THE SHOW NOTES: Nazi Republicans, 50 Million Votes, & Kamala Cringe

Welcome! Even Jon Stewart is shrugging off Kill Tony’s roast of Puerto Rico at MSG.

DATA: The Harris campaign has pulled $2 million in advertising from North Carolina signaling the state is likely lost.

BREAKING: 50 million Americans have voted early.

BEZOS: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media - Washington Post (free)

HEADLINE: As Democrats court Haley supporters, the former UN ambassador is still waiting to hear from Trump - AP

NEW: The New York Times is outscoucing the work of journalism to a leftwing thinktank. - X

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CNN: It’s Okay to Call Republicans Nazis

CNN has already embraced the use of the phrase “the big lie.” That phrase is directly linked to Nazi Germany and its lies about Jews. After the 2020 election, Democrats started referring to Trump’s lies as “the big lie” and, this talking point from Democrats directly linked to the Nazis, was embraced at CNN by various anchors and reporters. In other words, a Democrat talking point designed to link the GOP to the Nazis was embraced by a news network’s anchors and reporters.

Last night, Ryan James Girdusky of DailyWire was on Abby Phillips’s show.  Medi Hassan, a man too anti-semetic for MSNBC and funded by Qatar, was also a panelist. Hassan referred to the Republicans as Nazis. Girdusky then responded to Hassan, after Hassan admitting he supported the Palestianians, with the line "Well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

Girdusky is now banned from CNN. Hassan can call Republicans “Nazis,” but Girdusky’s one liner was a bridge too far.

All this comes the same day Jeff Bezos wrote an op-ed in his newspaper, "Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion.”

Reality is undefeated. So too is the Nazi slur directed at Republicans on the air at CNN. Here’s the clip:

Kamala Cringe

Kamala Harris waited until one week before election day to unleash her cringiest campaign moment yet.

Vance Joins Rogan

JD Vance will appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast following Rogan’s three-hour conversation with Donald Trump last week which garnered more than 37 million views.

Context: While Rogan extended the invitation to Kamala Harris, her campaign demanded that Rogan fly to her and limit the conversation to one hour. Neither accommodation has been previously made for a Rogan guest. Here’s Rogan’s full statement:

Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.

BREAKING: Trump Illegal Immigrant Announcement

Donald Trump just announced at a press briefing in Mar-a-Lago that his administration will be seizing the assets of drug cartels and creating a compensation fund for the victims of migrant crimes. Watch:

WSJ: Israel’s Strike on Iran Also Hit Russian Arms Industry’s Once-Strong Image

Israel’s airstrikes early Saturday didn’t just destroy critical Iranian military infrastructure. They also battered the reputation of Russian military equipment, which has already been pummeled by poor performance during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Iran’s Russian-made air-defense equipment stopped few if any of the missiles that Israel launched from 100 jet fighters, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. Among Iran’s losses in the strikes were its three Russian S-300 air-defense systems. Israel earlier this year hit Iran’s only other S-300. 

The destruction comes atop similar strikes on S-300s by Ukrainian forces fighting Russia, plus even more embarrassing losses for Moscow. Kyiv has hit more-advanced S-400 systems, including strikes in May and in August that destroyed components or entire air-interceptor complexes. 

Full story at WSJ (paywall).

38 North: Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War?

The situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950. That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war. We do not know when or how Kim plans to pull the trigger, but the danger is already far beyond the routine warnings in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo about Pyongyang’s “provocations.” In other words, we do not see the war preparation themes in North Korean media appearing since the beginning of last year as typical bluster from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).

Raising the specter of Pyongyang’s decision to go to a military solution—in effect, to give warning of war—in the absence of “hard” evidence is fraught. Typically, it will be met with the by-now routine argument that Kim Jong Un would not dare take such a step because he “knows” Washington and Seoul would destroy his regime if he does so. If this is what policymakers are thinking, it is the result of a fundamental misreading of Kim’s view of history and a grievous failure of imagination that could be leading (on both Kim’s and Washington’s parts) to a disaster.

Full story at 38 North.

Trending news:

• CNN Polls: Harris and Trump locked in close races in Arizona and Nevada as pool of persuadable voters shrinks - CNN

• The Trends I’m Watching During Election Week (Part 1) - The Liberal Patriot

• Satellite photos show Israeli strike likely hit important Iran Revolutionary Guard missile base - AP

• Steve Bannon is released from prison in time for the last-week push to Election Day - CNN

• Gisele Bündchen Is Pregnant with Baby No. 3 - Yahoo

• Chechen leader vows revenge after drone attack - Reuters

• Kamala Harris campaign to advertise on Las Vegas Sphere, a political first - CBS

• Sean “Diddy” Combs Raped 10-Year Old Boy, Latest Lawsuit Alleges Of Incarcerated Bad Boy Records Founder - Deadline

• Influencers drowned during yacht party after 'refusing to wear life jackets because they would ruin their selfies and tans - Dailymail

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