Wake Up Right - October 22, 2024

Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! I used to think the news media had the market cornered on political bias, but sports media is giving them a run for their money…

  • On Sunday night, Donald Trump attended the NFL’s Steelers vs. Jets game on NBC. Can you guess how many times NBC showed him on the TV broadcast? Once. For four seconds.

  • For perspective, when Taylor Swift is at a game, she’s shown an average of seven times, sometimes for up to 30 seconds at a time.

Fake Sports!

  • 💸 Biden-Kamala regime sent another $400 million to Ukraine

  • Steve Bannon will be released from jail on Oct 29

  • 📊 Campaign spending in Sept: Kamala $270 million, Trump $78 million

Sources: Reuters, The National Pulse, Reuters

Price of American Dream rises to $4.4 million

The American Dream moved further out of reach this year, with a hefty price tag of $4.4 million, driven mostly by the rise in inflation under the Biden-Harris regime.

The details: Investopedia calculated the total cost for typical milestones incurred throughout a person's life, arriving at the staggering $4.4 million figure — up $1 million from just one year ago.

The numbers: These are the different milestones, along with their estimated costs:

  • 🦳 Retirement: $1,599,995

  • 🏡 Homes: $929,955

  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Raise 2 kids/college: $832,172

  • 🚘️ New cars: $811,440

  • 👰 Weddings: $44,300

  • 🐶 Pets: $36,626

  • 🏝️ Annual vacations: $179,109

  • ⚰️ Funerals: $8,453

What’s the cause? According to Caleb Silver, chief editor at Investopedia, the main driver of the rising costs has been inflation, which surged 21% under Biden and Kamala.

Zoom out: A poll from August found that 41% of Americans say the American Dream is impossible to reach.

The last word goes to Donald Trump, who penned an article in Newsweek this month, promising his policies would usher in a "New American Industrialism" that will "create millions of jobs, massively raise wages for American workers, and make the United States a manufacturing powerhouse once again."

[Source: NY Post]

Kamala is a fracking liar

Kamala Harris' campaign now claims the presidential hopefully will support fracking, flip-flopping on the key election issue for the second time.

The details: Kamala’s climate engagement director, Camila Thorndike, recently told Politico: “She is not promoting expansion [of fracking]. She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking."

Back up: During an August interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Kamala responded "No" when asked if she wants to ban fracking, adding: “As Vice President, I did not ban fracking. As president, I would not ban fracking.

Back up further: In 2019, while running for president, Kamala said: “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking.

She flops more than a European soccer player.

Cut through the noise: She thinks she’s playing a clever word game and outsmarting American voters. If she does not allow new leases for fracking, she is effectively banning, or at least restricting, an industry that is both vital to American workers and American energy independence.

It’s worth noting that Thorndike tried to backpedal from her original statement yesterday, releasing a new statement saying, “I didn't explain myself clearly here. Contrary to Trump's claims, the VP has not banned fracking.”

The last word goes to the U.S. Oild & Gas Association, which trolled Kamala on X, writing: “Wait! Change of plan from earlier this morning.... As of this afternoon, Harris now supports fracking which is a change of position from this morning in which they opposed fracking.... Which was a change from their July position in which they supported fracking.... Which was a change from their June position in which they.... Opposed fracking. Got it? Got it.”

[Source: Fox News]

📁 Classified U.S. intelligence detailing Israeli plans to strike Iran were leaked to a pro-Iranian group and posted to Telegram. Read more. Was this intentional by the Biden regime, or is there a rogue asset inside our intel agencies? Either way, not good.

💟 Donald Trump visited western North Carolina to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene, meet survivors, and share his GoFundMe for the victims raised over $8 million. Read more.

🇮🇱 Shirel Golan, a girl who survived Hamas' October 7 massacre, took her own life on her 22nd birthday, unable to deal with the post-traumatic stress. Read more.

🏛️ The Supreme Court dismissed ex-lawyer Michael Cohen’s appeal to revive a lawsuit against his former boss, Donald Trump. Read more.

🆘 An anonymous accuser says that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her when she was 13 years old at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party while two unidentified celebrities watched. Read more.

🏄‍♀️ A 36-year-old surfer was fatally impaled by a swordfish in a freak accident while she was surfing in Indonesia. Read more.

🔎 House lawmakers investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump found the attack was “preventable” and was due to “stunning security failures” by the Secret Service. Read more.

🙄 The five men convicted but later exonerated in the infamous 1989 ‘Central Park Five’ case are suing Trump for defamation for mentioning them during the recent debate. Read more. I wonder which activist Democrat lawyer is behind this…

🚇️ The trial began yesterday for veteran Daniel Penny, who is facing manslaughter charges for placing a violent subway rider in a chokehold as he was threatening passengers. The man later died. Read more.

👀 Kamala Harris’s campaign reduced her time on the campaign trail this week, opting to prepare for an interview with NBC tonight and a CNN town hall tomorrow. Read more. This is a big tell. Two weeks away from the election, Kamala should be in swing states getting her voters to the polls. Instead, she’s still trying to change people’s minds about her. Not a good sign. But don’t take anything for granted. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!

🎥 Mark Cuban gets grilled by MSNBC for hypocritical Kamala support. Watch.

🎥 A woman rushed onto the field at the Steelers game waving a pro-Trump sign. Watch.

Redirecting...

👀 There is an enemy from within the Republican party that wants to derail a Trump presidency... THIS is how we prevent that from happening.*

🎥 Lara Trump went on 'The Breakfast Club' [a NYC-based hip-hop radio station] to defend her father-in-law and expose Democrats. Watch.

🎥 Last week, they put Tampon Tim in a hunter costume. Now they have him pretending to be a coach. Watch.

🎥 Mark Cuban admits Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway is legal. Watch.

🎥 Turns out Kamala's "town hall" with Liz Cheney was fake. They only took pre-planned questions. Watch.

🎥 A caravan of 2,000 future illegals is making its way to the U.S. border. Watch.

🎥 Go long: Donald Trump chairs with voters in a Bronx barber shop. Watch. [16 minutes]

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