Thursday, October 31, 2024

A JOKE MAY HAVE COST TRUMP PENNSYLVANIA

By Howie Katz

 

Tony Hinchcliffe 

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024

 

Tony Hinchcliffe is a comedian few Americans ever heard of. But he was the first speaker before a packed house of 20,000 Trump supporters in the Madison Square Garden rally on October 27, 2024. And here is one of his jokes.

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”

That infuriated Puerto Ricans, as it well should have. Harris and Barack Obama, as well as Puerto Rican celebrities Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin, soundly condemned the joke.

But not to worry. The people of Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential election. So, that joke can't hurt Trump.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

While those living on the island cannot vote in our elections, the Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. can.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 470,000 Puerto Ricans live in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Trump absolutely has to win.

Let's say that only half of Pennsylvania's Puerto Ricans are eligible to vote. That amounts to more than 200,00 voters. And if half of those eligible voters cast their ballots for Harris, that may be enough to cost Trump this vital swing state.

And there are 132,000 Puerto Ricans in North Carolina and 124,000 in Georgia. In a race that is a toss-up, those Puerto Ricans could cost Trump the swing states of North Carolina and Georgia as well.

Trump should have soundly apologized to the Puerto Ricans. But Trump never apologizes. Instead, he responded to the condemnations by calling his MSG rally a lovefest”. 

Personally, I saw absolutely nothing funny in Hinchcliffe's joke. And it's not funny either if that joke causes dumbass Harris to become president.

VOTERS SAY HIS CLAIM ABOUT HAITIAN MIGRANTS 'EATING CATS AND DOGS' IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO WAS TRUMP'S BIGGEST BLUNDER

EXCLUSIVE   Kamala Harris' biggest blunder of her campaign against Trump revealed by new poll

Trump opens three-point lead over Kamala Harris days before the election 


By Kelly Laco

 

Daily Mail

Oct 31, 2024


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Harris outright called Trump a 'fascist' last week
 

The biggest mistake Kamala Harris made during her three-month campaign against Donald Trump has been revealed. 

Voters disclosed in an exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national survey that the vice president should have distanced herself from President Joe Biden sooner.

According to the poll of 1,000 likely voters, her 'biggest blunder' is that she would 'not change anything' from the Biden administration.

Harris was asked on The View last month about what she would change about Biden's presidency.

'There is not a thing that comes to mind,' Harris responded.

Harris defended the president's record and added: 'I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.'

But for voters in the DailyMail.com poll, that answer could be fatal for her election chances.

 

According to the poll of 1,000 likely voters, her 'biggest blunder' is that she would not change anything from the Biden administration

According to the poll of 1,000 likely voters, her 'biggest blunder' is that she would not change anything from the Biden administration

 

The same survey showed that Trump is holding a three-point lead over the vice president at 49 percent to Harris' 46 percent.

And with just a few days left of the campaign, Trump is on course to become the first GOP candidate to win the popular vote - since George W. Bush in 2004. 

Weeks later, Harris was asked again by Fox News' Bret Baier about what she would have done differently from Biden.

She dodged answering directly, instead stating that she represents a 'new generation of leadership.'

'Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,' she said. 

 

J.L. Partners polled 1000 likely voters from Oct 26 to 29. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 points, but put Donald Trump back in the lead after he fell behind

Harris enjoyed a two-month honeymoon after Biden made the shock decision to drop out of the race

Harris enjoyed a two-month honeymoon after Biden made the shock decision to drop out of the race

 

'Like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership.' 

Other blunders that respondents listed as issues for Harris included picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and not having Taylor Swift perform at the Democratic National Convention. 

Another response stated that 'I wish she hadn't said Trump would invoke Hitler.'

Harris outright called Trump a 'fascist' last week as she attempted to draw a strong contrast between her vision for America and the former president's. 

She also 'waited too long' for 'specifics' on how to improve the economy, according to another respondent.

And for Independent voters, Harris' record on the border is most concerning.  

Attendees of the DNC were greatly disappointed after rumors that Swift and Beyonce would be headlining the final night of the event in Chicago. 

The results of the poll also examined Trump's biggest mistake on the trail. 

 

 

Voters said that the ex-president's remarks about Haitian migrants 'eating cats and dogs' in Springfield, Ohio, was the most startling.

They also said that 'running his mouth' more generally isn't helpful when trying to attract voters on the fence. 

Harris enjoyed a two-month honeymoon after Biden made the shock decision to drop out of the race. 

Her poll numbers and fundraising surged amid a wave of enthusiasm and she raised $1 billion in just three months.

 

The results of the poll also examined Trump's biggest mistake on the trail

The results of the poll also examined Trump's biggest mistake on the trail


But since then the race has tightened to become one of the closest in history.

According to polling averages, Trump and Harris are within 0.5 of point of each other nationally. 

The candidates are hitting most of the crucial seven swing states that will hand one of them a victory on November 5.  

Trump staged his closing message to voters in New York City at the iconic Madison Square Garden. 

 

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Green Bay

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Green Bay

Trump rode a garbage truck while on the campaign trail in Wisconsin after Biden called his supporters trash

Trump rode a garbage truck while on the campaign trail in Wisconsin after Biden called his supporters trash

 

However, the event that was quickly overshadowed by a comedian making disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico.

And Harris had a 'final pitch' to voters in Washington, D.C. at the Ellipse in front of the White House, where Trump rallied immediately before January 6 mob descended upon the Capitol.

She was upstaged by Biden apparently calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in a fundraising zoom at the same time.

WAS RUDY SOBER WHEN HE MADE HIS DEGRADING REMARKS ABOUT HAITIANS?

Rudy Giuliani makes shockingly racist comments about Haitian migrants in unhinged rant

 

By Melissa Koenig 


Daily Mail

Oct 31, 2024


Rudy, the Court Jester

 

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made shockingly racist comments about Haitian migrants in an unhinged rant on Monday.

The ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump appeared on the Flyover Conservatives podcast on Rumble when he was asked about Trump's claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating neighbor's pets.  

Giuliani, 80, replied that Haitian migrants 'shouldn't have been taken out of the jungle and placed in the middle of a small town America,' and claimed that Haitians 'lived back 200 years ago.'

His remarks have since been boosted by the campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, which argues that Trump's campaign is based in bigotry and dehumanizing rhetoric.

The former mayor is not a part of Trump's 2024 campaign, but said he voted for the former president when he took to the polls on Thursday wearing MAGA crocs. 

 

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who cast his ballot for former President Donald Trump on Thursday (pictured), made racist comments about Haitian migrants in a podcast appearance on Monday

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who cast his ballot for former President Donald Trump on Thursday (pictured), made racist comments about Haitian migrants in a podcast appearance on Monday

 

Giuliani claimed in the podcast, which bills itself a discussion of current events 'from a Conservative Christian perspective,' that he knows the Haitian population 'backwards and forwards' from the time he was working for former President Ronald Reagan and wanted to become a Catholic priest.

'They practiced voodoo,' he said. 'And when they practiced voodoo, they killed domestic animals.'

He went on to claim that at least 'half of them do it' as he argued that immigration officials are not vetting those who are coming into the country.

'They're not taking people in and saying, "Mr. Haitian, are you one of those who kills animals or not? Do you practice voodoo?" They have no idea.

'So animals are getting hurt somewhere,' Giuliani claimed.

'And look, I'm going to say this,  it's not their fault,' he continued. 'They lived back 200 years ago. They shouldn't have been taken out of the jungle and placed in the middle of small town America, that's ridiculous. Or big town America, for that matter.'

'These people are insane what they're doing!' Giuliani said. 'They're insane.'

 

The Trump campaign has previously faced backlash for the former president's claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets

The Trump campaign has previously faced backlash for the former president's claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets

 

But the Trump campaign has previously come under fire for the former president's claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are 'eating the dogs' and 'eating the cats.'

'They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country,' Trump claimed during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

ABC news anchor and debate co-moderator David Muir interceded to say the city said there had been no credible reports of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community, but Trump doubled down.

‘I’ve seen people on television,' he claimed. 'The people on television saying, 'My dog was taken and used for food.’

Even before the debate, Trump – the first president since McKinley not to have a dog in the White House – posted AI memes on his Truth Social account showing cats in MAGA hats. This was after his vice presidential pick JD Vance had seized on the accusations to build a narrative against migrants and illegal immigration.

Some of the 15,000 or so Haitians who have made Springfield their home since 2020 said they were considering leaving due to the bitterness, DailyMail.com revealed, while others took to the streets in protest.

 

Giuliani also came under fire for his remarks at the Madison Square Garden rally, in which he claimed that 'Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two'

Giuliani also came under fire for his remarks at the Madison Square Garden rally, in which he claimed that 'Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two'

 

Giuliani's remarks also came the same day the Trump campaign was on damage control following comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico at a rally in New York City on Sunday.

During his speech - which campaign officials say was not approved ahead of time - Hinchcliffe referred to the American territory as a 'floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.'

On Fox & Friends Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed it was just 'a comedian who made a joke in poor taste.' 

'Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign,' she added. 

'And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian, rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had,' she said – shifting blame to the media, which Trump called the 'enemy of the people' in his own remarks. 

'And the crowd, they didn’t mind, right?' Leavitt continued, noting that the crowd 'was a diverse group of people. 

'The joke fell flat, but the crowd was there because they know who President Trump is and they know he wants to be a president for all Americans.'

Senior adviser Danielle Alvarez also claimed, 'This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.'

But Giuliani also came under fire for his remarks at that rally in which he claimed that 'Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two.

'They may have good people. I'm sorry, I don't take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at two,' he said.

'I'm on the side of Israel, you're on the side of Israel, Donald Trump is on the side of Israel, and they're on the side of the terrorists,' Giuliani claimed of pro-Palestine protesters.

He has since voted early in the presidential election, telling the Palm Beach Daily News he voted for Trump to 'save our country from what's become, in my view, a regime that has been modeled after a banana republic.'

He also claimed he still speaks regularly with the former president.

DailyMail.com has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.

TOO CLOSE TO CALL ..... THIS TIME THE POLLS MAY BE GETTING IT RIGHT

By Emma James 

 

Daily Mail

Oct 31, 2024

 

Less than five days before the 2024 election, journalist Megyn Kelly thinks the biggest bombshells of this campaign are still yet to drop.

Less than five days before the 2024 election, journalist Megyn Kelly thinks the biggest bombshells of this campaign are still yet to drop.

 

Less than five days before the 2024 election, journalist Megyn Kelly thinks the biggest bombshells of this campaign are still yet to drop.

'I don't think we've gotten the October surprise yet,' Kelly, host of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview on the eve of the vote.

'I bet we're still going to get something big dropped on us by somebody,' she predicted and pointed to an 'increasingly desperate' Harris campaign, which has now begun comparing Trump to some of history's most notorious madmen.

'They're calling Trump a Nazi [and Joseph] Goebbels. They're calling him a fascist, Mao, Stalin,' Kelly said. 'What would you do if you thought Hitler was about to get elected? It's really kind of dangerous, frankly.'

Kelly, 53, has long been at the center of American politics, first as a Fox News Channel reporter and then as a host for the network's top-rated primetime show 'The Kelly File.'

After a brief stint at NBC News, Kelly launched her podcast – now, one of the most popular in the country – once again putting her in the middle of it all. 

On election night, Megyn will be hosting a live panel of experts, including the Mail's Maureen Callahan and prominent conservative pundits like The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro.  

All of Kelly’s experience suggests to her that this wild 2024 ride is far from over.

'It's probably going to get uglier and wackier and weirder,' she said. 'There's probably going to be a few more women coming out accusing Donald Trump of things because the Democrats love that old chestnut.'

Kelly famously confronted then-candidate Trump in 2015 over his treatment of women during a Fox News-hosted Republican primary debate. After the event, Trump lashed out at Kelly in a bizarre rant. But now the veteran journalist has made clear that she's moved on and even recently told listeners that she voted early for the former president.

However, despite her hope for a second Trump term, Kelly admitted to the Mail that she has no idea how this election will turn out.

'I've read everyone and everything. I am desperate to know. I can't wait to know, but we can't know,' she said.

For one, Kelly is hesitant to put her faith in the public opinion polling.

'Are the polls still wrong about Donald Trump?' she questioned. 'Are they still undercounting Trump voters?'

'Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to win. The prediction there was like 93 percent, 98 percent.'

In 2024, Kelly says there's reason to suspect that the pollsters may finally be getting it right.

'Are they still undercounting Trump voters?' she mused. 'There's a lot of reason to believe they're not, that they actually have fixed it.'

 

Kelly famously confronted then-candidate Trump in 2015 over his treatment of women during a Fox News-hosted Republican primary debate.

Kelly famously confronted then-candidate Trump in 2015 over his treatment of women during a Fox News-hosted Republican primary debate.

The veteran journalist has made clear that she's moved on and even recently told listeners that she voted early for the former president. (Above) Megyn Kelly interviews Donald Trump on September 14, 2023

The veteran journalist has made clear that she's moved on and even recently told listeners that she voted early for the former president. (Above) Megyn Kelly interviews Donald Trump on September 14, 2023

 

Many of the Americans who came out for Trump in 2016 hadn't voted in prior elections, so they were overlooked by pollsters who seek the opinion of individuals who are most likely to go to the ballots.

Kelly suggests that now there may be no such thing as a hidden Trump supporter: 'Trump got them to register [to vote] and he got them to vote. They're all baked into the cake now, so the undercounted Trump vote is no longer a thing. This is a theory.'

Putting the polling aside, Kelly sees Tuesday night playing out in two possible ways – either America knows the winner fairly quickly or election day turns into election days.

'If it does come down to Pennsylvania, it's going to be a long week', Kelly said.

There is a scenario in which Trump and Harris split the nation's electoral college votes and it all comes down to the Keystone State.

Under Pennsylvania state law local election officials are prohibited from counting mail-in ballots until 7:00 am on Election Day, whereas other states allow these votes to be tabulated in advance, speeding the final tally.

On the other hand, Megyn can also foresee a route to a quick call on November 5.

'I think there's a good chance we might know on election night', she said.

If Trump carries the Sun Belts states (Nevada and Arizona in the West and North Carolina and Georgia in the East) and also picks up Michigan and Wisconsin, then, Kelly believes, there may be a prompt resolution.

It's a completely plausible scenario, according to Kelly, who cited polling showing Trump ahead in Georgia – and reports that the Harris hurriedly pulled their campaign ads from North Carolina this week.

Plus, she contends, Trump has the wind at his back.

'If you look at momentum, at least as of right this second, it has been behind Trump over the past 10 days… if you were Trump, you'd want the election to happen tomorrow.'

And President Biden's comments on Wednesday night, referring to Republican voters as 'garbage,' were another stroke of luck for Trump's campaign.

Kelly thinks Trump's response to the Biden gaffe – appearing at a Green Bay, Wisconsin rally in a reflective vest and sitting in the passenger seat of the garbage truck emblazoned with a Trump-Vance banner – was very impactful.

'He's taking himself from a one-of-a-kind candidate to an American icon with these images. Great entertainment, even better politics.'

However, now, in these closing days of this race, Kelly has a word of warning to Trump.

'No more with the surrogates, no comics, no bombastic donors. It's not worth it,' she said, in a clear reference to the controversial speakers at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

As for Democrats - Kelly doesn't have much help to offer.

Even Harris's most effective surrogates, Barack and Michelle Obama, have 'lost their fastball,' she said – and dismissed the Obamas' recent scolding of black men, who may be abandoning the Democratic Party in historic numbers.

'The country's become anti-man,' Kelly said. 'The messaging around men has been absolutely disrespectful and dehumanizing for a long time now, and who's doing it? The Democrat Party.'

'I don't think anyone's going to vote for Kamala because they've been shamed by Barack about their alleged secret sexism or racism against her or shamed by Michelle that it's not standing up for your woman's rights.'

IF IRAN DOES ATTACK IT AGAIN, ISRAEL'S RETALIATION SHOULD BE SWIFT AND INCLUDE THE DESTRUCTION OF TEHRAN'S OIL FACILITIES

Iranian leader Ali Khamenei said to order reprisal attack on Israeli military sites

NYT says decision made after briefing on extent of damage caused by Israel retaliatory strike; separate report claims Iraqi militias will fire drones, missiles for Tehran

 

 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024.

Iran’s supreme leader has ordered his military officials to prepare a reprisal attack against Israel, a report said Thursday, as senior Iranian officials warned of “harsh” and “unimaginable” responses to Israel’s strikes on Iranian military sites earlier this month.

The report in The New York Times, citing Iranian officials, said Tehran’s response would not come until after US voters go to the polls on November 5, though other news outlets have quoted sources saying Iran’s response could come ahead of the vote.

Iranian leaders have been threatening to carry out a reprisal action after the Israeli Air Force attacked anti-aircraft batteries and radar sites across Iran on October 26 in retaliation for a massive Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1. But Iran has so far been seen as seeking to minimize the chances for escalation or a repeat engagement.

The Times, citing three officials familiar with Tehran’s war planning, said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had ordered plans drawn up by his Supreme National Security Council on Monday after being briefed on the extent of the damage from the Israeli strikes.

Iran has claimed the sorties caused only minimal damage, while admitting that four soldiers were killed. Israel maintains its strikes successfully destroyed Iranian air defenses and missile production capabilities.

According to the Times, Khamenei felt that the deaths and the scale of Israel’s attack necessitated a response to avoid being seen as admitting defeat.

The report noted that Iranian military officials were drawing up possible lists of Israeli military targets.

A separate report in US news site Axios said Israeli intelligence was girding for an attack in the coming days involving a large number of ballistic missiles and drones launched by Iran-backed groups in Iraq.

Carrying out the attack through pro-Iran militias in Iraq could be an attempt by Tehran to avoid another Israeli attack against strategic targets in Iran, the report said.

 

In this photo released by the Iranian army on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, drones are launched during an air force nationwide drone drill centered in northern Semnan province, Iran. 
 

Both Axios and a CNN report Wednesday citing a source with knowledge of Iran’s war planning said the reprisal strike could be launched ahead of the US election on November 5.

However, sources who spoke to the Times said Iran would hold off until after the election, fearing that increased tensions could boost former president Donald Trump’s chances against Democrat Kamala Harris.

Speaking Thursday at the end of an IDF combat officers training course at a base near Mitzpe Ramon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel’s sorties had targeted Iran’s “soft underbelly” and left it without an air defense umbrella.

“The brash words of the leaders of the regime in Iran cannot cover up the fact that Israel has greater freedom of action in Iran today than ever before,” he said. “We can reach anywhere in Iran as needed.”

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an officer training graduation ceremony on an IDF base on October 31, 2024. 
 

Iran has claimed publicly that Israel’s attack was largely thwarted and that its air defenses stood up to the threat.

On Thursday, Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, a senior aide to Khamenei, praised Iran’s air defense performance in “preventing the entry of the Zionist regime fighters into the territory” and said damage from the strikes was “minimal.”

“The recent action of the Zionist regime in attacking parts of our country was a desperate move and the Islamic Republic of Iran will give it a harsh and regretful response,” he said, according to the Tasnim news agency.

 

A general view of Tehran after several explosions marked the start of Israeli airstrikes on military targets in the area, early on October 26, 2024. 
 

Also speaking on Thursday, General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of Iran’s military, warned of an “unimaginable” response to Israel.

“Israel has reached the stage of collapse and these days it acts blindly and without abiding to any rules it commits every crime,” he added, according to Tasnim.

Repeat reprisals

Threatening further tit-for-tat attacks should Iran hit back, the IDF on Thursday announced the establishment of new bodies in the Intelligence Directorate and Air Force that will enable “repetitive actions” in Iran.

A new Iran department was established in the Intelligence Directorate’s Research Division, and a so-called “depth” department was established in the Air Force’s Intelligence Department, the army said.

It noted that the air force had carried out several training exercises ahead of the long-range strikes earlier this month.

 

Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces) 

Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024.

 

More than 100 IAF aircraft participated in the strikes on Iran early on October 19, according to the military, which said it took out Iran’s “strategic” long-range air defense systems and caused a blow to Iran’s ability to manufacture ballistic missiles.

The strikes on the air defenses have “opened up freedom of aerial action” against Iran, and strikes on the missile manufacturing sites “removed an immediate and future threat to the State of Israel,” the IDF said.

Speaking at the officer graduation, Netanyahu said the army’s supreme goal in Iran remained stopping the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.

“I have not removed, we have not removed and we will not remove our eyes from this goal. For obvious reasons, I cannot detail our plans for achieving this supreme goal,” he said.

SEVEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND ONE PERSON WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED TODAY IN TWO SEPARATE HEZBOLLAH ROCKET ATTACKS ON ISRAEL'S NORTH

New Hezbollah chief vows to continue ‘war program’ against Israel

The newly-minted Lebanese terrorist leader thanked Hezbollah “for placing its trust in me for this heavy responsibility.”

 

By Akiva Van Koningsveld

 

Israel Today

Oct 31, 2024 

 

Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Hezbollah's new leader Sheikh Naim Qassem
 

In his first speech since being appointed Hezbollah leader earlier this week, Naim Qassem vowed to continue the path of his slain predecessor Hassan Nasrallah, he declared on Wednesday.

“I start with a verse from the holy Quran which guides us and points out what happened with the Jews throughout history,” said Qassem, according to a translation by Lebanon’s L’Orient Le Jour daily.

“The Almighty said they will only inflict harm on you. And if they fight you, they will not be victorious. There will be harm inflicted. Great sacrifices will be made. However, in the end, they will flee, and victory will be for the faithful,” he continued.

“What is my plan? A continuation of my predecessor’s. We will carry on with the war program as it has been outlined so far.”

Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Sept. 27 after heading the Iranian-backed terrorist group for more than 30 years, remains “the symbol of the resistance and the beloved of resistance fighters,” he said.

Qassem in his address also paid tribute to the slain head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Hashem Safieddine, as well as Palestinian Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who he said had “resisted until his last breath.”

The newly-minted Lebanese terrorist leader thanked Hezbollah “for placing its trust in me for this heavy responsibility.”

During Qassem’s speech, Israeli Air Force jets began attacking targets in the Baalbek region of northern Lebanon, several hours after issuing an evacuation warning to residents of the area, according to local reports.

According to the terrorist, the region is facing an “American, European and global war aimed at ending resistance and our peoples.” He said that supporting Gaza was “essential to confront the Israeli threat to the entire region, and because the people of Gaza needed to be supported.”

He went on to say that “Iran supports us in our project and asks for nothing in return.”

Commenting on the Oct. 19 suicide drone assault on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Caesarea residence, Qassem stated: “The resistance has reached Netanyahu’s bedroom, and our diplomatic communications have confirmed that he is scared; perhaps his time hasn’t come yet, but he could very well be killed by an Israeli youth.”

Qassem, who had served as deputy secretary general of Hezbollah since 1991, was elected its new leader on Tuesday.

A recent report in the UAE-based Erem News, quoting an Iranian source, claimed that Qassem left Beirut on Oct. 5 for Damascus, before flying to Tehran. He was reportedly aboard the plane used by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for a state visit to Lebanon and Syria.

“The transfer of Naim Qassem to Tehran was by order of the higher authorities in Iran for fear of being assassinated by the Israeli entity, because he is on the list of wanted,” the Iranian source said.

The first address Qassem delivered after Nasrallah’s assassination was delivered in Beirut, while the second and third speeches were delivered from the Islamic Republic, according to the source.

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE FLOWED INTO IRAN UNDER THE BIDEN-HARRIS POLICIES, AND THAT'S THE ONLY REASON TEHRAN AND ITS TERRORIST PROXIES CAN CARRY OUT THEIR MALIGN MISSION TO DESTROY ISRAEL

Israel can cut off the head of the snake and free the Iranian people

Iran’s ambitions to eradicate Israel have faltered, and the “resistance axis” led by Tehran faces a potential collapse. 

 

By Yair Ansbacher


JNS

Oct 31, 2024


Iran's then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, pictured in Tehran on February 5, 1979, a decade before he issued a fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over Iran in 1979

 

The 1979 takeover of Iran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Revolutionary Guards, once seen by some as a hope for change, has become a nightmare for millions. Decades of repression—mass executions, torture, religious coercion and severe suppression of rights—have fueled widespread disillusionment among the Iranian populace. Iran’s violent, isolationist foreign policy has further estranged its people and amplified their yearning for freedom.

Amid this landscape, Israel’s recent “Operation Days of Repentance”—its first direct strike on Iran—signals a pivotal shift. Iran’s ambitions to eradicate Israel have faltered, and the “resistance axis” led by Tehran faces a potential collapse. Millions of Iranians are again sensing the possibility of freedom, a potent force Israel can harness to aid their liberation.

The regime in Tehran has long wielded control over the Middle East by financing and arming Hamas and Hezbollah through its Quds Force, the foreign wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC. As both groups relentlessly target Israel, Iran’s influence ignites terror across the region. The Quds Force provides advanced missiles, drones and funds, maintaining Hezbollah’s dominance in Lebanon and supporting Hamas in Gaza. Through its proxies, Iran spreads fear and undermines stability, all while tightening its grip on the Iranian people.

U.S. policy under the leadership of President Joe Biden, including efforts to re-engage Tehran diplomatically and ease sanctions, has unfortunately reinforced Iran’s terror network. Billions of dollars have flowed into Iran under these policies, not to improve the lives of everyday Iranians but to empower the IRGC and Quds Force, whose backing of regional militias and terror networks jeopardizes peace. The impact is clear: Hezbollah, with more than 150,000 rockets, is poised to target Israeli civilians, and Hamas intensifies its terror tactics from Gaza, emboldened by Iranian support. This misdirected funding perpetuates violence, linking directly to the ongoing chaos in Israel and beyond.

Let’s be clear: The only reason Tehran and their terrorist proxies are flush with cash and able to carry out their malign mission to destroy Israel is because of Biden’s failed foreign-policy agenda.

To confront Tehran’s influence, Israel must adopt a targeted approach. Instead of striking Iran’s oil and nuclear infrastructure, Israel should focus on key governmental and military sites symbolic of the regime’s oppression. Achieving air superiority, dismantling the IRGC leadership and targeting Basij—the volunteer paramilitary militia—and other oppressive forces will show Iranians that Israel stands with them against tyranny. Attacks on infamous prisons, like Evin, where dissidents languish in horrific conditions, could galvanize public support, inspiring a popular uprising.

History shows that when resistance within Iran gains momentum, the IRGC faces severe strain as they are forced to defend their regime amid internal chaos. Israel’s strategy, combined with encouragement for local uprisings, could overextend Iran’s security apparatus, complicating its support for external proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. Even partial success—a substantial public uprising—would unsettle Tehran, distracting it from destabilizing actions abroad and paving the way for future measures, should they become necessary.

Iran’s regime is not a victim of international isolation; it is the architect of its people’s suffering and regional turmoil. If the global community, led by the United States, genuinely seeks peace, it must sever Iran’s financial lifelines and confront the regime directly. Tehran’s hegemony relies on its unchecked ability to arm and finance terror, an influence that grows unchecked when sanctions are lifted without accountability.

Today, a window has opened. Iranians feel the intoxicating possibility of freedom—of restoring their nation’s dignity and reconnecting with the world. Israel can stand as an ally, showing solidarity with the people of Iran while delivering strategic blows to the regime’s lifeblood. By empowering Iranians and targeting symbols of oppression, Israel and its allies can weaken the head of this terror snake, paving a path toward a more stable Middle East and lasting peace.

DESPITE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT IT IS INDEED AN ACTIVE PARTNER OF HAMAS, BIDEN AND HARRIS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT UNRWA

The UNRWA meltdown

How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers? 

 

By Melanie Phillips

 

JNS

Oct 31, 2024

 

 

A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2024. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2024.
 

If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Laws passed this week by the Israeli Knesset, which will come into force in three months’ time, ban UNRWA from operating in either Israel or Gaza, prohibit state officials from having any contact with the agency or its representatives, and enable Israel to arrest and prosecute any of its employees with terrorist connections.

The evidence is overwhelming that UNRWA is indeed an active partner of Hamas.

Israel has claimed that dozens of UNRWA officials and staffers directly participated in last year’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, when 1,200 were murdered and more than 250 kidnapped into Gaza.

Mohammad Abu Itiwi, who led the murder and kidnapping of Israelis hiding in a roadside bomb shelter on that terrible day, and who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces last week in Gaza, had been employed by UNRWA since July 2022 while serving as a Nukbha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion.

Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, who led Hamas in Lebanon and was killed in an Israeli airstrike there in September, doubled as the head of Lebanon’s UNRWA teachers’ union. A school principal, he oversaw 65 schools and roughly 40,000 students. He had also been responsible for coordinating terror activities between Hamas and Hezbollah; procuring weapons and recruiting terrorists; and using social media to incite attacks.

The IDF repeatedly discovered terrorist infrastructure sited in and around UNRWA schools, hospitals and other facilities. Back in February, Israeli forces found below UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City a subterranean data center that was hooked up to the electricity supply in the UNRWA facility above.

According to the curricula monitoring organization IMPACT-se, UNRWA’s school curriculum has had a “central, radicalizing influence on generations of Palestinians” and teaches children that the Jews are liars and fraudsters” who “spread corruption.”

Despite all this and more such evidence of UNRWA’s terrorist ties, there has been hysterical outrage over Israel’s ban. There have been claims that it will deepen the humanitarian crisis with Gazans now on the brink of starvation—a claim that’s been made repeatedly during the war but has always proved untrue.

In reality, hundreds of aid trucks enter Gaza every week, but Hamas continues to steal the aid and sell it on the black market at hugely inflated prices that Gaza residents cannot afford. Hamas has seized an estimated $500 million in foreign aid since the war began.

Most of the assistance coming in isn’t even being distributed by UNRWA. Israeli officials have said that aid agencies such as the World Food Program, World Central Kitchen and UNICEF have a bigger role in distributing Gaza’s aid supplies.

None of this is acknowledged by those claiming that the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza are starving and UNRWA is irreplaceable. Other aid agencies, they say, don’t provide health and education services.

But UNRWA’s schools have taught generations of Gaza’s children to hate and murder Jews. According to the IDF, every single UNRWA hospital and clinic has been used as a terrorist hub, with clinical staff doubling as Hamas members.

In any civilized universe, how can such a provision be deemed “irreplaceable”? Shouldn’t the appropriate response to the organization that has facilitated such terrorist assistance be to shut it down?

Moreover, why should Israel be held responsible for providing Gaza with humanitarian assistance? Israel has been under bombardment from the coastal enclave for two decades. Gaza’s population elected Hamas to rule them. Opinion polling consistently reveals that even among those who now hate Hamas, the vast majority support the killing of Israelis.

Thousands of those civilians took part in the Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel and grossly abused the Israeli captives when they were dragged into Gaza. The IDF subsequently found evidence of ties to Hamas in virtually every house.

In what conceivable moral universe is a country targeted for such a remorseless and genocidal attack expected to look after the welfare of its murderous attackers?

The United Nations says that Jerusalem has an obligation under international law to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza because Israel is the occupying power. But this is totally untrue. Israel is not occupying Gaza. It withdrew from it altogether in 2005.

It’s the United Nations that has failed to live up to its own international obligation not to fund and support violence. For years, the world body has turned a blind eye to UNRWA’s ties to terrorists. So have America, Britain and other countries. They still refuse to acknowledge this problem.

In a statement this week expressing “grave concern” over the Israeli ban, the foreign ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom claimed that UNRWA was tackling its employees’ support for terrorism by pursuing the recommendations made in last April’s independent review by the former French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna.

That review was a travesty. Before the report was even written, Colonna said that her goal was to “enable donors … to regain confidence, when they have lost it or when they have doubts, in the way UNRWA operates.” Her report was drafted to achieve precisely that rather than stop the rot.

Far from tackling the agency’s terrorist ties, its commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, has batted them away. He claimed implausibly that UNRWA didn’t know about the Hamas data center underneath its Gaza headquarters.

He denied that it employed terrorists and said this claim was part of a “large-scale campaign aimed at undermining the agency.” Having suspended the teachers’ union head Abu el Amin under pressure over the revelation of his Hamas role, Lazzarini reinstated him three months later under pressure of a strike by UNRWA teachers supporting their union’s head.

As for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, he appeared to blame Israel for the Hamas Oct. 7 pogrom by saying it “did not happen in a vacuum” and has repeatedly parroted Hamas talking points.

Instead of holding the U.N.’s and UNRWA’s feet to the fire, Israel’s supposed allies in America and Britain have been threatening to cut off the Jewish state at the knees.

Having told Israel earlier this month that it must take steps within 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S. military aid, the Biden-Harris administration threatened it with “consequences under U.S. law and U.S. policy” over its UNRWA ban.

In Britain, there have been reports that the government may suspend further arms sales to Israel as punishment. The U.K. ambassador to the United Nations, Dame Barbara Woodward, said that Israel must “ensure UNRWA can continue to provide essential services to those suffering in Gaza and the West Bank.”

But UNRWA’s role is not as a dispassionate provider of essential services. It was actually created in 1949 as a weapon to delegitimize the State of Israel. While refugee status for all other peoples is considered a temporary measure, it’s permanent for the Palestinian Arabs. Under UNRWA’s unique designation, it’s passed down from generation to generation.

That’s why the number of Palestinian Arab “refugees” has ludicrously increased from 700,000 in 1948 to 5.9 million today—an ever-growing running sore whose toxicity is vastly increased by the hatred of Israel taught in UNRWA schools.

The pretense that UNRWA exists to provide for the suffering was finally ripped apart by the part its employees played in the Oct. 7 atrocities and in the war that has followed.

Israelis are no longer prepared to tolerate people who are trying to kill them and destroy their country while parading as humanitarian relief workers. Yet the United States, Britain and the United Nations are pressuring Israel to continue to keep this malign farce going.

Such people aren’t appalled by UNRWA. They’re appalled by the ban on it. That tells you everything you need to know about the war against Israel by the so-called civilized world.

ASSHOLE MURDERS EX-GF AND HER PARENTS WHILE THE KID RUNS

By Bob Walsh


 

Issac Nathaniel Christenbury

 

Maiden, N.C. was the scene of this domestic tragedy Tuesday night.  Nathaniel Christenbury apparently shot his ex-girlfriend Jenna Lynn Cox, 28, to death as well as her parents, Charles K. Cox and Cyndi M. Cox, both 61.  Jenna's 10-year old son was present during the shooting and took off to a neighbor's house to summon help.  

Christenbury had beat feet after the shooting, but later called 911 and turned himself in.  He is in the Lincoln County slammer facing three first degree murder charges.  He is being held without bond.  He used to live at the scene of the shooting with Jenna.    

These were the first murders in Maiden in over 20 years.

THE 28% SOLUTION

By Bob Walsh

 

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

 

This may very well turn out to be THE pivotal bit of information for this election.  This is the percentage of the voting public who believe the country is, under the current administration, heading in the right direction.  It doesn't matter if they like or don't like Donald Trump.  It doesn't matter if they like or don't like Kamala Harris.  That is the number.

Kamala has said REPEATEDLY that she would not change a thing that Senile Joe has done.  People know that.  She isn't trying to hide that.  Trump has said that they are driving the country over the cliff.  It seems that a LOT of people agree with Trump, even if they don't like him.

Will that be enough?  Damned if I know, but it certainly isn't going to hurt Trump and it will hurt Kamala.  This election MAY turn on 100,000 votes or less in seven states or less.  Small increments may be all it takes.  In four days we will know (probably).

COMMUTE COULD GET INTERESTING IN A COUPLE OF DAYS

By Bob Walsh

 

  The Middle River Bridge at Highway 4 to Victoria Island west of Stockton on Apr. 1, 2011. 

The Middle River bridge at Highway 4 to Victoria Island west of Stockton

 

There is a levee that is in the process of failing.  It is west of here, along Hwy 4 at Victoria Island.  This is farm land with pretty much zero population but if the levee goes completely it could drown Hwy 14, a major commute route into the bay area as well as bugger up the water supply to Contra Costa County.  

In the last few days the levee owner has put about $1 million into emergency repairs and now wants the state to kick down.  Many of these levees are over 100 years old and were not engineered to begin with.  Also many of them have had indifferent maintenance by underfunded reclamation agencies, though I do not know that this is the case with this particular levee.  The current issue is dumped about 6,000 gallons per minute into Victoria Island.  Water moving thru the levee just takes more material with it which makes the opening bigger which makes more water flow, etc. etc.

I hope it doesn't get too interesting out that way.  I am at 39 feet above mean sea level so I am not much worried personally, and I have flood insurance anyway.  The traffic disruption however would be a bitch.

VAIN, STUPID AND UNLUCKY EQUALS DEAD

By Bob Walsh


Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, poses in undated photo

Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim

Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, poses in undated photo

Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria

 

I think that if I were on a small boat at a place known locally in Brazil as The Devil's Throat I would wear my damn life jacket.  Apparently two "internet influencers", Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorium and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria looked too good to wear life jackets as they were taking a ton of selfies and working on their tans.  The women were attending a party on the boat one month ago when it was hit by an unexpected wave, dumping seven people on board over the side.  The other five were rescued.  The two non-wearers of life jackets drowned. 

I am sure, however, they left good looking corpses.  If they were not beaten up too badly on the rocks. 

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

TO SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE CONSTITUTION, KAMALA HARRIS AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE LAST PEOPLE WE SHOULD ELECT

The REAL threat to democracy? Read Kamala's plot to change America forever, writes DAN MCLAUGHLIN

 

By Dan Mclaughlin

 

Daily Mail

Oct 30, 2024

 

WHETHER SHE'S ANIMATED BY FEAR, INEPTITUDE OR LAZINESS, HARRIS KEEPS RATIFYING ONE TRUTH: SHE'S NOT UP TO THE JOB

MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Biden just exposed Kamala's dirty secret. Now it's time to take out the real 'garbage', America

 

By Maureen Callahan 

 

Daily Mail

Oct 30, 2024

 

As Kamala Harris delivered her closing argument on Tuesday night - in the shadow of the White House , site of Trump's January 6 speech, to make her case as a uniter - Joe Biden tossed a verbal grenade into the heart of her campaign, calling Trump supporters 'garbage' .

As Kamala Harris delivered her closing argument on Tuesday night - in the shadow of the White House , site of Trump's January 6 speech, to make her case as a uniter - Joe Biden tossed a verbal grenade into the heart of her campaign, calling Trump supporters 'garbage' .

 

Talk about an enemy from within!

As Kamala Harris delivered her closing argument on Tuesday night — in the shadow of the White House, site of Trump's January 6 speech, to make her case as a uniter – Joe Biden tossed a verbal grenade into the heart of her campaign, calling Trump supporters 'garbage'.

The damage is inestimable.

It's Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables' moment all over again, proof that the Democrats have learned nothing since 2016, really don't care to, and have never stopped believing that Trump voters are mouth-breathing racist, fascist, sexist xenophobes.

The only question: Does Biden know what he's doing?

Seems increasingly so to me. Just as it seems Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, two of the shrewdest political strategists of the modern age, have made harmful remarks while stumping for Kamala.

Would it be surprising if the Dem establishment has, at best, conflicting feelings about a future President Cackles?

Speaking to Latino voters in a Zoom interview, President Biden leapt on those remarks made by an insult comic at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, calling Puerto Rico 'a floating island of garbage'.

Now: Was that a clumsy reference to Puerto Rico's decades-long environmental crisis, caused by overflowing trash endangering water, air, soil and wildlife?

Perhaps. But it did not land that way. That joke — defended, notably, by no less a progressive icon than Jon Stewart — was too easily read as racist. It was a terrible, unforced error. Trump's campaign swiftly disavowed it.

But here was helpful Old Joe on Tuesday night, speaking from the White House as Harris was trying to appear presidential.

'Just the other day,' Biden said, 'a speaker at [Trump's] rally called Puerto Rico 'a floating island of garbage'. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters'.

It was the quiet part said out loud, again.

The mask slips and slips and can't be properly affixed. Conservatives don't express this kind of hate for liberals. Confusion, yes. Skepticism, yes. Sure — Trump attacks Democratic elites, the lunatic left, and says plenty of wild stuff — but you don't hear him calling Harris supporters 'garbage' or 'deplorables'.

Yet the Dems — and their compatriots in the left-leaning media — continue to glorify themselves as the party of kindness, unity and tolerance when they are anything but.

In their eyes, anyone who questions trans orthodoxy is an irredeemable bigot. Anyone not pro-Palestine is a genocidal warmonger. If you question unfettered late-term abortions, you want to strip women of all their rights. If you want a controlled border, you're racist.

And if you're voting for Trump, you're trash.

Never let it be said that the Dems don't know how to get people to the voting booth.

On Wednesday morning, Harris attempted to clean up this mess, speaking — conveniently muffled by the engines of Air Force Two — to a press gaggle at Joint Base Andrews.

Has she spoken to President Biden since his remarks?

'He did call me last night,' she said, 'but this didn't come up.'

Is she kidding? Her own 'October Surprise' didn't come up?

Just when you think Harris can't get any more inauthentic, she outdoes herself. It's truly the only thing she's any good at.

Why not express anger, disgust, emotion? Why not make a true-faith effort to speak to undecideds who are, doubtless, now leaning toward Trump?

Then again, this a woman who continually praises 'Dougie', the troublesome husband who allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend and impregnated the nanny. Perhaps Kamala Harris is well-versed in excusing bad behaviors — damaging, catastrophic behaviors — by the men in her life.

Asked whether Trump voters would find Biden's remarks insulting, Harris said, 'I am running for president of the United States' — we know — 'talking with the American people… to lift them up around their aspirations, their ambitions and their dreams.'

This again? Unreal.

How is it that none of her speechwriters, none of those ex-Obama geniuses, were able to craft her a pithy rejoinder?

Whether she's animated by fear, ineptitude or laziness, Harris keeps ratifying one truth: she's not up to the job.

 

Sure - Trump attacks Democratic elites, the lunatic left, and says plenty of wild stuff - but you don't hear him calling Harris supporters 'garbage' or 'deplorables'.

Sure - Trump attacks Democratic elites, the lunatic left, and says plenty of wild stuff - but you don't hear him calling Harris supporters 'garbage' or 'deplorables'.

 

Perhaps this is why Bill Clinton, who surely knows better, admitted — while stumping for Kamala! — that Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant, would likely still be alive if the Biden-Harris administration had 'properly vetted' the 10-million-plus migrants (probably more) who have crossed the border in the past four years.

Or why Barack Obama hectored black male voters who, in his estimation, 'aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president'.

In the wake of Biden's trash-talk, the White House scrambled. First, they issued a transcript that changed the word 'supporters' to 'supporter's' — an unethical altering of a sitting president's remarks.

Aides then furiously contacted newsrooms, the Mail included, 'checking' that editors had the official White House statement.

And, of course, left-leaning outlets swiftly fell in line. Here's the lead from the New York Times report, updated at 1.20 am on Wednesday:

'Donald J. Trump and his allies are trying to recreate a moment that resonated deeply with his supporters in the 2016 campaign: when Hillary Clinton referred to Trump supporters as a 'basket of deplorables'.'

So you see: Biden's remarks are Trump's fault!

This is why Harris can't break 50 percent in the polls. This is why legacy media is dying.

When you tell people that what they have seen and heard is, in fact, not what they have seen and heard, you've lost. When you tell people that they are too stupid to trust their own sensory inputs — same.

And when your outgoing president is still embittered by his expulsion — when, per Axios this weekend, his offers to help the Harris campaign are routinely rebuffed — well, you might just find yourself agreeing with your opponent: There is, indeed, an enemy within.

And his name is Joe Biden.