Why RealClearPolitics Didn't Fall for the Fake Polls | RealClearPolitics

For the second time in as many months, a fraudulent entity claiming to be a polling operation has been outed for releasing fictitious numbers in hotly contested midterm election campaigns. - Carl M. Cannon

The first episode involved an obscure outfit calling itself “Median Strategies,” which claimed that its August poll showed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with a double-digit lead over challenger Nithya Raman. 

• There was no such survey. 

It was a sham carried out by a 21-year-old recent college graduate named Rahil Prakash...

This week, a much more ambitious con job came to light.

“Wedgewood Polling” admitted it was a bogus operation hours before it was about to be exposed...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 23

History for October 23 - On-This-Day.com 

Michael Crichton 1942 - Author, director, physician ("Jurassic Park")

• 1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.
• 1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising.
• 1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
• 1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.

Breaking: High-Ranking Virginia Dem Arrested on Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Charges

Breaking: High-Ranking Virginia Dem Arrested on Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Charges: 

Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas, a Democrat, was arrested by federal agents on Thursday on a litany of felony charges.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin posted about the arrest on X, writing, “BREAKING UPDATE: Virginia’s Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas has been arrested by the Feds and is now in federal custody. She is charged w/ with Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering, Fraud, and Firearms Charge. DOJ press conference imminent.”

Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: 'Unholy alliance' | Blaze Media

Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: 'Unholy alliance' | Blaze Media: 

Foster noted, however, that the riots were undeniably “immigrant-dependent,” using at least the language and the symbols of Islamist politics and flying in some cases the Palestinian flag as well as the colors of North African countries, including Algeria and Morocco.

This foreign presence was no coincidence. Leftist organizers clearly intended to weaponize migrant resentment from the outset.

The way we were-----JFK'S "CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS" SPEECH (10/22/62) (COMPLETE AND UNCUT) - YouTube

(182) JFK'S "CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS" SPEECH (10/22/62) (COMPLETE AND UNCUT) - YouTube: 

Alex Epstein on Climate Alarmism, Trump’s Energy Policies, ESG, and the Fight Over Data Centers

Alex Epstein on Climate Alarmism, Trump’s Energy Policies, ESG, and the Fight Over Data Centers:

So much here! Read all!-----A group of retired admirals, ex-USAID bureaucrats and professional protest organizers..

...got caught on their own recordings working out the conditions under which they get to declare the government of the United States illegitimate, - Joe Oltmann@Joeoltmann

...and somehow we are supposed to believe they are the ones protecting democracy. 

On tape they lay out a list of "redlines," and invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed… and as she lays it out, they shopped the idea around to governors who don't even have to sign anything, all a governor has to do is refuse federal troops and let the network do the rest... 

And the very same morning the Washington Post runs a story about a small group of current and former Defense Department officials quietly advising governors, election officials and lawmakers in 10 states on how to prepare for the Trump administration "interfering" in the midterms, rehearsing what to do if a federal agent asks for access to ballots or machines...

Why do the rioters trashing Paris wave the ‘Palestinian’ flag?

Because to them, France is Israel and they’re the ‘Palestinians’ out to destroy it and replace it with their own terrorist state. - Daniel Greenfield17 Comments

• The ubiquitous presence of the ‘Palestinian’ flag at riots from New York City to Milan isn’t an expression of solidarity: it’s a statement of genocidal intent for every country where it’s flown. 
• Its colors represent the historic Islamic caliphates which once ethnically cleansed the Middle East.

Every place in the world is just a few million Muslims away from becoming another Israel. 

And Israel is a symbol of what the mobs intend to do to Europe and every nation they invade...

Abdul El-Sayed cried 'racism' over taxpayer-funded transgender operations for illegal aliens: AUDIO | Blaze Media

Abdul El-Sayed cried 'racism' over taxpayer-funded transgender operations for illegal aliens: AUDIO | Blaze Media: 

"The prime example that conservatives will impose on a conversation about Medicare for All will be ‘well, what do we do with the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get gender reassignment surgery on Medicare for All?'" he adds.

He goes on to accuse those opposing transgender treatments for illegal aliens of being guilty of "the original sin of racism," a common anti-American trope among far-left extremists.

Feds announce arrests in alleged multimillion-dollar sham marriage scheme in Massachusetts - YouTube

(182) Feds announce arrests in alleged multimillion-dollar sham marriage scheme in Massachusetts - YouTube:

The Real Crisis in Europe Isn’t Financial. It’s Generational Theft.

Back at the beginning of this century, the U.S. national debt was $5 trillion. - Rick Moran

The U.S. budget was $1.78 trillion, and we ran a $237 billion budget surplus.

• Today, the debt is $40 trillion; the budget is $7.4 trillion, and the budget surplus is long gone, replaced by a $2 trillion deficit...

In 2000, France's national debt was around $900 billion, or 58% of its gross domestic product (GDP). Its budget deficit was less than 2% of its GDP.

• Today, France is caught in a debt trap that could lead the nation into default and blow up the entire European Union...

Lunch video----- Victor Davis Hanson: The Consequences of Europe's Failed Assimilation - YouTube

(182) Victor Davis Hanson: The Consequences of Europe's Failed Assimilation - YouTube:

Noon-toon

 

Major company pays millions after making Americans jump through hoops for jobs | Blaze Media

Major company pays millions after making Americans jump through hoops for jobs | Blaze Media: 

In its investigation of the case, the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Instacart gave preference to holders of temporary employment visas over American workers. Specifically, the DOJ explained, Instacart "created additional burdens on U.S. workers to apply for job opportunities by requiring that applications be physically mailed for positions advertised as part of PERM recruitment."

Israel has spent years trying to explain to the world what it has been dealing with.

Maybe our most effective PR campaign was never going to come from Israel at all. - Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil👇
 Maybe it’s this...

Baby-steps to UK/Canada/N Korea censorship!-----COVID Was Just the Beginning: New Docs Reveal Biden's Bigger Censorship Plans

The Biden administration wasn't just trying to police COVID posts. - Ben SmithFollow @BenSmithDC

It wanted broader control over health information, and newly released internal documents show former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's office was actively strategizing how to make it happen.
The documents Protect the Public's Trust obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) date back to 2021, when the Biden administration was already pushing Facebook and other technology companies to remove content it labeled misinformation.

"May be worth emphasizing that you don’t just see this as a COVID-related issue (i.e., it’s health and medical misinformation, not just COVID-related misinformation). More broadly, it gets at the issue of how social media impacts people, especially young people."

Just good luck?

 

Read it!-----Brivael Le Pogam on X: "On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders.

And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? 

No matter the history. 

No matter the context.  - Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. 

Always the same trap. 

• I don't think it's stupidity. 
• I think it's a mechanism. 

And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece. 

A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable...

B. The mechanism: why it's systematic. When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time...

C. Suffering demands a culprit...

D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain...

E. One lens, a thousand causes...

F. The perfect inversion. Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second...

#1 This day 1988----- Phil Collins - A groovy kind of love (Music Video) - YouTube

(182) Phil Collins - A groovy kind of love (Music Video) - YouTube:

Bukele announces that El Salvador is launching a military operation in Haiti against the gangs.

The goal is to free 4 Salvadoran citizens kidnapped by the Haitian gangs. - Visegrád 24@visegrad24

Bukele threatens that El Salvador will eradicate the Haitian gangs if they hurt the kidnapped men: 

“To the gang leaders and gang members holding our four compatriots hostage in Haiti: 

...We have a single objective: to bring our four compatriots back home alive, without any harm. 

However, I want you, the gang leaders, to understand one thing very clearly: today's attack is nothing compared to what is coming if we do not get all four hostages back alive. 

And do not take our word for empty threats. 

We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too. 

We still have time to avoid this. 

Return our four compatriots to us alive, without any harm, and everything will go back to how it was before the kidnapping. 

The decision is in your hands”

Everyone the left disagrees with is following a "god-king".

 

Barack Obama's Attempt to Defend Ilhan Omar Crashes and Burns When His Own Past Gets Brought Up

Barack Obama's Attempt to Defend Ilhan Omar Crashes and Burns When His Own Past Gets Brought Up: 

In either case, Omar could well lose her naturalized citizenship. But those are apparently not even legal niceties to Obama — a former constitutional law professor, for heaven’s sake — since he doesn’t even consider them worth mentioning.

Even worse is the hectoring-lecturing tone he takes about an administration targeting political opponents — when his own White House spent eight years doing exactly that.

Network Of Communists, Muslims Is Fueling France's Riots

The rioters burning and pillaging cities across France are not led primarily by disgruntled students, as corporate media claim, but rather by a red-green alliance of communist activists and Muslim agitators, a recent investigation found. -  Breccan F. Thies

• The network is made up of 54 organizations representing communism, revolutionary socialism, unions, climate change activism, 
• Muslim student and pro-Palestinian groups, as well as corporate media, according to Fox News’ Asra Nomani. 
• Only 16 of the 54 are actually student groups.