In the background of other interesting matters, it’s worthwhile taking a glance into the TikTok battle every once in a while.  While I retain a slight ambivalence to the issue of TikTok and social media control mechanisms, it is also true that TikTok is currently the only larger used platform that is not directly under the wing of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

As we noted in the recent Romanian election outcome, the winner of round #1, a nationalist-minded Romania First candidate named Călin Georgescu, strongly directed his campaign message to the Romanian people, via TikTok. Georgescu campaigned on an anti-EU, anti-NATO and anti-war with Russia platform; simultaneously supporting domestic farmers, domestic energy production and advocating for a Romania that is free from foreign influence.

Suddenly, the Romanian officials who lost the election are asking the EU to investigate TikTok for allowing the organic message of Georgescu to flourish and generate support.

(Via Politico) […] TikTok is under mounting pressure to explain how it handled political content in Romania after a first round presidential vote on Sunday propelled the ultranationalist, pro-Russian firebrand Călin Georgescu to a shock victory, in part thanks to his sudden surge on TikTok. A top EU lawmaker demanded on Tuesday that TikTok’s chief executive appear before the European Parliament to answer questions, and Romanian NGOs have urged the Commission to look into whether TikTok and other platforms complied with Europe’s social media laws.

The European Commission oversees TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s new DSA rulebook, which sets the rules for how large online platforms moderate content, including in political campaigns.

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There is that moment in the final minutes of the hockey game’s third period, when the score is 3-2 and the coach of the losing team signals to pull the goalie.  We are in the political equivalent of that moment.

Ignore all the push polling that will surface today and in the next 48 hours.  Everything you see, read, hear and view on the electronic devices is now part of an influence operation that has reached its desperate apex.  The pull the goalie phase of the manipulation effort to influence the 2024 presidential election is upon us.

The USA Today poll by Ann Selzer, recorded in the official declarations pushed by the Des Moines Register, published late yesterday, was part of the design.  In essence, the scripted play was to set up a Sunday blitz of polling from the New York Times/Sienna to outline the 2024 presidential contest as a tossup, anyone’s’ race.

Corporate media practice and repeat this script just like the forementioned hockey team.  It is as predictable as all other UniParty moves.

All other polling has President Trump beating KamalObama by around 8 to 10 points in Iowa.  The USA Today/DMR poll of Kamala +3 is nonsense.  As Richard Baris said funnily, “it’s like Selzer polled the Starbucks line in Manhattan.”

Yup, the whistle for the final minute time-out call was transparent and purposeful, eh.  The Sunday ‘talks’ need an alignment of polling narrative; the whistle gives them that signal.

Here’s the current game disposition and overly general historic landscape as it appears.

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Despite Donald Trump’s campaign managers in 2016 and 2024 being women, and despite many of the top executives in the Trump organization being women, and despite most of the spokespeople for President Trump being women, Kamala Harris campaign surrogate Mark Cuban said yesterday, “you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.”

This set off a firestorm of pushback against the insufferable sexist Mark Cuban, a billionaire who spews hatred and vitriolic nonsense on an almost daily basis.  “More of the same condescending rhetoric from Harris allies,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “This strong, intelligent woman voted for Donald J. Trump — and I’ve been proud to be on the road across this great country with @TeamTrump!”

“Trying to think of a response to sissy man @mcuban but I’m too dumb and weak to do so,” quipped conservative columnist Julie Kelly. “Just when you think the Kamala camp can’t possibly alienate and divide people any more than they already have, now they attack women who support Trump. Nice job, Mark,” added Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump. Wyoming congressional representative Harriet Hageman had this video response:

I am traveling across Wyoming but had to pull over to respond to Mark Cuban’s weak and unintelligent remarks about women who support Trump. pic.twitter.com/xVmU2ha4BX

— Harriet Hageman (@HagemanforWY) October 31, 2024

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Speaking to a CNN Townhall, Kamala Harris was asked to describe her weakness.  She replied:

“I may not have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy sometimes because I’m gonna wanna research it; I’m going to wanna study it, I’m kind of a nerd sometimes ha ha ha ha ha! I confess!”

WATCH:

Kamala Harris: “I may not have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy sometimes because I’m gonna want to research it…I’m kind of a nerd sometimes ha ha ha ha ha! I confess!” pic.twitter.com/Rsa7zRQJvn

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 24, 2024

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One very upset person responded via social media with an extremely salty explosion.

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Speaking from Duluth, Georgia, Tucker Carlson delivers a resounding speech at Turning Point USA in advance of President Trump arrival.

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It has been reasonably stated before.  It is the one constant in an ever-changing universe when the political desperation reaches a certain point in the debate, leftists always use the “Hitler” card.  The worn-out and overused pattern always repeats.

Earlier today, a desperate and diminished Democrat candidate for the office of the presidency reached the final phase of campaign futility. Taking to the podium directly outside the residence of the vice president, Kamala Harris said Donald Trump was Hitler.  WATCH:

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Trying to disprove a negative assertion framed as a wrap-up smear is futile.  Pointing out that leftists are desperately trying to stimulate the worst violence is akin to noticing that water is lacking dryness.  No energy needs to be exhausted in defense.

It is better to retain purpose, remain focused and just eyeroll ridicule toward the visible desperation of it all.

That’s it?  That’s the closing argument to support her affirmative intent?

Those who script the strategy for Democrats feel their best policy shot is to call President Trump, “Hitler.”

That’s what they’ve got, projection.  That’s where we are.

Kamala Harris, “Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him.”  Meanwhile, in the real world, it was the Biden/Harris administration who demanded military loyalty via acceptance of an untested, experimental COVID-19 vaccine or get kicked out of service.  Who exactly is the harbinger of “unchecked power“?

I digress.

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It’s been a good little while since we featured a Bill Whittle segment; however, considering that Whittle accurately described what the next successful Republican president would look like in 2012, describing Donald Trump without even knowing him, this one is a great segment to catch up with him.

“Those that don’t understand him say that Donald Trump manned the fry station and the drive-through window at McDonald’s merely in order to troll Kamala Harris and her unsubstantiated claims to have worked at Mickey D’s during her perfectly normal middle-class upbringing. But in this episode of Hot Mic, Bill points out that Trump has done something much deeper than that, and that strangely enough, the image of a President in a fast-food drive-through window offers all regular people a sublime sense of pure HOPE.”  WATCH:

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It should not come as a surprise given the volume of examples that have been presented in the last several years; however, according to Gallup polling, amid all the top national civic and political institutions the United States “news media” is now the least trusted institution of all.

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The alarming statistic is really that -post COVID- 31% of Americans still trusts news media.  I would surmise that if a similar poll was done on professions, teachers, nurses and healthcare workers would also be at the lower end of the scale.

That said, this really is not a surprise if you have ever interacted at a high level outside the USA.  Internationally, thanks in part to the traveling USA press corps who have showcased their ideological attributes to a host of foreign audiences, the entire world now view the USA media apparatus as various shades of something akin to Baghdad Bob.

If you think that a cognitively compromised USA President parading around the world as a blithering fool, while the USA media openly pretended he was functional, does not have some significant impact on global views, you are mistaken.  The entire world sees Joe Biden as he is, not as the media pretended him to be.

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James Clyburn is worried about Michigan and black men not voting for Kamala Harris.  His solution?  Tell them about the enlightened Europeans who have lots of women prime ministers and presidents.

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Y’all know what Clyburn was up to in Michigan.  Unfortunately for him, lots of ballots have been invalidated.

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After initially seeing this on social media without context, I had to go look at the originating source material.

At first blush, it looks creepy, weird and ridiculous.  After going to the source to see the reasoning for it, even with context it is creepy, weird and ridiculous.

I have come to the researched conclusion that “Leftism” is factually a mental disorder, requiring adherents to be part of a tribal mentality.  If the tribe does stupid stuff, the individual does stupid stuff; that’s how modern Democrats operate, including their voting patterns.  The arc of this modern slope goes from the self-centered, narcissistic “we are the world” stupidity (early 1980’s), all the way to today.

This video with Gretchen Whitmer is a small case study example. WATCH: (mute your sound)

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The podcaster is a troubled and typical millennial known as Liz Plank.  Together with Governor Gretchen Whitmer it does appear they decided to mock Holy Communion using a Dorito as the sacrament.  Kamala Harris previously said Doritos chips (diabetes fuel) were her favorite snack.

The podcast is in full below.  You only need to watch 20 seconds to get the context of the interview.  The uptalking millennial is the epitome of a Kamala Harris supporter.  Liz Plank is like many millennials, an adult child.  Unfortunately, Plank is also what people currently call an “influencer.”

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