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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden Dons Trump Hat
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Joe Biden briefly sported one of former President Donald Trump's red MAGA hats in a move the White House said was to show 'bipartisan unity.'

Biden, Trump and Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, attended multiple 9/11 commemoration ceremonies Wednesday - a day after Trump and Harris first met on the debate stage.

During a chat with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania - where United Flight 93 crashed - Biden was briefly captured wearing a bright red Trump hat.

Biden's move came 24 hours after he raised eyebrows by saying he would 'do 9/11' as he left the White House for New York on Tuesday night.

'At the Shanksville Fire Station, President Joe Biden spoke about the country's bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that,' White House spokesperson Andrew Bates posted to X. 'As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap.'

'He briefly wore it,' Bates added.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 09/12/2024 06:35 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Britain's crime minister has purse stolen at meeting of police officers
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/12/2024 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  And her purse's contents uploaded to Scotland Yard before the meeting had ended.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2024 11:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Megyn Kelly Rips Debate Moderators For Joining Kamala Harris
[American Liberty] Shortly after predicting the end of legacy media, former Fox Host Megyn Kelly found herself vindicated following the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. She blasted moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for what she described as a partisan hack job that completely abandoned their responsibilities as independent parties in a critical conversation designed to help voters make informed decisions in November.

Kelly went on to assert that Muir and Davis were debating Trump alongside Harris, and trying to help her win.

The Daily Caller reports:

Sirius XM's Megyn Kelly scolded ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for "trying to steal" the 2024 presidential election during the debate Tuesday between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Trump took to Truth Social after Tuesday night's debate in Philadelphia and accused ABC News of teaming up against him with Harris. Kelly expressed the same view that the moderators and Harris debated Trump "three on one," blasting the network and the media industry for what she says is pro-Democrat bias.

Kelly dismissed what Democrats have called a "victory" as a fluke engineered by the moderators.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2024 11:59 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know, fantasy, but sue to classify the video as Harris campaign advertising time, and make them play a 90 minute Trump ad.

Series of 5-10 minute shorts covering various topics - on the ground in Springfield OH, the homeless Bidenvilles, cost of a California cheeseburger, what is Unrealized Gains Tax, replays of her 2019 campaign, Harris' classic 'space' talk with the hired child actors, how the states came up with their own abortion laws, my grocery bill 2019 and now, so on and so on.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2024 16:06 Comments || Top||


Debate Monitors Deliver Great News for Trump With Independents, Devastating News for Harris
See also comments here.
[Red State] There's a lot of palaver about who won the presidential debate on Tuesday, both in terms of style and substance.

But ultimately, the person who "wins" isn't the person who can make the most weird faces or have the greatest throwaway line. It's the person who can get the undecideds and the independents

The problem for Kamala Harris is that she had a need to define herself, unlike President Donald Trump. What the independent voters wanted to hear was how Harris is different than Joe Biden, whose policies they have not liked, and what are her policies for the future?

As I noted in a couple of my earlier stories about folks in the CBS and Reuters focus groups, the voters didn't feel they got those answers. CNN also tracked that Trump actually gained points on the most important issue for people, leading her by 20 points on the economy, 23 points on immigration, and six on leadership as commander-in-chief.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2024 08:18 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tiny "focus group". Call me when you have some statistically significant numbers.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/12/2024 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  All the spin I've heard about the debate is that it was a disaster for Trump. I dunno. I only watched about two minutes of it but I could see in that two minutes two important facts.

1) Trump came off looking like an angry old man. Well, they tried to kill him. I'd be pissed off too but it's not the way to win an election.

2) ABC was most definitely interjecting Democrat propaganda with their real time "fact checking" of almost everything Trump said. But who is checking the checkers?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2024 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  It is tough getting the business from my wife for 10 minutes for not loading the dishwasher like she does.

Guy went 90 with two and a half women just making shit up.

So far my barometers have been largely quiet, the best post debate slam being something like, "We have the most robust economy in the world, why would you want to elect the guy with 8 bankruptcies?"

What I'm not seeing is pro Harris she did so well! other than the shills and influencers. Even the Taylor Swift payoff wasn't about how well Harris performed, just some generic I Did My Homework bullshit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2024 15:34 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2024 20:03 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ MSM: "LIES! No dogs served as militia in Springfield!!11eleventy!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/12/2024 20:13 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: badanov || 09/12/2024 23:32 Comments || Top||


Has Kamala been wearing speaker earrings for a year and a half? (video)
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Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Facebook just factchecked and censored me for posting this video. Looks like Zuckmnan lied when he said he was not taking sides in this election.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2024 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Buds are so yesterday. She should be fully Neuralinked by her 2028 reelection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2024 4:34 Comments || Top||

#3  That shows that she's is not completely megalomaniac yet. What'll happen if she's elected, remains to be seen.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/12/2024 5:34 Comments || Top||

#4  This is what a Kamala administration will look like: https://youtu.be/AQXVHITd1N4?si=1RvApIuyl_5rrSne
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 09/12/2024 5:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Did a quick check of Amazon, Ebay, China's Alibaba.com for Audio Earring vendors. There are a number of Female Jewelry looking Audio Earring vendors.

But to be effectively heard, wouldn't it have to be in the ear, not on it?

Otherwise, it would be heard by others in the room?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/12/2024 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6  My hearing aids work very nicely as headphones via Bluetooth, just saying.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2024 7:57 Comments || Top||

#7  She should be fully Neuralinked by her 2028 reelection.

Sounds a little like sewing a coat out of gauze.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Otherwise, it would be heard by others in the room?

Perhaps that's why they orchastrated muting the mics.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2024 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Was the moderator wearing earrings too? I mean, how was she so quick to do all that fact checking on Trump?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2024 13:20 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep. Nadler pictured with head down, eyes closed during testimony from mothers of migrant crime victims
Always a good time to take a nap when you don't give a fcuk.
[FoxNews] Ranking member slammed 'partisan hearing' before mothers testified about their children's murders at hands of illegals.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., is under fire after he appeared to close his eyes and lower his head during congressional testimony on the impacts of migrant crime on victims' families Tuesday – prompting criticism that leading Democrats are not taking the issue seriously and have disrespected those in mourning.

Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Dan Bishop, R-N.C., skewered the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee after the incident had people in the audience fuming.

The photo, with a box of tissues in the foreground, also shows an aide next to Nadler, looking at his cellphone as mothers who lost their daughters to suspected foreign rapists and killers shared their traumatic stories of loss with the committee.

"One of the ladies that came with me, she took a picture of the Democrats on the other side as we were speaking and telling our stories, us, the mothers, mothers crying, telling our stories – and one of them is sleeping, and the other one's on his phone," said Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was brutally raped and murdered after police say an illegal immigrant attacked her on a jogging trail near her home in Maryland.

Cathie Groenewold, a church friend of Morin's who took the photo, said she found Nadler's demeanor deeply offensive.

"I was astounded at the careless attitude of Jerry Nadler and… the man sitting to his right," she told Fox News Digital. "They are pouring out their hearts, these women, who have lost their children to fentanyl and the most gruesome murders you could imagine, and they don’t have the common decency to sit up and give them their undivided attention."

Nadler and other Democrats appeared to treat the hearing as a partisan "stunt," she said.

"I'm sorry, but these women are drawing attention to a serious issue," she said. "It's not a stunt, and they weren't coerced into coming."

Morin's 37-year-old daughter was a mother of five and small business owner. Her alleged killer is a 23-year-old from El Salvador named Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, who is also suspected of killing another woman in his home country and sexually assaulting a woman and her 9-year-old daughter in a Los Angeles home invasion.

At the start of the hearing, the longtime New York congressman began by sharing his condolences with the witnesses.

"I cannot imagine how difficult this loss has been for you," he said.

Then he pivoted to calling the proceedings "one more partisan hearing designed to divide us and to score political points before an election."

Among the eight witnesses, four lost their children in connection with the border crisis.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nadler's action

Then he pivoted to calling the proceedings "one more partisan hearing designed to divide us and to score political points before an election."

might lead one to conclude the following:

Once you acknowledge that accusations of guilt are always shouted loudest by the guilty, then you quickly realize that indictments are just another form of confession...
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

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Posted by: Melancholic || 09/12/2024 13:16 Comments || Top||

#2  He's always been a voice and face of EVIL.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2024 21:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Kirby: 'No use in responding' to a 'handful of vets' on Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal
[FoxNews] On the anniversary of 9/11, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby
“Communications is my specialty!”
dismissed the concerns of military veterans critical of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing in response to a Fox News Digital press inquiry that there's "no use" weighing in on the veterans' views.

"Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe," Kirby said in a "reply all" email chain Wednesday afternoon that appeared to be intended for White House staffers, but which also included Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital had reached out to the White House earlier Wednesday afternoon regarding critical comments from four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who blasted Kirby for his Monday press conference that they said provided "cover" for the Biden administration's 2021 withdrawal.

Included in that initial reachout were quotes from the four veterans, and Fox News Digital asked the White House if it had any comment to include on the vets' blistering criticisms of Kirby and the White House's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. The email chain was forwarded to White House staffers on the National Security Council, before Kirby replied to all on the chain that there's "no use in responding."

Kirby's message was sent in error, with him following up with a Fox News Digital reporter, "Clearly, I didn’t realize you were on the chain."
Clearly.
Kirby sent the email while traveling with President Biden on the anniversary of 9/11.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/12/2024 00:15 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  Yes, Kirby desperately needs NOVA H1.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/12/2024 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Odious pr*ck.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/12/2024 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Well I think you two guys are assholes too.
Posted by: John Kirby || 09/12/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Might be time for another "Veterans' March on Washington".
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/12/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Huh.

A Quick noodle search says some 800,000 different military personnel stationed in Afghanistan over the 20 years just to watch Team Brandon stick a broomstick up their ass.

Well, those still alive that is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2024 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  All those vets are just white supremacists anyway. Right, John? Gotta get to work inducting those Third World "migrants".
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  as contemptible as this is, Kirby is likely the closest to being sane in the entire Biden leadership team
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/12/2024 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  So if he's closest to sane are his clothes he shows the world of Satan or a Light bringer?
I am betting the dark side....
Posted by: 3dc || 09/12/2024 21:09 Comments || Top||



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