Why the Rabid Hatred?

 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.  From Oct 23.

Rajan Laad  

Perhaps it is overconsumption of the propaganda peddled by MSNBC, CNN, NYT, and WaPo [and "The View"]. One would assume she is old enough to not be brainwashed by propaganda. But age is no guarantee of wisdom. 

. . ."However, there is also another category of individuals whose rage against Trump has a reason.

"These are establishment figures or swamp dwellers who see Trump as a threat to their monopoly. These are the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, etc. They fear Trump could dismantle the self-serving, self-preserving D.C. Democrat establishment that has enabled them to acquire power and wealth. Trump's defiance also enrages them.

"Most people aspiring for power are desperate for approval from the establishment. They also fear reprisals or attacks from the establishment and their proxies and with good reason. We remember how Biden was ruthlessly dethroned by the establishment. 

"Trump, on the other hand, was elected in 2016, despite challenging the establishment. 

"Despite being persecuted on many fronts, Trump continues have public support. He is personally unaffected and even mocks them unsparingly and relentlessly. He is likely to be re-elected in November.

"This causes further hatred.

"A common enemy, i.e. President Trump, has caused the baseless haters and the establishment haters to join hands.

"Quite often, experts and even Trump supporters such as Laura Ingraham claim that someone with Trump’s policies, but without Trump personality and 'baggage' will be preferable. They assert that this mythical individual wouldn't receive such hate from the media, the establishment and loons such as the ranting woman.

"Ingraham and others must understand it's not Trump's 'baggage' or personality but his principled defiance and policies that causes hatred from the establishment. 

"In fact, the relentless hate from the establishment is proof that Trump is the perfect candidate for the Presidency."

There’s almost nothing that Donald Trump likes better than throwing his adversaries off their game; he likes to be unpredictable, confusing and in charge. It gives him an edge in achieving his goals.   "He's kept his adversaries guessing to the extent that he will pay them back for their lawfare and deep-state machinations, and not surprisingly, they expect the worst. Yet he has said repeatedly that victory in the election will be his revenge. They don't know what to make of it."

Letter from Michigan: “No one I know is voting for Kamala Harris”  (Hat tip to Andrea Widberg) . . . "Here’s a new entry in the American Thinker occasional podcast series.

"This video/podcast discusses a leftist European writer’s accurate—and depressing—take on the state of America under Harris and Biden, the fraud against Israel that’s taking place on Wikipedia, and the wonderful NY Times article that’s meant to dissuade people from supporting Trump but that reads like the perfect Trump campaign promotional material."

Despite Israel's Feckless Allies: The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu

Victor Davis Hanson   Netanyahu's actions have neutralized more Western adversaries responsible for decades of bloodshed than NATO, the CIA, FBI, or Interpol, combined, yet he’s often met with rebuke rather than gratitude.

Ordeal: "After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021.

"The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out of office.

"Western leaders and the Israeli left, and indeed even the Israeli non-left, as well as American and European pundits, claimed that the laxity of the Netanyahu government was entirely to blame for the grotesque massacre of October 7.

"Indeed, last fall, there arose almost a competition of critics to assert all the ways in which Netanyahu was played by Hamas.

"Accordingly, Netanyahu’s sweeping Supreme Court reforms had supposedly needlessly split the country, demoralizing the military and eroding Israeli deterrence in the eyes of Palestinian terrorists. Or his purported strategy of playing off the more lethal and toxic Hamas against the Palestinian Authority was supposedly proof of his reckless naivete.

"Still, other opponents argued that his 16 years as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and his age of 75 made him a Joe Biden-like relic of the past, simply too old and too familiar to be any longer effective. He was told it was well past time to step down and let a new generation break out of the old toxic Middle East mindsets.

"And indeed, after October 7, Netanyahu faced a bleak regional and global landscape—analogous to what a 65-year-old Churchill faced in June 1940 when all of Western Europe was in the hands of the Nazis and a lonely Britain was without a single wartime ally—with a sympathetic America still hesitant to commit to ensuring its existence." . . .

Triumph: . . ."And what of Iran itself, the hub to the spokes of such terrorism?

"We were told that it would soon become nuclear and might strike against the proverbial “one-bomb” state. In the mullahs’ eyes, poor Israel was a divine gift to the theocracy of assembling half the world’s Jewry into one easy target.

"Did not Iran export deadly drones and missiles to new staunch allies like Russia and China and develop missiles nearly comparable to any in the West?

"And yet somehow an embattled Netanyahu, shunned by the Biden administration, demonized by the European Union, and smeared and slandered by the UN, saw opportunity where all others saw only doom.

"He understood that the sheer depravity of October 7 gave Israel, at least for a brief window, the moral authority to wage all-out war on its enemies, terrorists whose reputations he sensed were exaggerated, and their leaders’ bloodcurdling threats thus mostly empty." . . .

Good riddance to Joe Biden, one of America’s most disastrous presidents

UK Telegraph

What a contrast with Biden. His deplorable withdrawal from Afghanistan handed the territory to terrorists and sent our enemies the message that the US does not stand by its allies; all you need to do is wait it out and grind the superpower down, and you will be handed your victory on a platter. A direct line can be drawn from that debacle to the Ukraine war.

Tony Branco

"On Monday night, Biden took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to bid an emotional farewell.

"Outside there had been significant unrest, with hundreds of keffiyeh-clad Gaza activists marching downtown to accuse Kamala Harris of “genocide” in Gaza.

"Four people had been detained by the police when they managed to break through a security perimeter that had been set up around the venue. In one snapshot, a tall thug wearing women’s clothing was filmed berating police officers in an unusually deep voice.

"Quite obviously, this was not just about Gaza. This was a clash of worldviews, with Western values of freedom and liberal democracy being assailed by the trendy new radicalism, a mélange of old-fashioned socialism and woke fundamentalism. It all put me in mind of Ronald Reagan’s battles with the Left.

"As Biden departs weeping from the stage, it is natural to consider his legacy. Perhaps that was part of the reason for his tears. Whereas Reagan inherited a divided country but successfully united it through the force of his charisma and solid values, Biden inherited a divided country from Donald Trump, promised to unify it, and left it more divided than ever before, with an orange sun rising once again on the horizon. It is hard to look upon his period in office as an untrammelled success.

"Partly, this has been because the 46th president has allowed himself to be pulled hither and thither by the increasingly militant progressive wing of his party, which has attempted to dictate policy on issues ranging from foreign affairs to rent controls. Biden dithered, capitulated, and triangulated, losing both his values and his overseas allies in the process – all for him to lose his chance at a second term, pushed out without so much as a how’s your father by a Democratic machine still heavily influenced by the Obamas." . . .

The war with Iran; Yesterday's Israeli strikes revealed a new strategy that's now beginning to unfold

 Melanie Phillips: Substack

"According to Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defence and Security Forum (a group composed of robust Israeli military and security analysts), the US election on November 5 is a crucial factor in Israel’s next moves."       (Emphasis mine. TD)

"This morning, people have been trying to work out the significance of the Israeli strikes on Iran that were carried out in the early hours of yesterday.

"Given that Israel didn’t strike Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, oil terminals or members of the Iranian regime, in line with the enormous American pressure to limit such an attack, some people have leapt to the conclusion that although this was a tactical success it was a strategic failure in not striking a decisive blow against Tehran. 

"Such an assessment is distinctly premature.

"First, it’s important to register the scale of the achievement. Israel openly attacked Iran in a complex operation involving 100 fighter jets over a distance which presents significant challenges. Iran’s air defences were simply brushed aside and then crippled along with its missile and drone production capabilities. Iran has now been shown to be widely exposed to Israeli attack and its capacity for retaliation has been diminished.

"Although Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated that the US didn’t dictate Israel’s targets, the Israel Air Force operated entirely within the red lines set down by the Biden administration. 

"Yet Israel may have achieved what it needed to do at this stage, given a range of factors that have a direct bearing on the urgency of neutralising the threat from Tehran while minimising the likelihood of acute damage to Israeli lives in any possible Iranian response. 

"The targets struck by the Israel Air Force were far from negligible. The New York Times, quoting three Iranian and three senior Israeli defence officials, reports that targets for attack included defences at the Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical complex in Khuzestan Province, at the major economic port Bandar Imam Khomeini, and at the Abadan oil refinery. Air-defence systems were also struck in Ilam Province, at the Tange Bijar gas refinery.

"Such strategic targeting, which reportedly shocked Iran, carries a double message: first, as a deterrent against further Iranian aggression, and second, as the essential precursor to a far more significant attack.

Michelle, do you recall how this country elected Barack, pampered you all, celebrated you, and pretty much spoiled you rotten?

Legal Insurrection

"And how have those Democratic "grown-ups" in the White House worked out? Not very well, to our great chagrin, which is why people want to vote them out." 

Toon added by TD

"Michelle Obama is another one who just cannot accept the fact that VP Kamala Harris sucks.

"I really think the Obamas think she’s great. Therefore, racism and sexism have to be the reason why she’s not demolishing former President Donald Trump:

I got to ask myself, “Well, why on earth is this race even close?” I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on. And it’s clear to me that the question isn’t whether Kamala is ready for this moment because by every measure, she has demonstrated that she’s ready.

The real question is, as a country, are we ready for this moment?

"Lady, get over yourself."

Having realized that their candidate is horrible, Michelle Obama has decided that the best strategy is to suggest that Americans are racist and sexist for not supporting Kamala Harris.

This is what a losing campaign looks like.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 26, 2024

In the next few days we expect to take this schtick to "The View", Colbert, and MSNBC. TD

Obama said they were ready to turn the page on the politics of division when they have been the chief proponents of such politics

"Now it's Michelle Obama's turn. Once again, just like her husband, what you got was someone who was angry, preaching at you, and telling a fantasyland of falsehoods about her "dear friend," Kamala Harris."

Wow. Michelle Obama blatantly lies on stage while campaigning for Kamala Harris:
"[Kamala's] not ducking interviews or cowering in safe spaces only with fawning audiences." pic.twitter.com/QroUlZ0IRJ

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 26, 2024

. . ." This is the person who hid herself and wouldn't do an interview for weeks. She hasn't faced her "harshest critics." She's concealed herself behind fawning or softball interviews, with the exception of one Fox interview where she tried to filibuster and ended up stumbling all over herself. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing interviews with everyone, including interviews Harris is ducking like the "Joe Rogan Experience." She's not seeking out Republicans to find common ground. No, she's finding "Republicans" like Liz Cheney, who have already thrown in with the Dems, who have been rejected by other Republicans and/or voted out." . . .

Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust

"Such blatant bias from the media suggests a once respected institution has little if any standing left."

 J.T. Young  

"America’s establishment media loves to hide behind the First Amendment. However, there can be no freedom of the press if there is no freedom in the press.  No greater blow is being struck for such a freedom than Americans’ tuning out of the establishment media."

 "Recent polling shows Americans’ mistrust of establishment media at an all-time high. The only surprise is that it isn’t higher. America’s establishment media bias is so consistent that they clearly no longer just cover the news from one side, but for one side.

"Gallup recently released a poll (10/14) showing that “trust in the fourth estate — the mass media — is at a new low.” Less than one-third of Americans (31%) expressed “‘a great deal’ or ‘fair amount’ of confidence in the media to report the news ‘fully, accurately and fairly.’” In contrast, almost seven in ten Americans have “no trust at all in the media” (36%) or “not very much” confidence (33%) in the media.

"Gallup’s question was not a new one. Back in the 1970s, America’s confidence in the media was 68%-72%.  Even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, trust ranged between 51-55%. Today, Gallup finds “the news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic political institutions.”

"Far from being merely a perception problem, the establishment media’s faults run far deeper. The Media Research Center has long cited numerous polls finding “journalists are much more liberal than rest of America” and that this liberal advantage is growing. These journalists report the way they lean with “most of the journalistic elite offering reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.”

"A 2022 Syracuse University survey showed that only 3.4 percent of American journalists say they are Republicans. And this summer, the Media Research Center found media coverage of Kamala Harris had been 84 percent positive, while Trump’s had been 89 percent negative.

"Certainly, Americans don’t need polls to tell them about establishment media bias; case after case exists.  There was the Russian dossier that was breathlessly reported on and used for extensive investigations by Congress. It turned out the FBI should never have undertaken a Trump-Russia probe.  Then there was case of Hunter Biden’s laptop that was treated as a hoax; only to turn out to be true and a key piece of evidence in his trial — in which he was convicted on all three charges." . . .

J.T. Young is the author of the new book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.

How Democrat Lawfare Launched Trump’s Comeback

 The American Spectator  The legal war meant to end his political career actually revived it.

. . ."Then, after “defeating” him in 2020, they maligned him in the media as an aspiring dictator, raided his home, illegally removed his name from state ballots, arrested him, forced him to sit for demeaning mugshots, and convicted him based on a legal theory that most experts found laughable. This would have caused almost anyone reading this column to throw their hands up and say, “Nothing is worth this.” But he knows we are worth it."

This article is taken from The American Spectator’s fall 2024
 print magazine. 

"When Donald Trump left Washington on January 20, 2021, the consensus among our ruling elites was that his tumultuous career in politics was at an end. The Democrats, however, were taking no chances. Having impeached him just a week earlier in the House of Representatives, they were hard at work preparing to put him on trial in the Senate for “incitement of insurrection” despite the fact that he was no longer in office. They were so fearful that Trump might stage a comeback that they hoped to convict him of an offense that would forever disqualify him from holding public office at any time in the future.

"Three weeks later, the Senate began an impeachment trial that was so constitutionally questionable that Chief Justice John Roberts refused to preside over the farce. During the ensuing antics, one of Trump’s attorneys, Bruce Castor, explicitly called out the Democrats concerning their real motive for insisting on the unprecedented proceeding: “Let’s understand why we are really here. We are really here because the majority in the House of Representatives does not want to face Donald Trump as a political rival in the future.” Trump was inevitably acquitted by the Senate, and Castor proved remarkably prescient. 

"This impeachment charade was the beginning of a multi-year legal campaign, the primary purpose of which was to associate the former president, in the public psyche, with a fictitious conspiracy to undermine our democracy™ and to assure that his viability as a future presidential candidate was irreparably damaged. Trump, however, was not so easily disposed of. As Gallup reported at the time of Trump’s departure from Washington, “Republicans’ average 88% approval of Trump ties Eisenhower’s as the highest own-party approval score, though most presidents had better-than 80% approval among their fellow partisans.”

" 'Moreover, a mere five weeks after leaving office, he appeared at CPAC in Orlando, Florida, where he delivered a ninety-minute speech that made it clear that he had no intention of retiring in disgrace. Trump spoke to an enthusiastic audience that cheered when he teased a 2024 presidential run and said his political career was “far from over.” This rattled Democrats, who decided to conduct a public “investigation” of the January 6 riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed a select committee consisting of seven Democrats and two notorious RINOs, which predictably devolved into a nakedly partisan inquisition. As Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation put it:. . ."

As the Dodgers play the Series, thinking back to their tolerant glory days

Jumping ahead to the real heart of this article:

Will O'Toole  . . . "The Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees are squaring off once again in the Fall Classic, the first time the league and one-time city rivals face off in the World Series since the strike season of 1981. It’s their 12th meeting.

"Interestingly, the Yankees and Dodgers matchups have had some historical meaning. In 1947, Jackie Robinson became not just the first African American to break the color barrier in the National League for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers but became the first to play in the World Series.

"Robinson handled the pressure, stress, and anxiety with professionalism, tact, and class. Then-Dodger’s manager Branch Rickey’s choice in his pursuit of integrating baseball was a deliberate “social engineering,” a strategy that paid off with more and more black players moving from the Negro Leagues to Major League Baseball over the course of the late 1940s and 1950s." . . .

 . . ."Today, when thinking of the Dodgers, many baseball fans cannot help but think of the incident last season when the Dodgers hosted an Anti-Catholic group, “The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” to their stadium. In that one brief inglorious moment, LA management forgot its past tolerance.

The Dodgers invited a group that blasphemed the tenets, beliefs and protocols of a religion and people that have had a bond with the franchise since its days in Brooklyn. This would never have occurred under the leadership of owner Walter O’Malley, the same man who respected Koufax’s faith.

According to The Angelus, the Catholic newspaper of Los Angeles, Walter O’Malley credited his Catholic faith for his success. Named “Brooklyn’s Catholic Man of the Year” in 1952, O’Malley was a daily Mass attender.

"Nor would this have occurred until the leadership of Branch Rickey or Tommy Lasorda.

"True, the Dodgers retreated, performed a “corporate mea culpa,” and engaged its Christian fans with “their own night” to celebrate a “Faith and Family Night” in Chavez Ravine. Still, for a franchise long held in esteem for its “progressive and social justice ways,” the damage has been done. Their hypocrisy is just another sad reflection on the state of sports.

"A franchise that portrayed itself as pristine, pure and perfect in all manners, methods and machinations forgot its roots not just logistical but culturally."

Mika Brzezinski takes 'crazy' to a new level. She watches too much MSNBC, I'd say

 Eric Utter   

"Ah, of course, she was referring to Trump being insufficiently thrilled by abortion. So she said: “He’s making us afraid to have babies.” This is the Mother of All Non Sequiturs."

"I thought perhaps I’d seen and heard it all, and that those on The Left couldn’t possibly attain a higher level of hypocrisy and insanity.

"I see now that I was mistaken.

"There is batsh*t crazy … and then there is Mika Brzezinski crazy.

"Mika used a recent Morning Joe broadcast on Fake News MSNBC to embark on a rant so unhinged and unmoored from reality that it boggles the mind. 

"She bizarrely stated: “As important as Trump’s fascism is,” before asserting “it’s the lead story every day” and referring to “his cozying up to, uh, dictators.”

"She not only called Trump a fascist, as if everyone know this unassailable fact, but implied fascism is very important to his identity. And then averred that Trump has somehow been snuggling/spooning with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"But she was just getting started. She referenced “what he has said about our veterans” and “what he wants to do with the military against his political adversaries.”

"Unlike Democrats and their organ grinder monkeys in the mainstream media, Trump truly respects the military, the individuals that comprise it, and veterans in general. And it is the Democrat Party, as evidenced by the Obama-Biden-Harris administration, that has weaponized the military against its enemies … i.e., American citizens who have the temerity to publicly disagree with its agenda.

"For the vast majority of folks, this would have been enough stupid slander for a lifetime, but not for Mika, who was almost foaming at the mouth now. She then asserted, “He is killing us. I’m talking about us women. He’s killing us.”

"He is? Are women’s bodies being piled up like cordwood somewhere where we can’t see them?

"Ah, of course, she was referring to Trump being insufficiently thrilled by abortion." . .  .

Mika must watch The View daily. TD

“Donald Trump is a mensch; he has always stood with the Jewish people,” UPDATED

 RTM  

 “Donald Trump is a Mensch ; he has always stood with the Jewish people,” Wartski stated, emphasizing that the comparisons Harris makes not only distort the legacy of the Holocaust but also insult its victims, including his own parents.

Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, has criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her recent comparisons between former President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, describing it as one of the most offensive statements he has encountered in his lifetime. Wartski, who endured the horrific conditions of the Auschwitz concentration camp as a child and lost most of his family during the Holocaust, finds such parallels deeply troubling." . . .

. . .The Vice President has repeated her stance in several venues, including social media platforms and public appearances, where she alleges that Trump seeks unchecked power akin to that wielded by dictators. During a town hall meeting, Harris stated, “Donald Trump aims to create a military loyalty reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s generals, prioritizing his own interests over our Constitution.”

"These remarks have caused significant backlash among Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who issued a joint statement condemning the comparisons. They have suggested that such rhetoric could incite further hostility against Trump and his supporters.

"Trump, in turn, has publicly rebuked Harris, labeling her claims as unfounded and disrespectful. His campaign has utilized Wartski’s testimony in advertising efforts, showcasing his criticisms of Harris. Trump’s enduring relationship with the Jewish community has also been highlighted, particularly in light of Wartski’s testimonials."

More on this here  How ironic that those calling Trump "Hitler" include those blocking Jews from streets. TD

Obama Uses 'Nazis' To Attack Trump. Ambassador Grenell Wrecks Him. 

  . . ."Not long after Obama utilized Nazis in his attack on Trump, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell responded with a tweet, writing: " 'Fact check: Donald Trump kicked the Nazi out of NYC after 14 years and multiple Presidents allowed him to stay."

. . . " 'The Nazis killed 6 million Jews," Grenell told The Daily Wire. "No one should ever joke about this horrific part of history." . .  .

UPDATE: Democrats point out that she's made too many cases against Trump — a scattershot approach that was bound to fail. The final pathetic, desperate attempt to paint Trump as Hitler has failed to move the needle.  . . ."Harris herself is being fingered for never getting around to defining herself for voters beyond "Donald Trump is a poopy head." 

"Democrats point out that she's made too many cases against Trump — a scattershot approach that was bound to fail. The final pathetic, desperate attempt to paint Trump as Hitler has failed to move the needle.

"No need to wonder why. Like the massive overuse of the charge of "racist" during the Obama years, the "fascist" label has lost its power to do damage." . . .

Yet it continues: Tim Walz Calls Trump Madison Square Garden Attendees Nazis. Great idea, Hillary thanks for this.

Kamala Harris’s Climate Czar: Fossil Fuel Industry Is ‘Death Cult’; Contains the word "fascism" as usual

 Breitbart

"The Kamala Harris campaign has tapped eco-loony Camila Thorndike as its “climate engagement director,” a far-left activist who says oil and gas workers are part of the “toxic patriarchy.”

"This “race against fascism is still too close,” Thorndike stated last week. “The only way to stop Trump’s Project 2025 from wrecking our progress and lives is to take action.”

"In early September, the Harris-Walz campaign brought on Thorndike, who had worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders as a legislative aide drafting climate-related policies, and who served in a senior director post at Rewiring America.

"While with Sanders, Thorndike said there is “something evil” about the fossil fuels sector, adding that “there’s no greater source of harm than continuing to cook the planet.”

As pointed out by the attentive folks at the Washington Free Beacon, Thorndike has a history of radical climate activism, in which she has attempted to demonize anyone associated with fossil fuels.

In one post, she said she has had no children because of the fear they would die young, asserting that “the fossil fuel industry’s ecoterrorism” is “great birth control.” . . .

   Climate Change Activists Endorse Kamala Harris

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jet-Setting Climate Doomer, Endorses Kamala Harris to ‘Help Save the Planet’    . . .“Now he’s promised the oil and gas industry that’ll get rid of any regulation they want in exchange for a billion-dollar donation.”

"The final claim is based on an anonymously-sourced Washington Post article from May; Trump has only received about $14 million from oil and gas industry donors this cycle.

“Climate change is killing the earth and ruining our economy,” DiCaprio continued. “We need a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet, and ourselves. That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris.”

"Shockingly, the actor touted Harris’s tie-breaking vote on the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which he describes as “the most significant climate action in U.S. history.” The law has haunted Harris’s campaign, as it did nothing to stop soaring prices, and President Joe Biden has even admitted it was deceptively named." . . .

Israel strikes inside Iran

"Should Iran choose to respond, we're fully prepared to defend Israel and support Israel, and there will be consequences," said a U.S. official.

JNS   

“I think he’s got that one wrong,” [Trump] said of Biden. “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit? I mean, it’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons. … The answer should have been: Hit the nuclear first, and worry about the rest later.”

"Israeli Air Force fighter jets conducted precision strikes on military targets in Iran overnight Friday, nearly one month after Tehran launched a massive ballistic-missile attack on the Jewish state.

"According to the Israel Defense Forces, dozens of aircraft, including refuelers and spy planes, conducted “waves” of attacks over the course of a few hours across several regions of Iran, located some 1,600 kilometers from Israel. The targets included missile and drone manufacturing facilities and launch sites, as well as air-defense batteries.

"The state-run SANA news outlet reported simultaneous Israeli strikes against military targets across central and southern Syria, amid Tehran’s decades-long effort to entrench itself in that country.

"The IDF named the operation “Days of Repentance.”

“ 'I can now confirm that we have concluded the Israeli response to Iran’s attacks against Israel. We conducted targeted and precise strikes on military targets in Iran—thwarting immediate threats to the State of Israel,” said IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

“ 'The Israel Defense Forces has fulfilled its mission. If the regime in Iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond. Our message is clear: All those who threaten the State of Israel and seek to drag the region into wider escalation will pay a heavy price,” Hagari continued. 

 “ 'We demonstrated today that we have both the capability and the resolve to act decisively, and we are prepared—on offense and defense—to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel,” he added." . . .