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There’s nothing Democrats love more than making a scene, and Don Lemon is no exception.

In a recent video post and hand-typed letter, Lemon announced to the world that he would sadly be leaving the social media platform X.

“I’ve loved connecting with all of you on X, but it’s time for me to leave the platform,” he began in his letter. “I once believed it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency, and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose.”

Lemon also quoted a Washington Post article explaining that X’s recent decision to change the terms has turned it into a “hub for conservatives, which experts say could make it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and punish critics.”

He finished his devastating statement by noting that he would be on the new social media platform BlueSky, where his Democratic friends can join him. The ex-anchor has also been quite active on TikTok, where he’s been posting man on the street-style videos — and some of them feature some clear self-owns.

“Women I’ve been talking to are really, really concerned, and they’re emotional, and I think a lot of them have a right to be,” Lemon said to a man in one short interview.

“Politicians aren’t perfect, they’re imperfect like everybody else. Trump’s rhetoric isn’t for everybody, his style isn’t for everybody, we got a lot of good things done under Trump,” the man responded to Lemon’s surprise.

“A woman’s right to choose is removed under Trump,” Lemon countered.

“That’s not the only issue in this world,” the interviewee shot back. “A percentage of the female vote went up 2%. So are those women crazy? I mean, it’s not 50%, but it’s high 40s, and he got that. So ask those women why they voted for Trump. So clearly, it wasn’t just abortion was the issue.”

“They’re concerned about the broken border; they’re concerned about crime; they’re concerned about inflation; they’re concerned about a lot of other things. So women are not one-dimensional. Men are not one-dimensional. And so if you’re upset about abortion, great. If that’s your prime issue, then go live in a state that’s pro-choice,” the interviewee continued.

“That’s easy for you to say as a man,” Lemon countered.

“Well, dude, it’s easy for me to say a lot of things. Sure, I’m not a woman, that’s why I don’t opine on abortion,” the interviewee said, nearly laughing.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is impressed, noting that “he just owned Don Lemon.”

“He posted that on his own site,” Keith Malinak says through shocked laughter. “Kudos to rando guy in the park.”

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As our nation looks forward to turning the page into a new era following the clear mandate for freedom in the recent election, the existing regime is not going quietly into the night.

Alex Jones’ Infowars has allegedly been acquired by the satire site the Onion in a court-ordered bankruptcy auction. Developments on Friday have cast doubt on the legitimacy of this acquisition, however.

Thanks to X, he moved studios and was able to immediately start broadcasting again.

On Thursday, there were reports that the Onion had acquired Alex Jones’ Infowars. By late Friday morning, Alex Jones released a statement alleging that the auction for his assets was fake and that there is now an ongoing criminal investigation into the proceedings. Infowars.com is once again live after being taken down from Thursday into Friday morning.

According to
BBC News, the Onion bought Infowars with the support of the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, who won a $1.5 billion defamation lawsuit over Jones’ claims surrounding the school shooting. Financial details have not been disclosed.

Ben Collins, the CEO of the Onion, is
reported to have said, “The Onion has a long history of helping the American public navigate some of the most difficult moments in American life, from our historic issue after 9/11 to our groundbreaking reportage after every American mass shooting. In that tradition, we hope the Sandy Hook families will be able to marvel at the cosmic joke we will soon make of Infowars.com.”

On X, Collins
posted, “We’re planning on making a very stupid website.”

Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization, will
reportedly be “the exclusive launch advertiser for the site in the new venture.” John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said, “It’s fitting that a platform once used to profit off of tragedy will be a tool of education, hence our multiyear advertising commitment to this new venture.”

He went on: “We’re proud to be a part of what comes next, not only in terms of staunching the flow of hurtful misinformation, but also for the potential this new venture has to help Everytown reach new audiences ready to hold the gun industry accountable for contributing to our nation’s gun violence epidemic.”

It is almost poetic that a gun control organization is partnering with the Onion in this attack on free speech. The First Amendment was listed first for a reason, yet the Second Amendment is listed immediately afterward as a fail-safe in the event of egregious violations of the First Amendment. Keeping that in mind, the fight for the First Amendment is not over.

Alex Jones posted a video
update on his X account, saying, “This is a total attack on free speech.” He also said, “They want to silence the American people, but we’re not gonna be silenced.” He then directed his viewers to follow the Alex Jones Network on X, where he will continue to speak out against what is happening to Infowars.

However, Jones
posted later in the day Thursday that the auction was not legitimate: “Infowars was not sold to the The Onion. I am breaking the news now.” According to the Independent, the judge involved in the case, District Judge Christopher Lopez, said, “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Since this news story broke, it was revealed that the auction’s process was questionable and is now under review. As the Independent reports, bidders were required to submit their best offers, yet the amounts of these offers were not disclosed. “The trustee who ran the auction said the total amount was a better deal overall but came in under First United American’s [Alex Jones’ proxy] $3.5 million offer.”

Therefore, the auction results are paused. The judge explained the next steps in this case: “We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing, and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened.” He added: “I personally don’t care who wins the auction. … I care about process and transparency.”

The shadiness of these developments in this story seem to confirm the true motivations behind this acquisition. Many opponents of Alex Jones take issue with him being able to speak at all, it seems. For example, an NBC anchor discussing the acquisition
said, “His X account will remain — for now, at least.” While this reporter is not related to the case, it seems to be implied that the main issue is not the legal acquisition of Infowars as an asset in the defamation case but rather Alex Jones’ ability to speak out on a platform at all.

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Today, Alex Jones called “The Glenn Beck Program” to break down some of the latest developments. Jones alleges the court is trying to prevent him from broadcasting in the future. He also alleges to Beck that there was a secret sale to subvert the auction and alleges a deep state plot to take him off the air forever.

The social media landscape has completely changed the idea of a platform, which means that even the most vindictive attacks on a well-established platform are somewhat ineffective. While the defamation lawsuit and the subsequent auction for Jones’ assets were a blow to Jones’ image and security, his ability to continue speaking freely is relatively unchanged. Thanks to X, he moved studios and was able to start broadcasting again immediately.

Now, the relative ease that Jones had in moving his platform and broadcast will reveal something very interesting in our political landscape going forward. Anyone who has a problem with this fact is fundamentally opposed to free speech. Free speech and the First Amendment are the first bulwarks against tyranny.

This is a developing story that will be updated.

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One of the greatest ironies that Donald Trump’s election victory helped expose is the futility of radical feminist ideology.

After Trump’s win, self-styled feminists — who, for some reason, believed the election was a referendum on “bodily autonomy” and the right to kill their unborn children through abortion — boasted on social media that they’re now going to embrace traditional values in sex and relationships.

Well, kind of.

This reaction not only promotes conservative family values, but it naturally reduces abortion. A win-win for everyone.

While feminists aren’t promoting traditional family values
per se, they are embracing key traditional values including abstinence and being intentional about partner selection.

A social media post that went viral on the morning after Election Day encapsulated the ironic collapse of radical feminist ideology in the wake of Trump’s victory.

“I am very much a radical feminist, I just don’t talk about it much. but I am literally so serious. guard your womb, SERIOUSLY. if [sic] you choose to be with a male, make sure he actually values & respects you at a human f***** being. this is ridiculous,” the post read.

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To recap: Because Trump won the election, feminists are now promoting the intentional decision to guard their wombs. In practical terms, this means not having random sexual encounters and engaging in sex only in the context of a deeply committed relationship — ideally marriage — in which both partners share the same outlook on life.

This reaction not only promotes virtue, but it naturally reduces abortion. A win-win for everyone.

The tremendous irony, of course, is that had feminists always vowed to exercise such discipline over their bodies and in their relationships, abortion likely would not have been their primary voting issue because they would not have needed to use abortion as birth control.

Not only are radical feminists accidentally promoting traditional values that negate the reason for nearly all abortions, but
many are embracing the so-called 4B movement.

A vestige of South Korean culture in the 2010s, the 4B movement embraces four fundamental tenets:

No sex.
No giving birth.
No dating.
No marriage.

The popularity of the movement exploded on social media after Trump’s victory, with women posting videos of themselves on TikTok pledging to become the movement’s newest adherents.

One woman who
spoke with the New York Times said she felt compelled to adopt the 4B movement because she needed to put “my best interest into my hands.”

Those interests, it turns out, include not having random sexual encounters, choosing not to engage in relationships with uncommitted partners who do not share similar moral beliefs, and removing the possibility of abortions.

On Election Day, Trump pulled off many feats that his detractors thought were impossible, including winning the popular vote, winning a significant share of nonwhite voters, and significantly narrowing margins in deep-blue bastions. But who could have predicted that his victory also would expose the shallowness of feminist ideology while driving feminists to embrace conservative beliefs on sex and relationships?

Conservatives everywhere give you thanks, Mr. President-elect.

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Judging by the analysis on cable news since the election, Democrats seem determined to lose every presidential race for years to come.

The party should be reflecting deeply after Kamala Harris spent more than $1 billion and secured endorsements from celebrities and billionaires, only to lose to Donald Trump. Democrats should be asking how a man they’ve called a fascist, racist Nazi sympathizer managed to win support from such a diverse group of voters.

If progressives had any sense, they would learn to listen to what people say instead of projecting their own biases onto millions of Americans they do not know and do not understand.

Instead of addressing their mistakes, Democrats and their cable news allies continue to focus on the identity politics that voters rejected. Several analysts have claimed they know why Trump won, but their explanation ignores issues like economics, inflation, crime, or immigration.

No, they say the reason comes down to one word: whiteness.

MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude made this claim during a recent election postmortem. With intense passion and conviction, the Princeton professor insisted he could not see any other explanation. Though he never defined “whiteness,” he was certain it’s what motivated the masses.

I shared his video on social media, telling him he sounded more like a religious cleric than a political analyst. He’s not alone in this rhetoric. While progressives have become more secular over the past few decades, they still exhibit religious impulses. Their discourse on “whiteness” reflects their view of original sin. They have major and minor “prophets” of race and are eager to evangelize unbelievers on topics like “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” and “white supremacy.” They view dissenters with contempt, as seen in their criticism of Latino voters who hopped on the Trump train.

They see nonbelievers not as people to persuade but as sinners to redeem.

This fixation on “whiteness” is not only simplistic but also fuels racial conflict that the left is ill-equipped to handle. A year ago, a black Christian woman sparked controversy in the evangelical community when she told a room full of white women that they must “divest from whiteness,” which she described as rooted in plunder, theft, slavery, and genocide. I’m no minister, but I know my Bible well enough to understand that no group — regardless of race, ethnicity, or nationality — holds a monopoly on sin.

I remember thinking then, as I do now, that the public would have a fit if a white commentator blamed “blackness” for voters’ choices in this election. Conservatives who claimed “blackness” is rooted in self-destruction and broken families would be shunned and shamed, not celebrated as prophetic truth-tellers.

This is why impartiality is a crucial ingredient for healthy discourse in the public square. An honest person should apply the same standards to friends and opponents alike. Moreover, the way we speak about other groups is how we should expect others to speak about us.

This principle is nonpartisan and non-ideological. If you need an extra therapy session because a white conservative criticizes a black liberal on legitimate grounds, you shouldn’t write headlines labeling angry white men as the most frightening people in America.

People pushing identity politics are a cancerous tumor on our body politic. Not only do they reduce Americans to their immutable traits, but they also create the perfect breeding ground for extremist views. Put simply, when you “sow” Robin DiAngelo, you will “reap” David Duke.

This is not unique to white people. Rejection of moderation almost always leads to radicalism.

Imagine a 17-year-old black kid in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1964 watching his parents going out to a civil rights march to protest segregation. Having learned about the First Amendment in school, he assumes law enforcement officials will respect his parents and that their grievances will be heard by their elected officials.

But when he turns on TV that night, he sees them being sprayed with water hoses, attacked by dogs, and beaten over the head with clubs by police. When that teen sees how the white people in power treated his parents — Christians dressed in their Sunday best — no one should be surprised if he is drawn to the more militant posture of the Black Panthers.

The same principle applies today. Young white men have been told that they are the cause of all the country’s problems and are constantly painted as racists only concerned about maintaining power. They see how every white conservative, from George W. Bush to Mitt Romney, is called racist or compared to a Nazi at some point.

They see how perfectly mediocre academics get rich by pushing seminars on “white fragility” and “white rage.” Most are not nearly as race-obsessed as the liberals on television, but some are ripe for the picking by white identitarians who will affirm both their race and sex and won’t attack them for how they were born.

The left does not want to hear that analysis, but that doesn’t make it any less true. When you open the door to the demons of identity, you have no idea what’s coming through that portal. If progressives had any sense, they would learn to listen to what people say instead of projecting their own biases onto millions of Americans they do not know, have never met, and do not understand.

Democrats have a choice. They can either accept the fact that their radicalism on race, sex, and identity has driven away voters or continue to blame “whiteness” and bigotry for their defeat.

This may be one of the last elections in which their silly theories will be taken seriously. Donald Trump earned about 55% of the Latino male vote, roughly 20 percentage points more than in 2020. While he didn’t make significant gains with black men nationwide, there were regional differences in the support he received. For example, about 25% of black men in Pennsylvania voted for Trump. If Democrats don’t do some honest self-reflection, the “white supremacists” they criticize on the right will be more diverse than their own party.

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It’s been more than a week since the 2024 election. Arizona and California are still inexplicably counting ballots, but the results are clear: Donald Trump and the Republicans crushed.

While many commentators have already shared their wish lists and recommendations, now is also a good time to remember the prognosticators who got their predictions terribly wrong.

This time around, the doomers posed a far bigger threat to Trump’s victory than the NeverTrump crowd.

The main offenders were those in the Democratic machine who actually believed their own exaggerations, along with their followers who bought into the crazy leftist rhetoric. Many truly thought Trump was a fascist who would overturn democracy and that Kamala Harris was the next Barack Obama — as if that were somehow a good thing.

Karine Jean-Pierre admitted that this messaging wasn’t meant to be taken seriously and that people are simply expected to forget it. Yet this hasn’t stopped the drama queens from shedding public tears and creating “coping spaces.” Much of this behavior seems performative, but many on the left genuinely fell for the propaganda. As I argue elsewhere, this needs to change, as it not only distorts and polarizes our politics but also perpetuates mental illness.

Another group, less well known, also harbored serious doubts about Trump’s chances. These were the influencers and fringe pundits who had already lost faith in the democratic process and believed the system was rigged beyond repair.

Some of their despair seemed justified, considering the 2020 and 2022 elections. In 2020, Democrats pushed for universal mail-in ballots, changed voting laws, and influenced the news media to promote Joe Biden, who spent much of his campaign in his basement, into the Oval Office. Many pointed to the 20-million vote gap between Biden and Harris as proof of widespread ballot stuffing and fraud in the last election. However, this gap seems to be narrowing daily and can be explained without invoking mass fraud narratives.

The 2022 election, otherwise known as the red wave that never was, also fueled conservative conspiracy theories after candidates with brain damage and those running their own election efforts won. Some blamed poor candidates, like Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker, but it’s fair to say something seems off in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada. That said, the 2022 results didn’t exactly signal impending disaster for the American republic or a totalitarian takeover by the left.

When Trump announced his run for president again this year, these right-wing doomers were primed to forfeit before 2024 even began. This wasn’t mere jadedness from some setbacks in the last two elections; these were false prophets telling patriotic Americans to give up on their country and prepare for the worst. In their view, everyone was a communist infiltrator, a traitor, a grifter, or an utter fool. They were telling people that the push to vote early was all a ruse to help Democrats win, that the “Chinese-run” Dominion machines would erase Republican votes, and that “if anyone thinks the Democrats are desperate now, just think of what they’ll do when the election season really starts happening.”

Beyond this, they were predicting mass riots across the country that would plunge the country into a civil war if Trump were to win.

Even though some of this paranoia had a basis in reality, culminating in two assassination attempts, much of it was just intended to demoralize conservatives and attract paid subscribers (“Follow me if you want the truth about this country …”). This time around, the doomers posed a far bigger threat to Trump’s victory than the NeverTrump crowd.

Fortunately, enough Americans turned out to vote anyway. Despite the warnings, some voted early, some mailed in their ballots, and others voted on Election Day. Trump’s lawyers and campaign organizers worked tirelessly to prevent any undue interference. Everything went smoothly, and as some of us predicted, the fallout has been minimal. Americans are ready to move on and look forward to better days.

One of the first orders of business should be to fix the current election system by requiring voter ID, in-person voting, and paper ballots. The next priority should be to purge the doomers and crackpots from the conservative movement.

Currently, they are the biggest obstacle to the conservative movement’s legitimacy and effectiveness. Although they played a role in removing establishment figures from the old GOP, those dinosaurs are rapidly becoming extinct. It’s time to bring new life and optimism to America.

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California is banning motorhomes.

No, not the dilapidated firetraps illegally parked in crime and drug-infested encampments throughout the state — some 10,000 in greater Los Angeles alone. Those are fine.

The regulations — which will effectively ban the sale of new motorhomes with a gross vehicle weight rating over 8,500 pounds — take effect January 1, 2025.

It’s new motorhomes — the kind that retirees might buy to live out their sunset years on the road — that the Golden State wants gone.

Starting in 2025, California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, aimed at promoting zero-emission vehicles, creates a near-total “ban” on motorhome sales in the state.

And because Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts follow California Air Resource Board regulations, they’ll be putting the kibosh on motorhome sales as well.

As I said last week, this CARB needs cutting if we ever want to release ourselves from California’s draconian authority over what we can drive.

The ACT regulation mandates manufacturers of medium and heavy-duty vehicles to sell an increasing percentage of zero emissions vehicles each year.

The regulations — which will effectively ban the sale of new motorhomes with a gross vehicle weight rating over 8,500 pounds — take effect January 1, 2025.

Since 2020, the RV Industry Association has been asking CARB for exemptions from the ACT regulations, citing negative impact on motorhome manufacturers and dealers, to no avail.

Complicating the matter are two other recently-passed regulations: the Omnibus Low NOx rule and the Advanced Clean Fleets rule. Along with ACT, these rules seek the gradual replacement of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles with zero emission vehicles by 2036.

CARB also has its focus on off-road vehicles with the Small Off-Road Engine regulation, which threatens spark-ignition engines on generators. So no offroad vehicles or gas-powered generators?

This has gone way too far.

These rules also go into effect in Vermont for 2026 model year motorhomes. And the rules take effect in Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, and Rhode Island with the 2027 model year.

Get ready to go electric whether you like it or not. If you have an older motor home, it will need to be smogged twice a year. More regulations and more money out of your pocket.

This all happened because of California’s vote in August to ban the sale of new gasoline-fueled cars by 2035.

One state controlling the other 49 is clearly unconstitutional. We need to fight this regulation at a federal level.

We’ll keep you posted, as usual.

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Donald Trump is wasting no time building his team, and his recent appointments have fueled an absolute meltdown on the left — specifically his appointments of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz.

Gabbard was appointed to the position of director of national intelligence, while Gaetz was appointed attorney general by the president-elect.

“What’s interesting about Gabbard,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments, “is she has come a long way, but she’s come a long way in certain categories.”

“She was very, very liberal, approaching a socialist. I mean, she was supporting Bernie Sanders for president. She’s come a long way on things like that. She has not really moved at all on her views when it comes to foreign policy and the military-industrial complex, if you will,” he explains.

However, Gabbard still must be confirmed by the Senate, and Burguiere believes that might present an uphill battle.

“She’s also probably a little risky to actually get confirmed. I don’t think the Democrats have too warm feelings for her any more, and there are a bunch of those old-school Republicans who will not like her approach to foreign affairs,” Burguiere says, noting that John Bolton has called her a “threat to national security.”

As for Gaetz, Burguiere believes it will be “an interesting ride” for him to actually get into the position, as Democrats are up in arms at the appointment and continue to accuse him of “sex trafficking.”

“Is he a good pick? He will do the things that Trump wants him to do, and he will be very aggressive in doing them. And you can kind of understand the thought process here, right? Bring somebody in who is going to go balls to the wall and go into the DOJ and fire basically everybody,” Burguiere says.

“Gaetz will do it, but he’ll do it in a very splashy way, and that’s something obviously Donald Trump kind of likes, usually. So we will see how this goes,” he adds.

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After leaving CNN and joining NewsNation, Chris Cuomo has come across as more of a moderate.

“I actually saw Chris Cuomo give a very good description of why people vote for Donald Trump,” Allie Beth Stuckey tells Megyn Kelly.

Cuomo has also been very pro-Israel and has even condemned COVID vaccines.

“Do you think that people like [Cuomo] who leave CNN and then all of a sudden become more fair and balanced — was it CNN that was influencing them, and they were just kind of lying because they had to at the time? Or do you think that they are lying now just to try to get a bigger audience?” Allie asks.

“100% it’s the latter,” says Kelly, who obviously knows a thing or two about mainstream media from her days at Fox.

“Chris Cuomo is faking it because he wants an audience. Go back and look at any night on ‘The Chris Cuomo Show’ when it was on CNN. He’s as left as they come,” says Kelly, adding that “he comes from a party and a family of leftists.”

“Only now do his brother and Chris come out and try to flirt with the right because they both have careers that are in tatters,” she adds. “Chris Cuomo has about four viewers who watch him over on NewsNation, and he’s trying to increase his numbers because NewsNation is trying to be palatable to both the left and right.”

“But trust me when I tell you, this guy can’t stand Trump, and he can’t stand Trump supporters,” Kelly asserts.

To hear more proof that Cuomo is a radical leftist disguised as a moderate, watch the episode above.

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I saw on X that an NBC news reporter described the “general vibe” around Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks as “WTF,” with the appointment of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as attorney general earning gasps of “Oh my God.”

Can’t say I don’t share that last sentiment in at least some measure. Gaetz running the Justice Department is perhaps the biggest middle finger in the history of American presidential appointments and one far from certain to be approved by a GOP-controlled Senate.

I prefer Trump’s way of doing something over our old way of doing nothing. Let the past die. On to the future.

But when it comes to Gaetz, or any of Trump’s other appointments for that matter, here’s where I stand: Trump won one of the most remarkable political victories in the history of this country. Thus, to the victor go the spoils.

I got into this business believing that there was a conservative movement for which I would help tip the scales against the system. But all I found instead was a grift that sold books and tickets to conferences without really intending to accomplish a damn thing. Case in point: Most notable conservative influencers came out earlier this week for Rick Scott as Senate majority leader, and he was cast aside on the very first vote.

See? We’re terrible. We didn’t just lose the culture over the last 30 years by accident. For decades, we offered no systemic opposition to the American left. It’s frankly a miracle — and only by God’s grace — that we aren’t already like Western Europe, especially given the current state of our church, which is deep in its metrosexual phase. And the fact that Rick Scott is our best option only underscores the absence of a real conservative movement.

We left a giant void, and Trump filled it. He’s the king now.

To confront this reality, some of you might benefit from watching “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” It’s a story about a lifeless church where the women are catty and the men watch the clock, waiting for the game to start. Then God sends in a group of wayward kids, the Herdmans, to shake things up and bring purpose and passion back to the spiritual void.

What I see now — and it took me a very long time to realize — is that Trump is the political version of the Herdmans. Ironically, among all the people you now know as Trump’s closest associates and promoters, I was actually offered the keys to that kingdom before most of them even became relevant.

But I turned it down. I missed it. I also believed that nothing good could come from Nazareth. I thought I was guarding my integrity and a movement I wasn’t yet convinced didn’t exist. But it doesn’t exist. That’s why Trump is back — and, it seems, stronger than ever before.

When COVID and endless lawfare sent Trump packing in 2020, his exile and the Democrats’ subsequent insanity were, in hindsight, the final chance for red states to establish the bona fides of a conservative movement to lead the way. Yet there was no red wave in 2022. Not even close.

Because once and for all, hear me now: There is no conservative movement.

We have just two and a half governors who stand out: Ron DeSantis, Kim Reynolds, and maybe Brian Kemp half the time. They led a base so uninspired that their children were being transitioned before their eyes and they faced job losses unless they took a mandated poisonous jab. Yet even with these issues, they couldn’t convince the country to oust the Democrats from Congress two years ago.

The conservative movement is like a red-shirted crew member beaming down to a planet in the first five minutes of a “Star Trek” episode — it’s definitely not coming back. It’s dead, Jim. That’s what we are.

We have one resistance movement, and that’s Trump. If he fails, I honestly don’t know where we go from here. So let’s see what the Herdmans can do. I have to say, I’m as optimistic now as I’ve been in a long time. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything immediately, but for the first time in years, I see an aggressive plan from the right.

Yes, an actual plan being executed efficiently, in clear contrast to the country’s current direction. It won’t be what you’re used to, it will sometimes make you uncomfortable, and there will almost certainly be some cleanups in aisle 12 along the way. But doesn’t everything feel more alive than it did just a couple of weeks ago?

I’ll take it. I prefer Trump’s way of doing something over our old way of doing nothing. Let the past die. On to the future.

​2024 presidential election, Donald trump, Matt gaetz, Attorney general, Personnel, Conservatives, Conservative movement, Republican party, Ron desantis, Kim reynolds, Brian kemp, Opinion & analysis 

Nearly a dozen NCAA athletes and one coach are suing the Mountain West Conference over alleged First Amendment violations that stem from a male athlete playing against women.

Officials at San Jose State University are also named in the lawsuit that alleges the female athletes were subject to a new “Transgender Participation Policy” that sought to “suppress the free speech rights of women athletes.”

The lawsuit, backed by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, claims the defendants manipulated conference rules, “diminished sport opportunities for women,” and used their position to punish dozens of female college athletes for taking a stand against having to compete against men in their sport.

That athlete is SJSU’s transgender player, Blaire Fleming. Born Brayden, Fleming is a 6’1” male whose inclusion on the team has sparked five separate forfeits from opposing teams

According to the provided Transgender Participation Policy, the decision whether to allow a “transgender athlete” to participate in intercollegiate athletics is at the discretion of each school, determined by its own “interaction with the individual [and] the application of state law.”

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Shockingly, the policy states that the NCAA will “not entertain inquiries or challenges regarding the eligibility of transgender student-athletes.” Schools are also not required to provide information to their opponents about whether or not there is a transgender athlete on their team.

“It shall be the discretion of the certifying institution whether or not to provide pertinent information,” the policy states.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include three women from the University of Wyoming, two from Boise State, and two from University of Nevada Reno.

Nevada’s Sia Liilii previously spoke to Blaze News, simply stating that she and her teammates got together and decided what was happening “isn’t right.”

Brooke Slusser (left) lines up alongside transgender athlete Blaire Fleming (right).Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

‘I will do everything to protect this opportunity for other girls and women.’

Two of Fleming’s own teammates from SJSU have joined the lawsuit, along with the Associate Head Coach of Women’s Volleyball Melissa Batie-Smoose.

The coach was recently suspended after speaking out on the issue and even alleged that Fleming had conspired against his own teammate (Brooke Slusser, also named in the lawsuit) with an opponent to try to injure her.

Utah State captain Kaylie Ray, another plaintiff, called for more support from the Mountain West Conference and NCAA.

“We need leaders in the Mountain West and NCAA to step up. Being a woman in sports has shaped my life, and I will do everything to protect this opportunity for other girls and women.”

San Jose State University and its staff have not returned requests for comments on the situation, nor have they been willing to address any claims made by the student-athletes or coach.

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Congressional lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee held a
joint subcommittee hearing Wednesday to discuss alleged secret government investigations into UFOs — now called unidentified anomalous phenomena — and the knowledge obtained from the inquiry.

During the hearing, Michael Shellenberger, a publisher of the Twitter Files and co-founder of the “Public” newsletter on Substack, shared some shocking claims from a government whistleblower about an alleged special access program at the Defense Department called “Immaculate Constellation. ”

Shellenberger noted in his
written testimony that existing and former government officials have notified members of Congress that notwithstanding suggestions to the contrary, the Pentagon has kept a “significant body of information about UAPs, including military intelligence databases that have evidence of their existence as physical craft,” under wraps.

One unnamed whistleblower submitted a report to Congress through the UAP whistleblower mechanisms established by the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, detailing the nature of the alleged Immaculate Constellation project.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.)
published that report this week.

Shellenberger acknowledged that DOD spokesperson Susan Gough
indicated last month the “Department of Defense has no record, present or historical” of Immaculate Constellation.

However, the journalist said that a source subsequently notified him that Immaculate Constellation, apparently created after the New York Times reported in 2017 on a similar program called the Advance Aerospace Threat Identification Program, is “controlled by the White House and executed and administered by the DOD to avoid compliance with Title 10 of the United States Code.”

A former intelligence community official reportedly told Shellenberger’s Public that Immaculate Constellation “is run out of SEC DEF,” adding, “They don’t want to acknowledge it’s real.”

‘The F-22 pilot noted multiple metallic orbs — slightly smaller than a sedan — hovering in place.’

The whistleblower report alleges at the outset that “elements of the U.S. Executive Branch have conspired to prevent the U.S. Legislative Branch from exercising its lawful powers of governance with respect to the UAP, [Technologies of Unknown Origin], and [Non-Human Intelligence] issues.”

While the allegation of a criminal conspiracy might itself be newsworthy, what is more interesting is the conclusion drawn in the report:

The official disclosure of the existence of Non-Human Intelligences (NHIs) and their presence on Earth is a pivotal moment in human history. The nature of this information is of such incomparable relevance to the public good that it demands to be shared. Some may object and say that disclosure at this time poses too many risks. To them it must be said that we will never be able to predict how individuals, families, communities, and nations will react to revelations of such magnitude. Moving forward, we must guard against the lure of authoritarian solution justified by expediency and appeals to national security. The Good in humanity will always triumph through time, and it is in moments of crisis that our capacities for achieving the extraordinary are discovered. Be not afraid.

According to the whistleblower, who Shellenberger has
indicated “discovered this material accidentally,” Immaculate Constellation collects high-quality imagery intelligence on UAPs in low earth orbit, the upper atmosphere, maritime environments, and at military aviation altitude and “acts as a nexus for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence on the activities, capabilities, and locations of anomalous aerospace threats that originate from foreign or unidentified sources.”

The report details multiple alleged UFO sightings, some of which were apparently captured by high-powered sensors and others that were documented by military personnel.

There is, for instance, allegedly infrared and full-motion video daytime footage of roughly 12 “metallic orbs skimming the ocean surface at high speed before dispersing in multiple directions” and maneuvering with rapidity and agility “incompatible with known aerospace vehicles.”

The metallic orbs apparently flew in a tight “cuboid” formation, creating the illusion of a cube at a distance. The sensor platform reportedly lost sight of most of the UAPs when they ascended and accelerated.

UAPs reported from 1991 to 2022 in one alleged Immaculate Constellation dataset varied in shape and size and included spheres, saucers, ovals, arrowheads, and irregular or organic shapes. The report catalogues various descriptions and properties recorded for each of the various vehicle types.

The whistleblower indicated that Immaculate Constellation also has plenty of intelligence obtained from human sources as well. One account highlighted in the report claims that metallic orbs intercepted an F-22 fighter jet that was conducting a routine surveillance and control mission.

“An F-22 fighter observed multiple UAP contacts at mission-altitude,” said the report. “Moving to intercept, the F-22 pilot noted multiple metallic orbs — slightly smaller than a sedan — hovering in place. Upon vectoring towards the UAPs, a smaller formation of the metallic orbs accelerated at rapid speed towards the F-22, which was unable to establish radar locks on the presumed-hostile UAPs.”

The report noted that when the fighter jet attempted to flee, it was “intercepted and boxed in by approximately 3-6 UAPs. One UAP maneuvered in proximity (>12 meters) to the area directly starboard of the cockpit; there the UAP established a rigid spatial relationship with the F-22, maintaining its exact position and orientation parallel with the F-22’s cockpit despite multiple evasive rolls and maneuvers.”

Ultimately, the orbs reportedly escorted the fighter jet out of the mission area.

According to the whistleblower report, other countries are aware of UAP events and take them deadly seriously, especially since the unidentified objects have an apparent tendency to fly over sensitive military and intelligence facilities.

Earlier this year, the DOD’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
released a report claiming no governmental evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” said the report. “Although not the focus of this report, it is worthwhile to note that all official foreign UAP investigatory efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG investigations.”

The AARO report noted, “Although many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, AARO assesses that if more and better quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.”

Shellenberger said that the American government “appears to know significantly more about UAPs than it is revealing. But even those who believe the U.S. government has revealed all that it knows should have no objection to congressional demands for greater transparency.”

Mace
emphasized, “The American people have every right to know what is really happening.”

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Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone called President-elect Donald Trump America’s “second George Washington” during a short speech Thursday night introducing Trump during the America First Policy Institute Gala at the Mar-a-Lago Club.

Stallone began by describing the first scene of his legendary movie “Rocky” with an image of Jesus coming into view — and then as the camera pans out, the audience sees writing below the image of Christ: Resurrection [Athletic Club]. “I found a church that had been converted to a boxing ring,” Stallone recalled.

‘And I’ll just say this, and I mean it: When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world.’

As the camera pans down, the audience sees a pair of boxers going at it in a gritty ring in Philadelphia, just two days before Thanksgiving. The very first image of Rocky is when his opponent socks him in the jaw with a left hook. You can view that first scene here.

“And at that moment, he was a chosen person, and that’s how I began the journey,” Stallone continued. “Something was gonna happen. This man was gonna go through a metamorphosis and change lives — just like President Trump.”

When the audience’s applause subsided, Stallone added that “we’re in the presence of a really mythical character. I love mythology. And this individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what [Trump] pulled off, so I’m in awe.”

The actor concluded by saying, “And I’ll just say this, and I mean it: When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world. Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington. Congratulations!”

With that, Trump ascended to the stage and shook hands with Stallone. You can check out his speech here.

Deadline reported that Stallone previously had stayed quiet about who he politically endorsed during the 2016, 2020, and 2024 election cycles. The outlet said Stallone indicated that he didn’t vote in presidential elections the prior two cycles.

But Deadline noted that the actor told Variety in 2016 that he “love[s]” Trump and views him as a “great Dickensian character.” Deadline also said Stallone in 2018 was pictured in the Oval Office alongside Trump as he posthumously pardoned former world champion boxer Jack Johnson.

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Racism is alive and well in America — but it’s not coming from the Republican Party, as the Democrats have led us to believe over the past decade.

“I think Sunny Hostin is the most racist person on television,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” tells Megyn Kelly, who believes Joy Reid and Elie Mystal are the Democrats that actually take the cake.

“It’s amazing to watch, like you really can’t believe that they’re allowed to say the things they say. It’s insane on her show, and also her Instagram,” Kelly says, noting that Reid was recently “mocking white women’s tears” on the social media platform.

“I want to give some free advice to the white progressives, particularly white progressive women who may be thinking about marching against the Trump victory, maybe putting back on the p-word hats and doing that thing. I would just say, probably don’t send any of those invites to any black women,” Reid said in a video post.

“I’m just going to tell you right now, they’re not coming. I’m pretty sure black women have resigned from the save America coalition, save democracy coalition, and definitely the save the Democratic Party coalition,” she continued. “Just keep those invites maybe among your own friends.”

Reid went on to explain that “black women are now on the save black women, prioritize black men, and prioritize black communities, black businesses, and you know, the black spaces.”

Kelly can’t believe what she’s hearing.

“Can you imagine, if when I was on Fox News in the prime time, if I was like, ‘Oh, look at the black women crying over George Floyd,’” Kelly says. “I would have been fired so fast. But she can get away with doing that to whites.”

“Why again? Because MSNBC and NBC allow blatant racism on their airwaves every single night. She’s not the only purveyor of it, she just happens to be the worst. Also, I’m pretty sure she’s not a natural blonde,” she adds.

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The editor in chief of Scientific American has resigned from her position after going on an unhinged rant about the supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

On Thursday, Laura Helmuth took to the social media platform Bluesky to announce that she was stepping away from Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in American history.

“I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” she wrote. “I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).”

The statement itself is rather innocuous, seemingly obscuring the hate-filled context in which it was made.

On election night, Helmuth descended into a foulmouthed meltdown on Bluesky after Trump emerged the winner. Rather than direct her ire at the once and future president, Helmuth took aim at the 75 million or so Americans who cast a vote for him, as Blaze News previously reported.

Her statements that night included:

“I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of f****** fascists”;”Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f*** them to the moon and back”;”Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist”; and”The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself.”

“Racial justice is a science story”;”Environmental justice is a science story”; and”Reproductive justice is a science story.”

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Veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson said actors and comedians no longer have the freedom to write edgy material, and those who do are “suppressed.”

Thompson, who has starred in movies like “Good Burger” and “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” said that comedians sometimes struggle to align their comedy to public “sensibilities,” especially when they are used to speaking a certain way in their private lives.

The 46-year-old noted that while some comedians can emerge out of the industry’s blanket censorship, most edgy comedy is shut down by film studios.

“There’s supposed to be freedom of speech. They keep trying to suppress, but then you have the [comedians] that pop up out of that suppression,” Thompson revealed.

‘That’s where it felt like was the end of the road for the freedom of wanting to be funny.’

During an interview with comedians Mark Normand and Sam Morril, Thompson said it was disheartening to see how few comedies get a green light in modern Hollywood.

“There’s not enough comedies anymore. There’s no comedies to be seen right now. It’s so sad.”

“Of course the classics like the ‘Tropic Thunders’ of it all, but that’s where it felt like was the end of the road for the freedom of wanting to be funny kind of thing. … I’m looking for that era,” Thompson explained.

Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” received very little backlash when it was released in 2008 despite its frequent use of the word “retard” and the simple fact that actor Robert Downey Jr. was in blackface for nearly the entire film.

Thompson also cited movies like Mike Myers’ “Austin Powers” and “Baseketball” as edgy movies that likely couldn’t be made today.

“It should be allowed to be done!” Thompson declared.

Host Normand then asked Thompson about recent episodes of “Saturday Night Live” in which comedians Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle took a moment to acknowledge how sensitive the show’s audience has become.

“Everybody was like, ‘This is crazy; this is so offensive,'” Normand recalled. “Did you find it was a little touchy over there?” he asked the cast member.

“It’s touchy everywhere,” Thompson replied. “That audience comes in and like, there is some clutching of the pearls.”

Thompson implied that the studio audience at SNL is usually on edge and afraid to laugh at anything that could be deemed offensive. This results in comedians often receiving little “support” from the live viewers when they perform stand-up comedy on the show.

Despite this, the actor claimed the executive producer of SNL, Lorne Michaels, is reasonable in his approach about what can or cannot be said by performers. He said Michaels will simply say “good luck” to a comedian and let the audience reaction do the talking.

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Joe Rogan said hippies, artists, musicians, and comedians reached out to thank him for endorsing President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

During a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the prolific podcaster said celebrities thanked him for endorsing him because they could not give public support to Trump over fears of attacks.

‘They don’t want to be attacked.’

“There’s a lot of people that don’t speak their mind. Do you know how many artists that have reached out to me that are, like, f***ing hippies, man, like artists, like musicians, comedians that thanked me for endorsing Trump because they can’t do it?” Rogan said.

“They said they want to, but they don’t wanna be attacked. They can’t say it. They think the country is going in the wrong direction,” Rogan said during Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

Rogan did not name the names of the celebrities who secretly supported Trump.

“A lot of what people say, they say it because they don’t want people to attack them. They say it because they think that if they say it, it will clear them; they’ll be OK,” Rogan explained.

Rogan added, “If you say you support ‘x’ — you might not even support ‘x’ — but if you say you support ‘x,’ you’re not going to get attacked, and the right people will leave you alone or agree with you and appreciate you or praise you.”

During the podcast, Rogan warned that having an ideological media cover government leaders could be “dangerous,” “whether it’s a right-wing government or a left-wing government, and that what you see that’s happening in the U.K. where people are being imprisoned for tweets and Facebook posts. It’s f***ing crazy.”

“Mind-bending. The whole thing is nuts,” Rogan added. “And it’s a dangerous path that we were on. We were on that path. Trump has vowed to have free speech become a very important part of what he’s standing for and that this censoring of information needs to stop and that we need to stop all government influence in what people have to say.”

Rogan interviewed billionaire Elon Musk right before the election and discussed the significant issues heading into the 2024 election. Musk said Harris would use the levers of government to shut down the X social media platform if elected.

Rogan made his endorsement of Trump on the eve of the 2024 election — less than two weeks after interviewing the former president on his massively popular podcast.

Rogan’s three-hour interview with Trump garnered a whopping 50 million views on just YouTube alone.

As Blaze News recently reported, Rogan said Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t do an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience” because her campaign set parameters on the duration of the interview and the site of the meeting and wanted to avoid certain topics such as marijuana legalization.

During Friday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” with Evan Hafer, former Green Beret with the 19th Special Forces Group and founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company, Rogan somewhat jokingly theorized that President Joe Biden voted for Trump in the 2024 election.

“Do you know what one of my f***ing favorite things about this election cycle has been? Yesterday, when Biden and Trump sat down in the White House. Biden voted for Trump, I guarantee it. I f***ing guarantee it. I never saw that dude so happy in his f***ing life,” Rogan said.

“He lost. His party lost. He was happy,” Rogan noted.

“Look at his f****ng smile, dude,” Rogan said of a smiling Biden with Trump at the White House. “That’s like when your kid gets married.”

“But look at that smile. That motherf***er has never been happier in his life – in his life,” Rogan told Hafer.

Rogan noted that some Democrats warned that Trump was Adolf Hitler but was welcomed into the White House by Biden.

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Whoopi Goldberg said on “The View” earlier this week during a discussion about the economy in relation to the presidential election that “I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living.”

Uh-oh. But she wasn’t done. The outspoken co-host of the far-left talk show added stridently that “if I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So I’m a working person, you know? … I know it’s hard out there.”

‘She made it seem like she’s struggling and that she has no choice but to … really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor.’

In regard to Goldberg’s 2016 contract extension with “The View,” Variety reported that “she will continue to earn her current annual salary, which is in the $5 to $6 million range.”

Not incidentally, when her heavy-duty Manhattan shift is over, Goldberg reportedly retreats across the bridge to a tony Northern New Jersey community, where her nearly 10,000-square-foot “Georgian Colonial-style residence” with eight bedrooms awaits her. Goldberg reportedly bought the place in 2009 for a cool $2.8 million.

So as you might expect, head-shaking outrage erupted once everyday people picked up on Goldberg’s pronouncement about her “working person” plight.

But perhaps the most eye-opening responses came from Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur, hosts of the far-left show “The Young Turks.” Neither of them were pleased with Goldberg’s words, either.

“Whoopi, you can’t say … you work for a living and then ‘I know your pain’ et cetera as if you’re a person who isn’t spectacularly wealthy,” Uygur reacted. “You have to at least acknowledge, ‘Look, guys, I get it. I’m wealthy, and I used to be poor, but I haven’t been poor in a long, long time. But, you know, here’s the ways that I can relate.’ Just be honest about it, no problem, right? But when you make it seem like you’re barely getting by and you’re worried about your grandkids …”

Kasparian added, “She made it seem like she’s struggling and that she has no choice but to … really pick herself up every day and just head over to work a lot of manual labor. … The way she carried herself in that segment was ridiculous. … She’s not a working-class American.”

You can watch the Young Turks’ reaction to Goldberg’s “I work for a living” commentary here.

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While President-elect Donald Trump has spent the last few days publicizing his provocative Cabinet nominations, newly elected Senate GOP leader John Thune said that “all the options” are on the table for their confirmation process.

Trump’s Cabinet nominations have sparked a slew of controversies. Most notably, Trump nominated former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Department of Health and Human Services as well as Republican former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida for attorney general.

“We’re gonna work with him to see that he gets his team installed as quickly as possible so he can implement his agenda,” Thune said in a Fox News interview Thursday.

‘But we also are not going to allow the Democrats to obstruct or block President Trump and the will of the American people,’ Thune said.

“All these nominees are, it’s a, you know, advise and consent,” Thune continued. “That’s the Senate’s constitutional role when it comes to confirmation of nominations to the executive branch of government, and we take that role seriously.”

Over the weekend, Trump demanded that the three Senate GOP hopefuls publicly support recess appointments. With recess appointments, the incoming Trump administration would be able to appoint nominees to federal positions without the Senate’s approval.

Otherwise, all nominations would need to be approved by the Senate with a simple majority. Since Republicans will hold 53 seats, and with Vice President-elect JD Vance working as a tiebreaker, each candidate will be able to lose only three Republican votes and still be confirmed.

“But we also are not going to allow the Democrats to obstruct or block President Trump and the will of the American people,” Thune said.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed his fellow Democrats for focusing too much of their campaign messaging on fascism fears rather than speaking to “working-class people issues.”

In a Friday appearance on ABC News’ “The View,” Adams told the left-leaning panel that the Democratic Party lost the election because it failed to prioritize addressing issues that impact everyday Americans.

‘What are we doing for everyday people in the country?’

“What you saw in this city and this election, when you saw a shift in the city and the state becoming redder, is because we stopped talking about working-class people issues,” Adams stated. “What moms and pops are afraid, ‘I can’t pay my college tuition. The rent is too damn high. Health care is too expensive.’ We stopped talking to everyday New Yorkers and Americans.”

Adams explained that working-class Americans are far more concerned about affordability than fascism. He seemed to criticize Democrats for campaigning on comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

“When I’m in the street talking to them, they’re not asking me, ‘Tell me about fascism,'” Adams claimed. “They’re talking about finance. They’re not talking about Hitler; they’re talking about housing. We need to talk to everyday, working-class people, and we stopped doing that.”

Co-host Joy Behar pushed back on Adams’ comments, arguing that Democrats did address those issues.

“Part of the business of campaigning is getting your message out and being clear with your message,” Adams replied. “Even the experts in their party were saying, ‘Get back to the message.’ What are we doing for everyday people in the country? And this same thing happened in 2022. When I got elected in 2022, I stated that, ‘Listen, we need to be talking about crime in this country.’ They ignored it. We lost the election. During 2023, I said we had to deal with this migrant-asylum issue. It was on the top one or two issues in the country. We ignored it. We have to go back and talk to those issues that people are worried about.”

Since April 2022, more than 210,000 foreign nationals have arrived in New York City. The city’s taxpayers have spent over $2.3 billion to provide accommodations for the migrants.

Adams announced last week that the city will stop supplying migrant arrivals with prepaid debit cards at the end of the year, Blaze News previously reported.

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A woman who reportedly began a monthlong stint as a substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High School on Nov. 4 — the day before the presidential election — said Wednesday she was fired for her “private FB posts criticizing [Make America Great Again] & the behavior of students at their MAGA rally on campus.”

“I was shocked; I thought I’d get a warning,” Joanie Garratt told the Los Angeles Times. “I didn’t say anything [about Trump] in class. I know not to say anything in class. But I am disgusted with MAGA, and Beverly Hills High School has become MAGA.”

‘They have no idea what they have unleashed. SCOTUS gave him free rein, Congress kisses his ass so there are no checks & balances. I have zero respect for America. I’m ashamed to be American.’

Garratt retired last year after teaching at the Beverly Hills Unified School District for almost 30 years, the Times said, adding that she was outraged by the Wednesday call from an assistant superintendent firing her. Garratt told the Times her online political posts were cited as the reason for her dismissal.

“I WEAR THIS AS BADGE OF HONOR and stand with all the teachers, past & present, who will be persecuted for expressing their views in public forum,” she wrote Wednesday on Facebook. “SHAME ON BHUSD.”

The Times said a district spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to the paper’s request for comment regarding Garratt’s firing.

During her stint as a substitute teacher — just over a week — Garratt made numerous statements in posts and in comments on her Facebook page.

On Sunday, for example, she posted that “sixty-six percent of Jews voted for [Kamala] Harris. Thank goodness my own people did not abandon our liberal democratic tradition.” In a comment under the same post, Garratt wrote that “it bothers me that some of my tribe aligned with the devil.”

In comments under her Saturday post highlighting a message from the high school’s student newspaper against pro-MAGA activity on campus, Garratt wrote the following:

“They have no idea what they have unleashed. SCOTUS gave him free rein, Congress kisses his ass so there are no checks & balances. I have zero respect for America. I’m ashamed to be American.”

“Don’t want to see that ugly rapist, criminal, traitor gloat.”

“They worship a fascist.””I wouldn’t send my kids there today. Oh how [Beverly Hills Unified School District] has fallen from what it was… morally & academically.””I would advise private school now. … It’s not the stellar district that hired me in 1993. I was so proud to be a teacher here in this District. Now we’re a MAGA satellite.”

The paper added that Garratt had a history of anti-Trump posts on Facebook prior to the district asking her to take the substitute teaching gig.

The Times said Garratt on Nov. 7 wrote on Facebook that pro-Trump students “harassed & intimidated many other non-MAGA students and specifically targeted the class where the Black Student Union was meeting, yelling all kinds of racial slurs.”

Elsewhere on Southern California high school campuses in the wake of Trump winning back the White House with 312 electoral votes last week:

A teacher allegedly departed from class at Cerritos High School last week because a student was wearing “Make America Great Again” attire.An English teacher from Chino High School was placed on administrative leave after freaking out in class over a student wearing a Trump hat.An Advanced Placement world history teacher from Valley View High School was placed on administrative leave after going on a profane rant in class against Trump.

Outside the Golden State, a Connecticut special-ed teacher threatened Trump voters in a viral video and then tried to explain herself in a tearful on-camera interview after resigning from her position.

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