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J.D. Vance Committed The Unforgivable Facecrime Of Confidently Smiling

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When I read Maureen Dowd’s column about vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s debate night smirk, I was reminded of my canceled academic career and reading literary journals that went in-depth into such things as “phallogocentrism” and the “male gaze.” Over the past decade, such fears have migrated from campuses to the everyday world.

Dowd was complaining about the fact that presidential candidate Kamala Harris is being portrayed in Trump campaign ads as incapable of protecting Americans from foreign threats — a continuation of the sexism faced by the “bubbly” Geraldine Ferraro and by the “hawk”-ish Hillary Clinton (and perhaps Michael Dukakis). It would have nothing to do with such statements like “We’re not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.” As I learned in graduate school, logic is phallic.

Dowd also complained that when Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, he was “martyr-milking” the assassination attempt, the one moment where he had shown courage. Otherwise, he lives in a “miasma of self-pity.” In “Trumpworld,” “sympathy is weakness.”

Same for Vance, who like a “chameleon” had “ambitiously code-switched into a Trumper.” He represents the “future of the [Republican] party”: “lies piled on lies, and darkness swallowing darkness.”

During the debate, did Vance in Trump/Hitler fashion snarl and shout, pound his fists, with flames of fire shooting from his bloodshot eyes? No, there was something more “chilling,” according to Dowd. Vance

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Leftists Decried Comey For Flagging Hillary’s Emails. Now They Love Tanya Chutkan’s Election Interference

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With less than three weeks until Election Day, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed “evidence” Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted to justify his lawfare attempts against former President Donald Trump. It’s certainly not the October Surprise the left was hoping for; the heavily redacted evidence fails to bolster Smith’s dubious claim that Trump should be denied his First Amendment right to question the outcome and administration of an election.

Whether the unsealed “evidence” corroborated Smith’s lawfare matters not. What matters is whether Smith, Chutkan, and the propaganda press can leverage it to undermine Trump’s chances by influencing public perception ahead of Nov. 5 — something that leftists once considered taboo when they thought their candidate was in the crosshairs.

Chutkan ordered the unsealing Thursday night, acknowledging the potential impact that doing so would have on the upcoming election.

“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute — or appear to be — election interference,” Chutkan wrote. “The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests.”

The unsealing comes just weeks after Chutkan unsealed Smith’s 165-page brief, which alleges Trump used “false claims of election fraud to disrupt the electoral process” in 2020. Smith argues that Trump’s “refuse[al] to say whether he would accept the election results” of 2020 (which saw unelected leaders usurp the authority of state

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Ladies, You Don’t Have To Vote For Kamala Harris

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Abortion is the only reason Harris has given women to vote for her — and it’s not enough.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has given women many reasons to vote for him. This week, for instance, while Kamala Harris was offering pithy and empty condolences to the families of women murdered by illegal immigrants, Donald Trump dedicated an hour to addressing female voters’ concerns.

At a Georgia town hall on Wednesday, Trump tackled questions from an exclusively female audience, addressing their worries about everything from the dangers of illegal immigration to the high cost of food and child care to women’s safety. When one woman asked how quickly Trump could remove the threats that arise in sanctuary cities so women and children could live free of fear, for instance, Trump replied, “We are going to end all sanctuary cities immediately.” 

He also offered more details about how he would be women’s “protector.” As he stated in a speech last month in Pennsylvania: “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger. … You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today.”

Trump’s reassurances should be music to women’s ears as they struggle with the devastating effects of the Biden-Harris administration. 

The Effects of Biden and Harris 

For starters, the Biden-Harris administration rewrote Title IX, allowing men to compete in women’s sports and permitting them to infiltrate women’s-only spaces.

This administration’s open border policies have also led to avoidable

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Drones Are Swarming U.S. Military Bases, And Our Incompetent Bureaucracy Won’t Do Anything About It

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If you had told President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the military-industrial complex he famously warned against would find itself repeatedly foiled by an off-the-shelf product available at the grocery store, he probably would not have believed you.

The Oct. 12 story published in The Wall Street Journal, about how mysterious drones over Langley Air Force Base have baffled the best of America’s military and homeland security apparatus, is clearly not intended to leave you with this impression, yet it does. 

The Journal article was likely intended as yet another entry in the now-extensive subgenre of Pentagon reporting that might be called, “What are we going to do about the UFOs?”

In these stories, which seem to regularly appear several times a year (possibly timed with congressional appropriations), military and intelligence officials either publicly or anonymously complain to their regular Pentagon beat journalists about how they are stumped by the mysterious lights in the sky. In 2022, the Pentagon set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to better collect and analyze reports of these UFO sightings. Before AARO was the wordier Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), set up in 2021. Congress has had multiple UFO hearings, ranging from fairly serious investigations into the likely role of Russian and Chinese drones surveilling U.S. national security sites to “X Files”-style hearings with whistleblowers claiming the U.S. has recovered alien corpses — or, as they phrase it, “biologics.”

The Wall Street Journal piece attempted to emphasize how serious the deployment

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