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October Surprise Watch 10/23 Starting Their Next Steal [1]
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Date: 2022-10-23
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Newsmax bans Lara Logan after she claims elites ‘dine on the blood of children’
Weeks Deep In a Litter Box Hoax, You’re So Nuts You Got Banned From Newsmax? I’m Honestly Impressed
and
Christian conservative conference attended by Eric Trump and Mike Flynn gets really, really weird
x This is not your father’s Republican Party. pic.twitter.com/00twJicOdb — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2022
Elections
Republicans are pushing a national Don't Say Gay bill that's even worse than we've seen before
But almost nothing has gotten folks as outraged as the proliferation of Don’t Say Gay bills. When Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law, essentially pushing public school teachers into the closet and ridding numerous students of the chance to learn about queer histories and identities, people across the nation were outraged. Why this big reaction doesn’t happen each time an anti-trans bill is passed (much less signed into law) is well worth examining, but for today, the Don’t Say Gay outrage is something we need to hold onto again. More than 30 House Republicans have signed onto a national version of the bill, according to NPR. There’s really no chance President Joe Biden would sign this into law if it somehow managed to get to his desk, but that’s not a reason to shrug this hateful legislation off. In fact, that’s probably exactly what Republicans are hoping progressives will do.
They live in hope that their next Immoral Outrage will be the one to get all of the real MAGA Wrong-Wingers off their recliners to vote, no matter how many times that prophecy has failed in the paste. (See Grokking Trumpists: Their Cognitive Dissonance is Even Stronger This Time.)
Cleta Mitchell Is Training Thousands of Trump Loyalists to Monitor the Polls on Election Day
No, not monitor, meddle with bogus accusations of fraud.
If at all possible, volunteer at the polls to counter these paskudnyaks. Be sure you know how to take videos on your cell phone and upload them to the authorities and the Web.
What could go wrong? Despite the focus of the political class on the many Republican candidates who refuse to accept that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Mitchell has engaged in something more immediate: harnessing the energy of the angry Trumpian faithful to embed themselves in the guts of the nation’s election machinery, believing the apparatus of poll workers and election observers and U.S. Postal Service employees is biased against conservatives. “We have to be in the election offices, in the election system, in the same way that parents need to be a presence in the school boards and in the school,” she said when we finally spoke last month of her mission to recruit thousands of election workers and volunteer poll watchers. “You can’t delegate these things to government ministers. You need to have citizen-engagement oversight.”
Politico: What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms
New Democrats have registered to vote at a speedy clip since Roe v. Wade fell, but Republicans made steep gains before then. Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. There’s just one problem for them — they are digging out from under major Republican gains in the previous 18 months. For most of the two years leading up to the midterm election, Republicans rather than Democrats were making voter registration gains in key states, a POLITICO analysis of state voter data shows — a signal of GOP momentum heading into a classic backlash election against Democratic control of Washington. In Pennsylvania, where the outcome of the race for governor could determine whether abortion remains legal in the state, new registrants since late June have been twice as likely to be Democrats as Republicans. The share of women among newly registered voters also surged by several percentage points after the Dobbs decision.
Greatly exaggerated. There were no significant R gains in Kansas before the Blue Wave inundated them in the summer. So ignore Politico’s suppositions about the future, and concentrate on the facts that they are trying to tell you don’t mean what they obviously mean.
The Senate Leadership Fund startlingly announced Friday that it was canceling the remaining $5.6 million it had booked in New Hampshire to help Republican Don Bolduc, a candidate the super PAC tried hard to prevent from getting nominated in the first place, against Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. SLF’s move comes two weeks after the NRSC also pulled out of the state, which leaves the underfunded Bolduc to fend for himself. National Republicans were never happy at the prospect of having Bolduc, a Big Lie supporter who also dubbed GOP Gov. Chris Sununu a "Chinese communist sympathizer" with a family business that "supports terrorism,” as their standard bearer, and they took dramatic steps to stop him two weeks before the September primary. When you lose the funding people…and you’re behind in the polls…
Justice
Fortune 500 companies launch ad urging Congress to act on relief for DACA recipients by year's end
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are among the businesses that have now taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, and Charlotte Observer urging congressional leaders to act before the current session ends. They write our economy will “face another crisis” if hundreds of thousands of program beneficiaries and their families lose critical protections. The companies and businesses say that since DACA’s implementation by the Obama administration a decade ago, program beneficiaries “have built successful careers as teachers, small business owners, health care workers, and entrepreneurs across a host of industries. They are our friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers.” However, a ruling by a conservative appeals court earlier this month “puts all of these individuals, their families, and their employers at risk. Each DACA recipient will soon face the threat of losing their work authorization and protection from deportation, while our businesses face the threat of losing critical employees.” The businesses and business leaders say an estimated 22,000 DACA recipients could lose their work permits every single month. Ultimately, DACA’s end would result in half a million lost jobs and cost our economy nearly $12 billion, they said.
This is about what we call, in WSJ-world parlance, real money. Among other things like, you know, humanity.
Previous Guy not just making up things, trying to stay out of jail but still confessing to crimes
Before our very eyes, Biden and his Left-wing handlers are turning America into a police state.
Echoes of the John Birch Society claiming that Eisenhower was a Soviet agent, because
We have always been at war with Eurasia
except when we aren’t.
China
x In Mao’s footsteps: Xi Jinping puts himself at core of China’s government
Just another grubby dictator that wants total power to fill some void in his personality!
https://t.co/qA0tc5QPjq — Skyowl_ (@skyowl_) October 23, 2022
x #APT41 A U.S. hacking group allegedly attacked 2,426 servers in China, most of them located at government and party facilities, as well as a powertrain company, a steel mill and some universities.
https://t.co/Rc4Czrugl2 — Tamika Powell (@TamikaP11604913) October 23, 2022
North Korea
Kim Jong Un talks up North Korea’s nuclear threat after latest missile tests
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday warned adversaries his nuclear forces are fully prepared for “actual war,” a day after the isolated country’s latest launch in a recent flurry of missile tests. “Our nuclear combat forces … proved again their full preparedness for actual war to bring the enemies under their control,” Kim said in a report by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Analysts stressed caution over the KCNA reports. “It is worth remembering that the details of these reports cannot be trusted,” said Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. “The Kim regime is sometimes surprisingly transparent about weapons development goals, but it also tends to exaggerate strength and capabilities.”
Iran
x We are delighted to have internationally-renowned political cartoonist, Pedro X. Molina, as an @sfcny Franciscan Service Fellow in Human Rights this academic year. This is one of his recent political cartoons: pic.twitter.com/eyssyM55KY — Reza Fakhari, Ph.D. (@RezaFakhari1) October 12, 2022
Iranian hacker group releases details about nuclear program An Iranian hacker group known as "Black Reward" published confidential details about the Iranian nuclear program on Saturday after it announced that it had successfully hacked the email of the country's Nuclear Power Production and Development Company. A video file was included among the leaked documents, showing a nuclear power plant in an unknown location. Additional information made public includes "Iran's public and private conversations with the International Atomic Energy Agency." Ukraine
WSJ Opinion: Putin’s War in Ukraine May Destroy Russia
Paywalled
In his attempt to resurrect the Soviet Union, Mr. Putin may be presiding over his country’s final collapse.
This is their opinion page, which is given to flights of fancy, unlike the news pages, where stories about real money tend to be factual.
“Final collapse” of the country is obviously a figment of their imagination. Russia isn’t going away—not the land, not the people, not the social problems. But it could be the regime’s final collapse, if it leads to real elections and the beginnings of the rule of law, something that Gorbachev severely neglected in his Perestroika campaign. You know, like the collapse of the Articles of Confederation in the US, followed by the Constitution and, as an afterthought, the Bill of Rights.
Ukrainian forces bombard river crossing; Kherson a fortress Ukrainian forces bombarded Russian positions in the occupied and illegally annexed southern Kherson region, targeting resupply routes across a major river while inching closer Friday to a full assault on one of the first urban areas Russia captured after invading the country. Russian-installed officials were reported desperately trying to turn the city of Kherson, a prime objective for both sides because of its key industries and major river and sea port, into a fortress while attempting to evacuate tens of thousands of residents. The Kremlin poured as many as 2,000 draftees into the Kherson region — one of four Moscow illegally annexed and put under Russian martial law — to replenish losses and strengthen front-line units, according to the Ukrainian army's general staff.
The Environment
x #Restrictions by #insurance companies on oil and gas are starting to catch up with those on coal, according to new #data from the Insure Our Future Global (IOF) campaign.#globalwarming #CO2 #climatechange
https://t.co/R0lqKYYU3t — Cint Kortmann (@cint) October 23, 2022
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