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Helene
Hurricane Helene slammed Florida’s Big Bend region as a category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least seven are dead and 3.2 million are without power as the remnants of Helene are set to dump nearly a foot of rain in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Helene is the largest storm to ever strike the region with storm surges pushing 15 feet in Tampa to 15.5 inches of rain recorded in a Tallahassee suburb. Atlanta has received 2 FEET of rain since Wednesday night, the highest two-day total in 100 years.
In Perry, Florida the sheriff asked residents who refused to evacuate to write their name and birthday on their arm so the bodies could be identified. At least 140 tornado warnings were activated across the southeast before first light this morning.
Go watch Aaron Rigsby’s drone footage of Helene’s aftermath on Twitter.
Defending Harris
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle defended Kamala Harris’s lack of substance in her interview by claiming “She’s a politician, and none of them do.” However, Rhule noted something important:
“Despite all the economic wins over the last four years, despite the fact Trump emotionally connected with that blue-collar worker but didn't deliver for that worker, [Harris] needs to solve for why he still polls better on economic issues with voters."
The Border Patrol Union released a brutal statement on Kamala Harris’s decision to campaign at the border today:
“After years of not just ignoring the problem, but helping create it, Vice President Kamala Harris is finally headed down to the border. This is nothing more than for her to check the box, but what it is in reality is a slap in the face towards the men and women that put their lives on the line every day, and also a slap in the face to the American public. Where has she been?"
Polling
The latest polling from Bloomberg is not good for Trump.
NYT: How Fentanyl Drove a Tsunami of Death in America
Last year over 70,000 Americans died from taking drug mixtures that contained fentanyl or other synthetic opioids. The good news is that recent data suggests a decline in overdose deaths, the first significant drop in decades. But this is not a uniform trend across the nation. To understand this disparity, it’s important to examine how we got here.
Today’s crisis is often described as a series of waves. But if you look at the data, it was more like a couple of breakers followed by a tsunami. First, prescription opioid fatalities rose. Then heroin deaths surged. And finally, illicitly manufactured fentanyl overtook all that preceded it.
Full story at The New York Times (paywall)
WSJ: How Israel’s Spies Got Blindsided by Hamas but Still Hit Hezbollah Hard
A year ago, Israel suffered its worst-ever intelligence failure when Hamas launched a surprise attack, killing 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages. Today, a wave of strikes against Hezbollah has Israel’s long-vaunted spies back on the front foot.
The turnaround reflects how Israel has invested its time and resources over the past two decades. Since fighting a war with Lebanon-based Hezbollah in 2006, Israel has rigorously prepared for another major conflict with the militant group—and potentially with its backer Iran.
Hamas, by contrast, was viewed as a far less potent threat. Even shortly before the Oct. 7 incursion from the Gaza Strip, top officials were dismissing signs of an impending attack. Last September, the Israeli military confidently characterized Gaza as being in a state of “stable instability,” and intelligence assessments concluded that Hamas had shifted its focus to stoking violence in the West Bank and wanted to limit the risk of direct Israeli retaliation.
Full story at The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Harris' team is considering keeping Biden Cabinet officials if she wins and Democrats lose the Senate - NBC
Mike Pence quietly lays the groundwork for a post-Trump future - SEMAFOR
'Broken' news industry faces uncertain future - AFP
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The DNC Has So Much Money That It’s Now Spending in Idaho - NOTUS
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Market snapshot:
The view I see.
There are two warring armies across the field from each other.
The blue army is led by the core corporatist managerial and ruling class top .1 percent. It has more weapons of destruction and more weapons of influence. Behind them are masses of woke mind-virus infected young healthy sons and daughters of the peasant class, and mostly the daughters of the working class and upper class. They are all in solidarity against their enemy... all facing the forward surveying the field, taking orders from their commanders... ready to do any level of violence required to win. But life under their rule has already been vetted as causing more misery to every class except the top 10-20% elites. You would think that evidence has been enough to cause more of their army to desert them. Their problem is that they are brainwashed, and see the other side as dysfunctional, disorganized and unattractive. They are correct on this second opinion.
The red army is led by one man... the only national politician on the stage that offers any hope of defeating the blue army... and punching back the managerial and ruling class from causing more harm to the rest of the country. Behind him is a collection of patriotic country-loving working class men and women... people that for decades have been systematically harmed by the managerial and ruling class that leads the blue army. Among them are a number of near blue army traitors insisting they are leaders in the red army. They dislike the collection of patriotic and country-loving working class men and women almost as much as do the leaders of the blue army. Like the managerial and ruling class of the blue army, these pseudo red army leaders like big government authoritarianism, and political-media industry cash in their bank accounts. These pseudo red leaders cause chaos and indecision within the ranks of the red army. They constantly pick at the battle plans. They constantly criticize the one man that offers any hope for leading the red army to victory. The red army is spending way too much time looking at each other, and not focusing on the enemy across the field.
If the blue army wins in the coming final battle on Nov-8 and 9th, we can blame the collection of pseudo red-army leaders... and make sure they are held responsible in any non-violent way we can think of. That will be the new call for the patriotic center... to rid ourselves of the traitors and imposters so that we might win the next war.
Ya gotta love first responders, electric companies, and rescue personnel and all who are helping during this an all natural disasters. God bless you all. Please be safe.