"MSNBC Doing All They Can To Help Harris"
During a dinner date with an undercover reporter for the O'Keefe Media Group, MSNBC producer Basel Hamdan asserted that "MSNBC is doing all they can to help Harris get elected. Her message of the day is the network's message of the day. Our anchors and Democrat politicians are in total agreement about everything."
Candidate for the US Senate Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) praised MSNBC's efforts, but said "it's not enough. Republicans are still free to promote their misinformation on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Google and others. The CEOs of these social media outlets need to take stronger measures to censor misinformation from these unreliable sources to prevent Republicans from repeating the same election interference that enabled Russia to install Donald Trump as our president in the 2016 election."
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, pointed out that "Schiff's claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election were disproved by the Mueller investigation. However, the FBI's pressure on social media to suppress the truth about Hunter Biden's laptop documenting his efforts to obtain cash for influencing government was an effort to interfere with the 2020 election that was recently confirmed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Freedom of speech is essential to the health of a free country. The Democrats' actions aimed at suppressing this freedom show that they are the real enemies of democracy."
In related news, Khymani James, a Columbia University student who was suspended for declaring that "Zionists don't deserve to live, neither do fascists or racists" is suing the school "for violating my right to freedom of speech. We cannot have a democracy if a plea for simple justice is used as an excuse for punishing me for expressing my honestly held beliefs."
"Reshaped the Perception of Masculinity"
In an interview with Vice-President Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff, former White House Press Secretary for President Biden and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki effused over "how your role has reshaped the perception of masculinity. I'm not sure you planned on that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse. Has that been an evolution for you? Do you think that's part of the role you might play as First Gentleman?"
Emhoff replied "I've said many times when we lift up women, we support women whether it's pay equity, childcare, family leave, and all of these issues in this post-Dobbs hellscape. Women should not have less rights and be treated differently. That's not the American way."
CNN's Dana Bash suggested "Doug Emhoff is not as masculine as Republican candidates. He can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, gun-toting kind of guys and say that it's okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who can vote for a woman like Vice-President Harris."
Whether Emhoff is perfectly positioned as a gallant progressive supporter of women may be on shaky ground. The emergence of an accusation that at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France, Emhoff was so incensed that his date was flirting with other men that he "slapped her so hard that she spun around." In addition, Emhoff's first marriage ended in divorce after he impregnated his child's nanny. An Emhoff spokesperson insisted "any suggestion that he has ever mistreated a woman is false."
As a senator, Harris was a strong advocate of the position that "women who say they were abused should be believed." In this case, she pointed out that "even if the claimed assault and battery charge is true, from my legal training I know two things. First, the incident occurred in a foreign jurisdiction. And second, the statute of limitations for the purported crime had to have expired by now. This election shouldn't be burdened by what has been. It is about the future we want for our country. I want joy and unity. Voters who agree should vote for me."
Walz Pleased with Debate Performance
Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn) announced himself "pleased with the outcome of my vice-presidential candidate debate with Senator JD Vance (R-OH). I know some of the pundits figure he scored more points than I did, but I achieved my two key objectives."
"First, I believe my humble admission that I am a 'knucklehead' forged a strong bond with the majority of male voters across the nation," Walz boasted. "Most of the guys I served with in the National Guard were knuckleheads. Almost every guy's wife thinks he is a knucklehead. I am solidly within the ranks of the vast majority of American men as a fellow knucklehead. I think this message came through very clearly during the debate. These men will see that I am one of them and well-suited to represent their interests in government. This common bond helped me win six terms in Congress and two terms as governor of Minnesota."
"Second, my revelation that I am friends with school shooters lured Trump into a fatal campaign error," he continued. "Immediately following the debate Trump tried to mock me by posting a 'not friends with school shooters' meme on Truth Social. This exposed Trump for the callused and inhuman person he is. It is easy to hate a school shooter. However, no one is in greater need of a friend than someone who has killed a bunch of kids. By befriending these pariahs I have taken the moral high ground. The mothers of America will see and appreciate that and vote for the Harris/Walz ticket."
Missile Barrage Called "Self Defense"
This week, Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi justified the attack, calling it "an act of self defense against Israel's attempted genocide of the Palestinian people. The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 and the Hezbollah missile strikes are righteous retaliation for 75 years of illegal Zionist occupation of lands belonging to Palestine. We are not unmerciful. If Israel heeds the warning we sent and vacates the stolen lands the attacks on its civilians will cease."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) mostly agreed with Iran's position, saying "while Iran's missile strikes were unacceptable, their proposed ceasefire pending Israel's withdrawal from Palestine offers a starting point for negotiating a peaceful settlement. The presence of a Jewish state in the region won't be tolerated by the heirs of the Muslims who conquered that territory more than a thousand years ago. It won't be too long before Iranian missiles carry nuclear warheads. If we are to avoid the annihilation of the Jewish people currently living in Israel they have to agree to either live under Islamic rule or move to another part of the world."
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blamed the Iranian bombardment on "the failed policy of Donald Trump. President Obama had a masterful plan to woo Iran with kindness. By allowing Iran to become a nuclear power he hoped to show them that we could all live together peacefully under the mutually assured destruction balance of power that fostered five decades of peace between the United States and the Soviet Union. Rather than accept this policy, Trump rejected it and tried to block Iran's right to achieve nuclear status by starving the regime of funds. This left Iran with no alternative but to strike back at us and our presumed Israeli allies."
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said "Israel reserves the right to respond in the place and in the time that we determine. However, the fact that the only fatality that occurred from the Iranian missiles was a single Palestinian, the Israeli government may decide that the demonstration of the futility of Iran's attack may be the most powerful takeaway we could hope for."
FEMA Out of Money for Hurricane Aid
Four months ago Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas bragged that "the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is tremendously prepared. This is what we do, this is what they do, and the key here is to also make sure the communities who are potentially impacted are prepared as well."
Well, Hurricane Helene has devastated huge swaths of the country's southeast. Over 200 people were killed. Towns and roads were washed away. Many survivors are cut off from water and electricity. Now, Mayorkas says "FEMA does not have the funds needed because $640 million was spent providing shelter for non-citizen migrants in Denver, Washington DC; Chicago, Philadelphia, and many other cities."
The Secretary cited "equity" as the justification for diverting the money intended for weather emergencies. "Look, harsh as it may seem to an American caught in the path of Hurricane Helene, these immigrants are in greater need. Most have come to our country with little more than the clothes they wear. If we hadn't fed and housed them their entire journey to our land of opportunity would've been wasted. Folks in the path of the hurricane are far better off. They have jobs, own homes, have food in the frige, and money in the bank. They have friends and neighbors who will help them. Eventually, things will get back to normal. Folks just need to be patient."
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has funded relief efforts in the affected states--setting up helicopter landing zones and deploying more than 300 Starlinks to aid communications. His employees in the area report "FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help, seizing goods and services these citizens are trying to donate and stashing them away."
Mayorkas explained that "these so-called citizen Good Samaritans aren't following DEI guidelines. They're just giving aid without regard to race, sex or gender identity. Seizing these donations so they can be properly redistributed is sound public policy. We urge all well-intended people to do as they are told by government officials and not to trust anything they don't hear directly from government sources or approved media outlets."
Michigan Bars Partisan Observers
In Michigan, election clerks are barring partisan election observers from participating in the phase of the election process where mail-in ballots are checked to see if the person casting the ballot is registered to vote, when the ballot was received, and whether the signature is valid. Committee on House Administration, Chairman Bryan Steil, (R-Wis) has asked Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson "to communicate to the various clerk offices that partisan challengers are permitted to observe initial processing of mail-in ballots and signature verification."
Benson insists that "partisan observers are only permitted to view the counting of ballots that have already gone through the initial verification phase. Democracy requires a secret ballot. Keeping outsiders from knowing the identity of persons casting ballots is essential for preserving secrecy. Not knowing who casts each ballot guarantees this."
Steil complained that "blocking partisan observers from any stage of the process completely undermines the integrity of the election. If the government employees are the only ones to see and decide the validity of each ballot there is no verification that the ballots were cast by legitimate eligible and registered voters."
Benson pointed out that "the government employees that verify the ballots answer to the political authorities who were elected by the voters in the prior election. That is what guarantees that democracy is working as its supposed to be working because the folks who won a majority at the prior election have the last say over the procedure that is used to decide the next election. If Republicans want to change the procedure they must first win an election overseen by the employees of the Democrats who are their duly elected bosses."
Poser Argues Against Free Speech
Former US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke against freedom of speech at a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, saying that "allowing individuals to freely post their thoughts on social media hampers the ability of government to build a consensus around a favored policy. It used to be that ill-informed nobodies had no way of spreading their ignorance. Editors of newspapers could weed out unacceptable viewpoints appearing in their 'letters to the editor' page. But now anyone can reach millions of readers by posting to the Internet."
"Efforts to mute these unwanted opinions by having government agents intimidate the operator of social media outlets into censoring undesirable views worked for a while, but the rise of brazen nonconformists with independent wealth like Elon Musk has undermined this approach," Kerry lamented. "Dissent used to be a noble and valuable way of countering the policies of those who never should've had power, but now it mostly impedes the progressive transformation of the world that we here at the WEF are seeking."
Kerry ended with a plea "for a unity of thought to be imposed by whatever means is necessary. We cannot sit by and let the world drift into the chaos of unregulated freedom that the enemies of democracy are trying to seduce humanity into choosing by inundating the interweb with their clever arguments. We must build a system where government controls who can say what so progressive ideals can be enforced everywhere."
