'Funds were deposited in her personal bank account'

'You N-words better get in line and do what we say'

'Affirms everything Donald Trump has been arguing'

'Bro whispering'

'You should have Trump Derangement Syndrome'

The Chilean Sea Bass name is not a fin-ality

'My mother was butchered by my sister under his advisement'

News The Legend of Vox Machina Amazon Bequeaths The Legend of Vox Machina a Fourth Season Big plans to level up the heroes – and villains – of the series are underway By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 23, 2024 Credit: Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Prime Video Just one day before the Season Three finale of Legend of Vox Machina, Amazon MGM Studios officially gave the show (and us) the promise of additional episodes on Prime Video. “The fantastic team at Critical Role and Titmouse continues to deliver captivating seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina and we are excited for more to come,” Melissa Wolfe, head of animation, Amazon MGM Studios, said in a statement. “Our global Prime Video audience has embraced this series from the beginning and the fans, along with us, remain passionate about the characters and stories.” “We are beyond thrilled—and grateful—to continue the epic and wild adventures of Vex, Vax, Keyleth, Percy, Pike, Grog and everyone’s favorite character—Scanlan,” executive producer Sam Riegel (who also voices Scanlan) said in the same statement. “With each season, this show levels up, and we already have big plans to level up both our heroes and villains in Season Four.” The cast broke the news via a short video. “Please come back and watch us,” Riegel says in the clip. “And watch Seasons One through Three again now to psych yourself up. Why not?” The Season Three finale drops on Prime Video tomorrow, October 24, 2024. No news yet on when Season Four will make its way to the streaming platform. In the meantime, check out the clip of the cast breaking the news below. [end-mark] The post Amazon Bequeaths <i>The Legend of Vox Machina</i> a Fourth Season appeared first on Reactor.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that she “will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive” is the climate-policy equivalent of President Barack Obama’s famous lie about the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But while Obama at least managed to get a law passed, the Biden-Harris administration has tried to transform the automotive industry without even persuading Congress. To be sure, while serving in the U.S. Senate in 2019, Harris enthusiastically co-sponsored legislation mandating that all new car sales be electric by 2040. But as vice president, she has given up on lawmaking and opted instead to pursue a “whole of government” effort that relies on a series of interlocking agency rulemakings. The Environmental Protection Agency and Harris’ home state of California are at the heart of this effort. For its part, the EPA’s new nationwide vehicle rules reverse-engineer an electric vehicle mandate by setting standards so stringent that no conventional vehicles—even hybrids—can meet them. As those standards ramp up, the only way automakers can comply is to make and sell more plug-in battery vehicles or to buy regulatory “credits” from competitors that do. EPA projects automakers will need to make 68% of their new vehicles battery models by model year 2032—roughly seven years from now. That, of course, means that automakers must also rapidly phase out the production of gas-powered cars and trucks. At the same time, climate bureaucrats in California are not only banning conventional vehicles within the decade, but have also imposed new purchase mandates. The so-called Advanced Clean Fleet rules require truck drivers to replace their diesel trucks with vastly inferior (and much more expensive) electric models starting in January. And the Biden-Harris EPA is poised to give its blessing to California’s electrification programs—just as soon as the election is over. The costs of these electric vehicle mandates fall on ordinary consumers, even those who don’t buy electric vehicles. Automakers lose tens of thousands of dollars per electric vehicle they sell, and they have to offset those losses by jacking up the price of conventional vehicles—a phenomenon economists call a “regulatory cross-subsidy,” or “the government’s hidden pocketbook.” Cross-Subsidies_ Governments Hidden PocketbookDownload The push to electrify trucking is even more unhinged. Electric trucks are very expensive to buy and have terrible payload capacity and range. That’s why the much vaunted Tesla Semi is used for little more than hauling Cheetos bags, which are apparently more than half filled with air. Almost everything anyone buys gets shipped on a truck at some point, and the shipping industry will have no choice but to pass these enormous costs downstream. Look forward to tighter supply chains and higher prices for everything from auto parts to household items to medical supplies and other critical items that rely heavily on truck transportation. If you thought grocery prices were bad now, just wait. This will hit working-class Americans twice over, increasing costs on those already struggling to make ends meet while simultaneously lowering the demand for American labor. Electric vehicles require about 40% less labor than traditional cars, not because of productivity gains, but because the batteries are manufactured elsewhere—typically by entities controlled by China, which dominates the battery supply chain end to end. What does the vice president hope to get from sacrificing our national security and the interests of poor Americans in this way? According to her bean counters at the EPA, not much. State electric vehicle mandates will lead “to little to no change” in greenhouse-gas “emissions at a national level,” and will thus “result in an indistinguishable?change in global temperatures.”  EPA’s federal standards similarly will have at most a rounding-error’s worth of climate benefits.   As Americans are starting to realize, the Biden-Harris electric vehicle mandates are all pain and no gain. No wonder she’s trying to gaslight us as Election Day approaches. Indeed, Harris made her disingenuous claim that she “will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive” in the swing state of Michigan. But while Harris’ desire to run from her record is understandable, it’s just not credible. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” Harris said just a few days later on TV’s “The View” when asked if there was anything she would have handled differently from President Joe Biden. Whether “the future is electric”—and thus at odds with American consumers and workers—depends therefore in no small part on what happens in the next two weeks. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Harris Shifts Her EV Mandates Into Reverse—Until After the Election appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Vice President Kamala Harris keeps slipping in presidential Electoral College tallies against her rival, former President Donald Trump, in large part due to her poor management of America’s nearly $29 trillion economy. Under her incompetent leadership in the Biden-Harris administration, voters on Nov. 5 will send her packing—in no small part thanks to failed economic policies. Voters consistently rank the economy as their top issue, including among a majority of voters in Gallup’s most recent survey. Harris fails to distance Kamalanomics from failed Bidenomics—because there’s no daylight between them. Harris boasts she cast the tiebreaking votes for the American Rescue Plan Act and the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. Economists note these bills were key drivers of painful, 40-year-record high inflation under Biden-Harris.  Overall, prices are up 20.5%: Electricity, up 31.3%, rent, up 22.9%, and groceries, up 22.1%, since Harris took office in January 2021. Under President Joe Biden and Harris, monthly inflation averaged 5.2%—almost three times the average inflation rate on Trump’s watch. That disproportionately harms low-income and middle-class families, as well as nonwhite households. Less-wealthy homes spend more of their family budget on consumer staples with skyrocketing prices. Under Harris, gas prices averaged $3.49 a gallon, while under Trump, gas prices averaged just $2.48 a gallon. That’s due in part to the Biden-Harris assault on domestic energy producers and irrational exuberance for electric vehicle mandates. Americans built up savings during the pandemic but have had to spend it down because of inflation just to stay afloat. In Harris’ first three years, the personal savings rate fell from 19.3% in 2021 to 2.9% in 2024—a plunge of 85%. In Trump’s first three years, the personal savings rate rose from 5.3% in 2017 to 19.3% in 2021—a 264% increase. That means Americans were far better prepared to handle an emergency under Trump then under Harris. It was hard to narrow it down to just 10… pic.twitter.com/rdoTNcFJ31— House Budget GOP (@housebudgetGOP) March 11, 2024 Under Harris, who claims to care about homeownership, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased by 120% between 2021 and 2024. Under Trump, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate decreased by 32% between 2017 and 2021.  Harris’ failed housing proposal is a $25,000 cash giveaway to first-time homebuyers. Just as with student loans, these types of distortionary subsidies will only serve to drive home prices higher. Under Harris, whose administration has aggressively targeted lenders, credit card delinquency skyrocketed by 54% between 2020 and 2024. Under Trump, credit card delinquency fell by 11% between 2016 and 2020.  So much for Harris’ false claims that her administration’s agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission are effective at supporting American families and consumers. Harris’ inflationary policies sent prices soaring in the first place—and she’d double down if she’s elected in November with the largest tax hike in history and a Soviet-style price control scheme.  "If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?"KAMALA: "There is not a thing that comes to mind."??? pic.twitter.com/kvS3zkMc4p— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 8, 2024 In Trump’s first three years, Americans saw a 10.5% boost ($7,690) in median household income—seven times larger than the 1.3% increase ($1,050) in median household income in Harris’ first three years. But that increase under Harris is ravaged by inflation. The Committee to Unleash Prosperity noted that the Bureau of Labor Statistics “released its final preelection Weekly Earnings report through the third quarter of 2024. Wages are finally starting to creep up faster than inflation. That’s the good news. The bad news is that over the Biden presidency, earnings are still about 1.3% BELOW inflation. It provides further evidence that wage growth under Biden hasn’t kept up with inflation, resulting in a 1.3% loss in real earnings.” This means Americans are effectively continuing to suffer a pay cut under Bidenomics and Kamalanomics. Meanwhile, under President Trump, real average weekly earnings increased 8.2%. Harris’ economic record is failed, weak, and dangerously liberal, and all she is offering is four more years of the disastrous Harris-Biden administration. It’s time to bid adieu to Kamalanomics forever. Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Harris Campaign Craters as Voters Grow More Dissatisfied With Kamalanomics appeared first on The Daily Signal.