Friday, August 23, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Kamala Speaks

Much like a dog, not well, but you're surprised it can speak at all. At Hat Hair Capt. Ed 'A Convention About Nothing': Kamala to Lay Out Her ... 'Personal Story' and live blogs, DNC Grand Finale – Kamala Harris' Big Night. "First impressions: Good delivery of a weak speech. No specifics as to what she will do as president. She talked more about Trump's agenda (and got that wrong) than any of her own initiatives. Spent too much time on her "personal story," and not on our business." Reagan Reese at Da Caller, Kamala Harris Caps Off DNC Without Releasing Policy Platform. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Harris's Acceptance Speech Was a Cliché Lib Facebook Post. Althouse, I didn't watch the Kamala Harris convention speech — way too late for me — but how can I catch up now? "Can I just rely on Mickey Kaus? "Bottom line: Job of speech was to make her plausibly presidential. Mission not accomplished. I doubt this will hurt her campaign but a big missed opportunity. Hollywood trainers could not transform her (which is kind of reassuring)." PJM's VodkaPundit, Untested. Unprepared. Ready to Do as She’s Told on Day One. TownHall's Matt Vespa reports Trump Found a Way to Finish His Response to Kamala's DNC Speech After Being Cut Off on Fox, a call into Gutfeld! Kinda funny. WSJ, Kamala Harris at the DNC: Supersized Joe Biden "The vice president has come full circle to the very agenda that landed the president with rotten approval ratings." But brown and female. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, ‘Nobody Tonight Said A Damn Thing’: CNN Commentator Shreds Substance-Free 3rd Night Of DNC. Capt. Ed adds "The problem isn't a substance-free convention, but a substance-free candidate." John Garthwaite at Hat Hair, I’m Getting Worried About Kamala

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.22.24 (Evening Edition), Twitchy, DNC Attendees Faceplant When Asked To Name Their Favorite Kamala Policy, and Forget Kamala’s Speech – John Stossel Has Everything You Need To Know Right Here, Louder With Crowder: CNN panelist drops atomic truth bomb about the Obama-Kamala years that leaves everyone speechless and Black Chicago voters sure sound unhappy about Kamala Harris and the DNC being there, American Greatness: Trump Calls Biden-Harris Border Policies ‘Shameful and Evil’ During Visit to the Border in Cochise County, Arizona, DNC Viewership Is Down by 22 Percent, University of Kentucky to Shut Down DEI Office, and In Touting Soviet-Like Price Control Plan, Kamala Harris Vows to Fight Price…Gauging?, Da Tech Guy: Five Assorted Thoughts Under the Fedora, First Street Journal, Kamala Harris Emhoff’s campaign communications director tells us she “shares the goals” of the outside rabble, Victory Girls, It’s Totally Ok That Kamala’s Policies Are “Fuzzy” and The Federalist The DNC Has Just Been One Long Litany Of Stupid, Obvious Lies.

A triple at Reason, Kamala Harris' Affordability Agenda Is a Good Idea Backed by Terrible PoliciesThe Dumb and Dumber of Kamala's 'Greedflation' Narrative, "The American economy is robustly competitive. The federal government could just mess it up," and Who Is the Real Kamala Harris? A Big Government Liberal, "Harris has flip-flopped on many issues, but she's been consistent on her desire to spend more of your money." 

Vicky Taft at PJM, NOW They Tell Us: State-Run Media Admits Kamala Insiders Lied All Along About Joe's Dementia. It's safe to admit now. Catturd ™@catturd2, "Kamala got zero votes, has given zero press conferences, has given zero interviews, and had to stage buying a bag of Doritos. This is the most ridiculous, anti-democratic, laughable joke I’ve ever seen in politics." Robert Shibley at Insty, ‘ENDORSED BY SELINA MEYER’ IS NOT THE FLEX THEY THINK IS. "Or is the message here the meta-message: that they can nominate anyone regardless of actual votes, rub it in your face, and you just have to deal with it? More from my unwilling membership on the DNC Endless Spam List. (Khaaaaan!)" Hat Hair's John Sexton, The Harris Campaign Turned Her Greatest Weakness Into a Strength. How Long Can That Last? "Her biggest public defect was her tendency to talk nonsense and then try to cover the awkwardness with her grin and her cackle. Harris does this constantly. Tasked with saying something profound, or at least mildly interesting, she would often sound like a kid doing a book report on a book she hadn't read. And then, to try to win people over, she'd break into a grin and often a laugh. It was a tell, a sign that she had nothing much to say about anything. The laugh was a cover for her ineptitude. For example . . ." Ace, Kamala Harris Courted TikTok Influencers With Seats at the Democrat Convention. And Straight-Up Cash Bribes. Now They're Pressuring Her to Support Hamas' War on Israel. "Many influencers were paid off with money, but some want a more pro-terrorist policy from Kamala, too." HuffPo, Hmm: Democrats Scrub Death Penalty Opposition From Campaign Platform. Capt. Ed comments This really is becoming a campaign about nothing. 

Stacy McCain is concerned that Tim Walz Lies About Everything. Robby Soave at Reason, Tim Walz Keeps Lying, "About IVF, his military service, and more." Dave Harsanyi at Da Fed thinks There Is Something Really Demented About Tim Walz’s Lying. It's all inconsequential stuff, made up to puff him up a little. Greg Price@greg_price11 "Walz: "I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale." Another weird moment where Democrats attack JD Vance for becoming successful." I guess it's bad for the White underclass to pull themselves out of poverty. Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today @JordanSchachtel, "DNC speakers Weds who went to Ivy League schools: Cory Booker (Yale) Amy Klobuchar (Yale) Bill Clinton (Yale) Jared Polis (Princeton) Olivia Troye (Penn) Mindy Kaling (Dartmouth) Pete Buttigieg (Harvard) Amanda Gorman (Harvard) John Legend (Penn) Vance Man Bad! Class traitor!" Sister Toldja at RedState, 'Journalist' Is Shown No Mercy After Laughable Description of Tim Walz's 'Authentic' DNC Speech: Ian Miller@ianmSC "Tim Walz has lied about so many things in his career that it's hard to keep track of them all. He's also repeating an unbelievably hypocritical "mind your own business" line after he did the opposite during COVID He's one of the least "authentic" people in US politics" Quote Chris Cillizza@ChrisCillizza "Replying to @ChrisCillizza
3/ But what Walz has -- and it's rare in politics these days -- is that he's totally comfortable in his own skin. He knows who he is. He's authentic. And he doesn't try to be someone else." Well, Chris Cillizza. From Althouse, "Simply having a neurodivergent son is not enough reason for [Tim Walz] to be praised..." "From "What anxious parents of neurodivergent children can learn from Tim and Gwen Walz/The Walzes’ words and their embrace of their son may seem utterly unremarkable. But that’s the point" (MSNBC)." And, The use of children in politics. Watch Tim Walz joyfully jerk his "neurodivergent" son across the stage. Louie the Looper said... "The yank didn’t look much different from the way Dr Jill would treat Biden on stage." Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11 "Democrats are attempting to culturally appropriate conservatism. They think you'll let your country be destroyed as long as the means of destruction wears camo hats, flannel shirts, and talks about hunting. Could you broadcast "we are losing with men" any louder?"

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.22.24 (Evening Edition) "EBL, Eric Holder Responds To His Failure To Vet Tim Walz, WALZ – STOLEN VALOR AND LIES, and Democrats – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Twitchy: Aaron Rupar Is Furious That J.D. Vance Talked To Jake Tapper Legal Insurrection, Walz’s DNC Video Introduces Him as Command Sergeant Major, Power Line, How Walz Gets Away With It, This Ain’t Hell: Tim Walz introduced as ‘Command Sergeant Major’ at DNC, Victory Girls: Tim Walz At The DNC – The “Coach” And His Lies, Volokh Conspiracy: What Walz and Vance Get Wrong About Opportunity and Mobility, and The Federalist, If Masculinity Is Bad, Why Didn’t Tim Walz Admit He Ran From War And Couldn’t Father A Child?

From The Strategy Page, Austin Bay is re-living Harris/Biden's record, On Point: The Biden-Harris Afghanistan Bugout 3 Years On. Ace, Official in the Biden-Harris Department of Energy Calls for "the Queering of Nuclear Weapons" Because They're Very Serious About American Security. "Bringing joy to mutual assured destruction."

Ace, DNC Viewership Down 22% from 2016 "I guess that might indicate a lack of enthusiasm. However, there's a reason the headline mentions 2016 rather than 2020 -- viewership is slightly up from 2020, and Biden came close enough in that one to steal it." Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair notes the DNC Platform Rolls Out Plan To Legalize All Illegal Aliens. Steve Guest@SteveGuest "Gibberish from the DNC's poet: "We face a race that tests if this country we cherish shall perish from the earth and if our earth shall perish from this country." Matt Welch at Reason, Party of COVID-19 Authoritarianism Improbably Rebrands as 'Party of Freedom', "Democrats campaigning both on their pandemic record and minding your own damn business: Pick one." Matt Margolis, Donald Trump Humiliates Oprah With Receipts. She loved him before he beat Hillary. Twitchy, So Who Was the Super-Secret Special Guest? Not Beyoncé. RBe@RBPundit, "So there was no secret guest. Just a cynical ploy to pump up viewership." Althouse, Oh, no. The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee "Michelle Obama Exits DNC On 'Eat the Rich' Palanquin." Ace, FBI Investigating Maggot-Filled Breakfasts at DNC, Suspecting "Activist Disruptions", "Say, didn't pro-Hamas terrorists spread maggots and roaches around the hotel where Netanyahu was staying at? Indeed, they did commit this act of grossly antisemitic bioterrorism. CBS "News" played this as a fun prank, and even began their article about this disgusting biohazard vandalism with a "funny" pun." 

From the Jerusalem Post, 'Jews have to meet in secret at DNC', says Holocaust survivor, ex-ADL head Foxman. From the Free Bacon, ADL Leader Slams DNC: 'I Could Not Have Imagined a Time Jews Would Have To Meet in Secret Locations in Chicago'. Mark Tapscott at Insty, JEWS AT DNC FEARFUL: "The new normal for Jews in the Democratic Party became clear during the Chicago proceedings. Jewish delegates had to meet secretly and away from the convention. Richard Pollock has more." Capt. Ed, UAW Demands Palestinian Activist Speaker Tonight. Do They 'Have a Point'? Glenn Beck@glennbeck "They need you to hate Donald Trump more than inflation. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than open borders. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than fentanyl and drugs on our streets. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than our children being killed by illegals. . . " Reason, Nobody Cared About Bernie's Speech.

NewsMax cites the Rasmussen Poll: Independents Help Trump Lead Harris. CNN is happy that Harris erases Trump’s cash edge while RFK Jr. faces dwindling resources, new filings show.

Althouse, Trump says he thinks that Biden withdrew because he was "threatened... violently." "From the Theo Von podcast embedded in the previous post — at 44:31. Von asked about what pushed Biden to let go of the nomination he had won in the primaries. Trump said: . . ." I'm surprised he didn't say bigly. Paul Mirengoff at Ringside, Clowns complain about the circus. WaPoo finds Trumps spurning far right loons.

Ace, It's Happening: ABC "News" Reports That RFKJr. Will End His Presidential Bid Tomorrow and Endorse Trump "Nice get." Who said this election season couldn't get any weirder? Jazz Shaw wonders What Is RFK's Place in a Future Administration? I can think of any number of places. For example, could the Dept. of Education do any worse? Althouse, "If you are supporting Kennedy in part because you don’t like Harris or Trump, perhaps you will be compelled by Trump’s promise to include Kennedy in his Cabinet..." Writes Philip Bump, in "What happens if Kennedy endorses Trump? The independent candidate doesn’t have much support — and it’s not clear how much of it would transfer" (WaPo).

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.22.24 (Evening Edition), Da Fed, More Floridians Need To Know A November Ballot Initiative Would Legalize Second-Trimester Abortions, SCOTUS Partly Restores Arizona’s Proof Of Citizenship Voter Requirements For 2024, Texas AG Investigates Possible Illegal Voter Registrations, Democrats’ Fundraising Machine Draws Accusations Of ‘Potentially Illegal’ Schemes, Michigan Secretary Of State Tries To Rush Potentially ‘Illegal’ Rules To Rig The November Election. At Da Signal, Where Is the Money Funding ActBlue Coming From? "Restoration News has identified another potential fictional donor, Wendy Urbanowicz, residing in Vancouver, Washington. Campaign finance records show that since 2020 she has made 28,659 donations to ActBlue totaling $260,196—averaging 17 contributions per day." Capt. Ed comments There's definitely something fishy going on. And there is definitely no chance at all that the Department of Justice or the FEC will investigate it in this administration.

Paula Bolayrd at PJM reports on Another Trump Would-Be Assassin Is on the Run in Arizona. From NewsMax, Rep. Waltz Not Convinced Trump Shooter Acted Alone "You can't tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can't get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone? So, I don't buy that yet."

Jonathan Turley, “It’s Not OK Any More”: The United Kingdom Cracks Down on Free Speech. One of the reasons we shoved the bastards out. Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium "How bad are hate speech laws in the UK? Saying "it's OK to be white" can result in a harsher sentence than child pornography. @abigailandwords found numerous cases in which UK judges jailed thought criminals while letting actual criminals off the hook. The list is shocking. . . "

PJM's Bob Spencer, PBS's Failed Attempt to Cook Up a New Trump Scandal Shows Again How the Media is Worse Than Useless. Chef Andrew Gruel@ChefGruel, "311,457,587 people saw the original lie. 2,598 people saw the retraction." Quote New York Post@nypost "PBS’ Judy Woodruff apologizes for falsely telling live audience Trump tried to talk Israel out of cease-fire deal."

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