Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Bingo
2. Angry
3. Paintball
4. Manipulation
5. Tulsi
6. Kamala
7. FAA
8. Salon
1. Bingo. Just in time for this week’s democrat national convention, we have a proposed Bingo Card. Fill out a row, any row, and Kamala will freeze prices on your choice of consumer goods, instantly creating a shortage, lines for its purchase, and avenues for her cronies to make a great deal of money by gaming the newly installed system. This was created by a valued correspondent who did a very nice job. Enjoy –
2. Angry. Interesting dynamic shaping up as the Kamala campaign trots out Dementia Hitler for their campaign rallies. He is not real happy at being removed from the candidacy without his agreement and is reverting back to his core beliefs: nasty, vengeful, petty and most of all bitter, interested in payback for past, present and perceived sleights. All of this is made orders of magnitude worse by his accelerating mental deterioration which is busily stripping everything that hid his ugly little core from the public over a 50+ year political career. All he has left today is the occasional leering smile. Kamala trotted Biden out for a campaign event last week at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, MD. The body language between the two was not friendly. Kamala was in her inappropriate laugh (or joyous or wine drunk) mode. The crowd was nasty, heckling Biden over the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. When Kamala handed the lectern over to Biden, a lot of the crowd got up and left. Kamala is desperately trying to separate herself from the Biden – Harris economic legacy. Biden is doing his level best to not allow her to do so, generally responding to reporter questions about that attempted separation with angry denial, implying they were and still are a team. The longer Biden is allowed to hang around, the worse drag, an unpredictable drag, he becomes on the campaign. A couple pieces over the weekend addressed this. The first suggested that the 25th Amendment he was threatened with to withdraw from the campaign is still a viable option. Of course, that option runs the very real risk of Kamala having to take full credit (or blame) for everything the regime does over the next 80 days. The other possibility is that Biden at the end of his convention speech today says F-it, F-you and announces his resignation as president. His immediate endorsement of Kamala was a F-you aimed at O’Bama, Schumer, Pelosi and the rest of the democrat cabal that orchestrated his removal from the campaign. I think there will be more. In the best of worlds, the Kamala campaign and its propagandists are now saddled with an angry, bitter, unpredictable old man who they weren’t smart enough to remove as president, with enough left on the ball mentally to know he wants to hurt those who hurt him. The failure to remove him from office is the real screw up, as it leaves him with power to damage their grand plans to steal yet another election and install yet another puppet of their cabal.
3. Paintball. I mentioned Walz rolling out the National Guard to open fire on citizens sitting on their porches last week. Turns out that it was a combined force of National Guard and local police, all in tactical gear, quite happy to open fire on innocents at their homes. Gutfeld ran the video from the incident midweek. I can’t describe in polite words how ugly this was and how the participants, all of whom bloody well know better, deserved deadly return fire. Respect for MN law enforcement and National Guard after this? Neither earned nor deserved.
4. Manipulation. Liberal judges on the 4th Circuit have been intentionally diddling opinion release dates supporting gun rights. The manipulation was revealed in a footnote to a case called Bianchi, that revolves around MD’s ban on so-called assault weapons. The case was originally heard Dec 2022. Opinions were circulated fairly quickly afterwards. In this circuit, dissenting opinions are typically circulated at the same time as majority opinions. One dissenting judge stopped the process by refusing to circulate dissenting opinions, likely because it was pro-gun. In that period, the SCOTUS Bruen opinion was released. This year long delay allowed another 4th Circuit panel to issue an anti-Second Amendment opinion in a separate case. This prompted the 4th Circuit to re-hear Bianchi, ultimately leading to an anti-Second Amendment ruling. In playing this little game, the court actively suppressed a pro-Second Amendment ruling and gamed a reversal. The word got out via a footnote on pp 87 of the final Bianchi opinion.
5. Tulsi. Forner HI congress critter Tulsi Gabbard (D) has been targeted by the TSA, added to their Quiet Skies program. To be in Quiet Skies, you are identified as a higher risk on the terrorist watch list and targeted for increased scrutiny (think everything up to cavity searches) when you try to get on an airplane. The program was created as a vehicle to further harass anyone in DC on Jan 6. As with all of these watch lists, you can be added for any reason, without notification, and without the ability to respond. Any attempt to find out who added you, for what reason, and how long you are going to be on it disappears into the national security black hole. Whistleblowers claim that Gabard is monitored by two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one TSA Specialist specializing in explosives, one plainclothes TSA Supervisor and three Federal Air Marshalls on every single flight she boards. Political payback is a bitch, as all of this is due to her leaving the democrat party and becoming critical of its descent into fascism. What better way to demonstrate you aren’t fascist than to use the power of the federal security apparat to harass your political opposition. She was added to the list and picked up her TSA entourage Jul 23, 2022, when she criticized Kamala, Biden and the National Security State in an interview with Laura Ingraham on FNC. Note that Hilly smeared Gabbard as s Russian asset during the 2020 campaign. Gabbard responded with a defamation lawsuit. As an aside, notice that Hilly has become a one trick pony. If she doesn’t like you, you become a Russian asset.
6. Kamala. Last week, Kamala’s persuasion support structure continued to do its evil work successfully, allowing her to make her initial policy recommendations. More on that, next week. Still, there were a few notable events.
- First, is that we went through a 10-day period in Aug, roughly from Aug – 5 – 15 where there were no national polls release until Rasmusson released one toward the end of the week. During that period, the media gushed about how well Kamala was doing, though there was no publicly available national or swing state polling to support that position. The Rasmussen polling mostly showed Trump still leading in most of the swing states with a small national lead. Note that Trump never had a national lead in either of his first two campaigns. The reason to sit on the polls was to allow the election betting markets to reset toward Kamala. These markets run on opinion, which was under an endless barrage of Kamala = good / joyful brainwashing since she was installed as the presumptive nominee. In other words, the polls were manipulated so as to manipulate the betting markets.
- Second Kamala story comes with the campaign actively running ads edited to look like positive media stories to her candidacy. The ads look like Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side and support her. This was initially reported as the Kamala campaign actively rewriting media headlines on Google, which was in error. Google claims this sort of thing doesn’t violate their policies, though nothing the democrats ever do seems to do that, but the technique has been used by other campaigns in the past.
- Time Magazine ran a pro-Kamala cover so sickeningly sweet that looking at it can make your teeth hurt. The cover was intended to reintroduce Kamala to the electorate. Of course, Kamala refused to sit for an interview, which takes us to our next point.
- One of the smart things democrats have figured out is that they don’t have to talk to the media. Best of all, there is no penalty for ignoring them. This is a lesson that the Trump campaign and other Republicans need to learn. If dealing with the media becomes everywhere a negative for your campaign, why deal with them? No great suggestion for what you do if you don’t talk with media. One suggestion would be to have a series of lunches with opposition voters. Record it and release it to the public. Selection of participants becomes important as campaign activists would be on this like white on rice.
- Final story comes out of Maine where the Maine Wire report that Republicans for Harris is an entirely astroturf group organized by Amy Cookson, a campaign staffer for the Harris campaign. “XXX for Harris” groups have been popping up like so many toadstools over the last month. They are supposed to demonstrate the size and power of the never-Trump world, pandering to anti-Trumpers. Turns out they are all artificial constructs, much like everything in the democrat political world, intended to fool you into believing support for democrats is much larger than anyone knows or expect. The group is actively recruiting registered Republicans who claim to have had enough of Trump and won’t vote for him. With the help of friendly media and leftist blogs, this effort has been successful in Maine.
7. FAA. The FAA continues to slow-roll regulatory approval of the fifth Starship launch, ready to go for at least 10 days. SpaceX announced they were ready and would be working on readying the next few flights they intend to launch before the end of the year. The FAA also called off a series of public hearings scheduled for communities near Starbase at Boca Chica. The hearings were on environmental review for the expanded launch license for Starbase (25 Starship flights/year). Online meetings were also canceled. Two hearings were scheduled Aug 13 on South Padre Island and two more Aug 15 in Port Isabel. FAA has not yet rescheduled the meetings nor explained why they were postponed. The most recent environmental harassment are wild claims of mercury dumping via the deluge system used to dampen the effects of the engine plume during ignition and launch. CNBC published a breathless piece immediately rejected by SpaceX. Looks like both the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and EPA are interested in the deluge system and have been since before the third flight in March.
8. Salon. This week’s ugly Secret Service story comes courtesy of the Gateway Pundit which reports that Secret Service agents broke into a hair salon, taped over the security camera, and hung around using the restroom for over an hour during a Kamala fundraiser in MA July 27. While the owner had previously given permission for agents to sweep the salon before she locked up, she did not give them permission to break in, use the facilities, or tape over the camera. The alarm was going the entire time Secret Service was in the shop and they left the front door unlocked when they left. The Secret Service excuse was that some agent(s) needed to use the facilities. They grudgingly apologized following public outrage and criticism. Nice to see that private property and ownership rights are only of interest to democrat supporters.
More later –
- AG