Flotsam and Jetsam - Kamala to Speak, with "Dad" Present to Keep Her Out of Trouble

Tonight is the night Kamala Harris is going to break radio silence, and allow CNN to air a pre=recorded interview, with Tim Walz sitting in to co-moderate. Mary Chastain at LI notes Harris’s Pre-Taped CNN Interview Will Include Walz "Can…can she not do an interview on her own?" At Hat Hair John Sexton, Kamala Harris Has Agreed to a Joint Interview on CNN (Bringing Her Dad to Her Job Interview), and Capt. Ed finds a CNN Analyst who Agrees: Kamala 'Incredibly Weak' to Bring Chaperone to CNN Interview. Althouse, Last June, we learned of a study that found that 25% of Gen Z job applicants brought a parent along with them to a job interview. "See "So what if Gen Z applicants bring their parents to a job interview?" (L.A. Times). This week, we learn that the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States is bringing "America's Dad" to her first interview." The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee, "Strong, Capable Woman Asks Man To Come With Her To Job Interview In Case They Ask Any Hard Questions https://buff.ly/3yUUhpQ." Capt. Ed hears Politico thinks Walz Not Doing Interviews Because Kamala Has No Agenda. When has that stopped a politician from talking? Abigail Shrier@AbigailShrier, "Any interviewer who doesn't hold Kamala's feet to the fire over this has abandoned journalism." Quote Kamala Harris@KamalaHarris, Apr 21, 2017, "Trump’s border wall is just a stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it." From NewsMax, Ric Grenell Offers 10 Questions for CNN to Ask Harris. John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte@NolteNC, "Republicans prefer live interviews because they know the media will screw them in the edit. Democrats prefer taped interviews because they know the media will Protect them in the edit." Quote Joe Concha@JoeConchaTV "Why did CNN agree to do a pre-taped interview with Harris and Walz instead of going live? And why isn't Harris doing this solo?"

Michael Shellenberger at substack, "Kamala Harris was not a DEI hire, was not the border czar, and supports fracking, say the media. But Biden had promised a black woman VP, the media called Harris "border czar," and she opposed fracking until a few days ago. We're nearing totalitarian levels of media gaslighting." Kira Davis, Does It Matter If Kamala Is Really Black Or Not? "Trump has been questioning Harris' racial claims...is he being too petty? . . . I’ve thought about that for a while now and I’ve come to the conclusion that, yes, it does matter. And yes, Trump is right to bring it up." She's more Indian than Black, but Blank ranks higher on the DEI scale than Indian, so she chose to be "Black." At PJM Rick Moranthinks History Is Against a Kamala Harris Victory, (Does history cast mail-in ballots?) and Matt Margolis sees the The Biden-Harris Administration Is Acting Like Trump Is Going to Win. From Insty, BILL WHITTLE: How to beat Harris, Part 2: POLLS. At Ace, Real Politico Headline: " Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally" "Tries to tether? Tries to link the acting Vice President to the acting President, you mean?" Matt Vespa at TownHall, Politico Got Owned by This Fact Check About Kamala Harris. JD Vance@JDVance, "The thing is: she's Biden's Vice President." Quote, POLITICO@politico "Our corrupt leadership’: Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally http://ow.ly/Ufb3105GSO0." Charles C. W. Cooke@charlescwcooke, "She really is a couple of days away from saying that she's never been vice president." Quote Amber Duke@ambermarieduke, "The Harris campaign is now claiming that she doesn't support an Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate. When she was a senator, Harris cosponsored the Zero-Emissions Vehicle Act of 2019, which contained a requirement for car manufacturers to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2040." At Spec World, Kamala campaign flip-flops on EV mandates, "The former senator cosponsored legislation banning gas-powered cars by 2040." VodkaPundit at PJM, Biden-Harris Throws Even More $$$ at This Problem They Made Up. Rohin Dhar@rohindhar "New York City implemented vacancy control, banned Airbnb, has rent control, etc And the monthly rent on a one bedroom apartment Just hit $4500." Larry at Hat Hair, Is This the Best Anti-Kamala Harris Ad Donald Trump Has Ever Made?

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From the Free Bacon, Crazed Kamala Supporters Attack Arlington National Cemetery Director for Allowing Trump To Lay Wreaths on Soldiers’ Graves. From Twitchy, Bitter, Angry Left Remains LIVID After Trump HUMILIATED Biden-Harris on Third Anniversary of Abbey Gate. Jimmy Failla@jimmyfailla, "I wanna live in an America where the media is madder at the President who got 13 service members killed than the President who shows up to mourn them." Victory Girls note Gold Star Families Still Have Not Heard From Biden or Harris. The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee, "Kamala Solemnly Places 'Joy' Sticker On Tomb Of Marine Killed In Afghanistan https://buff.ly/4ej3M1d." NewsMax, Watchdog: Biden Pushed Gaza Pier Despite Warnings it Would Undercut Other Aid Routes. Capt. Ed comments "This episode proved Biden's complete lack of competence in military and logistics strategies, even though the shameful Afghanistan bug-out already made that clear. This was Biden's attempt to embarrass the Israelis into backing off their intent to fight Hamas to a real conclusion, and it backfired in an utterly predictable manner."

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.28.24 EB, Kamala Chameleon, Twitchy: J.D. Vance Tells Kamala She Can Go To Hell, Louder With Crowder, Politico gets so fact-checked into oblivion over hackish pro-Kamala Harris headline they change it, American Greatness, Harris Reverses Stance on Border Wall, Now Says She’s in Favor, Government Shutdown Possible Next Month if Proof of Citizenship Bill Added to Must-Pass Continuing Resolution, Supreme Court Refuses Biden-Harris Regime’s Plea to Lift Nationwide Injunction Against Its Unconstitutional Student Loan Cancellation Scheme, and The Democrats’ Mixed Messages, American Thinker, Evidence Mounts for Kamala Role in J6 Plot, BattleSwarm: Bret Weinstein Calls The Democratic Party “An Existential Threat To The Republic”, Don Surber, Democrats are fractured, infighting, and preparing for defeat, First Street Journal: Cackles Harris Suddenly Wants To Build The Border Wall, also, Surprise! Harris Flip-Flops On EV Mandate, The Political Hat, The Mostly Peaceful Political Trap, and Victory Girls: Abbey Gate Families Push Back Regarding Trump At Arlington, and at Da Fed, Marine Who Guarded Kabul Airport: ‘Somebody Should Have Held Somebody Accountable’. Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair VIP, In Boston, Buses for Migrant Children, but Not Yours. 

From NewsMax, YouGov Poll: Trump Tops Harris by 5 Points Among Independents, which is where the action is. But don't trust polls. At TCW, Why I’m backing Trump: Brave RFK’s scathing indictment of Democrat dirty tricks. Atop Da Hill, Rape, drugs, adultery, DUI all OK. But if you back Trump, the Kennedys will disown you. At NewsMax again, RFK Jr. Might Remain on Some Swing State Ballots. End Wokeness@EndWokeness "In the past 24 hours: -Dems force RFK Jr. to stay on the ballot -Dems remove Cornel West off the ballot -DOJ files an upgraded Trump indictment -Facebook admits they censored posts in compliance with Biden-Harris requests. Saving democracy by ending it." Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair, Cornel West to Remain on Ballot in Wisconsin. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair, Here's What Protecting Election Integrity and Defending Democracy Looks Like in Michigan. From Insty, TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte@NolteNC "Now Republican governors need to keep Biden on the ballot." Quote johnny maga@_johnnymaga, "This is Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson She's refusing to remove RFK Jr. from the ballot after he suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump."

Elizabeth Nickson at Welcome to Absurdistan, The 2024 Cheat and What's Being Done About It, "There are 1000 ways to commit election fraud and we know all of them." Cutie Pavlich at Hat Hair, Democrats Are Freaking Out Over Republicans' Efforts to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting. Nice Deb at Am Great, DNC Files Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Board to Block New Rule Requiring Counties to Ensure the Accuracy of Votes.

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.28.24, American Greatness, Government Shutdown Possible Next Month if Proof of Citizenship Bill Added to Must-Pass Continuing Resolution, The Federalist: Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger Is In Costly Litigation For Peddling Lies About GOP Election Volunteer, Dems Are Fighting To Keep RFK Jr. On Swing State Ballots As Potential Spoiler Against Trump, Dems Want GA County Officials To Rubber-Stamp Elections, No Questions Asked, DNC Suit Says, How ‘America’s Worst Court’ Intimidates Elected Officials To Fight Judicial Reform, Pro-Lifers Pouting About Trump Are Losing The Fight Against Deceptive Ballot Measures.

Cutie Pavlich at TownHall notes The FBI Has Given an Update on the Trump Assassination Attempt, and not added a lot of new info. From NYPo, Trump tells Dr. Phil ‘it’s Biden’s fault’ Butler rally lacked security before assassination attempt: ‘Weren’t too interested in my health and safety’. NewsMax, Trump to Dr. Phil: Rally Shooting Partly Biden's Fault. A fish rots from the head. 

John Sexton at Hat Hair, Jack Smith Unveils Revised Trump Indictment. Jake Sullum at Reason, A Revised Trump Indictment Tries To Overcome the 'Presumption' of Presidential Immunity. "In charging the former president with illegal election interference, Special Counsel Jack Smith emphasizes the defendant's personal motivation and private means." As usual, Althouse presents the NYT view, "The tone of the new charges was apparent from the first paragraph of Mr. Smith’s filing, which described Mr. Trump as 'a candidate for president of the United States in 2020.'" ""The original indictment had referred to him as 'the 45th President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020.'... Perhaps the most significant change between the 36-page superseding indictment and the original 45-page indictment was that Mr. Smith’s deputies removed all allegations concerning Mr. Trump’s attempts to strong-arm the Justice Department into supporting his false claims that the election had been rigged against him." From Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller, ‘How’s The Government Gonna Prove That?’: Dershowitz Explains Why Jack Smith Has ‘Uphill Fight’ With New Trump Charges “The indictment charges that Donald Trump knew, knew and believed that he had actually lost the election. How’s the government gonna prove that?” Dershowitz asked. “He never said that to anybody. He never wrote that anywhere. Did he ever think it? I don’t know. Did he say it on a phone call that was illegally overheard? I doubt it.”

Matt Vespa, Here's Another Clip of Nancy Pelosi Undercutting a Main January 6 Narrative. Jazz Shaw, J6 Trespasser Gets Four Years in Prison. "They set out to make an example of Michael Sparks as a message to others. That is not equal justice under the law. What Sparks actually did amounted to little more than trespassing. This is disgraceful." 

Cathy Salgado at PJM thinks Zuck’s Apology MUST Spur Congress to Defund Government Agencies, No, it should spur them to put some in jail. Tom Knighton at TAW says Forgive me, Mark Zuckerberg, if I question your sincerity. Jonathan Turley calls Zuckerberg’s Censorship Admission is More Contrived than Contrite. "Now forced to admit what many of us have long alleged, Zuckerberg is really, really sorry. . . As I write in my book, President Joe Biden is arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. His administration helped create a censorship system that was described by one federal judge as “Orwellian.” Vice President Kamala Harris has been entirely supportive of that effort." Capt. Ed, "Turley feels even more strongly about this than I do. I'm happy to see some form of contrition, but without any atonement, it's tough to take it seriously." I take it as evidence Zuckerberg fears a substantial chance of a Trump victory. Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd, "What is the difference between a "conspiracy theory" and the truth? About 18 months." NewsMax, Rep. Kiley to Newsmax: Biden Admin Unleashed 'Censorship Regime.

At NYPo, Joe Rogan blasts MSNBC for ‘deceptively editing’ comments that made it seem like he backs Kamala Harris. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, NYT Wonders If 'Former Prosecutor' Two Tier Keir Starmer Can 'Show' Kamala 'the Way' to impose speech restrictions. Herr Professor Jacobson at LI thinks you should Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, of European Social Media Censorship. "Our Op-Ed in The NY Post: Unlike things that happen in Vegas, European social media censorship doesn’t stay in Europe."

From Insty, THIS JUST IN: The Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times. "Bloomberg is reporting that: “The piece, published after a gunman opened fire on members of Congress on a baseball field, described a “‘link’” between the shooting and “‘political incitement.’” It referenced a digital graphic published in 2010 by Palin’s political action committee. The graphic was a map showing crosshairs over congressional districts represented by Democrats—including the district of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in 2011.”" John Sexton, Sarah Palin Will Get Another Chance at Suing the NY Times. Ace, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Reinstates Sarah Palin's Defamation Lawsuit Against the New York Times, Reversing the Improper Verdict Engineered By the Lower Hawaiian Judge "Sarah Palin sued the New York Times for claiming that her "target" map spurred the shooting of Gabbie Giffords. She did not sue for the first time they falsely claimed that, back in 2011. She sued when the New York Times again reasserted this lie in 2017, even after the New York Times had previously retracted the false claim. As many pointed out: The New York Times doesn't even trust the New York Times' reportage. "The Nation's Paper of Record," indeed! The New York Times isn't even the Paper of Record at the New York Times." 

Irons in the Fire, Project Veritas strikes again. "BREAKING: Doctors tells @Project_Veritas undercover that MILLIONS of excess deaths resulted from the FDA’s pandemic-era "horse medicine" tweets against ivermectin. Now we have the lawyer who defended the FDA in court ADMITTING on undercover video that the FDA abused its authority! Basically, there is no federal agency that can be trusted."

Chris Burnett at Karlstack, Professor at Toulouse School of Economics Writes Open Letter Accusing Harvard Professor of Plagiarism.

Leslie Eastman at LI reports Harley-Davidson Drops DEI Initiatives After Customer Outrage Over Inane Policies "One Harley-Davidson owner protested the firm’s embrace of DEI by destroying his motorcycle with machine guns and a canon."

Linked at 357 Magnum in Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 31 August. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme up on time and under budget at the Other McCain.