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Joe Rogan made an unexpected endorsement on the eve of Election Day, throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump.

Rogan made the announcement on X with the drop of a new podcast episode with Elon Musk.

‘He’s not a person that does endorsements, but he did an endorsement.’

“The great and powerful [Elon Musk],” Rogan wrote. “If it wasn’t for him we’d be f***ed.”

“He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way,” Rogan continued.

“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” he declared.

During the podcast episode, Rogan thanked Musk for purchasing Twitter and ensuring free speech on social media.

Rogan told Musk he believes he “changed the course of history.”

“You made a fork in the road. We were headed down a path of censorship and of control of narratives that is unprecedented,” he stated.

Musk told Rogan that if Trump does not secure the presidency, there will not be another election.

Rogan responded, “I think you’re right. I think people — and a lot of people — are waking up and realize that, that have been life-long Democrats.”

Musk explained, “If the Dems win this election, they will legalize enough illegals to turn the swing states, and everywhere will be like California. There will be no escape.”

Rogan called it “so insane.”

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Musk looked into the camera and pleaded for viewers to go out and vote.

“Vote like your life depends on it. Vote like your future depends on it. Because it does,” Musk said. “This is the last chance, man.”

The two also discussed how Democrats and the liberal media continue to spread debunked hoaxes about Trump.

Musk stated, “They’re doing all the things that they accuse Trump of doing.”

“Yeah, openly,” Rogan replied.

While onstage at his Pittsburgh rally on Monday evening, Trump learned about Rogan’s endorsement. He shared the news with his supporters, who responded with booming cheers.

“Thank you, Joe,” Trump said. “He’s not a person that does endorsements, but he did an endorsement. So, I just want to thank Joe Rogan. That’s fantastic.”

Trump appeared for an interview on Rogan’s podcast last week. On YouTube, the episode has racked up more than 45 million views.

Rogan also shared the interview on X, stating, “Since there’s an issue with searching for this episode on YouTube here is the full podcast with Trump.”

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Key takeaways

The effort to stop Trump has involved a coordinated campaign by federal bureaucracies, legacy media, and aligned institutions (collectively “the Regime”) that began with promoting him as an unelectable candidate in 2016 and evolved into increasingly desperate attempts to prevent his return to power.
The Regime’s tactics evolved from traditional opposition (negative coverage, opposition research) to unprecedented measures including attempting to overturn election results, weaponizing law enforcement, supporting ballot disqualification efforts, and tolerating political violence.
Media manipulation has been central to the campaign, with legacy outlets consistently distorting facts, suppressing unfavorable stories like the Hunter Biden laptop, and abandoning journalistic principles when those principles conflict with anti-Trump objectives.
The Regime’s commitment to democratic principles is selective, condemning “election denial” while attempting to remove Trump from ballots, defending “norms” while proposing radical institutional changes, and championing “democracy” while supporting undemocratic methods to achieve its goals.
Recent events, including Biden’s replacement with Harris and increasingly extreme rhetoric comparing Trump to Hitler, suggest the Regime will likely respond to a 2024 Trump victory by abandoning any pretense of accepting democratic outcomes — the very behavior they’ve spent years condemning.

It is difficult to comprehend a massive, multiyear effort to create an all-encompassing, largely fictional political narrative. It is more difficult when analyzed one bit at a time, dose by dose, over a period of years.

Presto! With the wave of the media’s collective hand, Kamala was never the border czar. And anyone who made reference to that fact would be discredited, usually via more ‘fact-checking.’

This piece will be straightforward. I’m going to document some — but certainly not all — of the panicked, dishonest, and, in some cases, probably unconstitutional behavior and acts committed by the people most desperately motivated to keep Donald Trump away from the levers of power.

I refer to these individuals and organizations using a shorthand of “the Regime.” I define this term to mean the combination of the entrenched federal bureaucratic power structure, its legacy media allies, institutions with significant Regime-friendly control (most nonprofits and foundations, college DEI apparatus, many entertainers with prominent platforms and Regime-aligned interests, etc.), and the leadership of the DNC.

Naturally, there’s some overlap among these groups. But the Regime has elements of what Mike Benz calls “the Blob” and what Trump and others call “the Deep State.”

There is no possible way for me to cover every aspect of the effort to keep Trump out of office. Entire books could be written about each facet individually, much less collectively. But that isn’t my goal. Rather, I want to provide a reminder of the big picture by listing the mere “highlights.” And they are staggering.

A brief look back at all that has happened, seen in one place, conclusively demonstrates how dangerous this effort has been — and will continue to be.

Burning Bernie

We begin in 2015, when Trump officially announced that he would run for president. Regime members initially treated this decision as a godsend. They did everything they could to help Trump overtake “viable” candidates who might have a chance to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Thus, between snickers about Trump’s prospects, legacy media outlets were happy to provide as much free coverage as possible for Trump, to the tune of $5 billion.

Helping Trump win the nomination would serve two important purposes for the Regime: One, it would propel Regime dream candidate Hillary Clinton to the White House. Two, it would weaken the GOP. A weaker GOP would decrease the chances that a “serious” non-Regime outsider, perhaps with Tea Party roots, could rise in the future to challenge the Regime.

But there was still the small matter of Bernie Sanders.

Sanders polled very well and won some crucial early primaries, including New Hampshire. He also lost the Iowa Caucus by the smallest-ever margin, greatly exceeding pre-primary expectations. Ultimately, Hillary Clinton could not secure the nomination without the help of unpledged delegates or “superdelegates.”

Unlike delegates secured through primaries, which provided an insufficient margin to give Clinton the nomination, she carried superdelegates 571 to Sanders’ 45.

Subsequent revelations would also show that the Clinton campaign made a secret deal with the DNC to assume financial control of the organization — not after securing the nomination, as is the usual practice, but some 15 months before. It did so by assuming the debt of the 2012 Obama campaign, a step that allowed the Clinton campaign to control the finances of the party during the entirety of the 2016 primary season.

Joke’s on Clinton

Nonetheless, Clinton ultimately won the nomination. The conventional wisdom among Democratic leaders and legacy media was that someone like Trump simply couldn’t win a national election. This overconfidence perhaps led to Clinton blunders like the “basket of deplorables” line and the decision not to target key swing states. The New York Times projected Clinton to have an overwhelming likelihood of winning. Instead, Trump defeated her.

This wasn’t part of the plan.

Trump’s victory was even more of a direct affront to the Regime because Trump had campaigned on the idea that the aforementioned “Deep State” of permanent bureaucratic power needed to be dismantled. Or, if you prefer, “drained.” Trump’s victory was a loss as devastating — and unexpected — as anything the Regime had yet experienced.

The Regime would do everything in its power to prevent it from happening again.

Election deniers

First, prior to Trump’s inauguration, the Regime blatantly and overtly attempted to overturn the results of the election. Not through offhanded comments about voting irregularities or lawsuits challenging results. Rather, the Regime did so with something far more brazen: a direct appeal to pressure electors into changing their votes, thus denying Trump the White House.

Legacy media treated this effort not as treasonous but as legitimate, perhaps even noble. The effort failed.

The next, broader effort was to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s victory. Hillary Clinton repeatedly called Trump an “illegitimate” president, and media and Democrats spawned a comprehensive narrative that Trump had only prevailed due to “collusion” with Russia and Vladimir Putin.

Within minutes of Trump’s inauguration, legacy media began touting the prospect of a Trump impeachment. Regime-friendly media worked with Democrats to amplify the “Russia collusion” narrative, initially focusing less on presenting evidence and more on implying that, if “collusion” could be proven, it would be an offense unquestionably worthy of spawning Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.

Putting aside the question of whether “collusion,” as described by Trump critics, was even a crime, there was the more pressing matter of whether the conduct occurred at all. The principal source of many of the allegations was the “Steele dossier.”

Blue Steele

The Steele dossier was a controversial political opposition research document compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, initially funded by the conservative Washington Free Beacon during the Republican primaries. The DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign funded further research to complete the dossier.

The dossier contained various allegations about Donald Trump and his campaign’s supposed connections to Russia during the 2016 presidential election. While it played a significant role in launching FBI investigations into possible Russian interference, subsequent investigations found its major claims to be unsubstantiated or inaccurate. Although the dossier’s claims were never corroborated, Regime-friendly media reported that they were.

Igor Danchenko, a primary source for the dossier, was later charged with lying to the FBI about his sources. Although he was ultimately acquitted, revelations stemming from his and other trials related to the Steele dossier revealed that federal agencies used unsubstantiated claims from the dossier as the basis for warrantless surveillance of Trump associates.

Prior to these revelations, Regime-friendly media touted the dossier as obvious and conclusive evidence that Trump had committed impeachable offenses — or perhaps even outright “treason.” Even after the credibility of the Steele dossier totally collapsed, media maintained a posture that Trump had obviously colluded and that such collusion was grounds for removal from office.

‘Collusion’ collapse

The larger questions around the 2016 election led to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference and potential coordination with the Trump campaign. The Mueller investigation was not based primarily on the Steele dossier, though it did review the dossier’s claims as part of its broader investigation.

Mueller’s team examined many other sources of evidence and leads, including intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies, witness interviews, and electronic communications. Ultimately, Mueller’s final report could not find evidence of a conspiracy or collusion.

Fact-chuckers

While the Russia collusion story was the dominant anti-Trump media narrative for years, it was just one example of a much larger pattern of media distortion that would become increasingly apparent. At best, media always presented facts in the light most unfavorable to Trump. At worst — and they were often at their worst — media presented outright distortions as fact.

The chief example of such a distortion was the “very fine people” lie in the wake of the Charlottesville protests in 2017, in which media consistently reported that Trump called white supremacists “very fine people.” In fact, he said the opposite, explicitly condemning white supremacists when he said, “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.” Instead, his reference was to “very fine people on both sides” of the issue of whether to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee.

The transcript was clear — there was even video — but the media relentlessly reported that Trump had backed white supremacists. Joe Biden subsequently cited Charlottesville as a central reason for entering the 2020 presidential race, almost certainly another lie, but at least one that is within the realm of normal political myth-building.

Regime politicians, part of a closed circuit with legacy media, repeated the “very fine people” lie over and over. They still do, in fact, as Kamala Harris continues to rely on this debunked narrative. This distortion has persisted for years. Even Snopes, which is generally left-leaning, ruled that the “very fine people” claim was untrue.

Of course, Snopes waited until 2024 to do so and included a number of disclaimers, but I suppose it’s (slightly) better than nothing.

‘Bleach Blanket Bingo’

However, the media don’t just distort the big things. The media have a reflexive impulse to make Trump look as bad as possible on all matters, from trivial to pivotal. They lied about him feeding fish. They lied about him telling people to drink bleach. They lied about him calling soldiers “suckers and losers.” And on and on.

The pattern of media and institutional bias became even more evident during two major crises of the Trump presidency that would test the Regime’s consistency and reveal its true priorities. In 2020, two major forces — the pandemic and the death of George Floyd — dramatically impacted the country. These are also broad topics beyond the scope of this piece, but I want to focus solely on what those cultural forces revealed about the Regime.

Fauci fascism

First, the hypocrisy. At the outset of the pandemic, Democrats like Kamala Harris initially said they wouldn’t trust any “Trump” vaccine created before the election. As we all know, Democrats (and the occasional Republican) shifted quickly into enforcing authoritarian COVID rules. The severity of the rules and the related hypocrisy were particularly egregious in “blue” states like California.

What was initial vaccine skepticism changed quickly to totalitarian behavior. Regime politicians ruthlessly enforced lockdown and masking mandates, sometimes with tragically hilarious results. Businesses and students suffered most, and we may never fully recover from the pandemic learning loss. Those who adopted the previous anti-vax skepticism initially touted by some Democrats were routinely fired from their jobs now that Democrats were in charge and mandating vaccine compliance.

Regime-friendly media dutifully repeated COVID talking points around “two weeks to stop the spread,” six-foot social distancing, masking, and the imperative — even civic duty — involved in getting vaccinated.

As we later learned, once Biden was in office, the federal government also pressured social media companies to remove “misinformation” about the virus and other topics, including the origin of COVID, vaccine skepticism, and so on. Much of this “misinformation” later turned out to be possible or even probable, while some of the “trust the science” talking points turned out to be based on nothing.

And the feds didn’t merely limit their pressure to social media companies. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a DOJ memo in 2021 making parents and protesters around school policies related to COVID and other matters a new point of emphasis for law enforcement. Garland would later walk back (or “clarify”) the intent behind the memo — but not rescind it.

The memo followed the National School Boards Association’s two top officials sending a letter to the Biden administration referring to objections to critical race theory and COVID measures as a form of “domestic terrorism.” The NSBA later repudiated the letter, but the controversy created serious backlash within the organization.

Stoking racial unrest

While the Regime’s COVID response revealed its willingness to enforce strict control over everyday citizens, its reaction to the death of George Floyd would expose an even more telling double standard. Floyd’s death led to massive, destructive protests across the country at the height of COVID lockdowns. Consistently, Regime leaders and allies, when pressed for whether lockdown rules should apply to those wishing to protest the killing, gave elusive or obtuse answers. They suddenly seemed more concerned about “social justice” than what they had been telling us for months was an unprecedented public health crisis, sometimes even suggesting that systemic racism was the bigger threat to public health.

Naturally, this particular flavor of hypocrisy stemmed from the fact that racial unrest is beneficial to Regime politicians. It allows them to leverage division for political gain and exploit the narrative that the United States is an inherently racist country. In fact, it quickly became a standard Biden talking point that “white supremacy” was the top domestic threat facing our nation.

Ultimately, the protests caused billions in damage. Despite this level of chaos, relatively few perpetrators suffered any kind of criminal consequences. Again, Regime prosecutors in these areas (mostly blue cities) were not motivated to send allies and quasi-allies to jail. On the other hand, despite the incident not meeting the legal definition of “murder” and questionable presentation of evidence, Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of two counts of murder related to Floyd’s death. The Regime’s wishes demanded such an outcome.

Laptop lapdogs

The Regime’s control over information flow would face its ultimate test in 2020 when, as the election approached, news leaked about the possibility that Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden, was involved in corrupt business dealings in Ukraine. These dealings may also implicate his father, with the possibility that the Bidens traded influence in exchange for financial compensation.

A laptop with information that could support these assertions or that, at a minimum, would be embarrassing to the Bidens fell into the possession of the New York Post. The Post then ran an exclusive story on the laptop.

Regime-friendly media immediately conspired to suppress the story, with support from high-profile progressive and “NeverTrump” voices. This suppression included social media companies, which prevented the proliferation of the story throughout their networks. Simultaneously, a group of 51 “national security experts” signed a letter asserting that the laptop was “disinformation,” likely of Russian origin (stop me if you’ve heard this one before).

This set the stage for Biden himself to cite these “experts” during a debate with Trump, dismissing the laptop story as bogus. Again, Regime-friendly media mechanically repeated these claims as factual and repeatedly used the phrase “without evidence” to describe any claim made by Trump.

Misinformation, please

In addition, the suppression of the laptop story is part of the larger pattern of the Biden administration exerting influence to suppress disfavored views, with its allies dutifully denouncing these disfavored views as “disinformation” or “misinformation,” as described earlier.

This effort began in earnest during COVID, when many pandemic-related ideas that were eventually proven to be true, or at least to be plausible, were suppressed, with speakers often punished with severe social or career consequences. Regime-friendly media mocked those who proffered these ideas, including high-profile voices such as Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan. This mockery later proved to be based on incorrect information (or, if you prefer, lies).

The 2020 election itself resulted in a Biden victory. Trump made numerous ill-advised comments about the election outcome, but the core of what he was saying was at least a question worth asking: If these people would lie and lie and lie to try to stop me, do you really think they wouldn’t cheat on Election Day? This also followed numerous changes to voting rules, ostensibly enacted due to COVID but many of which remain in place today, e.g., earlier voting, liberalized mail-in rules, etc.

Inventing ‘insurrection’

This all culminated in a rally turned riot on January 6. The riot, while unquestionably a dark moment, was far less destructive — or deadly — than the Floyd riots. Yet the media present January 6 as if it were an “insurrection,” a word that Democrat politicians hammered home at every opportunity in an attempt to lay the groundwork for disqualifying Trump should he run again.

In fact, Democrats attempted a second impeachment of Trump after he left office. Based again on somewhat vague charges, it failed, as did the first.

As Biden assumed office, fact-checkers also suddenly became less relentless. They argued that Biden simply doesn’t lie as much as Trump, of course. In particular, the Washington Post announced that it would no longer maintain a database on Biden as it did on Trump, although it will continue to “fact-check” Biden.

Biden their time

The Biden years themselves didn’t go so well, although you would have a hard time seeing that if your only source of information was legacy media. Inflation runs rampant, the border is a disaster as millions pour into the country, including tens of thousands of convicted violent criminals, crime is up, and gender ideology and Marxist principles increasingly inform public policy and the guiding principles of major institutions.

Legacy media obscures many of these failures, just as it pushes social positions the Regime likes. “Trans rights,” in particular, receive glowing, one-sided coverage, despite the fact that the issue fundamentally involves surgically removing healthy organs in permanent, often sterilizing procedures, sometimes performed on minors. Any pushback is met with claims of bigotry as a tactic for stifling dissent. Thankfully, backlash grows once people see the impact of such ideology on women’s sports.

The economy is also clearly not going well for everyday Americans, but we’re fed pro-administration news that is quietly revised once the initial (positive) news cycle is well behind us. Crime also clearly seems worse, as permissive DAs in many blue areas refuse to prosecute “low-level” crimes, “smash and grab” incidents occur frequently, and violence seems more present than in recent years. As with jobs data, though, there has been manipulation of statistics to present an untrue narrative — one that is pushed by uncritical media.

The accumulation of policy failures and messaging contradictions finally came to a head in the 2024 campaign. One of the major selling points for Trump at the outset was that his opponent seemed to be declining cognitively. Robert Hur is the former U.S. Attorney who was appointed as special counsel to investigate President Biden’s handling of classified documents found at his private office and residence. Administration flacks inside and outside the media relentlessly attacked Hur for his report that suggested memory lapses he noted while interviewing Biden made it unwise to prosecute him.

This report and Hur’s testimony on the topic added significant fuel to the observations about Biden’s decline. However, again, pro-Regime media made an all-out effort to say that this wasn’t true and that Biden was as sharp as ever. They even attacked Hur directly. Once again, we were told not to trust our own lying eyes. At the same time, legacy media began to shift the narrative to, “Actually, it’s Trump who is in decline,” using their tried-and-true “trust [our] experts” tactic.

Then, a horrific debate performance made it so obvious that it was true that Democrats had no choice but to jettison Biden, something Vivek Ramaswamy predicted would happen a year earlier.

Installing Kamala

Now, Kamala Harris, who had never received a single primary vote, would simply be installed as the new nominee. Media commentators again circled the proverbial wagons, now flipping their “should Biden dump the unpopular Harris?” narrative from just a few months earlier to “Harris is actually a good candidate.” What a miraculous revelation!

They also worked overtime to mitigate her role in the immigration disaster. While formerly touted as Biden’s “border czar,” when the Regime intended that unofficial title to bolster Harris’ perceived importance, it became an albatross once she was the nominee in the wake of disastrous, country-altering illegal immigration.

Presto! With the wave of the media’s collective hand, Kamala was never the border czar. And anyone who made reference to that fact would be discredited, usually via more “fact-checking.”

Initially, it worked, as Harris received a popularity surge and massive fundraising boost.

Assassination by ‘popping noises’

Notably, however, the candidate switch also came on the heels of an assassination attempt against Trump that came within millimeters of ending his life. Media reports on the event in real time were extremely hesitant to use the word “assassination” or initially confirm that Trump was “shot,” instead using phrases like “popping noises that sounded like gunfire.”

The attempt happened amid a number of security lapses and obvious oversights by Secret Service agents, eventually leading to the director’s resignation after Republicans and Democrats alike took her to task for the incompetence (I’m being kind) that led to the opening to shoot at Trump. Unsurprisingly, relatively few details about the shooter and his possible motives have emerged, and the resulting coverage is far more muted than one would expect for a near-miss attempt at presidential assassination.

A second attempt to kill Trump

Another assassination attempt, this time thwarted pre-emptively, occurred not long after. The attempts on Trump’s life came after years of Democrats comparing Trump to Hitler, which followed years of a “punch a Nazi” ethos that essentially argued that violence against political enemies is not only justified but a moral imperative. Even prior to the Trump incidents, we had seen the natural results of unyielding demonization of Republicans.

Despite some lip service about “toning down” rhetoric, much of which implicitly blamed Trump for the attempts on his own life, that hasn’t stopped Harris’ closing argument from being plainly “Trump is Hitler.” With two weeks to go and poll numbers weakening, the Democratic Party simply abandoned even the pretense of “civility.” Winning is all that matters.

More precisely, holding power and keeping it from a disruptor are all that matters. This is the same mentality that caused Democrats to lob absurd, unsubstantiated accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, for example. The end always justifies the means.

And the Regime and Regime-friendly media lies have continued. They lied about Trump saying there would be “a bloodbath” (as in violence) if he were to lose, when he was obviously referring to an economic “bloodbath” related to China and the auto industry. They lied about Trump embracing Project 2025, which he has actively disavowed, even saying he hadn’t even read it. They lied about him wanting a national abortion ban, which, again, he has flatly said he opposes.

Just a few days ago, they lied about him calling for Liz Cheney to be executed by firing squad, when he was quite clearly making a point about how her calculus for sending soldiers to war would be different if she had to go herself. And I’m omitting a dozen other examples just from the past year alone.

Playing favorites

This problem isn’t limited to lying about Trump. The media also lied about JD Vance’s comments about mass shootings being a “fact of life.” When Kamala Harris refused to do unscripted interviews for several weeks after being anointed the new nominee, the media shifted into “it’s good not to do interviews” mode, until the campaign realized it was hurting her. They will minimize the importance of bad job numbers just a few years after treating much better numbers under Trump as disappointing news. The media regularly act as almost blatant surrogates for the Harris campaign, spinning and even obscuring her positions to make her look as good as possible.

This should come as no surprise, of course. One of the hallmarks of the Regime is the interplay (some might say “incestuousness”) between Democratic administrations and major news positions at many legacy media outlets. George Stephanopoulos is the ABC News chief anchor after being the White House communications director under Bill Clinton. Jen Psaki went directly from Biden White House press secretary to hosting a show on MSNBC.

While there are certainly Republicans who also transition to news roles, they are usually presented as either token conservative contributors or appear on Fox News Channel, which is perceived as inherently right of center. Democrats are still free to present “objective truth.”

We saw a potent example of this phenomenon in the debate between Trump and Harris. There, ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis vowed to fact-check both candidates. In reality, they failed to fact-check Harris on a number of obvious falsehoods, including the lack of active-duty American soldiers in combat zones, another attempt to tie Trump to Project 2025, extreme abortion laws in some parts of the country, and, as mentioned before, the “very fine people” lie.

Perhaps worse, the moderators did “fact-check” Trump on some statements that turned out to be true. For example, Muir advanced the narrative that crime is down, only for those FBI revisions to show up quietly just days later.

Rule of lawfare

Beyond media manipulation and narrative control, the Regime deployed perhaps its most potent weapon: the selective use of legal authority. This was a tried-and-true tactic that certainly predated Trump but that was regularly deployed against him once he became a threat.

They tried to remove Trump from the ballot. They changed statute of limitation rules so that they could go after him. They tried to bankrupt him.

In fact, Letitia James, the New York attorney general who brought the civil case designed to financially cripple Trump, ran on a platform of “us[ing] every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions.” Give me the man, and I’ll give you the case against him, so to speak.

One case was a highly irregular and likely unconstitutional prosecution in New York. It resulted in “34 felony convictions” on unprecedented, novel charges. While these will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, the “convictions” immediately allowed Regime voices to call Trump a “convicted felon” over and over — an odd but telling strategy for a group that normally attempts to “destigmatize” “justice-involved” individuals. But I digress.

Can’t stop, won’t stop

OK, so what is the point of all of this?

The Regime can tolerate a Republican president, perhaps only begrudgingly if the Republican isn’t a neocon. But what it can’t tolerate is a loud-mouthed, brash, somewhat chaotic disruptive force.

That is Trump. As I said, Trump isn’t part of the plan. And the Regime and its media allies will never stop lying and deceiving in order to exaggerate Trump’s flaws (which absolutely do exist!) or even to create new ones from whole cloth.

But that isn’t even what bothers me the most. No, what bothers me as an American is that they will do all of this at the same time as they preach to us. They will anoint a nominee who has received no primary votes, or they will try to pressure electors into changing their allegiance, all while preening about being the ones who are on the side of “democracy.” They will call for adding several new Supreme Court justices and abolishing the filibuster just as they claim to be for maintaining “norms.” They will say that Trump is a threat to freedom while calling for new and stronger limits on “misinformation.”

I want to pause there. Most of all — most of all — they lament free speech.

Thank God for Elon Musk.

Musk matters

It was Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now X) that may have been the most important anti-Regime moment aside from Trump’s election in 2016. Robbed of a critical tool to manipulate public information and suppress “bad” ideas, the Regime immediately launched attacks on Musk — but failed.

Yet in just the past few months, we’ve seen and heard numerous high-profile Democrats talk about the dangers of free speech, with John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Tim Walz each saying, incorrectly, that the First Amendment doesn’t protect “misinformation” and/or “hate speech.” Kamala Harris herself has a terrible record on free speech.

And all of this comes at a time when leaders around the world, even “Western” leaders, are cracking down on free speech and punishing “harmful” speech. The Regime seems to peer across oceans and borders with an envious gaze, eager to implement similar measures here. And, in some limited circumstances, it already has.

All of what I’ve recounted above, coupled with the impulse toward suppression of speech and censorship of ideas, leads to strange treatment of common-sense questions such as “quickly adding 20,000 people to a town with a population of 40,000 is odd, isn’t it?”

Put aside the political, cultural, and racial implications. Just on its face, isn’t it worthy of discussion that the government facilitated the settling of tens of thousands of non-English-speaking people in one place and granted them provisional citizenship?

Exploring the motivations behind that move, as well as questioning the policymakers who made it possible, seems like something that a functional, independent media would want to pursue. But now ask yourself the following:

When did you first hear about that story?
Once you knew about it, how was it covered?

For me, it was only a couple of months ago, and the prevailing tenor of the coverage was to attack the people who dared to notice it.

This quickly morphed into the usual attacks on Trump for being outrageous, while the underlying story is diminished or denied, probably up to the point when legacy media feel it’s now “safe” to report the truth.

If Trump wins

And this brings us to the present moment, on the eve of an election that could see Trump return to power.

I believe Trump will win. Forget polls, most of which are non-decisive and perhaps inaccurate to boot. There are too many signs at the margins that point toward a Trump victory.

Democratic senators in tight elections embracing a limited connection to Trump policies. A few major newspapers refusing to endorse Harris (and the accompanying pro-Regime journalist resignations). Jeff Bezos, in particular, wisely conceding that the Washington Post and other legacy media have work to do to earn back the public trust. Mark Zuckerberg admitting and expressing remorse for Facebook’s role in acceding to White House demands to remove content.

More than anything else, those indicators suggest to me that Trump will prevail.

In the end, all of the above is actually a warning — a warning about how the Regime will react to such an outcome.

I feel confident that many of the same voices that have spent years lecturing us about “election denialism” and “threats to democracy” will quickly pivot to denying Trump’s victory or using undemocratic means to subvert or overturn the election in the event that Trump wins.

They will rationalize and justify their hypocrisy. For evidence of this, we need look no farther than the 2016 “Hamilton elector” scheme, the attempt to disqualify Trump from the ballot, and a variety of legal actions designed to imprison or bankrupt Trump.

The same media outlets that amplified baseless claims and myriad distortions will now tout new theories and platform “experts” who will explain why Trump isn’t even eligible to be president. The same institutions that coordinated to suppress stories unfavorable to their preferred candidate will do it again, to the extent that they still can in a post-X world. And the same politicians who routinely compare Trump to Hitler while preaching about “dangerous rhetoric” will once again make a not-so-subtle plea to the most unstable elements of our society that “Trump must be eliminated.”

When the Regime warns about threats to democracy, it is really warning about threats to its power. The Regime’s commitment to democratic principles — free speech in particular — extends precisely as far as those principles serve its interests. And if Trump wins, we will see just how quickly the Regime’s supposed devotion to accepting election results evaporates. The only question is whether enough Americans will finally recognize this breathtaking hypocrisy for what it is.

I hope I’m wrong about the reaction. I really do.

But those are the stakes.

Vote accordingly.

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In his recent article, “The left’s 5-step election takeover plan is back – and worse than ever,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck outlined the Democrats’ recycled plan to “disrupt, delay, and discredit the electoral process” in the 2024 election.

Now he joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to elucidate the left’s plotting.

The first step in the Democrats’ plan is obviously “winning the vote.”

That means “finding ways legally to either change the law or to just look the other way to win the vote,” Glenn explains.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is geared up for another round of fighting election-related lawsuits, and Biden’s DOJ has already sued certain states for “removing noncitizens from voter rolls or switching to paper ballots.”

Winning the vote means winning by whatever means necessary.

The second step is “winning the count,” which is the step “everyone is worried about, says Glenn.

“We saw it last time — all of a sudden, they just stopped counting at 10:30 at night,” which created room for “shenanigans” to happen, he explains.

Whether it’s calling for recounts in swing states, questioning every step of the counting process, or telling Americans “we don’t know who won or lost” in order to sow seeds of doubt, we can expect the 2024 election to look a lot like 2020.

Winning the certification is step three.

“Each state has to certify the vote and seat electors,” but if Trump wins, “objections and accusations of ‘shady’ electoral practices will fill the headlines.”

The fourth step in the Democrats’ diabolical plan is what Glenn calls “winning the Electoral College.”

The Democrat-controlled media is already priming Americans for the scenario in which Trump loses and takes power anyway by using Republican support to endorse alternate electors and then send the election to the House, where the GOP holds a slim majority. According to the left’s theory, the House will select him as president even if he loses the election.

But the truth is, this is the plan Democrats have mapped out.

“They’ll claim manipulation and try to delegitimize the Electoral College process,” Glenn wrote in the article.

“After that, it’s winning the transition,” he tells Jill and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

If all else fails and Trump wins, the final step in the plan is to “disrupt, disrupt, disrupt” the transition of power, which used to be nothing more than a formality.

We can expect protests, accusations, and anything the left can drum up to create chaos and “[set] the country on fire.”

However, if it’s clear tomorrow night that Trump is winning in a landslide, “they can’t pull any of this stuff off,” says Glenn.

“What are you feeling?” Jill asks in regard to the election that’s just a day away.

To hear Glenn’s answer, watch the clip above.

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A security guard fatally shot a male who held a gun to his the back of his head and threatened to kill him two months ago in Aurora, Colorado — and prosecutors on Monday said the guard acted in self-defense and won’t be charged, KUSA-TV reported.

Police responded about 9 p.m. Aug. 31 to a report of a shooting outside a 7-Eleven in the 12000 block of East Colfax, the station said.

‘He did his job, and he defended himself in the process.’

Prosecutors said Vernon Dorsey approached the guard, who was walking in front of the store, and placed a handgun to the back of the guard’s head, KUSA said. Dorsey ordered the guard to hand over his gun and threatened to kill him, the station added.

KUSA said Dorsey and the guard fought as Dorsey attempted to disarm the guard.

But instead, the guard got hold of his own gun and shot Dorsey in the chest, KUSA said.

When officers arrived, they found Dorsey with a gunshot wound, the station said, adding that Dorsey later died. Dorsey was 36 years old, KUSA said in an earlier story.

The District Attorney’s Office and the Aurora Police Department agreed after reviewing evidence that the guard fired his weapon in self-defense and was legally justified, KUSA said.

Anything else?

The station said the guard was taken to police headquarters and questioned and that police at the time believed the guard was acting in self-defense.

The private company that supplies the guards for 7-Eleven — Iron Spear Protection Group LLC — said in a statement at the time that it’s backing the guard in question with “absolute certainty” after reviewing the incident, KUSA reported.

Iron Spear’s president stated at the time of the incident that the guard was in good condition and with his family, the station added.

How are observers reacting?

Commenters under KUSA’s Facebook post about the incident were solidly behind the guard’s actions:

“Good work, sir, here is a raise,” one commenter said.Good,” another user added. “He did his job, and he defended himself in the process.””Happy ending feel-good story!!!” another commenter exclaimed.

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When Elon Musk put his voice and considerable wealth behind President Donald J. Trump’s campaign, it signaled a shift in the country. One of the country’s most successful businessmen and entrepreneurs made his fortune by inventing what became Google Maps, making online payments, transforming electric vehicles, and single-handedly saving the American space program. So when he acquired Twitter, changed the name to X, and then signaled his support for Trump’s campaign, it was a watershed moment in a political realignment that’s shaking up everyone from old-school RNC power brokers to Silicon Valley tycoons and everyone in between. It’s hard to understate the importance of his purchase of X. Without a platform where people and alternative media outlets could share information, it’s unlikely that Trump would have any chance of getting in for a second term. His tweeting style can be equally hilarious and over the top. Here are the ten funniest tweets Elon sent over a wild political weekend.

Everyone in America would support never getting another political text for the rest of their lives.

— (@)

An underrated strategy Musk has employed is a robust get-out-the-vote campaign in swing states, including paying one lucky winner $1 million each day in the run-up to the election. It’s resulted in a wave of new Republican voters.

— (@)

Over the weekend, the state of New York raided a man with a pet squirrel and killed the man’s pets. It struck a nerve, showing how much the government has grown into being a nefarious force that meddles in the lives of everyday Americans. Elon jumped in to promise justice for Peanut the squirrel.

— (@)

The story of the murdered squirrel caught on like wildfire and resulted in memes calling for justice to be done.

— (@)

This tweet is a perfect example of the power of the X platform to cut through media lies. In the past, media could just lie that President Trump had called for violence against Liz Cheney, when he was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of people like her who send our soldiers to die in pointless wars while she comfortably plots from D.C. Now, there’s the opportunity to push narratives and voices like Tulsi Gabbard to counter this blatant lie.

— (@)

Never, under any circumstances, drink the Kool-Aid.

— (@)

Fair and balanced.

— (@)

At this point, Harris should have P. Diddy endorsing her from jail, considering she has everyone else on stage from his parties.

— (@)

Does anyone doubt this at this point?

— (@)

The last thing a government bureaucrat making six figures working from home 16 hours a week sees.

— (@)

Make sure to try to convince everyone you know to go out and vote.

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Van Jones is feeling bad vibes.

For a campaign that has tried to sell Americans on the idea of a Kamala Harris presidency by, in part, appealing to vibes, Jones explained Monday on CNN that he isn’t feeling good about Harris’ campaign in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.

‘That is 70,000 votes we bled away. That is the margin for victory.’

“I’m just nervous all the time, so I don’t feel good about nothing, and I’m not going to feel good about nothing until it’s over,” Jones said.

There are good reasons to be nervous, Jones explained. He cited problems for Harris in Philadelphia and issues among Jewish voters.

“I’m worried. Philadelphia is where we’ve got to run up a big margin. But Philly overall has been trending down, not in terms of going toward the Republicans, just people not getting out to vote,” Jones said. “It’s a bigger, tougher fight in Philly to get that vote count up than it has been in the past. That has me worried.

“The other thing that has me worried is the Jewish vote in the suburban areas. Biden won the Jewish vote by 70% — 70 to 30 — last time. Some polls show Kamala at 50-50. That is 70,000 votes we bled away. That is the margin for victory,” he explained.

The final problem that Jones diagnosed is the star-studded rally and concert that Harris is hosting in Pennsylvania on Monday. Jones said it gave him eerie vibes that remind him of 2016.

“The other thing makes me nervous is in 2016 we had a big, star-studded event right on the edge of the election, and we lost the state. I don’t think people understand working people sometimes have to choose: Am I gonna go to the big, cool concert this week and pay for babysitting for that, or am I gonna try to figure out a way to get to the polls? I don’t like these big, star-studded events,” he said.

“I can’t show where they’ve helped us win. In fact, it probably helped us lose last time,” he added. “I don’t want people going to concerts. I want people knockin’ on doors. I want people out there fighting for this thing. I’m just nervous, nervous, nervous.”

In fact, Jones admitted that “there’s nothing making me happy about Pennsylvania.”

That’s a significant problem for Harris because, in all likelihood, whoever wins Pennsylvania will win the election. Harris can lose Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia while winning Wisconsin and Michigan — but she cannot lose Pennsylvania. On the other hand, if Trump fails to penetrate the blue wall by winning Pennsylvania, he most likely will lose.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager is sounding the alarm for Democrats.

Jim Messina, a career Democratic operative, admitted on Sunday that early voting returns are “scary” for the Harris campaign, alluding to significant early voting gains among Republican voters.

Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump is benefiting, because Republicans could be cannibalizing their traditionally strong Election Day turnout. But the early voting returns are nonetheless a positive indicator that the election results could turn in Trump’s favor.

That’s why, according to Messina, his Democratic friends are calling him and “panicking.”

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You know you’re living in the Twilight Zone — or “clown world” in the words of Dave Rubin and Glenn Beck — when the biggest story of the weekend prior to Election Day centers around a squirrel.

Last Wednesday, New York content creator and animal sanctuary owner Mark Longo was shocked when the Department of Environmental Conservation raided his home and euthanized his internet-famous squirrel, Peanut, as well his pet raccoon, Fred.

Apparently, an anonymous source complained that the animals were being kept illegally.

Dave and Glenn discuss why this incident, albeit a tad humorous, gets at the heart of what this election is about.

In an interview with TMZ, a heartbroken Longo explained the strange incident: “10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn’t even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch. I was sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to go through every cabinet, nook, and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon.”

“Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon, and then they took them and killed them,” said a tearful Longo.

“There’s obviously something funny about this story in that we’re talking about a squirrel, but there is actually something quite dark and disturbing that goes exactly to what we are all fighting against [in this election],” says Dave.

“This is exactly what this election is all about,” agrees Glenn. “Venezuelan gangs everywhere,” chaos “on the border,” but “four agencies and a judge signed off on a warrant to search this guy’s house” for a squirrel.

Glenn thinks, however, that the real reason the home was raided is likely because “[Peanut] was a MAGA squirrel.”

“The silencing, the spying neighbor, the big state taking away your right to have a squirrel” smells of one thing: government corruption, which is what the election ultimately comes to.

“What we seem to be all against right now is this giant monstrous government that keeps becoming more inefficient and more terrible at virtually everything,” says Dave.

To hear more about the squirrel scandal and what it means for everyone in this country, watch the episode above.

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Glenn Beck was worried that Trump’s 2024 campaign would be centered around claims of previous election fraud, the weaponization of government against him, and an understandable grudge against Kamala Harris.

However, to his pleasant surprise, Trump has been “fun, funny, [and] relatable” on his campaign trail.

“He’s not doing any grudge stuff,” says Glenn. “He’s just doing the work for the American people.”

And if he is successful at taking back the Oval Office, Glenn believes his word will prove good on these six issues:

1. War

A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for “global war,” says Glenn. However, a vote for Trump likely means both wars will end.

“He said just yesterday he is telling Benjamin Netanyahu, ‘This war — you gotta be finished before I get into office,”’ Glenn recounts, adding that “he also said that with the Ukrainian conflict that that’ll be done as well.”

2. COVID

“This whole mandate crap — it’s over if Donald Trump comes in,” says Glenn, noting that Fauci, the CDC, and the FDA will be turned over to RFK Jr. if Trump wins the election.

3. Immigration

“The immigration status of a lot of people” is bound to change following a Trump victory.

“Those who came here illegally are going to be removed,” Glenn predicts.

4. Romeike family

In 2008, the Romeikes came to America seeking asylum because they were being persecuted for homeschooling their children in Germany. They’ve lived in the states for 16 years and are well loved by their community. Joe Biden, however, has been trying to deport the family. Obama did the same.

“I think possibly Donald Trump will give them the freedom to stay here and maybe citizenship if they want it,” says Glenn.

5. Lying

Although this is just one of countless examples, Glenn points to the recent anti-Semitic crime in Chicago in which a Jewish man was shot and wounded by an illegal immigrant named Sidi Muhammad Abdellahi. According to eyewitnesses, the shooter “screamed ‘Allah Akbar.”’

However, until recently, “Police [said], ‘Well, we’re not sure what the motive was,’” scoffs Glenn, adding that it’s pretty obvious what his motive was.

Under Trump, he believes “the nonstop lying” will cease.

6. Anti-Americanism

And most importantly — “We’re going to stop drinking the poison that the rest of the Western world is drinking right now,” says Glenn.

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis and predictions, watch the clip above.

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The Republican National Committee secured a significant legal victory for election integrity on Monday in a Democrat-run county outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Cobb County, the third largest country in the state, cannot accept absentee ballots after the Election Day deadline, according to RNC chairman Michael Whatley.

‘Election Day is Election Day.’

In a Monday afternoon post on X, he wrote, “HUGE election integrity victory in Georgia.”

He explained that the county wanted to accept 3,000 late absentee ballots, but the court has blocked it.

“We just got word that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day — not the week after,” Whatley stated. “We will keep fighting, keep winning, and keep sharing updates.”

RNC co-chair Lara Trump called it a “YUGE victory.”

Last week, Cobb County officials admitted they were behind in mailing out more than 3,000 absentee ballots. Approximately a third of those ballots were requested by people outside of Georgia.

Board of Elections Chairwoman Tori Silas blamed faulty equipment and a surge in late requests in the days leading up to the October 25 deadline, the Associated Press reported.

“We want to maintain voter trust by being transparent about the situation,” Silas said. “We are taking every possible step to get these ballots to the voters who requested them.”

Georgia’s early voting period ran from October 15 through November 1. However, some counties sought to extend hours for turning in absentee ballots in violation of the state’s laws.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stated, “Under state law, election officials can receive absentee ballots in person at govt facilities if the county chooses. Several counties have chosen to do this. We are working with the counties and the political parties to ensure this is done transparently and within Georgia law.”

The RNC filed a lawsuit last week against several blue counties in Georgia, Blaze News previously reported.

On Saturday, Whatley accused Democratic officials of “playing fast and loose with election law.”

“Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties decided at the last minute to accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the law,” he explained. “They have also failed to let our poll observers in to watch the process. The Secretary of State has issued guidance to allow Republican poll watchers in but local officials REFUSE.”

The counties’ refusal to allow poll watchers extended to both Republicans and Democrats, Fox News Digital reported.

Later that same day, Whatley provided an update, stating that the RNC’s poll watchers were being allowed into voting locations in all four counties.

Lara Trump also provided an update on the matter, writing on X, “Working with the [Georgia Secretary of State] and [state Attorney General], we have been able to confirm that our observers WILL be allowed in the room while these ballots are being processed.”

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Tomorrow is the day. It’s been nearly four years of weak leadership, higher prices, lies, authoritarian dictatorship, open borders, and just all-around bad policy that makes America less American.

And I know there is a certain sector of people who call themselves Republican who don’t consider Trump “their guy.” Many of you say you’re sitting it out. You’re sitting on the sidelines because Trump isn’t perfectly as conservative as you’d like, because he’s flawed. And so this protest is supposed to be a signal to the Republican Party that you reject this movement, so we can one day go back to your idea of conservatism. OK.

Donald Trump took a bullet for you. The least you can do is show up and vote.

Well, today, I’d like for anyone who insists on staying home, or anyone who is on the fence, to just hear me out.

On every issue, Donald Trump would perform leaps and bounds better than Kamala Harris. This is truly a choice between Trump and communism. Let’s examine the issues facing our country, and you decide: Is it really worth risking a President Kamala to prove a point?

Start with illegal immigration. Conservative estimates of the number of unvetted illegal aliens allowed into the country under Kamala’s watch in nearly four years put it at 12 million. Personally, I believe the number is closer to 20 million. At least 99 potential Islamic terrorists are roaming freely.

Venezuelan gangs are taking over apartment complexes with rifles and holding residents hostage. But legacy media hacks like Martha Raddatz want you to take solace in the idea that “it’s only a handful of apartment complexes.” Here. In America. Which is supposed to be a sovereign first-world country.

Ask yourself: Is sitting this one out because Trump isn’t your perfect ideal utopia of conservatism worth the lives of more Laken Rileys or Jocelyn Nungarays, murdered in cold blood by people who shouldn’t be here but who waltzed right in under Kamala’s watch? Sure, maybe it wasn’t your child — but next time, it could be.

And that’s not even factoring in the economic ramifications we will see for decades if we don’t do something now.

Economic turmoil

Inflation was up 20.1% over the first 45 months of Biden’s term, compared to 7.1% during Trump’s first 45 months, which equates to annualized inflation rates of 5.4% under Biden and 1.9% under Trump. I think we can all agree it feels even higher than that when we look at our bank accounts.

Oh, but don’t worry! Kamala has a plan: price controls. Which undoubtedly leads to supply shortages, which leads to rationing, which leads to bread lines. Just ask Venezuela. Is your protest worth bread lines?

How about gas? You know, for as much as the Washington Post and the New York Times want to publish stories about how “gas prices are heading toward a three-year low,” that’s simply because we have suffered astronomical highs at the gas pump under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, not because gas is actually cheaper than before. And remember, as much as Kamala wants you to forget she ever said she’d ban fracking, she is on record telling America she would ban fracking.

She’s also part of the current administration that wants to mandate electric vehicles. If you like Teslas, totally fine, I get it, but forbidding us to drive gas-powered vehicles is the stuff of dictators.

Under Trump’s energy policies, we were energy-independent for the first time ever, and our gas prices reflected that. We were paying less than $2 per gallon on average. Oil and gas can flourish in this country again. You can help right the wrong tomorrow. All you have to do is show up.

Abortion

This is the one I hear cited the most as a reason for conservatives to sit out the election, which is, in and of itself, so ironic, because without Donald Trump, Roe v. Wade would still be the law of the land. Has he made comments that don’t reflect the strongest pro-life stance ever? Sure.

But do you know what sitting out gets you? A woman who firmly believes in abortion up until the point of birth. A woman who voted against protecting babies who were born alive in a botched abortion attempt. That’s who you would have leading the country. Is that a win for the pro-life movement?

Foreign conflict

The world is an unstable mess. Israel and Iran continue escalating their conflict. Thanks to Biden and Harris, we’re funding both sides of that conflict. We’re giving Iran access to billions of dollars to fund its terrorism, money that Iran didn’t have access to under Donald Trump.

Ukraine and Russia continue fighting, and under Biden and Harris, our leaders have approved nearly $175 billion of your money to pay for a war in which you have no vested interest. But the swamp does. Swamp creatures have been profiting from war for a very long time. I have a feeling you don’t approve.

The “America Last” gravy train to foreign countries will continue with Kamala, not only bankrupting us but also bringing us closer and closer to World War III. Is sitting out the election worth the risk?

The fact is that we had more world peace during Donald Trump’s first term than ever before. The Abraham Accords brought the promise of never-before-seen peace in the Middle East, and Russia didn’t dare make a move in Ukraine on Trump’s watch.

And so we have two track records to compare. Which do you prefer?

Domestic order

Violent crime is up under Kamala Harris. While Trump made the mistake of banning bump stocks, Harris has called for gun confiscation. Is your protest worth that?

Your life was markedly better under Trump, and it wasn’t even close. You could fault him for how he handled COVID-19 and Operation Warp Speed. I certainly did. But rather than giving you a personal apology, which you may or may not have believed, he did something way more important. He teamed up with COVID and Big Pharma critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which will ensure that the COVID calamity isn’t repeated in a second Trump administration.

A lot of haters call me a Trump shill. I’m not. I’ve criticized him when he deserved it and also celebrated his wins. But my desire to see Trump in the White House in January is not because I belong to a cult, or I’m obsessed, or anything like it.

It’s because I am fighting every day to make this country a better place for my kids. It’s because I don’t have time or energy or money to stay home just to “prove a point” to the Republican party. I have skin in the game right now. And I have a responsibility to my children to do everything I can to secure a brighter future for them. So if not for you, do it for them. Our future.

We are on the cusp of something incredible happening in this country. So it’s either communism, or, if that isn’t what you want, here’s an alternative:

— (@)

Donald Trump took a bullet for you. The least you can do is show up and vote.

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Muslim community leaders in Minnesota made the best possible closing argument for Donald Trump over the weekend.

Speaking at the Minnesota Capitol on Saturday, Muslim and Somali leaders gathered behind a lectern adorned with a “Trump Make America Great Again” sign to explain why they cannot possibly support Kamala Harris for president.

‘The Democratic Party is now the party of war. It’s the party of the billionaires. It’s the party of silencing free speech.’

“We’re gathered here today to fully support and endorse President Trump and JD Vance,” one of the men said.

The leaders felt compelled to endorse Trump because they believe he is the best candidate to lead America after four years under the leadership of Harris and President Joe Biden. Specifically, they praised Trump for his vision and record on the economy, education, immigration, personal freedom, crime and safety, and foreign policy and for promoting conservative family values.

Interestingly, nearly every speaker said they feel that the Democratic Party has abandoned them — becoming a party that doesn’t care about the concerns of every day Americans.

One of the most interesting individuals who spoke at the event was Abshir Omar, a man who once worked on Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

In no uncertain terms, Omar explained he now supports Trump because the Democratic Party has become everything it once claimed to stand against.

“You see all these people in this room were former Democrats — we were die-hard supporters,” he said. “We were loyal to the Democratic Party, but that party is no longer loyal to us and no longer loyal to this country. We send billions overseas to prosecute wars against innocent people, yet we can’t prosecute war against poverty in this country. We spend billions giving to lobbyists, yet we can’t help homelessness in our community.

“The Democratic Party is now the party of war. It’s the party of the billionaires. It’s the party of silencing free speech,” he continued. “That is not who I am, and that is not my values. My values are still my values, but the party of the Democratic Party no longer holds those values to be true, and today, in front of my own community and the rest of our society, I’m telling you I am no longer a Democrat. I have left that party. I have left that party, and I’m sticking to my conscience. I don’t care what is politically expedient. I don’t care what you look like, who you pray to.”

Omar went on to say:

I’m a person of deep Muslim faith. I have Abrahamic religion. I love my Jewish brothers and sisters. I love my Christian brothers and sisters. People come from different communities and backgrounds. We’re all the same. We live in a country where we should be working together. Not hurting each other, not defaming each other. We should be protecting the rights of every person to speak. Because today if I am supporting the censorship of a segment of this country — guess what — tomorrow I will be censored too. And I don’t want that for myself or for my family.

And that’s why it’s surprising to say Trump is kind of an a**hole. He says a lot of things. He’s not the nicest person in the room. He’s not going to sugarcoat things for you. But guess what: The four years he was president, nothing happened to me personally. I was safe; this community was safe. This country was safe.

Another man who spoke at the event said he loves Trump because “he’s a fighter.”

“More importantly, the left left us. They left us,” that man continued. “Thirty-three percent of our kids cannot read — cannot read at grade level. Minnesota in education? We are failing in every standard. Eighth-graders — 60% cannot do math at grade level. These are our kids. We are talking about economic conditions here. Our conditions is [sic] horrible. We can’t afford anything as working-class and middle-class people. Now please understand this: We love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us.

“And because the left left us, join the right and vote for Trump 2024,” he declared.

Harris
is facing a well-known problem with Arab-American and Muslim voters, and Trump is benefiting from it.

Not only is Harris viewed as the pro-war candidate, but Muslim voters are often socially conservative, holding values that traditionally align with the Republican Party.

Harris’ far-left record and progressive vision, moreover, are weighty baggage that blocs of traditionally Democratic voters — like the Muslims endorsing Trump in Minnesota — can no longer ignore.

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Do Christians have a spiritual responsibility to vote? Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” and the senior pastor of Lakepointe Church, Josh Howerton, believe the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.”

“I’ll gently venture out on a limb,” Howerton tells Stuckey. “I think Christians have a spiritual responsibility to vote.”

Howerton, who says that we live in a constitutional republic and not a democracy, explains that “the voters are at the top of the org chart,” which is something that “a lot of well-meaning” but “a little naive” Christians forget.

“Romans 13 says that God has established the governments and governing leaders in our constitutional republic. If you are a voting Christian, God has placed you at this time, in this place, at the top of the constitutional republic org chart in which you find yourself,” Howerton says.

“So I would gently say in the same way that if a man won’t lead his family, we messed up. If a pastor won’t lead his church, we messed up. If the Christian voters of a nation refuse to lead that nation and abdicate their spiritual responsibility to lead, I think we’re messing up,” he continues.

And the biblical case for voting only gets stronger.

“Whatever God creates, Satan tries to co-opt,” Howerton says. “So in Genesis 2 and 3, Adam refuses to lead his family. So I’ll just say this to any husbands listening. The first thing that happens, Adam refuses to lead, so Satan does.”

“Fast forward, all the way to the end of the Bible. In Revelation 2 and 3, you’ve got the seven letters of the church,” he continues. “It literally addresses this, you had some passive pastors who instead of leading their churches to repent of sin, they led their churches to tolerate sin. So in their passivity, and Romans 2 and 3 literally says, those churches became quote ‘a Synagogue of Satan.’”

“So hey, pastors, if you won’t lead your church, Satan will be happy,” he says, adding, “In the same way, if Spirit-filled, godly people will not lead their nation by voting, godless people will.”

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The Donald Trump campaign published early-voting numbers that showed a massive decrease in both urban and female voters. Both categories tend to vote Democrat.

Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a campaign memo that stated: “Democrats are facing a massive turnout deficit.”

“In every single battleground state, we see President Trump and Republicans outperforming elections past in absentee ballots and early votes cast,” the memo claimed.

“Democrats are facing a precipitous decline in urban turnout according to their own ‘data experts’ and we are tracking an uptick in rural turnout.”

The Trump campaign published numbers from Tom Bonier from TargetSmart, which the party described as a “Democrat data expert.”

The data was a comparison of early-voter turnout in 2024 compared to the 2020 presidential election.

For Arizona, urban early-voter turnout was down over 385,000 while female turnout was down about 170,000. At the same time, rural turnout was up more than 14,000.

Other stark contrasts were shown for Michigan, where 320,000 fewer urban citizens voted early. There were also 200,000 fewer women who voted, as well. Additionally, rural turnout was up 55,000 in Michigan.

Pennsylvania, where many think the election will be decided, saw a decrease in early urban voters by more than 380,000. Meanwhile, a whopping 450,000 fewer women voted early in the swing state.

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‘There is a whole lot of spinning going on.’

Bonier himself denied the characterization of the data, calling it “not shocking” that the Trump campaign was spinning the numbers in its favor.

“There is a whole lot of spinning going on in this Trump campaign memo that mischaracterizes our data, and I’m pretty sure I know why,” he said on X.

However, on its face, the data seems to obviously favor Trump and the Republicans.

In 2020, two out of three urban voters reportedly voted for Joe Biden over Trump, a 33-point advantage according to Pew Research.

However, the number has narrowed since 2018, when it was a 48-point advantage for Democrats. It was 46 points for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

At the same time, Trump took the rural vote by 32 points in 2020, with 65% of the share. He has widened that gap since 2016 when he had just a 25-point advantage over Hillary Clinton among rural voters.

According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers, women favored Biden with their 2020 vote at an average of 56%, while male voters favored Trump at around 52%.

The numbers were generally the same with the gender gap at around 10-11 points in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Despite the claim that the Trump campaign has misrepresented the numbers, it stands to reason that, in general, a decrease in turnout for urban and female voters in swing states would at the very least result in fewer overall votes for Democrats than it would Republicans based on historical voting.

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I’m not a Donald Trump fan. From the start, I’ve detested him as a candidate but believed wholeheartedly in his “greatness agenda.” America first? Count me in. Build the wall? By all means. Straighten out trade. Reassert the national interest. Put China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia in their place. Make NATO pay up. Sounds good. Let’s go!

But let’s also not pretend. Trump is a marvelous entertainer but a poor politician. He was a mixed bag as president — great in some ways, terrible in others.

We know what a Harris-Walz administration will do, and that would spell disaster for the country.

He started no wars but failed to end any. (Maybe nobody could have.) The trade deals were good, the tax cuts were better, and the judges weren’t too bad — though Neil Gorsuch is no Antonin Scalia and Amy Coney Barrett is no great shakes.

Trump was not a good judge of character. At least half of his Cabinet undermined him at every turn, and a few were straight-up traitors. He could not manage the permanent bureaucracy, and in many ways the permanent bureaucracy managed him. And his deference to what my friend Lloyd Billingsley calls “white coat supremacy” during the COVID crisis was a downright disgrace.

Operation Warp Speed as Trump’s “greatest accomplishment”? Please. Even he doesn’t believe that any more.

But as my father often liked to remind me, “you can’t have nice things.” Or nice candidates. In the end, I was happy to vote for Trump in 2016 and I am happy to vote for him now, not because I think he can fulfill half of his promises but because I very much want Kamala Harris and all that she represents to lose.

The stakes

In July 2016, I co-founded American Greatness, an upstart online journal with grand aspirations that has lately fallen on hard times. But I was an outlier at my own company at the beginning because I was the only one of three founders who was outspokenly and ostentatiously “NeverTrump.”

I know, I know. Stick with me here. It gets better, I promise.

Longtime readers of Blaze News know this company has published a variety of views on Trump over the years. Glenn Beck, Steve Deace, and Daniel Horowitz, among others, have been unsparing in their criticism of Trump at times. So I am not alone.

But we also understand the stakes. We aren’t going to sacrifice the country or our kids to vindicate some misbegotten or perverted sense of “honor.”

Politics often requires trade-offs. It’s important not to mistake policy preferences for high principles. Given the choice between deeply flawed and certain disaster, let us pray it remains true that “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”

When it came down to it, I voted for Trump in 2016, in cerulean blue California, because I despised his opponents more than I disliked him. My vote was a middle finger to his enemies … and to mine. That remains true today.

Oh, fascists? Up yours!

The fact is that they hate us. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their confederates have spent the better part of eight years tarring Trump and his supporters as Nazis, fascists, “semi-fascists,” deplorables, domestic extremists, insurrectionists, and, most recently, “garbage.”

The very online left would say, “Well, if the shoe fits …” And I would say most of those people wouldn’t know a real fascist if a Blackshirt was kicking them in the face with a steel-toe boot while belting out “Giovinezza.”

Language is like currency. The late, great Lenny Bruce in his act more than 60 years ago tried to make the point that if you overuse a word — in his case, the N-word — you could drain it of its power. I’m not sure he succeeded in that case, but Democrats and leftists have done a fine job of taking the sting out of “Nazi” and “fascist.” Fascist, fascist, fascist. Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. All the time. They’ve debased the words. The barb is now worth less than a penny. It’s worth nothing at all.

Half the country, give or take, simply isn’t listening any more. The words no longer wound. They’re stripped of meaning. That’s been true for a while, I think. Eight years ago, when the claims were fresh, I wrote:

Enough of this. Snark will not do. Insinuation will not do. Conversation stoppers — “he’s a bigot,” “he’s a fascist” — absolutely will not do. “He’s a fascist” is not an argument. There can be no reasonable response. Over and over, reasonable people plead, “No, he’s not.” What they’re really saying is, “No, I’m not.” But who is listening? We’re called to be charitable. But what good is charity when the other side has made up its mind? The only fitting response is the middle finger. Or the back of the hand.

The politics of the middle finger are fine as far as they go, but they don’t go far enough. We need a proper realignment. It’s been in the works for quite some time even if it’s been slow to manifest.

The “old” Republican Party — the party of Bush and Dole and McCain and Romney and McConnell and Ryan — abhors Trump and his America First agenda. Worse, these Republicans abhor and reject the base. Erstwhile “conservative” or “rock-ribbed” Republicans including Dick Cheney and Arnold Schwarzenegger have endorsed the obviously illiberal Harris. George W. Bush has stayed mum, but it’s not a stretch to think he’ll vote for Harris if he votes at all. She is the safe bet for establishment Republicans like him.

They would surrender their country to preserve their phony “honor” for … what? It isn’t honor at all. It’s self-interest. It’s a profound misunderstanding of politics. It’s a death wish. No, thank you.

Happily, their time has passed. They’re essentially Democrats now. They are finished, whether they realize it or not.

The argument is over

The realignment is real and it’s ongoing. The old left-right distinctions are losing their salience. But who knows where it will lead?

A dear friend the other day said to me, “I don’t want either one of them to win.” I sympathize, but too bad. You’re getting one or the other. The Vaunted Ron DeSantis Juggernaut never materialized, the Great NeverTrump Hope Nikki Haley flamed out (and ended up endorsing Trump anyway), and, tell me, who is the Libertarian Party’s candidate this year again?

On the eve of the 2016 election, I wrote, “For me, it isn’t a matter of Trump winning. All that matters is she loses.” Hillary Clinton was a criminal who said sinister things behind closed doors while peddling bromides and clichés to the public. She was wholly unacceptable, even if Trump was less than desirable.

My expectations for Trump are not much greater today than they were then. “Put not your faith in princes” (or Barrons), as the psalmist says. But the stakes are as great if not greater today than they were eight years ago. We know what a Harris-Walz administration will do, and that would spell disaster for the country.

We’re no longer having an argument. Our opponents have made it quite clear. When Harris speaks of “unity,” she means, for us, surrender and supplication. We have nothing left to discuss. If we have a decent chance at turning the country around for ourselves and our posterity, then like Trump or not, Kamala Harris must lose.

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Key voting blocs that have voted reliably blue are underperforming compared to previous election cycles, which could send warning signs to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. At the same time, increased turnout from some reliably red demographics could give former President Donald Trump the edge he needs.

One of the most glaring disadvantages for Democrats going into the election is the comparatively low turnout from urban voters. At this point in the race, there is a 12.8-point deficit in urban voter turnout across battlegrounds compared to 2020. Rural voter turnout is comparatively higher, with just a 3.9-point difference.

This could be particularly harmful for Democrats this election cycle, given that the majority of urban voters are Democratic and a majority of rural voters are Republican.

Although early voter turnout looks rosy for the Trump camp, the race is still too close to call.

“Regardless of how we slice and dice the demographics, rural voters are going to be very supportive of the former president,” Jon McHenry, a GOP polling analyst and vice president at North Star Opinion Research, told Blaze News. “Urban voters won’t vote in lockstep, but they will be disproportionately in support of Kamala Harris, so that demographic turnout is going to matter.”

There is also a partisan divide between male and female voters, as men tend to lean more Republican while women lean more Democratic. Although women vote in greater numbers than men do, they are underperforming this election cycle, which could throw a wrench into Harris’ chances.

“It’s not just a ‘get out the vote rally.’ It’s a ‘you’ve got to vote because of X, Y, and Z,” McHenry told Blaze News. “There’s definitely a bit more urgency than what we would normally see from Democrats at this stage of the race.”

Women voters dipped down by 7.9 points across swing states compared to 2020, while men dipped down by seven points. Even though more women have voted than men, their deficit combined with slipping male support could put Harris’ campaign in jeopardy.

Declines in black and Hispanic votes could also put Harris in trouble. Compared to 2020, there is a 10.1-point turnout deficit among black voters in battlegrounds and an 11.7-point decline among Latino voters. Given that both Hispanic and black voters have overwhelmingly voted for Democrats in the past, this decline could threaten Harris’ campaign.

Harris has certainly taken notice of this trend. Over the past month, her campaign has released a tailored “opportunity agenda” for both black and Hispanic men.

“The idea that there’s this sort of opportunity agenda targeted at specific demographics, and the fact that Kamala Harris has drafted Barack Obama to turn out black males and essentially extending her reach to get people to turn out, shows that they’re definitely concerned about getting the traditional Democratic base out to the polls,” McHenry told Blaze News.

Although early voter turnout looks rosy for the Trump camp, the race is still too close to call.

“Like most poker players would say, just give me one of the hands, and I’ll beat you with that,” McHenry told Blaze News. “Honestly, it really is so close that it’s hard to say.”

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The
Biden-Harris administration euthanized a 50-year-old elephant in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Its name was Kamala.

While zookeepers, members of Kamala’s herd, and distant animal lovers mourned the creature’s death, some commentators suggested online that Kamala’s demise — so soon after the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s
slaying of Peanut the squirrel and on the eve of the election — might constitute some sort of omen.

The National Zoo, one of the many
federally owned Smithsonian Institution facilities in the D.C. area, announced Saturday that after helping manage Kamala’s osteoarthritis for 10 years, the creature’s keepers elected to “humanely” dispose of her.

According to the zoo, Kamala — not an African elephant but rather an endangered Asian elephant from Sri Lanka that was orphaned as a calf then raised by humans — found it increasingly difficult over the past several weeks to move, suffering limited motion in her wrists, hips, and shoulders. The elephant’s degenerative disease affected her joint cartilage and the underlying bone, leaving her stiff and in constant pain.

‘The elephant grew up in a middle class family.’

Hoping the flat terrain might help, the zoo let Kamala and her herd mates parade around the Elephant Community Center and neighboring outdoor habitat. Unfortunately, this change of scenery didn’t help as the old elephant “increasingly chose to stand in one spot rather than move about.”

The zoo also indicated that Kamala’s pain medications were no longer a match for her osteoarthritis.

On account of her limited mobility and increasing discomfort, Kamala’s keepers euthanized her in the Elephant Barn.

“The elephant care team fondly remembers Kamala as a smart and inquisitive individual who held a dominant role within the herd,” the zoo said in a release. “She built strong bonds with her keepers and enjoyed their attention. Whenever keepers approached, she would rumble and squeak, behaviors that indicated her happiness and excitement.”

Kamala was born in Sri Lanka in the mid-1970s, moved to Canada for a period during which she birthed two offspring, then was transferred with her daughter to the National Zoo in 2014.

Owing to the late elephant’s namesake in the United States Naval Observatory, superstitious commentators online suggested Kamala’s death had greater meaning while others made jokes at the vice president’s expense.

Rob Eno, Blaze Media’s director of content marketing,
tweeted, “The die has been cast. The omens have been read.”

Social media influencer Douglass Mackey, the man
sentenced to prison last year for Hillary Clinton memes, wrote, “Ominous.”

Since the elephant has long been a symbol for the Republican Party, it’s unsure precisely what such an omen might portend regarding the election.

“The elephant grew up in a middle class family,”
wrote one X user.

“Only 50% of the country loved this elephant,”
quipped another user.

“Her name is Kamala, she lives in DC, is of Indian descent (but is often mistaken as African), has never worked at McDonald’s, is claimed to be beloved by many (but is frankly not doing well) and is saying goodbye to supporters this week after a losing battle. She is an elephant,”
wrote X user Jolly Brandon.

The British political commentator Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad,
noted that as news of Kamala’s euthanization was spreading, there was also a trending video showing a baby hippopotamus “choos[ing] the Trump cake.”

The video,
reshared by the New York Post Monday, shows baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng of Thailand presented with a choice of two cakes, then eating the option emblazoned with President Donald Trump’s name.

Jimmy von Thron, producer for BlazeTV’s “Prime Time with Alex Stein,”
joked that his confidence was significantly shored up by the hippo’s selection, writing, “Just put my mortgage on Trump.”

Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch
said of the hippo’s prediction, “More accurate than most.”

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Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) torched CNN for its biased reporting during a Monday interview with the network’s Kate Bolduan.

Bolduan brought up former President Donald Trump’s comments during a Sunday rally in Pennsylvania. The CNN host claimed that Trump used inflammatory rhetoric.

‘Every day, you try to create some sort of faux outrage.’

“Campaigning yesterday, the former president said as part of his message when he was speaking to voters is that he did not mind if someone would shoot at news crews and reporters covering the event,” Bolduan stated.

During the rally, Trump remarked on the bulletproof glass that has been installed around him for all his outdoor campaign events following two assassination attempts.

“I don’t have a piece of glass there,” he said, pointing to his right.

“And I have a piece of glass here,” Trump continued, gesturing to the barrier directly in front of him.

“But all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much,” he stated.

Trump explained that he would rather not have the protective glass in front of him because it does not “look great on television.”

After playing a clip of Trump’s remarks, Bolduan asked Schmitt whether he condoned Trump’s messaging.

“Every day, you try to create some sort of faux outrage. And I understand why because Kamala Harris has called President Trump a fascist; Joe Biden has called half of America garbage; and they have nothing to run on,” Schmitt responded.

He accused CNN of repeatedly trying to make Trump’s statements “blow up into something” that “no one takes literally.”

“I can’t believe you spend this much time on it on the air,” Schmitt said. “President Trump has the momentum in this race. It’s a change election cycle. President Trump, by 2-to-1 margins, is viewed as the change candidate. That’s a hard reality for some people to accept, but that’s what people are focused on, not these clips that you seem to air every day.”

Bolduan claimed that some Republicans are upset with Trump’s rhetoric. She asked Schmitt whether he would like Trump “to continue to repeat that today as part of your final message.”

Schmitt replied, “President Trump, he’s had two attempts on his life, and you don’t really talk about that anymore. And if it were Kamala Harris, ‘NBC Nightly News’ would be camped out in Butler [Pennsylvania], but it’s not convenient to humanize President Trump.”

He explained that Trump’s message to voters is “very clear: Kamala Harris broke it, he’s gonna fix it.”

“So again, you can pull up all the clips. And this has been over four years, or eight years now, the idea to try to marginalize him and his supporters has been ongoing,” Schmitt continued. “Every time you try to pull up a clip like this to create outrage, people see through it now.”

“It’s not creating outrage; it’s just asking if you agree with it,” Bolduan replied.

“Of course not!” Schmitt retorted. “This is insane.”

“You’re going to do this for another 24 hours, and the American people are going to have a say here, which is, they want a better life for their family,” he concluded. “That’s what this election’s about, not sort of your news of the day to try to create outrage.”

Bolduan argued that “people also want safety and security, which could also include journalists.”

Schmitt fired back again, explaining that the Biden-Harris administration is responsible for the uptick in violent crime.

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“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg told former Congresswoman Liz Cheney she would love to have her be the U.S. attorney general in a Kamala Harris administration should the vice president win Tuesday’s election.

In an attempt to distance herself from her progressive positions, Harris has promised to have a “Republican” in her cabinet. While Harris has not officially named who the “Republican” might be, Cheney would appear to be a favorite as she has campaigned alongside the candidate.

‘We have to get Vice President Harris elected tomorrow.’

“Are you also a lawyer?” Goldberg inquired when Cheney was on Monday’s episode of “The View.”

When Cheney said she was, Goldberg floated the attorney general idea. “I say this,” Goldberg explained, “Your moral core is magnificent. And I know you probably don’t want to think about it, but I just feel like I would feel a lot better with you leading the FBI, the CIA. …That’s just me.”

“Please just think about it,” Goldberg pleaded.

“We have to get Vice President Harris elected tomorrow,” Cheney replied.

Cheney added it is not enough for Trump to lose the presidential race; the GOP must also lose the majority in the House of Representatives.

Goldberg has issued unhinged warnings about what would happen should former President Donald Trump win the election. Last week, Goldberg warned interracial couples that a Trump administration would separate them by deporting one spouse and reassigning the spouse who is staying in the United States to another person.

“He is talking about you. It’s us. He’s not going to be — he’s not going to, you know, say, ‘Oh, you’re with a white guy, I’m going to keep you from being deported.’ No, he’s going to deport you and put the white guy with someone else. The man is out there,” Goldberg yelled.

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Billionaire Elon Musk gave his 2024 election prediction and is expecting a “crushing defeat” for Vice President Kamala Harris. The Tesla CEO noted that independents voting for former President Donald Trump would sway the 2024 presidential election.

Musk — a fervent supporter of Trump — made an observation about a difference between the 2020 election and the 2024 election that could swing the presidential election for Trump.

Harris wasn’t the only celebrity whom the SpaceX founder called a ‘puppet.’

“Last election, I didn’t know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump,” Musk wrote on his X social media platform on Monday. “This time, I don’t know anyone who isn’t.”

Musk pointed out that many Trump supporters are silent because of fear of repercussions.

Musk added, “And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Trump, but they’re afraid to say so publicly, because it will affect their friends/job/customers.”

Musk declared, “Crushing defeat is coming for the oppressive, big government machine represented by the Kamala puppet.”

Harris wasn’t the only celebrity whom the SpaceX founder called a “puppet.”

On Saturday, Musk called rapper Cardi B a “puppet” for stumping for Harris.

“Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words,” Musk said of Cardi B. “The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.”

Cardi B spoke in favor of Kamala at a Harris campaign event in Wisconsin on Friday. However, there was reportedly a teleprompter glitch, which caused the hip-hop star to be paralyzed.

“One second guys, one second,” Cardi B told the audience, according to Fox News.

For nearly two minutes, the rapper attempted to work the crowd until a staffer brought a cell phone to Cardi B so she could regurgitate her speech.

Cardi B lashed out at Musk for describing her as a “puppet.”

“I’m not a puppet Elon. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle,” Cardi B wrote on X.

As Blaze News reported last November, the “WAP” rapper proclaimed that she would not be endorsing presidential candidates any longer.

Cardi B — whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar — slammed President Joe Biden for funding wars as American cities deteriorate.

“I don’t give a f***, I’m not endorsing no f***ing presidents no more,” Cardi B stated. “Because how is that a $100 million budget cut in New York City for f***ing schools, library, police safety, and sanitation? Yet Joe Biden talking about like, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars. We can fund two wars.’ Motherf***ers talking about, ‘We don’t got it but we got it, like we’re the greatest nation.’ No, the f*** we’re not. We’re going through some s**t right now.”

Cardi B previously endorsed Biden during a softball interview less than three months before the 2020 presidential election.

Musk donated more than $118 million to his America PAC that’s helping to elect Trump, according to federal filings.

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A coach for San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team was suspended indefinitely after filing a complaint about her team having a male athlete.

Associate head volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended after she made a Title IX complaint against SJSU, which has a male athlete named Blaire Fleming, born Brayden, on the women’s team. Fleming’s inclusion on the team has sparked five separate forfeits against SJSU and even caused his own teammate, Brooke Slusser, to speak out against him.

SJSU has been hammered over the controversy for months, and now the controversy continues with the suspension of Batie-Smoose, who has made shocking allegations against Fleming.

According to her interview with Quillette, Batie-Smoose alleged in her Title IX complaint that Fleming, the male player, conspired with an opposing player at Colorado State University to possibly injure his teammate Slusser.

SJSU was visiting CSU in early October when Batie-Smoose learned that Fleming visited the residence of CSU player Malaya Jones, whom he would line up across from on the opposing side during their game the next day.

Batie-Smoose said in her complaint that Fleming went on to defy his coaches’ instructions during the game by allowing Jones an unhindered hitting lane that exposed Slusser to the ball. The assistant coach further alleged that she saw Fleming and Jones laughing together after targeting Slusser.

Fleming’s behavior was allegedly so strange that head coach Todd Kress even took Fleming aside for a one-on-one discussion, but he didn’t change his behavior.

“At one point,” Batie-Smoose said, “Blaire sent an over pass, perfectly setting up Malaya to kill the ball again in the direction of Brooke Slusser, after [which] Jones blew a kiss toward Fleming and mouthed ‘thank you.'”

This moment was reportedly caught on video and posted on X.

It is alleged that Fleming essentially gave Jones the SJSU playbook and that the two concocted a plan to leave center court open so that Jones could target Slusser with unobstructed powerful strikes.

Colorado State University’s Malaya Jones [right] is accused of conspiring with Fleming against an SJSU player.Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

SJSU responded to allegations made in the article and said the school “takes all reports and complaints seriously and is reviewing them.”

“Due to federal and state privacy laws, the University is not able to comment on active reports or complaints,” the school told Outkick.

“The University also has concerns about a number of inaccuracies in the article but is not able to comment further on those in light of those privacy laws. In addition, the University has significant concerns about apparent breaches of student and employee privacy and will be addressing those, as appropriate.”

SJSU’s coach Kress has also conspired against Slusser, Batie-Smoose claimed.

She said Kress told her that he has filed at least one Title IX complaint against Slusser on the basis that she referred to Fleming with masculine pronouns during media interviews. Kress allegedly described this as a threat to the rights of trans women.

SJSU coach Todd Kress reportedly filed a Title IX complaint against his own player for using the wrong pronouns.Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

Slusser told Blaze News in an interview that in addition to having to share a changing room with Fleming, team meetings have focused on the transgender athlete’s well-being and not that of the female athletes.

“We’ve had meetings, and it’s a lot of just checking in on Blaire. … We were like ‘what about us?'” Slusser said. “It’s mostly just saying you can’t be the person to … identify Blaire’s gender identity. ‘Blaire needs to do that for himself,'” the girls are told.

“Everyone above you is telling you you shouldn’t be talking for Blaire, you need to make sure the other person is okay; and [the management] is not thinking about, ‘Are we okay?'” Slusser explained.

Kress, CSU officials, and Jones have not responded to requests for comments from other outlets.

This article will be updated should CSU or SJSU officials respond to Blaze News requests for comments.

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