THE SHOW NOTES: Prisoner Swap, How Israel Killed Haniyeh, & Worst Pick Since 1972?
Welcome! Why are we giving the 9/11 mastermind a plea deal?
OUTRAGE 1: Illegal Jordanian migrants who ‘tried to breach’ Quantico base allowed to walk free after posting bail - NY Post
OUTRAGE 2: Female volleyball player, 17, left paralyzed with brain damage by transgender opponent who 'cackled with delight' after knocking her to ground - Dailymail
OUCH: This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount - NYT (paywall)
MONEY: This is the average 401(k) balance according to Vanguard.
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IMPORTANT:
BREAKING: Prisoner Swap
A historically complex prisoner swap is happening between Russia and the United States that will see Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, US Marine Paul Whelan, and a host of other wrongfully detained prisoners set free. The entire package includes 26 prisoners and seven countries.
News began to leak out last night when Russian prisoners in the United States began disappearing from prisoner databases. At the same time, Gershkovich, Whelan, and others were transported from maximum security facilities in Russia. While the exchange has not happened yet, the plan is for prisoners to be exchanged in Germany before heading to their respective countries.
Evan Gershkovich has been held for 16 months on trumpeted-up charges relating to espionage which has been denied by the US and The Wall Street Journal. Paul Whelan was first detained in a Moscow hotel back in 2018 on fraudulent claims that he was involved in an intelligence operation.
How Israel Killed Haniyeh
Israeli intelligence assassinated Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh with a bomb planted in an upscale Tehran guesthouse two months before he arrived. Haniyeh traveled to Tehran for the inauguration of the Iranian President and was killed when Israel remotely detonated the device resulting in the death of him and his bodyguard.
Related: Israel just announced that it killed Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif in a July airstrike. The commander was one of the masterminds behind the October 7th attacks and orchestrated much of Hamas’s military response since the invasion of Gaza. Deif was killed with the same 2,000-pound bombs that Biden refused to give Israel.
Donald Trump’s Black Journalist Conference Interview
WATCH: “The worst VP picks since 1972”
WSJ: Trump Allies Launch $20 Million Effort to Reach Young Men
Allies of Donald Trump are launching a voter registration and turnout program aimed at one of the hottest prizes in the election: young voters. In particular, young men.
The initiative, called Send the Vote, is expected to debut Friday on the popular “Full Send” podcast, which will feature an interview with JD Vance, Trump’s running mate. The outreach to young voters takes on new urgency with Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Biden as the likely Democratic nominee, and underscores the importance of the ever-evolving social-media battlefield for votes.
Trump has increasingly found an audience with young men, who are trending more conservative and many of whom revel in a culture of entertainment and sports that is unabashedly masculine.
Full story at The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Trending news:
Kamala Harris Leads Trump in Election Betting Odds for First Time - Mediaite
The number of Americans filing for jobless claims hits highest level in a year - ABC
Kamala's NatSec Adviser Probed Over Ties to Iranian Influence Network - Free Beacon
CBS Plans ‘Evening News’ Overhaul: John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois, Weather and Close Ties to ’60 Minutes’ - Variety
U.S. Advanced Nuclear Attack Submarine Inches Closer to China - Newsweek
Bank of England cuts interest rates to 5% in first drop since March 2020 - BBC
Text messages show SWAT officers flagged Trump rally shooter long before the attack - Post Gazette
Student loan forgiveness may be on the way for roughly 25 million borrowers. - CNBC
Maduro urges Venezuelans to report protesters who question his reelection - The Washington Post (free)
Market snapshot:
BUTT Why Even Bother
Man enters an outhouse only to find there is no toilet paper. Not even a copy of the Sears & Roebuck Catalogue. Butt no worries. Sitting neatly on the counter is a printed copy of the Hatch Act. Problem solved. No better paper to use than the ignored, butt often sited, Hatch Act.
In the most brazen act of conspiracy to violate a federal law, the DOEducation declared that in September they would be sending out millions and millions of letters to all who have college loans, promising that they will be forgiven under the next Democrat government.
Never mind the complete lie that has already been TWICE smacked down by SCOTUS. Harris’ declaration is both a conspiracy with intent to violate a federal statute, and a violation of the Hatch Act which bars elected federal officials from electioneering during their official acts. It’s a message designed to buy votes from “30 somethings” who are low information voters. And it’s timed so even the courts can’t block the impact on these tick tock voters.
BUTT no worries for that man in the outhouse. There are plenty of useless federal laws to wipe your butt with.
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Re: "Transgender athletes injuring biological women":
The really insulting thing about this is that when these transgender "girls" take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in all the events, completely shutting out the biological girls, they are so shameless about it. They raise their arms in victory, acting like their mediocre abilities are to be celebrated. It's just disgusting. It’s no different than a 30-year old man wandering onto a playground, beating up a bunch of 9-year old kids, then strutting around like he’s won a great victory.
Otherwise, this Transgender movement is a religion with its own system of perverse logic. First, the gay civil rights movement was based on a foundational principle: the sex of the person you’re attracted to is hard-wired at birth and cannot change, even though there’s no “gay” gene. On the other hand, the trans movement tells us that your own sex is entirely fluid over your life, even though there are definitive sex chromosomes. These two beliefs are impossible to espouse at the same time…. They are completely opposed… yet the LGBTQ𝜋 cult demands that you embrace them simultaneously nonetheless.