The Patriot Post® · Tuesday: Below the Fold
Government & Politics
Former Dem Tulsi Gabbard endorses Trump: “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” So said former Democrat congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard of Kamala Harris in a devastating debate-stage takedown nearly five years ago. Harris likely sees Gabbard in her sleep, and she may soon see her on the campaign trail as well, as Gabbard yesterday announced her endorsement of Donald Trump for president during an appearance with Trump at a National Guard conference in Detroit. “If you love our country, as I do,” said Gabbard, who left the Democrat Party nearly two years ago, “if you cherish peace and freedom, as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all that we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people.” Trump, she said, “understands the grave responsibility that a president and commander-in-chief bears for every single one of our lives, whether you’re a soldier, you’re an airman, a Marine, sailor, or a Coastie.”
Jack Smith files appeal to reverse dismissal of Trump classified docs case (Townhall)
Yet another Walz lie: Democrat VP nominee Tim Walz has a pattern of lying, including additional fabricated claims from his 2006 campaign profile. Much as his stolen valor claims falsely declaring he was an Enduring Freedom Veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major, his congressional campaign bio noted he “earned the title of Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year.” Actually, he was among many other Guard and Reserve members who were invited to a lunch to honor their service — not the recipient of the “Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year” as implied. His campaign profile also noted, “Harvard University offered Walz an opportunity to gain a new perspective on global education by teaching in the People’s Republic of China.” The now-defunct WorldTeach program was not operated by Harvard University as Walz implied, and references to it have been omitted from his current bio. Other than that, his stories are accurate.
Tarantino warns Harris against interviews: Acclaimed movie director Quentin Tarantino might not know a darn thing about Kamala Harris, but that’s good enough for him. After all, he told Bill Maher, “Sometimes it’s just about f***ing winning!” Tarantino thus embodies the Left’s win-at-all-costs approach to politics, stressing that he’d vote for Harris “no matter what she says in any interview” and launching into a rant about how Harris doesn’t need to “cave to pressure.” The semi-coherent Tarantino added: “And Trump’s not the president, and we’re the f***ing president, and now it’s gonna be about this. But this is gonna be about f***ing winning! What most people don’t give the Democrats enough credit for, all right, but we give the Republicans credit for it, sometimes it’s just about f***ing winning, and it doesn’t matter how we look!” Maher had been trying to make the case that Harris should actually, you know, sit for an interview like every other candidate for the presidency has. But to little avail. And as of now, Nominee Harris has been dodging the press for 37 days and counting.
Harris and Trump squabble over muted mics at upcoming debate (AP)
Harris has hauled in $540 million since the bloodless coup: It’s hard to blame Kamala Harris for running scared from the media because it sure seems to be working. After a joy-filled week of genuflecting toward Harris at the Democratic National Convention, the media has continued to mind its own business while the Harris campaign has raked in an enormous amount of cash. Team Kamala says it has raised $540 million since she launched her campaign just over a month ago when Joe Biden ended his reelection bid. As the Washington Examiner reports, “Harris campaign chairwoman Jen O'Malley Dillon said in the memo that just before Harris’s Thursday DNC speech was their largest single hour in funds raised this cycle for their campaign.” As the Examiner adds, “Prior to Biden’s decision to drop out on July 21, fundraising had dried up for Democrats as the president bled support in the polls to former President Donald Trump.” What a difference a candidate makes. Now, if she’d only deign to sit for an interview.
Even Democrats denounce Harris’s price controls: Like a bunch of dutiful schlubs behind a circus elephant, congressional Democrats are cleaning up after Kamala Harris’s recent price controls “accident.” As Politico reports: “Under pressure to defend Kamala Harris’ grocery price gouging plan, some Democratic lawmakers are delivering a quiet message to anxious allies: Don’t worry about the details. It’s never going to pass Congress.” It’d be one thing if only Republicans panned Harris’s cockamamie scheme, but Democrats themselves are running away from it, too. “It’s clear to me these are very general, very lofty goals,” said one anonymous Democrat. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who herself has designs on the 2028 presidential race, gently told NBC News’s “Meet the Press” that Harris’s price-fixing proposal was merely an effort to speak in “broad strokes.” Elsewhere, former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman told the Financial Times, “I think the biggest hope is it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and not reality. There’s no upside here, and there is some downside.” Furman is right. But Harris said it, and now she has to live with it.
Judge in Arizona “fake elector” case sets trial date for 2026 (Just the News)
Texas Governor Abbott announces over one million ineligible voters removed from voter rolls since 2021 (Just the News)
Federal judge blocks Biden administration’s “parole in place” immigration program (Just the News)
Big Tech
Zuckerberg admits censoring Americans: On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) admitting what many, including we at The Patriot Post, have long contended — his company engaged in the censorship of users’ speech at the behest of the Biden administration. In the letter, Zuckerberg writes, “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.” Yet he asserts, “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.” He adds that he believes “the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.” He ends by stating that his “goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another” and that he doesn’t “plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.” Well, as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words, and thus far, there is little to indicate that anything has really changed with the tech giant.
California and Big Tech colluding to control journalism: Last year, the California State House passed the California Journalism Preservation Act, a law that would require search engines and social media platforms to pay a share of their ad revenue to news organizations for any of their content that showed up on search results or platforms. Unsurprisingly, tech giants Google and Meta balked at the new law, warning that they would prevent news organizations’ content from showing up on their sites rather than share ad revenue with them. This week, a compromise was reached in which California taxpayers will shell out $70 million, and Google will provide an additional $172.5 million for newsrooms in the state. Roughly 12% of this money will go to “underserved” and “local” newsrooms. A seven-person governing board out of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism will run the program, evidently deciding where the money goes.
Security
New whistleblower allegation: Secret Service prevented extra security assets for Trump rally (Josh Hawley)
Biden-Harris equity commission wants to spend $20 million to disarm traffic cops (Washington Free Beacon)
Culture
Lowe’s backs off DEI: In another win for American values, Lowe’s has announced that the homebuilding supply company is ending its investment in woke initiatives like DEI and funding of or participation in “Pride” events. According to a company memo, “Like many other companies, in July 2023 after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard/UNC cases, we began reviewing our diversity and inclusion programs to ensure that they are lawful and aligned with our commitment to include everyone in the incredible opportunities at Lowe’s and ensure that no one is excluded.” Anti-woke activist Robby Starbuck celebrated the news, stating in a post on X that after he reached out to Lowe’s, warning the company that he was about to expose it for its woke policies, Lowe’s quickly responded by changing course. “We’re now forcing multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,” Starbuck stated. “We are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.”
Idaho infantry officer stripped of commanding position over LGBT beliefs (Christian Post)
Climate & Economy
Terrifying kids into the climate cult: The Biden/Harris administration is pushing climate alarmism on kids. NASA has a “Climate Kids” webpage featuring various educational activities, videos, and games for kindergarten-aged children, but it’s interspersed with dire warnings of cataclysmic climate change caused by fossil fuels, which allegedly cause sea levels to rise and global ice coverage to melt, potentially dooming their future. The site states that the use of fossil fuels is causing “pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground,” as well as the “biggest problem of all” — global warming. Furthermore, the only “solution” offered is a life-altering change of course: “A turn away from fossil fuels. We will move toward sustainable, green energy.” With misinformation propaganda like this promulgated by federal government agencies, is it any wonder that nearly half of Americans aged 18 to 29 believe that fossil fuel use should be entirely phased out from the U.S.? This is not science; it’s climate cultism.
Islamists are reenacting the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the green crowd couldn’t care less (National Review)
Exxon warns of oil shock if suppliers assume demand will fall by 2050 (Financial Times)
World
Hostage rescued by IDF troops from south Gaza tunnel (Times of Israel)
Russia strikes Ukraine’s power grid in “most massive” attack of war (Reuters)
More than 70 dead after militant attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan (Reuters)
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