Intruders Won't Be Shot
In the friendly environment of an Oprah Winfrey show, Vice-President Kamala Harris said "if somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot." Gasps from a few audience members inspired her to follow up with "I probably should not have said that. My staff will deal with that later."
Former President Donald Trump observed that "any sane person recognizes that an intruder poses a threat. I don't fault Kamala for instinctively recognizing such a threat should it occur in her own home, but what about intruders who break into our country? As our country's 'Border Czar' her record has been to welcome them, feed and house them at the taxpayers' expense, demand that they be given free medical care, sex-change surgeries and a pathway to citizenship. How does she reconcile these contradictions?"
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas explained "as the staff member assigned to deal with this, let me say that coming face-to-face with an uninvited stranger in your home poses an immediate personal risk. In contrast, the so-called intruders crossing our nation's border hundreds or thousands of miles away are not. First, they are nowhere near the home of the Vice-President or any other important government official. Second, they are not uninvited. The Biden Administration's policy has been to explicitly urge them to make the trip. Some have even been flown in from their countries of origin and deposited in various locations around the US. Shooting these guests would be inappropriate. Taking care of their needs is the hospitable thing to do."
"Let me also clarify that the Vice-President herself will not be shooting anyone," Mayorkas added. "She has a Secret Service detail that will shoot anyone who needs to be shot should they pose a threat to her wherever she is whether that be inside or outside of her home. This does not contradict her belief that only designated government agents should be permitted to legally carry and use firearms."
Is Iran Targeting Trump?
Federal officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed "Iranian hackers stole confidential information from the Trump campaign and forwarded it to the then-Biden-Harris campaign in June and July of this year in an effort to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our electoral process."
Karoline Leavitt, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary, said "it is interesting to see that stealing confidential information from our campaign to give to what is now the Harris/Walz campaign is described so blandly. Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump. What did they know and when did they know it?"
Democrat nominee for vice-president Gov. Tim Walz responded, saying "what difference, at this point, does it make? We're in a battle to save our democracy. If Iran helps us defeat Trump what harm has been done? As a former history teacher I used to tell my students that Churchill said that he would make a deal with the devil if it would help defeat Hitler. He made a deal with Stalin and Hitler was defeated. Well, we didn't even have to make a deal with Iran. They just gave us the intel for free. Maybe they aren't as bad as the Republicans say."
In related news, Ryan Routh, the man who laid in wait to assassinate Trump on the Mar-a-Lago golf course, had previously written a book in which he urged Iran to kill Trump. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian asserted "we don't need Mr. Routh's endorsement to kill Trump. His blood is owed to us in revenge for authorizing the murder of our beloved tormentor of infidels and heretics General Qasem Soleimani and for his many other affronts to Iran and Islam. We are sorry that the two recent attempts to slay this agent of Satan failed, but pray that Allah will smile on another."
California Outlaws Political Parody
It didn't take long for California's new laws banning political parody to inspire a parody of Gov. Gavin Newsom in which his voice is imitated saying "on my watch, the cost of living and homelessness have skyrocketed and our schools are failing."
"Using AI technology to make it appear that I am admitting fault for the state's problems is a threat to our democracy," Newsom claimed. "It encourages disrespect for those of us tasked with ruling this state and the country. The job is hard enough without the constant drumbeat of criticism and mockery. Now that mockery is so easy that as child can do it the fun of bossing other people around is in danger of losing its allure."
Longtime critic of freedom of speech, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seconded Newsom's complaint, saying "there need to be harsher penalties for those who bring civil servants into disrepute. The California law is something that should be implemented nationwide. In that regard, I'm glad to see that Gov. Newsom is using his state's new law to try to shut down Musk's business for sharing a parody of Vice-President Kamala Harris' campaign. We will never achieve full unity as long as purveyors of misinformation like Trump and Musk are free to say whatever they wish and go unpunished for impeding this unity."
In related news, CNN found that "the social media @KamalaHQ account has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump. In at least 8 incidents we viewed, the Harris campaign had dishonestly altered the context to try to make it appear that he was confused about which state he was in. The full context showed that he was not confused. He was comparing events that happened in other states to the remarks he was giving in a specific different state."
Second Assassination Attempt Sparks Debate
On September 15, a gunman was discovered lying in wait for an opportunity to shoot former President Trump at the Mar-a-Lago golf course. Just moments before he could get a shot off Secret Service agents fired at him. He ran away, but was later captured. This event reignited a debate on how to prevent more attempts in the future.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn) blamed Trump "for inciting the climate of violence that is destroying civility and unity in our country. Hardly a day goes by when he isn't excoriating those of us who are trying to govern this country and predicting disaster if he isn't elected to replace the retiring incumbent. A poll from the University of Chicago found that an estimated 26 million Americans feel that using force to prevent Trump from being elected president is justified. To me, this proves he is to blame."
A recent RMG Research survey found that only 48% of Democrats think killing Trump would be bad for the country. Twenty-eight percent think killing him would be good for the country and 24% are unsure. Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, said "it is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered."
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) offered the opinion that "this Rasmussen data is a pretty strong mandate for the idea that Trump should be shot."
Rick Wilson, of The Lincoln Project said "it's heartbreaking that there have been two near misses in less than two months. This leaves us with a situation that someone is still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump."
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) advised "Trump is so destructive to our democracy. He has to be eliminated. Look, 26 million Americans approve of using force to get him out of the race. With so many potential assassins I don't see how Trump can survive. Sooner or later his luck will run out. He should drop out before he is killed."
On MSNBC's "The Saturday Show," Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis insisted that "Trump is exactly like Hitler. Dozens of people tried to assassinate Hitler. None of them succeeded, but we have to give them credit for trying. The fact that people are trying to assassinate Trump proves he is as hated and feared as Hitler was. The notion that we should elect him because he won't wreck the economy like Kamala will is short sighted."
Election Integrity Threatened
Catherine Engelbrecht, Founder of @TrueTheVote, announced "we are monitoring over 25 MILLION ineligible names on voter rolls across the country. We're watching to see if those ineligible records go on to cast ballots. That's something that we will immediately report to the proper authorities."
Oklahoma has removed 450,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls, including 100,000 dead people and 15,000 duplicate registrations. Texas removed one million. Nevada removed 140,000.
The Department of Justice Department (DOJ) has issued a warning for states "not to become too vigorous in their efforts to eliminate ineligible and duplicate registrations. Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke has called "having to show one's birthplace and proof of citizenship to vote is discriminatory. The right to vote is a human right and should not be withheld from those who are not citizens, residents of the state, or alive."
Meanwhile in the city of Racine, Wisconsin, election officials failed to meet the state law's parity requirement for an equal number of election inspectors from each political party. Only 9 of the 56 inspectors chosen by the Republican Party were allowed to be inspectors during the August 13 primary election. Racine City Clerk Tara McMenamin defended the disparity as "our normal procedure based on seniority. The simple fact is that more Democrats than Republicans have the experience that builds seniority. Continuing this nonpartisan approach minimizes disputes and expedites the process of counting the ballots."
Harris Flip-Flops Defended
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went on "Meet the Press" to defend Vice-President Kamala Harris' numerous deviations from her previously professed political views.
Host Kristen Welker pointed out that "Vice President Harris has shifted her position on several policy issues from when she first ran for president in 2019. She initially wanted to ban fracking, now she says she doesn't She supported Medicare for all and now she says she doesn't. To the voters who have concerns about this, if she's elected, why won't she change her mind again?"
In response, Buttigieg replied "politics is the art of the possible. As Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out at the Convention, you can't accomplish anything if you don't win the election. Right now, her older policy ideas aren't popular. Banning fracking, open borders, higher taxes, and more regulations are unpopular. We can be confident that her values haven't changed, but it would be better for her to mute them until after the election. As president she will have full command of the most powerful country in the world. All that is required is about four months of patience before the progressive transformation of America can rev up again just like it did when Joe Biden started signing his executive orders on January 20, 2021."
