Flotsam and Jetsam - Biden, Kamala Skip Arlington Ceremony for Abbey Gate 13, Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Censored for Biden-Harris

 A day off has left me with just too much so let's just dive in! Jack Poso@JackPosobiec, "BREAKING: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden skip Arlington Memorial Ceremony for the 13 troopers who died in Afghanistan on the 3rd anniversary Only 1 former president showed up His name is Donald Trump" Hat Hair's Beege Welborn calls it Abbey Gate. Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom "FLASHBACK: This was Kamala Harris' first reaction to the reports that Americans were trapped and possibly dead in Afghanistan three years ago. "Slow down" followed by a maniacal cackle."

The Victory Girls claim Fluffy Joy Is Kamala’s Campaign Strategy. At WaEx, Byron York thinks Kamala Harris’s media gambit is working. Dan McLaughlin at NRO has Seven Theories of Press Complicity with the Harris Campaign. All of the above. Hat Hair's Capt. Ed Cotton to ABC's Karl: How Do You Know What Kamala's Positions Are?. Althouse, "Nearly three weeks ago, on an airport tarmac in Detroit, Eugene asked VP KAMALA HARRIS about plans for a sitdown interview."  at PJM Matt Margolis reports Kamala Harris Agrees to Sit for an Interview, but There's a HUGE Catch, "Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), will be her babysitter for the interview," And Stephen Kruiser puts it Kamala Is Bringing a Mansplainer Chaperone to Her First 'Interview'. Maybe he's there to find out the platform. Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks You Simply Cannot Make Up How the Harris Campaign Went About Finding a Media Interview for Kamala. From the Babylon Bee, Reporter Who Asked Kamala A Question Charged With Hate Crime. Capt. Ed snarks, "Of course, this is satire. Everyone knows that reporters don't ask questions of Democrats." 

'Bonchie' at RedState, sees Kamala Harris' Fear Is Palpable As She Desperately Tries to Change the Rules of the ABC News Debate and FIGHT NIGHT: Kamala Harris Folds, ABC News Debate Terms Agreed Upon, Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, The Science Is Settled: It's Donald Trump's Fault Kamala Won't Do the Debate She Agreed To. OTP, Harris Calls For Seated Debate With Notes.  Althouse, I've been suspecting that Kamala Harris will back out of the debate with Trump. "Why should she expose herself when running on nothing — AKA "joy" — has been working so well?" Capt. Ed cites Trump: Kamala Wants to Duck Debates and Trump: Why Should I Do a Debate on Jon Karl's Network? OTP, Trump Threatens To Back Out Of ABC Debate Because He’d Face ‘Panel Of Haters’. I think of it as a pre-emptive strike against the immoderators. Capt. Ed, Trump Announces Debate Agreement -- On His Terms; UPDATE. The Babylon Bee snarks, Harris Team Asks If Her Mic Can Just Be Muted For The Whole Debate.

Jeff Charles at Red State likes how JD Vance Expertly Lays Out the Most Glaring Problem With Kamala Harris' Campaign "“The Democrats reveal how little they know about working people in this country because all of their changes are stylistic and there is nothing substantive,” Vance told Breitbart News. “Their solution to losing working class voters, to losing rural voters, to losing veterans is to sell camo hats with Kamala Harris’s and Tim Walz’s name on them." Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz, "This might be why http://KamalaHarris.com doesn’t have a single page of policy on it – she can’t even get Democratic lawmakers to support her proposals." Capt. Ed finds Dems in Congress: We Don't Support Kamala's Nonsense Platform. Becky Noble at RedState has a DNC Volunteer who Finally Gets It, Says She Cannot Support Kamala, Not Sure If She Is Still Even a Democrat. Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw notes Harris Features Trump Border Wall in Campaign Ad to Great Mockery and Capt Ed adds  Axios: Harris to Propose Building That 'Un-American' Border Wall ... Sorta.  OTP, WATCH: Hypocrite Harris Uses Trump Border Wall In Ad Touting Her Border Toughness. Paula Bolyard at PJM says Kamala Harris Wants Your Kids in Public School, and She Wants Them There NOW, From OTP, Speaker Johnson: Harris Only Person America’s Adversaries Fear Less Than Biden. At Da Mail, The New York Times turns on Kamala! As the liberal newspaper runs a string of brutal op-eds slamming Harris as 'weak', 'a phony' and 'ignorant', is her 'Brat summer' finally over?. Althouse, "Kinda worried the Democrats are so thrilled with the sudden transformation from Biden to Harris they won’t be as obsessed as they ought to be." "Said Gail Collins in this week's "Conversation" with Bret Stephens." Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson "RFK JR: "They got rid of the primaries because they didn't trust the people. They then hand-picked Vice President Harris with no election because they didn't trust the people.. They're the party now of censorship." Twitchy, Dude, We Have EYES! Kamala Staffer Tries Dunking on Trump Delivering Pizza With Video PROVING He's a Liar. 

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.26.24 EBL, DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT TO LET KAMALA OUT OF THE BASEMENT, Kamala Harris Likes Trump’s Border Wall, and Donald Trump lays wreath at Arlington to honor 13 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan three years ago, Twitchy: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Says He Can’t Make Up Stories, Promptly Lies, and You’ll Be (Totally Not) Shocked That Poll Showing Kamala Up By 7 Is Fake News,  Louder With Crowder: RFK Jr goes SCORCHED EARTH on the entire Democrat-Media regime in must-watch epic fashion, CNBC reporter DESTROYS Elizabeth Warren’s pathetic attempt to defend Kamala’s price controls, Tim Walz gets caught in ANOTHER lie about a reward, this time he blames Trump, and They arrested a tech CEO for supporting free speech, this should TERRIFY Americans of Kamala-Walz, American Greatness: Harris, Walz, and a Peculiar Definition of ‘Freedom’, Trump Honors 13 Fallen Service Members at Wreath Laying Ceremony on 3rd Anniversary of Kabul Bombing; Biden and Harris Issue Statements, and Kamala Harris’s High-Water Mark?, Cafe Hayek: ‘Price Gouging’ After a Disaster Is Good for the Public, More on the Perniciousness of Price Controls, The Geller Reports DISRESPECT: Biden No-Show At Arlington Cemetery, Only Trump Attends Service Honoring Afghanistan Fallen, The Lid, Kamala VP Pick Tim Walz Says Americans Have No Right to Free Speech, Power Line: Abbey Gate and beyond, and at The Federalist:  Three Years Later, Democrats Can’t Obfuscate Kamala Harris’ Role In Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, No One Has Resigned In Three Years Since Catastrophic Afghanistan Withdrawal, It’s Time For Republican AGs To Bring The Fight To Democrats’ Proxy Organizations, Exclusive: House Oversight Chair Threatens Subpoenas If White House Doesn’t Cough Up ‘Bidenbucks’ Plans.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.27.24,  EBL:, Debate: Harris vs. Harris, Twitchy: Politico Greatly Offended By J.D. Vance Pointing Out That Kamala Is Biden’s VP, David French Shows No Self-Awareness At All, Bill Whittle, How To Beat Harris Part II – Polls, American Conservative: Kamala’s Biggest Lie on Race and Inequality, BattleSwarm: Victims Of The Biden Recession: Dogs, First Street Journal: Harris Goes After Trump On Economy And Inflation Or Something, Legal Insurrection, Even Democrats Question Harris’s Attempt to Portray Trump as the Incumbent, Now Kamala Harris is Against an EV Mandate, Power Line: Gabbard unsheathed, Afghan Afterthoughts, and Is Anyone Running the Country? Does the Media Care?, This Ain’t Hell Donald Trump joins family members of 13 US service members in wreath laying ceremony, The Federalist, Kamala Harris Wants Amnesty And Open Borders, Not A Secure Border, Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Banned Christians From Teaching In Public Schools, Minnesota County Accepts $20,000 Grant From ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Ahead Of 2024 Election, Democrats Lose Ploy To Remove Green Party Ticket From Wisconsin Ballot, and Garland Makes An Example Of J6 Protesters To Shut Up Anyone Else Who Might Question Elections.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks It Would Be Super Great If Tim Walz Could Tell the Truth About Anything. A video at Hat Hair, Tim Walz: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing and Duane Patterson say Let's Play 'Count The Spots' with Tim Walz. Dustin Grage@GrageDustin "Yes, this is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs." To be fair, we did have two different dogs named Skye. 

PJM's Chris Queen castigates President Vacation. Kyle Becker@kylenabecker, "JUST IN: After a 5-day stay in the Santa Ynez Valley in California, Joe Biden leaves for a 9-DAY vacation at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Joe Biden, we are told is, the President of the United States." At OTP, Who’s Running The Country? Joe MIA. Tom Bevan@TomBevanRCP, "Biden's schedule is absolutely blank. Meanwhile, Emily Goodin reports Biden was "visibly shaking" as he exited AF1 in CA on Tuesday morning, and needed a boost from Secret Service agents just to get into his SUV. Who is running the country?" Top Secret Umbra asks Who Really Is Barack Obama? A Counterintelligence Inquiry "Our 44th president harmed the security of America, Israel, and the West – it’s time to ask why." "It’s now painfully clear that since Obama took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, he and his people have been running the Democratic party at the top levels." VodkaPundit at PJM says That Trump Fellow Who's Been President the Last Four Years Sounds AWFUL.

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Stacy McCain asks What Is a ‘Conspiracy Theory’?  "it would seem, “conspiracy theory” is now defined as any belief that might cause someone to support Donald Trump. Funny how that works."

Cheryl Hines

From Breitbart, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: What ‘MAGA’ Means to Me — ‘A Nation Brimming with Vitality’. Ace, Robert F. Kennedy Jr: "MAGA" Isn't About Racism. It's About Bringing Vitality Back to America. The Telegraph recounts How a beloved TV star became liberal Hollywood’s public enemy number one, Cheryl Hines, by being married to RFK Jr. Capt. Ed, RFK: Dems Tried to Destroy Me for Running Against Biden. Scott Pinsker at PJM, The Power of Association: What the RFK Jr. Endorsement Means to the Trump Campaign. A Larry video at Hat Hair, Trump Takes Control: RFK Jr. Just Ended This Election! Media Enraged! Alex Clark@yoalexrapz,  "Because of the RFK endorsement women are telling me they are willing to publicly say they’re voting Trump for the first time." From Althouse, "This is a tribute in honor of Bobby. I will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and..." "... they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." Insty at his substack, Out: Soccer Moms and Security Moms. In: Health Moms. "Is RFK Jr. the secret to suburban women? Althouse catches "I’ve said this from the beginning: I am not a church boy. I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world." "Said RFK Jr., quoted in "Environmental group calls for RFK Jr. to be investigated for reportedly sawing off whale head/In a resurfaced 2012 interview, his daughter shared he had once used a chain saw to cut off a dead whale’s head to bring it home, reportedly to study" (WaPo). Susie Moore at RedState, RFK Jr. Takes It to Church in Tucker Interview.

Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN, Former Democrat Rep. Gabbard endorses Trump, ""We saw first term in the presidency when he not only didn't start any new wars, he took action to deescalate and wars," Tulsi Gabbard said." Deseret News, Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard endorses Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Jazz Shaw, Tulsi Gabbard Twists the Knife. Sundance at CTH, Tulsi Gabbard Endorses President Donald Trump During National Guard Event. Politico whines Trump taps RFK Jr., Gabbard for his transition team. Capt. Ed comments "This means we'll be seeing both on the campaign trail, too. That may have a significant impact on center-Left voters, especially in swing states. I wondered how motivated Kennedy might be to campaign, especially with Hollywood's power elite putting pressure on his wife Cheryl Hines to get him to back off. Christian Toto and I discuss that in our Off the Beaten Path episode today." Sundance sees A New, Larger, MAGA Coalition. OTH, Ace reports More Than 200 Former Bush, McCain, and Romney Staffers Endorse Kamala Harris and It's Such a Big Deal You Guys (PS Most of Them Endorsed Biden in 2020). "So much conserving conservatism you guys!!!" 

Mia Cathell at TownHall notices One Abhorrent Moment From the DNC Snuck Under the Radar — Until Now. NotTheBee, Human Rights Campaign president says we must “reimagine“ democracy to be “more revolutionary” than the “little piece of paper“ our founders drafted. 

They're Communists. https://t.co/OsSwxG7zWi

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) August 26, 2024

The Peacock discovers The Democratic convention's surprise guest: Covid "Positive Covid results are rolling in — including among Kamala Harris' staff — after last week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago." Da Mail, Michelle Obama's secret feud with Biden... what Nancy Pelosi thinks of Kamala Harris... and why the president was left physically shaking: EMILY GOODIN's dispatch reveals what REALLY went down at the DNC. Althouse, The classic "Fear and" title is "Fear and Loathing," but somehow, in these days of loathing, we've got "Fear and Joy." "I'm so skeptical... as I'm reading "Fear and Joy in Chicago/The excitement that radiated through the Democratic National Convention was the other side of what had until recently been a deep despair" by Fintan O'Toole (NYRB)." Matt Margolis at PJM, EXCLUSIVE: Rasmussen Reports on Kamala's 'Bounce' and RFK Jr's Impact on the Race "He also suggested that there’s been a sudden shift in polling methodologies that seem to favor Harris, which he finds suspicious given that "our numbers weren’t that far off from others’ in the industry back in July when the press wanted Biden out." However, with Harris as the nominee, everyone seems to have "lurched left," and the media has followed suit with articles justifying this shift." Jazz Shaw, Catholic Pregnancy Center Vandalized as DNC Ends. NRO, A Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Center in Chicago Is Vandalized.

OTP, Texas AG Raids Homes To Stop Cheating By Democrats, Finds Man With 65 Phones. Ace, Georgia Judge Throws Cornell West and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Off the Ballot "Democrat-aligned judges will not permit any non-Regime-approved leftist candidates to run. He also disqualified two other leftwing candidates, based on Democrat demands that he do so." And then, Judge Shuts Down Democrats' Lawfare Manuevers to Keep Cornell West off the Ballot in Michigan, "Trying to disqualify a Proud Black Man from the ballot? Sounds a little racist to me. Sounds like that "vote suppression" thing to me."

Misty Severi at JTN reports Jack Smith asks appeals court to reinstate Trump classified docs case, "It is not clear how long it will take for the appeals court to make its decision, but even if it does reauthorize the case, the trial would not place before the November election." Mia Cathell, Jack Smith Files New Indictment Against Trump in J6 Case. Paula Bolyard, Here We Go Again: Jack Smith Brings ANOTHER Indictment Against Trump. Ace, Regime Very Special Prosecutor Jack Smith Indicts Trump Again, "He narrowed the charges to pretend to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity -- but he's done nothing to cure the fact that he's an illegally-appointed prosecutor. Special prosecutors are supposed to be confirmed by Congress, and have their funding approved by Congress. Smith was appointed by Merrick Garland and is funded by funds Merrick Garland decided himself to provide." Jazz Shaw, Bragg: Okay, I Suppose We Have to Listen to SCOTUS. 

Blaze, Suspect was across the street from Capitol Police squad car while walking to Jan. 5 bomb drop, video shows. Bob Hoge at RedState, RAGING BULL: New J6 Footage Shows Pelosi Admitting They 'Totally Failed,' Then Setting Sights on Trump.

House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP, "Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win for free speech." Ace, Mark Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Administration Pressured Him to Censor Dissenters on Covid and Hunter's Laptop; Admission Directly Contracits DHS Sec. Mayorkas' Claim He Never Asked Social Media Companies to Censor Anything. "Someone needs to go to jail. And by "someone" I mean a lot of people." From Da Caller, Mark Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Admin Pressured Facebook To Censor Content, Expresses Regret. A Larry video, Zuckerberg Begs for Mercy: We Cheated! Kamala Goes MAGA?! Matt Taibbi at Racket, cited at Hat Hair, Zuckerberg Defies the Borg. Capt. Ed comments, "I certainly wish I could share Taibbi's optimism about Zuckerberg, but I'm still skeptical. He's a key donor to Arabella, which funds radical progressive efforts, for one thing. He's part of the Borg he's supposedly defying. He has an opportunity to do what Elon Musk did years ago, which is to stand up for liberty and free speech. Let's wait to see what his next move is." Sundance is skeptical, Mark Zuckerberg Admits to Congress He Worked with Joe Biden and White House to Control Speech in America – Says, He “Regrets” Doing It. Althouse, "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the Biden administration was "wrong" to pressure the company to censor certain inaccurate content during the COVID-19 pandemic."  

Ace, French Police Arrest Founder of Messaging App Telegram "France claims that Telegram isn't "doing enough" to crack down on "illegal speech."" Sundance, UPDATE: French President Macron Says Arrest of Telegram CEO is Not Political (Yes, it is). Beege Welborn hears the Progressive Intellectual Elites Weigh In: Elon Musk Is a Big, Dumb Doo-Doo Head. 

Duane Patterson at Hat Hair, Republicans Getting Better at Doing Media, Media Getting Worse Doing Republicans.

Stacy McCain wants to know Do Taxpayers in Madison, Wisconsin, Want Schools to Celebrate a Killer? Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok "These images were reportedly taken inside @MMSDschools in Wisconsin. This school is trying to destroy "heteronormative thinking" and replace it with a "queer affirming network?" When they say they're coming for your kids, believe them." At The Right Scoop, UNREAL: Washington DC family loses custody of their autistic son after refusing to let him transition to a girl. 

Bob Shibley at Insty, WHAT A MONSTER. "Pitt cardiologist Norman Wang was demoted, had an article retracted, and was told he was “unsafe” for students because of maniac statements like “Ultimately, all who aspire to a profession in medicine and cardiology must be assessed as individuals on the basis of their personal merits, not their race and ethnic identities.” He’s suing. (In the meantime, if you need a cardiologist, I suspect he’s a safe bet.)" From the Free Bacon, Uh Oh: Did 'White Fragility' Author Plagiarize BIPOC Scholars? Capt. Ed, "A complaint isn't necessarily proof, but this would be one of the greatest scholastic ironies of all time, if true." Somewhere I saw a great video by Matt Walsh about this, but Google won't help me find it. 

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme up on time and under budget at the Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - RFK Jr. Drops Out, Endorses Trump

I wasn't going to believe it until it was official. It's been in the wind for a few day, but yesterday, after the hooting and hollering at the DNC Convention had largely subsided, JFK Jr. made it official, and suspended his campaign, giving an impassioned speech about how the Democrat party had deserted the values he and father had supported, and become enemies of democracy. He also said he was going to withdraw his name from ballots in the swing states, and leave it on ballots in non-swing states, to help Trump. Stacy McCain, RFK Jr. Endorses Trump. "After Kamala’s nothing-burger convention, which alternated between defaming Trump and celebrating the “joy” of Democrats, the endorsement by RFK Jr. will help focus public attention on the anti-democratic tendencies of the 21st-century Democratic Party. It’s the exact kind of shift Trump needed, at the exact time he needed it most. Smells like . . . #winning." At Althouse, "Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to endorse former president Donald Trump..." "... according to a new court filing in Pennsylvania. The filing surfaced ahead of a planned speech in which Kennedy said he would make an announce about the direction of his campaign." Ward Clarke at RedState, RFK Jr. Exits Presidential Race...and Endorses Donald Trump. Matt Vespa at TownHall, RFK Jr. Drops Out, Endorses Trump. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, RFK Withdraws, Endorses Trump in Court Filing; UPDATE: RFK Speaks. Charlotte Hazard at JTN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his independent presidential campaign, endorses Trump. AP tries to spin it, RFK Jr. says he is suspending, not ending his campaign. His campaign says he ‘has not endorsed Trump’ Ace, in all cap, italic red font, RFK Jr.: I WILL CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, "In the name of saving democracy, the Democrat Party has set itself to dismantling it." Sundance at CTH, Robert F Kennedy Suspends His Campaign, Blasts the Democrat Party and Endorses President Trump. Twitchy  RFK Jr. SHREDS the Dem Party for 'Abandoning Democracy' Before Endorsing Trump. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.23.24, American Greatness, RFK Jr. Suspends Campaign, Throws His Support to Donald Trump, The Geller Reports HUGE: Big Time Democrat RFK Jr. Endorses Trump, Says Democrat Party is Now Party of Corruption, Big Donors, Big Tech, Victory Girls, RFK Jr. Endorses Trump, Slaps Media And Democrats.

PJM's Chris Queen has the TRANSCRIPT: Every Word of RFK Jr's Epic Anti-Establishment Speech. If you'd like it on YouTube, go here. From NewsMax, RFK Jr. Shreds Democrats for Abandoning Democracy, Trump says RFK Jr. Boosts Efforts to Reach Disaffected Dems and Jamal Holley to Newsmax: Dems Not Same Party RFK Jr. Grew up With. Scott Johnson at Power Line, The Kennedy factor: Against the Dems and the media. Capt. Ed comments "Like Scott, RFK lost me at the "neocons" and fringy health theories, but that's not the main issue. Kennedy made clear what the main issue is -- a Democrat Party bent on authoritarian rule and a media industry bent on helping them achieve it." Sister Toldja sees the Kennedy Family Gets Deservedly Mocked After Statement on RFK Jr. Suspending Campaign and Endorsing Trump. Greg Price@greg_price11, "Kennedys that leave women to drown in rivers are apparently not as bad to the family as Kennedys that endorse Donald Trump." Sundance, President Trump Introduces RFK Jr to a Rockstar Welcome in Arizona and VP Candidate Shanahan Says Kennedy Campaign Will Not Support Trump for ’24 Until Trump Begs Forgiveness for Operation Warp Speed "There is no way to reconcile the narrative issues factually if RFK Jr is in charge of his campaign. If he is not, then who is?" Well, she was the money. wretchardthecat@wretchardthecat, "One of the things RFK incidentally revealed was that during the period when Trump was supposedly paralyzed by Harris he was busy flanking the DNC." Dan Bongino@dbongino "When a lifelong Democrat, from an iconic Democrat family, who tried to run as a Democrat, and who’s running mate was a Democrat, warns you about the dangers of voting for the Democrat in this election, you should probably listen." Last I offer this podcast with Bret Weinstein. I found it quite educational: RFK Jr. Drops Out & Endorses Trump, Kamala's DNC Speech & Monkey Pox w/ Bret Weinstein. Long, but worth it.

On the expiring DNC convention, Paula Bolyard at PJM, finds The Nightmare Has Come Full Circle. "The DNC was a parade of horribles, displaying every form of sin, debauchery, and malign political philosophy invented by mankind—all in one room." Da Fetched catches CNN’s Dana Bash: DNC ‘Appeals’ to Men with Low Testosterone and Multi-Billionaire Oprah Winfrey Tells DNC She’s been a Victim of ‘Income Inequality’. Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal lists 5 Massive Lies at the Democratic National Convention. WokeSpy, CNN Forced To Fact-Check The Democrats’ False Claims Over Project 2025. Seth Mandel at Commentary discusses The Fight Over Having a Palestinian Speaker at the DNC. Ruy Tiexiera at the Liberal Patriot warn Democrats Are Super Happy, Working-Class Voters Are Not. Capt. Ed comments "Ruy has very detailed data from the crosstabs of three big national media polls, and the numbers are veeeerrrrrry interesting. Harris still underperforms Biden 2020 in the working-class categories, and the hard Left turn of the party during the convention is not going to make them any happier. And since Ruy comes at this from the center-Left, the analysis is even more intriguing."

Thomas Sowell at WSJ warns Republicans Better Get on the Ball "They haven’t made the case against Harris. The clock is ticking." Capt. Ed (at home), Trump Rebuttals: Why Doesn't Kamala Chart Her 'New' Course Now? and Georgia On Their Minds: Trump, Kemp Bury the Hatchet  Am Con, Trump Pledges Foreign Policy Accountability, Rankling DC "State of the Union: Trump understands accountability. That is a danger to the national-security bureaucracy." Da Fetched, Trump Vows to Remove ‘Woke’ Military Commanders if Elected: ‘We Should Be Focused on Defeating America’s Enemies’. Hollywood in Toto adds Why Trump’s Theo Von Interview Should Scare Team Harris "Rebel comic humanizes former president, reaches invaluable independents."

From the Center Square an Op-Ed: People – not corrupt politicians – should decide elections. Capt. Ed comments "True, but it's tough to get that message across in the same cycle where Democrats push their nominee off the ballot for president and anoint a replacement without a single vote being cast." At Fox, Ohio state secretary says 100 non-US citizens voted in recent elections, begins process to prosecute. "Long-running audit in Ohio found hundreds of nonresidents registered to vote." Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw is happy that SCOTUS Approves Arizona Law Requiring Voter ID. 

Capt. Ed, Kamala Speech Burdened Us By What She Has Been. From TNP, Kamala’s Speech Was BORING. But It Did Contain Some Dark, Far-Left Dog Whistles…. Brianna Lyman at Da Fed, More Than 70 Percent Of Democrat Voters Don’t Know Kamala’s Policy Positions. NRO, Kamala Harris, a Political Show about Nothing. Twitchy, 'Let Them Eat Joy': BRUTAL Op-Ed Sums Up Who Kamala's Campaign Is for (and What It's REALLY About).  Ace, KAmala's Speech Indicates the Ultimate Basement Strategy, Keeping All of Her Policy Positions In the Basement and Entirely Undiscussed. OTP, Harris Mum On $5 Trillion Tax Hike. John Kass, on Kamala’s Soviet Nightmare. Larry video at Hat Hair, CNN Gets a Brutal Wake Up Call, Liberal Media Insists Kamala Isn't a Communist! Spiked, Kamala Harris: creature of the oligarchy. Capt. Ed, "Given her rhetoric and some of her policy impulses over the years, I'd say the Marxist label still applies too." Hat Hair video, CNN Panel Left Speechless After Scott Jennings Exposes What's Really Happening at the DNC. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Democrats Are Convinced the Media Is Being Too Tough on Kamala Harris. Capt. Ed, Watch the Protection Racket Media Get 'Tough' With Kamala. Ace, The DNC and Its Candidates Have Lied Nonstop. 

Ace, Tim Walz: A Real-Life Manchurian Candidate. "This Walz/China story has all the earmarks of Russian interference". --51 intelligence officials." From WokeSpy, Concerns Aplenty As Tim Walz Meets Alex Soros At The DNC. 

Althouse, "Speculation was rampant over the past few days that the 32-time Grammy winner would appear at the convention... But the final speaker of the night, Harris, was followed by 100,000 balloons..." "From "Beyoncé at the DNC? It wasn’t to Bey. Speculation was rampant that the 'Freedom' singer would make a surprise appearance. She never materialized"" Duane Patterson at Hat Hair, No New Oprah Car, No Beyonce Concert, Democrats Are Stuck with Kamala. Insty, IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: 

From the Hollywood Reporter, Would a Taylor Swift Endorsement Actually Impact the Presidential Race? "With supporters for both Trump and Harris angling for the pop superstar's vote of confidence, analysts assess the potential effect of such a statement: "It could be pivotal." Capt. Ed, "I tend to think it wouldn't; celebrity endorsements are good for fundraising but probably mean little to voters. If any celebrity did have that kind of impact, though, it might be Swift."

Insty, I MEAN, WE KNEW, BUT STILL: Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok "WOW. Watch Gavin Newsom basically admit that there was a coup to replace Joe Biden with Kamala. "We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process, it was bottom-up... that's what I've been told to say." [laughs]" The Divine Ms. Devine at NYPo, ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden may have escaped a well-deserved impeachment, but his crimes will follow him everywhere.

John Carney @carney "This is far more damning that people understand. It means that the Commerce Secretary was unaware of an enormously important piece of economic data that everyone in financial markets was anticipating. But she is aware of Trump’s Truth Social posts. That’s very bad." ET, Fed’s Jerome Powell Signals Rate Cut: ‘Time Has Come for Policy to Adjust’. "Inflation and labor market data indicate U.S. economy experiencing an evolving situation."

From NRO, Secret Service Employees Placed on Administrative Leave after Trump Assassination Attempt. But, were they the right ones? John Sexton, Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave Over Trump Assassination Attempt. Sauron's Eye, Secret Service places at least 5 agents on leave in Trump assassination attempt probe. Capt. Ed comments "It's been almost six weeks since the shooting, and these agents are only now being placed on leave? It suggests that the investigators have found new reasons to impose some sort of restriction on their employment. Had they been suspended the following Monday, it might have looked procedural. This looks like ... something else." 'Becca Downs at TownHall, Whistleblower Reveals Shocking Detail About Butler, PA Trump Rally. "As he revealed in a letter sent to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, a whistleblower "alleges that officials at Secret Service headquarters encouraged agents in charge of the trip not to request any additional security assets in its formal manpower request--effectively denying these assets through informal means." Not only is such information particularly damning to the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and how they have been handling the attempt on Trump's life, it also contradicts what Rowe previously told Congress." 

Twitchy, After 'Crossfire Hurricane', Trump Declines to Take Early Intelligence Briefings Yashar Ali@yashar "Former President Trump tells the Daily Mail he does not want to receive the intelligence briefings that are normally offered to major party nominees, as he doesn’t want to be accused of leaking any information he learns during those briefings." Chuck Ross@ChuckRossDC, "Another *very* important thing to note — when FBI gave Trump one of these briefings in August 2016, they sent a Crossfire Hurricane investigator into the meeting to collect evidence on Trump." Paul Bedard at WaEx, Most ‘swamp’ managers say voters don’t matter "In the latest sign of the disconnect between Washington’s “swamp” and the rest of the country, 54% of federal government managers would defy voters to do what they want, according to a new Napolitan Institute survey conducted by Scott Rasmussen and shared with Secrets." Henry Rogers at Da Caller,  House Oversight Targets TSA After Whistleblowers Revealed Federal Air Marshals Surveilled Tulsi Gabbard.

From Twitchy, YIKES: Matt Taibbi Tweeted About Forced 'Joy' and Whoa Nellie, Check Out the Media Hive Mind. Hollywood in Toto says Comic Propagandists Crush All Pretense of Objectivity. "Colbert, Kimmel and now 'SNL's' Kenan Thompson officially serve DNC leaders". TNP notices Only One MAJOR Media Outlet Covered This Heinous New Scandal. "Despite the historic and economically concerning announcement, the news—considered damaging to Kamala Harris‘s 2024 presidential campaign—did not feature on two of the three major broadcast news networks’ evening programming. Among NBC, CBS, and ABC, only the last included the revision announcement in a brief mention during its World News Tonight program."

Suzy Weiss at Freep, issues A Reality Check for Woke Jews "Joshua Leifer leads an anti-Zionist organization. But he was still denied entry to his own book launch in Brooklyn." Capt. Ed, "Irony abounds in Brooklyn, made all the more (darkly) amusing by Leifer's surprise at being hoist by his own petard. Read it all." At Campus Reform, Majority of high schoolers take politics into account when choosing where to go to college, new survey shows.

At TNP, Judge Rules Transgender Male Can Join Girls’ Tennis Team. "A federal judge has ruled that a Virginia school district cannot prevent a transgender male from playing on a girls’ middle school tennis team while his lawsuit continues." Appointed by Barack Obama. Jonathan Turley is concerned that JK 

Rowling Reportedly Sued by Olympic Boxer Over Gender Criticism. “For the record, bombarding me with pictures of athletic women to ‘teach’ me that women don’t all look like Barbie is like spamming me with pics of differently-shaped potatoes to prove rocks are edible. I can still see the difference and you look frankly bonkers.”

The Wombat has Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife and FMJRA 2.0: A Token of My Extreme up on time and under budget at the Other McCain.

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 Policies, The 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."