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The women of “The View” have secured a coveted spot in history after being unable to control their TDS-fueled reaction to Trump’s win while live on air.

“In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news. They should be teaching that in this country. Teach children tolerance, teach them to think critically,” Joy Behar told the panel, following Trump’s landslide win.

Then, panelist Sara Haines took that comment to what Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” called “banana’s town.”

“Well, it would help if we could regulate social media, ‘cause one of the biggest offenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regards to the rogue corporations with social media,” Haines said.

“If only social media would have been regulated, this wouldn’t have happened,” Rubin comments, shocked by her admission. “It’s you guys, it’s the mainstream media and the machine that has pushed all of the misinformation on us.”

However, Rubin doesn’t believe Haines had the craziest comment of the night — which was saved for Sunny Hostin.

“I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin began. “I think if you look at the New York Times this morning the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know now.”

“We know now that he will have almost unfettered power, and so I worry not about myself actually, I don’t worry about my station in life, I worry about the working class, I worry about my mother, a retired teacher, I worry about our elderly and their social security and their medical care, I worry about my children’s future — especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have,” Hostin continued.

The fearmongerer went on to explain that she now has “less civil rights” than she did before and that she is “profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.”

Of her other concerns, Hostin listed “mass deportation and internment camps.”

“As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country, and I think that it had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country,” she explained.

“What we did not have is white women, who voted about 52% for Donald Trump. Uneducated white women is my understanding,” she continued, adding, “So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms? And why do you think Latino men voted for someone who is going to deport them?”

“I don’t think white women like being called uneducated white women,” Alyssa Farah, the only sane one, fired back. “When you put people in these boxes, I think that’s a takeaway from this race.”

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Days after he unwittingly nudged Joe Rogan farther toward an endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) found a group of constituents to scapegoat for the consequential defeat of one of his fellow Democrats.

Rather than admit the weakness of his comrades’ pitch to Americans or acknowledge that Republicans simply did a better job overall, Fetterman belittled Green Party voters for fulfilling their civic duty.

Fetterman jumped on X to complain after Republican David McCormick successfully ousted Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, giving the GOP an even greater majority in the U.S. Senate with at least 53 seats.

First, he took aim at the Associated Press for calling the race for McCormick, writing, “@AP_Politics shouldn’t make a call in this race until every Pennsylvanian has their vote counted.”

As it became clear that the Associated Press was not budging and the race might not fall within recount territory, Fetterman lashed out at those who would dare upset the Democrats’ political ambitions.

“Pennsylvania is going to count every last vote,” tweeted Fetterman. “That’s not controversial — that’s the law. Also, Green dips***s’ votes helping elect the GOP.”

‘Probably not the smartest choice.’

Accompanying the senator’s tweet was an image highlighting the number of votes Green Party candidate Leila Hazou received. At the time of writing, the Associated Press indicated that with 98% of the votes counted, Hazou, a Palestinian activist with an apparent problem with white men, netted 64,127 votes, amounting to 0.9% of the total. John Thomas, the Libertarian candidate whom Fetterman apparently overlooked, secured 1.3% of the vote.

Fetterman evidently figured that without Hazou in the race, those votes would necessarily have gone to Casey, who lost by roughly 0.5%.

Fetterman’s tweet served as yet another reminder of how little Democrats think of Americans who support parties other than their own.

Back in 2008, Barack Obama suggested that working-class voters in Pennsylvania and the Midwest who were ambivalent about supporting him in his first bid for the presidency were “bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment.” Years later, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called her 2016 opponent’s supporters “irredeemable” “deplorables.” Weeks ago, President Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.”

The Democratic senator’s “dips****” comment this week was not well received.

Elon Musk wrote, “Calling Green voters ‘dips****’ is not a great way to win them over.”

Scott Presler, the conservative activist who worked diligently in recent months to turn out the vote for Trump in the Keystone State, responded, “I think Green Party voters are going to remember you calling them names when you’re running for re-election. Probably not the smartest choice. We’ll be sure to remind them.”

“Cope Fetterlump,” wrote one X user.”

YouTuber David Freiheit, known under his online pseudonym “Viva Frei,” noted, “What a f***ing idiot. Instead of understanding why Dems are losing, they call the people whose support then want ‘dips****.’ Hey dumb***, maybe don’t adopt the rhetoric of the very same Tim Walz dips*** who just caused your demonic party to suffer the most devastating defeat since Mondale. Dips***.”

While keen to blame Green Party voters, Fetterman may have done more political damage overall with his pre-election interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” where he struggled to provide satisfactory answers to the host’s questions about Democrats’ exploitation of the border crisis.

After his win, McCormick indicated that he was “honored and excited to represent EVERY Pennsylvanian.”

The Associated Press indicated when calling the race that even if Casey carried six out of 10 of the remaining votes, he still would not win. Nevertheless, Casey has yet to concede his defeat.

The defeated Democrat said in a statement Thursday evening, “We must allow that process to play out and ensure that every vote that is eligible to be counted will be counted. That is what Pennsylvania deserves.”

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has announced that a program to provide prepaid debit cards to thousands of illegal aliens will soon come to a close.

At the start of the year, the city began implementing the pilot program, which provided prepaid debit cards to a fraction of the estimated 60,000 migrants living in its shelters.

‘A total amount not to exceed $53 [million] … in accordance with the scope of services and fees.’

City officials initially defended the program, claiming it would cut costs in comparison to the boxed-meal service migrants had been receiving and permitted migrants to purchase food that they prefer or that better suited their dietary restrictions. It also allowed them to buy baby supplies as needed.

The amount migrants have received varies, but a family of four with two young children has typically received about $350 per week. Since the program began, about 2,600 migrants living at the Roosevelt Hotel have been given a total of about $3.2 million, a figure that officials believe is about half the cost of the boxed-meal service.

However, critics raised red flags about the program almost from the moment it came to light.

For one thing, it is unclear whether the purchases made on the cards have ever been monitored. While the cards reportedly work only at grocery stores, convenience stores, and bodegas, they may still have been spent on items unrelated to food and other necessities, though recipients were required to sign an affidavit promising to use them only for their intended purpose.

Moreover, such prepaid debit cards have not been offered to the homeless and other poor American citizens living in the city, prompting New York Council member Joseph Borelli to describe the program as “fundamentally unfair.” He and other Republicans on the council argued that the debit cards incentivized more illegal aliens to relocate to NYC.

Though it was billed as a cost-saving measure, the program also came as the result of a one-year, “emergency,” no-bid contract with New Jersey-based tech startup Mobility Capital Finance. The truncated process meant no competing offers and little time for thorough consideration.

City Comptroller Brad Lander has since revoked the city’s ability to enter into such emergency, no-bid contracts for services for migrants.

The overall cost of the program has also been obscured. While some reports indicate that MoCaFi receives only $400,000 for its services, the New York Post claimed back in February that the contract itself showed MoCaFi would receive “a total amount not to exceed $53 [million] … in accordance with the scope of services and fees” and that the $53 million sum did NOT include the money loaded onto the debit cards.

Despite these concerns, the city council announced in July that it would expand the program. Now, with the contract about to expire at the end of the year, Adams has reversed course and decided not to renew it.

“As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes,” Adams said in a statement, WABC-TV reported Thursday.

Adams did not explain further why the program had been nixed. However, City Hall spokesperson William Fowler insisted that concerns about possible waste, fraud, and abuse never came to pass, Gothamist reported.

“We will continue to implement and learn from innovative pilot programs like the immediate response cards program as we care for hundreds of new arrivals every week,” Fowler said.

The announcement regarding the demise of the program comes just days after former President Donald Trump, who campaigned heavily on securing the border and deporting the millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration, decisively beat Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

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Something strange is going on with American voters. Gone are the days of George W. Bush voters checking the box for every (R) down the list. Tuesday’s voters weren’t cooperating. President-elect Donald J. Trump may have won and Republicans may have taken the Senate (and likely the House), but it’s not all wine and roses for the Grand Old Party.

In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin defended her seat against businessman Eric Hovde by nearly 29,000 votes. In Michigan, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin beat Rep. Mike Rogers by more than 21,000 votes. While it’s not been called yet, Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is leading Afghanistan War veteran Sam Brown by nearly 12,700 votes, and Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego is leading news anchor Kari Lake by more than 52,000 votes.

It’s not just the Republican establishment’s problem to deal with, either.

The strange thing is that Trump won every one of these states. He won Wisconsin by as many votes as Hovde lost by — a 58,000-vote swing. He won Michigan by nearly 80,000 votes — a 100,000-vote swing. Nevada: 51,000 votes; Arizona: 136,000.

Even in Pennsylvania, where Republican Dave McCormick declared victory over Sen. Bob Casey (D) Thursday, Trump beat McCormick’s score by more than 140,000 votes.

State races aren’t cookie-cutter. Arizona, for example, is an outlier, with Lake a divisive figure running against a Hispanic man in a place where one in three voters is also Hispanic. And Baldwin is an incumbent (though so is Casey). Rogers is a onetime never-Trumper and unrepentant war hawk and Israel hard-liner in a state where anti-Israel Muslim voters withheld their support from Vice President Kamala Harris, though Slotkin is both Jewish and a former CIA officer and Pentagon attaché, complicating that narrative.

In Wisconsin, an America First Party candidate won enough votes to put Hovde just 241 behind Baldwin’s lead, and a Libertarian Party candidate’s votes would have put him 42,000 points in the lead. In Michigan, a libertarian’s votes would have blown Rogers past Slotkin — but a Green Party candidate did just about the same to the Democrat. And across the country, Green Party members, libertarians, and other shades of independents played spoilers or would-be spoilers too. It’s hard to tell how many of their supporters cast their votes as a protest (and wouldn’t otherwise vote for the Republican or Democrat) anyway.

Then there’s the only-Trump folks. The low-propensity voters who never pick up a pollster’s call and are unreachable outside of YouTube and TV sports ads. They don’t know who the Senate candidates are and don’t care. Nearly 19,000 Wisconsinites voted for president but not a Senate candidate. In Arizona, that number is nearly 26,500 (so far). In Nevada: 18,177. Pennsylvania: 68,391. And in Michigan, where the Israel war protest votes were higher: 86,784. The data and the results suggest a lot of those votes went to Donald J. Trump.

It’s not just the Republican establishment’s problem to deal with, either. While Trump outperformed every single Republican Senate winner outside Utah and Wyoming, among the winners he most significantly outperformed were Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by about 400,000 votes and Ohio Senator-elect Bernie Moreno by about 300,000 votes — a smaller number but a far bigger proportion of Ohio’s smaller electorate.

This is a reality that all Republicans are going to have to contend with even while celebrating their victories. Not unlike with former President Barack Obama, the coalition Trump has built is temperamental. Not only is it not the Republicans’ to take for granted, it isn’t even certainly the Republicans’ in the first place — and supporting Trump’s agenda is no simple cure. Republicans are going to have to figure out the key to this coalition and do their best to earn it. Remember: Trump will never be on an American ballot again.

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Border Patrol Agent Zachary Apotheker faces an ongoing internal investigation that could potentially lead to his termination after he publicly expressed concerns about how open-border policies are fueling the illegal child trafficking crisis in the nation.

Apotheker started his Border Patrol career at the southern border and moved to the northern border’s Swanton Sector last year.

Since sharing his concerns during podcast appearances and interviews with media outlets, he says that Customs and Border Protection has retaliated against him despite whistleblower protection laws.

Apotheker has warned that there are “many ways to beat the [immigration] system” as it currently exists. His biggest concern is the disturbing increase in child trafficking.

‘I’m assuming they’re going to move to terminate me.’

He noted that the Border Patrol’s ability to look into the criminal background of foreign nationals crossing the border is limited.

“We don’t have their criminal history,” Apotheker told Blaze News.

“The adults may not show up with documents, but then the children may not show up with documents, or maybe false documents. So we’re just taking their word that this child is now this person’s child — that’s their biological parents,” he said. “We don’t even know if the adult that they’re with is a criminal.”

“We really can’t definitively say, and we can’t track them,” he continued. “Now, imagine if they’re unaccompanied [minors].”

“We’re just sending them somewhere, so maybe a relative’s house. How do we even know that it’s the relative’s house? And then who’s following up on it?” he questioned.

In early September, Apotheker appeared for an interview on the “Fresh&Fit Podcast,” where he shared how illegal immigrants exploit the current border policies to traffic humans and drugs into the United States.

Shortly after the podcast’s release, he received a cease-and-desist letter from Customs and Border Protection.

Around the same time, Apotheker was also featured in James O’Keefe’s documentary, “Line in the Sand,” where he spoke out about child trafficking.

In the film, Apotheker mentioned the horrific slaying of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a University of Georgia nursing student, who was murdered while jogging near campus. The man charged with Riley’s murder is a 26-year-old Venezuelan national who was in the U.S. illegally and is a suspected member of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua.

Apotheker told O’Keefe, “When a girl like Laken Riley is jogging, she’s top of her class at nursing, and we sign those f***ing files, man, that’s blood on our hands.”

“If it was your mother or your sister or your aunt, how would you feel?”

He told Blaze News that CBP questioned him about his appearance in the documentary film.

Apotheker responded to CBP officials, writing, “I participated in Line in the Sand Film on duty in uniform, as did many other Border Patrol Agents.”

In the film, several other Border Patrol officers spoke with O’Keefe while on duty.

He also added that he provided “no CBP information to any non-CBP employee” and gave “zero information that is not public.”

Apotheker noted that the “only compensation” he received for participating in the film “was a free, clean, and clear” conscience.

“I told the truth to the American Public and fulfilled my duty to the Constitution of the United States of America,” he wrote.

In his letter to CBP officials, Apotheker highlighted that the Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that over 300,000 children are missing. He further pointed out that CBP’s failure to collect biometric data on children makes correctly identifying them “effectively impossible.”

According to the Department of Homeland Security, “As the regulations currently exempt certain aliens from the collection of biometrics, including those under 14 and over 79, as well as individuals in certain visa classes, CBP does not use fingerprints to confirm the traveler’s identity in these cases.”

Apotheker told Blaze News that the agency stripped him of his government-issued firearm the same week he responded to the questioning.

‘It’s like these little mind game tricks. … They found a way to do what you can’t prove.’

On October 11, he received a memo from a CBP division chief informing him that he is “currently under investigation … for allegations related to serious breaches of integrity and/or security policies.”

The agency’s memo explained that it was “in the best interest of CBP to temporarily revoke your authority to carry a Government-issued firearm.” However, it claimed that the firearm revocation was “not a disciplinary action.”

Without a firearm, Apotheker was taken out of the field and instructed to report to work “in business casual attire.”

The memo was signed with an indecipherable handwritten signature belonging to a Swanton Sector division chief. No corresponding printed name to identify the individual was listed.

Image Source: Zachary Apotheker

Apotheker told Blaze News, “They pulled my gun, which takes me out of the field. I can’t do my job.”

“It’s kind of rare for them to take your gun for no other reason and say it wasn’t disciplinary but not take your law enforcement credentials,” he added.

Soon after receiving the memo, Apotheker was served another notice, this one compelling his sworn testimony on October 17 before a Department of Homeland Security special agent.

Apotheker was informed that he would be questioned about his “general misconduct/disruptive behavior.”

He attended the compelled administrative hearing but was advised by his legal representation not to answer any questions.

“I feel I’ve done nothing wrong,” Apotheker stated. He acknowledged that wearing his Border Patrol uniform during the podcast appearance breached the agency’s policy. However, he explained that he only did so after filing a whistleblower report through the DHS’ Office of Inspector General and speaking to a member of Congress, and “nothing was done.”

“I used discretion,” he said. “The country needs to be made aware of this.”

He explained that his legal counsel, obtained through the Citizenship Journalism Foundation, instructed him not to participate in the CBP’s “retaliatory investigation.”

“We just didn’t want to legitimize that meeting,” he told Blaze News. “I don’t feel like I should be being investigated. If anything, I feel like they should be asking me what I know and how to resolve it.”

The day after the hearing, Apotheker received a notice informing him that his law enforcement authority had been revoked, citing his “fail[ure] to respond to questions asked of you during an administrative interview conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Professional Responsibility.”

“Your refusal to participate in a compelled interview called into question your ability to perform the law enforcement functions of your positions as a Border Patrol Agent,” the memo read.

Apotheker was required to hand in the rest of his Border Patrol gear, including his badge, body armor, and radio.

“Consequently, you will be placed on administrative duties immediately,” the memo continued. “Your access to the building and computer systems will be modified to limit your accessibility only to those areas necessary to perform your assigned administrative duties. Since you will not be performing law enforcement duties, you are not to wear your uniform and will adhere to business casual dress code standards.”

Again, the memo mentioned, “Please note that this is not a disciplinary action, but is necessary, given the nature of the allegation(s) against you, in order to preserve the trust of the public we serve.”

The memo contained the same division chief’s signature and, again, no printed name.

Image Source: Zachary Apotheker

Apotheker told Blaze News that the agency changed his schedule and significantly cut his hours.

“Not only did they cut my overtime, which is a big amount of money, but from switching me from nights to mornings, what they’re basically trying to do is apply financial pressure to me because you get a 10% night differential for every hour after 6 p.m.,” he said.

Apotheker stated that his pay was slashed by at least $25,000-$35,000 with “all the tricks they did.” He feels the changes were “100% retaliatory,” despite the agency’s insistence otherwise.

“They would do everything they could to make it more difficult for me,” he said.

‘We’re gonna battle this out.’

Apotheker recounted that even before his equipment was confiscated and his law enforcement powers were stripped, his superiors seemed to go out of their way to make his time at work more challenging, including stationing him in the most remote areas of the sector. After driving for hours to reach his assignment, he would soon be summoned back for last-minute meetings, he said.

“They’d send me out to the furthest part of our area. I drive out there for two hours, they call me back. Now, it happened consistently,” he said. “Every day, I knew that I was gonna get called over the radio to come in for another meeting where they could have just had the meeting then and there.”

“It’s like these little mind game tricks,” Apotheker added. “They found a way to do what you can’t prove.”

He explained that before he left the southern border and relocated to the Swanton Sector, he “was known as someone that was not happy with what was going on in Arizona.”

“And when I came up here, I felt like that followed me — that I was a person with a reputation that would speak out against what’s going on instead of just doing it and shutting up,” Apotheker added.

He stated he got the impression that his leadership “wanted to make it known to me that that wasn’t going to be tolerated up here.”

Apotheker told Blaze News that Border Patrol Agents have “worked harder on the northern border than we have down south because, per capita, we have less agents to do so much work.”

“We have a lot of drive-throughs up here, which means people will physically take a vehicle and drive from Canada into America, which should be a massive crime. You’re not just crossing; now you’re taking a vehicle across. You’re driving past an international boundary,” he explained. “If it’s a family, sometimes they’ve taken us on chases.”

The Swanton Sector is the most heavily trafficked northern border section, covering 24,000 square miles.

In October, Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia announced, “Border Patrol Agents in Swanton Sector have apprehended more than 19,222 subjects from 97 different countries since October 1, 2023, which is more than its last 17 fiscal years combined.”

Apotheker is concerned that the CBP’s internal investigation will ultimately result in his firing.

When asked what is next for him, Apotheker told Blaze News, “We’re gonna battle this out.”

“I’m assuming they’re going to move to terminate me,” he continued, but he noted that “there’s a lot of different things that could happen.”

“I don’t want it to be about me,” Apotheker added. “I want it to be about what’s going on the last three and a half years, which everybody knows, and I want to expose the people that are trying to remove me for telling the truth. And that’s my goal is that I’m not going to give in.”

Neither CBP nor DHS-OIG responded to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

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They’re expensive, cause an array of side effects, and eventually stop working.

And yet Ozempic and other GLP1 drugs are more popular than ever — touted by celebrities and prescribed to millions of Americans convinced they’ve found their last, best chance of losing weight.

To those not willing to risk their mental health and quality of life for fleeting victory in their struggle with the scale, Michaels has a message of hope: ‘Weight loss is simple.’

Nonsense, claims fitness and nutrition influencer Jillian Michaels.

‘Zero weight loss’

In an email to Align, Michaels explained why the powerful peptides, which were originally prescribed for Type 2 diabetes and other diseases, are not the best pound-shedding solution for most people.

“The bottom line — they are extremely expensive. You plateau on them. The side effects are scary and the risk of experiencing the more serious ones increases over time,” says Michaels.

The good news? “There is a natural alternative.”

Michaels’ observations about GLP1 drugs reflect the experience of many who have failed to see any progress on the medication. One such user recently called in to the “Mind Pump” fitness podcast: “I’d been on semaglutide [Ozempic] for about six months and saw zero weight loss … it was very, very frustrating.”

He had slightly more success after switching to a different GLP1 drug, the caller said, but he was still worried about the long-term: “My big question here is, what do you do when they don’t work, and what do you do when they stop working?”

Short-term fix

According to Michaels, his case is far from unique. Citing a survey from one of the country’s biggest pharmacy benefit managers, Prime Therapeutics, Michaels noted that “66% of the people put on GLP1 drugs come off them within the first year citing cost, plateau, and side effects. And the risk for more serious side effects actually compounds over time.”

Yet, people remain desperate for these “miracle” drugs, even opting for unvetted knockoffs from online pharmacies. Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized thousands of GLP1 products thought to be counterfeit, according to the New York Post.

Many consumers endanger themselves for what they believe offers their one shot at achieving a healthy weight. “That is simply just not true,” says Michaels, pointing to her record of helping thousands achieve these results with natural solutions.

Depression danger

While Michaels admits her way is not the easiest way, she does consider it the safest, scoffing at drugmakers’ claims that the long-term use of their products carries very little risk.

“I don’t even know how they arrive at that conclusion,” says Michaels. “The side effects are on the box because they are very legitimate.”

Those side effects include nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, stomach upset, and in more serious cases, pancreatitis or kidney failure. The drug has also been linked to over 100 deaths, according to the Daily Mail.

What’s even scarier? The thousands of cases reporting these adverse effects may just be the tip of the iceberg. “The FDA estimates that its Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) only receives reports for 1–10% of adverse drug events,” says Michaels. The actual number of users experiencing harmful side effects could be tens of thousands more.

Michaels added that people are also more likely to be prescribed an antidepressant after starting a GLP1. This may have something to do with how the drug interacts with the brain’s “pleasure center.”

It’s hypothesized that these drugs impact dopamine release, making substances like food or drugs lose their appeal, continued Michaels. This benefits a person with addiction, Michaels says, but others open the door to depression, malaise, and lack of sex drive due to the same mechanism.

In short, Michaels believes these drugs are only right for a small minority of people such as the morbidly obese with a host of comorbidities or those battling addiction.

“For everyone else, these should NEVER be an option,” says Michaels.

A simpler way

To those not willing to risk their mental health and quality of life for fleeting victory in their struggle with the scale, Michaels has a message of hope: “Weight loss is simple.”

It all comes down to moving more and eating less. “Calories are units of energy. Energy that doesn’t get utilized from calorie intake gets stored as fat,” says Michaels.

In place of paying for Ozempic, Michaels recommends people spend money on goods and services that will encourage moving more and eating less: counseling, healthy food, and membership in a gym or other fitness community.

“Supporting yourself in all the ways possible inside and out goes a long way,” says Michaels.

Those who ditch Ozempic in favor of Michaels’ advice may find themselves experiencing a whole new range of positive “side effects,” including improved mental health, better sleep, and reduced chronic disease, according to a Mind Pump Media article.

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special session of the state legislature in order to organize a campaign to resist the policies of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

‘We are prepared, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.’

Newsom, who had been a surrogate for President Joe Biden and also for Vice President Kamala Harris, issued a statement announcing the special session for Dec. 2 in Sacramento.

“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle,” said the governor. “California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”

Newsom will ask the legislature, which is firmly controlled by Democrats, to vote for new funding for the attorney general’s office in order to support the mission to defeat Trump’s policies.

“The Governor’s proclamation calls for legislation to provide additional resources to the California Department of Justice and other state entities to pursue robust affirmative litigation against any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration,” the statement read, “as well as defend against federal lawsuits aimed at undermining California’s laws and policies.”

Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that he has been reviewing 120 lawsuits the state made against Trump policies in his first term in order to prepare for challenges in his second term.

He also made a promise to the state’s illegal aliens that they would use their power to protect them from the president-elect’s policies.

“I can promise to the undocumented immigrant community in California that I and my team have been thinking about you for months, and the harm that might come from the Trump administration 2.0,” said Bonta on Thursday. “We’ll do everything in our power and use the full authority of our office to defend you.”

Democratic attorney generals from other states have announced efforts to resist and challenge the second Trump term.

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Tom Hanks has had enough of superhero films.

“I think there was a period of time, and I felt that way too, where we would see these fantastic movies, either DC or MCU, in order to see these better versions of ourselves,” Hanks told podcaster Josh Horowitz.

Ol’ Forrest knew what love was, but Hanks is a little lost on what makes audiences go to theaters these days.

“I think we’ve been down that road and had probably 20 years, 15 years, to explore that kind of thing, and now I think we’re in an evolutionary place of, ‘And the story is what? And the theme is what? And the point of this movie is what?’”

That may be true, but he’s not giving us much of a Plan B, is he?

Hanks’ latest, “Here,” reunites him with Jenny of “Forrest Gump” (Robin Wright) and director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump,” “Cast Away”). Critics skewered “Here,” and it made a paltry $4.8 million in its opening weekend.

The entire movie, which follows a nuclear family over the decades, is set in the clan’s living room. It’s like watching paint dry, but with a de-aged Hanks and Wright holding the brushes.

Ol’ Forrest knew what love was, but Hanks is a little lost on what makes audiences go to theaters these days …

‘Captain’ chaos

At what point will they stop shooting “Captain America: Brave New World”?

The next MCU project is heading to theaters in February, at least on paper. In the real world, the film has endured pricey reshoots to prep it for its cinematic close-up.

The movie technically wrapped in spring 2023, but scary test screenings coaxed Team Disney to bulk up the film. The first new footage came after a 22-day shoot earlier this year. The shoot reportedly added Giancarlo Esposito to the cast in an unnamed role and beefed up some action sequences.

Now, even more reshoots are under way, according to Esposito.

The MCU could use a hit after a string of woke duds. It’s no sure thing that “Brave New World” will end that losing streak, no matter how many times they go back to drawing board. The new film finds Anthony Mackie’s Falcon stepping into the famous red, white, and blue tights previously worn by Chris Evans.

As Evans’ Cap might say about the ongoing reshoots, “I could do this all day …”

Junket junked

Hollywood is having “contractions.”

The industry is in deep economic trouble. L.A.-based productions are down. The box office is running 11% below last year. And the streaming boom has been a bust, at least from a fiscal point of view.

The semi-annual TV Critics Association Winter 2025 Press Tour is the latest casualty. The event allows new and existing shows to promote their casts and storylines, offering panel chats and other promotional perks.

Not this time.

“As you know, Hollywood is in a deep contraction. While several streamers, networks, and studios committed, it was not enough for a full press tour,” said TCA President Jacqueline Cutler.

Meanwhile, many Hollywood stars are shoving their politics down the public’s throat as if consumers have short memories. Will Ferrell comically threatened his fans to vote for Harris … or else.

Is this any way to run a business?

Moore is less

Friends do plenty for their fellow friends. They help them move, watch their dogs when they’re on vacation, and, according to filmmaker Michael Moore, vote for their preferred candidate.

The far-left director pleaded with “non-voters” to get off the couch and vote for Kamala Harris on Election Day. He apparently thinks we’re all on a first-name basis. Is he gonna ask us to drive him to the airport next?

“Can I ask that you do it just as a favor for me? It really is that important to me,” he said of our potential Harris vote. “There is, honestly, too large of a part of me that believes we may be truly at our end.”

This column understands the comedic softball thrown our way, but we refuse to take the bait.

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Florida police say that three women were shot and injured during a drunken argument over politics late in the evening after Election Day.

The suspect is still being sought by police according to WFOR-TV.

‘There is no place for violence, especially over a difference of opinion in politics.’

A group of people were drinking at a Miami apartment complex when they began arguing about politics, police said. One of the people then went to a car to retrieve a gun and came back to shoot three of the women in the group.

The women were described as being in their late 20s to early 30s by police. One woman was shot in the stomach and is in critical condition while the other two injured were in stable condition.

“This is something that is of concern to us. There is no place for violence, especially over a difference of opinion in politics,” said Miami Police spokesman Mike Vega to WFOR.

One neighbor told WFOR that she woke up when she heard gunshots at about 12:25 a.m.

“I heard somebody screaming and didn’t want to open the door and put myself at risk. It sounded like four shots,” said Suly Ashe.

“It is horrible. Whoever is president now is president for all of us, whether we are Democrat or Republican,” she added. “It doesn’t matter. It’s our country. It’s very sad that this happened.”

Police are working to name the suspect and are asking for help from anyone who might have information about the incident. They did not release a description of the suspect.

“This is not acceptable. We have to handle our differences and respect each other’s beliefs. We need to either reach an agreement or simply avoid such topics,” said Vega.

A news video report about the incident can be viewed on YouTube.

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A Michigan Democrat won re-election in a landslide despite resigning from his office two months ago after he was arrested for allegedly sexting an underage boy.

Ken Fletcher had been the supervisor in Delta Township, which is about 10 minutes west of Lansing. Fletcher resigned Sept. 3 — a day before he faced child sex crime charges.

Law enforcement agents reportedly were ‘posing as a 15-year-old male on the mobile dating app Grindr from Aug. 13 to Aug. 14’ in order to talk to Fletcher.

Township Manager Brian Reed said Fletcher resigned “effective immediately” during the township board meeting, and the board accepted his resignation. Reed added that the “township has also been made aware of an open criminal investigation unrelated to his duties as supervisor.”

In the recent election, Fletcher received nearly 89% of the vote. He was opposed by two write-in candidates — Saturn Wells, who received just over 11% of the vote, and Richard Ott who did not receive any votes.

Fletcher was arrested Sept. 4 and charged with accosting a child for immoral purposes and using a computer to commit a crime; he pleaded not guilty to the two felonies and was released on bond.

Fletcher, 58, was caught in a sting operation, according to police. He allegedly thought he was talking to a 15-year-old boy on Grindr — the self-proclaimed “world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people” — when cops reportedly were posing a teen boy.

WILX-TV obtained documents claiming Fletcher “engaged in an undercover chat with Detective Scheib with the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office.” Law enforcement agents reportedly were “posing as a 15-year-old male on the mobile dating app Grindr from Aug. 13 to Aug. 14” in order to talk to Fletcher.

The outlet noted that Fletcher “continued to send enticing messages and expressed that he was willing to meet the 15-year-old boy at the Lansing Mall for the purpose of ‘just talking.'”

Fletcher was kept on the ballot due to state election law.

Fletcher can accept or decline the office until Jan. 1, 2025.

The New York Post reported that Fletcher’s lawyer, Michael Nichols, said his client was “pleasantly surprised” by the election results.

Nichols wondered to WILX, “The biggest question I think for Ken Fletcher is — is this the right thing for not just me but for the community? Am I still the best person for the job?”

Delta Township Clerk Mary Clark — who has been serving as interim supervisor since Fletcher resigned — said, “There are three choices on his part, and so it’s really kind of presumptive of us to act or decide to act in a certain way before we know what is happening with that position.”

Clark added, “He can vacate the office if he does not get sworn in by then; he could get sworn in and resign, or obviously he could get sworn in and stay.”

Fletcher is scheduled to return to court Nov. 12.

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So you want to start wearing a tie.

You’ve tossed your hoodies, and you are wearing button-ups these days. You even throw on a sport coat every once in a while. It feels good.

The navy knit tie is the anti-fragile tie for the father of young kids. It’s the fabric and the color.

You are dressing better than 95% of the guys in America in 2024, but you want to go further. You see those old photos, and you want to look like those guys.

You want to wear that mythical garment that was, once upon a time, a staple in every man’s wardrobe. Even the men who worked dirty jobs during the week had ties for church on Sunday and special occasions.

As women wore heels, men wore ties. It wasn’t in the ancient past. It was just yesterday, in the 20th century. But since then, our society has become increasingly informal, and ties have faded from the scene.

You want to wear a tie, but you don’t know where to start. It’s a small piece of fabric, but it’s a big step if you didn’t grow up wearing one. People will notice. It will stick out to some degree. You want to wear a tie for yourself. You aren’t trying to be a show-off or grab attention. You are hesitant.

A beautiful patterned silk is lovely. Ancient madder is luxurious. A bright and bold regimental tie is quintessentially preppy. A kelly-green motif tie is joyous. One can’t help but smile at a light and fluttery bird motif.

But they are all too much for you at this point in your style development. When you imagine wearing all those brilliant ties, an image of you wearing a neon sign around your neck that reads “LOOK AT MY TIE” appears in your mind. You don’t want that. You want to ease in.

So what do you do? Buy a navy knit tie.

A navy knit tie solves the problem perfectly. It’s quiet and simple. There are no stripes or figures that dance around your chest.

The hand is unostentatious. A navy knit doesn’t have any kind of glittery sheen. It doesn’t feel delicate or overly formal. If an elegant micro-pattern feels fine, a knit tie feels coarse. A knit reminds us of a thick rope, something almost utilitarian.

There is a deep texture to it. You can practically see through the fabric of a crunchy knit if you get close enough. When you hold a fine ancient madder, you use your fingers. When you grab onto a knit, you use your whole palm.

A knit tie bridges the gap of formality and informality. Any kind of tie is formal in 2024, but the knit tie dresses itself down. It’s a tie, but it can read as an informal one. A knit gives you plausible deniability in the way a bold motif simply cannot. It doesn’t scream out. It is quiet.

All of this is perfect for the guy who is new to menswear and doesn’t want to stand out. It’s also perfect for the guy who has been wearing ties for years. He doesn’t necessarily want to stand out, either. Clothes aren’t about shock and attention. The beautiful, quiet subtlety of the knit is useful for all men.

And the navy knit is one of my sartorial MVPs. I rely on it all the time. It’s supremely flexible. It works great with a wide variety of shirts and jackets. In many ways, with a navy knit you don’t even need to think. It’s there for you when you need it. When in doubt, I reach for my navy knit.

Maybe you are a father with young kids. They are always jumping on you, pulling on your clothes, and asking to ride on your back. This is no place for a tie, right?

Wrong. The knit tie is kid-friendly. With the more delicate ties you often end up concerned about creases and folds. If your tie falls behind the cushion of the couch and stays there for three weeks, it’s going to end up with some terrible wrinkles and creases.

But not the knit tie. You can crumple up a knit, slip it under your mattress, and wear it the next day. No one will know. Your toddler can pull on it with his little hands, and no damage will be done.

The navy knit tie is the anti-fragile tie for the father of young kids. It’s the fabric and the color. The crunchy, dynamic texture combined with dark, forgiving navy makes the navy knit tie the tie that every new father should buy. J. Press makes a great one.

The navy knit is everything you can ask for. It is versatile, subtle, understated, durable, and classic. It’s the perfect tie to help ease you into the wonderful world of neckwear. Whether you’re a young guy, an old head, a father, or a bachelor, it won’t let you down. Start with a navy knit, and go from there.

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Like many Americans, Pat Gray, Jeffy, and Keith Malinak are breathing a little easier following Donald Trump’s victory because his win means hope for our country.

Trump really captured that feeling of hope in his speech following his historical victory over Kamala Harris.

“I will fight for you, for your family, and your future. Every single day, I will be fighting for you. And with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the Golden Age of America,” he said to a roaring crowd.

He also brought attention to the monumental achievement of his victory made possible by his supporters.

“It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before. … I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 45th president,” he said.

His speech also addressed Republicans taking the Senate.

“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate — we have taken back control of the Senate. Wow, that’s good. … The Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, … Wisconsin, the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement,” he added.

“Yeah!” yells Pat, who can’t contain his excitement.

However, the line that perhaps resonated the most with his supporters was when Trump said, “We don’t have to live like this anymore.”

“That was a great line. So good,” says Pat.

“That really resonated, and I loved it,” adds Jeffy.

To hear more highlights from Trump’s victory speech, watch the clip above.

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The CEO of the Zillow real estate app was pressured in an interview with CNBC to say whether mass deportations would improve the crisis of housing affordability in the U.S.

Jeremy Wacksman was discussing the company’s earnings call on the “Squawk on the Street” show when he was asked about President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations.

‘The structural challenges and changes we need to make as a country are really around affordability and availability of supply.’

“Both candidates were talking a lot about housing affordability clearly a front-and-center issue for Americans in the campaign,” said Sara Eisen.

“What President Trump said about it is that a lot of the affordability problem is due to illegal immigration and that after he carries out the largest deportation operation in history, that will ease prices by reducing demand. Do you agree? Are you optimistic that that can help?” she asked.

“The big challenges in the real estate market are affordability and availability. Those are the two structural problems we have to work on,” responded Wacksman.

“Affordability as we talked about, is around what has happened with home prices and inventory, and inventory is our biggest challenge. We are missing listings, listings are up a little bit from last year, but if you look back to pre-pandemic levels, we’re down sharply, and we’re chronically underbuilt as a country.

And so bringing more inventory, more new home starts online, is gonna be one of the things that really helps the supply demand imbalance.

“But have immigrants been a big source of demand for that, and lack of availability?” Eisen pressed.

“We’ve seen demand across all segments, the buyer demand is there,” Wacksman replied.

“Any time rates move a little bit you see demand spike on sites like Zillow,” he added. “The pent up demand, the desire to buy is always there. Again the challenge for buyers is affordability and what they can buy. And so the structural challenges and changes we need to make as a country are really around affordability and availability of supply.”

The housing crisis in the U.S. has led to a shortage in inventory and high prices with some of the worst housing affordability rates in decades.

Economist Chloe East told NPR that illegal immigrants might have a small role on affordability but blamed other factors for the housing crisis. But some research has found that illegal aliens increase demand for limited housing, leading to higher rents and higher prices for housing.

Video of Wacksman’s appearance on CNBC can be viewed on its channel on YouTube.

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In a media briefing Thursday after announcing a reduction in interest rates, the chairman of the Federal Reserve said he would not resign if asked by President-elect Donald Trump.

Chairman Jerome Powell was asked by a reporter about the possibility of Trump asking him to resign after the stunning results of the election Tuesday.

‘Trump had accused Powell of hurting the economy by raising interest rates.’

“No,” Powell replied simply.

“Do you think that legally you’re not required to leave?” asked the reporter.

“No,” he responded.

When asked whether he believed the president had the power to force him to resign, he responded, “Not permitted under law.”

Powell was appointed to Fed chair in 2018 by Trump but was criticized by the president for what he saw as poor job performance. In 2019, Powell was similarly asked if he would step down from the position if Trump asked him to resign, and he had the same answer at that time.

Trump had accused Powell of hurting the economy by raising interest rates at the time, but Powell argued that higher rates were necessary in order to avoid inflation.

Powell had also announced a quarter of a point reduction in reserve interest rates on Thursday after the Federal Reserve had previously cut rates by half of a percent in September.

After losing the election in 2020, Trump has since said that he wants the presidency to have more of a say in setting interest rates, despite economists’ warnings that the Federal Reserve was created to be independent from the presidency to avoid political meddling in the economy.

“I don’t think I should be allowed to order it, but I think I have the right to put in comments as to whether the interest rates should go up or down,” said Trump to Bloomberg News in October.

“The independence of the Fed is something that not just economists, or investors, but citizens should place a high value on,” said economist Carl Tannenbaum to the Associated Press in August.

Powell went on to say Thursday that the election would have no effect on the decisions made at the Federal Reserve.

“In the near term, the election will have no effects on our policy decisions,” he said.

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Glenn Beck had a powerful message for Democratic voters in the wake of Donald Trump’s landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.

He shared his post-election thoughts on his radio show and in a post on X on Thursday.

‘Let us rule ourselves again.’

Beck urged Democrats to reject the legacy media’s narratives about Trump’s supporters and seek to understand why more than half of Americans voted for him to lead the country.

In a post on X, Beck wrote, “If you voted for Kamala Harris and can’t understand how over half the country supports Donald Trump, please hear this. We aren’t who the legacy media says we are.”

He assured Harris’ supporters that conservatives are not aiming to “end ‘democracy'” and “abandon science” despite what those in the legacy media and Democratic Party have repeatedly claimed.

“We want to return power to the PEOPLE from the administrative state,” Beck said. “We don’t want a president who will control our lives and declare what we must believe, eat, drive, and teach our children. We want one who will DEREGULATE and let us live without the government constantly breathing down our necks.”

“We support ACTUAL science, grounded in common sense and reason,” he added.

Beck explained that conservatives are aware that “racism exists” but noted that “we don’t believe people are BORN racist and that the only way to defeat racism is with more racism.”

“We believe in the American Spirit – that WE determine our own destinies, no matter race, religion, or class,” he continued. “Our Founders knew that government left unchecked would accumulate power at the expense of the individual. That’s the road we’ve been on for over 100 years, since the early Progressives convinced America that man cannot rule himself, that we need overseers, elites, and ‘experts’ to tell us what to do.”

During his radio broadcast, Beck elaborated on how the American spirit inspires individuals to achieve dreams and innovations deemed impossible by others.

“I’ll fight for your right to be whoever it is you think you are,” Beck declared. “I’ll fight for your right to say what you believe, but I’m also going to fight for everybody else’s right, including mine, to say you’re wrong.”

Beck told Harris’ supporters that the majority of Americans, himself included, voted for Trump because he “promised to empower the people and restrict the government, to let us rule ourselves again.”

“That’s what made America exceptional. That’s what we want to make ‘Great Again,'” Beck concluded.

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President Donald Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide victory — and after a period of silence, Kamala Harris has given her concession speech.

Harris gave her speech at Howard University, which is her alma mater.

“It was an interesting chain of events because last night, very quiet, didn’t say a word. They had this crowd waiting for her and they actually had one of her campaign staffers who had to come up to the mic and say, ‘She’s not– go home,’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“Very strange that she wouldn’t even speak, and it makes you wonder what was going on there,” she adds.

Harris reportedly did end up calling Donald Trump by phone to concede and had a “pleasant conversation” with the president-elect. However, when she gave her concession speech to the public, she was 20 minutes late.

“I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now, I get it, but we must accept the results of this election,” Harris began, noting that she would “help him and his team with their transition” and “we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”

Gonzales finds the whole thing quite “interesting.”

“All of a sudden she’s like, ‘No, I mean, he won fair and square and we need to acknowledge that.’ Well, you didn’t acknowledge it last night. So, were you too drunk or were you waiting to find out if you guys could figure out how you could find the votes?” Gonzales says.

“It’s very strange to hear her … intentionally go along to get along. ‘It’s going to be peaceful, we’re going to do this the nice way,’” she continues.

“Why would you want a peaceful transfer of power with literally Hitler?” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” chimes in, adding, “why would you concede it all to fascism?”

“I think that ultimately, they either believe these talking point, which is devastating in it’s own right, or they don’t, but they are so craving for power that they will cynically, nihilistically inject that venom and poison into our cultural lexicon and pit us against one another,” he adds.

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Podcasts have largely overtaken the mainstream media and television in general as a source of not only America’s entertainment but its news and information.

And as the Biden-Harris administration appeared to collaborate with the mainstream media, as well as social media, to censor information, those podcasts became even more important to those Americans who tuned in.

Elon Musk is well aware that this played a major role in Donald Trump’s second election.

“I think it made a big difference that President Trump and soon to be Vice President Vance went on lengthy podcasts,” Musk told Tucker Carlson in a recent post-election interview.

“This really makes a difference, because you know, people look at Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is great, and Lex Fridman’s and the “All-In Podcast,” and you know, to a reasonable-minded smart person who’s not hard-core one way or the other, they just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether you’re a good person, whether they like you,” he continued.

However, not everyone is built for a long-form podcast — which is one reason Kamala might have lost.

“Nothing would do more damage to Kamala’s campaign than going on Joe Rogan, because she’d run out of non-sequiturs after about 45 minutes,” Musk told Tucker, laughing.

“You can’t hide in three hours,” Tucker agreed.

“Yeah, hour two and three would be a complete melted puddle of nonsense, it would just be absolutely game over,” Musk added, noting that the opposite is why Trump did so well.

“Trump, on the other hand,” Elon began, “there’s no talking points. He’s just being a normal person. He’s having a conversation.”

After Trump secured the popular vote, it’s obvious that most Americans feel the same way — though some Americans are losing their minds over the results.

“We all know people that are still brainwashed,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” comments after watching the clip of Elon and Tucker. “The reason they are upset is because there has been a system in place that told them that Hitler is about to take over again.”

“That is so sad and unfortunate and is going to take mass deprogramming, not so that they can believe everything we believe, but so that they can be deprogrammed from a machine that has taught them all of the wrong things and to hate all of the wrong people,” he adds.

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Republican challenger Dave McCormick narrowly defeated Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Thursday.

McCormick won the seat with 48.9% of the vote while Casey managed to secure 48.5%, according to Politico. Pennsylvania is the fourth Senate seat Republicans have flipped this election cycle, alongside Montana, West Virginia, and Ohio.

Republicans now hold the majority in the Senate with 53 seats while Democrats hold 45 seats. The Nevada and Arizona Senate races have not been called yet.

Casey has served as one of Pennsylvania’s two senators since he was first elected in 2006, winning his three elections by substantial margins. This time around, McCormick was able to overcome Casey’s nearly eight-point lead in August and turn it into a 0.4-point loss in November.

These polling numbers sounded the alarm for Casey’s campaign in the weeks leading up to the election. Casey refocused his campaign to moderate his policies and distance himself from his party, even running a pro-Trump ad and calling himself an “independent.”

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A University of Oregon administrator said, “Go f*** yourself if you voted for Donald Trump,” according to a campus newspaper, which included video of the rant in its story.

What’s more, the school official also is a hazing prevention speaker who reportedly did jail time over a fatal fraternity hazing incident in 2012.

The Daily Emerald reported that assistant director of fraternity and sorority life Leonard Serrato posted an Instagram story after this week’s presidential election in which Trump handily beat Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

‘I’m done crying. My sadness is over. My anger has set in. I am a very petty person, and I am very proud of that. Love it about myself, actually.’

The paper said Serrato told his followers on the social media platform — some of whom are Oregon students — “You can literally go f*** yourself if you voted for Donald Trump. If you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better f***ing paying job. Do better in life. Get a f***ing education. Do something, ’cause you’re f***ing stupid.”

Before he made a sideways peace sign in the clip, the rant ended with him saying, “And I hope you go jump off of a f***ing bridge.”

You can view video of the rant included in the paper’s story here; you can view a photo of Serrato here from the website of the University of Oregon, which is a public college.

A longer version of the rant includes the following preface: “I’m done crying. My sadness is over. My anger has set in. I am a very petty person, and I am very proud of that. Love it about myself, actually. And so, I say this in the most disrespectful way possible: I don’t care if you are my family. I don’t care if you are my friend. I don’t care if we’ve been friends our entire lives.”

The Daily Emerald reported that Serrato later posted an Instagram Reel in which he discusses the presidential election results. The paper said he addressed students, including those of “color” and who identify as “LGBTQIA,” and encouraged them to “take care of yourself and know that you have my support.”

The Daily Emerald said Serrato soon made his Instagram account private and declined to comment to the paper.

University of Oregon spokesperson Eric Howald told the Daily Emerald the “university is currently collecting more information about the situation” and that for now “it appears that the individual made the post on their own time, which is well within their rights.”

What else do we know about Serrato?

Serrato’s LinkedIn profile indicates he’s also a hazing prevention speaker. A month ago, Serrato reposted on his LinkedIn page a short item about himself from ForCollegeForLife — and the following excerpt appears to explain why he speaks against hazing:

Leo Serrato could have never imagined he’d be delivering this message.

Before August 31, 2012, his fraternity membership experience had been typical. That night, however, changed everything. One of the new members of his chapter died in an alcohol-related hazing incident. Due to his involvement, Leo was charged and sentenced to jail time, and, because of this, he made it a personal mission to work to end hazing.

He vowed to his brother he would not let his death be in vain.

A 2018 profile story in the Sonoma State Star student newspaper about Serrato — who had just become the new lead campus advisor for fraternity and sorority life at Sonoma State — noted that Serrato “was involved in a hazing related death while attending Fresno State in 2012, where one of his pledges died from excessive drinking caused by hazing.”

The Star added that Serrato pleaded “no contest to a misdemeanor charge of hazing and providing alcohol to a minor causing death in 2014. According to the Press Democrat, he was sentenced to 90 days in the Fresno County Jail, 90 days in the county’s adult offender work program, three years probation, and a $220 fine.”

Serrato was quoted in the story: “When I was new member educator, one of our new members passed away from a hazing related incident and it was that incident that truly inspired me and opened up my eyes to what my mission and purpose is in life and that is to educated [sic] students on hazing.”

Howald on Thursday afternoon didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment asking whether the University of Oregon knew about the charges against him when it hired Serrato.

Serrato on Thursday afternoon didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment, specifically whether he had anything to say in the wake of his reported statements about Trump voters in light of his declared “mission and purpose” in regard to educating others about hazing.

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American citizens who in recent years raised questions about possible voter fraud in the 2020 election were censored, deplatformed, and stigmatized. The results of the 2024 election appear, however, to have vindicated such skeptics, at least in their understanding that there was something anomalous about the number of votes Joe Biden supposedly received.

The
official story regarding the 2020 election is that President Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes and Biden received 81.2 million votes — a combined total of over 155 million votes.

According to Decision Desk HQ’s latest count, Trump secured over 73.2 million votes in Tuesday’s election and Kamala Harris received 68.6 million votes — a combined total of around 141.8 million, with some votes still left to be counted in states such as California. At the time of publication, CNN had the numbers at 72.8 million for Trump and 68.1 million for Harris.

For some sense of historical context, in 2016, Trump secured 62.9 million votes and Hillary Clinton secured 65.8 million votes, and in 2012, former Utah Sen. Mitt Romney netted 60.9 million votes and President Barack Obama secured 65.9 million votes.

Harris’ performance, as measured by the popular vote, appears to be more or less in line with Clinton’s and Obama’s. Biden’s supposed result, on the other hand, stands out like a sore thumb.

‘Every f***ing time except 2020.’

On Wednesday,
Democrats and their allies in the liberal media started asking how they could have record turnout in the 2024 election yet still have Harris net tens of millions fewer voters than Biden did four years ago. By raising this question and in some cases suggesting that Trump must have cheated, Democrats unwittingly prompted renewed concerns among their counterparts about the legitimacy of the previous election.

Zerohedge shared a graph on X comparing the popular vote results in the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections,
writing, “Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here?”

“Yes, let’s do go back. American voters want and deserve to know precisely where 81 million ‘votes’ appeared from and how all the official 2020 evidence collected via courts and states has never been properly analyzed, summarized and presented,”
wrote Rasmussen Reports. “It’s a huge public topic.”

BlazeTV contributor T.J. Moe
responded, “There is not a single honest person in America, who believes Joe Biden get [sic] 81 million votes. Last night made it clear 2020 was stolen. History will acknowledge this.”

Former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert
asked, “Where’d all the Democrats go?”

The glaring discrepancy also caught the eye of last-minute Trump supporter Joe Rogan, who noted on his show after Trump’s latest landslide victory, “It’s so crazy. You look at it and you go, ‘Is this real?'”

Rogan
noted that the consensus in the lead-up to the 2024 election was that it was “one of the most consequential elections ever,” such that there was some expectation that voters would turn out for Harris in similar numbers as they supposedly had for Biden in 2020.

“Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. It’s unprecedented. It’s way higher than any other time,” said Rogan. “This is what’s crazy: They’re consistent. Look, they’re all like 60 — look at where the number is. It’s all like 65 million. … Every f***ing time except 2020, and in 2020 it goes way the f*** up.”

Nathan Hughes of Arkansas, one of the Jan. 6 protesters
prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, noted, “Obama got 69M votes. Kamala got 68M votes. But they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bellweather county? They raided our homes and sent us to jail for asking where those extra 13M votes came from.”

Hughes
speculated, “They couldn’t manufacture and pump them into the system like they did during Covid.”

When pressed about what might have changed, YouTuber David Freiheit, known under his online pseudonym “Viva Frei,” similarly
suggested that this time around,

they didn’t have limitless ballots like they did in 2020. In 2020 they mailed out ballots to everyone. Changed the rules for indefinite confinement, drop boxes, never did signature matches in Georgia, etc. It was designed to facilitate ballot harvesting so they could just come up with the ballots to meet whatever number was required to win the election. Plus they had the cover of Twitter which was not yet controlled by Elon. And the courts never stepped in like they did this time around.

Some conservatives are hopeful that with a Republican trifecta at the federal level, there will soon be answers and accountability.

“This entire phony thing is getting swept out,” the newly liberated Steve Bannon said ahead of Trump’s victory speech Wednesday morning. “Biden’s getting swept out. Kamala Harris is getting swept out. MSNBC is getting swept out. The Justice Department is getting swept out. The FBI’s getting swept out. You people suck, OK? And now you’re going to pay the price for trying to destroy this country.”

Bannon, who has long complained about alleged election shenanigans in 2020, added, “[Trump] may be empathetic. He may have a kind heart. He may be a good man. But we’re not. And you deserve … not retribution, justice.”

The liberal media rushed to reassure the public the 2020 election was legitimate.

The Associated Press — which has done a great deal in recent months to undermine its credibility, particularly with false reports about
Israel’s defensive war against Hamas, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Project 2025 — published a “fact-check” Wednesday titled, “FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives.”

The AP article stated that “claims of widespread fraud in 2020 have been debunked countless times” and suggested that the final count might greatly narrow the delta between Biden’s unprecedented result and Harris’ more conventional result.

Once the remainder of the votes are counted and finalized, Americans will have a better sense of exactly how anomalous the 2020 election really was.

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