I’ll talk about whatever strikes me as weird in the 2024 presidential campaign, and perhaps in its aftermath (which I hope will be normal and not weird).
I’m a life-long Democrat and I also value truth and fairness. I promise truth, the best I can ascertain it, and I promise not to cheat. But I do not intend to negotiate against myself.
In a speech before the Heritage Foundation in 2022, Trump praised their Project 2025, saying:
Our country is going to hell. The critical job of institutions such as Heritage is to lay the groundwork and Heritage does such an incredible job at that this is a great group and they’re gonna lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people will give us a colossal mandate to save America. And that’s coming, that’s coming.
Here’s a photo from Harris’ airport rally near Detroit that rattled Trump so badly.
He lied, claiming it was AI (and this is just the ones outside the hanger where the rally was held). There were many independent records plus video.
You might not know this, but when Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president, the cheering crowd were all actors hired for the event.1 But Trump said of Harris in the debate:
And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there.
Where did someone running for the Commander in Chief of the United States get that crazy idea? It was a fake Craig’s List image on Facebook, according to an ABC News fact check.2
Trump certainly outdrew Biden in 2020 at rallies, but Biden beat Trump in the election by more than 7 million votes, and some of his supporters that attended those rallies contracted COVID and died as a result, like Herman Cain:
One study found over 700 COVID deaths linked to Trump rallies.3
One of the highpoints of the first Harris-Trump debate was a great line from Harris:
Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people.
Trump talked about firing too. After Harris recited a litany of former Trump officials who do not support his reelection, including many who now support Harris, Trump responded by saying:
Because when I hear that — see, I’m a different kind of a person. I fired most of those people. Not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them. They never fired one person. They didn’t fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people whose, whose, were just killed viciously and violently killed and I got to know the parents and the family. They should have fired all those generals, all those top people because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen. So when somebody does a bad job I fire them.
I was the vice president of a software development company for 30 years. It was my job to hire and fire people. In that 30 years, I fired one person. I consider that firing a personal failure on my part because I had hired someone who couldn’t do the job. All the rest were successes.
I think that someone who fires lots of people is a lousy manager, because he can’t pick good employees, or he is too lazy to do the work to evaluate them.
So what happens when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the Secretary of Defense is a real screw-up and people die? It means that the president is responsible for negligence in picking them.
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As recently as this past weekend, Donald Trump continued to say that he knows nothing about Project 2025. He said it in an interview with Lex Fridman posted September 3:
Fridman: Let me ask you about Project 2025. You publicly said you didn’t have any direct connection with
Trump [interrupting]: Nothing. I know nothing about it. And they know that too, Democrats know that. And I purposefully haven’t read it, because I want to say to you I have no idea what it’s all about. It’s easier than saying I read it, and you know all of those things. So I purposefully haven’t read it and I’ve heard about it. I’ve heard about things that are in there I don’t like and there’s some things in there that everybody would like, but there are things that I don’t like at all. And I think it’s unfortunate that they put it out, but it doesn’t mean anything because it has nothing to do with me. Project 2025 has absolutely nothing to do with me.
Trump interview starting with Project 2025 discussion
The Heritage Foundation sponsors of Project 2025 have a very different perspective.
The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.
Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.1
They go on to say, “One year after taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration have embraced nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations from The Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership.”2 They claim that Donald Trump implemented 334 of their recommendations as president.3
The purpose of Project 2025 is to fundamentally alter the federal government, and change expert career civil servants and their legislated rulemaking process into political decisions made by carefully vetted individuals trained by Project 2025 and totally loyal to the president. So yes, the guardrails will come off.
Kamala Harris can trivially derail Project 2025 by just not appointing those right-wing political operatives into key government jobs. It’s the same way she can make impotent the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision by simply obeying the law.
I guess a Trump lie is not news, but I did want to provide this Trump claim debunk, and my recommendation for the YouTube channel where the following appears:
It’s mostly true; however, if a hypothetical Martian ambassador and his very pregnant wifeling were to visit the United States and have a child in Oakland, that child would not be a US citizen because of the qualification in the 14th Amendment, “subject to the jurisdiction.” The US extends exemption from our jurisdiction to the families of accredited diplomats and heads of state.
The other exception would be a Martian child born during an invasion of Oakland. Children of alien (pun intended) invaders born in occupied areas of the United States where the government is unable to exercise jurisdiction are also excluded from citizenship.
Image from the BBC
The Supreme Court explained the jurisdiction clause in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) saying:
The real object of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, in qualifying the words ‘all persons born in the United States’ by the addition ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ would appear to have been to exclude, by the fewest and fittest words (besides children of members of the Indian tribes, standing in a peculiar relation to the national government, unknown to the common law), the two classes of cases,—children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation, and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state,—both of which, as has already been shown, by the law of England and by our own law, from the time of the first settlement of the English colonies in America, had been recognized exceptions to the fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the country.
But otherwise, the children of aliens (both non-citizen earthlings and humanoids from outer space) born in the US are natural born US citizens.
That “fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the country” is called “birthright citizenship” and there are those who are against it, strongly against it. And there are those who make persuasive-sounding legal arguments denying it, persuasive unless you know the background, the cases and the authorities they won’t tell you about.
The US Supreme Court settled the question in 1898 when it said that a son born to Chinese immigrants (not US citizens) was a US citizen. Kamala Harris, born just across San Francisco bay from that man is a US citizen too.
A certain individual, who aspires to be the chief executive of the United States, demonstrates his ability to pierce through the veil of falsehoods, and posted this on Truth Social:
Yeah, it’s amazing what they can do with AI these days.
Check out the C-SPAN video of the event. The photo is authentic.
Kamala Harris, you know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name1
It is a weird statement. It takes me back to something Donald Trump said back in 2011:
He may have [a birth certificate], but there’s something on that, maybe religion. Maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that.2
Trump may be trying to lead someone to imagine something bad about Harris through innuendo.
It also takes me back to Donald Trump confusing Kamala Harris with Nikki Haley, another woman of Indian descent whose little known birth surname was Randhawa. Perhaps Trump is confusing Harris with Haley, or just assuming that since one has a little-known birth name that the other does too.
In truth, Kamala Harris was born Kamala Harris.3 Births in California are open records. Anybody can verify this.
In context, Trump made it clear that he knew her last name, Harris, but was making the weird suggestion that no one else does. Is this part of his stable genius level IQ? Why would he make something like that up?
Evangelist and author Joseph Z appeared alongside other notables like Mike Lindell in a Flash Point video (link to entire video). Here’s my transcript of part of it starting around 12:30.
I believe very clearly that the spirit of the Lord is making a way for the body of Christ to go through in this time, and you know we bring up guys like Tim Walz when we’re looking at what’s going on. People say, you know, midwestern, folksy. I have another word for him, being from Minnesota myself, and it’s “weird,” the guy’s just weird. You see the way he hugs his wife. You see the way he does everything.
I believe the spirit of the Lord is letting them extend their reach; I believe he’s giving them a sense of confidence that’s actually going to be a surprise silver lining turnaround in this whole narrative. I believe the spirit of the Lord is going to bring victory and breakthrough.
And you know, it’s interesting how the spirit of Antichrist just loves to pick these people who fit right in with the wicked overlord lizard Mafia that is really driven by their goblin masters, and we’re looking at this, I believe, that’s exactly what we’re facing right now.
On the Victory Channel's FlashPoint program, "prophet" Joseph Z explains that Tim Walz was chosen by the spirit of antichrist because he fits right in "with the wicked overlord lizard mafia that is really driven by their goblin masters." Good to know. pic.twitter.com/EFk15FLTsO
