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Sydney Sweeney has one word for the notion that women are any less vicious than men when it comes to rising to the top of Hollywood’s eat-or-be-eaten food chain.

Fake!

The “Anyone But You” actress recently called BS on the industry’s cloying “women empowering other women” narrative.

Sweeney should know. Back in April, veteran producer Carol Baum launched an out-of-nowhere attack on the up-and-comer.

‘All of it is fake and a front for all the other s**t that they say behind everyone’s back.’

“There’s an actress who everybody loves now: Sydney Sweeney. I don’t get Sydney Sweeney,” Baum griped. “I was watching on the plane Sydney Sweeney’s movie [‘Anyone but You’] because I wanted to watch it. I wanted to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her. I watched this unwatchable movie — sorry to people who love this … romantic comedy where they hate each other.”

Baum threat

Baum — whose credits include “Dead Ringers,” “Father of the Bride,” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and who also works as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts — added, “I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’ Nobody had an answer.”

“How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman,” Sweeney’s rep responded.

“If that’s what she’s learned in her decades in the industry and feels is appropriate to teach to her students, that’s shameful. To unjustly disparage a fellow female producer speaks volumes about Ms. Baum’s character.”

Claws out

Sweeney opened up about Baum’s catty conniption in a recent interview with Vanity Fair:

“It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down, especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard — hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have — and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they’ve done,” the 27-year-old Sweeney responded.

“This entire industry, all people say is ‘women empowering other women.’ None of it’s happening,” Sweeney continued. “All of it is fake and a front for all the other s**t that they say behind everyone’s back.”

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Sweeney is not the only star to feel Tinseltown’s mean girl vibes. Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence have also commented on the tendency for female performers to become a target when they’re at their professional peak.

Sweeney thinks she knows why. “I’ve read that our entire lives, we were raised — and it’s a generational problem — to believe only one woman can be at the top. There’s one woman who can get the man. There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, anything.”

“So then all the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down instead of being like, Let’s all lift each other up,” Sweeney concluded. “I’m still trying to figure it out. I’m just trying my best over here. Why am I getting attacked?”

As Blaze News reported in August 2022, liberals attempted to cancel Sweeney because guests at her mother’s 60th birthday party were wearing “Make America Great Again” inspired hats and a “blue lives matter” shirt.

The celebrity actress brushed off the outrage, “You guys, this is wild. An innocent celebration for my mom’s milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. Much love to everyone and Happy Birthday Mom!”

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There is a pattern developing with regard to President-elect Donald Trump’s recent nominations: He announces someone apparently well suited to executing the agenda he successfully campaigned on; those with vested interests in the status quo panic; and establishmentarians viciously attack the nominees, pleading with nominal Republicans in the U.S. Senate to prevent their confirmation.

This pattern has been repeated for multiple picks, including
former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Although virtually all of Trump’s nominations have ruffled feathers, his choice of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence appears to have inspired a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community.

The media

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols rushed to
characterize Gabbard’s nomination as a “national security risk,” complaining that she previously suggested NATO might have had something to do with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and that Syria did not pose a direct threat to the United States.

“Gabbard is a classic case of ‘horseshoe’ politics,” Nichols warned. “Her views can seem both extremely left and extremely right, which is probably why people such as Tucker Carlson — a conservative who has turned into … whatever pro-Russia right-wingers are called now — have taken a liking to the former Democrat (who was previously a Republican and is now again a member of the GOP).”

The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan
suggested that by nominating Gabbard, Trump — who was kneecapped in his first term by a malignant counterintelligence investigation and whose 2020 political adversary was given narrative cover prior to the election by CIA contractors and intelligence community alumni — “is putting his distrust of the intelligence community before the critical interests of national security.”

After trotting out the Syria and Russia-themed attacks against Gabbard, then insinuating that she is a sympathizer with the communist Chinese regime, Rogan warned that if confirmed, she would supervise “all U.S. intelligence agencies’ collection, analysis, and mission efforts and the production and dissemination of the U.S. government’s most sensitive intelligence reporting and analysis. This includes knowledge of spies buried deep inside foreign governments and terrorist organizations.”

‘This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States.’

Bill Kristol quoted Jonathan Last, editor of the neocon blog the Bulwark, as writing, “Making Gabbard DNI simply makes no sense. … Or rather, it makes no sense for America. For Russia, DNI Gabbard makes all the sense in the world.”

Last appeared particularly upset over Gabbard’s opposition to fruitless foreign entanglements and ineffectual U.S. sanctions.

Dems and spooks spooked

“This appointment is sending shock waves here in the United States but also around the globe,” John Brennan, former director of the CIA and chief counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama,
said in conversation with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

Brennan, one of the signatories of the infamous Hunter Biden “intel” letter, likened the 18 intelligence agencies that Gabbard would oversee to an orchestra, suggesting that she likely doesn’t even know what instruments are being played.

Former Bush adviser John Bolton, a key proponent of America’s disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq,
suggested to NewsNation’s “The Hill” that with Trump’s “announcement of Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence, he’s sending a signal that we have lost our mind when it comes to collecting intelligence.”

One former senior intelligence official who spoke under the condition of anonymity
told Politico that the choice was a “left turn and off the bridge.”

Another intelligence official warned that America’s allies, including Israel, might withhold information from Washington if Gabbard were the DNI, adding, “What some allies share may now be shaped by political goals rather than professional intelligence sharing.”

An unnamed “Western security source” similarly
suggested to Reuters that Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand may be less forthcoming about the intelligence they collect, stressing that foreign nations believe Trump’s appointments all lean in the “wrong direction.”

Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger (Va.), a former CIA officer who now warms a chair on the House Intelligence Committee,
suggested on X that Gabbard, who served in Iraq and Kuwait, would be an oath-breaker.

“The men and women of the U.S. Intelligence community honor their oaths by collecting the vital intelligence that keeps our fellow Americans safe. The global threats we face require a Director of National Intelligence who would do the same. Tulsi Gabbard is not that person,” wrote Spanberger.

The former spook, echoing Nichols, appears to have unwittingly highlighted what has the establishment panicking,
telling The Hill, “The DNI has access to every single secret that the United States has, every single bit of information that we know. … It’s the keys to the intelligence community kingdom.”

Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff at the CIA under the Bush administration, told The Hill, “Some of the statements she has made through the years that sound like they came right out of the Kremlin’s talking points paper are a little bit alarming. Her cozying up to Bashar al-Assad and being an apologist for him as well just raise questions in my mind. Is that really the best person to put in charge of this very complicated, very sensitive operation that is the U.S. intel community?”

Jamil Jaffer, a former House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor, told The Hill, “What is unusual here is you’ve got somebody who’s had such a long and vociferous track record of saying things that are factually incorrect, that seem to give aid and comfort to U.S. adversaries and that undermine the very people they should be representing at the principals committee.”

As with Hegseth and Gaetz’s critics, those denouncing Gabbard appear to be exponents of the very worldview and policy conventions that Trump was effectively elected to obliterate.

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Every single one of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has been followed by immediate wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left, but the award for the most controversial pick goes to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is nominated to the role of attorney general.

Steve Deace, however, is “here for it” — not just for the appointment of Gaetz but for the full panel Trump has chosen to be in his administration and their collective mentality to “[bring] this whole thing down.”

“This is Hulk smash,” says Deace in reference to Trump’s appointees.

However, “this Cabinet appointment of Gaetz is the biggest middle-finger appointment in the history of the U.S. presidency,” he says.

While Steve isn’t sure if Gaetz is “a righteous person,” as “there are serious [sex trafficking] allegations against [him],” he also knows that this DOJ has no qualms about “indicting Republicans or conservatives,” especially the anti-establishment type.

If the allegations against Gaetz, who is undeniably a firebrand, are true, why hasn’t he been indicted already?

Steve says that there are two possibilities here: One, “this Department of Justice knowingly allowed a creeper to sit in a congressional seat for the last few years.” Or two, “they don’t have the goods, and they’re smearing [Gaetz].”

However, Steve says there’s “a way we get clarity.”

“Let’s have a confirmation hearing. … Why don’t we just call witnesses, [Gaetz] calls his, people testify, and let’s find out?” he proposes.

Some may think that a hearing is impossible now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat and Congress no longer has jurisdiction over him, but Steve says the investigators can “still release their report.”

“Are you guys just sick of being told stuff but never being shown stuff?” Steve asks in frustration. “I sure as hell am.”

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Mike Tyson gave an honest and shocking answer to a child reporter who asked him what he thinks his lasting legacy will be in his sport.

Ahead of a press conference for his Friday night fight on Netflix against boxer Jake Paul, Tyson was interviewed by child star Jazlyn Guerra who hosts “Jazzy’s World.”

While Guerra asked Tyson about his love for pigeons and what makes him happy, it was a question about his legacy that brought out a deep philosophical answer from the former heavyweight champion.

“You are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for the first time,” Guerra began.

“After such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it’s all said and done?” she asked.

The young reporter may not have been ready for what Tyson was about to unleash.

“I don’t believe in the word legacy, I just think that’s another word for ‘ego.’ Legacy doesn’t mean nothing, that’s just some word everybody grabbed onto,” Tyson explained.

The 58-year-old then added that he doesn’t care about his legacy because he is going to die:

“It means absolutely nothing to me, I’m just passing through. I’m gonna die, and it’s going to be over. Who cares about a legacy after that?” he asked rhetorically.

14-year-old reporter Jazlyn Guerra hosts ‘Jazzy’s World,’ a YouTube channel with more than 700,000 subscribers.Photo by Dia Dipasupil/WireImage

Tyson continued, “What a big ego … so I’m [going to] die, I want people to think that I’m this, I’m great? No. We’re nothing, we’re dead, we’re dust. We’re absolutely nothing, our legacy is nothing.”

The 14-year-old, perhaps not expecting a lesson on the fragility of life, simply replied, “Well, thank you so much for sharing that.”

“That is something I have not heard before,” she noted.

The boxer wasn’t done with his teachings on the ego, however, and his further remarks certainly helped a clip from the interview go viral.

“Can you really imagine somebody saying, ‘I want my legacy to be this way’? You’re dead! Why do you want somebody … you think somebody really wants to think about you? I want people to think about me when I’m gone? Who the f*** cares about me when I’m gone?” Tyson prophesied.

The New York native did concede, however, that maybe his kids or grandchildren would care about him when he’s deceased.

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul face off before their November 15 fight on Netflix.Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024

The young reporter handled Tyson’s blunt responses in stride and spoke to the boxer about suffering through adversity in rough areas of New York.

“Adversity is beautiful, I’m so happy I endured it,” Tyson told the teen. “Adversity makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker. Without adversity, we’re nobody. You have to be tested in life.”

As for his November 15 opponent, Tyson said it remains to be seen how seriously he takes the sport.

“I don’t think much of him, I think he’s very funny,” Tyson added.

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The election that will bring Donald Trump back into power as the 47th president of the United States proved a lot of things: People care more about the economy than “reproductive rights,” people don’t trust Kamala Harris’ policy flip-flopping, and as Rick Burgess points out, people don’t buy into the left’s woke agenda.

They “[overplayed] their hand,” he says.

It turns out that people at large still have their wits about them because they rejected the wokeness that demands setting aside all logic and reasoning.

The question now is: Will the entertainment industry, which has been poisoned by woke ideology, get the message and correct course?

“Will movie makers, will entertainment people get that cue?” Burgess asks Bubba Bussey.

“No, not to the level you think they would,” says Bubba, noting that in 1984 when Reagan won 49 states, he mistakenly believed that that was “the end of liberalism.”

“But it’s never that way,” he adds. “There’s a lot of people in the middle out there … that just kind of vote for who they like.”

On top of that, “If you just look through history, it swings back and forth all the time.”

If we want to see a change that isn’t fleeting, Bubba says the Trump administration needs to “get busy right away and make some real changes that are substantive and make a difference in everybody’s daily life,” otherwise “the pendulum will swing back.”

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Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker has been breaking down the January 6 trials of American citizens and exposing what he’s found for years now — and because of that, the hammer of the government came down on him as well.

Now he’s pleading guilty to four charges related to January 6.

“My decision was very easy after my sentencing hearing last Wednesday, which was of course the day after President Trump was confirmed to have won the election. I went through what I consider a brutal hearing in which the justice department, not only them but also the court itself, showed their inflexibility,” Baker explains to Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“They showed to me that they were going to not allow us to present my case as I’ve imagined in my mind for three years now, that I would ultimately present my case if I was charged. And then after being charged back in March of this year, I’ve had nine, 10 months now to build that case,” he continues, noting that the court denied him on every motion made.

According to Baker, he had “behaved completely, 100% professionally as a journalist” and the prosecution is in “violation of the First Amendment.”

Because the court denied Baker the right to present his case, he decided to plead guilty instead.

“I told my attorneys in a Zoom call that we made immediately after my hearing last Wednesday that I was not going to do this. I was not going to allow the government to put me through nothing more than a shaming exercise and to be quite frank, a 100% losing record for January 6 defendants,” he explains.

“There has not been a single exoneration, not a single acquittal, so I was going up against that buzzsaw if I did go to trial today,” he adds.

While Baker was just doing his job, so were many other journalists in attendance on January 6 who are not facing the same fate. And seeing the same thing happen to others, he believes that no defendant was given a fair chance based on their political leaning.

“Beginning with the Oath Keepers trial, which of course was the biggest, most publicized January 6 trial of all,” he says, “I saw how those defendants were denied the right to prevent evidence that was exculpatory evidence in their own trial, and yet, the government was allowed to present basically anything that they wished.”

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Charles Barkley smashed Democrats and the Harris campaign for their devastating election loss. The NBA Hall of Famer also weighed in on how he’ll approach Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States.

Barkley first congratulated President-elect Trump on his decisive 2024 election victory.

‘When you win, you get to say what you want to. When you lose, you need to shut the hell up.’

“I wish him nothing but the best, but we lost,” Barkley said of Trump on a recent episode of his “The Steam Room” podcast.

“I don’t think everybody who voted for Trump is racist or whatever,” Barkley noted. “I’m not a fan of the guy, but he’s the president. I’m gonna have to respect the office.”

“I wish President-elect Donald Trump nothing but the best, because, hey, he won the race fair and square,” Barkley said. “I hope that he realized that 71 million people voted for her and do the best for the American people, plain and simple.”

Barkley then skewered the Democratic Party for “not having a game plan.”

“But we lost,” Barkley conceded. “And I just want to say this to the Democrats – which I’m an Independent who voted Democratic. Do me this favor, shut the f*** up! When you win, you get to say what you want to. When you lose, you need to shut the hell up.”

Barkley then listed the excuses Democrats used to try to explain why Vice President Kamala Harris was soundly beaten by Trump in the election. He cited the Democrat talking point that President Joe Biden didn’t drop out of the race soon enough.

“We lost because we had no game plan,” Barkley stated. “We still haven’t solved the immigration problem, have no viable answers, never addressed inflation. Bringing all these stupid stars out to rally the vote, what was that? Hey, I love Beyoncé. That ain’t gonna make me vote a certain type of way. Cardi B, I like Cardi B. That ain’t gonna make me vote a certain way.”

Barkley said Kamala should have had “a better game plan going forward, instead of bringing celebrities around” because “people want solutions.”

Barkley admitted during his recent podcast rant, “I voted for Kamala. But like I said, we didn’t win.”

“It’s all our faults for not having a game plan,” Barkley said. “We’re not having concerts and rallies. People want solutions. They want money in their pocket. They want the border secure.”

“You guys lost because y’all stupid. Come up with solutions,” the 11-time NBA All Star stated.

Barkley blasted Democrat cities for having rampant crime, including unchecked shoplifting to the point that stores are forced to lock up their merchandise.

The “NBA on TNT” host said Biden has been “tremendous,” and he has nothing but “admiration and respect” for him.

Barkley slammed anyone criticizing Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl for casting his vote for Trump.

“The next one of you fools, idiots, and jackasses send me an article about Bruce Pearl supporting Trump, I’m gonna punch you in your face,” Barkley proclaimed. “Bruce Pearl can vote for who he wants to. Bruce Pearl got two jobs: win basketball games and graduate players. That’s all I care about.”

“That man can support who he wants to,” the former Auburn All-American basketball player continued. “These people are out here telling me, ‘If you don’t vote for Kamala, you ain’t black.’ Shut the hell up. People can vote for who they want to.”

As Blaze News reported in March, Barkley had a much different opinion about black people supporting Trump when he stated: “If I see a black person walking around with Trump mugs, I’m going to punch him in the face.”

Also in March, Barkley scolded Democrats for “only caring about black people every four years.”

Barkley’s podcast co-host, Ernie Johnson, said he also voted for Harris.

Johnson said he wasn’t surprised that Trump won, but he was bothered that some Democrats are now saying: “If you voted for Donald Trump, I want nothing to do with you.”

“That’s the part that we have to get over,” Johnson added. “The fact that you voted one way, and I voted another way, that we can never see anything eye to eye or we never want anything to do with each other, because we’re getting nowhere that way.”

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Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has implemented several “substantial” edits to the Department of Justice manual in order to concentrate her office’s power, according to findings from the Article III Project obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

The exclusive report shows Monaco’s various ties to Big Tech entities like Google, which, combined with her consolidated power at the DOJ, could be “undermining” President Joe Biden’s long-standing antitrust policies.

“Just about the only thing President Biden got right in his nearly four years is his antitrust law enforcement against Big Tech,” Mike Davis, president and founder of the Article III Project, told Blaze News.

‘If Lisa Monaco is looking for her next job and can’t do her current job, she should resign immediately,’ Davis told Blaze News.

“Now, Lisa Monaco, Biden’s #2 Justice Department official, seems to be undermining her boss’ long-standing antitrust policies to curry favor with Google, a trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolist currently facing two game-changing antitrust lawsuits from the Biden Justice Department for its egregious abuse of the online search and advertising markets,” Davis continued.

Monaco was previously a partner at O’Melveny & Meyers, a law firm that represented Big Tech companies like Apple and Google in class-action and copyright cases, as well as patent lawsuits and antitrust actions, according to the report. Monaco also worked as an adviser for WestExec, working closely with Google on Project Maven, a controversial defense contract to develop artificial intelligence for drones.

In March of this year, authority to edit the DOJ manual shifted from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys to the manual’s “Editor-in-Chief” and “Managing Editor,” according to the report. Both of these positions are hand-selected by the DAG. As a result, Monaco was able to tailor the language in the manual to strengthen her authority and weaken that of an incoming administration.

At the same time, a line was added to the manual clarifying that “any questions about the controlling internal policy or procedure should be directed to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General,” according to the report.

Under Monaco, the manual was also edited in December 2022 to give the DAG power to “delegate authority to adjudicate disciplinary actions pertaining to non-career attorneys,” according to the report. The manual was also altered to include a provision allowing the DOJ to adjudicate appeals regarding personal misconduct from the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of the Inspector General.

The report also compares several portions of the manual that were amended to mandate the DAG’s authorization for various communications.

For example, a section called “Communication with the White House” was added to the manual in April 2022, requiring that the initial communications between the White House and the DOJ include only the DAG or AG and the counsel or deputy counsel to the president, according to the report.

Additionally, all communications from high-level security officials in the DOJ, requests for legal opinions from the White House, and communications between the White House and the Office of the Solicitor General with regard to the Supreme Court all must involve only the AG, DAG, or solicitor general, according to the report.

All of these efforts by Monaco to consolidate her office’s power, given her past ties with Big Tech companies, pose questions about her compliance with antitrust policies, according to the report.

“If Lisa Monaco is looking for her next job and can’t do her current job, she should resign immediately,” Davis told Blaze News.

The press inquiry office at the DOJ did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) filed a lawsuit against current and former officials with the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.

On Thursday, Moody announced that she would be “taking swift legal action” in response to reports that FEMA officials instructed the agency’s workers to bypass homes of President-elect Donald Trump supporters during the relief efforts following Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

‘I am taking swift legal action to find out how far this political discrimination reaches.’

Marn’i Washington, a former FEMA hurricane relief supervisor, allegedly told relief workers to avoid homes with pro-Trump signs in Lake Placid, Florida.

The agency has since fired Washington. The now-terminated worker insisted that she was being used as a “scapegoat” and that the practice was “not isolated,” Blaze News previously reported.

Moody declared that she filed a lawsuit against current and former FEMA officials for “conspiracy to discriminate against Florida hurricane victims who support President-elect Donald Trump.”

“According to whistleblower reports, FEMA workers in Lake Placid were directed to ignore storm victims in households that displayed Trump signs or flags,” a press release from Moody’s office read. “In an interview following these damning revelations, fired FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington claimed political discrimination by FEMA is not an isolated event and occurred across the country.”

The AG’s complaint stated, “FEMA workers followed these instructions and entered in a government database messages such as ‘Trump sign no entry per leadership.’ According to whistleblowers, ‘at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags’ in Lake Placid, Florida ‘were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance.'”

The Florida AG is seeking punitive damages.

Moody said, “Hurricane season is not over, and the federal agency in charge of emergency response is embroiled in scandal – caught withholding aid from storm victims in Florida who support President Trump.”

“I am taking swift legal action to find out how far this political discrimination reaches and to make sure all Americans who fall victim to devastating storms are served, regardless of their political affiliation,” she added.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) said, “It’s unacceptable for the federal government to discriminate against Floridians who voted for Trump, and especially egregious in the aftermath of a hurricane. I’m supportive of this legal action by the Attorney General’s Office, and I have instructed state agencies to likewise take any action necessary to investigate and ensure those who engaged in this behavior are held accountable.”

In response to Moody’s lawsuit, a FEMA spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the agency “does not comment on pending litigation.”

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Many classrooms across Oklahoma will soon be furnished with a Bible, thanks to the work of state Superintendent Ryan Walters.

In a video posted to X on Thursday, Walters announced that more than 500 Bibles had been purchased to be placed in Advanced Placement government classrooms across his state.

“The Bible is back in Oklahomas [sic] classrooms,” read the message attending the video. “We are getting our kids back on track.”

Walters also hopes to expand the program and eventually place a Bible in every classroom. “We will not stop until we’ve brought the Bible back to every classroom in the state,” he averred.

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Ever since Walters mentioned this summer the idea of incorporating the Bible back into the classroom, liberals have been howling and stomping their feet, insisting that doing so would violate the so-called “separation of church and state” in America.

Though opponents have denounced putting Bibles in schools as some kind of civil rights violation, the state of Oklahoma is overwhelmingly Christian.

“The separation of church and state guarantees that families and students – not politicians – get to decide if, when and how to engage with religion,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United.

“As a Christian, I’m appalled by the use of the Bible — a sacred text — for Superintendent Walters’ political grandstanding,” railed Rev. Mitch Randall, a Baptist pastor in Oklahoma.

“This Bible mandate is a blatant power grab that violates state law and tramples the separation of church and state,” added Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Last month, dozens of Oklahomans — backed by leftist groups like the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation — even filed a lawsuit against Walters for allegedly using “tax dollars for religious instruction” that “would violate the important constitutional principle of church–state separation.”

Not only is that phrase found nowhere in any of the country’s founding documents, but Walters noted in his announcement Thursday that the Bible has had critical influence on American history and that keeping it out of classrooms on account of its religious content would deprive students of a well-rounded education.

To demonstrate the Bible’s place among other key documents, Walters’ office promised to provide a Bible as well as a copy of “the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution for every classroom in Oklahoma” as part of an ongoing effort to give students a complete understanding of their nation’s history, KOCO reported.

Thus far, the 500 Bibles have cost the state about $25,000, according to Walters’ spokesperson, Dan Isett. In all, Walters is willing to spend as much as $6 million to make sure that each classroom is outfitted with its own Bible, the Oklahoman reported.

Though opponents have denounced putting Bibles in schools as some kind of civil rights violation, the state of Oklahoma is overwhelmingly Christian. According to the Pew Research Center, fully 79% of residents living there identify as Christian.

The Oklahoman noted that Walters’ call for Bibles in classrooms has been “legally-challenged” and repeatedly emphasized Walters’ support for President-elect Donald Trump. Such support, however, is in keeping with the state he serves since every Oklahoma county voted for Trump in 2024.

Walters’ name has been mentioned as a possible education secretary in Trump’s second term.

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The vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has infiltrated every major city in Tennessee, according to state officials.

TDA has been tied to criminal activity across the United States, including apartment takeovers in Aurora, Colorado, and violent crimes in New York City and Dallas, Texas. Thus far, the gang has primarily, but not exclusively, focused on expanding its presence in sanctuary jurisdictions, where local law enforcement agencies are forbidden to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

‘They will not hesitate to attack their opponents in public and in broad daylight.’

During a budget meeting this week, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director David Rausch warned Governor Bill Lee (R) that TDA has recently become a growing threat in the state.

According to Rausch, the gang started to appear in Tennessee two years ago, but its influence has substantially expanded over the past few months. He noted that TDA is active in Memphis and Nashville.

“We first saw them a couple years ago where we uncovered a group here in a human trafficking operation,” Rausch explained. “We recognized a number of the members here trafficking females that they had abducted from Venezuela and brought them here.”

The bureau successfully captured several individuals involved in the illicit operation, but “many of them fled” out of Tennessee, Rausch said.

“Now what we are seeing is they are back. They are back in all of our major cities,” he declared.

When TDA arrives in a new area, it starts by running trafficking operations, then expands into other criminal activities, including organized retail theft and drug trafficking, Rausch told Lee.

He expressed concerns about TDA’s brazenness and its targeting of cartel members.

“They will, and they have taken on the cartel head-on, and they’re very violent in their efforts,” Rausch continued. “They will not hesitate to attack their opponents in public and in broad daylight.”

“Recently, there was a video that they shot where they shot an individual, a cartel member, 31 times. Broad daylight, on video, and posted it to social media,” he stated.

Rausch did not share how many TDA gang members he believes are in the state but noted that “they’re in numbers here.”

According to Straight Arrow News, the Knoxville Police Department is unaware of any TDA activity in the area.

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly identified more than 600 individuals in the U.S. with ties to TDA, Blaze News previously reported. The federal government has confirmed the gang’s activity in at least 15 states, and it may have expanded to another eight.

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A former substitute teacher in Missouri is accused of paying students to engage in sex acts with her while urging them to keep their activities a secret. The ex-teacher also supplied children with alcohol and marijuana and sent illicit photos to kids, according to police.

According to online court records, Carissa Smith began as a substitute teacher for Dixon Middle School in 2022 and 2023. Smith was hired as a paraprofessional for Dixon High School for the 2023-24 school year and was later hired as a long-term substitute teacher. However, Smith resigned from her position in August.

One alleged victim told police he was in middle school when ‘Smith asked him to have sex with her.’

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department said in a press release, “According to the probable cause statement submitted, information was obtained while interviewing victims that Mrs. Smith would offer money, marijuana and/or alcohol to students in return for sex or to allow her to perform oral sex.”

Investigators say the alleged incidents occurred from August 2023 to September 2024.

According to the probable cause statement, Smith paid an alleged victim at least $100 to engage in sexual activities with her.

The alleged victims told investigators that Smith would have sex with them at her home and “other various locations such as gravel roads or on the side of the road.” Police said the alleged victims were able to describe Smith’s house and her vehicle.

One alleged victim told police he was in middle school when “Smith asked him to have sex with her.”

Citing authorities, the Kansas City Star reported that Smith urged an alleged victim multiple times to not tell anyone about their encounters and advised the boy that “she would get into trouble.”

One alleged victim said Smith sent nude photos of herself on Snapchat and propositioned the child for sex, according to the court documents.

The sheriff’s department said Smith was arrested Nov. 12.

Police said Smith was charged with eight counts of statutory rape, three counts of sexual contact with a student, two counts of sexual misconduct with a student, two counts of sexual trafficking of a child, two counts of hindering prosecution, one count of statutory sodomy, and one count of patronizing prostitution.

The sheriff’s department noted that more charges could be filed once all alleged victims have been interviewed. Smith is being detained at the Pulaski County Detention Center on a $250,000 bond.

In a letter to parents, Dixon R-1 School District Superintendent Travis Bohrer said the district learned of Smith’s alleged misconduct earlier in the school year.

“We were unable to share this information with you sooner due to the need to allow law enforcement officials to fully investigate without interference,” Bohrer said, adding that “this is very disturbing and distressing information for everyone in our school community.”

Bohrer said the district has cooperated with the sheriff’s department about the “serious matter.”

The Dixon R-1 School District released a statement to KYTV-TV that read in part, “Earlier this school year, the district received a report of possible misconduct by Ms. Smith towards at least one district student.”

The school district said it had been in contact with the impacted families.

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President-elect Donald Trump
enraged elements of the administrative state, the military-industrial complex, and the liberal media with his announcement Tuesday that he will be appointing decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth to run the Pentagon. Among those gnashing teeth and clutching pearls was unrepentant Iraq War advocate Bill Kristol.

KFile, the investigative outfit at CNN that
previously highlighted some of Kamala Harris’ more radical views, preemptively outed Kristol as two-faced, linking to a video of his glowing 2012 endorsement of Hegseth for a Senate seat in Minnesota.

Kristol now

In the pages of his never-Trump blog, Kristol
called Hegseth — a two-time Bronze Star recipient who fought in a war initiated on the false premise Kristol promoted — “the lightest of lightweights,” suggesting further he was “unfit” and would degrade the government.

After quoting Stephen K. Bannon, who allegedly
told the financial journalist Michael Lewis that the way to deal with an oppositional media “is to flood the zone with s***,” Kristol suggested that the same strategy is now in play and that Hegseth and Trump’s other appointments are human waste.

Kristol, who served in the George H.W. Bush administration as well as on the late Sen. John McCain’s failed presidential campaign, subsequently cast doubt on whether the U.S. Senate would ultimately confirm Hegseth.

“Even though the bulk of Trump’s embarrassing and unqualified appointments will get confirmed, his intention to nominate Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense gives defenders of good government and the rule of law a chance for a win,” wrote Kristol. “Could Hegseth’s nomination be defeated? Many Republican senators have dealt with Hegseth, and they know he’s beyond unqualified for the position. Has there actually been a single statement from a Republican senator actually praising the choice? I’m not aware of one.”

‘There’s so much he could do for this country.’

Kristol also busied himself this week
sharing other attacks on Hegseth from other writers on his blog, including the suggestion from Annika Brockschmidt and Thomas Lecaque that Trump’s proposed secretary of defense sees himself as a potential leader in a holy war — as some kind of neo-crusader knight whose Jerusalem cross and “Deus vult” tattoos serve as “warnings all over his body.”

Kristol then

Prior to Kristol’s meltdown, KFile’s Andy Kaczynski
shared the neocon’s 2012 endorsement of Hegseth, where he said, “I’ve known Pete Hegseth for six or seven years. He’s one of the most impressive young men I’ve met in Washington.”

“Pete was 26, 27 years old, meeting with senators, meeting with senior administration officials. He was extremely impressive. He made his case like someone who had been around Washington for 20 years — but he also had served. He had served his country,” continued Kristol. “I feel I know him well.”

“I respect Pete. I admire what he’s done and I think there’s an awful lot, there’s so much he could do for this country,” added Kristol.

The neocon who wasted ink this week dehumanizing the secretary of defense nominee also noted in the endorsement video that Hegseth was an accomplished young man with vision and character.

“He is someone who served his country in the military, obviously, and put himself at risk,” said Kristol. “I’d be proud and enthusiastic to vote for Pete Hegseth.”

Kristol proved unwilling to change his mind about the disastrous and costly war in Iraq. It’s unclear at what point he alternatively changed his mind about Hegseth, but Trump’s success and non-interventionist foreign policy might have something to do with it.

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Conservatives and independents alike cheered Trump’s November 6 landslide.

“The country is saved! No more threat of WWIII or choosing between groceries and $7 per gallon gas,” was the victory cry.

The media has lied to them about Donald Trump’s intentions. Or they might have had a very poor experience with a conservative person. Either way, these human beings on the left have worked themselves up into a panic.

But as we revel in the joy of the second Trump presidency, let’s keep in mind those across the aisle who are genuinely distraught.

Thanks to accounts like Libs of TikTok, we’re all too familiar with how deranged — and downright dangerous — leftists can be. But these are the extremists. We shouldn’t let people on the fringe blind us to the sincere (albeit irrational) despair of half the country.

The average Kamala Harris voter could be your sister, neighbor, aunt, friend, or coworker. And while they may be angry, anger usually comes from a place of deep hurt. As Ecclesiastes 3 puts it, “There is a time for everything … a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”

I ask you, Trump voter, not to dampen your joy but to thoughtfully consider how you express that joy.

A peek at social media gives a glimpse at how the “other side” is doing, revealing a range of emotions from rage to intense sorrow. We may scoff at these “liberal tears,” but in some cases, they’re a symptom of more serious problems. One mental health hotline saw an increase of 700% in calls and texts from LGBTQ+ youth.

These are real people who are under the impression — whether it’s based in reality or not — that they are in some kind of legitimate danger. The media has lied to them about Donald Trump’s intentions. Or they might have had a very poor experience with a conservative person. Either way, these human beings on the left have worked themselves up into a panic.

Right now, our mission should be to reach out lovingly to these people and at least attempt to communicate with them. We can’t control how they respond, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying.

It can be tempting to gloat in the faces of those who called Trump supporters “garbage” or “deplorables,” but an eye for an eye won’t win us this battle. Being a gracious winner is just as important as being a gracious loser. If we don’t get this right, do not be surprised if the pendulum swings back to the left, as it tends to do.

If this is truly to be the party of unity, let it start now. Don’t just invite those who agree with you into the fold. Loving kindness won’t win over everyone, but it may reassure some on the left that we as Christians, conservatives, or independents do not want to take away their rights or hurt them. We are not out to get them, and we hope that a Trump presidency produces a country where they can thrive too.

So celebrate Trump’s victory! But please be wise and thoughtful about how you do so, and use your joy to make America great again for all Americans.

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President-elect Donald Trump
nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday to serve as Health and Human Services secretary, reiterating his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Within hours of the announcement, the Biden-Harris HHS under the current leadership of Xavier Becerra provided the incoming administration with a reminder of the herculean task of reform now set before Kennedy: a propaganda piece on social media signaling support both for medicalized transvestism and the notion that some men and women are “nonbinary.”

In addition to reminding the public that radical gender ideology informs the current HHS’
pseudoscientific stances and activist policies — something Trump intends to remedy — the post set Kennedy’s apparent health priorities in greater relief.

Rather than waste time, money, and energy indulging the delusions of those suffering from body dysmorphia, Kennedy has signaled he will actually try to improve their health and the health of the nation at large.

“We have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy
said in his response to Trump’s announcement. “I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to free the agencies from the smothering cloud of corporate capture so they can pursue their mission to make Americans once again the healthiest people on Earth.”

‘I don’t think children can genuinely consent to repurposed castration drugs.’

Kennedy has offered some hints and specifics in recent months about what he would do if put in a position to take meaningful federal action.

Protecting youth from the sex-change regime

In May, Kennedy tweeted, “The more I learn, the more troubled I have become about giving puberty blockers to youth. Minors cannot drive, vote, join the army, get a tattoo, smoke, or drink, because we know that children do not fully understand the consequences of decisions with life-long ramifications.”

The future Trump nominee stressed that the brain’s prefrontal cortex, “responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing, and making good decisions, doesn’t fully mature until the early to mid-20s.”

“I don’t think children can genuinely consent to repurposed castration drugs (puberty blockers) and surgical mutilation, which have permanent, irreversible effects,” said Kennedy.

A Kennedy-led HHS would help Trump make good on his vows to revoke the Biden-Harris administration’s “cruel policies on so-called ‘gender-affirming care'”; cease all programs promoting the concept of gender transition; and cut “any hospital or healthcare provider participating in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth” off of Medicaid and Medicare.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is one of the HHS agencies Kennedy would oversee.

When threatening federal funding, Kennedy might want to look at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm’s new database of hospitals and medical facilities that are apparently subjecting children to sex-change mutilations and sterilizing chemical treatments.

Curbing retardation by fluoride

The accomplished environmental lawyer, who once
gave agro-tech giant Monsanto a figurative black eye in court, signaled that the Trump administration will “advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from the public water” — a proposal that even the Washington Post’s health columnist Leana Wen, a professor of health policy at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, has admitted is reasonable.

According to the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements, fluoridated municipal drinking water accounts for approximately 60% of fluoride intakes in the United States. As of 2020, 62.9% of the population had access to a fluoridated water system.

Scientists have long understood that exposure to fluoride at elevated levels has been
linked to various adverse health effects in humans, such as osteosclerosis, calcification of tendons, endocrine dysfunction, and bone deformities. The government finally got around to admitting this past summer that fluoride is also retarding the population.

The National Toxicology Program, part of the HHS, released a
report in August revealing that fluoridated water can significantly lower IQ in kids.

“Higher estimated fluoride exposures (e.g., as in approximations of exposure such as drinking water fluoride concentrations that exceed the World Health Organization Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality of 1.5 mg/L of fluoride) are consistently associated with lower IQ in children,” said the NTP report.

‘FDA’s war on public health is about to end.’

When still a presidential candidate, Kennedy made the same pledge to remove fluoride from the water,
stating he would lean on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another HHS agency to “take every step necessary to remove neurotoxic fluoride from American drinking water.”

Cleaning house at the FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is another HHS agency, meaning it would be within Kennedy’s purview.

Ahead of Election Day, Kennedy
noted on X, “FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”

“If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags,” added Kennedy.

Kennedy
told MSNBC following Trump’s landslide victory, “In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are — that have to go, that are not doing their job, they’re not protecting our kids.”

Kennedy underscored he would not seek to eliminate entire agencies “as long as it requires congressional approval.” Instead, he would “get the corruption out of the agencies.”

Trump said in his announcement Thursday that the HHS would also “ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country.”

With oversight of the FDA, Kennedy might be able to spare Americans from exposure or at the very least relatively high exposure to problematic chemicals such as chlormequat and Bisphenol A.

The Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology published a study from the Environmental Working Group earlier this year revealing that the vast majority of Americans have been exposed to the pesticide chlormequat, which is detectable in dozens of popular oat-based products and has been linked in animal studies to disrupted fetal growth, damage to the reproductive system, delayed puberty, and reduced fertility.

‘The science on vaccine safety particularly has huge deficits.’

Blaze News previously reported that BPA, which studies have linked to infertility, obesity, cancer, poor fetal development, early onset puberty, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other ailments, is used in numerous rigid plastic consumer products. While the current FDA claims the chemical is safe at “current levels occurring in foods,” a European health agency recently sounded the alarm, revealing that exposure is too high and that contrary to the suggestion of the FDA, BPA does pose a danger.

Kennedy has expressed an interest in banning various chemicals, including the food dye tartrazine, stressing the need to “stop the mass poisoning of American children.”

Proper vaccine research

Kennedy
told NPR in a recent interview that he would act swiftly on support for vaccine research.

“I will work immediately on that. That will be one of my priorities,” said Kennedy.

Kennedy and Dr. Brian Hooker released a book last year, titled “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak,” which examined the scientific literature highlighting health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. In the book, Kennedy
reportedly states, “There is virtually no science assessing the overall health effects of the vaccination schedule or its component vaccines.”

“This means it can’t know whether these vaccines actually cause harm and certainly can’t honestly say that they don’t,” the book adds.

“We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody. We are going to make sure that Americans have good information right now. The science on vaccine safety particularly has huge deficits, and we’re going to make sure those scientific studies are done and that people can make informed choices about their vaccinations and their children’s vaccinations.”

The Washington Post
suggested with apparent unease that Kennedy could influence the vaccine approval and recommendation process by directing less passive and deferential individuals onto advisory committees at the FDA and CDC.

Unsurprisingly, shares of major vaccine makers, such as Pfizer and Moderna,
took a nosedive following news of Kennedy’s appointment.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense has sent shock waves through the liberal media — who believe Hegseth isn’t qualified.

However, they seem completely unaware that Hegseth is not only a Fox News personality but has a Harvard degree, served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and received two Bronze Stars.

And he’s not interested in bowing to their equity-driven demands.

“I’m straight-up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective, hasn’t made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. We’ve all served with women, and they’re great. It’s just our institutions don’t have to incentivize that in places where over human history, men in those positions are more capable,” Hegseth said in a recent interview.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” couldn’t agree more.

“Call me old-fashioned and I’m stuck in the mud in the 1950s, but I don’t think women should be in combat either. We don’t have to do the same things,” Gray says.

Hegseth also explained how he plans on fixing the military in his new position, which includes firing the chairman of Joint Chiefs and any general or admiral who “was involved in any of the DEI, woke.”

“You’ve got to get DEI and CRT out of the military academy, so you’re not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking, and then whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were, say, in, I don’t know, 1995, let’s just make those the standards,” Hegseth continued.

Of the leftists unhappy with Trump’s appointment of Hegseth, Don Lemon has been one of the most vocal, even posting a video of himself laughing and reading the appointment out loud.

While Lemon had little to say about Hegseth’s actual qualifications, he did laugh while he labeled Hegseth as simply a “morning weekend host on Fox News.”

“Hold on, this is a self-own. He realizes that, right?” Keith Malinak laughs.

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My view of the election is that Trump and Harris were locked in a spiritual battle. Many, including myself, felt that the sparing of Trump’s life in the first assassination attempt was an act of clear divine Providence. For him to turn his head at that precise moment to avoid the assassin’s bullet, suffering only a grazed ear — it defies belief. I don’t believe in coincidences like that. Trump himself leaned into the religious overtones, understanding that many Christian supporters had come to see him as a messianic figure. Personally, I do believe — and there are many examples of this in the Bible — that God selects certain individuals to carry out His plans on Earth, and there is no doubt in my mind that Trump is one of those individuals. Isaiah 6:8 says: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”

Trump’s travails have been almost Job-like. Stripped of virtually everything, impeached, battered, humiliated, almost killed, slandered, deplatformed, sued, and on the verge of being thrown in prison for the rest of his life, Trump found the strength to mount a remarkable campaign and win. It is the greatest political comeback in American history. Many see his resilience as superhuman and divinely inspired.

Wokeism is in some ways similar to those other two secular cults in that it has rituals, priests, and the elements of original sin — whiteness, privilege, etc. Wokeism even has a millenarian bent in that it presumes that the world is fundamentally unjust and subject to vast, oppressive conspiracies.

Now, on the other side, we have another religion — one I consider idolatrous, but a religion nonetheless. See, when you strip God from life, you don’t leave people intact, but rather, you leave them with a God-shaped hole. Today’s left has eliminated (or corrupted) the church, and in its place, leftists have adopted secular religions (some call this Gnosticism). Harris and her progressive supporters subscribe to three of these cults: climate doomerism, wokeism, and, to a lesser extent, AI safety. Broadly, these all fall under the umbrella of decel-ism.

Apocalypse forever

It’s worth unpacking these slightly. Climate and AI doomers are contemporary millenarian cults; that is, they are concerned with the apocalypse. Adherents to such cults believe that a reckoning is coming that will transform the Earth, punish the sinful, save the worthy, or just wipe us out entirely. On climate, the idea is that we committed a grave original sin by debauching nature and emitting CO2; Gaia is punishing us by unleashing her wrath in the form of ever-intensifying storms (never mind that the cost to humans from climate-related disasters has been falling); and if we don’t sufficiently change our ways, we will be extinguished in a final day of reckoning (think “The Day After Tomorrow”). AI safety is a newer cult, but very similar: We summoned a demon of sorts by creating AI, and we risk destroying humanity if we delve any deeper into machine intelligence. There is a trippier variant of the AI doomer cult in which we achieve a rapture and merge with the machine god in some kind of singularity. Both cults stress the sin of industrial pursuit, and in both cases, the solutions are the same: Slow down or even reverse progress.

Compare Trump and Harris on AI and climate. Trump wants to re-energize America’s heartland, unleash our abundant energy resources for Bitcoin mining, AI, chip manufacturing, and so on. Trump recognizes that we cannot hamstring ourselves with a Merkel-style Energiewende. It’s suicide to sacrifice ourselves to the angry climate god via Thunberg-esque atonement while China prints coal and nuclear plants. Meanwhile, Harris stands for an insipid green transition that simply hasn’t paid off anywhere it has been tried. The left’s infatuation with green transitions should be understood as superstition, not policy. If progressives really believed in the existential risk from climate, they would be all in on nuclear, or even global cooling with aerosolized sulfates. They aren’t. On AI, Harris stands for AI safety, the self-aggrandizing Silicon Valley cult that both worships and fears the machine god. On the other hand,Trump sees AI as a vital strategic resource to be unleashed, making no underlying metaphysical claims whatsoever.

Leaving aside the decel cults, the most important spiritual lens through which Harris should be understood is wokeism. Wokeism is in some ways similar to those other two secular cults in that it has rituals, priests, and the elements of original sin — whiteness, privilege, etc. Wokeism even has a millenarian bent in that it presumes that the world is fundamentally unjust and subject to vast, oppressive conspiracies (although it doesn’t clearly specify what the day of reckoning might look like). However, the inherent flaw of wokeism and the reason it doesn’t universalize well is that it offers no absolution. There’s no way for a straight white man (or anyone else near the top of the privilege hierarchy) to atone for his original sin. Compare with Christianity, which stresses (depending on the denomination) that all you have to do to be absolved of your sins is accept Jesus Christ into your heart. So wokeism can’t really sustain itself, because it’s dependent on a spiritual underclass of “oppressors” who are willing to continually submit to and elevate the least privileged (the trans disabled POC, etc). But who would sign up for a religion that offers no atonement? Even the most ardent white wokes must feel a twinge of doubt at their membership in the cult, realizing that they are permanent Dalits in the woke caste system.

A spiritual war for the soul of a nation

So I see the Trump-Harris conflict through the lens of a spiritual war. Of course, the battle between right and left already has a spiritual component since it’s not just two sets of rival policy positions but in fact a much more deep-seated set of mutually conflicting worldviews: individual versus system-level thinking; merit versus racial score-settling; small government versus collectivism; the nuclear family versus the state as your family; and so on. In the case of Trump and Harris, it was even more direct. Trump plays the role of an unintentional messiah, almost accidentally thrust into this savior role. Though Trump’s faith may not be particularly sincere, his fans’ belief that he is a tortured savior chosen by God is. Meanwhile, Harris is the purest representative we’ve seen of the progressive religion to date, being selected for the role not due to her track record in government but because of her anointed status within the woke cult. She is perfect: black, Indian, a woman, and so on. She merely lacked charisma, meaningful policy views, a distinct message of change, and a platform. There can be no real dispute that she was more of an empty vessel for woke payloads than a genuine candidate. Her campaign was mainly focused on marshaling the high-propensity female vote on abortion, shaming minorities into falling in line, scolding men into voting “for their wives and daughters,” and so on. She flatly refused to specify meaningful policy positions, keeping them deliberately vague, running instead on pure identitarianism.

The Democrats should engage in soul-searching and realize that by embracing cults like wokeism and GDP-destroying fantasies like climate doomerism and AI doomerism, they are swimming against the current.

To the right, her great sacrilege was her primary campaign issue — the murder of unborn children. Other issues she stands for — the coercive chemical castration of children, for instance — are considered not only simply poor policy by the right but downright satanic. It’s unsurprising that Trump’s strongest campaign message was “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.” For Trump’s Christian supporters, the distinction could not have been starker. Many felt that this was the last election if she won. The left misunderstood this when folks like Elon Musk said it. The idea wasn’t that there would never be an election ever again but rather that the left would vastly accelerate import of the third world and spontaneously grant these newcomers citizenship. This isn’t far-fetched. Leftists were quite explicit about their desire to do this, and they partially executed it under Biden. Some on the left, too, felt that if Trump regained power, he would fashion the government into a fascist authoritarian regime and permanently leave democracy behind. So this election had a decidedly existential bent to it. Many on both sides felt that this would be the last freely contested vote.

As a Christian and a conservative, I am encouraged that America resoundingly rejected these woke cults and their emissary in Harris. This was a realigning election that cannot be written off as a fluke like 2016 was. Hispanics shifted abruptly right, undermining the left’s core coalition. Harris actually underperformed Biden with black voters, showing the weakness of her identitarian campaign. Black men in particular defected from the left quite markedly. Trump gained with young voters, a generally secular group that is still infatuated with wokeism. By contrast, Trump did astoundingly well with Catholics, winning them by 18 points, the largest gap in decades. Trump also gained with Protestants relative to 2020. Eighty percent of evangelicals broke for Trump, again a better margin than 2020. Harris’ campaign built around Roe simply wasn’t compelling enough. And some of her high-propensity supporters, like suburban white moms, were turned off by the left’s ritual sacrifice of girls at the altar of wokeism (by allowing males in women’s sports, for instance). Voters were more concerned with immigration and the economy.

The Democrats should engage in soul-searching and realize that by embracing cults like wokeism and GDP-destroying fantasies like climate doomerism and AI doomerism, they are swimming against the current. Their Obama coalition has been shattered in the biggest realigning election since Reagan. Having lost the working class and the Hispanic vote, and unable to import new voters as they had planned, if they continue down the path of racial shame and elevating DEI candidates, they will lose over and over. As for those on the right, they have resurrected their messiah. Expectations couldn’t be higher. But one thing is clear: Religion, real religion, is still a force to be reckoned with in American politics. The left has lost the Mandate of Heaven. It belongs to Trump now.

This article originally appeared on X.

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Donald Trump has made it official: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been tapped to run a new “Department of Government Efficiency” (or DOGE), tasked with slashing the federal bureaucracy and spending.

“Their duty will be over by July 4, 2026, which is the 250th anniversary of America. So we’ve got a lot of work to do until then,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” comments, thrilled with the news.

The point of the Department of Government Efficiency is cutting waste in the government — though that might include mass firings of government employees.

“Ramaswamy has come up with this great idea of how to fire people. OK, we know the problem is that you just can’t fire people because they’re just going to take you to court,” Glenn says. “If you’re running a company, and you need to reduce the size of the company, you will have companies that will just cut whole divisions because they don’t want any of the lawsuits.”

“It has to be everybody, right? So what Ramaswamy has come up with, and he says this is only a thought exercise, but I think it’s brilliant. What he’s come up with is ‘We’re going to reduce the government by half, and here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to say everyone who has an odd number at the end of their social security number, you’re fired,’” Glenn explains.

However, if an employee is elected to the office they hold, they can’t be fired this way.

“If you’re elected into that office, you’re not fired. But everybody else, because we’re reducing the size of the government by half,” Glenn says.

While Stu Burguiere loves the idea of reducing the government by half, he’s skeptical of the method potentially being employed.

“Merit has nothing to do with random groups of firing, you want to fire the employees that suck,” Stu says.

“To be able to get to the place where you have merit, you have to reduce the size of the government first. You have blood letting that have to happen,” Glenn responds.

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At UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi, Khamzat Chimaev, a beast from Chechnya, showed the world why he’s becoming one of the most feared men in mixed martial arts.

Known for his brutal, relentless style and the nickname “Borz” (“wolf” in Chechen), Chimaev didn’t just beat former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker — he tore through him with a ruthless efficiency that left fans stunned. Within minutes, Whittaker — a fighter known for his strength and skill — was battered, his jaw tested by vicious strikes.

From a young age, boys learn to endure cold, navigate difficult terrain, and face challenges head-on. They don’t just hear stories of heroes; they are expected to become them.

Whittaker wasn’t just outclassed. He was embarrassed, thrown around like a cheap rag doll.

But to truly grasp the depth of Chimaev’s dominance, one has to understand where he comes from and what fuels him.

Where champions are made

The North Caucasus is a place synonymous with survival. These rugged mountains, shadowed by centuries of struggle, breed people with an iron sense of identity. No trans madness here. No teaching children that there are 700 different genders.

In places like Dagestan and Chechnya, where empires and Soviet boots once pressed down, boys aren’t just taught to fight; they’re taught to endure, to dominate, to win at all costs.

Fighting here isn’t recreation; it’s in the blood. It is, for many, a ticket to a better life.

While kids in the U.S. are glued to screens, boys here are rolling on mats, learning skills that build character and raw strength. Sure, they shed a tear — they are children, after all — but quickly wipe them away and resume training.

In America and other affluent Western nations, parents often cushion their children against the hard knocks of reality. Playgrounds are rubber-padded, and competitive games come with participation trophies. Schools emphasize positive reinforcement and conflict resolution through dialogue. Safety and self-expression are the goals.

But only a fool would deny that this soft approach has eroded the concept of toughness. Children in the U.S. and beyond, especially boys, are becoming weaker, both mentally and physically.

Contrast this with the North Caucasus, where raising boys is less about emotional insulation and more about preparing them for an unforgiving world. Here, childhood is not an insulated period of delicate growth; it’s an initiation into manhood.

From a young age, boys learn to endure cold, navigate difficult terrain, and face challenges head-on. They don’t just hear stories of heroes; they are expected to become them. The bar for what constitutes “soft” or “hard” is drawn starkly differently than in America.

In the North Caucasus region, by the age of 10 a boy has already practiced wrestling in the dirt and spent cold nights learning survival skills outdoors. Here, every boy is like a mini Joe Rogan, minus the tattoos and impressive bank balance. Failure is seen as part of learning, not something to be avoided. The experience is grueling but purposeful — the expectation is to grow tough enough to shoulder family and community responsibilities.

This isn’t cruelty; it’s preparation. Preparation for greatness.

Epitome of greatness

One cannot speak about greatness without discussing Khabib Nurmagomedov. To the people of Dagestan, he’s more than a champion. He’s a legend, revered with the same awe reserved for greats like Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan. Khabib is arguably the greatest UFC fighter of all time, a man who dominated with a ferocity that broke opponents. In the Octagon, he didn’t just win titles — he took souls.

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If in doubt, let me point you in the direction of Conor McGregor. Before stepping into the ring with Khabib, he was the brightest star in the UFC, a fighter believed to be unbeatable. A sporting icon who had elevated himself to near-mythic status, McGregor was systematically dismantled by a monster from the mountains.

The buildup to their fight was nasty, with McGregor hurling cheap shots at Khabib’s now-deceased father. However, the Irishman, then the undisputed king of trash talk, would soon find himself getting a taste of his own medicine.

The moment the bell rang, McGregor, full of his usual swagger, quickly realized he was facing a fighter intent on destruction — specifically, the destruction of him and his legacy.

Clash of civilizations

The audience, the vast majority of whom expected yet another McGregor victory, also understood they were not just watching a contest; they were witnessing a reckoning.

With each takedown, Khabib sent a message to the world. He was there to make history. His ground-and-pound wasn’t flashy, but it was brutal, precise, and mercilessly effective.

McGregor’s legendary counter-punches, the lethal strikes that had taken down countless opponents, proved useless against the relentless force of the Dagestani. Every attempt to escape failed.

Khabib was relentless, a human Terminator, there to take McGregor apart piece by piece. The Dubliner spent most of the fight flopping around like a trout on a fisherman’s deck, desperately gasping for air.

In truth, October 6, 2018, was the day the Conor McGregor we knew and loved died. He never recovered. How could he? The Grim Reaper had just visited and violated him.

While McGregor was busy nursing his bruised body and his battered ego, Khabib returned to his homeland a hero. To the young boys of Dagestan, he was — and remains — a symbol of what’s possible.

Meanwhile, in the West, many boys and girls worship fleeting idols — TikTok influencers and pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter — whose fame is built on hollow trends and fake personas. They are all style and zero substance.

We often speak of being “advanced,” but take a hard look at our children and ask yourself: Are we truly moving forward, or are we losing the core values that build resilience, character, and true strength? Khabib’s triumph was more than a victory — it was a reminder of what real heroes look like.

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Liberals online began wailing and gnashing their teeth almost immediately after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to a seat in his Cabinet on Thursday.

As had long been rumored, Trump tapped RFK Jr. to be health and human services secretary. During his independent run for president, RFK Jr. made health a major focus of his campaign.

‘Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of public health is like putting the Unabomber in charge of the mail.’

After Kennedy dropped out in August and formally endorsed Trump, social media became ablaze with the slogan “Make America Healthy Again,” a phrase that Trump often uttered in the close of his rally speeches.

“I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote in a statement posted to X late Thursday afternoon.

In his statement, Trump also called public health and safety an administration’s “most important role” but said that lately, Americans have endured an “overwhelming Health Crisis” on account of “harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives.”

Under Kennedy’s leadership, health agencies will fight back against the chronic disease “epidemic,” return to the “Gold Standard” of scientific research, and become “beacons of Transparency,” Trump continued.

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CNN reported that Kennedy accepted the nomination sometime on Thursday.

In its article about the RFK nomination, the liberal outfit also described Kennedy as “one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists” and accused him of spreading “false conspiracy theories about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.” However, the outlet did not provide any examples of such alleged conspiracy theories.

The New York Times also claimed in its headline about the nomination that Kennedy “spread false information about vaccines.”

Liberals online melted down over the news of Kennedy’s nomination as well.

“Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of public health is like putting the Unabomber in charge of the mail,” tweeted the left-wing influencer known as Jo.

“It’s difficult to describe how utterly wretched RFK Jr. is. Not that I necessarily expect them to, but the Republican Senate *has* to put their foot down here. He’s one of the most deranged sociopaths in public life, and his war on childhood vaccination is unconscionable,” wrote a user with 19K followers.

“RFK Jr. ran a spoiler campaign to help elect Donald Trump. Now, he’s reaping the benefits with a position that will jeopardize the health of millions of Americans,” said a group of Democratic activists called End Citizens United.

However, not all Democrats assailed the pick. Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado in fact cheered it, claiming that RFK Jr. would help take “on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly.”

“He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues,” Polis added.

One industry likely to be upset by the pick is Big Pharma. Shortly after Trump announced the nomination, the stocks of many pharmaceutical companies reportedly tanked.

Kennedy did not make a statement about the Cabinet position but did retweet Trump’s statement. Soon after Trump’s landslide election victory, Kennedy hinted that he likely would be heavily involved in public health agencies during Trump’s second term.

“President Trump has given me three instructions,” Kennedy said, according to CNN. “He wants the corruption and the conflicts out of the regulatory agencies. He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard, empirically-based, evidence-based, science and medicine that they were once famous for. And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years.”

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