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'Nobody Trust Oprah': Oprah’s Kamala Harris Interview Sparks Chaos from Trump Fanatics, Forcing Her to Lock Down Comments (atlantablackstar.com)

(Excerpt). . ."However, the comment section quickly devolved into a battleground for political rhetoric, with Trump supporters flooding in. “One billionaire and one millionaire telling us we can’t trust the Rich,” read one comment, while another added, “This will be a pass. No more respect for Oprah and never had any for Kamala.” "Fanatics" = voters; TD

Kamala Harris left ‘grasping for answers’ after ‘softball’ Oprah interview

Kamala Harris hit for being vague, dodging questions in recent interviews: 'She owes us these answers' | Fox News  "The WSJ's Peggy Noonan said Harris 'couldn't or wouldn't answer a single question straight' "

Kamala Harris panned online for delivering rambling remarks during Oprah event: 'Unbelievable CRINGE'

. . ."Critics online accused the vice president of offering rambling commentary that didn't seem to have much substance. 

"Oprah is looking at this moron thinking, "What the sh*t is she saying?" Unbelievable CRINGE," author Juanita Broaddrick wrote on Thursday.

" 'The fact that she is within 20 points of Trump is a depressingly sad commentary on the state of our body politic and the media that poisons it,," attorney David Limbaugh wrote. "Stunning."

" 'To call this pablum is an insult to pablum," ReaclClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan said on Friday. 

HARRIS TELLS OPRAH ANYONE BREAKING INTO HER HOME IS 'GETTING SHOT:' 'PROBABLY SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT'

" 'This might just be the most spectacular two minutes of Kamala’s nonsensical wisdom I have ever heard," political commentator Kate Hyde wrote on Thursday.

"Writer Steve Skojec also responded to the video on Thursday: "I can't. I can't do it. I made it 17 seconds and I just cannot continue.' " . . .

James Woods ...Hilariously BRUTAL Cartoon – Twitchy   "Every time Kamala Harris or Tim Walz say something about 'not going back' anyone with half a brain in the heads should see a giant red flag. Going back to what, exactly? Secure borders? Safer communites? A booming economy? Job growth? Women's spaces and sports protected? Peace? Prosperity?  Why WOULDN'T we want to go back to that?" . . .

Kamala's Celebrity Brigade and Their Reasons for Supporting Her Show Just How Out of Touch She Is  

"Meanwhile there was very little policy or answers from Harris, just a bunch of word salads, as I reported earlier. And they can't get around the fact that she's been in office now and has only made things worse. You can't pretend to be the "new" candidate when you're essentially the incumbent." 

Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters; Victor Davis Hanson

As a general rule, anytime we read an election-cycle solicited letter from retired functionaries, replete with their grandiose former titles, we should completely discount it.VDH

American Greatness

They inevitably were rounded up by politicos. The signees in many cases are likely angling for a return to government; in others, they are loudly virtue-signaling—and in nearly all instances, are usually wrong but will never issue a second letter of apology when their concocted expertise and pretentiousness are thoroughly discredited by subsequent events.

"One of the most preposterous recent trends has been the political use of supposed expert letters and declarations of support from so-called “authorities.”

"These pretentious testimonies of purported professionalism are different from the usual inane candidate endorsements from celebrities and politicos.

"Instead, they are used by politicians to impress and persuade the public to follow the “expertise,” “science,” or “authorities” to support all sorts of injurious initiatives and policies—of dubious value and otherwise without much political support.

"Think of all the health experts who collectively swore to us that the COVID mRNA vaccinations would give us ironclad and lasting protection from being either infectious or infected and were without any side effects.

"Other “authorities” assured us the first nationwide lockdown in U.S. history would stop COVID without hurting the social or economic life of the country.

"Ditto testimonies about the pangolin-bat origins of COVID or the authenticity of the bogus Steele dossier.

"Do we still remember the 1,200 healthcare “professionals” who in June 2020 told us that hitting the streets in mass numbers to protest during the post-George Floyd riots was a legitimate exemption from their own prior insistence on a complete nationwide quarantine? Or as these ideologues lectured us as “experts”:

" 'We wanted to present a narrative that prioritizes opposition to racism as vital to the public health, including the epidemic response. We believe that the way forward is not to suppress protests in the name of public health but to respond to protesters demands in the name of public health.”

"To convince the public to get behind the agendas of politicians—increasingly on the left—ideologues round up groups of politically kindred professors, researchers, retired officials, and former bureaucrats to show off their supposed expertise and convince the public by means of their “authority”." . . .   Sen. Rubio discusses gaslighting

Clueless or Deluded? 700 'National Security Officials' Release Letter Endorsing Kamala Harris – RedState   "Of all the things that Kamala Harris is unfit to do, of all the duties she should never be entrusted with, commander-in-chief of the American armed forces and the national intelligence apparatus has to be at the top of the list. That is not, however, preventing over 700 "national security officials" from endorsing her in her POTUS run. That's an endorsement that is almost as chilling as her endorsement by the tax collectors union." . . .

"Vice President Harris, if we're being perfectly honest, has no leadership qualities whatsoever. She is not prepared. In the few softball interviews she has done, she has yet to give one direct answer, even to the list of carefully prepared softball questions she has had gently lobbed at her. Even in her one debate with former President Trump, her "rebuttals" were weak - not one direct answer, not one unambiguous policy position." . . . 

Nine of Those 'Intelligence Experts' Who Just Endorsed Kamala Signed False Hunter Laptop Disinfo Letter

 Bob Hoge RedState

. . ."Ward Clark wrote in his story about the Harris endorsement, titled appropriately enough, “Clueless or Deluded? 700 'National Security Officials' Release Letter Endorsing Kamala Harris” . . .

"The second I read the headline about 700 former national security and military officials endorsing Kamala Harris for president, I thought, “Were any of them the same ones who signed the infamous, duplicitous letter in October 2020—right before the election—that claimed Hunter Biden’s lurid laptop was likely Russian disinformation?”

"It was a lie, and many if not all of those 51 “experts” knew it. To this day, most make no apology for their attempts to gaslight the public and affect the outcome of a presidential election:

"Not surprisingly, the answer to my question above is “yes.” Nine of those miscreants signed on to the Kamala Harris endorsement. Not surprisingly, one of the most dishonest men in public life is one of the them—none other than former CIA Director John Brennan. He’s joined by his equally ethically challenged cohorts, former CIA Director Leon Panetta and former DNI James Clapper. Here are all nine:

• former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper
• former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden
• former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta
• former CIA Director John Brennan
• former Acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin 
• former CIA chief of staff Laurence M. Pfeiffer
• former Department of Defense chief of staff Jeremy Bash
• CIA chief of station John Sipher
• former National Intelligence Council Chair Gregory Frye Treverton. . . .

No Shame: Intel Officials Who Signed Hunter Laptop 'Russian Disinformation' Letter Call It 'Patriotic'

Response From Intel Letter Signers Tells You Everything You Need to Know

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explodes over Detroit News cartoon mocking notorious Israel-hating Congressman Rashida Tlaib

 The Gateway Pundit (barenakedislam.com)  

Security sources confirmed that the devices were the latest models used by Hezbollah and were thought to be critical in their communications amidst their war efforts against Israel.

. . . "On Friday, AOC lost her ‘mind’ over a cartoon published in The Detroit News that referenced the pager incident. The cartoon in question showed notorious anti-Semitic congresswoman Rashida Talib (D-MI) looking at a blown-up pager on her desk. She quips: “Odd. My pager just exploded.”

"The purpose of the cartoon was not to promote racism but to likely make a point about Talib’s pro-terror sympathies while referencing a prominent worldwide event. But AOC just saw it as an attack on all Muslims and pitched a fit over it on X.

“The way Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred is so deeply normalized and accepted in our politics is horrifying,” AOC whined.

“It rarely receives the equal condemnation it deserves, she added. It is inexcusable and a massive double standard.

“This is disgusting. And so is the silence around it. We see it.” . . .

The flag of those who want Israel destroyed.

Former Israeli PM responds to AOC scolding Israel for attacks on Hezbollah 

Video:  This is a very professional interview by Martha; well done. And by Bennett; he represents his nation and the essentials of the conflict with reason and objectivity.

After Two Failures, "They" Are Getting Desperate

Dems Are One Step Short Of Offering A Bounty On Trump (DianeLGruber)

Democrat Activist Ryan W. Routh: “Iran, you are free to assassinate Trump. No one here in the United States seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work, or even unnatural selection.” 

"From the minute Donald J. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats, Big Media, and all types of Useful Idiots have been demonizing him, daily, with such nonsensical labels as “Hitler,” “Satan,” “threat to democracy,” virtually begging the nutwings among them to become historical figures by “taking out” Trump."

"Democrats have been promoting & funding political violence for well over a decade now. Sunday’s second assassination attempt on Trump can only be seen as a symptom of the hate and vitriol Democrats at the highest levels, the lowest levels and everywhere in between, have been spewing at him for eight years now.

"Before the latest assassination attempt, Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-FL, met with a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who said that there are at least five known assassination teams in the United States right now, “at least three of which are foreign that are out to kill Trump . . . two of them we know are domestic in nature, . . . Iran, Ukraine, Pakistan.” YET THE SECRET SERVICE DID NOT INCREASE HIS LEVEL OF PROTECTION!!!  WHO IS FUNDING THE DOMESTIC HIT TEAMS?

“THEY” WANT TRUMP DEAD

“ 'They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” Trump said after the first attempt. “I’m just standing in the way.”

“They” have been coming after Trump since he won the 2016 election, and soon thereafter “they” started coming after Trump supporters.

“ 'They” can’t stand it when Trump exposes how Americans are being abused. THAT is why they are still lying about the hell Americans in Springfield, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado are living through due to Biden/Harris’s importation of 21 million foreign nationals. There are thousands of neighborhoods across the country that are intentionally being destroyed under Biden/Harris’s replacement plans." . . . All emphases in the original

ABC's Trump fact check blows up

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker 

 Friday afternoon, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called on Muir, the anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” to “issue an immediate public apology to President Trump for wrongly and rudely fact checking him on the debate stage.”

"Crime rates are on the ballot in November. Donald Trump won’t be
 holding his breath while waiting for Muir’s apology."

"Now infamously, ABC’s David Muir, during the Trump/Harris debate, “fact checked” Donald Trump’s assertion that crime rates had increased under the Harris/Biden Administration, arrogantly sniffing they were decreasing. That was only one of several ludicrously false “fact checks” against Trump, as opposed to no fact checks at all against Harris. What a surprise. It was only a few days later that the truth came out, but first, let’s explore some of the reasons why statistics, particularly those of the FBI, are blatantly false.

"At one time, the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) was the gold standard of crime statistics, but that hasn’t been true for a very long time, and during the Harris/Biden years, the FBI’s reporting has become purposely inaccurate.

"Part of the reason for this is the success of “Defund the Police” lunacy. Particularly in blue cities, cutting police budgets has created a crime doom loop. Wages comprise most of any police budget. Cut the budget, and officers are fired. Firing officers for political reasons makes recruiting qualified candidates virtually impossible. It also causes officers who can retire to pull the pin, and forces others to flee to states where police officers are allowed to do their jobs. Stuck with DEI mandates and few or no qualified candidates, blue city police forces dramatically reduce hiring standards, accepting even people with drug and alcohol abuse histories and criminal records.

"The officers that remain are grossly overworked and have high incidences of illness and stress. Overtime goes through the roof, depleting city coffers. Those blue cities also tend to harass and prosecute officers for doing their jobs, while simultaneously denying them necessary and constitutional tools like stop and frisk, so in self-defense remaining officers tend to do as little as possible, and particularly avoid contact with black criminals, who tend to commit the most crimes, largely against honest black people." . . .

Levitation 101; Illusion

Victory for the Democrats will depend on the perpetuation of the illusion that Kamala Harris is in any way a plausible candidate for the presidency of the United States.

  Roger Kimball › American Greatness 

"Even Winfrey, a prominent anti-Trump Harris supporter, seemed taken aback by her guest’s incoherent flights of flaccid, cringe-making glossolalia. Harris supporters just winced and bit their tongues while critics pounced upon and ridiculed the seeping, leaking emission of empty saccharine vocables." 

Toon added by TD

"Every honest commentator, and even some dishonest ones, acknowledges the supreme oddity of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

"As has been oft remarked,  the oddity begins with the campaign’s origin.  Exactly how is it that Kamala Harris even became the candidate?  By what process was Joe Biden, the undisputed winner of the Democratic primary, ousted, eliminated and defenestrated from contention?  The rumors and stories are plentiful, but the actual facts—to say nothing of the dramatis personae behind the facts—remain obscure.

"But somehow, exactly two months ago, Joe Biden raised his sleepy head in Rehoboth Beach and announced his departure from the campaign but not, pointedly, from the presidency. (Will that happen before January 20, 2025?  I wonder.)

"No sooner had the public begun to get its head around that surprise than they were hit with an even bigger one: Biden’s replacement would be Vice President Kamala Harris.  How did that happen?  Who voted for her? Shhh!  Some questions are mood breakers, and it was clear from the get-go that the Harris campaign was going to have to depend heavily, some experts say nearly exclusively, on mood.

"In the weeks since July 21, when Biden made his fateful announcement, there has been a lot of Dr. Johnson’s dog about the Harris campaign.  When it came to female preachers, Dr. Johnson said, we are reminded of dogs who can walk on their hind legs.  They do not do it well, but we are surprised they can do it at all.

"Mindful of Harris’s, er, challenges in public speaking and responding ex tempore to questions from interviewers,  her handlers have been assiduous about keeping her out of such dangerous situations. The more she vocalizes (I almost said “talks”), the more damage she does to her candidacy. Her embarrassing performance on a ninety-minute livestream exchange with Oprah Winfrey in Detroit a few days ago underscored the problem." . . .

Why We Inherently Despise Kamala Harris; Even her handlers know she is not capable.

"Harris, though despicable and contemptuous, may cackle and slither her way to the top, G-d forbid. Taylor Swift’s fans on TikTok will find their dreams come true. And so will Kim Jung Un, Vladimir Putin, Xi of China, and the mullahs of Iran."  Dov Fischer

The American Spectator

Dov Fischer    . . ."Most Republicans cannot fairly be described as having despised Harry Truman. Or Adlai Stevenson. Or John Kennedy. Or Lyndon Johnson. Hate? Maybe. But visceral despising? No. Nor Hubert Humphrey. Nor George McGovern. McGovern was more pathetic, not despicable in his gut. The man was a WWII air force fighter.

"Jimmy Carter? That was disgust, not hate per se. Walter Mondale — pitiful. Michael Dukakis — pathetic. Bill Clinton — slick and slippery. Al Gore — loathsome. John Kerry — imperious, narcissistic, arrogant. Even Biden — simply beneath contempt.

"But this past decade has presented the first time in a century or so that a Democrat opponent could be termed “despicable.” There were: (i) Obama (If you don’t adore him and worship him, you despise him.); (ii) Hillary, (whom no one adored or worshipped, but was impossible not to despise), and (iii) our present focus, Kamala Harris.

"No fair Republican despises the likes of more worthy Democrat presidential contenders, whose views are anathema to true conservatives, like Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, or others of that ilk. But Harris, for those who do not worship her, leaves no middle ground other than to be deeply despised. But why?" . . .

Just who can we trust in this election?

 Donald N. Finley - American Thinker  

"Doesn’t that mean she has to lie about what she truly believes?  Yes it does.  It means she has to hide who she really is.  Do we even know who she is?  Yes we do.  She is the person she was before Joe Biden was forced out of the race." 

AF Branco

"Let’s review who we can trust in this election.

"Borders are not just boundaries, they are the law in a sovereign nation.  Everyone knows the Biden-Harris administration has allowed nearly 10 million illegals to enter the country unvetted.  No one knows how many crossed the border uncounted (got-aways), but some estimates exceed another 10 million.  All along, administration officials have been telling us the border is secure.  They have been lying.

"This administration has also been flying migrants from other countries directly into American cities.  That’s what the CBP One app is all about.  They call it a humanitarian parole program, but its aim is to keep the numbers down at the border to avoid the horrible optics.  It also provides Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, which makes them legal immigrants, hands them work permits, and skews the numbers.  It serviced Afghanis after the U.S. evacuation, Ukrainians after the Russian invasion, and was later expanded to citizens of Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.  Heard anything lately about migrants from any of those countries?

"And what are the consequences?  One is crime, rampant crime, and much of it violent.  Democrats and the media will say it’s not true, but consider these facts.  The Justice Department just released their National Crime Victimization Survey on Sept. 12.  The survey found violent crime up 37% from 2020 to 2023, rape up 42%, robbery up 63%, and stranger violence up 61%.  Few in the media will cover this." . . .

. . ."Just as the left has tried to hide the truth from the American people about Biden and Harris, they have had to replace those facts with a manufactured narrative about Trump.  Trump’s entire political life has largely been shaped by lies from the left, from the Clinton campaign’s dossier, to Russia collusion, all the way to the ‘Kamalies,’ with every gap between filled by the legacy media." . . . 

Jill Biden's Cosplaying As President Just Got Much Weirder

 Bonchie – RedState

"It's pathetic. This is not what journalism is supposed to be. This is also not what a First Lady is supposed to be doing. Are there no serious reporters left in the mainstream press who will bother to ask what in the heck is going on?"

RealityBites

"The saga of Jill Biden cosplaying as president of the United States just got a lot weirder, and this time the press is involved.

"On Friday, questions arose after she was spotted sitting at the head of the table and leading a cabinet meeting at the White House. That it was the first in over a year only made the situation more perplexing. Joe Biden doesn't meet with his cabinet for that long and when he finally does, his unelected wife takes the lead? Then, later on the same day, it was revealed that her name was being embossed on honorary legislation folders as if she were equal to the president. 

"She wasn't done, though. In what appears to be a very coordinated campaign at this point, MSNBC put out a slobbering segment in which Jill Biden gives "journalist" Peter Alexander an Oval Office tour. The two are also seen discussing the "transfer of power" as if her opinion on such matters is relevant.

"To call all of this odd is an understatement. Jill Biden taking a leading role in multiple aspects of the administration all on the same day is too obvious to count as a coincidence. There's a message being sent here. What exactly that is is up for consideration, but I suspect Joe Biden's relinquishing of the presidential nomination to Kamala Harris has something to do with it. 

"The ride is almost over for his wife. Those Air Force One rides and taxpayer-funded vacations end in January. Perhaps she just wants to make a few memories, inappropriate and head-scratching as they may be. Of course, the other possibility is far worse. Namely, that Joe Biden is so completely unable to fulfill the duties of his office that Jill Biden is having to step in "unofficially" in a much more public fashion." . . .

Jill Biden Chairs Cabinet Meeting. What's Going On? – HotAir   Video ... "Forbes was generous enough to describe the situation as "First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Joins Biden Cabinet Meeting." We have the whole spectacle on video, however, and she did a lot more than "join." Joe Biden spoke (or more correctly read from his queue cards) for all of two minutes and four seconds. Then Dr. Jill took over. I've queued up the video below so you can see for yourself. She was sitting at the head of the table, hitting all of the talking points, and everyone's attention was focused on her. She was running the meeting.". . .

Israel haters weep for Hezbollah terrorists, but Douglas Murray has other thoughts.

 Douglas Murray applauds pager explosion attack against Hezbollah (youtube.com)    "Author Douglas Murray has applauded the pager explosion attack on Hezbollah members which was assumed to have been launched by Israel.

" 'This is the deliberate targeting of Hezbollah terrorists in the most targeted, precise and somewhat personal way imaginable,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. " 'The people who say that this is indiscriminate seem not to have noticed that if you have a Hezbollah pager device or Hezbollah walkie-talkie on you, the chances are you may well be a member of Hezbollah and Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organisation, and therefore you're just not innocent.”

Video: ‘Idiot’ AOC slammed over ‘untrue’ post about Hezbollah pager attack  "Author and commentator Andrew Klavan slammed “idiot” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez following her latest post commenting on the attack on Hezbollah communication devices in Lebanon.

"Ms Ocasio-Cortez, in a post to X, said the pager attack in Lebanon “clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict”. "She then went on to call for the “full accounting” of the attack to Congress, including an answer from the State Department as to whether any “US assistance went into the development or deployment” of the technology. “ 'It’s a stupid theory, it’s observably untrue,” Mr Klavan told Sky News host James Macpherson."

Israel haters who wept for Gaza civilians now weep for Hezbollah terrorists. "One of the virtues of Israel’s exquisitely targeted attack against Hezbollah terrorists is that it’s finally revealed the truth for all to see: The people who have spent the last months crying about Israel killing civilians cared nothing about the civilians. What made them angry was that Israel was defeating Hamas, an Iranian proxy, so an enemy of both Israel and America. We know this because the same people, rather than congratulating Israel for a targeted attack the likes of which no one has ever seen, are now angry at Israel for killing enemy soldiers, even as they’re completely silent about Hezbollah’s most recent massive rocket barrage against Israeli civilians.

"Here's a good, brief summary of what Israel managed to accomplish:" . . .

Dear @aoc and other useful idiots who only discover IHL if they think it hurts Israel:
No, Israel's attack did not violate international law, including your newfound darling 'AP II Article 7' rules against booby traps (which I bet you never heard of until today).
Here is why:

— Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) September 18, 2024

Democrats, does this give you any concern? Report: Hezbollah Had an 'October 7-Like' Attack in the Works Before It Was Blown to Smithereens – RedState  ..."Reports have since emerged that Hezbollah was planning an "October 7-like" attack on Israel codenamed "Conquer the Galilee." October 7, 2023, was, of course, the day that Hamas terrorists from Gaza conducted a merciless assault on Israel, resulting in the barbarous murders of thousands of Israelis and the kidnappings of hundreds more — many of whom are still being held hostage nearly a year later. 

"Following the latest action by Israel, the IDF revealed what they believe Hezbollah was planning:" . . .

All Israel wants is to live in peace with their families and society. The Arabs around them have nothing to fear from the Jews, but they cannot, and will not leave Israel alone. TD

 

Obama and the pro-Hamas tide in America

 

Broc Smith

The Democrat Party's Antisemitism Went Big With Barack Obama (thefederalist.com)  "Obama’s embrace of antisemites is responsible for the anti-Israel radicalism rampant among Democrats today.

"It goes without saying that if the aforementioned demonstrators were “MAGA Republicans” protesting an Islamic country and harassing Muslim students, legacy media “journalists” would be relentlessly spamming the phone lines and emails of every GOP official in the country asking for condemnation. They will never hold Democrats to the same standard, and their refusal to call out Obama for ignoring the leftist occupation of universities shows it.

"While the media’s inaction isn’t surprising, neither is Obama’s silence. Obama’s decision to remain mum on the issue is representative of his behavior and the individuals encompassing him throughout his life." . . .

"It goes without saying that if the aforementioned demonstrators were “MAGA Republicans” protesting an Islamic country and harassing Muslim students, legacy media “journalists” would be relentlessly spamming the phone lines and emails of every GOP official in the country asking for condemnation. They will never hold Democrats to the same standard, and their refusal to call out Obama for ignoring the leftist occupation of universities shows it.

While the media’s inaction isn’t surprising, neither is Obama’s silence. Obama’s decision to remain mum on the issue is representative of his behavior and the individuals encompassing him throughout his life.