Monday, September 30, 2024

The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster

The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster

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The Biden-Harris administration has yet again shown its complete inability to effectively manage disaster responses. From its appalling handling of the tragedy in Lahaina, Maui, to its blatant indifference toward the people of East Palestine, Ohio—and now the failure to properly aid the victims of Hurricane Helene, especially in Asheville, N.C.—the pattern is clear. Time and time again, we've witnessed an administration incapable of stepping up when it's needed most.

Of course, that's not stopping them from getting the necessary photo ops. Kamala Harris is attempting to use Hurricane Helene to display leadership, but it's entirely phony. Late Sunday, she tweeted about being briefed by FEMA and speaking with North Carolina's governor about recovery efforts. Like many politicians, she shared a photo to emphasize her involvement, but it actually turned out to have been staged. Meanwhile, rather than actually doing something to help, she was on the other side of the country raising money for her campaign in San Francisco.

Things are so bad in North Carolina that down in Florida, which also experienced the wrath of Helene, Gov. Ron DeSantis is telling the federal government to focus on North Carolina because Florida "has what we need."

"I was in the air when President Joe Biden called, so I wasn't able to talk to him yesterday," DeSantis said. "What I would say is—Florida, we have it handled. We got approved for the individual assistance things we've wanted. We have what we need. Now, obviously, you know, there may be additional things that we'll ask for in the future. It depends on how things shake out," he added. "But I think most of the effort should be in Western North Carolina right now because you still have active rescues that need to take place." 

Related: Parts of Georgia Are Struggling After Helene Powered Through the State

"It's almost like if this area were totally cut off and every road was destroyed and all this, but you can still get places by boat. There, you can't do that," DeSantis said. "I just think they should really, the federal government should focus on that. We're running rescue flights. We're happy to do it, but I know the federal government has more assets than the state of Florida has. So there should not be anybody left behind."

Sadly, it's not looking good for more assistance coming to North Carolina any time soon. On Sunday, Joe Biden told the media that the Biden-Harris administration had given the victims of the hurricane "everything that we have," and that there aren't any more resources that the federal government can provide.

The Biden-Harris administration has completely dropped the ball on the federal response to Hurricane Helene, but at least Kamala got a photo op pretending to care.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/30/the-biden-harris-federal-response-to-helene-is-a-total-disaster-n4932946?utm_source=twdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The Heinous Border Record Kamala Doesn't Want Voters to Know About

The Heinous Border Record Kamala Doesn't Want Voters to Know About

Katie Pavlich

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Well, folks, she's doing it. Vice President Kamala Harris is finally making a real visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. 

After years of stalling and falsely claiming the border is secure, her visit to Arizona comes as she tries to redefine herself as a "tough on crime prosecutor" who has "taken on transnational gangs and drug cartels." But like everything else about her campaign, it’s all an act, and her record proves it. 

Since 2021, Harris, the Biden Border Czar, has overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in American history. For human traffickers, the past three and a half years have been good for business — raking in $100 million a week and $5 billion per year. 

This, of course, was by design. It was, and still is, a way for Democrats to admit 15 million people into the country, with no plans to ever make them leave, and then use the issue against Republicans in order to solidify permanent Democratic power through mass amnesty. Harris admitted as much during an interview with MSNBC this week. 

“We need a comprehensive plan that includes what we need to do to fortify not only our border, but deal with the fact that we also need to create pathways for people to earn citizenship,” Harris said. 

But Harris’ record and dedication to that permanent power hasn’t come without a devastating, human cost. 

According to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, 300,000 children have been trafficked into the United States and lost by the Biden-Harris administration. 

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed. During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court,” the report states. “As of May 2024, ICE had not served NTAs [notice to appear] on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date.”

These children are abused, sex trafficked and sold into the underground labor market.

“Across the factory, another worker had failed to see Marcos crouched with his left arm deep inside the assembly line and turned it on,” The New York Times reported about a 14-year-old boy from Guatemala. “The belt caught the sleeve of Marcos’s baggy jacket and pulled him across the floor. Hard plastic teeth ripped through his muscles, tearing open his forearm down to the bone. By the time someone heard his screams and shut off the power, his arm was limp, a deep triangular gash running down the length of it.”

Harris’ open border policies have enabled these crimes against the most vulnerable and innocent, resulting in one of the biggest modern day slavery operations in history. 

When children aren’t being trafficked, they’re being killed by fentanyl brought into the country by the cartels. Like 15-year-old Weston Funder, who unknowingly took a laced pill. 

“Weston, like many teenagers, wanted to fit in. During his second semester of his freshman year of high school, at the early age of 15, in a moment of heavy peer pressure, he made a tragic mistake,” his mother, Anne Funder, recently testified. “He took something that a new ‘friend' gave to him. It wasn’t what he was told it was, and instead, it only contained the lethal poison, 'illicit fentanyl.’ On February 27, 2022, our world was shattered. That morning, my husband found Weston lifeless in his room. Weston’s whole future, all of our hopes and dreams for him, were stolen in an instant.”

Dangerous and satanic gangs like Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua have taken over apartment buildings in American towns, intimidating residents and engaging in turf wars. They’re also sexually abusing and killing American children. 

“Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally assaulted and murdered under a bridge by two men in Houston, Texas. According to police, Jocelyn was found dumped in a creek bed bound with rope and nude from the waist down. Her cause of death was later determined to be strangulation. Two illegal aliens from Venezuela, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, both of whom were released by the Biden-Harris Administration earlier this year, have been charged with Jocelyn’s murder,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform reports. 

Every day, another American becomes a victim of illegal alien crime. 

None of this matters to Harris, who suddenly has found the will — with just weeks until the 2024 presidential election — to "care." 

https://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2024/09/27/the-heinous-border-record-kamala-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-n2645363?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

ASU Snowflakes Melt Down at Sight of MAGA Hats

ASU Snowflakes Melt Down at Sight of MAGA Hats

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You wouldn't think there could be enough snowflakes at Arizona State University to cause a major meltdown but things get weird on the Left whenever or wherever Donald Trump is involved — even if it's just his famous hats and not the Bad Orange Man himself.

But these are young lefties we're talking about here and, when it comes to the slightest exposure to differing viewpoints, they're like the Boy in the Bubble getting shoved into the basement of a Wuhan virus lab that just failed its third consecutive safety inspection.

I'm kidding, of course. Wuhan virus labs don't have safety inspections.

Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk hosted a voter registration drive at ASU this week with, he says, "MASSIVE turnout." There were also some turning stomachs if the overwrought responses from some overly sensitive young adults are to be believed.

And believe me, you'll have trouble believing them. 

Facebook user Kaylie got the ball rolling when she commented, "I was soo distrubed seeing all the MAGA hats everywhere today [grumpy face emoji] confused why there was so many and when I found where they got them from [I puked emoji].

SOMEBODY IS SELLING MAGA HATS ON CAMPUS — CALL THE WHAAAAAMBULANCE!

"made my stomach turn a lil tbh," Ava confessed in her reply. 

"To think i almost went to school there," and "No I literally gagged," and "i'm scared," all quickly followed.

The kids are not all right. 

All the human avis were of attractive young white women and that's what we've got to talk about. A 2020 PEW study found that white lefties — particularly young white women — suffer disproportionately from mental illness. 

The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.”

Young white women suffered the worst.

White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.

Some of what's going wrong here is probably nothing worse than social proof — one person says Trump is JUST AWFUL and MAKES HER WANT TO PUKE and other members of her social circle, to prove the worthiness of their membership, feel compelled to chime in.

The rest is quite serious.

It's a genuine crisis that 56% of one of the larger demographic sub-groups in the country reports suffering from some kind of mental condition. But we're not supposed to talk about that because driving women to madness creates a reliable, almost panic-driven voting bloc for Democrats. 

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/09/26/asu-snowflakes-meltdown-at-sight-of-maga-hats-n4932849

New Georgia Poll Hints That State is Out of Reach for Kamala Harris

New Georgia Poll Hints That State is Out of Reach for Kamala Harris

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A new CBS/YouGov poll released Wednesday has former President Donald Trump leading Democrat Kamala Harris by two points. The poll of 1,441 registered voters shows Trump with a 51 percent to 49 percent lead.

This is the latest in a string of polls showing Trump leading by between one and four points in Georgia; see here and here. The CBS/YouGov poll called the 2020 race in Georgia on the money.

The entire poll is at the bottom of the post, but I think there are some interesting items that need highlighting.

I think this poll undercounts Trump's strength in Georgia. The topline split is two points, but when you dig deeper, that doesn't seem plausible.

Poll crosstabs show that Trump leads men by 13 points (56 percent to 43 percent) and Harris leads women by seven points (53 percent to 46 percent). If the male-female crosstabs are accurate, I don't think you can get to a two-point lead. I've posted on Harris's problem with male voters not named Willie Brown; see Tim Walz's Manly Essence Isn't Helping Kamala Win Male Voters. The inability of the Harris-Walz ticket to appeal to male voters will be the big story if Trump wins this election.

The poll hit some political issue peculiar to Georgia as well as those with national attention.

  • Sixty-five percent of those surveyed think things are going either "somewhat" or "very badly" for the country.
  • Voters prefer Trump's economic policies to Harris's by 14 points.
  • For all the harping on "democracy," by 45 percent to 42 percent, Georgians thought Donald Trump would make democracy stronger.
  • By 49 percent to 35 percent, voters thought they would be better of financially with Trump as president.
  • Bidenomics is a non-starter. Seventy-nine percent of voters say their income is not keeping up with inflation and only 22 percent say they are better off financially now than four years ago. Seventy-one percent said housing is either "somewhat" or "very" unaffordable.
  • The Democrats have invested a lot of money in campaigning for more gun control, and both Harris and Trump are tied on the question of their policies reducing "gun violence."
  • Abortion is another hot-button issue the Democrats have invested heavily in. While 59 percent of voters believe abortion should be legal in "most" or "all" cases, they are split 50-50 on whether Georgia's six-week abortion ban is "too strict" or "about right/not strict enough." The scaremongering over women dying for want of an abortion isn't working. Fifty-four percent believe that pregnancy is either "safer" or "hasn't changed" since the six-week ban was enacted. Significantly, 71 percent believe Harris will pass a national law making abortion legal everywhere but only 34 percent think Trump will make abortion illegal in all states.
  • Majorities approve of the new hand-count mandate and believe it will give more accurate results.

In short, Trump is winning on every major issue, voters are unhappy with their situation, and everyone is looking forward to voting. As I noted, I don't think you can go through the crosstabs and conclude that Trump is only ahead by two points. If this poll is close to accurate, it is game over in Georgia for Harris-Walz.

CBS/YouGov Poll

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https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/09/25/new-georgia-poll-hints-that-state-is-out-of-reach-for-kamala-harris-n2179792?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The Harris Campaign Is Straight-Up Delusional

The Harris Campaign Is Straight-Up Delusional

Kurt Schlichter

AP Photo/Paul Sancya

You have to wonder what world the puppet masters controlling Kamala Harris live in. It’s not our world. It’s not the universe of normal people. Maybe it’s because her handlers are robots stamped out of the commie college conformity factories. Maybe they are just stupid. Maybe they are insane. Regardless, you have to wonder just what the hell they are thinking when they try to appeal to regular voters.

Campaigns regularly trumpet their endorsements, with Democrats getting particularly excited about the ones from various unions. That went south for Kamala not long ago when a poll of Teamster members showed that she came in third in the preference race among the working-class guys who drive things for a living, right behind Trump and herpes.

The Hoffa union’s leadership, which had regularly endorsed Dems over the last few decades, decided not to make any national endorsement. That was pretty bad, but fear not. Through its internet minions, the Harris campaign proudly announced that it had obtained the coveted endorsement of the IRS workers’ union. Yeah, they bragged about it. How does someone convince him, her, or xirself that the American people will be eager to throw their support to the candidate that the IRS likes best? What’s next – a breathless press release about how she’s the pick of the Amalgamated International Brotherhood of Professional Registered Sex Offenders?

And speaking of Diddy and Co., are her celebrity endorsements really helping? I suppose there’s a certain demographic that loves the music of Taylor Swift for some reason, but are they really going to vote based on the gut instincts of a woman whose entire oeuvre is about her bad choices in men? If she doesn’t drool over Trump and JD, isn’t it kind of a validation? 

Then there was Oprah the other day, spoon-feeding Kamala the opportunity to offer her prepackaged, awkward non-answers in a pseudo-interview setting. Is Oprah still a thing? I don’t know. I do know that a man who isn’t pretending to identify as a man watching that festival of estrogen and condescension is going to run to vote for The Donald. Julia Roberts offered her insights, and so did Meryl Streep, and there’s nothing men like better than being instructed by Hollywood crones. And I’m not convinced women dig this stuff either. They come home from the Safeway bankrupt, turn on the tube, and then watch a bunch of rich ladies dressed in clothes worth more than their cars lecture them on joy, vibes, and how only Kamala Harris will protect their sacred ability to kill babies.

There’s also the serious policy stuff. Did you know several hundred Republicans, in the sense that they were allegedly once Republicans at about the time that the aforementioned Taylor Swift was a fetus, have endorsed Kamala? Yippee. The most famous ones are the Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Doom of formerly important Republicans, Liz Cheney and her useless father. They never met a war they didn’t like your kids to go fight for them. Kamala is very excited to have them on her side now. Kind of makes you wonder what war they have in mind for her first term. The only thing we know for sure is that no Cheney will be fighting in them.

There were other less prominent endorsers, including some literal interns from the Reagan administration. Gee, I was a congressional intern in 1986 and I’m offended no one asked me to sign on to this auspicious list. I could have had my name there between Melvin Sadsack, the Deputy Assistant for Legume Initiatives in the Bush 1.0 Department of Agriculture, and Daryl Schnarf, Alternate Board Member of the President’s Council for Metric System Implementation under Jerry Ford. Those dudes are total legends of conservatism, according to people who read stuff by David French unironically.

Trumpeting this dismal crew of washed-up nobodies is obviously a play for the normie Republicans, but here’s the thing – all the normie Republicans who this nonsense might appeal to have been Democrats since they decided that a GOP that would nominate Mitt Romney was just too edgy for their fussy, feminine tastes.

The latest Harris campaign play was another slate of faceless endorsements, this time from “national security professionals” who consider Donald Trump a terrible danger to America’s standing in the world. These were, of course, the very half-wits who are responsible for the sorry state of America’s standing in the world. These are the guys who forgot to order enough oilers for the Navy; the captain these same dorks selected for command ran it aground, effectively neutering a carrier task force. In contrast, Israel, whose national security establishment is both serious and competent, just gave thousands of Hezbollah scumbags a faster, messier version of the gender reassignment surgery Kamala wants for illegal aliens.

These losers would not know Clausewitz from Santa Claus; for them, war is just domestic American politics by other means. Guess that explains why they don’t seem very interested in actually winning them. They are all unimpressive timeservers. Nine of them are such foreign policy geniuses that they signed the infamous “Hunter’s laptop is a Putin plot” letter, meaning they were fooled by Putin when he was not even trying to fool them.

Others are generals and admirals, as if this is going to sway the veteran vote. It’s that same certainty that they can trick the ex-military rubes by throwing Tim Walz out there because he was a commander general corporal or something in the Army. Of course, no one knows better than us vets just how transcendently incompetent and corrupt so many of the Washington generals are. The Venn Diagram of these Pentagon princes and the boards of Boeing and Raytheon are pretty much a circle. They have not unequivocally won a major war in 30 years, and now we are supposed to be awestruck that they have bestowed their blessing on Madame Brat? That the foreign policy establishment supports you is clear and convincing evidence that you suck. But if you think the last few decades with these bozos in charge have gone swimmingly for America overseas, yeah, definitely take their sage advice and back Kamala.

Talk about tone deaf. Inexplicably, they doubled down by bringing Zelensky over here – in an Air Force jet – to hang out in Pennsylvania and interfere in our election. He had some bad things to say about Trump and Vance in between touring an artillery shell factory and signing some bombs with Governor Josh Shapiro. It’s madness. What the hell was he thinking? This was enough to rile up even the most pro-Ukrainian Republicans. Who was the person who thought the Democrats would be helped by dragging in some Slavic potentate to lecture Americans on why Trump/Vance are bad for not wanting to give more money and stuff – and maybe our sons and daughters – to a bloody, endless stalemate? Look, I like Ukraine – I trained their troops, and I admire their pluck in fighting back – but when Trump wins and this president-for-life finds out that there’s a new sheriff in town, don’t look at me for help when no one returns Kyiv’s phone calls. Nobody forced you to interfere in our politics and go all in on our opponents, or maybe the Democrats did, but you ended up choosing a side and we won’t forget. And for what? How many Americans who are not already Kamalabots will this visit sway? A fraction of the ones offended and annoyed by Ukraine’s presumption at sticking its nose into our elections – again. As usual, Putin’s best friends are the people who whine loudest about him.

What do all these plays for the votes of normal people by the Democrats have in common? A couple of things. There is the utter condescension and contempt evident in thinking that we can be dazzled by celebrities and impressed by rosters of Beltway hacks who were barely relevant back when they were relevant at all. But there is also the total disconnect between the Harris team and reality – the Democrats really think this stuff is going to work. They believe these are what will motivate Americans in this election. Not the economy. Not making America strong again. Not dog-dining Third World peasant invasions. Not weird perverts in our daughters’ locker rooms. This junk. They really don’t know us at all, and that could bite them hard at the ballot box.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/09/26/the-harris-campaign-is-straight-up-delusional-n2645234?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Kamala Harris Promises 'Bold Experimentation' like Franklin Roosevelt, but Americans Aren't Lab Rats

Kamala Harris Promises 'Bold Experimentation' like Franklin Roosevelt, but Americans Aren't Lab Rats

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As if the prospect of a Kamala Harris presidency isn't terrifying enough, she had to go and say this.

The last three years with Biden and Harris have been bad enough. This experiment is already a big fat failure.

Yes, we already saw how that worked out.

There is oh so very much that could wrong.

They are already getting the middle class used to being poor.

Nor are we one of Dr. Fauci's beagles.

Kamala's staff has said she doesn't really like to get into the weeds of background studies and reading long reports, so how could she be expected to know that?

Expanding government is the Democrat's answer to all troubles, though.

It's bad for education and also very bad for governing people.

Was Kamala's 'bold experiment' hanging around and doing nothing for the last 3 years? If so, she is a resounding success.

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/09/25/kamala-franklin-roosevelt-experimentation-scary-n2401408