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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) explained why she recently remarked that former President Donald Trump will put political opponents in internment camps should he win next week’s election.

Dingell told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump wants to put Muslims in internment camps after being asked about the support he is receiving from the Muslim community in Michigan. She then told Tapper, “You may have to visit me in one. I get worried enough when he talks about what he’s going to do to his political enemies.”

‘You stand by that remark?’

Dingell was pressed on her comments during an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto.

“No, I don’t regret those comments. And I’m going to be very …” Dingell said.

“You really think you would be thrown in an internment camp? You? A sitting U.S. congresswoman?” Cavuto interjected.

“I said it half-sarcastically,” she replied. “Donald Trump has been very clear that he is going to go what he calls ‘the enemy from within.’ I think we’re all Americans, and you can disagree agreeably. He names his enemies by name.”

Dingell then gave a false impression of what Trump said about former Congresswoman Liz Cheney needing to fight in wars she advocates for to know the full impact of such decisions. Dingell then incorrectly described the enhanced security measures during Trump’s first term for countries with terrorism as a Muslim ban.

“You stand by that remark? You stand by the internment-camp remark? And was that to put fear into voters’ minds in your state?” Cavuto asked again.

Dingell repeated that Trump talked about “internment camps” despite Cavuto pointing out he could find no evidence of such language from Trump.

The Trump campaign has called Dingell’s comments a “HOAX.”

“Top Kamala surrogate Debbie Dingell pushes an absurd, dangerous lie that President Trump will put his political enemies, Muslims, and Arab Americans in ‘internment camps.'”

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Florida issued a reminder to the Department of Justice that federal election monitors are not allowed inside the state’s polling places after the Civil Rights Division announced agents will be in 27 states to ensure “compliance with federal voting rights laws.”

“The Justice Department enforces federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all eligible citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country,” the DOJ said in a press release on Friday.

Florida will be sending its own election monitors to polling locations next Tuesday to ensure election laws are being followed.

“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will coordinate the effort. Monitors will include personnel from the Civil Rights Division, other department divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management. Throughout Election Day, division personnel will maintain contact with state and local election officials,” the DOJ said.

Alongside Florida, the DOJ is sending monitors to states such as Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina.

Shortly after the DOJ’s announcement, the Florida Department of State posted the letter the agency sent to the federal government.

“As a reminder, Department of Justice monitors are not permitted inside a polling place under Florida law. Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statues lists the people who ‘may enter any polling room or polling place.’ Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list,” Secretary of State Cord Byrd wrote.

“Even if they could qualify as ‘law enforcement’ under section 102.031(3)(a)6 of the Florida Statues, absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts federal law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election,” Byrd continued.

Florida will be sending its own election monitors to polling locations next Tuesday to ensure election laws are being followed.

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Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6% lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics Polling Average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look if Pennsylvania’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro — once considered a front-runner for Harris’ vice presidential pick — were on the ticket instead of Tim Walz.

One factor that pushed Walz to the top of Harris’ list, despite the strategic advantages of choosing a swing-state governor like Shapiro, stands out: Across the board, Walz has been more progressive on education issues.

As a former teacher, Walz would be poised to play a leading role in education policy if he and Harris win on Election Day.

Last year, Shapiro angered fellow Democrats and teachers’ unions by working with state Republicans on a plan to enact a private school voucher system. Later, facing pressure from his own party, Shapiro reversed course and vetoed the proposal, leaving Republicans and school-choice advocates feeling betrayed.

His reversal mollified some within his party, and dozens of unions publicly released statements of support — but others on the left never quite forgave him. When Shapiro’s name was floated as a likely VP candidate, a coalition of progressive groups published an open letter to Harris. The letter attempted to link Shapiro’s voucher-friendly stance to the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 and “respectfully” urged Harris not to choose him.

Accordingly, some Democratic leaders worried that Shapiro’s past support for vouchers might erode support among a critical part of their base. Nikhil Goyal, a DNC delegate from Vermont, said he would have “grave concerns” about Shapiro “when we have a great desire to win over educators and school staff and Americans who support public education.”

In contrast, Tim Walz boasts sterling credentials from the standpoint of anyone opposing school vouchers. Walz is the first former schoolteacher to appear on a major-party ticket in half a century. As governor of Minnesota, he strongly opposed school-choice initiatives like the one Shapiro had backed. When the state’s Democratic House Speaker suggested a minor compromise with Republicans on vouchers, Walz’s response was unequivocal. “It was kind of ‘over my dead body,’” she recounted.

Trump has vowed to enact “universal school choice” if given a second term, and he appointed outspoken voucher advocate Betsy DeVos as his education secretary during his first term.

On the other hand, the Democratic Party platform released this summer included a strong statement against private school vouchers. Support for publicly funded school vouchers has become a third rail in Democratic politics. And Shapiro’s past flirtation with vouchers may well have cost him the VP slot.

What’s more, in a year when college campuses erupted in pro-Palestinian protests over the Biden administration’s support for Israel in the Gaza war, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage and public efforts to hold university leaders accountable for anti-Semitic incidents on Pennsylvania campuses may have been seen as an additional electoral liability among young progressives who view Israel as an oppressor and the chief evildoer in the war in Gaza.

Walz, by contrast, has been more outspoken in his support for pro-Palestinian protesters. While he condemned Hamas, he said he believes students are protesting on behalf of Palestinians “for all the right reasons.”

As a former teacher, Walz would be poised to play a leading role in education policy if he and Harris win on Election Day. Republicans, accordingly, have drawn attention to Walz’s education record as governor, betting that the progressive policies that helped him win the VP race may not endear him to swing voters. Walz, for instance, signed a law preventing libraries from removing sexually explicit books from children’s shelves and mandated that public schools stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms — a policy that JD Vance has criticized on the campaign trail.

Team Trump has also highlighted Walz’s support for critical race theory and his overhaul of the state’s social studies curriculum. In September, Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign supporters began posting a video on X featuring Brian Lozenski, a professor of multicultural education at Macalester College whom Walz tapped to help write the state’s ethnic studies standards.

In the video, Lozenski describes himself as a critical race theorist and explains his views:

The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with, it must be overthrown. … You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S., OK. It is an anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period. Right. Like that’s, you know, and so I think, I think it’s an interesting argument there. And that’s why I’m a critical race theorist.

Katherine Kersten dug deeper into the curriculum standards Lozenski helped craft in her piece for the Wall Street Journal: “High school students are told to ‘develop an analysis of racial capitalism’ and ‘anti-Blackness,’” she wrote, “and are taught to see themselves as members of ‘racialized hierarchies’ based on ‘dominant European beauty standards.’”

Lozenski is a founding organizer of Education for Liberation Minnesota, a group that Kersten notes has advocated for “defunding the police” and “abolishing the social order and building a new society.”

If Walz is poised to take a leading role in education policy in a potential Harris administration, his record offers much for progressives to celebrate. Whether more moderate swing voters — those Harris and Walz need to win over in Pennsylvania — will be impressed by the kinds of ideas promoted by Walz’s appointee Lozenski is another matter.

If Pennsylvania goes red on Nov. 5, Democrats will be left with many questions. Here’s one: What if the uncompromising brand of progressivism that helped Walz secure the VP nod over Shapiro is the very thing that gives Trump a second term?

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Tim Walz is drowning in scandal. Some of that has to do with his political history — like how he made Minnesota a transgender sanctuary, removed all restrictions on abortion, and allowed Minneapolis to burn to the ground during the BLM riots. But some of the scandal has to do with his personal history — most notably his hushed love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official while he was teaching in Foshan, China.

“Tim Walz had a secret fling with the daughter of a high-ranking communist official during his 1989 teaching stint in China. Jenna Wang, who is now 59 years old, claims that the VP hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her,” says Liz Wheeler, reading from a Daily Mail news article.

According to the outlet’s report, Walz and Wang had to keep their relationship under wraps because the girl’s father would have “[disowned] her for fraternizing with a Westerner.”

Although Wang hoped for marriage, “no proposal was forthcoming from the future Minnesota governor, and the shame of being treated ‘like a prostitute’ eventually left Wang feeling angry and suicidal.”

While Walz was sneaking around with Wang, the CCP was taking notes on him — specifically how he was “a prime target for its influence operations in the U.S.,” according to a report from the New York Post.

“They thought that they could use Tim Walz as part of their influence operations in Washington, D.C., and you know what? Somehow I suspect that they were successful,” says Liz.

“You’ll notice that the same press that falsely accuse you and I of being Nazis because we support Trump, the same press that is running interference like crisis PR for Joe Biden after he called all of us garbage won’t ask Kamala Harris or Tim Walz a single question about this affair that Tim Walz engaged in with the daughter of a Chinese communist politician,” she adds.

To hear more about the suppressed scandal, watch the clip above.

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Sam Harris was once a key thinker when it came to waking liberals up to the dangers of identity politics on the left. However, that has not stopped him from contracting a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which he has tragically been unable to shake.

“My original claim, Sam, is that Donald Trump is very obvious in his excesses. Democrats and the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are much more, I would say much more, subtle in their excesses,” Ben Shapiro said in a debate with Sam Harris on Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” podcast. “But those excesses are no less dangerous for being more subtle, in fact, in some ways I think they are more dangerous.”

“You can’t use a phrase like ‘no less dangerous.’ Hillary Clinton conceded in 24 hours. That is less dangerous than this continuous provocation that has gone on for years,” Harris responded, referencing Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results.

“I disagree with you,” Shapiro shot back. “I think that the attempt by members of the media, by Hillary Clinton who herself said that Donald Trump was illegitimately elected based on Russian interference in the 2016 election, was highly damaging.”

Harris then acted as though Clinton no longer says anything of the sort.

“She will still claim openly that there was manipulation that took place during the 2016 election,” Shapiro responded, while Harris repeated, “That’s not true.”

Harris then went on to make the case that “the sane thing to say is that there is continuous foreign interference in our elections.”

“Sam, now you’re proposing a double standard. When Hillary says it, it’s totally subtle and fine, and when Trump says it in the most obvious, foolish way, it’s totally different,” Shapiro said, stifling a laugh.

“You’re just missing the relevant details,” Harris concluded.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is dismayed to see how bad Harris’ TDS has gotten, as Rubin once looked up to him.

“He’s not missing the relevant details. Hillary repeatedly, multiple times on Twitter and throughout the media, over the course of the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, referred to him as illegitimate and said that the election was stolen,” Rubin says.

“They also had a sham impeachment, they had 51 intelligence officials who claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation,” he continues, noting Big Tech banned the story.

“You had an entire machine that was designed to destroy Donald Trump,” he adds.

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Federal law enforcement officials said that Russian troll farms were responsible for a viral video hoax meant to create chaos ahead of Election Day.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement Friday that officials had assessed “that Russian influence actors manufactured a recent video that falsely depicted individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple counties in Georgia.”

‘As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions — or each other.’

The statement was also signed by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

“This Russian activity is part of Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans,” ODNI added.

The people in the video claimed to have entered the U.S. six months prior, obtained U.S. citizenship, and that they were voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in several counties in Georgia.

“Yesterday, we voted in Gwinnett County, and today we’re voting in Fulton County,” said the man in the hoax video. “We have all our documents, driver’s license. We invite all Haitians to come to America and bring families.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, also said his office had determined the video was false.

“This is false and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen in this and other elections. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the 2024 Presidential election,” wrote Raffensperger.

“As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions — or each other,” he added.

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When I woke up the morning after Trump’s 2016 victory, it was clear that the world was ending.

I was a junior in college, pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. The theater department was housed within the humanities building. We shared space with the students studying women and gender studies.

Another student, both gay and black, said, ‘Anyone who voted for Donald Trump hates me.’

I only knew one other person who, like me, had cast their vote for Donald Trump. We had both filled out our mail-in ballots in guilty silence.

When I arrived on campus that morning, I collided with a good friend; she had filled a 7-Eleven Slurpee cup with booze and was drinking it somewhat discreetly in the hallways. She was not the only one, and she was not reprimanded.

In the quad, my physical theater professor (yes, that was a real course) was handing out free, consolatory pancakes to students with swollen, red eyes.

In my afternoon scene study class, a young woman sat in the corner and cried, “I really thought we would finally have a woman for president.”

Another student, both gay and black, said, “Anyone who voted for Donald Trump hates me.”

My professor nodded with the bravado of righteous indignation, like a wise elder at the gate watching as the city crumbled to pieces, pitying the young people who would have to go on living.

As I ascended the staircase toward my bedroom that evening, my roommate, the one other person who was not utterly demoralized by Hillary Clinton’s defeat, popped his head out, surveyed the room to ensure we could not be overheard, and whispered, “I’m not sad that he won.”

“Me, neither,” I breathed.

That was all we said. Even in our own home, it was not safe to say more.

I kept my vote for Donald Trump a secret for years. There were many days, listening to my friends bemoan the callous inhumanity of Republican voters and the inevitable rise of fascism because Donald Trump wanted to cut taxes, that I would wonder if — at my lowest points, fantasize that — my ballot had been lost in the mail. Maybe I was not culpable in his victory at all.

The vigil for American democracy that had taken place in my humanities building had convinced me that if I were to be a conservative traversing among the creative society, I must be a quiet one.

But times change, don’t they?

Times change when men invade women’s locker rooms. When doctors sterilize children. When Big Pharma lies to us. When free speech is compromised.

Today, the conservatives are more classically liberal than the liberals. And I, as someone with classically liberal tendencies, am living in my era.

I’m fist-bumping RFK Jr. as he promises to “Make Frying Oil Tallow Again.” I’m vibing with JD Vance’s commitment to the hard-working blue-collar class of America. I’m getting behind Elon Musk’s defense of free speech on the internet. And yes, I am no longer ashamed to say that I really hope Trump can Make America Great Again.

But regardless of which way this election goes, I refuse to behave like my humanities department did in 2016. I will not hold a vigil for the bygone American republic. I will not assume the worst of those who voted differently than I did or didn’t even vote at all.

What matters to me most this election season is the way we treat one another.

At the end of the day, most of us will never meet our president. He or she will not keep our keys for us when we leave for vacation. Our president will not gather with us for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s unlikely our elected officials will come together to pray for our sick mother or celebrate our new child. But our neighbors, our family, our community who may vote differently than us, they will be there.

This is America.

Go out and vote for the best candidate without shame. Put that campaign sign in your yard, if you want to, because we can handle a nation of people who don’t all vote the same way, and, in fact, we must.

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Those of us who grew up laughing at the antics of British comedy troupe Monty Python remember the film “And Now for Something Completely Different,” which compiled some of the best sketches from their hit TV series.

The humor throughout “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and their various films was inventive, original, and often unexpectedly off-the-wall.

For better or worse, this election season has followed that quirky formula.

None of us “of a certain age” has ever witnessed political antics like those unfolding since the disputed close of the 2020 election season. Up until that year, we had never seen anything like what happened leading up to — and beyond — Nov. 3, 2020.

But just when it seemed “safe to go back in the political waters” (to borrow a line from a 1978 “Jaws 2” movie poster), something “completely different” would surface.

The Democrats, in particular, seemed ready to outdo their last incredible “Gotcha!”

How surprised should any of us be if the Democrats, out of total desperation in the waning days of the 2024 election, come up with something … completely different?

These are the same shysters who claimed the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history”; who locked up citizens for peacefully protesting what they saw as an obvious steal; who, by omission or commission, allowed an assassin to target a presidential candidate and former president; who insisted they are the party on the side of good and suggested that if you believe “Jesus is Lord,” you’re “at the wrong rally”; and who repeatedly used “Hitler” to describe the president who once leaned through a McDonald’s window and asked, “Would you like fries with that?”

Now, with just days to go, the “Hitler candidate” has surged in popularity, like the TV series “Seinfeld” in its prime. Everyone seems to be watching, eagerly awaiting the next episode. It’s a stretch, but imagine Trump as Jerry, with an intriguing new cast: RFK Jr. as George, Tulsi Gabbard as Elaine, and, yes, the wild and unpredictable Elon Musk as Kramer.

All and all, this cast of characters is fun to watch.

But the other show that just could not quite get it in gear, “Harris” (whose working title was “Build Back Biden”), is now bleeding ratings and is about to be canceled. So what do they do?

They go back to what got them on the lineup in the first place. They are the anti-Trump cast. And they trot out old have-beens or never-were “stars” with thread-bared storylines; nefarious characters like Hillary and Obama who badly deliver their never-could-stick lines chalk full of accusations of racism, sexism, and Hitlerism.

You can almost see the deep state, which is storyboarding this particular “last episode,” calling in the star of the show, Kamala Harris, and laying it on the line with her.

[Door opens: Harris ENTERS]

D.S.: Ah, Ms. Harris. Come in. Sit down.

K.H.: Yes, I will sit down on this chair that was made for sitting and on which I will then sit.

[Harris SITS]

D.S.: OK, look. Whatever it is you’re doing it’s not working …

K.H.: Yes, working is what we want to work here so I am working to make it work.

D.S.: Shut up. Here’s what’s going to happen. You are going to keep calling Trump “Hitler.” You are going to keep repeating that since we know you are good at repeating everything.

K.H.: Yes, repeating what needs to be repeated —

D.S.: Enough! Listen. The last time we repeated “Trump is Hitler,” we had at least two assassination attempts on his life. That means we can gin up more attempts using the same strategy. That way, by Election Day, Trump’s name may still be on the ballot but the man himself will be in the funeral home.

K.H.: [Cackles]

D.S.: And if Trump is not gone from this planet in the next few days — someone will be taking a shot at you.

K.H.: [Stops Cackling]

D.S.: You heard us. But don’t worry, we will make sure — fingers crossed — that they just nick you on the arm … or something. Then, we will blame Trump and his MAGA crazies and say that their hateful rhetoric led to one of their own trying to destroy our Democracy. And to save our Democracy, we will disqualify Trump, jail him and anyone wearing a red hat (whether it says MAGA or not). And while you are recuperating (if you’re lucky) in the hospital, we will declare Hillary our candidate. She will win, and we will continue to fundamentally transform America and finally complete the directive initiated in 2008.

K.H.: [Long pause] But … but … but …

D.S.: You may go.

[Harris STANDS up from the chair she has been sitting in that was made for sitting in and EXITS.]

This scenario is a stretch. No doubt about it.

But how surprised should any of us be if the Democrats, out of total desperation in the waning days of the 2024 election, come up with something … completely different?

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared previously at American Thinker.

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It’s hard to say Idaho legislators are anti-technology, seeing as they recently made an elaborate deal with Meta to set up data centers in Kuna. Yet, two recent cryptocurrency bills and hopes for deeper relationships with Bitcoin mining companies were, for the time being, set back in the Gem State when government, private entities, and out-of-state players failed to negotiate mutually beneficial solutions to questions of energy prices.

Some have wondered in the fallout if it’s not technology but Bitcoin that is the problem for politicians because the state has indeed made other deals with Big Tech work.

Bills 1295 and 585, respectively, sought to expand certain rights related to distributed ledger technology and exempt crypto miners from “discriminatory” local ordinances that also do not apply to data centers.

Are free-market advocates seeking to restrict private electric companies’ abilities from charging crypto miners what they want? Utilities are concerned about investing in the infrastructure necessary to accommodate mining operations because of the speculative nature of the product.

Meta’s deal with the state included $70 million for new water and sewage systems in the city of Kuna, where the proposed operation was established. Additional concessions/promises to the state included various “renewable energy” and jobs commitments.

The existing protocols in Idaho grant sales-tax exemption to data centers if they invest $250 million or more and create at least 30 local jobs. The Meta data center in Kuna invested $800 million and foresees adding 100 new jobs.

For the moment, Idaho, in conjunction with its Public Utilities Commission, has concluded that cryptocurrency mining operations are subject to price instability and do not warrant the same cooperation or exemption from Idaho regulators.

Public Utilities Commission and Idaho Power likely will not strike some deal without third-party intervention. Maybe the push here in Idaho to crack wide the crypto game is just too ambitious now.

At the time of this writing, it’s apparent at almost every political and economic level that the game is on pause. We need to see the results of the presidential election, of course, but then we need to see what promises do and do not manifest. The Trump train has of late signaled strong support for Bitcoin and related technologies, but which firms and personalities are tasked with implementation and how the fiat-regime summons out of the dark as countermeasures are legitimate questions.

A decentralized movement still needs to operate somewhere along the line in the real world. Electricity for crypto mining must be generated, harnessed, and applied to computational work, but unless there is an entirely autonomous infrastructure, Bitcoin miners, monks, and assorted adherents will persist in their dependence upon the tenuous (and collapsing) webs of finance (read: extant power structure).

Some other questions that the Idaho crypto mining legislative situation brings to the fore: Are Bitcoin miners eventually going to acquire land, infrastructure, and expertise enough to generate and distribute their own electricity? Will they be able to defend such efforts by lawfare, one presumes?

If not, we know what’s in store from a globalist point of view vis-a-vis crypto. It’s CBDC but centrally controlled and tied into absolutely every possible conceivable monetary leverage point. In this scenario where technology just fails to wriggle out of classic power dynamics, you will live to see Lovecraftian tax and fee horrors heretofore deemed impossible.

A visionary, just (state, local, or national) government could balance the public-private equation with some sort of citizen dividend scheme. A price structure scheme for crypto mining in Idaho eschewing typical Randian hyper-libertarian models in favor of public works and local, immediate reinvestments would go a great distance toward effecting the sort of high-minded ideals purported by crypto devotees while also securing again so much of the social capital already squandered in the past century.

Is this about establishing a tax on digital property? Section 63-602L seems to imply that Idaho should now commit to not taxing such property. Why stuff that into a bill ostensibly about barring private utility companies from creating and enforcing rate castes for different types of clients?

On the other hand, if we’re being realistic — if we do not embrace some sort of Randian path into the future of technology where some bold “founder” type is going to purchase his or her legal solution effectively — is Christianity a viable overlay by which a legislature could see to properly implement or manage such newfangled considerations as a digital, quasi-centralized currency (or is it a store of wealth or neither)?

In this case, are free-market advocates seeking to restrict private electric companies’ abilities from charging crypto miners what they want? Utilities are concerned about investing in the infrastructure necessary to accommodate mining operations because of the speculative nature of the product. Isn’t that a legitimate concern when we see the stalling, the backroom dealing, and the depth of ignorance with respect to all things crypto from the highest levels?

It seems almost that the current tangle of public-private machinations we’ve experimented with may simply be outdated. Idaho is paused on the issue for the moment.

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Halloween may have just passed, but Donald Trump wasn’t wearing a costume when he worked at McDonald’s, stepped into that garbage truck, or when former Democratic presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard joined his campaign. Nor was it a disguise when Elon Musk and Joe Rogan helped Trump champion free speech.

This is as real as it gets. This is the kind of identity realignment that happens when one party openly supports tampons in the boys’ locker room while branding Republicans as Nazis or garbage. It also reflects the frustration with a pre-Trump GOP that failed to push back against such rising evil in the past.

We have no excuse if we abandon the fight or let it unfold without us.

This is a massive paradigm shift, whether you want it or not. If ideologues like me hope to join the fight ahead, we must come to terms with this new reality. Conservatism, as we inherited it, stands hollow as a stand-alone movement capable of challenging the spirit of the age.

For instance, where would we direct an outsider president with hundreds of thousands of federal positions to fill for the trusted manpower and expertise needed — especially after our failures to make headway in 2016, 2020, and 2022? Remember Mike Pence? Unchecked voter fraud? The “red wave” that never came? Ring a bell? The old-guard GOP sucked.

Or recall when my show ranked all U.S. senators earlier this year, and John Fetterman placed 12th best. I can’t even say with confidence that a single infanticide amendment will be defeated at the ballot box anywhere in the country this year. Conservatism, as we inherited it, is running on fumes.

The current populist movement has called our bluff, yet many on the right still cling to the illusions Mitch McConnell has fed them for years to keep them in line. I say this as someone who entered this field as a true believer — an Alex P. Keaton-type advocate of Ronald Reagan and true believer in a conservative Camelot. But decades of crappy results and betrayals by cowards and sellouts have left me a changed man.

We face a choice: embrace the New York City of the ’80s and ’90s (Trump-Vance) or accept the woke Minneapolis and San Francisco of 2024 (Harris-Walz). For all its flaws, the former was unmistakably American. The latter actively resents being American and will punish anyone who thinks otherwise.

Only one worldview will emerge victorious from this clash. If Trump wins, he’ll need support from people who love this country, its people, and its opportunities. He’ll need this support to govern effectively and give conservative principles a place at the table rather than in a prison cell. Our window for a different outcome has passed.

But we have no excuse if we abandon the fight or let it unfold without us. The cross-section of America that filled Madison Square Garden for Trump will need good leaders to guide it in the long run. What will happen to the American church if it doesn’t take a stand in the battle of good versus evil? How shameful and damaging to its witness would that be?

The endgame is here. Some may not fight this battle as I would, but at least they’re ready to fight. These are the people we belong with — not in a self-imposed intellectual ghetto of hollow piety but on the front lines, ensuring the good, the true, and the beautiful have a chance to shape our children’s lives instead of chaos and despair.

We must be salt and light. So this Tuesday, I urge you to manifest that destiny by voting for Donald Trump.

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With Game 5 of the World Series looming and the Yankees facing the Dodgers at home, you can bet millions of Americans are wagering on the outcome of the game — including from the comfort of their homes. Some politicians would like to change that.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) recently held a press conference to announce their introduction of the SAFE Bet Act, which would ban sports betting nationwide until states adopted their preferred regulations on it. Let’s hope these lawmakers strike out.

Virtually every form of entertainment has some social cost associated with it. Gambling is no exception.

Online sports betting has become immensely popular. Americans spent about $11 billion on online sports bets alone last year, plus another $7 billion in wagers at casinos. Thirty-eight states have legalized it and, on November 5, Missouri residents will vote on it.

For many years, Congress only allowed Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon to have legal sports betting. Then, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down that federal ban, and state legislatures started legalizing it.

Even prior to that, in the 2010s, companies like DraftKings and FanDuel began offering daily fantasy sports on smartphone apps. They work by awarding prizes to winners, funded by participants’ entry fees. This model was a legal gray area; some states banned the apps as illegal sports betting, and others did not.

Whatever the legal differences between fantasy sports and sports betting, in both cases, participants win or lose money based on their correct forecasts of sports outcomes. Recognizing this, many state legislatures have legalized both daily fantasy sports and traditional sports betting, while a handful of states continue to ban both.

But sports betting is basically entertainment. The enjoyment that bettors get is a good thing. The average Gen Z sports bettor spends $268 a month on bets. That’s less than what many young people spend going out for dinner or drinks, traveling, dating, or many other entertainment activities.

Sports betting also has a rational function. If you’re a big sports fan, you can hedge your psychic losses by betting against the teams you want to win. You can also make watching games more entertaining by placing a small wager on the outcome. It can be a social activity — something you talk about with friends.

But anti-gambling advocates want to roll back the progress we’ve made and return us to the bad old days of prohibition.

They point to data showing that between one-sixth and one-third of all gambling revenue is produced by “problem gamblers.” Since problem gamblers are by definition spending a lot of money, you can bet that the percentage of people who gamble without becoming problem gamblers is an even larger majority. Furthermore, sports bettors, who generally have to do a lot of research on their picks, are less likely to be problem gamblers than, say, people who play slots or state lotteries — which typically have the worst odds of all forms of gambling.

The Manhattan Institute’s Charles Fain Lehman is a card-carrying member of the Coalition Against Fun, making a career of inveighing against the legality of weed, betting, and even alcohol. A running theme of his work is that the intrinsic pleasures of an activity are worthless; all that matters are the costs.

Lehman points to three new, non-peer-reviewed studies on the effects of legal sports betting on different outcomes. One finds that households reduce saving at least dollar for dollar when they begin betting on sports. Another finds that average credit scores decline by 0.3 points when sports betting is legalized in a state, corresponding to an increase in consumer debt and bankruptcies. The final one finds that “the effect of NFL home team upset losses on intimate partner violence” increases by 10 percentage points where sports betting is legal.

But the effects of sports betting found in these new papers are quite small. For instance, the second paper mentioned above finds no effect of legal sports betting in general on bankruptcies, just online sports betting. And the effect of online sports betting is to increase the risk of bankruptcy by merely 1 in 10,000 per person per quarter.

Virtually every form of entertainment has some social cost associated with it. Gambling is no exception. American families and cultural leaders could do a better job teaching the young that gambling is a foolish way to make money, that it should be treated as entertainment, like buying tickets to a concert, and that just as you shouldn’t spend more on such tickets than you can afford, you shouldn’t gamble more than you can afford to lose.

Instead of trying to keep citizens from entertaining themselves as they see fit by banning gambling, government could address the social problems it can cause by doing things like making it easier for problem gamblers to remove themselves permanently from their temptation. There should be a way for them to put themselves on a “do not contact” list that would exempt them from marketing by gambling outfits and voluntarily restrict their access if they try to sign up gambling accounts. Empower people to make good choices for themselves rather than taking away their freedoms.

Let’s deal with the downsides instead of going back to prohibition. When it comes to online sports betting, government needs to take the W.

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A Fox News report said that multiple campaign calls scheduled on Thursday with President Joe Biden were canceled after a disastrous remark he made that has derailed the Harris-Walz campaign.

The development gave critics more ammunition in their case that Biden’s declining cognitive condition made him unfit to continue in the Oval Office.

The development was reported by Fox News’ senior White House correspondent, Jacqui Heinrich.

The campaign calls were publicly advised on Biden’s schedule but were abruptly canceled. Heinrich said they tried to contact the organizations which were holding the calls, but they did not respond when asked whether the calls continued on without Biden.

The president opened up a political firestorm when he appeared to call the supporters of President Donald Trump “garbage” while speaking with Voto Latino. Former President Donald Trump pounced on the comments and hammered on Biden by running a media briefing from the cab of a garbage truck. He went on to speak at a rally with his orange construction vest on.

Biden has no official campaign events scheduled ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.

The advisory of the later canceled events read as follows: “Thursday, October 31, 2024 In the afternoon, the President will participate in campaign calls.”

The White House did not comment on the story.

Biden’s “garbage” comment gave the Trump campaign an escape hatch to pummel Democrats after a comedian referred to Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage” while speaking at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden.

The development gave critics more ammunition in their case that Biden’s declining cognitive condition made him unfit to continue in the Oval Office.

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I remember her best from “Girl Meets World,” the delayed sequel to the Disney classic “Boy Meets World.”

I was 11 years old and the 15-year-old girl on my TV named Sabrina Carpenter seemed like the pinnacle of cool — and the epitome of beauty.

When Carpenter’s music video for her single ‘Feather’ dropped, the outfits were predictably risqué. What I wasn’t prepared for was how gory and violent it all was.

I was hooked. I followed her career from Disney to her Netflix movies to her music. I knew all the words to her debut single and listened to the hits from every album release.

Full ‘Send’

When I first heard her 2022 album “Emails I Can’t Send,” I was shocked at the contrast with her previous work. The music was catchy, the range of emotion was palpable, and the lyrics had the perfect mix of relatable and made-for-screaming-in-the-car-with-your-girls.

It was instantly on repeat in my car. After that, I was anxiously awaiting the next album.

In the meantime, she was receiving accolades for her style: a throwback, old Hollywood glamour reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe. Her hair was always impossibly perfect, her outfits — while provocative — were ultra-feminine. In an era of androgynous pop stars, the way Carpenter leaned into her womanhood was a breath of fresh air.

Disney detachment syndrome

But just before the release of her 2024 chart-topper, “Short n’ Sweet,” I started to notice something change. Sabrina’s image began evolving in the all-too-familiar edgy way that we have come to expect from ex-Disney girls.

In her case, the transformation was particularly disturbing.

When Carpenter’s music video for her single “Feather” dropped, the outfits were predictably risqué. What I wasn’t prepared for was how gory and violent it all was. I can’t lie, I was shocked.

The upbeat, cheerful music is paired with a montage of men being run over, beaten bloody, and killed by an elevator. I’m not squeamish, I just don’t understand how that vibes with her girly-pop music genre.

Edgy is as edgy does, I guess.

Altar crawl

The blood spatter was not the most concerning thing, however. In the video’s climax, Carpenter attends what is supposed go be a funeral for these men filmed in an actual Catholic church in Brooklyn. Wearing a lace veil and a skimpy black dress, Carpenter gyrates before the altar, which is flanked by a number of pastel coffins.

The pastor who approved the video shoot was demoted and the church reconsecrated.

But that’s not where Carpenter’s interest in Christian imagery stops.

When she performed at Coachella this year, she wore an oversized white T-shirt that said “Jesus was a carpenter too.” Both she and her boyfriend, Barry Keoghan, can also be seen wearing a cross necklace in her “Please Please Please” music video.

‘Taste’ for violence

Her latest music video, “Taste,” indulges in even more violence, this time graphic enough to require a parental advisory. Carpenter and actress Jenna Ortega are impaled, stabbed in the eye, electrocuted, tortured with a voodoo doll, burned alive, stabbed again, dismembered, strangled, and murdered with a chainsaw. In that order.

Don’t worry, they make at the end while at the funeral of the boy they were fighting over.

For a performer who has come to represent retro femininity with her blown-out, bombshell blonde locks and her fabulously girlish outfits, this detour into gore and anti-Christian mockery comes as a bit of a surprise. It could be for shock and awe, or it could be a sign of something more sinister.

X-spresso

While I generally advise mindful consumption, I’m also not one to assume evil intentions in an artist. Carpenter’s trajectory from seemingly wholesome entertainer to shameless provocateur, however, is all too familiar. Lil Nas X — who began his career appealing to a young audience only evolve into a literal stripper for the devil — comes to mind.

Maybe if the audience at large had paid closer attention to the warning signs, we could’ve caught that sooner. It seemed so innocuous in the beginning.

I’m not writing off Sabrina Carpenter just yet. It could be that the Disney detachment syndrome is rearing its head as she tries to build her own brand. The pendulum tends to swing too far for the Disney girls, and sometimes they calm down and go on to have perfectly normal careers (Zendaya, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Hilary Duff).

Or she could take a darker turn. Moms, be on the lookout. We just have to wait and see.

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$50,000 can be a life-changing sum of money to your average American citizen — but one TikToker is claiming she turned that exact amount down out of principle.

The TikToker, Meghan Claire, revealed in a video posted to her account that she had been bribed by the Kamala Harris campaign to publicly switch her vote from Trump to Harris on social media.

“I attended the Donald Trump rally a couple of days ago in Greensburg, North Carolina, and I went live at it and it’s just so coincidental that the very next day I get an email and it is a management company that is looking for influencers to attend the Kamala Harris rally a couple days before the election,” Claire said in the video.

“They’re looking for people who can essentially say that they supported the other side and they’ve switched,” she added before explaining how disgusted she was that North Carolinians are homeless and starving in the wake of Hurricane Helene — yet she was being offered $50,000 to attend a rally and make a social media post.

“My blood was boiling,” she said.

James Poulos of “Zero Hour” and Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” are disturbed by this trend of influencers who may have taken the bribe. However, they’re not sure whether we need to worry about the youth who are being influenced.

“Do those people who are watching that on TikTok show up on Election Day, or do they find something better to do like go get their nails done?” Gonzales asks, noting that the amount of money the Harris campaign is spending on them is outrageous.

“The leaked emails that I’ve seen offering to pay up to $20,000 for influencers,” Gonzales says, “I mean you’ve got to think they’re being strategic about who they’re offering this type of money to send them to the DNC, but that’s the type of money that they’re offering.”

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Well, I ask, is he?

Just a few months ago, speculation ran rampant that Donald Trump might have to drop Vance as his VP pick. Yet, Trump—a man renowned for his loyalty to those he believes in—stood firm, and it’s proving to be a shrewd decision.

In a time when victimhood culture glorifies self-pity and weakness, America’s future Vice President—and maybe even future President—is the perfect antidote.

Vance’s resurgence isn’t happening on traditional political stages or major cable networks. Instead, he’s reemerged as a compelling figure on the podcast circuit, trading banter with Tim Dillon, Theo Von, and (most recently) Joe Rogan. This relaxed, long-form format has been ideal for Vance to showcase his intelligence, wit, and relatability to millions who rarely tune into cable news.

Pain and poverty

This transformation should prompt us to revisit “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance’s gripping memoir of his battle against generational poverty and familial chaos.

I love this book. Absolutely love it. It’s a heartfelt tale of his turbulent upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, amidst his mother’s drug abuse and the instability that came with it.

As a child, Vance’s life was marked by chaos and despair. As his mother’s addiction to painkillers spiraled, Vance found himself weathering her erratic outbursts and devastating relapses. He was caught in the crossfire of domestic violence and shuffled between unstable homes.

Through it all, there was one stable presence in his life: “Mamaw.”

Tough as nails and unapologetically blunt, Vance’s grandmother became the anchor he desperately needed. She wasn’t just a caretaker—she was his defender, shielding him from his mother’s bad behavior and instilling in him a sense of self-worth and resilience. This was something Vance discussed in great detail with Von, another man who was raised in a rather chaotic environment.

True grit

Despite the turmoil, Vance fought his way to the Marines, Ohio State University, and eventually Yale Law School.

His journey from literal rags to well-earned riches is a lesson every American, regardless of their political beliefs, should appreciate. In a time when victimhood culture glorifies self-pity and weakness, America’s future Vice President—and maybe even future President—is the perfect antidote.

Vance’s story isn’t just one of success; it’s a testament to personal responsibility and grit. He doesn’t sugarcoat the harsh realities of his upbringing or American life.

And he isn’t seeking sympathy. Instead, he stands by the belief that adversity isn’t a life sentence—it’s the fuel for genuine greatness.

Breaking snooze

It’s no surprise that the rise of a white man to a position of power has been met with fierce resistance on the left. The mainstream media is desperate to paint Vance as an unhinged, misogynistic nutjob intent on turning America into something out of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

But who, other than the most deluded, is actually listening to what they are saying?

Articles that might have caught some buzz a few years ago have lost their sting. No one cares what Mother Jones has to say. Nobody’s losing sleep over what some blue-haired Gen Z hysteric at Salon or HuffPost churns out.

Fewer still care what the New York Times has to say. This is the first post-MSM election, the first independent media election, where figures like Vance gain credibility through long-form, unfiltered conversations on podcasts.

Tapper-ed out

But Vance can chew gum and walk at the same time. He knows the mainstream media still holds some sway, despite what almost a decade of Trump derangement has done to their credibility.

Recently, Vance went head-to-head with CNN’s Jake Tapper in an engrossing, entertaining showdown. To put it bluntly, Vance wiped the floor with his adversary. It was like watching a grandmaster toy with a novice. Vance played the role of Magnus Carlsen, while Tapper assumed the role of Mr. Bean. Expertly, I might add.

With cool confidence, Vance dismantled every trap, flipping each loaded question into a chance to hammer home his points. He stayed composed and unrattled, while Tapper grew visibly frustrated. It wasn’t just an interview—it was a takedown.

Yes, Tapper is an exemplary MSM stooge, and his motives are transparent. But let’s be clear, he’s no dummy. In that interview, however, Vance made him look like one.

Real talk

Of course, any discussion about independent media and the decline of the MSM would be incomplete without mentioning Joe Rogan. Trump recently appeared on his podcast — the world’s most popular — and knocked it out of the park.

Both Trump and Vance thrive in long-form discussions that can veer off into unexpected territory. Why? Because they’re real people, capable of talking about anything from sports to completely offbeat topics.

Dem-bots

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, on the other hand, come across as DC-androids, pre-programmed to hit only the safe, PC-approved talking points for brief, scripted moments. In many ways, they’re the weird ones, not Trump or Vance.

Harris, in particular, seems to have hitched her fortunes to the sinking ship of mainstream media—a move that feels like booking a first-class ticket on the Titanic as it speeds toward the iceberg.

As is clear to anyone with a functioning brain, Trump and Vance are gaining momentum at precisely the right time—just days before Americans cast their votes in arguably the nation’s most important election. Ever!

And, remember, when you vote, you’re not just voting for Trump. You’re voting for JD Vance, a man who may very well be a future president. And judging by his recent podcast appearances, a very fine one at that.

Not bad for a man bequeathed a heritage of grief, suffering, and chaos. Not bad for a man who turned an “elegy’ for his forgotten part of the country into a vision for the future of all Americans.

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President Joe Biden has an odd history when it comes to his interactions with children. Besides kids jumping on his lap, he also apparently enjoys biting them.

At the White House’s 2024 Halloween event, Joe Biden was filmed several times playfully biting little babies in their mothers’ arms.

Sara Gonzales plays the clips that have since gone viral on social media.

“Didn’t they call JD Vance weird?” asks actor and BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden.

“They did call JD Vance weird. I’ve never seen JD Vance try to bite an infant,” says Sara.

Blaze Media’s digital strategist Logan Hall says in addition to perhaps being “a little creepy,” the timing of Biden’s odd interactions with children couldn’t have come at a better time for Republicans.

“You have to think about the optics. Yesterday Trump sets the internet on fire with his garbage man stunt … instant viral sensation. That compared to Joe Biden biting a baby — I mean the contrast could not be more clear,” he says.

“He’s actually been doing this sniffing and getting way too inappropriate with children for a very long time,” adds Sara, playing a video compilation of Joe Biden touching children in ways that can only be described as wildly inappropriate.

“Oh, Secret Service would be pulling me off him,” says Marsden.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full segment above.

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A CNN report documented how the Harris-Walz campaign is trying to manage a rift in the Democratic Party between members of an anti-Israel fringe who have threatened to withhold their vote unless their demands are met.

‘I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself.’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is running ads in Pennsylvania, where Jewish voters may be pivotal in the election, saying that she will “stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself.”

That message may not fly in Michigan, where Muslim voters have demanded the Biden-Harris stop supporting Israel as it continues a military operation against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

The ads from the Harris campaign in Michigan instead promise that Harris will “not be silent about the human suffering occurring in Gaza.”

A Facebook ad in Pennsylvania contains sections of Harris’ convention speech in which she affirms the right of Israel to exist while excising comments sympathetic to those in the Gaza Strip.

“I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7, including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival,” she said in the ad.

For Michigan, a Facebook ad highlights her statements in support of Palestinians.

“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” Harris says. “Our common humanity compels us to act.”

The Harris campaign declined to comment on the report from CNN’s KFILE.

Muslim Democrats have excoriated the Democratic Party for allowing an opportunity for former President Donald Trump to make inroads with Muslim voters. As part of that campaign, Trump visited a Muslim-owned restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday.

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You hear it every four years: This election is the most consequential/important/momentous of our lifetime, to the point that it’s practically a cliché now. But this year it’s true, and everyone knows it.

With just days before the election, if you are on the fence or lukewarm about Donald Trump and JD Vance, if you are considering voting for a third-party candidate or you know somebody who is,
and especially if you are thinking about not voting at all, please take a few moments to read this.

Do not be deterred by dirty tricks or misinformation. Do not believe the hype. Above all, do not despair.

It hardly seems possible that voters are undecided about Trump after nearly a decade. It’s more understandable that some Republican voters struggle to get past Trump’s brash and bombastic personality. Some conservatives look at Trump and say,
No. I just can’t. He’s not a decent man. He’s not a godly man.

Let’s concede that Trump is far from perfect. Let’s even allow that his first term was marked by several missteps, unforced errors, and terrible decisions — culminating with the COVID-19 disaster in 2020.

Despite whatever he did that you didn’t like, Trump was arguably the most successful Republican president since Ronald Reagan: shepherding tax cuts that boosted economic growth, slashing illegal immigration, renegotiating trade deals to America’s advantage, and checking our foreign enemies.

Nobody can say for certain what a second Trump term would look like. What
is certain is that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will be a disaster for the country. No question about it. Not only would Harris and Walz continue the policies of the past four Biden-Harris years, they would make them worse. The only question is how much worse.

Harris and Walz guarantee the southern border will remain wide open to millions of unvetted illegal aliens from all around the world. Some are gangsters from Venezuela, known terrorists from Syria, Yemen, and Iran, and tens of thousands of military-age men from China traveling alone without ID. Harris and Walz will quickly pave a path to voting for millions of illegal aliens already in our country in an open attempt to create a one-party state in America.

Harris and Walz guarantee domestic economic stagnation and decline by pushing the Green New Deal and crippling regulations while sending hundreds of
billions of dollars — much of it borrowed money — to prop up corrupt foreign regimes and wage wars that weaken America’s standing abroad.

Harris and Walz guarantee more lawfare against political opponents, more federal prosecutions of grandmothers praying in front of abortion clinics, and more censorship in the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “hate speech.” They will continue the unprecedented efforts of the Biden-Harris administration to use the power of the federal government to censor and punish private media companies like Blaze Media that publish content they don’t like.

With Democratic House and Senate majorities, Harris and Walz guarantee an end to the filibuster, a packed Supreme Court, legislation to enshrine
Roe v. Wade, the “right” of boys and men to encroach on girls’ and women’s sports and spaces, and more.

Don’t get cocky or complacent. Vote anyway. Make sure your friends and family do, too.

If you are a pro-life voter disappointed with Trump’s weakness on abortion, from rejecting a national ban to regulating the “morning-after pill,” Harris is clearly
not your candidate.

Now is not the time for purity tests. Too much is at stake. Reagan often told his staff, “I’d rather get 80% of what I want than go over the cliff with my flags flying.”

Trump and Vance are better than 80% of what conservative and pro-life voters say they want. Harris and Walz are less than zero. Guaranteed.

We don’t vote to determine who’s a saint and who’s a sinner — that judgement is up to God. We vote for whoever is best for the job. So vote. Vote your conscience, but also vote your common sense. Vote your values, but remember you won’t necessarily get everything you want all at once or right away. But vote.

Do you live in a blue state where Kamala Harris is a lock to win? Vote anyway. Yes, the Electoral College decides the outcome, but the popular vote matters in the court of public opinion. California in 2016 provided Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory in the popular vote, as she and her sycophants never tire of reminding us. Don’t give them the satisfaction. Make your voice heard and your vote count.

Do you live in a red state where Donald Trump is likely going to run the table? Don’t get cocky or complacent. Vote anyway. Make sure your friends and family do too.

Do you live in a swing state?
Absolutely vote like your life and your republic depend on it, because they do. And this time, in the next few days, you must get as many people as you can to do it too. Bug all your friends and family. Bug everyone in the book club or chat group. All the complaining and commentary and worry about politics are meaningless if you and everyone you know do not vote on Tuesday.

Do not be deterred by dirty tricks or misinformation. Do not hand your ballot over to a stranger with a badge. Do not be obstructed by long lines or foul weather. Do not take no for an answer.

Do not believe the hype. Yes, networks like CNN are projecting Harris as the likely winner — but a few months ago, CNN reported that Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack.”

Above all, do not despair. Democrats are going all out. Lawsuits. Ballot harvesting. Dirty tricks. Misinformation. They fight dirty, and they fight to win. We fight for our families and for our country.

A path to victory always exists — but you need to walk down it. The first step is your vote.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and businessman Mark Cuban sat down for an interview, in which they had a lot to say about former president Donald Trump.

The pair took issue with Trump’s tariff plan, with Cuban telling Kamala that Trump “doesn’t realize the impact” and that “he is going to put who knows how many small businesses out of business.”

“He is applying a machete, when a scalpel is what’s necessary,” Kamala replied.

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” and her father, Ron Simmons, believe that Cuban and Harris are wrong and that Harris’ “economic plan,” if put into action, will have much more devastating consequences.

“Her plan, by this bipartisan group, is going to cost 786,000 jobs,” Simmons explains to Stuckey, using information from the Tax Foundation. “Trump’s plan would increase it by 600,000 jobs.”

“Mark Cuban in this scenario is just a sycophant; he just is trying to say whatever agrees with her,” Simmons says. “Believe me, Mark is more concerned, which he talks about Trump being more concerned about, his own fortune and fame than he is about anything else.”

“He also called Trump a fascist, right, and you know what a fascist is?” he asks. ‘Someone that wants state control of everything. That’s what they want, and not the individual. And actually Trump is just the opposite.”

Stuckey notes that most Americans are most concerned about how Trump’s economic policy will affect their groceries, not whether or not the left is calling him a “fascist.”

“He’s going to increase the child tax care credit, which I think is a good thing to do. And a credit is different than a deduction. A credit means that if you have a $1,000 credit, and your taxes were $2,000 before the credit, they’re only $1,000 after. It’s a direct write-off,” Simmons explains.

“He’s also proposing that we allow a deduction for interest paid on auto loans. For a lot of people, especially renters, their biggest debt is their car. And you know how much cars cost these days,” he continues.

“Under Donald Trump, I think what you see, you see a return to what happened between 2017 and 2021 from an economic standpoint, which was some of the best economic times in history,” he adds.

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A writer at Slate implied that the wife of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was a traitor to her race for support her husband’s campaign.

The bizarre attack was written by Scaachi Koul and was immediately excoriated by many on the right. Koul sarcastically mocked an article saying Usha Vance’s motivations were largely unknown because she’s so private.

Koul accused Vance of being motivated by seeking protection from her husband by abandoning her racial loyalty. Usha Vance was born in San Diego to immigrant parents from India.

Vance wanted to stand apart politically from her husband, she’s certainly free to do so. But the reality is that she doesn’t, and likely won’t. There’s no greater protection in the world than marriage to a white man with an education, money, and political power. Even as Vance herself is highly educated and well connected, it’s nothing compared to what her husband carries into the world. This is the kind of security women have sought for generations—in fact, for a long time, it was the only protection women could access.

Koul also excoriated the support some Indian-Americans had expressed for Republican values.

“We’re the good brown people, the ones you don’t need to be afraid of. In an attempt to keep our ears above racist waters, South Asians have sometimes associated with our own oppressors,” she wrote.

“Her allegiances are not to her race, her gender, the community she was born into,” Koul added elsewhere. “They’re to her husband, and that’s an agreement women have been making since the advent of the marriage license.”

Reactions were not friendly.

“As clear an example as any that the logical extreme of racial and gender wokeness is racism and sexism,” replied Renu Mukherjee of the Manhattan Institute.

“She’s . . . supposed to be loyal to her race? Some details on what that would entail, please?” responded Ramesh Ponnuru in National Review.

“I simply cannot comprehend thinking that one’s sex or ethic background are your two defining characteristics that define all of your choices. Bizarre idea,” read another response.

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