HER VALUES HAVEN'T CHANGED BECAUSE SHE HAS NONE: Kamala Harris insists her ‘values have not changed’ despite major policy flip-flops.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, "If you don't like those values, I have others."

NOT JUST MORONS, CORRUPT MORONS: Biden Commerce Secretary doesn’t ‘believe’ news of grim job revisions because Trump said it.

Linked from Instapundit.

RANDOM THOUGHT ON THE 2024 ELECTION: From the Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama) to the Audacity of Dope (Kamala Harris).

SO FUNNY: Journalists are so dumb they’re now fact-checking obvious jokes.

Again, linked from Instapundit.

DON SURBER: I reject their normal.

So do I.

SPORTS JOURNALISM: It's a pencil-neck profession now.

DEMOCRATS ARE WEAPONIZING “NO-FLY” LISTS (TULSI GABBARD, ANYONE?), gun owners could be next.

RADICALIZING OUR KIDS, coming soon to you.

The public schools have become, in some areas, a training ground for anti-Americanism. Don’t assume it can’t happen in your community. The teachers’ unions are the driving force behind this evil, and educators everywhere are looking for opportunities to turn schools into leftist indoctrination centers. Ethnic Studies is one more battleground in this war.

Down-ticket school board elections are usually non-partisan, so when you vote, vote carefully.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrats truly hate us normal people.

Truly....

AND I DO: Here are all the reasons why you should enjoy your cup of coffee.

Linked from Instapundit.

RENT CONTROL AND PRICE CAPS: Kamala's blueprint for creating the next great American slum.

‘QUEER THEORY:’ Biden-Harris official calls for ‘Queering Nuclear Weapons.’ No, Really. She's serious.

HERE'S MORE: Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda.

I LOVE IT: Trump campaign trolls Kamala Harris by releasing her policy website for her.

Here are Kamala's 2024 policies as interpreted by Trump.

THE DNC'S UNSPOKEN THEME: It isn't just anti-life, it's anti-humanity.

NANCY PELOSI IS TRASH: How she pushed Biden out.

HERE'S HOW KAMALA'S GROCERY PRICE CONTROLS will work. "Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue."

KAMALA HARRIS on price 'gauging'. Donald Trump's response.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has a few nonpolitical pictures this week. Of them, here's my favorite:

Now go see the political ones.

"IF YOU PURPORT TO BE CONCERNED WITH INEQUALITY but focus on, say, antitrust enforcement rather than the 40% out-of-wedlock birthrate, much higher among the poor and working class, you are doing it wrong."

THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE answers Ammo Grrrll's questions.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The weird, creepy, surreal -- and dangerous -- 2024 campaign.

STEPHEN MOORE: Natural gas is now cheaper than water.

But, but ... water is expensive!

OFTEN WRONG, never in doubt.

RETIRED POLICE LIEUTENANT: Tim Walz intentionally let Minneapolis burn.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TO ADDRESS NATION FRIDAY -- Will he jump on Team Trump?

TULSI GABBARD: Kamala Harris is an 'empty suit'.

I wish she'd just admit she's really a Republican....

BUZZ OFF, EUROPE. Go bother some country that cares what you think.

MORE PREDICTABLE NONSENSE FROM LEFTY ACADEMICS: J.D. Vance is ‘fascist.’

Ethnology can identify fascists? Really?

TRY THE HEALING POWER OF 'AND': "The Democratic Party is either brain-dead or just hopes most voters are."

TRAP SHOOTING PRACTICE FOR AMERICANS? Hamas document reveals paraglider terrorism attack plan.

TWO CANDIDATES, not one day in the private sector. And both are Democrats.

The graphic is here.

HARRIS, WALZ LIES prove it's a working-class election.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Welcome to America’s new weaponized system of justice.

CHICAGO'S TOP COP WARNS PROTESTERS: 'We're not going to allow you to riot' during the Democratic convention.

I hope so, but I don't believe it.

IDENTITY POLITICS won't save Kamala Harris in this election.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON'S thoughts on the run-up to November.

'DISRESPECTFUL' AND 'AGGRESSIVELY LEFT-WING' ADVERTISING spurs growth of an 'anti-woke' economy.

I'm now very careful where I shop....

THE HARRIS-WALZ MESSAGE IS CLEAR: “In order to run your country for the next four years, we must lie and deceive you for the next three months.”

Don't let them.

HE'S RIGHT: A hostage relative boldly asserts negotiations with Hamas are worthless.

ANOTHER KAMALA VENN DIAGRAM:

Predictions come true....

THOUGHTS ON THE SECRET SERVICE: "Trump was shot because they let him shoot."

I think that's right. The agents on the ground around Donald Trump may have acted admirably, but my sense is that those in the upper reaches intentionally set up the conditions that allowed the assassination attempt.

JOY! Irrational exuberance soars to new levels.

Two words: Joy Reid.

ID'S FOR ME, just not for thee.

THE EUROPEAN UNION threatens Elon Musk.

Musk responds: Pound sand. [There's plenty in the Middle East.]

SO? IT'S NOT HER MONEY: Kamala's minimum-wage plan could cost $2 billion.

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS because you get twice as many.

Wasn't it Groucho Marx who said something on the order that if you wanted a different set of principles, he had others? Why yes, yes he did.

CRAZY IS THEIR NORMAL. Biden’s return to ‘normalcy’ brought us crazy instead — like Sam Brinton.

STOP FUSSING and unleash the full power of persuasion.

I'm not looking forward to it, but based on Day 1 of the Democrat convention, I rather expect to see some post-birth abortions before it ends.

BLUE ON BLUE: Racism is alive and well in the minds of the progressives.

My tribe is more important than your tribe ... “all tribes animals are equal, but some tribes animals are more equal than others.” (George Orwell, 1945)

WHY THINGS DON'T WORK ANYMORE: Our crisis of institutional competence.

AMMO GRRRLL: Dog-paddling in the slough of despond.

NEWS FROM DAY 1 OF THE DNC:

Next up, Day 2.

I needed that: Tugboat.

THIS ONE TIME, I'll give Planned Parenthood a thumbs-up.

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (PPGR) ... has deployed its "mobile health clinic" to Chicago to coincide with the DNC convention currently underway. There, it will busy itself preventing radical leftists from reproducing.

For once, they're doing things right.

PRESSTITUTE? Who is Kamala Harris?

That's works for me....

THE KINDEST THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT THESE DEMOCRATS IS THAT THEY'RE FREAKING NUTS: Vice President Kamala Harris to formally accept Democratic nomination this week.

Scroll down to see.

RANDOM THOUGHT in advance of Kamala Harris' platform rollout. Anyone who considers voting for her is a fool -- or worse.

UPDATE From my 'wayback machine'. No change from 2020.

BECAUSE YOU ARE: They think you're stupid.

At least if you believe anything the Democrats say....

Linked from this Instapundit post.

LAWFARE WORKS BOTH WAYS: Trump to sue the Department of 'Justice' Over Mar-a-Lago raid.

THE KAMALA HARRIS media bubble.

TIM WALZ IS A HUNTER, he’s not going to take your his guns away.

There. Fixed.

[The link is to a very long Fox 'media week in review' segment -- the quote is from a Mary Katherine Ham segment about midway.]

PROBABLY NOT: Is there anything the government can't ruin?

BUY LAMPPOST FUTURES. There will be a shortage.

WE NOW HAVE SOLID EVIDENCE that liberals are literally bat-guano crazy.

I've shepherded out two bats that my cats thought I needed to see. No zombies, though....

More on this insanity here.

INSTAPUNDIT: "Everything woke turns to s***.”

The truth hurts ... progressives.

I WAS THERE FIRST: “I think it is now established beyond doubt that the Secret Service is stonewalling the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt."

REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN [D-MD] is apparently okay with civil war if Trump wins again.

Desperation....

FREE SPEECH: Why the Right and Left switched sides.

POWERLINE'S DAILY CHART: Greens against green energy.

Build transmission lines? Why transmission lines? We get all the electricity we need from the outlets on the walls....

MORE PROOF THAT A UNIVERSITY 'EDUCATION' IS NOT WORTH THE PRICE: More than half of student loan borrowers not paying.

THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT: We never run out of spaghetti.

THE HARRIS/WALZ PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: "Make America Burn Again."

Not original with me (sigh)....

THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE unearths a massive smuggling tunnel from Egypt into Gaza large enough to pass vehicles.

Bonus from the comments; a succinct explanation of the Gaza war: "If Palestinians wanted peace, there would be peace. If Israel wanted war, there would be no Palestinians."

KAMALA HARRIS LOVES VENN DIAGRAMS:

Think Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

NO, THERE WILL BE MUCH MORE TO COME: Is this the biggest election fraud scandal ever?

WELCOME to the Democrats' memory hole.

As a somewhat interesting side note, I've always found the most accurate U.S. news is always from the United Kingdom's Daily Mail.

TEXAS’ THEORY THAT THE STATE IS UNDERGOING AN ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION just got some validation from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

MASSACHUSETTS: a case study in mass immigration and the wlfare state. "The cost to Massachusetts taxpayers of temporary housing and shelters is enormous but it pales in comparison to the costs that will accumulate in the future...."

ELECTION DENIALISM IN VENEZUELA: "[Y]ou can vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot yourself out."

See also the innocent Palestinians in Gaza (assuming there are actually innocents in Gaza). And think about our U.S.future as well.

KURT SCHLICHTER on White Dudes for Kamala:

In one of the least surprising developments of all time, this week’s White Dudes for Kamala Zoom call was a festival of estrogen where a bunch of weirdos, losers, mutations, sissies, whiners, dorks, geeks, and other key sub-sections of the Democrat Party gathered in the electronic ether to humiliate themselves at the feet of their mediocre candidate. That was no surprise. I didn’t check out enough of it to see if they started with a land acknowledgment or if they reassured some of the men participating that it was understood that some of them menstruate....

Read the whole thing.

AGREED: The Secret Service was set up to fail for political reasons.

The progressive Deep State is desperate. Expect more before November.

NEWSOM.GOV: "[I]nside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out."

“WHITE WOMEN FOR HARRIS” shows how Democrats have fully embraced campus lunacy.

Or campus lunacy has embraced white women. It's a 'what came first?' -- a chicken or egg problem.

HE THE PEOPLE: How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics.

If Kamala Harris wins in 2024, it'll be his fourth term....

NEVER, IF THEY'RE DEMOCRATS: When will government know-it-alls stop interfering in our elections?

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, weird edition. I'll agree, yes, this is weird:

And to think he is (was?) a leading candidate for the 2024 Democrat vice president nomination. Go see the rest; there's plenty of weird to see.

AMMO GRRRLL: Dehumanizing makes a comeback.

Thanks to that vicious harridan on The View, Whoopi Goldberg.

SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR ALL THE CONTROL, REGULATION, AND 'FREE STUFF': Seventy-six percent of personal income tax is just servicing our debt.

THIS MAN IS THE DEFINITION OF MASCULINE: Donald Trump jumps to defend female Secret Service agent who shielded him from assassination.

IN PARIS, A WESTERN NATION, NO LESS: The Olympics' Last Supper debacle was the Left's latest effort to denigrate Western culture.

IN MEMORIAM: Biden's senior moments.

KAMALOT

America if Kamala Harris becomes President....

PREPARING FOR HIS FOURTH TERM: Obama steps out from behind the curtain to help run the Harris presidential campaign.

Propping up another of his cardboard cutouts....

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DEMO[N]CRATS TAKE CONTROL:

The media was once the song of whiskey, democracy, sexy. Then at some point it became the screech of diversity, equity and inclusion; the drone of degrowth, global warming and self hatred. It became the voice not of plenty but poverty.

Journalism died.

ROGER KIMBALL: Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking. Magical thinking is the Democrats' stock in trade.

THE 'DEEP STATE' -- OUR UNELECTED BUREAUCRACY -- HAS GONE ABSOLUTELY BONKERS. This weather alert, quoted exactly, showed up on my iPhone's weather app yesterday morning:

Severe Weather Advisory Severity: Moderate Possible threat to life or property Weather Event Onset 11:58 AM (EDT), August 4 Description HLSFFC

This product covers NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA

**DEBBY LIKELY TO STRENGTHEN RAPIDLY BEFORE LANDFALL IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND REGION**

NEW INFORMATION
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* CHANGES TO WATCHES AND WARNINGS: - A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Crisp, Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler, and Wilcox

* CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS: - A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Crisp, Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler, and Wilcox

* STORM INFORMATION: - About 380 miles south-southwest of Vidalia GA - 27.0N 84.3W - Storm Intensity 65 mph - Movement North-northwest or 330 degrees at 13 mph

SITUATION OVERVIEW
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Tropical Storm Debby is expected to make landfall on Monday. Heavy rainfall will likely result in considerable flooding impacts from the Florida Big Bend region through southeast GA and the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas through Friday. Potentially historic heavy rainfall across southeast Georgia and South Carolina through Friday morning may result in areas of catastrophic flooding. Significant river flooding is also expected.

A Tropical Storm watch is in effect for SE Georgia for tropical storm force winds that are expected to begin on Monday with the strongest winds expected from Crisp to Toombs county.

The tornado threat remains low, but an isolated tornado is possible mainly south of a line from Uvalda to Milan.

POTENTIAL IMPACTS
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* WIND: Prepare for hazardous wind having possible limited impacts across South East Georgia.

Elsewhere across NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA, little to no impact is anticipated.

* FLOODING RAIN: Prepare for life-threatening rainfall flooding having possible extensive impacts across South East Georgia. Potential impacts include: - Major rainfall flooding may prompt evacuations and rescues. - Rivers and tributaries may rapidly overflow their banks in multiple places. Small streams, creeks, canals, arroyos, and ditches may become dangerous rivers. In mountain areas, destructive runoff may run quickly down valleys while increasing susceptibility to rockslides and mudslides. Flood control systems and barriers may become stressed. - Flood waters can enter many structures within multiple communities, some structures becoming uninhabitable or washed away. Many places where flood waters may cover escape routes. Streets and parking lots become rivers of moving water with underpasses submerged. Driving conditions become dangerous. Many road and bridge closures with some weakened or washed out.

Prepare for dangerous rainfall flooding having possible limited to significant impacts across areas of eastern and central Georgia.

* TORNADOES: Prepare for a tornado event having possible limited impacts across South East Georgia. Potential impacts include: - The occurrence of isolated tornadoes can hinder the execution of emergency plans during tropical events. - A few places may experience tornado damage, along with power and communications disruptions. - Locations could realize roofs peeled off buildings, chimneys toppled, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, large tree tops and branches snapped off, shallow-rooted trees knocked over, moving vehicles blown off roads, and small boats pulled from moorings.

Elsewhere across NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA, little to no impact is anticipated.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS
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* EVACUATIONS: Follow the advice of local officials.

* OTHER PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION:

When making safety and preparedness decisions, do not focus on the exact forecast track since hazards such as flooding rain, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes extend well away from the center of the storm.

Closely monitor weather.gov, NOAA Weather Radio and local news outlets for official storm information. Listen for possible changes to the forecast.

* ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION: - For information on creating an emergency plan see ready.ga.gov - For information on appropriate preparations see ready.gov - For additional disaster preparedness information see redcross.org

NEXT UPDATE
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The next local statement will be issued by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City GA around 6 PM EDT, or sooner if conditions warrant. Action Recommended Monitor the situation and take precautions if necessary. Urgency Take action within next hour. Affected Area Fannin Issued By National Weather Service View Alert Source: https://www.weather.gov/National Weather Service.

At the same time that same app's 10-day forecast showed local weather for both Sunday and Monday as clear and sunny with no rain forecasted.

This morning [just barely hurricane] Debby came ashore in Florida. My iPhone's weather app is now predicting sunny turning to partly cloudy for the rest of the day and tomorrow.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy addict but I'm now convinced that the Deep State is in such a panic about the possibility of their losing control of government that they're doing their damnedest to hide Kamala Harris from the public.

That may sound crazy, but as Neil Cavuto often says about his predictions on his Fox Business show "I've got a pretty good track record."

SALENA ZITO: Can we trust media to tell the truth about Harris?

No. We can't trust the media to tell the truth about anything.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Coup upon coup upon coup.

And who is the coupmaster? Read on....

THE DEBATE over whether to crush our enemies or be nice.

There's no debate. Crush them.

IT'S THE INSURANCE, STUPID! Transgender treatments were 'medically necessary' just to get insurance coverage.

AMMO GRRRLL: Covering her bases.

HE'S AFRAID; VERY, VERY AFRAID: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer [D-NY] calls on Trump to pick new running mate, claims Vance is 'best thing he's ever done for Democrats'.

Umm. If Vance is the best thing Trump has ever done for Democrats, they why is he calling for Trump to dump him?

ONE THEY FAILED SPECTACULARLY: Netanyahu’s visit was a test for the Democrats.

JOE BIDEN IS THE ULTIMATE PERSONIFICATION OF THE PETER PRINCIPLE, the only principle he has ever demonstrated.

ORIGINALLY POSTED 3 DAYS AFTER TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: Propositions about the current moment.

Some of it is already out-of-date (Biden withdrawal) but others are remarkable accurate (Lucretia's podcast comment at the bottom).

Time flies in election season....

I IDENTIFY AS DISGUSTED with the Olympics women’s boxing mess.

I identify as disgusted. Period.

WITH HALF HIS BRAIN TIED BEHIND HIS BACK JUST TO MAKE IT FAIR. Today’s the anniversary of the greatest moment in radio history.

We need a Rush Limbaugh back -- soonest.

MAKE AMERICA DEMOCRAT.

From Fox News cartoons (8/2/24).