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My, what a surprise.

The Department of Justice violated its own internal policies when it sent a letter—which ended up in the New York Times—warning Elon Musk’s political action committee against its $1 million voter registration giveaway in swing states, the chairman of the Federal Election Commission alleges in a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

On Oct. 23, less than two weeks before the presidential election, the Times reported that the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section sent a “warning letter” to America PAC, Musk’s political group, that a $1 million giveaway for newly registered voters might violate the law. Both the letter and the leak appear to violate DOJ policies, FEC chairman Sean Cooksey argued in a letter to DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Democratic leaders are increasingly anxious about being left with a big bill from Kamala Harris’ campaign, which is likely to end millions of dollars in debt, four people familiar with the matter tell Axios.

Why it matters: Debt beyond a few million bucks could hamper the Democratic National Committee’s efforts to rebuild the party over the next four years.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is getting caught up in the ideological infighting plaguing his party, with some members of his left flank dialing up their scrutiny toward him.

Why it matters: Jeffries’ loyalists have long touted his reputation as a unifier and coalition-builder, but some progressives are wondering aloud if he has the mettle to take on President-elect Trump.

Considering the role Arabs and other Muslims played in the slave trade, it always entertains me when African-Americans adopt Muslim names in order to seem more ‘ethnic’.

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The media spent months pre-hyping Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. In its aftermath, stories claimed that the lip-synching sensation’s Instagram post drove half a million fans to not only buy overpriced merchandise, but to register to vote in the 2024 election.

The Kamala campaign embraced ‘Brat’ branding based on an album from a British half-Muslim pop star few Americans ever heard of. It brought out Beyonce to campaign (crucially not to sing) for Kamala who had tried to model her fanbase, the KHive, on Beyonce’s rabid Beyhive fans.

Kamala brought Oprah and Lady Gaga to Philly and Katy Perry to Pittsburgh. Julia Roberts cut an ad telling women to hide their votes from their husbands. In Michigan, white wife-killing enthusiast rapper Eminem headlined a Kamala rally while Obama rapped the opening of his ‘Lose Yourself’ (unintentionally revealing that he’s just as authentically black as Eminem.)

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As we have already highlighted, Kamala had demanded to only appear for an hour with Rogan, and wanted to do it outside of his studio, meaning he would have had to travel to a location of her choosing.

Needless to say, Rogan refused to meet the demands, reasoning that it simply wouldn’t be an episode of his podcast if that was to happen.

Rogan unveiled more of what went on with discussions between his team and Kamala’s campaign, noting “There were a few restrictions of things they wanted to talk about…They wanted to know if I’d edit it. I’m like, there’s no editing.”

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X owner Elon Musk, an avowed supporter of Presidential-elect Donald Trump and a potential administration assistant to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in government, tweeted a screen shot of a Newsmax broadcast this week.

The red-and-blue election state-by-state map on Thursday’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” noted nearly all of the states that chose Vice President Kamala Harris were ones that have no voter ID on the books.

“Must be a coincidence ?,” Musk tweeted Sunday morning, sharing the Newsmax graphic that highlighted the impact of states that block voter ID requirements election integrity-seeking Republicans have long called for.

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Thank you, Gavin Newsom.

Time to leave.

Freeberg nails it.

It’s the weekend. The election was on Tuesday.

I have seen and heard from many, many Harris supporters struggling to figure out how their side lost. Many of them are reporting what they’ve seen and heard from others. Many ideas. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Not all unique, but…lots of effort to figure out where they went wrong.

Not a single one has said anything even vaguely resembling: We conjured up all these fearful prognostications about what life would be under a guy who’s been President already. We didn’t scare ’em like we wanted to. Because he’s been President already.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Yeah, I’d say that’s the case — not just the image, but the party itself.

Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis.

No, they aren’t. They know who they are; they just don’t see a way clear to pulling the wool over they citizenry they way they’ve become used to

Days after Kamala Harris’ defeat, the extent of their party’s failure is becoming increasingly clear. It’s bad enough that Democrats are still losing working-class whites, as they have in recent elections. Now, exit polls show blue-collar Latinos and some Black men, long a core part of the Democratic base, are abandoning the party, too, fueling electoral shellackings. Republicans flipped the Senate and are padding their majority. Democrats’ path to a majority in the House is narrowing. And Donald Trump won in what could only be described as a landslide in the modern era.

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In interviews with 16 elected officials, party leaders and strategists, Democrats from both wings of the party agreed they have stopped knowing how to talk to the working class, once the very core of their identity. But they were deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it. Just like Donald Trump’s victory did in 2016 — and in 2020, when he lost by a smaller margin than expected — his return to the White House is fueling a raging debate between the party’s progressive and moderate wings about where to go from here.

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Well, (a) there isn’t enough time to do that, (b) it would be too easy for Senate Republicans to run out the clock (The Turtle is at least competent enough to do that), and (c) even if it worked, they’d replace her with someone equally stupid or worse, like Jackson.

Some have speculated that Walz may have hurt Harris in Minnesota, pointing out that her margin of victory was narrower than Joe Biden’s, four years ago. I don’t think that is true, but we can safely say that Walz did her no good. The contrast between the Harris/Walz numbers and incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar’s win is instructive. Harris carried the state by a 51.1% to 46.8% margin, while Klobuchar defeated Republican Royce White by 56.3% to 40.5%. If Minnesota has a Favorite Son, it isn’t Tim Walz.

Walz now returns to Minnesota to finish out his second term as governor. There has been speculation that he might run for a third term, even though his victory margin declined considerably when he was re-elected in 2022. But, given his embarrassing performance as a vice presidential candidate, and the discreditable facts about his history that are now widely known due to the national spotlight, I think that is unlikely. Democrats like Keith Ellison and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (generally viewed as even farther to the left than Walz) will probably battle it out for the nomination.

Meanwhile, down-ballot Republicans gained seats in the Minnesota House, the only races that were on tap this year. The House is now evenly divided at 67-67, which presumably means that nothing very controversial will pass next year. And there is an outside chance that an election contest could throw the majority to the Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats control the Senate by 44-43, but infamous burglar Nicole Mitchell goes to trial in January. A conviction, which seems pretty certain since she was caught red-handed by local police, presumably would mean a special election that could tilt control of that chamber.

DOJ.

An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Mississippi charging Hinds County District Attorney, Jody E. Owens II, 43; Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 41; and former President and current member of the Jackson City Council, Aaron Banks, 47, all of Jackson, with participating in a bribery scheme to enrich themselves. Owens, Lumumba, and Banks are scheduled to make their initial court appearances today before U.S. Magistrate Judge LaKeysha Greer Isaac in Jackson.

Jody Owens:

Lumumba:

Banks: I can’t find a verifiable picture for Banks, but I’d bet money he’s a Person of Color.

The Daily Beast.

“There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” a former Biden staffer told Playbook.

The aide added they’d like a shot of “whatever they’re drinking if 100 extra days of campaigning for Harris instead of Biden would have changed the results of last night!”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at the forefront of efforts to depose Biden in July, and she admitted mid-October that she had not spoken to the president since her intervention pressured him to quit in July.

She told the Guardian that some of Biden’s camp had not forgiven her for damaging his legacy through her actions.

Democrats are no different than Nazis or Communists. Once they’ve wrung all the use out of you, they’ll just throw you in the trash.

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“You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.” — Superchicken

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This is a fun little leftover from yesterday morning, which is worth noting mainly for its source. CNN’s Andy Kaczynski is a straight enough shooter to not make something like this up, and also to refrain from highlighting fringe remarks by 5-follower randos.

So when Kaczynski says that he sees chatter about pressuring Sotomayor to retire, it’s probably a legit thread on social media. An insane legit thread, but nonetheless …

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Donald Trump seems likely not just to win the Electoral College but also the popular vote to return to the White House, delivering a massive rebuke to Vice President Kamala Harris and the Left more generally.

Trump’s genius—in raising his fist amid an assassination attempt, donning the apron of a McDonald’s fry cook, and riding shotgun in a trash truck—carried the day. However, the Left’s slings and arrows against the former president also helped propel him to victory by exposing how cynical and conniving his opponents were.

The Left committed at least six massive political miscalculations that also amount to transgressions against America’s political order. These moves helped Trump win, but they also exposed the forces he will face in a second term.

The New Neo.

I’ve long felt that, as the title of this post says, Obama was the turning point – not to some hoped-for racial reconciliation, but to a divisive leftist dominance in US politics.

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Prior to Obama, presidents cared to a great extent what the people wanted, and tended to respond to public opinion if only because they thought the people might vote them out, but sometimes also because they thought that was their job. After the election of Obama, who was the first truly leftist president and the first Alinskyite president, the MSM became totally taken over by propaganda rather than partially, and the president became deceptive about his goals and methods. The Democratic Party began to veer more strongly and openly to the left as the Overton window moved.

Obama didn’t try to shape his policy to the needs and desires of the American people, but rather to do what he could to further a global rather than a US agenda, and if the people didn’t like it they were just going to have to accept it. That approach has become far more common in Europe as well – or rather, it may have began in Europe and Obama was following their example. In reaction to all of this, both here and abroad, populist movements have sprung up and the left has concentrated on demonizing them as Nazi-esque.

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I watched this happen twice in Northern Virginia, and I’ve heard it explained before, but this is the first time I’ve seen an expert brief it in a shareable format. And he focuses on Philadelphia, a jurisdiction as shameless as any other. I have been told by Democrats that it is just how business is done. I have been told by Republicans that it would be more harmful to diminish faith in the electoral system than to oppose permanent, systemic voter fraud. Journalists have told me their editor won’t let them, their lawyers won’t let them, or management outright admits the city prosecutors would wage withering lawfare if they did. Factors that have always helped keep “journalism” locked down. It’s part of the “narrative” discipline. The city prosecutors and police objected to me about wasting finite resources needed for the prosecution of violent crimes and gangs on corrupt party operatives and their gang buddies.

 

The American Mind.

A Harris victory looks less likely each day, and thank God for that. While Roger Kimball foresees the final destruction of the old American Constitution at the hands of a totalitarian state led by Harris, I see something more chaotic and potentially worse: a hubristic Harris administration that—mistakenly assuming itself to have the mandate of heaven—tries to be authoritarian and fails, thereby unleashing political chaos.

Just as there have been no adults in the room in the Harris campaign, so too we should expect none in her government. A Harris administration would probably be blissfully unaware of several seismic trends in American political life over the last ten years.

The Other McCain.

As advocates of the new Georgia law have repeatedly said, it makes it easier to vote, but harder to cheat — and it’s that latter aspect of the law that Abrams and other Democrats deplore. There was massive “ballot harvesting” in Georgia in 2020, but they won’t be able to play that trick this year, which is one reason why Team Trump feels pretty confident about Georgia. Another factor that should help Trump in Georgia is the disgrace of Fani Willis, whose RICO case against Trump got wrecked in the courts. Let me put this as gently as possible — there’s Atlanta, and then there’s the rest of Georgia. Folks out in the hinterlands of Georgia don’t want anything to do with Atlanta, and Fani Willis is a perfect example of why people in the rest of Georgia despise Atlanta.

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Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, Sunday accused NBC of evading the agency’s “equal time” requirements by featuring Vice President Kamala Harris in her “Saturday Night Live” debut just days before the election.

“This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” Carr posted on X.

“The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.”

UPDATE: In Addition To Not Being Funny, SNL May Have Violated Election Law With Kamala Cameo

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Democrat ‘freedom’: Not so much.

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The dark money flowing into the well-funded Democrat coffers through the ActBlue platform is not only under scrutiny, but it is also on the ballot in congressional races Tuesday, the New York Post’s Editorial Board warned Saturday.

The Republican-held House under Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., is joining even President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in investigating allegations of illegal donations — including potential millions coming unlawfully from foreign entities — but if Republicans do not win Tuesday, accountability could remain in limbo from an investigation under a Democrat-controlled Congress, legal watchers said.

“If Dems take the White House and Congress, America can say goodbye to any chance of that ever happening,” the Post Editorial Board wrote Saturday.

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William Jennings Bryan, Wilson’s secretary of state and a three-time Democratic nominee for president, privately observed that Wilson “is an autocrat by training. He has been dealing as a master with schoolboys all his life, until now he has reached a point where he cannot meet anybody on the basis of equality.”

Sound familiar?

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This mimics suspicious behavior from the 2020 election.

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There is no surer sign that Trump has this in the bag. Stores and restaurants boarding up and moving on ahead of the obvious massive layoffs about to hit the most corrupt and inefficient jurisdiction in American history. Families will have to move out of their potholes because not enough drivers will fall in to financially maintain them. There will be no one left to maintain the walls and fences that make our brutally corrupt Congress tenable. Who will feed the troops guarding them from righteous citizens’ rage? Now that DC is no longer significant, who will come visit the monuments and museums?

This is actually good news. Anyone who has ever lived in the DC area knows that the city was built in a wetland. A literal swamp. Being ecology minded, I have lobbied for years to remove the buildings and restore the glorious, pristine Okefenokee ambiance spoiled by all of those imperialist invaders. No more Cheneys or Pelosis or Schiffs or Wrays or Comeys or, well, it’s a long, pugnacious list.

Save DC. Save the planet. Vote Trump.

The American Mind.

It’s easy to forget the litany of ways that the institutional Left and our “representatives” in government have repeatedly betrayed the American people over the last eight years. There’s no need to single out individuals. “They” are legion: the Democrats, the compromised courts that ignore or invent the law, the Intelligence Community that interferes in our elections, the leftist foot soldiers burning and looting our cities, the unelected “experts” who try to rule Americans by fiat, the “non-government organizations,” Big Tech, the useful idiots, and corporate media that lie to us about all of it.

As the election approaches, citizens should once again take inventory of the long train of abuses we have endured by that dishonorable group.

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Down the Memory Hole!

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On Tuesday, the sitting president called half the country “garbage.” While it’s hard to grasp historical significance as it unfolds, this moment will likely be analyzed and debated for decades. The comment reflects more than just a slip of the tongue—it reveals the deep contempt the Democratic Party holds for ordinary Americans, evident in their rhetoric, policies, and methods.

As a first-term legislator under Tim Walz in Minnesota, I’ve witnessed firsthand how a narrow Democratic majority has forced through the most radical agenda imaginable. This includes some of the most extreme abortion provisions globally, an energy mandate that bans 80% of current production without a viable replacement, and business policies driving companies out of the state. Worse, billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted on initiatives meant to create favorable election soundbites—such as offering free school lunches to wealthy families just to say, “We’re feeding kids.”

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Don’t you find it interesting that Trump is being accused of wanting to commit all kinds of abhorrent actions and behaviors that he has never demonstrated? That if you look at his first term, his policies were quite good? That he didn’t abuse his power or meddle with the powers of others? I continue to marvel at the number of people who are crying out about his “fascist” or “autocratic” nature.

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“If the British had not fought in 1940, Hitler would have been in London and if Democrats do not fight in 1968, Nixon will be in the White House,” Vice President Hubert Humphrey warned.

Chicago Mayor Daley had accused Nixon of “Hitler type” tactics.

Comparing any Republican presidential candidate to Hitler had been a standard Democratic political tactic for some time no matter how inappropriate it might be.

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The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after the announcement was made earlier in the week, but all she did was walk out and make a barely audible speech for a few minutes. Then the rally descended into complete chaos.

Bait-and-switch: Thy name is ‘Democrat’. (Hey, that’s how Kamala got the nomination in the first place….)

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Want to read Kamala’s ‘resumé’? Here it is.

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“There are two reasons that gas is more expensive in California, and neither of them have to do with price gouging. The first reason, which we’re all very familiar with, is the extra taxes that are added on,” Edward Ring, the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, told the DCNF. “When you take all of the state taxes, fees and programs, you’re going to add another $1.23 to the price of a gallon of gas, and that’s not including the 18 cents a gallon of federal excise tax.”

Rod Dreher.

Did you hear? Hitler’s back! Kamala Harris stood outside her official residence and solemnly warned a national television audience on Wednesday that Donald Trump had reportedly admired Nazi generals, and see, see—he’s a fascist! Later in the evening, she said outright on CNN that Donald Trump is a fascist.

She based this claim on reporting in The Atlantic, a liberal magazine who also quoted a former top Trump White House staffer saying that Trump disparaged a dead U.S. soldier of Hispanic descent, using racist language. Inconveniently, the dead soldier’s sister tweeted that it was a lie, and that earlier in the day, she had cast an early vote for, yes, Donald Trump.

Hitler may be back, but then, he never really went away, not for the Democrats and the liberal media when confronted by a Republican president or presidential candidate. When George W. Bush was president, they called him “Bushitler.” The mild, milquetoast Mitt Romney? Hitler (or at least Hitler-ish). The list of Republican figures the American Left has tarred with the Hitler or Nazi brush is as long as it is absurd. Nobody who isn’t already deeply in the Democratic tank takes it seriously anymore. It has become any irritating ideological tic, like progressives accusing anybody who dissents from their radical identity politics dogma ‘racist,’ or some other type of bigot.

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Democrats cheat. It’s what they do. It’s a centuries-old tradition, practically the only thing that they actually stand for.

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Last month the mayor of Portland, Maine, shocked Jewish communities in his backyard and beyond when he expressed full-throated support for his city council’s successful resolution to divest from companies linked to Israel.

Now, Mayor Mark Dion is taking it all back.

“Upon personal reflection and following many private conversations I have had with our Jewish neighbors, I have come to the conclusion that my vote on the divestment was wrong,” Dion said during prepared remarks at Monday’s city council meeting.

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Every new yellow taxi in New York City must be wheelchair accessible under rules finalized by the Taxi and Limousine Commission on Friday, marking the latest step by officials to comply with a federal court order stemming from a lawsuit filed by disability advocates more than a decade ago.

The new rules mean the TLC will only approve a new vehicle license to a yellow taxi medallion holder if their car is equipped with a wheelchair ramp and other safety features for disabled riders. And whenever a taxi owner completes a so-called hack-up — or a refitting of their vehicle that’s required every seven years — the accessibility equipment must be added to their taxi.

A 2013 settlement of a federal lawsuit between the TLC and disability advocates mandated 50% of the city’s roughly 13,500 yellow taxis be wheelchair accessible by 2020. That deadline was pushed back to June 2023 during the COVID-19 pandemic — but the city still failed to meet the goal, “reaching only 32% for the Authorized Medallion Requirement and 42% for the Active Medallion Requirement,” according to court records.

When the government controls an industry it typically creates a monopoly is subject to political influence. Politicians like it that way.

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These are some of the allegations leveled in a new report on New York City’s multibillion-dollar shelter system released by city investigators on Thursday.

The review, which began in 2021, found a range of potential improprieties at 51 nonprofits that receive taxpayer funds to provide shelter and services for clients of the city Department of Homeless Services, which manages the biggest municipal shelter system in the United States. On an average night, over 87,000 people stay at the more than 500 New York City shelters funded by the department.

The city’s Department of Investigation found multiple instances of apparent conflicts of interest, potential nepotism and failure to comply with competitive bidding requirements on the part of shelter providers, according to the nearly 100-page report.

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That’s ‘our democracy’ for you.

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His hand only has race cards, so he’s kinda stuck.

UPDATE: Memo to Obama: Race Remains Last Refuge of Scoundrels

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“Former President Barack Obama sternly chided Black men over ‘excuses’ to not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” ABC News reports. This recalls Joe Biden’s charge that blacks “ain’t black” if they failed to support the Delaware Democrat. On the left being “black” is a matter of politics, and that recalls one of the many attacks on author Thomas Sowell.

Back in the 1990s Clinton civil rights pick Lani Guinier charged that Sowell was not authentically black because he failed to support affirmative action. Sowell, author of The Economics and Politics of Race and many other books, shot back,  “I don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black.”  In 2024, nobody needs a half-white former president from Martha’s Vineyard telling them anything.

As David Garrow confirmed, his Dreams from My Father was a novel, not an autobiography or memoir. For Tablet’s David Samuels, “there was something about this “fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.” The composite character played a divide-and-con game. No scandals in his administration and under Obamacare you could keep your doctor and your health plan. As his recent orders to black men confirm, the prodigious liar hasn’t lost his touch.

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When all else failed, Kamala had one argument to fall back on. Race. It was the same argument that she deployed in the 2020 primaries against Joe Biden when she falsely claimed to have been saved from a life of racial segregation by being bused out of Berkeley. Not only did she know that her racebating was a lie, but during the vice presidential search committee interview, she was unapologetic about pulling a racial hoax in the hopes of winning an election.

“She laughed and said, ‘that’s politics.’ She had no remorse,” a committee member recalled.

But there was more to Kamala’s racism than just rhetoric.

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You think the bankers are up to no good? No band of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the claque that gathers darkly under the banner of “Lawfare.” Its public face is Lawfaremedia.org, run by Benjamin Wittes a Brookings senior fellow, but that gang functions only to lend a false-front of decorum to the operations of its Democratic Party activist lawyer-army led by Field Marshal Marc Elias, architect of the ballot fraud that has caused Americans to lose faith in their elections.

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Democrat politicians appear very resistant to actual democracy.

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California State Motto: “When in doubt, regulate.”

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Sen. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) pulls no punches when speaking publicly about the 2017 Trump tax cuts, calling the package a “monstrosity” that is “just a giveaway” to the wealthy while urging Congress to focus its efforts on making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.

But behind the scenes, Rosen, who is running for reelection against Republican challenger Army veteran Sam Brown, appears to have structured her own vast financial holdings to take advantage of certain provisions in the Trump tax cuts to reduce her family’s tax liability. Rosen is worth up to $18.2 million, according to her latest financial disclosures, with upwards of $7.3 million housed in her family’s limited partnership, the Rosen Family Limited Partnership. Limited partnerships are a common vehicle utilized by wealthy Americans to give tax-free gifts to their children and shield their offspring from estate taxes.

But the Trump tax cuts appear to have rendered moot the need for the Rosen family limited partnership. The law doubled the estate tax exemption from $11 million in 2017 for a married couple to more than $22 million in 2018. Put simply, the estate tax provision enabled Rosen to transfer her entire net worth to her child tax-free without the use of any sophisticated tax strategies.

I happen to agree with former Senator Phil Gramm, who once said about a particular government program that he didn’t think it was legitimate and intended to speak against it — and vote against it — every chance he got, but so long as the program existed, he was going to take advantage of it for himself and his constituents because it would be stupid not to. This is why I take advantage of any government giveaway I can, regarding it as a partial refund of the onerous taxes that I am perennially forced to pay.

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Which teaches you all you really need to know about the anti-Trump crowd.

Funny how the ‘anti-hate’ people appear to be the most accomplished haters around.