Althouse: Sunrise

October 25, 2024

Sunrise — 7:37.

90 comments:

NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...: The news media is running away from Harris like their dog just crapped her out on the neighbor's lawn!; 10/25/24, 6:55 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: Yeah the various talking heads on Left Wing Television media seem to be uniformly bemoaning Kamala now. Combined with First the LA Times and now the Washington Post non-endorsements this feels like the servants are feeling the weakness of the Democrats right now. There must be some very scary polling numbers making the rounds in Democrat apparatus.; 10/25/24, 7:12 PM
tcrosse said...: In this house we eschew cockiness.; 10/25/24, 7:18 PM
john mosby said...: Tcrosse - what was that? In this house we chew cocks? Is that left over from Kommie’s spinster pad?

JSM; 10/25/24, 7:22 PM
Original Mike said...: In our house we eschew cookies.
(unfortunately); 10/25/24, 7:28 PM
Dixcus said...: Kamala literally drug Hillary Clinton out of the drunk tank long enough to steal a news cycle with Clinton's Madison Square Garden Hitler spiel. That's how desperate she is.; 10/25/24, 7:32 PM
tcrosse said...: Whenever there's good news for the Republicans, Instapundit warns not to get cocky.; 10/25/24, 7:33 PM
Maynard said...: I am just back from a ten day service trip/vacation. I had minimal access to Althouse, and I missed it.; 10/25/24, 7:37 PM
rehajm said...: in our house we eschew sneezes…; 10/25/24, 7:41 PM
R C Belaire said...: So, the Israeli's are attacking Iran at the moment. Is this the start of WW3, or just the warm-up act? Things are going to be lit -- as the kids say -- between now and January 20th.; 10/25/24, 7:48 PM
Aggie said...: Don't believe Red Wave theories until the day after the vote !; 10/25/24, 7:59 PM
320Busdriver said...: https://x.com/NiallHarbison/status/1849792102856786055; 10/25/24, 8:06 PM
Rocco said...: Original Mike said
“In our house we eschew cookies.

In our house we chew cookies. Including cashew cookies.; 10/25/24, 8:07 PM
Big Mike said...: Here’s a selection:

6. David Axelrod: She is word salad city.

5. Scott Jennings: Kamala is a double threat because she can’t answer anything.

4. Jake Tapper: She spent most of the time talking about Trump.

3. Dana Bash: Kamala did not close the deal.

2. Van Jones: The word salad stuff gets on my nerves.

1. David Urban: Kamala lost a one person debate.; 10/25/24, 8:12 PM
Big Mike said...: @R C Belaire, just the warm up. I hope.; 10/25/24, 8:14 PM
Rocco said...: The cloud reminds me of the Flying Parasites from the Star Trek episode Operation— Annihilate!

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_parasite; 10/25/24, 8:18 PM
Dixcus said...: Guess who is NOT on the front page of CNN:

Kamala Harris

The only mention of her is how badly she's polling against Trump, who is ahead.; 10/25/24, 8:20 PM
Original Mike said...: Polls, meh.; 10/25/24, 8:25 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Omg Glenn Greenwald says Kamala regressed at the CNN Town Hall. She got worse. How the heck did that happen? Is it possible Kamala is using and abusing cocaine? There are videos going around social media but I don’t know their provenance.; 10/25/24, 8:29 PM
Original Mike said...: IDK about drugs, but her affect does seem to have changed. It's "flat" rather than "bubbly".; 10/25/24, 8:38 PM
Jimmy said...: Can any of the leftists or anyone on this blog say anything positive about Harris? something she actually accomplished, at anytime in her time in public life? without mentioning trump. Has she actually accomplished anything?
oh, and being endorsed by some celeb doesn't count.; 10/25/24, 8:46 PM
Dixcus said...: She can draw a crowd.

In Texas.

That's something.

Of course, Beyonce needs to be there giving a free concert.

But still.; 10/25/24, 8:47 PM
Mason G said...: From an opinion piece in the WSJ:

"Steve and voters like him tend to be older, low-information, less-educated Trump voters. Come Election Day, we expect them to vote Republican down the ballot."

Yeah, everybody knows Republicans are idiots. Of course, nothing says "hip, educated voter" quite like a Democrat voting for a gibbering fool because she's black(ish), has a vagina and a (D) after her name.; 10/25/24, 8:52 PM
MadTownGuy said...: SpaceX brought the astronauts back from the ISS; 10/25/24, 8:53 PM
Inga said...: https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-fact-check-trump-ballots-destroyed-pennsylvania-d75fdc56c71d77c7a48d8fca96b03288

“Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday.

The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of the public reported it.

U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was “manufactured and amplified” by Russian actors. The officials said it’s part of “Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions among Americans.”

The information was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The Bucks County Board of Elections had identified the video as fake on Thursday, saying the envelope and other materials in the video “are clearly not authentic materials belonging to or distributed by” the board.“; 10/25/24, 8:57 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...: Big Anniversary day today - October 25, 1944 - Battle of Surigao Strait - RADM Jesse Olendorf's 3rd Fleet decisively defeats Japanese VADM Shoji Nishimura's Southern Force, sinking the battleship Fusō with torpedo fire and severely crippling the battleship Yamashiro and heavy cruiser Mogami with gunfire. The last salvo in the battle was fired by USS Mississippi which fired all 12 of her 14-inch guns. While this was Mississippi's only salvo of the battle it proved to be the last salvo ever fired by a battleship against another battleship.; 10/25/24, 9:20 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Sad circumstance when the choice of believability is between Russian actors and the FBI.
The same FBI who manufactured the Whitmer kidnapping scheme (with luring losers using bribes - all flushed out in a court of law) - and the FBI who stated that Hunter's laptop "had all the hallmark's of Russian disinformation." and on and on....; 10/25/24, 9:29 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: I just heard another clip of Kamala's word salad on the Jesse Kelly show. Wow - I busted out laughing.; 10/25/24, 9:30 PM
Dixcus said...: Well, since Inga is posting this, we know that the Democrats are destroying Trump ballots in Pennsylvania.; 10/25/24, 9:37 PM
Dixcus said...: Tell us more about the Russians faking up Hunter's laptop, Inga.; 10/25/24, 9:38 PM
Dixcus said...: Same FBI that rounded up all those Pedophile Billionaires raping kids on Epstein's Island.

Oh wait ...; 10/25/24, 9:39 PM
Dixcus said...: Kamala Harris refused to sit for an interview with Joe Rogan ... author of the nation's largest podcast audience (20 million).

Trump sat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY; 10/25/24, 9:41 PM
Wince said...: Sounds like Trump supporters were the target of the “Russian actors’” disinformation campaign, the diametric opposite of collusion.; 10/25/24, 9:45 PM
Inga said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/25/24, 9:46 PM
Dixcus said...: Was this election official boarding up the counting room windows? If so, then they SHOULD be assaulted and are going to be.; 10/25/24, 9:53 PM
Vance said...: What Inga's trying to say is that only leftists like the Black Panthers are allowed to hang around polling places, and that she wants more of them standing there to beat people's heads in if they don't vote for Kamala...; 10/25/24, 9:54 PM
Dixcus said...: Laws restricting free speech in voting areas are PATENTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.; 10/25/24, 9:54 PM
Dixcus said...: And those Black Panthers were armed.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/05/politics/voter-intimidation-video/index.html; 10/25/24, 9:55 PM
Inga said...: https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/election-official-assaulted-at-early-voting-location-on-the-southwest-side-elections-officials-say/273-c95bac23-14f1-4427-8403-c403fd59a355

“Voter punches poll worker when reminded Texas law requires removal of MAGA hat at election site.

Officials said Lutzenberger arrived around 6:30 p.m. to vote and put on his hat supporting a candidate. Documents specified it was a red “Make American Great Again” cap, referencing Trump’s campaign slogan.

It’s against Texas election rules, however, to wear badges or attire referencing candidates or measures on the ballot while in a polling place. Salazar said a poll worker at Johnston Library reminded Lutzenberger about the rules, and he removed it before casting his ballot.“

Hopefully you folks check your state laws before wearing your Maga hats to the polls, looking at you Dixcus.; 10/25/24, 9:55 PM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Nice.; 10/25/24, 9:57 PM
Original Mike said...: Prosecutors in key Pennsylvania county say they've busted a fraudulent voter registration scheme

"Lancaster District Attorney Heather Adams told a news conference that detectives have found about 60% of some 2,500 election registrations submitted in recent days to the county's election office were fraudulent."; 10/25/24, 9:58 PM
Dixcus said...: Was the election offical boarding up the counting room windows again, Inga? If so, then of course they SHOULD be assaulted. And they're going to be. Every single one caught doing it this time around. They're going to get their asses beat.

Also the story you linked says the election official illegally GRABBED the voter who was on his way OUT of the election facility after taking a MAGA hat off. So there is some question as to who assaulted whom and who defended themselves. We'll find out long after the election of course, but since you have a HORRID RECORD of posting propaganda on this site, nobody believes you.; 10/25/24, 10:00 PM
Dixcus said...: I intend to SPEAK FREELY everywhere in the United States, irrespective of any unconstitutional laws you might claim prevent that, Inga. That includes wearing my MAGA hat wherever the fuck I want.; 10/25/24, 10:03 PM
Inga said...: “This wouldn’t be the first time paid canvassers have forged political forms. In Michigan, where candidates must gather signatures from supporters to make the ballot, five Republican candidates were disqualified from running for governor in 2022 after paid petition gatherers forged countless nominating petitions.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/fraudulent-voter-registration-lancaster-county-pennsylvania-rcna177322; 10/25/24, 10:08 PM
Original Mike said...: Yeah, Inga. Our election security sucks.; 10/25/24, 10:13 PM
Dixcus said...: Inga is proving that elections can be stolen. Glad she's on Team Trump finally.; 10/25/24, 10:20 PM
Dixcus said...: Inga is also telegraphing that she's received new orders: Cast doubt on the result.

Which wouldn't be her orders unless they know Kamala isn't going to win.

Trump's not going to win either; they'll just murder him. But Kamala isn't going to win.; 10/25/24, 10:21 PM
Inga said...: Dixcus…
Look up electioneering.; 10/25/24, 10:22 PM
boatbuilder said...: As opposed to the Democrats "raising ... questions about the integrity of the U.S. Election and stock[ing] divisions among Americans" by opposing every effort to promote the integrity of the voting process, starting with the very simple requirement of voter identification.; 10/25/24, 10:30 PM
boatbuilder said...: If that's the law, the law is an ass.; 10/25/24, 10:32 PM
Inga said...: Good thing the election workers were on top of it, doing a good job.; 10/25/24, 10:33 PM
Balfegor said...: Listening to Trump on Rogan now and I'm reminded of why I find Trump a bit irritating in large doses. He really does digress so much. He eventually does circle back to the question, but it takes him so long.

I don't listen to Rogan, but he's a very . . gentle interviewer. Just lets Trump talk and redirects a bit (25 minutes in). I suppose because he's putting up 3 hour long interviews so he doesn't have to worry about getting it done on a schedule.; 10/25/24, 10:33 PM
Original Mike said...: If there weren't so many holes in the system, we would not be dependent on being lucky they got caught. How many do we not catch?

The system is designed to fail. We are the laughingstock of the world.; 10/25/24, 10:55 PM
Eva Marie said...: This is a really good discussion between Ben Shapiro and 25 Kamala Harris supporters. Really well organized. Both sides made their best points.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/10/24/ben-shapiro-took-on-25-kamala-harris-voters-in-a-debate-and-it-was-incredible-n2181027; 10/25/24, 10:56 PM
Original Mike said...: That's the one a woman doesn't understand the difference between a C-section and an abortion?; 10/25/24, 11:02 PM
Oh Yea said...: Critique the interview however you want but the headline is that Trump did a 3-hour interview and Harris cancelled. The fact is that it may be boring and uneventful 3 hours and contrast that she wouldn't sit down with what you describe as "a very . . gentle interviewer."; 10/25/24, 11:30 PM
Rory said...: I'm two hours in on Rogan and Trump. Does Rogan go three hours without a break?; 10/26/24, 12:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: I've watched the first hour of Rogan's interview with Trump. It's good.; 10/26/24, 12:13 AM
Rocco said...: Original Mike said...
“IDK about drugs, but her affect does seem to have changed. It's ‘flat’ rather than ‘bubbly’.”

That’s because she needed to be consumed within 1-3 days of being opened. Otherwise all of the carbon dioxide leaks out. And you’re left with a bitter vinegary taste.; 10/26/24, 1:07 AM
Eva Marie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/26/24, 1:09 AM
wendybar said...: Stephen Miller

@StephenM
Trump just wrapped a 3+ hour podcast with Joe Rogan, after flying to TX to deliver a speech on the migrant crime epidemic, now getting ready to head to a packed nighttime rally in Michigan.

Kamala answered 3 softballs from reporters on her way to hanging out with some rich woke celebs .

She just doesn’t have the stamina or gravitas for the job.
7:08 PM · Oct 25, 2024; 10/26/24, 1:26 AM
wendybar said...: Check out the lefties who HATE Democracy. They INSIST that EVERYBODY thinks and feels the same way they do, or they will stomp their little feeties and get really mad. They may riot and burn the place down, but don't worry....it will be explained away as peaceful.

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Disavowing WaPo, but not disavowing the "Trump is a fascist" and "democracy is on the ballot" rhetoric, is how we got to where we are. Remind me, who is divisive?
Susan Rice
@AmbassadorRice
As a DC native and lifelong subscriber to the Post, I’m disgusted. You have lost us.

Opinion | On political endorsement - The Washington Post https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement/

https://twitchy.com/amy/2024/10/25/democracy-dies-in-dumbness-hamil-king-cancel-wapo-subscriptions-fail-to-see-see-irony-n2402793; 10/26/24, 1:33 AM
wendybar said...: WAHHHHHHH!! What are we to do?? The media is starting to tell the truth, and we are having a meltdown......How DARE they not be bowing down to the first microscopic black "woman" (not a biologist, so I don't know if it is one or not) who got installed to be the next president without a vote.

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LA Times’s billionaire owner stopped the paper from endorsing Harris

Politico owner told execs to pray for Trump

Washington Post is run by Murdoch’s protégé

New York Times sanewashes Trump’s crimes

Univision made a secret deal Jared Kushner

Oligarchs have HIJACKED our media
12:38 AM · Oct 25, 2024; 10/26/24, 1:35 AM
Eva Marie said...: Yes, but that’s just a small part of it.; 10/26/24, 2:03 AM
wendybar said...: How would YOU feel, if people wanted you dead because of the circumstances you were conceived in??

"Lately, the tragedy of rape is being pervasively and politically exploited to justify all abortions. It’s not because there’s some sudden surge of compassion for rape victims but because it’s a useful fear tactic that bizarrely pretends the vast majority of abortions are due to rape and incest; it’s less than one percent."

https://townhall.com/columnists/ryanbomberger/2024/10/26/what-about-rape-and-abortion-n2646696; 10/26/24, 2:11 AM
rehajm said...: I find Rogan and the long form interview format refreshing. He is certainly capable of asking difficult questions and not allowing guests to weasel out…long form doesn’t let them run out the clock…except Trump might be capable of that…; 10/26/24, 4:16 AM
gilbar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/26/24, 4:43 AM
gilbar said...: so.. The Reason for early voting, was because if we waited until Nov;
there wouldn't be single person in left in america, that didn't see that Kammy was Clueless*?
So we HAD to get people to vote before they noticed?

Clueless* and NOT in a good Alicia Silverstone way; 10/26/24, 4:49 AM
Old and slow said...: I voted early in Yavapai county AZ yesterday. It was moderately busy and very well run. They checked my ID asked me specific questions regarding my recent address change to verify that I was who I claimed to be. We had a choice between paper and touchscreen voting. The touchscreens went almost entirely unused while people waited for their turn to vote using a paper ballot. I thought that was telling. I wish that Maricopa county was as well run as this.; 10/26/24, 6:11 AM
Breezy said...: Harris’s campaign is falling apart, apparently. Good for people to actually see how poor a leader she is before they vote. We never saw her lead anything else while VP.; 10/26/24, 6:13 AM
Iman said...: Funny stuff, Rocco!; 10/26/24, 6:17 AM
Iman said...: Quick snit Igna vanishes!; 10/26/24, 6:20 AM
Iman said...: I can’t hear you, puppet girl, now dance dance dance!; 10/26/24, 6:23 AM
Jamie said...: Here we go. Long comment on a political topic but it's a topic that transcends this particular election, and I've got to get it off my chest.

For reasons of the plot, I was at the Harris rally last night in Houston. Yes, Beyonce was there. No, she didn't sing - she just introduced Harris.

I was simultaneously bored and frustrated. The sole message, which took up the several screens and every speaker's time, was abortion - hence the boredom. We know. You're pro-abortion and you couch it as "necessary health care" even while passing laws stating that no doctor need be in attendance.

The frustration comes from the fact that the only arguments in favor of abortion raised at this rally were tragic edge cases: the same argument over and over conflating "reproductive rights" and "a woman really really wanted a child, was thrilled to get pregnant, but to her sorrow, something went wrong in fetal development and her child had no chance of surviving."

So! Her water breaks, she delivers a child who lives only for a few minutes, and she expresses yet more sorrow that she held her child in her arms as it took its few breaths, rather than killing it before birth via saline injection and then dismembering it. Huh?

Or, she gets pregnant and is overjoyed, but it's an ectopic pregnancy, luckily just before the reversal of Roe so she was able to end that entirely unviable and deadly pregnancy via pill - whereas now, of course, she would be forced, forced I tell you, to have her fallopian tube burst and suffer an abdominal infection and possibly die.

Or, her water breaks way too early and she doesn't go into spontaneous labor for five days, ultimately developing sepsis and nearly dying, because the clinic or hospital didn't induce her.

These are not abortion stories. They're sometimes malpractice stories; they're sometimes simple human tragedies. Women die from complications in medical and surgical abortions. Women die from complications in pregnancy. Neither is risk-free - childbirth is riskier for obvious reasons, but again, in all the examples at the rally except for the 12yo victim of father-rape, these were women who had already chosen to take on the higher risk.

The entire point of "Reproductive freedom!" is that women have a "right" to have elective abortions for any or no reason, including after fetal viability - but the arguments they bring to bear are always, always either "I didn't want an abortion, I wanted a child - but tragically it wasn't a viable pregnancy" or "I was raped and my mental distress necessitated my committing my own act of violence" - never "I forgot my pill, ended up pregnant, and didn't want to have a baby," never "The father left me while I was pregnant and I didn't want to face motherhood alone," never "My boyfriend/husband won't use condoms and I hate hormonal birth control so I use abortion as contraception" (I knew that girl in high school, and by historical accounts it was very common in the USSR).

Despite my own pro-life opinion, I have sympathy for the argument that trigger laws such as the one in Texas caught the medical community flat-footed and some medical personnel are misinterpreting the statute with awful consequences, or even that they're correctly interpreting the statute and the statute doesn't have the correct safeguards for women and girls - but that's not a "create a national abortion mandate" argument, that's a "change Texas law" argument.

I'm just so tired of the dishonesty. You want unrestricted abortion? Make the case. But don't pretend that the reason you want it is because "so many" women are nearly dying from bad prenatal care - that's unrelated to abortion. And once you've admitted that a fetus is at least a proto-baby, as all the rally speakers except the father-rape victim did, you can't go backwards and claim that it's just a clump of tissue about which you should "shout" in celebration once you've excised it.; 10/26/24, 8:22 AM
Rusty said...: Sorry, Inga. Not believing anything the FBI says anymore reguarding Trump. I think you know why.; 10/26/24, 8:22 AM
Rusty said...: It will be, but for an entirely different reason.; 10/26/24, 8:32 AM
Achilles said...: Cocaine make you sharper and more focused. Harris turned to Alcohol and probably Xanax.; 10/26/24, 8:41 AM
Christopher B said...: You're the one that needs to look up electioneering, Inga. That's a bullshit interpretation of the statute, and the poll worker deserved to get punched for making the request. Poll *workers* can't wear election related gear, and somebody deliberately loitering in or near the polling place with political advertising can be asked to move beyond the limits specified under the statute but a voter wearing something political who votes and leaves the polling place is not violating any law.; 10/26/24, 8:57 AM
Christopher B said...: She needs to imply that Beyonce is going to give a free concert. Queen B just introduced Harris, and then left.; 10/26/24, 8:59 AM
Mary Beth said...: I just read that Beyonce didn't sing. People waited 12 hours for a bait and switch.; 10/26/24, 10:01 AM
jaydub said...: She makes Inga wet.; 10/26/24, 10:35 AM
Hey Skipper said...: I’m an Idaho poll worker. What Christopher B says is exactly correct.

We are to ask that election related items be removed or covered, but it the voter says “no”, then “no” it is.; 10/26/24, 11:04 AM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Voter ID is all but gone. If leftists want to shred Trump votes - what is to stop them?
Lying liars who lie are also cheating cheaters who cheat.
You leftists can shove your "Without evidence" BS.; 10/26/24, 11:25 AM
320Busdriver said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/26/24, 11:26 AM
320Busdriver said...: Emerald Robinson is literally SCREAMING that Democrats are going to steal the election. That we’re suffering a communist overthrow of America.

Is she crazy? I hope to God she is. https://x.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1849532357872640037; 10/26/24, 11:28 AM
Democratic Paychecks for Perks/ Dems for Demolition of Democracy/ fake-cares 4-U said...: Hey I-nag - where's your "It's all Russian dis-info" BS?; 10/26/24, 12:18 PM
Leland said...: This ad attacking Harris is brutal. If you only have a few seconds, start about the 1:20 mark with the line "with the swipe of my pen".; 10/26/24, 4:22 PM
walter said...: Kamala drank a beer!; 10/26/24, 4:39 PM
john mosby said...: Wendybar, I know the feeling. I was conceived in the US by two white Americans, and I came out male. Lots of people want me out of the way because of those circumstances.

JSM; 10/26/24, 4:52 PM
Jamie said...: That is correct.; 10/26/24, 5:57 PM