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New York Times Runs Huge Free Campaign Ad For Trump
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 26 Oct, 2024 | Francis Menton

Posted on 10/30/2024 4:53:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

I know it’s crazy, but I continue to get the print edition of the New York Times delivered to my front door every day. It’s part of my mission to keep up with what the other side is thinking. I read it (less and less) so that you don’t have to. But even an occasional skim makes it obvious that with every passing year and day they retreat ever more from serious news, and descend ever further into crazed partisan zealotry.

So imagine my surprise this morning when the entire central portion of page 1, covering three of six column on the top half of the front page, contains what appears to be a huge free ad for Trump for President. Here is a picture of what that looks like, with a format quite unlike all their other news columns, including much larger type than the norm, double spacing between lines, and plenty of boldface:

The headline is “If Donald J. Trump wins, he is ready to radically reshape American government from the moment he regains the White House.” (The online version of this piece has a different headline (“If Trump Wins”) and does not include the summary in the photograph above.)

And then this massive ad continues into four full pages of the interior of the paper, pages A10 to A13.

OK, I’m sure that the brilliant editors at the Times were not thinking that this huge article would be viewed as an effective campaign ad for Trump. They clearly have intended it as a harsh, definitive and irrefutable take down — the final driving of the stake through the heart of this nocturnal monster. They have spun every argument to be as damning as possible to their adversary, at least in the view from inside their bubble.

But to my reading, it sure looks like they are making a lot of effective arguments to vote for Trump. I’ll start at the beginning.

He has said he intends to expand presidential power by bringing independent agencies under his direction . . . .

That’s just saying that Trump intends to operate the federal government in accordance with the Constitution, notably the principle that “The executive Power [of the U.S. government] shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”? That quote is the first line of Article II of the Constitution. The Constitution contains no other grant of executive power. If the so-called “independent” agencies (examples include the SEC, FTC, FCC, CFTC, and many others) decline to follow the direction of the elected President, then they are acting contrary to the Constitution and undermining democracy. (For more background on how the “independent” agencies slipped the bounds of the Constitution, see my post on the subject from way back in 2016 here.)

. . . stripping employment protection from civil servants and purging officials from security agencies . . .

Civil servants who decline to follow the direction of the elected President are equally acting in defiance of Article II Section 1 of the Constitution, and of their oath to uphold the Constitution. The violation of oaths was particularly egregious within the security agencies during the first Trump term. Whichever candidate a voter may be favoring, I would hope the voter would expect the civil servants to honor the wishes of the voters and follow the directions of whoever gets elected. Of course civil servants who violate their oaths of office should be fired. So-called “civil service” protections date from a more innocent era (1880s) when naive good government types thought that the government could just be staffed by neutral and non-political “experts.” Today that has morphed into a system of a huge bureaucracy of 90+% Democrats who think they are entitled to work full-time to undermine all efforts of an elected Republican to change direction of the ship of state. I have confidence that today’s Supreme Court will uphold the ability of the President to fire civil servants who are actively working to undermine him. But while that issue gets litigated, I endorse this proposal of Steven Hayward:

Trump ought to have his cabinet officials determine who is useless or obstructive and order them to work from home. Then cut off their email and access to department computer servers the next day.

. . . He has said he would direct the Justice Department to prosecute his political adversaries, including President Biden and others he perceives as his enemies. . . .

The Times seems to think that such prosecutions would be a huge break from norms and are a signal reason to hate Trump. In the real world, of which the Times seems completely unaware, the norm has already been broken by Biden’s multiple prosecutions of none other than Trump. Harris would with 100% certainty continue those prosecutions should she win. Meanwhile, Trump is unlikely to prosecute Biden, both because it would be a distraction, and because his own recent Supreme Court victory undermines the basis for any such prosecution. And Trump did not prosecute Hillary Clinton after defeating her, despite ample basis to do so. So, if you think that prosecutions of political adversaries are a bad idea, clearly Trump is your candidate.

. . . He plans a drastic crackdown on immigration . . .

Thank you for making that clear. As far as I am aware, polls seem to indicate that out-of-control illegal immigration is among the top issues of concern to the voters.

And those are just from the first few lines of the front page summary of this big article. The farther you read, the more reasons come up to vote for Trump. Here are just a handful of further examples from the rest of the article:

- “Push for other countries to take would-be asylum seekers from the United States.”

- “[H]e has pledged to rein in regulatory agencies.”

- “If he retakes the White House, Mr. Trump would be in a far better position to dismantle environmental and climate rules.”

- “Mr. Trump . . . is offering his audiences bespoke tax cuts. For restaurant and hotel employees in Nevada . . . Mr. Trump offered ‘no taxes on tips.’ For the retired Americans who vote in great numbers, he said he would end taxes on Social Security benefits. . . .”

I’ll await the Times’s comparable write-up of the contrary campaign positions of Kamala Harris. They can try to spin Harris’s positions favorably to her, but first they’ll have to figure out what they are. Probably they have a team of 20 or so reporters out there right now trying to figure that out. Good luck coming up with anything prior to the election.


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To: Doctor Congo
https://www.yout-ube.com/yout-ube.com was created to bypass YouTube's non-skippable ads.
21 posted on 10/30/2024 6:04:14 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Doctor Congo
Went looking for the place I learned it from years ago and it is gone now.

I'm amazed to see it as presented at the web site.

22 posted on 10/30/2024 6:14:12 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MtnClimber

New York? Isn’t that the third world sh**hole that has started using taxpayer dollars to fly THEIR illegal aliens to Texas? We’ve got scumbags all over the state wearing NYC T-shirts. What the.....?!


23 posted on 10/30/2024 6:19:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Walz/Harriz RAT platform: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage.)
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To: MtnClimber

I already voted for him, they didn’t have to try to convince me.


24 posted on 10/30/2024 6:23:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


25 posted on 10/30/2024 6:29:41 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Doctor Congo
It seems to have broken into the wild some years ago as well...
https://x.com/tonyvincent/status/1455489870885896192 2021

I first heard about it back, if I remember correctly, sometime back in 2014.

26 posted on 10/30/2024 6:35:45 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump should send em a really nice thank you note for such a great free massive advertisement.....LOL


27 posted on 10/30/2024 6:43:52 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Doctor Congo

Report them as disinformation and hate speech. I have with every single one that rears it’s ugly head on YouTube.


28 posted on 10/30/2024 6:45:40 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: MtnClimber

Times readers will mostly just gasp in horror and do what they already are doing, voting for Harris. The rest, like the writer, view this as hair-on-fire hand waving, and are amused. With ad space scraping bottom, NYT also must not have enough news to report to fill it’s pages.


29 posted on 10/30/2024 7:01:45 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Red Badger; Phinneous; null and void; golux; monkeyshine; skr
"New York Times Runs Huge Free Campaign Ad For Trump"

IB "TL;DR", but at least I've documented.

The headline is “If Donald J. Trump wins, he is ready to radically reshape American government from the moment he regains the White House.”

What Aaron Judge ['ארון ג'אדג] said on 10/28:

(Game 4: 4 LAD - 11 NYY)

Aaron Judge on the Yankees' level on confidence heading into Game 4

0:02

>> AARON, HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT CHANGING THE FATE TOMORROW?

>> TAKES ONE SWING, ONE AT-BAT, YOU KNOW, ONE PLAY, EVERYTHING CHANGES FOR US. IT'S JUST THE MINDSET YOU GOT TO HAVE GOING INTO THIS. IT JUST TAKES ONE GAME.

***

Nickname: All Rise

November 18, 2024
New York City

Join us on this special evening to support our work to inspire youth to reach their unlimited possibilities.

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Monday, November 18, 2024
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Monday, November 18, 2024
17 Cheshvan, 5785:

Jewish History

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE)

The rains began to fall on the 17th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 from creation (2105), flooding the earth and rising above the highest mountains. Only Noah and his family survived, in the ark built to that end by Divine command, and a pair of each animal species, who entered with him into the ark.

Halachic Times (Zmanim)
Times for New York City (NYC), New York USA

4:35 PM Sunset (Shkiah)
5:05 PM Nightfall (Tzeit Hakochavim)

Aaron Judge, No. 99 (it's not just a number, it's a percentile):

"Judge stands 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall and weighs 282 pounds (128 kg), making him one of the tallest and largest players in MLB.[3]"

In Hebrew transliteration, the English name Aaron "loses" a letter hei [from the name's original spelling in Hebrew: אהרון "Aha"ron], thus it's "ארון", like the Ark [of the Covenant] or Joseph's coffin, as I'd mentioned yesterday concerning the Ark (aron) floating up from the depths of de Nile. An amazing story.

Aaron Judge (salary of $40 mil) sez,

I may not have a good first day, but my second day could be entirely different. I may strike out in the first inning but may hit it out of the park in my next at-bat. I may have a rough April, but if I keep trying, I might end up surprising myself and a few others around me. The story of the season isn’t written on that first day.

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https://www.aaronjudgeallrisefoundation.org/judgeschambers

The All Rise All Star gala dinner is set for

Monday, November 18, 2024
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The beginning of 18 Cheshvan, the evening following the first day the rain started fallin':

a rising tide lifts all boats

Old Noah was there to answer the call
He finished up making the ark just as the rain started fallin'

The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song

"You're never gonna see no unicorn"

That's right, because it's a double negative. Here's the famous horn in plain sight (one of the tallest and largest players), both as a vertical 1:1 model display, and horizontal, for which was built its own big house named Davidson: "DARE to Explore", because

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Apollo 11 launched to the Moon (the cause of the tides and symbolic of the Kingdom of David) on July 16th, 1969, which was Aaron's yahrzeit:

Jewish History

Aaron the first High Priest, brother of Moses and Miriam, passed away at age 123 on the 1st of Av of the year 2487 from creation (1274 BCE). This is the only yahrzeit (date of passing) explicitly mentioned in the Torah (Numbers 33:38).

Aaron Judge ['ארון ג'אדג] = 268

Remember the bowsprit of the "longest wooden ship ever built"? What I hadn't mentioned earlier is that her bowsprit points to the house on the corner -- 268, which is the "Rabbeinu" [רַבֵּינוּ] of "Moshe Rabbeinu" [משֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ], Moses our teacher.

All rise, and

"Hands Up!"

"Hineni", and emerge transformed.

[Eureka] is the largest existing wooden ship in the world.

epic: extending beyond the usual or ordinary

Yet as long as this goes on in every direction, what do you figure that people are going to get the surprise of their lives?

🤷

("TL;DR")

30 posted on 10/30/2024 7:14:06 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: MtnClimber

Brilliant!


31 posted on 10/30/2024 8:57:31 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MtnClimber

Fantastic home page! What great adventures!


32 posted on 10/30/2024 10:56:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks, been on lots more than on the home page.


33 posted on 10/30/2024 12:52:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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