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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Links - 31st October 2024 (3 - Harris-Walz)

Tony Seruga on X - "GPS—31,834 mobile devices at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. for a Kamala Harris rally.   91% have attended 3 or more Harris rallies.   Interesting, just over 11,000 were from Atlanta, Georgia, followed by 6,500 from California.   Using our Antifa/BLM/Pro-Palestinian overlays, 6,122 were linked to 3 or more Antifa/BLM/Pro-Palestinian protests/riots."

Ben Mankiewicz on X - "The IQ bashing of Harris is particularly revolting. She may not be your candidate, but no one who’s worked with her thinks she’s dumb. It is, of course, steeped in racism and misogyny. Curious if guys like Gibson were troubled by George Bush’s intellectual depth…(they weren’t)."
i/o on X - "Harris isn't "low IQ" (a term that should be reserved for people with below-average intelligence), but she appears to be the least cognitively capable presidential candidate in my lifetime, and, yes, that's something that should be talked about.  As for George W. Bush, his SAT score was very slightly higher than that of John Kerry (his campaign rival in 2004), and his class rank was also very slightly higher. (Both attended Yale as undergrads.)"

Meme - "I was in a relationship with an OF/cambirl for a couple of years. AMA"
"White dudes for Harris"
"Yes I am"

Meme - Peasant: "I can't afford to eat food."
Man with Harris-Walz '24 cap popping out of well: "You know that's Russian disinformation right?"

Jacob Shell on X - "OK why did Harris pull out of a doing a Rogan interview? That guy's interview style is 100% posture of empathy with the guest. He doesnt do "gotcha" questions. What's the issue? Harris would be able to get across her positive traits to his mostly male audience...isnt this exactly what she needs?"
i/o on X - "The fact that Harris' people know that she's not up to having an open and non-confrontational conversation with a person as famously chill as Rogan tells you just how little faith they have in her ability to come across as likeable and competent to a mostly younger male audience."
Andrew Gutmann on X - "While it’s very true that Harris is not very verbally adept, there’s likely a much more important reason she avoids most interviews. Dem policies on every issue about which voters care except abortion are unpopular. Any good interviewer would expose that."

Kamala Harris' VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China - "Jenna Wang, 59, claims the VP hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her at his poky staff accommodation at No. 1 High School in Foshan, Guangdong Province.  The lovers could not risk holding hands or showing affection in public because Wang's dad was a high-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party who would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner.  But their romance blossomed behind closed doors as they sipped tea, made love and listened to George Michael hits – leading the then 24-year-old Wang to dream about marriage and a new life in the United States.  No proposal was forthcoming from the future Minnesota governor, however, and the shame of being treated 'like a prostitute' eventually left Wang feeling angry and suicidal, she claims. ''Tim was very passionate and very romantic. I can still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, Careless Whisper,' she told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.  'The fact we couldn't touch or kiss in public just made it all the more exciting and intense when we were finally alone.  'We were deeply in love and I wanted to marry him and start a family. When it didn't happen, I felt very unhappy and sad. Tim's behavior was very selfish.' Walz's time in China is already a source of controversy after he misleadingly claimed in interviews and congressional transcripts that he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests erupted from April to June of 1989.  It later transpired that he didn't join the staff of nonprofit WorldTeach in China until August 1989, prompting Walz, 60, to profess during the recent VP debate that he was a 'knucklehead' when recalling dates... They avoided overt shows of affection in case it got back to Wang's father Bin Hui, who was an important CCP official and chairman of a labor union in her native city of Guilin.  Walz would travel to Hong Kong and Macau on the weekends – cities that were more or less inaccessible for all but the Chinese elite – and bring back Western-style luxuries like blue jeans, Ray-Ban sunglasses and jewelry.  'He couldn't sing and when he tried to dance he found it very hard. I could tell he was in the military,' Wang said.  'But we talked for hours and hours, we stayed in bed, we had sex. He continued to buy me gifts.  'I could never stay overnight because of the social conventions. It was very repressive. Couples walked around the city like robots... During the summer Walz returned to the US but wrote letters to Wang, giving vivid depictions of his life and teaching job in Alliance, Nebraska.  At Walz's direction, Wang says she sent off a passport photo and information about herself to an address in the States, believing it was part of the process to secure her a visa.  When the future running mate of presidential hopeful Kamala Harris flew back to China in 1992, she resigned her coveted teaching role, believing she was about to embark on a new life.  Their relationship soon began to sour, however, when Walz made clumsy, romantic gestures in public, on one occasion trying to feed Wang a slice of pear as they embarked on a ten-day tour of South China.  'People were staring at us. I tried to reject it because I was very afraid. Teachers were supposed to set an example,' she said.  The couple made sure to book two hotel rooms wherever they stayed but on an overnight train journey Walz insisted that Wang sleep in his cabin. The conductor shone a flashlight on Wang in the middle of the night and started to admonish her, only to retreat when Walz, afforded more respect as a westerner, woke up... Walz responded by suggesting that Wang was more interested in a US passport than marriage.  'This was very offensive. I said to him that it is both or nothing,' she said... The next morning Wang slipped out of their hotel and took a taxi to a remote clifftop where she says she contemplated throwing herself off rather than returning to her old life in disgrace... Walz never again crossed paths with Wang, who emigrated to Europe several years later where she now works as teacher, translator and cultural mediator.  She says the pair last exchanged a handful of friendly messages over Facebook in 2009 and talked about how their lives had panned out."

CNN panel completely loses it after Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary (correctly) points out that Kamala Harris was not democratically nominated. The “pro-democracy” party really hates it when you point out that they don’t actually support democracy. : r/Canada_sub

Western Lensman on X - "WOW: Mark Cuban tries to explain Kamala’s shift from radical leftist to “moderate’ — ends up exposing Kamala as a shameless political opportunist and liar. It’s a really, really bad idea to keep Mark on the campaign trail if you’re Kamala:
CUBAN: “She was representing the state of California. You can call it the People's Republic of California, right? And so when you have a far left state, you know, you're going to do what your citizens want when you're representing the United States of America. It's a much broader…."
KARL: “But do you think she believes that stuff?"
CUBAN: "I think she believed it for sure. But you know, I mean, look, she has to speak for herself on those things…"
So, according to Cuban, she believed in her radical leftwing positions when it was expedient in California, but now she doesn’t believe them because it’s not expedient when trying to win the Presidency. Holy smokes."
Adding to the list of how Mark Cuban is an idiot

Shawn Carney on X - "10 days to go and the inspiring message from Kamala is having a celebrity say she wants her daughters to have access to abortion. Tone deaf."
Beyoncé says 'I'm here as a mother' as she endorses Kamala Harris at massive rally in Texas

Publius on X - "KAMALA brings 10 abortion "doctors " on stage to praise abortion. Someone in audience has a medical emergency and all the "doctors" heads start spinning looking for someone else who can help. "I think someone needs some medical assistance over here.""

She's the Extremist: Kamala Harris Won't Name ONE Abortion Restriction She Supports - "She attacks Donald Trump and his 'abortion bans' and uses the name of Amber Nicole Thurman as a political pawn even though Thurman's family has asked her not to"

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: CNN’s Scott Jennings says Kamala Harris is a “double-threat” because she can’t think on her feet and can’t answer the expected questions. CNN has railed on Harris after her town hall event. Here are the top reactions:
6. Axelrod: She is word salad city.
5. Jennings: Kamala is a double threat because she can’t answer anything.
4. Jake Tapper: She spent most of the time talking about Trump.
3. Dana Bash: Kamala did not close the deal.
2. Van Jones: The word salad stuff gets on my nerves.
1. David Urban: Kamala lost a one person debate."

Kamala Harris town hall host Maria Shriver says crowd can't ask questions because they're 'pre-determined' - "A town hall event with Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday featured a shocking revelation after one voter simply wondered whether she could ask a question... Typically, presidential campaigns allow voters at townhall meetings to ask unscripted questions, which lends a level of authenticity to the proceedings and highlights a presidential candidate's personal touch... Cheney joked that it felt like a Kennedy family dinner table, noting the number of people in the room.  'It's raucous, it's hot but it's fun, that's what it's going to be like,' Shriver laughed.    But the conversation was hardly 'jamming' or 'raucus' as Harris repeated many of her scripted lines about her love of country and Cheney revisited her frequent attacks against former President Donald Trump for allowing the riots to occur on January 6 on Capitol Hill. The revelation comes as the vice president has refused to sit for an interview with several legacy media outlets since taking over Joe Biden's campaign.    She has also faced a slew of criticism for her sparse media strategy and appearing on friendly outlets such as the podcast Call Her Daddy.   Recently the owner of Time magazine aired his grievances after claiming his publication has reached out several times for an interview with the presidential nominee."

Meme - Gregg Re @gregg_re: "whenever you hear the media say “without evidence,” it means there is a lot of evidence"
"The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris's October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County district attorney's office. On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs-including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage-in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years. McDonald's is absent."

Meme - "r/DeclineIntoCensorship
JD gets Walz to admit they will criminalize "hate speech and misinformation"
MOD: "stop abusing the report button. just because you may disagree with it, doesn't mean that it breaks the rules
edit: updated pic...over 100 total reports"
Ironic. And as usual left wingers hate hate facts

Meme - Common Sense Todd @CommonSenseTodd: "This leftist meltdown over newspapers daring to-for not be blatantly partisan is just so... nourishing to my soul."
Mark Hamill: "Just canceled the newspaper that told us "Democracy Dies In Darkness" #BoycottWaPo"
TazTears @Tazlears: "it's perfect"
AmericanPapaBear: "Jeff Bezos not allowing the Washington Post to endorse Kamala Harris tells me that he knows she is going to lose. Rats always flee the sinking ship."

Bezos insists no quid pro quo in decision to pull Washington Post’s Harris endorsement as staff and subscribers quit - ""Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote. “No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence.”... William Lewis, the publisher and CEO of the Post, defended the decision in an editor’s note, pointing to the paper’s history of going periods without making an endorsement. “We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds on this, the most consequential of American decisions — whom to vote for as the next president,” Lewis wrote. The Washington stalwart isn’t the only billionaire-owned paper facing pushback over its editorial board. The Los Angeles Times also declined to endorse a candidate this election, with news reports and former staffers accusing owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong of canceling a planned Harris endorsement, while the owner claims the editorial board didn’t comply with a request to supply non-partisan evaluations of both candidates."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "When the editorial slants of two papers are indistinguishable from one another. The NYT-WaPo-NewYorker-NPR blob."
Max Tani @maxwelltani: "One result of the WaPo non-endorsement: I'm told the NYT has been experiencing a small but noticeable wave of cancelations since yesterday, as well as emails to the effect of "fuck Bezos." There's been some internal discussion about what (if anything) to do about the confusion."

Meme - *Daily Struggle*
"vote for someone whose personally I don't like but whose policies are good for the country"
"Vote for someone who giggles a lot but constantly lies about her communist policies"

Gov. Walz's brother speaks out against his VP nomination: Reports - "Jeff Walz, the brother of the Minnesota governor, recently reportedly made Facebook posts opposing Walz's campaign, writing in comments that he was "100% opposed to all his ideology." Jeff Walz added in an additional comment: "The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future."  Jeff Walz added he hasn't spoken with his brother since 2016."

MAHA Alliance on X - "Dear Kamala Harris, The vast majority of American men have no issue with electing a female president, our issue lies solely with you. Your reputation precedes you, defined by a relentless pursuit of power, from your tenure as California’s attorney general to the present day. *Video*"

dylan on X - "Ominous sign that they’re calling 63% among black women an “incredible” performance when the demographic has historically gone for Democrats with Assad margins"
New poll: Trump is getting record levels of support among young Black and Latino men - "Kamala Harris is doing incredibly well among women of color. A majority of Black (63 percent), Asian American and Pacific Islander (60 percent) and Latina (55 percent) women say they will vote for Harris."

Tim Walz on X - "I want to talk to all the guys for a second. Think about all the women in your life that you love – daughters, wives, moms, cousins, neighbors. This election is about their lives and protecting their freedoms."
Devon Eriksen on X - "Once again, we see it. Socialists always tell on themselves.   The Harris-Walz campaign is desperate — desperate — for male votes, and what's their angle?   Do it for the women.   It's an admission that they have nothing, not one thing, to offer male voters, especially white male voters.   And that, knowing this, they have not altered course or changed their platform at all, but have doubled down, asking men to make yet another in a decades-long series of political self-sacrifices, allowing themselves to once again be sent to the back of the line so women can stand in front of them.   Not only that, Harris-Walz seem to be allergic to the very word "men", always addressing us as "guys", or "dudes", as if we were hanging out after 6th period of high school.   One wonders if they have addressed women voters as "gals", or "chicks", or "broads". No, of course they have not.   Well, Tim, you mincing, cowardly, hypocritical lying little maggot, I'm not a "guy". I'm not a "dude".   I'm a man.   And you don't get to speak to me casually as if you were my friend, when you have shown nothing but hatred and contempt for me and my kind.   Furthermore, my vote is not a proxy that belongs to women. It is mine.   Since the 19th amendment was ratified more than a century ago, women have their own votes. And they are certainly voting what they perceive to be their own interests.   Women in general have a lot of political power in this country, and a great deal of public voice. And they can advocate for what they perceive to be their own interests. They don't need me for that.   So, what about the women in my life, who I love? What, exactly, is it that you think is good for them?   Abortions, apparently. Lots and lots of abortions.   That's your thought process.   Because you don't know them. You don't know anything about them other than the fact they have girl parts, and, based on your evident confusion about basic questions like "what is a woman?" and "who needs feminine hygiene products?", you apparently don't even know that.   You're desperate, and it's disgusting. You have no plan, except that you want to win the election and be the ones in charge, and that's of no benefit to anyone but you.   The only living US citizens who are gonna vote for you are the ones who believe anything their television tells them."

Meme - Paratrooper Brady @82ndairborneBT: "Yea, think about these women who were murdered by illegal aliens let in by Kamala. Vote Trump
Rachel Morin. Mollie Tibbetts. Lizbeth Medina. Kate Steinle. Sarah Root. Laken Riley"
TomiLahren @TomiLahren: "What about their freedom to have their own locker rooms, restrooms, and sports teams?"
Sall Grover @salltweets: "Oh, so you're going to acknowledge that a woman is an adult human female, men cannot be women and protect single sex spaces & sport?"

Meme - "Were you HONEST about Biden's decline?"
"Joe is perfectly capable"
"Then why are you the candidate?"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "This Kamala Harris interview is laughably bad. Illegal immigration is not some ~magically difficult problem to solve.
*Require people to make their fake asylum claims in Mexico
*Don't let people make fake asylum claims if they come from the large stable majority of countries
*Don't let people make fake asylum claims if they cross the border away from a port of entry
*Close the legal loophole that lets people make fake asylum claims
*Load regular illegal aliens on buses and ship their asses home
9,000,000-12,000,000 illegals have entered the USA over the LAST THREE YEARS, while the Democratic candidate for President was Border Czar and acting VP. This was an increase of ~300%. People walking across the border have thanked Joe Biden on video. This is intentional - it's not due to some technical mistake that "Trump faced too."
Come ON with this bullshit."

Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "How interesting, Atlantic."
"The Atlantic. Kamala Harris Might Have to Stop the Steal. Constitutional scholars are already worrying about another January 6 crisis, and they warn that the next election might be harder to save. By Russell Berman"
"Saving the election" = stopping Trump from winning

Meme - "What I don't understand is that you said you built it back better, but now you're saying you are going to fix what you built?"

i/o on X - "There's no evidence that Kamala Harris has ever had an original thought or experienced a unique insight in her life. What gurgles and gushes from inside her is artificial and predictable. If she projects any gravitas at all it's from the accumulated weight of all the cliches piled up inside her brain."
Russell T. Warne 🇺🇸🇨🇱🇮🇱 on X - "She's an NPC. She's pre-programmed with certain platitudes and canned responses. If she is asked anything that deviates from her expectations, she's completely unable to generate her own response.  The other candidate is a buffoon, but he has a strong intuitive grasp of mass psychology, and he has had insights that have served him surprisingly well in national electoral politics. His original thoughts are sometimes stupid, but they're his."

Meme - Kamala Harris: "I promise to do everything I could have done but didn't do because if I did it, I wouldn't have to promise to do it, even though I could do it now, but don't because I don't know what to do, or I would have done it."
Of course, the "fact checkers" were on this

Meme - "Kamala's Campaign in 4 points
1. Me woman
2. Me Brown
3. Kill Babies
4. Trump Bad"

End Wokeness on X - "Kamala Harris: I'll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People's Day"
i/o on X - "If we are to believe the results of the recent forensic/genetics analysis of the remains of Columbus, then it appears that Harris is advocating the elimination of one of the two official US holidays honoring a Jewish person. Will Jesus be next?"

Meme - Kamala Harris: "Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "As district attorney, Kamala Harris oversaw 1,900 convictions for marijuana offenses, some of which resulted in jail time."

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Due to lower than expected polling support for Harris among black men, she has announced she would decriminalize marijuana federally to try to woo black male voters."
KakutogiRoad on X - "How little she thinks of black men... bribing them with weed!"
Veronika Sechler on X - "I dare not think what she might try to offer as the next-up bribe in exchange for votes."

Bakari Sellers on X - "Today @KamalaHarris released an agenda for black men. We’ve talked about having candidates listen to our needs and concerns, and she has.
1. Providing 1 million loans that are fully forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.
2. Championing education, training, and mentorship programs that help Black men get good-paying jobs in high-demand industries and lead their communities, including pathways to become teachers.
3. Supporting a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets so Black men who invest in and own these assets are protected.
4. Launching a National Health Equity Initiative focused on Black Men that addresses sickle cell disease, diabetes, mental health, prostate cancer, and other health challenges that disproportionately impact them.
5. Legalizing recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.
When we vote, we win."
Thread by @Rafa_Mangual on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yikes. Is this 5-point plan real? A few thoughts about each of the 5 agenda items in the OP:
1.) It’s not a “loan” if you don’t have to pay it back; and I’m pretty sure the 14th Amendment has something to say about restricting access to government benefits on the basis of race.
2.) Who actually believes that governmental “championing” (whatever that means) of education, training, and mentorship programs is what’s going to meaningfully improve black male employment?
3.) Wouldn’t white men, black women, etc. who invest in/own crypto currencies also be protected by such a regulatory framework (assuming it works, of course)?
4.) Does anyone sincerely believe that a “National Health Equity Initiative” is what’s going to finally give us the cure for diseases like diabetes, bipolar disorder, and prostate cancer? Like, c’mon now.
5.) Try to imagine being in the meeting where these people presented their ideas for helping black men. I wish I was a fly on the wall when some (probably white) person was like, “I know! We can help them be drug dealers!” 🤦🏽‍♂️
Bro stoppppp 🤦🏽‍♂️"

Meme - Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre: "Democrats can openly announce their intention to hand money to people based exclusively on their race and no one bats an eye"
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru: "JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Kamala Harris proposes forgivable loans of up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs."

Marc Benioff on X - "Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris—unlike every other Presidential candidate. We believe in transparency and publish each interview in full. Why isn’t the Vice President engaging with the public on the same level? #TrustMatters"
Marc Benioff on X - "“Harris declined repeated requests for an interview for this story. In contrast, Trump talked about his policy vision with a TIME reporter for 90 minutes across two interviews. Biden spoke to TIME at similar length before dropping out of the race.”"
Bill Ackman on X - "Bear in mind that @TIME  put @KamalaHarris  on the cover when her candidacy was announced, and now she won’t agree to an interview with TIME due to the requirement that the full transcript be released.   How can she be our president if she cannot speak without a teleprompter, a script, or the right to edit a previously recorded interview?"

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