All Around the Nation!

By Robin Itzler

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Listening to Experts is a Good Thing! Really? Then Again, Maybe Not!

From financial to medical, every day we are bombarded with “experts” telling us that they know best. It’s important that we do our own research. Do you remember how “experts” repeatedly told us that we would not get COVID if vaccinated? A walk down memory lane:

• Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID: “When people are vaccinated they’re not going to get infected.”
• President Joe Biden: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
• Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Centers for Disease Control Director: “Vaccinated people not carry the virus and don’t get sick.” Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Misinformation Host: “Now we know the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops.”
• Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder who assumes his billions makes him a medical expert: “Everyone who takes the vaccine is reducing their transmission.”
• Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO: “There is no variant that escapes the protection of our vaccines.” 

Steve Garvey for U.S. Senate

During his recent press conference at the stunning Trump National Golf Course in Palos Verdes, California, President Trump was asked about senatorial candidate Steve Garvey. Trump responded:

“I don’t know much about Steve Garvey. I think he’s made a big mistake because he hasn’t reached out to MAGA. I’m hearing he wants the MAGA endorsement, but he’s got to call me. If he had the MAGA endorsement, he could win.”

Garvey is running against the pathetic Democrat Adam Schiff. Some recent polls: The Hill/Emerson College +22 Schiff LA Times/Berkeley/Inst. of Gov’t Studies +20 Schiff

Tell every like-minded Californian to vote for Steve Garvey! 

The US Postal Service Can Be Trusted....Maybe!

Voting by mail? Put a $100 bill in a security envelope and mail it to yourself. If you don’t have the guts to do it because you’re afraid the envelope will get lost, then why would you mail your ballot?  We do NOT recommend ballot boxes or mailing your ballot. The United States Postal Service union—National Association of Letter Carriers with nearly 300,000 members — has endorsed Kamala Harris. Yet, we are supposed to trust that the union that wants Comrade Harris to win the election will deliver ballots, especially ballots from Republican districts? Maybe. Maybe not.

To give you an idea of the different ways states allow voting:

1. States that allow elections to be conducted entirely by mail: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia.
2. States that allow counties to opt into conducting elections by mail: Nebraska and North Dakota.
3. States that allow specific small elections to be conducted by mail:  Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
4. States that allow mostly-mail elections for certain small jurisdictions: Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Mexico.

Read “Our National Malaise” by Sally Zelikovsky

On the Republican side:

Teamster Endorsement,  Trump indirectly gets it  the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union, the largest union with 1.5 MILLION active members and 500,000 retirees, has voted NOT to endorse Kamala Harris. This is based on a poll of its membership. This is indirectly an endorsement for Donald Trump.

Conservative blogger Mike Cernovich tweeted on X/Twitter:

“Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! This means Trump’s supported by union workers … this is a DE FACTO Trump endorsement!”

Gary Bauer, founder of American Values, shared with his readers:

“This is a really big deal. The Teamsters are strong in states like Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Their huge political infrastructure is regularly deployed on behalf of the Democrat presidential candidate. That’s not going to happen this year.”

But to show you the games the teamster union plays, consider that when Joe Biden was still a candidate, teamsters members/retirees voted 44 to 36 percent for Biden. The Teamsters were ready to announce an endorsement as Biden received “majority support.” However,  with Trump receiving 60 percent to Harris’s dismal 34 percent, the union said they couldn’t endorse Trump because he didn’t receive “universal support.”

To share your thoughts with the General President Sean M. O’Brien: Phone: 202-624-6800 Write: 25 Louisiana Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 

On the Democrat side:

The pro-Hamas group, Uncommitted, a national movement that got many people (mostly Muslims) to vote “uncommitted” in Democrat primaries as a show of anger against Joe Biden’s support (tepid, at best) for Israel, says “do not vote in the general election.” They are not  endorsing Kamala Harris in the general election and are urging followers to sit out the election  because:

• They want Democrats to agree to a weapons embargo to Israel.
• Are angry the Democrat National Committee did not allow a pro-Palestinian to speak at the DNC August convention.

They believe voting for a third-party candidate (such as Jill Stein) helps Donald Trump. HA! Sitting out the election helps Trump as much as voting for antisemite Stein.

On the Independent Side:

We shared last week how the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that Green Party candidate Jill Stein is leading Kamala Harris in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. In Georgia, Dr. Stein will remain on the ballot along with Independent candidate Cornel West and Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate Claudia de la Cruz. Democrats are not happy!

Babylon Bee's Parody of California's Gov. Gavin Newsom, and this will be the USA if Harris is elected, we become the United States of California.

 “Harris, elitist Democrats, academics, media personalities and celebrities existing in entitled bubbles of luxury and personal safety can embrace Jan. 6, Roe v. Wade, etc. all they want, but this election is still going to come down to the bread-and-butter issues of the economy, immigration, crime and affordable and reliable healthcare.” —Douglas MacKinnon “Paycheck-to-Paycheck Voters Will ‘Believe Their Own Lyin’ Eyes and Vote Against Harris” - Sept. 15, 2024