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Let's bankrupt everybody! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kamala Harris Supports a 25% Wealth Tax on Unrealized Gains [...] the Harris campaign says it supports all of the tax increases in Biden's last budget which includes the 25% wealth tax on unrealized gains. [...] https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/08/20/kamala-harris-supports-bidens-plan-for-a-25-wealth-tax-on-unrealized-gains-n3793442

Sean Hannity said that he had to show his own ID four times today. "Oh, hi, Mr. Hannity! May I see your ID, please?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrats Demand ID To Get Into Their Convention But Not To Vote For President The Biden-Harris administration has called voter photo identification laws "burdensome" and "unnecessary." The administration has let hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants pour across the border with no questions asked about who they are. But the administration's political party has implemented identification requirements for anyone who wants to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Individuals seeking to get into the DNC must show proof of identity "for security screening" to pass through a security perimeter and physical barriers, NewsNation reported. In fact, Chicagoans who live in the "areas around the United Center and McCormick Place" where roads will be closed for the convention "will still be able to go in and out of their homes" but they are only "allowed guests as long as those guests have photo ID." This is all done under the guise of protecting attendees. "Security" is suddenly important to Democrats. So why not protect and secure our elections? [...] https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/20/democrats-demand-id-to-get-into-their-convention-but-not-to-vote-for-president/

Pence group calls DNC platform 'massive gift to conservatives' The conservative values advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence called the 91-page Democratic National Convention platform on Tuesday a "massive gift" to conservatives eager to highlight just how far left Vice President Kamala Harris and her side have jumped. In a one-page takedown of the platform, Pence's Advancing American Freedom said the document shows the Democrats are obsessed with oddball policies that cater to special interests and will bankrupt America if enacted. "The DNC Platform is a vision for the American Left that will cripple our economy, increase the national debt, and weaken America at home and abroad. Conservative Republican principles, by contrast, will not only win elections but will restore America to prosperity and freedom," Pence told Secrets. [...] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3127497/pence-group-calls-dnc-platform-massive-gift-conservatives/

Scintillating Tuesday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Tuesday report, see man: We were active today in Many00-degree heat, Texas weather Many man. Took Uncle T-B. to doc, nothing unexpected found man. Refilled Uncle T-B.'s pill caddy, refill we man. Went to Costco, got Many (2+2+1) items man. Lunch was the Costco footlong hot dog + (Diet) Pepsi, ingest we man. Went to favorite large thrift store, discount day for we man man. Got Mini-B. Many (2+2) long pants, Many (2+1) L-S shirts, and 2 short pants, buy we man. We saved $Many-&-a-half ($[2x2x2x2 + 2+2+1] + half a buck), financially savvy we man. On way to casa, stopped at Costco Business Center and got Many (2+1) items, shop we man. Stopped at Big Lots for a new Many-inch ([2+2+2]-inch) desk fan, our old one croaked man. Serviced demanding miu, indignant at Daddy's absence miu man. Siesta'd for an hour, zzz we man. Din-din was several tablespoonfuls of Costco chicken salad straight from the tub, ingest we man. Miu highly interested in Daddy's din-din, off-fend miu we man. Spent Many (2x2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2) minutes on phone with Mama T-B. regarding new phone, aysheep senior she man man. Warshered & am baking Mini-B.'s 2 Manyzen new clothes, must up-hang them subsequently we man. Miu has been completely aysheep for 2 hours, zoom and miu aysheep miu man. We are uncertain of what she wants, language barrier man. We supplied brushing, treats, din-din #1, play, and more play, everything but kitchen sink man. Maybe we will out-figure it or she will quiesce herself, wait out miu we man. Party with the rubias tonight, cavort we man. No formal plans for Wednesday, amazing man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

A busload of Arkansas politicians was driving down a country road when suddenly the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer, seeing what happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians. Later that day, the local Sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus, and asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?" The farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they wasn't, but you know how them politicians lie."

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Joe Biden Tries for 'Dark Brandon' But Just Looks Angry in Not-for-Prime-Time DNC Speech As if forcing the man to bend the knee to the leftists who have completely taken over the Democrat Party wasn't embarrassing enough, Democrat B-list and C-list speakers blathered on so long at the Democrat National Convention on Monday night that they forced Joe Biden to wait until well after 11:30 P.M. to say goodbye and farewell. And what a goodbye. A pepped-up Joe Biden treated his swan song as a stump speech, resorting to lies and distortions -- and appealing to the worst of the Democrats -- in his long goodbye. He gave his crowd red meat, but many people on the East Coast had long ago said goodnight to Dark Brandon. [...] https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/08/19/wake-up-joe-its-time-to-say-good-night-n4931784

Without accepting the following theory automatically or dismissing it out of hand, please read it, consider the points, and comment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is Kamala Drunk? There is a lot of chatter on Twitter/X regarding Kamala Harris' bizarre word salads. For a long time, people have just assumed she is a moron, and I admit that this has been my working theory. She rose through the ranks of Democratic politics on the back of relationships with powerful people, implying that intelligence was not the driving force in her rise to power. She certainly is not charismatic, regardless of what the current propaganda keeps trying to sell to us. Until the media decided that they had no choice but to back her with all their firepower, they were actually quite disgusted by her, probably because of her collapse in the Democratic race in 2019. They had been 100% behind her and she collapsed into a heap of dung in that campaign. Now there is an alternate theory about why she is so incoherent, and once you look, you can't unsee the likelihood that it is true. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/08/19/is-kamala-a-drunk-n3793332

Pointed out here is that the DNC Party platform still references Bidementia's second term 19 times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NYT's Dowd: Celebrate All You Want, Dems, But It's Still a Coup Worth noting: it has been four weeks and a day since Joe Biden withdrew from the nomination. No one thought to review the party's platform? Anyway, not everyone's been fooled by the Reunited And It Feels So Good narrative of the past month. Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd uncorked a broadside at the Democrat Party and its leadership over the "coup" -- her term -- that removed an incumbent president from his renomination against his wishes. It may not have been "Julius Caesar at Rehoboth," Dowd argues, but everyone knows it was an undemocratic attempt to appoint someone who couldn't have won the spot on her own. And whether or not they admit it this week, Dowd insists, they're all mad at each other over the "coup": [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/19/nyts-dowd-celebrate-all-you-want-dems-but-its-still-a-coup-n3793359

The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign Projection is a Freudian psychological term. It describes a particular defensive mechanism, when people, often unconsciously, attribute their own (usually undesirable) behaviors to others who do not have them. These mental gymnastics are intended to alleviate one's own guilt or sense of inadequacy at the expense of another. Sound familiar? But in the political sphere, projection involves more overt dissimulation. It is increasingly common for leftist candidates or political parties to falsely accuse their opponents of the very destructive behaviors and unpopular agendas that they themselves embrace, but out of political necessity must deny. Rather than an unconscious Freudian defense mechanism, political projection is usually a conscious strategy of hiding one's own negatives by fobbing them off on antagonists. Projection often proves a quite successful ploy. After all, the political projectionist knows best his own hazardous or off-putting conduct and policies. And so, he can most skillfully attribute just these liabilities to those who have had no experience with them. The 2024 Harris-Walz campaign is turning out to be projectionist to the core. How? [...] https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/19/the-myriad-projections-of-the-2024-campaign/

Thrilling Monday report, see man: Lunch was 2 ham-&-cheese sandwiches, indict all but the cheese and ingest we man. A siesta was taken thereafter, zzz we man. Din-din was Modified Tuna Glop, ingest we man. We didn't leave the casa until half-past Many (2+2+2) p.m., torpid we man. Went to Aldi, no tater tots available man. Went to other supermarket, no store-brand tater tots available man. We did find Many (2x2x2 +2+1) bottles of Powerade Zero grape, consolation man. We shall complete shopping for next Two Guys week later, oh well man. Dished and de-dished the warsher, Sunday's chore completed man. Paid bills, we man. Catered to needy miu, Feed Me Treat Me Brush Me Play With Me Daddy miu man. We take Uncle T-B. to a doc appointment on Tuesday morn, routine man. Afterward, we plan to go to Costco, plan we man. We then plan to go to favorite large thrift store, discount day man. Party with the rubias imminent, cavort we man. And that was/is our thrilling Monday, report we man.

According to Rhododendron status, someone's upvote allocation is 3rd-rate.

In most aspects, but her chief flaw is that she's not a rubia, no and sigh man. Ex-she man is an expert with phones, having had her own phone business in Ecu man.

Don Lemon Gets Trumped Hardcore Interviewing Voters in Atlantic City! Disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon is still desperately trying to remain relevant after being fired from the cable news network and his deal with Elon Musk to have a show on X falling through.At the moment, he's trying his own man-on-the-street-style interviews, and his recent effort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, did not go as he had planned. Many of the people he spoke with expressed support for Trump, citing his experience and economic record, and even those who said they'd support Kamala Harris told Lemon they think Trump is going to win. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/18/this-might-be-the-most-hilarious-video-of-the-2024-campaign-yet-n4931746

Bangladesh: Islamist Pogroms Against Hindus Following Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's removal from power and her fleeing the country on August 5—a situation resulting from mass student protests—Hindus have experienced deadly attacks by Islamists. Social media is filled with reports of Hindus being raped or murdered, their properties and temples attacked, burnt down, and looted. Based on statements by Bangladeshi Hindu individuals and organizations, the news website OpIndia confirmed these reports. "Hindus are subjected to rapes, murders, lynchings, and institutionalized abuse including hospitals not treating Hindu victims. Their temples have been burnt and they've been abused with 'kafir' (infidel) slurs." In another report, Hindu women narrated their ordeal and confirmed the rape of Hindu women in Bangladesh. [...] https://pjmedia.com/uzay-bulut/2024/08/17/bangladesh-islamist-pogroms-against-hindus-n4931726

Clever: Israel Uses Phone Call to Lure, Delete Hezbollah Leader Israel has long been known to have a great intelligence apparatus; being a small nation surrounded by people who want you dead tends to sharpen your intelligence-gathering skills. Now we are presented with another example of just how good Israel is at information-gathering, as on July 30th, they used a ruse involving a mysterious phone call to lure a Hezbollah commander out of hiding to a location where he could be (and was) deleted by an airstrike. [...] https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/08/18/clever-israel-uses-phone-call-to-lure-delete-hezbollah-leader-n2178249

WATCH: Struggling Grocery Store Owners Rake Kamala Harris Over the Coals for 'Price Gouging' Proposal [...] A new video is circulating on X featuring two small business owners discussing how rampant inflation has affected their businesses and customers. To put it succinctly, it ain't looking good, folks. Ehsan Khan, who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn, New York, said that during his 24 years in the business, he "never saw the cost of grocery bread, butter, cookies, milk going up" as it has under the Biden/Harris administration. Carlos Collado from Fine Festival Market described how his store has to reduce inventory because of inflation. "See those shelves right there? We're trying to keep less inventory because it's expensive after the inflation under your vice presidency," he said. [...] https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/08/18/watch-struggling-grocery-store-owners-rake-kamala-harris-over-the-coals-for-price-gouging-ban-proposal-n2178248

Biden's Former Chief of Staff Admits Kamala Harris Vice Presidency Was a Failure It's not until you're somewhat deep into yet another mainstream media puff piece of Kamala Harris that you come across a rather startling admission by Joe Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain. He basically admits that the Democrats’ nominee for president failed in her VP gig. The New York Times headline Sunday certainly might make you think that Harris had mastered the intricacies of the job: "A Vice Presidential Learning Curve: How Kamala Harris Picked Her Shots," it reads. But after first describing how Harris was "deliberate and disciplined" despite the many pitfalls she faced as the first female vice president, the Times finally got to the point [...] https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/08/18/bidens-former-chief-of-staff-admits-kamala-harris-vice-presidency-was-a-failure-n2178255

Scintillating Sunday repartee, yawn man. ~~~~~~~ Thrilling Sunday-on-Monday report, see man: The day was consumed by Mama T-B.'s stuff, man. Background, see man: -- Mama T-B. had to replace old ManyG phone with a ManyG, obsolescence soon man. -- Mama T-B. aysheep about large size of new phones, not as small as old one man. -- Mama T-B. insistent upon keeping Tracfone, Many,000 minutes accrued man. -- Ex-Mrs.-T-B. had visited to help Mama T-B. order Motorola phone, aysheep senior she man. -- Mama T-B. reviewed Motorola tutorial and was overwhelmed, return Motorola man. -- With a Many-day return window, Mama T-B. insisted that we return it now, insistent senior she man. -- New Samsung Tracfone ordered and arrived, oh great man. -- This wasn't even the beginning of the fun, no man. Mama T-B. had asked us to retrieve an Rx on the way over, OK man. We got stuck in the drive-through line behind someone who should have gone inside, man. Rant, see man: Why do people with difficult issues clog the drive-through line for people who have simple pick-ups, huh man? Got to Mama T-B.'s, arrive we and Mini-B. man. It was an hour before noon, point of reference man. Mama T-B. had new Tracfone unboxed and was already aysheep, out-freaked senior she man. Mini-B. did what he could, considerable progress man. However, he couldn't log her on to her e-mail provider, unable wee man man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. came at noon, already planned (for half an hour) man. Ex-she man swapped SIM cards, part of solution man. However, still no e-mail, no man. Mass caucus adjourned to Mama T-B.'s computer, senior she man ex-she man wee man man. Port settings were researched, research settings man. At great length, progress was seemingly made, seeming progress man. By half-of-half after 1 p.m., Mini-B. and we were quite hungry, si man. Mama T-B. offered to spring for 2 meat-lovers' 'zas from downstairs, go to retrieve we man man. Mini-B. and we in much better spirits afterward, ingest Two Guys man. Meanwhile, ex-Mrs.-T-B. continued fixing issues and soothing Mama T-B., aysheep senior she man. By nearly 2 p.m., Mama T-B. sent us to Walmart with old phone + short grocery list, leave we man. We were told sternly to return immediately with Mama T-B.'s credit card, used to buy phone man. Mini-B. was to be off-dropped at our casa by ex-Mrs.-T-B., save detour for we man man. At Many (2+1) p.m., we returned from Walmart, successful we man. Mama T-B.'s credit card was not needed for return, use order number man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. and Mini-B. were still there, still soothing aysheep Mama T-B. man. Everyone managed to extricate themselves after Many (2+2) hours, extrication man. We returned to casa with Mini-B., Sunday plans hosed man. One laundry load in warsher had fortunately not gotten moldy, long delay man. We hastened to complete already-hectic Sunday chores, laundry change beds et al. man. We finally gave up trying to recover the schedule and decided to siesta, necessary man. Siesta surprisingly effective, zzz we man. Din-din was Walmart "beef & bean" burritos, ingest Two Guys man. Mini-B. and we actually got to watch AFV, watch Two Guys man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. arrived toward AFV's end, arrive ex-she man man. Some outdoor football was briefly attempted, si man. Mini-B. complained about his basketball rim's having been bent during hurricane, beef wee man man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. asked for a ladder, hammer, & screwdriver, provide ex-she man we man man. Ex-she man adjusted rim, fix ex-she man rim man. Considerable basketball was played, play we man and wee man and ex-she man man. Mini-B. finally left at nearly Many (2x2x2) p.m., end of Two Guys week man. Miu immediately became needy, Where's Big Bruddah Huh Daddy man. We finished laundry at half-past Many (2x2x2 +1) p.m., late man. We had zero chance of dishing the warsher, first skipped Sunday probably ever man. And then Mama T-B. texted, "I hate this phone, si man!!!!!", rant senior she man man. She also wanted us to order a new screen-protector, man. We must finish all Sunday stuff on Monday, cattywampus week already man. No prayer of any party with the rubias tonight, no man. And that was/is our thrilling Sunday, report we man.

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Exclusive: Eyewitness Told 300K Venezuelans Crossed Border Wednesday into San Diego A self-employed American who lives in Mexico but works weekdays in San Diego told RedState that a border officer at the San Ysidro border crossing between Tijuana and the San Diego metropolitan area told him that 300,000 Venezuelans passed through to the United States on Wednesday. "He was definitely frustrated because I got up there, I'm like: 'Yeah, busy day,' and he is like: 'Yeah, 300,000 Venezuelans,'" the man said. "It was all happening so quickly," he said. "I kind of came over a little bit of a hill, and so, there's a bunch of people. Then, I talked to the customs agent, and he said that that was just not even the surface of them." Roughly 95 percent of these border crossers were men between the ages of 18 and 60, he said. [...] https://redstate.com/mccabe/2024/08/16/eyewitness-n2178147

Fear in Chicago: Businesses Board Up, Dems Told to Use Aliases As Pro-Hamas Protests Expected at DNC The Democratic National Convention is coming to the Windy City starting Monday, and if you're a Chicagoan, that might not be welcome news—unless you're a fan of violent protests of course. The pro-Hamas crowd is expected to descend on the convention in force, and demonstrations are all but assured. Some of those planning to attend the event are nervous, and law enforcement has warned them to be careful: [...] https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/08/17/fear-in-chicago-businesses-board-up-delegates-told-to-use-aliases-as-pro-hamas-protests-expected-at-dnc-n2178227

'Gimmicks' and Price 'Gauging': WaPo Editorial Board Blasts Kamanomics Of course Kamanomics is an incoherent mess. Kamala Harris simply did a Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V on Bidenomics, which consists of nothing butincoherence and gimmicks. All Joe Biden and now Harris have in their repertoire to deal with the inflation they created through gimmicks are even more demand-side gimmicks, free cash rather than the bread and circuses of old. Anyone with a few working brain cells can figure that out. That's what makes yesterday's blast from the Washington Post's editorial board so surprising: [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/17/gimmicks-and-giggles-wapo-editorial-board-blasts-kamanomics-n3793283

Kommie Harris, indeed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kamala Harris can't even fathom basic economics Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to solve the crisis she helped cause: inflation. Under former President Trump, the inflation rate averaged 1.9%. It skyrocketed to 9.1% in 18 months under Joe Biden and Harris, fueled by a $5 trillion spending binge paid for by debt and printing money. The centerpiece of the Harris plan is the imposition of federal price controls on "greedy corporations" she says are "price gouging" consumers. Landlords would be prohibited from raising rents more than 5% a year. Even the Washington Post has trashed the plan, advising Kamala that "when your opponent calls you a 'communist,' maybe don’t propose price controls." [...] https://nypost.com/2024/08/16/opinion/kamala-harris-cant-even-fathom-basic-economics/