Kamala's Closing Argument: "Trump Is Hitler"
As polls show the race for president remains close, the Democrat nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris has decided to use her Party's traditional slander of Republican presidential candidates. "I tried to make my campaign about joy and unity," she lamented, "but history shows that fear and antagonism are more motivating. So, I'm just going to plainly state what Democrats have always believed about Republicans."
"Trump has scheduled a rally at Madison Square Garden," she pointed out. "Well, the American Nazi Party held a rally at Madison Square Garden 85 years ago. If this eerie parallel isn't enough to prove that Trump is a Nazi consider these other parallels. Hitler was maniacally focused on the issue of his country's borders. So is Trump. Hitler believed in a strong military. So does Trump. Hitler was obsessed with rebuilding his country's economy. So is Trump. Hitler opposed the progressive values of the Democratic Socialist government that preceded his. Trump opposes the progressive values of of the Biden/Harris government."
"If Trump is elected he will try to use the DOJ to go after Democrats," Harris warned. "Don't be lulled into a sense of complacency just because Trump didn't use the DOJ when he was president to lock up any Democrats. The multiple prosecutions launched against him by the Biden DOJ could fuel a desire for revenge. And don't be fooled by Trump's willingness to consider pardoning Hunter Biden as a gesture aimed at damping rancor and unifying the country. There's no guarantee that he would really do this."
Holocaust survivor Jerry Wartski disputed Harris' characterization of Trump, saying "I have met Trump. I have seen his kindness towards me and other Jews. His daughter converted to Judaism. He loves his Jewish grandchildren. He is nothing like the Nazis who murdered my family and sent me to Auschwitz. He is a mensch."
Former Secretary of State and loser to Trump in the 2016 presidential race Hillary Clinton endorsed Harris' characterization of Trump as Hitler, saying "it's absolutely bonkers that we are talking about what he might do to punish his political opponents. I mean, this is so un-American. I remember during the 2016 campaign how the crowds at Trump's rallies would chant 'lock her up'--meaning me. I lived in terror for four long years before he left office after losing the 2020 election. I shouldn't have to face that threat again. The American people owe it to me to elect Harris so I don't have to."
Other Republican presidential candidates who have been called fascists or likened to Hitler by Democrats include Barry Goldwater (1964), Richard Nixon (1968 & 1972), Gerald Ford (1976), Ronald Reagan (1980 & 1984), George W. Bush (2000 & 2004), and Mitt Romney (2012).
Walz: "Union Leaders Need to Support the Party"
In an interview with John Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," Democrat nominee for vice-president Gov. Tim Walz explained why fewer unions are endorsing his Party's ticket this election, saying "their loyalty to the Democratic Party is not as strong as it has been in the past. Some have slipped into a mode of thinking that they should do what their members want rather than what the Party wants."
"Let me remind you that the vast majority of union leaders are backing the Party," Walz said. "They understand that for the progressive revolution to succeed its leaders must act on behalf of the revolution's objectives rather than be tied to the crass and selfish desires of workers to get more for themselves. Lenin understood this dilemma. He recognized that these selfish desires were just another manifestation of capitalistic greed that needed to be eradicated. That's why the government he established outlawed every political party but his own. We're not quite there yet in this country, but by persistently labeling all opposition to the Democratic Party as enemies of democracy I hope we'll eventually get there."
Teamsters president Sean O'Brien slapped back at Walz, saying "That's kind of a knucklehead statement. It's disrespectful to our members and the process. Democrats have f**ked us over for the last 40 years. The problem with the Party right now, is they are looking down on our members. Maybe that's why a majority of them are supporting Trump in this election."
Biden: "We Gotta Lock Him Up"
At a campaign stop in New Hampshire to boost Harris and Walz, President Biden told the attendees that "Trump's words are a threat to democracy. That's why we gotta lock him up."
Karoline Leavitt, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary, asserted that "Biden's call to lock up his political rival is the real threat to our democracy. Freedom of speech is necessary if voters are to assess the relative merit of their options for choosing the nation's next president. It's not as if this latest remark is the Democrats' sole attack on free elections. Since its beginning, the Biden/Harris regime has been using their power to pressure social media to censor views they dislike."
Former President Barrack Obama blamed Trump "for how we got so toxic, so divided, so bitter. His whole campaign to make America great again is based on the false premise that it ever was great in the past. In the beginning Blacks were held as slaves. That wasn't so great. It took 400 years before a Black man was elected president and made America great. Electing Trump now would take the country backward. We need to elect the Harris Walz ticket to take us forward."
Leavitt replied saying, "neither the President's belated attempt to clarify that he meant 'lock up him politically' nor former President Obama's attempt to blame Trump for the nation's 'toxic politics' refutes the fact that Harris, Biden and other prominent Democrats are the real threat to democracy. Voters should liberate the country from these tyrants by casting their ballots for Republicans."
Newspaper Endorsements
This week, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, blocked the newspaper's editorial board from endorsing the Harris/Walz ticket. Mariel Garza, the editorials editor, resigned in protest, saying "I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent. We're a very liberal paper. I think our readers want us to stand up for progressive values."
Soon-Shiong said "the Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation. Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the Editorial Board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision."
Garza pointed out that "Soon-Shiong is friends with Elon Musk. Musk has endorsed Trump. This makes me think that a so-called 'factual analysis' is intended to conceal the reality that Trump is an existential threat to democracy. An honest analysis would show that Vice-President Kamala Harris is the obvious choice if we want to avert the kind of tyranny that Trump and his minions would impose upon the people of America. The kind of approach the owner requested isn't suited to the era in which we live."
In contrast, the New York Post's editors compared the administrations of Trump and Biden on results achieved in terms of secure borders, law & order, economic prosperity, war & peace, and parental rights and concluded that Trump is the logical choice for getting better results in each category.
Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post, editorial page editor, David Shipley said the editorial board was told by management that there would not be an endorsement this year. the speculation is that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, ordered the decision. Newly hired publisher/CEO Will Lewis explained "we are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates. Our readers can make up their own minds."
Retired Executive Editor of the Washington Post, Martin Baron called it "disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage. The New York Times endorsed Harris on Sept. 30. Wouldn't the music be more beautiful if everyone in the chorus would sing the same tune? I fear our democracy will be the casualty of the lack of unity among the great papers of America."
Kamala Passes on Rogan Podcast
This week Joe Rogan offered a three-hour podcast interview to both former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris. Trump accepted. Harris declined.
Harris aide Ian Sams explained "the conditions just weren't right. First of all, three hours is way too long for someone as busy campaigning as she is. The thirty-minute sit down with Bret Baier put a big dent in her schedule. Our request that the Rogan interview be held to three minutes wasn't acceptable to him."
"Second, he wouldn't accept the list of the questions we wanted him to ask nor allow us to use a teleprompter to assist our candidate," Sams complained. "It's not a fair test of the qualities needed in a president. President Biden always knew what questions he would be asked and had a teleprompter to use. To deny the potentially first female to be elected president an equivalent accommodation is misogynistic."
"Third, each of Rogan's individual podcasts typically has a 15 million member audience," Sams observed. "Frankly, the Vice-President prefers a smaller, more intimate venue where she can be her uninhibited natural self. So we decided to pass on the invitation. We'll just sit back and watch Trump make a fool of himself like he always does."
A spokesman for Joe Rogan said "we could've lived with the three minute demand and used it as a lead-in to the three-hour Trump interview, but the other stuff was a deal killer. Our show is definitely non-scripted and explicitly one-on-one. It's a formula that made us the number one podcast with three billion listeners world wide. If a person can't handle this formula they have no business asking voters to trust them to handle the presidency."
New Zealand Confiscates Guns
In New Zealand there is no constitutional right for citizens to bear arms. Recently, the police conducted a domestic intelligence operation to identify people who hold unacceptable political opinions. They identified 62 such individuals who were licensed to own firearms and confiscated their weapons.
Under the island's laws, the Firearms Safety Authority says "an applicant for a firearms license must be a fit and proper person to possess and use firearms." Government officials take the position that espousing views the government regards as "extreme" is sufficient grounds for disarming them. Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asserted that "it would be irresponsible to wait until after guns were improperly used to seize them. I've always believed that an ounce of prevent is worth a pound of cure."
Democrat nominee for vice-president Gov. Tim Walz admitted that "the New Zealand approach of trying to stop trouble before it starts seems sensible, but we need a way to finesse our way around the Second Amendment's protection of the right of sports shooters like myself to own firearms to make such an idea work here. President Biden has already used the FBI to suppress dangerous ideas from being spread on social media. Maybe if we can get the American Psychiatric Association to declare MAGA people to be mentally ill we could confiscate their weapons on the grounds that dangerously deranged folks shouldn't be allowed to have guns."
Michigan's Phantom Voters
Michigan has 8.4 million registered voters on the books, but there are fewer than 8 million residents of voting age in the state. A Republican National Committee lawsuit demanding that the voter rolls be pared down was rejected by Federal District Judge Jane Beckering on the grounds that "the plaintiffs showing of a mismatch between the highest possible number of legitimate voter registrations if 100% of those eligible to vote register and the larger number of those currently registered to vote merely shows there is a possibility of misconduct, not proof of misconduct. Furthermore, since the election has not yet been held no harm to the plaintiffs has yet occurred. This shows they lack legal standing to sue."
Angela Benander, a spokesperson for Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson admitted that there are at least 606,800 inactive voters currently on the rolls, but they will not be purged until 2027. Voters who become ineligible include those who have moved to another state, those who have mail returned from their address as "undeliverable," and voters who do not vote in two or more consecutive federal elections.
Benson promised "we will eventually cancel the 606,000 inactive voters. In the meantime, once ballots have been cast, counted, and a winner declared the plaintiffs' complaint will be rendered moot."
Harris' CNN Town Hall
The term "town hall" implies that a public figure or candidate for office will field questions from voters. This was not the case for the town hall for Democrat presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris that was hosted by former California First Lady Maria Shriver.
After one woman in the audience wanted to know "are we going to be able to ask a question?" Shriver told her "You're not, unfortunately we have some predetermined questions. And hopefully, one of these questions might be the one you'd like to ask."
Shriver went on to add "I want this to be like a kitchen table, like just think that we're sitting around at the kitchen table and we're jamming about all kinds of stuff. It'll be raucous. It'll be hot. But it'll fun. That's what it's going to be like."
CNN Political Commentator Van Jones said "I was disappointed to see the Vice-President unnecessarily dodge some questions during her town hall with the network. And the word salad stuff gets on my nerves."
CNN's Dana Bash remarked "if her goal was to close the deal with voters I'm not sure she did that. Too many in the audience looked unsettled or confused by what they'd heard from her."
CNN's Political Commentator David Axelrod observed "when Vice-President Kamala Harris doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city. She did that a few times during her town hall with CNN."
Kamala: "No Exceptions to a Nationwide Abortion Law"
In an interview with NBC News' Hallie Jackson, Democrat presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris assured America that "a woman's right to an abortion must be absolute, nationwide in scope, and universally obeyed. Once it's the law of the land no doctor, nurse, or hospital will be allowed to refuse to perform the procedure for any reason."
"The claim of religious reasons for not wanting to perform the procedure is a sham that must be nipped in the bud," she adamantly asserted. "The law is the law. We don't allow a person to break the law against murdering someone on the grounds that he sincerely believes God approves of his crime. Neither should we allow a medical practitioner to break the law guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion on the grounds that he sincerely believes God condemns it. If they are truly sincere they must give up their medical license or face criminal charges for refusing to obey this law."
Harris went on to say, "I blame Trump for the loss of the abortion rights granted to women by the 1973 Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. He appointed the Justices that decreed the issue was up to each state to decide to what extent abortions would or wouldn't be allowed in their jurisdiction. Leaving it up to the states will lead to legal chaos. Some states will have severe limits. Others will fully respect this crucial human right. It will be my duty as the president of all the people to ensure that rights are equal everywhere in the country."
Trump said "the Supreme Court's decision to allow each state to decide was incredibly wise. As we all know opinions on this issue differ widely. Some favor no restrictions on abortion. Some oppose all abortions. The majority seems to favor something in between the two extremes. Trying to force one extreme position on the entire nation is unjustified. The genius of a federal system is that it permits each state to serve as a 'laboratory of democracy.' This means when there is no universal consensus trying different approaches gives the nation the opportunity to see what works and what doesn't work."
"Kamala's opinion that she can cram her extreme position down everyone's throat is a formula for conflict and disunity," Trump added. "Personally, I think killing babies is wrong. I hope that we can find a way to end this barbaric practice. Letting each state experiment offers the best chance of finding a more humane alternative."
In related news, Dr. Forrest Smith, a former abortion provider, now urges voters across the nation to reject all 10 state abortion amendments on the ballot in the upcoming election. "There is no need to kill viable babies," he declared. "We can save these babies. We have the medical technology and resources to ensure that any child born, even prematurely, can receive the care they need."
