Friday, October 11, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - In the Wake of Milton

I liked it better when all hurricanes had feminine names. Sorry. Milton came ashore yesterday in the early morning and crossed the Florida peninsula, wrecking the usual hurricane havoc, wind damage, flooding compounded by human stupidity and, surprisingly, over 100 tornados, concentrated on the eastern side, where several death were reported in a trailer park in Fort Pierce, a town we lived in briefly many years ago. Despite media hype, and the threat to raise the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to 6, it came ashore as 3, and south of Tampa. It was, a Ron DeSantis noted, not a worse case scenario. Of course, it's now politicized.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.10.24, Twitchy catches Did Grandpa Joe Forget He's POTUS? Watch Biden Ask 'Mr. President Trump' to Help Hurricane Victims. Cutie Pavlich at TownHall, Biden Melts Down When Asked About Trump and Hurricane Relief. Alhouse, Are you living through Milton?  "Is this getting politicized? Of course it is, but let's listen to 2 key players, President Biden..." and Ron DeSantis. Sundance at CTH thinks A Focused Ron DeSantis Just Eviscerated Kamala Harris. At Ace, Ron DeSantis' Emergency Response Efforts are Proceeding Crisply While FEMA is Short-Staffed Due to Providing "Services" For Illegal Aliens at Harris and Biden's Dissolved Border. Matt Margolis at PJM, Ron DeSantis Nukes Kamala Again for Politicizing Hurricane Response and Some Hurricane Helene Victims Can’t Even Get the $750 Kamala Promised Them. At Twitchy, OUCH! Ron DeSantis Obliterates Journos' Attempts to Tie Fla. Storms to Global Warming. John Solomon and Steve Richards at JTN, Double-barreled hurricane crisis exposes FEMA’s chronic leadership, staffing problemsRep. Carlos Gimenez to Newsmax: FEMA Funds There If Not Spent on Illegals. Paul Bedard at WaEx hears Hurricanes and political violence push chance of ‘collapse’ to 57%. NewsMax, 2 US Judges Refuse to Extend Voter Registration Following Hurricanes. A Clinton judge, and an Obama judge, natch.

Stacy McCain finds Democrats ‘Increasingly Worried About a Number of Issues Plaguing’ Kamala. PJM's Stephen Kruiser hears This Biden Guy Doesn't Seem to Be a Big Kamala Harris Fan. Ryan Deto@RyanDeto "Former President Barack Obama has a “tough talk” at the Black voters for Harris event in East Liberty. He addressed that Black men have not been as enthused about Harris as during his first run, and he sought to encourage them to join Harris’ movement." Nick Arama at RedState, Turns Out Those Obama Remarks Got Worse—He Even Insults Black Men Who Are on the Fence About Kamala. Because men just love being hectored. Tyler O'Neal at Da Signal, wonders What’s Behind Professor’s Claim That Men Who Won’t Vote for Harris Should Be Lined Up and Shot?

Hat Hair's Duane Patterson identifies The Top Ten Kamala Harris Gaffes...This Week. That's more than one a day. Da Signal, CBS Effort to Make Harris Look Better Reveals Media Panic Over Trump. Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks Kamala's Univision Town Hall Was a Total Nightmare. Althouse is shocked when "Kamala was just caught using a teleprompter at her Univision town hall!" "If it's a town hall, you're not supposed to have the questions in advance. It's supposed to test the candidates. If the answers are pre-written, the candidate is cheating on the test, posing as capable of spontaneity, when she is actively protecting herself from the risk of spontaneity, and hiding that self-protection from us. She's asking us to see her as our protector." Michael Tracey@mtracey "I’m at the Kamala “town hall” being taped right now in Las Vegas. The corporate PR director of Univision is refusing to allow journalists access to the audience members who have been pre-selected to ask Kamala questions." Rick Moran at PJM sees Harris Continues to Lie About Her Role in the Border DisasterDC_Draino@DC_Draino, "This needs to be everywhere RFK tells the true story of how Kamala started imprisoning parents in California whose kids missed school The first woman she locked up was a black mother whose daughter had sickle cell anemia This is communist tyranny Taking people’s freedom without just cause @KarluskaP." At the Free Bacon, Kamala Harris's Electric School Bus Program Granted $395k to a Chinese Manufacturer. Then Its Top Executive Sent Biden-Harris Scores of Campaign Cash. "Company documents indicate BYD Americas president Ke Li is a Chinese national with 'right of abode' in US." Small beans in the corruption business. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.10.24, Twitchy,  Politico Laments It Might Be Too Late to Convince Voters Kamala Is 'Riding a Dream Economy'Nate Silver@NateSilver538 "GDP growth last year was 2.5%. That's a nice number! But also almost exactly the long-term average. The idea that it's the "best economy in decades" is straight-up misinformation." Quote "David Roberts@drvolts. "Democrats gave the US its best economy in decades, yet they are currently locked in a 50/50 race against deranged fascists. So, we can say with confidence that "deliverism" didn't work, right? The theory has been decisively refuted. Can we agree on that? https://noahpinion.blog/p/let-us-pause-to-appreciate-the-remarkable… Show more." At the Brownstone, Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output Have Fallen Overall for Four Years. Thanks, Brandon! Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff, "Today's #jobs report is the second to last one that will be released prior to the presidential election. I don't think it's a coincidence that it came out much stronger than expected. My guess is that voters won't get the real numbers until after their ballots have been cast."

Maine Wire, Portland Schools Seek to Spend $224,000 on Hiring English Language Teachers for ‘new arrivals’. Cathy Salgado at PJM, hears Vance: Illegal Aliens Crowd U.S. Millennials Out of Housing Market

Matt Vespa thinks Dems Will Not Like What an Ex-MSNBC Political Analyst Just Said About the 2024 Race2WAY@2waytvapp ""I just saw some new private polling that's very robust. Private polling," says @MarkHalperin. Kamala Harris "is in a lot of trouble … In the conversations I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data, they are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last 48 hours. Extremely bullish."  Leah Barkoukis at TownHall, A New Round of Swing State Polling Is Out and Hoo Boy. John Sexton at Hat Hair hears NY Times complain, Yup, Republicans Are Going to Win the Senate. Althouse,  "The [Democratic P]arty’s current 51st seat, held by Joe Manchin, will turn Republican next year. The 50th seat, occupied by Jon Tester..."  "Writes Jonathan Chait, in "The Election Choice Is Divided Government or Unrestrained Trumpism/Harris won’t be able to implement her plans. Trump will" (NY Magazine). Hey, I was already sold! At WaEx Byron York explore the question How many Republicans support Harris and how many Democrats support Trump?

Althouse, "I talk to anybody. I always call it my poll. People jokingly tell me you know that Trump will speak with anybody. And I do."  and wonders What did Elon Musk mean by "I’m not just MAGA, I’m Dark MAGA!" and   Beege Welborn at Hat Hair says Trump Hath Given Michiganders Truth, Forsooth: Democracy, Who Dost Thou Fear Most? Insty, THIS SOUNDS PRETTY INSURRECTION-Y TO ME: Axios: Some top Dems won’t commit to certifying a Trump win. "House Democrats railed against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for hedging on whether a GOP-controlled House would certify a Kamala Harris victory. But some of their senior members are playing a similar game." At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Democrats Want To Dismantle The Constitution.

Ryan King and James Dickson at NYPo, catches Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply bizarre ‘communion’ video. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Sick! Gretchen Whitmer Plays Dominatrix to Instagram Influencer in Harris/Walz Hat. Ace, In Bizarre Attempt at Viral Vote-Getting Stunt, Governess Gretchen Whitmer Feeds Doritos to an Influencer on Her Knees In Offensive Mockery of the Giving of the Holy Eucharist "I don't know what on earth this is supposed to mean. These people will do literally anything a woke "young person" tells them to do."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.10.24, Dana Loesch, Last Week In Legal – The Jack Smith Filing Special Edition.

At Bravo Blue The "National Security Leaders for America" Expose Themselves as Partisan Agents. John Sexton at Hat Hair says Christopher Steele Has No Regrets

At Da Signal, Eric Schmitt, GOP Senators Press FBI Over ‘Indefensible’ Mishandling of Child Sexual Abuse Cases.

MRC Free Speech notices Google Does It Again, Buries US-Based Right-Leaning News on Election 23-Pages Deep. The unsinkable Mollie@MZHemingway, "Google is going from horrifically bad to just completely unusable as a deliverer or real information. I'm legit using Twitter as a search engine with more success." At Ars Technica, DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly.

Twitchy yells HACKED: Internet Archive Taken Offline Weeks Before the Election, Making LOTS of People VERY SUSPICIOUS.

NYPo, Ex-CBS News reporter says there’s ‘precedent’ for releasing full interview transcript — when it came to Donald Trump. At Twitchy, Sharyl Attkisson OWNS CBS News With BRUTAL Obama Reminder As They Conspire to Make Kamala Look LESS DUMB. Ace, CBS Owner Shari Redstone Backs Reporter Tony Dokoupil Over His Woke Inquisitors, "For all that that matters. And it doesn't matter much. The wokies own the place. It doesn't matter who "legally" owns it." 

From the Free Bacon, 'A Mockery Of Education': Dean of Michigan State’s Top-Ranked Ed School Is a Serial Plagiarist, Complaint Alleges "Jerlando Jackson lifted pages of material without attribution." That's no fair, nobody expected you to read that shit! John Sexton notices Columbia's Student Protesters Really Have Embraced Hamas. At CJ, A Shape-Shifting Diversity Program "The University of Wyoming’s DEI office has closed, but new initiatives have taken its place." The grift is too good to quit. 

At Hat Hair, VA Senate Candidate Hung Cao on Why There's No Room for DEI in the Military. Dave Strom, Star Wars Introduces Transgender Stormtrooper...Really

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Annual Admiral Of The Ocean Sea Appreciation Post up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

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