Monday, August 12, 2024

I will not forget how Kamala treated Judge Kavanaugh

 I will not forget how Kamala treated Judge Kavanaugh   Nothing but a schoolyard bully showing off before the other kids.

And neither will I

Sen. Harris' interrogation of Judge Kavanaugh was another stunt with no payoff – HotAir

. . ."First off, this absolutely was a trick question. The non-trick version of this question would be something like: ‘I’ve heard you spoke to person X about Muller’s investigation, is that true?’ All Harris had to do was offer up the name and this would have been much simpler. But she refused to do that. And because it was designed as a gotcha question, Kavanaugh treated it that way. But ultimately there was no gotcha.

"This whole thing reminds me of Sen. Harry Reid’s claim during the 2012 campaign, that Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for a decade. That had (allegedly) come to Reid from someone in a position to know. Reid later said he had no regrets about spreading this lie because it worked, i.e. Romney lost the election. Someone should ask Sen. Harris if she’s trying to follow in Reid’s footsteps."

Why hasn't Kamala Harris been held accountable for the personal and as yet unproven accusations she made against Brett Kavanaugh? - Quora

Do you think the Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth? - Quora
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I've noticed a trend: whenever someone that the Left doesn't like is getting elected, appointed, or time with the wrong message, we are suddenly bombarded with accusations and testimonies of bad character.

Her intimidating look

Every. Single. Time.

Maybe it's true that every non- favored person is guilty of being a terrible person, but it seems more likely to me that these accusations are invented. It also seems more likely that both sides are full of bad actors and the side crying ‘Wolf!’ are just better at cover-ups.

When every single opponent is suddenly and clearly unfit, even ones previously lauded (everybody loved Joe Biden as VP, but now that he wants to fill the big chair, he's a racist monster?), you start thinking that maybe the problem is in the DNC, not the candidates that they oppose. Remember, they railroaded Hillary through the primaries last time at the expense of Sanders. There is precious little room for democracy in the Democratic party.


"I doubt she is intentionally sabotaging it, but you would think a prosecutor should be familiar with the law, and she certainly knows that impeachment of a SCJ ONLY applies to crimes that are committed while ON the bench (nor in HS or college). To date I have not heard of any offenses let alone any that rise to the level of impeachment.

"She should also know that investigation MUST proceed impeachment and in THIS country you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. Calling for impeachment flies in the face of this basic judicial tenant and has to be considered a willful act on the part of the educated prosecutor to ignore the law.

"I believe this is most likely her personal bias and her belief that she can do whatever she wants despite the law. Any time a prosecutor is this ignorant of the law, it disqualifies them in my mind as a presidential candidate. (or even as a local official)" . . .

Can Harris Beat Trump With Such Weak Voter Support For Her Signature Policies?

I&I/TIPP Poll My personal suggestion is that she do what Donald Trump is doing. Oh! Wait! She has tried that! TD

"The rest, from “Medicare for all” to “health insurance for illegal aliens,” get either a tepid response from voters, or outright rejection. It would seem to be a tough road for the Harris-Walz team to travel with the policies both have supported."

Toon added by TD

"While presidential candidate Kamala Harris avoids media questions about her proposed policies, both she and her progressive allies in the Democratic Party are already on record as favoring a number of highly controversial proposals, ranging from defunding the police to free college education. But do average Americans agree? The latest I&I/TIPP Poll provides answers.

"The national online poll of 1,488 adults, taken from July 31-August 2, shows it’s a mixed bag. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points.

"It starts with a neutral question: “To what extent do you support or oppose the following actions?” That’s followed by 11 policy actions, for which respondents were given five possible responses: “Support strongly,” “support somewhat,” “oppose strongly,” “oppose somewhat,” and “not sure.” The answers were then aggregated to show simplified categories of “support” or “oppose.”

"To avoid political bias, no party or candidate was mentioned in the question.

"But the policies mentioned were not random. In fact, they represent a range of policy actions that Vice President Harris has either openly backed, proposed or expressed positive views on in recent years.

"So the list represents a sounding of public opinion on Harris’ policy preferences before she became the Democratic Party’s candidate on Aug. 6, following a five-day “virtual” roll call vote of 4,567 Democratic delegates but no actual votes from Democratic voters. After that, she began hedging some of her previous policy stances.

"By the way, that Aug. 6 party vote installing Harris as the candidate followed President Joe Biden’s agonizing July 21 decision to end his own campaign in response to intense pressure from Democratic officials, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with big-dollar financial supporters of his own party." . . .

Trump Vs. "I'm Speaking" Harris, whose grating laugh is now considered to be "joy"

"One block, however, Harris has just stolen from Trump: making tips tax-exempt. Could this be a “tell”… revealing a hint of desperation?" Mark C. Ross

". . .the vacuous, inarticulate Kamala Harris?

Trump vs. Harris = Familiar vs. Strange  . . ."Now to Trump. First, he was a well-known media and business personality. Then he served a term as president of the United States. It is common knowledge that he doesn’t possess the reserved verbal carefulness of a professional politician. His opponents try to take advantage of this by portraying him as something he isn’t, such as when he used the term “bloodbath” to describe what Democrats’ New Green Deal would do to the American automobile industry. They tried to extend that to anything and everything in general… which only worked on the knee jerkers. Salena Zito aptly described Trump as someone who should not be taken literally -- but should certainly be taken seriously. This requires a bit of the mental effort that distinguishes Trump supporters from his opponents. He has also acquired several years of political experience since his famous descent down the escalator… which, to some degree, has led to improved discipline. 

"Meanwhile, Harris is being kept under wraps. She has agreed to at least one debate against Trump… which was politically fatal for Biden. The debate being about a month away, the suppression of her overt candidacy allows the voters to fill in the many blanks about who she really is -- and Trump and his allies are doing what they can to supply the necessary building blocks for this task." . . .


"Their media friends agree with this nonsense. But the pushback isn’t subsiding. Other than the implosion of the Democrat party, the collapse of media credibility is also a likely consequence of this folly. Left nakedly exposed is the reality that all the totalitarians can muster against Trump and his allies are personality foibles -- rather than agenda issues. Why? Because their agenda sucks."

Who are the folks who show up at a Kamala Harris rally?   . . ."This is a very weird family.  He is also a barely-closeted antisemite and has made common cause with the “godfather of campus  antisemitism,” Hatem Bazian

. . ."They get the talking points and repeat the required words over and over again. 

"Last week it was “weird.”  This week it is “joy” and “joyful.” 

What a crock.  Who falls for this media crap?  Only the people who show up at these staged rallies, whether they are recruited and /or paid.  One has to feel both sorry for them and angry at them for being so easily led by a thoroughly propagandistic media.  They’ve been very carefully taught, as Richard Rogers so thoughtfully wrote in South Pacific.

These oh-so-carefully-taught uncritical thinkers are willing captives of the left.  Kamala Harris and her running mate are both far, far left radicals, actual This is a very weird family.  He is also a barely-closeted antisemite and has made common cause with the “godfather of campus  antisemitism,” Hatem Bazian

"So, what do we have here?   We have a media that is slavishly and dutifully doing the left’s bidding in the re-branding of Kamala Harris, formerly one of the most disliked politicians in the country.

"They get the talking points and repeat the required words over and over again. 

"Last week it was “weird.”  This week it is “joy” and “joyful.” 

"What a crock.  Who falls for this media crap?  Only the people who show up at these staged rallies, whether they are recruited and /or paid.  One has to feel both sorry for them and angry at them for being so easily led by a thoroughly propagandistic media.  They’ve been very carefully taught, as Richard Rogers so thoughtfully wrote in South Pacific.

"These oh-so-carefully-taught uncritical thinkers are willing captives of the left.  Kamala Harris and her running mate are both far, far left radicals, actual communists in practice.  Walz says socialism is “neighborliness.”  No, it’s the brutal imposition of totalitarianism.  That is what the people who show up for a Harris/Walz rally, who scream and clap for them as directed by big flashing signs and the claquers that get them going.   If a majority of voters, legal and illegal, vote for these two, our once Constitutional republic, barely recognizable now, will be over."

No problem, Kamala and Walz; Obama will cover for you

 

Now, his former commanding officer, John Kolb, has taken to social media and torched the Minnesota liberal on the stolen valor controversy:

"I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major." 

"Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership. Thomas Behrends was the right leader at the right time. He sacrificed to answer the call, leaving his family, business and farming-partner brother to train, lead and care for soldiers." . . .

Tim Walz's ex-battalion leader breaks silence on 'exaggerated' military career row   "The battalion commander who oversaw Tim Walz's former unit has criticized the vice presidential nominee for allegations of "stolen valor".

"Kamala Harris' running mate has already had to retract claims of having "carried" weapons of war in combat during his 24-year tenure in the Army National Guard and has faced accusations of being a "coward" from relatives of soldiers.

"Harris has also been forced to address claims that Walz misrepresented his rank upon retiring from the National Guard.

"Kolb continued: "By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant.

" 'I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM [command sergeant major] chair. He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9 [the highest rank for non-commissioned officers]. It is an affront to the Non-commissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title." . . .

Tim Walz’s Battalion Commander Comes Out Swinging, Claims Walz Broke His Enlistment Contract and Never Successfully Completed Any Assignment as a Sergeant Major    . . ."I have no opinion of Mr. Walz’s decision to leave service at the time he did. It was his right to retire early. I also have no criticism of his service as an E7 and E8 in the MNARNG. By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair." . . .

Former House Speaker McCarthy: Barack Obama Secretly Running Kamala's Campaign    "If you’re watching the campaign now, some of Obama’s [key people such as] David Plouffe and others are now working on the campaign.

"You’re getting the Obamas shifting from running the White House to now running this campaign." . . .

Tony Branco

Former US DOJ prosecutors of Nazi war criminals strike back at Hamas’s genocide libel against Israel

The left wants to master the combination of gaslighting and gaslightable ignorance so pervasive among pro-Hamas and/or Democrat voters. We must not let this new art form permeate our culture. TD, blogging at the Tunnel Wall

  Andrea Widburg  

Eli M. Rosenbaum, Bruce J. Einhorn, Kathleen N. Coleman, Clarice R. Feldman, Joel K. Greenberg, Jeffrey N. Mausner, and Philip L. Sunshine earned their stripes prosecuting those Nazis who sought to escape their crimes by hiding in America. Few alive today understand better than they do what constitutes “genocide.” 

 "As we are learning in this information-saturated age, the most powerful weapon isn’t the bullet, it’s the word. Now that word is out that Israel is no longer the victim of a provable genocide but, instead, the perpetrator of an imaginary genocide, antisemitic actors around the world, including in the Harris-Biden administration, feel justified in withholding weapons from Israel, threatening its conduct of this war, and demanding that she surrender even though it is winning. Seven former US Department of Justice Prosecutors who earned their stripes prosecuting Nazi War criminals—including our own Clarice Feldman—have struck back with a powerful op-ed." . . .

Grassroots movement? I think not; notice the manufactured signs and the "Death to America! Death to Israel!" chants being taught at American campuses by Iranians. The Tunnel Dweller


. . ."To do so, the IDF often allows its troops to die rather than risk enemy civilians. Israel's reward for this restraint has been to stand accused of committing “genocide” based on provably false data."
. . ."The essay below, which first appeared in the NY Daily News, uses facts, law, and logic to explain why Israel and her defenders hold the moral high ground on this one. With Ms. Feldman’s permission, I am republishing it in its entirely here because it deserves the widest possible dissemination." . . .

I post here the link to the Ms. Feldman's excellent article in the vague hope it will add to those who will be aware of what the American left has become and perhaps will see how dangerous easily manipulated, ignorant people are:  The big lie of genocide & Gaza: , but include the massive text as well since Ms. Feldman's column is behind a paywall. (All illustrations added by TD)

Quoting: "Last month, protesters in our nation’s capital burned American flags and defaced memorials, including with pro-Hamas slogans, while asserting that Israel is committing genocide — and that it is doing so with American complicity.

These accusations have spread on America’s campuses and elsewhere since Israeli forces commenced their defensive response last year to the murderous, indeed genocidal, rampage committed in Israel on Oct. 7 by Hamas. Hamas’ invasion of Israel took the lives of some 1,200 people in a single day and perpetrated the largest mass murder of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Once again, the victims included men, women, and children.

The six colleagues who join me in writing this essay — Bruce J. Einhorn, Kathleen N. Coleman, Clarice R. Feldman, Joel K. Greenberg, Jeffrey N. Mausner, and Philip L. Sunshine — worked as U.S. federal prosecutors of perpetrators of Nazi genocide who fled to this country after the war. In combined service exceeding 60 years, we prosecuted Nazi criminals who shot civilian men, women and children in death pits and others who killed victims in Nazi concentration and death camps.

In our work at the U.S. Department of Justice as prosecutors of Hitler’s henchmen, we meticulously investigated acts of genocide — and then we proved them in court. We feel impelled to declare that any fair review of the verifiable, publicly available facts shows that the accusation of genocide against Israel is false and indeed outrageous.

Simply put, we have seen no evidence of Israeli commission of genocide, and there is much evidence that disproves that charge — including the recent report that, since October, Israel has facilitated the entry of more than 870 metric tons of food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza’s two million inhabitants. Meanwhile, Hamas attacks or plunders food shipments, and it has denied Gazan civilians access to vast storehouses of food and medicines that it secreted in its tunnels before Oct. 7.

Genocide is defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as killing and other specified acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Israel has targeted only Hamas and its terrorist group partners, not the civilian population of Gaza. Hamas is not a national, ethnical, racial or religious group; it is a designated terrorist organization that itself engages in genocidal acts.

Israel has, in fact, done more than any other military has ever done to minimize civilian casualties during large-scale urban warfare, even sacrificing the lives of many of its own soldiers in the process. For example, Israeli forces drop warning leaflets, distribute maps, and place automated phone calls to civilians in Gaza to identify areas in which combat is planned, in order to enable civilians to evacuate in advance.

Yet Hamas intentionally impedes efforts of Palestinian civilians to flee to safer areas, and then it uses the military plans provided by Israel to attack its troops, employing Palestinian civilians and hostages seized in Israel as human shields — undeniably a war crime.

Retired U.S. Army major and combat veteran John Spencer, currently the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, has concluded that Israel “has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history — above and beyond what international law requires.” He continues: “[A]ll available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties to historically low levels.

We are not alone in rejecting the false genocide accusation. For example, the German government, which is well familiar, of course, with the genocide committed by a prior German government in murdering millions of Jews and Roma, has declared that the accusation of Israeli genocide “has no basis in fact” and that Berlin “decisively and expressly rejects” it. The United States government too has rejected the claim.

Unfortunately, many voices nonetheless remain arrayed against Israel, and they have frequently overwhelmed, in the public sphere, the analyses of qualified experts who have subjected the allegation to careful analysis and have found it wanting.

Hamas is thereby winning an enormous propaganda victory, continuing to mislead many who are legitimately horrified by the undeniable horrors of war. This, in turn, encourages Hamas to continue its war of aggression, hiding behind and under Palestinian civilians and the hostages, pursuing its perverse goal of prolonging the suffering and death in Gaza in order to generate international condemnation of Israel and advance its stated goal of destroying the country.

When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and then publicly promised to repeat that atrocity again and again until Israel is annihilated, it was acting on the genocidal command of its 1988 founding charter, which declared that it is a religious duty to kill all Jews. This commitment was unabashedly renewed in 2019, when Hamas’s Gaza television station broadcast a speech by a senior Hamas official in which he openly exhorted Palestinians the world over, “There are Jews everywhere! We must attack every Jew on planet Earth – we must slaughter and kill them, with Allah’s help.

Hamas’s announcement on Tuesday that it has selected Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 genocidal attack on Israel, to be its new political leader makes clear that Hamas is doubling down on its intention to target Jews for mass murder.

Israel and other signatories of the Genocide Convention have a legal obligation to stop Hamas’s genocidal actions; Article I of the Convention obligates all nations not just to refrain from committing genocide, but also “to prevent and to punish” that crime. That is exactly what Israel is doing, with U.S. support, along with fulfilling its legitimate obligation to rescue the hostages and protect its populace, among them seven million Jews and two million Arab Israelis. Notably, of the 153 nations that have signed onto the Convention, Israel was among the first 10 to do so, in 1950.

Even if one accepts the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry mortality numbers and the percentage breakdowns it has disseminated of women and children victims (which credible experts say are greatly exaggerated and which do not distinguish between armed fighters and civilians), the deaths of thousands of people during a war is not alone indicative of genocidal intent.

Genocide is a crime based on intent, not one that is based specifically on numbers. If it were based on numbers, then the World War II Allies would have perpetrated genocide in Germany, where their forces killed 300,000 to 400,000 civilians in air operations alone, even apart from loss of life that occurred during ground offensives. No serious observer would contend that the Allies committed genocide against Germans during World War II.

German fatalities instead occurred as a result of the Allied waging of a manifestly defensive war to bring an end to aggression, war crimes, and genocide perpetrated by Germany. And those German civilian fatalities continued to mount until Nazi Germany at last surrendered — just as Hamas can and should do, at once, to end the war and the associated suffering in Gaza and Israel.

Israel too is waging a defensive war against ongoing aggression, war crimes and genocide, but it is taking far greater steps to protect civilian lives than Allied forces did. Ultimately, Allied military operations were successful in bringing Germany’s ghastly crimes to an end. It can only be hoped that Israel too will succeed, so that Hamas will never again be able to commit such crimes.

The core truth is that the genocidal frenzy of killing, rape, torture, kidnapping, and mutilation that Hamas launched in Israel on Oct. 7 were crimes of monstrous evil that every American should stand against.

Israel is fighting to ensure that it will never happen again. People of goodwill here and abroad should reject propaganda that conflates genocide with the heartbreak of casualties in defensive war and that dishonestly portrays Israel — which is combatting genocide no less heroically and necessarily than did our fighting forces in Europe in the 1940s — as a perpetrator of that infamous crime." End quote.

Rosenbaum, Einhorn, Coleman, Feldman, Greenberg, Mausner and Sunshine previously served as prosecutors in the United States Justice Department, Criminal Division, Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Rosenbaum also served as OSI’s director from 1995 to 2010; later as director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in OSI’s successor Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section; and finally, until his retirement this year, as the Justice Department’s counselor for War Crimes Accountability and founding head of its War Crimes Accountability Team.

Soldiers in grey in this Quora photo have been killed recently:

Authorities name 690 soldiers, 63 police officers killed in Gaza war | The Times of Israel

Kamala Harris 'destroyed' law and order in California

 Kamala Harris 'destroyed' law and order in California: Leo Terrell   "Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell weighs in on Kamala Harris' law and order record in California and reacts to the San Francisco district attorney charging the anti-Israel protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge." 

Kamala Harris 'destroyed' California   "Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy joins 'Life, Liberty & Levin' to discuss how Vice President Kamala Harris shaped policy as attorney general that 'destroyed' California."



VP Kamala Harris Cast Tie-Breaking Vote to Let IRS Track Workers’ Tips so They Can Be Taxed    "Vice President Kamala Harris — who on Saturday copied a campaign promise first announced by former President Donald Trump to eliminate taxes on tips — voted in 2022 to pass legislation that allowed the IRS to track down workers’ tips so that they could be taxed.

"On August 7, 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act that provided $80 billion in additional funding to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which then got to work cracking down on the service industry’s reporting of tips so that they could be taxed.

“ 'Two years ago today, I proudly cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act,” Harris’s Facebook account reminded the public on Wednesday, sharing a video of the vice president voting to pass the legislation." . . .

Video: “Ultimately, the goal is to go and grab as much revenue as possible and from whoever they can.”

Afghanistan Withdrawal Hangs Around Cackala’s (called "Joy" by Democrats) Neck

Moonbattery  


"As Que Mala Harris avoids the media while letting it spin wildly in her favor, we are left with her scant record to judge her merits as a candidate. Evidence includes her tyrannical abuse of power as California Attorney General; her botched 2020 presidential campaign; her raising funds to bail rioters out of jail; her conspicuous failure as border czar and broadband czar; her choice of the hardcore leftist valor thief Tim Awalz for VP; and her involvement in the policies of the Biden Administration.

"The latter has been regarded as a disaster since the precipitous Afghanistan withdrawal, whereby the USA unconditionally surrendered to the terrorist savages who hosted the 9/11 attack, resulting in the senseless (and disacknowledged by Biden) death of 13 US servicemembers and any number of Afghans who worked with Americans against the Taliban.

"As Politico reported back in 2021:

In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Harris was asked about being the last person in the room regarding major decisions, something that Biden has said is important to him in his working relationship with the vice president. Harris confirmed that was the case regarding the move to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11.

"If you want more of what Biden has offered, Kamala is your moonbat, featuring extra leftism and all the incompetence without the excuse of senility."