Friends, if you haven't seen it, you should definitely watch Kamala Harris's interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. It ain't pretty, but it's enlightening. Kamala bobs and weaves a ton, which isn't all that surprising, as a politician will seldom give a straight answer, but what did shock me was her tone, which was defensive, peevish, and at times just plain angry. Possibly she's never been asked a non-obsequious question before, but she sure didn't seem to like it. She also laid on the anti-Trump rhetoric fairly thick, which is an interesting choice, and perhaps inevitable if her campaign is faltering as much as many of the so-called experts (like me) claim it is. If Trump hatred hasn't sealed the deal for Democrats yet, though, I kinda doubt that it will now. At any rate, I got the impression from the big debate that Kamala was a cool customer, but it seems to me that she lost her cool Wednesday night. And joy? Nope. Didn't notice any joy at all.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112
In other news, in an interesting twist, the U.K.'s leftist Labour Party is sending activists to this country to help the Harris campaign. The media, apparently, is unmoved by this "foreign election interference", as it tends to move the dial in the establishment direction, which of course the vast majority of "foreign election interference" does! Trump does not have many fans in the halls of power overseas.
As Harris's chances of victory diminish, at least based on public polls and betting markets, an increasing number of progressives are clutching their pearls and decrying the electoral college, which might very well hand Trump a victory that he fails to win in the popular vote. And that raises the question of whether Harris and the Democrats would accept a Trump electoral college victory if it happens, or whether they would argue that, based on the popular vote and on the fact that Trump is, ipso facto, disqualified by being an insurrectionist, this means that Congress has no obligation to certify him as the winner and allow him to be president. At the very least, this is a question that someone ought to be asking Harris: if Trump wins the electoral college, will you concede defeat?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/us-election-electoral-college
https://thespectator.com/newsletter/kamala-commit-certifying-trump-win-bad-press-10-15-2024/
Finally, some sources are claiming that North Korea is sending troops to Russia to join the war against Ukraine. Well, maybe. North Koreans are training in Russia, but no one can be sure of their ultimate destination. In any case, the bigger story here is not the cozy relationship between Russia and North Korea, but the role of China as North Korea's main sponsor. If North Koreans start charging Ukrainian positions in Donbass, it will be because the Chinese want them to, signaling a greater level of Chinese support for Russia and a willingness to risk a more definitive break with the West.
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