ROOKE: Harris’ Obsession With Dems’ Strongest Issue Will Cost Her Election

Vice President Kamala Harris is losing independent voters, likely because she can’t stop pandering on issues most voters rank lower on their priority list.

The latest ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that former President Donald has gained support among independent voters from September compared to Harris. “A slight change is among independents … Harris led among independents by 10 points, 51-41%, in mid-September, compared with a non-significant 5 points now, 49-44%.” the poll shows.

It’s no surprise by now that former President Donald Trump is polling well on critical issues, like the economy and illegal immigration. Voters see him as the candidate who will do more for Americans struggling to afford daily life and end the open border policies championed during the Biden-Harris administration.

Meanwhile, most Americans believe Harris will protect abortion rights, but not much else. And for good reason, everything she does seems to come back to the abortion issue.

While Americans were struggling to survive Hurricane Helene’s devastating effects, Harris opted to sit with Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper to talk about so-called “female reproductive rights.” The two women spent the almost 45-minute episode talking about protecting women’s right to an abortion, leaving only a couple of minutes on issues like the economy.

Similarly, in an ad pandering for the male vote (which went viral because of how badly it missed the mark portraying actual masculinity), the men declared, “I am man enough,” while claiming that real men weren’t scared of protecting abortion. It’s like her campaign can’t help but squeeze the topic into everything they talk about as if they genuinely believe her view on abortion rights will win her the election.

The ABC News poll also found that Harris trails Trump by eight points in who voters trust more to handle the economy and seven points on tackling inflation. Regime media seem confused about why Harris is having a tough time breaking free from the disastrous economic stewardship of the Biden-Harris administration. But it doesn’t take a high IQ to realize that if your campaign’s primary focus is promising to allow Americans to kill their legacy instead of giving them solutions on how to afford one financially, the voters aren’t going to see you as a change agent.

Popular X user @bitcoin4freedom announced he was voting for Trump in 2024 because he’d make America safe, healthy and prosperous. While he said that he “can’t stand Donald Trump,” he believes Harris sees the country as “inherently evil.”

“Every time she talks, I try to give her a chance. But she is the most phony and condescending politician I have ever seen. Ever. I can’t do it. I won’t do it,” he said.

“The people who want Kamala Harris to win are the most annoying people in the country. They have pushed for pronouns, masks, endless vaccines, cancel culture, riots, blatant racism towards whites, gender confusion, undermining the U.S. constitution,” he added.

Her campaign’s priorities are turning otherwise independent or left-leaning voters off. While the majority of Americans (sadly) approve of abortion, better access to it does nothing to help them afford groceries, car payments or energy bills. Americans don’t have the luxury of voting on social issues in 2024. People are hurting, and Harris’ indifference to their pain makes her seem out-of-touch and callous.

Conversations with Harris are like:

Host: “Vice President, Americans can’t afford food. What are your plans to change that?”

Harris: “Well, as someone who grew up in a middle-class family, I believe abortion rights are fundamental in making sure we get where we need to be.”

It would be funny if the economy weren’t crushing half the country. Instead of being a seasoned leader after her stint as President Joe Biden’s vice president, Harris comes off as a woman who would run the country like an HR department — devoid of productivity and always focusing on issues that hurt rather than help. (Polls Show Kamala’s Campaign Is Headed For Disaster, And The Media Knows It)

For this reason, her presidential campaign will likely fail to gain enough electoral college votes to get her into the White House. We see this in the historic decisions from national unions not to endorse her candidacy. In years past, heads of these unions lined up behind the Democrat candidate, but things are changing. She can’t sell competency or compassion when her main focus is ending Americans’ legacies.

AUTHOR

Mary Rooke

Commentary and analysis writer.

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VICTORY! Microsoft’s GitHub Finally Fights Image-Based Sexual Abuse

One spring day, Jodie* received an anonymous message with a link to a pornography website. When she clicked on it, her world imploded.

There, right in front of Jodie’s eyes, was multiple pornographic images and a video, depicting herself having sex with various men.

Yet Jodie had never taken these photos! She had never even had sex with these men!

“I was screaming and crying and violently scrolling through my phone to work out what I was reading and what I was looking at,” Jodie says. “I knew this could genuinely ruin my life.”

As a devastated Jodie continued to investigate further, she found that the images and video were forged using AI. Someone had posted photos of her on a pornography site, saying she made them “so horny” and soliciting help in making AI-generated pornography of her.

And then came the realization that shook Jodie to her core: That person was her best friend.

*Name changed

Microsoft’s GitHub & the Epidemic of AI-generated Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Sexually explicit images created with AI are commonly called “deepfake pornography.” But the more apt term to describe this horrific violation is AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (IBSA).

AI-generated IBSA is being used to victimize women all around the world. And the impacts on their mental health, reputation, and overall wellbeing are profound.

One corporation has largely been at the root of nearly all AI-generated IBSA/“deepfake pornography”: Microsoft’s GitHub.

Microsoft’s GitHub Takes Steps to Combat IBSA

Microsoft’s GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform and arguably the most prolific space for artificial intelligence development. Yet they have also been a breeding ground for software codes aiding the creation and rapid dissemination of AI-generated IBSA.

That’s why The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) named GitHub to the Dirty Dozen List for two years in a row. You joined us in taking action, demanding GitHub stop fueling the epidemic of IBSA.

And GitHub has finally listened to you!

What Changes Has Microsoft’s GitHub Made?

In September, the White House made an announcement about AI model developer’s voluntary commitments to combat image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), which included a public pledge from Microsoft’s GitHub to address the issue. The announcement drew our attention to a policy change GitHub had quietly made in May, prohibiting projects that are “designed for, encourage, promote, support, or suggest in any way” the creation of AI-generated IBSA/“deepfake pornography”

Although NCOSE repeatedly reached out to multiple Microsoft and GitHub contacts asking if they had made any of the changes requested through the Dirty Dozen List campaign, they all neglected to mention this new policy, or even acknowledge our emails or the campaign.

Nonetheless, we joyfully celebrate this new victory, which YOUR voice and action made possible!

GitHub began considering this policy change only a week after the 2024 Dirty Dozen List was revealed and you began taking action. Although the company is bent on pretending the List doesn’t exist, this timing is highly unlikely to be a coincidence.

As a result of their new policy, GitHub removed several repositories that hosted codes to generate IBSA, including DeepFaceLab which hosted the code used to create 95% of all deepfakes and sent users directly to the most prolific sexual deepfake website.

AUTHORS

Stephanie Trendell

Lily Moric

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FEMA’s New Playbook: Save the LGBT and Leave the Rest to Rot

You might think this shocking story is one big conspiracy theory. But you’d be wrong—or, if it is, blame the New York Post for this sensational bombshell.

The federal government never ceases to amaze.

When disaster strikes, you’d think FEMA would have a pretty simple mission: get in, help as many people as possible, and save lives. But apparently, that’s a little too “old school” for today’s disaster relief experts.

Now, it’s not about helping the greatest number of people—no, that would be too utilitarian. Instead, welcome to FEMA 2.0, where “disaster equity” reigns supreme, and some lives, particularly LGBT lives, matter more than others.

In a 2023 webinar titled “Helping LGBTQIA+ Survivors Before Disasters”—because, of course, we need a whole seminar on this—FEMA’s top minds and other federal health and disaster officials decided to lay it all out.

The goal?

Move away from those tired old policies that benefit everyone equally and focus on the real priority: serving specific groups based on innate characteristics like sexual orientation and gender identity.

Who cares if you’re a struggling mom trying to rebuild after a hurricane wiped out your town or a retiree whose home just got turned into a swimming pool?

Apparently, you’re not “marginalized” enough.

Maggie Jarry from SAMHSA even had the audacity to suggest that federal agencies—those tasked with saving lives—need to focus less on the “greatest good for the greatest number” and more on catering to identity politics.

Her exact words? “The shift we’re seeing right now is a shift in emergency services from utilitarian principles… to disaster equity.”

How convenient.

So, forget about the folks who have sex in the conventional love-making style —the ones who might have actually believed FEMA would be there when the winds picked up and the floodwaters rose.

Now, it’s all about helping gays, lesbians, queers, transsexuals, and illegal immigrants.

But let’s talk numbers because the numbers don’t lie—unlike some of FEMA’s public statements. When Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast, victims were told that FEMA’s coffers were running dry.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had the nerve to claim there simply wasn’t enough money left to get through the hurricane season.

Yet a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report from August reveals that FEMA has around $7 billion sitting around—money that could have gone to the victims of Helene and now Hurricane Milton.

So, why the discrepancy? Are they hoping we won’t notice the extra zeroes on their balance sheet?

It’s almost as if FEMA is intentionally keeping those funds in reserve, and gee, I wonder why. Could it be because those dollars are being earmarked for the “marginalized identities” that the webinar panelists gushed about?

Are we really supposed to believe that a federal agency like FEMA just forgot they had $7 billion tucked away somewhere?

This all smacks of a classic bait-and-switch. Tell the general public—especially those left homeless by hurricanes—that there’s no money for them. Then, quietly freeze those funds for special groups that check the right identity boxes.

And let’s not forget the icing on the cake:

FEMA’s new role in addressing the migrant crisis. They’ve blown through $1.4 billion of their funds to help settle migrants since 2022, leaving less for, you know, actual disasters like hurricanes.

So while families in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida are being handed crumbs in the form of $750 checks for groceries, FEMA’s focus has shifted elsewhere—far away from where it’s supposed to be.

But hey, maybe FEMA’s new disaster relief strategy makes perfect sense if you look at it through a particular lens. After all, if you prioritize people based on who they love rather than the severity of their needs, you can still pat yourself on the back for being “equitable.”

Never mind that you’ve just shattered any pretense of fairness or compassion. Never mind that you’ve left families, veterans, and elderly folks out in the cold—quite literally—while you champion your woke agenda.

It’s a tragic joke, and the punchline is at the expense of those who believed their government was supposed to protect them.

The reality is apparent: FEMA has the money. They have billions in funds. But instead of using those resources to help every American affected by disasters like Helene and Milton, they’ve decided the lives of LGBT and immigrant invaders are more deserving than others.

It’s not just a betrayal; it’s discrimination masquerading as compassion.

And what’s their excuse when called out on it? The same old tired lines: “misinformation,” “disinformation.”

But it’s not misinformation when you can see the numbers for yourself. It’s not a conspiracy theory when it’s all laid out in black and white. It’s time FEMA stopped playing favorites and returned to doing its actual job—saving lives, not dividing them.

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Vance: Trump Has Been ‘Consistent’ about Defunding Planned Parenthood

Former President Donald Trump’s running mate is pledging to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood if Trump is elected for a second term. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) was asked by RealClearPolitics over the weekend if a second Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood, a policy Trump discussed during his first presidential bid. Vance replied, “On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean, our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, said, “The majority of Americans believe that taxpayer dollars should not fund abortion. Planned Parenthood, an organization that kills close to 400,000 unborn babies every year, feels differently.”

She continued, “American taxpayer dollars are meant to help our country be stronger and more secure, and to help our people be healthier and better cared for. Using taxpayer dollars to kill unborn children does not accomplish any of these goals.” Szoch added, “Praise God that the Trump-Vance ticket recognizes that the hard-earned dollars of American men and women should not be used to kill the most innocent among us.”

During his first administration, Trump revised the Title X federal family planning program to bar tax dollars from going to organizations that partnered with the abortion industry or provided referrals for abortions, effectively forcing Planned Parenthood to withdraw from Title X. “For decades, American taxpayers have been wrongfully forced to subsidize the abortion industry through Title X federal funding. So today, we have kept another promise,” Trump announced at a Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America event in 2018. He continued, “My administration has proposed a new rule to prohibit Title X funding from going to any clinic that performs abortions.” The Biden-Harris administration reversed Trump’s Title X rule upon taking office in 2021.

Trump was responsible for appointing three of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 — an achievement he touts when appealing to conservative evangelicals and Catholics — but announced earlier this year that he intends to leave the issue of abortion legislation to the individual states and will not use federal authority to protect the unborn.

Prior to the 2024 Republican National Convention, Trump was responsible for slashing the Republican Party Platform, removing the GOP’s longstanding commitment to pro-life principles. Since then, both Trump and Vance have avoided promoting pro-life legislation and have even stated that they would oppose a national abortion ban. However, both have also called the Democratic Party “radical” for promoting abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, even up until the moment of birth, and have pressed Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris to admit that they support unrestricted abortion.

Earlier this year, Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins called on Trump to defund Planned Parenthood in a second administration, “If you want no federal involvement in abortion, then debar and defund Planned Parenthood. The federal government wasted almost $700 million on Planned Parenthood, according to their 2022-2023 annual report.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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It’s time for Kamala to go away, go away, go away!

I served in the United States Army for 23 years. I was a Cold War Warrior. I studied Communism, it ideology, its tactics and its policies to subjugate people. I understood the dangers of the former Soviet Union and its allies. I understood the death and destruction that Communism bring to nations.

I neve expected Communism to gain power in our Constitutional Republic, but sadly, it has. This is why I firmly believe that it’s time to tell Kamala to go away!

Time to send Kamala back to the Communist state of California where she will be welcomed with open arms by Gavin, illegal aliens, and her fellow Democrat Socialists.

Kamala go away, go away, go away!

Here are just a few reasons why we must make Kamala go away:

  1. Kamala’s crashing economy.
  2. Kamala’s rise in the cost of everything imaginable.
  3. Border Czar Kamala’s border crisis.
  4. Kamala’s failed attempt to turn our Constitutional Republic into a failed democracy.
  5. Kamala’s funding for foreign terrorist groups and states like Hamas, Hezb’allah, Iran and Qatar.
  6. Kamala’s death wish for the unborn.
  7. Kamala’s embrace of the LGBTQIE+ agenda.
  8. Kamala’s funding the Green New Deal, a very bad deal for Americans.
  9. Kamala’s anti-freedom of speech agenda.
  10. Kamala’s gun grabbing policies.
  11. Kamala’s cackle.
  12. Kamala’s turning away from we the people to those with money and power.
  13. Kamala’s failure as a Vice President, which is how she will be as a president. A failure.

READ: FEMA doled out millions pushing ‘equity,’ prioritizing ‘underserved communities’ leading up to hurricane season

In a Wall Street Journal column titled The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages Edward Pinto from the AEI Housing Center wrote,

Her plan would stimulate demand, not supply, and redistribute wealth to the sellers of existing homes.

A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000 in down-payment support, at a total cost of $100 billion over four years. Absent a severe recession, this policy is all but certain to lead to higher home prices. That’s because the four million program recipients would become price setters for all buyers in their neighborhoods.

According to the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center, 77% of all home purchases would be subject to this home buyer “tax,” causing the price of these homes to increase by 3.6%. Over four years the increase in home prices would total $175 billion, more than the $100 billion cost of the program. The price increase would show up in higher revenue for sellers, thus acting as a wealth transfer to them.

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Bidenomics will become Kamalanomics, which will fundamentally transform America’s economy into that of a Communist dictatorship if she is not stopped and sent back to California. Go away Kamala!

Act for America in a column titled Breaking America to “Build Back Better” notes,

Biden and Harris didn’t lie about “Build Back Better”—they just conveniently left out that their strategy involves breaking America first. The U.S. is spiraling into crisis, and every American feels it, no matter their political affiliation. This administration, continuing the radical policies that began in the Obama-Biden era, is systematically destabilizing not only our nation but also the global order.

Look at what their policies have done—skyrocketing inflation, a housing crisis, and a border crisis fueled by mass migration. Open-border policies, enabled by globalist institutions like the U.N. partnering with the White House, lure migrants into the U.S. with the real promise of benefits that the American taxpayer is forced to fund. We’re footing the bill for this engineered flood of migration while American citizens are left to suffer in the wake of natural disasters.

When hurricanes strike and Americans lose everything, what do they find? They discover that federal relief funds, already thin, are funneled to assist illegal immigrants while Americans struggle with homelessness, hunger, and destruction. An astonishing eighty million families on the East Coast live in flood-prone areas where they can’t even get insurance, leaving them vulnerable dependents on government rescue when trouble comes.

Read the full article.

It’s her policies, stupid!

Kamala in her own and other’s words.

Here are video clips of Kamala and her true beliefs. Don’t believe the attempt to white wash her by the media, social media and the DNC. Kamala is and always has been a Marxist.

Kamala Harris publicly BRAGGED about importing another 100,000 Haitian migrants

Kamala says on the VIEW that she wouldn’t change anything done by Biden

Cocaine Kamala

Kamala Harris Caught Chanting ‘Down With Deportation’ In Unearthed Video

Kamala Harris ‘Entirely Supportive’ of Pausing Arms to Israel

Kamala Harris, “There’s a balance between being tough and a bitch!”

Lying Kamala – Any Questions?

Kamala does not want this ad going viral that shows her saying she’ll ban fracking

Gov. DeSantis NUKES Kamala after she FREAKED OUT attacking him for ignoring her phone calls

The Bottom Line

Perhaps this music video titled Trump Is Always On My Mind by The Article III Project best explains what is happening and how Kamala, and her deep state co-conspirators,  intend to steal the 2024 election.

Remember what President Donald J. Trump said, “They’re not after me, they’re after you, and I just happen to be standing in the way.”

WATCH: Elon Musk: If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election

Get it? Got it? Good!

Vote accordingly on November 5th, 2024.

©2024. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

Struggling America and World Chaos—The Products of the Biden-Harris Regime

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” — Elmer Davis


At the Anniversary of October 7 massacre, America discusses the Middle East as the war escalated there after Iranian 200 missiles attack on several cities of Israel. Israel announcing “the war” and the response will be decisive and monumental. This war that has been going on for decades must be stopped. But disagreement between Biden and Netanyahu prevents the common American policy approach to Israel. It is not negligence of the American government, no, it is a deliberate policy of the Biden-Harris regime. If it can be explained by Biden’s senility, Harris doesn’t have dementia, she has another political disease—Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism. Elon Musk is right: we must win this election, otherwise it will be the last American election…

Our national security is threatened because: the Biden-Harris policy of open border is the ground Zero of treason, the rest emanated from the ground Zero: inflation, rising crime, national security… In my opinion, the Biden-Harris weakness and wrong foreign policy provokes the world instability and as a result escalation on the Middle East and attacks on the Israelis cities. Of course, the absence of the knowledge of Russia by the FBI, CIS and GOJ even worsened the predicament—they are unable to protect us. Remember, my description of WWIII. WWIII:  Recruitment and Drugs, Infiltration and Assassinations. Look around at the events in America: we have all four listed above. WWIII is here. Watch the rise of anti-Semitism: remember, anti-Semitism is a part of the Soviet military doctrine, the Soviet/Russian policy was and is a highly anti-Semitic one.

Speaking before the United Nations Prime Minister Netanyahu warned us saying that Israel is defending Western civilization from tyranny and fear. He is right and he is not alone. That idea has been tagged by the Shah of Iran. HRH Reza Pahlavi, grown Shah of Iran, was addressing the people of Iran: “Iran’s brutal regime violated all human rights by managing its ideology of war machine.“ He is right, it is the ideology of the military machine. But what ideology is he talking about? Living in America since 1979 he was brought up in the climate of freedom and personal liberty and he strongly feels the wrong ideology running his native country today. He didn’t give you the name of the ideology, I will give it, because I have been writing about that ideology for forty-three years—it is the ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism. The ideology of “war machine” had been created by the Russian Intel in 1979 and Putin continues it by building the Drone factory there. Netanyahu and HRH Reza Pahlavi have in mind the same aggressor—Soviet fascism.

As a former Soviet attorney, I have been warning you about that aggressor for forty-three years. The topic of my writings is Russian Intel, to be precise the KGB’s Mafia-Army—the Evil Doer. For those who haven’t read my columns, please, read a few paragraphs about the aggressor’s history:

“If you are not familiar with the name Yasser Arafat, you don’t know the Middle East history and the history of the world. Arafat was a well-known terrorist, a leader of PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization of the Middle East. Russia’s Intel recruited Arafat in 1957. The infiltration to the Middle East by Russia’s Intel began then. Do you know that Arafat’s lieutenant Abbas is running a Palestinian State today? Those are the patterns of the Soviet/Russian infiltration to the Middle East to create their proxies in the 1950-1970s. All of that has been managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—an Evil Doer. Their espionage was flourishing in Europe and America as well. If Russia was alone spreading Socialism/Communism in the 20th century, we are dealing now with a tandem of Russia and China. It is not Marxism now coming from China, but Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism…

“Europe now has members of the KGB in some parliaments and there is another facet to the Russian connection. As you know, recruited by the KGB in 1957, Arafat is dead, but we have mini-Arafat–Mahmoud Abbas. The connection with the Kremlin stays the same. He is literally a Moscow student with Soviet “academic credentials”; his dissertation written in Russia, had denied the Holocaust. Look at Arafat’s Palestinians, corrupt people surrounding Abbas: the same corrupt structure plus Hamas and Hezbollah under Russia’s supervision, ready to wipe Israel off the world map. Don’t expect peace in the Middle East—the KGB is there!” Read my column: A Global Spy Ring, January 1, 2018.

There is another interesting sign of the Dems’ history: after the JFK assassination, there was a period of time when no Dems had been threatening by assassination. Bill Clinton traveled excessively including Russia: no attempt of assassination. As a VP Biden was traveling accompanied by Hunter Biden worldwide and there wasn’t one attempt of his assassination. Moreover, President Obama appointed Biden as a pointed man dealing with Ukraine. Papa and son Bidens have been dealing with pro-Russian owner of Burisma in Ukraine 2014-2015 and there were no any attempts of assassination either of them. Isn’t it strange and stink to see two attempts to assassinate Trump in two months?

Why are those who spread Soviet Socialism not threatened by assassinations? Only those who promote American capitalism are? I can answer that question. As a matter of fact, the Biden-Harris team is responsible for Trump’s security. Period. Despite that fact and after two attempts of Trump assassinations, the rhetoric’s accusing Trump and calling him as “a danger to American democracy, “ a dictator and Hitler. Where has this endless vengeance come to American politics? This vengeance is familiar to me—it is the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism! I see it and feel it for the last decade living and being involved in politics in America…

Evil has a variety of methods to fight free market capitalism. Putin is an old Soviet Socialist, the KGB leader, now a Crony-capitalist. Do you know socialist spending style, vesting people’s money? Just look at Biden, who was printing money to bankrupt American capitalism and Ukraine gives him the opportunity to deceive the world by dealing with Ukrainian’s black market, having some money back in his coffer. Putin, a KGB man, treasured ties with Biden established in Ukraine in 2014. Evil comes in many different forms, read my column: Biden: The Left’s Decoy for Socialist Subversion, 6/1/24. “

The recent natural disaster is proving my point: the ideology of Soviet Fascism runs the current Democrat Party and the White House. Have your own judgement:

The natural disaster has been doubled by man-made catastrophe—the American people have been left to suffer and die after Hurricane Helena, one of the deadliest to hit the U.S. in the century…

If you hear young people calling from North Carolina and crying, describing the devastation and horrible destruction they are experiencing due to Hurricane Helene, your heart would start bleeding…  230 + dead and hundreds are still missing, hospitals run out of medicine. Hundreds of houses and businesses are destroyed, while others are under water or mags…Some neighborhoods are leveled looking like a war vent through them…Yet, North Carolina and other four States have been left abundant. Feds fumble Hurricane response for a week. American volunteers, private teams, searches operations, Church communities, and the states were trying to help the victims of Hurricane, not the Biden-Kamala government.

A man-made catastrophe belongs to the Biden-Kamala regime—Fed has been silenced for a week. Following the Biden-Kamala team during the hurricane week, you will find Joe at the beach and Kamala fundraising in California. They put illegals ahead of Americans, spending $6 Billion for shelter, food, and education. The Biden-Harris regime devoted FEMA’s money to illegals and foreign adversaries. It is not surprising that FEMA doesn’t have money for Americans any longer… Listen to the desperate victims of North Carolina and other four states and you will know the Truth. Remember, FEMA is the Federal Emergency Agency for Americans in need, not for resettling the illegals, flying them at night in America …

Also listen to governor De Santis, Florida didn’t rely on FEMA, the state was prepared for Hurricane Helene … The difference between De Santis and the Biden-Kamala is obvious: the Republican governor has common sense, the Dem’s Biden-Harris don’t want to help dying and suffering Americans. Kamala visited NC nine days after Helene. And it is not the first time the Biden-Harris regime doesn’t keep the American interest, on the contrary, they are spreading chaos within the country and political chaos overseas as well. The ground Zero of treason is the Biden-Harris policy of open border, the rest emanated from the ground Zero: inflation, rising crime, and national security. Read my column: Kamala Harris and Treason Unknown to the American Public.

Don’t waste time waiting for another attempt to assassinate Trump. It will come! And only awareness of the enemy can prevent it… I am  a former Soviet attorney, who has written about Russia’s Intel for four decades. The FBI made me a Foreign Agent in 2002 and consequently sabotaged and banned my book What is Happening to America? three times. On August 31 2024, I submitted the book to Amazon.com for the fourth time. You can learn about the KGB’s Mafia-Army that runs the Democrat party and the White House today. Please Click Here.

There is more Soviet fascism in America. I have been warning you of bad actors for decades. Besides the fifth column in the colleges and Universities there are George Soros, Debbey Dingell, Berney Sanders, and thousands of others. The absence of the FBI, CIA, and DOJ is clear again, those actors are destroying our nation for thirty or more years. But there is a new one. Jessica Tarlov and Jamie Raskin have Russian last names. Both of them are radical leftists having Russian last names. I don’t know the depth and essence of their connection to Russia, but nobody had vetted them that I know for sure, as neither the FBI, CIA or DOJ knows Russia. The last three have failed us miserably since 2001—they still don’t know that the 9/11 attacks had been orchestrated and supervised by the KGB’s Mafia-Army—the Evil Doer…

Watch Barack Obama, he will try to bail Dems out to help Kamala, because his name is in danger, as well. Please, don’t forget: Obama single handedly provided Iran with $Billions cash, which went to terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Obama will campaign with Kamala, please, remember that and also Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication, and fraud. Both Obama and Kamala will use Socialist modus operandi. Both are Socialists fighting free market economy. They have been devastating our country for decades, by confronting the American Constitutional republic designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers.

P.S. What is in common between Harold Ford Jr. and Howard Stern?  They, and thousands of others don’t know about Soviet fascism and as a result of that they defend the Dems in their cover-up of treason…

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Cocaine Kamala: White House Staffer Reveals It Was Kamala’s Cocaine Found in the White House

The Democrat media axis is not reporting this blockbuster story.

But in a rational world, in a free country with a free press, this would destroy Kamala’s campaign.

Kamala Harris Linked To Hunter Biden’s Cocaine Row? New Video Emerges

By: Yash Bajaj, Oct 5, 2024:

Independent journalist James Bolden posted a video on social media, showing a man claiming Kamala Harris is somehow linked to the Hunter Biden cocaine scandal. Without providing any evidence, the unidentified individual said President Biden’s son took fall for the incident. Neither the president nor the First Son have reacted to the newly surfaced clip yet.

In July 2023, the Secret Service found a small plastic bag containing less than a gram of powder cocaine inside the White House. The discovery prompted an evacuation. At the time, President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland. The federal agency’s investigation yielded no forensic evidence and was closed within 11 days.

Now, a man told Bolden that the cocaine was brought into the White House by a Kamala Harris staffer. The speaker explains that media blamed Hunter Biden for the incident, but some insiders knew that the VP’s staff was involved. The scandal eventually led to a heated conversation between President Biden and Harris, he added.

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“In July, security found a bag of cocaine. And the worst part of it was that it got leaked to the journalists. So the matter couldn’t be hushed up before it became public. Now, luckily, all the right wing media is immediately rushed to blame Hunter Biden. But the left was smart enough to ignore the story. It was eventually hushed up. But I heard that afterwards, there was a very serious conversation between Harris and Biden. And the president was mad about what happened,” the person says.

“We either blame Hunter or put the blame where it rightfully belonged on Harris and her staff, which, you know, that would have destroyed Biden’s campaign. Everybody knows that Hunter’s a drug addict, but if people got wind that…Harris’ work was partaking in the best-given use. This would cause a major problem. So it was Harris who brought the cocaine? No, but the cocaine was brought in for Harris. The one from the staff brought it. Clearly, some high-rating staffer,” he added.

However, there is no concrete evidence to prove this theory.

Read more.

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ROOKE: While Hurricane Victims Suffer, Kamala Makes Time For Podcast Famous For Giving Girls Blowjob Advice

While American citizens are desperately trying to stay alive and rebuild their communities from Hurricane Helene, Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed by a podcast host famous for teaching young women how to be sluts.

The Harris campaign confirmed that, while Americans were fighting for their lives in storm wreckage, she sat down for a pre-taped interview set to air next week with the Call Her Daddy podcast, featuring host and creator Alex Cooper, who typically talks to various celebrities and “experts” about sexually charged topics, like how to give the perfect blowjob.

THEY ARE READY FOR A CALL HER DADDY PARTY😂🔥👏🏼 The most savage way to deck out your pad. Welcome to slut camp, Cooch Gobbler and Gluck Gluck is on the menu, a sofia mugshot photo wall, you’re just a hole. LET’S GOOOOO😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #respect pic.twitter.com/34kiCacWnd

— Call Her Daddy (@callherdaddy) September 8, 2019

Naturally, one might ask: Why is the Democrat nominee for president sitting down with the nation’s leading whore-pod, and how is this connected to hurricane victims?

While the death toll in North Carolina continues to rise, residents see their family members hanging in trees, and aid is actively being blocked by FEMA, Kamala Harris decided to film an episode of “Call Her Daddy”

Call Her Daddy is primarily a sex and relationship podcast. pic.twitter.com/mnC16HrVl4

— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) October 4, 2024

The answer is that when desperate Americans called her for help, Harris was too busy with Call Her Daddy to answer. The Biden-Harris response to the devasting natural disaster has been an undeniable failure. People living in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia are still stranded without food, running water, electricity or medications. The administration says it’s doing all it can to help Americans living in the devastated areas. Still, residents and emergency responders claim the federal government’s response is not just lacking, but wholly inadequate. (ROOKE: Walz Solidifies Harris Policy Position That Would Transform Country As We Know It)

The heroes on the ground even report that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are impeding rescue efforts. Starlink founder Elon Musk announced Friday that federal agencies prevented him from delivering internet capabilities to the area.

So, while all of this is happening in real America, it seems the only thing Harris is focused on is ensuring that she secures the women’s vote. Call Her Daddy was Spotify’s number two podcast in 2023 and the most listened-to among women. Harris will reportedly talk about “reproductive rights and abortion, along with other issues important to women in the upcoming election,” Axios reported. (ROOKE: Democrats’ ‘New Masculinity’ Will Keep Turning Away Critical Voting Bloc)

A recent episode featured actress Heather McMahan discussing blowjob techniques and “hall passes” (a euphemism for infidelity). These types of discussions are not a one-off. Most of her episodes are about sexual positions, cheating and threesomes. It’s a one-stop shop for women to praise degenerate sexuality.

THE TIME OUT 💦🔥 New sex position!! Any man that initiates this move is 10/10 getting a call back and will be remembered as a sex master. GUARANTEED!! listen > https://t.co/NExjby1kz8 pic.twitter.com/PrcG5Qg262

— Call Her Daddy (@callherdaddy) August 21, 2019

Meanwhile, men, a demographic Harris struggles with, are listening to podcasts that talk about national security, health, science and economics. One can only wonder if Harris is too scared to go on shows popular with men, like The Joe Rogan ExperienceThe Huberman Lab and The Tucker Carlson Show, because the topics discussed on these podcasts are too complex. She wouldn’t be able to cackle her way through tough questions about why Hurricane Helene victims were left to rot while she fundraised in sunny California.

It’s clearly much easier for a vapid woman with no substantive thought in her brain to talk about sex work. But Harris isn’t just any vapid woman — she’s running to be the next president of the United States. She wants to hold the most important elected office in our country (arguably the world). Her decision to tape an hour-long episode on a whore-pod to discuss abortion is not only insulting to Americans living in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia, but it’s also a stark reminder that our country is run by people who hate it.

NEW EPISODE 89- A man does coke off Hannah’s tit, Alex lies about Chlamydia, and The Flirting Bible is revealed. Talking being Division 1 athletes, and also their love for f*cking athletes! GO LISTEN ENJOY> https://t.co/GL6i61Cp5u @honey pic.twitter.com/5AjYDSjru0

— Call Her Daddy (@callherdaddy) July 23, 2020

Democrats are desperate to make this election about the ability of women to murder their children. They need women to come out to vote in droves with one topic on their minds: abortion. Harris’s appearance on Call Her Daddy is the perfect way to distract American women from her abject failure with the economy, illegal immigration, safety, and most recently hurricane relief. This shouldn’t be that hard, considering most female voters rank abortion as their number one issue in this election cycle.

SpaceX engineers are trying to deliver Starlink terminals & supplies to devastated areas in North Carolina right now and @FEMA is both failing to help AND won’t let others help. This is unconscionable!!

They just took this video a few hours ago, where you can see the level of… pic.twitter.com/abpOsfNenF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024

While it’s probably not that big of a shock that former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown’s ex-girlfriend chose to talk about abortion on the nation’s top blowjob podcast, it’s undeniable that Americans deserve better, especially from someone who wants to be president. Harris seems to have forgotten that Democrat women aren’t the only ones affected by her leadership. While leftists want abortion over competent governing, the rest of the nation would rather her focus on issues at home.

At any other time in our nation’s history, a presidential candidate doing this would be disqualifying. But once again, Harris shows us that she is incapable of handling the basic requirements of the presidency. So, instead of getting a one-on-one, hard-hitting interview, Americans will hear her laugh about sex and abortion.

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Using Critical Thinking to Negotiate: Defending Your Health Rights is Paramount

Another revealing story about the U.S. healthcare system…

My wife has been seriously ill for several years now. Among other things, she has Parkinson’s. Due to this she rarely goes out in public. (For example, we now have all our groceries delivered to our home.) One exception is that we do attend weekly Mass.

Last Saturday evening we went to Church. After the service, as we walked out, she saw a friend she hadn’t seen in quite a while, and she engaged with her. They hugged and had a close-quarters conversation for several minutes.

The next evening, that same woman phoned us to say that she had been diagnosed with COVID-19 that day (Sunday). Kudos for her to let us know!

Since my wife’s immune system is compromised, we had a five-day treatment of Ivermectin (IVM) on hand as a precautionary measure. Split between the two of us, we had 2.5 days of an anti-COVID treatment. We started immediately on Sunday night.

Why Ivermectin?

Whenever there is a choice of medical treatments, it comes down to two primary concerns: 1) Effectivenessand 2) Safety (i.e., side effects). [FYI, if both of these are approximately equal, then Cost might come into the picture.]

Here are the scientific details about ALL of the major possible COVID-19 treatments. The comparison between the recommendation most people are given for COVID-19 treatment (Paxlovid) and Ivermectin, is stark:

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE INFOGRAPHIC ON PAXLOVID AND IVM

Back to Our Story —

We decided to ask our dependable physician to give us two more IVM prescriptions so we would continue to have something on reserve. As expected, he promptly wrote up one for her and another for me. The next question was: where to get these filled? [For perspective, see my IVM saga last year.]

For several years, my wife and I have been customers of Walgreens at our primary NC home address, with no issues. We are now at our secondary (Summer) cottage in NY.

At our request, this week our physician sent the two new Prescriptions to the nearest (25 miles) upstate NY Walgreens store. Each one was for twenty 3mg tablets of IVM. (We have no drug insurance, and the undiscounted price for each of these was $96.)

I called the pharmacist to verify that: 1) they had received the Prescription, 2) they had an adequate amount of tablets (40) to fulfill the Prescription, and 3) they still honored GoodRX ($32.28) as a discount. The pharmacist answered YES to all my questions.

We agreed to a pickup time, and then we subsequently drove 25 miles to the Boonville store. (This was on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024.)

Things Didn’t Go Smoothly —

When we got there I presented the GoodRX coupon to the pharmacist.

He then said that they would NOT honor the GoodRx discount!!! I then gave him three other discount cards.

He looked them up and then said that they would not honor ANY OF THEM!

Stunned, I asked why. His answer was “Because your use of IVM is off-label.”

I answered that his Walgreens pharmacy filled hundreds of off-label prescriptions every year, and honored discount cards for them. HE AGREED!

So, I asked, why is this case any different?

He said that he did not know, but someone had blocked ALL discount cards being accepted at Walgreens with any Ivermectin off-label use…

I politely (but strongly) objected to this discrimination, but the pharmacist said that there was nothing he could do.

[Due to the excessive cost, and the fact we already had committed to a 50± mile round trip, we couldn’t start over, so we paid for just one of the 20 tablet Prescriptions ($96).]

Defending Our Medical Rights —

When I got home I phoned GoodRX’s patient advocate (855-426-4465). We had a good conversation. The agent said that this made no sense to him, so he would call the Walgreens store… He did and called me back, saying that their answer still did not make any sense, so he was passing this on to his boss. (Nothing further so far…)

I went to Walgreens’ website and tried to send in a web form about the issue. It didn’t work so I phoned them (1-800-925-4733). I outlined the situation to the pleasant customer service person, and she said she had no explanation for what happened.

She then gave me an email to contact customer service. I outlined the problem (per above) and sent the email. I asked for them to please explain why:

  1. We are discriminated against for an off-label use when millions of other Walgreens customers are not.
  2. If we have a legal Prescription written by a qualified MD, why it is any of Walgreens’ concern exactly what we use it for? In other words, if our use is OK with our physician, why is corporate Walgreens getting involved with that?

I then asked them to make this right.

Walgreens’ Response —

Shortly thereafter I received two different form email responses assuring me that Walgreens would look into the situation. Good!

The next morning (Thursday), I received a call from the Walgreens store manager. He politely asked that I go over what happened again, so I did (per above)…

He was then very apologetic and said that the pharmacist made a mistake: we were entitled to a discount on IVM. He then went on to say that he checked into other discounts and found one lower than the GoodRx one — for $30.15!

I said, in that case, I would like to fill the second Prescription for $30.15. He said OK that he would: a) fill the second Prescription against the credit we were owed, b) FedEx the second Prescription to us today, at no cost to us, and c) send us a Walgreens card with the difference we were owed ($36±). I thanked him for that fair response.

Takeaways —

Come to any conclusions you like from this, but my primary one is that it often pays to politely but firmly defend your rights. (Of course, you have to know your rights to begin with.)

A second observation is that this case illuminates the nonsensical pricing structure of US medical items. How can one day the cost be $96 and the very next day the same pharmacy willingly agrees to accept $30 for exactly the same medication?

A third key takeaway for me is to give credit to Walgreens. All of the Walgreens people I dealt with were friendly and helpful, and in the end, they fixed their mistake promptly and fairly. We will do more business with Walgreens.

PS — As of today, almost a week later, neither my wife nor I have any COVID-19 symptoms. I believe that this is a further endorsement of the effectiveness of IVM.

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‘Selling Sex’ — Daily Caller Investigative Team Dives Into Dark Underbelly Of Porn Industry | WATCH NOW

We’ve now had the internet for three decades, meaning three generations have grown up with access to digital pornography. So how has the Porn Generation turned out?

As the Daily Caller’s new documentary “Selling Sex” shows — not so great. Our investigative team dives into the dark underbelly of the porn industry, exposing how the fantasies we consume online shape an entirely new reality.

“Selling Sex” is available exclusively for Patriots subscribers. Catch a first glimpse below.

First, the Daily Caller uncovered the true cost of the Defund the Police movement in “Lawless.” Then, “Rigged” exposed how the Democrats’ political machine swung the 2020 election for Joe Biden. “Cleaning Up Kamala” showed how they’re doing it again in 2024.

Now, we’re pulling back the curtain on an age old truth: “Obviously, sex sells.”

This was the consensus of just about everyone the Daily Caller’s investigative team sat down with. But they all agreed it came at a steep cost.

Some, like former pornstar Joshua Broome, were victims of the pornography industry, exploited into increasingly degrading acts until he finally reached the brink. Others, like former OnlyFans recruiter Victoria Sinnis, worked on the other side of the camera, bringing vulnerable young girls into a pornographic lifestyle. Thankfully, these two got out of this lifestyle and have dedicated their lives to helping others get out as well.

We also spoke with a host of current OnlyFans creators. While the platform provides glamorous lifestyles, they all admitted the downsides — both in their own lives and for society.

Here’s just a few of the social costs of the digital porn industry:

  • The average age of exposure to porn is dropping to 8 years old in the U.S., according to recent studies.
  • More and more men are experiencing porn-induced erectile dysfunction, as early as teenagers.
  • Children are answering the question, “What would you like to be when you grow up?” with “OnlyFans model.”

Is this really the bright future that America deserves? Can a nation survive when its citizens have become porn-addled zombies?

Watch “Selling Sex” today to learn the dark reality of digital porn, only at the Daily Caller. 

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9 Ways Harris and Walz Built Their Campaign on Misinformation and Disinformation

More than any time in history, the Democratic Party has spent the last eight years warning that politics runs the risk of being contaminated by the foul specter of “misinformation and disinformation.” Anyone conversant with politics knows “misinformation and disinformation” have long been synonymous with political campaigns from candidates of all backgrounds, but the Harris-Walz campaign wants to criminalize political differences.

In 2019, then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised the NAACP that she will “hold social media platforms accountable” if they “act as a megaphone for misinformation.” But if she did that, Harris might turn her own campaign into a federal case. She has frequently been guilty of what the head of her proposed federal disinformation board, Nina Jankowicz, called “information laundering”: repeating lies in a prominent political or media outlet. As we have noted, ABC News moderators let at least 10 Kamala Harris lies slide at her (apparently only) debate with Donald Trump on September 10, many of which she had made in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention and some of which the party had enshrined in the 2024 Democratic Party platform. Here are a few more:

1. Pro-Life Laws ‘Kill Women’

Harris has long claimed that “Trump abortion bans” kill women, and she recently felt invigorated that she had found one — in a swing state, no less. But the facts cannot hold the weight of her fact-defying narrative. The mother, 28-year-old Amber Thurman, died from the side effects of the abortion pill and medical negligence — perhaps reinforced by media misinformation about abortion “bans.”

Thurman ingested the two-drug chemical abortion cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol but, as they frequently do, the pills failed to expel all of her aborted babies’ body parts from her womb. As she went into sepsis — alone, in her home, with no help from anyone in the industry — she sought medical care for her incomplete miscarriage. The standard of care would call for a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove her deceased children’s remaining fetal tissue. As one witness boldly testified to the U.S. Senate recently, no pro-life law in the nation prevents women from receiving appropriate care for a miscarriage, including a D&C.

Yet the media and Democratic politicians, Kamala Harris foremost among them, lie that pro-life protections bar doctors from administering emergency care. Doctors may be confused by these narratives and refuse to provide lifesaving care after a miscarriage, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy based on misinformation, disinformation, and unwarranted support for the abortion cartel.

It’s impossible to know for sure what would have happened if these states had managed to enact pro-life protections for unborn babies at all stages — including the abortion pill cartel’s often-illegal activities trafficking chemical abortion agents into pro-life states, efforts facilitated by the Biden-Harris administration and its blue state allies. But one can make an educated guess. If red states had abortion pill bans, Amber Thurman would be alive today, anticipating what it will feel like to hold her baby. Today, she’s a victim of the abortion industry’s neglect and the Democratic presidential candidate’s lies and distortions on its behalf.

2. Springfield Bomb Threats

After former President Donald Trump and his running mate Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) reported Haitian migrants harming resident of Springfield, the media blamed them for a string of bomb threats against the city, especially its “migrant” population.

“Trump and Vance are still stoking fears of Haitian migrants, as Ohio community faces bomb threats,” claimed the Associated Press. “Vance continues fueling false rumors about migrants in Ohio as community receives threats,” said PBS (at your expense). “Bomb Threats Don’t Stop J.D. Vance From Attacking Immigrants in Ohio Town,” charged Rolling Stone.

As it turned out, all of those were “hoaxes,” said the state’s anti-Trump governor. “So 33 threats, 33 hoaxes,” summarized Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) on September 16. “None of them have panned out. We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country,” although he refused to specify which country made dozens of threats against the citizens of his state (as well as the tens of thousands of Haitians currently resident there). Multiple media reports, sometimes citing U.S. government whistleblowers, indicate that Iran has attempted to organization assassination plots against Trump and clearly wants Harris to remain in office.

Yet Harris continued to baselessly blame the bomb threats on “hateful rhetoric” from Trump and Vance, whom she claimed are “spewing lies … grounded in tropes.” Likewise, PBS twisted the governor’s explanation in a taxpayer-funded misinformation headline stating, “Springfield facing threats from overseas after Trump’s lies about Haitians, Ohio governor’s office says.”

Taking matters to their logical extension, a Haitian immigrant group known as the Haitian Bridge Alliance has demanded officials arrest Trump and Vance for allegedly having “wreaked havoc” against the “Haitian community” in Springfield. The group has received more than $1 million from the Open Society Foundations, a nonprofit founded by George Soros.

3. J.D. Vance: School Shootings Are ‘a Fact of Life’

During a September 5 speech, J.D. Vance addressed the issue of school shootings. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it. I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. He went on to say that would-be psycho killers “realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

That’s an entirely mainstream message: For all the Left’s insistence that federal funding must turn public schools into “safe spaces,” it never wants to spend a dime improving students’ physical safety. Statistics show that schools which end their status as a “gun-free” zone are incredibly safe. Only a vast distortion of his message could make it controversial.

Enter the Associated Press. Within hours, the AP targeted Vance, posting a social media message claiming, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” After backlash, AP replaced that post with a placeholder message (although the headline is still on AP’s website) — but the original message had served its purpose, which is to let the Harris-Walz campaign repeat the inaccurate reporting, as they did. The campaign released a statement distorting that quotation and another from Trump saying America has to deal with its grief and go on. Walz recycled the falsehood in a September 22 rally in Pennsylvania, claiming the Republican candidates “want to tell you that [you should] just get over it, it’s a fact of life. This is the way it is.”

4. Trump Called for ‘Execution’ of the Central Park Five, Who Were Later Found Innocent

Kamala Harris has repeatedly foisted another blood libel on Donald Trump, claiming he called on police to execute innocent teens of minority backgrounds for allegedly raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. At their presidential debate, Harris instructed her audience, “Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five — took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

Nearly everything in that statement is false. In response to the brutal rape and beating of a woman jogging through Central Park in 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in a number of newspapers, including the Times and the New York Daily News, attacking soft-on-crime policies … but he said nothing about executing the Central Park Five.

Trump’s ad called on city officials to protect “New York families — White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian” — against street thugs and “murderers.” And, “when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” he declared. “We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal element of this city.”

Moreover, the notion that the “wilding” youths were innocent is underwhelming. As columnist Ann Coulter noted in a column that deserves to be read in its entirety:

“Four of The Five gave videotaped confessions, at least three of them in the presence of parents or guardians. Defense attorneys spent weeks attacking the confessions as ‘coerced,’ but two multicultural juries and the trial judge concluded that the confessions were voluntary.”

Additional evidence implicates members of the crowd even after another individual gave his own confession.

5. Bailing Violent Criminals Out of Jail Is ‘Misinformation’

Despite posting the words on social media, Kamala Harris has claimed that ties to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out 2020 BLM rioters who went on to commit other crimes.

“I am the child of parents who marched for civil rights,” the “middle-class” kid began, “and I will always be and will always be a supporter of peaceful protests.” She called the allegations another example of “misinformation and disinformation” in an October 2022 interview with WCCO-4, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis. WCCO tailored a “fact-check” story, not on whether Harris ever promoted the group, but instead noting carefully that “Despite Trump claim and 2020 tweet showing support, Harris never donated to Minnesota Freedom Fund,” a story subsequently updated days after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

This is a rare case of double disinformation. Of course, the BLM riots in Minneapolis, the nation, and the world as a whole were far from peaceful. Violent BLM riots claimed 19 lives — including 77-year-old retired St. Louis police officer David Dorn, whose widow endorsed Trump — and caused at least$2 billion in property damage.

But Harris did, in fact, support bailing out rioters. On June 1, 2020, Kamala Harris posted a message to her followers on social media, stating, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” The tweet remains on her timeline. She later called the deadly riots “an essential component of evolution in our country, as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.”

Arguably, the story makes CBS News and Kamala Harris look worse. Trump never claimed Harris personally donated; he said she “helped” bail out Shawn Michael Tillman, who had been jailed for gross indecent exposure and went on to murder a man after the Harris-endorsed fund bailed him out. The fact that Harris did not personally support the cause while encouraging her followers to do so could arguably make her seem insincere or hypocritical.

6. J.D. Vance’s Erotic Dalliance with a Couch

The Walz-Harris campaign engaged in “information laundering” with a coarse internet statement self-consciously offered as an internet lie.

Shortly after his selection as her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) targeted J.D. Vance. “I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is, if he’s willin’ to get off the couch and show up,” said Walz with evident self-satisfaction. “Ya see what I did there?” he said, in case anyone missed it.

He referred to a July 15 social media post from an online account created the day Trump announced Vance as his running mate, with the handle @rxckrxdxscxlvxs (Rick Rude’s calves). The anonymous poster said he “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f****** an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).” He later posted a meme exposing his previous post as a lie.

No such citation exists in the book.

The Associated Press branded the story false in a fact-check — but then pulled the story, allegedly because editors felt it did not meet their editorial standards. But Snopes.com has rated the story “False” (while helpfully including a section asking, “Why is this rumor so believable?”). Walz opposition research team undoubtedly knew the story was fallacious. But like certain rumors contained in the Russian dossier about Donald Trump (rumors paid for by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign), the rumors served their purpose.

7. ‘We Are Not Taking Anybody’s Guns Away’

During the presidential debate on September 10, Harris stated, “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We are not taking anybody’s guns away.”

But at a joint campaign appearance with Walz in Philadelphia on August 6, Kamala Harris promised, “Together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an ‘assault weapons’ ban.” Red flag laws allow law enforcement to remove firearms from the homes of legal gun owners without due process. The controversial laws, which both candidates have supported, take guns away from law-abiding Americans who purchased their firearms lawfully after receiving a report — possibly from an abusive ex, a jealous neighbor, or a local thief — that the individual poses a threat to himself or others. A so-called “assault weapons ban” would prevent Americans from purchasing such weapons. Harris has promised to support a “mandatory buy-back” for guns possessed lawfully.

Production of “Modern Sporting Rifles” (such as AR-15s and AK-47s) increased 32% between 2020 and 2021, bringing the total number produced since 1990 to 28.1 million, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Americans own an estimated 473.2 million firearms.

8. Trump Promised a ‘Bloodbath’

Harris has accused Trump of another blood libel, claiming he will lead another violent revolution against the government.

The comment came as Trump spoke near Dayton, Ohio, promising to “put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across” the border from Mexico, some of them built by Chinese companies. “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole” automotive industry, Trump continued.

As I wrote at the time at The Washington Stand:

“The term ‘bloodbath’ is regularly used in the financial sector to describe an industrial contraction. The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists one of the definitions of ‘bloodbath’ as ‘a major economic disaster.’ … Democratic campaign operatives pounced on Trump’s use of the term ‘bloodbath’ to insinuate he wanted to foment a blood-drenched revolution if he lost the election. … The [then-]Biden campaign promptly wrenched the president’s remarks out of context to create a digital campaign ad titled ‘Bloodbath,’ which recycles other erroneous statements, such as falsely claiming Trump praised rioters at the Charlottesville and January 6 D.C. riots.”

Despite extensive reporting about the full context of the former president’s remarks, Harris attacked Trump during their presidential debate, insisting that “Donald Trump the candidate has said in this election there will be a bloodbath, if the outcome of this election is not to his liking.”

9. Trump Said There Were ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ Rally

Joe Biden claimed he decided to launch his third presidential bid because of Trump’s response to Charlottesville. The 2024 Democratic Party platform contains a reference to the remarks. And Kamala Harris has dredged up the comments, telling viewers of the presidential debate to “remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were ‘fine people’ on each side.”

In reality, President Donald Trump began his remarks by condemning “some very bad people” in that group. “But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” Trump continued. “And I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” because they were “protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.” Trump went on to declare the Woke mob would not stop at destroying statutes of Confederate heroes but would come for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

He went on to establish a 1776 Commission, which proposed erecting a series of monuments depicting historic Americans heroes, which the Biden-Harris administration canceled via executive order.

See also The 10 Kamala Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC News Debate and Tim Walz’s Lies: The Top 7.

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Tim Walz Calls Abortion a ‘Basic Human Right’ in ‘Disastrous’ VP Debate Performance

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz suffered what critics say was a “disastrous” performance during his only face-to-face showdown with Republican J.D. Vance before the 2024 presidential election, referring to himself as a “knucklehead” who has “become friends with school shooters.” Walz also repeatedly promoted misinformation about the impact of state pro-life protections, calling abortion a “basic human right.”

Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) squared off in their first and only debate of the 2024 election season in New York City Tuesday night, in a debate moderated by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” hostess Margaret Brennan.

Walz, who appeared nervous throughout the debate, fumbled out of the gate, confusing Israel with Iran in his first answer. During a discussion of gun violence, Walz explained his transformation from a pro-NRA congressman representing a rural district to a proponent of anti-gun measures. “I’ve become friends with school shooters,” Walz said. “That was perhaps the greatest presidential or vice presidential flop in living memory,” Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) told Tucker Carlson moments after the debate. “It didn’t come across as the speaker intended.” The phrase immediately went viral, with the Republican Party turning Walz’s misstatements into an online meme.

Many pro-life proponents found themselves dissatisfied with both candidates’ statements on abortion.

Vance continued the 2024 GOP orthodoxy that the federal government has no role in abortion policy. “Donald Trump has been very clear that on the abortion policy specifically, that we have a big country and it’s diverse. And California has a different viewpoint on this than Georgia. Georgia has a different viewpoint from Arizona. And the proper way to handle this, as messy as democracy sometimes is, is to let voters make these decisions, let the individual states make their abortion policy.”

Former President Donald Trump responded to comments about a “national abortion ban” with an all-caps denunciation of advancing the pro-life cause:

“EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!). LIKE RONALD REAGAN BEFORE ME, I FULLY SUPPORT THE THREE EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS RADICAL POSITION OF LATE TERM ABORTION LIKE, AS AN EXAMPLE, IN THE 7TH, 8TH, OR 9TH MONTH OR, IN CASE THERE IS ANY QUESTION, THE POSSIBILITY OF EXECUTION OF THE BABY AFTER BIRTH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!”

Vance also appeared to promote taxpayer-funded in vitro fertilization (IVF) — in which 50% and 70% of newly conceived children will die by day six and many survivors will be “selectively reduced” or frozen indefinitely — as a “pro-family” measure. “I want us, as a Republican Party, to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want us to support fertility treatments,” he said. “I want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies. I want to make it easier for young families to afford a home so they can afford a place to raise that family. And I think there’s so much that we can do on the public policy front just to give women more options.”

Yet pro-life advocates say the Democratic ticket’s extremism far outstrips the current GOP leadership’s skittishness on the issue. Walz rejected the state-federal distinction, echoing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s pledge to expand “rights as basic” as abortion to all 50 states. “That’s not how this works. This is a basic human right,” Walz insisted of abortion, which ends a newborn child’s unalienable right to life. “How can we as a nation say that your life and your rights as basic as the right to control your own body is determined on geography?” Walz asked.

Tim Walz “supports abortion through the ninth month,” said SBA Pro-Life America. “No limits. No safeguards to protect women from abortion coercion.” Walz signed a bill eliminating all protections for unborn life until the moment of birth in Minnesota, ending the legal requirement for abortionists to provide appropriate lifesaving care for a baby born alive during a botched abortion, and lifting the mandate to provide aborted babies with a dignified burial (as opposed to disposing of their mutilated bodies at the landfill with discarded medical waste).

Vance has insisted social conservatives will “have a seat at the table” in the Republican Party under his leadership.

Perhaps the most effective pro-life statement of the debate came during the commercials, as national television carried a commercial highlighting Minnesota state data that show, during Walz’s tenure as governor, at least eight babies were born alive during botched abortions. These newborns “died gasping for air,” the ad states, as the viewer hears the sound of babies struggling for breath. “Kamala Harris may have played dumb during the debate on her record of literally voting to allow infanticide to continue, and she may try to ignore her chosen running mate’s decision to hide cases of infanticide in his home state of Minnesota, but the Pro-Life Generation will not ignore a record of radical abortion support that includes allowing lives to be lost after a botched abortion,” said Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins in an email to The Washington Stand. (Emphasis in original.)

Walz spread misinformation about abortion without any fact-checking from the moderators. “We have seen maternal mortality skyrocket in Texas,” Walz claimed. That assertion gets the data backwards, said Michael New, a professor of political science and social research at the Catholic University of America and a scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. “Taking the data at face value, their report indicates that the maternal-mortality rate in Texas actually declined by 35 percent between 2021 and 2022,” despite the fact that in 2022 the Texas Heartbeat Act “had already taken effect,” wrote New at National Review. “In short, during the year with the strongest pro-life protections in place, the rate of maternal mortality in Texas actually fell by 35 percent.”

Walz further dishonestly claimed that Project 2025, which the Trump campaign has repeatedly denounced, “is going to have a registry of pregnancies” — something Brennan allowed Vance to address and which the report’s author corrected in real time. “Walz outrageously claims the @Prjct2025 section I wrote would create a ‘pregnancy registry’” when the report “merely recommends CDC compile anonymous abortion stats for all 50 states instead of the current 46-47. Walz’s own state collects miscarriage information every year, so it runs a ‘miscarriage registry’ according to his logic,” clarified Roger Severino, a former Trump administration official now serving as a scholar at The Heritage Foundation. “So hypocritical. So dishonest.”

Observers praised Vance’s poise during the interview in the face of one-sided interruptions from O’Donnell and Brennan. Although the debate rules stated that CBS News would leave fact-checking to the candidates and respond only on its own website, Brennan attempted to downplay the impact of tens of thousands of Haitian migrants on the city of Springfield, Ohio, by stating they were “legal” immigrants.

“The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact check, and since you’re fact checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” said Vance, speaking over attempts by moderators to shut him down. He correctly explained that the Biden-Harris administration had used the CBP One app and other means to open up “legal” pathways of temporary residence to applicants who otherwise would be illegal immigrants. Indeed, CBS News reported last July that “[t]he Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safe haven to refugees, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history, unpublished government data obtained by CBS News show.”

Walz said, while “I don’t talk about my faith a lot,” he believed Matthew 25 supported the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic border policy.

Vance repeatedly underscored Kamala Harris’s responsibility for the deterioration of the American dream and the fraying of national security over the last four years. “Who has been the vice president for the last three-and-a-half years?” he asked Walz early in the debate. “The answer is your running mate, not mine.” Vance repeatedly underscored that Kamala Harris is the sitting vice president and could enact her often-vague policy proposals today, if she wished, while contrasting the bleak Biden-Harris record with that of Donald Trump. “Donald Trump’s economic plan is not just a plan, but it’s also a record,” he said.

Vance noted that, as president, Trump held the line on expanding America’s war footprint and — aside from the COVID-19 lockdowns — presided over an administration marked by prosperity and increasing take-home pay for the middle class. “When was the last time that an American president didn’t have a major conflict break out? The only answer is during the four years that Donald Trump was president,” Vance said. Walz attempted to blame Iran’s advancing nuclear program on “Donald Trump’s fickle leadership,” but Vance countered that Iran and its proxies attacked Israel “during the administration of Kamala Harris,” which has opened up billions of previous frozen dollars to Tehran.

The moderators’ choice of questions also came under fire. Norah O’Donnell deflected a discussion on Hurricane Helene — which has claimed more than 100 lives and devastated entire communities in Appalachian North Carolina — into a discussion of “climate change.” At one point, Vance described Green alarmism as “weird science.” “The answer to reducing carbon emissions lies in reshoring American manufacturing, which has the highest standards of emission standards,” he pointed out. “What have Kamala Harris’s policies actually led to? More energy production in China, more manufacturing overseas, more doing business in some of the dirtiest parts of the entire world.”

The moderators have demonstrated bias in the past, noted experts at the Media Research Center. Both moderators questioned whether Donald Trump bore the blame for political violence after the Republican presidential candidate’s first near-assassination on July 13. “It’s almost like the rhetoric’s gotten hotter since” January 6, said Norah O’Donnell one day after the first assassination attempt. “Does Donald Trump bear some responsibility for that? Does he need to change his rhetoric?” Likewise, Brennan put the onus for the Trump assassination attempts on the victim. “This was a traumatic event no doubt for him, but I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence,” said Brennan.

The overwhelming majority (84%) of “CBS Evening News” coverage of Kamala Harris since Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race has been positive, while 79% of news stories featuring Donald Trump have been negative, according to analysis from the Media Research Center.

Tuesday night’s debate appears to provide voters with their final look at the two parties’ candidates before the presidential election on November 5. After Harris and Trump faced off in their first debate (his second of the election cycle) — which Republicans have criticized due to the moderators’ heavy, one-sided fact-checking — Harris demanded a rematch, an offer Trump has steadfastly refused. The former president announced he will not take part in a back-to-back interview for the “60 Minutes” election special Monday night alongside the incumbent Democratic vice president. Harris has proved reticent to grant interviews since Joe Biden bowed to pressure and withdrew from the 2024 presidential election some 72 days before the vice presidential debate.

CNN’s John King summed up the consensus by nearly all pundits of the vice presidential debate: “Republicans were happy tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous.”

The November 5 election takes place in 34 days.

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‘They’ve Been Exploited By The Democratic Party’: Trump Has Caused Seismic Shift Among Blue Collar Voters

Former President Donald Trump has amassed more support among blue collar voters as Vice President Kamala Harris’ support with the once reliably Democratic group slips.

Trump has made strides among working class voters more than any other Republican candidate in decades, boasting a 31 point lead among trade school graduates and 17 point increase among nonwhite non-college educated voters compared to 2020, according to CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten. Among union voters, a historically blue voting demographic, Harris has managed to hold a nine point lead while her Democratic predecessors boasted a double digit advantage.

“There has always been a great deal of synergy between Trump and this demographic constituency,” Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, told the DCNF. “He has certainly made a conscious effort to target that voter base, and now, this traditionally Democratic constituency is at least keeping an open door to Donald Trump.”

Prior to the CNN poll, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate on Sept. 18. Internal polling from the Teamsters, the largest union in America, revealed that nearly 60% of the workers they represent strongly favor Trump over Harris.

“All of the nation’s working men and women know that President Trump is the candidate looking out for them, which is why nearly 6 out of every 10 Teamsters support his candidacy,” Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Brian Hughes told the DCNF. “He has an economic plan that will allow workers to keep more of the money they earn, increase American manufacturing, and drive down energy costs. Under dealmaker President Trump, American farmers, manufacturers, and auto workers got the best trade deals in history, and he will once again put America First when we send him back to the White House.”

Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien was invited by to speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC) back in July. In contrast, O’Brien was not extended the same offer by the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August.

“The Teamsters thank all candidates for meeting with members face-to-face during our unprecedented roundtables,” O’Brien said in a press release. “Unfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business. We sought commitments from both Trump and Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries — and to honor our members’ right to strike — but were unable to secure those pledges.”

The Teamsters have endorsed every Democratic nominee for president since Bill Clintonincluding President Joe Biden in 2020.

“By not endorsing Kamala Harris, they’ve given the green light to go vote for Donald Trump,” John McLaughlin, a Trump campaign pollster and CEO of McLaughlin & Associates, told the DCNF.

“We’re seeing a realignment between the institutional wing of the union and the rank and file membership,” Foxwell told the DCNF.

Pollsters like McLaughlin told the DCNF that this shift among working class voters is likely a result of economic hardships under the Biden-Harris administration.

“They’ve been exploited by the Democrat Party,” McLaughlin told the DCNF. “For the people that are surviving paycheck to paycheck, they have no choice but to vote for Donald Trump.”

Inflation has repeatedly polled as a top issue for voters, with rates surging to decade highs under the Biden-Harris administration.

While inflationary costs burden working class Americans, the Biden-Harris administration approved several spending provisions such as the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, which have collectively contributed more than $2 trillion to the federal deficit. The American Rescue Plan, which was passed in March 2021, approved $1.9 trillion in spending, and the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed in August 2022, authorized an additional $750 billion.

In addition to economic factors, political strategists like Foxwell told the DCNF that Trump’s trade policy would “naturally appeal” to working class voters in a way that the Democratic Party hasn’t.

“We’re seeing a realignment of the two parties when it comes to trade policy,” Foxwell told the DCNF. “Trump, who leads the party that was once considered to be the party of free trade and unfettered market capitalism, has adopted positions on issues like trade tariffs that would naturally appeal to a union constituency.” (RELATED: Trump Hammered Voters’ Key Concerns In RNC Speech, Harris Hardly Mentioned Them)

“Meanwhile, ever since the days of the Clinton administration and certainly continuing through the Biden presidency, the Democrats have been leaning more toward free trade,” Foxwell told the DCNF. “So, to the extent that we have a union workforce that is concerned with unfair and unbalanced competition from export markets, Trump’s policies would have a natural appeal.”

Although the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania typically lean blue, their working class strongholds will prove increasingly consequential heading into November.

These “blue wall” states carry a lot of electoral weight, making them crucial for either candidate if they want to see an electoral victory in November.

In 2016, Trump swept all three Rust Belt states and secured his election against former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In 2020, however, Trump lost in all three states and subsequently lost his reelection against President Joe Biden.

As Foxwell said, Trump has made a “conscious effort” to appeal to key industry workers like the United Auto Workers (UAW) members who were on strike in Detroit, Michigan, in 2023. During his campaign, he attacked Biden’s Green New Deal policies and their potentially negative impact on the auto industry in order to gain their favor.

Trump has also gained ground among trade school graduates, which is a continuously growing demographic. Gen Z has become increasingly involved in trade schools, with enrollments in vocational programs increasing by 16% from 2022 to 2023 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

“I think there’s a lot of fluidity in this campaign, despite the fact that the numbers look relatively static at the top,” Foxwell told the DCNF.

“It’s really essential,” McLaughlin told the DCNF. “For Donald Trump’s Republican Party to become a majority, we’re relying on working voters across the country in Michigan and Wisconsin to add to our coalition. And he will win them over not because they make up a majority of the Republican Party, but because Donald Trump has stood up for them.”

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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Critically Thinking about “My Body My Choice”

What does that mean — and is that the real question? 

It seems that since each US political party has prioritized one societal issue, citizens should do some Critical Thinking about both of them. My most recent commentary was a Critical Thinking analysis of the US immigration issue (that the Republicans are emphasizing). Now, let’s look at the Dem’s main talking point…

In the recent Presidential debate, Kamala Harris strongly emphasized that women should have a choice over their bodies. Surprisingly, all sides actually agree that (from both a man’s and woman’s perspective)My Body My Choice is what should apply! The difference is a matter of timing.

KEY TERMS —

Before we consider the timing aspect, let’s think about the two key terms involved here: Body and Choice.

Body: As humans we have rights. The US Constitution says we are born with inalienable rights. Where did those inherent rights come from? God. If not then who?

Choice: Two elements are needed for real choice: 1) knowledge, and 2) intellectual maturity. (For example: can a ten-year-old make a legit choice about what house the family should buy and live in? No, because a child lacks both essential elements.)

REPRODUCTION —

From a woman’s point of view, a situation may arise where she has a very important choice to make, as her body is involved. It is whether or not she consents to having a special physical interaction with a man, that might produce a new human being.

If she says NO (or does not have the ability to consent), and it happens anyway — then we have rape. (The woman should have the right to terminate any consequence of an interaction that she did not initially consent to.)

On the other hand, if she says YES, then she does not give life to a new human being, the interaction does. The woman then takes on the role of caregiver: providing nutrition and protection for this newly created life.

When does this new creation become human? Only God can say that definitively. However, we know for 100% certainty that this transition does NOT just magically happen at the time of a natural birth, 9± months later.

For example, a friend’s daughter recently was carrying twins and she had some medical complications. At 7± months the decision was made to accelerate the birth of both babies, via C-Section. Following that, when her food supply (umbilical cord) was cut the babies were able to survive on their own — so clearly they were already human prior to delivery. (FYI six months later they are still fine.)

But what about buyer’s remorse? Let’s say that the father turns out to be a total jerk. Or their financial status substantially changes so that a baby would be a major economic burden. These and other real-world developments happen all the time.

However, the My Body My Choice has already been made by the woman. Somewhere soon after her choice, there is a new third party created, that she had consented to.

The issue is no longer My Body My Choice, as that decision was made well prior to that time. The question now is: should the woman stop providing nutrition and protection for this third person, that she had originally contractually consented to provide?

There are several details skipped in this overview, as the important point is to clearly understand the fundamentals involved in the procreation decision.

Four common examples of My Body My Choice —

  1. REPRODUCTION: See above.
  2. EDUCATION: The brain is arguably the most important part of the body. The Left has specifically targeted the brains of defenseless children — e.g., in 25,000± hours of K-12 class time, they are subjecting them to incessant propaganda. Further, the key message is that they should be conformists (i.e., NOT use their brains!). The Left sees that the parents, the legal guardians, are usually barred from knowing what propaganda is being instilled into their children’s minds.
  3. GENDER: Why should an eight-year-old child be put into a position of making a gender choice? They have neither the knowledge nor intellectual maturity to make such a decision. The parents, the legal guardians, are often excluded from this decision process. The Left is promoting this illusionary “choice” — not because it is in the child’s interest, but rather for political, virtue-signaling, reasons.
  4. VACCINES: Under the My Body My Choice premise, adults should have the right to say that they do not consent to being injected with an unknown bio-chemical combo that has not had meaningful long-term safety tests. The Left says that if you make such a choice, you will be severely penalized. Watch this fabulous short video.

So, which political party is really advocating for the best interests of your body, and which political party is genuinely defending your right to make an informed choice?

Bottom Line —

So after critically thinking about the main issue of each US political party, what are our conclusions?

  1. The reality and implications of the immigration issue are understated.
  2. The reality and implications of the abortion issue are overstated.
  3. The Left is clearly NOT the party protecting our bodies.

This should not be surprising as what we have heard about each of these issues primarily comes from mainstream media, which is: a) very Left, and b) operating under the assumption that there are few critically thinking citizens.

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Did Biden, Harris Know There’s ‘Scant Evidence’ for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ When They Pushed It on Kids? Group Demands Answers

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly supported “gender-affirming care” for “transgender” minors, but the National Institutes of Health has approved multiple research grants acknowledging there is “scant evidence” to support the idea that experimental medical interventions improve the lives of children who identify as the opposite sex.

America First Legal, a nonprofit organization that describes its mission as protecting Americans’ rights from “an unholy alliance of corrupt special interests, big tech titans, the fake news media, and liberal Washington politicians,” filed a Freedom of Information Act request aiming to uncover communications between the White House and the NIH regarding potential harm to children and adolescents caused by the interventions euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.”

“While the rest of the world has rightfully pulled back on life-altering ‘gender’ experiments on children, the Biden-Harris administration is full steam ahead despite scant and dubious ‘evidence’ of any so-called benefits but plenty of data of the clear and obvious harm,” Ian Prior, a senior adviser at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Friday.

Prior was referring to European countries such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland that have begun to reverse the trend of pushing “gender-affirming care” on children.

“America First Legal is committed to finding out exactly what the Biden-Harris administration knew, didn’t know, and didn’t care about while they were pushing this crime against humanity on our nation’s children,” Prior added.

The records request, provided exclusively to The Daily Signal, asks the NIH for “all communications with the White House and the Executive Office of the President regarding the potential harm to children and adolescents caused by ‘gender affirming’ care.”

In the request, America First Legal cites documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit founded by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Those records show that the National Institutes of Health approved multiple grants for research into “gender-affirming care” that acknowledge the scarcity of evidence supporting such medical interventions.

“Children’s Health Defense is happy to provide this [Freedom of Information Act] information to AFL for further analysis and investigation,” Mary Holland, the group’s CEO, said in a written statement. “The public needs to understand fully the government’s policies on transgenderism, especially as it relates to children.”

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NIH Grants Reveal ‘Scant Evidence’

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles applied for a research grant for which the NIH first awarded funds in 2015, according to records provided to Children’s Health Defense. The federal government has awarded $7.5 million to date for this research.

When requesting funds, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles wrote that it aimed to “expand the scant evidence-base currently guiding the clinical care of [transgender and gender dysphoric] youth and thus, is of considerable public health significance.” (Gender dysphoria refers to the condition of persistently and painfully identifying with the gender opposite one’s biological sex.)

The hospital’s grant application noted that, while previous studies focused on adults who underwent “treatments,” “no known U.S. studies have examined similar outcomes among transgender youth with gender dysphoria.”

“No U.S. data have been collected on the longer-term physiological impact on [transgender and gender-nonconforming] youth initiating [gonadatropin-releasing hormone agonists] in early puberty,” the grant application noted, referring to the drugs often euphemistically referred to as “puberty blockers.”

The Food and Drug Administration has not approved these drugs—first developed to treat cancers that feed on testosterone and estrogen—for gender dysphoria among minors. Prisons use the same drugs to carry out the “chemical castration” of sex offenders.

The hospital’s grant application noted, “Very limited data also exist on the longer-term psychosocial outcomes of [transgender and gender dysphoric] youth initiating any gender-affirming medical care.”

Children’s Health Defense also obtained a grant application from the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, which noted a “dearth of evidence on health care needs of [transgender and non-binary] individuals after surgery, their psychosocial adjustment during this phase of their identity development, their quality of life and long-term physical and emotional wellbeing.” It also noted the “significant gap in the current evidence on best practices.”

The federal government has awarded $2.8 million for this research, first funded in 2021.

Finally, the nonprofit highlighted a grant to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Since August 2022, the federal government has spent $1.7 million on this research. This study aims to clarify whether the use of estrogen in males who identify as female leads to increasing blood clots.

The grant application laid out a hypothesis: “Youth receiving estrogen for [‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy] will exhibit progressive prothrombotic changes in the coagulation system that increase with longer time on [‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy].”

The application acknowledged that “the thrombosis risk of using estrogen [‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy] in youth as per current practice guidelines is unknown,” but that the longer an adult male takes estrogen as a cross-sex hormone, the greater his risk of blood clots, studies show.

Those previous studies are inadequate, the application noted, because “studies reporting an association of [‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy] with thrombosis were conducted with outdated treatment regimens and did not include [transgender] youth, who are likely to receive [‘gender-affirming’ hormone therapy] for a much longer time than [transgender] adults.”

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The Biden-Harris Narrative

Despite the lack of evidence supporting “gender-affirming care” for minors, the Biden-Harris administration has loudly supported so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for Americans under 18.

America First Legal pointed to a public White House statement from March 31, 2022, celebrating the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” as evidence of the White House’s loud support for these experimental treatments.

That document laid out many actions the Biden-Harris administration took to promote “gender-affirming care” for minors. Those actions included:

  • The Justice Department sent a letter to state attorneys general suggesting that laws banning experimental interventions for kids might violate federal law.
  • A document from the Department of Health and Human Services purported to explain why “gender-affirming care” is “important to transgender, nonbinary, and other gender expansive young people’s well-being.”
  • HHS actions to “support transgender children in receiving the care they need” in response to states that “target parents and doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender children with child abuse investigations.”

In a particularly noteworthy passage, the White House document also noted that the NIH will “increase funding for research on gender-affirming procedures to further develop the evidence base for improved standards of care.”

In other words, while most of the administration was working overtime to protect these experimental transgender interventions on kids, at least one agency was asking whether pumping cross-sex hormones and chemical castration drugs into kids was a good idea after all.

Previous Evidence Against ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

America First Legal previously exposed a high-ranking FDA official who urged the federal agency to approve “puberty blockers” for minors, even while acknowledging that preliminary studies revealed that minors who take the drugs experience “increased risk of depression and suicidality, as well as increased seizure risk.”

Internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a pro-transgender activist group, revealed that WPATH leaders knew about various side effects of “gender-affirming care,” including cancer in teens, reduced sexual function, and the lack of informed consent for procedures with lifelong impacts. These medical professionals endorse the experimental treatments anyway.

Many doctors also testified in favor of a Florida rule that would prevent Medicaid dollars from funding “gender-affirming care.” The doctors—including psychiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, and a former WPATH leader—testified that these interventions are experimental and may do more harm than good.

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Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” On X:

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