RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://nypost.com/2024/09/11/us-news/trump-debate-performance-panned-as-well-prepped-harris-gets-help-from-abc-moderators-three-on-one/

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly found himself on the back foot Tuesday night during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris — as Republicans seethed over repeated fact-checks of the GOP candidate and a noticeably lighter touch for the Democrat’s own disputed statements.

Harris, 59, arrived well-prepared to rattle Trump by claiming that military leaders had told her that the Republican nominee and 45th president was a “disgrace,” that world leaders were “laughing” at him and even asserting that “people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom” after he was “fired by 81 million people” in 2020.

Trump, 78, found himself having to answer not only Harris’ repeated and pointed attacks on both his pride and policy, but also a pair of moderators who quibbled with some of his statements despite what his supporters viewed as a lack of even-handedness.

When Trump argued that crime in the US is increasing because of migrants allowed into the country on Harris’ watch, “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interjected: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down.”

https://thespectator.com/politics/kamala-harris-won-debate-philadelphia-2024/

If Kamala Harris is elected president — and that’s a big “if” since the race is still tight — she won it on the debate stage in Philadelphia Tuesday night. True, her answers were often vague, but they were also inspirational and forward-looking. She avoided the “word salads” that have so often marred her (rare) comments without a teleprompter. She was clear and articulate throughout. 

Harris showed the skill of a professional politician as she avoided being pinned down on her most extreme policy pronouncements from 2019-2020, often denying she ever made them. Trump could have pressed her on those but seldom did. 

Harris effectively stressed her winning position on “women’s right to choose” and damned Trump for his position. (She misstated his views on in-vitro fertilization, but he rebutted her on that.) She also underscored her support for Obamacare, a smart position nationally, and tied it to John McCain’s vote, a smart position in the swing-state of Arizona. 

Most important of all, Harris displayed the control, sureness and coherence voters demand of their president and commander-in-chief. Demonstrating her ability to occupy the Oval Office was job number one in the debate — and Kamala Harris accomplished it. 

Donald Trump, by contrast, hurt himself time and again. He was constantly angry and defensive, qualities that engage his rallies but alienate all Democrats and many Independents, especially women. On the plus side, he repeatedly emphasized his main points on immigration, crime and endless wars — all winning issues for him. He made a strong case that he would encourage fracking, a vital issue in Pennsylvania, and that a Harris administration would kill it. (She denied it.)

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/09/10/theres-nothing-new-about-kamalas-new-way-forward-except-stuff-she-stole-from-trump/

Fifty days after Joe Biden quit his re-election campaign – and one day before she debates Donald Trump — Kamala Harris finally posted an “Issues” page on her website, detailing her plans if she wins the election in November. Now we know why she waited so long.

She calls this “A New Way Forward.” But it’s actually just the Biden plan with a few added wrinkles — which either have been widely panned or were stolen from Donald Trump.

The day after Biden made his announcement, Harris had her own campaign website set up. And it included an “Issues” page, which was a copy of what Biden had put up on his campaign website. You can still find this page on the Wayback Machine. (To the left is a screenshot of that page. The Harris campaign deleted it after a few days, and it remained blank until Monday.)

Her new Issues page is a bit more fleshed out than Biden’s, but looking through the proposals, you see that she is offering nothing new at all. It’s just stuff copied over from the Biden plan, with a few added details. Examples:

Harris says she’ll “cut taxes for middle-class families” and make “the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share.”  Biden-Harris said they “are fighting to give tax cuts to the middle class while making the ultra-wealthy and big corporations finally pay their fair share.”
She promises that “no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes.” Biden-Harris promised that “Under their plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes.”
She says she “will make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act.” Biden-Harris said they “believe health care is a right, not a privilege” and are “fighting to expand affordable care.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/09/09/dear-kamala-we-want-to-go-back-and-so-should-everyone-else/

At every rally, without fail, Vice President Kamala Harris gets the crowd to start chanting “we’re not going back!”

“Well, look,” she said in Pennsylvania last month, “America has tried those failed policies before, and we are not going back! We are not going back! Not going back!”

Well, look, Kamala, we want to go back! And we fervently hope and pray that most Americans do as well. And that they vote that way in November.

We want to go back to a time before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wrecked the economy, before they unleashed the inflation monster, before they threw open the border, let criminals run free, and exuded weakness abroad.

In other words, we want to go back to a time when a tax-cutting, pro-growth, anti-regulation, strong defense president was in the White House and America was prosperous and the world at peace.

What we don’t want is to go forward with the Biden-Harris disaster, which is what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will give us, good and hard.

So, as a reader service, we’ve gathered a brief sampling of reasons why the public should join us in desperately wanting to go back to the “failed policies” we had under Trump, and not continue with the “leadership” we’ve seen under Biden-Harris. (Readers are invited to add to this list using the comment section below.)

https://dianebederman.com/dear-american-jews-who-vote-democrat/

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.  Sun Tzu: The Art of War

It is narrated in the hadith that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:

“The Hour will not begin until you fight the Jews, until a Jew will hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will say: ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allah, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him – except the gharqad (a kind of thorny tree).’

We have been told by Islam that we are to be made extinct. Yet, you vote for the Democrats who are proud of their Hamas Squad. Why? Walz has told you his views on Israel and the war. “We can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two-state solution.” Walz complimented anti-Israel protesters.

We are approaching October 7. A day in infamy. Barbaric Muslims invaded Israel during a ceasefire and mutilated and murdered men, women, children, babies. The worst attack on Jews since the Shoah. And within days, the event was denied, people shared rachmunus(pity) for Gazans after Israel retaliated. Jewish organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and J Street stood with the Gazans. What did you do? And following the discovery of six hostages murdered in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace described Israel’s hostage-rescue operation earlier in the day as part of an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza.

Seems many Jews want to be “included” rather than respected.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4864694-goldman-sachs-trump-economy-harris

Democrats and their media allies are celebrating a report from Goldman Sachs concluding that the economy would be worse off under a second Trump administration than under Kamala Harris. 

Given that voters consistently rate Donald Trump more highly than Harris on their respective handling of the economy, this was a breakthrough for the left. Never mind that the much-hyped report concluded that the election of Harris and a Democratic “sweep” would result in only a “very slight boost” to 2025 GDP. Or that the reasons for the Harris edge are unpalatable, unsustainable and, essentially, idiotic.

Sorry, Goldman Sachs, but any leader who has specialized in increasing regulations, plans to significantly hike taxes, routinely bashes Big Business for profiteering and wants to break up America’s leading companies, like Google, can possibly foster a positive environment for growth.

The Goldman Sachs analysts argue that Trump’s tariffs on imported goodswill raise costs to consumers, which could “help spur an economic slowdown” and “likely cost the gross domestic product about 0.5 percent in growth, a negative headwind that would persist throughout 2025.” So, one year’s minor impact. (Not to mention that 60 percent of U.S. CEOs in a recent survey think a recession is imminent, if not already underway.) 

Meanwhile, the folks at Goldman Sachs see Trump as likely to oversee a slowdown in illegal immigration. To them, this means lower job growth. “Under a President Harris, job growth would be 10,000 a month higher than if Trump wins with a divided government and 30,000 higher if the GOP controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.”  

I have written in the past about the Biden-Harris economy teetering on a wobbly foundation of excessive federal spending and illegal immigration. Astonishingly, the Goldman Sachs analysts propose that the U.S. cannot grow satisfactorily unless the migrant floodgates remain open. This is extremely odd, given that our country had been managing quite well for years before Biden and Harris threw the floodgates open.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/walz_heads_to_pa_where_his_staff_tells_media_members_not_to_disrupt_his_photo_op_with_pesky_accountability_questions.html

Another presidential election year, and another campaign to shield the Democrat ticket from the media’s cameras and microphones because their nominees are too incompetent to be trusted ad lib; all this is of course aided and abetted by a complicit media. But, after Joe Biden’s performance over the last four years, a humiliating reflection on Democrats, I’d say it’s par for the course. Here’s the story, from an item at Fox News:

A local Pennsylvania journalist revealed how reporters were not allowed to ask Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz questions during a campaign event in Lancaster County on Wednesday.

While Walz spoke with volunteers at the office, WPMT FOX43 reporter Alyssa Kratz wrote in a Facebook post how the campaign would not let the press speak with him.

‘Gov. Tim Walz speaking to people calling into Lancaster County Democratic Committee field office. His daughter Hope is with him. Spoke to supporters here for about 6 or 7 minutes. Walz is not taking questions from the media while here. We were also not allowed to put microphones up by Gov. Walz while he was speaking,’ Kratz wrote.

She added, ‘One reporter tried shouting a question and we were told to ‘not disrupt the program.’

https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/06/the-2024-democrat-presidential-ticket-that-was-twenty-years-in-the-making/

The Democrat Party has completely sabotaged itself by running the absolute worst ticket that could have been chosen against its rival. The vapid empty-pantsuit Kamala Harris teamed with military record fabricator and outright freak Tim Walz is a recipe for electoral disaster against the formidable Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

Why did Democrats nullify the choice of 14 million primary voters and install Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee instead of holding an open convention primary? Were there no other contenders aside from the one that is uniquely incapable of facing Donald Trump? Why are Democrats and the media trying so hard to hide the Harris-Walz policy platform by refusing unscripted interviews and press conferences?

We all know the answers to the above questions, yet it might be useful to look at how we got to this place. It was largely due to a single person who promised to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”

When Junior Senator from Illinois Barack Obama was introduced to the nation at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he was completely unknown to most Americans and, in fact, to most Democrats. His keynote address at the convention catapulted him into stardom among Democrats and began his upward rise within party ranks.

Having a decent senatorial record and no controversial baggage, Obama would eventually run for president as the “Hope and Change” candidate to appeal to voters exhausted from the two terms of George W. Bush, especially in the aftermath of the 2008 economic meltdown.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/09/06/with-the-november-election-looming-biden-officials-are-suddenly-condemning-hamas/

This week, 11 months after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, the Biden administration announced indictments against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other Hamas officials for their “central roles in planning, supporting, and perpetrating the terrorist atrocities that Hamas committed in Israel,” which the Justice Department said represented “the culmination of Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism and violence against Israel and its allies.”

The Biden administration claims this action was a sign that it will ensure Hamas leaders “will pay for their crimes.” But it is absurd to indict Hamas leaders for the worst attack against the Jewish people that occurred 11 months after this attack occurred. Moreover, these indictments are pointless not because the accused are in Gaza and will never be brought to the U.S. for trial but because three of them are dead.

Attorney General Merrick Garland made this look worse when he said in announcing the indictments, “These actions will not be our last,”—indicating that additional indictments are likely against the Hamas killers after more delays.

One might attribute the delayed indictments to the Biden administration’s incompetence. I believe it is likely that Biden officials slow-walked the indictments because they did not want to alienate Hamas leaders while they tried to negotiate a cease-fire agreement that they expected Hamas to support. The cease-fire agreement promoted by the Biden-Harris administration would require Israel to leave Gaza without defeating Hamas. It would leave Hamas intact and able to regain control of Gaza and use this region to stage more deadly attacks against Israel.

The cease-fire talks have been stalemated because although Israel has made significant concessions to get a cease-fire and free hostages held by Hamas, it rightly refuses to agree to such terms.

The indictments suggest that because of the upcoming presidential election and anger over Hamas’s recent execution of six hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Biden-Harris administration is taking a different approach to the Israel/Hamas War. It now wants to be seen as acting tough against Hamas.

White House Press spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre made a related comment this week when she said in response to the killing of the six hostages, “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” Such a remark calling on Hamas leaders to be punished was almost unprecedented by a Biden official who usually only criticizes Israel and calls on it to make more concessions to Hamas to get a cease-fire agreement.