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Five Quick Things: Kamala’s Yankee-Style Scary Halloween Meltdown

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The American Spectator 

Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series.

Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the New York Yankees lost it.

Down three games to one, the fired-up Yankees got off to a hot start, seizing a 5-0 lead at Yankee Stadium behind three early home runs and a razor-sharp pitching performance by ace Gerrit Cole.

And then came the fifth inning.

When it was over, the five-run lead had disintegrated and the game was tied. Two almost inexplicable errors — Aaron Judge dropping an easy fly ball in center field and shortstop Anthony Volpe short-hopping a throw to third base that Jazz Chisholm then dropped, costing an easy force-out — were then compounded by Cole, who pitched brilliantly into the seventh inning, inexplicably failing to cover first base on a routine grounder behind the bag. None of those runs should have scored; five did before Cole was finally able to get out of the inning.

The Yankees never recovered, though they did momentarily retake the lead before dropping a 7-6 series-ending game to L.A.

It was one of the most memorable chokes in sports history.

I grew up a Yankees fan as a kid, mostly due to 1970s and early 1980s ace pitcher Ron “Louisiana Lightning” Guidry, but I haven’t cared one way or another in a long time. Wednesday’s seppuku made me angry not out of any partisan sentiment but rather because it was such an affront to the game.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Wednesday’s pre-Halloween meltdown by the Bronx Bombers wasn’t even the worst of its kind out there.

And it’s funny, because Donald Trump is from New York City and Kamala Harris is likely to return to her most recent home in Los Angeles in January. The geography of political Halloween meltdowns seems to be the inverse of those abiding in the realm of baseball.

But we are in the midst of Team Kamala’s meltdown. Like the Yankees after the fifth inning on Wednesday, it’s still possible for her to have survived the recent reversals, though … probably not likely.

Let’s count the ways, shall we?

1. The Biden Sabotage’s Grand Finale

Late word has it that Joe Biden has been banned from “helping” the Kamala ticket any further after he spent this week making good on Barack Obama’s old warning to “never underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

And boy, did Biden do exactly that to Kamala.

Biden had given indications he was going to blow up his vice president’s campaign a few times before, but when he called Trump’s supporters “garbage” in a witless response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s impolitic joke about Puerto Rico’s catastrophic landfill problem, all of the oxygen in the political room was sucked out and replaced by methane, or something smelling a lot like it.

Away went Kamala’s closing argument. She can’t press the issue of Donald Trump as Hitler or use the typical screeching about abortion that has driven get-out-the-vote efforts in the past. Instead, she’s now reduced to reassuring Trump voters that she doesn’t agree that we’re garbage.

The problem being that everybody knows she agrees with Biden on that score. She’s made statement after statement fitting in with Biden’s “garbage” narrative like that perfect jigsaw puzzle piece, and so her walkbacks sound like lies.

The lights are on, and the roaches are scattering every which way in a vain attempt at avoiding detection.

And here’s Kamala’s major donor Vinod Khosla, a San Francisco tech billionaire who once attempted to fence off a public beach near his house so that the unwashed masses would be prevented from soiling the air, sea, and ground near his presence, making sure his candidate can’t wriggle off the “garbage” hook…

The extent to which Biden’s gaffe stitches Kamala up is almost bottomless.

Her campaign has mostly consistent of a string of celebrity endorsements. It’s the most outwardly, openly elitist political campaign we’ve ever seen, and it has come at a time when the public increasingly believes that the ruling elite in places like Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are worse than garbage — because of that elite’s utter contempt for average Americans that has now been reinforced by Biden’s comment.

The Democrats’ efforts to force the inclusion of non-citizens onto the voter rolls of competitive states hardly helps Kamala’s cause, of course. As are their efforts to downplay the spike in crime from illegal immigrants. Remember that the scolding of JD Vance over the cat-eating allegations plays as a repudiation of those constituents of Vance’s in southwest Ohio who reported that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were making off with pets and avian park residents. Then Vance was accosted by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz over his pointing out Tren de Aragua was taking over apartment complexes, and he destroyed her by asking just how many times that should happen before it isn’t acceptable.

Nobody in the Democrat Party seems to understand that average Americans are very cognizant of how much they’re despised by the ruling elite that the Democrats dominate. As Harris is a bit player in her own presidential campaign that is run by members of this elite who lack this understanding, the whole thing plays like a house of cards.

And Biden bumbled into it face first, intentionally or not.

Biden then managed to bite three children in one day.

Melissa demanded I include this in my commentary on that incident…

…but William Blake is what came to mind.

Then Biden’s wife showed up at a White House Halloween party wearing a panda costume, which…

…We had a Spectacle episode this week talking about how left-wing elites can’t stop putting sexual perversion in our faces, and this plays into that when everybody already has their antennae up.

The Bidens are far too vindictive to just stage a coup and get rid of them, and not expect they won’t make you pay. We’re seeing what that looks like.

2. The Fun Rule Cometh

This builds off Thing #1, but it should have been obvious a week or so when Trump staged a publicity coup by serving as a fry cook and a drive-thru window guy at a suburban Philadelphia McDonald’s, it was an obvious red flag in front of Team Harris that they needed something in the earned media to match it.

So they brought Liz Cheney around to some campaign events, including one with Maria Shriver. And the public got to note the strange confluence onstage in which a war pig Democrats have been trained to hate for 20 years was appearing with two wives of men who broke up their marriages by sleeping with the nanny.

As I’ve written, the Fun Rule is a thing. It matters, and it can decide elections. When one candidate is handing out McDonald’s fries at the drive-thru and the other is subjecting her voters to Liz Cheney, it isn’t good.

Then Trump went to Madison Square Garden for one of the most high-profile political rallies in American history, with 20,000 inside the building and another 47,000 outside, and all Team Harris could do was to screech about the German-American Bund holding a pro-Nazi event at Madison Square Garden in 1939, as though the two have any confluence at all. Then comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who as Dan Flynn noted is well-regarded in many circles, told his Puerto Rican jokes (which in a different venue probably would have been fine but in this one constituted a glitch), and Team Harris threw an even bigger fit. Which led to Biden’s “garbage” gaffe.

All the while, the message to the public was that Team Trump has jokes, and Team Kamala has complaints. Guess which team wins that competition?

Especially when the Democrats’ idea of humor was this:

All of this is bad enough. But then Trump decided to capitalize on Biden’s “garbage” gaffe by riding around Green Bay in a decked-out MAGA garbage truck wearing an orange safety vest over his shirt and tie in a political stunt that trumped (yes, I did that on purpose) even the McDonald’s win.

At a rally in Green Bay, he crushed it even more with a story for the ages:

You can’t let your opponent have this much fun trolling you.

Meanwhile Kamala decided to give an exceptionally boring “closing speech” on the Ellipse in Washington, which was a stupid place to hold that event not just because it paints her once again as the Washington elite candidate but also because — if we’re going to play the Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally game — that venue stirs echoes of the 1925 Ku Klux Klan rally on that same turf…

Team Kamala claimed to have 75,000 attendees at her closing speech. Only 31,000 cellular devices were geotracked there. Which tells you that Harris is less of a big deal than the Klan, who by the way were also Democrats, was in their time.

The Fun Rule is leading to a run-rule victory for Trump in this category. Mostly because Kamala’s handlers either don’t understand the concept or they’re too incompetent to recognize the value of morale among their own supporters.

And maybe that’s because her handlers are the elite drones who share Biden’s mentality that Americans are garbage, and they hate their own voters as much as they do the people opposing them.

3. Saying No to Joe

Last Friday Trump scored a massive coup doing the Joe Rogan podcast, sitting down for three hours and having a regular-guy conversation with the internet’s most viewed podcaster. It constituted a picture-perfect short-circuiting of the mainstream media’s narratives, and, worse for Team Kamala, it happened in front of a gigantic audience she’s already getting slaughtered with — namely Gen X to Gen Z men, most of whom are unmarried. In 2022 exit polling, single men were an R+7 demographic, but they’re a little worse than that now because Harris’ campaign has been so incompetent in messaging to them.

Trump spent three hours speaking directly to that audience by doing Rogan’s podcast. He’s hit most of the major podcasts delivering to that market. Kamala has avoided them like the plague, but when Trump did Rogan, her team finally appeared to recognize the problem.

But recognizing it and doing something about it are very different animals.

Harris’ people said they’d appear on Rogan’s podcast, but for no more than an hour, and he would have to come to them. Rogan said no and instead scheduled an interview with JD Vance, who on Thursday sat down with him not for three hours but for four.

Rogan touched on the Harris snub in a subsequent podcast with British comedian and social commentator Konstantin Kisin:

Like the rest of the elements of the Scary Harris Halloween Meltdown, this bodes ill on multiple levels. Not only does it come off as a snub of a male podcast audience, it also comes off as yet another example of cowardice. After the terrible performances in friendly interviews and the catastrophic one in the interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, the public perceives that Harris isn’t capable of having a real conversation with a real human being, and she reinforced that by refusing to be interviewed by Rogan on terms everyone else is willing to submit to.

The whole thing comes off as bizarre. A politician averse to airtime? We have a descriptor for such an animal: It’s an incompetent loser of a politician. The mainstream media perfume-bomb of July through September aside, Kamala has carried that stink since she dropped out of the Iowa caucuses in 2020, and it now covers her once again.

4. Foreign Voters, Foreign Campaign Workers

A couple of weeks ago, it made a few headlines when the news broke that the Labour Party in the U.K. was sending operatives to the States to engage in campaign activity on behalf of Team Kamala, as though somehow this wouldn’t fuel perceptions — once again — that Americans aren’t good enough for her.

Then, the Federalist broke the news Thursday that the Harris campaign is actively recruiting and deploying foreign nationals to do all kinds of campaign activities, including social media trolling, phone banking, and lots of other grunt work.

Already, there are 19 states conducting active investigation into ActBlue smurfing, a terrible dirty trick in which lax security protocols at the Democrat fundraising platform allow fraudulent donations from suspected foreign sources to be “smurfed” onto the books as coming from ordinary donors.

Couple that with countless Democrat efforts to enable foreigners, and especially illegal aliens, to vote in this election — an Obama judge in Virginia attempted to block that state from scrubbing a few thousand illegals from the voter rolls, only to be shot down by the Supreme Court, in one such example — and you have a quite evidence-based common perception that Democrats are trying to collude with foreign governments and individuals to influence the election results.

Which not so long ago was a terribly unacceptable thing, wasn’t it?

5. The Suicide of the Legacy Corporate Media

Then of course there’s the complete abandonment of any journalistic standards by the Democrat Propaganda Press in this election cycle, and the joining of the legacy corporate media with Team Harris.

This has been coming for a long time, obviously. If you want to argue that it was sealed in place during or before Barack Obama’s time in office, I won’t argue with you. But given the steps taken to stop Trump that the old media organs have either championed, soft-pedaled, or outright ignored, depending on what Harris’ circumstances called for, it just seems more intense this time.

So much so that here was CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, pretending to conduct an objective newscast on Trump’s garbage-truck masterpiece troll-job:

Then there was MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, a former fake Republican who now says voting for the most incompetent leftist Democrat candidate of all time is an “emergency”…

Something similarly ridiculous went on at CNN, though Scott Jennings set it aflame in grand style:

Let’s not forget Politico:

I could go on and on with examples of how in the tank legacy media organs have been for Harris.

This should have been a cycle when they stood aside and stopped burning their credibility on behalf of this nugatory political machine that had clearly outlived its useful life. As Melissa wrote, and rightly so, the long-term effect of Harris imploding on the Democrats is actually a positive, because it sweeps away a lot of political dead wood and gives the Democrats a chance to remake themselves into something the public can stomach. The alphabet-soup networks and the old-guard newspapers could have done nothing and let that happen.

But they can’t.

Even when, for example, the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times opted out of endorsing her, both papers were hit with high-profile resignations and industry condemnations.

And then this happened:

Exactly.

You gambled, and while this isn’t over — just like the Yankees still had the ability to stage a resurgence and win that game late on Wednesday night, but failed — it sure doesn’t look like that gamble paid off.

Nobody cares what happens to Kamala Harris. If this election goes like it’s now expected to go, by Wednesday she’ll be the scapegoat of all scapegoats.

So will Biden.

And both will richly deserve the opprobrium their people will heap on them.

But what’s most at stake at this point is the credibility of our “garbage” ruling elite, in culture, politics, and economics, who went all in for this turkey of a candidate only to watch her melt down as October turned into November — and to melt down themselves right alongside her.

If it happens that way, it’s wonderful. One can only hope there are long-ranging, ugly consequences for the people involved.

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