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(1) One of the strangest things about Obama’s scold on black men for not supporting Harris enough is that most polls still show a strong majority of black men supporting her. In fact, black men may just be the demographic of men supporting her most of all other ethnic groups of men. What Obama is really saying here is that Democrats should own black votes at about a 90% level, and that anything less is unacceptable.

(2) Iran hit with massive cyberattack on government and nuclear facilities, with information stolen. Good.

(3) Kamala Harris says the election is “packed with some stuff.”

I think this is Harris’ idea of a joke about her own inarticulateness. But like most of her jokes, an unfunny one.

(4) Bill Ackman, erstwhile Democrat, gives 33 reasons why he’s voting for Trump in 2024.

(5) Gretchen Whitmer attempts to explain her strange and offensive video. And Democrats call Republicans “weird.”

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  1. From the Iran cyberattack link:

    Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization banned pagers and walkie-talkies on flights following sabotage attacks in Lebanon involving these devices, which killed 39 Hezbollah members.

    Which will only annoy the hoi polloi who are taking flights. Iran is starting to look over its shoulder. Paranoia strikes deep…

    Regarding the Quds (?) general who is allegedly being questioned about allegedly being a Mossad agent: wouldn’t this more likely be a case of his being questioned because all this happened on his watch? I wonder if Mossad was able to plant some false flags to cast suspicions on an entirely innocent Quds general. If Israel can do a massive cyberattack on Iran, it could also be capable of planting false flags to cast suspicion on an innocent. 🙂

    Neo dixit:

    In fact, black men may just be the demographic of men supporting her most of all other ethnic groups of men.

    That’s right.

    Neo dixit:

    What Obama is really saying here is that Democrats should own black votes at about a 90% level, and that anything less is unacceptable.

    IIRC, Trump got 18% of the black male vote in 2020. That trend is apparently continuing. Part of the male/female gap that shows females more progressive/liberal than males- especially so for under 30s. Ironically, Allende had significantly lower support from women compared to men.

  2. Israel finally and massively responded to the past rocket attack from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Cyber warfare!
    Of course the Iranians are so very upset about this. Boo-hoo.

  3. More on The Growing Political Divide Between Young Men and Women

    For much of the past two decades, young women and men have had similar political profiles. But the ideological differences between them grew rapidly over the past few years as young women became increasingly liberal. In 2021, 44 percent of young women consider themselves liberal, compared to only one quarter (25 percent) of young men, a nearly 20-point gender gap. A decade earlier, roughly similar numbers of young men (27 percent) and young women (30 percent) identified as liberal.

    This has something to do with black men supporting Trump more than black women do.

  6. Item(4)— Those 33 reasons from Ackman are on point. If you have not read all the way through, do so. He gives the 33 and also how he came to the conclusion he did, including the decision to post all this.

    The link Neo gives us leads to a RCP item which, in turn, takes us to the Ackman X posting. Take the trip, it is worth it. Definitely share with your favorite Yellow-dog Dem.

  7. Kamala Cackling Harris is a moron.

    She is unable to articulate in english anything of substance regardless of the venue in which she finds herself.
    This includes being “interviewed” by her acolytes.
    It really is difficult to believe she is just not plain stupid and dumb.
    It’s obvious that she is ignorant of the most basic issues, but any individual with a modicum of intelligence, esp. in her position will bring themselves up to speed through diligent study.
    Either she has not done this – which in itself brings into question her intellect – or she has, but she is too dumb to comprehend any of it and be able to reach some sort of conclusions.

    Granted, the fact that she passed the bar exam leaves many thinking she just cannot be dumb and stupid.
    I will admit that I am mystified how she passed the bar exam (assuming it was she who sat for the exam, and not someone else who took the exam in her stead).

    I think it’s great that Bill Ackman is supporting Trump. He is a lifelong democrat and is very prominent within the hedge fund world. Perhaps his decision will prompt others to reconsider voting for the Cackler.

  8. Gender political gap:

    My hypothesis is we are seeing the result of the, now nearly, 2 decade inequality in college enrollment where women are at 60%, or more. As higher education is now a leftist indoctrination place, makes sense all those women come out as leftists.

  9. The Newsweek piece by Nina Turner (!) is remarkable. She is far left. I find her takes on social media ridiculous. And yet she takes great offense at Obama’s attempt to shame black men into voting for Harris.

  10. On 2,

    After reading the article that Neo linked, I think this is not Israel’s response, but merely the prelude. I can’t wait for the main overture…should be epic.

  11. physicsguy

    After reading the article that Neo linked, I think this is not Israel’s response, but merely the prelude. I can’t wait for the main overture…should be epic.

    That is also my take. Epic, indeed!

  13. “I will admit that I am mystified how she passed the bar exam (assuming it was she who sat for the exam, and not someone else who took the exam in her stead).”

    I am also puzzled. I have two kids who passed the CA bar first try. One also passed the Washington State bar on first try. The other went to an unaccredited law school and is now doing well as a trial lawyer.

  14. Re: Cyberattack

    Who could have done that? 🙂
    ______________________________

    They seek him here.
    They seek him there.
    Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
    Is he in Heaven?
    Or is he in Hell?
    That damned, illusive pimpernel.

    –Sir Peter Blackney, “Scarlet Pimpernel”
    ______________________________

    A week or so ago Israel said it had more tricks in its bag. I suspect this is just an appetizer.

    Hang on to your hats!

  15. The fact that there is a bar exam suggests that law schools are producing unqualified graduates. Perhaps failing should cause degrees to be revoked.

  16. What Obama is really saying here is that Democrats should own black votes at about a 90% level, and that anything less is unacceptable.

    –neo

    And disastrous.

    Democrats depend on sky-high black voting levels to win elections.

  17. “That damned, illusive pimpernel.
    –Sir Peter Blackney, “Scarlet Pimpernel””

    My memory (and for what little it’s worth, Wikipedia seems to agree) the character’s name is Percy and he’s describing his alter ego as elusive.

    Although considering his penchant for disguise and misdirection, illusive is also an accurate descriptor.

  18. Boobah:

    I grabbed the quote and attribution from Goodreads. I knda thought illusive was wrong.

    Are you a Cerebus fan? 🙂

  19. From The Scarlet Pimpernel, Gutenberg #60, which indicates it was one of the earliest Gutenberg books.

    “All done in the tying of a cravat,” Sir Percy had declared to his clique of admirers.

    “We seek him here, we seek him there,
    Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
    Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
    That demmed, elusive Pimpernel”

    Sir Percy’s BON MOT had gone the round of the brilliant reception-rooms. The Prince was enchanted. He vowed that life without Blakeney would be but a dreary desert. Then, taking him by the arm, had led him to the card-room, and engaged him in a long game of hazard.

    I didn’t know if “demned” is a typo, or not. It is repeated in both Scarlet Pimpernel and in a follow-up, so my guess is that it is deliberate. Maybe it is turn-of-the-century queasiness about “damned”… Did the publisher bowdlerize the text?

    There are 25 instances of “demmed” in the text, so it is definitely NOT a typo.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60

  20. Yes, “demmed” was in the original text. It’s how Sir Percy, in his act as a foppish fool, would have said it.

  21. It is bad enough we can cringe at the way Kamala Harris comes across as a candidate.

    It is far worse to imagine how she will come across with foreign leaders if she wins the election. I just cannot tolerate the thought of her sitting down across from Putin or Xi. Good grief!

  25. I can’t find much reporting on the cyberattack, outside of places like the Hindustan Times. It doesn’t look, for instance, as if the NYT has anything on it today, unless my search terms were faulty. Why?

  26. What Obama is really saying here is that Democrats should own black votes at about a 90% level, and that anything less is unacceptable.

    The word “own” is so telling. He clearly thinks he DOES own black voters and can tell them what to do and chastise them when they disappoint him, just as if they were his slaves. He believes they have a duty to do what he says. How can he be so lacking in self awareness, on this subject especially!?

  27. Mrs+Whatsit,

    I can’t also…one would suspect that at least the right leaning media would have reported on this. Despite my enthusiasm, I beginning to wonder if it is real.

  28. @Gringo: Did the publisher bowdlerize the text?

    There are 25 instances of “demmed” in the text, so it is definitely NOT a typo.

    Not bowdlerization, humor, the affected way a dandy or a fop talks. Other instances:

    Mr. Mantalini from Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby*: ‘I am a demd villain!’ cried Mr Mantalini, smiting himself on the head. ‘I will fill my pockets with change for a sovereign in halfpence and drown myself in the Thames; but I will not be angry with her, even then, for I will put a note in the twopenny-post as I go along, to tell her where the body is. She will be a lovely widow. I shall be a body. Some handsome women will cry; she will laugh demnebly.’

    Digory’s uncle from C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew: “A devilish temper she had,” he would say. “But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

    *Not the one by Edmund Wells.

  29. Mrs+Whatsit

    What Obama is really saying here is that Democrats should own black votes at about a 90% level, and that anything less is unacceptable.

    Obama had been an Overseer (aka Driver) for a long time, but has silently been demoted to just a Black Overseer…

    Anyway, almost finished cleaning up limbs ‘n branches from ‘Hut‘ side of property – mostly from Debbie & Helene.

  30. As with UNRWA, so also on the northern border with UNIFIL.

    Let me save everyone time and tell you how this ends.

    For the next few weeks, there will be echo chamber outrage from Biden-Harris officials, journalists, NGOs, the UN, Western diplomats, etc. that Israel is pushing into UNIFIL outposts. The Israelis will ignore that criticism, because they have to as a matter of military necessity, because those UNIFIL outposts are used by Hezbollah as cover for tunnels, firing positions, etc. The Israelis will then secure and publish evidence of exactly all that, showing that UNIFIL soldiers have been willingly serving as Hezbollah human shields while boosting an international campaign against Israel. At that point most of Israel’s critics will find a new manufactured criticism, though some will simply ignore the new evidence (for instance journalists will still publish their stories about Israel targeting UNIFIL, maybe with a line toward the bottom that goes “Israeli officials claim Hezbollah positioned itself near the outposts.”)

    The echo chamber outrage, by the by, comes from a couple places. Some of it is autopilot: this thing is what the Israelis are doing right now, so that’s what they’re hitting the Israelis for. But some of it is undoubtedly tactical. It’s an effort to deter Israel from being able to credibly expose what UNIFIL has been doing

    https://x.com/omriceren/status/1845487912395104336

    Hells bells, ban UNIFIL too then. Pick them up and drive them out, for all the good (aka, ill) they do.

  31. RE: presumed Israeli cyber-warfare attack on Iran. This is called “preparing the battlespace.”

  33. None of the people i trust like ceren lee smith tony badran mike doran are reporting this

  34. Many things are happening, meanwhile.

    Deals are being cut. Hits on Beirut have ceased: reports have this at Biden’s insistence and Bibi’s acquiescence. But THAAD is supposed to arrive on scene.

    Yet today another Iranian made Hezb drone got through the non-THAAD-necessary domestic Israeli air defenses (read “Iron Dome”) to hit an Israeli military base cafeteria near Haifa, kill four, wound seriously half a dozen and wound somehow up to 40 some-odd total others. These “smallish” (40kg payload) drones are getting through far too frequently for Israel to tolerate. Plus daily rocket barrages of 90-100 over every day of the recent holidays have become the new normal.

    And on the battlefield in Lebanon, first one Kornet type anti-tank rocket kills two IDF soldiers and then another wounds many others in a follow-up attack on the rescue team to those initially struck. The stinking UNIFIL creeps are providing cover to the Hezb; won’t withdraw when asked and then bitch about it when Hezb fires issuing in proximity to UNIFIL bases predictably draws an Israeli response. Oh! They’re shooting at us! Waaaaah!

  36. Regarding UNIFIL, it would certainly be really nice if they REFUSED to serve as human shields for Hezbullah. (You know—“Just say NO” and all that…)

    In fact UNIFIL should have left South Lebanon once it became crystal clear—as it has been for years—that they were not at all performing their role according to UNR 1701 (which is a nice way of saying that they were for all intents and purposes LESS THAN USELESS), not that Hezbullah would have allowed them to perform that role (and not that the UN absolutely insisted on it—it’s the UN, after all—ALTHOUGH several years back some Irish UNIFIL soldiers WERE ambushed and killed by Hezbullah for their efforts, which as intimidation goes is pretty effective).

  38. When I first saw the movie, I thought he said “that damn delusive Pimpernel.”

    Because . . . the use of the word “damned” (i.e., demmed) is incorrect usage — unless we are to understand that the Pimpernel is “damned” to/in hell. Damned (“demmed”) as a state of being. Correct usage is “that damn illusive (or, preferably, and more appropriately, delusive) Pimpernel.”

    It’s the same sort of mistake people often make with dread and dreaded. Usually dreaded is used, when dread should be used. E.g., “the dread Pirate Rogers” is the correct usage — the writer of the screenplay (Princess Bride) got it right.

  39. The truth about the “Walz-goes-pheasant-hunting” meme and the other Dem ads targeting men:

    This “outreach” to men is actually outreach to women. There’s a contradiction between what Democratic women expect aesthetically & sexually out of men and what they demand politically. The result is this uncanny valley of politically emasculated men LARPing as manly macho men:
    Original post:
    https://x.com/bungarsargon/status/1845476410409865561

  40. Israel is holding back to see what they can get from Biden not to go after Iran. Biden is thinking THAAD better work.

  41. “Nutz goes Pheasant Hunting”, continued…
    (AKA “HOO BOY!!!”….from Andrea Widburg…)
    “It’s Time To Talk About The Rumors Regarding Tim Walz And Teen Boys“—
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/it_s_time_to_talk_about_the_rumors_regarding_tim_walz_and_teen_boys.html
    H/T Blazingcatfur blog.

    + Additional link
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1845476314242748761.html

    I wonder, though, whether it would be best to leave well enough alone, Nutz being the demolition-derby pickup truck that he is….

  42. “…to see what they can get from Biden not to go after Iran…”

    Israel would be damned foolish to rely on “Biden” at this stage of the game.
    (OTOH, Bibi might have a gun at his head…
    On the third hand, God is great…)

  43. Bibi has been doing much rabbit hunting in the last few week

    As to the rumors about tienamen and apparently kazakh parts while they push debunked 34 year old rumors on the big screen i would leave that part of no 1 comrade on the cutting room

    But if others use it against al shahaab tim well i wont be upset

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