Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will have to defend Vice President Kamala Harris’ “lengthy” record when he takes the debate stage Tuesday night, and former President Donald Trump’s campaign expects Sen. JD Vance to come out swinging. But campaign officials were clear-eyed during a Monday call with reporters: Walz is very good in debates, Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller emphasized, describing Walz as a “wily political veteran” who has run countless campaigns and spent two decades in politics. “I wanna repeat that: Tim Walz is very good in debates,” Miller said. “Really good. He’s been a politician for nearly 20 years, he’ll be very well prepared for tomorrow night. He’s not going to be the wildly gesticulating, effeminate caricature we see at rallies pointing to Kamala Harris and dancing about on the stage. Walz is going to be buttoned up. He’ll be ready to defend his own radical Left record in Minnesota, and in Washington before that, let’s not forget his time in Congress.” Walz won’t hesitate to “lie on command,” Miller predicted. “That’s not to say that JD Vance won’t be prepared tomorrow, or that somehow he isn’t up to the challenge,” Miller said. “JD Vance is great, that’s why President Trump picked him. JD has the life experience and the vision to make life better for Americans … and JD is ready to step up and lead.” (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The press call followed a Monday morning CNN piece describing Walz as “just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the Sunday afternoon in August when he warned Kamala Harris in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater.” The CNN piece quotes sources close to Walz who allegedly described the vice presidential candidate as fearful of letting Harris down and helping Trump to win. And while those close to Walz are telling CNN that he is nervous, Walz’s team is attempting to set expectations high for Vance, as the New York Times reported, highlighting Vance’s time at Yale. Tuesday’s forum is the last candidate debate scheduled before Americans head to the polls in November. Vance has been preparing by facing off with Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who also spoke on the Monday call. “Honestly, the hardest part was learning how to tell lies with a straight face,” the congressman joked. “JD Vance is prepared to wipe the floor with Tim Walz and expose him for the radical liberal he is,” he added.

Gina Raimondo, the Biden-Harris administration’s commerce secretary, said on Monday that she is not “very focused” on the impending dock worker strike along the East Coast that could upend the economy. Raimondo was asked about the strike during an appearance Monday on CNBC. “Where have you been kind of focused and hearing on what would happen if the strike goes, let’s say longer than a week,” asked Becky Quick, co-host of CNBC’s Squawk Box. “Again, I have not been very focused on that,” Raimondo responded. About 45,000 dockworkers plan to walk off the job on Tuesday, hobbling the supply chain and throwing a wrench into the presidential election. "I have not been very focused on that," Biden commerce secretary Gina Raimondo says about the upcoming dock worker strike that will choke off half of U.S. imports tomorrow What exactly has she been focused on?pic.twitter.com/rl71mpfyBN — Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) September 30, 2024 ? MUST WATCH: @JoeSquawk torches Harris surrogate Gina Raimondo: You forgot the Trump tariffs were continued by Harris-Biden, there was no recession, real wages were up, the stock market did well, record low unemployment pre-pandemic — it's weird to act like he's a wildcard. pic.twitter.com/KTjELc8Dfa — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 30, 2024   The International Longshoremen’s Association will launch a massive strike if port ownership does not meet the union’s demands for higher wages and address their objections to port automation. Depending on how long the strike lasts, Americans could see shortages and delays past the election and into the holiday season. Bananas, coffee, cocoa, pharmaceuticals, clothing, furniture, vehicles, and even Christmas decorations are among the products that will be affected. Shortages could also cause price spikes just as Americans are recovering from years of high inflation. Raimondo had more to say when she was criticizing a potential second Trump administration’s economic policies. Raimondo called former President Donald Trump “erratic” and slammed the former president for saying he would implement more tariffs. “He’s talking about a tariff on all imports. I mean that’s insane. That will raise prices of everything for everyone,” Raimondo said. The CNBC anchor pointed out that Trump campaign surrogates have said Trump’s tariff threats are more of a negotiating tactic than a definite plan. Raimondo also called Kamala Harris “smart and thoughtful” and defended the Biden administration’s economic record, saying the country has had a “featherbed landing” after the pandemic. “We have had a soft landing. Inflation, we haven’t slayed it totally. It is on the way down. We need stability, predictability. And what you will have in him is unpredictable, chaotic, based on how he feels on a particular day,” she said. “By the way, he was president. We know what that resulted in,” Raimondo said, at which point Joe Kernen, co-host of Squawk Box interjected. “Seems like you kind of forgot that earlier,” Kernen told Raimondo. “The tariffs that he did put on were continued by the Biden administration. There was no recession. Real wages were actually up. Stock market did well. A lot of very positive things happened. Record low unemployment until the pandemic.” “So it’s just weird to act like it’s a complete wild card what kind of president he would be when you’ve got a blueprint right there of what kind of president he would be,” Kernen continued. “And Kamala Harris has been vice president for four years, and we’ve seen what kind of vice president she would be.”

A conference hosted by the largest professional association of pediatricians in the United States kicked out a group of detransitioners who sought to share their perspectives with doctors, The Daily Wire has learned. Detransitioners are individuals who attempted the impossible — to change their gender through hormonal or surgical transgender interventions — before stopping treatments and living as their biological sex. They are largely ignored in the mainstream media and dismissed by medical organizations. But many detransitioned individuals have taken their stories to social media and grown large followings as they spread awareness about the dangers of so-called “gender-affirming care.” BREAKING: The @AmerAcadPeds has kicked out a detrans group that included Chloe Cole, Abel Garcia, Soren Aldaco, and Nicolas Flowers from their annual conference. Why is the AAP preventing doctors from hearing these stories? pic.twitter.com/GI0smBFF2C — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 30, 2024 The American Academy of Pediatrics voted in 2023 to reaffirm its 2018 policy statement promoting so-called “gender-affirming care” and authorizing the development of guidance for pediatricians based on a “systematic review of the evidence.” AAP CEO Mark Del Monte promised at the time that AAP will continue to “ensure young people get the reproductive and gender-affirming care they need and are seen, heard and valued as they are.” Members of the Alliance for Mental Health, a coalition of groups advocating for mental health over medical treatments for gender confusion, attended the American Academy of Pediatrics conference this weekend in Orlando, Florida. Detransitioners Chloe Cole, Abel Garcia, Soren Aldaco, and Nicholas Flowers were present, along with activists Erin Friday and January Littlejohn. The group spent over $25,000 on a booth where they could easily access attendees, Friday shared with The Daily Wire. Their goal was to communicate with the doctors who were traveling from around the world to attend the conference. And they were successful, Garcia told The Daily Wire, until they were booted from the conference on Monday morning, their third day at the conference. Video footage shared with The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh shows a security guard claiming that one of the individuals had violated “the code of contact last year.” The guard tells them they need to “leave the event immediately” and return their name badges, giving them about five minutes to disassemble their booth. 3/ Rather than speak for themselves, the AAP sent venue security to inform these mental health professionals, mothers, and detransitioners that they had 10 minutes to pack up their booth and exit the conference venue. pic.twitter.com/ZatB9hLfpu — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 30, 2024 “They don’t want detransitioners here at the AAP,” Littlejohn can be seen telling the guard. “They want to pretend that they don’t exist. What’s really sad is, our information was really well received by the pediatricians here. We are very concerned about the mental health of people with gender dysphoria, and it’s really time that the AAP acknowledge the harm that’s occurring.” The AAP did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire explaining which individual was problematic enough to get them removed from the conference. Littlejohn believes they were removed because of their message: that the AAP should not be endorsing so-called “gender-affirming care,” transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers, for minors. Garcia acted as the Spanish coordinator for the Alliance for Mental Health, he said on Monday, sharing that his job was to speak with Spanish attendees from countries including Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. The doctors with whom their group spoke were “shocked” to discover what the AAP has condoned, Garcia said. These doctors reportedly shared that in their countries, adults were seeking gender transitions, but such procedures were not being pushed on children. 6/ “We matter, our voices matter, and our health matters. We went through such a traumatic medical experiment, and yet we’re still constantly put into this turmoil…” said Nicolas Flowers, another detransitioner escorted from the event. @nicolasblooms pic.twitter.com/PnIXo3far0 — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 30, 2024 “I believe our efforts were successful,” Garcia shared in a phone interview on Monday. “Our goal was to not get kicked out on the first day…being kicked out on the third day was the best option because that way we had the max amount of time to communicate with the attendees about protecting children and why the AAP supports mutilating children and ‘gender-affirming care.'”

Israel just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East. Hezbollah, a massive Lebanese terrorist group that is really an Iranian proxy group, is a party in the Lebanese government. It has been named as a State Department-designated terror organization as well as an Arab League-designated terrorist organization. Lebanon has been turned into a chaotic hellhole by Iranian and Syrian intervention in the state, and Hezbollah is a major part of the government there. In 2000, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, which had been used by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah as a launching point for terror attacks on Israel. Israel did not want to police that area of Lebanon after having fought to keep a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to make sure southern Lebanon was not used as a launching off point. So in 2000, Israel completely withdrew in the same way they withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005. It turns out that unilateral Israeli withdrawals tend to be stupid and not work well. In 2006, there was a fairly major war, a roughly five-week war, between the Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon and the Israelis. The Israelis pounded southern Lebanon pretty hard. That war was concluded with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for a demilitarization of southern Lebanon from Hezbollah to be guaranteed by UNIFIL, a U.N. sponsored set of fake troops. Immediately upon Israel withdrawing again, that entire area was taken over by Hezbollah, armed to the teeth. Thus, the widespread perception in the aftermath of October 7 was that the greater military threat to Israel was not Hamas in the south, but Hezbollah in the north which was reportedly armed with up to 200,000 rockets. They also had sophisticated weaponry capable of hitting towers in Tel Aviv. Throughout the war they were fighting with Hamas, Israel had to contend with the possibility of Hezbollah getting in, a risk which would put Israel in the middle of a two-front war. As it turned out, because of the Biden-Harris administration’s pressure on Israel and the fact that Biden-Harris drew so many stupid ideas from the Obama administration about the Middle East, Israel doesn’t just face a one-front war in the south, or a two-front war in the north and the south. Instead, they essentially face a seven-front war, which includes the Iranian-sponsored Houthis in Yemen, the Iraqi-Iranian sponsored terror groups in Iraq, the Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Syria, direct Iranian attacks from Iran, and attacks from the West Bank sponsored by Iran. Basically, Iran motivated all of its proxies on October 7 and beyond to attack Israel in the hopes of sinking any sort of nascent peace deal between Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arab world. That was what they were trying to forestall. They were hoping that by initiating a conflict, a broader Muslim versus Jew conflict would arise as opposed to a Shia versus Israel/Sunni conflict, which is the way the Middle East was breaking down. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show The Abraham Accords were largely about Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arabs deciding that Iran was a greater threat, and they were going to get together, develop together, shake hands, and move into the future together in opposition to the ayatollahs in Iran. Iran could see what was being fostered. So they attempted to initiate a Muslim versus Jew war on October 7, part of which was Hezbollah’s activation in the south of Lebanon to shoot rockets into Israel. Then for approximately 11 months, Hezbollah shot rockets into Israel. Between 8,000 and 10,000 rockets were fired into northern Israel forcing Israel to evacuate large swathes of its north. Some 70,000 to 100,000 Israelis are not living in their homes and have not for nearly a year at this point. A couple of weeks ago, Israel decided it had enough — that enough was enough. So Israel initiated what people are calling Operation Grim Beeper, the single most hilarious and effective anti-terror operation in history. 15 years ago Israel founded a fake beeper company. The Mossad did this. They knew Hassan Nasrallah, who was the evil terrorist head of Hezbollah, would eventually realize all of his communications were being hacked, and he would move to older methods of communications like beepers. Hezbollah was afraid that if they used iPhones, Israel would hack the iPhones and monitor all their communications, so they started using beepers in about February or March of this year. Israel blew up all the beepers simultaneously a couple of weeks ago, thereby not only handicapping thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, but also destroying their entire method of communication. They then followed that up by bombing all of their walkie talkies when they moved from the beepers to their secondary mode of communication. It turns out, they bought those from the Israelis also. Hezbollah’s methods of communication were gone. Their top infrastructure was largely damaged, and they didn’t really have the ability to do anything because Israel had such great intelligence penetration into Lebanon that it was simultaneously launching some 1,600 air assaults over the course of 36 hours, destroying about half of Hezbollah’s long range of weaponry. The mark of a first-world country, the mark of a proper military, is not that you never get surprised. The mark of a proper country is that if you do get surprised and you get hurt, you hit back so hard that the people who hit you no longer exist, nor do any of their friends. The mark of America being a first-world country was when we got hit at Pearl Harbor, we then proceeded to launch two of the most destructive assaults on our enemies in world history, on the Japanese and on the Germans. The mark of the power of the United States is that after September 11, we took down two countries. These are marks of actual power. Israel got hit on October 7 in a massive disaster, the worst intelligence and human disaster in the history of the state of Israel. They then proceeded to completely root out Hamas. But they had the Hezbollah threat in the north. And that threat in the north had been used by Hamas as a rationale for not surrendering the hostages because they were hoping that if it came down to it, Hezbollah would get full-scale in the war, and the intimidation factor of Hezbollah in the north would force Israel to make concessions to Hamas, including leaving them in power in the Gaza Strip. Israel has now completely taken that off the table because not only did they wreck Hezbollah’s foreign operating power, they took two of Iran’s proxies off the board: Hamas and Hezbollah. And that was before what happened on Friday. As for Iran itself, Iran does not actually have the forward operating capacity in the absence of its proxies to attack Israel in any sort of serious or sophisticated way. Earlier this year, Iran tried to launch an attack on Israel. They fired 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel, and about half of them fell into Iran and the rest of them were shot down by Israel and its Western allies, including Jordan and some from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia also shot down some simultaneously-fired missiles from the Houthis. So what does that mean? It means that Iran has basically demonstrated it is a paper tiger. Iran needed to be viewed as something exceptionally scary in the region because that was the only rationale for Israel and the allies not taking out its nuclear program. Only if Iran was scary did Iran get to continue to bargain with the United States and the West — and have the United States and the West under people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden sign them billions of dollars of checks because they’re so scary. Israel has been pursuing the single most effective military operation in modern history. Israel has lost zero soldiers in Lebanon so far. Zero. And they have proceeded to take out virtually all of Hezbollah’s long-range military capacity and their entire leadership structure. All of it. On Friday, Hezbollah’s leader was killed by Israel. Hassan Nasrallah took over Hezbollah in the early 1990s, happened to be a genocidal Jew-hater, a Christian-hater, and the leader of a group that is responsible for hundreds of American deaths and the deaths of tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims who are siding against the Assad regime.  The Sunni Gulf state Arab nations are ecstatic about what Israel is doing right now. Israel is wrecking all of their enemies. Everybody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt — although the Egyptians are never going to let this out of the bag, but this is the reality.  All of the same people that Israel is wrecking right now are enemies of the Sunni Gulf states. The Houthis fired a cruise missile at Tel Aviv after the killing of Nasrallah. Israel waited three or four days and then they blew up a couple of ports.  While the Biden administration is sitting with its thumb in its mouth while the Houthis attack shipping in the Red Sea, the Israelis flew a thousand miles to blow up ports. Israel is reshaping the entire region. It’s an astonishing move. Not only have they taken Hamas off the board as a workable piece in the Iranian proxy war, but they have also now effectively castrated Hezbollah as a serious forward operating base for Iran. This leaves Iran, which is not capable of doing serious damage to Israel if their assault earlier in the year was any indication. Israel is significantly more capable of doing serious damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities and oil fields than Iran is capable of doing the other way around. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! And Israel is doing this while the United States, the most powerful military force on planet Earth by leaps and bounds, is allowing a ragtag bunch of terrorists funded by Iran to fire on shipping in the Red Sea with near impunity, to fire at American ships without serious retaliation, and to kill Americans.  One of the reasons Israel can penetrate into places like Lebanon and Iran, where they killed Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, is because there are so many people in these places who hate these regimes. There are a lot of people in Lebanon who hated Hassan Nasrallah. Syrians were handing out candies in the streets after hearing about his death. When it comes to Iran, the people of Iran don’t like the regime. It’s just the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the world’s largest terrorist organization, which is in charge of this terror regime, and now Ayatollah Khamenei has reportedly gone into hiding. Israel is showing the power of strength right now. And the Sunni Gulf states are going to sign back on because here’s what they see: They see that Israel is the future. They see an alliance with Israel is the future. They see that Iran is the past. And despite the fact that the Biden administration has blown it six ways from Sunday — despite the leash being held by the Biden administration, the slow-walking of aid, the soft arms embargo, the Joe Biden idiotic midnight phone calls telling Israel not to go into Rafah, telling Israel not to go take the win with regard to Iran — Israel has said, no, we are going to protect ourselves. That is smart and that is good. It means a better Middle East for the United States. It means a Middle East with a series of allies who are stronger than American enemies. Iran hates the United States. They chant, “Death to America.” Hezbollah chants, “Death to America.” The Houthis’ slogan is, “Death to America, Death to the Jews.” Strengthening the alliance against those enemies would be the smart move. But Biden, because he is a moron, has not done that. The Financial Times reported that in the days after October 7, Israeli warplanes took off with instructions to kill Nasrallah, and Biden got on the phone demanding Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu not do it. So what did the Israelis do this time? They said we’re not calling. There’s no more Mr. Nice Zionist over there. And that means the world will be a safer and better place.

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are two of the world’s luckiest people. They found true love more than 40 years ago and never let go. Though the pair never married, they have stayed true to each other and share a son. And while we may want them to spill the beans on their secret to such a solid relationship, there might not be one. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Goldie Hawn (@goldiehawn) Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn Keep It Simple He told Us Weekly at Goldie’s Love-In Gala celebrating the Goldie Hawn Foundation and MindUp’s 20th anniversary on Friday, September 27, “I am the last person in the world to think I should give advice to anybody.” He added, “It’s just a day-to-day.” Kurt, 73, said he and Goldie, 78, get along great and work to make each other happy. “She is always my priority. We’re ‘of the moment’ people,” Kurt shared. “We just kind of say, ‘What do you feel like? What do you want to do? Do you want to watch something?'” Kurt added that family is the most important thing to the couple. Goldie shares son Oliver, 48, and daughter Kate, 45, with Bill Hudson. Kurt has a son, Boston, 44, with Season Hubley. The pair share a son, Wyatt, 38. “Obviously, our lives revolve around our grandkids and our children, and their lives and what’s going on with them, and there’s a lot going on. We do have a lot of fun.” Kurt said Goldie is an inspiration with her work at MindUp. “I’m just proud of her for sticking with it as much as she had and has, and I look forward to where it goes,” Russell told Us. “She’s fantastic. I mean, she really is the best. I tip my hat to her. I’m really happy for the kids. That it is beneficial for them.” This story’s featured image is by JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images. The post Kurt Russell Says Secret To Lasting Love With Goldie Hawn Is Simple appeared first on InspireMore.

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