The Patriot Post® · Friday: Below the Fold
Economy
Jobs report shows Bidenomics is NOT working: It’s the economy, stupid, and the last jobs report before Tuesday’s election — Kamala Harris’s closing argument, if you will — makes her repeated insistences that “Bidenomics is working” sound even stupider. As CNBC reports, “Job creation in October slowed to its weakest pace since late 2020. … Nonfarm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month, down sharply from September and below the Dow Jones estimate for 100,000.” Now, check out this headline from yesterday’s Washington Post: “The economy is booming, but inflation is on voters’ minds as election nears.” It’s BOOMING, we tell you! BOOMING! It’ll be interesting to see how Team Harris and the Leftmedia try to spin this unequivocally awful report on the single issue that matters most to American voters. Perhaps we can glean some insight from the way that same media treated the final jobs report before the 2020 election — “just” 661,000 jobs were created, which was supposedly bad news for Trump.
Ford halts EV production at Michigan plant that Biden lauded as “incredible” (Washington Free Beacon)
Boeing employees to vote on ending seven-week strike on Monday (Just the News)
Britain cranks up taxes by £40 billion and gambles on growth (Politico)
Government & Politics
JD Vance sits down with Joe Rogan, reveals “biggest difference” between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris that voters should know (NY Post)
Team Biden whitewashes the history of garbage: As Watergate-era Democrats are fond of saying, it’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up. In the case of Joe Biden’s recent comments, then, it’s not the crime of calling half the electorate “garbage” but the cover-up of trying to say that you didn’t say what everyone heard you say. As the Associated Press reports, “White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared [appeared?] to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity.” Translation: They lied. Their boss was talking about Trump supporters as a whole, not a single obscure comedian. This is just the latest cleanup on Aisle 46 for President Unity, and the independent White House stenographers group isn’t happy about it. “If there is a difference in interpretation,” a steno supervisor says, “the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently.” As House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik wrote, Team Biden “illegally edited the transcript violating the Presidential Records Act. … And the most important question, did Kamala Harris and her campaign request this illegal edit?”
Humor: Are you garbage? Know the signs (Babylon Bee)
Trump sues CBS News for $10 billion over Kamala’s edited “60 Minutes” interview (Townhall)
Almost 63M votes have been cast: With the election just days away, 62,941,182 Americans have already cast their votes as of last night. Of that total, 33,097,262 are in-person early votes, with 29,726,085 being mail-in ballots that have been returned. That number of mail-in ballots represents over a third of the total that has been requested. Breaking it down by party in states that record party affiliation, Democrats have cast 39% of those votes compared to Republicans’ 36%. Early voting has ended in several states. Thus, the probability of 2024 early voting numbers surpassing 2020’s total, which was over 100 million, is unlikely. What is interesting is that the number of Republicans casting early votes has increased over previous elections. This bodes well for Donald Trump.
Clooney woos beta males to secretly vote for Kamala: As we noted yesterday, Kamala Harris has a guy problem — so much so that she’s calling in George Clooney to help her shore up the sitzpinkling beta-male bastion of her White Dudes for Harris base. As Fox News reports, “Months after famously writing an op-ed calling for President Biden to step aside, liberal actor George Clooney voiced an ad encouraging men to hide their vote for Vice President Harris from their fellow men.” In his voiceover, Clooney calls on all weak-kneed weenie men to refrain from manliness: “Before you cast your vote in this election,” he intones, “think about how it will impact the people you care about the most. Remember, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.” The denim-clad, man-bun-sporting weenie-man then votes for Kamala Harris and the unpaid assistant football coach who thinks AOC can run a mean pick 6. “What happens in the booth stays in the booth,” says Clooney, who clearly wants to make America female.
Dems’ preemptive finger-pointing has already begun: With polling favoring Donald Trump but still effectively showing a toss-up election, a growing number of Democrats appear to be quietly resigning themselves to a Trump victory. Revealing this dour outlook has been the number of Democrats rolling out excuses and finger-pointing. “People are nervous,” explained one Democrat strategist, “and they’re trying to cover their a** and get a little ahead of Election Day. It’s based on anxiety, stakes, and the unique nature of this cycle.” The strategist added that if Kamala Harris loses, “there will be a mad dash to assign blame.” There will be many things for Democrats to blame, including how Harris was dubiously installed as the nominee as well as her choice of Lyin’ Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate. But the biggest target will likely be Joe Biden, who has repeatedly provided comments that have forced Harris’s campaign to run damage control. Should Harris lose, though, the biggest reason will be Kamala herself.
Leftist dark money group misinforms voters in battleground states: As much as Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media lament “misinformation” being spread via free speech, they’re mum when it comes to leftist dark money groups peddling misinformation to voters. A case in point is a little-known group called AllVote. It bills itself as a voter information service, stating on its website that it “uses publicly available data to ensure eligible Americans have all the information they need both to register and exercise their right to vote” and assuring that it takes “seriously the responsibility of providing correct information.” Yet AllVote communicated to a group of voters in Pennsylvania, falsely claiming that they had already voted in 2024. Wisconsin is looking into AllVote for sending voters links to the wrong election website. In Arizona, AllVote has sent unsolicited text messages to voters falsely telling them they were not registered. And the group sent misinformation to many North Carolina voters. AllVote played the whole “it was just an innocent mistake” game when exposed for peddling
misdisinformation, but it’s a leftist outfit that is connected to other leftist groups whose goal is to promote leftist political aims.Amnesty and Medicare for All would bankrupt America: While Kamala Harris has backed off her support for Medicare for All in her current campaign, there is little reason to believe she would not once again embrace it should she win the election. Therefore, due to the massive influx of illegal aliens over the last three and a half years under the Biden-Harris administration, to which Democrats want to grant mass amnesty, a massive expansion of Medicare to include millions more would lead to financial collapse. Medicare’s current trajectory is projected to reach insolvency by 2036. According to a recent study from the Tholos Foundation, adding some 11 to 12.5 million illegals who have been granted amnesty to Medicare would add an estimated $1.8 trillion in cost to the program. Furthermore, should Harris see her Medicare for All realized, it would cost taxpayers $44 trillion — with a T — over the next decade. That is a recipe for bankruptcy.
Biden-Harris admin pushed 500 DEI actions: One of the many benefits to a Trump presidency would be the summary rescission of the Biden-Harris administration’s racist DEI agenda. How bad is that agenda? A new report from Do No Harm reveals more than 500 DEI actions that the federal government bureaucracy either took or plans to take. According to the report, Team Unity Garbage “has taken steps to ensure that DEI infiltrates every nook and cranny of the federal government, from healthcare agencies to national security. … On day one of his administration, President Biden issued Executive Order 13985, entitled, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” The 70-page document is both dizzying and depressing in its comprehensiveness, cataloging various DEI depredations across the government, from Treasury to Interior to Agriculture to State to Justice to Commerce to Labor to Defense to HHS to HUD to Transportation to Energy to Education to the VA to Homeland Security and beyond. Elections have consequences, and DEI is surely one of them.
Security
FBI and Portland PD release suspect info in ballot drop box arsons (Center Square)
U.S. military hits recruitment goals after years of shortfalls (Center Square)
Chinese online retailer Temu faces European Union investigation into rogue traders and illegal goods (AP)
Germany orders shutdown of all Iranian consulates (DW)
For the Executive Summary archive, click here.