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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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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) unleashed a scathing critique against the Democratic Party following its crushing defeat on Election Day.

In his blistering remarks, Sanders declared it was “no great surprise” that the party lost the presidential election and suffered many other congressional defeats.

Though Sanders claims he supports working-class Americans, he called President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes to end the federal income tax ‘insane economics.’

Sanders stated, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” he wrote.

“Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before,” Sanders continued. “Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.”

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he questioned. “Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power?”

“Probably not,” Sanders concluded.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat, responded to Sanders, writing, “Sadly late.”

In his critique, Sanders also slammed the Democratic Party for supporting Israel.

“Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children,” Sanders stated.

He concluded that “those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.”

Though Sanders claims he supports working-class Americans, he called President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes to end the federal income tax “insane economics.” He argued that such a plan would “hurt desperately poor people and further enrich the very wealthy.”

Sanders, a sitting senator earning approximately $174,000 annually, is worth roughly $3 million. He won his third re-election campaign on Tuesday, keeping him in the Senate for another six years.

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An Alabama pastor has ignited backlash by demeaning black Trump supporters as “ignorant stupid Negroes” and hinting that former President Donald Trump will make them slaves when he gets back into the White House.

Pastor Michael R. Jordan of the New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham posted the incendiary messages on the church’s sign.

Jordan plans to leave the message up outside his church through the inauguration.

Jordan had the following message on the church’s sign: “Warning African Americans: A vote for Trump will put blacks back to picking cotton.”

The other side of the sign reads: “Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump: You are an ignorant stupid Negro.”

The controversial sign sparked outrage.

Alabama’s Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth — a Republican — said of the sign, “Churches are supposed to spread the Gospel, offer messages of God’s love, and share the life of Christ, not threaten, intimidate, and insult those who exercise their right to vote and support the candidate that is best for them. Those responsible for this sign should be ashamed.”

When Jordan was asked if his controversial style might hurt his church, he told WVTM-TV, “No, they know point-blank it’s an ear-catcher.”

Jordan added, “He’s thinking from a Republican point of view. Donald Trump is making sad, pitiful negative statements about people every day.”

Jordan plans to leave the message up outside his church through the inauguration.

During his 32-year tenure at the New Era Baptist Church, the pastor has had a history of making inflammatory statements on his church’s sign.

In 2019, he displayed a sign that read: “A white vote for Trump is pure racism.”

Alabama.com noted that Jordan attacked the Church of the Highlands in 2018 for planning to launch a church in a predominantly black neighborhood by calling it a “slavemaster” church.

In 2017, he posted a message that said: “Trump deceived poor white folks.”

In 2004, Jordan’s church had a sign that read: “AIDS is God’s curse on homosexuals.”

According to the Christian Post, Jordan said, “This is my ministry. This is my calling. Pastor, white or black, is a watchman. I’m going to take a stand.”

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We’ve had mediocre presidential candidates before, elevated beyond their ability thanks to money, connections, or their family name. Kamala Harris is the first one to make it to the top explicitly because of her race and sex. As such, she’s the living embodiment of DEI.

If Donald Trump defeats her, it will certainly strike a potent blow against this poisonous ideology. But Harris is merely the most high-profile beneficiary. Our institutions are already so captured by DEI that American lives are at stake.

Is a white man’s life worth less than a black woman’s? Through DEI’s oppressor-victim hierarchy, the answer is unequivocally yes.

Any serious attempt to undo the damage of a decade’s worth of anti-meritocratic policies must begin in our medical schools

Ill communication

A recent report from the medical watchdog organization Do No Harm makes for a sobering read. American medical schools are prioritizing political agendas over essential health care education, with potentially dire consequences.

Titled “Activism Instead of Anatomy,” the report claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are overshadowing traditional scientific and medical training at institutions nationwide.

At the heart of the problem lies a clear departure from rigorous scientific training toward ideologically driven content. Medical students are now being subjected to courses that prioritize social and political goals over traditional medical knowledge.

This includes an increased emphasis on identity politics and social theories that have little to do with developing the skills and knowledge essential for competent medical practice. This shift is eroding the essential knowledge needed for effective patient care. Moreover, this shift comes amid declining public trust in the medical establishment, which, rather than rebuilding confidence, seems intent on pushing Americans away — or into an early grave.

Rigor mortis

One of the report’s most alarming findings is the diversion of crucial time and resources away from core medical training. Medical curricula are already demanding, yet DEI-focused coursework consumes hours that should be dedicated to vital subjects like anatomy, pathology, and pharmacology.

Essentially, the rigor of medical education is being diluted, leaving future physicians less prepared for real-world challenges.

Beyond replacing essential training, this ideological shift raises serious ethical concerns. Students are pressured to adopt a specific worldview, with dissent risking punishment (more on this later). Ironically, in the name of inclusivity, medical schools are stifling intellectual diversity.

Training doctors to view patients primarily through an identity-based lens fosters division and undermines the principle of treating individuals as individuals. Is a white man’s life worth less than a black woman’s? Through DEI’s oppressor-victim hierarchy, the answer is unequivocally yes. White privilege has never looked so distinctly dangerous.

This is not hyperbole. When identity politics and political correctness dominate medical training, there is a tangible risk of professionals prioritizing ideological considerations over evidence-based care.

For example, as the report notes, the fixation on “correct” language and politically charged issues like transgender health care has, in some cases, overshadowed the need for solid, patient-centric approaches. While culturally competent care is essential, it should not replace scientifically sound medical practice but complement it.

Doctor Feelbad

This ideological push in medical schools risks seeping into the broader health care system. When doctors-in-training are taught to prioritize identity markers and politically charged agendas over clinical facts, this mindset can infiltrate hospitals and influence health care policies, compromising every single aspect of patient care. The obsessive focus on DEI initiatives often sidelines efficiency and merit-based advancement, ultimately affecting patient outcomes.

Remember, DEI agendas come at the cost of meritocracy. As a result, medical schools are not only admitting objectively less qualified students, but they are also producing objectively less competent doctors compared to just a few generations ago.

DEI is genuinely destructive, posing existential risks in critical areas. In truth, it’s a matter of life and death, with significantly higher amounts of the latter, if the report is to be believed.

What we’re witnessing here is the professionalization of grievance and the prioritization of activism over expertise. Medical schools, once places of necessary knowledge and innovation, have transformed into training grounds for the next generation of political activists. The lunatics really are running the asylum.

Worse yet, much of the DEI narrative rests on a shaky foundation. Or, to be more accurate, no foundation at all.

Stage 4 racism

Recently, Dr. Kendall Conger, a former emergency physician at Duke University Health System, was terminated for questioning the claim that racism is a “public health crisis.”

When Conger requested data to support this assertion, none was provided. Instead of engaging in dialogue, the institution punished him for raising a legitimate concern. This reaction reveals the hostile environment that sane medical professionals now face, where challenging the narrative leads not to discussion but to retribution.

Cancel culture still exists. Common sense? Well, not so much.

The report’s conclusion is clear. Medical schools must resist this ideological encroachment and refocus on their primary mission: Equipping future doctors with the skills and knowledge to save lives and improve patient outcomes.

Yet, the damage seems done. Curricula take years to develop and implement. Even if the entire DEI agenda were addressed logically today, it would take years to return to the basics. In the meantime, more doctors will graduate, and more Americans will pay the ultimate price — with their lives.

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The failed Harris-Walz campaign is facing some difficult questions about how it spent more than a billion dollars in campaign donations after reportedly ending with $20 million in debt.

Many pundits saw the historic donations to the Harris campaign as a sign that the vice president was heading for victory, but President-elect Donald Trump easily won the election while being outspent.

According to sources who spoke to Politico California bureau chief Christopher Cadelago, the campaign ended up at least $20 million in debt despite raising and spending more than $1 billion.

An email from the campaign claimed that it was still keeping “organizers and volunteers on the ground” in those states “with key Senate and House races still too close to call” and asked for more money from donors.

A separate report from Puck News said that the campaign was selling its email list in order to help pay the massive debt. Breitbart News said a campaign staffer confirmed that Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty was “currently shopping around the Kamala fundraising email list to anyone who wants it to try to raise the money back.”

That report claims that the campaign blew through the massive pool of cash by paying for lavish campaign events with celebrities and pop singers instead of putting that money into marketing that could have helped Harris win.

According to the New York Times, the Harris campaign spent into “six figures” to fly banners over NFL games, while the Guardian reported that the campaign spent $450,000 per day to have ads on the Las Vegas Sphere in Nevada.

Trump was declared the winner of the election early Wednesday morning just hours after most polls closed.

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David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, deleted his X account after posting a parting shot at President Joe Biden’s campaign amid infighting and finger-pointing following Harris’ landslide defeat by President-elect Donald Trump.

“It was a privilege to spend 100 days with [Harris] and the amazing staff led by [Jen O’Malley Dillon] who left it all on the field for their country. We dug out of a deep hole but not enough. A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you,” Plouffe said on Wednesday.

It was the line “we dug out of a deep hole but not enough” that has added fuel to the raging fire between staffers for Harris, Biden, and former President Barack Obama.

‘This is straight up BS.’

“Reacting to Plouffe’s tweet, one Biden-world source called Plouffe a ‘sanctimonious a**’ — another said ”I find this so unproductive. Joe Biden is the President of the United States and won with out you. He successfully beat Donald Trump — something he never did,'” Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported.

The blame game between the camps is starting to play out in leaks to the mainstream media.

“There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,” a Biden side source told Politico.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized the Democratic Party for abandoning the entire working class, not just white voters, saying the out-of-touch positioning Democrats took on things like the economy doomed them this election.

“This is straight up BS. Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time — saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line and some of MVP’s plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country,” Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison said in response to Sanders on X.

“There are a lot of post election takes and this one ain’t a good one,” he added.

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Leftists in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states in the country, have pledged to protect the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants living there as a second term under President Donald Trump looms on the horizon.

On the campaign trail this year, Trump repeatedly promised to deport en masse many of the millions of illegal aliens who have stolen into the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we’re going to start with Springfield and Aurora,” Trump said earlier this year, according to USA Today.

Now that the American people have spoken and voted overwhelmingly to send Trump back into office, Massachusetts liberals claimed they will do all they can so that the commonwealth’s 100,000 or so illegal aliens — who have drained untold millions in taxpayer-funded resources for the past four years — can stay where they are.

In response to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell asking her on election night whether the Massachusetts State Police would “assist in mass deportations,” Gov. Maura Healey (D) replied, “No, absolutely not.”

Healey also told O’Donnell she would fight against any “pressure” exerted on state officials to cooperate in similar efforts.

“Every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, our residents, and protect our states and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle,” she added.

‘Gov. Healey may feel her far-left Democratic base wants this, but this election showed us the vast majority of voters do not.’

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell (D) slammed what she called Trump’s “deportation force” and promised to join forces with leaders across the country to stop it, even though polls consistently show that most Americans support deporting illegal aliens rather than granting them a pathway to citizenship.

“We are prepared for every scenario — obviously when he was president before, he led and started with a ban on certain populations and certain constituents,” Campbell said, referring to Trump’s previous ban on immigrants from some Muslim-majority countries. “We are well aware of that, and AGs came together then to work in partnership to combat that administration.”

The City of Cambridge, a sanctuary city and the home of Harvard University, likewise pledged to “protect” all of its residents “regardless of their immigration status.”

“As a Sanctuary City, Cambridge affirms the basic human rights and dignity of every human being and provides education, health and other critical services to all residents of Cambridge, regardless of their immigration status,” said a statement from city spokesperson Jeremy Warnick.

Cambridge is also committed to “supporting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of all of its residents,” his statement added, according to the Harvard Crimson.

Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance claimed that these sentiments about illegal aliens are out of touch with most of the Bay State.

“Governor Maura Healey needs to begin listening to what the voters want instead of telling us what she thinks we should hear,” Craney said in a statement to Blaze News. “Illegal immigration and inadmissible migrants are having a big negative impact on taxpayer resources, and the election was fueled in part due to this issue. Gov. Healey may feel her far-left Democratic base wants this, but this election showed us the vast majority of voters do not.”

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Donald Trump’s campaign greatly expanded its youth voter base in the 2024 election following the president’s appearance on several prominent podcasts that appeal to young men.

Exit polls have shown huge numbers among young men for Trump, where he won by 14 points over Vice President Kamala Harris. This was a 15-point swing for Republicans since 2020 when President Joe Biden won the 18-to-29-year-old category with 56%.

Trump made gains with young female voters also, increasing his support by seven points since 2020 from 33% to 40%.

Overall, Trump massively closed the gap among young voters, according to statistics from Circle. What was a 25-point margin for Biden in 2020 shrunk to just a 6% advantage for Harris in 2024. The new 52% (D) to 46% (R) margin was actually Harris’ biggest block of support in the election, which is an obvious marker of how she ended up losing by almost 5 million votes.

With so many young voters, especially males, coming out for Trump, it’s hard to ignore the fact the president made a bounty of unexpected appearances on podcasts that appeal to that demographic.

‘He tells me about all the hot guys I’ve never heard about.’

As reported by Today, Trump credited his son Barron for urging him to go on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and many others podcasts.

Trump even told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that Barron lets him know which podcasts are the most popular.

“He tells me about all the hot guys [podcasters] I’ve never heard about,” Trump laughed. “‘Dad, that guy is hot,'” he added.

Particularly, this was the reason why Trump appeared on a livestream with popular streamer Adin Ross.

“My son’s told me about you. They told me about how big — Barron, he said, ‘Dad, he’s really big,'” Trump told Ross during the livestream. Trump’s appearance reportedly averaged about 500,000 concurrent viewers on streaming platform Kick, while the YouTube version has 2.6 million views.

Newsweek also credited Barron for Trump’s appearance on “Bussin’ with the Boys,” a sports podcast starring two former NFL players.

This was coupled by an appearance on comedian Theo Von’s podcast that drew in 14 million YouTube viewers, while 7.8 million tuned in for comedian Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast with Trump.

Trump also made a repeat guest spot on the “Full Send Podcast” with the Nelk Boys, who have a massive young, male audience of their own.

UFC President Dana White made reference to these appearances during Trump’s late-night victory speech. White made sure to thank nearly all of the aforementioned podcast hosts as part of the reason why Trump won.

Harris, on the other hand, made only two prominent podcast appearances; this included the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which is widely considered the most popular podcast among women.

However, it was an odd choice given that the show focuses predominantly on sex and relationships.

Harris later appeared on “Club Shay Shay,” the popular show starring former NFL player Shannon Sharpe. Disappointingly for the Harris campaign, however, her appearance does not even rank in the top 50 most-viewed episodes of the podcast.

Barron’s influence on the election “cannot be understated,” says political commentator and noted young, male Trump supporter John Doyle.

Doyle told Blaze News that Barron spent “his most formative years watching his father be punished by a country he loves,” which likely drove him to help his father’s campaign in any way he could.

“I’m not surprised at all that he advised his father, and did so effectively,” Doyle added. “Especially since the position of the regime is to disenfranchise the very viewers of those podcasts, young male voters.”

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Plenty of things will kill you, but one will do it the quickest, and since August 1945, that’s been nuclear weapons. Climate change? Sure, it’s a concern. But the climate has been changing since Noah loaded up the ark. If we’re talking about what could literally wipe humanity off the map before we even get to debate the weather, then we’ve got to deal with the nukes first.

Donald Trump was dead-on in his appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that nuclear disarmament is crucial, and he understands that every dollar we pour into foreign conflicts could be better spent protecting what we’ve got here at home.

Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities.

The truth is that our foreign policy today is more about profit than patriotism. You’ve got the Federal Reserve churning out funny money like there’s no tomorrow, funding wars that fill the pockets of fat cats who’ve never seen a battlefield. The most decorated Marine in U.S. history said it best: “War is a racket. Always has been.”

Fiat dollars are no longer backed by the decades-long exclusive use in the oil trade. These increasingly borrowed dollars fuel military-industrial schemes that create more conflict than solutions. Defense contractors rake in billions while average Americans watch their tax dollars go up in smoke — sometimes literally — thousands of miles away.

In several recent cases, we’ve seen a meme come to life before our eyes as Israel launched U.S.-made missiles to intercept Iranian drones and Hezbollah rockets that were effectively paid for with fungible U.S. dollars released by the Biden-Harris administration.

Psalm 135 says it plainly: When you worship gold and silver, you lose your soul and your reason. In our case, it’s worse, because at least gold and silver have inherent value. Fiat money is worth less than the paper it’s printed on, except to those who put their faith in it.

I’m not saying every Democrat is worshiping a golden idol in his or her basement, but a foreign policy that constantly chases profits abroad looks a lot like a false god to me. By prioritizing war over peace and intervention over independence, the left has handed over the treasury to the corporate media and many bad actors within the military-industrial complex, both of which profit from every bomb dropped and every soldier and sailor deployed. This is a bipartisan problem in Congress, but there’s an unmistakable, stark policy difference between Harris and Trump that will be decided this week.

Our first step out of this mess? Elect leaders who see the whole picture, who understand that de-escalation should be our top priority but that we must also be strong and secure at home. We need folks in office who put American lives and well-being ahead of corporate interests and war contracts.

Trump’s call for nuclear restraint, and a foreign policy that prioritizes our own soil over endless foreign wars, is one we’d do well to heed. He has talked about these ideas for the better part of a decade. What I’ll be hoping and praying for is that he has, in fact, learned from his first term about the importance of hiring the right people to enact his vision of U.S. foreign policy and not warhawks like John Bolton.

But for the long haul, it will take more than a president with a responsible foreign policy. As a nation, we need to stop chasing false gods, whether they come in the form of cash or influence, and start asking ourselves what Jesus would have us do. The answer is as old as the hills: Seek peace, be strong by practicing restraint, and use what we have to build up our communities. That’s how we may save first our country, maybe the world, and also our souls.

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An 82-year-old Washington woman was arrested around 1 pm. on Monday for a hate crime after assaulting two Trump supporters, according to police.

The alleged victims — 55-year-old Gina Powell and 66-year-old Mary Jennings — were waving signs and flags supporting former President Donald Trump. They were allegedly confronted by an elderly woman while supporting Trump a day before the 2024 presidential election on a street in Edmonds, Washington.

‘She made it very clear it was my skin color.’

Police bodycam footage shows the suspect wearing a “Harris-Waltz 2024” button on her vest.

Race seemed to be a part of the Kamala Harris supporter’s issue with the women championing Trump.

Powell — who is Hispanic — told KTTH host Jason Rantz, “She looked at my face and said, ‘I can’t believe you’re voting for a racist … how dare you, you should be ashamed of yourself.'”

“I was just shocked at just the presence of mind, and she made it very clear it was my skin color,” Powell added.

The unnamed 82-year-old woman told police, “I approached her, and I said I want to know why you’re voting for Trump. That’s the only thing. And. And I said because you’re brown-skinned.”

The suspect allegedly told the Trump supporters, “Do you know what will happen to people like you if Trump is elected?”

She purportedly said the women “should know better.”

The Edmonds Police Department said in a statement on Wednesday: “During the incident, the suspect indicated the race of the victims, and their political beliefs were the catalyst for her approaching and yelling at them about their views before the assault.”

“When officers contacted the suspect, she stated that she could not understand why people of color would support this particular candidate,” the police noted. “The suspect commented on the victim’s attire and skin color before the suspect pushed the victim and punched her in the chin.”

At the time of the alleged confrontation, Powell was wearing a T-shirt that read: “Pro-God, Pro-Gun, Pro-Life, Pro-Trump.”

Powell told KOMO that the suspect shoved her and “pushed her back.”

Powell then allegedly told the woman, “Don’t touch me.”

“And then, not even a second, she just popped me right in my chin,” Powell explained.

The suspect told police, “I pushed her away, and then put my hand to her chin.”

Jennings attempted to get between the two women, and she was also allegedly assaulted.

Jennings said the elderly woman punched her in the chin and “slammed” her jaw shut.

The Trump supporters did not need medical treatment for the alleged attack. However, Powell said she hasn’t been able to go back to work yet because she’s “still kind of in shock.”

The Edmonds Police Department said the suspect was “very animated and even attempted to push an officer while demonstrating how she had acted.”

During the investigation, police said the suspect “continued to show no remorse for the incident and the potential to continue her behavior toward others.”

Officers established probable cause for a hate crime arrest.

KOMO reported that the suspect has not been charged, but a judge found probable cause for a hate crime offense and two counts of fourth-degree assault on Tuesday.

The 82-year-old woman was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.

Edmonds Police Chief Michelle Bennett stated, “The constitution protects peaceful rallies in our community, and community members should never be met with violence while exercising those rights. Our officers properly determined that this was more than just an assault and arrested the suspect for the appropriate charge.”

Mayor Mike Rosen said, “I’m disheartened that this violence has occurred in our community. Elections are an important part of society, and freedom of expression is the foundation on which democracy is built. Community members peacefully showing political support should not be subject to hateful violence. I’m thankful there were no serious injuries, and the suspect was held accountable.”

Powell said the alleged physical incident will not deter her from publicly supporting Trump.

“He got shot by a bullet, and he said ‘fight, fight, fight,’ I got a little jab in my chin, so I’m not sitting down,” Powell said, making a reference to the Trump assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July.

The Edmonds Police Department said it did not release news of the arrest until after the election was over so as to not stir up more political tensions.

You can watch the police bodycam video of the arrest here.

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As Democrats make excuses for losing yet another election to Donald Trump, more signs of a historic political realignment are emerging.

Look no farther than New Jersey.

‘Democrats need to take this extremely seriously by looking at whether this is an individual one-off or if there is something deeper and more systematic.’

A Republican presidential candidate has not won the Garden State since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and Democrats have won the state by double-digit margins since 1996 with one exception: George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

By all accounts, New Jersey is a deep-blue state. But that could be changing.

Even though Kamala Harris won the state on Election Day, her margin of victory was only 5.1%. In other words, Harris had the worst showing for a Democrat in New Jersey since Bill Clinton in 1992, who would have defeated George H.W. Bush by a larger margin had third-party candidate Ross Perot not siphoned away a significant number of votes.

Put another way: Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 14% in 2016 and to Joe Biden by 16% in 2020 — but by only 5% to Harris in 2024.

What should we think about Trump’s robust performance in New Jersey? According to Politico, it means New Jersey could be up for grabs as a swing state in future presidential elections.

Not only are Trump’s improving margins eye-popping, but Politico noted that Tuesday’s result is “more striking” because Democrats hold a significant voter registration advantage over Republicans in the state — about 900,000.

In light of Trump’s performance, Democratic strategist Dan Bryan told Politico that his party needs to wake up.

“Democrats need to take this extremely seriously by looking at whether this is an individual one-off or if there is something deeper and more systematic,” he said.

In Hudson County — part of the New York City metro — Trump improved by 9% compared to 2020. Other parts of the New York City area saw similar shifts in Trump’s favor.

Jose Arango, the Republican Party chairman of Hudson County, believes he knows why urban voters are shifting toward Trump.

“The Democratic Party talks about helping the poor, but if you talk about Hudson County, it’s segregated and the working class, and the liberal enclaves are basically the people who are supporting Wall Street in the places they can’t afford the rent. There’s no affordable housing,” he told Politico.

Chris Russell, a New Jersey Republican strategist, agrees that Trump’s agenda has struck a chord with New Jerseyans.

“I think you saw the beginnings of this in ’21,” Russell told Politico, referring to Republican Jack Ciattarelli nearly winning election to be New Jersey’s governor.

“There’s a frustration by voters in New Jersey on economic stuff, on crime issues, and I also think there’s an underbelly in the stuff Trump tapped into culturally,” Russell explained. “People are tired of being told they’re bad people, racists, bigots, or Nazis — all these crazy aspersions that are cast on people who support Trump or things that he believes.”

Even Gov. Phil Murphy (D) this week described his win three years ago as the “canary in the coal mine” foreshadowing a significant electorate realignment in his state.

Whether a Republican wins New Jersey in future election remains to be seen. But it’s clear that New Jersey is not an outlier.

In New York, for example, Trump lost by 23% in 2020. This year, he is poised to lose by only 11%. In California, Trump lost by 29% in 2020 but is currently losing by only 17% this year. This phenomenon — a red shift — happened across the nation, most prominently in historically blue states.

If Republicans lean into what made them successful this year, perhaps there is hope yet for California, New York, Illinois, and other longtime Democratic strongholds.

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Over the past few months, Americans everywhere had called on each other to make the results of the 2024 presidential election “too big to rig” — though many were skeptical that a feat of that nature was possible.

But it turns out it was.

The red wave was unstoppable, and Donald Trump won every single swing state.

“I mean, from the beginning, it kind of looked like there’s no path for her. There’s no path,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments. “You didn’t want to believe it immediately because I didn’t want the beat down at the end.”

“But you know what, we are finally unburdened by what has been,” he adds.

The prospect of a Donald Trump win became clearer and clearer as the night went on, and one clip of Jake Tapper from CNN illustrates this perfectly.

As Tapper stands looking at an electoral map, his colleague shows him that there was currently no state in America where Kamala Harris was outperforming Biden in 2020.

“Literally nothing?” Tapper says, shocked, staring at the empty electoral map. “Literally not one county?”

Gray, Keith Malinak, and Jeffy couldn’t help but burst into laughter watching the clip.

“He hates Trump,” Gray comments. “It’s made him unreasonable, a guy who used to be somewhat of a real journalist,” noting that Tapper now has Trump Derangement Syndrome, like so many others.

While Tapper is not alone in his condition, the guys aren’t sure that Kamala supporters actually support Kamala enough to do anything about it.

“There might be a little bit of upheaval, but no one really feels the need to go out and burn the streets down because of Kamala Harris not winning,” Jeffy says.

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