THE SHOW NOTES: Kamala's First Interview, The West Bank Raid, & Biden’s Pier Disaster
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HEADLINE: The American Dream Feels Out of Reach for Most - WSJ (paywall)
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First Interview
CNN’s Dana Bash will hold a joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the campaign’s first major interview since Harris became the Democrat’s presumptive nominee 37 days ago. The interview will be taped on Thursday afternoon on the campaign trail in Georgia and will air at 9 PM on CNN in its entirety.
CNN’s Scott Jennings called it weak sauce:
Presented Without Comment:
West Bank
The Israeli military conducted a military operation inside the West Bank that resulted in nine dead Palestinians in one of the largest raids in over 20 years.
The raid targeted the Jenin camp which is widely known to be a hotbed for Palestinian militants in the northern portion of the West Bank. The IDF claimed the raid was an attempt to break up Iranian-sourced supply chains that fund and support Palestinian terrorism. Additionally, the IDF initiated two drone strikes in the area that targeted multiple individuals creating explosive devices.
Since the attacks of October 7th, the West Bank has seen a resurgence of various forms of Islamic terrorism despite the region being controlled by a secular rival of Hamas.
Prosecuting Trump
The Justice Department has issued revised charges against Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election.
The revised charges attempt to circumvent a Supreme Court ruling stating that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions they take while in office. The updated indictment leaves in place four charges against Trump: conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Biden’s Pier Disaster
President Biden personally approved the construction of the doomed floating pier in Gaza as an access point to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.
Military officials strongly and repeatedly urged the President against such actions due to high waves in the Mediterranean Sea and as a pressure point to force Israel to open additional humanitarian corridors. The pier was connected to land in May but broke apart shortly after completion from the rough seas. Since its inception, the pier has suffered repeated security and logistics hurdles and ultimately hindered the ability of humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinians.
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Market snapshot:
I urge everyone to read Peter Zeihan’s book “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”.
The story of Namibia butchering wild animals for meat. Shri Lanka is experiencing more food shortages. This is all related to the economic corrupting post Bretton Woods Global Order where the US spent 4-6% of its GDP to police a post WWII mess of a world back to functioning while giving away access to US markets and encouraging US corporations to send their operations and working class jobs to these other countries. Today the bill for that expensive US-funded 75 years of relative peace and prosperity is coming due. No longer can the US afford to shoulder the burden of global peace and prosperity for other nations… policing the seas… which has led to mammoth slow moving cargo and tanker ships that, because they are safe from attack, are relatively cheap… and thus support countries not producing their own food but importing it.
The cost for a 20’ x 8’ and 40’ x 8’ container has more than doubled over the last few years. That price will continue to rise… especially when a few of those big ships get attacked and sunk and insurance rates skyrocket.
Add the idiocy of the climate crisis luxury belief cult, and the global industrial war industry fomenting global conflict to sell more million dollar missiles, and the added inflation of diesel fuel and energy to produce synthetic fertilizer is also contributing to higher food prices and reduced production.
While we fight about stupid abortion and gender pronouns, the world is changing and global conflict risk is simmering to the point of boiling over.
The US better get its shit together. A cardboard cutout establishment puppet candidate like Kamala Harris is just an extension of the hazard we face with the vegetable puppet currently installed in the White House.
I have found Scott Jennings to generally be impartial and often correct even though I don't like his "Correctness" as much. This interview sitting with Waltz is not a good look. Aside the fact that it will not be live but taped with prepared questions and edited answers. If its fair and impartial, great. But it wont be the real Harris, just another masquerade. However, I don't think this will work out well for the Harris team. They are trying to pull a biden 2.0.
Also, I changed the one section to accurately depict it.
"President Biden and VP Harris personally approved the construction of the doomed floating pier...." Kamala was right there with Biden approving these things and was well in support of what he was doing. We need to start including Harris name next to Biden because she is tied to him like it or not.