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Election Day...eight days and counting.  After President Trump’s triumphant rally at Madison Square Garden (or as the New York Post renamed it on their front page, “MAGA Square Garden”) on Sunday, we’re about to find out from the Democrats how much insanity can be packed into one crazy week.

On TV, it’s bringing out the worst in them, and I’m sure we still haven’t seen how bad that is.  How low can they go?  On THE VIEW, Joy Behar took the “Trump is Hitler” narrative even farther than ever, calling him a fascist pig.

“I don’t even know what to say any more,” she said.  “If people still follow this fascist pig, then I don’t know what else to say.  I really don’t.  (Helpful hint:  when you don’t know what to say, it’s best to say nothing.)

“It’s like, how many times we have to hear him say that referring to all immigrants as animals and Hitler cleansing Germany of all those parasites, referring to immigrants, and he calls Jews lice and this guy Trump calls people vermin,” she said in a sentence that makes no sense.  (Yes, that is Joy verbatim.)  “It’s the same language that Hitler used.”

Trump uses language that blunt to describe illegal immigrant violent criminals who rape and kill, such as members of Venezuelan gangs.  (He called them “animals” in his speech at Madison Square Garden last night, and I hope actual animals don’t feel too insulted by that.)  To say this language likens him in any way to Hitler is trivializing what Hitler said about Jews --- and what he did to them.

Behar and her colleagues might want to listen to this post on X from 94-year-old Auschwitz survivor Jerry Wartski, whose family was murdered by Hitler’s troops when they invaded Poland.  “I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes.  For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States.”

He said Kamala “owes my parents and everyone else who was murdered by Hitler an apology for repeating this lie.”

https://x.com/trumpwarroom/status/1849844030177161659?s=51&t=J4D-_h2kFjBAjWxykloF4w

It’s a devastating reminder that when you call your opponent “Hitler” for cheap political gain, you not only slander your opponent, you trivialize the real horror and suffering of the worst crime of the 20th century and insult and demean its victims.

Behar wasn’t the only one on THE VIEW to spew this ignorance.  Co-host Sunny Hostin praised her, saying, “I think you’ve really hit the note.”  Both should apologize to Jerry Wartski and his ancestors who were murdered by Adolf Hitler.

Dave Rubin of THE RUBIN REPORT had a good comment: “You’re all idiots and liars.  And you know it.  That’s you, literally.  Ladies of THE VIEW, you have the job you have because a corporation pays you to sit there and lie so that the Democrats can retain power.  It’s as simple as that.”

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-rubin-report/trump-joy-behar?utm_source=theblaze-breaking

At Trump’s rally Sunday, none other than Hulk Hogan --- who better for Madison Square Garden? ---came out in his wrestling attire and, in six minutes, took apart the “Trump as dictator” garbage: “I don’t see no stinkin’ Nazis in here!  I don’t see no domestic terrorists in here!  The only thing I see in here are a bunch of hard-working men and women that are real Americans, brother.”

You have to see this…

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/27/hulk-hogan-body-slams-the-dem-narrative-while-jd-vance-finishes-kamala-with-just-one-sentence-n2181162

Recall that we noted last week that the Democrats have likened the Republican nominee to “Hitler” in every election since 1944 (well, except for Eisenhower, but only because he actually defeated Hitler. Tough break for them.) Talk about crying wolf!  Today, Stephen Soukup at AMERICAN GREATNESS has a terrific essay on why the Democrats’ tired “Nazi” narrative is losing steam.  In Soukup’s words, “No one pays the slightest bit of attention to Democrats when they prattle on about Republicans being fascists because they have done so for almost as long as anyone can remember.”

This really kicked into high gear when Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater ran for President in 1964.  Soukup has a list of quotes about Goldwater at the time; they’re just as exaggerated as the claims being made about Trump today.  (Goldwater lost in a landslide.  That, however, was back in the days of liberal media gatekeepers and long before such claims got REALLY OLD and conservatives got sick of being beaten over the head with them.  We’ve since learned the power of mockery and are fighting back against the lies.)

In one brilliant passage, Soukup sizes up why the control of language translates into the control of humanity, because the very concept of morality underlying the words we say has been lost:

“...we have—very largely, if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.

“As a result, moral pronouncements become mere expressions of feelings and sensations, which are elevated above objective reality and traditional conceptions of right and wrong, good and evil, etc. In short, words like ‘fascist’ and ‘Nazi’ come to mean nothing more than ‘I don’t like this.’ The Democrats don’t like Trump, but they lack the moral language to explain why. In turn, they resort simply to calling him the names they associate with other things they believe they don’t like. Trump, therefore, is a Nazi, Hitler-esque—just as Mitt Romney was, just as George W. Bush, just as Reagan and Goldwater were, just as all Republicans are. The left doesn’t consider the implications or the meaning of the comparisons they use, largely because they don’t understand them. They know only that they are comparing two things that they don’t like.”

It’s Joy Behar, EXPLAINED!  I hope you’ll read the whole thing…

https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/26/why-the-nazi-slur-has-no-power

Gen. John Kelly, former chief of staff to President Trump has been quoted by THE NEWS YORK TIMES as saying Trump privately praised Hitler on several occasions and met his definition of a fascist.  Kamala Harris has made much of this in the scripted comments she makes everywhere she goes.  But Nick Ayers, then-Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, said this on X:

“I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House, but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore. I was with each of them more than most, and his commentary is *patently false.*”

This refutation includes other stories told by Gen. Kelly as well, such as the one that Trump didn’t want to be seen with veterans who had lost limbs and had called soldiers who had been injured or killed in battle “suckers and losers.”  These are stories that Democrats are still telling constantly on the campaign trail.

When THE ATLANTIC magazine (the propaganda arm of the Atlantic Council) published the “suckers and losers” comment, even huge anti-Trumper John Bolton responded that Trump had not said that.   

As reported in THE NATIONAL PULSE, when THE ATLANTIC published a similar piece this week claiming that Trump had denigrated murdered American soldier Vanessa Guillen, her family roundly rejected the magazine’s claims, with her sister no doubt rankling them by saying she had already voted for Trump.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/10/24/even-mike-pences-chief-of-staff-says-general-kelly-is-lying-about-trump/

But as the hysterical “Trump is Hitler” narrative wears thin, the Democrats are trying even harder to thwart election integrity measures, suing states and towns across the country.  To cite just one example, after the Commonwealth of Virginia removed about 1,600 registered voters who had IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES as non-citizens from its voter rolls, U.S. Judge Patricia Giles, just this Friday, ruled that those names must be PUT BACK.  I am not kidding.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-judge-orders-virginia-restore-voters-removed-from-rolls-restoring-access-thousands

But logically, it seems likely this will backfire as well.  According to a new Gallup poll, a whopping 80 percent of Americans support BOTH a border wall AND voter ID, and 83 percent say that proof of citizenship should be required for voting for the first time.  But the messaging from the Democrat Party is that these policies are racist.  How does this go over when a vast majority of Americans are finding themselves agreeing with Trump?  Here’s Jonathan Turley’s column...

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/10/25/gallop-80-percent-of-americans-support-voter-id-and-proof-of-citizenship-laws/#more-224697

As Nick Arama at REDSTATE writes of Trump, “Not only is he doing well in the polls, but he’s been doing events that have blown up the only desperate argument they seem to have left --- the “Hitler gambit.”

Working at McDonald’s and chatting with everyday Americans.  Shooting the breeze for three solid unedited hours with Joe Rogan.  He’s funny, personable, intelligent, widely knowledgeable, and, yes, stable and even-tempered.  The dictator stuff falls away as just another political lie.

It was reportedly son Barron who encouraged Trump to get out and do these kinds of events and podcasts, to let people see who he really is, especially young people who are most prone to leftist brainwashing.  How often do you get that in politics?

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/27/hilarious-trump-may-just-win-all-fifty-states-with-his-new-election-promise-n2181125

None of this will matter, though, if we don’t get out and vote.  Have the satisfaction of “banking” your vote, in person.  It’s up to all of us to make this election too big to rig.

RELATED COMMENT from Huckabee writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth:

While in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend for a music event, my co-writer/spouse Pat Reeder and I took a drive through a beautiful historic district called Elizabeth.  Impressive, immaculately restored homes from the early 20th century line the streets; many of these go for well over $1 million.

We could see that in this prestigious neighborhood, the ONLY political signs were for Harris-Walz and the down-ballot Democrats.  NOT ONE Trump sign in the entire neighborhood.  What are the odds?  If you were to ask these well-educated, prosperous people what they thought of Trump, I’d be willing to bet they’d say he was a racist and a threat to democracy.  They might even use the word “Hitler.”

On the other hand, while there were quite a few Harris signs, most of the homes did not have yard signs at all.  I had to wonder, had these people been intimidated by what’s being said about Trump to not publicly support him?  I had a feeling that if more of them felt as their neighbors did, they’d have signs for Harris, too, but they didn’t.  Perhaps they find it safer to say nothing.  It will be very interesting to see the vote tallies from areas like this.

RELATED VIDEO: At the Trump rally at MSG, Tucker Carlson said one of the greatest gifts Trump has given Americans is to inspire people to stand up against meritless elitists who want to bully us into silence and force us to repeat lies.

As of Monday, we are one week and one day away from what may be the most important election of our lifetimes, and for once, that’s not hyperbole. It will determine whether the United States continues sliding over a cliff or changes course and returns to its foundations.

I’ve run and been involved in a lot of campaigns, and I can tell you that in successful ones, by this late stage, you’ve nailed down your base and should be making the case to persuade the persuadable undecideds to break your way. It’s when you’re barnstorming the country to make your final argument for why you deserve their vote and to fire up enthusiasm among your supporters to get to the polls and do it. That’s become even more important now that Election Day has been stretched into Election Weeks or Month, so that voters are already casting millions of ballots.

So how did Donald Trump and Kamala Harris each spend this all-important weekend?

In between a flurry of campaign appearances, Trump sat down for three hours with podcaster Joe Rogan, who is immensely popular with young listeners, especially males. It was posted late on Friday and as of this writing early Monday morning, it had already racked up 33 million views on YouTube alone, plus over 436,000 comments. Most were positive, with some calling it the best political interview they’d ever seen. Some said they were former Democrats who are now voting for Trump, and many remarked on how intelligent, measured, knowledgeable and funny he is, nothing at all like the dumb, crazy fascist the Democrats depict him as being.

Some said they didn’t intend to sit through the whole thing, but stayed up half the night listening. How often do you hear that about any political interview these days? Maybe Rogan and Trump together will bring back the requirement that political candidates have to be able to speak for hours without a teleprompter. That can only be a good thing.

One thing I found heartwarming is how many commenters stated they were in nations all over the world, from Denmark to Malawi, but they love America and are praying for voters to elect Trump. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are some highlights…

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/10/26/heres-the-highlights-of-joe-rohans-three-hour-interview-with-trump-n2646816

But honestly, it’s worth setting aside three hours for. Here’s the entire thing…

Trump followed that on Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, where he introduced a group of respected local Muslim leaders who endorsed him. Imam Belal Alzuhairi said, "We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war! We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine. The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason." This came amid news of a stunning YouGov poll showing Trump now leads Harris among Arab-American voters by 49-47%.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-earns-endorsement-highly-respected-muslim-leaders-battleground-state

Then came the big kahuna on Sunday: Trump’s historic rally at Madison Square Garden. (Full video here): 

https://www.youtube.com/live/HysDMs2a-iM?si=p2VZGGZlna6A0i0r

Despite Democrat politicians telling Trump he wasn’t welcome in New York (and trying to jail and bankrupt him to prove it), the people of New York packed the 20,000-seat venue with an estimated 75,000 more standing outside. Hillary Clinton compared the event to a 1930s Nazi rally there (nonsensical on all fronts, especially considering she and Bill have both held rallies there.) Tim Walz said much the same thing as Hillary in suggesting that Americans who support Trump are Nazis…

https://pjmedia.com/graysonbakich/2024/10/27/tim-walz-calls-trump-madison-square-garden-attendees-nazis-n4933698

Despite threats that any Trump appearance would be disrupted by the communist toddlers of the Dems’ professional protester class, police reported that it was not only peaceful, but everyone was friendly, polite and respectful. They even cleaned up their trash, which was also a hallmark of the old Tea Party rallies. Man, these people just don’t know how to be Nazis.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/27/worst-nazi-rally-ever-n4933703

Also, for a “Nazi rally,” there were a surprising number of Jewish people in attendance.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/10/27/jewish-people-attend-trump-nazi-rally-at-madison-square-garden-didnt-they-get-the-memo-n2181154

Lawrence Jones said on “Fox & Friends” that he was surprised to see so many people in his NYC apartment building wearing red MAGA caps because they’d never displayed their political beliefs before. Trump isn’t just making America great again, he’s making Americans feel emboldened to speak out freely again and stop self-censoring.

You have to hand it to Kamala Harris – because she can’t figure out how to take it for herself.

I didn’t think it was possible for her campaign to get any worse, but at this late stage, she’s still setting new records for awfulness. The closeness of the polls is a frightening testament to how effective the politicized mass media has been at brainwashing the public. How else to explain the support for someone being President who can’t answer a simple question and who makes the dumbest campaign decisions I have ever seen, and I’ve been involved in a LOT of political campaigns.

For instance, Kamala is traveling today to Texas, a state she has no chance to win, but it’s about pushing unfettered abortion, so of course, she’s taking time out of her schedule with Election Day less than two weeks away. Texas is the state that’s been most impacted by the disastrous open border policies of Biden and Harris, so with illegal immigration being one of the top voter concerns, why not go down there and remind voters of her border debacle? Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called it “one of the dumbest political decisions I’ve ever seen.”

No wonder top Texas Republican office holders are demanding that if she’s finally going to visit Texas, it should be to apologize.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-politicos-launch-full-court-press-against-harris-ahead-her-border-state-campaign-rally-apologize

Earlier this week, Harris did a townhall on CNN with Anderson Cooper hosting. It was nearly as friendly a venue as “The View” and that was an embarrassing tongue bath. But it went so badly that Matt Margolis at PJ Media called it “a masterclass in self-destruction” and the biggest political disaster since Biden debated Trump. Even Anderson Cooper diplomatically admitted that he didn’t think she “sealed the deal,” although I’m sure that won’t keep him from voting for her, if he hasn’t already.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/24/kamalas-cnn-town-hall-was-a-masterclass-in-political-self-destruction-n4933594

Like watching “Plan Nine from Outer Space,” it’s hard to pick a favorite bad moment, but one that’s getting a lot of attention was when she was asked what her weaknesses were and she replied with a word salad that never answered the question but somehow worked around to praising herself.

Her campaign is now resorting to relying on celebrities from Lizzo to Beyonce to Michael Keaton to try to drag Kamala over the finish line – because nobody can relate to the problems of struggling working Americans in the Biden-Harris economy like fabulously rich celebrities. This seems to be backfiring bigly. Michael Keaton’s post looked like a hostage video as he told regular people that Trump and Elon Musk didn’t really care about them or want to hang out with them. It was greeted with hundreds of derisive responses from people asking when they could come over to Michael’s house for a beer.

Last night, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen tried to gin up some enthusiasm for Kamala at a rally in Georgia, but reports are that the crowd started leaving as soon as Springsteen finished and she started talking. Don Surber has an amusing piece that covers that, along with topics like why Kamala is so bad at retail politics and how she managed to hold a “one-person debate” on CNN and lose.

Don Surber
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Not that the crowd were that impressed with Springsteen, either. Bob Hoge at Redstate.com reports that Bruce’s galloping TDS seems to have left him clinically depressed. After a dark and divisive rant about Trump being a “tyrant,” he mumbled through a dreary solo rendition of “Dancing in the Dark,” which includes these lyrics that sound like a description of Kamala’s campaign:

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/10/25/bruce-springsteen-brings-dark-message-to-kamala-rally-then-delivers-dreary-bomb-of-a-performance-n2181045

Cheer up, Bruce. If Trump gets elected, maybe you won’t have to declare your multi-million-dollar estate in New Jersey as a farm anymore just to get a tax break. (For those who don’t know that story, here’s a 2015 Billboard article about it.)

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-organic-farm-tax-new-jersey-bon-jovi-6509638/

Winning the election is just the start. If we get there in a couple of weeks --- it’s looking good, but take NOTHING for granted --- we then have to make it all the way to Inauguration Day. And the left will not go gentle into that good night. Who knows how far they’ll go to shake things up before then --- and after? It’s going to get mean.

We do know much of it will necessarily involve an army of aggressive lawyers and partisan judges. But another piece of it involves taking a cue from what the European Union is already doing with great diligence and enthusiasm. That is, they’ll work even harder to shut down all communication from those they consider “right-wing extremists.” And since they define President Trump as a right-wing extremist, it follows that all his supporters are, too, and, like him, require their own “gag order.”

They will try this even though by now it should garner little more than a yawn when they describe Trump as worse than Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Chairman Mao, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Idi Amin and The Grinch, COMBINED. It’s really getting old: the Democrats have called every Republican presidential nominee “Hitler” since Thomas Dewey in 1944. (And that was when we were actually at war with Hitler.) This time, with Kamala as their candidate and her weaknesses on full display, that “dictator” stuff is all they’ve got.

The list of people they’ve likened to Hitler is long. For when you have time...

https://instapundit.com/229455/

But, wait, you might say of our joke. Idi Amin was so evil, he was a cannibal! Would the left really go so far as to compare Trump to a cannibal? Sure they would! To the TDS-infected mind, he’s Jeffrey Dahmer. Besides, the cannibalism is true in a figurative sense, because he’s eating Kamala for lunch.

In truth, THE ATLANTIC didn’t go that far (yet); they held back and just said Trump was like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini combined. This sparked Margot Cleveland at THE FEDERALIST to quip, “When Hitler isn’t bad enough!”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/journalists-political-commentators-respond-atlantic-article-comparing-trump-hitler-stalin

Our riff on what THE ATLANTIC said is something called comic exaggeration, done to make a point.

But this kind of pointed ridicule is precisely what the left is most afraid of and obsessed with silencing. Gabe Kaminsky at THE FEDERALIST reports that the EU has released an 18-page report that warning that your use of humor and satire, even the sharing of funny memes, could be a sign you’re one of...THOSE. You know, right-wing conspiracy theorists. Nazi white supremacists. Domestic terrorists. Deploooooooorables.

We are not amused, they say. And, yes, that is the royal “we.” We know this because they behave like the ruling elite, assuming power through Divine Right.

Cracking down on humor and satire? Them’s fightin’ words in our book. This is being done by control freaks who think the ending of George Orwell’s novel “1984” is a happily-ever-after.

An EU-funded group called the Radicalization Awareness Network has partnered with them to combat “violent extremism” with “surveillance and security.” Yes, surveillance. Their report is titled “It’s not funny anymore. Far-right extremists’ use of humour.”

“This paper,” they say, “scrutinizes how humour functions as a potential factor in terms of influencing far-right extremist violence.”

“The most potent weapons known to mankind,” their report reads, “are satire and ridicule.” Yes, and that’s exactly why we all need them in our arsenal. Taking them away is like disarming the populace. Somebody needs to print up the bumper sticker: To take my sense of humor, they’ll have to pry it from my cold dead mind.

But then, the self-anointed ruling elite will prowl parking lots and scrape those bumper stickers off pickup trucks.

They themselves are generally humorless; they’ve designated most humor as unsafe. As Greg Gutfeld said Wednesday, the left has “cancer of the funny bone.” They know our humor loses its power when it can’t be shared, so that’s the kind of world they envision, with themselves in charge of what can be communicated. Accordingly, this group recommends de-platforming those who produce and/or share memes of which they disapprove. They’ll psychoanalyze each creator and pick apart each image to imbue them with motives and beliefs that likely aren’t even intended. One can see from examples in the EU report that this is what they have done.

Note: these people get the strangest ideas. For some reason, they have the bizarre notion that the “OK” hand sign, with the thumb and index finger touching, is code for white supremacy. But somebody just made that up. (It means “okay.”) Or the idea that Trump supporters are QAnon conspiracy theorists. As immersed in the news as my team and I are, when we first started seeing references to QAnon, we had to look it up, as we had no idea what it was. Yet they’d wipe me from the internet in a heartbeat.

At the same time, as Kaminsky writes, “There is no direct reference to left-wing extremism and whether individuals who promote radical ideas on all sides of the political aisle ought to face consequences.” Well, of course there isn’t. Antifa, knock yourselves out with the memes --- although, again, I don’t think we have to worry too much about YOUR sense of humor, because you don’t have one.

The report cites a number of “resources,” such as the Urban Dictionary, Tech Against Terrorism, Meme War Weekly, Know Your Meme, and the CARR Guide to Online Radical-Right Symbols, Slogans and Slurs. Does the right have a secret handshake, too? Good grief.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/27/new-eu-alert-having-a-sense-of-humor-is-proof-you-might-be-a-far-right-terrorist/

But here’s some good news on the censorship front: Though California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been trying hard to act as the humor police, state AG Rob Bonta has stipulated that California cannot legally enforce a law (AB2839) against “materially deceptive” political content, including memes and parodies of elected officials, from plaintiffs BABYLON BEE and law blogger Kelly Rickert.

Thanks to the Alliance Defending Freedom for successfully fighting this attempt by the State of California to flout the First Amendment. To quote BABYLON BEE CEO Seth Dillon: “Our job is hard enough when the jokes keep coming true, as if they were prophesies. Unfortunately for them, the First Amendment secures our right to tell jokes they don’t like.

https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/california-agrees-it-cant-punish-satirical-website-babylon-bee-election-memes

RELATED: It’s too bad the Brits are cracking down on humor, because they’ve been such a great source of it over the years. John Cleese of the original Monty Python comedy team has had plenty to say about this, particularly with the rise of “content moderation” in the age of Trump and wokeness. Cleese famously said he doesn’t perform on college campuses any longer and has done many interviews and presentations on the subject of wokeness killing creativity; here’s one. In it, he makes the case that “all humor is critical” --- even if it’s a joke based on a weakness of all human beings --- and he passes along an insight from groundbreaking psychiatrist Robin Skinner about super-sensitive people: “If people can’t control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people’s behavior.” That is a brilliantly simple explanation for the left’s focus on “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings,” and the like.

If humor goes away, then the sense of proportion does, too. “If humor is gone,” Cleese says, “then as far as I’m concerned, you’re living in ‘1984.’”

https://bigthink.com/videos/john-cleese-on-political-correctness/

Trump and Harris both have celebrity billionaires campaigning for them, but I think I’d rather have Trump supporter Elon Musk on my side than Harris-pushing Mark Cuban, whose candidate has such bad economic ideas that he’s forced to deny she really means it even as he attempts to promote her.

https://www.westernjournal.com/mark-cuban-rails-one-kamala-harris-policy-proposals-campaigning/

During a Harris campaign event in Arizona, Cuban was asked if Harris supports a big tax on unrealized capital gains. That means taxing the increase in value of assets, even if you haven’t sold them and taken the profit. Trump calls it “communism,” and even Cuban knows it’s an incredibly stupid idea and an economy killer. So he assured the questioner that Harris does not support that.

Problem is, she said in August that she did support it, and it’s one of the few idiotic leftist ideas she hasn’t taken back.

Elon Musk seems to be having a lot more fun stumping for Trump. Musk made a stunning revelation about one reason why he’s backing Trump and wants to head up a government efficiency office to eliminate needless regulations. It was a jaw-dropping story about all the idiotic demands California regulators put on SpaceX before they would clear letting their rockets land in the ocean. These ranged from studies of the likelihood of the rocket hitting a shark and then a whale, and forcing SpaceX to put headphones on a seal and play sonic boom sounds to study its reaction.

This is a must-read that’s already inspiring countless pro-Trump memes of headphone-wearing seals. It would be hilarious if you didn’t realize these loony bureaucrats were actually serious.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/21/elon-musk-shark-story-n2180845

Of course, Musk is also being accused by leftists of violating election laws by giving away a million dollars a day to a random registered voter who signs his PAC’s petition. But he’s not paying for votes or paying anyone to register. Not like Mark Zuckerberg, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 2020 registering voters mostly in heavily-Democrat districts. Apparently, it’s okay for billionaires to buy votes only when they’re buying them from Democrat office holders. And it’s okay to promise free money for votes only if you’re offering them other people’s tax money.

With the presidential campaign in the home stretch, the differences between the candidates are becoming even more glaring, with the main one being authenticity. Trump is able to relate to everyone naturally, whether he’s talking to steelworkers, football fans or McDonald’s employees. Kamala Harris has to have everything scripted in advance, and even then, it can become a disaster (but not as big a disaster as when she ad-libs, like responding to a call of “Jesus is Lord” by saying, “You’re at the wrong rally.”)

The two also seem to have switched campaign themes. It’s Trump who’s exuding “joy” as he revels in fun photo-ops with regular Americans, while Harris has turned to angrily attacking Trump in every speech. She’s getting so strident, some pundits have started comparing her to the late-stage campaigning of Hillary “Basket of Deplorables” Clinton. Rep. Dean Phillips, the one Democrat who dared to challenge Biden in the primaries and earned far more votes than Kamala (zero), also dinged her for focusing on slamming Trump instead of being “clear about what she believes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/21/dem-rep-dean-phillips-slams-kamala-harris-focusing-trump-instead-what-she-believes/

At this point, I’m not sure she even knows what she believes. Like, remember how she was against fracking before she was for fracking? Well, now she’s against it again. At least, she’s against more of it. She's attempting the rate flip-flop-flip. You try figuring her latest position out…

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/kamala-harris-faces-backlash-oil-and-gas-association-over-perceived-flip

Meanwhile, Trump spent time Monday talking and joking with regular working guys at a Bronx barber shop. The most shocking news to come out of it was when the shop owner said that under Biden-Harris, his monthly energy bills have gone up from $1200 to $15,000! Trump told him that he will cut energy prices in half during his first year in office.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/21/trump-visits-barbershop-in-bronx-n2180868

Harris had a townhall Monday with everyone’s favorite Republican, Liz Cheney. Instead of being an opportunity for voters to ask spontaneous questions, moderator Maria Shriver announced at the outset that all the questions had been “pre-determined.” Harris’ answers had also apparently been pre-written and rehearsed, which didn’t mean they were delivered convincingly.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/10/22/watch-kamala-harris-is-so-bad-at-staged-town-hall-even-liz-cheney-was-left-cringing-n2180896

Vulnerable Democrats in swing states are seeing how bad Harris’ campaign is and rushing to distance themselves from her. Even Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on MSNBC that her campaign team looks “absolutely exhausted” because they have so many tough decisions to make and so little time “while everyone is telling them they’re a band of idiots, and they should do it their way.”

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/10/21/everyones-telling-them-theyre-a-band-of-idiots-2012-obama-campaign-manager-on-harris-campaign-n2180884

If it’s any consolation, I don’t think her campaign workers are idiots. That’s not where the problem lies. Or the idiocy. But make no mistake: This race isn't over. Ignore the polls and the pundits and keep turning out as if America's very existence depends on it, because it does.