DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Train staff all around Italy walked off the job on Tuesday, November 5th, in a protest over occupational safety following the stabbing of a train conductor by migrants.

According to Italian media reports, 44-year-old Rosario Ventura was attacked by a 21-year-old Egyptian man and a 16-year-old North African girl after they refused to pay for their fare on Monday afternoon.

On a regional train in northern Italy, Ventura was checking the validity of the passengers’ tickets, when a couple of migrants said they had not bought a ticket, and they would not pay for one either.

Imagine how much better life would be if illegal immigrants were immediately send back where they came from.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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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.

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Presumably as opposed to the home-grown People of Color gangs that already exist….

The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.

Some liberals insist that they’re not joking this time: They are very scared, and very ready to leave the country if Donald Trump is reelected.

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

PSA: Go Where You’re Treated Best

ZMan: “Courtrooms are now lotteries due to ideology, which is the definition of corruption.”

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

If you were to ask an American to name a corrupt country, he would most likely pick one from what we used to call the third world. To a great degree, this is how we now define the term “third world”. It simply means corrupt. First world countries have transparency and the rule of law, while third world countries are opaque, and the rules are not always clear to the citizens of those countries. These days it is not unusual to hear Russia or China called third world, for example.

This is one of those legacy ideas from the 20th century that evolved with the times rather than following the Cold War into the history books. As a result, our rulers tend not to think much about the corruption in American society. It is just assumed, as it was in the Cold War, that Western countries are largely free of corruption, mostly due to the honesty of Americans, while the rest of the world is riddled with corruption. It is a form of the old good guy – bad guy view of the world.

The thing is you can quite easily make the case that America is one of the most corrupt countries in the world now. Today is election day and most Americans assume the vote counts will be corrupted with fake votes generated by the people who support things like mail in voting, drop boxes and ballot harvesting. In popular government, voting is the key to its integrity, but in the world’s greatest democracy, most people assume the vote is as corrupt as anything that happens in the third world.

The countries that holds elections, even the ones we still call third world, require voters to cast their vote in person and show that they are a citizen. The burden of proof is on the voter to show they are entitled to vote. In America, this basic safeguard has been corrupted through many schemes like mail-in voting, drop boxes and bans on voters showing their government identification. Anyone who questions the integrity of the vote must prove their case all the way to the Supreme Court.

 

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The death of a squirrel has somehow intruded on the news cycle in the relentless last days of a presidential election.

Last week, the New York state government seized P’Nut the pet squirrel and a pet raccoon named Fred from owners Mark and Daniela Longo in Pine City, New York, in what was reportedly a five-hour raid.

Shortly afterward, the two animals were euthanized.

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Election Day is accompanied by some major voting controversies in battleground states, with lawsuits and investigations looking into alleged voter registration fraud, overseas ballots, and complaints about how some jurisdictions follow election law.

Both Democrats and Republicans brought lawsuits.

Some matters already have been settled. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court sided last week with Virginia by allowing the state to remove the names of 1,600 noncitizens from the voter rolls. And in Pennsylvania, Republicans successfully sued to extend early voting hours.

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Two companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party have deals to build battery plants for electric vehicles in Michigan, a battleground state in Tuesday’s presidential election.

The objective of Chinese communists, some political leaders say, is to shatter the U.S. automobile industry.

“Make no mistake, China is seeking to undermine our nation’s economic and national security,” Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate in Michigan’s race for U.S. Senate, said in September in a written statement to The Daily Signal.

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Astonishing.

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She presented herself with a huge smile, her words crisp and her gaze confident as she looked across the high school auditorium of prospective voters. In bedazzled shoes, a bright red dress, and a blonde blowout, she stood assured like a pageant queen.

Friends and family donning T-shirts with the words “Make Education Great Again” sat in the front rows. They were eager to hear Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, make the case that her lack of experience in public education is just what North Carolina students need.

“I think one of my greatest qualifications is I have no experience in a failing system,” she said in the October 14 debate at a high school in Pinehurst.

Can’t say she’s wrong, although The Intercept, a thinly-disguised Voice of the Crust, suggests that she’s delusional — and even gets in a dig against Trump.

$2.60 Gas in Texas–No One Cares

Gas Is $4.50 in California, a Major Consumer Burden

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The investigation is progressing following the violent brawl that broke out on Monday, November 4th at a station in the Paris suburbs. The fight involved rival gangs who clashed with axes.

There were four victims, aged 16 and 17. Two are in a serious condition and two are slightly injured. The 16-year-old, identified as “of African origin,” was born in Guadeloupe. An axe was found at his home, and he is already known to the police.

This outburst of barbarism comes against a backdrop of rivalry between young people from Roissy-en-Brie and Ozoir-la-Ferrière, rekindled ten days ago by the beating of a young man from Ozoir. This episode led to what looked like an ambush on the morning of the start of the new school year, according to a witness on the train who told Le Parisien that he saw men in black hoods rush into the carriage and prevent the doors from closing by pulling the alarm. According to him, the victims were young people from Roissy, and the assailants knew that they usually travelled in the last carriage of the train. That is where the axe attack took place. “They knew that young people from Roissy got on at the back and were hiding at the beginning of the platform at that level,” explains the witness, who believes that it was a reprisal.

Some policemen have different hypotheses about the cities where the young people come from, but the conclusion is the same for everyone. As the article in Le Parisien points out, the gang war is certainly not over. “I also heard the friends of the injured shouting: ‘By Allah, we’re going to get even! We’re going to kill you,’” added the witness.

France didn’t have gang wars before they started importing thugs from Turd World countries.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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At the Paris Olympic Games, an Algerian boxer made headlines after violently beating one competitor, Italian Angela Carini, and going on to win the women’s welterweight gold medal, amid strong suspicions about ‘her’ real sex. Evidence now released from a medical file proves us, and others right: Imane Khelif is indeed a biological male.

The investigation was conducted by journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia for Le Correspondant. It indicates that Khelif was allowed to compete for ideological reasons, despite medical evidence and notions of sporting fairness.

The investigative journalist was able to obtain a copy of Imane Khelif’s medical records from two hospitals: the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital in Paris and the Mohamed Lamine Debaghine hospital in Algiers, where the athlete is monitored by renowned endocrinology specialists.

Navy Matters.

You’ve probably noticed that several of ComNavOps’ fictional stories revolve around the Philippines. This is not by random chance. The strategic value of the Philippines cannot be overstated. The country, along with Taiwan, forms two gigantic ‘forts’ that China must deal with in any war.

From China’s perspective, those two countries act as forward enemy bases that dominate the surrounding seas and impact any operations the Chinese would attempt. Their removal from the strategic equations is imperative. Ideally, China would turn the tables by seizing both countries and using them as forts against any American response.

Taiwan’s seizure (or ‘reunification’ as the Chinese would euphemistically put it) is absolutely mandatory for both strategic and cultural reasons. Wisely or foolishly, China’s leadership has linked themselves to the seizure of Taiwan as a national and cultural imperative. For those reasons, Taiwan will be the first operation in any war.

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Several left-wing district attorneys could find themselves out of a job after Tuesday’s election as voters voice their frustration with an explosion in crime ripping through their communities, including three California jurisdictions.

With many progressive prosecutors on the ballot this election, polling and fundraising data shows that voters are rejecting soft-on-crime policies across the nation with their ballots and wallets, according to multiple reports.

Crime remains one of the most important issues, with 75% of voters saying crime is very or somewhat important to their decision in the 2024 election, according to a Gallup poll released Oct. 9.

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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There has been a major rift within the ranks of orthodox feminists for the last decade or so over the issue of whether “trans” women are really women, and should be welcomed into the feminist ranks with their sisters who happen to have been born with two X chromosomes. Women who think “trans” women are not women and should be kept out of the movement are known as TERFs — “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” — and are vehemently opposed by a large subset of their more radical sisters. J.K. Rowling is the most notable victim who has been excommunicated for her TERF heresy, but there are many others.

Initially the TERF heretics were vitriolically denounced, cancelled, and prevented from speaking in public. But based on the following story, their accusers have now proceeded to the next logical step, which is physical violence against the heretics, or at least the threat of it.

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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reportedly has at least one mysterious system capable of “covertly (and nonviolently)” disabling ships, including very large ones. The secret system is said to have been considered for use against fuel tankers sailing between Venezuela and Cuba during President Donald Trump’s term in office.

A mention of the CIA ship-disabling system is included in a detailed exposé about the Trump administration’s unsuccessful efforts to overthrow dictatorial Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that Wired published on October 31 and is worth reading in full. The report describes a host of efforts that the U.S. government and foreign partners undertook to try to unseat Maduro between 2018 and 2020. This includes a cyber attack on the payroll system for Venzeuzla’s armed forces, sabotage raids by Colombian operatives targeting the Venezuelan Air Force’s Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighters, and support for opposition leader Juan Guaido’s attempt to overthrow Maduro’s government.

Trump says he doesn’t ‘mind’ if someone has to ‘shoot through’ the media (Politico)

Fetterman On CNN: Trump An ‘A-hole’ For Running Ad On Kamala’s Trans Policy

Trump campaign leaving some cities with hundreds of thousands in unpaid bills after rallies (Soo Rin Kim/ABC News)

North Carolina–and Iowa? (Mary L. Trump/The Good in Us)

Trump returns to his grievances for his closing argument (Politico)

Harris vows unity in closing message while Trump lashes out (Washington Post)

Chuck Todd Augurs Kleptocracy “For a Generation” If Trump Reelected

Medvedev: US Election Doesn’t Matter, Ukraine War Won’t Stop, And Trump May Get JFK’d If He Intervenes

The Future Of Debanking  Melania and Barron get cancelled.

PBS Lies That Trump ‘Talked About Cheney in Violent and Threatening Terms’

If Trump wins the election, these 11 issues will be under threat (The Guardian)

Security fencing goes up around White House, Capitol, VP residence (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)

A Vivid Trump-Harris Contrast in the Campaign’s Grueling Final Days (New York Times)

Ahead of the Election, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Squeezes Off One Last Hysterical Editorial

Trump Enters Final Sprint For White House An Unfocused Mess (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Establishment Media Says Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Be An ‘Economic Disaster’

Whirlwind of misinformation sows distrust ahead of US election day (Mike Wendling/BBC)

GOP’s closing election message on health baffles strategists, worries experts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds (Politico)

Trump escalates false claims of fraud, setting stage to cry foul if he loses (Washington Post)

‘I Think We’re in Trouble’: Is There a Future for MAGA After Trump? (David Siders/Politico)

Harris official says Trump is closing “with total darkness and anger” (Erin Doherty/Axios)

Right-Wing Groups Are Organizing on Telegram Ahead of Election Day (New York Times)

The consequences of putting the cranks in charge (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump’s “baked in” bigotry (Davidrlurie/Public Notice)

Obama Recycles “Very Fine People” Narrative Despite the Fact That It’s A Proven Hoax

NBC Runs Trump Ads for Equal Time After Harris’ ‘SNL’ Bias Allegations

Washington Activates National Guard, Oregon “Standing Ready”, Heading Into Election Day

GOP primed to back Trump if he contests election (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

Elon Musk’s misleading election claims have been viewed more than 2 billion times on X, analysis finds (Marshall Cohen/CNN)

U.S. Farmers Brace for New Trump Trade Wars Amid Tariff Threats (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret (Sarah McCammon/NPR)

Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Any Other Republican Would Be Running Away With This (Matthew Yglesias/New York Times)

Media’s Closing Argument: Vote for Harris to Save America From ‘Evil’ ‘Maniac’ Trump

Final GOP push in Pennsylvania focuses on imaginary voters over real ones (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump Stepped on a Rake Yesterday–and He Knew It (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)  Oh, really?

Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees. (Andy Kroll/ProPublica)

Your Tax $ At Work: PBS Laments GOP Spending on Ads ‘Demonizing Transgenders People’

Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down (Michael Gold/New York Times)

Crazy Talk About Media Favoring Trump Over Harris

Donald Trump Promises Global Peace With Reelection. His Track Record Says Otherwise. (Akbar Shahid Ahmed/HuffPost)

Robert De Niro Takes Goal Line Stand Against Trump At Eagles Tailgate Party (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)

‘I Saw It From The Inside’: Ex-Trump Administration Lawyer Echoes Forceful Warning (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)

Mini Poop Statues Appear At D.C.’s Mysterious Turd Monument ‘Honoring’ Trump (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Shameless Scarborough Still Peddling Lie Trump Wanted Liz Cheney ‘Shot By Firing Squad’

Two potential futures for Trump: The presidency or prison (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Pompous CBS Lecture: Kamala Will Beat ‘Darker’ Trump With ‘Silent’ Harris Voters

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A fight involving around 15 people has left four minors, travelling to school in Ozoir-la-Ferrièreto, north-central France, injured—two of them seriously. The violent attack prompted one of Marine Le Pen’s MPs to criticise the ruling class for “the same silence and stammering.”

One victim had several fingers cut off and another had his skull split open after the attackers—reportedly armed with several bladed weapons, including a knife, axe, and katana, as well as baseball bats—boarded an RER E train at around 8:00 a.m. on Monday. A 16-year-old, who has been identified as the main suspect, was later arrested at his home, where police seized an axe and a knife. Frontieres Media Editor-in-Chief Jules Laurans reported on X that the suspect is “of African origin” (“de type africain”).

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The far-right political influencer James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, has reportedly assembled a group of election personnel and monitors in the US to secretly film voting and ballot counting procedures on election day.

To The Guardian, there is no right but the far-right.

According to documents given by a whistleblower to the New York Times, the people involved would use hidden cameras “to record and then publicise video to support their claims of fraud and irregularities” at polling locations.

Such transparency is of course anathema to the Left.

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YouTube is still suppressing ongoing discussions on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment nearly five years after the start of the pandemic.

Eagle Forum hosted its Eagle Council 52 conference last month, which featured a plethora of speakers including renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough. During his speech, Dr. McCullough mentioned some of the most pernicious impacts of the COVID-19 virus and vaccines. He also noted how censorship continues to impact discussions surrounding health and the pandemic. YouTube, however, censored Eagle Forum’s video of Dr. McCullough’s speech for allegedly “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”

Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman blasted YouTube for its censorship in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America. “Dr. McCullough spoke eloquently about the dangers to medicine and science when certain opinions are silenced. The idea that YouTube can censor a practicing doctor, who actually treated COVID patients, is outrageous,” she said.

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As Election Day nears, CBS’s procedural drama FBI: Most Wanted took on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (AKA fracking) and CO2 pipelines, but even though the ecoterrorists were the bad guys, the vibe was sympathetic to their cause if not their violent methods of protest.

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Multiple counties in California’s San Francisco Bay Area region reinstated mask mandates in health care settings starting Nov. 1, while other municipalities have recommended face coverings.

Counties with mask requirements for employees include San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Napa, and San Mateo. But Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose, and San Mateo County also require visitors and patients in those health care facilities to wear masks.

Those mandates, which were announced weeks or months ago, run from Nov. 1, 2024, until March 31, 2025. A similar mandate was imposed across the Bay Area during the 2023–24 winter and spring months.

Just to remind you what a Harris/Walz regime would be like.

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The latest crime reported by the Kenner Police Department on Oct. 29 involved a 17-year-old old illegal immigrant who was arrested for sex crimes involving two minors in the city. Two additional minors were also found to be abused, Police Capt. Mike Cunningham told The Epoch Times on Oct. 30.

Luis Renan Bonilla-Alfaro allegedly inappropriately touched four minors aged 4 to 13 and performed sexual acts with them in a trailer park.

Bonilla-Alfaro confessed and admitted that he filmed the acts with the minors. Kenner Police found sexually explicit videos on his phone of him and the minors.

“We have identified two additional victims, one of whom was the unidentified we found on [the] suspect’s phone,” said Cunningham. “A total of four victims, all under the age of 13, all males.”

Thank you, Joe Biden. (You too, Kamala.)

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Stanford researchers hope new technique will flip lymphoma protein’s normal action — from preventing cell death to triggering it.

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Henley & Partners, a firm that advises the wealthy on international migration, says that the total number of inquiries by affluent Americans to move abroad surged 500% in the first ten months of 2024 compared with the same period of 2020. Most inquiries are by folks who fear political and social unrest regardless of who wins next Tuesday.

“The primary driver for US citizens looking outside the country is political uncertainty,” Basil Mohr-Elzeki, managing director at Henley & Partners, told Bloomberg.

Basil said clients are spending up to 10% of their net worth on residency and citizenship programs, some of which can cost millions of dollars. More than 40 countries, including the US, have these residency-by-investment programs, also called “golden visas.”

Artur Saraiva, Henley & Partners’ co-founder, explained that “a lot of Americans at the moment” are speaking with us about second passports or long-term residencies abroad as the US presidential election cycle ends in just days.

He noted that surging demand for dual citizenship comes from clients across the political spectrum, including registered Democrats and Republicans, with many fearing socio-economic turmoil regardless of who wins.

Go Where You’re Treated Best.

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I guess the science really isn’t settled after all.

UCLA chemists have discovered a major flaw in a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has held for 100 years. They say it’s time to rewrite the textbooks.

Organic molecules, which are primarily made of carbon, have specific shapes and arrangements of atoms. Molecules called olefins contain double bonds, or alkenes, between two carbon atoms. Typically, these atoms and their attached groups lie in the same 3D plane, and deviations from this structure are rare.

The rule being questioned, known as Bredt’s rule, was established in 1924. It asserts that molecules cannot have a double bond at the “bridgehead” position—the junction of a bridged bicyclic molecule—because this position would distort the geometry of the double bond. Bredt’s rule has constrained the design of synthetic molecules by preventing chemists from creating certain structures. Since olefins play a critical role in pharmaceutical research, Bredt’s rule has limited the types of molecules that scientists could envision, potentially holding back innovations in drug discovery.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

If you’re eagerly following discoveries from genetics, this year might have seemed a bit more sedated than last year. After all, 2022 saw a Nobel Prize awarded for innovation in ancient DNA, researchers uncovered a Neandertal family from mere bone fragments, and a team carried out a major study of ancient genomes from eastern Africa.

This year saw a lot of research consolidation, with continued progress along well-established lines. This year saw many research studies that are in this category of “filling in the map” of ancient DNA, especially within the last 3000 years. These included ancient DNA genotyping from Scandinavia, Tibet, the east coast of Africa, northwest Africa, the Aegean, and many more. In a preprint released this year, Swapan Mallick and collaborators have described the Allen Ancient DNA Resource, a database that now includes more than 10,000 individuals.

Building out the database of ancient DNA is undeniably valuable. But even more fascinating are the discoveries that allow us to look at biology, social dynamics, and evolution in new ways.

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The extremely profitable inner workings of digital addiction are complex, but the business model is simple: collect user data and sell it to advertisers. The more users you addict, oops I mean attract, and the more time they spend on your platform, the more money you make.

The raison d’etre of social media / search (SM/S) is to collect user data to sell to the highest bidder. To maximize profits, the SM/S platforms stimulate users to post more content and spend more time “engaging” (i.e. creating user data) on their platform.

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Win or lose, fans of the Philly Eagles go out into the street and smash things. Whoever wins on Election Day, leftists will smash things. The election only determines whether they smash up the country from the inside or the outside. Forget all the theory and all the empty policy promises.

It’s not about equity, democracy, free college, funding terrorists, defunding the police, breaking the glass ceiling, or any of the other suits the naked emperors and empresses wear. When the champagne corks and pills have been popped, the desire underneath is to destroy it all.

Mediocre elites created leftism by sublimating their narcissistic drive to destroy everything superior to them into the revolutionary politics of a purported underclass. But the elites are the oppressed underclass they’ve been waiting for. They fight for their own right to seize power.

And they don’t stop fighting once they get it.

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Ever since Angela Merkel threw wide the doors to the Land of Milk and Honey nine years ago, Syrian “refugees” have been suckling on the Bundestit and raping the blond blue-eyed daughters of the Federal Republic to their hearts’ content.

Now the German government, in its infinite wisdom, is planning to naturalize all Syrians whose asylum applications have been approved, and hand them German passports.

What could possibly go wrong?

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common criticism of modern progressive activism – the movement that has come to be called woke – is that it is religious. What is meant by this is that progressives have an all-encompassing worldview which purports to have explanatory power, and direct application, across all domains of life, from politics to art to personal relationships. At the risk of over-simplification, the keystone of this belief system is that social and political relations should be understood primarily in terms of power dynamics, and that there is a powerful class of oppressive and controlling persons, the proverbial straight white Christian men, who must be resisted by the rest, a ragtag rebel coalition of oppressed minorities and their allies.

Not everyone accepts the characterisation of wokeism as akin to religious belief, for various reasons. It seems to me a useful if not perfect way of understanding how left-wing politics has developed in the last decade or so. But regardless of how persuasive we find that framing, there is one important respect in which wokeism, for want of a better word, is quite unlike religion, or at least quite unlike Christianity, which remains the background religious noise in the countries where identity politics is most strongly embedded.

The vital difference is that progressive morality has no consistently defined content, and no clear pathway to reconciliation and restoration. US vice-presidential candidate JD Vance noted this in his recent interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan. He put it this way: “What most world religions have, but the woke stuff doesn’t have, is forgiveness….it has the excommunication part, but it doesn’t have the redemption part.”

The Economist.

onald trump has dominated the American right for nine years and yet, even after a decade of study, many observers still cannot fathom why. But voters are certainly not tired of Mr Trump. Even after the scandal and mayhem of his first term, culminating in his attempt to cling to power after losing the election in 2020, around half of the electorate, or some 75m Americans, will vote for him this time.

What accounts for his enduring strength? At first it was common on the left to point to racism, misogyny and xenophobia, sustained by misinformation and lies. Hillary Clinton infamously summarised this thesis. “To just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” she once said.

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Calmer analysis is more helpful. Social scientists provide three kinds of explanation. Political scientists point out the importance of institutions; political economists put stress on material conditions; and political sociologists emphasise the cultural divide between elites and the self-described populus.

UPDATE: ‘Underserved, overtaxed’: Battleground state voter explains why she’s backing Trump (CNN)

UPDATE: Reluctant Trump voter reveals why she’s voting for the former president (Fox News)

UPDATE: Trump is ‘arrogant,’ ‘narcissistic,’ and ‘paranoid,’ these Mass. voters say. And they’re voting for him again.  (Boston Globe)

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes “America First” (ProPublica)

Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk

‘I’m Scared Sh–less.’ Why Women’s March Protesters Say They ‘Won’t Go Back’

Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’ (Hugh Dougherty/The Daily Beast)

MSNBC’s Racial Fearmongering: Trump Would ‘Take Us Back To Jim Crow—And Then Some!’

Portents Of Chaos

Trump says migrants caused a ‘surge in crime’ in a small Wisconsin city. Its residents reject that. (Irie Sentner/Politico)

Donald Trump’s freakshow continues unabated (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)

Elon Musk’s Mom Suggests She May Break Voting Laws (MauríCio Alencar/The Daily Beast)

Why young men like Donald Trump

Lying NY Times Pretends Not to Hear Trump’s Anti-War Insult of Cheney: ‘Violent Language’

Here’s Why Trump Just Claimed Credit For “Killing” Nord Stream II

A Second Trump Term? Three Conservative Columnists Unpack What Could Happen. (New York Times)  You can guess with three. Any resemblance between them and Real Conservatives is purely coincidental.

Kamala Harris Mocks Donald Trump on ‘SNL’ Appearance, Urges Americans to ‘Keep Kamala and Carry On-A-La’ (William Earl/Variety)

‘I Think It Will Happen Again if Trump Is the President’: The Ongoing Trauma of Family Separation (Myah Ward/Politico)

Epstein Claimed: Trump Liked to F**k His Friends’ Wives (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

The Latest Harris Campaign Gaslighting Is Comedy Gold

ELECTION NIGHT REWIND: The Bias Doesn’t Stop When the Voting Is Over

Trump Thinks America Wants His Perversions (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)

Apology Not Accepted – I woke up yesterday morning to learn that Don Trump–the famed rapist … (A.R. Moxon/The Reframe)

Trump Tells Supporters He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House (New York Times)

2024’s biggest gaffe? GOP telling the truth about what it will do to America. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump Says ‘I Don’t Mind’ if the Media Gets Shot (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Trump Boasts ‘Every Rally Is Full’ as Camera Immediately Pans to Empty Seats, People Leaving (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss (Associated Press)

Trump doesn’t rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president: ‘I’ll make a decision’ (NBC News)

GOP candidate Tim Sheehy says medical records don’t exist for gunshot wound (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)

Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at journalists at rally (Washington Post)  Neither do I.

The Regime Media’s Sunday Shows Continue to LIE to Their Viewers and Push the Debunked Cheney Hoax

Why business leaders are worried about JD Vance (Politico)

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Make no mistake, the recent scourge of inflation and high interest rates has been a heist buried beneath economic jargon.

It has transferred a tremendous amount of wealth from hardworking Americans to the federal government.

The root cause of this disaster—reckless government spending and money-printing—should serve as a reminder that the federal deficit is the bank robber, the Fed is the getaway car driver, and you are the bank.

The past few years have seen consumer goods prices increase more than they had in the prior 30 years, while staggering price increases for construction materials have helped push homeownership out of reach for tens of millions of Americans.

Taken from a random short video on YouTube:

“Gabby, what is your problem? All the girls in my class dress like this.”
“That’s why your school nurse is an obstetrician.”

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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.

New York Post.

One of the United States’ foremost white supremacists is urging his followers to support Vice President Harris in the presidential election next week.

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.”

Spencer — who also gained international recognition after yelling “Hail Trump! Hail our people!” and being greeted with Nazi salutes during a white nationalist event in November 2016 — also condemned former President Trump’s strong support of Israel.

Betcha didn’t see that coming.

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Inquiring minds want to know.

I found this interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, this sort of thing is uniquely American. I can’t imagine Europeans or Asians or Africans doing this sort of content for a public video medium; I doubt that it would even occur to them. Secondly, I was impressed by the fact that, even though they went into the tests biased (a bias that they freely admitted), the tests showed results that were contrary to that bias, and they reported it fairly. If one believes all the complaints voiced everywhere about ‘social media’, the chances of that happening would have been negligible. Thirdly, it astonishes me that, in this world, in this country, there are people who are willing to devote so much time and effort to something so unquestionably fringe. I am reluctant to believe that there is a market for this kind of thing, but there obviously is. Fourthly — can you imagine how a garden-variety ‘journalist’ would react to seeing this? THAT would be comedy.

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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.