October 7, 2024
Dear Patriot,
We have talked in the past about how we live in exceptionally historic times but may not fully realize the future impact of events happening around us.
On Saturday night, in little Butler, PA, there was a do-over Trump rally, after the original one ended with bullets flying.
Trump began his speech with: “As I was saying….”
It is hard to tell how many people were there, the campaign says 105,000. You can see photos and videos all over the internet--it was A LOT of people.
The State Run Media wants you to forget that their hate-filled rhetoric about Trump caused an assassination attempt.
Trump refuses to let anyone forget. During his speech, Trump paused at 6:11, the same time in July that Trump was hit and Corey Comperatore was killed. Trump asked for a moment of silence. This was followed by the singing of "Ava Maria" by amazing opera singer, Christopher Macchio. Macchio also sang "How Great Thou Art", "God Bless America" and other songs to close the rally.
Think about this for a second, there has never been a massive political rally where religious opera was performed. It is historic.
The richest man in the world and warrior for free speech, Elon Musk, bounded on the stage with the exuberance of a kid, feeding off the energy of thousands cheering for him and President Trump. This may seem normal. It is not normal. It is historic.
While thousands were there in person, 13 MILLION watched the event live-streaming on Twitter/X.
To put that extraordinary number in context, CBSNBCABC are thrilled when they can garner 4 to 7 million viewers. The cables, FOXMSNBCCNN, think they are something with 1-3 million watching. Elon can surpasses them all, combined.
Pause for a moment to drink in this event, you are witnessing the end of the old media and hopefully the dawn of better, freer, more honest journalism. It is historic.
As we talk about historic events, we have not for one second stopped praying for those devastated by Hurricane Helene. With the help of everyone BUT the government, much progress is being made to get aid and comfort to those trapped in the mountains. We are also praying for everyone in the path this week of oddly formed Hurricane Milton.
Please remember in these final weeks, that the polls are there to shape and influence your attitude and opinion, not to measure it.
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1- You may recall the article we featured after the Trump assassination attempt in July by our favorite reporter, Salena Zito. She was right in front of President Trump when he was hit. Of course, she returned to Butler on Saturday. Here is her story about talking with Elon Musk at the event. We are providing the entire piece because it is just too interesting to excerpt.
Salena Zito Washington Examiner
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk says ‘destiny of America’ is on the line
QUOTE: BUTLER, Pennsylvania — Elon Musk said the reason he was in Butler on Saturday to speak at former President Donald Trump’s rally was because of the critical nature of this year’s presidential election.
“The reason I’m here is because I think this is the most important election in our lifetime. This may be the most important election that has ever happened,” Musk said.
The world’s richest man and the leader of Tesla and X was standing in the holding room behind the stage of the event, on a dirt floor, with white curtains behind him, and chicken crates and hay stacks to his right. “I think we’re looking at the destiny of civilization, of America, the western civilization,” he said.The traditionally media-shy Musk, wearing an “Occupy Mars” shirt underneath a black sport coat and “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, was all smiles as he and Trump bantered back and forth during the interview.
“I think President Trump represents the actual path to a democratic future, ironically, because they say he’s a threat to democracy. But, in fact, the ones saying he’s a threat to democracy are the ones who are a threat to democracy in reality,” Musk said.
Musk famously endorsed Trump in a post on X within minutes after a gunman tried to kill the former president here in July.
Musk who was a robust supporter of free speech even before he purchased X said, “Who are the ones that are trying to silence free speech? That’s the Democrats. They’re the ones trying to silence free speech. You know who the bad guys are, the ones who want to stop you from speaking, those are the bad guys. It’s a no-brainer,” he said.Musk said he recognizes that the people here in Butler, and in places all across the country not located in the centers of power and wealth, are the ones most concerned about protecting and preserving both free speech and the Second Amendment.
“America is about freedom and opportunity. You have to have freedom to speak your mind. What is the First Amendment? Why does it exist? Because in the countries people came from you’d get arrested or killed for speaking your mind. Why is the Second Amendment there? Because you weren’t allowed to own firearms in other countries so they could oppress you. The thing protecting the First Amendment is the Second Amendment,” he said.
Trump leans over and says, “Salena, he’s worth $300 billion. Salena, $300 billion. I worked my ass off, and I’m like a fraction of that,” he jokes.
Earlier in the day, a woman I interviewed said that to her, Musk is the Ben Franklin of our era, an inventor, a proponent of free speech, and a disrupter. She said she really liked that he both “made things” and explored the newest frontier through space, “That is part of the American ethos, hard work, innovations but also helping people out in the way he has done with Starlink in North Carolina,” she said.
“I try to be as helpful as possible,” he said and smiled at that perspective. “Well, if it wasn’t for President Trump this would be hopeless,” he said.Musk said his message Saturday was to make sure people exercise their voting power. “I think we really need to encourage people to register to vote. That’s my main message today, everyone in the audience there’s nothing more important than registering to vote,” he said.
“Anyone. People in the streets. Everyone. Friends, family, people you run into. Text them right now,” he said, encouraging people to Swamp the vote.
“Check Swamp the Vote.com to see if you’re registered. Everyone here has one mission. Everyone listening, you’ve got one mission, register everyone you know to vote,” he said.
Youngstown State University political science professor Paul Sracic said it’s hard to overstate how significant Musk’s full-throated endorsement of Trump is this year. “Musk is to the 2020s what Trump was to the 1980s and ’90s. He is a celebrity businessman. Trump famously appeared in one of the Home Alone movies, and Musk made a guest appearance on the Big Bang Theory,” he said of the cultural impact.
“Also like Trump, he is a risk taker and builder, something that appeals to the American psyche. People forget, but one of the things that helped Trump when he first ran for president was his ability to get things done. His rebuilding and restoration of the skating rink in Central Park, something the New York City Parks Department had failed to do, was frequently mentioned,” Sracic said.
Musk is the classic self-made billionaire, Sracic explained: “He made his initial fortune by helping to design PayPal, an innovative online payment system that was later purchased by eBay. Rather than sit on his wealth, or just try to grow it by investing in the stock market, Musk used it to build other things. In almost every case, Musk’s innovations paralleled things the government was trying to do, but he did it better,” he said.
Think of it this way: the Inflation Reduction Act tries to use government subsidies to encourage companies to build and consumers to buy electric vehicles while Musk actually makes vehicles.
For the past 60 years, one of the symbols of American ingenuity and world dominance has been the space program run by NASA, a government agency, Sracic explained. “Over the years, NASA has begun contracting out its rocket program to private companies. One of those companies, Boeing, was supposed to transport our astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station on their Starliner capsule. When that capsule was found to have potential safety issues, trapping two U.S. astronauts on the Space Station for months, it is Musk’s SpaceX that will rescue them next February,” he said.
Polls clearly show that people are unhappy with the direction of the country. Failures such as this one by NASA, along with our crumbling infrastructure, make voters feel like we as a nation are falling apart.
The Biden-Harris administration has tried to appeal to voters by a combination of intense government spending on projects and industrial policy, which subsidizes private businesses. “And they are upset that the American people don’t properly credit them for their achievements, and sometimes blame the press for not covering the story,” Sracic said.
What the Harris campaign misses, however, is the hunger people have for innovation. “We don’t want to be as good as the Chinese; we want to be better,” Sracic said. “When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, we didn’t just want to launch a rival satellite; we wanted to go to the moon. That’s the America people want back again.”
Sracic said there are several ways that Musk and Trump are alike. “Trump could have taken his money and had a nice retirement. Instead, he entered politics, and went from being an admired celebrity, to being ridiculed and attacked. In the same way, Musk didn’t have to buy Twitter. In fact, it was by all accounts a poor financial decision. But Musk, like Trump, wanted, to quote Teddy Roosevelt, to be ‘the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.’”
Minutes after the interview, Musk took to the stage and was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the crowd, an enthusiasm he met with jumping in the air in response.
While many of the political elite still struggle to understand the connection that two billionaires would have with the working and middle class of the country and why both Trump and Musk meet that moment, it is real and has much to do with being seen and respected by both of them.
2- Normally, we would not be inclined to call attention to a dubious political spouse. In this case we make an exception for the husband of Kamala. Doug Emhoff has been credibly accused of hitting a woman. This is after he admitted to cheating on his first wife with the children's nanny and impregnating her.
You may recall that then Senator Kamala was the primary attacker of Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. She took unsubstantiated claims from his teenage years and told us we should “Believe all women.” Remember?
The entire State Run Media has completely ignored the Emhoff story. We ask you to push out this podcast that covers the story fairly.
A real journalist would ask Kamala about her abusive husband.
Explosive Doug Emhoff Assault Allegations Ep. 907
QUOTE: Megyn Kelly is joined by The Daily Mail's Maureen Callahan, author of "Ask Not," to discuss the fallout from Doug Emhoff's alleged assault of his ex-girlfriend, breaking down his semi-denial about it and what key details he didn't address, how the corporate media is trying to bury the story, the shocking details about the story, the corroborating facts that give credibility to the accusations, whether the nanny and the accuser could go public in the future, how most of the media is clearly trying to help and promote Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.
3- If you spectacularly fail at your current job, the only way to get a promotion is to lie. Governor Walz allowed all manner of fraud and corruption to happen in Minnesota. He should not be allowed close to the Presidency. Pass this on!
Worst COVID Fund Fraud in U.S. Occurred in Minnesota’s Somali Community Under Gov. Tim Walz
QUOTE: The nation is learning that the single largest COVID relief-fund fraud in the country occurred in the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) tenure, and recently even CNN had to sit up and take notice.
On Friday, CNN reported about the massive amount of theft of government funding that has been going on in Minnesota under Walz. The network noted that non-partisan state auditors have published no less than 16 reports on the massive amounts of fraud occurring in the Gopher State during Walz’s governorship.
But the worst incident in Minnesota also stands as the most expensive fraud concerning COVID funding in the entire nation where 47 Somali immigrants have been charged with stealing $250 million in federal COVID funding.
Under Walz’s leadership, a fake Somali charity called “Feeding Our Future” was found to have defrauded the government of millions of dollars, money that was set aside to help children and families during the COVID crisis, but money that was stolen to pay for high-priced real estate, cars, clothes, travel expenses, and luxuries for the members of the Somali community that managed the funds.
Gov. Walz claimed that they caught the fraud “early” and patted himself on the back for working to clean up the mess and prosecute the fraudsters. But CNN noted that Walz’s own Dept. of Education left the door wide open for this type of fraud.
CNN cited a state auditor’s report that said that the Minnesota Department of Education’s “actions and inactions created opportunities for fraud,” and added that the MDE “failed to act on warning signs.”
Minnesota Republican House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth told CNN that the fraud is a failure of the Walz administration in general and the governor in particular.
“When he is not holding any commissioners responsible, then yes, Gov. Walz is responsible for the fraud that has been ongoing in the state of Minnesota,” Demuth said.
The Feeding Our Future fraud is also not the only fraud of COVID funding that occurred in Minnesota under Walz. In total some $550 million has been stolen by fraudsters during his tenure.
4- This is a fascinating issue that we encourage you to read about in full at the link. We are all for the feds giving land back to states and letting the states develop it as needed. The left hates the idea, which means, it is probably a good one!
What JD Vance’s Federal Land Bonanza Means for the 50 States
QUOTE: The ground is shifting in the 2024 presidential campaign. If Donald Trump and JD Vance win this November, that will be literally a true statement because Trump and Vance want to use federal land to create more housing and wealth for Americans.
Needless to say, green liberals hate the idea.
Most Americans are only vaguely aware that the federal government owns 28 percent of the land in the United States. There was never any particular reason for this federal land-grabbing. It just sort of happened in the 19th century, as nobody wanted to live on arid or remote swathes of territory.
Of course, there’s great value in scenic national parks, and yet the U.S. president most associated with those parks, Theodore Roosevelt, also believed in land development. TR established the Bureau or Reclamation as a unit of the Interior Department. His guiding idea was to preserve a few “crown jewels” (the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone) and then use most of the remaining land for people as the country expanded.
The explicit goal of the Bureau was just that: reclaiming empty land for human use, especially for housing. As TR said in 1902, “The sound and steady development of the West depends upon the building up of homes therein.”
To that end, through most of the 20th century, Uncle Sam built public works aimed at making land livable, including the dams on the Columbia River, which to this day give the Pacific Northwest cheap electricity.
But then, in the late 20th century, green environmental groups took over. They shifted the paradigm from growth to anti-growth and from pro-people to anti-people. Under green sway, the feds are busy removing dams.
But now comes a different way of thinking, recalling the original TR worldview. And it was on display during the vice presidential debate on October 1. CBS News’ Margaret Brennan cued it up: “Senator Vance, as far as your campaign’s position, the promise is to seize federal lands.” (Note the loaded word, seize. CBS gotta CBS.)
Brennan’s specific question—intended, of course, as an accusation—was on housing. But Vance, seeing it coming, raised her one, adding in energy: “As Donald Trump says, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’” Those words were popularized by then-Alaska governor Sarah Palin in 2008, referring to the overall idea that America’s abundant natural resources should be used for the benefit of Americans.
Brennan, proving herself to be a trouper of a blue-dotter, went after Vance yet again: “Where are you going to seize the federal lands.”
Vance answered, “Well, what Donald Trump has said is we have a lot of federal lands that aren’t being used for anything. They’re not being used for national parks. They’re not being used. And they could be places where we build a lot of housing.”
By contrast, a much different proposal, from Vice President Kamala Harris, will only bid up demand not add supply. Her plan, giving first-time homebuyers $25,000 toward a down payment, sounds nice (especially for those getting free money), but it would make the housing problem worse, as it would boost already high demand and so goose housing prices.
But of course, Harris-type Democrats are never going to increase supply because that would mean going against the wishes of hegemonic liberal elites, who believe that federal lands should be kept forever—and expanded whenever possible.
If national politics are paralyzed because they’re polarized, right-minded states should start using their God-given bounty: building housing, drilling and digging for energy (and other natural resources), and fostering new industries. As Trump says, “Make America Rich Again.”
Needless to say, not every state will want this: Some will bow down to the green gods, prostrating their economy on the altar of eco-austerity. A dubious choice, to be sure, and yet the same Constitution that protects a state’s right to growth also protects its right to de-growth. So, if some states choose to be laboratories of poverty, well, at least the rest of us can learn from their bad example.
5- Prepare yourselves for the Kamala blitz. The leftist media is trying to find a way to make her likable.
Will Kamala be asked by the women on "The View" if her husband has taken advantage of women and if he has beat women?
Maybe Howard Stern can ask about her selection for VP and the massive fraud he allowed in Minnesota. We know Steven Colbert is teeing up a question on whether the $750 she is offering hurricane victims is adequate.
Or will Kamala word salad and cackle through these interviews, as usual.
Kamala Harris Sets Hollywood Media Charm Offensive: ‘The View,’ Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern
QUOTE: Hollywood-controlled media are rolling out the red carpet for Kamala Harris this week, welcoming the Democrat presidential candidate to a range of friendly media appearances as part of a planned offensive to enhance her likeability in the final stretch of the election cycle.
Kamala Harris is set to appear on ABC’s The View, where hosts including Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg have regularly sung her praises; CBS’ late-night show with Stephen Colbert, another ally; and Howard Stern, who recently called Trump supporters “stupid.”
The aforementioned shows are all known for their soft-ball questions when it comes to Democrat politicians, seldom going beyond amiable chit-chat and mutual admiration.
The sudden blitz of media appearances — one could hardly call them interviews — comes after Kamala Harris spent the better part of the last three months avoiding hard questions about policy and her record when it comes to sky-high consumer prices, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, and the many other failures of her administration.
To date, she still hasn’t held a live press conference — something former President Donald Trump regularly does, unafraid to take questions from a hostile news media.
Kamala Harris’ media parade comes as she faces scathing criticism for her administration’s botched response to the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. This weekend, she announced $157 million in humanitarian aid to civilians in Lebanon, after allocating just $750 for the immediate needs of individual Hurricane Helene victims.
6- If there is one person on earth we wish would just go away... it would be Hillary Rodham Clinton. You know the leftists are upset with Elon and the success of Twitter/X as a free speech platform when Hillary says, out loud, she wants to monitor social media so “we do not lose control”.
Yep, it is all about her power and her control. She is telling us who they are and what they want. Do not ignore this as idle chatter.
Hillary Clinton says social media companies need to moderate content or 'we lose total control'
QUOTE: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday that social media companies must moderate content on their platforms or else "we lose total control."
Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish that while there have been some steps taken at the state level to regulate social media, she wants to see more done by the federal government to moderate content.
"We can look at the state of California, the state of New York, I think some other states have also taken action," Clinton said.
"But we need national action, and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children," she added.
Clinton said she believes the issue should be "at the top of every legislative political agenda" and called for the repealing of Section 230 of the Communications Act, which protects online platforms from being held liable for third-party content, such as user content on social media. This immunity applies to the content itself and the removal of content in certain circumstances.
"We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted," Clinton said.
"But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control," she continued. "And it's not just the social and psychological affects, it's real life."
Last month, Clinton suggested during an appearance on MSNBC that Americans accused of interfering in U.S. elections by spreading "propaganda" promoting former President Trump should be civilly or even criminally charged, as she cited the 2016 election in which she lost to Trump.
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