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Monday, August 26, 2024

Robert Kennedy Jr. Endorses Trump, Kennedy Family Claims He Betrayed Them

Daily Wire: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona on Friday night where he explained why he decided to endorse the former president. Kennedy’s remarks came after he announced earlier in the day that he was suspending his campaign and being removed from the ballot in swing states because he did not want to help Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris by staying in the race… Kennedy said that Trump signaled he wanted to end censorship from the political Left in the U.S. “We know that a government that can silence its opponents has license for any kind of atrocity,” he said. “And can you think of any time that you can look back in history and say that the people who were censoring were the good guys? They’re always the bad guys, because it’s always the first step down that slippery slope to totalitarianism” (Daily Wire). Townhall: RFK Jr. announced that he was endorsing former President Donald Trump, sparking harsh criticism from the left-wing media and even his family members regarding his decision. Kennedy’s sister, Kerry Kennedy, condemned her brother’s decision, saying he betrayed the family and everything they stand for (Townhall). Kerry Kennedy: I am sharing a personal statement that my family and I have made in response to my brother’s announcement (X).

Kamala Harris Has Avoided a Press Conference for 35 Days

Fox News: Vice President Kamala Harris has gone five weeks refusing to give specifics to voters about her policy positions, holding no news conferences and sitting for zero major interviews since becoming the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Harris spoke on Thursday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), officially accepting the nomination, and has been busy on the campaign trail, but she has failed to face substantive questions since replacing President Biden on the ticket last month. Now that the party’s national convention has wrapped up, speculation about when Harris will end her media blackout is likely to pick up steam as Americans want to know where she stands on a variety of hot-button issues. Policy shifts on fracking, border security and private health insurance are among issues that she has been urged to explain in recent weeks (Fox News). Townhall: Harris has spoken at several rallies, typically scripted with a teleprompter. CNN’s Jim Acosta pushed back on this, pointing out that “a campaign rally is not a press conference.” The last time Harris took questions from reporters at a press conference was eight months ago, on December 2, 2023 (Townhall).

Israel Strikes Hezbollah Military Targets Just Before Attack on Israel Was to Begin

Townhall: Lebanon was going to be the second front as Israel was determined to no longer tolerate existential threats along their border. The October 7 attacks last year shocked the nation into action after Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust. Since October 2023, Israel has been waging a war to annihilate Hamas, a task which they’re nearing completion. Yet, as Israel conducted anti-terror operations in Gaza, Hezbollah was also firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel, leading to an internal displacement crisis among the civilian population—Israelis moving northward and southward, evading the violence and chaos at the hands of violent radical Islamists. Tonight, Israel decided to strike Hezbollah targets by launching an all-out pre-emptive strike against the terror group, which was planning more attacks on Israeli civilians (Townhall). Reporter David Collier: Looks like Hezbollah intended to send 1000s of long range rockets at Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport and other key Israeli targets at 5am. And it also looks like the Israeli pre-emptive strike took them all out at 4.45am. Pure class (X). OSINTdefender: Massive Strikes now by the Israeli Air Force and Artillery on Hezbollah Targets across Southern Lebanon (X).

Taliban Passes “Vice and Virtue” Laws Ending Female Freedoms in Afghanistan

These are the people President Biden let take over Afghanistan. Associated Press: The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country, said the laws extend the “ already intolerable restrictions ” on the rights of women and girls, with “even the sound of a female voice” outside the home apparently deemed a moral violation. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers last Wednesday issued the country’s first set of laws to prevent vice and promote virtue. They include a requirement for a woman to conceal her face, body and voice outside the home. The laws empower the Vice and Virtue Ministry to be at the front line of regulating personal conduct and administering punishments like warnings or arrest if its enforcers allege that Afghans have broken the laws (Associated Press). Riley Gaines: The Taliban passed a law banning women from: speaking in public, showing ANY skin, looking at men they aren’t related to. Where is the outrage? No protests on college campuses. No statement from the White House. Guess who’s funding this? We are (X).

Democrat Rep. Dean Phillips is Open to Serving in a Republican or Democrat Administration: “We failed a lot of people”

Fox News: The sole Democrat who ran against President Biden during the 2024 Democratic primary, Rep. Dean Phillips, said he would accept an invitation to serve in either a Democratic or Republican administration, telling Fox News Digital he aspires to “help this country in some way, shape or form.” Phillips, D-Minn., spoke to Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Phillips, a three-term congressman, launched an uphill challenge against Biden in the Democratic primary but suspended his campaign in March (Fox News). Townhall: The Democrat admitted that the United States is facing an unprecedented border crisis and a struggling economy, acknowledging that “We failed a lot of people.” As it relates to policy, yeah, we have a border crisis. I’ve seen it twice with my own eyes. We also have to be a welcoming country, as Ronald Reagan would say,” Phillips added. “We have to be a country that has an economy that works for people. Sixty percent of people are living paycheck to paycheck” (Townhall).

Atlantic Reporter Exposes Democrat Lies Meant to Increase Kamala Harris’ Favorability

Townhall: A left-wing publication published a hit piece on Vice President Kamala Harris after she officially secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee without a single primary vote. Author Nancy Rommelmann criticized Democrats for their “COVID amnesia,” President Joe Biden claimed Harris accomplished an excellent task of reopening the nation. However, the left-leaning outlet is refusing to let the Democratic Party off the hook for this one. Rommelmann pointed out that schools were forced to remain closed in Democrat-run cities while Republican governors began opening back up their states. She cited the destruction that these cities are still facing the repercussions thanks to the Biden Administration’s policies (Townhall). Atlantic: Democrats might count on Americans to be forgiving, but they are not stupid, and they would do well to not let the pageantry of televised politics obfuscate the fact that they are being lied to…We were captive to decisions sold in the name of science but created more crudely by teachers’ unions and political appointees. Children were among the worst off as America—blue America, really, like the host city to the Democratic National Convention—kept its schools closed longer than any peer country. Does the Biden administration expect voters to not remember this? In our supposed exuberance over Kamala Harris, are we somehow supposed to invent a memory of her heroic effort to pry open schools? It’s worth keeping in mind as we look at the 2020–21 school-reopening timeline we are being asked to magically revise in 2024, with an eye toward what, if anything, Harris had to do with it. Harris also didn’t do anything to change the administration’s policies. Instead of facing down the teachers’ unions and urging local jurisdictions to reopen their schools immediately, the Biden administration decided to try buying their cooperation. So what did Biden mean when he said Harris “helped states and cities get their schools back open”? Keeping schools closed for so long was a mistake, and the Democrats shouldn’t pretend Harris is responsible for opening them. Nor should voters allow Democrats to pretend that she did (Atlantic).

Another Tim Walz Lie Exposed

He even lies about the small things. Free Beacon: When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.” That was not true. It was a small lie about a minor honor, but for Walz it was part of a pattern of deceit and embellishment that helped pave the way from high school teacher to Congress to the Minnesota governor’s mansion and now, should the Democrats win in November, to the vice presidency (Free Beacon). Reporter Dustin Grage: The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce had to write a letter to Tim Walz’s Congressional campaign to remove an award he never received from them. Going on to clarify that the Chamber had endorsed his opponent. Is there anything Tim Walz hasn’t lied about (X)?

Pregnancy Center in Chicago Vandalized After Abortion-Themed DNC Ends

Catholic News Agency: A Catholic pregnancy center in Chicago called “Aid for Women” was vandalized in the early morning hours after the closing of the Democratic National Convention. No one was present at the center at the time of the incident. Police have been contacted and are investigating the incident as a violation of the Freedom of Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act… Aid for Women is a non-profit which according to its website was “founded on the faith and teachings of the Catholic Church.” The nonprofit operates five pregnancy centers and two maternity homes in the Chicago area. The group partners with the Archdiocese of Chicago and offers a range of services including ultrasounds, abortion pill reversal medications, counseling, and material aid. The act of vandalism was caught on the center’s security camera. The footage has now been turned over to police (Catholic News Agency). Mary FioRito: For the past 25 years, it’s been my privilege to be a volunteer and board member at Aid for Women, a nonprofit that runs maternity homes and pregnancy services throughout Illinois. Last night, after the closing of the DNC, vandals attacked one of AFW’s Chicago locations (X). Washington Examiner: This clinic and AFW have repeatedly been targeted by abortion-rights advocates… They call these centers “fake clinics” because they apparently believe that the only real support someone can provide a pregnant woman is abortion (Washington Examiner).

Kamala Harris’ Campaign Struggles With Her Rebranding After the Failure of the Biden/Harris Economy and Immigration Reform Policies

National Review: After a few speeches at the outset that were heavy on theatrics, Kamala Harris’s “freedom”-focused presidential campaign has remained awfully light on substance. “This campaign is a fight for the future!” Harris told a large crowd at Temple University in Philadelphia on August 6. A bright future, in Harris’s eyes, is one “where we defend our most fundamental freedoms” to vote, “to be safe” from gun violence, “to love who you love openly and with pride,” and to get an abortion. The Democratic ticket, she said, has a “message for Trump and others who want to turn back the clock on our fundamental freedoms: We’re not going back!” Two weeks later, at the start of the Democratic convention in Chicago, the campaign website still has no policy section. Haven’t you heard? It’s a “vibes” election now. And as her new running mate, Tim Walz, likes to say, Kamala Harris is “bringing back the joy.” Prioritizing the joy at the start of her campaign meant waiting a full three weeks before she unveiled a list of proposals to reassure voters that she does, in fact, have views on economic policy. Among them are pledges to “end” alleged corporate “price-gouging,” restore and expand Biden’s child tax credits, and subsidize first-time homebuyers’ mortgages. In other words, Bidenomics on steroids. Therein lies the central challenge of Harris’s presidential campaign — figuring out how to present herself to voters as a fresh face and in no way responsible for the inflation, chaos overseas, and surge in illegal immigration that have occurred under the watch of the Biden-Harris administration (National Review).

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Navy Considers Ditching 17 Ships Because of Poor Recruiting

Daily Caller: The U.S. Navy is reportedly considering drastic measures to tackle manpower shortage, sources told USNI News. The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is reportedly facing operational challenges due to a shortage of qualified civilian mariners. This prompted a strategic plan to sideline 17 Navy support ships, USNI News reported, citing three people familiar with deliberations. This proposal, termed as a “force generation reset,” reportedly aims to alleviate the staffing strain by putting two Lewis and Clark-class replenishment ships, one fleet oiler, twelve Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF) and two expeditionary sea bases into extended maintenance while reassigning their crews to other vessels (Daily Caller). Townhall: The U.S. military has faced the most significant recruit shortage in years. It is struggling to reach recruitment goals to refill its ranks, and the shortfalls are affecting the readiness of the nation’s defense teams. According to a Pew Research Center report, only 23 percent of young adults qualify for the military. 2024 represents the smallest active-duty force since 1940. In 2023, military shortfalls reached around 41,000 recruits, with the Marines and the sixth Armed Forces branch, the United States Space Force—former President Donald Trump created— being the only branch to reach its recruitment goals (Townhall).