Joe Biden: In ‘Five Days … We Literally Are Going to Change the Course of this Country for Generations to Come’

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a drive-in rally in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday evening that Democrats were about to change America “for generations to come.”

“Five days left. Five days,” he said, before adding moments later: “I believe when you use your power, the power of the vote, we literally are going to change the course of this country for generations to come.”

His promise, coming five days before Election Day, is reminiscent of a similar pledge made by then-Senator Barack Obama five days before the election in 2008 (emphasis added):

Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that’s taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

Biden has insisted that he is not a socialist — “I beat the socialist,” he said last month, referring to former rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — but his rhetoric has become increasingly radical since he secured his party nomination.

Last Sunday, he was asked in an interview on 60 Minutes to explain his comment in May that the U.S. needed “revolutionary, institutional changes.”

He replied: “Well, for example, I think we have to fundamentally change the way in which we deal with– institutional racism. For example– one of the hardest things, beyond police issues, there’s the issue of accumulation of wealth.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/29/watch-five-days-joe-biden-we-literally-are-going-to-change-the-course-of-this-country-for-generations-to-come/

The Seen and the Unseen of Covid-19

This is the intellectual level of the conversation [around covid-19]: You just want people do die. How do you talk to somebody like that? So, in order to do that, I’m going to appeal to the above midwit-level population and I’m going to remind people of the important lesson in Henry Hazlitt’s great book Economics in One Lesson. This is a book that’s sold millions of copies and Hazlitt’s one lesson, as we all know in this room, is that if you’re going to evaluate an economic policy, it’s not enough to evaluate the short-term consequences for one earmarked group. Any blockhead can do that. If you want to know the long-term consequences or the real consequence of it, you look at the long-term effects on everybody, not the short-term effects on an earmarked group.

For example, suppose the government taxes the public to build a stadium. Well, the midwit will simply point to the stadium and say, “Hey, look at this wonderful thing that the government did. It’s a stadium.” And yes, we can all see with our physical eyes that there’s a stadium there, but they think that’s the entirety of the analysis: a stadium has somehow appeared. There’s no thought of costs, opportunity costs, where the money came from, where it would have gone otherwise—none of that is even considered, because those things can’t be seen with your physical eyes. To understand the fullness of the policy, you have to be able to think and see with your mind’s eye.

Likewise, with rent control people think, You impose rent control and people get lower rents, and that’s the entirety of the analysis as far as they’re concerned. There’s nothing further we need to consider. We just take these fat cats and just force them to lower rents, and then everybody gets lower rent and that’s, as far as the midwit is concerned, that’s the end of the discussion, because that’s what he sees with his physical eyes. But, for people capable of seeing with their mind’s eye, they ask other questions like, How many people are going to start building low-cost rental housing if they know that this ceiling has been imposed? There will obviously be far less housing built, which will make the problem of housing people worse. We also know that at these particular rates, you have a million people and surfeit of demand, so if you’re a landlord, you can be a jerk, you don’t have to fix that leaky pipe, you don’t have to do any maintenance, because if somebody’s upset about it, you got 8 million other people who would be very happy to take that person’s place.

So, in other words, if you see with your mind’s eye, you understand that rent control is a lot more complicated than just "Duh, we forced them to lower the rent and it’s low for everybody." And in fact, if, for some reason, you wanted to lower rents through the means of government impositions, you would actually want to do the exact opposite of rent control. You would want to control every single price in the entire economy except rents, because that would make entrepreneurs not want to go into the production of anything other than rental property because everything else would be unprofitable. The one thing they could produce would be rental property, which would lead to a collapse in rental prices, which would be great for everybody. So, literally the opposite of what these people recommend would be the best thing. But the point is, we have to think about all the consequences for everybody.

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2 Men Accused of Targeting Drive-Thru Mailboxes, Stealing Election Ballots In Major Swing State

Lighthouse Point, FLA. — On Tuesday night, at 11:40 pm, two men from Opa-Locka were arrested for stealing mail from the drive-thru mailboxes located at the Lighthouse Point Post Office, police announced Thursday. Lighthouse Point Police Officer Kyle Kay observed a suspicious vehicle stationary next to the mailboxes for an unusual amount of time during the late hours and conducted an investigative stop.

Both suspects, 28-year-old Junior Alexander Cabral and 20-year-old Vladimir Cabral-Cuevas, were arrested and charged with theft of US mail, possession of US mail that contains personal information of another without their consent and illegally possession of voter ballots. In their possession was a homemade device utilized to extract pieces of mail from the mailboxes, numerous pieces of stolen mail, along with two election ballots.

“This is an ongoing criminal investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and no further information can be released at this time,” police said. “The Supervisor of Elections of Broward County along with the F.B.I. Miami Field Office have been notified of this incident.”

https://breaking911.com/2-men-accused-of-targeting-drive-thru-mailboxes-stealing-election-ballots-in-major-swing-state/

Trump meets with troops from al-Baghdadi raid during Fort Bragg visit

President Donald Trump quietly met with U.S. Special Forces troops involved in last year’s raid to kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Trump flew into Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Thursday for what the White House described as “troop engagement.” It was conducted outside the view of the press corps traveling with him.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters traveling with Trump on Air Force One after the visit that Trump presented the troops with a Presidential Unit Citation and visited a Special Forces memorial on the sprawling military base.

The visit came a little more than a year after the U.S. launched the operation to kill al-Baghdadi as he hid out in northeast Syria. The president has pointed to the raid as one of the most important national security achievements of his presidency.

Trump was also scheduled to hold a rally in nearby Fayetteville but postponed it as the area was forecast to be hit by dangerous wind gusts as Tropical Storm Zeta moves in.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/10/29/trump-meets-with-troops-from-al-baghdadi-raid-during-fort-bragg-visit/