BREAKING:

Israel has struck a Russian air base in Syria for the first time.

Israel attacked warehouses of the Russian Khmeimim Air Base shortly after an Iranian plane unloaded its weapons for Hezbollah.

Russian air defenses tried intercepting the Israeli missiles but failed pic.twitter.com/ffCxVTXtnV

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 3, 2024

Finally, somebody grew some balls. Good for you, Israel.

JD Vance advocated the Democratic Party platform of Walter Mondale. The conservative movement in Washington, DC, has decided to reject conservatism and embrace being the Democrat lite party, and that has always been a losing solution because you cannot beat the real thing.

https://x.com/EWErickson/status/1841462540745822630?t=nBKGhs9eg978LigdaLeoqA&s=19

And Vance’s foreign policy ideas are Berkeley left, as well. People who aren’t noticing are doing themselves no favors.

Not only is Vance doing vastly better than Trump did in his debate, Walz (who is getting sharper as the debate goes on) is showing himself to be more nimble than Harris was in her debate.

America would be better off if the VP candidates were at the top of the tickets.

— i/o (@eyeslasho) October 2, 2024

If it were Vance vs Walz running for president, I wouldn’t have a problem deciding how to vote.

“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.

“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”

Don’t say it isn’t really funny.

Of course, nobody should have expected anything else given how Melania made her living pre-Trump.

Vice President Harris is currently serving meals to those impacted by Hurricane Helene. No paper towels being thrown. Just decency, compassion, and true leadership here. Donald Trump could never. Thank you, Vice President Harris, for you leadership. pic.twitter.com/GGNkjHxOT6

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) October 2, 2024

And then she’ll screech that nobody takes her seriously because she’s a woman. She made a choice to waste time on something a 12-year-old can do instead of showing executive skills and strategic thinking and organizing relief operations. It’s her choice to pose as a lunch lady and not as a leader. This is how she’s marketing herself to people.

Toadies can call this “leadership” but it’s pathetic, over-eager, fussy womanhood on display.

In case people think I forgot my main job amidst all the talks and public appearances, this week I had an article published in Italy, a book chapter in Spain, and another article was accepted also in Spain.

“How is this humanly possible, you crazy person?” asked a friend.

“I don’t know,” I said. “I simply don’t know.”

People are letting their partisanship blind them. Our town is covered with Harris / Walz yard signs. Covered, littered, filled to the brim. Once Biden was ditched, badaboom! Dem support went crazy.

But when I mention this to Trump-supporting friends, they say it’s not true. There’s no way a person with at least one functioning eye can drive around and not see this inundation of yard signs. The entire area around Main Street is plastered with them. Yet people sincerely argue that it’s not happening.

Denial of clearly observable reality is ripe on both sides. Everybody thinks that the other side’s candidate has no support. Then, when the opposing candidate wins, they can’t comprehend how it’s possible.

Vance, with his wooden delivery, a chronic incapacity to deliver a zinger, flat affect and zero charisma is the polar opposite of Trump who is charismatic, expressive, authentic, and churns out killer zingers one after another.

Yes, everybody will hate me at the end of the preceding sentence but I have to call it as I see it.

I understand the logic behind choosing a boring dude to offset Trump’s boisterousness. But this puts us in a bad position for the future. Who’ll be the candidate after Trump? Vance couldn’t sell cold water in a desert.

How are illegal immigrants competing to buy houses en masse? How do they get mortgages? Or are they so stonking rich they pay in cash?

Our town’s housing prices have gone insane since COVID. Absolutely insane. We do have a few illegals in town but they are definitely not buying houses.

20:14 Is my TV broken or is Walz not OK?

20:17 Two minutes in, and I’m perishing of boredom. What are they even on about?

20:18 Vance does look and move weirdly. He should talk openly about diabetes to explain some of it.

20:20 Did they do the ties in their party colors on purpose?

20:22 I despise, absolutely despise Walz’s politics but he’s winning this thing. Vance has failed to respond about the Dem border bill. He failed to respond on Trump’s first-term inaction on immigration.

20:26 Vance’s plan on immigration is repeating the word “empowering” a lot.

20:28 Walz quoted the Bible. That’s it, we are done. Walz won.

20:29 People get pissy when I use the expression “dumb bints” but, in the name of exceptionally dumb bints, who are these moderators and why are they off their meds?

20:35 Finally, Vance came in with a good prepared line on the stupidity of experts. And a great prepared line on his kids.

20:37 Walz is slaughtering. “I agree with what he said but it’s all talk, no action.” That’s my number 1 objection to Trump, too. This resonates.

20:39 God, I detest it when people answer a direct question with a recitation of their entire boring biography. Walz just lost me again.