Border Patrol Agents Say They’ll Leave En Masse If Harris Wins

Are they more serious than the celebrities who say they will leave this country if Trump wins?

Jon Dougherty  

. . ."He added: “On behalf of the 16,000 men and women represented by the National Border Patrol Council, we strongly support and endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.' ”

BPR: DHS goes full Baghdad Bob

"Border Patrol agents are threatening to leave the essential federal agency in large numbers if Vice President Kamala Harris wins in November, with several agents telling the New York Post that they cannot endure another four years of being undermined and scapegoated.

" 'I’m not doing this s–t again … four years of hell,” one agent, who isn’t anywhere close to retirement, told the outlet. Another added, “Lots of guys who can retire will go. If Trump wins, they’ll stay.”

"On Monday, the Border Patrol union, National Border Patrol Council, offered a full-throated endorsement of the former president.

"Insiders report that the Border Patrol has experienced significant turnover and a sharp decline in morale under the Biden-Harris administration.

"The agency has lost more than 4,000 personnel since October 2020, leaving approximately 19,000 employees, according to the Washington Examiner.

"Incentives such as raising recruitment bonuses from $10,000 to as much as $30,000 and encouraging retired agents to return have not been enough to close the gap." . . .

“Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible. They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released it sucks,” another agent told The Post."

MSM Hacks Are Too Isolated and Ignorant to Grasp How Many Americans Despise Them

Stephen Kruiser: PJ Media

"People who work for the Times, The Washington Post, or the Big Three Networks are blissfully unaware of how little they are respected."

"The Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been rending their garments over the way Donald Trump talks about them since he first hit the campaign trail back in 2015. They believe that he is unfair and mean to them. 

"He is really just honest though. 

'Most Republican politicians at the national level are timid souls who spend their professional lives cowering in fear of the MSM Dem propagandists. These GOP weaklings know that the MSM hacks deeply despise them, but still hope that they may one day get a little bit of praise from The New York Times or one of the Big Three nightly network news broadcasts. 

'To his everlasting credit, Trump has never harbored any delusions about there one day being a big Kumbaya moment between him and the Editorial Board of the New York Times. 

"The poor dears are really getting panicky this close to an election that might return Trump to power. " . . .  

The Democratic National Committee has tasked the Times and the rest of the MSM with scaring the electorate into believing that Trump will turn into some sort of Hitler/Stalin/Mao three-headed monster if elected again, so they put stories like this out there every day. These kinds of partisan hit jobs are major contributors to decreasing trust Americans have in the media. My friend and RedState colleague Brandon Morse recently wrote that Americans' faith in the media is really bottoming out lately.  . . .

America's Trust In the Media Has Cratered to an All-Time Low  

. . ."Gallup notes that there is a huge partisan divide in trust. Republicans trust the media at only 12 percent and Independents are only at 27 percent. Democrats, naturally, make up the bulk of America's trust in the media at 57 percent. This is telling, as it displays that the media's bias is pleasing to leftists. Still, the fact that the number isn't higher shows that even many on the left don't trust it due to its obvious bias." . . .

What's not to like about MSNBC?  

Progressives Finally Realize That Latinos Don't Like Being Called 'Latinx'

It appears progressives have finally gotten the memo on the term “Latinx,” a new woke label that has been applied to Hispanic Americans

"Here’s something you don’t see every day: Progressives finally realizing that their terminology is silly.

Babylon Bee  (See below)

"It appears progressives have finally gotten the memo on the term “Latinx,” a new woke label that has been applied to Hispanic Americans. During a Tuesday discussion on a CNN panel, host Kasie Hunt questioned whether Democrats should stop using the term because it is clear Hispanics aren’t embracing it.

"Hunt asked Kate Bedingfield, a former White House Communications Director under President Joe Biden, whether Democrats should abandon the term. Bedingfield acknowledged that “what we would hear from voters on the ground is it didn’t necessarily resonate with them” and that “It felt a lot more like language that people who were, again, professional, political professional, political class was using.”

"Several polls have shown this to be true, which could be a significant issue given that a recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll showed former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris 49 percent to 38 percent among Latino voters.

"In case you were wondering where the “Latinx” nonsense came from, it was originally introduced as a gender-neutral alternative to “Latino” and “Latina” by activists, academics, and entertainers, which should shock absolutely nobody. The objective was to move beyond gendered language among Spanish speakers because of sexism and stuff.

"Yet, Latinos were clearly not on board with the new term. In fact, if I had a billion dollars, I’d bet it all that most of those who were pushing this ridiculous term were white progressive savior types.

"A Pew Research survey found that while 47 percent of Latinos have heard the term, only about four percent actually used it to describe themselves. Even further, 79 percent felt it should not be used to describe the Hispanic population." . . .

Babylon Bee: Millions Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month By Commemorating That Time A Few Years Ago When The Word 'Latinx' Was Made Up  

Political analysis suggests that Hispanic people saw Democrat ads

 using words like "Latinx" and didn't know what that meant and so 

ignored them.

"As part of ongoing celebrations for Latinx Heritage Month, millions of revelers gathered to remember that day just a few years ago when someone made up the word "Latinx" out of thin air.

" 'Our history as members of the Latinx community is long and rich," said Alejandro Diego Armando Manchego Del Mundo, chairman of the Latinx Historic Foundation of Anaheim in a press release for the celebration. "Even the name ‘Latinx' has a deep heritage that reaches back all the way to, like, 2019."  . . .  

So the whole thing is about pronouns!  Starting about where the same people chant "from the river to the sea!" would be my guess. TD

As He Lashes Out Against Trump, Biden Declares 'We Gotta Lock Him Up'

Mr. Biden, locked in my memory are images of your hate-filled face in speeches at the dark red-lit Freedom Hall in Philadelphia, your State Of The Union "Address", and your DNC speech, all easily taken to be a call for someone to kill Mr. Trump. If indeed that does happen, I hope the images of your hate-filled face will be coupled with that of President Trump's family standing around his grave. The Tunnel Dweller.

Rebecca Downs; Townhall  . . ."At one moment that came off as particularly awkward given how Biden stumbled out his remarks, the president went for a rather misleading interpretation of the Trump v. United States decision from July 1. 

"Trump, according to Biden, "thinks he has a right under the Supreme Court ruling on immunity to be able, if need be, if he, if that was the case, to actually eliminate, physically eliminate, shoot, kill someone who is, he believes to be a threat to him." 

"I mean, so, I know this sounds bizarre," Biden acknowledged. It is bizarre, especially because it's a misinterpretation of the decision. In such a case, the Court found that the office of the presidency has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. The immunity only applies to official acts. "There is no immunity for unofficial acts," the syllabus for such a decision explicitly pointed out.

"That didn't stop hysterical leftists, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent, from making all sorts of outlandish claims about what presidents were allowed to do under such a decision." . . . 

. . . "Trump has been a main target with a slew of charges against him, but he's not the only one. Ordinary Americans, including concerned parents at school board meetings and peaceful pro-lifers have been targeted by the Biden-Harris DOJ. Back in April 2022, it was reported that Biden was frustrated about Attorney General Merrick Garland's more "deliberative approach.' " . . .

McDonalds Freakout Memes; UPDATE: GET THE NEW TRUMP/MICKEY D's SHIRT!

 David Strom; Hot Air  

"Conservatives were laughing at liberals because, well, liberals were ridiculous. David Frum in stentorian tones warned the world that Trump was a phony because the billionaire wasn't really a McDonalds employee. MSNBC called it fake. Tim Walz couldn't help himself and claimed that Trump was insulting workers." 

"Yesterday, I wrote about Donald Trump's McMentum, and the evidence for that is irrefutable. Look at the polls or look at the vibes and they say the same thing. 

"No, I am not talking about all the whinging from the Democrats about how "fake" the Trump stunt was: everybody with a brain understands that Donald Trump did not get a job from a McDonalds franchisee, that everybody who met with Trump was pre-screened by the Secret Service (the corporate media doesn't like to cover the fact, but two assassins have tried to kill him and the Iranians have teams of assassins in the country targeting Trump), and that Trump will not be getting a check for his brief stint as a fry cook." . . .

  Townhall has rushed out a commemorative shirt featuring the iconic Trump photo:

. . ."There was real joy on the Right side of the aisle, and the "vibes" weren't artificially created by Beyonce or Oprah. Nobody stage manages Donald Trump, to the disgust of the Left and the occasional frustration of the Right. " . . .

Photo: pretty much how MSNBC reacted to "MAGADonalds":

Many more photos and comments here.

UPDATE: Weirdo Leftists Just Tried to Cancel the McDonald's That Hosted Trump. They Failed Miserably.  

"This event was obviously arranged to play off of Kamala’s claimed vocational past, a twist of the political knife, and having a laugh at her expense. The media, as expected, took to the cameras and keyboards to lambaste this appearance, and in the process, they exposed their own bias and contempt. These journalists sound like consumer activists who vow to be heard by downvoting a restaurant on Yelp."

 

Why Has Public Health Been Reduced to Drag?

Brownstone Institute  

"What does it mean to live in a society where the vast majority of civil society has lost access to logic and reason?"

"Historically, public health was a radical profession. It challenged power and built large public works projects (sewers and sanitation) that dramatically improved lives. But the field of public health today bears almost no resemblance to the efforts from a century ago. Instead, public health today is this weird, exaggerated, corporatized performance of things that kinda sorta sound like health by people who have no understanding of science and medicine.

"After years of personal observation, reflection, and engagement it seems to me that public health today is best described as a drag performance by marginalized people who allow themselves to be used by the fascist Pharma state because it makes them feel powerful.

"The particular case study that draws my ire today is an editorial written by Rick Bright titled “A Trump Victory Would be a Public Health Disaster” published in the New York Times on October 10.". . .

This from the same people who call killing a pain-capable child "women's health".

IDF reveals: Six Al Jazeera journalists are Hamas, PIJ terrorists

 The Jerusalem Post   

"The exposed journalists are part of Hamas's military wing operating as the vanguard of Hamas's propaganda war against Israel."

"The IDF announced on Wednesday that six journalists actively working for Al Jazeera were members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

"The IDF says that due to intelligence recovered from the Gaza Strip during military operations, they can reveal that Anas Al-Sharif, Alaa Salama, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf Saraj, Ismail Abu Amr, and Talal Aruki are all affiliated with the military wings of either Hamas or PIJ.

"Ismail Abu Amr was injured several months ago in Gaza by an IDF attack; during that period, Al Jazeera denied his membership in Hamas. Documents recovered by the IDF showed this was untrue." . . .

FBI investigating alleged leak of U.S. documents on Israeli war plan; smells of Obama

The Washington Post 

 . . ."The leaked assessment demonstrates how closely the intelligence community monitors Israeli military activity," said Harrison Mann, a former analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency who resigned to protest the Biden administration's support for Israel's war in Gaza.

"The FBI announced Tuesday that it is investigating an alleged leak of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, days after assessments containing information about Israel's potential plans for a retaliatory attack on Iran were published on an Iran-linked Telegram account.

" 'The FBI is investigating the alleged leak of classified documents and working closely with our partners in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community," the FBI said in a statement. "As this is an ongoing investigation, we have no further comment."

"White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday that it is unclear whether the documents were made public through a leak or a hack. He said the government does not expect additional classified information to be made public without authorization.

"Early this month, Iran fired a barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, a response to the killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July and Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut in September. Tehran has been bracing for a retaliatory strike since then.

"Kirby said Monday that President Joe Biden is "deeply concerned" about any leak of classified materials.

" 'That is not supposed to happen, and it's unacceptable when it does," Kirby said. "And you can rest assured that he will be actively monitoring the progress of the investigative effort to figure out how this happened, and obviously he'll be very interested in hearing any mitigation measures and recommendations that come as a result of the investigative efforts and how to prevent it from happening again."

"Kirby said the Biden administration had been in communication with the Israeli government about the disclosure.

"The intelligence assessment shows that the U.S. government believes Israel is preparing a major strike against Iran that would be a retaliation for a massive Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on Oct. 1. The Biden administration has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to carry out only a limited response that would not provoke yet another Iranian retaliation, in a bid to avoid a regional war.

"U.S. officials have been pushing Netanyahu to focus on Iranian military targets, not Iran's energy infrastructure or sites related to its nuclear program, which would far be more sensitive. Any attack on Iran's oil facilities could also roil the U.S. election on Nov. 5 by creating a spike in energy prices.

"The leaked assessment focused on U.S. observations of Israeli airfield activity on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week that it said were consistent with exercises to engage in long-range strikes that involve air-to-air refueling, something that would be necessary if Israeli fighter jets were to launch strikes on Iran. The assessment also discussed the movement of munitions carts on Israeli airfields. Two related documents were posted on the Telegram account, both dated Wednesday of last week." . . .

WaPo report discloses true Hamas intent to destroy Israel    'In “Captured documents reveal Hamas’s broader ambition to wreak havoc on Israel” (10/12/24), the Washington Post, perhaps for a moment, revives its former glory by engaging in investigative reporting. This, on a topic that has lacked investigative reporting for years: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this article, the Post discloses a treasure trove of documents recovered from Israeli incursions in Gaza. These documents give a clear picture of Hamas’s warfighting plans and intent. In one communication, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “was crystal clear about his ultimate intention: the destruction of the state of Israel. He repeats the point multiple times in the captured letters and asks Iranian officials to help him in his quest.” . . .

"If there were any residual hope that the Palestinians wanted a two-state solution, this news should dispel it once and for all." . . .