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For months, Republicans and Democrats alike have insisted on keeping the Medicaid subsidy scam alive — even as it drives inflation and enriches the health care cartel. With the Biden-era expansion of Obamacare “marketplace” subsidies set to expire in December, both parties want to renew them. But this moment offers Republicans a rare opportunity: Finally lower health care costs for Americans not living on government handouts.

Obamacare buried the middle class

The ill-named Affordable Care Act helped Republicans win more elections than any issue in recent memory. But since 2016, the party has run from the fight. The result: Individual plans became unaffordable for anyone not getting subsidies, and employer-based coverage got gutted. Workers earn less in take-home pay and pay more for thinner plans.

The signature feature of Obamacare was turning catastrophic coverage into a luxury item.

Rather than continually shielding consumers from Obamacare’s price hikes with subsidies, why not repeal the mandates that caused the pain in the first place?

The numbers speak for themselves. In 2013, just before Obamacare took full effect, the average unsubsidized premium for individual coverage was $197 per month. By 2017, it had nearly doubled to $393. Family plans saw a 140% jump in that same period, from $426 to $1,021. Today, a typical family policy without subsidies costs $2,000 to $2,500 per month.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, average family premiums climbed from $13,770 in 2010 to $25,572 in 2024 — an 85% increase. And that “Cadillac plan” price tag now buys you higher deductibles and fewer benefits than a cheap pre-Obamacare policy.

Younger workers don’t even know what hit them. They’ve inherited a system designed to fleece them and can’t afford to opt out.

Even employer-based insurance has suffered. Since 2014, family premiums have risen 52%, while workers’ share has jumped 31%. Deductibles for individual plans have increased 53%, reaching $1,787 in 2024. Americans now pay more out of pocket for less protection.

This wasn’t an accident. It was baked into the law. Obamacare banned insurers from pricing plans based on risk, age, or gender. That shifted costs from older, sicker Americans to younger, healthier ones. Those who don’t qualify for subsidies pay top dollar for a bloated, mandatory benefits package they didn’t ask for.

Meanwhile, over 70 million lower-income Americans got dumped onto Medicaid — and Republicans went along with it. If Medicaid expansion is the new baseline, then at least fix the rest of the system for the middle class.

Caught in the middle

The political class loves to talk about the millions who gained “coverage” through Medicaid expansion and premium tax credits. They ignore the millions who earn too much to qualify for substantial assistance but too little to afford the staggering premiums.

These Americans are Obamacare’s silent victims — and they’re forced to choose between health coverage and other basic needs.

Subsidies don’t solve the problem. They mask it. The real crisis is the cost of health care itself.

Republicans already get hammered for supposedly “cutting Medicaid,” even when they’re only targeting fraud. They pay the political price for Obamacare without reaping any of the reform benefits. So why not go on offense and start dismantling the cartel?

Demand real reform

Instead of rubber-stamping another round of subsidies, Republicans should demand one simple trade-off: Let states offer unregulated, cheaper health care plans.

Don’t extend subsidies for the wealthy or the idle. And if temporary subsidies are unavoidable, they should be tied to an overhaul next year.

The signature feature of Obamacare was turning catastrophic coverage into a luxury item. Letting states revive affordable catastrophic plans would free up cash for direct primary care — and crack the cartel’s grip on pricing.

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And that’s just the beginning. Congress should allow health savings accounts, self-employment deductions, and employer exclusions to apply to alternative options like health-sharing ministries and concierge care. Workers should be able to use HSA funds to pay their own premiums or direct care memberships.

Employers should receive the same tax benefits for contributing to an employee’s HSA as they would for funding a traditional insurance plan. That gives workers real purchasing power and puts pressure on the cartel to compete.

Break the cartel. Rebuild the market.

Even if Republicans won’t fully repeal Obamacare, they must scrap the ban on physician-owned hospitals. That carve-out handed a monopoly to corporate health systems and helped bankrupt rural hospitals — a crisis both parties now pretend to solve with more subsidies.

You can’t subsidize your way out of a bottomless pit of inflationary grift. The only real solution is to let Americans escape the sinkhole that turned affordable health care into unaffordable sick care.

This is the GOP’s last chance to fix what it failed to kill. Make it count.

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Leftist TikTok is in meltdown mode yet again after a new American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney made the claim that she has “good jeans.”

The “good jeans” is a play on words for “good genes” — which has sent those TikTokers spiraling and calling it full-on Nazi propaganda. In the ad itself, Sweeney is dressed in a pair of American Eagle jeans as she discusses her jeans/genes.

“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue,” she says.

“I’m not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans. And I definitely won’t say they’re the most comfortable jeans I’ve ever worn, or that they make your butt look amazing. Why would I need to do that?” she says in another ad, before adding, “But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I’m not gonna stop you. But just so we’re clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans.”

The type “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” then appears, while a male voiceover reads it.

The left has interpreted the spot as promoting eugenics and Nazism, with one TikTok user, who has a transgender flag in the background of her video, saying, “Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it’s still really shocking.”

“Like, a blond-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. Like, that is Nazi propaganda,” she added.

“It’s a very sensual ad campaign, but at least it’s hetero,” executive producer of the “Steve Deace Show,” Aaron McIntire, says. “As a result, American Eagle’s market cap shot up $200 million.”

“Naturally, lefties and rainbow jihadis are really upset that an objectively attractive white woman is being featured in a marketing campaign,” he continued. “So, the new rules are if a heterosexual, white, objectively attractive woman starts a marketing campaign for clothing, it’s literally Nazi propaganda.”

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Four members of a foster family in Florida have been arrested after some of the children reported being beaten, held in cages, and having their education neglected, according to police.

Police said they were alerted to the alleged abuse after one of the children was found to be in possession of an electric stun gun at a church camp operated by the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Branford. The children were living at the home of Brian and Jill Griffeth on Boundary Way in Fort White.

Children said the mother punished them by making them lie down, putting plywood on top of them, and pressing down to cause pain and splinters.

Officials found that four foster children were made to work and do chores while the five biological children were playing or watching television. The children were between the ages of 7 and 16 years old.

The investigation found that children claimed they were confined under a bunk bed with plywood secured by screws and that they were locked in their rooms and beaten with a cane.

Children also said the mother punished them by making them lie down, putting plywood on top of them, and pressing down to cause pain and splinters. They said they were sprayed in the face with vinegar, were given non-prescribed medication, and were not given proper schooling.

Some of the kids were illiterate and didn’t know their dates of birth.

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On Tuesday, the Griffeths were arrested along with two adult children, Dillan and Liberty.

All were charged with aggravated child abuse, booked into the Columbia County Jail, and given a bond of $500,000.

According to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the children had been privately adopted in Arizona before the family moved to Florida.

“It’s a very nice compound, peaceful town, country town. Everybody keeps to themselves,” said Gerald Rodgers, a resident of the area, to WCBJ-TV. “I would never know something was going on like that. I’m glad y’all are out here reporting on it.”

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When one of Donald Trump’s strongest voting blocs starts to fall off after just six months of a largely successful second term, it’s time for some soul-searching.

Not just because the midterms loom or because 2028 is already on the horizon. The demographic in question — young men — will shape, defend, and lead this country well beyond the next election. If they’ve grown too cynical to bother, the rest of us may be left holding the bag.

When the past and present betray a generation, expect that generation to reshape the future.

Trump’s 2024 performance with 18- to 29-year-old men marked the best Republican showing since George W. Bush won that demographic in 2004 — the last time the GOP won the popular vote. Young men backed Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, then defected to Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Bush 43 pulled them back temporarily, but by the time Obama, Hillary, and Biden came along, Democrats had captured their hearts — and their votes.

Yikes. That’s no way to live. Yet today’s young men are angrier, more cynical, more disruptive — and more serious. They don’t want to “save” Social Security. They want to be saved from it. They aren’t starting out wide-eyed like the Boomers. They didn’t get the luxury of being idealists first and realists later. They started with realism, forged by debt, disillusionment, and betrayal.

These young men want a way of life back. They want accountability for the people who stole it from them.

The average 25-year-old white male is already more “based” than his Reagan-voting grandfather ever was or ever could be. And he’s not finding any comfort in Fox News. So the question is: Will anyone offer him a white pill before he plants the flag of “I just don’t care any more” at the 50-yard line of American life?

This generation won’t follow unless they’re given a mission worth sacrificing for. Trump’s brand won’t carry them forever. They can’t afford homes. They can’t find wives who aren’t steeped in feminist dogma. They can’t compete in a DEI-rigged job market. And now they’re expected to watch the people who ruined their future skate by without consequences?

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

Young men like my son don’t want slogans. They want justice. They want our leaders to treat domestic traitors at least as ruthlessly as we’ve treated our allies in trade negotiations. They’ve seen enough memes. If the memes don’t end in prison time, they’ll see them as mockery. They want consequences — and they want them handed out with severe prejudice.

That’s the instinct of men who’ve been cornered for too long. Dread it, run from it — it’s coming. Unless we offer them something better, they’ll start making something worse.

Don’t count on them to keep voting Republican just because the Democrats are just that bad. That’s a losing bet. These young men reject the old paradigms — left, right, Reagan, Bush. Whatever. They’ve even begun questioning the biblical dispensationalism that guided American foreign policy for decades.

When the past and present betray a generation, expect that generation to reshape the future.

Our shot at shaping that future is now. If we fail to hold the deep state accountable yet again, then we’d better produce an economic boom big enough to distract from the urge to burn everything down.

We’ve convinced ourselves that soft, passive men define the modern male. But history — and nature — doesn’t work that way. Sooner or later, the animal comes roaring back — and a new generation rises, looking to settle scores.

Better get ready.

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President Trump’s unpopular handling of the Epstein files may soon be rectified, after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche underwent two days of interviews with Epstein’s convicted associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

However, while taking questions last Friday, Trump was asked whether or not he planned to pardon Maxwell — and his answer has drawn ire from skeptics across the country.

“I don’t want to talk about that,” he said. He was then pressed further and responded, “It’s something I haven’t thought about,” before adding, “I’m allowed to do it.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t concerned by Trump’s answers.

“I will say this, people want to read into President Trump’s responses to questions. I tend not to do that. He’s just a talker. He just talks,” Gonzales says, noting that when she was once given an opportunity to ask Trump whether or not he planned on pardoning January 6 protesters, he gave her a nonanswer as well.

“He’s like, ‘Well, we’re really looking into it. I can tell you that we’ve been looking at it, and the way that they’ve been treated is very unfairly, and we’re really looking.’ And I was like, ‘Why won’t you just give an answer?’ That’s just not him. He just doesn’t do it,” she explains.

Meanwhile, the White House has confirmed in a statement to the Daily Mail that “there have been no discussions or consideration of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, and there never will be.”

“They said there will never be a pardon for her, but they are meeting with her. The DOJ has met with her. Who knows what’s going to come out of that. Again, I approached this entire thing with great caution because like, she’s here to tell a tale that a dead man cannot refute,” Gonzales says.

“So now we are left with just taking a convicted child sex trafficker at her word,” she continues, adding, “For lack of a better term, that feels icky. So it’s just not a good situation.”

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An active shooter is being sought by police in Midtown Manhattan after several shots were fired and a suspect was spotted with a long rifle. Early reports said at least two people were shot, including a police officer.

Some reports said that the man seen walking into a building with the gun had sunglasses and a mustache. An image was widely shared on social media apparently showing the suspect.

‘There is an active shooter investigation taking place in Midtown right now. Please take proper safety precautions if you are in vicinity.’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams posted a message to the residents on social media.

“New Yorkers: there is an active shooter investigation taking place in Midtown right now. Please take proper safety precautions if you are in vicinity and do not go outside if you are near Park Avenue and East 51st Street,” he wrote.

Video from the scene showed a police officer being taken away on a gurney, leading some to speculate that he was one of the victims of the shooting.

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The building where the man was spotted reportedly has offices for the Blackstone group as well as the National Football League.

At about 7:52 p.m. ET, the police commissioner wrote on social media, “At this time, the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized.”

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At least three are dead, and three are wounded after a gunman on Monday opened fire outside the largest casino in Reno, the Associated Press reported.

The shooting took place at the Grand Sierra Resort.

‘A half hour after the incident I started shaking because I realized I could’ve been there. That’s exactly where I was going.’

Two of the shooting victims were in critical condition, while the third was released from a hospital, Sparks Police Chief Chris Crawforth said during a Monday news conference, the AP added.

The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police added to the outlet, noting also that the suspect’s motive is unknown.

More from the AP:

The shooter walked up to the casino-hotel’s valet parking area, pulled out a handgun and pointed it at a group of people, police said. His gun initially malfunctioned, but he quickly was able to get it to shoot.

The suspect fled on foot through the parking lot where he encountered an armed casino security guard. Crawforth said the gunman opened fire on the guard, who returned fire as the shooter fled.

The suspect also shot at someone driving by in the parking lot, striking and killing the driver.

Officers arrived less than three minutes after the first shots rang out and fired at the suspect, police said in a statement.

“Tragedies like this are horrific for any community to endure,” Reno Police Department Chief Kathryn Nance said, according to the AP.

The outlet added that the resort is one of Reno’s most prominent venues and that it hosts concerts and sporting events — as well as a campaign rally for then-presidential contender Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

Michael Sisco, 60, told the AP he was in his room and about to head to the valet for his car when he heard popping sounds — and then looked out his window and saw people screaming and running from the valet area.

Sisco added to the outlet that he saw a man holding his stomach and staggering before falling motionless next to a car — after which Sisco moved away from the window amid continuing gunshots.

“A half hour after the incident I started shaking because I realized I could’ve been there,” he told the AP. “That’s exactly where I was going.”

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Tragedy struck Michigan over the weekend when a suspect stabbed 11 people inside a Walmart — however, multiple people stepped up and confronted the suspect in the parking lot, including a man armed with a gun.

The Grand Traverse Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that a man entered the Walmart in Garfield Township just before 5 p.m. Saturday. Garfield Township is about eight minutes south of Traverse City and about two hours north of Grand Rapids.

‘At first, it was disbelief. I thought maybe it was like a terror attack.’

The suspect “used a folding knife to stab 11 people,” according to police.

A sheriff’s deputy was at the crime scene around 4:46 p.m., law enforcement stated.

“At the time of the deputy’s arrival, multiple citizens, including one who was armed with a pistol, were confronting the male suspect in the parking lot and preventing him from harming further people and from leaving,” the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said. “The deputy took the suspect into custody without further incident.”

Witness Julia Martell told NBC News that the suspect looked “crazed” and that the situation was “surreal.”

“All I know is I saw a knife, and I ran away from the knife, and now I have no idea where the knife is,” Martell said. “I’m still sitting and grappling with the weight of realizing that it was kind of a life-or-death moment.”

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Videos also show a group of citizens confronting the suspect in the parking lot of the Walmart. During a press conference, Sheriff Michael Shea noted that one of the Good Samaritans was armed with a gun.

Video from the Walmart parking lot shows the brave citizens approaching the suspect, who was still brandishing a knife with a 3.5-inch blade.

One of the citizens is heard yelling, “Throw the knife that way! Drop it! Throw the knife away!”

Witness Steven Carter told the Associated Press that he was loading his truck in the Walmart parking lot when he saw a man with a knife stab a woman in the throat.

“At first, it was disbelief. I thought maybe it was like a terror attack,” Carter said.

Carter added that the suspect was subdued after someone tackled him to the ground.

“And then it was fear, disbelief, shock. … It was just amazing,” Carter said. “And it all happened fast. Like, he was totally subdued on the ground by the time police arrived.”

The video shows the suspect being detained next to a sheriff’s vehicle.

Witness Tiffany DeFell added to the AP that “it was really scary. Me and my sister were just freaking out. This is something you see out of the movies. It’s not what you expect to see where you’re living.”

Sheriff Shea described the citizens’ actions as “remarkable” and said he “cannot commend” them “enough,” according to WANE-TV.

“When you stop and look from the time of [the] call to the time of actual custody, the individual was detained within one minute,” Shea stressed.

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The victims were rushed to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City.

The sheriff’s office listed the 11 stabbing victims as: a 29-year-old female, a 38-year-old male, a 39-year-old male, a 41-year-old male, a 55-year-old male, a 65-year-old female, a 67-year-old female, a 70-year-old male, an 80-year-old female, an 82-year-old male, and an 84-year-old female. Shea said one of the victims was a Walmart employee.

During a press conference, Munson Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tom Schermerhorn revealed that one of the victims had been treated and released, two were in serious condition, and the remainder were in fair condition. All are expected to survive their stab wounds.

Police identified the suspect as 42-year-old Bradford James Gille of Afton, Michigan. He was arrested and transported to the Grand Traverse County Jail.

Police said Gille had a criminal history of “assaultive incidents, as well as controlled substance violations.”

Citing Michigan court records, NBC News reported that Gille’s criminal history included charges for public intoxication, misdemeanor assault and battery, misdemeanor aggravated assault, drug possession, and assault with a dangerous weapon. Court documents said a charge of malicious destruction of tombs and memorials was dismissed after Gille was found to be incompetent to stand trial.

Investigators have yet to determine a motive for the stabbing.

Michigan prosecutors are seeking a terrorism charge against Gille in addition to 11 counts of assault with intent to murder, one for each stabbing victim, according to NBC News.

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The fact-checking maestro of the Washington Post has accepted a buyout and is moving on to greener pastures, and the announcement led to a retrospective of his worst efforts over his long career.

Glenn Kessler posted on Facebook that he accepted a buyout from the Post after several other notable writers had accepted similar offers, including Jonathan Capehart, Catherine Rampell, and Philip Bump.

Kessler admitted that they simply assumed the incoming Biden administration would be far less deceptive. Ironically, the mainstream media has suffered a serious hit to their credibility after being complicit with the administration hiding Biden’s mental decline.

“After more than 27 years at the Washington Post, including almost 15 as the Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,” Kessler wrote. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.”

He said that the Post had not found someone to replace him as editor of the Fact Checker once he left at the end of July.

Over the years, Blaze News has documented many of Kessler’s biased fact-checks. The following are some of the more egregious examples.

In June 2020, the fact-checker dinged Trump for claiming that the most crime-ridden cities were run by Democrats, but in its fact-check, the Post documented that the vast majority of crime-ridden cities were indeed run by Democrats. They still rated Trump’s claim as incorrect.

In Oct. 2020, he downplayed some of the accusations that tied Joe Biden to selling political influence for the benefit of his son Hunter Biden. Later, Kessler quietly updated the article to admit that some of the evidence had been authenticated.

In Jan. 2021, after the conclusion of Trump’s first term, Kessler admitted that they simply assumed the incoming Biden administration would be far less deceptive. Ironically, the mainstream media has suffered a serious hit to their credibility after being complicit with the administration hiding Biden’s mental decline.

In April 2021, Kessler tried to cast doubt on the inspiring story told by Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina about his roots. Kessler was immediately criticized by many on the right.

Kessler also had other interactions that were criticized on the right.

In April 2020, he retweeted a video that blamed the Trump administration for not doing enough during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but he later admitted that China’s efforts to conceal the pandemic were to blame instead.

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On the other hand, not all of Kessler’s fact-checks were rejected by those on the right.

In Aug. 2018, he found five claims made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that were ruled false. She responded by blaming sexism.

In March 2021, he nailed then-President Joe Biden with the Post’s strongest rating for lying when Biden mischaracterized new voting laws in Georgia.

In June 2021, Kessler hit Biden for a false claim he made about gun rights that was so wrong it undermined his argument for gun control.

In Sept. 2021, he got Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) office to admit that he misspoke when he claimed all Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan to avoid Taliban rule had already left.

In Feb. 2023, he defended the Trump administration against unfair accusations from the left that Trump’s policies had contributed to the circumstances that led to the disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Kessler said he wrote or edited more than 3,000 articles at the Fact Checker.

“My fact checks were routinely the most-read articles on the Post’s website,” he added. “I had my detractors, from both the left and right, but many readers appreciated my efforts to sort out the truth in political rhetoric.”

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Actor Zachary Levi made waves in Hollywood last year when he came out against vaccination and in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump — and now he’s taking it even further.

Levi, who is well aware which way Hollywood leans and how they treat you when you’re leaning the wrong way, is taking matters into his own hands and launching a $100 million Hollywood studio of his own.

The studio is called Wyldwood Studios, and it’s located in Austin near many other Hollywood escapees, like Woody Harrelson and Joe Rogan.

“I went into Hollywood, and it was very broken,” he tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “When I got my first look behind the curtain and I saw how all the sausage was made in Hollywood 25 years ago, I was like, ‘God, I don’t know how to do this. This is so broken.”

“The value structure is entirely upside down. They’re not valuing the product, and they’re not valuing the people making the product. They’re valuing the bottom line. So it’s profit over people and not the other way around. You’ve got to value people over profit,” he adds.

That’s when God called him to make a change.

“So, what God called me to do wasn’t, it’s not just go fix the broken Hollywood system,” Levi tells Stuckey.

“Part of this was inspired by all of the stuff that happened with vaccine mandates in Hollywood, too, right? And just, like, your desire for freedom and autonomy?” Stuckey asks.

“I guess on some level,” Levi responds. “I just think that what we need across the world is we need to be able to live actually truly free lives, to be able to have actual liberty and autonomy within your life. Like, I’m more libertarian than anything else in that regard.”

“I don’t think anybody should have been mandated to get the vaccine. Certainly, I can only speak for my industry, and there were lots and lots and lots of people that were mandated,” he continues. “Through fear, through coercion, that was forced on a lot of people. And I think that was egregious.”

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Leftists are absolutely melting down on social media after American Eagle dropped a provocative ad with actress Sydney Sweeney about blue jeans.

The very short ad shows Sweeney flaunting the jeans in a provocative fashion with a voiceover of the actress talking about her jeans. Many took the ad to employ wordplay in order to imply that people with “good genes” are better than others.

‘This is Nazi s**t, pure Nazi s**t! Saying that a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl has good genes is Nazi s**t! Saying anybody has good genes is eugenics. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed? Nazi s**t!’

A collection of videos from furious liberals, all female, on TikTok were posted to the X platform, where they were widely ridiculed.

“You guys are complaining about that Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, so I saw it. That’s Nazi propaganda! Wow!” one tattooed female said on her TikTok account. “I thought it was gonna be, like, kinda bad. That’s gonna be in history books!”

“I will be the friend that’s too woke because those Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle ads are weird. Like, fascist weird, like, Nazi propaganda weird,” a second female said.

“Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not. But it’s still really shocking. Like, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is talking about her good genes. Like, that is Nazi propaganda!” she added.

“If you haven’t fully comprehended how bad it is, I need you to open your f**king eyeballs and listen. This is Nazi s**t, pure Nazi s**t! Saying that a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl has good genes is Nazi s**t! Saying anybody has good genes is eugenics. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed? Nazi s**t!” a third female critic said.

“This pro-American bulls**t — talking about pure Americans, Americans having good genes — this is Nazi s**t that people, especially Jews, have been warning about for a very long time!” she added.

“Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad is giving ethnic state propaganda. It is giving dystopian. It is giving 1940s Germany,” a fourth female commenter said, employing a common slang phrase used by youthful people on social media.

“And they could have had her say anything. She could have said, ‘I’m hot. Drink my bathwater. Here are my jeans.’ But instead they had her say, ‘Genes are passed down from parents to children. I have good jeans. My jeans are blue,'” she continued. “Why? Yeah, no, that was, like, the most thinly veiled propaganda I think that I’ve ever seen. I hate it.”

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“So despite being in a very deep, debilitating depression rot where I have struggled to do anything else other than lay on my couch, I felt like this advertisement was too important not to talk about, especially in the political climate that we’re in. So let’s talk about it,” a fifth woman said on her TikTok account.

“I just, this is literal eugenics slapping everyone in the face, and the reason why I say this so bluntly is because the only people that I’ve seen actually call this eugenics and say what needs to be said about this advertisement are disabled people and women of color, the two demographics of people who are literally the most impacted by eugenics,” she added.

Many on the right brutalized the critics with mockery and pointed out that ranting against a Sydney Sweeney advertisement was not going to win them many converts to the leftist cause.

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Resurfaced comments from Jay Leno about politics in comedy have led to furious anger from many on the left who are incensed about the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show.

Leno criticized late-night hosts for alienating half of their audience by taking political stands that divide the viewers. Many on the left attacked him on social media, despite the fact that his comments were made before Colbert’s cancellation.

‘Jay Leno worried about the feelings of Nazis.’

Leno made the comments during an interview with David Trulio for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, and they were republished by USA Today, which led to the online implosion from many on the left.

“I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, the pressures of life, wherever it might be,” said Leno. “And I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, but what happens (is) people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other.”

He added, “Why shoot for just half an audience? Why not try to get the whole (audience)?”

Leno’s fairly innocuous statements were lambasted by many who appeared to falsely assume he was excusing the cancellation of Colbert. Many on the left have accused Paramount of canceling the show in order to appease President Donald Trump at a time when the company was seeking government approval of a billion-dollar merger.

“Jay Leno mentioned Bill Clinton 4,607 times from 1992-2014 on his show. So f**k off,” responded internet personality Tony Posnanski.

“Jay Leno worried about the feelings of Nazis,” replied feminist author Kimberley Johnson.

“F**k you Jay Leno go hide in a closet and listen in on some executives you craven piece of human trash,” said another detractor.

“I would say this is funny coming from the Zionist who mocked presidents and made Monica Lewinsky jokes every night for years, but that would imply Jay Leno was ever funny,” said another critic.

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Leno had previously criticized comedians for being too political and actually cited Colbert as an example when he made the comments in Jan. 2024 as reported by The Hill.

“I just don’t do it anymore. I just find it so annoying,” he said of politics.

“I think we get enough of everybody’s opinions. It’s nice to hear a singer just sing or a comedian just be funny,” he added.

“Obviously, if you’re going to go see Stephen Colbert, a political comedian, that’s what you want,” he added. “But a lot of times, you just want to hear comedy … and that’s what I like.”

Prior to that, Leno described himself in 2013 as a fiscal conservative but a social liberal.

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“Captain Planet and the Planeteers” was an animated television series produced by depopulationist billionaire Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation and CNN, and fellow climate alarmist Barbara Pyle, the co-founder of one of America’s first legal abortion facilities.

The show, which aired in over 100 countries from 1990 to 1996, was a brazen work of pagan liberal propaganda that impressed upon American children various radical notions beyond just demonizing affordable energy, mining, Western industry, and capitalism. It had a hand in shaping the minds of some of those climate alarmists now involved in demonstrations, public tantrums, ruinous leftist policies, and vandalism.

With public concern about changing weather patterns down by double digits in parts of the West, radicals evidently feel it’s time for a revival of the green-haired officer: Netflix is set to become home for a live-action adaptation of “Captain Planet.”

According to Deadline, the series will be developed by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, Warner Bros. Television, and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions. Warner Bros. Television, where Berlanti Productions is under a deal, will reportedly be the studio, reported Variety.

DiCaprio — the climate activist who downgraded last year to a $25 million superyacht and who suggested that a normal, recurrent weather phenomenon was an instance of “scary” climate change — will reportedly serve as an executive producer. The series will be written by Tara Hernandez, co-creator of the series “Mrs. Davis.”

DiCaprio’s involvement is a good indicator that the new show will pick up where the original left off: advancing a leftist worldview and suggesting to young Americans that human beings are harmful to the planet.

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Every episode in the original series opened with this narration:

Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives five magic rings to five special young people. From Africa, Kwame with the power of earth. From North America, Wheeler with the power of fire. From the Soviet Union [later changed to Eastern Europe], Linka with the power of wind. From Asia, Gi with the power of water. And from South America, Ma-Ti with the power of heart. When the five powers combined, they summon earth’s greatest champion — Captain Planet!

There was nothing subtle about the agenda behind the show, which boasted vocal cameos from big-name actors including Jeff Goldblum, Tim Curry, Martin Sheen, and Sting, and whose titular protagonist threatened to “take pollution down to zero.”

In one episode, the showrunners took a page out of the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda and advocated for reducing the size of families, suggesting that large populations are unsustainable.

“Did you know the population of the world is now more than 5 billion?” Captain Planet asks one of Gaia’s child soldiers.

“Wow! That is a lot of people!” responds one of the children. “And it’s increasing by 90 million people each year,” says another.

“So when it is your turn to have a family, keep it small,” the Soviet and North American characters say in conclusion.

The green-haired protagonist emphasized to those viewers who would grow up to witness a catastrophic population collapse, “The more people there are, the more pressure you put on our planet.”

This particular episode, “Population Bomb,” borrowed its title from depopulationist Paul Ehrlich’s magnum opus, a 1968 book whose faulty thesis helped inspire China’s one-child policy, resulting in hundreds of millions of abortions. As with Ehrlich doom-saying about the population bomb, which never went off, his other major anti-human and anti-natalist predictions similarly failed to come true.

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Pyle told Good in 2016 that she made documentaries for years but found that those who watch documentaries are “smart people and also people who are already set in their ways,” so she spoke to Turner about “alternative programming routes.”

Turner, Pyle, and their fellow travelers apparently settled on kids’ programming as the best way to advance their worldview and began pushing their agenda in cartoon form.

Pyle said in an interview with Grist, “We knew there was going to come a time when it would be necessary for an entire generation — your generation — to speak with one voice on behalf of the planet. In some ways, the entire Captain Planet series was about preparing us for this moment.”

Gaia’s five environmental child soldiers, who were apparently based on people Pyle knew, helped reflect her anti-Western prejudices over the course of the series. Whereas the Soviet character proved time and again to be a brainiac and the Brazilian character was an empathetic soul who could commune with animals, the North American character, Wheeler, was a mistake-prone redhead who apparently needed the most environmental coaching.

Netflix won’t be breaking any new ground if its “Captain Planet” is race-obsessed, as Pyle indicated efforts were made the first time around to ensure that the pagan goddess at the center of the show wouldn’t be mistaken for a “white Barbie doll,” hence her portrayal instead as a “plump beige woman.”

Unsurprisingly, the Captain Planet Foundation — the nonprofit founded in 1991 by Turner and Pyle — is committed to DEI.

Netflix declined to comment about the project to Deadline or Variety.

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President Donald Trump blamed Democrats for the controversy over the Epstein files and called it a “hoax” in a rant from his luxury golf course in Turnberry, Scotland.

Some supporters of the president have criticized the administration after Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the files were on her desk, awaiting release, and then later said there were none to release. Trump has said the accusations about the files are false and called them a “Democrat hoax.”

‘Those files were run by these people, they were run by my enemies. If there was anything in there, they would have used them for the election.’

The president was responding to a question from a reporter who asked him if he would have to be informed if his name were found in the files related to the Epstein case.

“Well, I haven’t been overly interested in it, you know. It’s a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion,” Trump responded.

“I can say this, those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by [former FBI Director James] Comey, they were run by [former Attorney General Merrick] Garland, they were run by [former President Joe] Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the autopen. Those files were run for four years by those people,” he added.

“If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,” Trump said. “The whole thing is a hoax!”

The president has sued the Wall Street Journal over a report that he sent Epstein a letter with the drawing of a nude woman for his 50th birthday. Trump denied that he had ever sent the letter.

“They ran the files. I was running against somebody that ran the files,” Trump continued, referring to Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 election. “If they had something, they would have released. Now, they can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.”

He gave the infamous example of the dossier that was used to spark the investigation into Russian collusion against Trump officials.

“Think of it, those files were run by these people; they were run by my enemies,” he added. “If there was anything in there, they would have used them for the election.”

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Trump has previously said that he rejects the support of anyone who buys into the “hoax” of the Epstein files.

In response to the criticism, the president ordered Bondi to request the release of grand jury testimony from investigations into Epstein and his former companion Ghislaine Maxwell. One of the judges presiding over two of the cases said the court’s hands were tied because of rules set up by the appeals court and denied the request. Other requests are pending and are not subject to the same rules.

Trump is on a private visit to Scotland that is scheduled for four days.

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Police in Phoenix, Arizona, told KSAZ-TV they responded Thursday afternoon to a parking lot of a business near 24th and Madison Streets regarding multiple children inside a vehicle that was not running.

Police told the station it was about 104 degrees outside at the time — and around 125 degrees inside the car.

After Largo reportedly exited the shop through the back door, officers asked if the car was his, and he shook his head ‘no.’

Police added to KSAZ that the car was locked and its windows were rolled up, but they were able to gain entry and secure four children — ages 2, 3, 4, and 7 — who were placed into an air-conditioned police SUV and given water.

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Police told the station that all of the children’s internal temperature readings were near 100 degrees. Phoenix Police Sgt. Rob Scherer added to KSAZ that the children showed “signs of distress” such as bright-red skin and sweating: “Clearly, the heat was affecting the children.”

After the children were taken to a hospital, police said they found the children’s father — 38-year-old Ascencio Largo — “inside of a nearby business. It was later learned that Largo entered this business just short of an hour prior to police arrival on scene,” KSAZ reported.

Court documents allege that Largo was inside an adult store called the Adult Shoppe, the station said.

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After Largo reportedly exited the shop through the back door, officers asked if the car was his, and he shook his head “no,” KTVK-TV reported, citing court papers. But officers followed him, and there were police and fire trucks near the Nissan — and Largo remarked, “Oh, s**t,” KTVK added.

“The facts of the scenario, as alleged by the police, are rather shocking,” Maricopa County Commissioner Jane McLaughlin said during Largo’s court appearance, according to KSAZ. “The police allege that they went into the store, called out many times. Nobody came out. And they allege that when you came out, you attempted to pretend like it wasn’t your car. It just indicates a strong level of reckless culpability of knowing. It’s difficult to say that anybody who grew up in Arizona doesn’t know that children and dogs die in closed cars.”

What’s more, court documents also note that police smelled alcohol on Largo, KSAZ said, adding that his driver’s license has an ignition interlock restriction — but his car did not have the device.

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McLaughlin added that “what the police are alleging could have resulted in, you know, the kind of story that gets picked up on international newswires: ‘Man goes into porno store leaving his four children to die in their car,'” KSAZ reported.

Largo is facing eight felony child abuse and endangerment charges, KTVK reported. According to KSAZ, they break down to four counts of child abuse and four counts of endangerment.

The state asked for a $50,000 bond, citing Largo’s previous criminal history, which includes a prior extreme DUI, according to KTVK.

Largo is ordered to stay away from his children if he posts bail, which was set at $5,000, KTVK said, adding that a judge said they were under the care of their mother.

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Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas is embedded with the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem this week in South America.

On Sunday, Rosas and the DHS traveled down to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

‘As we saw during the Biden-Harris administration, it wasn’t just Central American countries where people were coming from, but people here in South America taking advantage of Biden’s open border.’

“We started out the day in Washington, D.C. We flew out of Joint Base Andrews. It was about a three-hour flight to Puerto Rico, where we stopped and just refueled. And then we finished off the last of about seven and a half hours to Argentina,” he explained.

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Rosas stated that Noem’s DHS has plans to conduct a tour, beginning with Argentina and continuing to Chile and Ecuador, to sign new agreements with these countries to “help crack down on illegal migration from this region to North America.”

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Argentina’s Minister of National Security Patricia Bullrich sign an agreement on July 28, 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images

“As we saw during the Biden-Harris administration, it wasn’t just Central American countries where people were coming from, but people here in South America taking advantage of Biden’s open border,” Rosas said.

“The Trump administration, yes, they have secured the southern border, but they wanted to solidify some of the things that they did in the first administration,” he continued.

The administration now seeks to “strengthen” those “relationships,” Rosas added.

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem greeted by U.S. Embassy Charge d’Affaires Heidi Gomez as she arrives at the Bosch Palace on July 28, 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images

The department’s new agreements aim to achieve improved information-sharing regarding the criminal histories of foreign nationals and ensure cooperation with deportation flights.

Rosas noted that Monday through Wednesday would include full days in each of the countries, participating in cultural engagements and securing the administration’s vital agreements.

Rosas stated in a Monday social media post that Noem signed an agreement with Argentina’s minister of national security, Patricia Bullrich, to work toward “Argentina becoming eligible for the Visa Waiver Program,” “streamlining repatriations,” and “fugitive enforcement to ensure fugitives are not released upon repatriations.”

“Noem cites Argentina having the lowest visa overstay rate for all of Latin [America] as one reason to have the country back in the program,” he wrote.

Rosas also noted that Noem had a meeting with Argentinian President Javier Milei.

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Matt Groening, iconic creator of “The Simpsons” cartoon, took shots at Elon Musk, President Trump, Trump’s supporters, and more as part of a panel at San Diego Comic Con last weekend.

On Saturday, the cartoon’s producers discussed upcoming guests for the show and the longevity the series has had. At the same time, Groening played up the show’s ability to predict the future, but immediately made his predictions politically fueled and only in one direction.

‘President Vance will ban dancing.’

“I honestly thought 36 [seasons] was where we were going to end it,” Groening joked, according to Variety.

Then, Groening’s jokes took a strange turn when he implied he would stop making “The Simpsons” when “somebody” dies.

“No, there’s no end in sight. We’re going to keep going. We’re going to go until somebody dies. When you-know-who dies, ‘The Simpsons’ predicts that there will be dancing in the streets. Except President Vance will ban dancing,” Groening went on.

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After some fans fell for an AI-generated meme that purported to show that “The Simpsons” predicted a CEO getting caught having an affair at a concert with his head of human resources, executive producer Matt Selman asked “who could be so dumb” as to believe “those two dumb white folks” were actually one of the show’s predictions.

After the seeming insult to fans over the convincing AI, Groening jumped in to redirect comments at people he dislikes: Elon Musk and Trump supporters.

“We are time travelers,” Groening said, before giving more of his predictions. “‘The Simpsons’ predicts Elon Musk will be the first man to land on Mars. Amazingly, he will crash-land on Mars. But he will radio back that he is marooned there forever. And most emotionally of all, he will be able to hear the cheering all the way.”

Groening then even claimed that America’s youth will “liberate” their parents from their Trump-supporting ways.

“America will return the Statue of Liberty to France, and North America remembers what the word ‘liberty’ means,” the creator continued. “‘The Simpsons’ predicts kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA. And here’s how you do it. Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list, and delete Fox News.”

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“The Simpsons” panel during 2025 Comic-Con International. Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/FilmMagic.

While it is hard to know the political leanings of the underaged, Groening may be surprised by the exit polls from the 2024 election when it comes to those ages 18-29.

Not only did President Trump make gains in every major category, but 56% of young men voted for the president, as did 47% of that age group as a whole, according to Circle.

Groening’s thoughts about Musk may be more in sync with public opinion, though, as recent polling does actually exist on the matter, and on average, Musk has a 58% disapproval rating.

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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss says artificial intelligence is great at producing hype, but he isn’t completely sold on its alleged potential.

Krauss is a renowned scientist who has taught at Arizona State University, at Yale University, and on other faculties, and recently lamented how diversity, equity, and inclusion has stifled scientific progression and, more generally, scientific excellence.

In an interview with Blaze News, Krauss commented on the perception that AI will spawn a global reckoning and what he sees as the true concerns about the emerging technology.

‘You’re gonna displace a lot of people’s jobs, and that wealth is gonna go into one place.’

Getting to the truth means “one has to cut through the hype,” Krauss said about AI. “Every new development has risks and benefits. And we have to think carefully about what those are.”

The scientist continued, “I’m not as concerned as some people are, but partly because I think that AI is neither artificial nor intelligent at this point, and I think we’re a long way from artificial general intelligence.”

While most AI chat bots “beautifully regurgitate” information found online, Krauss described, they still are not representative of a sentient intelligence. Still, Krauss said he has real concerns about AI, but they are more in regard to the average worker than they are about AI taking over the world.

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Lawrence Krauss, July 2025. Image by Blaze News.

While AI may not be on the cusp of world domination, Krauss said that what he does worry about is wealth becoming concentrated in such a way that a select few companies can dominate their sectors by utilizing AI “light-years ahead” of their competition.

“You’re gonna displace a lot of people’s jobs, and that wealth is gonna go into one place,” he explained.

The physicist claimed that in a perfect world, AI would do menial tasks and free up humanity’s time to expand their horizons and increase productivity and wealth where it matters.

“If it was somehow spread so people benefited from that development, it’d be fine,” Krauss stated. “But I suspect what’s gonna happen is — and we already see it happening — is that mega-wealthy individuals and companies will develop … AIs that allow them to access a huge amount of resources and wealth.”

Not recognizing this could displace many workers and cause “huge dislocations of society,” Krauss added. “That could be a problem.”

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Bill Gates speaks about Microsoft Copilot AI in Redmond, Washington, US, on Friday, April 4, 2025. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Krauss stressed that literacy in emerging technology is about as important as teaching critical thinking skills. Drawing from his battles with DEI in academic settings, Krauss said it was paramount to “teach people how to search critically and question what they see” while looking broadly at a myriad of sources.

“You know, it used to be we teach some facts in schools, but facts aren’t as important as the ability to think critically and be able to tell the wheat from the chaff.”

Concluding that there’s a lot of good and a lot of bad whenever a new technology captivates society, if you can’t tell the difference between truth and fiction, “you’re in trouble,” Krauss said.

Krauss’ latest book, “The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process,” is now available.

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The Department of Justice has suddenly appeared to be making some serious headway in the Epstein case, as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has taken the time to interview Epstein’s convicted associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know?” Blanche wrote in a post on X.

Despite the positive optics, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler hasn’t totally forgiven the DOJ just yet.

“How do we even react to this? How about someone ask Attorney General Pam Bondi, ‘How exactly did you conclude that there was no client list, no blackmail operation, and that Epstein definitively committed suicide with the Department of Justice having never ever spoken to Ghislaine Maxwell?” Wheeler asks on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“You might be wondering, ‘Why is Liz not happy about this development that the Department of Justice is actually going to pursue an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell,’ who, by the way, is the only person serving in prison for anything related to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes against children,” she continues.

While it’s taken far too long for progress to be made, Wheeler is “grateful” that the DOJ seems to have heard concerns like her own.

“Your voices, they make a difference,” Wheeler says. “And I feel like when those of us in President Trump’s base or just those of us as American citizens, as voters, when we raise our voices and let our opinions be known, sometimes it feels like we’re just shouting into the void.”

“And I want to assure you as someone who is both part of the base and standing beside you, but someone who also has a view into the inside, you are not shouting into the void,” she continues, adding, “President Trump is listening to his base.”

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President Donald Trump acknowledged on Friday that former President Barack Obama is likely to dodge accountability for his role in the Russian collusion hoax on account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024, immunity for official acts ruling in Trump v. United States.

Trump suggested, however, that the high court’s ruling “doesn’t help the people around him at all” — an allusion to those Obama cabalists who hatched, then perpetuated the Russian collusion hoax on the American people.

The FBI has, for instance, launched a criminal investigation into ex-CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey for perjury and potentially other crimes related to the Trump-Russia hoax. Former DNI James Clapper indicated he would “lawyer up” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred damning documents detailing the genesis of the hoax’s manufacture under Obama to the Department of Justice.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe hinted Sunday that twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton might also face the music over her apparent hand in what Gabbard has referred to as an alleged “treasonous conspiracy.”

Quick recap

Ratcliffe ordered a review in May of the “procedures and analytic tradecraft employed” when drafting the January 2017 intelligence Community Assessment, a document created at Obama’s urging that served as the cornerstone of the Russian collusion hoax and set the stage for arrests, impeachments, and years of politically expedient smears.

Late last month, Ratcliffe released the findings of that review, noting that there were “multiple procedural anomalies” in the production of the January 2017 ICA, including “a highly compressed production timeline, stringent compartmentation, and excessive involvement of agency heads.”

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The memo noted further that the Obama administration sacrificed analytical soundness in the interest of “narrative consistency.”

More has since been revealed about the genesis of the hoax thanks in part to Gabbard’s publication of a damning House Intelligence Committee majority staff report.

The previously classified House report confirmed that: the ICA was a work of fiction drawn up by the Obama administration with the aim of kneecapping the democratically elected Republican president; credible evidence available in January 2017 contradicted the narrative advanced in the ICA; and that contrary to Brennan’s suggestion in public and sworn testimonies, the Steele dossier — a political opposition research report paid for in part by the Clinton campaign — was included in the ICA.

Clinton might take another tumble

Ratcliffe suggested on Sunday that additional documents link Clinton to the development of the Russian collusion hoax.

“Part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed the known-fake Steele dossier into intelligence community assessments and as the basis for Crossfire Hurricane and all that,” he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. “But what hasn’t come out yet, and what’s going to come out, is the underlying intelligence that I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification — and sent that to the Department of Justice. That will come out in the John Durham report classified annex.”

‘US intelligence intercepted Russian intelligence talking about a Hillary Clinton plan.’

The first Trump DOJ authorized federal prosecutor John Durham in 2019 to explore the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation into the supposed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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Durham, who was elevated to special counsel in December 2020, found that:

the FBI utilized “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” to open the investigation into the Trump campaign but did not follow the same standard when approaching alleged election interference in relation to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign;the FBI “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations” made in the Steele dossier of lurid accusations against then-candidate Donald Trump; “neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation”; andthe FBI used the unvetted and unverified Steele reports just days after their receipt “to support probable cause in the FBI’s FISA applications targeting [Carter] Page, a U.S. citizen who, for a period of time, had been an adviser to Trump.”

While a 306-page unclassified report detailing these and other conclusions was released in May 2023, there was a 29-page classified appendix that the public never saw.

A White House source confirmed to Blaze News that “the CIA is declassifying that report in the name of transparency.”

The CIA director told Bartiromo, “In the summer of 2016, U.S. intelligence intercepted Russian intelligence talking about a Hillary Clinton plan — a Hillary Clinton plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of Russia collusion; to vilify and smear him with what would become known infamously as the Steele dossier.”

‘They conspired against the American people.’

“This intelligence was so explosive that John Brennan briefed President Obama, Vice President Biden, Jim Clapper, James Comey, the entire national security team, telling them about this Hillary Clinton plan,” said Ratcliffe. “That was in August of 2016 and yet it wasn’t until more than four years later, in October of 2020, when I found after an exhaustive search John Brennan’s handwritten notes and the underlying intelligence behind it that revealed exactly what happened.”

Rather than expose the “Clinton plan,” which is taken up at length in the Durham report, the Obama administration apparently used it as a framework.

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Citing notes from Brennan, which Ratcliffe declassified in 2020 while serving as DNI, the Durham report indicated that intelligence agencies “obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.”

The report emphasized the Clinton plan intelligence was relevant for two reasons:

“first, the Clinton plan intelligence itself and on its face arguably suggested that private actors affiliated with the Clinton campaign were seeking in 2016 to promote a false or exaggerated narrative to the public and to U.S. government agencies about Trump’s possible ties to Russia”; and second, “the Clinton plan intelligence had potential bearing on the reliability and credibility” on the materials provided and funded by the Clinton campaign and/or the DNC used by the FBI when seeking FISA warrants and taking other investigative steps.

According to the Durham report, there was no evidence that the FBI disclosed the contents of the Clinton plan intelligence to the attorneys working on the FISA matters related to Crossfire Hurricane, to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or to numerous individuals working on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

Ratcliffe indicated on Sunday that the declassified Durham report appendix will show that “part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.”

The CIA director noted on Sunday that Clinton, like Brennan and Comey, testified on the subject under oath in recent years, and that “much of that testimony is, frankly, completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence that is about to be declassified in the Durham Annex, what that reflects.”

Ratcliffe hinted at legal consequences for Clinton, noting, “Pam Bondi does have a strike force. It is a different Department of Justice, a different FBI, and an opportunity to look at how these people really did conspire to run a hoax, a fraud on the American people and against Donald Trump’s presidency.”

The Department of Justice declined to comment.

“There is no doubt in my mind that the people that we just talked about conspired. They conspired against President Trump. They conspired against the American people,” added Ratcliffe.

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