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| TRASH TALK: Trump Flaunts Garbage Vest, Truck Following Biden Smear |
| Donald Trump held an impromptu press conference from inside a Trump-branded garbage truck Wednesday, leaning into Joe Biden’s slanderous characterization of MAGA supporters as “garbage.” “How do you like my garbage truck?” the GOP nominee asked reporters. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden. ” The truck then followed Trump to his Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally where he donned a neon trash vest and told the crowd, “250 million Americans are not garbage… Without question, my supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe or Lyin’ Kamala.” Joe Biden has not apologized for his statement. Read More. |
| SHADES OF ORWELL: White House Alters “Garbage” Transcript |
| The White House attempted to erase Joe Biden’s “garbage” statement Wednesday, lying about his language on an official transcript of the president’s Tuesday night Freudian slip. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” the transcript falsely read, adding an apostrophe to “supporters” to mischaracterize the meaning of Biden’s words. A White House spokesperson furthered the administration’s disinformation, incorrectly claiming, “The president referred to the ‘hateful rhetoric’ at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,’” not Trump’s supporters. Biden’s statement could prove to be this election’s biggest “October surprise.” Read More. |
| Will Biden’s “Garbage” Rhetoric Hand Trump the Election? |
| Veteran pollster Frank Luntz told CNN Wednesday that Joe Biden’s “garbage” statement could be the “turning point” that leads to a Trump victory, forecasting that the blunder’s ramifications could be “huge.” “It’s going to be huge because this is not some comedian saying something stupid and offensive at a rally…. This is the president of the United States endorsing his vice president,” Luntz said. “And I’ve watched Trump already seize this. The ‘basket of deplorables’ was significant, was meaningful in 2016. In 2024, I can promise you that this is going to drive Trump turnout… I’m sure there’s going to be ads on as soon as tonight about this.” Democrats are concerned that Biden’s attack could alienate undecided voters, prompting them to vote against his vice president out of resentment and spite. Their worries are justified. Read More. |
| Supreme Court Blocks Mass Illegal Voting |
| The Supreme Court halted the reinstatement of hundreds of potential noncitizens to Virginia’s state voter rolls Wednesday, reversing a previous federal judge decision to force the state to allow illegal voting. The ruling is a victory for election integrity and the rule of law, blocking a clear path for self-identified noncitizens to determine America’s next president. 26 attorneys general backed Virginia’s assertion that the federal government lacks the right to force the state to allow noncitizen voting Monday, writing, “The Constitution leaves decisions about voter qualifications to the people of Virginia. And the people of Virginia have decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote.” The Justice Department immediately condemned the ruling, preferring U.S. elections be open to foreign national participation. Read More. |
| Chinese National Votes Illegally, Ballot Stands to Count |
| Michigan officials charged a Chinese national with perjury, making a false statement on an affidavit with the intention of securing voter registration, and attempting to vote as an unauthorized elector Wednesday after the man allegedly cast a ballot for next week’s election. According to Michigan’s Secretary of State, the man, an unidentified University of Michigan student, fraudulently declared himself an American citizen, registered to vote, and cast a ballot on Sunday before getting cold feet and requesting to have his ballot returned. The Chinese man’s illegal ballot is still expected to remain counted as there is reportedly no way for officials to obtain it after it’s been cast. Sources claim ballots are designed to not be tracked back to an individual voter. Michigan’s general election tally is expected to be among the closest in the country, with recent polls showing the candidates within one point of one another. The fraudulent voter could face up to four years in prison. Read more. |
| Hundreds of Former National Security Officials Endorse Trump |
| Hundreds of retired Department of Homeland Security officials endorsed Donald Trump Wednesday, laying out a detailed case as to why America’s border crisis is the Biden-Harris administration’s doing and how the Republican nominee is the best candidate to fix it. “President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice,” the lengthy endorsement reads. “When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted… The borders of the U.S. were never more secure than they were during the Trump administration.” Joe Biden and Kamala Harris famously began their term by reversing nearly 90 of Trump’s policies on immigration, headlined by axing the “Remain in Mexico” program, canceling wall construction, and more. According to Customs and Border Protection, 2023 and 2024 had the most illegal border crossings in American history. Read More. |
| GET EM OUT: Trump Pledges to Remove Pro-Illegal Billboards |
| Donald Trump pledged to end the use of tax dollars to erect pro-illegal immigrant billboards Tuesday, subtweeting an NBPU post highlighting a Harris-backed criminal rights placard along a Texas interstate. “Kamala is now running billboards near the Border advertising FREE Legal Services for Illegal Alien Criminals,” Trump wrote. “When I win, the billboards are coming down, and the Migrant Gangs are going home!” ICE and Border Patrol are reportedly apoplectic about the signs, describing their existence as “insulting” and working directly against their national security objectives. This controversy comes as immigration remains a top priority for registered voters, and polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans seeing Trump as the optimal candidate to end the crisis. Read more. |
| Legacy in Jeopardy: Biden Short on Presidential Library Funding |
| Joe Biden is reportedly struggling to raise capital for his future presidential library, falling well short of the estimated “$200 million [to] $300 million” required for the extravagant self-worship project. The issues reportedly stem from Biden’s feeble fundraising capabilities, which also played a major role in his undemocratic ouster as the Democrat presidential nominee. Sources claim Biden has been “unwilling” to woo mega-donors into significantly investing in the project. Biden claims multiple major universities, Syracuse, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, are competing to be chosen as the library’s location. Their administrations’ thought processes behind wanting what will effectively be a Biden shrine on campus are not clear. Read More. |
| Yankees Fans Banned for World Series Interference |
| The New York Yankees banned two spectators from last night’s World Series contest following their viral fan interference during the team’s previous game in the Bronx. Commentators scrutinized the fans, each wearing New York apparel, after they committed recent memory’s most amusing onlooker obstruction, reaching onto the playing field, grabbing an opposing team player, and ripping the ball out of his glove. The suspendees reportedly defended their actions postgame, telling a reporter, “If [the ball’s] in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.” The length of their ban is not clear. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated New York Wednesday, eliminating the Yankees and claiming their eighth world title. Read More. |
| Commentary |
| What kind of leader would smear half of his constituents as “garbage”? It’s easy to blame Joe Biden’s deranged rhetoric on dementia. Even the most “blue no matter who” Democrats have come to acknowledge the commander in chief’s cognitive incapacitation. In this case, however, that typically dependable explanation misses the mark. Biden has degraded his country’s citizenry for decades, long before his mind abandoned him, both through actions and words. Recall 2002, when the Delaware senator used his position as Foreign Relations Committee head to rig exploratory hearings on the United States’ potential Iraq invasion. Biden wielded his power to crush anti-war dissent, only permitting testimony from bloodthirsty neocons who pushed the listening lawmakers to approve the invasion’s authorization. Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives were wasted because of his malevolence, and the fallout isn’t close to being over. Or years earlier, in 1994, when Biden voted in favor of NAFTA, driving the final nail into American industry’s coffin and abandoning his oath to protect the people he served, not exploit them for neoliberal gain. Over 4 million manufacturing jobs were lost after his trade deal went into effect. Towns were destroyed. And remember the onset of his presidency, highlighted by Biden attacking Americans disinterested in his ineffective COVID shots as “dangerous,” blaming them for the pandemic’s existence, and advocating for the firing of unvaccinated police officers, first responders, and soldiers. He’s yet to issue an apology. Those surprised by Biden’s Tuesday outburst should have paid closer attention. Building a record like his would be hard without equating the people affected to “garbage.” So when Biden squinted into a crowd, looking and calling for a congresswoman who’d died a month prior? It’s fair to attribute that to cognitive decline. Thinking COVID happened in 2009? Another clear sign that his faculties are fried. But degrading the people he’s supposed to serve? Depicting them as human filth, the personification of a fetid waste basket dropped on the curb for extradition to its future and permanent home at the landfill on the other side of town? That’s just who the president is, dementia-ridden or not. |