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"Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?" - epitaph of Leonard Ravenhill
Mitch Berg, Jack Tomczak and I will be broadcasting live from MN GOP Headquarters in Bloomington this evening, starting at 8:00 Central Time.
We'll pore over incoming results as well as give our perspective on what's at stake.
Given the media wasn't able to effectively cover for President Joe Biden referring to Donald Trump supporters as "garbage," they have to fabricate a story to ensure Trump is seen as the blood-thirsty fascist they claim him to be.
WATCH: Donald Trump suggests @Liz_Cheney should be fired upon
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 1, 2024
It's an escalation of his violent rhetoric
My open of today's @CNNThisMorning
Cheney just responded to Trump -- shown below https://t.co/85RJ5VGZG3 pic.twitter.com/oxV0taVsEk
Prog journos like this Hunt gal know full well this is a complete mischaracterization, but it's a necessary evil to perpetuate the narrative.
If there's one area where Trump has been consistent over the years, it's his disdain for sending American soldiers into war (heck, he was a civilian in 2008 when he said George W. Bush should've been impeached for "getting us into the (Iraq) war with lies."). So anyone with half a brain can surmise that Trump was saying it's easy to vote on sending Americans to combat zones when the people authorizing such actions never have theirs or their kids' lives ever being in danger. We can debate whether that's a logical argument, but it's what he's conveying nonetheless. And how convenient that the clip was cut before Trump's statement regarding his assertion that Cheney "always wanted to go to war with people." But that would have provided actual clarity, so we can't have that.
It's not exactly a new development that the mainstream media is utterly corrupt, and this quote from an "anonymous TV exec" shows the continued lack of introspection.
Anonymous TV exec: "If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they're not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form." https://t.co/zWiIqKYx1b
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 30, 2024
Making this quote public may only fortify Trump's chances of victory next week. One could argue it's an in-kind contribution.
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President Biden tonight, on Zoom with Latinos, denounced attacks on Puerto Rico
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 30, 2024
In somewhat rambling remarks, Biden said the “only garbage” he saw was intolerance of Trump supporters who believed that
A WH spox said POTUS was talking about hatred of comedian who made the joke
This was in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's remarks at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally this past Sunday.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe responds to backlash after calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 27, 2024
“These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his “busy schedule” to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it… pic.twitter.com/s0CTOInDkQ
First off, Hinchcliffe is a professional roaster, so that context is important. Also, this wasn't aimed so much at Puerto Ricans as it was the actual island which has been overrun by mounting trash. While I'm not certain it's the wisest course of action to have an edgy comedian speak at a presidential rally nine days before an election, Hinchcliffe's remarks are hardly commentary on specific policy.
With all that in mind, I'll let you be the judge on if Biden was referring to a comedian's intolerance or Trump supporters themselves.
WATCH: President Joe Biden: "The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters." pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024
Look, it's possible a feeble 82-year old man was attempting to convey that the only garbage he saw was "intolerance" but it came across badly since he no longer possesses the capacity to make coherent remarks. But if that's the case here, then that opens up a whole new can of worms. Specifically, how this confirms the media and White House comms team were gaslighting the American public when spinning yarns of Biden running circles around staff young enough to be his grandchildren. Either way, the only explanations for Biden's comments are 1) incoherent ramblings of a mentally degraded ol' fella or 2) a sitting POTUS calling half the country "garbage."
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson noticed something in another laughable attempt at cleaning up aisle 46.
After the fact, the White House went into damage control and released a transcript where they added an apostrophe to “supporters,” turning it into “supporter’s,” but it makes no sense in context. Because here is the full context:
I realize we are at the point where progressives think a single person can be a “they,” but now a single supporter has garbage? No, the only way this makes any sense at all is without the apostrophe that someone added after the fact for damage control, i.e., (1) “the only garbage I see is his supporters” and (2) “his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American.”
It boggles the mind to think Biden believes otherwise, considering his whole party already believes anyone who attends a Trump rally is a Nazi. Again, you can hear Joe Biden in your own words talk about Trump’s supporters as garbage and then pivoting to talk about Trump himself.
The media (specifically the WaPo) are willing to parse prog remarks in the motif of Bill Clinton's "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is," yet willfully ignore full context of Trump referring to a Biden election as a proverbial bloodbath for the American automobile industry, instead suggesting Trump meant literal blood being spilled if he loses.
That the media is so unwilling to engage in even a scintilla of introspection as to why trust in their profession has degraded is a far greater threat to democracy than Trump himself.
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It's World Series time!
In honor of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees meeting for the 12th time in the Fall Classic, let's go back to 1947 for Game 1 of the then Brooklyn Dodgers taking on the Yanks.
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With the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson having broke baseball's color barrier earlier that year, this was the first ever integrated World Series. Also, it was the first Fall Classic to appear on broadcast television, albeit limited to a handful of markets in the New York state area.
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Welp....we're down to single digit number of days until Election Day, so we're looking to finish strong the next couple of weekends. My 2-hour radio show The Closer gets started at 1:00 PM Central Time today.
It's certainly no secret that we need to flip the Minnesota House of Representatives to a GOP majority, so that means more Republican House candidates today.
1:30 - Doug Willetts, House District 52B (northeastern Eagan, Mendota Heights).
2:00 - Angeline Anderson, HD 56B (Rosemount, southeastern Eagan, southeastern Apple Valley).
2:30 - John Bristol, HD 37B (eastern Maple Grove).
Also, I'll weigh in on the latest in the presidential race.