heritage Foundation releases guide to colleges that teach instead of indoctrinate
Cafe Hayek: Noxious Protectionist Dish
CDR Salamander: The Sad Shadow of a Superpower, also, The Attacks In The Red Sea Have A Pattern
Chicago Boyz: Hole in the Sky
Da Tech Guy: Spiking the Debate Ball for Trump, also, Who were the winners and losers from Tuesday night’s Presidential Debate?
Dana Loesch: Trump Needs To Stop Traveling With Nutjobs, also, Sorry, Progressive Borg – Friendships Across Political Lines Can & Should Work
Don Surber: Singing Kamala’s praises in the wrong key
First Street Journal: Reports Says Israel Is Offering Hamas Head Safe Passage For Release Of Hostages, We Need New Bread For An Overheated World Or Something, The blinding brilliance of the United States Navy, Surprise: Election Officials Say There Could Be Problems With Mail In Ballots, and Totally A Hoax: Springfield Man Reported Haitian Migrant Snatching Geese
Gates Of Vienna: No, Starmer, the Solingen Stabbings Were Not “Senseless”, Islamic Influence In the U.S. Government — Kamala Harris Would Pick Up Where Joe Biden Left Off, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 19, Drawing a Bead on Jesus, If At First You Don’t Secede, Try Again, and Gang Rape as an Expression of the Power of an Islamic State
The Geller Report: Terrorist Attack On Synagogue In France
Hollywood In Toto: D’Souza’s Vindicating Trump Explores Assassination Attempt(s), How Gattaca Revealed IVF’s Nagging Problem, Shailene Woodley Shares Shocking Reaction to Trump Shooting, Author Says No Difference Between Comedians, Entertainers and Journalists, and Am I Racist? – 2024’s Funniest Comedy
The Lid: Dangerous: Calif. Authorities Take Child Away from Christian Family Over Transgenderism
Legal Insurrection: Hollywood Bowl Cancels Show after Heat Wave Melts Southern California Grid, Sen. Blumenthal Says Americans Will be ‘Appalled’ by Security Failures in Trump Assassination Attempt Report, Seattle Times Gaslighting Over Trump Pointing Out 2020 Protesters Took Over a ‘Big’ Part of City, Georgia Judge Dismisses Two Counts Against Trump in Election Interference Case, AAUP’s Embrace of Israel Boycotts Turning ‘Academic Guardians to Political Operatives’, Merrick Garland Harrumphs That It’s ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Outrageous’ to Criticize the DOJ, and Dems, Media Laugh at Trump Factual Claim About Harris Supporting Trans Surgery for Illegal Aliens
Nebraska Energy Observer: Church of the Dragonslayers, also, I am so humbled
Outkick: Pac-12 Revival: The Conference Is Poaching Four Teams From Mountain West In Massive Realignment Move, Northern Illinois Coach Thomas Hammock Tells Marcus Freeman He Won’t Share Notre Dame Secrets With Opponents, Miami Police Warned Of ‘Noticeable Surge’ In Threats Against Law Enforcement Amid Tyreek Hill Backlash, Clemson DB Caleb Nix, Brother Of Bo Nix, Played Entire Game With Torn ACL This Past Weekend, NBA Player Shares Great Level-Headed Message In Reaction To The Tyreek Hill Situation, WNBA Wants To Do Away With Lawsuit From Dearica Hamby, Who Claims She Was Traded Due To Pregnancy, and Danica Patrick Calls Out Taylor Swift For Insufferable Gaslighting With Kamala Harris Post
Power Line: Curb your Kirby, Correction of the year, and How Many Trans?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Am I Racist?
Shark Tank: Department of State Finds Evidence of Fraud In Petitions Amid DeSantis’ Amendment 4 Battle
Shot In The Dark: Pretense, Let Them Eat Avocado Toast, Kicked Upstairs, Debate Review, and Things That Are Too Obvious To Reiterate, But… 
The Political Hat: Twenty-Three Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET, also, Quick Takes – Anti-Racism In The Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Korean War Vet James Earl Jones passes, Co-ed sub? Coming this week, Everybody’s warning someone. Mine follows, Skilled Sailor Shortage Scuttles At-Sea Maintenance, and Fact checker fact-checks Kamala Harris’s active duty military in combat zone claim
Transterrestrial Musings: The Debate
Victory Girls: Democrats Are Desperate For Another January 6th
Volokh Conspiracy: The First Amendment and the Social Media Dilemma
Watts Up With That: Stealing the Future with Green Steel, Another Episode Of Cleaning The Augean Stables, and C40 Cities: The Authoritarian Green Dream to Destroy Your Life and Wreck the Economy
The Federalist: Like Her Campaign, Kamala’s 2024 Platform Is Largely About Nothing, New York Times Says It’s OK To ‘Help’ Your Mentally Incapacitated Relatives Complete Their Ballots, Washington Post Hit Piece Paints Elon Musk As ‘Uniquely Dangerous’ For Standing Up For Free Speech, Kamala Harris’ Pandering Tax Plan Is No Poverty Panacea, South Dakota’s ‘Pro-Life’ Politicians Notoriously Silent On Extremist Abortion Amendment, Nevada Activists Blast Elections Chief For Trying To ‘Discourage And Impede’ Legitimate Voter Roll Challenges, and Why Are Georgia Republicans Trying To Shut Down Election Integrity Efforts?
Mark Steyn: Moderators Gone Wild, Live Around the Planet – The Morning After, The Uniparty Turns Literal, The Lost Frontier, and Tongue Got Your Cat?

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Trump: I Won, No More Debates

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump: I Won, No More Debates

This is a bold move, and can only be explained by Duane Patterson’s question: “If Kamala Won the Debate, Why Is Trump Gaining Ground?” Counter-intuitive as it may seem — because Trump had a lousy debate performance — it appears that many undecided voters moved in favor of Trump as a result. Or, to put it another way, these voters didn’t see from Kamala Harris whatever it was they had needed to see in order to vote for her. If you have ever actually talked to a “swing” voter, you know that they are, shall we say, idiosyncratic. So while it may seem inexplicable how Trump could have “won” that debate, in terms of persuading undecided voters, we’ll find out on November 5 — or in the wee hours of the morning of November 6 — whether Trump’s hunch is right. Obviously, he thinks he’s got this thing in the bag. His gut tells him that most people don’t want to vote for Kamala, no more than they wanted to vote for Hillary. For the sake of America, let’s hope he’s right.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 12, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

@skscartoons summarizes the “debate”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: ABC’s David Muir: 100% Positive Coverage of Kamala Harris, also, Remember September 11, 2001
Twitchy: Tom Elliott’s Then vs. Now Supercut Of Democrats 180 On Dick Cheney Might Give You Whiplash, Team Kamala Hit With More Bad News About Another Group She’s Losing BIGLY To Trump, and Don Lemon Writes Check His Butt Can’t Cash – Attacks Melania For Video Speaking Out About Assassination Attempt On Her Husband
Louder With Crowder: “They’re trying to steal this election:” Megyn Kelly ANNIHILATES the hack ABC News debate moderators
Vox Popoli: Not the Worst Idea, 3 Strikes, He’s Out, CS Lewis was Right, Meme Magic Strikes Twice, and On Philosophy
Wright’s Writing Corner: Lord of Fate Kickstarter Campaign
Ammo.com: Anti-Gun Control Arguments
Stoic Observations: Give Us Us Free

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: 23 Years In The Blink Of An Eye
Don Surber: Dear Aussie – Your PM received only 50,723 votes. Sit our election out. 
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another another another “another Humpday Shrapnel post” post post

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Yes, Kamala ‘Won’ That Debate (and Why It Probably Won’t Matter in November)

Posted on | September 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Yes, Kamala ‘Won’ That Debate (and Why It Probably Won’t Matter in November)

If any of your Democrat friends try to provoke you into an argument about who won Tuesday night’s debate, avoid the provocation by agreeing that Kamala “won,” and end the conversation immediately.

“Never smarten up a chump” — don’t let them in on the secret that Harris’s debate “victory” is unlikely to make any difference.

This is why Democrats were caught by surprise in 2016. They were paying attention to the media and didn’t understand that Trump voters were not deterred by any of his scandals or “gaffes.” This was a mistake that I myself made. After the “Access Hollywood” tapes went public, I declared in early October 2016 that there was no way Trump could win — how could anyone survive that? On Election Day, I went out and voted for Trump, then came home to watch the results on TV and was amazed to see state after state turn red on the map. Incredible!

Was any voter really undecided before Tuesday? I suppose that all the regular readers here had made up their mind to vote for Trump long ago. Your choice was not in the least changed, was it? Ditto all the Harris voters — they were never going to be persuaded to vote for Trump, no matter what. They’d vote for a turnip if it had a “D” next to it. Who were the “undecided” voters, and why were they undecided? I have trouble imagining such people exist, and can’t begin to explain the motives for their indecision. But if they were leaning toward voting for Trump, why would they change their minds simply because he was extra-Trumpish during the debate? The man is a known quantity, for good or ill.

Like a lot of other Trump voters, I was disappointed by his performance, but not really surprised, and certainly was not persuaded to vote for Kamala. I am against the Democratic Party, period, and my chief regret is that not every one of the 74,000,000 Trump voters are as staunchly anti-Democrat as I am. I voted for Trump despite Trump being Trump, and will do it again, and am therefore not an accurate bellwether of how an “undecided” voter might react to Trump being Trump.

My point is that I don’t think any Trump supporter should feel discouraged about the election because of Tuesday’s debate. If you have liberal friends who are whooping it up in celebration, the thing to do is to pretend you don’t notice. Don’t start any arguments, and don’t let yourself be baited into any arguments. Democrats are going to be Democrats, and why waste time arguing with fools?

Here’s Reagan Reese reporting at the Daily Caller:

Former President Donald Trump came out hot during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, while ABC’s moderators fact-checked just one side of the stage.
Trump and Harris met for the first time in their political careers on ABC News’s debate stage in a 90 minute contest that featured no live audience, muted mics and moderators that left many conservative viewers frustrated. As ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis continuously corrected Trump and left Harris un-checked, the vice president baited the former president into fiery moments by teasing him about rally crowd size and his 2020 loss. . . .
Though Harris dodged questions on her numerous policy flip-flops and whether Americans are better off under her administration than Trump’s, pundits and media personalities suggested that the vice president presented herself better than her opponent. A CNN flash poll of debate watchers found that 63% said Harris had won the debate, compared to 37% for Trump. The same sample of individuals said pre-debate they were split 50-50 on who they expected to win.
Her campaign apparently thought so too, because minutes after the forum ended, they began calling for a second debate in October.
Trump, meanwhile, was noticeably louder and more aggressive than in his debate against President Joe Biden, where the Republican nominee largely stood quietly by while his opponent imploded.
“She conveyed the calm. Did she answer all the questions about the switches? No. But I thought he would’ve raised that,” former congressman Harold Ford said in Fox News’ post show.
“She came out ahead of him in my opinion, no doubt,” Brit Hume, Fox News political analyst, responded to Ford. “She was calm, she was prepared.”

So there’s the “objective” take, such as it is.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 11, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Another banger from @skscartoons

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The FBI Is The Biden Regime’s Secret Police
EBL: Ever Changing Kamala Chameleon, also, Erin Burnett on CNN : THIS IS KAMALA
Twitchy: Moderator Linsey Davis Gives Debate Its Candy Crowley Moment, Trump Takes Kamala’s “I’m Talking Now” Moment From Her, and Christopher Rufo Shows How The Administration Subsized The Venezuelan Illegals In Aurora
Louder With Crowder: Watch Eric Swalwell Melt Down, Have EPIC Tantrum Over Trump, Cat Memes
Vox Popoli: Smart Boys Trust the Science, Israel Invades the West Bank, China Rejects Clown World, Called on the Carpet, The End of Schengen, and RIP James Earl Jones
Fandom Pulse: An Alternative To Mainstream Publishing For SF & Fantasy Readers
Stoic Observations: Why I Was Conservative
Upstream Reviews: Sons of Heaven

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Public Sin of Elle Macpherson
American Conservative: Did Communism Really Fall?
American Greatness: The Biden-Harris World Is Afire, Liz Cheney’s Kamala Endorsement Is A Symptom of Elite Panic, and Kamala Harris Reaffirms Support for Mass Amnesty
American Power: Larry Bartels, Democracy Erodes from the Top
American Thinker: Trump May Not Win in Pennsylvania — Until After the Election, It’s Not the Fed That’s Causing Inflation, and Beating the Cheat
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Federalist Papers News
Babalu Blog: House Republicans demand answers from Biden-Harris admin over immigrant visa for Cuban Communist Party, Price of eggs in Cuba skyrockets to 4,500 pesos per carton, and Cuba spends $36 million on car imports from U.S. in first 7 months of 2024
BattleSwarm: More On Venezuelan Gangs, Paxton Sues Travis County Over Partisan Voter Drive, Harris County Justice Cancels All Warrants, and Biden Admin Paying Ft. Worth Catholic Charity $1 Billion For Illegal Aliens?
Behind The Black: Unmanned Starliner lands in New Mexico without problems, A crack on Mars more than 600 miles long, Hurricane damages China’s new launch facilities at its coastal Wenchang spaceport, In approving Europa Clipper’s launch, NASA and JPL claim its non-spec transistors will “heal” themselves in Jupiter orbit, The reasons why Mars two polar caps are so different, and Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats demand Elon Musk be censored and arrested simply for disagreeing with them
Cafe Hayek: Lose the Faux Familiarity, Yet Another Open Letter to Donald Trump, and Teachout Continues to Teach Poorly About “Price Gouging”
CDR Salamander: Hypersonics Won’t Save Us
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Listening, College Football and Memory, and The Social Engineers and a Synthetic Candidate
Da Tech Guy: Quick Thoughts Rights and Wrong, Dynasty League Playoff Pictures 1997 & 1972 Leagues, Swing state voters, what to say when an Illinois leftist is at your door telling you to vote for Kamala Harris, Patriots, White Sox and Not Getting Cocky, and Why Harris Lost? Now She’s Known as the Unlikeable Person She IS
Dana Loesch: About Tonight’s Debate
Don Surber: Cats for Trump
First Street Journal: National People’s Congress Black Caucus Extols Companies Complying With DEI, also, Bummer: Climate Doom Could Cause Big Problems For Pacific Island Tourism
Gates Of Vienna: It’s All Elon Musk’s Fault, Those Busy, Busy Knives, Return to Poltava, We Have to Destroy the Constitution in Order to Save It, and The Invalid Corps
The Geller Report: New York Times Tells BIG LIES to Protect Noncitizens Ability to Vote, also, ‘Palestinian’ Authority wants UN to order removal of 500,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria
Glenn Reynolds: A Substack About Nothing
Hollywood In Toto: The Incredible Shrinking Late-Night Lineup, My Penguin Friend Is the Blockbuster Antidote We Need, Sopranos Alum Blasts Trigger Warnings, Wise Guy Lets Sopranos Mastermind Spill His Secrets, and Amazon Censors Trump Assassination Book Cover
The Lid: Horrible Bias: ABC’s Election Coverage has been 100% Positive for Harris, 93% Negative for Trump
Legal Insurrection: Today’s Campus Protesters Have Some Things in Common With the 60s Radicals of the Weather Underground, The Tragic Losses Because of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis, Kamala Harris Campaign Surrogate Gina Raimondo Makes Excuses for Lack of Policy Details, Explanations, Small Ohio Town Becomes Battleground in Broken Border Policies and Social Media Messaging, Brown University Prof’s New Book Warns of ‘Dangers of the Constitution’, and Donald Trump’s Polling Numbers are Far Better Than They Look
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Lost Weekend In The City of Thieves; Parts 1 and 2, Free England (and trade with your friends), and A clarion cry
Outkick: Tyreek Hill Isn’t An Innocent Angel, And The Media Is Lying To You, Shedeur Sanders Ruthlessly Roasted After Simple Tweet Backfires, Payton Thorne Says Auburn Fans Are Sending Him Venmo Requests After Losses, Former Vikings RB Adrian Peterson Ordered To Turn In Assets To Cover $12M Debt, ESPN’s Michael Wilbon Says Tyreek Hill Incident Happened Because Hill Was ‘Driving While Black’, and Alica ?chmidt Puts Instagram On Notice
Power Line: “A man’s got to know his limitations”, Useless Fat Ladies, and A Disaster For Trump?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Oh, Congratulations. This is your Haitian divorce 
Shark Tank: Lawyer Sues DeSantis, Moody, & Weida Over Amendment 4
Shot In The Dark: Habits, Astroturf, Don’t Get Cocky, and Out Of Their Depth
STUMP: Happy 50th To ERISA! also, World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 – Let’s Turn Around A Bad Trend
The Political Hat: Daniel Hannan On The U.K. Bringing Back Blasphemy Laws, also, Rose-Tinted Doom
This Ain’t Hell: Space Force going to actually do Space Force stuff, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro runs afoul of Hatch Act, Army Veteran’s Capitol Riot related sentence reduced, Defection Monday. And Mr. Backward Scope, and Judge hammers US Department of Veterans Affairs in ruling
Transterrestrial Musings: The Uniparty, The Biden-Harris World, Musk’s Latest Mars Plans, and On The Road Again
Victory Girls: Debate Night: The Moderators Take On Trump To Save Harris
Volokh Conspiracy: “How Different Are the Trump Judges?”
Watts Up With That: Britain spending record £250m a month on electricity imports, Italy Demands the EU Scrap its 2035 Internal Combustion Phaseout, and The Texas Oil Lawsuit which could Bankrupt Greenpeace USA
The Federalist: If You Want Haitians Eating Cats And Decapitating Ducks In Your Town, Vote For Harris, 25 Lies Kamala Harris Told In Her Debate Against Trump, The Men Women Chased Out Of Society Need To Come Back Before We Lose Everything, Debate Moderators Bringing Up J6 But Not Trump Assassination Attempt Tells You Everything About Media Corruption, Kamala Harris Can’t Stop Talking About GOP Policies Because Hers Are Indefensible, and Kamala Harris’ ‘Veterans’ Platform Is Dishonest Gaslighting At Its Dimmest
Mark Steyn: All of You-oo-oo-oo, All Hot and Crowthered: Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart, Get Hip, Little Dogies, People Will Say We’re in Love, and Live Around the Planet: As The World Turns

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