Multi-millionaire with three homes lectures Americans about 'not taking more than what you need'

 Satire by Genesius Times

"CHICAGO — In a heartfelt and humbling address at the Democratic National Convention, former First Lady and multi-millionaire Michelle Obama, who owns three luxurious homes, urged Americans to live modestly and “not take more than what you need.”

"Speaking from the stage at the convention in Chicago, just a short drive from her $11.75 million waterfront mansion in Martha’s Vineyard, Obama passionately called on the American public to embrace simplicity and restraint.

“ 'We all need to do our part to ensure that everyone has enough,” said the former First Lady, whose real estate portfolio also includes a $1.65 million home in Washington, D.C., and a $2.5 million property in Chicago’s Hyde Park. “It’s about fairness, it’s about sharing, it’s about recognizing that we don’t need to take more than we need.”

"The audience erupted in applause as Obama explained how living a minimalist lifestyle has always been a core value for her and her family. “We’ve always believed that you shouldn’t accumulate more than necessary,” she added, carefully omitting the square footage of her various residences.

"Obama’s speech was well-received by Democratic leaders and attendees, who nodded in agreement as she advocated for wealth redistribution and cutting back on excess. “It’s important that we all reflect on what we really need and consider giving up some of the luxuries that many of us enjoy,” she said, while wearing a designer outfit reportedly worth several thousand dollars.

"In closing, Obama reminded everyone that true fulfillment comes not from material wealth but from the connections we make and the impact we have on others. “At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have, but what you give,” she said, before heading off stage to her private jet, ready to take her back to one of her modest abodes.

"As the convention wrapped up, attendees were left inspired by Obama’s words and ready to reexamine their own lives—right after they booked their next vacation to Martha’s Vineyard."

Democrats Encourage Supporters To Go To The Polls By Telling Them Beyoncé Will Be There

 Babylon Bee. Who else?

"At publishing time, Donald Trump had asked his team to develop technology that would allow Kid Rock to appear at every polling station."

"To improve Kamala Harris' chances of victory, Democrats are encouraging supporters to go to the polls on election day by promising them that American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman Beyoncé will be there.

" 'Get ready to vote, BeyHive!" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told would-be voters as he danced along to "All the Single Ladies." "The Queen Bey herself is going to be at the polls in person, so you should be there too!"

"Nancy Pelosi, former House Speaker and current nobody, echoed Schumer's sentiments. "If we want to give Kamala a major dub we gotta' show up drip like real poggers and put Queen Bey on blast, no cap!" she said.

"A spokesperson for Beyoncé could not be reached for comment.

"Though voters are reportedly excited to see the popular pop singer, Republicans have decried the campaign tactic, calling it "literally impossible.' " . . .

The Garbage That Starts Off the Democratic Party Platform

 Robert Spencer; Frontpage Mag  "If you still think it’s hyperbole and hysteria to say that the Left hates America, check out the 2024 Democratic Party Platform"

To be a Democrat is to wear the hair shirt of guilt and repentence. TD

"This “inflection point” statement, however, is not the first item in the Democratic Party Platform. The first thing you see when you start reading the Democratic Party Platform, the very first thing that the Democrats want you to know, is that America is on stolen land. The message is clear: Go home, white colonizer!

"The first item in the 2024 platform of America’s majority party is the “Democratic National Convention Land Acknowledgement.” Land acknowledgments, which are basically statements of colonialist guilt and assertions that some particular parcel of land actually belongs to someone other than those who occupy it and own the deed, became trendy a few years ago, as our Age of Absurdity reached new heights of ridiculousness. They’re common, as you’d expect, on the websites of colleges and universities. The platform’s land acknowledgment is a trifle more gingerly stated than such things usually are, but its upshot is nonetheless unmistakable.

“ 'The Democratic National Committee,” the land acknowledgment begins, “wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.”

"This is carefully worded. Instead of saying outright that the land belongs to the Tribal Nations, or was taken from them, as most land acknowledgments do, the platform says that the Democratic National Convention is taking place on lands that “have been stewarded” by the Tribal Nations." . . . And so on....

. . ."Conspicuously absent is any similar praise for the Founding Fathers or any of the heroic figures of American history. From the Democrats’ platform, the uninformed reader would get the impression that the colonialist oppressors arrived in North America, stole the land from the Native Americans, and somehow established a Constitution that now Donald Trump wants to destroy, but which they are working very hard to save." . . .

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 28 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, and The Critical Qur’an. His latest book is Muhammad: A Critical Biography. . . .

Jon Stewart SHUTS DOWN MSNBC & CNN for Biased Reporting

Jon Stewart Slams CNN, NBC for Blocking Reporters From His Podcast (variety.com) We regret the language in this report. TD

Mr. Stewart speaks of "journalists" and I wonder if he includes personalities like Ali Velshi , Joy Reid,  Jim Acosta,  Rachel Maddow,  Wolf Blitzer, to name only a few. TD

"On his latest “Weekly Show” podcast, Jon Stewart railed against news outlets such as CNN and NBC, claiming that these “organizations that rely on access and transparency refuse to allow their reporters to come on [this] podcast and talk about the issues of the day.”

“ 'Weekly Show” producer Brittany Mehmedovic chimed in on the difficulty of booking guests on the podcast, saying “it’s unlike anything I’ve really ever seen” in her decade working in journalism. “Phone calls go unanswered,” she said, referring to NBC. “It’s very ‘We’re going to politely decline on this.'”

"Stewart said that individual reporters tell him they’d “love to do” the podcast but need to get “network approval,” which they say never comes. When the “Weekly Show” team seeks an explanation from the news outlet, Stewart and co. allegedly get “left on read.' ” . . .

Hillary's Glass Ceiling Is Dirty, Joe is just plain dirty

 American Free News Network (substack.com)  

"Did you catch Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democrat National Convention on Monday? Like our beloved Rush Limbaugh often said, I watched it so you didn’t have to. Deja vu all over again. Clinton’s speech brought me back to the 1970s when women were fighting for equal rights. We won that fight, but Clinton doesn’t want us to notice. She wants women to view themselves as victims. She prattled on about the glass ceiling, a term only pandering Democrats use in 2024 America.

"Queen Hillary spewed out the same old blather about how “women can do anything,” pretending that women are still being held back. To prove that women can do anything, Americans must, must, must put Kamala Harris in the White House. No special talent or experience is needed, and never mind that Harris is a Marxist. According to Clinton “female” on one’s birth certificate is sufficient.  Share

Good riddance to Joe Biden, one of America’s most disastrous presidents (The Telegraph)   "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." . . .

A blood libel from the unions against Israel?

 Civis Americanus  

"The bottom line is that if the Democrat party needs the kind of votes these unions can deliver, then it does not need your vote or mine, and its own members need to question whether this is the kind of representation they want."

"The Jewish Insider’s Gabby Deutch reports, “Major labor unions call on Biden to halt military aid to Israel.”  “Signatories include the Service Employees International Union, National Education Association, United Auto Workers, Association of Flight Attendants, the American Postal Workers Union, the International Union of Painters and the United Electrical Workers.”  All of these are major players in the Democrat party, which looks to them to deliver the union vote.  Note the presence of the NEA, a poster child for homeschooling and charter schools if ever I saw one.

"The article includes a link to confirm that the unions in question did in fact put their support behind the agenda of Hamas, which is to cripple Israel’s ability to remove the terrorist group permanently and recover all surviving hostages.

"The strict definition of a blood libel is specifically that Jews murder non-Jewish children to use their blood to make matzos.  I think, however, it is fair to extend the definition to include any false accusation of an atrocity to incite hatred of any racial, religious, or ethnic group, as the United Auto Workers did this July with its false accusation that Israel commits genocide.  Remember that more likely than not, false accusations that Spain blew up the USS Maine in Havana in 1898 helped start a war in which tens of thousands of people died, mostly from disease, as was standard in that era.  The Triple Entente depicted German soldiers murdering women, children, and prisoners of war and German sailors murdering the passengers of the Lusitania, which was, however, carrying munitions and thus a legitimate target.  This helped draw the United States into the war.  Adolf Hitler was unfortunately the German who learned the most from Germany’s failure to counteract this propaganda, and he used similar techniques to take over Germany." . . .

Civis Americanus is the pen name of an American Thinker contributor who remembers the lessons of history and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again the hard way.

Why I Stopped Teaching

 Prager U.   "For fifteen years, Kali Fontanilla taught middle and high school students in California public schools. Then she abruptly left it behind. Why would a teacher who loves teaching quit her job? Her answer should alarm us all."

Why I Stopped Teaching

No one survived: Zhenia, Dina, Alin, and Eitan went camping - and were murdered

 YouTube   "The tragedy of the Kapshitzer family - completely wiped out. Parents Zhenia and Dina, and their children Alin, 7 years old, and Eitan, 4 years old, went camping for the first time in their lives on October 7th. When they heard the sirens, they hurried to pack up and return home, but the terrorists ambushed them at the entrance to Sderot and killed them all"

"Am an immigrant living in America, and I'm crying like I lost my family! I can't believe the evil hamas unleashed amongst innocent civilians all because they're jews. RIP to all of them!"

Hollywood Occupies the White House

Phyllis Chesler   "Douglas Murray nailed it. In today's NY Post, he presented the last night of the Democrat Convention as staged as an evening of Academy Awards. A celebrity infomercial. A popular culture extravaganza. A completely staged, scripted, manic, fantasy or a Big Fat Lie. Everything that speakers attributed to Trump was more than true about the last four years of the Biden-Harris administration--and of the Obama administration before them. 

"Unleashing tyrants in Iran, China, Russia. That's on the Democrats. Withdrawing American power from Afghanistan--that's on BIden-Harris. Speaker after speaker projected their own failings onto the Trump administration and in so doing reminds me of what Hamas does in the name of Palestine.

"I admit it--I kept dropping in and dropping out of the performances--but that's what I also do for the real Academy Awards." 

Douglas Murray:These are the Dems who deserve an Oscar for the fake, all-an-act convention   "The Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week was one heck of a production. Less like a normal political convention and more like a glitzy Hollywood one.

" 'With a host of A-list celebrities and B-list politicians, it felt most like the Oscars.

"So in honor of this, the Academy would like to hand out a set of awards for the best performances in Chicago this week:

Best Actress — Nancy Pelosi  "There really was no competition in this category. Nancy Pelosi gave the performance of a lifetime, reading every one of her lines without cracking. 

"We will not soon forget the way in which she said that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had “established one of the most successful presidencies of modern times.”

"And then put such emotion into her voice while talking about infrastructure on rural broadband!

"We will not soon forget the way in which she said that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had “established one of the most successful presidencies of modern times.”

"And then put such emotion into her voice while talking about infrastructure on rural broadband.

"Her performance was second to none as she paid tribute to the man whose career she so recently ended.

"She emoted. She praised. She licked her lips. And during Biden’s own performance, she could be seen enthusiastically waving a “We love Joe” sign. It takes an actor of once-in-a-generation skill to do what Nancy did.

Best Supporting Actress — Hillary Clinton  "The former first lady is a master of the supporting role. So it was inevitable that there would be artistry in her performance. And so it proved.

"Who could fail to be impressed when she talked about the glass ceiling that she and Kamala had done so much to crack?

"Or the way in which she held a smile even as she said that Kamala should be the first woman to make it to the Oval Office? 

"Some viewers may have gotten the feeling that Hillary was about to grab a bigger trophy and burst out screaming, “It should have been mine” at any moment. But she didn’t.

"She kept herself measured and turned in a performance of rare, multi-layered complexity, underscored by a raw, sublimated rage.

Best Actor — Bill Clinton  "The boy from Arkansas took the stage for half an hour to remind people of the good old days. By which he meant the days of George Washington.

"Without bursting out laughing once, Bill Clinton compared Joe Biden to George Washington and said that, like Washington, Biden had exited the stage at a time of his own choosing." . . .

More here on the rest of the speakers.  Concluding with:  Best Animated Feature — Joe Biden  "It is amazing what modern animation can achieve. Way past his normal bedtime of 4 p.m., a character amazingly resembling Joe Biden took to the stage.

"He managed a whole speech, whipped himself up into a rage over things that nobody said and wiped a tear from his face as he accepted the gratitude of a party that wanted him gone.

Best Supporting Actor — Cardinal Blase Cupich; Lifetime Achievement Award — Oprah Winfrey; Best Picture — Teresa Woorman; Special Effects — The Democratic National Committee

In conclusion: "Not too long ago, borders were secure, the world was at peace, gas was affordable, groceries were affordable, mortgage interest rates were 2.5%, and the economic outlook was outstanding. Now look at the mess in less than 4 years."

Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"The donor-politico class further decided that, like a challenged Biden in 2024, Harris could not be allowed to hold press conferences. She would do few, if any, live interviews; unscripted town halls; or any other venue, given fears her visible liabilities might endanger her candidacy."

In a town teeming with corruption and liars,
 Adam Schiff ranks first

"The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

" 'Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.

"That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

"A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton / Democratic National Committee / FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.

"That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.

"On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

"Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.

"For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.

"The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.

"Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump." . . .

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People' UPDATED

‘Bizarre performance’: Douglas Murray analyses Biden’s DNC address   "Author Douglas Murray has analysed President Joe Biden’s “bizarre” performance at the Democratic National Convention. "“So angry, so sort of filled with fury which I just can't help thinking looks completely put on. I have to say, it just looks completely staged and fake to me, that performance,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. " 'It is as if he's trying to show there's life in the old guy yet.' ”

From the comments to this video. "The guy has always been a mental case, the dead son AGAIN..... while screaming like a lunatic."

 Snopes  "However, the accuracy of what Trump did claim – that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the 2017 Unite the Right debacle – is in question."

"In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally.' " Emphases in the original. TD

. . ."Trump: Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits, and with the helmets, and the baseball bats, you got a lot of bad people in the other group too.

Reporter: I'm sorry sir, I didn't understand what you were saying, you were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I don't understand what you're saying.

Trump: No, no. There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there was some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you wanna call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest — and very legally protest — because I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit. So I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country." . . .

. . ."In sum, while Trump did say that there were "very fine people on both sides," he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be "condemned totally." Therefore, we have rated this claim "False.' "

In this same vein: Trump Mic Drops Reporter’s “White Supremacist” Question

If you have noticed the ignorance of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protestors in the streets and wondered how college students can be so unknowledgeable, a major reason is the source of information delivered to people by such sources. TD

The Media Marketed Candidates

 Issues & Insights  

Today’s journalists, with rare exception, are Democratic Party operatives, progressive and socialist activists, hard-left propagandists, and – maybe worst of all – children who operate in the shallows of emotion and intelligence.

"Until Thursday night, we did not know that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are truly supreme beings. They are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful humans we’ve ever known. We realize this now because the media told us so.

"And the American media would never try to manipulate the voters, would it? It just tells the story straight. For instance:

• “Kamala Harris’ Speech Was Powerful and Heartfelt” — Variety
• “One little heartbeat of hope.” — Van Jones, CNN
• “If you didn’t think you knew Kamala Harris before, you may know her now. This was a powerful, strong speech.” — Norah O’Donnell, CBS
• “The emotion and the feeling down here is, I don’t know. Seven-year-old birthday part is how I would put it. There is joy and there’s not a lot of thinking. It’s a good time.” — Tony Dokoupil, CBS
• “Harris embraces patriotism, savages Trump in acceptance speech” — Politico
• “Harris prosecutes case against Trump and pitches herself as a middle-class champion” — National Public Radio
• “This is a new chapter, as she said, in the American story.” — Robert Costa, CBS
• “She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do.” — Abby Phillips, CNN
• “Kamala Harris Gave the Best Acceptance Speech I’ve Ever Seen” — New York Magazine
• “A-plus. The best since Bill Clinton’s ‘Man From Hope’ remarks in 1992.” — Washington Post . . .

. . . "The American media should be embarrassed by, and ashamed of, its naked, nauseating cheerleading for the Democratic candidates and its constant shilling for the party. They would never say anything remotely similar about Donald Trump, because he’s “dark,” a “fascist,” “extreme,” a truly bad man." . . .

Remember when MSNBC's "Morning Joe" called Biden ‘The best Biden ever’?

Joe Scarborough Says Biden Calls to Debate Him (politicalwire.com)   . . . "Said [this

MSNBC talking head] Scarborough: “Because I’ve said a few things about him on my show and I’ve written a couple of op-eds and he’ll wake me up when I’m gone, when I’m asleep at 8:30 at night, because Mika and I, of course, wake up 4:30 in the morning and I’ll just go. Hello? Yes, sir.”

"He added: “And about an hour later, he will give he will aggressively and very effectively give me point by point by point about how my op-ed was flawed.”