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Trump fun stuff

 Kamala is at a dance party with Beyoncé

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They're eating the dogs; they're eating the cats

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Elon and Donald Stayin' alive

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Anti Trumpers thought these were vids to mock the man. And maybe they were. But even if so, they backfired. For they worked to make Trump cool among young kids. They really did. Heaps of young kids, even young women, danced and voted for Trump. 

If they were anti-Trump, then they backfired as much as the lawfare backfired. Every time a new indictment came out, his numbers went up. 

Every time cats are mentioned, they dance more. Every time he mocks Beyoncé, they dance even more. 

And then I think this: just how goddamed gifted and inventive Americans are. What a treasure. And... it's not many places in the world you can make such fun of the president. Not only get away with it. Be celebrated, go viral. Good on America!

Have I made it clear enough that I'm delighted by the Trump win?

I mean, I thought I had over the recent months, years even. Like the voyage from supporting Bill, Barack, Hillary to supporting Trump. TL;DR: crappy policies delivered by an awful candidate. And Karps about Kamala.

But I still get some correspondence from Occasional Readers, that make me wonder. That perhaps they believe I was on the fence, or perhaps even pro Kamala. 

No. I was not and am not. For some time now I've been a Trump supporter. For reasons that I've set out in various posts over recent months. (Eg above).

By the way, I'm also Philosemitic, aka Judeophilic. Which means a lover of jews. And a lover of Israel. I'm a goy Zionist. That's "goy", with an "o".

There. That's it for today. I support Trump and his team. And love and support Israel and Jews. 

I think we're in for a Golden Age. Of peace and economic growth. Which not even the Dems will be able to gainsay. 

Trump overwhelmingly popular in Israel

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Israelis: 66% support Trump. 17% oppose. 17% don't know. 

Meantime, Netanyahu is popular in Israel, getting over 60% in polls. Despite what the Left in Israel think, which is that he's not popular, because that's what their friends think. No, he's popular in Israel and outside Israel. 

Ending the war in Gaza and Lebanon:

End the war by winning. That's the Trump way. 

End the war by losing. That's the Biden-Harris-Obama way. "Ceasefire". Which = capitulation. 

And the sacking of Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. For which: Yay! Ruthie Blum talked about this the other day. 

Terror apologists have already flooded the international media with excuses and explanations for Thursday night's "Jodenjacht" (Jew-hunt) in Amsterdam.

However, the evidence shows that the antisemitic attacks were preplanned and coordinated by local Islamist cells. JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten tell you what we know so far on the latest episode of "Jerusalem Minute"!

Also, they cover last week’s U.S. elections and what the results mean for Israel; Iran’s response and threats to President-elect Donald Trump; the ongoing war in Lebanon; the "Trump effect" in Qatar and more.

Who has the Biz Cred?

Kamala camp. Those who have Zero days of experience in the business world: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Tim Walz. And many others (Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib....).

Trump camp. Those that have founded, owned and run substantial companies: Donald Trump, J D Vance, Usha Vance, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Bergum…. And dozens of others. 

I had many scrappy jobs before I became an Australian diplomat, then an Asian business consultant, then a senior-ish corporate guy. Finally founded and ran a business. It was only doing the business that I learned about meeting a monthly salary bill. In my case for 300 staff, each month. 

That’s key. It’s bracing. It teaches you the realities of life. 

I firmly believe that lack of that business experience is a severe lack in any senior job. Let alone the presidency. 

Elon Musk has called a nation "a corporation at the extreme, with a monopoly on violence'. That is, you have to understand how a corporation works to understand how a country works. Even then, it's only part of the story because of the way in which bad incentives infect a country vs a corporation. 

But still, it's a minimum requirement, I reckon. A sine qua non. And the Kamala Kamp had none of it. Good riddance. 

Kamala's final offer

"Vote for me or you get Hitler"

That's it. That's what the final offer of the Kamala team was. Her. Or Hitler. Her.. Hitler. Hitler... her. Her/Hitler. That's the choice. The Kamala choice. 

After they'd tried out "Joy", and "I ain't Joe..." and then "Oh... and also I ain't Trump". In between the projection of "They're weird". And nowhere stopping by "These are my policies". Nah, no policies. 

So We the People (WTP) ask: "Where's the proof? I mean that he's Hitler". 

Kamala: "Look at the rally in New York, in Madison Square Garden. Just like the rally that Nazis had there in 1939. Coincidence?"

WTP: "But there've been dozens of rallies by Democrats in MSG since 1939. And thousands of basketball games. And countless concerts. So I'ma yeah, but nah, on that one". 

Kamala: "Well, what about the fact that in The Atlantic, they have a story of a woman whose cousin has a contact in the White House that says that one time Trump praised Hitler's generals. How about that??"

WTP: "Yes, we saw that. But then Mark Meaddows, who was there in the Oval Office, at the exact time that this was supposed to have been said and he says Trump didn't say anything like that at all. So, again, I'ma gonna be Yeah, but nah, on that one too". 

Kamala: "Still, he's a fascist and you'd better vote for me, or the country will implode". 

WTP: ... 

And.. we're done. That was the offer. To which Americans said "Yeah, but nah". 

AND, ADDED: The Amish in PA voted for the first time. 100% for Trump. What they wanted was just not to be bothered endlessly by government. Which is what the Dem government in PA had done for a few decades. Losing them many farmers. 

The First Family elect

 

Black race hustlers are delusional about felonious Trump | Greg Foreman

For people like professor Eddie Glaude in this video by Greg Foreman, who hammer Trump, if their first charge is that he’s “a 34-time convicted felon”, I would ask them this: “what is the felony that he was convicted of?”

If they answer: “I can’t possible remember all 34 counts”, remind them that it’s actually ONE count, that’s been sliced like salami into 34. So again: “what’s the felony?”.

After all, if it’s a serious felony, like murder, or theft, or robbery, or blackmail, they ought to be able to say so, pretty smartly.

If they say “hush money payment”, you can respond swiftly, “oh no, hush money payments — aka payments for a Non Disclosure Agreement — are common and widespread. They are not illlegal. Even if made to an escort.” And you’d be right. 

If they then retreat to “it was cover up of election related payments” you can again confidently respond “no it wasn’t that either”.

Now, at this point you really need to research yourself just what felonious activity Trump was found guilty of. You can be sure that you’ve lost the Glaudes of the world by this stage. For as Harvard 60-year Law professor, lifetime Democrat, Alan Dershowitz, who has written 25 books on criminal law, admits “I don’t know how to describe the crime”. It’s that complicated. 

My effort: it was an alleged violation of State Electoral Commission guidelines, (a misdemeanour which was in any case past its use-by date) to cover up one of four alleged crimes, which were felonies still within the statute of limitations, which the jury was allowed to pick one or another, any one, and didn’t need to be unanimous. The jury did not have to specify which of any they’d chosen according to Jury Directions which most legal scholars found deeply sketchy. Essentially the judge demanded a guilty verdict, which the jury duly delivered. 

Even left wing stalwarts, like Fareed  Zakaria of CNN said of the case “this would not have been prosecuted if the defendant had had a name other than Trump.”

And that’s called justice? 

What this Glaude character is angry about is that the American electorate, bless their suspicious souls, saw through this confected nonsense and refused to give it any weight. They ignored it.

In essence what Glaude is  demanding is “we worked hard to get those bullshit felonies pinned to Donald Trump, and now you don’t give them any weight? How very dare you?”?

Discovery Bay, North Plaza. Hong Kong

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"Trump wins! How it happened and what's next" | All-in podcast

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Four of the most influential and well-connected guys on the internet*. Discuss why the Dems lost so bad. This is a knowledgable and nuanced discussion about this seismic change in US politics. 

In sum: too judgemental, bad policies, bad candidate. 

Chamath kicks off the talk at 8:28 below. It was a resounding victory for "normalcy". 

0:00) Bestie intros! (4:55) Sacks recaps election night at Mar-a-Lago (8:28) Analyzing the results: how Trump won, why Kamala and the Democratic Party lost (25:55) The failing Democratic coalition, campaign spend disparity, Trump's advantage in earned media (37:59) What mattered most: Policy, Candidate, or Campaign? (50:44) GOP will likely win House and Senate, potential cabinet positions, avoiding neocons (1:10:42) Cabinet positions, shaking up the unelected bureaucratic branch (1:28:47) California rejects progressives (1:35:17) Abortion laws being settled around the US

Meantime the Dems are not facing what the real issues are. They are pretty much blaming misogyny and racism. Kinda crazy. But I'm not one thinking the GOP and YT influencers should be trying to help the Dems sort out why they lost. Let them stew in their delusions.

Every demo bar two minor ones (White college women; 65+) improved their GOP vote:

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* Chamath Palihapitiya (Chamath), Jason Calacanis (J-Cal), David Sacks (Sacks) & David Friedberg (Friedberg) cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.

Blaming the Jews for their own opression

Random tweet:

The main surprise about Israelis being attacked in Amsterdam is that they should be so naively unaware of the broad global outrage at the 43,000 deaths & vast destruction @Israel has wrought in #Gaza in its disproportionate response to the October 7 #Hamas atrocity. [An X post]

My rewrite. 

The main surprise about Jews being attacked on Kristallnacht in 1938 is that they should be so naively unaware of the broad German outrage at the "stab in the back" by the Jews in the wake how the 1917 German parliamentary peace resolution, leading to vast destruction in Germany by the Jews.

The X post at top is anti-semitism, out and out. Blaming the Jews for thei attacks on them. Though I'm sure the writer would deny it, claiming it's just "criticism of Israel and its policies" -- too harsh, in their view, too "disproportionate".

But what is "disproportionate" in Israel's response? The 40+k number killed in Gaza (a figure baed on the Hamas "Ministry of Health", known for publishing exaggerated data) includes all Hamas terrorists killed, many hiding behind civilians. Like this: 

By most accounts, including the UN, at least half of those 40+k killed are Hamas fighters, the lowest number of civilians killed per combatant in the history of war. 

If Israel really did want to carry out genocide in Gaza, it could have done so and could still do so. It has all the capability to wipe out the entire Gazan population. It does not do so. Instead, at considerable cost to its own soldiers, it warns civilians ahead of time when there is to be an attack on Hamas soldiers. 

If Hamas had the capacity to kill all Jews, it would. It says so in its Charter. Which is specifically genocidal against the Jews. That it does not do so, is simply because they don't have the capacity.

Hence the saying: "If Palestinians laid down their arms, there would be peace; if Israel laid down its arms there would be genocide." 

War is war. You don't fight it to be "proportionate". You fight it to win. You fight it to win, in this case, against a barbaric, totalitarian, medieval, misogynist, homophobic, sectarian, genocidal death cult. 

But no, that's not good enough for the jew-haters. For them war doesn't mean war. It means giving up, capitulating, as soon as you're in front. And siding with the terrorists. 

Musk and Rogan on Free Speech etc..

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So much important stuff covered in this video talk Joe Rogan with Elon Musk. What it meant that Elon bought Twitter, now X. What it would have meant if he had not bought it and if Kamala had won. 

Elon put his arse on the line. If Kamala had won, he stood to lose his companies and even be jailed. That's the crazy world we now live in. Thanks to the Dems. To the Dems. This is not a GOP thing. It's very much a Dem thing. To go after your political rivals, or anyone that disagrees with you, by using the legal system, by weaponising it. 

Two extremely consequential men. Talking world affairs. 

Luxuriating, wallowing, in the Trump Triumph Historic

Just as yesterday I couldn't watch the results coming in, now I know the results I've been luxuriating, wallowing, in the triumph of the comeback. 

A historic comeback. One for the ages. Where Trump wins the White House, the Senate, the House, and the popular vote. That quadrella hasn't been done since the 1980s.

On the other hand....

Kamala: the foregone rewards

A win the other side, for Kamala, would have rewarded bad behaviour. 

Rewarded lying non-stop about Trump and his followers. Rewarded the incessant lawfare against him and his followers, falsely-labelled insurrectionists, and perjury traps. Rewarded for the media being 98% on the side of Kamala-Walz, and for 95% of articles on Trump being negative. Rewarded for trying to kick Trump off the vote at all. Rewarded for restraining Israel from finishing the war against Hamas, because of local politic in Dearborn Michigan. Rewarded for the (highly likely) rigging of the 2020 election. Rewarded for breaking all previous norms, in the name of protecting norms. Rewarded for repeatedly ignoring Supreme Court injunctions. Rewarded for repeated attempts to restrict free speech. Rewarded for Defunding the Police, leading to a spike in crime. Rewarded for opening the southern border to a four-fold increase in illegal immigration and denying and lying about it. Rewarded for calling Trump Hitler. Rewarded for calling his followers Nazis and garbage. 

In short, a Kamala win would have rewarded all this bad action and enabled it to continue and increase. 

That's why I revel on the Trump win. Because he won't do none of the above. That' what I'm betting on. And what a majority of the popular vote are counting on. Because he didn't do it in his first term. 

That's why I hied me to the YouTubes to wallow in triumphalism. 

Some of the YTs:

• Trump STUNS World! Elected President in LANDSLIDE, WINS Popular Vote! 'Best Comeback Ever' Benny Johnson
• Trump DESTROYS Harris & Wins Everything | What Happened? Nate the Lawyer
• Trump's Victory and Why He Won. Glenn Beck 
• The Media's Stunned Response to Trump's Historical Victory. Winston Smith
• Donald Trump Pulls Off The Greatest Comeback In American History.  Matt Walsh
• MSNBC LOSES IT as Trump Election Win FINISHES OFF Kamala. DeVory Darkins
• Ben Reacts. Kamala concedes. Ben Shapiro
• Trump's Landslide Win EXPLAINED. Glenn Greenwald
• Oprah Didn't Help Kamala, But Trump on Rogan Might Have Helped Him Win. Megyn Kelly
• Kamala Supporters BREAK DOWN IN TEARS CRYING Over Trump. Greg Foreman
• Libs in the media can't wrap their heads around Trump's epic win. Greg Gutfeld
• Jimmy Kimmel was in tears. Greg Gutfeld
• The deplorables strike back Spiked. A view from the UK. 

And just for fun, one of the greatest monologues, from Greg Gutfeld: here

And, because I follow so many of the Black dude pods, I was early on the case that young Black men were going to break heavily pro-Trump. And that this was a critical demo. 

WINNING! What Trump’s Victory Means for America, Israel, and the World | Ruthie Blum

Love me some of that Ruthie Blum! In discussion with Jonathan Tobin.

My kinda woman. Clear eyed, tough, visionary. Anti-appeasion, anti-capitulation.

As for Israel support of Trump. It's always been strong, up to 83% by polling. Which makes sense, given how strongly pro Israel he was in his first term. Republicans are now lock-step pro Israel party. Democrats deeply split in Israel, from lukewarm support (feckless, inconsistent) through to outright anti-Semitic (the Squad, esp Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC).

I also liked her in this earlier talk with colleague, Mark Regev. Regev I find a bit too much of a two-bob-each-way guy, compared with the robust clarity and toughness of our Ruthie. 

“The Israeli Left scrambles to undermine Trump-Bibi success” by Caroline Glick

Biggest losers in the election: The legacy media. The celebrity endorsers. The racist grifters. 

Byron contemplates Trump’s victory

Yay!

0630 6th November, EST.

Meantime... In Israel and Lebanon...

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More Israeli IDF victories to celebrate. 

Its election day!

08:00 Thursday the 6th November here in Hong Kong. 

20:00 East Coast time on the 5th, election day in the United States. 

And I’m too nervous to look at early results. 

So… I’m watching video about Butter — is it Better or deadly? And on how to buy an E-type Jaguar. And building log cabins in Canada.

That sort of thing. 

Later …

Karps about Kamala on the eve of the election

On the eve of the election. 

Though the election has been going on for weeks now, with early voting and absentee ballots. 

Of the two candidates, I really, roooly don't like Kamala Harris. 

Let's recall that until five minutes ago, noone liked Kamala. Not Democrats. Not Independents. And certainly not Republicans. Like: “Please, Kamala, quit…” in the super pro-Left Washington Post.

The Democrats only came to "like" her after she was installed in coup against the sitting president, orchestrated by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer and Kamala herself. Then they decided to "like" her, instantly, because the Party told them to. Via the compliant media, which carried out the propaganda operation, which continues to this day. And that was just hunky-fine for the Left.

The rest of us meanwhile, we non-Dem, continue to find her a risible candidate. 

She's a liar. This is not the worst of the failings, but it's sure clear and up there, obvious and clear. She's lied about every hoax nonsense the Left has pushed since 2016. Russia collusion, Trump saying Nazis are "fine people' (he didn't), January 6 was an insurrection (it wasn't), Joe is "sharp as a tack" (he isn't). And do on.

She's bad on the policy issues. Summed up as: Crime, Border control, Inflation and the Economy. On all of which the electorate is clear. They prefer Trump to Kamala, based on how he did in his first term, vs how she and Joe did in their first term. This is pretty much acknowledged across the parties. The polls show that 79% of Americans think it's "on the wrong track". And large majorities say the trust Trump more on those four issues. 

But the main concerns are these two:

1. Free Speech: she and her running mate are not believers in the First Amendment. If they get back in power, they will go after free speech more than they have already done. Not just to clamp down on free speech, via all sorts of "misinformation and disinformation" laws, but also by weaponising the FBI and CIA to go after social media, as they did before Musk opened up the Twitter Files. 

Which of course brings to mind the way that the FBI and the DOJ have been weaponised to go after Trump and his supporters. This is undeniable and has been acknowledged even by Dem supporters, like the CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria.  

2. The One-Party state: The Biden admin are in the process -- right in front of our eyes --  of stacking illegal immigrants into swing states, giving them all sorts of freebies and giving them fast track to citizenship so they can vote Democrat. They don't even need to be citizens, though, as there's no voter ID law. The figures for numbers shipped in to swing states is on the government website, DHS.gov, so it's no secret. In some states the numbers imported have increased 700%.

As Elon Musk points out this makes the whole of America like California, a one-Party state. I've seen with mine own eyes how California has gone downhill under one party rule of the Democrats. Dirt, filth, crime and inefficiency aside, it's deeply corrupt and the corruption can't be revealed because of the one-party control. 

So: “Vote like your life depends on it”.

I find all this deeply worrying. I lived in a one-party state in the 1970s in China. It's not nice. 

ADDED: “My case against Kamala” by Matt Walsh.

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All of the above is not even to mention that Kamala has said she wants to stack the Supreme Court, to do away with the filibuster, to make Puerto Rico a state (which would give two more Dem Senators). 

Or to consider her views on Israel, on which I'm a die-hard Zionist, strong Israel supporter. Trump showed himself a much stronger ally of Israel than Kamala has. As for Ukraine, she wants to keep the war going, to placate the neo-cons, amongst them, Liz Cheney, which Trump wants to "stop the killing". 

So, I'm very much hoping for a Trump win, a landslide if possible -- "too big to rig" -- tomorrow. Though somehow I doubt it will be clean and I doubt that the Dems will accept a Trump win without a severe allergic reaction. Recall that to this day Hillary Clinton still calls Donald Trump's first term election win "illegitimate". So much for "election denial" being something of the Right. 

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Voting system:

This business of election denial brings to mind the fact that America now has a mish-mash of 50 different systems that needs to be reformed. The EU holds elections, with paper ballots, and things are decided in one day. The reform needed is simple. Or simple to state, at least. Not so simple to get agreement. Still, here it is:

• Have the voting on One Day only. Election Day. No early voting. 
• Valid photo ID required. 
• Election Day is a holiday. 
• Paper voting, no voting machines. 
• Reduce the absentee vote to those who are overseas. and require a verifiable ID

The fact that the Dems are dead set against any change like this, speaks volumes. They want to continue to be able to cheat. That's it. 

Lies about Trump : Tulsi || "My case for Trump" : Matt

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Tulsi Gabbard on lies about Trump. 

And Matt Walsh on “My case for Donald Trump”.

Elon Musk on Joe Rogan: Why Trump must win "This election is the last chance to preserve democracy in America"

Bill Clinton calling for control of illegal immigration

Bill Clinton talks of controlling illegal immigration and deporting then. Gets standing ovation. 

But, you know, it's Trump who's the racist, xenophobe, bigot, for wanting to do the same. The same. 

A team of Avengers on the Trump side!

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What a team! What an orchestra. Tulsi, Elon, Nicole, Vivek, JD, JFK Jr. And Trump, the Conductor. The troller in chief. 

For the RFK Jr ad, go straight here.  The woman with the voting ballot paper she fills out as a "first time Trump voter" is Nicole Shanahan, the running mate of RFK Jr before he joined the Trump team. She's a lawyer and venture capitalist herself, ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergei Brin. A Silicon Valley stalwart. (Ex) Member of the anointed Democratic elite. Now joined the GOP.

There's nothing like this on the Democrat side. Where it's all Actors (some "actors"), Rappers and Liz Cheney, neo-con turncoat daughter of the most hated turncoat warmonger Veep in history, Dick Cheney. What a team... not.

Joe wants to "smack Trump in the ass"

What a nasty sneer!
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Is this a nice look? Is this Joy? Is this treating all Americans with dignity and respect?

This is who we’re supposed to look up to for moral guidance?

Revolting Joe. 

Kamala and Tim: anti Free Speechers

 

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Glenn Greenwald talks to Adam Carolla. 

The greatest threat to free speech in the United States: from tKamala Harris and Tim Walz. 

She who has said “on Twitter you can talk direct to people without any control”. And thinks it’s a Bad Thing. 

And Walz who thinks “hate speech” is not protected by the First Amendment. (It is).

The Glenn bit starts at 1:20:42. Should go direct to that in the screenshot above. 

‘Slate’ writers are Sick

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Disgusting bigotry from the Left.

Glenn Greenwald, himself a leftie, gives us his trenchant views on calls for JD Vance's wife to leave him because he's a Republican and she's a Brown Woman, who should stick to the plantation, who should show fealty to the Democratic party -- because she's Brown -- and how dare she not. 

There is nothing -- nothing -- like this on the Right. 

Inside the Hezbollah terror tunnels

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TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas & Hezbollah War. In this week’s episode, Yair takes viewers inside a recently uncovered Hezbollah terror tunnel in southern Lebanon. Joining the IDF on a press tour, he explores the extensive infrastructure and resources Hezbollah had prepared for a potential ground invasion of northern Israel, featuring ammunition rooms, supplies, and living quarters for fighters.

Yair reflects on the security risks Israel faces and the resilience of IDF soldiers committed to protecting Israeli communities from these threats. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel. 

Kamala is a crook. No matter which of the four ways you pronounce her name

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Harmeet Dhillon is a San Francisco lawyer who’s known Kamala Harris for more than 20 years. Her verdict: Kamala Harris is a criminal. Here are the details.

Of course one could object: this is just sour grapes. Or cherry picking. But Harmeet has the receipts. And the claims she makes are supported in other sources, like her non-hagiographic bios, and also by the fact that Kamala has never denied them. Indeed, she's often proud of how she's skirted the law. 

Watch and make your own judgement. For me, it's Kamala bad. And it's Kamala a threat to our democracy. And Kamala a threat to Free Speech. And Kamala the bringer of the One Party America, just as her native California is a One Party state. 

On the Free Speech thing, there are videos out there of Kamala saying stuff like:"Twitter allows people to speak direct to other people without any control!". An she's not saying this in a good way. She thinks that's horrible and dangerous. Just as her partner, Tim Walz, thinks that the First Amendment doesn't apply to "hate speeh". (It does).

Chinese Pond Heron checks out our koi carp

November 2009, me and me mum

At the Discovery Bay Yacht Club, for the Melbourne Cup

Mantis prays on our table

The making of a Trump supporter

Oz and Forse, anti-Vietnam war demo, Canberra, 18 September 1970
See my comment at the bottom of this post

Or: "How I became anti the anti-democracy Democratic Party."

[Part of an irregular series: "What's an important issue that you've changed your mind on?]

I've changed my mind on voting for Trump instead of voting for a Democrat. 

Reasons below:

An "anti-democracy Democratic Party" in the United States is a party which says it's keen on democracy, as does the Democratic Party, but which is not democratic. 

Like the Democratic Party of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and countless others in the Congress, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer. 

And I'm anti that. So, anti the anti-democracy Democratic Party. That's me. 

I realise that a case has to be made. Many on the Left won't accept that they are, in fact, the anti-democracy party. 

I'll come to that. Which is also going to come to the conclusion of why I would vote Trump. Were I American. 

Hells bells I'm not American, but I can still vote in the US, from here overseas, as there's no voter ID required and no checking on my bogus address in the US.  Check out "I'm Australian but I just registered to vote in the US elections!"

But still. And backing up a bit. 

In my home of Australia, I'd always voted for the Labor Party of the soft(ish) left. I voted for Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating. If I'd been voting in the US in the past, I'd have voted for Bill Clinton, for Al Gore, for Barack Obama and for Hillary Clinton. "Why I hate Hillary, but...", of 6 November 2016, on why I would have held my nose and voted for Hillary. 

A pretty solid voting record on the Left. 

But then, in 2020, I would have voted for Trump. 

Why that?

For two reasons: 

1. Trump did a pretty good job. He got the border under control, he reduced crime, he kept inflation low, he increased working class wages for the first time in decades, including for Black Americans, and he kept the US out of foreign wars. Accomplishments of Trump's first term. @robbystarbuck.

2. Hillary Clinton never recognised the legitimacy of Trump's presidency. Not until today. In the process of finding excuses for her deplorable loss, she gave us the Russian Collusion hoax. Which I learned was a hoax by reading the Mueller Report. And then the Durham Report. 

That she and Barack Obama weaponised the FBI against a sitting  president I found deeply shocking. Wrong. Corrupt. 

Some on the left don't accept that it was a hoax. To them I don't know what to say. They were counting on the Mueller Report, staffed with 20 mostly Democratic lawyers, to find that Trump had colluded. When the report found -- unequivocally -- that he had not, they simply forgot about the Report and continued with their Russian Collusion. 

That's crazy, wrong, corrupt, and plain wrong. 

That major tentpole hoax was joined by others: the "Fine People hoax", the "drinking the bleach hoax". 

And now we have the Biden-Harris administration.  Which carried on the hoaxes:the "dictator from day one, hoax", the "Trump and Agenda 25 hoax", the "Trump will make abortion illegal at the federal level, hoax". There are others.  

The result of their four years has been a fourfold increase in illegal immigration; an increase in crime; an increase in the inflation rate; a softening of the economy; and two wars. 

Then I ask myself: which of these two parties, on the basis of their performance, been the best for the United States and the world. 

And my answer to myself; clearly the Trump administration has done better. 

I don't buy for one minute the idea that Trump is Hitler. That's just hysteria. His rallies have people of all races, creeds and religions. As in a recent post. Notably there are far more references to Israel and Jews at Trump rallies than there are at Kamala rallies. At Kamala's last rally there were people chanting "Intifada, intifada, world wide intifada" who were welcomed, while Jews were hassled. At Trump's MSG rally there were plenty of Israeli flags and none hassled. Also, Trump has Jewish kids and grandkids. If he's an anti-semite, a Hitler, he's pretty bad at it. 

I've still missed a huge lot of stuff that made me a Trump supporter instead of Harris. And which argue for this: that the Democratic Party of the United States is not a democratic party. The party defending democracy is not the Democrat, but the Republican. 

• The Lawfare against Trump. Which is recognised not just by experts on the Right, but also many on the Left, like CNN editor Fareed Zakaria who has said that the Alvin Bragg case against Trump would not have gone ahead if it had been anyone not named Trump. 
• Efforts to get Trump off the ballot before he even had a chance to campaign. 
• Flouting of the Constitution: failed effort to institute a national Covid vaccine mandate. Cancelling $US 1.7 Trillion in student debt, against the clear Constitutional requirement that such should be done only by an Act of Congress. 
• Plans to cancel the filibuster; stack the Supreme Court and creating of two more states which would give the Democratic party an unassailable majority in the Senate. 
• Deliberately opening the southern border to allow in tens of millions of illegal immigrants and then bussing them to swing states. This one sounds like a conspiracy theory, but is not. It's what the Democratic Party proudly claims it's doing; and it's what we see them doing. If this leads to unassailable Democratic majorities then the whole of the United States becomes like California: where crime in major cities is rampant and drug crime uncontrolled. 

Have I gone too far? Am I too crazy? Am I in a far-right bubble/ I don't think so, but if you do, Occasional Reader, do let me know your reasoning. 

For me, for now, the Democrats in the US are the ones that are a danger to democracy. Not the GOP. Thus do I hope for a Trump win next Tuesday. 

I'm not the only one who's changed my mind, and voting against the anti anti-democracy Democratic Party; 

Why I'm backing president Trump, by David Sacks

33 Reasons to vote for Trump, by Bill Ackman

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The photo at top is of me and my mate Oz, at an anti-war demo in 1970. But -- something I've nearly changed my mind on -- Victory in the Vitenam war may have been possible. So say some Vietnamese experts. And may have been better for the region. As Communism didn't work out too well for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 

A one-state solution for the Middle East

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The least worst of options. For the freedom and dignity of Palestinians as well, given that Arabs in Israel have the most freedoms of any Arabs in the region and none wants to move to any surrounding Arab state.

The concept of a “two-state solution” for Israel and the Palestinians clearly hasn’t worked to bring peace and prosperity to the region. So what’s next?

Join JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman for a conversation that will change the way you look at possible solutions to the conflict.

Glick and Friedman also discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election and how the outcome could possibly affect the prospects for peace in the Middle East.

I’ve read Friedman’s book. He makes a powerful, persuasive case for his vision of a better Middle East. 

ADDED:

Jonathan Tobin talks to Karol Markowicz, in a fascinating talk. About which president is best for Israel and related issues. 

"I went to a Kamala Harris rally. Here's what happened" | Amir Odom

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A very interesting report. From the front lines of the battle for the presidency of the US. 

I've heard and seen other reports. Of people on the Left, going to Trump rallies and finding them remarkably welcoming. In fact, I've seen none where they've felt unwelcome. 

Message: If you are on the Left, those on the Right are not welcome. If you're on the Right, we welcome anyone to the party. 

Amir Odom is a gay Black dude. Finds that the Kamala rally is not at all welcoming to non-liberal views. 

But that in parts it's more fun than the Trump rallies. Because they dance. And live in a kind of "vibe" bubble, of feelings, of nursery tales, of non-reality. Fun, but fluff. 

Watch to the end.