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The liberal media’s distortion of Trump’s Liz Cheney comments exposes how panicked they are. BRENDAN O’NEILL So now Donald Trump wants to kill Liz Cheney? Worse, he wants to drag her before a firing squad. Is there no end to this man’s wickedness? The Lefty web and progressive media are awash with anguished commentary on Trump’s latest dream of violence. “Trump fantasises about guns pointed at Liz Cheney’s face”, pants an irate Rolling Stone. Trump has “told a crowd” that “Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’”, yelps Vanity Fair. He wants “nine barrels shooting” at her, cries Politico. There’s only one problem with this vision of Trump as such a lunatic liability that he fancies hauling poor Liz Cheney off for execution – it is completely untrue. It is undiluted poppycock. What Trump actually did was criticise Cheney’s pro-militarist streak. In a sit-down chat with Tucker Carlson in Arizona, he laid into her “war hawk” tendencies. And he wondered out loud – in his usual, unfiltered language – how she would feel about war if she was in the thick of one herself. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-liberal-media-s-distortion-of-trump-s-liz-cheney-comments-exposes-how-panicked-they-are/ar-AA1tlThP

Wrong thread. And for the usual suspects who dismiss this as a stupid story about a squirrel, read all of this. Why Peanut the Squirrel Matters David Strom If you live on Twitter/X (or any of the social media platforms), you will likely have heard the story of Peanut the Squirrel. Peanut has been a social media celebrity for seven years. An animal rescue nonprofit was built around him, saving hundreds of animals, from rodents to horses, from abuse, neglect, or simply bad luck. His story and his antics charmed millions of people, and helped people escape from the grittier and nastier realities of living in an unforgiving world. In the midst of the decisive election campaign of our lifetimes, why talk about Peanut the Squirrel? Aren't there more important issues like the polls, turnout, shenanigans, and all the day's news? Yes, all those things matter. But the story of Peanut matters because it is a microcosm of what we are facing. A nameless, faceless, and merciless bureaucracy with no sense of proportion or empathy can, at a whim, upend people's lives over what amounts to nothing. It can seize a beloved family pet, the mascot of an organization that does enormous good, just because some nanny-stater decides they don't approve. The streets of New York City are filled with criminals and migrants, billions are spent on hotel rooms for illegals, drugs are ravaging our communities, and lawlessness is spreading in ways that degrade our civilization. Those are big problems that are difficult to deal with, so the government turns its Sauron eye to Peanut because it can overwhelm the little guy with no problem. Improving people's lives is hard. Killing a squirrel is easy. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/11/02/why-peanut-the-squirrel-matters-n3796597

Preparing for the Left's 'reaction' Washington governor activates National Guard against election-related violence The Hill, by Juliann Ventura Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) activated the National Guard to be on stand-by in the event it is asked to support local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol during election week, a press release issued Friday said. The National Guard will be activated from Nov. 4 to 7 until just after midnight, according to the release. The adjutant general will determine how many members of the Guard will be called. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4967316-washington-governor-activates-national-guard-election-violence/amp/

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Economy U.S. economy added just 12,000 jobs in October, impacted by hurricanes, Boeing strike CNBC, by Jeff Cox Job creation in October slowed to its weakest pace since late 2020 as the impacts of storms in the Southeast and a significant labor impasse dented the employment picture. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month, down sharply from September and below the Dow Jones estimate for 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. In what had already been expected to be a downbeat report, October posted the smallest gain since December 2020. The unemployment rate, however, held at 4.1%, in line with expectations. A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/us-jobs-report-october-2024.html Horrible numbers. Please note that August and September rates were revised downward!

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She also wins every year as a Democrat. So, yes it is.

They see a different opinion as a betrayal to the hive mind. They loathe independent thinkers.

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Kristof has earned what may be the most epic Community Note of all time: Hang it in the Louvre. What a work of art.

Kamala Harris and the Democrats love women. Ask them, and they'll tell you. But that offer only applies to abortion. The rest of the time? They can't even define what a woman is, lest they offend the trans activists. But they can come up with increasingly insulting euphemisms for us: These people are NOT okay.

Even Kamala Harris is getting tired of his nonsense. WATCH:

EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY:

CHRISTOPHER RUFO: How Gender Ideology Captured the State Department. The U.S. Department of State is charged with advancing American interests abroad through complex and delicate diplomatic missions, as well as maintaining the safety of those missions and the Americans serving them. The institution’s lodestar should be the national interest, but under President Joe Biden, the State Department has demoted that critical objective in favor of a new global agenda: to spread radical gender theory to foreign nations. The shift began at the top. President Biden and, in turn, the apparatus beneath him led America’s leftward charge on the world stage. Upon taking office in 2021, the administration used the previous year’s racial unrest as a pretext to issue a slew of executive orders and memoranda entrenching left-wing ideologies in all levels of the federal government, under the guise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI. As part of this initiative, the White House required each federal agency to submit detailed DEI progress reports regularly, appoint a chief diversity officer, and create “Agency Equity Teams,” whose leaders were tasked with “delivering equitable outcomes.” These requirements contributed to what the president called “an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.” The gender component of this agenda spread to the State Department through the president’s “Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, *****, and Intersex Persons Around the World.” Published in February 2021, this memorandum directed State and other agencies to monitor closely and report on the “LGBTQI+” policies of our allies, to “broaden the number of countries willing to support and defend” the radical Left’s understanding of gender—for example, by funding pro-transgender “civil society advocates” in order to shift public opinion in those countries—and to tie in the principles of gender theory to America’s foreign-aid programs. https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-gender-ideology-captured-the-state-department The US Embassy devoted more time to planning Pride Month than for its withdrawal.

I told you. But keep trotting out that tired equivalency B.S. with the Left and Right. LEFT PLANNING ELECTION NIGHT/INAUGURAL VIOLENCE: Demonstration permits examined by former New Left radical trainer Richard Pollock show multiple far-Left and Pro-Palestinian groups moving ahead with plans to take to the streets of the nation’s capital to protest a Trump election victory and inaugural. “The applicants claim about 15,000 protesters could descend on Washington, D.C. on election night and up to 200,000 anti-Trump protests could arrive leading up to and including Inauguration Day, when the next President is sworn in,” Pollock reports. One of the organizers, a veteran of the 2017 inaugural disruptions, told a Leftist outlet that for the 2024 events “we want to undermine Trump’s presidency from the get-go. There has been a lot of talk of peaceful transition of power as being a core element in a democracy and we want to reject that entirely and really undermine the peaceful transition.” About another 10,000 people are expected to descend on Washington four days after the election for an event titled, “Rally to Defend Democracy.” It’s also revealing that some anti-Trump activists already are planning some form of “resistance” on election night – a possible code word for violence. Lacy MacAuley, a DC activist is quoted as coyly telling the Washington Post that her planned demonstration on election night could result in “feisty resistance.” MacAuley is a dedicated political organizer and once was part of a group called Disrupt J20 that attempted to interrupt the 2017 Trump Inauguration. https://richardpollock.substack.com/p/anti-trump-protests-are-being-readied