“Last Tuesday Donald Trump shat his pants on national TV in prime time, and ever since he’s been scooting his butt around on the national carpet trying to dislodge the detritus of loserdom, stumbling around the post-debate media spin tent like a shaved tranquilized bear, and declaring that the whole thing was rigged against him, and also at the same time declaring that he had achieved so much victory that there will be no need for him to debate again. … The existence of people oppresses conservatives, and the sight of others caring for such people oppresses them, and any laws curtailing of the ability to threaten such people oppresses them. It’s never-ending oppression of conservatives out there. You know what? Let’s do it. Let’s actually do it.” (09/14/24)
“Last month, the International Rescue Committee, described the crisis in Sudan as the top global humanitarian emergency. On August 28, Lawrence O’Donnell described the war in Sudan as the ‘least reported humanitarian crisis on the planet’. Levon Sevunts is a former journalist who works for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. He had recently returned from Chad, a country hosting 633,867 people who have fled Sudan. Sevunts spoke to me, about his trip: ‘For me, this was an absolutely surreal experience to be back in Chad almost 20 years to the day after I went to Chad as a Canadian journalist, covering the conflict in Darfur, seeing the same stories, the same refugees, only on a much bigger scale.’ … Sevunts explained that it’s not just the refugees; it’s the local population who are worried about putting food on the table for their own families.” (09/14/24)
“The strange circumstances of this presidential race put Trump in an unusual position. If Harris had won the Democratic nomination in the primaries, by now Trump would have had several months to try out various criticisms, choose the most effective and get it to sink in with the voters he’s trying to reach. Instead, she replaced President Joe Biden as the nominee in August. Trump had plenty of time to make contingency plans for that possibility, but not much, once it happened, to get voters to see her as he wants. It’s an especially urgent task for him because almost everyone in the country has a view of him that is set in stone. But Trump has been wasting the time he has.” (09/13/24)
“The last place one expects to see The Daily Wire personality Matt Walsh is in a ramshackle biker bar on the outskirts of Hartsville, TN. But midway through Am I Racist?, he’s in the thick of it as he converses with the watering hole’s regulars, including a guy in a shirt that says, ‘Vaginaterian.’ In his trademark plaid and oversized glasses that peek out from his impeccably trimmed beard, Walsh resembles an erudite lumberjack more partial to Crossfit than Paul Bunyan antics. But during this scene, he’s in disguise as a soy boy certified DEI trainer complete with man bun and skinny jeans, who hopes to get some deplorable perspectives on structural racism straight from the cis white male source. It’s a scene straight out of a Borat movie.” (09/13/24)
Source: Independent Institute
by Randall G Holcombe
“Presidential candidate and VP Harris has proposed giving first-time home buyers up to $25,000 to go toward their down payments, plus another $10,000 tax credit. If enacted, this proposal would raise the price of housing. The price of anything is determined by supply and demand. If demand increases with no change in supply, the price of that item will rise. If supply increases with no change in demand, the price will fall. That’s basic economics. Kamala Harris’s proposal would enable more people to enter the market to buy homes, and that increase in demand would raise the price of housing.” (09/13/24)
“Illegal home-built guns are bringing libertarianism to the world. That’s what the good people at The New York Times say. DIY firearms are also helping rebels fight oppressive regimes and, as is inevitable when weapons make their way into the hands of regular people, fueling European officials’ fears of crime and terrorism. This is a result of recent technological developments that severely cramp governments’ ability to enforce restrictions — including when it comes to the FGC-9, a partially 3D-printed firearm.” (09/13/24)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Democrats are going after Jill Stein with surprising ferocity this election cycle, with their favorite line of attack being that the Green Party doesn’t win elections. At an appearance on the radio show The Breakfast Club with her running mate Butch Ware, Stein was slammed by host Angela Rye over her ongoing feud with celebrity congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. ‘The one thing that AOC has done that you haven’t is win some elections,’ Rye said. This line was later picked up by AOC, who tweeted, ‘Nobody needs talking points to know Jill Stein hasn’t won so much as a bingo game in the last decade and if you actually give a damn about people, you organize, build power and infrastructure, and win.'” [editor’s note” As it has been (from ‘both sides of the aisle’) toward libertarian efforts for … decades – SAT] (09/15/24)
“The late Bernie Baltic used to ask politicians, who invariably wanted him to write them a check, ‘What are your principles?’ They would then recite their key issues or the issues they thought were key to getting Bernie to write that check. He would stop them, saying, ‘Not your issues — issue positions can change — your principles.’ Values are like sorta like principles. In politician speak. ‘My values haven’t changed,’ Vice-President Kamala Harris assured us, after being quizzed about her flip-flopping on issues including fracking (hello Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes), defunding the police and building a border wall.” (09/13/24)
“In government outsourcing, governments contract with private-sector firms to have them perform certain services. Outsourcing is not as big of a step as privatization, because the government still owns the asset and is responsible for the service. It just pays a private company (sometime a non-profit) to perform the service being outsourced. St. Louis County government is considering outsourcing the facilities maintenance operations of county buildings to a private company. I think that is great, and I hope the county does it.” (09/13/24)
“In a presidential race in which both major party candidates are kowtowing to law enforcement, don’t expect any candor about the perils that politicians have unleashed. To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives. Supreme Court rulings turned a trickle of police perjury into a torrent.” (09/13/24)
