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News recaps in digestible bites, mid week

1. Let’s get this first one out of the way quickly. Yes, Joe Biden did in fact call Trump supporters garbage, and no, the legacy media’s attempt — along with the White House — to convince us all that we can’t trust our own eyes and ears, is not going to work, nor is it meant to. It’s meant only to stop the bleeding by appealing to low-information media consumers with a moral character flaw that predisposes them to accept leftwing narrative revisionism. (Click photo for original audio)

   

   Much to its shame, and in controvention of the Presidential Records Act, the White House has edited the transcript of the President’s remarks to suggest that Biden was speaking only of a singular supporter of Trump’s — specifically, the comedian who referenced the garbage and landfill problems Puerto Ricans are well aware of, and at which his joke, during an MSG appearance for the Trump campaign, was aimed — and doing so in the possessive case, a contention belied both by the audio and by Biden’s cadence and rhetorical sentence structure.

   As journalist Michael Shellenberger notes:

   

   Trump has since forcefully responded to the President’s comments, which Biden has sought to clarify. Harris, too, was asked to comment, but reporters swiftly walked away when the Vice President’s remarks began with her proclamation of a middle class upbringing.

   Probably. That could be just a rumor, though. That I made up especially for this column.

2. Duane Wade’s statue — unveiled Sunday at the entrance of the Miami Heat’s Kaseya Center — vs Duane Wade proper.

   

   When the time comes to commemorate my life and legacy, just have someone do a charcoal caricature of me. One of those sketchpad deals with the big head and me in a Rockies uniform whiffing with a baseball bat. Hit any beachtown with a boardwalk, look for the dude in cargo shorts with an easel, and be prepared to shell out a Jackson. No statue. Please.

   Because yikes.

3. Megyn Kelly is not down with the fearmongering toward women — mostly over the supposed loss of abortion rights that a second Trump Administration would portend — progressive female media personalities Mika Brzezinski and Nicole Wallace, among others, are doling out like so many bicycleless fish. (Watch here)

   Fumes Kelly:

   How are all of your Democrat friends going to be able to run and get their abortions if they’ve been murdered in the street? If they’ve been killed on their college campuses by illegals. However, will they get their abortions if they’re beaten to death during a rape by some criminal who’s here because of the open border or not in jail because of these soft on crime DA’s that the Democrats keep installing?”

   Explain that to me because I know we’re really super focused on being able to snuff out life in the womb. But shouldn’t we at least try to keep those women alive long enough to be impregnated so they can make that decision? That also seems kind of important in this election.

   How about Jocelyn Nungaray, Nicole? She never got to have the decision about whether she would keep an unplanned pregnancy because she was murdered by two illegals who tied her wrists together and her ankles together and threw her off a bridge at age 12.

   If you want an abortion in America, you can get it, abortion has gone up, not down post-Dobbs — which you would know if you would pay attention. Women are getting abortions — a lot of abortions — and they’re also dying in the street thanks to illegals committing crimes. Young, beautiful women with promising futures ahead. Do we care about Joselyn, Nicole, Mika?

   Kelly reveals what so many in media have not during this election cycle — one in which VP Harris has made abortion the issue central to her candidacy — namely, that abortions have increased in the post-Dobbs world, with abortion policy determined by voters at the state level, not by 9 philosopher kings in robes, as happened under Roe v Wade.

   Trump has already stated, again and again, that he does not support a federal ban on abortion, even were legislation introduced by Republicans in Congress. Post Dobbs, such a law is unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny anyway — which makes the issue purely cosmetic; that so many Americans are ignorant to both Trump’s position and the Constitutional interpretation that rightly overturned Roe and returned power to the voters, is an indictment both on our political and media institutions and our collective civic knowledge.

4. If Harris wins the Presidency, she’ll turn decisions over to “experts,” she assured both her supporters and we Nazi garbage racists in her “closing message” speech in DC last evening. This is a similar pledge as the one made by Biden in 2020, whose election win we were told had put the “professionals” back in charge of government.

   Yeah. How’s that working out?

   The country’s got a fever! And the only prescription, is more Fauci — and, like, a roomful of Keynesian nerds with tax charts and combovers.

   — who, to be fair, put on their pants just like the rest of us, one leg at a time. Except, once their pants are on, they make a series of grave fiscal blunders.

   

5. Parts of Chicago and San Antonio have taken a page out of Aurora, Colorado’s playbook and welcomed in new de facto landlords at some of their apartment complexes — though local police have denied or downplayed gang takeovers. Tenants of the buildings under duress from the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua — like the long-time denizens of Springfield, Ohio — must not be believed, because they aren’t really experts, and they aren’t spokespeople for the cities and towns. Plus, they’re poors. And filthies.

   Still. True or not — and to what degree of specificity the denials get framed by local jurisdictions looking to protect property values — the fact that such stories are now more readily believed than immediately dismissed sheds a serious light on the state of illegal immigration, and its attendant impact on crime, in the US following the Biden-Harris Administration’s open borders and lax political asylum policies.

   There’s a reason that illegal immigration has continued to move more and more to the top of issues Americans care about in the 2024 elections, now less than a week away.

   

6. If you put stock in such things, Rasmussen has dropped their final national poll at Trump +2, which their top pollster believes may still be too weighted toward D. Trump appears to be still in play in both Minnesota and New Hampshire, as well as either leading or within the margin of error in every battleground state.

   Atlas Intel likewise has Trump +2, while the Wall Street Journal has Trump +3. Rich Baris at Big Data has Trump +1. The Real Clear Polling aggregate currently has Trump +.4

   I include these polls here only because they were some of the most accurate pollsters in 2020. A lot of ink is being spilled and numbers crunched now that the GOP has embraced early voting — and is picking up greater numbers of new and low propensity voters than Democrats thus far — with some analysts suggesting that the GOP may be cannibalizing its Election Day votes.

   This may be the case — a banked vote from a reliable voter is a vote that has already been cast and cannot be recast on election day (except by Democrats in certain D-run cities, I mean) — but the huge advantage in voter registration margin, coupled with sluggish D early vote totals in typically energized areas, is keeping the GOP either near or above the Democrats when it comes to remaining likely voters ahead of the day of voting. For the moment — and without taking anything for granted — the enthusiasm gap seems more robust throughout the totality of the R coalition.

   Democrats are banking on huge crossover numbers from R (2020) to Harris; and they are absolutely rejecting the possibility of Biden voters (2020) moving to Trump.

   So it goes.

   

7. If Shannon Sharpe wasn’t already gay before his “Club Shay Shay” interview with Kamala Harris, he’s almost certainly gay now.

   I’ll link it, but don’t listen. Trust me. It’ll give you cancer.

   Don’t @ me, either. That’s just science.

8. In re: the lead photo for this column? Just because, is why. Which is my favorite reason of all.

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