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NFL Hall of Famer and ESPN football analyst Shannon Sharpe was recently hit with a $50 million lawsuit accusing him of rape, battery, and emotional abuse. The plaintiff, whom Sharpe has identified as OnlyFans model Gabbi Zuniga, has accused Sharpe of raping her twice, recording sexual encounters without consent, and threatening her.

Zuniga’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, who’s litigated against several high-profile black celebrities — including Jay Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Deshaun Watson — released a short audio clip to TMZ, in which Sharpe can be heard telling Zuniga, “I’m going to f**king choke the s**t out of you when I see you.” Sharpe has vehemently denied all allegations, claiming the relationship was consensual and that the audio clip was intentionally edited to misrepresent a consensual interaction.

Now another audio clip has been leaked, pouring even more gasoline on the controversy. This clip from March 2025 allegedly captures former NBA player Matt Barnes claiming that Shaquille O’Neal was offering “top dollar” for incriminating information on Shannon Sharpe.

– YouTube

“He said that Shannon did some s**t back to him a while back, and he’s been awful, so that’s why he’s doing this. But please, please, please keep his name quiet,” Barnes allegedly says.

Barnes has denied the authenticity of the audio clip, claiming it was AI-generated.

Despite his denial, Jason Whitlock says high-profile celebrities putting a “financial bounty” on those they don’t like is sadly very common.

“Shaq’s a billionaire, and he’s got a problem with Shannon Sharpe. He can put money out and say, ‘Anybody – I got 500,000 bucks or 50,000 bucks or 100,000 bucks or a million bucks if you got dirt on Shannon Sharpe,'” he says.

He recalls a conversation he had with his friend, former NFL player Derrick Thomas, in the “late 1990s,” during which Thomas told him there was “animus and beef” between Shaq and Sharpe over a woman.

Jason doesn’t know if this age-old rivalry has anything to do with Shaq allegedly offering a high price for dirt on Sharpe, nor does he know if the Zuniga lawsuit is connected in any way to Shaq’s alleged vendetta.

“I’m not saying Shaq is involved in the downfall of Shannon Sharpe here, but what I’m saying is, like, these guys at this level, when … you live as unrighteously as [Sharpe] has, you’ve left dirt out there for people to use to compromise and embarrass you and take you down,” says Jason.

“Shaq makes it no secret he’s some sort of mason,” he explains. He and those like him “make it no secret that they feel like they’re power players in control of the culture.”

This scandal, he says, shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“We love to celebrate these athletic billionaires without reflecting on how much power we’re granting them and then what cultures are they attached to,” Jason says. “When they all attach themselves to hip-hop — that degenerate, pagan, demonic culture … we should not be shocked at the ramifications of that and where that ends up leading.”

To hear more of Jason’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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On Friday, Saskatchewan truck driver Chris Barber took to X and posted a photo of “Big Red,” his 2003 Kenworth W900Lr. With it, he included a reminder of Canada’s upcoming federal election April 28.

“This is my livelihood, the breadwinner that has kept my family fed for years, and the crown seeks to destroy my life and future because we took a stand against tyranny. Government overreach at its finest. Our Canada under #Liberal rule!!!!! Vote smart #Canada”

The Convoy was the largest peaceful protest in Canadian history, and these proceedings now hold the title of longest mischief trial in the history of the nation.

As one of the faces of 2022’s Freedom Convoy, the largest and most effective populist uprising in recent history, Barber has been subject to three years of vicious lawfare from the Liberal-controlled Canadian government.

And now that same government wants to take “Big Red,” which has become a symbol of the Convoy.

The truck stops here

On Thursday, April 3, a ruling came down in an Ottawa courtroom against Barber and another prominent Convoy protester, Tamara Lich, a grandmother and musician from Alberta.

Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey gave her final judgments on a number of charges stemming from the three-week protest in February 2022, where Barber, Lich, and thousands of others exercised their once-cherished rights to freedom of expression, hurting no one and causing no property damage as they demanded to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his underlings and negotiate an end to Trudeau’s punishing COVID regime.

Perkins-McVey acknowledged the peaceful nature of the protest in her ruling, despite presiding over 45 days of government testimony spread across 20 months in a Kafka-esque show trial where the government argued over the minutiae of TikTok videos and the meaning of slogans such as “Hold the Line!”

Court-sanctioned ‘mischief’

This entire situation has been one for the record books. The Convoy was the largest peaceful protest in Canadian history, and these proceedings now hold the title of longest mischief trial in the history of the nation.

Prosecutors failed to convince Perkins-McVey of most of their cases against Lich and Barber, who were found not guilty of intimidation, along with other fraudulent and spurious charges.

Lich and Barber were, however, found guilty of mischief, and Barber additionally was found guilty of disobeying a court order regarding the honking of truckers’ air horns, which became a rallying cry of the protest and an instant online meme. Barber had made a video telling his followers to honk their horns in defiance of the order if, and only if, their trucks were approached by a large group of police officers. This context didn’t move Perkins-McVey.

The problem with mischief, as a criminal charge in Canada, is that it is a “property” crime, and a conviction can land you in prison for a maximum of 10 years.

What was the property here? The public property of the streets of Ottawa.

Hamas exception

In a very peculiar part of the ruling, McVey asserts that the public’s enjoyment of the use of city streets took precedence over the Convoy’s right to protest. It ought be noted that since the tragic events in Israel in October 2023, supporters of Hamas have protested every single week, unencumbered by the government, nor have they been accused of interrupting the enjoyment of those streets.

At the conclusion of the ruling, Justice Perkins-McVey sought to issue sentencing the following day, but on the objection of the prosecutors, a later date was set to … set another date.

Prosecutors wanted time to assemble more victim impact statements, as if three years of hearing from Ottawa’s bureaucrats about the delusions of phantom honking wasn’t enough to assemble them all. Maybe they needed to hear about the honking again, just one more time. In case anyone forgot.

‘Red’ notice

On April 16, we found out the punishment that the crown seeks against Lich and Barber is two years in a federal clink, and, in a request that is clearly vindictive and requires an essay of its own to unpack, the crown is seeking to seize “Big Red.”

Barber’s rig had become a symbol of the Freedom Convoy, featured in thousands of pictures, videos, and memes, as it led the Western Canadian Convoy to Ottawa. Barber has owned and operated that truck since 2003 and put 3.4 million kilometers (roughly 2.1 million miles) on it, mostly hauling heavy agricultural equipment across his home province of Saskatchewan and picking up new equipment from factories in America for his customers.

In the 22 years Barber has owned and operated that truck, he has raised his children in it over trips too many to count, and when his dog Buddy was approaching the end of his life, the poor old dog was put down while lying on the passenger seat: Buddy’s favorite place to be.

With the mischief conviction, Barber may not be allowed back into the United States to serve his customers, a pretty major blow to his business — and punishment enough, in a way.

A new low

What justice is served in this move by the Canadian government? In all the hundreds of prosecutions of other Convoy protesters, many of which remain ongoing, never has the government sought to seize anyone’s property.

Perhaps authorities did enough of that during the protest itself, when they froze hundreds of people’s bank accounts and locked them out of economic life altogether, something that likewise happened to Barber. The actions of the banks were so comprehensive that drivers working for Barber’s small company were calling him when the bank freezings started, to tell him the fuel cards for their trucks no longer worked.

It seems like the government is trying to send a message to every Canadian that dissent will not be tolerated at all and that if you defy the government diktat, the authorities will crush you, your family, and your very own business.

Barack Obama famously dismissed the efforts of American business owners with his comment, “You didn’t build that.” It seems that the Canadian government, under the Liberal Party of the very recently departed Justin Trudeau, is building on Obama’s attitude.

He built that

It doesn’t matter that Chris Barber did build something. Never mind the time and blood and sweat and sacrifice he put into his successful small trucking company. Our leaders can come and take it all away with the swipe of a pen.

Truly and terribly evil — and unbecoming a once supposedly free country.

Lawyers for Barber have filed for a stay of proceedings. It’s a pretty long shot, but if granted, this gross abuse of state power and capricious message-sending will be stopped.

Meanwhile, in a TikTok video thanking his supporters, Barber paid tribute to “Big Red:”

I bought this truck brand-new in 2003, November 26 to be exact, and I’ve got 3.4 million kilometers on this truck as of today. I have raised my children in this truck. I have trucked all over North America with this bad boy. It is a piece of me. It even has the little foot marks from where Jonathan as a toddler used to kick the dash with his little winter boots in the car seat.

Click here to watch the message in its entirety.

A version of this article previously appeared on the Autonomous Truck(er)s Substack.

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Give George Clooney a little credit.

The star played a doctor on NBC’s “ER” for five seasons, but he never dragged a stranger into surgery to remove his gallbladder.

David’s ‘My Dinner with Adolf’ op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week got a lot of attention, in part because it’s the first time David created something profoundly unfunny.

“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.”

Too bad he doesn’t take a similar approach to his newest gig. He’s starring as journalist Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the Broadway adaptation of his 2005 film. Now, everywhere, Clooney is weighing in on the state of journalism as if he spent decades under the tutelage of Woodward and/or Bernstein.

He didn’t. And it shows. Every time he hails the glory of the fourth estate, he ignores how it covered up President Joe Biden’s obvious dementia-like condition. Even worse for Clooney? He did, too. He saw the diminished Biden up close and personal at a DNC fundraiser last June but didn’t write his “Get Out, Joe” New York Times op-ed until weeks later.

The least Clooney can do now is act a little embarrassed …

Netflix to cinemas: Drop dead

Ted Sarandos has vision. To a point.

The Netflix CEO lords over the mightiest streaming platform —the one that inspired “Netflix and chill” — and has scared movie studios silly.

Why? Netflix churns out film-quality “content” that allows consumers to stay home rather than go to the cineplex.

That’s a dying model anyway, Sarandos argues.

“Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows. … It’s an outdated concept.”

In the same speech, Sarandos explained why theaters will go the way of the eight-track tape.

“If you’re fortunate to live … in Manhattan, and you can walk to a multiplex and see a movie, that’s fantastic. Most of the country cannot.”

Shhh! Nobody tell him they invented these box-like contraptions that take people from point A to point B on just a few drops of fossil fuel …

Jar Jar’s comeback

We’re sorry, George! (Lucas, not Clooney.)

The “Star Wars” maestro caught endless heat for his prequel films: “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith.” The trio couldn’t replicate the magic of his original saga.

And to be blunt, Padme, Anakin, and Jar Jar Binks never joined the pop culture canon like Han, Chewie, and friends.

Now, “Revenge of the Sith” is getting a re-release for its 20th anniversary, and the film could make a pretty penny. Initial calls say it’ll make $25-plus million, a remarkable sum for a title that’s been available on home video for years.

That’s also more than brand-new films like “Until Dawn” and “The Accountant 2” will earn in their debut frames.

Movie studios might want to give their film libraries a long look moving forward. It might be more profitable than greenlighting yet another remake or reboot …

Marvel’s ‘Fantastic’ fanatics

Speaking of reboots, the actors behind the upcoming “Fantastic Four” update have a message for Rachel Zegler. Hold our beer.

First, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn (Invisible Girl and the Human Torch, respectively) trashed the comic book source material as antiquated, much like Zegler did with Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Now, co-star Pedro Pascal is declaring war on beloved author J.K. Rowling. Her crime, in the actor’s eyes? She cheered on the U.K.’s Supreme Court for deciding that men are men and women are women. Oh, and she doesn’t think trans women should compete against biological women.

The horror, the horror.

Pascal called for a boycott of the new “Harry Potter” Max series and all things Rowling.

Is this any way to promote a movie? “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” hits theaters July 25. We’ll see if the Zegler effect hampers its box-office tally …

Maher’s fuhrer furor

That’s what friends aren’t for.

Larry David took his pal Bill Maher to the woodshed for daring to break bread with President Donald Trump earlier this month. David’s “My Dinner with Adolf” op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week got a lot of attention, in part because it’s the first time David created something profoundly unfunny.

Well, Maher is firing back at his “friend,” although it appears their bond may be fading fast.

“But you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know, like, that should kind of be in its own place in history.”

Read it again with the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme music playing. Loud.

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On April 2, President Trump announced a sweeping policy of reciprocal tariffs aimed at severing America’s economic dependence on China. His goal: to reshore American industry and restore national self-sufficiency.

How can the United States defend its independence while relying on Chinese ships, machinery, and computers? It can’t.

Tariffs aren’t just about economics. They are a matter of national survival.

But time is short. Trump has just four years to prove that tariffs can bring back American manufacturing. The challenge is steep — but not unprecedented. Nations like South Korea and Japan have done it. So has the United States in earlier eras.

We can do it again. Here’s how.

Escaping the altar of globalism

Tariffs were never just about economics. They’re about self-suffiency.

A self-sufficient America doesn’t depend on foreign powers for its prosperity — or its defense. Political independence means nothing without economic independence. America’s founders learned that lesson the hard way: No industry, no nation.

The entire supply chain lives offshore. America doesn’t just import chips — it imports the ability to make them. That’s a massive strategic vulnerability.

During the Revolutionary War, British soldiers weren’t the only threat. British factories were just as dangerous. The colonies relied on British imports for everything from textiles to muskets. Without manufacturing, they had no means to wage war.

Victory only became possible when France began supplying the revolution, sending over 80,000 firearms. That lifeline turned the tide.

After the Revolution, George Washington wrote:

A free people ought not only to be armed, but … their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

Washington’s first major legislative achievement was the Tariff Act of 1789. Two years later, Alexander Hamilton released his “Report on Manufactures,” a foundational blueprint for American industrial strategy. Hamilton didn’t view tariffs as mere taxes — he saw them as the engine for national development.

For nearly two centuries, America followed Hamilton’s lead. Under high tariffs, the nation prospered and industrialized. In fact, the U.S. maintained the highest average tariff rates in the 19th century. By 1870, America produced one-quarter of the world’s manufactured goods. By 1945, it produced half. The United States wasn’t just an economic powerhouse — it was the world’s factory.

That changed in the 1970s. Washington elites embraced globalism. The result?

America has run trade deficits every year since 1974. The cumulative total now exceeds $25 trillion in today’s dollars.

Meanwhile, American companies have poured $6.7 trillion into building factories, labs, and infrastructure overseas. And as if outsourcing weren’t bad enough, foreign governments and corporations have stolen nearly $10 trillion worth of American intellectual property and technology.

The consequences have been devastating.

Since the 1980s, more than 60,000 factories have moved overseas — to China, Mexico, and Europe. The result? The United States has lost over 5 million well-paying manufacturing jobs.

This industrial exodus didn’t just hollow out factories — it gutted middle-class bargaining power. Once employers gained the ability to offshore production, they no longer had to reward rising productivity with higher wages. That historic link — more output, more pay — was severed.

Today, American workers face a brutal equation: Take the deal on the table, or the job goes to China. The “race to the bottom” isn’t a slogan. It’s an economic policy — and it’s killing the American middle class.

Offshoring has crippled American industry, turning the United States into a nation dependent on foreign suppliers.

Technology offers the clearest example. In 2024, the U.S. imported $763 billion in advanced technology products. That includes a massive trade deficit in semiconductors, which power the brains of everything from fighter jets to toasters. If imports stopped, America would grind to a halt.

Worse, America doesn’t even make the machines needed to produce chips. Photolithography systems — critical to chip fabrication — come from the Netherlands. They’re shipped to Taiwan, where the chips are made and then sold back to the U.S.

The entire supply chain lives offshore. America doesn’t just import chips — it imports the ability to make them. That’s not just dependency. That’s a massive strategic vulnerability.

And the problem extends far beyond tech. The U.S. imports its steel, ball bearings, cars, and oceangoing ships. China now builds far more commercial vessels than the United States — by orders of magnitude.

How can America call itself a global power when it can no longer command the seas?

What happens if China stops shipping silicon chips to the U.S.? Or if it cuts off something as basic as shoes or light bulbs? No foreign power should hold that kind of leverage over the American people. And while China does, America isn’t truly free. No freer than a newborn clinging to a bottle. Dependence breeds servitude.

Make America self-sufficient again

Trump has precious little time to prove that reindustrializing America isn’t just a slogan — it’s possible. But he won’t get there with half-measures. “Reciprocal” tariffs? That’s a distraction. Pausing tariffs for 90 days to sweet-talk foreign leaders? That delays progress. Spooking the stock market with mixed signals? That sabotages momentum.

To succeed, Trump must start with one urgent move: establish high, stable tariffs — now, not later.

Tariffs must be high enough to make reshoring profitable. If it’s still cheaper to build factories in China or Vietnam and just pay a tariff, then the tariff becomes little more than a tax — raising revenue but doing nothing to bring industry home.

What’s the right rate? Time will tell, but Trump doesn’t have time. He should impose immediate overkill tariffs of 100% on day one to force the issue. Better to overshoot than fall short.

That figure may sound extreme, but consider this: Under the American System, the U.S. maintained average tariffs above 30% — without forklifts, without container ships, and without globalized supply chains. In modern terms, we’d need to go higher just to match that level of protection.

South Korea industrialized with average tariffs near 40%. And the Koreans had key advantages — cheap labor and a weak currency. America has neither. Tariffs must bridge the gap.

Just as important: Tariffs must remain stable. No company will invest trillions to reindustrialize the U.S. if rates shift every two weeks. They’ll ride out the storm, often with help from foreign governments eager to keep their access to American consumers.

President Trump must pick a strong, flat tariff — and stick to it.

This is our last chance

Tariffs must also serve their purpose: reindustrialization. If they don’t advance that goal, they’re useless.

Start with raw materials. Industry needs them cheap. That means zero tariffs on inputs like rare earth minerals, iron, and oil. Energy independence doesn’t come from taxing fuel — it comes from unleashing it.

Next, skip tariffs on goods America can’t produce. We don’t grow coffee or bananas. So taxing them does nothing for American workers or factories. It’s a scam — a cash grab disguised as policy.

Tariff revenue should fund America’s comeback. Imports won’t vanish overnight, which means revenue will flow. Use it wisely.

Cut taxes for domestic manufacturers. Offer low-interest loans for large-scale industrial projects. American industry runs on capital — Washington should help supply it.

A more innovative use of tariff revenue? Help cover the down payments for large-scale industrial projects. American businesses often struggle to raise capital for major builds. This plan fixes that.

Secure the loans against the land, then recoup them with interest when the land sells. It’s a smart way to jump-start American reindustrialization and build capital fast.

But let’s be clear: Tariffs alone won’t save us.

Trump must work with Congress to slash taxes and regulations. America needs a business environment that rewards risk and investment, not one that punishes it.

That means rebuilding crumbling infrastructure — railways, ports, power grids, and fiber networks. It means unlocking cheap energy from coal, hydro, and next-gen nuclear.

This is the final chance to reindustrialize. Another decade of globalism will leave American industry too hollowed out to recover. Great Britain was once the workshop of the world. Now it’s a cautionary tale.

Trump must hold the line. Impose high, stable tariffs. Reshore the factories. And bring the American dream roaring back to life.

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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s decision to scale back his role at the Department of Government Efficiency sparked the media frenzy we all expected.

Corporate media outlets wasted no time celebrating. They’ve declared the project dead, mocking the effort that has — by every metric — cut bureaucratic waste, exposed entrenched fraud, and disrupted the comfortable routine of Washington’s permanent class.

We didn’t come this far just to hand victory back to the bureaucrats.

In just 100 days, Musk brought more transparency and urgency to federal operations than most “public servants” manage in a career. Under his leadership, the DOGE slashed bloated budgets, shut down globalist slush funds like USAID, and launched investigations into waste across the Departments of Education, Social Security, and more.

DOGE isn’t just a project. It’s a movement. And it didn’t start with Elon Musk — it started when the American people sent Donald J. Trump back to the White House with a mandate to finish the job.

Voters didn’t re-elect Trump just for tough talk. They sent him to dismantle the unaccountable, tax-dollar-burning administrative state that’s grown fat off politics as usual. And the DOGE delivered.

Now, Musk reducing his hours doesn’t mean the mission is over. Far from it. The next phase requires every agency leader who believes in reform, every state and local official who sees the model working, and every grassroots patriot who wants real accountability to step up.

Ignore the media narrative. CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the usual suspects are already spinning this as a defeat. They won’t say it out loud, but what they really hate is simple: Musk asked federal employees to justify their jobs.

He demanded answers. He forced Cabinet secretaries to make hard choices. That’s not chaos. That’s reform. And it scared the right people.

So now it’s up to us. Trump provided the mandate. Musk brought the firepower. The American people must now carry this momentum forward— to local government, to state agencies, and to every inch of federal bureaucracy still resisting change.

We didn’t come this far just to hand victory back to the bureaucrats. The real work is just beginning.

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The Trump administration said it would back down after numerous court challenges to a crackdown on the legal status of international students in the U.S.

Attorneys representing the government in numerous cases said that the legal statuses of the international students would be restored while Immigration and Customs Enforcement establishes better procedures to determine which should be terminated.

‘It’s obvious that the Trump administration spent the four years of Biden plotting their revenge on the immigration system.’

Dozens of lawsuits were filed in the wake of the decision to terminate hundreds of student visas and other immigration authorizations.

Some students alleged that they were told to leave the country over minuscule infractions, while others say they didn’t know why they were being asked to leave. Some claimed that they were going into hiding over the orders.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Kurlan read a statement about the restoration of legal status in an Oakland, California, courtroom. A similar statement was about the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, read by others in other cases.

“ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations,” the statement reads. “Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain active or shall be re-activated if not currently active, and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the recent SEVIS record termination.”

The Associated Press said the terminations affected about 1,200 students, some of whom responded by leaving the country.

One of the attorneys for a terminated-status student opined that President Donald Trump had plotted the decision as a kind of revenge against the immigration system during the first and only term of former President Joe Biden.

“By now it’s obvious that the Trump administration spent the four years of Biden plotting their revenge on the immigration system,” said Cleveland-based immigration attorney Jath Shao. “But once some brave students and lawyers went to the courts — the administration’s defenders were unable or unwilling to explain the rationale.”

Democrats and other critics of the administration have accused Trump of acting unconstitutionally in some of the actions taken to fulfill his promise for mass deportations.

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A Michigan DoorDash driver brutally beat up a restaurant owner earlier this month, police said. Believe it or not, the victim said the suspect got angry — and violent — following a restroom use denial.

Police in St. Clair Shores said 20-year-old Daveon Jahmel Godbold of Eastpointe went to Amigos Street Tacos in the 22000 block of Greater Mack just after 7 p.m. April 12 and got into an argument with the owner, WJBK-TV reported. St. Clair Shores is about a half hour northeast of Detroit.

‘He was acting so violent, and he smashed the food on the floor.’

The restaurant owner told the station it all started over the business’ restroom.

“I was in the middle of fixing the bathroom,” the owner told WJBK. “It wasn’t done yet; it wasn’t connected to piping or water. He didn’t care; he used the bathroom anyway.”

With that, the owner told the station he refused to give Godbold the food order, and an argument ensued — and after that, violence.

“He took the food. He threw it on the floor,” the victim told WJBK. “He was acting so violent, and he smashed the food on the floor.”

The owner told the station that Godbold departed the restaurant — but then returned not long after with another person, and then the physical attack went down.

Surveillance video inside the restaurant shows a male that police say is Godbold jumping over the counter and attacking the victim, WJBK reported.

Godbold also was accused of damaging a restaurant window, the station said.

WJBK said Godbold was arrested during a later traffic stop.

Now Godbold is facing a long list of serious charges. The station said he was arraigned April 15 on charges of robbery, resisting and obstructing, malicious destruction of property, aggravated assault, and delivery/manufacture of marijuana.

He was given a $25,000 personal bond, WJBK said.

You can view a video report here about the incident. It includes surveillance video of the physical attack against the owner of Amigos Street Tacos.

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Hey, automakers: Enough with the upsells!

According to a new survey, most drivers are fed up with being asked to pay subscription fees for features such as heated seats or remote start that are already built into their cars.

Automakers argue that it’s about safety or innovation, but locking horsepower behind a $1,200 Mercedes paywall feels more like a shakedown.

This is a loud signal to brands like BMW, Ford, and GM. Are drivers done with the constant upsells, or could subscriptions still find a sweet spot? Here’s why consumers aren’t buying it, what automakers are missing, and how it shapes your next ride.

Missed connections

For its 2025 State of Connected Car Apps report, Smartcar (no relation to to Mercedes-Benz-owned Smart brand vehicles) polled over 1,000 drivers across the U.S. and Europe.

The findings: 76% won’t touch automakers’ connected services, free or paid.

Take Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free driving, for example: $495 a year after a 90-day trial. Or Mercedes’ $1,200 annual horsepower boost for EQ electric models. Even Toyota’s $8 monthly remote start fee.

After years of free trials and upsells, drivers surveyed in 2025 hit a tipping point. These features no longer feel optional but predatory. Yet 56% happily use third-party apps like Waze, which deliver real-time traffic data without fees.

Of the 24% who do subscribe, it’s nearly even: 49% pay, 51% get it free with the car. Meanwhile, 40% of drivers don’t even realize these services exist in their vehicles.

Hitting a wall

Automakers expect 96% of new cars to be “connected” by 2030 — Wi-Fi, apps, the works — but with three-quarters opting out, their strategy’s hitting a wall.

The resistance comes down to a few key issues. Subscription fatigue is real. Between streaming services and daily expenses, adding car fees feels like a breaking point. BMW’s 2022 attempt to charge for heated seats sparked outrage, and Smartcar’s data backs it up: 77% see these as pure profit plays, while 69% would switch brands to avoid paywalled features.

Imagine buying a $40,000 car, only to find the full stereo locked behind a $150 annual fee. It’s a hard pass for most.

Value is another sticking point. Cox Automotive’s 2023 survey showed 53% might accept subscriptions if they cut the car’s up-front cost, but back then, only 21% even knew the idea existed. By 2025, awareness has grown, but appeal has shrunk. AutoPacific data reveals EV buyers are slightly more open — 23% would subscribe — compared to 16% for gas cars.

Still, that’s a small group. Drivers want solutions, not revenue streams for manufacturers.

Privacy adds a darker layer. Mozilla’s 2024 report gave all 25 major automakers a failing grade on security standards. Cars track speed, braking, even phone contacts if synced, sharing it with manufacturers, insurers, and third parties.

Data sent to insurers can raise premiums based on hard braking or late-night drives, a reality that GM drivers faced in 2024 when habits were shared with LexisNexis without clear consent. Kaspersky’s 2024 survey found 72% of U.S. drivers reject this tracking, and 71% would opt for older cars to escape it.

Automakers argue that it’s about safety or innovation, but locking horsepower behind a $1,200 Mercedes paywall feels more like a shakedown. That explains the overwhelming pushback.

Cash cow

These companies are chasing big numbers. McKinsey forecasts $300-$400 billion in autonomous driving revenue by 2035, with subscriptions as a cash cow.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving costs $12,000 up front or $200 monthly, while GM’s Super Cruise is $25 a month after three free years. Over-the-air updates unlock hardware already installed, like BMW’s heated seats. Cox Automotive found 65% like short-term trials, but 49% would keep cars longer if features didn’t vanish behind paywalls later.

There’s a glimmer of hope for manufacturers. Smartcar notes that only 11% are fully against subscriptions. Half would use more if prices dropped, say $5 a month instead of $50. Volvo cut its Care program from $1,800 to $775 for some models after pushback.

Value proposition

Brands like Subaru offer free Starlink safety alerts — crash detection and SOS calls — proving subscriptions can win fans when they prioritize drivers over profits. Navigation that outshines Google Maps or alerts that prevent collisions could shift the tide.

Basics like heated seats or stereo features are a different story. If those are locked, many would walk away. Used cars offer an out: 71% of Kaspersky’s drivers are eyeing older models to sidestep this trend.

The Smartcar report highlights a disconnect: 76% of drivers are drawing a line. Automakers have a chance to pivot, but it’s on them to prove subscriptions aren’t just another fee. Would you pay for these features, or is it a deal-breaker? Your take matters.

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California was set to release an illegal immigrant named Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, who killed two American teenagers in a drunk driving crash — despite his 10-year sentence and ICE detainer.

However, California “was set” to release him, as border czar Tom Homan and the DOJ stepped up to the plate.

“Everybody asks why I get so emotional on network TV, why I get emotional when I testify. Because I’ve met hundreds of angel moms and dads and hear every story. I’ll never forget any of those stories. It’s just a tragedy,” Homan said in an interview on Fox News.

“But I’ll make this commitment right now. I’ll work for Secretary Noem on this case, and I guarantee you, if they don’t honor a detainer who have ICE agents outside that facility, to take custody of this individual and deport him … we will prosecute him, and we will deport him,” Homan continued.

The illegal immigrant has been deported several times already, which Homan notes makes him a felon.

“Re-entering the country at the point of deportation is a felony,” Homan explained.

The DOJ has also announced that they will be pursuing federal charges, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained as well that “if he is to be released, he will immediately be transferred into ICE custody.”

However, as seen all across the mainstream media, the Democrats are pulling out all the stops to keep these illegal immigrants protected and in the United States.

“That’s what the Democrats are hoping for now, that they can turn America into a one-party state, a blanket amnesty for however many 50 million illegals that are here,” Blaze Media digital strategist Logan Hall tells Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“That is the goal. That is why all these judges are fighting to keep all these illegals here. They want America to be blue forever and for us to never be able to deport these people who broke our laws and invaded our sovereignty,” he continues.

Democrats have been calling for the immigrants’ rights to “due process” — which Gonzales finds not only absurd, but heartless.

“You’ve got the Laken Rileys. You’ve got the Rachel Morins. You’ve got all of these American citizens who I would say were denied due process. That’s what the Democrats latest buzzword is — due process. They were denied due process whenever they were killed, brutally murdered, for no reason,” she adds.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken it upon himself to right the wrongs of the Biden administration, which unlawfully kicked service members out of the military after they refused to shoot themselves up with the COVID jab.

“We all know that the previous administration issued unlawful orders on mandatory vaccines, on an experimental vaccine — COVID-19. You know it. We know it. We’re doing everything we can, as quickly as we can, to reinstate those who were affected by that policy,” Hegseth said in a statement.

“It hasn’t been perfect, and we know that. We’re having an ongoing conversation with you to get it right, working with the White House as well. We want anyone impacted by that vaccine mandate back into the military. People of conscience, warriors of conscience — back in our formations,” he continued.

Hegseth then announced that he signed a memorandum that directs the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness to “provide additional guidance to the boards that are reviewing these cases concerning the review of requests from service members and former service members adversely impacted by COVID-19 vaccine mandate.”

“The guidance also will facilitate the removal of adverse actions on service members solely for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, including discharge upgrades and less than fully honorable discharges for individuals separated for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine,” Hegseth explained.

Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is thrilled that Hegseth is declaring the mandate unlawful and getting those brave enough to refuse it back into the military.

“I want to say thank you to Pete Hegseth, man,” Deace says. “The key phrase for people, that you need to understand why it’s key, that Pete Hegseth said, ‘This was an unlawful order.’”

“Him saying that, and saying it on the record,” he continues, “that is essentially the secretary of defense saying, ‘I am tired of working through bureaucratic channels, and I’ve got too much to handle,’ because what these bureaucrats do is take every one of these 8,000 service members and little by little try to bog them down and prove that the devil is in the details.”

“This is him testifying as a witness in any form of a proceeding, or in any filing, in court on behalf of those 8,000-plus military members. That’s why that is so key and vital,” he adds.

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that one of the three illegal aliens involved in the arrest of a former New Mexico judge had images of a decapitated victim on his cell phone.

Bondi offered the revelation as evidence that the illegal alien allegedly harbored by former Judge Jose “Joel” Cano was a member of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang from El Salvador. Cano resigned from his office after his residence was searched in February, and he was arrested on Friday.

‘Not only that, this TDA member, and he had on a necklace that said “kill,” something about death, he had tattoos all over him.’

Democrats have objected to the arrest and accused the administration of abusing government powers, but Bondi appeared on Fox News in order to deny the allegations. Fox host Sandra Smith said the illegal alien was linked to the gang through clothing, tattoos, and text messages, before asking Bondi what charges the former judge and his wife faced.

“Judge Cano, soon to be former Judge Cano — his charges were just unsealed. He is charged with obstruction. … He admitted post-Miranda. He took one of the TDA members’ cell phones himself — took it, beat it with a hammer, destroyed it, then walked the pieces to a city dumpster to dispose of it to protect him,” said Bondi.

“The wife is also charged with destroying evidence,” she continued. “Not only that. This TDA member — and he had on a necklace that said ‘kill,’ something about death. He had tattoos all over him. He also had on his cell phone pictures of two decapitated victims — two victims, decapitated!” she emphasized. “Gruesome photos!”

She went on to say that the former judge and his wife gave assault rifles with suppressors that belonged to their daughter to the alleged gang members. The affidavit said they went with the TDA members with the guns to a shooting range.

“This is the last person that we want in our country, nor will we ever tolerate a judge or anyone else harboring them!” she concluded.

Video of the allegations was posted to the White House’s rapid response account on social media.

Cano has claimed that he didn’t know the three were linked to the gang and that the first time he heard of it was when his home in Las Cruces was raided.

“Let me be as crystal clear as possible,” Cano wrote, according to KOAT-TV. “The very first time I ever heard that the boys could possibly have any association with Tren de Aragua was when I was informed of that by [the] agents on the day of the raid.”

He further claimed that he saw documentation saying they were not subject to deportation and that their asylum claims were being processed. To the charges that he took them to a shooting range, he said that he took no firearms or ammunition to the range and that he and his wife were merely spectators.

Cano has been permanently barred from serving as a judge by the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Trump has designated the Tren de Aragua gang as a terror group so that he could invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and summarily deport those identified as members. Democrats and other critics of the administration have charged that Trump has improperly deported people with dubious connections to the gang without due process.

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Two men were arrested and charged with a hate crime over the alleged assault of a couple they encountered late on April 5, according to Connecticut police.

Ryan Eustace and Ryley Haddock, both 28 years old, allegedly assaulted a man of Indian descent and his girlfriend as they were walking at about midnight on Center Street in Southington, a town of 43,000 residents near the center of the state.

Police arrested the men at the scene and determined that they assaulted the man because of his Indian heritage.

Police say the two men made derogatory statements and racial slurs against the man before they assaulted the couple.

Eustace allegedly began the altercation by punching the man in the face, and Haddock joined in the assault. After the man’s girlfriend tried to stop the assault, she was attacked before Eustace put the man in a headlock and restricted his ability to breathe.

The man suffered a bloody nose, a broken tooth, and cuts on his face, while the woman also had injuries to her face and legs. Neither was taken to a hospital.

Police arrested the men at the scene and determined that they assaulted the man because of his Indian heritage.

The two men were charged with intimidation based on bigotry/bias; ridicule related to creed, religion, color, nationality, or race; and assault. Eustace was additionally charged with strangulation.

Southington resident Jamie Elsner told WFSB-TV that she witnessed the alleged attack because she was at a nearby restaurant at the time.

“To randomly, out of nowhere, attack somebody because they don’t look like you, or they’re not your gender, or you think less of them, it’s just pathetic and sad, honestly,” she said.

“Whatever the motive was, it was not even called for, whatsoever,” Elsner added.

Eustace was given a bond of $250,000, while Haddock was given a $150,000 bond. Both bonded out of jail.

Police said that Eustace had four pending criminal cases and is a convicted felon, according to WFSB.

Video from the scene can be viewed on the news report from WFSB on YouTube.

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Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya revealed he had several “macro” ingestions of psychedelic drugs before his most recent victory.

Adesanya, who is now seemingly retired, said he had a lot of mental and emotional work to do leading up to his April 8, 2023, fight against Alex Pereira at UFC 287.

At that point, Adesanya had just lost his championship to Pereira the previous November at UFC 281 in New York City. To make matters worse, Pereira had also beaten Adesanya in kickboxing in both 2017 in Brazil and 2016 in China.

After about seven years of losing to Pereira around the world, Adesanya knew that if he was to beat his rival in Miami, he would need to do some internal work on himself.

‘I don’t know if it’s your ancestors or whatever, but I could feel myself on a level I’ve never felt before.’

“The work I’ve done on myself internally — I can’t stress that enough. The work that I’ve done through therapy, as well, and just life experience,” Adesanya said on “Pound 4 Pound with Kamaru and Henry.”

The 35-year-old then revealed that he attributed a lot of his emotional work to having had several large psychedelic trips leading up to the fight.

“The Pereira fight in Miami, I did three — not micro, macro — shroom trips in the shower where it was, like, I was able to just f**king hone in, bro.”

While Adesanya explained that he does not “go too deep” intellectually or spiritually with the drugs, he also said he got to a point where he could “feel” his ancestors.

“I don’t go too deep. It’s more, I can feel myself, I can feel myself deeper. I don’t know if it’s your ancestors or whatever, but I could feel myself on a level I’ve never felt before.”

The New Zealand resident said that he enjoyed altering his state of mind from time to time in an attempt to off-load any inner demons or feelings that he has been harboring. During this process, he recalled writing messages to himself on his mirror about having the greatest comeback in UFC history.

All the psychedelic talk inspired former UFC champion and host Henry Cejudo to ask Adesanya if he had taken up toad licking or if he would be willing to. The host asked because he noticed that Adesanya had been a guest on Mike Tyson’s former podcast, and Tyson has championed toad licking many times.

Licking toads is typically in reference to the psychotropic compounds secreted by toads from the Colorado River area, which have hallucinogenic effects. According to the Banyan Treatment Center, licking toads can lead to vivid visual hallucinations, changed time and space awareness, and spiritual experiences.

Adesanya said he was open to the experience.

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A New York City Police Department officer allegedly sent obscene material to an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl, according to authorities.

Travis DeSouza — a 35-year-old NYPD officer of Briarwood — was charged with attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors in the first degree, official misconduct, obscenity in the third degree, and attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child. If convicted, DeSouza faces up to four years in prison.

‘I should be telling you to stop … but your maturity and the way you act is different.’

DeSouza — who was released without bail Thursday, according to court records — reportedly worked in the Law Enforcement Explorers program at the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn.

The program “provides young men and women from the city’s diverse communities with an introduction to a career in law enforcement or a related field in the criminal justice system.”

“Explorers are taught the importance of higher education, self-discipline, and respect for diversity and human dignity through training, involvement in community service projects, and other Exploring events,” the program description states.

The program is said to employ “positive adult role models,” including “law enforcement officers who help young adults see officers as fellow human beings.”

The program is “geared” toward young people ages 14 to 20.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a Friday statement: “On October 3, 2024, at approximately 5:49 p.m., an undercover officer, posing as a 14-year-old girl, met with DeSouza, who oversaw the program. DeSouza asked for the undercover officer’s age, and she told DeSouza that she was 14. The undercover officer asked DeSouza for his phone number, and he provided it.”

The undercover officer reportedly had conversations with DeSouza on the Snapchat app from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10.

The DA’s office stated, “On October 10, at approximately 10:11 p.m., DeSouza allegedly told the undercover, ‘You something else.’ About a minute later, DeSouza sent the undercover a photo of a man wearing boxer shorts with his hand on his genitals.”

Citing the criminal complaint, the New York Post reported that the undercover agent asked DeSouza on Snapchat: “What’s under those shorts?”

DeSouza reportedly replied, “Something big, maybe more than you can handle.”

DeSouza allegedly set the social media messages to disappear immediately.

The Post noted that DeSouza acknowledged the age difference and allegedly told the undercover cop, “And I don’t know even why you got me thinking things I shouldn’t because of how far we are of age LOL I should be telling you to stop … but your maturity and the way you act is different.”

DeSouza allegedly sent some of the illicit messages from a New York Police Department building in Queens.

DeSouza has been suspended without pay from the NYPD, according to the department.

Katz stated, “As alleged, this defendant took advantage of his position with the NYPD to prey on someone he thought was a 14-year-old who happened to be a police officer on assignment.”

Katz continued, “The Explorers is an amazing program and our kids need to trust and have faith in its leaders. Although he was told that the ‘girl’ was just 14, the defendant allegedly sent explicit content to her. Thank you to our partners in the NYPD for their assistance with this investigation.”

DeSouza is scheduled to return to court on June 11.

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The secrecy surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy has long been a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and debate — and judging by the American people’s growing thirst for the truth, it’s for good reason.

Now, the fervor brought on by his assassination has all been reignited by the recently declassified JFK files, which Bill O’Reilly of “No Spin News” and author of “Killing Kennedy” doesn’t believe are groundbreaking in the slightest.

“There’s nothing in there that startled me, and we did some pretty heavy-duty research on ‘Killing Kennedy.’ We were lucky enough to get the original FBI notes,” O’Reilly tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” noting that those FBI notes “concluded with evidence that is rock solid that Oswald was the gunman.”

However, some conspiracy theories tell a different story — and O’Reilly isn’t buying them.

“A number of people have made millions of dollars by trumping up conspiracy theories about who killed Kennedy and how it all happened. Just remember, there is an industry that does that, and they make money,” he explains.

“I saw chatter on X from people saying, ‘Oh, Israel was involved in some way.’ Is there any truth to that?” Stuckey asks.

“No, of course not. The Kennedy conspiracy people, there’s a group on social media that desperately wants attention, and some of them can monetize that by saying outrageous things they can never back up,” O’Reilly responds.

O’Reilly has clearly done his research on Oswald and explains that the assassin was a former Marine sniper and thus an expert marksman.

“He comes back, he defects to Russia, and then after a few years, he gets married, and he comes back to the United States with his bride, Marina,” O’Reilly says. “But he’s still a nut. He was a nut when he defected, and he’s a nut when he came back.”

Oswald then sauntered into the Cuban consulate in Mexico City, where he was rejected.

“They reject him because he was a nut. Anybody knowing him knew that,” O’Reilly continues. “Oswald’s mad, he comes back to Texas. So that was what that was all about. CIA picked him up down there, saw him, and then he was surveilled to some extent in Dallas, so he was on their radar.”

According to O’Reilly, Oswald had a CIA minder in Dallas named George de Mohrenschildt, which is a curious part of the story.

“I believe and I think I can prove it that de Mohrenschildt was Oswald’s minder for the CIA. Kept an eye on him. When the congressional committee investigating the assassination approached de Mohrenschildt in Florida years later, de Morenschildt killed himself,” O’Reilly tells Stuckey.

“Wow,” Stuckey says, shocked.

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A Christian family has filed a lawsuit against a Maryland school district that isn’t allowing the family’s star student daughter to graduate over religious objections to a health class with LGBTQ+ curriculum.

The student, whose identity is being protected by Fox News Digital, has a 4.76 weighted GPA and received a 1450 on her SATs, which is in the 96th percentile, according to school records.

‘We are not trying to get MCPS to stop teaching about LGBTQ+ or change its curriculum. … We are trying to get MCPS to refrain from discriminating against religion.’

Despite her excellent records, Montgomery County Public Schools isn’t allowing her to graduate because she refuses to complete a mandatory health class with “LGBTQ+ affirming” and “religiously discriminatory” content, according to the family.

The district is defending its refusal for a religious opt-out in a separate case that is before the U.S. Supreme Court and was filed by a group of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim parents of students.

“She’s pretty distraught about not being able to graduate with all her friends and experience that rite of passage,” her father said to Fox.

The family has filed a petition at the Maryland Supreme Court to allow the daughter to graduate on the regular schedule.

The parents obtained screenshots of the teacher training documents that ordered teachers to “review LGBTQ+ resources to incorporate more inclusive language” with the students and provided them to Fox. The guidance also allegedly labeled Christians as a privileged group while labeling “Non Abrahamic Religions/Spiritualities” as oppressed.

The family offered to have their daughter take alternative classes to fulfill the health class requirement, but the district refused.

“We are not trying to get MCPS to stop teaching about LGBTQ+ or change its curriculum,” wrote the parents in a letter to the Maryland State Board of Education in March.

“We are trying to get MCPS to keep that teaching restricted to the Family Life and Human Sexuality part of the curriculum so we can get notice of it and opt-out our daughter, or if MCPS is allowed to spread LGBTQ+ instruction throughout the entire health class, as its teacher instruction materials say it is doing, it follows that MCPS should allow us to opt-out our daughter from the entire class,” they added. “We are trying to get MCPS to refrain from discriminating against religion.”

Neither the district nor the board of education responded to a request for comment from Fox.

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The Democrats are already getting ready for the 2028 election, but their choices aren’t looking so hot. And a list created by The Hill of their top 10 contenders couldn’t make that any clearer.

“It’s not a promising list. It’s not looking that good,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments, adding, “They literally have, at number 10, Stephen A. Smith.”

Stephen A. Smith is an ESPN personality who has spent his career discussing sports and getting into public scuffles with Jason Whitlock of “Fearless.” Smith has publicly toyed with the idea of running for president in several interviews — but the fact that he made it on to the list has Stu pretty hopeful for the Republican ticket.

“This is how pathetic this field is. This is how thin the bench is for the Democratic Party,” he says, before moving onto number nine on the list: Rahm Emanuel.

Emanuel was Barack Obama’s chief of staff. Stu notes that he has been relatively unheard of since the Obama era.

“It’s hard to imagine he would even have a chance,” he comments.

Pete Buttigieg also made the list at number eight, which Stu says “has got to be terrifying for you if you’re on the left,” while JB Pritzker came in at number seven.

“Who put together this list? This is a catastrophe,” he says, adding, “So far, this is a bunch of nobodies outside of Stephen A. Smith, who almost certainly won’t run.”

Whoever wrote the list certainly still has hope for a Kamala Harris presidency, as she made the list at number six, right after Governor Wes Moore (D-Md.) at number five.

“This one I see a lot of hype for,” Stu says. “Hasn’t really accomplished an awful lot, kind of an unknown nationally, but he’s generally a pretty good communicator.”

Shockingly, even Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) is a top contender at number four. Stu says he “has been a catastrophe for the state of California.”

“Let’s be honest about it. He was awful during COVID. He went out to dinner when he was trying to convince everyone else they needed to be in lockdown. That was just a total disaster. He almost got recalled,” Stu explains.

Number three isn’t much better.

“Gretchen Whitmer at number three is a disaster. She’s terrible,” Stu says, before getting to number two, who Stu admits is “a bit scary to the right.”

“It’s Josh Shapiro. Shapiro has handled a lot of the situations in his state pretty well,” he explains. “He did a pretty good job coming out talking about political violence; he kind of talked about it on either side of the aisle.”

“AOC, number one. The number-one possibility, according to The Hill, for 2028,” Stu says, shocked. “I will say, there is a path there. The path is that people really don’t like Donald Trump. The presidency goes terrible, and they’ll just reflect to whatever Democrat wins, and she’s seen as the only one taking this seriously.”

“But making AOC the voice of the left is a good thing for Republicans generally. But if things go very badly, like if there’s a massive economic crisis, then any Democrat will win,” he warns.

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Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was sentenced to 87 months in prison on Friday for federal charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud related to his 2022 campaign.

The prison sentence of more than seven years was the maximum that was sought by prosecutors, who presented evidence that the 36-year-old had stolen money as well as committed identity theft while spending lavishly on vacations and designer clothing.

‘I allowed ambition to cloud my judgement, leading me to make decisions that were unethical and guilty.’

Santos appeared remorseful in court and wept as he apologized for his actions, according to a CNN report.

“I cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead. I have tried my best,” he said.

Attorneys for Santos had asked for a two-year prison sentence for their client, whom they described as a gay man who had come from a broken home and had “built an alter ego that he showed the world.”

The Republican was expelled from the House of Representatives in late 2023 after the release of a congressional report documenting “uncharged and unlawful conduct” by the New York representative. He disdainfully accused the other members of Congress of getting drunk and sleeping with lobbyists at the time.

Santos initially mocked the case against him and claimed that he would beat the charges easily, but later agreed to a plea deal and tearfully apologized at a media briefing outside the courthouse in Islip, New York.

“It’s clear to me now that I allowed ambition to cloud my judgment, leading me to make decisions that were unethical and guilty,” he said. “Pleading guilty is a step I never imagined I’d take, but it is a necessary one because it is the right thing to do. It’s not only a recognition of my misrepresentations to others, but more profoundly, it is my recognition of the lies I told myself over these past years.”

In his plea agreement, he admitted that he had filed fraudulent reports with the Federal Election Commission in order to obtain significant financial support from the national party committee for his campaign. He also admitted to fraudulently charging credit cards of people who contributed his campaign in order to obtain unauthorized funds for his personal gain, as well as for the campaign.

At one point Santos bragged after earning hundreds of thousands of dollars on Cameo, where celebrities record videos for fans and charge them a fee. That admission might have backfired, as U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert excoriated him for not setting up an account to pay the $373,749.97 in restitution he had agreed to pay.

In addition to the restitution, he was ordered to forfeit $205,002.97.

“He rose to one of the highest offices in the land on a wave of lies,” said Assistant U.S Attorney Ryan Harris.

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Jaw-dropping cellphone video caught the moments when a group of females physically attacked two uniformed police officers outside a Southern California high school Thursday afternoon.

Turns out the San Bernardino school officers — a man and a woman — were there to break up a fight in the parking lot of Entrepreneur High School in Highland around 3 p.m. when they came under attack themselves, KABC-TV reported.

‘Am I the only one that finds the name “Entrepreneur [High] School” ironic?’

You can view cellphone video of the attack here.

It shows about four females taking turns arguing and shoving and striking the two officers. The male officer at the start of the clip continually yells at the females to “back up” and “get off” as the female cop tries to subdue one of the combatants on the ground.

Soon the male cop has enough and grabs one of the females — who’s wearing a red bandanna — and forces her to the ground, attempting to handcuff her after she had punched him in the chest.

Arguably the worst moment occurred when another female — wearing a Nike sweatshirt — actually pulled the female officer by her hair and moved her several feet backward.

Several people were eventually handcuffed, KABC said.

How are people reacting to the video?

As you might expect, observers were not thrilled by what they saw:

“Oh, the parents must be so proud,” one commenter wrote.”Am I the only one that finds the name ‘Entrepreneur [High] School’ ironic?” another user asked.”They have NO FEAR of consequences,” another commenter offered.”I counted at least 5 different times that a body slam was warranted,” another user declared.”This is what happens when politicians and command staffs constantly scrutinize and implement asinine laws and policies,” another commenter said.

Anything else?

The station said it reached out to the San Bernardino school police and the district superintendent for more information on what started the fight.

You can view a video report here about the incident.

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson told a wrestling host it was not healthy for him to be so animated over the sport and explained the whole business is not real.

Johnson’s comments stemmed from complaints about WWE’s WrestleMania 41, which aired April 19-20, and included disappointment over the fact that Johnson did not make an appearance. What made the no-show even worse was the fact that Johnson was heavily involved in the storyline leading up to the event that featured John Cena returning to the top of the promotion.

SiriusXM host and wrestling reporter Dave LaGreca was one of the most vocal critics of Johnson and heavily criticized the star for even going on talk shows after the event to say he would have done WrestleMania differently.

“Nice to hear from you now, pal. It’s over,” LaGreca said on his show “Busted Open.” “Now that everybody’s bitching and complaining. ‘Yeah. I would’ve done it differently.’ Oh, really? You talk about a Monday morning quarterback? That’s a Tuesday morning quarterback. Thanks, pal. Didn’t make yourself available. Didn’t show up at WrestleMania. But now I’m gonna say, ‘Yeah. I would have done things differently.’ You talk about completely throwing [WWE] under the bus. That’s exactly what the Rock did.”

‘Stop ranting; it’s not healthy, my friend. Enjoy the show.’

Johnson responded to the remarks on an Instagram post, which was shared by the show. In his reply, the 52-year-old immediately explained that everything in the wrestling business is for show.

“Hi Dave, the business is a complete work. Always has been, always will be,” Johnson wrote. “Every aspect of it. Every match. Every interview. Please join me, [other former wrestlers], and the rest of us for our creative discussions so you can expand your perspective.”

Johnson then told the host to “stop ranting; it’s not healthy, my friend. Enjoy the show.”

In the wrestling world, a “work” essentially means an act or a bit, and given that nearly everyone in the world knows professional wrestling comes with predetermined victors, Johnson’s reaction was taken by some as an unnecessary jab at someone who is passionate about the business.

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At the same time, Johnson’s reaction could certainly be taken as a work in itself, as the return of Cena has come with a new bit that included purposely destroying the business. The criticism here would be that Johnson is hiding behind the fact that wrestling is predetermined to escape responsibility for a poorly received product.

The WWE has certainly found new ways to blur the lines of its business in recent years, however, speaking openly about the product and its past on shows and podcasts. Even the company’s head of creative, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, has made appearances that would have made previous generations of wrestlers incredibly upset given the depth at which he has exposed the inner workings of the company.

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