I had a post on Tuesday at The Hayride about an e-mail I received. It was from Indivisible, which you might remember is the leftist group responsible, back in 2017, for ginning up mobs of dysfunctional losers to heckle Republican elected officials at town halls, essentially in retaliation for Donald Trump getting elected president. It appears that the Indivisible gang is upset over the proliferation of cat-eater memes on the internet, something their side cannot stop because they don’t control all of the social media platforms on which the memes will flourish. And the e-mail landing in my inbox this morning contained a statement from someone named Mary Small which was amusing and instructive at the same time: This is a well-known phenomenon in the immigrant rights community: Every election year, in late summer, the right attempts to trigger a public panic that involves immigrants, fantastical details, and not coincidentally, swing states. You can set your watch to it. In fact, folks commonly keep a placeholder on our planning calendars for this fake crisis. This is the season when hysterical stories about caravans and invasions suddenly appear, before suddenly fading away in November. But this year, like everything else about the Trump campaign, its two standard deviations more bizarre. It’s almost like we have the rhythm and racism of a normal Republican campaign, but with unprecedentedly unhinged content. This is somebody whose LinkedIn profile indicates has had a hand in promoting the cause of Somali migrants in Minneapolis, which doesn’t appear to have been an overly successful project. It’s entirely fair to see Mary Small as a perfect poster child for exactly who the Left is where immigration is concerned — totally uninterested in the interests of American citizens, and the more alien the migrants are to American culture, the better. The Biden Administration Is Flooding Rural Ohio With Haitians Haiti is, or at the very least is in the running for, the worst country on earth. Its per-capita GDP is $1,693 per year, as of 2023. The best estimates of the median IQ in that country, based on various studies of Haitian schoolkids, place it in the mid-60s. The median American IQ is right around 100. Anything below 83, according to assessments done by the U.S. military decades ago, indicated a likely inability to successfully perform even menial jobs. And the Biden administration thought it would be a good idea to inundate the small city of Springfield, Ohio, a post-industrial Rust Belt municipality with all of the economic and social challenges America’s ruling elite has been utterly disinterested in combating as they’ve embraced China as our chief supplier of goods which formerly came from places like Springfield, with some 20,000 Haitian asylum-seekers. They essentially deluged Springfield with the equivalent of a third of its population consisting of people they scooped up, put on planes, and brought to America. A lot of these Haitians didn’t even make the trek up through Central America and come over the border. From the worst place on earth. And the cat-eater memes come from stories being told by the residents of Springfield about their new neighbors, including video testimony at Springfield City Council meetings. Those include a panoply of horrors — public urination and defecation, physical altercations, looting at stores, rampant thefts of cars, bicycles, and other items of value, and a couple of other things. There is a set of stories about Haitians slaughtering ducks and geese from a local park and making meals of them. There is another story about the slaughtering and eating of a beloved cat that went missing from a home near where a number of Haitians were living. J.D. Vance brought the ongoing mess in Springfield to America’s attention in a tweet and in a speech he gave on the campaign trail, and the Left went utterly insane over it as you’ve seen with the reaction of the Indivisible lunatics. Especially when the local officials in Springfield rushed to tamp down the cat-eater stories. The Left Loses It Over Memes That reaction stirred the various trolls and smart-asses of the internet into creating cat-eater memes in great quantity and quality — proving the power and worth of AI beyond any shadow of a doubt. And when the memes began to circulate, the Left’s reaction only got worse. Here was Eric Swalwell, after a congressional colleague shared a particularly hilarious meme around a key theme — Donald Trump saving ducks and cats from marauding, hungry Haitians. Eric Swalwell just had a FULL ON MELTDOWN about cat memes… “What in the hell is this?!” pic.twitter.com/lWrj9Cq0XD — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 10, 2024 And here was Roland Martin melting down over the spreading of cat-eater memes by the racists of the Right: Let’s remember that the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti (and a not-altogether-dissimilar demographic profile as well), has built a wall across the width of that island at the border to keep out the Haitians the Biden administration is sending planes to pick up and bring to places like Springfield. Are the Dominicans racist conspiracy theorists? The cat-eater memes are powerful because, like so much about the Trump persona which the Left cannot handle, they’re perhaps embellished around the edges but fundamentally true at their core. Are Haitians in Springfield eating cats and ducks? The local officials say no, and yet there are receipts. But what’s true is there are very, very few cats and ducks left in Haiti. Nor are there many trees left in Haiti. Nor fish in the water nearby. Nor crops, nor anything else but the Haitians. Experience has proven that Haitians in large numbers do not produce more than they consume. This is not to say that individual Haitians cannot buck that trend — many who have come to this country have done just that. But import people in large groups from one place to another, and you will undoubtedly make the destination more like the departure. Springfield Will Soon Start Looking a Lot Like Haiti Springfield is being made like Haiti. Which is unquestionably a bad thing, and it’s a bad thing being done to Springfield that Springfield did not choose. The city’s officials are put in a position where they have no choice but to put a smiling face on their predicament, because anything else they might say risks chaos should the Haitians become enraged — and worse, the residents of Springfield might match that rage. Which may be inevitable. And the Left, through the cabal of faceless handlers controlling Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, imposed this quandary on that unfortunate town and many others like it. Almost everyone understands that the cat-eater memes, very much like Donald Trump, should be taken seriously but not literally. It doesn’t matter whether the specific story of a slaughtered and dined-upon pet cat can be proven. What’s undoubtedly true is that Biden and Harris and the people behind them are destroying a community with an utterly unreasonable invasion of people whose capability to behave in a first-world manner is questionable in the extreme. Five hundred Haitians in a city of 55,000 people is a burden. Twenty thousand is tantamount to an act of war. People get this because it’s an atrocity. Cat-eater memes are an appropriately outrageous way to satirize that atrocity. And to call the meme-makers and political monetizers of the meme “racist” simply emphasizes the breadth of that atrocity. J.D. Vance Is Leaning In. And He Should. There is no victory for the Democrats here. The memes will have cultural power because they’re outrageous to match that which they disparage. And it avails Team Harris and its various shills nothing to protest that no cats are eaten when a long parade of other related horrors for which they’re directly responsible are manifest. In Springfield and elsewhere. And Vance recognized this. He’s leaning in, as he should because the cat-eater memes are a metaphor for even worse things: Do you know what’s confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here. That local health services have been overwhelmed. That communicable diseases–like TB and HIV–have been on the rise. That local schools have struggled to keep up with newcomers who don’t know English. That rents have risen so fast that many Springfield families can’t afford to put a roof over their head. … If you’re a reporter, or an activist, who didn’t give a shit about these suffering Americans until yesterday, I have some advice: Spare your outrage for your fellow citizens suffering under Kamala Harris’s policies. Be outraged at yourself for letting this happen. And given that Haitian cat-eaters aren’t even close to the most dangerous of Team Harris’ new arrivals — Tren de Aragua, after all, is now staging New Jack City takeovers of apartment complexes and motels in Dallas and El Paso to go with what they’ve already done in New York, suburban Denver and Chicago, the magnitude of the crisis they want to deny is far, far worse than those memes. So by all means, let us have cat-eater memes, and let them color this election cycle. And the angrier and more unhinged the Left wishes to become, and the louder their calls to de-platform the meme-makers and meme-spreaders as “spreading misinformation,” the better. And now, a taste of what you’ve been waiting for — some from my personal stash, and others from around the web: He’s coming, America pic.twitter.com/D8QdMAYiGz — Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) September 9, 2024 the animal sacrifices will stop. pic.twitter.com/j016OBwup8 — Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) September 9, 2024 Save the cats pic.twitter.com/6UE9Lxp2GP — X Citizen Journal (@xcitizenjournal) September 10, 2024 And finally: Trump supports the cat meta too @trumpsolanacoin is good for all cryptos not just Bitcoin Don’t forget that when you go vote $TRUMP https://t.co/irTNCOZKXP pic.twitter.com/rtJc1rlywg — $TRUMP (@trumpsolanacoin) June 26, 2024 Don’t vote for the cat-eaters or those who would make them your neighbors. The post On the Destructive Power of Cat-Eater Memes appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

There is something almost esoteric about the importance most people attach to the fact that someone they know announces that they will change the direction of their expected vote. When a Democrat turns pro-Trump or when a Republican announces that he will vote for Harris it is pretty clear what is going on: In the first case, he has been mugged by an illegal immigrant in his own home; in the second, it was not a good idea to mix whiskey with vodka and multi-colored pills. Changing Your Vote Is Rarely a Pauline Moment If You’re a Politician If you think about it coldly, someone announcing a change of vote means nothing special, unless you believe that there has been a fall from the Pauline horse — something really supernatural — and that that person is now right and intelligent, after 40 years of defending nonsense with all conviction. This is not the norm. If politicians believed more in God, they would change the direction of their vote less and, perhaps, they would earn their living as pianists in a whorehouse, or at any other job more honest than politics. (READ MORE: On the Destructive Power of Cat-Eater Memes) A politician’s announcement that, for the first time in his history, he will vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate says more about the politician than about the candidate. His interest is usually personal. Often: Skirting around within the party, failed attempts to place a son in a relevant office, or arguing over a parking space with some relative of the candidate. If you think he has spent a whole week in his library, reading books on political theory, pondering the pros and cons of whatever candidate’s proposals, and trying to figure out which vote will be best for his nation, you’ve either lost your mind, or you’ve never seen a politician up close in your life. A Good Father, But a Bad Supporter I have read in newspapers around the world in thick headlines the news that Bush’s very Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney will endorse Kamala Harris. Good vintage whiskey, no doubt. Once upon a time “news” was information about something considered interesting to report. That the Cheneys won’t endorse Trump shouldn’t be news in 2024 when they’ve been tripping the former president up since at least 2016. Over the past decade, Cheney has not been known for the strength of his endorsements, and his interventions in the public debate have been more to defend his stewardship in the past than to defend conservatives in the future. He harshly criticized Trump in February of 2016 accusing him of being like “a liberal Democrat,” and just two months later announced that he would support Trump, privately acknowledging that he was doing so to support his daughter Liz’s political career. This makes him a good father, perhaps, but a bad supporter. (READ MORE: Was It Worth the Empanadas?) For the rest of it, Liz Cheney’s political career went to hell long ago, after colliding head-on with Donald Trump’s locomotive, so it would make no sense for them to support the former president now unless their principles were greater than their thirst for revenge. Only from a colossal binge of personal rancor can a conservative announce his vote for someone like Harris, a communist-abortionist-feminist storyteller. This Ought to be the End of Political Dynasties I am sorry to tell you that I am not moved by the converts in the opposite direction either: the leaders of the Democratic party who now announce that they have become Trumpists. They are often driven by the same compass of self-interest. And don’t think I’m criticizing people changing their minds, I do it about a thousand times a day. I just don’t think it’s an argument in favor of any candidate that an old glory of politics now decides when he has nothing left to lose, to change teams. The candidate and the proposals will be good or bad with or without the change of shirt of the last-minute converts. In his brilliant analysis last Monday, Jeffrey Lord recounts that Republican Rep. John Anderson despised Reagan so much that, after losing the Republican nomination to him, “he formed a third party to carry the fight against Reagan into the fall election — and lost decisively.” The only thing these self-serving conversions suggest to me is that we must fight harder and harder against professional politicians. We need more principled new blood who want to do good for their country, with a spirit of public service, and fewer people trying to form a six-generation family clan attached to the government teat and the goose that lays the golden eggs of politics. (RELATED: Liz Cheney and the Reason MAGA Voters Side with Trump) We must put an end to those people who, in the delivery room, instead of hearing whether a boy or a girl has been born, the doctor tells them: “Congratulations, you have had a magnificent future member of the United States House of Representatives, healthy, and weighing eight pounds.” The post Cheney’s Change of Vote Means Nothing appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

PHOENIX—It was a sweltering 112 degrees in Scottsdale, Arizona, as I climbed into my truck at 8 a.m. on July 30, 2024. Primary election day was in full swing, and I had volunteered to be a roving attorney at the polls. Despite the heat, I was on a mission to observe as many Maricopa County vote centers as possible. I hoped that the day would be uneventful and foreshadow a smooth general election in November, unlike Election Day in November 2022. Despite Knowing There Was a Problem, the RNC Took No Action in 2022 On primary election day in 2022, I had embarked on my first foray as a roving attorney in the Republican National Committee’s Election Integrity program. The RNC had me visit 11 Maricopa County polling sites. My subsequent written report to the RNC stated that six of my 11 vote centers had tabulators that struggled to count the ballots because the on-site printers were not producing sufficiently dark ballots. I noted limited failures of the printer/tabulators at five of those six polling locations. However, both tabulators at Paradise Valley’s First Southern Baptist Church failed to work at all. (READ MORE: The Real Reason Democrats Fear Losing in November) Unfortunately, my 2022 primary report landed on deaf ears. The RNC took no action. Several months later, the impact of that inaction became frighteningly clear. The same printer/tabulator malfunctions that I observed during the July primary returned in spades at Maricopa County vote centers in November, disproportionately disenfranchising Republicans, who composed 80 percent of Election Day voters. On Nov. 8, 2022, I observed 10 vote centers. Seven of them had significant problems getting the tabulators to count the printed ballots. After Election Day, I surveyed 10 other roving attorneys. Together, we had observed 115 of Maricopa County’s 223 vote centers. Based on those interviews, I wrote a comprehensive report that concluded that (a) 62 percent of the vote centers we visited had material problems with tabulators that could not read printed ballots and (b) 51 percent of the vote centers we visited featured significant lines in which voters were forced to wait one to four hours, due to printer/tabulator malfunctions. (READ MORE: Kamala Chameleon’s Girl From the Hood Gambit) The post-election sworn declarations of poll workers and voters proved that many citizens who went to the polls that day left without voting because of the tabulator problems and long lines. Beyond question, Republican voters disproportionately were disenfranchised on Election Day by Maricopa County’s technical failures. Most infuriating, my primary-election observations foreshadowed the snafus on general Election Day 2022. And yet the RNC did nothing during the intervening months to prevent that general election technological disaster. Primary Election Issues Could Spell Problems for November 2024 With this background, I observed Maricopa County’s vote centers yet again. During Arizona’s July 30, 2024, primary I visited 11 polling sites and witnessed assorted technical breakdowns: A check-in computer did not connect to the virtual private network. A printer did not print ballots. Another printer placed only two races on a ballot. Yet another printer smudged ballots such that tabulators could not count them. One tabulator would not turn on. While each of these failures occurred at only one vote center, I also discovered a tabulator paper-jam problem at multiple polling centers that could wreak havoc during the upcoming general election. I arrived at North Scottsdale Methodist Church at 2:45 p.m. The poll inspector named Paulette told me that she made an executive decision to use one of her two tabulators that worked. Ballots were jamming in the other one. She reasoned that the functioning tabulator seemed to be handling the light primary-voter traffic. Nevertheless, I was concerned that tabulator jamming, once again, could disenfranchise election-day voters during the heavy turnout of the impending presidential showdown. (READ MORE: The Establishment Media Has Gaslit America for Four Years) Paulette let me observe the tabulator jam. She asked a voter to insert his ballot into the tabulator. The tabulator appeared to count the ballot, but a “Paper Jam” error then appeared on the digital screen atop the device. Paulette unlocked the back of the tabulator and revealed that the ballot was stuck inside the machine and had not dropped into the box of tabulated ballots. Paulette manually removed the stuck ballot from the tabulator. She mistakenly placed it into a box of untabulated ballots that needed to be counted at central headquarters. I reminded her that the ballot should have been placed into the box of already-tabulated ballots. She agreed and moved that ballot into the correct box. Paulette then relocked the tabulator and entered a code to clear the “Paper Jam” error from the tabulator screen and reset it for the next voter. This entire process consumed two to three minutes. Fifteen minutes later, a Maricopa County Troubleshooter arrived to fix the tabulator. Election officials had instructed her to clean the machine by running a cleaning sheet through it several times. This effort failed. The North Scottsdale Methodist Church voting site operated the rest of the day at half-capacity, with only one functioning tabulator. A bit later that afternoon, Jamie, the poll inspector at Venue 8600, told me that her vote center also was equally hobbled, with one tabulator running smoothly and the other plagued with the same paper jam problem that I witnessed at the Methodist church. If this “Paper Jam” mess recurs amid the throngs of voters in Greater Phoenix on November 5, 2024, it will make November 2022’s mishaps resemble a pleasant desert breeze. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Mark Sonnenklar, Esq. is a business transactions attorney who practiced in Los Angeles and Phoenix. He founded and ran a Los Angeles Tea Party group from 2010 to 2016. He is a Maricopa County, Arizona, precinct committeeman. The post Arizona Election Snafus: We Won’t Get Fooled Again appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Desperate Kamala Claims Trump Has No Economic Plan For You pic.twitter.com/Jdnon4yevU — Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 11, 2024

from ZeroHedge: Tonight, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off in their first and only scheduled debate at 9PM ET on ABC News. There will be no live audience and no opening statements according to the rules released by the network last week. Harris and Trump won’t be able to ask each other questions. TRUTH […]

by Ron Paul, Ron Paul Institute: Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends like Judge Andrew Napolitano, who explained that […]

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the government to […]

In one of the most fiery exchanges in the early stages of the presidential debate, Donald Trump said that Kamala Harris' father taught her well. Normally, that would be a good thing -- except her father, Donald Harris, was a Marxist professor. The remark came during a debate over tariff...