Flotsam and Jetsam - More Fox Fallout and The British are Coming!

Stacy McCain, Kamala Harris Bombs in Fox Interview, " The three deadliest bombs in world history:1. Hiroshima; 2. Nagasaki; and 3. The Kamala Harris interview with Brett Baier." At PJM, VodkaPundit, Team Kamala Invoked the Mercy Rule and I Can't Stop Laughing, Matt Margolis, Team Harris Knows the Fox News Interview Was a Disaster and Scott Pinsker, The PR Fallout of the Kamala Harris Fox News Interview "Yikes. If Kamala Harris thought Bret Baier was tough, wait ‘til she meets Putin." At Hat Hair, Dave Strom has Thoughts on the Fox Interview, "Bottom line up front: yes, the interview was a disaster, and no, it will not end her campaign as the June debate ended Biden's," and  Will Biden Nuke Harris Campaign After This?, Capt. Ed, Did Biden-Harris Really Only 'Follow the Law'?, and Jazz Shaw, Is the Election Over Yet? and Harris Interview Drew 7.8 Million Viewers, Beat '60 Minutes' (UPDATED) and Capt Ed. comments "Yeah ... I don't think that's good news for Harris or her campaign." At Da Caller, Former Clinton Pollster Warns Of ‘Eroding’ Blue Wall For Harris After Failing To Connect In Fox Interview. Dan Flynn at Am Spec, Kamala Harris Flunked the Job Interviews, "Leftist sycophants left her ill-prepared for her Fox News interview." Jim Geraghty at NRO, When Bret Met Kamala. Tyler O'Neal at Da Signal, 4 Takeaways From Kamala Harris’ Fox News Interview With Bret Baier. Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks Kamala Harris' Answer to This Question Should Warrant a Special Counsel Investigation. "When asked again if she had any concerns about Joe Biden’s mental health, Kamala replied, “I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump.” Capt. Ed says 'Joe Biden Is Not On the Ballot' was Kamala's Biggest Dodge. At Twitchy, Of All the Threads Taking Kamala and Her 'TESTY' Fox News Interview APART, THIS One Is the Most DAMNING. At Insty, HUGH HEWITT INTERVIEWS NRO’S NOAH ROTHMAN ON KAMALA’S FOX NEWS INTERVIEW (Video). Ace, Bret Baier: Kamala Harris Tried to "Ice Me" By Showing Up Late, and Then Having Her Staffers Wave Their Arms Wildly to Tell Me to Stop Asking Questions. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, The Talking Points Have Been Disseminated: Media Swoops In To Defend Kamala In Lock-Step. Capt. Ed, "This pushback has been incredibly lame. Oh, he was rude to interrupt her off-topic filibustering! Good grief. If Harris can't deal with a reporter asking questions and following up on evasions, why should we make her head of state?" Matt Margolis, Liberal Media Caught Astroturfing Reaction to Harris’ Fox News Interview. From Don Surber, Two interviews. Two candidates. One winner. Capt. Ed, "Democrats are going to hit the panic button in a big way when they realize that their spin on this interview is entirely disconnected from reality. That may be as soon as today; the betting markets are only moving more toward Trump, and those are usually indicative of short-term poll trends." Capt. Ed has words on Kamala's Catholic Problem II: Al Smith Dinner Boogaloo. Sundance at CTH, President Trump Delivers Remarks at Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.

Dave Strom reports UK Labour Party Paying Staffers to Campaign for Kamala Harris. NBC 15, British Labour Party sending staff to campaign for Harris in US swing states. Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck, "Huge: The UK’s far left Labour Party has been organizing FOR MONTHS to come to America to campaign for Kamala. This is foreign election interference. Their head of operations who has been a lead planner for Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in charge of this operation. . . To be explicitly clear: The Democrats are getting help from a foreign government to try to beat Trump. Now you know why they invented Russia collusion, it was always projection because they’re actually getting boots on the ground help from foreign governments to help them win. If we have an even slightly competent media then this will be the biggest story in the country by the end of the day." Sundance at CTH, The British are Coming – U.K Labour Party Sends 100 Staff to Assist Kamala Harris "Apparently, some forms of foreign election influence are okay. According to recent reports the British Labour Party are sending their staff to the United States to run support operations in battleground states." Politics UK@PolitlcsUK, "NEW: Nearly 100 current and former Labour Party staff are going to battleground states in the US election to campaign for Kamala Harris, with the party offering to ‘sort your housing’"

Nick Arama at Red State, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson Reveal Trump Team's Hilarious Reaction to Biden Debate Meltdown. Spiked, Kamala doesn’t know the first thing ‘about fascism’. NYPo, Kamala Harris makes a brutal gaffe in speech to Wisconsin voters: ‘I stood up to veterans’. Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock, "“It would be a huge mistake for Israel to enter Rafah. I've studied the maps” I will never get over this sound bite. The worst possible combination of ignorant and arrogant." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Unfazed: CBS Offers In-Kind Kamala Campaign Contribution Tim Young@TimRunsHisMouth "CBS's 60 minutes didn't just cut Kamala's rambling answer down to make her sound coherent. They completely replaced the answer to the question she was asked. This absolutely has to be against broadcast standards." If it weren't for double standards . . . From NewsMax, Sen. Rick Scott: Harris' 'Opportunity Agenda for Black Men' Racist. Ace, Kamala Harris's Hot New Plan to Woo Black Men: How's Legal Weed and Free $20,000 "Loans" That Don't Have to be Repaid Sound? "The loans were first announced for blacks only, but after being criticized for this obviously racist promotion, the campaign says that the loans can be applied for by whites, too. I mean, whites won't get them, but they're free to apply." Yep, that's how these things work. Beege Welborn, Who Would Have Guessed a Pre-Election Round of Student Debt Dumping Was Imminent? At Reason, Did Inflation Save Us From 'New Progressive Economics'? "Anti-market progressives dominate the Biden administration. Their policies also help discredit it." Insty cites KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: "Dems’ 2024 Platform — Your Reality Is Wrong, Stupid Voters. “It’s not just the sobering reality of Biden’s behavior that the public is being told to ignore, it’s the harsh reality of the consequences of his policies too.”" Bob Graboyes at Bastiat's Window on Kamala Harris’s Oakland Problem, "Dear Readers ... Help me write an uplifting paragraph about the vice president."

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.17.24, Twitchy: What Joe & Barack Really Said At The Funeral Will Make Kamala Testy. NYPo, Biden tells Obama ‘she’s not as strong as me’ — and ex-prez agrees ‘that’s true’ at Ethel Kennedy service. Althouse, Somehow we don't have the definitive lip-reading on this yet. Ace, "She's Not As Strong As Me:" Lip-Readers Pick Out Biden's Complaint About Kamala Harris, Made to the Man Who Engineered His Ouster, Barack Obama "Biden groused to Obama in line at Ethel Kennedy's funeral. You can't hear what either man said, but lip-readers think they know what was talked about." Matt Vespa, Look Away, Democrats. Obama Has Some Unfiltered Observations About Kamala. Byron York at WaEx, What Bill Clinton’s gaffe says about Harris and the border. At JTN, Charlotte Hazard thinks Harris' top surrogates Clinton, Obama and Biden backfire on campaign trail, boosting Trump. 

Insty, I AM NOT STUNNED: Christopher F. Rufo@realchrisrufo, "This is stunning: The New York Times "plagiarism expert" now confirms that the paper deliberately withheld the full Kamala Harris plagiarism report from him and that, after analyzing the full claims, Harris's plagiarism is "more serious" than he told the Times." Christopher F. Rufo@realchrisrufo "ABC does fake fact-checks to help Kamala. CBS stealth-edits an interview to help Kamala. New York Times withholds evidence to help Kamala. This is endemic—and only visible now because we have X." Mary Chastain at LI, NYT Withheld Full Harris Plagiarism Report From Expert, Who Admits It’s ‘More Serious’. “The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation.” Robby Soave at Reason, The Media Shouldn't Overlook Kamala Harris' Plagiarism. "The pouncing isn't the point."

JTN, Texas troopers arrest large numbers of special interest aliens, including men from Iran. At ZeroHedge, NYPD Admits Armed Migrant Kids From Gov't-Funded Roosevelt Hotel Terrorizing Times Square.

Nick Arama, Trump Gets More Good News in the Election Forecasts As Kamala Crashes and Burns on Fox. A Larry video at Hat Hair,  The End of the Kamala Campaign! Trump Soars in Betting Markets!  NewsMax, Billionaire Investor Druckenmiller: Market Sure Trump Will Win. Capt. Ed catches Politico whining Trumpmentum Among Black Voters Is Real. Althouse, "'Pennsylvania is such a mess': Inside Team Harris’ unusual levels of finger-pointing/Many of the state’s most well-connected Democrats have been worried about the operation for months." "Insiders are complaining to Politico, " and "Obama is the last Democrat who won Wisconsin with more than 50 percent of the vote...." Insty, DON’T GET COCKY: Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh. "BREAKING: We are now less than 3 weeks from the election and Trump is positioned MUCH stronger in polling than the 2020 election. Change from this point in 2020: National: Trump+7.4  Pennsylvania: Trump+5.9  Michigan: Trump+8.2  Wisconsin: Trump+6  North Carolina: Trump+4.1  Arizona: Trump+5.1  Georgia: Trump+2.7 RealClearPolitics". Fox, Maxim makes an endorsement for the 2024 presidential election: 'You just lost zero fans.' At the Freep, Martin Gurri: I Refused to Vote in the Last Two Elections. Now, I’m Voting for Trump. "There are only two vital forces in American politics today: those who wish to control everything, and those who wish not to be controlled. Reluctantly, I choose the latter." The Great Victor Davis Hanson, Election 2024: Those Who Lecture Versus Those Tired of Being Lectured. Dave Harsanyi at WaEx, The confessions of a Trump skeptic "Do I wish Republicans had nominated a more coherent, principled, competent candidate for the presidency? Of course. But if anyone is under the impression Democrats tapped such a person, I have news. Spend some time trying to decipher Harris’s swirling, platitude-ridden, incoherent rhetoric, and you will only be further convinced that we live in an idiocracy."

Sundance presents the President Trump Univision Townhall. Althouse hears JD Vance,  "I've answered this question directly a million times: NO. I think there were serious problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use. Okay?" "Vance went to law school. Yale Law School. I know he knows how to say something legal about the processes for challenging an election and how they need to fit a time period and come to an end and give us an outcome, and we accept that not because it's perfect, but because the process is good enough and life goes on. Well, he almost says that. I think he could speak more clearly and more legalistically but I don't expect to be satisfied, and I'm not grading papers anymore." And, Elon Musk presents a montage of himself in pro-Trump mode to the tune of "YMCA." Florida's Voice, DeSantis rips reporter on climate change: ‘Chance of me virtue signaling for people in media is zero’. 

From Breitbart, Peter Schweizer: GAI Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity. MD Kittle at Da Fed, Mayorkas Stonewalls Ohio’s Request To Help Track Foreign Nationals On Voter Rolls. Gee I wonder why? Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair, Now Saying Migrants Should 'Love Our Country' is Racist?

Sundance reports Lawyers for Trump Attempted Assassin Ask Judge Cannon to Recuse Herself. Tuff nougies.

James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII, "BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics." Video at link. Leah Barkoukis at TownHall, In Undercover Video, Meta Software Engineer Explains What Happens to Anti-Harris Posts. Ace, Facebook Enginneer in Sting Video: Facebook Automatically Demotes Posts Against Kamala and "Redlists" the Account. Brady Know at WaEx worries Trump teeters on DOJ’s Google breakup proposal: ‘A lot of power’. Capt. Ed counters "Trump's concerned about China and the ability of American companies to compete. That's short-sighted, though, for two reasons. First, Google is a big part of the reason that companies can't compete effectively in this market. And second, Google uses its market power to flex political as well as economic muscle, generally to support censoring and sidelining Trump's allies." Brad Palumbo at WaEx, Democrats caught bribing TikTok influencers to mislead Generation Z. Dave Strom takes note, EU Threatens Elon Musk's Entire Business Empire Because He Supports Free Speech.

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Spencer Lindquist at Da Wire reports Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Pays For Kids To Go On ‘Queer’ Wilderness Trips Without Parents. "The program, led by a self-described 'trans non-binary naturalist,' targets 'questioning middle and high school youth.'" From the College Fix, Transgender coach, rehired due to ‘transphobia’ concerns, resigns after porn video surfaces. At Da Caller, Kids Are Being Taken From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents. Here’s One Family’s Fight To Get Their Son Back. From Campus Reform, Riley Gaines Center launches 'Project BOYcott' to support women athletes who stand up for biological reality, "The Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute launched Project BOYcott as an effort to stand up for female athletes who refuse to compete against biological males." Capt. Ed adds "Good for her. Girls and young women have the power to put an end to the colonization of their athletic spaces and opportunities by refusing to participate in it. That's not easy, but real change never is." I agree. 

Chris Queen at PJM, Who's Got the Joy? You Might Be Surprised. "For about 50 years, a report called the General Social Survey (GSS) has measured the happiness level of respondents. Republicans consistently report slightly higher levels of happiness every year. Hawley points out that Democrats say that they have more emotional issues."  Dave Strom, reports There Is a Mental Illness Crisis Among Liberals. 

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Where My Wolfsbane At? and FMJRA 2.0: The God-Emperor Works A Shift At McD’s on time and under budget at the Other McCain.