The Patriot Post® · Wednesday: Below the Fold
Politics
Sleepy who? Kamala Harris, Tim Walz dance on Biden’s grave in Philly (Washington Free Beacon)
Walz lobs couch joke at JD Vance in first appearance with Kamala Harris: “See what I did there?” (NY Post)
Conflicted Kamala couldn’t decide: It’s hard to remember the last time a presidential candidate was presented with such an obvious choice for a running mate, and yet Kamala Harris couldn’t decide. Harris is in big trouble in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and she’s also in trouble with Jewish voters due to the vile Hamas wing of her party. All she had to do was pick Josh Shapiro, the popular, charismatic, relatively moderate Democrat governor of the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. And yet, she couldn’t decide. As The Daily Wire reports, “A source told NBC News Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander that as of Monday night, ‘VP Harris had not yet made a final decision and wanted to sleep on it one more night.’ The same source told Alexander that the ‘Harris campaign has printed signs with Harris’ name and multiple different possible VP picks beneath it so they are prepared for whatever decision she makes.‘” As CNN’s hard-left Van Jones lamented, “You also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party. … How much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party?” Maybe someone should ask Tim Walz.
Anti-Semites rejoice after Harris snubs Jew (Washington Free Beacon)
Good news: Cori Bush gets the gate: Yesterday was primary day in many cities across the country, and one of them, St. Louis, decided it was time for better representation in Congress. Indeed, “Squad” member Cori Bush lost her primary election. The race-baiter Bush thus joins fire-alarm Jamaal Bowman and becomes the second “Squad” member to be ousted this cycle. As a reminder, Cori Bush is the same congresswoman who misused campaign funds; who hired private security even as she advocated for defunding the cops; who can’t seem to decide whether Hamas is a terrorist organization; and who said that a black man, Tyre Nichols, was “slaughtered at the altar of white supremacy” even though all five cops who beat him were black. To her we say, Good riddance.
Mike Rogers wins Michigan GOP Senate primary, teeing up race against Elissa Slotkin in November (National Review)
Is a Jewish electoral awakening in the offing? In the wake of Kamala Harris’s refusal to select a vice-presidential candidate due to his Jewishness comes an interesting new Siena poll. In it, Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris 50-49 among New York’s Jewish voters. These are stunning numbers, and they bear watching, because the American Jewish vote typically splits about 70-30 in favor of the Democrats. Here again, as with blacks, Trump seems to be expanding the Republican base while the Democrats continue to hemorrhage. Asked about the poll on Fox News this morning, Trump said, “I think any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat … should have their head examined.” Trump went on to note Kamala Harris’s refusal to pick Josh Shapiro, noting, “This is the worst team ever assembled for a Jewish person or for Israel, either one.”
Harris donated to defund-police group last year: Kamala Harris’s radical leftist record is not merely from her past as a sitting senator from California. It has continued throughout her time as vice president. Indeed, just last year, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, each donated $1,000 to the leftist group Legal Aid DC, which advocates a defund-the-police agenda. Back in 2020, LADC stated that it “stands in solidarity with those speaking out, demonstrating, and demanding a country and society that will treat every one of its residents with dignity and respect.” That same year, the group’s housing law attorney, Amanda Kober, expressed concern over “any solution that involves more police and policing in DC public housing.” Furthermore, LADC pushed for legislation that was subsequently passed which made Washington, DC, a “permanent” sanctuary city for illegal aliens. Last year, LADC testified in support of a bill to “create a reparations task force and fund to address the impacts of slavery and institutional racism in Washington, D.C.”
Security
Hezbollah launches volley of drone attacks on Israel, vows revenge is still to come (NY Post)
Hamas names Yahya Sinwar as new overall leader (BBC)
Iranian murder-for-hire plot foiled: On Tuesday, it was revealed that federal agents thwarted a Pakistani working as an agent of Iran in a murder-for-hire plot targeting U.S. officials. According to federal officials, Asif Merchant arrived in the U.S. in April and immediately recruited a man in New York for business deals. That man soon discovered those business deals entailed plots for assassination attempts. After learning this, he contacted law enforcement. FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that the plot was “straight out of the Iranian playbook.” Merchant was arrested soon after he attempted to recruit two undercover agents posing as hitmen. Evidently, Merchant entered the U.S. legally.
Free Speech
- X sues GARM: Elon Musk, the owner of X, has criticized the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) as an “advertising boycott racket” and threatened to take legal action against the organization. On Tuesday, Musk made good on his threat. X CEO Linda Yaccarino released a video message announcing that the social media company had filed an antitrust lawsuit against GARM, the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and several large corporations that are GARM members. Yaccarino referenced the House Judiciary Committee’s recent investigation into GARM, noting that the committee found evidence “GARM and its members directly organized boycotts and used other indirect tactics to target disfavored platforms, content creators, and news organizations in an effort to demonetize and, in effect, limit certain choices for consumers.” She claimed that X has been targeted by GARM and, as a result, has lost billions of dollars in ad revenue. Joining X in the lawsuit is the video-sharing site Rumble. Linking to Yaccarino’s video, Musk added the following post: “We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war.”
Immigration
Northern Triangle migration spiked 400% under “not border czar” Harris: In their efforts to gaslight the American public over the fact that Joe Biden did effectively name Kamala Harris his border czar, the mainstream media deflects by claiming Harris’s role was focused on the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador). The problem is that since Harris was tapped by Biden to tackle the Northern Triangle’s “root causes” of migration, the number of migrants illegally entering the U.S. from these countries has spiked by some 400%. No matter which way the Leftmedia tries to spin it, the fact of the matter remains: Harris’s record on illegal immigration is abysmal.
London: A cautionary tale about open borders: London has increasingly become unrecognizable due to its demographic changes. So says Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo, who was there recently and couldn’t believe the changes that the UK’s open-borders immigration policy has wrought. “I haven’t been to London since I was a student,” he observed to a group of British journalists. “What the hell happened?” He then answered his own question: “Since my last visit nearly two decades ago, the white British population of London has declined from 60 percent to 37 percent. Meantime, the Muslim population of London has nearly doubled, and migrants from South Asia and Africa have entrenched themselves throughout the city. Anglos have been a minority for more than a decade. What I’ve observed in the city this week has amazed me. Women’s eyes peering through the slit of black niqabs. A procession of sub-Saharan Africans traversing Westminster Bridge, waving the flags of their homelands and demanding reparations. Street corners that could be confused for Peshawar or Islamabad. Districts in which one could pass an entire day with barely a glimpse of an Englishman.” This is a cautionary tale given that our nation’s border czar, Kamala Harris, has overseen the invasion of somewhere north of 10 million illegals across our southern border.
Culture
Boxer who failed gender tests advances to gold medal match after dominating another female opponent (Daily Wire)
97% of all FACE Act prosecutions target pro-life activists (Breitbart)
Misc.
Here are the “green” projects Biden is dumping billions of tax dollars into before he leaves office (The Federalist)
EPA issues emergency order to halt use of dangerous pesticide (The Hill)
Dell makes cuts to boost AI pivot, reportedly laying off 12,500 employees (PC Mag)
For the Executive Summary archive, click here.