From "worked her way through college" to "she worked a summer for pocket money" to "never mind".

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In the grand scheme of things, and in view of the massive fraud that put her and her sleep partner in office to begin with, this is small potatoes, but it’s telling nonetheless.

‘I Did Fries’: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald's, but She Never Mentioned It Until She Ran for President. Did She Really Toil Beneath the Golden Arches?

Harris's résumé a year after she graduated college makes no mention of McDonald's

The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.

"I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?"

"I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s," laughed Harris. "When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier."

"I didn’t know that about you," gasped Barrymore.

Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life—that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.

Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she "was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s."

McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as "her humble background." (Harris is the daughter of an eminent cancer researcher, whom her campaign calls "a working mother," and a tenured Stanford economist, who split when Harris and her sister were children.)

Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. "Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college," campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she "work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s." And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that "she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s."

At the same time, however, Harris’s image makers tweaked the story ever so slightly. According to an August 14 item in Politico, an early cut of a Harris campaign ad said she worked at McDonald’s to "pay her way" through college. Aides changed the script to reflect that "she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money," as Politico put it.

The Politico story, which was published just hours after the Washington Free Beacon reached out to the Harris campaign with a series of detailed questions about Harris’s claims regarding her job at McDonald’s, didn’t say when exactly—or where—Harris worked at the restaurant. The campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s inquiries.

It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.

There’s much more at the link, including documentation that she never stepped foot in a McDonalds kitchen in her life, but enough’s enough. More important, how did her interview taping go yesterday, and have her handlers cleaned it up enough to make it safe to broadcast tomight?

East side, west side, Colorado is dividing

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The eastern side of the Front Range has illegal aliens and transgender politicians; the western side, thanks to the same eastern liberals who brought the criminals and boys who think they’re girls into the state, now have wolves. It’s not going well for either side.*

Colorado’s First Gentleman [sic] quits social media after Facebook spat over wolves: ‘Truth is I don’t care’

Colorado First Gentleman Marlon Reis deactivated his social media accounts after getting into a howling match about wolves on Facebook over the weekend.

Reis, who is Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ husband, had posted online about grants the state was offering for nonlethal wolf deterrents when he got into a heated exchange in the comments with David Gittleson, according to 9 News.

Gittleson is a rancher in Walden — a town of about 600 people 150 miles northwest of Denver — and for years has dealt with wolves killing his livestock even before Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) formally reintroduced them to the state in December, the outlet reported.

“The truth is I don’t care. I don’t care what you do or don’t eat. I don’t care what you think you know or what you think you’re qualified to comment on,” Rais railed at Gitttleson, according to screenshots obtained by the outlet. 

The far-left, urban voters of Colorado voted to release wolves into cattle country, but not, of course, on their side of the Front Range, but over the mountains and into cattle country, with the Rockies serving as a barrier to protect Denverites’ Labradoodles and golden retrievers. This has not gone well, for the ranchers.

April 18, 2024: Reintroduced wolves kill 4 yearling cattle in latest string of livestock attacks

Wolves that killed were part of group reintroduced in December

Wolves killed several yearling cattle in north-central Colorado this week, bringing the total number of wolf kills of livestock this month to six.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Thursday confirmed that wolves killed three yearlings on a Grand County ranch between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The carcasses were discovered Wednesday, agency spokesman Travis Duncan said in an email.

On Thursday, wildlife officials investigated a fourth yearling killed on the same property and determined the animal was killed by a wolf.

The wolves in the area at the time of the attacks were among the 10 wolves released in the state in December as part of a voter-mandated reintroduction effort to restore the predator to the Colorado landscape, Duncan said.

One of the wolves released in December killed a calf April 2 in Grand County. A few days later, a wolf killed a calf in Jackson County, which borders Grand County to the north.

The risk of wolves preying on livestock fueled strong opposition by ranchers to the reintroduction measure, which found most of its support from urban voters. Owners of livestock killed by wolves are eligible for compensation from the state.

December 9, 2022:

Wolf reintroduction was approved by voters in 13 of 64 Colorado counties


In case you missed it, the draft plan of Colorado's wolf reintroduction program was released today. It's the result of a 2020 ballot item in which 50.91 percent of the state's voters approved the initiative by a narrow margin. A common gripe about the plan is that while wolves are set to be released west of the Continental Divide, counties that voted to mandate the reintroduction program lie heavily east of that natural barrier.

Believe it or not, the measure passed with only 13 of Colorado's 64 counties voting in favor of reintroducing wolves – roughly 20 percent. The heavily-populated Denver metro area proved to be highly supportive, with 66 percent of Denver County voters and 68 percent of Boulder County voters voting in favor of approval.

Voting yes: Flatlander transplants in ski country, and the arrivistes of denver and boulder

*Video shows armed gang at troubled Colorado apartment building believed to have been taken over by migrants. One anonymous resident told Fox News Digital, 'there's no help coming for any of us'

It's probably not on auto-pilot, we just don't know who among Obama’s crew is actually steering the ship of state

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Joe Biden Appears to be Done Pretending to be President

Over at Townhall, Katie Pavlich asks two important questions. First, where is Joe Biden? And second, who is running the country at the moment? The subject arose because people have been looking at the President's schedule as published by the White House. Normally that schedule is sparse with a very early lid on the best of days. But now it's absolutely empty. Biden just came back from a one week vacation in California, but he headed immediately to his mansions in Delaware for another two weeks of rest and relaxation. There is nothing on the schedule after the President's daily briefing each morning and we're not entirely sure that he's even getting those. The Vice President is out on the campaign trail constantly. So we shall ask once again. We're supposedly overseeing two separate wars overseas and wrestling with multiple crises back at home. Who exactly is running the United States?

On top of that mystery, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre has seemingly disappeared. Her schedule includes no briefings in the coming weeks. The only sound coming from the executive branch at the moment is that of crickets. John Kirby was trotted out to attempt to answer the above questions for a reporter. When he was bluntly asked who is running the country right now, he said it was President Joe Biden. Since there is no evidence pointing to this being true, he attempted to say that Biden has been regularly taking calls from other world leaders and "staying on top of" world events. But normally when world leaders are on the phone with the President, a summary of the call is distributed to the press corps with any potentially sensitive information omitted. Why haven't we seen any of those summaries?

Meanwhile, the few reporters who managed to catch a glimpse of Joe Biden exiting Air Force One in California reported something disturbing. They said that Biden was "visibly shaking" and needed a physical "boost" from Secret Service to even climb into his SUV.

Jazz Shaw:

Allow me to take a shot at answering both of the title questions here based solely on intuition and recent history. First, where is Joe Biden? The vast majority of the time the answer is that he's on vacation. The physical location doesn't really matter, whether it's some resort or Camp David or on the beach in Delaware. Biden has long since eclipsed the record for the amount of time spent on vacation by any president in modern American history. Even when he's at the White House, he will have at most one or two events on his schedule in the morning and a lid called by lunchtime. Frankly, we've known about his routine for quite a while. But now that he's no longer running for another term, he simply doesn't have to bother pretending anymore.

As to who is running the country, that answer has been the same for at least the past two years also. Unfortunately, we still don't know the names of the people who are specifically taking care of the day-to-day operations, though the country very much deserves to know. Whoever it is or whoever they are, nobody voted for them. That much we can be sure of. It's probably some combination of Ron Klain and Jeff Zients, perhaps with a few others mixed in. We may never know unless someone eventually writes a tell-all book long after this entire crew has ridden off into the sunset on their private jets.

I'm not sure which is less problematic. We have a choice of the country being run by a group of anonymous shadow figures who nobody voted for or having Biden go back to attempting to actually do it himself in his current condition. We can only shudder and imagine what the official schedule will look like if Kamala Harris becomes the President. It will no doubt include some Venn diagrams, though. And perhaps some pictures of a big yellow school bus.

I can only hope that material like this is reaching undecided voters — although if they still can't choose, they're probably hopeless.

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HARRIS: But our country is counting on you. All of you. You are leaders by the very fact that you all are in your room, doing what you do at this incredible school, doing it as one big team, understanding all of the different parts that fit together to create a team.

Bonchie:

“There are always two tells that Harris is about to drop some knowledge. First, she starts speaking as if she's addressing a kindergarten class, with a plodding and deliberate pace. Then it's time for the arms to get going. The more she flails with big sweeping motions, the more she's trying to fill space and sound smart while only accomplishing the former.

“I mean, what is she even saying there? How is every student in the room a leader just by being there? That's not how leadership works at all. On the contrary, the entire point of a team is that people fill different roles, including only a select few being leaders. It sounded good in her head, though. “

My favorite also:

“My favorite part of that clip isn't what's coming out of Harris' mouth, though. Instead, it's seeing Walz start profusely nodding at the end [and in the middle – Ed] as if she had just had just delivered a revelation from on high. I'll give him this. He may be a chronic liar who stole valor, but he's got the lap dog thing down pat.”

House and 8 acres (two lots) sold on Cherry Valley Road

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91 Cherry Valley Road, 4 acres, 1953 home that could use some (very) serious updating, $3.7 million ($3.950).

The same buyer also purchased the adjoining, separately-titled 4 acre lot at 0 Highland Farm Road for $1.7 ($1.950 ask).

So, and to save you the math, $5.4 million for 8 acres and either a money pit or building site, with an opportunity to build two houses.

And after she went to such effort

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Bitter, Angry Left Remains Livid After Trump Humiliated Biden-Harris on Third Anniversary of Abbey Gate

[A] t the invitation of the families of the 13 service members killed at Abbey Gate during the Biden-Harris botched withdrawal from Afghanistan -- Donald Trump went to Arlington Cemetery for a wreath-laying and memorial.

Where were Biden-Harris? Well, Harris was hiding her campaign in the basement and Biden was lounging on a beach in Delaware.

They could have chosen to attend an event or host one themselves. They didn't.

And somehow, that's Trump's fault. Because of course.

Here are two such attacks — and responses thereto

And here’s someone who, apparently, wants to arrest those Gold Star families:

And the response: