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The excerpt below from Salon.com reveals exactly what radical leftists think about traditional conservative devout Americans. 

MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be . . .  Even Mitch McConnell is trying to push back against Mike Johnson and the MAGA lunatics. It isn't working.

While the world burns, Johnson and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party — which seems to have swallowed the evangelical movement while also embracing it (a T-1000 morphing into Sarah Connor is just about the right image) — is embracing the darkest verses of the Bible, apparently pushing for apocalypse with an enthusiasm only rivaled by Saul’s slaughter of Christians before he changed his name to Paul.

I’m waiting for Mel Brooks to break out into song: “Let all those who wish to confess their evil ways and accept and embrace the true church convert now or forever burn in hell — for now begins the Inquisition!” The House of Representatives, now run by Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it. Salon.com

Truly disturbing.

Biden strategy memo details plan to retain White House in 2024 . . . One year out from Election Day, President Biden’s reelection campaign is outlining a plan to retain the White House by framing the 2024 race around many of the same themes it used in 2020 — presenting a contrast with Donald Trump‘s “Make America Great Again” movement stark enough to reenergize its winning coalition of supporters. In a strategy memo, Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said her team is already looking beyond the Republican presidential primary to a general election “that will be very close.” But “the message Joe Biden ran on in 2020 remains popular with voters and central to this campaign.” “The president and vice president have a strong message that resonates with voters, a clear contrast with whoever the MAGA Republican Party nominates,” Rodriguez wrote. “This campaign will win by doing the work and ignoring the outside chatter - just like we did in 2020.” Washington Times

Haley seeks to neutralize DeSantis home-field advantage at third GOP debate . . . Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) may not have a home-field advantage when he and the handful of remaining qualifying Republican presidential primary candidates debate for the third time.

The other candidates, specifically former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, are primed to take on DeSantis next Wednesday in Miami as he tries to maintain his position as the man most likely to take down former President Donald Trump. Washington Examiner

An anti-Trump group produced four ads attacking his legal troubles. They backfired . . .  In late September, a conservative group opposing Donald Trump quietly tested four TV ads that aimed to weaken the former president by focusing on a central issue of the campaign: His myriad legal troubles. All of the ads shared one thing in common beyond the topic on which they focused. They all failed or backfired. Three of the four actually boosted Trump’s support among the participants. One — a softer-touch spot that features a voter saying Trump’s trials “worries” him — had no measurable impact on Trump’s numbers. The unaired ads, along with nearly 260 pages of accompanying data analysis, were obtained by POLITICO

Full List of Democrats Who Refused To Condemn Hamas Supporters . . . Twenty-two Democratic members of the House of Representatives and one Republican voted against a resolution on Wednesday which condemned those supporting Hamas in American universities, following a rise in campus tensions over the conflict in the Middle East. Newsweek

Hezbollah threatens that United States 'must pay the price for the crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza' . . . In his first speech since Israel declared war on Hamas after the Gaza terror group’s October 7 slaughter of Israelis, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday lobbed threats at the Jewish state and expressed solidarity with the Palestinians. "The US must be held accountable and pay the price for the crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza," said Nasrallah. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the terrorist group will continue its attacks on US troops in Iraq and Syria. Fox News

House Quietly Passed Resolution That Suggests Using Force Against Iran . . . The House earlier this week passed a resolution that suggested the US would use force against Iran in the future in the name of preventing the country from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The resolution passed Wednesday says a nuclear-armed Iran is "unacceptable" and declares that it’s the policy of the US to "use all means necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." Zerohedge

U.S. Drones Are Flying Over Gaza to Aid in Hostage Recovery, Officials Say . . . The U.S. military is flying surveillance drones over the Gaza Strip, according to two Defense Department officials and an analysis by The New York Times. The officials said the drones were being used to aid in hostage recovery efforts, indicating that the U.S. is more involved than previously known. The aircraft are MQ-9 Reapers operated by U.S. Special Operations forces and were first spotted on Saturday on Flightradar24, a publicly accessible flight-tracking website, though Pentagon officials said that the aircraft have been active in the area since the days after the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel by Hamas. New York Times

Russia's biggest drone strike in weeks hits Ukrainian infrastructure . . .  Russia launched a massive drone attack early on Friday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, officials said. The air force said it shot down 24 "Shahed" drones out of 40 launched by Russia, the biggest drone attack in weeks to target Kharkiv in the northeast, Odesa and Kherson in the south and the region of Lviv on Ukraine's border with Poland in the west. Reuters

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Money

Sharp U.S. Hiring Slowdown Signals Cooling Economy Ahead . . . Hiring slowed sharply in October, a sign the economy is cooling this fall following a hot stretch over the summer. U.S. employers added 150,000 jobs in October, down from the previous month’s revised gain of 297,000, the Labor Department said Friday. That was the smallest gain since June, with automakers having around 33,000 fewer workers on payroll because of the United Auto Workers strike. The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% from 3.8% the prior month. Wall Street Journal

Why does US economically help nations that want to harm the West? . . . The West must end the economic support given to our adversaries through sanctions loopholes, subsidies, investments and other aid. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), to which the U.S. is the most significant contributor, has provided Russia with at least $30 billion in economic support since 1998. It is time for Congress to undertake a comprehensive review of America’s direct and indirect economic support for adversaries, their investments in U.S. assets, real estate and companies. In October, the Czechoslovak Group (CSG) — an enterprise that allegedly has ties to Russian interests — purchased Vista Outdoor, a prominent American ammunition company, for nearly $2 billion. CSG even sponsored an exhibition in Moscow to help Russian authorities secure European military technologies and has engaged with prominent Russian organization linked to the regime. Yet there was scant attention paid to this transaction in the U.S. Fox News

Culture

High school students walk out of class in protest of transgender bathroom policy: 'They ignore us' . . . Students at a Virginia high school in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) walked out in protest of the district’s gender policy that allows non-binary, gender-fluid and transgender students to use whichever school bathrooms and locker rooms they want based on their chosen gender. Around 50-100 students at Woodgrove High School, in Purcellville, Virginia, participated in the walkout to protest Policy 8040, which the Loudoun County School Board implemented in 2021, ABC WJLA reported. The students said they wanted LCPS to revert to a policy that provided female and male-only spaces, including bathrooms, locker rooms and showers. Fox News

‘He Sees All White People as Racist’: Military Assessment Criticizes Air Force Colonel’s Leadership . . . Col. Ben Jonsson, an Air Force officer who accused his fellow “white colonels” of being “blind to institutional racism,” is the subject of blistering criticism from subordinates at MacDill Air Force Base, where he served as commander from 2020 to 2022. Jonsson is among the more than 300 military officers awaiting Senate approval for a promotion. Daily Signal

Jeff Bezos Leaves Blue City for Read State . . . Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday that he is departing Seattle for Miami. “Seattle has been my home since 1994 when I started Amazon out of my garage. That’s my dad behind the camera in this video, touring Amazon’s first “office.” My parents have always been my biggest supporters. They recently moved back to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger (Miami Palmetto High class of ’82 — GO Panthers!)” Bezos wrote on Instagram. Daily Caller

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