Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Before appearing on France24 later in the day, RIF's Paul Reen headed over to CNews on Wednesday morning at 5 am (11pm on Tuesday on the East Coast) for a special Élection présidentielle américaine. The president of Republicans in France appears at 1:03:03.
Dès minuit dans la nuit du 5 au 6 novembre 2024, CNEWS vous plonge au cœur de l’élection présidentielle américaine, avec l’annonce des premiers résultats de ce scrutin historique qui oppose Donald Trump à Kamala Harris.
At RBTF's QR Le Débat, voices rise concerning la Victoire de Donald Trump aux USA : qu'est-ce qui va changer ? But hard for a conservative to get a voice in, without interruptions. The show is only visible in Belgium, but you can download it at https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/6f697374-beb7-42ae-ac46-fce12e6aecc9 (only for your personal perusal, kindly refrain from sharing publicly) or check it out their Facebook page. À part le discours de Kamala Harris, ont été évoqués des sujets comme les LGBTQ et l'économie européenne lorsque Trump sera à la Maison Blanche.QR le débat
Victoire de Donald Trump aux USA : qu'est-ce qui va changer ?
Le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche est-il une bonne nouvelle ? Les médias occidentaux diabolisent-ils trop Donald Trump ? Quel avenir pour la guerre en Ukraine avec Donald Trump au pouvoir ? Quel avenir pour le conflit au Proche Orient avec Donald Trump au pouvoir ? Risque-t-on une troisième guerre mondiale ? L'élection de Donald Trump est-elle bénéfique pour l'économie européenne ? Faut-il craindre un recul des droits de l'Homme aux USA (avortement, protection des minorités...) ? Donald Trump a-t-il raison de vouloir durcir le ton en matière d'immigration ? Voici ce dont Sacha Daout et ses invités discuteront dans cette nouvelle émission.
Le jour d'après, nous recevions cet email :
… un petit mot sur les chiffres, car ils ont été excellents : notre émission a en effet touché près de 200.000 personnes, toutes plateformes confondues, soit près de 20% de parts de marché... Un record ! Par ailleurs, "QR le débat" a également été leader d'audience durant toute la deuxième partie de soirée. Preuve de la très bonne santé de notre émission et de son rayonnement. Cette belle visibilité est évidemment due à la transparence des prises de positions et à la clarté du débat dans son ensemble. Nous vous remercions pour cela.
That didn't last long! It's starting again. Haven't the mainstream media and the social media learned anything?! Two days after the election, the people over at Google's Blogger — well, at least one of their self-appointed "fact-checkers" (sic) — have (has) once again deleted a post of mine, one in direct relation to the presidential election.
More importantly, the post, Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism), is one that I consider one of the most paramount ones of the 13,830 posts of the past 20 years.
Except when I say "deleted", I really mean deleted! What used to happen is that, for good reasons or ill, they would put a problematic post in Revert to Draft mode. Although no longer visible to the public, it was there, for you the blogger, to read — and eventually to correct, per the express wishes of the Blogger Team. Since last November, at least, they simply delete posts outright.
Emails with the details were sent to you and all affected posts have been reset to "Draft" status (you may find them by selecting "Drafts" on the "Edit posts" page for each of the affected blogs)
Actually, every single time I have sent a counter-claim — which is every time — the post has been restored. But what about when, instead of reverting to draft, it simply vanishes, not only from the Blogger command post? They write that
You may re-publish the posts with the offending content and/or link(s) removed.
Yo! Google Team: How can you do remove the offensive content and/or links when the post, along with all its contents, has been entirely deleted and removed?!
Besides, you do not always get an email, but simply the following notice, without any further indication of which post they are talking about, much less how recent or how old it is.
This post was unpublished because it violates Blogger Community Guidelines. To republish, please update the content to adhere to guidelines.
Needless to say, there is all the insidiousness in destroying all the work that went into a text and a post
Fortunately, because of various screw-ups and SNAFUS — which I have detailed in my previous Note to Google Blogger (My Controversial Post on Blogger Was Not Reset to "Draft" Status; It Was Entirely Removed) — I have come into the habit of making copies of articles that would seem problematic to a "tolerant" leftist, one who is "open to debate and to discussion."
The post I wrote — which is one of the longest and which I consider one
of the most important of the 20 past years — had appeared before — on
various sites — and I therefore printed it several times over the past 15 months, always
remembering to update it with new material.
The shortest version appeared in August 2023 (Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election"; It Is Akin to Asking "When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?").
I have been working on adding to and updating it ever since, and this led to a much longer version appearing on American Thinker just before the January 6 anniversary in 2024 (Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election").
And the longest version — Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism) — after 10 more months' of work, notably on religion in the last part of the article, appeared two days ago on election Tuesday. Within a day or two, it had been flagged — probably by a some self-appointed Instapundit monitor who clicked the Instapundit hyperlink — and it was gone.
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Trump 2.0: The Triumph of Right-Leaning Populism — On Radio, on Video, and in Print, One French Republican Layes It Bare.
After appearing on Radio Courtoisie's Ligne Droite, regarding the Revenge of Donald Trump,SÉBASTIEN LAYE wrote an article for la Revue Politique et Parlementaire, where the businessman points out that for the first time in 20 years, Americans have stopped voting on the basis of race, sex, or sexual orientation.
Avec : Sébastien Laye, entrepreneur et Ghislain Benhessa, avocat
Highlighting No Pasarán piece on Philippe Karsenty's TRUMP2024 X post, "neatly epitomized in four snaps" (via Damian Bennett)
Our first field report for election day hails from Duncan in Greenwich, Connecticut:
I voted this morning at 8:30. There was an awesome turnout. Not just the usual people on their way to work. There were mothers with little children tagging along, seniors, etc. A good mix.
What interested me most was that some people, like myself, were in a great mood. Others were the opposite. I wondered if this was a reflection of the candidates they were voting for? They lost their joy? Of course, there are always sour-pusses in any gathering. But, this felt different.
MAGA!
Like many of us, David Strom
is Tired of 'Leaders' Who Hate Me, He points out that
the election is really a referendum about whether experts should run things or people.
"Experts" and the "transnational elite," for my purposes, amount to the same thing. These are the people who create the Narrative™ that can convince people that masks work, that schools should be close, that experimental vaccines should be universally mandated, and that bureaucrats should run the world.
They are the people who will look a mother who can't afford groceries or pay her rent in the eye and insist that the economy is excellent. They tell us the border is secure, that crime is down, and that the evidence before our eyes is wrong because they have statistics that we should believe instead of experience.
Those "experts" hate us, because we don't believe them.
Dissent is not allowed, and if you think for yourself you are a "bitter clinger," or a Deplorable, or a "fascist," a Nazi, or Garbage, or anti-American.
Americans should comply. We should watch Morning Joe, The View, and listen to moronic celebrities because they have been given the talking points from experts.
They lie. They commit hoaxes. They engage in brainwashing campaigns. They overtax us, ban things we want, force us to buy things we don't, tell us not to eat meat, that truth is "misinformation," and weaponize our credulous neighbors against us.
The irony is that the left hates liberal Americans almost as much as they hate us. They pat them on the head, work them up, applaud the temper tantrums, and value their votes. But you don't hoax your friends. You don't dump illegal aliens in their neighborhoods, You don't deny their children a chance at a decent education. If the head of the Chicago Teachers Union sends her kid to a private school, she has contempt for the people she claims to love.
The root of the problem is that the transnational elite who run things and control the media hate you and me. They say it often enough, although they refrain from admitting that they hate all the proles.
… The real question in this election is simple: do you want leaders who hate you or leaders fighting for you?
Obama called us Clingers.
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) November 4, 2024
Hillary called us Deplorables.
Kamala called us Fascists.
Walz called us Nazis.
Biden called us Garbage.
Mark Cuban called us Weak & Stupid.
Now Kathy Hochul says we’re Un-American.
They want division.
We want unity.
And tomorrow we will UNITE AMERICA. pic.twitter.com/TVL0F1KgLn
In From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?, Victor Davis Hanson adds that
The Democratic top dogs are most likely to embrace agendas that never garner 51 percent of public support—vast reductions in gas and oil to lessen “climate change,” open borders to welcome in the world’s needy, the government promotion of a third, transgendered sex, abortion on demand without restrictions, the reifications of various critical (race/legal/penal/modern monetary) “theories,” and radical changes in the current system (ending the Senate filibuster, the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, the 50-state union, etc.).
Two truisms stand out about the elite boutique agenda: one, when these theories are implemented—often by the courts, and the permanent and unelected administrative and bureaucratic state—the architects of such experimentation do not really feel the inevitable deleterious consequences.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the Silicon Valley masters of the universe, the professors of law, the corporate CEOs, and the Bill Gates of the world really don’t care much whether gas is at $3 a gallon or $6, or Romex wire is $39 a spool or $150.
Illegal aliens do not go to their children’s schools or crowd the offices of their concierge cardiologists and oncologists, much less dump trash on their streets and curbs.
They are strong supporters of teachers’ unions, despising the very idea of charter schools and homeschooling. And yet they send their children more often to private schools where students are not the lab rats of the public school system.
Their ideology is the fruit of their privilege and so is often more utopian and abstract. Given that if it results in economic, social, and cultural damage to millions, they will certainly avoid the ensuing flotsam and jetsam.
The fallout from defunding the police falls upon the inner city, not the privately patrolled Presidio Heights or the secluded sorts in Martha’s Vineyard.
Given their income and status, the new Democratic credentialed and moneyed classes do not care about the struggle of others to live one more day, clinging to the middle-class vestiges of their parents’ era. Instead, for the anointed who have transcended the fear of not filling up their tank or coming up short on monthly rent and power bills, it is not hard to mandate job-killing EVs or to chuckle over biological boys in girls’ locker rooms and pride flags flying from the abandoned American embassy in Kabul.
… the struggling middle classes … are conservative in wanting a secure border, legal-only immigration, affordable food and energy, safe streets, and equality of opportunity rather than of result, because they have no margin of error, lacking the wherewithal of secure home zip codes, or the perks of gargantuan grocery bills at Whole Foods, or a new foreign car every two years.
Such conservatism is reflected in the worldview of the clingers and irredeemables. They accept not cosmopolitism but 2,500 years of nationhood that remind them there can be no nation without borders.
There can be no modern comforts and security without access to affordable food and energy. There can be no public society without safe streets—and indeed, not even public places without sanitation and common decency.
… These chumps, fascists, and garbage people … are deaf to the top-down sermons from an Al Gore, John Kerry, the Clintons, the Obamas, or Joe Biden, which assume the grubby majority is either too ignorant or amoral or both to know what is good for them and so must be shamed, smeared, and slurred rather than won over by argumentations and persuasion. Is not the 2024 election about just that—the haughty who sermonize and those weary of being lectured?
… Yes, the semi-fascists are lectured that they are racist, sexist, and xenophobic. They are damned by the credentialed as “white privileged” who “rage,” as they dutifully go off to Iraq and Afghanistan to die in combat at double their numbers in our demographics.
… Finally, the unspoken irony of this divide is that the self-professed elite know that they are not the elite by any definable standard or meritocracy. Yale gives a higher percentage of A’s on spec to its students than do trade schools and junior colleges.
It turns out that our ol' friend, Damian Bennett, has not and will not be voting early as he is a vote-on-the-day guy
Forty-eight hour madness commences. Stories, polls, and predictions will be wild today. Set your Bogusity* Meters to super-high-maximum-plus. [These emails post a day behind. Will sync up homestretch countdown by tomorrow.]* bo•gus•it•y, (bō'gŏs'ĭ-tē), n. = 1. Contemptuous discordance with the truth or facts; 2. A lie or lies supporting another lie or lies; 3. Utter bogusness; 4. Political discourse and discursus.Finger-licking “Trunalimunumaprzure!”Nice.
- Another Possible GOP Upset? Younger Voters May Tip The Balance In Virginia. November 2, 2024
[I'm hoping, but that's all I got. Six points behind in the 48-hour homestretch is tough. As good as Republican Governor Youngkin is, the magic didn't happen in 2022. KA-mala is riding the coattails of entrenched Dem deadweight Tim Kaine. That said, Trump is tenacious. Bogusity Meter: 5]
- Donald Trump Praised By Roanoke College Women’s Swim Team For ‘Standing With Women’ November 2, 2024
- NH In The House? GOP Lily Tang Williams' Epic Takedown Of Maggie Goodlander Has Put This Race On The Map November 3, 2024
[OK. Lily Tang has a great backstory and gives a spirited debate (watch it here), but let's sit down. The Democrat incumbent Ann McLane Kuster held the seat for 12 years; Maggie Goodlander is a well-connected DC fixture (married to Jake Sullivan) with DNC money to burn. RCP has Lily Tang at 38%, Goodlander 49.5%. The race may be 'on the map' but Tang is down 11.5 points. I just don't see a good debate performance translating into +13 points 2 days out. Unless T-V coattails are miles long, give Lily an ovation for effort and get behind her in 2026. Bogusity Meter: 7]Nicer.
- New York Republicans Outperform Early Vote 2022 Margins By As Much As 50% November 2, 2024
- Sen. Fetterman (PA-D): ‘Trump Definitely Has A Connection With Voters Here In Pennsylvania’ November 3, 2024
- Hundreds Of Israeli Jews Pray For Trump at Ancient Shiloh November 3, 2024
- Melania Trump — Just What The Country Needs November 3, 2024
Speaking to a crowd of 20,000 people in the heart of New York City, Melania declared: “America needs [its] magic back.” She called upon all Americans voting in this election to come “together with a shared vision that builds on American greatness.”More Nicer.
- Rasmussen Head Pollster Predicts TRUMP LANDSLIDE, Likens To 1980 Reagan-Carter Election, ‘Major Political Realignment’ November 2, 2024
[I want to believe, and things certainly feel 'landslidey', and I have argued T-V have all the DOMINANCE, MOMENTUM and now all the oxygen of the next two days, but, but -- the STEAL. Bogusity Meter: 2]- Get Ready For Even More Excitement After This Release From The Most Accurate Poll Of 2020 November 3, 2024
Last week, Atlas Intel put out a poll showing Trump leading in six out of seven key swing states, with Harris have an edge of +0.2 in Wisconsin. Not only does Trump lead in all seven now, including Wisconsin, his lead has increased in all of them but North Carolina, where he saw a drop in support of 0.3. This time [November 2], Trump leads in all seven swing states, and his lead is outside the margin of error in three of them.You can enjoy it, but you can't bank it. Yet.[Keeping in mind that we are past October tidy-up month, are the squishy pollsters trying to look brave and accurate two days out? It only hurts to believe if DJT loses, so Bogusity Meter: 1¼]The Fix.
- Biden-Harris Admin Disenfranchises Overseas Military November 2, 2024
Reps. Brian Mast (FL-R), Bill Huizenga (MI-R), and Mike Waltz (FL-R) have sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, expressing “grave concern”...that the stockpile of absentee ballots has reportedly been “depleted and not replenished,” likely having a negative impact upon service members’ ability to vote.
[DOD can't plan and execute for a reoccuring event known years in advance, yet is spoiling for a fight with Russia. Bogusity Meter: 10]- BIG TECH KNEW BIDEN LAPTOP SUPPRESSION WOULD INFLUENCE 2020 ELECTION, Wanted Big Guy's Favor November 3, 2024
Big Tech platforms had shockingly frank internal conversations about their efforts to sway the 2020 presidential election, even stating explicitly they wanted to be on the good side of a Biden-Harris administration, according to communications released by the House Judiciary Committee days before an election in which mainstream media are promoting censorship of conservative voices.
The Republican-led Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee published an 82- interim staff report Wednesday on how the FBI "prebunked" allegations about Biden family "corruption," and 641-page version with the full communications, providing the clearest evidence yet that tech platforms understood their role inevitably paved the way for the Democratic ticket.
[Bogusity Meter: 0]- Trans Activist's Organization Sent Thousands Of Texts Falsely Telling Pennsylvanians They Had Already Voted November 2, 2024
AllVote spokesperson Charlotte Clymer told CNN the organization estimates 'several thousand registered voters were affected by our error' - referring to the text messages received by Pennsylvania voters over the weekend.
[They will do anything and everything. Bogusity Meter: hard 10; GFY Meter: 10 again]- “We’re Not Going To Allow Them To Steal It”: Rep. Raskin (MD-D) Repeats Trump-like Reservation On Accepting Election Results (Johathan Turley) November 2, 2024
On Bill Maher’s HBO Show on Friday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared to repeat his reservation about accepting a Trump win in the presidential election. Raskin said that Democrats will only support a “free and fair election.” Trump was widely criticized for the same position when he said “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results.”
Raskin previously said that he would not guarantee certifying Trump and that, if he wins, he may be declared as disqualified by Congress: “It’s going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”
[Raskin and Schiff are the twin snakes of the Democrat caduceus, entwining the wand of lies. How do these people get elected? Are CA CD30 and MD CD8 moron repositories? Bogusity Meter: 10+; GFY Meter: a hard 13]- Left-wing Firm Tied To Voter Registration 'Scheme' Goes Dark And Then Defunct November 3, 2024
“Where there’s fire, there’s fire,” said Hogan Gidley, of the Center for Election Integrity. “Thousands of instances of reported voter registration fraud have now been confirmed throughout Pennsylvania.”
[We are being set up for a 2020 replay. Bogusity Meter: 0]They Got Nothing.
- Rattled Kamala Harris Turns On Nevada Rally Hecklers With Rambling Scold November 1, 2024
A clearly flustered Vice President Kamala Harris turned on protesters who heckled her during a Nevada rally Thursday (Video): [Protests.] “You know what? Let me say something about this. We are here because we are fighting for a democracy. Fighting for a democracy. And understand the difference here. Understand the difference here, moving forward. Moving forward, understand the difference here. What we are looking at is a difference in this election – let’s move forward and see where we are because on the issue, for example, freedom of choice.” [Protests.] “That’s OK. That’s alright. That’s OK”
[This seems biased reportage. KA-mala is trying to recover her message and repetition is just a rhetorical tool here to pull the audience back and refocus herself. Bogusity Meter: 8⅜]- Prominent White Supremacist Richard Spencer Endorses Kamala Harris November 2, 2024
Richard Spencer, an avowed racist, antisemite and admirer of Nazism who coined the term “alt-right” and was a featured speaker when he took part in the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., called Harris the “best manager of the American empire.”
[This is a 'taint' endorsement. Spencer wants to elevate his own visibility with a sensational nod to KA-mala, not bring any benefit to H-W. Spencer also knows his endorsement is never sought because with it comes instant political discord. Unlike the Cheneys, who bring an imaginary something to H-W, it is doubtful KA-mala will embrace Spencer. Bogusity Meter: Solid 9]- Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk November 2, 2024
The secret to understanding the average progressive mind is to first realize that everything they do revolves around a deeply ingrained fantasy world in which they are rebels; righteous underdogs fighting against "the system" or "the patriarchy." Leftists cannot function within their collectivist ideology without first creating a fascist bogeyman to revolt against. If they were to ever realize that they are, in fact, the establishment and the authoritarians, their entire world view would collapse.
[Cellophane-blue-haired girl VO: "We had a beautiful life. The best parties. The most beautiful friends." ... "Many of us even voted for them." 'Them' is DJT, JDV, and Musk and Thiel. Although H-W and its affiliate PACs ads have been consistently off-target, this seems more a Jill Stein ad. Bogusity Meter: Solid 10]- Poll: Nearly 6 In 10 Americans Aren't Convinced Kamala Harris Worked At McDonald's November 2, 2024
The NYT dubbed claims that Harris never toiled under the Golden Arches 'burgerism'- Kamala Harris SNL Appearance November 2, 2024
Hilarious! Everything rhymes with KA-mala![I wasn't going to post on this, but DH sent me the clip and now you must suffer with me. It's not funny as intended, but it is funny as meta-reality. The skit is like a cut & paste from the H-W campaign itself: it's banal word-spin that says nothing. SNL cannot successfully parody the H-W campaign, because the campaign is a parody of the Democrats' parody of 'saving democracy'. KA-mala is the matryoshka doll of politics, surfaces nested in surfaces but with no actual core, just endless lesser and lesser surfaces nested in lesser and lesser surfaces.KA-mala nesting doll. No surprises inside!Bogusity Meter: Solid Unfunny 10]Selling KA-mala.
- CLAIM: NBC Broke FCC ‘Equal Time’ Rule With Kamala Harris Appearance On SNL November 3, 2024
NBC violated the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “Equal Time” rule by inviting Vice President Kamala Harris onto Saturday Night Live on the last weekend before the election, leaving no time for former President Donald Trump. [According to FNC, T-V was NOT extended an invitation at any time.] ... FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee whose appointment was renewed by President Joe Biden, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that NBC had violated the Equal Time rule. ... NBC had previously announced that it would not invite either candidate on the program [specifically because of election laws and the equal time provisions].
[The expectation to appear has become an obligation to appear on SNL for politicos. I find politicians cast as provisional stand-up comics demeans the office held (or sought) and its institution. (OR, comics cast as authorities at Congressional hearings.) These appearances are the first hurried steps on the 500-year march to Idiocracy (2006).]- Liz Cheney Pleads With George W. Bush To Take The Uniparty Plunge And Endorse Kamala November 2, 2024
[Bogusity Meter: 10]- Kaepernick Says Donald Trump ‘Targeted’ And ‘Minimized’ Him Over Anthem Protests November 3, 2024
[Trump breaks all the nice china dolls. Bogusity Meter: Solid 10+; Boo-hoo Meter: Absolute 10++]- Michael Moore Pleads With Nonvoters To Back Kamala: ‘Just As A Favor For Me’ November 3, 2024
[This has exploded the Bogusity Meter; let's check the Adore-Myself-Mirror Meter: 10+; let's check the GFY Meter: 13+++]
- Biden-Harris Admin Focused On Diversity At The VA As Veterans Faced Massive Claims Backlog November 2, 2024
- Veteran-Led Group Saved Lives In North Carolina Amid Slow Federal Hurricane Helene Response November 3, 2024
- Republicans Call On Mayorkas To Return To Covid-era Border Policy Amid Rapid Surge In Tuberculosis November 3, 2024
- Vile Democrat Governor [Hochul] Says Voting For Trump-Supporting Republicans Makes You 'Anti-American' November 3, 2024
Governor Kathy Hochul (NY-D): “It gave me a chance to tie the Republicans running in these seats - the incumbents - closer to Donald Trump, and remind everybody if you're voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump. And you're anti-woman, you're anti-abortion, and basically you're anti-American. Because you have just trashed American values and what our country is all about over and over and over. ... And you will wear this on Election Day.”
[Bogusity Meter: Solid 10; GFY Meter: Hard 10]- Biden’s Best Efforts Could Not Keep Unions From Declining Or Defecting To GOP November 3, 2024
- Kamala Harris Bans Virtual Guns In Her Own "Freedom Town" Fortnite Game November 3, 2024
Kamala Harris in an odd campaign stunt has partnered with the company behind the popular Fortnite franchise; an online third person shooter which requires players to eliminate all their competition on a map and be the last person standing. Harris' map, ironically labeled "Freedom Town", set the players on a mission to "squad up, go vote and fight for freedom." However, the combat game lacks one important item in Freedom Town: Guns. That's right, Harris banned guns in her own virtual video game world. Players no longer fight competitively; rather, they scour a city covered in Kamala propaganda while they collect items like lost Harris campaign posters "scattered by the wind." ... Not surprisingly, the gaming gimmick was a complete failure. The number of players participating? A maximum of 383. To put this embarrassment in perspective, Fortnite has over 400 million registered players worldwide and the average established map has over 300,000 participants in a 24 hour period. Harris couldn't even break 400 players in 24 hours.
[So many of H-W campaign gimmicks seem like its first foray into the real world. One has to marvel. KA-mala wants to rule a people about whom she has not a clue. Bogusity Meter: 10l Clueless Meter: Solid 12]- Kamala Campaign Mocked Over Profanity-laden, Bleeped Out Every Other Word, GloRilla Rap Performance At Milwaukee Rally November 3, 2024
Continuing the trend of recruiting pop stars and celebrities to get out the vote, the Kamala Harris campaign invited 25-year-old Memphis native Gloria Hallelujah Woods — known by her stage name GloRilla — to perform in front of a Wisconsin audience on Friday. The rap artist gave a rendition of her TikTok hit “TGIF,” in which she boasts about having sex with other women’s boyfriends. ... The Harris campaign previously came under criticism for featuring a twerking performance from “Wet Ass Pussy” singer Meg Thee Stallion at one of the campaign’s first political rallies in July.
[File under panem et circenses. Why not Denyce Graves? J’Nai Bridges? Because towering talents are all bread and no circus. Bogusity Meter: 10+]Lizzie, Get Your Gun!Before leaving the 48-hour craziness, a look at Liz Cheney spanked by DJT, and the ensuant hysteria. Ensuant? The hysteria jumped right out the gate. Here is the entirety of what DJT said at the campaign event in Glendale, Arizona:“I don’t blame [Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people.”The offending bit, highlighted in yellow, that bit is what was reported on and embroidered by ‘journalism’ . Below a sampling of the headlines it inspired. (🏴 = partial or mangled quote used.)
- Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Imagery (Redacted: Trump Assails Liz Cheney And Imagines Guns ‘Shooting At Her’) (NYT) November 1, 2024🏴
- Trump Embraces Violent Rhetoric, Suggests Liz Cheney Should Have Guns ‘Trained On Her Face’ (WaPo) November 1, 2024 [Can't verify integrity of reported quote.]
- Trump Says Liz Cheney Might Not Be Such A ‘War Hawk’ If She Had Rifles Shooting At Her (PBS) November 1, 2024
- Trump Says ‘War Hawk’ Liz Cheney Should Be Fired Upon In Escalation Of Violent Rhetoric Against His Opponents (CNN) November 1, 2024🏴
- Jonah Goldberg, Editor-In-Chief Of The Dispatch (CNN Interview), November 1, 2024: “He’s saying quite explicitly and unambiguously that Liz Cheney should be shot, should be executed by firing squad. … Let’s execute a political opponent, who happens to be a woman, because I don’t like her.”
- Suggesting ‘Nine Barrels Shooting’ At Cheney, Trump Reverts To Violent Rhetoric (Politico) November 1, 2024🏴
- Trump Fantasizes About Shooting Female Rival In The Face (Daily Beast) November 1, 2024🏴
- Liz Cheney Sounds Alarm After Donald Trump Suggests She Face Firing Squad (People) November 1, 2024🏴
Now the great walkbacks and correx.
- NO, Trump Did Not Threaten Liz Cheney With A Firing Squad (The Hill) November 3, 2024
- Jonah Goldberg Says Trump Made Him Lie About Trump Wanting Liz Cheney Executed November 1, 2024
After the blowback became too much, Goldberg tweeted: “I need to make a statement.
This morning on CNN I referred to Trump’s ‘rifles’ quote as him advocating a ‘firing squad’ for Liz Cheney. I was reacting in haste to what were objectively appalling and irresponsible comments that had been framed in the set-up piece in the context of previous statements Trump made about shooting protestors and having generals ‘executed’. Still, I was wrong to say he was calling for a firing squad execution. After I said that, my co-panelist, Brad Todd made the case that I was wrong. Brad was right and, again, I was wrong. Trump was making – albeit in his customary fashion – a different argument about Cheney’s alleged foreign policy views and the use of force. I let my disgust at Trump’s comments get the better of me as this was the first time I’d heard them.”
[Read the whole nonapology apology on X. Not only is Trump responsible for Goldberg's ‘explicit and unambiguous’ insights, he's not getting credit for owning up and blaming Trump. Bogusity Meter beyond repair; Poor-Widdle-Me Sniffles Meter: 10++; GFY Meter: hard 17]- KA-mala Pushes Liz Cheney ‘Execution’ Hoax As ‘Disqualifying’ Trump Message In Final Days Of 2024 Race (NYPost) November 1, 2024
- Here’s A List Of Every Garbage Journalist Who Lied About Trump’s Liz Cheney Chickenhawk Comments (The Federalist) November 3, 2024
- Zack Beauchamp (Vox) On X November 1, 2024: “Folks, Trump didn’t threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages. Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren’t armed.”
- Bill Maher Rips Media For Liz Cheney Firing Squad Hoax: ‘Just Don’t Lie To Me’ November 2, 2024
Maher: “Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. [Trump is saying], ‘You know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.’ ... Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”- They Can't Help Hysterically Exaggerating Trump's Rhetoric And Lying About What He Says November 2, 2024
