Often when we’re tired and don’t feel like going to church, praying, or spending time in God’s Word, the enemy can come against us and try to deter us from taking the first step. But if we’ll take that first step, we almost always find the next one is a bit easier.

12 days remain to Election Day, and that means there are 12 days left in this election cycle for ABC News to continue to distinguish themselves as the most comically sycophantic pro-Harris network evening newscast. Watch as anchor David Muir introduces Mary Bruce’s campaign roundup, with a lengthy brief that could serve as its own report: DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the race for The White House. Just 12 days now until Election Day but tonight, this number: more than 30 million Americans have already voted in early voting. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tonight in the key battleground states. And tonight, former President Trump vowing, if elected, he will fire Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the results of the last election, and the horror on January 6th. And after CNN invited both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to a debate or to a town hall, Trump saying no to both, Harris showing up to make her case in front of undecided voters in Pennsylvania. And what she promised. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce. Two things Muir wants to embed in the audience’s heads before going to Mary Bruce: that Trump wants to fire Jack Smith, and that Kamala Harris made “a promise”to the American public. After driving those points home, Muir tosses to Mary Bruce, the former Chief Apple Polisher to the Biden White House. Bruce proceeds to repeat what Muir just said, before rehashing the John Kelly allegations. After reading them into the record, Bruce focuses on suggesting that Trump is a coward for not accepting CNN’s invitation to attend a debate or town hall: MARY BRUCE: That town hall held in place of a proposed debate. Harris had agreed to participate, but Trump refused. Today, Harris taking note. KAMALA HARRIS: Yet again, Trump not showing up, um, refused to be part of a CNN debate. BRUCE: And zeroing in on her campaign's closing message that Trump is a danger to the country. HARRIS: Either you have the choice of a Donald Trump, who will sit in The Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list, or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night, with a to-do list. After aiding and abetting Harris’s efforts to present Trump as a danger to Democracy™, Muir jumps back in and sets Bruce up for her big reveal of The Promise: MUIR: This has been extraordinary, Mary. A slew of new national polls and battleground state polls both showing this is a dead heat. Some showing Harris is ahead, some showing Trump is ahead, but I wanted to ask you about this CNN event last night, they had invited both Harris and Donald Trump to a debate, or to a town hall. Donald Trump saying no to both. Kamala Harris showing up, in front of those undecided voters in Pennsylvania, and she made a promise. BRUCE: She did, David. Kamala Harris promising those voters at last night's town hall that she will be a president for all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And tonight, she's going to be here in Atlanta, appearing alongside former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. Tomorrow night, she'll be in Houston with Beyonce. The Senate race in that state, of course, razor close. Meanwhile, Donald Trump tomorrow appearing with superstar podcaster Joe Rogan, hoping to appeal to his massive audience of young men. A group Donald Trump is counting on to win this race, David. Bruce here sounds like a campaign comms person explaining Harris’s “promise” and hyping the celebrities coming to her joint event with former President Barack Obama.  If it weren’t for Regime Media, we’d have none at all. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, October 24th, 2024: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 10/24/24 6:38 PM DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the race for The White House. Just 12 days now until Election Day but tonight, this number: more than 30 million Americans have already voted in early voting. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tonight in the key battleground states. And tonight, former President Trump vowing, if elected, he will fire Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the results of the last election, and the horror on January 6th. And after CNN invited both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to a debate or to a town hall, Trump saying no to both, Harris showing up to make her case in front of undecided voters in Pennsylvania. And what she promised. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce. MARY BRUCE: Tonight, Donald Trump declaring that if he's re-elected, one of his first orders of business will be to fire the special counsel prosecuting him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump saying getting rid of Jack Smith will be, quote, “one of the first things addressed.” DONALD TRUMP: It's so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. BRUCE: In an interview later today, Trump saying Smith should be, quote, thrown out of the country. Tonight, Kamala Harris's campaign hitting back, saying, "Donald Trump thinks he's above the law, and these latest comments are right in line with the warnings made by Trump's former Chief of Staff that he wants to rule as a dictator with unchecked power." That former Chief of Staff, retired four-star General John Kelly, told The New York Times Trump fits the definition of a fascist, and would love to rule as a dictator himself. JOHN KELLY: Oh, I think, you know, I think he'd love to be -- I think he'd love to be just like he was in business. He could tell people to do things and they would do it and not really bother too much about whether -- what the legalities were. BRUCE: As a retired general, Kelly doesn’t endorse candidates, but he says he's speaking out now, because Trump has vowed to go after his political enemies using the military if necessary, calling them the enemy within. At a CNN town hall, Harris urging voters to heed his warning. KAMALA HARRIS: I think one has to think about, why would someone who served with him, who is not political, a four-star Marine general, why is he telling the American people now? And frankly, I think of it is -- he's just putting out a 911 call to the American people. Understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in The White House. And this time, we must take very seriously those folks who knew him best, and who are career people, are not going to be there to hold him back. BRUCE: That town hall held in place of a proposed debate. Harris had agreed to participate, but Trump refused. Today, Harris taking note. HARRIS: Yet again, Trump not showing up, um, refused to be part of a CNN debate. BRUCE: And zeroing in on her campaign's closing message that Trump is a danger to the country. HARRIS: Either you have the choice of a Donald Trump, who will sit in The Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list, or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night, with a to-do list. BRUCE: Today, in North Carolina, Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, telling young voters to beware of Trump's threats to go after his enemies. TIM WALZ: Look. I recognize I'm on the top of his list, but don't kid yourself. You are somewhere on this list, too, if you disagree with these people. That's who they are. BRUCE: And late this evening, Trump lashing out at John Kelly, who was his longest serving Chief of Staff, and before that, his Secretary of Homeland Security. DONALD TRUMP: I realize I didn't like him, you know, pretty quickly, and was stopping paying attention, but he was a bully who made up stories. BRUCE: Minutes later, Trump firing up a crowd of supporters in Tempe, Arizona. TRUMP: This is going to be the biggest and most important election ever, it's going  to be the biggest political event, I believe, in our country's history. We have to win. And we don't need it for the big political event, we need it to save our country. MUIR: This has been extraordinary, Mary. A slew of new national polls and battleground state polls both showing this is a dead heat. Some showing Harris is ahead, some showing Trump is ahead, but I wanted to ask you about this CNN event last night, they had invited both Harris and Donald Trump to a debate, or to a town hall. Donald Trump saying no to both. Kamala Harris showing up, in front of those undecided voters in Pennsylvania, and she made a promise. BRUCE: She did, David. Kamala Harris promising those voters at last night's town hall that she will be a president for all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And tonight, she's going to be here in Atlanta, appearing alongside former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. Tomorrow night, she'll be in Houston with Beyonce. The Senate race in that state, of course, razor close. Meanwhile, Donald Trump tomorrow appearing with superstar podcaster Joe Rogan, hoping to appeal to his massive audience of young men. A group Donald Trump is counting on to win this race, David. MUIR: Mary Bruce live in Georgia tonight. Mary, thank you.    

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Foreign Affairs Western Policy in the Caucasus Is Backfiring Policymakers in Washington and Brussels fundamentally misunderstand Georgia’s geopolitical position. Credit: image via Shutterstock America’s foreign policy is backfiring again in a region with key geostrategic importance, the South Caucasus. This mountainous landscape is traditionally viewed in the Western hemisphere as the easternmost bastion of European civilization, on the frontiers of Asia and Europe, Islam and Christianity, a battleground for contesting powers such as Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, local states have regained their independence, and space has opened for their democratic development and integration into the free world. Georgia has emerged as an invaluable partner—an outpost so to speak—for Western foreign policy. This cooperation, however, is in jeopardy because of recent controversies in the West over Georgian legislation on “foreign agents” and cultural issues. The core of this geopolitical impasse is a misunderstanding of Georgia’s relations to Russia and its place within the Euro-Atlantic sphere. The Georgian government is not pro-Russian. It doesn’t even have diplomatic ties to its northern neighbor and has condemned Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in every possible way. Indeed, Georgia is under partial Russian occupation since the deadly wars in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s, which effectively prevents any bilateral political cooperation or even dialogue between Tbilisi and Moscow. The governing Georgian Dream party has been in power since 2012 and has since proven to be a valuable and trustworthy partner of its American and European friends. Georgia is committed to its North-Atlantic and European perspective. It was the Georgian Dream government, now under Western fire, that codified the country’s NATO and EU accession in the Georgian constitution in 2017. The government has been a forerunner among EU candidate states in fulfilling accession criteria. The EU-Georgia Association Council has welcomed the progress made with regards to human rights, freedom of expression, and gender equality. Georgia is a regional leader in anti-corruption measures, as evidenced by Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, in which Georgia outpaced several EU member states. The Georgian state budget is the most transparent globally. The government has even changed the overpowered super-presidential system to a parliamentary democracy and has introduced a fully proportional parliamentary voting system in line with the recommendations of the Venice Commission. Georgia, however, can not change geography or overwrite history. It was under the Russian yoke for over two centuries. It is forced to maintain pragmatic ties with its neighbors, especially when one of them is a nuclear power. Retaining trade ties with Russia is key to ensuring Georgia’s economic stability and energy security, especially when Georgia’s Western partners failed to provide alternatives to Georgia’s traditional export markets and the Caspian fossil fuels from Russia and Azerbaijan. Today, Turkey is Georgia’s largest and the Commonwealth of Independent States the second largest economic partner. Key development projects, such as the establishment of a deep seaport in Anaklia, are set to be carried out by China, and this is largely due to a lack of Western engagement and investment. Decoupling and deglobalization are major threats to the Georgian economy, which relies on pragmatic economic cooperation in Central Eurasia. The reformation of power blocs in the international arena and the escalation of military conflicts in its neighborhood are existential threats for Georgia. It is an isolated country on the frontiers of great and emerging middle powers; it can not risk a major confrontation with its mighty neighbors, especially when its Western partners have failed to provide security guarantees since the Russo–Georgian War in 2008. Many Georgians ask, “without the economic and defensive umbrella of the West, what is left of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic partnership?” They see that it all comes down to the American exports of liberal democracy, wokeism, and the culture war. Georgia is a very conservative society, one of the most religious Christian nations on earth, proud of its long history, ancient culture, and social values. Discourses that have traditionally been marginal, such as wokeism, are artificially generated by certain spheres of civic activism in Georgia. One example was Tbilisi Pride, financed by the American National Endowment for Democracy, the UN, and the Dutch government, which has caused public outrage in Georgia. Concerning same-sex relations, the Georgians have the most conservative public opinion in Europe, with 84 percent saying it is always wrong. This is one of the reasons why distrust towards NGOs in Georgia has increased from 17 to 32 percent since 2008. Another reason why Georgian NGOs lose the trust of both the public and the state is their obvious dependence on foreign powers, both politically and financially. Some 90 percent of these organizations depend fully or partially on foreign—primarily European and American—aids, and, as the EU Roadmap for Engagement with Civil Society in Georgia has warned, only half of them prepare annual financial declarations. A mere 26 percent publish them. There are some 26,000 registered NGOs in Georgia—that’s one NGO for every 143 citizens in a country of 3.7 million people, an extremely high number by global standards. Neither the public nor the government knew for decades who pays these organizations or how they spend their money. There were some extreme examples uncovered that have raised serious concerns in Georgia, such as when an NGO offered a “DIY revolution workshop” with USAID money for opposition activists, inviting Serbian revolution experts to Georgia in 2023. This was one of the final straws that drove the Georgian Dream government to the conclusion that transparency needs to be established in civil society. The Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence—the so-called “Russian law” or “foreign agent law”—stands for a fundamental democratic value, transparency, but it has been condemned as anti-democratic. It is hardly comparable with the Russian legislation on foreign agents that has effectively curbed the operation of several NGOs, media outlets, and even individuals; the Georgian law merely imposes a one-off fine of some $9,000 on those organizations that receive more that 20 percent of their funds from abroad and refuse to register on the list of such organizations. Another piece of legislation that has caused outrage in the West and resulted in renewed sanctions against Georgian officials is the law on “family values and the protection of minors” passed this September. It restates an existing ban on same-sex marriage and bans gender reassignment surgery, and opens the ground for outlawing Pride events and the public display of the rainbow flag and censoring books and movies with LGBTQ propaganda. This legislation is widely supported by the Georgian public and serves as the foremost argument in Western criticism of the Georgian government for media censorship and endangering freedom of expression. In retaliation, the EU Parliament has recently called on the Commission to freeze all the funds Georgia receives from Europe, while the U.S. imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on government officials. The sanctions regime, however, is destined to backfire. No U.S. or EU sanctions will ever change the Georgian government’s policy on defending Georgia’s sovereignty and conservative social values. Moreover, when Georgians find that their hard-earned candidacy for EU membership has been frozen by Germany, and that the U.S. has indefinitely postponed joint military drills with Georgia despite a looming Russian aggression in the post-Soviet space, they will lose whatever trust they have left for their future in the Euro-Atlantic bloc. It is time for decision-makers in Washington to remember the lessons of history, and how sanctions on Cuba, Iraq or Iran, has previously failed to achieve their ends and pushed real or imagined adversaries of the U.S. into the hands of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and China. Let’s not make the same mistake in the South Caucasus. The post Western Policy in the Caucasus Is Backfiring appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics Trump Is Winning the Likability Race Democrats insist Donald Trump is Hitler. But much to their chagrin, there’s a recognizable and even likable human being there, however flawed. Credit: image via Shutterstock Donald Trump is doing a whirlwind of interviews with independent media in the homestretch of the 2024 election. As the Republican presidential nominee pulls ahead in crucial swing state polls, he’s talking to everybody with an audience, notably podcasting giants like Joe Rogan and anyone else who is popular and outside the increasingly distrusted legacy mass media. If Ronald Reagan was said to speak over the heads of media members and directly to the American people, Trump now speaks around the former. On Monday, Trump appeared on The Undertaker’s podcast. Or, should I say, Donald Trump interviewed The Undertaker. Yes, the World Wrestling Entertainment pro wrestling legend has his own show, “Six Feet Under,” with a large audience, and Trump is no stranger to the WWE, with a long history of being involved in storylines and more. Trump has known The Undertaker, who in retirement goes by his real name Mark Calaway, for about two decades. So when “Taker” asked Trump for a sit-down interview, he obliged, even just two weeks out from the election For the first 20 minutes of a 50 minute interview, all the questions came from Donald to Mark.  It was the damndest thing. The former president wanted to know what it’s like to be in the pro wrestling business. How many matches did he have? How long had he been in wrestling? How did it affect his body? How tall was he in his prime? (6’ 8” was the answer.) How much did he weigh? How much money is the WWE making and how big is pro wrestling these days? Had The Undertaker heard of “Haystacks Calhoun,” a famous wrestler of the 1960s and ’70s that only a man Trump’s age would recall? It was a relaxed and fun chat. Though Trump has a history with professional wrestling, he asked questions that any non-wrestling fan, an outsider looking in, might ask about this unusual business. Trump wasn’t worried about hitting any bullet points or making political declarations that might move needles. He was just talking to a dude he’d known for a while, expressing an interest in him. As a lifelong pro wrestling fan myself, I was entertained by this, and texted a conservative journalist friend about how so much of Trump’s interview with Calaway was just the former president asking The Undertaker wrestling questions. I found it charming and comical. My friend replied that when Trump was interviewed by popular podcaster Theo Von in September, a large portion of the opening was Trump asking about the host’s former drug addiction and asking how he was staying sober now—in short, taking an interest in the person who was interviewing him. When Kamala Harris has appeared on The View, or with Oprah Winfrey, or in any of the many softball interviews she eventually did after ducking all interviews for weeks after her nomination, the Democrat presidential candidate is trying to make a personal connection with the audience. Most politicians do this because it can register as much or more with voters than particular policy positions. Coming out of the Democratic National Convention in late August, the undemocratically anointed Harris enjoyed a roughly month-long honeymoon period that put her slightly ahead of Trump in the polls. Now, in late October, as Trump is now slightly ahead, Harris has had to do actual adversarial interviews, most notably a poorly received sit-down with Fox News’s Bret Baier. As voters have seen a more naked Harris in very limited interviews, her numbers have dipped. As voters have seen an absolutely naked Trump—is he ever any other way?—in interviews that are not necessarily designed to be hit jobs from the get-go, like those with The Undertaker or Theo Von, his numbers have increased. From a partisan perspective, I could tell you that Kamala Harris was California’s attorney general who sent countless nonviolent drug offenders, mostly black men, to jail, cackled about it, and also blocked evidence to keep possibly innocent people on death row. A real terror. But some voting for her might not have any of this in mind, or even policy, instead seeing a wife, a stepmom, a woman of color, or even the “joy” her campaign has emphasized. Perhaps they even see her as a break from the contentiousness of the Trump era. Conservatives can laugh at these things, but personalities do play a significant role in politicians’ popularity and unpopularity. Reagan understood this. So did the ever-popular Barack Obama. Democrats want you to know that Trump is an election denier, a convicted felon, a sexual assaulter, and Adolf Hitler. For Democrats, that is all you are permitted to know about Trump and is basically all you can expect to hear from establishment politicians and their media. For them, it’s that simple. But Trump is talking to independent media, much of which now has far more reach, and more importantly, trust, than the dying legacy media. Instead of a Nazi dictator, millions of voters are seeing a guy jovially serving fries at McDonald’s when he’s not talking to The Undertaker or Theo Von. Of course, this can work both ways. The actual, real life Hitler loved dogs and was an artist. He also systematically murdered six million people. The latter makes the former irrelevant. Trump, who has not systematically murdered six million people, is, in fact, an egotistical and narcissistic individual, and often his own worst enemy. But then again, so is Harris. Both have terrible personal and public flaws, and have had horrible policies as leaders. Both are also people, even relatable ones. This is something Democrats want to heavily emphasize with Harris, while hoping much of the Biden-Harris policy record will be ignored. This kind of humanization is something Democrats want to deny Trump, who has come across as more likable in his many recent, lengthy interviews than his critics are comfortable with. For them, Trump is Hitler and only Hitler. It’s all he can ever be. It’s all he must be. But his poll numbers are going up. And rest assured, those voters aren’t supporting Hitler. “This is the Donald Trump that people don’t really get to see,” remarked Calaway halfway through their interview. “I think you need to show more this part of you… I just think some people get caught up in the fact that… I think they look at politics now, kind of like a wrestling story.” They do, and, as The Undertaker insinuates, there are good guys and bad guys. Democrats’ almost sole strategy has been to insist that Donald Trump is definitely and unquestionably, the bad guy. That might not be working anymore. The post Trump Is Winning the Likability Race appeared first on The American Conservative.

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