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Michael Moore also recently excoriated Harris for not having a plan in Michigan and stated that he has “serious concerns” the Dems will lose thanks to a lack of outreach to Arab Americans.
He notes that Biden-Harris won that demographic with 70%, and that the most recent number was 12% support. Fundamentally they will lose Michigan without it.
Last point of note: Moore rips his fellow Dems by stating that Harris’ Progressive stances on abortion, guns, the environment and jobs are now all mainstream and that she should NOT move to the center.
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BTW, Nate Silver is reporting that momentum is now favoring Trump who has a 50.2% chance of winning the Electoral vote.
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I’m surprised that Harris has any positive rating at all, given (a) the complete clusterfuck that she and Biden have made of the past four years and (b) the fact that she doesn’t have a brain in her head and (c) can’t lead and (d) can’t make a decision and (e) she was literally judged the most Far Left Lefty by GovTrack and (f) has the lowest vice presidential approval ratings of any VP in history and (g) backtracked on at least 13 issues to pretend she’s a moderate and (h) failed miserably on the two most important issues, the economy and illegal immigration and (i) picked a terrible VP candidate in Walz.
There’s more, but…I think Trump wins in a close race. He’ll lose the popular vote by 5 million votes, and I think he wins between 4 and 6 of the battleground states.
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Harris’ ‘dissonance’with Catholics, FBI’s ‘enduring’ pro-Joe Corruption and other commentary
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) had no idea her mock-communion Doritos video might offend Catholics — showing “how out of touch Democratic elites are,” roars The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. And such “cluelessness may prove costly” for Kamala Harris in November. It’s not just gaffes: As the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Kristen Waggoner recalls, Harris has “long used government power to try to coerce people of faith to violate their consciences.” Politico flags the “cultural dissonance” between her San Francisco persona and white working-class Catholic Pennsylvanians. Then there’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who talks about helping pregnant women who want to keep their babies. As Brian Burch of CatholicVote quips, Kennedy “is offering Democrats social permission” to vote Republican.
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I have a weird opinion on this whole who-called-who-weird business. The first time I saw that particular near-epithet was from the Daily Mirror (politically neutral vis-a-vis American presidential politics), and the specific comment occurred immediately after Biden anointed Harris as his successor. Biden dropping out was very strange, and there were so many candidates who were so much better than Harris, it seemed somehow off to me. Then I read the Daily Mirror article, which contained a somewhat casual reference to Kamala Harris as “deeply weird.” And I remember thinking “Bingo.” The whole Kamala Harris package was just weird, a verdict that was spot on. From her beginnings in SF politics, to her relationship with a married, 60-year-old, besotted Mayor Brown who gave her what amounted to her first (no-show), well-paid political appointments, to her terrible evaluations as a city attorney, to her backstabbing of her boss Terrence Hallinan, to her cranky relationship with Kimberly Guilfoyle, to the set-in-stone-fact that she was more than conservative, she was a callous DA (I can’t believe any black or Latino man would vote for her, ever), to her less-than-ideal short term as CA AG, to her prosecutorial appearance in the Kavanaugh trial as Senator, to her highly, highly improbable run as a 2020 presidential candidate, in which she finished 14th in the New Hampshire primary with 129 total votes, to her evisceration in the debates by Tulsi Gabbard, to her panicked, Dan-Quayle-esque look when asked a question that she didn’t know in advance, to her being (literally) the first Democrat to drop out of the race, to her selection as VP by a senile president who had no compunction about practicing racial/gender identity politics, to her completely inappropriate cackling and odd personal style, to the fact that 90 of her staff voluntarily left her employ, to her MASSIVE failure as Border Czar… I think the Dems even thought it was deeply weird, and they decided to get out in front of the weirdness by calling a successful former President and his ex-Marine, ex-Yale VP candidate as “weird”, a non sequitor if ever there was one.
Nate Silver explains why the Harris crew stopped calling Trump/Vance weird. Apparently, (a) it didn’t poll well, and (b) the Harris/Walz team needs weird voters.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/kamala-harris-needs-weird-voters
Harris is going on Joe Rogan and Fox with Bret Maier. Should be interesting. To me, it’s a sign of near desperation.
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Had a disagreement with a friend of mine in the journalism biz over whether or not there was a bias in the news business. Not surprisingly, he felt that there was no bias.
I told him there were three kinds of bias: the overt kind of bias in which the writer expressed a specific opinion, basically editorials masquerading as news. But the other two were a shade more subtle.
First, the press gets to select the stories the want to push. That alone slants the news; e.g., the Russian hoax merits news coverage, but the Hunter Biden laptop does not. AYFKM? That alone decided the election.
Second, the press decides which questions to ask. Trump gets skewered with “have you stopped beating your wife” questions, and Harris gets gauzy, dreamy “tell us again how great you’ll be” questions. I don’t think I can take four years of Harris’ scared rabbit looks at the mildest of challenging questions.
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And now Catholics are picketing Whitmer’s house:
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Surprised to see News Nation as a lean to the left. I felt it was the opposite. Maybe I’ve lived on the west coast long enough a slight lean to the left looks like a lean to the right. 🙂
The rest of the country thinks we’re all a little bit unbalanced out here…
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Guess I was wrong, it’s an actual advertisement for Harris. Truth is stranger than fiction. Whoever convinced the Harris campaign that this advertisement was a good idea is a weapons-grade idiot.
The Babylon Bee has a healthy take on it:
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Man, was I wrong. Here’s Whitmer apologizing for mocking Communion:
Gretchen Whitmer apologizes for Doritos video critics say mocked Christian sacrament (msn.com)
Whitmer explained — and I shit you not — that it was supposed to be a video about the importance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs. AYFKM? I didn’t honestly realize how much Whitmer and Harris hated Catholics.
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https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1844424044621484351 Is this mocking Communion?
Turns out I was wrong. Apparently the Gov. has a penchant for weird videos, no kidding. There are others out there.
Speaking of Harris, this doesn’t include that Harris embraces gender ideology, transgender/contraception mandates, opposes pro-life pregnancy centers and activists, and scrutinized Catholic judicial nominees including Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Bryant. She pressed Judges Brian Buescher, Paul Matey and Peter Phipps about their affiliation with the Knights of Columbus and whether it would make them biased. (for the uninitiated, the KofC is the world’s largest Catholic service organization with 2 million members worldwide). Non-Catholic presidents in the past have had good relationships with the KofC, including Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover (who, when he defeated Catholic Al Smith for President, personally congratulated the head of the organization for the great works performed by the KofC), FDR (who created Columbus Day in response to KofC requests and in response, the head of the KofC urged FDR to accommodate German Jews in 1937 when it was clear they were in danger from the Nazis), Truman, Eisenhower (who added “Under God” to the Pledge at the behest of the KofC), LBJ, Nixon (who addressed their national meeting), GHWBush (who referred to the KofC publicly as one of the “thousand points of light”), Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump.
For the second year in a row, the Biden administration has denied the KofC’s request to hold a Memorial Day mass in the Poplar Grove national cemetary. They’d held a commemorative mass there for the last 60 years. Why was it turned down? Because Harris/Biden’s National Park Service defines a “religious service” as a “demonstration”, I kid you not. And therefore, it is denied.
As California AG, in 2016, she launched a raid on pro-life activist David Daleiden’s home. He did an undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood which showed PP organization officials discussing costs for fetal tissue and body parts. He was charged with 15 felonies, case is ongoing. She didn’t investigate the allegations, and she has received thousands of dollars in campaign funds from Planned Parenthood. Also, as California AG, she co-sponsored and promoted the Reproductive FACT Act which required pro-life pregnancy centers to post notices that provide info on where to obtain abortions. In 2018, the USSC ruled that the law violated their right to free speech.
She attended a Baptist church, which candidly is one of the most anti-Catholic Protestant faiths.
Basically, Harris craps on Catholics.
But is the Whitmer video mocking Communion? Well, I’ll put it this way. In conjunction with Harris passing up the Al Smith dinner which goes to fund Catholic charities — let’s just say I’m not wild about either of those activities. And I didn’t even mention abortion…it wasn’t Harris’ pro-abortion stance, it was the fact that she was Biden’s point person on abortion, visiting abortion facilities, Planned Parenthood, etc.
BTW, Walter Mondale is the only other presidential candidate in the history of the dinner (since WWII) who was invited and refused to attend. I don’t think the landslide will be that big, but I think that Catholics won’t be wild about this.
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I have a weird opinion on this whole who-called-who-weird business. The first time I saw that particular near-epithet was from the Daily Mirror (politically neutral vis-a-vis American presidential politics), and the specific comment occurred immediately after Biden anointed Harris as his successor. Biden dropping out was very strange, and there were so many candidates who were so much better than Harris, it seemed somehow off to me.
Then I read the Daily Mirror article, which contained a somewhat casual reference to Kamala Harris as “deeply weird.”
And I remember thinking “Bingo.”
The whole Kamala Harris package was just weird, a verdict that was spot on. From her beginnings in SF politics, to her relationship with a married, 60-year-old, besotted Mayor Brown who gave her what amounted to her first (no-show), well-paid political appointments, to her terrible evaluations as a city attorney, to her backstabbing of her boss Terrence Hallinan, to her cranky relationship with Kimberly Guilfoyle, to the set-in-stone-fact that she was more than conservative, she was a callous DA (I can’t believe any black or Latino man would vote for her, ever), to her less-than-ideal short term as CA AG, to her prosecutorial appearance in the Kavanaugh trial as Senator, to her highly, highly improbable run as a 2020 presidential candidate, in which she finished 14th in the New Hampshire primary with 129 total votes, to her evisceration in the debates by Tulsi Gabbard, to her panicked, Dan-Quayle-esque look when asked a question that she didn’t know in advance, to her being (literally) the first Democrat to drop out of the race, to her selection as VP by a senile president who had no compunction about practicing racial/gender identity politics, to her completely inappropriate cackling and odd personal style, to the fact that 90 of her staff voluntarily left her employ, to her MASSIVE failure as Border Czar…
I think the Dems even thought it was deeply weird, and they decided to get out in front of the weirdness by calling a successful former President and his ex-Marine, ex-Yale VP candidate as “weird”, a non sequitor if ever there was one.
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James Carville, a canny political operator if ever there was one, was the first to publicly call for Biden to drop out. He has concerns about Harris, thinks she’s running too passive a campaign. Says he still thinks she’ll win.
James Carville on Aging, Edibles and His Anxieties About Harris
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I hope, for the Democrats’ sake, that that’s a deepfake advertisement. It is so cringy.
If it’s real…makes me think the Dems are getting desperate. Rumors I hear is that their internal polling is not very positive (and why would it be?). They’ve trotted out Obama to try to save the not-remotely-ready-for-primetime Harris.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/politics/barack-obama-kamala-harris-analysis/index.html
And Obama’s speeches have the whiff of desperation about them…
Obama Roasts Trump Over Selling Bibles, Wearing Diapers
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