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If Vice President Kamala Harris truly wishes to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration, she should look at the massive left-wing influence campaign I call the Woketopus.

The left’s vast dark money funding apparatus not only helped the anti-Israel protesters on college campuses but also bankrolled the pressure groups that helped set open-borders policy in the Biden-Harris administration.

Activist groups behind the scenes want to transform America into a ‘sanctuary country’ that puts legal immigrants at the back of the line.

A network of left-wing foundations — including the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, the nonprofits founded by Arabella Advisors, the Tides Foundation, and others — bankroll woke nonprofits that have deep ties to the administrative state. Bureaucrats go from government to these nonprofits and back, and these nonprofits often draft policies that agencies go on to implement.

At least three nonprofits helped shape policy at the Department of Homeland Security, aiming to transform the DHS’ mission. This transformation enabled at least 10 million illegal aliens to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Center for American Progress — which Politico dubbed “the most influential think tank of the Biden era” — urged a “reorientation of cultural norms at DHS.”

The CAP called for the DHS to shift “toward a more service-driven department that treats immigration as an asset to be managed rather than a crime to be enforced against.”

Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union urged the DHS to “reject our existing immigration system’s reliance on the punitive, enforcement-based approach driven by mass detention and mass deportation” and instead create a system “focused on helping people navigate a byzantine immigration system and on a pathway to citizenship.”

Finally, the nonprofit America’s Voice claimed that “undocumented immigrants” are “essential to our economy and essential to our democracy.”

When Biden put together his transition team for the DHS, he tapped America’s Voice’s Ur Jaddou and the ACLU’s Andrea Flores. Jaddou currently leads U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The CAP’s former vice president for immigration policy, Tom Jawetz, became general counsel at the DHS in March 2021.

These groups’ influence did not begin with Biden, nor will it end with him. But the Biden-Harris administration’s extreme record on immigration highlights their impact.

Not only has the Biden-Harris administration loosened border enforcement, halting wall construction, pausing deportations, and eliminating Trump-era policies that required asylum seekers to “Remain in Mexico” while their cases worked through U.S. courts, but it has also directed more funding to what I call the “immigration industrial complex.”

Many non-governmental organizations — most of them faith-based — receive hefty grants from the U.S. government to house and resettle illegal aliens throughout America. According to an analysis from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, immigrants who went through these resettlement agencies have found their way to 431 of America’s 435 congressional districts.

Let that sink in.

The Biden-Harris administration is using your tax dollars to resettle illegal aliens throughout the country, after working with groups that call illegal aliens “essential to our democracy.”

Americans believe in helping the less fortunate and in providing a home to refugees who really need it, but the activist groups pulling the strings behind the scenes want to transform America into a “sanctuary country” that puts legal immigrants at the back of the line.

These activist groups shouldn’t be dictating policy in Washington.

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It’s a mask-off moment. On the “Possible” podcast, co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates insisted humanity would need a new religion or philosophy to cope with the reality of AI and the technological conquest of the world.

In his final comment on the episode — which Hoffman calls a “tour de force” — Gates reflects at length on the spiritual situation he believes unbridled tech is coercing us into.

Maybe we want to focus on ensuring people aren’t led into the darkness of worshipping their machines or automating their religion?

“The potential positive path is so good that it will force us to rethink how should we use our time,” he says. “You know, you can almost call it a new religion or a new philosophy of, okay, how do we stay connected with each other, not addicted to these things that’ll make video games look like nothing in terms of the attractiveness of spending time on them.”

On the surface, Gates seems to be advancing a claim plenty of people can agree with — the idea that the coming virtual world will be so tempting to disappear into that only a deep source of spiritual authority will be enough to remind us that we’re still best off sharing life together as the human beings we are.

But it’s not just the virtual world he’s talking about. “So it’s fascinating that we will, the issues of, you know, disease and enough food or climate, if things go well, those will largely become solved problems. And, you know, so the next generation does get to say, ‘Okay, given that some things that were massively in shortage are now not, how do, how do we take advantage of that?’”

Here’s where things get tricky. You might have wondered already why Gates, if he feels so sure that we need cosmic protection against becoming cyber zombies, doesn’t immediately reach for a religion that already exists and flourishes — especially Christianity, which still dominates American faith identification and significant segments of public life.

Well, his assumption is that tech will make obsolete at least some of the words of Christ, such as “you have the poor with you always,” as in always there for you to help and serve. Now one might say that if physical sickness and hunger are “solved problems,” many might still (or especially) suffer from mental and spiritual illness and thirst. But even that logic is not what Gates is interested in. He’s more concerned about sports.

Yes, sports. “You know, do we ban AI being used in certain endeavors so that humans get some — you know, you know, like you don’t want robots playing baseball, probably,” he stammers. “Because they’re, they’ll be too good. So we’ll, we’ll keep them off the field. Okay. How broadly would you go with that?”

Maybe so “broadly” that we’d want to focus on ensuring people aren’t led into the darkness of worshipping their machines or automating their religion? Perhaps that’s something we need to do already, not after the machines and their self-appointed masters — no matter how well intentioned — drag us to a place where our given humanity is almost unrecognizable.

“We are so used to this shortage world that, you know, I, I, I hope I get to see how we start to rethink the, these deep meaning questions,” Gates concludes. But for all his ostensible futurism, he blinds himself to the present — where some tech-savvy Christians are carrying on the work of years in making plain that the tools we need to ensure that we don’t wipe ourselves out with awesome wonders are already at hand … because they are the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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“‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Role in Jan. 6 Riot” crowed the New York Times as the funniest man I’ve ever met was leaving D.C. and heading back to L.A. to pack up his life.

Jay Johnston wasn’t just Bob’s rival Jimmy Pesto; he was the officer on the “Sarah Silverman Program” who said, “As a cop, I’ve seen things that would make you crap a book on how to puke.”

I hate that Jay is going to prison for a year, but I love this story because it is a perfect example of the brutal hypocrisy of Hollywood, the left, and everyone who thinks they’re ‘creative.’

True comedy fans know him more for his incredible performances on “Mr. Show,” including “The Story of Everest,” where he knocks down his parents’ thimble collection eight times.

Slapstick is his forte. The guy is about a hundred feet tall or, as Andy Dick once called him, “a legal giant,” so when he falls, it’s hilarious.

Jeepers cheapers

I wrote a TV pilot with him once called “The Two Bennies,” where we updated the slapstick of Benny Hill with over-the-top lunacy. Instead of a woman slapping one of us for being fresh, she chopped our heads off with a chainsaw.

I remember pitching him certain ideas and ending with, “Do you think that’s funny?” to which he would pause and say, “Let me ask you something … do you think that’s funny?”

I’ve known this guy for a quarter of a century, and he was never political.

He was a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking madman who drove a Jeep with no sides or windshield so that when you got in, he’d hand you a coat and goggles to stay alive.

He’s Hunter S. Thompson meets RanXerox but he’s also an incredibly moral and courageous person who will run down the street chasing a purse snatcher into hell.

We’d go on vacation together every year with a bunch of other people in the funny community, and the discussions were always retarded.

Once when I picked Jay up at the airport in Saint Martin, we got lost trying to get out of the airport. He said, “This parking lot was originally designed by the infamous municipal planner William P. Nillard, known to his friends as Willy Nilly.”

Jay often mocked me for being a typical Scottish cheap-ass. On one trip, he went to open the door for me, but it only went halfway because it got stuck on a rock.

“Sorry,” he said insincerely. “I’m cheap too.” I pulled it shut hard over the pebble, and the loud bang led Jay to add, “Take it easy, Slammy Davis Jr.”

Blind man’s baseball

I remember in Jamaica in 2003, David Cross (“Mr. Show”) was giving me s**t for being a Republican, and Jay asked, “You’re a Republican? Why? Don’t you see that diversity is ultimately better for everyone and all that?”

This was one of the only remotely political things I ever heard him say, and his response was typical of the L.A. comedy scene back then. They talk about politics the way British people talk about baseball: blindly.

The next time politics came out of his big mouth was in 2016 when Trump was running for president. He was at Starburns Industries, and Dan Harmon (“Rick and Morty”) was talking about how important it was that Hillary win.

Johnston dared to disagree and said that he liked the idea of Trump shaking things up.

It was as if he had said, “I don’t know. You have to admit at least SOME toddlers are sexy.”

Everyone in the room was gobsmacked, and Dan turned purple with rage before giving Jay a screaming diatribe that sounded like Mussolini in a bad mood.

I spoke to Jay soon after that and worried that one incident was going to get him blackballed, because Harmon basically runs comedy over there.

“I don’t think it’ll be that bad” he replied. “Maybe brownballed.”

Refusing to embrace Trump derangement syndrome was Jay’s first scarlet letter, but it wasn’t the end of his career — possibly because he wasn’t politically active. Yes, he dared to blaspheme Hillary, but to hang out with this guy was 99% workshopping comedy bits.

Transformers convention

I used to grab drinks with him and other people way funnier than me, like Jeff B. Davis and Dino Stamatopoulos at the Rustic Inn in L.A. “I just flew back from a Transformers convention, and boy are my arms tires,” one of them would quip.

The table became incredibly serious after that as each guy tried to outdo the other. “George W. Bush just flew back from seeing the devastation Katrina caused, and boy are his farms mired” got some groans before someone added, “Bush just flew back from Afghanistan, and boy are his armies tired.”

I think it was Jay who ended the volley by saying he just flew back from a Hitler convention, and boy is his arm tired.

Little did he know that joke would become reality in Biden’s America and that he’d be going to prison for an arm that wasn’t even tired because it didn’t even do anything.

Social distancing

Jay’s 2016 transgression remained a minor black cloud above his career until Dino had a party in 2021 at the tail end of COVID. Johnston arrived with no mask and was hugging everyone and shaking hands like it wasn’t an instant death sentence.

The lefties of La La Land had moved on from Hillary and had focused all their attention on health protocol. Jay’s negligent behavior confirmed their worst fears about him. This guy is a right-winger after all.

This wave of ostracism annoyed Jay and made him more interested in what the “evil” right had been up to all these years. He started to follow Trump more closely. When he heard of the January 6 rally, he texted me. “Are you going to check this out?” he asked.

“F**k no,” I responded. “I will be avoiding it like the plague.” This exchange ended up in court.

When the big day arrived, Jay was curious. Again, this is a British person at a baseball game, so he wasn’t experienced enough to know how these things usually go. At the ripe old age of 53, this was his first rally.

Giant injustice

During the chaos, Jay was handed a police shield because he’s 6’4” and could easily get it out of there. His girlfriend later joked that Jay was on trial for “being tall.” He passed it over his head to police.

In the footage, however, he could just as easily have been using it to attack police. You can’t tell. The FBI began circulating his image and asking the public if they knew who he was.

The sh**bags in L.A. couldn’t wait to respond. This is why I hate those people so much. They have no honor. They don’t just lack the courage of their convictions. They lack courage.

Tim Heidecker (known to many as the guy who got Sam Hyde canceled) couldn’t wait to point out Jay’s involvement. Jeff B. Davis went a step farther and actually spoke to the FBI himself, sharing texts that included Jay saying, “The news has presented it as an attack. It actually wasn’t. Though, it kind of turned into that. It was a mess. Got maced and tear gassed and I found it quite untastic.”

Jeff and Jay must have spent a thousand hours together. I think Jeff is the one who came up with “boy are his farms mired.” I always suspected Jeff was jealous of Jay’s sense of humor, and the backstabbing confirms it.

It wasn’t just Jeff and Tim who couldn’t wait to string up the kindest guy I’ve ever known. The whole L.A. comedy scene piled on. Jay’s 13-year-old daughter was taking an improv class because she wanted to be like her dad. Unfortunately, what got her into the class also got her out, because she was sent home for the sins of her father. “Bob’s Burgers” fired him, his new film “Wing Dad” was shelved, and his entire career came to a screeching halt.

Rat pack

This was going way past brownlisted. A friend of mine was at David Cross’ 60th birthday party recently (David and I were very close, but we broke up after he got TDS). This guest is still friends with Jay and me, but he hates Trump, so he still gets invited to parties. He was pleading with everyone there to see Jay’s side.

“You don’t think it’s insane that he’s facing serious jail time?” he kept asking.

Do you think they gave a s**t about the nuance of the police shield? Do you think any of them had even heard about the shield?

They all — to a man — shrugged their shoulders and harrumphed, “F**k around and find out.” Not one of them showed any sympathy (or dared let anyone else know they felt sympathy) despite knowing Jay for almost 30 years — funny, that.

Three years after Jay’s visit to D.C., he was charged with violation of 18 USC 231, “Obstructing law enforcement officers during a civil disorder,” and sentenced to 366 days in prison as well as two years of supervised release.

I hate that Jay is going to prison for a year, but I love this story because it is a perfect example of the brutal hypocrisy of Hollywood, the left, and everyone who thinks they’re “creative.”

The drama-club nerds don’t grow up with empathy and the ability to see outcasts for the human beings they really are. They grow up to be bitter victims hell-bent on revenge. If that means throwing your buddy in a cage for disagreeing with you, so be it. These are the neighbors who will rat you out to the Stasi if communism ever takes over.

This is why it’s so important that we win this election. The other side is so immoral that it’s not funny.

I donated to Jay’s GiveSendGo. You should too.

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Tucker Carlson described in detail what he believed was a supernatural attack from a demon and said that the incident inspired him to read the Bible.

‘No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but that happened to me.’

The former Fox News host recounted the story in a video clip released on social media from a documentary entitled “Christianities.” He says that the presence of evil is forcing people to turn to God.

“I had a direct experience with it,” said Carlson.

“In the milieu of journalism?” asked John Heers.

“No, in my bed at night,” said Carlson. “And I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.”

He said it was a spiritual attack by a demon or something unseen that left claw marks on his sides and that the marks were still visible a year and a half later.

“I was totally confused, I woke up, and I couldn’t breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate,” Carlson continued. “And I walked around outside and then I walked in and my wife and dogs had not woken up. And they’re very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and I was just in my boxer shorts and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding.”

He said he discussed the incident with his assistant, who is an evangelical Christian.

“That happens, people are attacked in their bed by demons,” she told him, according to Carlson.

“What are you even talking about?” Carlson laughed.

He went on to say that the incident inspired him to read the Bible for himself. He did not read with any commentary or any guidance as he said that he has zero trust in any authorities.

“Do you think God allowed the demon?” asked Heers.

“I have no idea what happened,” Carlson responded. “No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but that happened to me.”

Carlson had previously hosted one of the most popular political shows on cable news, but he left Fox News and began his own show on X, which has since garnered tens of millions of views.

The video of Carlson’s story can be viewed on the documentary’s YouTube channel.

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Since 1988, Nickelodeon has been airing a special called “Kids Pick the President,” which features a mock election designed to engage the youth in the political process and determine the kids’ choice for president.

With the exception of 2004 and 2016, the children involved in the special have accurately predicted the presidential victors.

Well, this year’s results are in!

Dave Landau and the “Normal World” team discuss the kids’ verdict.

According to actual polling, “there’s no way [Trump] is not going to win,” says Dave.

Sadly, the kids disagree.

According to this year’s Nickelodeon election special, Harris received 52% of the vote while Trump received 48%. Let’s hope the youngsters are as wrong about Trump this year as they were in 2016.

“It was still close,” says optimistic Angela Boggs.

“You know that somebody rigged it,” adds Dave skeptically.

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What if Donald Trump narrowly loses the election due to an unnoticed form of election fraud, later confirmed by U.S. Census data? What if Republicans saw this fraud coming but took no action and haven’t even held hearings to address it?

With Ohio and Florida solidly Republican this generation, Democrats have based their electoral strategy on the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Signs show that migration trends and demographic shifts may have bolstered Republican positions in Sun Belt swing states like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina.

In a closely divided nation, acts of misconduct — and the GOP’s lack of a long-term strategy to counter them — will shape the course of history.

If Democrats retain the blue wall, Trump would still have 268 electoral votes — just one short of a potential win through a congressional vote. This outcome remains a real possibility. However, what if the states that Trump would likely win, based on clear population data, should actually yield more than 270 votes, even without a single Rust Belt swing state?

The Constitution mandates a census every 10 years to determine each state’s congressional representation. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, then ties the Electoral College to that state’s congressional delegation based on census reapportionment. But if the census inflated blue state numbers and deflated red state numbers in a closely divided country, it could change the balance of power in Congress and potentially determine the next president.

Based on the census report used for reapportionment, which estimated the population as of April 1, 2020, Texas gained two congressional seats, while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained one. Meanwhile, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia each lost a congressional seat, reducing their electoral votes for president. Although this shift benefited Republicans overall, many believed it still didn’t capture the massive migration from blue states to red states, especially in the Sun Belt.

In a bombshell 2022 report that should have sparked a fierce congressional debate, the Census Bureau admitted to overcounting in eight states and undercounting in six by unprecedented error margins. Five of the six undercounted states were red, and six of the eight overcounted states were blue, with the largest errors affecting red states on both sides. Here are the error rates:

Undercounted states
Arkansas (-5.04%), Florida (-3.48%), Illinois (-1.97%), Mississippi (-4.11%), Tennessee (-4.78%), Texas (-1.92%)
Overcounted states
Delaware (+5.45%), Hawaii (+6.79%), Massachusetts (+2.24%), Minnesota (+3.84%), New York (+3.44%), Ohio (+1.49%), Rhode Island (+5.05%), Utah (+2.59%)

In raw population terms, the largest errors disadvantaged red states and favored blue states:

Florida (-761,094)
Texas (-560,319)
Tennessee (-330,628)

What was the result of these errors? As Hans von Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation noted, “Due to these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats, Texas lost out on one seat, while Minnesota and Rhode Island each retained a seat they should have lost, and Colorado gained an undeserved new seat.”

It’s hard to predict how an accurate count would have affected congressional district boundaries, making it difficult to assess the partisan control of Congress. However, in the Electoral College, if Trump wins the Sun Belt swing states and Harris carries the Rust Belt swing states, instead of Trump losing 270-268, he would win 271-267. The data shows Trump could win with just the Sun Belt. And House control could hinge on a few districts that may have been distorted by Biden’s erroneous census certification.

Why didn’t Republicans hold hearings to investigate this error? In the previous census, there was an overcount of only 36,000 people nationwide, a negligible 0.01% that didn’t affect any state’s reapportionment. Doesn’t anyone want to understand the cause of such a significant error, especially one so favorable to Democrats?

While options for redress in 2022 were limited, Republicans had two years before the next presidential election to challenge the Biden administration’s decision. The apportionment clause grants Congress the authority to direct the census “in such manner as they shall by law direct.”

With control of Congress in 2023, House Republicans could have held hearings to clarify the correct apportionment and added legislation to budget bills mandating a compromise between the original numbers and the revised count starting in 2024.

Though a legal battle would likely follow, the Supreme Court ruled in Utah v. Evans (2002) that the census clause doesn’t forbid using statistical methods to enhance accuracy beyond a direct count.

This error isn’t the only factor giving Democrats an artificial advantage. Even before the recent surge in illegal immigration, estimates suggested California held an extra five seats in the House due to its population of illegal aliens. When Trump tried to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count, the courts blocked his efforts. But when Biden’s inaccurate count favored blue states, officials claimed there was no legal recourse.

It’s disheartening and ironic to reflect on our founding and see how the framers believed the census would be one of the least politicized issues. In Federalist No. 36, Alexander Hamilton wrote, “An actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectually shuts the door to partiality or oppression.”

Today, self-evident truths are often distorted, making it easy for the government to manipulate data with bias and unfairness. In a closely divided nation, these acts of misconduct — and the GOP’s lack of a long-term strategy to counter them — will shape the course of history.

​Census, Reapportionment, Redistricting, Voters, 2024 presidential election, Electoral college, Electoral votes, Opinion & analysis 

After Joe Biden’s recent statement that Trump supporters are “garbage,” it’s hard to tell whether he has it out for the Trump campaign or Kamala’s.

His comments came after Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe — who rose to fame after giving an absolutely brutal and hilarious roast at Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — told a joke at the expense of Puerto Rico.

Hinchcliffe led into his joke by saying there was an island of garbage in the ocean but then said he believed that island of garbage was called Puerto Rico.

The mainstream media has latched onto Hinchcliffe’s joke, using it to paint all Trump supporters as racists and, of course, Nazis. However, when the president of the United States took it upon himself to call Trump supporters “garbage” after Hinchcliffe’s comments — the divisive rhetoric started to really hurt Kamala’s campaign.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said in a statement, adding, “His demonization seems unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

“Yeah, I know, the left never demonizes people. That’s not their thing. Except he just did,” Rick of “The Rick and Bubba Show” comments.

However, it’s not just Biden who’s throwing last minute Hail Mary-style digs at the former president but Bill Clinton as well.

“He keeps talking about how he wants to get even and may have to call out the military on our own people, the danger within. I suppose that includes me, and, I mean basically, he’s asserted the right to go after anybody that he thinks, in his wisdom, is a threat,” Clinton said at a Harris-Walz even in Durham, North Carolina.

Rick can’t believe the hypocrisy in Clinton’s statement.

“We don’t have enough time in the show to list all the people that the Democrats have prosecuted and tried to put in jail or put in jail simply because they oppose them politically. And they’re the ones who have weaponized the government.”

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Who will pick our apples, build our homes, and mow our lawns if not immigrants? Liberal politicians frequently ask this question, and the mainstream media repeats it. The goal is to disarm anyone questioning the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.

Never mind the elitist or racist undertones, to say nothing of any long-term concerns about demographic, cultural, political, or social changes all for the short-term benefit of cheap labor. The underlying message is that these jobs, filled by immigrants, are beneath American citizens.

Someone should fix America and what ails us — and not in some superficial, temporary worker kind of way.

Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) have both recently said the quiet part out loud, but this ideology trickles down to Democratic voters. It’s reflected in people like my once-favorite journalism teacher, who shared a meme saying, “The immigrants ruining your life are Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel, not the apple picker …”

It’s even in my own family. My mother, who moved to Houston from Cleveland, now has a man named Leo mow her grass for $25.

“I could never mow your lawn for that here,” I tell her, speaking from Ohio, where I own a landscaping company with employees on a real payroll with real payroll taxes.

But Mom thinks it is great. Cheap labor keeps her costs down. Our family wants my mother to move back to Ohio. I know she is thinking about it. She sends me links from Zillow of houses she looked at that might be more up my alley.

“I could never afford the house I have here in Ohio,” she says. “It has granite counter tops.”

Then she says something that makes me sad and makes me pause. “I couldn’t afford the house on Concord.”

That’s the house where I grew up and the one my parents, now divorced, sold for under $150,000 in the early 2000s. Houses on the same street now regularly sell for $300,000.

In the long term, my mother has less buying power than she did before, but Leo mows her lawn for practically nothing.

Hiring was bad prior to COVID — telling people to stay home and collect checks sent it into overdrive. In early spring of last year, when I pull up a list of past employees in our database we might rehire, I was stunned by the number who have since died from the heroin and opiate epidemic in the more than 15 years we’ve been in business.

And it just seems like someone should fix America and what ails us — and not in some superficial, temporary worker kind of way.

The birth dearth

Maybe it is the drug epidemic, the destruction of the nuclear family, the nearly 1 million abortions America now performs annually, the cost of living, or the constant messaging that babies are a burden and a nuisance that is hammered into school-age children — especially girls — but Americans are not having babies like they used to.

Democrats will even tell us that Americans are not having enough babies to replace our current population, and we need mass immigration to replace them and replenish the tax base.

While campaigning for Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton suggested Georgia college student Laken Riley might still be alive if her killer had been properly vetted — something that the Biden-Harris administration neglected to do.

“Well If they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,” Clinton said regarding Riley’s murder before suggesting we still need immigration. “But if they are properly vetted and that doesn’t happen. … And America is not having enough babies to keep our population up, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work.”

Clinton’s recent campaigning sounds a lot like “replacement theory” — the native population needs to be replenished and replaced by foreigners — although Wikipedia assures me that this is a “far-right conspiracy theory.” That’s a relief!

Jobs done with your bare hands offer even greater dignity than those in fields like insurance, pharmaceuticals, law, mortgage brokering, or the permanent bureaucracy.

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance sat down recently with New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro to discuss the immigration crisis.. Garcia-Navarro seemed to bristle at the idea that American citizens could fill the jobs needed in the housing sector.

“You could absolutely re-engage American workers,” Vance said while alluding to re-engaging those who have willingly checked out of the workplace or those struggling with mental health or addiction.

“To work in construction?” Garcia-Navarro replied.

“Of course you could. … This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is that it gets us into the mindset of saying that we can only build houses with illegal immigrants — when we have 7 million, just men, who have completely dropped out of the labor force,” Vance said.

“People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages,” Vance continued. “We cannot have an entire business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers. That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris’ border policy.”

Dignity in work

I have heard different versions of the question of who will perform the work elitist leftists deem unclean or undesirable repeated often to defend mass immigration and the hiring of illegal immigrant workers. It is often coupled with the implication that Americans will not do the jobs they are unable to perform from the comfort of their home office and Zoom — farming, construction, or landscaping.

“Every MAGA I’ve ever seen complain about immigrants taking American jobs would never do this,” a viral tweet reads as the workers in the video harvest what appears to be broccoli.

It is somewhat laughable when I hear it, largely because I would put preparing and planting a new lawn from start to finish or building a paver patio — something we have done in the last few weeks with American employees — right up there with roofing, concrete, and indeed farming broccoli as extremely difficult and physically taxing jobs.

Work has inherent dignity — all work does. One could argue that jobs done with your bare hands offer even greater dignity than those in fields like insurance, pharmaceuticals, law, mortgage brokering, or the permanent bureaucracy.

And yet you will hear various demeaning, overtly racist or elitist iterations from liberals to the question of who will pick our produce, build our homes or mow our lawns if we do not allow for illegal immigration? And who will do that cheaply?

What Americans will and won’t do

Jerry Nadler in January provided one the most transparent examples, saying American produce would rot in the fields if it were not for illegal immigrants.

“We need immigrants in this country — forget the fact that our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many immigrants, many illegal immigrants,” the New York congressman said. “The fact is that the birth rate in this country is way below replacement level, which means our population is going to start shrinking. And the ratio of people on Social Security and Medicare is going to increase relative to the number of people supporting them.”

I have wondered what it would look like if I ran my business like that.

Many of my peers or friends in the industry have done just that — as hiring foreign workers is essentially the business model throughout the “green industry” and commonplace at nurseries or with landscaping contractors.

On a cold and rainy March morning in Ohio this spring, I called a friend who also owns a landscaping company to see how he was handling the start of busy season.

“I am dropping off a load of plants,” he said.

I was shocked because at the time, I was wondering if the rain coming down might turn into snow.

“Our guys would quit,” I said, half joking, half not.

His guys were the eight Hondurans he was dropping off plants to.

They are all here legally through the H-2B program for temporary workers.

He houses them on his property — he is required to provide them with housing — and charges them rent. There was a season when he rented them a camper. This year he bought them a house.

If you zoom out — or took a drone image — of the modern business with a staff comprised of foreign workers toiling in the fields, doing the jobs deemed unworthy while living in a camper or a house out back, it must in some ways resemble a reimagining of the Southern plantation.

Maybe we should not live like that, and that business model should not be the goal. Maybe we should fix what ails us here.

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No American truly cares who a large historically leftist newspaper endorses, because for the most part, America is already well aware what their own and the media’s beliefs are.

However, there is a small subset of people who do care: namely, the employees at the Washington Post and the L.A. Times, who are furious that the outlets did not endorse Kamala Harris.

“The only people who were waiting for this were the editorial writers who are so obsessed with their own point of view and so convinced that the world just hangs on their every word,” Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

Now those employees are “quitting en masse.”

“Which is really a wonderful thing to see, because the world definitely needs plenty of unemployed Washington Post and L.A. Times editorial writers who attack their bosses,” Bedford says.

Bedford believes this “is a little foreshadowing” if Kamala Harris loses the election — despite all of the insane measures taken against Trump, including two assassination attempts, to keep him out.

“If she loses this election,” he says, “this kind of turning on the publishers, turning on Bezos, turning on the owner of L.A. Times, turning on each other, is kind of a foreshadowing of the Democrat civil war that you’re going to see.”

“These folks aren’t going to take it lying down,” he continues. “Their power has been decreasing every single day. The more they attack Donald Trump, the higher his popularity goes, but as opposed to looking outward or even inward and saying, ‘Where is his popularity coming from’ and ‘Where have we gone wrong,’ they’re kind of circling around a firing squad to turn on each other.”

“I think that’s good news for everyone except them,” he adds.

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With just days left before the election, Republican former President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News and “60 Minutes.”

The lawsuit, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, accused CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” in an attempt to tip the election toward Democrats.

‘Trump brings this action to redress the immense harm caused to him, to his campaign, and to tens of millions of citizens.’

The network has been accused of editing an answer by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris given during an interview with CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker. In one version released on social media, Harris offered a jumbled response to the question while the version aired on television was significantly cleaned up.

Trump had previously demanded that CBS News release the full, unedited transcript of the interview before filing the lawsuit.

“To paper over Kamala’s ‘word salad’ weakness, CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of judgment in reporting to deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news,” the lawsuit read.

The former president is demanding at least $10 billion in damages from the “malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to confuse, deceive, and mislead the public,” as described in the lawsuit, as well as a jury trial.

“President Trump brings this action to redress the immense harm caused to him, to his campaign, and to tens of millions of citizens in Texas and across America by CBS’s deceptive broadcasting conduct,” Trump’s attorney’s wrote.

Fox News Digital said CBS News did not respond to its request for a comment about the lawsuit.

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Former President Donald Trump won a lawsuit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, alongside the Republican National Committee on Wednesday after law enforcement turned voters away from mail-in voter registration before the original deadline lapsed. As a result, the state ruled in favor of Trump and extended the deadline to request a mail-in ballot from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1.

Although this was a victory for the Trump camp as well as for voters, Pennsylvania officials have stayed silent on how this was able to happen in the first place.

Shapiro was quick to criticize Trump, who he said has ‘attacked our elections over and over,’ but has remained silent following the verdict, failing to clarify whether there will be any investigation into the individuals who violated the Pennsylvania election code.

“Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump said ahead of the ruling. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!”

Prior to the ruling, Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro responded to Trump’s claim, saying he is just trying to “stoke chaos” ahead of the election.

“Republican and Democratic clerks of elections are doing their jobs here in Pennsylvania — and together with law enforcement, they’re making sure only eligible voters are able to register and vote,” Shapiro said in a post on X before the ruling.

“He’s now trying to use the same playbook to stoke chaos, but hear me on this: we will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election — and the will of the people will be respected,” Shapiro continued.

Shapiro was quick to criticize Trump, who he said has “attacked our elections over and over,” but has remained silent following the verdict, failing to clarify whether there will be any investigation into whether individuals violated the Pennsylvania election code.

Blaze News reached out to officials like Shapiro, as well as Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmitt, Attorney General Michelle Henry, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Bucks County Deputy Director of Communications James O’Malley, and Director of Policy and Communications Eric Nagy.

As of this writing, none of them have responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

“This is illegal, and [Shapiro] should do something about operatives in his own party depriving people of their right to vote,” Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said Thursday of the allegations. “If he doesn’t, he is complicit in voter fraud.”

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Socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York reposted a bizarre liberal outreach technique meant to encourage red-state women in relationships with pro-Trump males to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket.

Democrats have been captivated by a theory that married women in red states secretly want to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris but are frightened that their pro-Trump husbands might find out somehow.

Female voters are decidedly siding with Harris while more men are voting for Trump than in previous elections.

Ocasio-Cortez grimly subjected her followers on X to the narrative and encouraged them to leave post-it notes in bathrooms for these fearful women in red states.

“This is real. Your vote is anonymous and confidential,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez.

“Who you voted for is YOUR secret. No one can know unless you tell them,” she added. “When I do instagram Q&As (where people can ask me questions privately and have them publicly answered), this comes up a lot more than you’d think.”

She was referring to a comment from NBC reporter Sahil Kapur.

A woman at Obama’s Pittsburgh rally told me she and her friends, when they go to rural PA, “leave post-it notes in the bathroom saying: NOBODY WILL KNOW WHO YOU VOTED FOR.” Why? She said women in red areas feel stigmatized if they oppose him & don’t all know their vote is private

Kapur went on to report an anecdote from a Democratic volunteer who encountered a man who didn’t know his wife was a registered Democrat and said, “There are no Democrats here,” at the door.

Whether or not red state wives are afraid of their husbands, pollsters have indeed noted a massive gender gap among voters ahead of the 2024 election. Female voters are decidedly siding with Harris while more men are voting for Trump than in previous elections.

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Two Kansas mothers were found dead inside a chest freezer in a cow pasture in rural Oklahoma in April.

Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, went on a road trip to Oklahoma earlier this year. However, they went missing March 30 after driving to the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler’s children — ages 6 and 8. They didn’t make it that far.

The group’s initial plan was to ‘throw an anvil through Butler’s windshield while driving, making it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall off work vehicles.’

Authorities found their car abandoned near the Oklahoma-Kansas border.

Law enforcement suspected foul play after allegedly finding “evidence of a severe injury” and several puddles of blood near the abandoned vehicle in the desolate Oklahoma panhandle.

On April 13, investigators discovered Butler and Kelley’s remains inside a chest freezer that had been buried in a cow pasture, according to affidavits. The freezer reportedly was inside a hole filled with dirt and concrete.

The Daily Mail reported that the mothers were found dead in “pools of blood” inside the freezer.

Investigators discovered that the farming property had ties to the grandmother of one of the women’s children, court documents say.

The property owner told authorities that 43-year-old Tad Bert Cullum — who reportedly rented time on the cow pasture for cattle grazing — asked him on March 28 “if he could cut a tree down, remove a stump, [and] bury some concrete” in an area below the dam where a concrete pile had been sitting above ground. The property owner said Cullum completed the project in the next day or two.

Cullum was the boyfriend of 54-year-old Tifany Adams — the paternal grandmother of Butler’s children.

Court records revealed that Adams’ son — Wrangler Rickman — had been in a custody battle with Butler over their children. The couple also allegedly were going through a divorce. At the time, Rickman reportedly was in an Oklahoma rehabilitation center.

The Daily Mail reported that Butler had court-mandated, supervised visits every Saturday with her children, and Kelley was one of four people listed to supervise the visits.

The outlet added that Butler filed a petition in court March 20 that would grant her more time with her children, with her goal being receiving full custody.

“Adams hated and despised Butler and wanted her dead,” court documents said.

In April, Callum, Adams, 31-year-old Paul Grice, 44-year-old Cora Twombly, and 50-year-old Cole Twombly were arrested in connection with the deaths of the two mothers.

All five suspects are facing two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.

The filing said Adams allegedly purchased three burner phones, stun devices, yellow straps found around the freezer, and the pants that Cullum wore and buried with the victims.

CNN reported that Cora Twombly told her 16-year-old daughter that she was going on a “mission” with Cole Twombly, the girl’s stepfather. The teen said her mother and stepfather told her they would “not have to worry about [Butler] again,” according to Fox News.

The group’s initial plan was to “throw an anvil through Butler’s windshield while driving, making it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall off work vehicles,” Cora Twombly allegedly told her daughter.

‘God’s Misfits is about spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, not about hate and murder.’

Citing court documents, KSNT-TV reported that the Twomblys “served as lookouts on the day of the murder.”

Court documents accuse Grice of stabbing Butler to death while Cullum allegedly killed Kelley — the wife of a pastor.

Grice severely cut his hand in the process of killing Butler, the documents state.

Grice reportedly tossed a stun device and the murder weapon into the grave, along with the clothing he was wearing when he killed Butler. Investigators said the clothing recovered from the grave contained DNA evidence from Grice and Butler.

A preliminary autopsy report was released this week that revealed the cause of death of the two mothers.

The report from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Butler and Kelley were killed from multiple sharp-force trauma, which could be caused by a knife, glass, or anything with a cutting edge.

The Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is expected to release the full report on Nov. 15.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said the five suspects were members of a group called God’s Misfits — reportedly a self-proclaimed anti-government group with a religious affiliation.

In April, the supposed founder of God’s Misfits distanced himself from the suspects.

“Someway, people think they are part of us. Nothing could be more wrong,” the founder posted on Facebook. “God’s Misfits is about spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, not about hate and murder.”

The preliminary hearings are scheduled to begin Dec. 17.

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Sony and PlayStation have shut the doors on Firewalk Studios after the developers lost more than $200 million for their parent company in about two weeks. Sony purchased the studio in 2023.

Before its release, Concord — a space-aged first-person shooter game — was criticized for its excessive and forced diversity themes, including multiple characters who were morbidly obese and even robots with preferred pronouns.

It took just 14 days after its August 23 release date for Sony to shut down operations and pull the game from both physical and digital shelves.

At the time, Sony said certain “aspects of the game” didn’t “land the way [they were] intended” and that Concord would be pulled from the market immediately. It also offered refunds to all customers.

Sony also said it was still determining the “best path ahead” for the game.

‘We took the game offline.’

Fast forward six weeks, and Sony has announced it will close the studio, marking one of the most monetarily-damaging mistakes in recent gaming history.

“Certain aspects of Concord were exceptional,” Sony generously wrote on its blog. “But others did not land with enough players, and as a result we took the game offline. We have spent considerable time these past few months exploring all our options.”

“After much thought, we have determined the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio,” Sony added.

The gaming giant noted that the studio “did not hit” its “targets.”

While the game was a massive failure that took approximately eight years to develop, Sony’s financial implications were even bigger than initially expected.

Initial reports estimated a $100 million loss for the studio, given the cost of similar projects. However, insider testimony has since revealed that the game’s initial development deal was over $200 million, not counting the rest of the studio’s agreement with Sony.

Citing sources familiar with the agreement, Kotaku reported that the $200 million was not even enough to cover the game’s development and did not include the purchase of Concord’s intellectual property rights or the purchase of Firewalk Studios itself.

‘Putting new things into the world is critical.’

Firewalk has since issued a lengthy final statement on X, disregarding the financial losses and the real reasons its game was widely rejected.

“Firewalk is signing off one last time,” it wrote.

The company stated that the project “landed much more narrowly than hoped,” but qualified its statement with a claim that the market is “heavily consolidated.”

The studio then justified its project by saying that while “other aspects of the IP didn’t land,” the idea of “putting new things into the world is critical to pushing the medium forward.”

The studio closes out the post with “end transmission,” as if it were written in the fantasy world it had created. This odd disconnect, which largely ignores the reality of a monumental ideological failure, echoes similar sentiments that DEI-laden games have pushed out recently.

Many studios have acted as if they are playing with Monopoly money, which has cost big studios hundreds of millions while often hiring ideological allies to push their viewpoints through their games (see Unknown 9 and Dustborn).

A recent Suicide Squad game cost Warner Bros. $200 million.

Unknown 9: Awakening is estimated at a loss between $80-$120 million.

Other games like Dustborn simply blew through $1.56 million in grants.

Only time will tell whether other studios seemingly come to their senses the way Sony has and cut their losses before it’s too late.

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Pennsylvania Judge Angelo Foglietta handed Elon Musk and his America PAC a legal victory on Thursday.

Foglietta decided not to immediately move forward with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s lawsuit against Musk and his PAC’s $1 million sweepstakes.

‘Mr. Musk was named as a defendant as a publicity stunt. … We all know that he is a very busy man who cannot just materialize anywhere he wants to with 12 hours’ notice.’

Instead, the judge placed the case on hold while a federal court considers whether it will move forward with the lawsuit or send it back to the state.

Musk’s legal team filed a “motion of removal” on Wednesday to move the case to federal court, arguing that the issues mentioned in Krasner’s lawsuit “raise significant questions of federal law that are within the exclusive province” of the federal court.

“The Complaint, in truth, has little to do with state-law claims of nuisance and consumer protection,” Musk’s attorneys wrote. “Rather, although disguised as state law claims, the Complaint’s focus is to prevent Defendants’ purported ‘interference’ with the forthcoming Federal Presidential Election by any means.”

The decision allows Musk to continue the giveaway, which provides $1 million per day to random registered swing state voters who signed the America PAC’s petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. The daily giveaway will continue through Election Day.

To be eligible, voters must be from a battleground state: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, or Wisconsin.

Krasner accused Musk of “brazenly” continuing the daily lottery, claiming it is an “illegal lottery scheme to influence voters.”

Musk was ordered to attend the hearing on Wednesday but did not. As a result, Krasner is now pushing for sanctions against Musk for his failure to attend.

Outside the courtroom, prosecutor John Summers stated that he is seeking to have the case returned to state court, claiming it “involves state law issues.”

He called Musk’s failure to attend the recent hearing “both cowardly as well as irresponsible.”

Krasner’s lawsuit also accused Musk and his PAC of failing to include clear rules for the sweepstakes and details on how they plan to use applicants’ information. He also claimed that the winners are not chosen at random.

Defense lawyer Matthew Haverstick accused the prosecution of naming Musk in the lawsuit to create a “circus atmosphere,” stating that the PAC should have been the only defendant in the case.

“Mr. Musk was named as a defendant as a publicity stunt,” Haverstick said. “We all know that he is a very busy man who cannot just materialize anywhere he wants to with 12 hours’ notice.”

The Department of Justice previously warned the PAC that the lottery may violate federal laws but has taken no action against it.

In response to the judge’s decision to halt the case, Musk wrote on X, “American Justice FTW [for the win].”

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The thing I was most worried about in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election was that the left clearly had a comprehensive plan and the right didn’t appear to. It was a strategy to control, manipulate, and dominate every aspect of the electoral process — and it worked. Now, leftists are doing it again in 2024, and their playbook hasn’t changed.

Their plan was spearheaded primarily by Michael Podhorzer from the AFL-CIO and a massive conglomeration of more than 200 progressive groups called the Democracy Defense Coalition. The coalition created a five-step election strategy that covered everything from the voting process to street-level demonstrations. Their goal was clear: ensure victory by any means necessary. These were their “Five Steps to Victory,” which are still being used in 2024.

Step 1: Winning the vote

This is a seemingly obvious goal, right? But in 2020, voting looked very different. Pandemic-era rule changes opened the floodgates to mass mail-in voting, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting. With the support of armies of activists and lawyers, the left made sure those new systems worked to their advantage.

This time, it’s ramped up. Kamala Harris herself has promised “teams” of lawyers to attack challenges to pandemic-era voting changes, while Democrat lawyer Marc Elias, who stopped over 60 election-related lawsuits last time, is poised for another round. He’s calling 2024 “the most litigious election in American history,” with 179 lawsuits already filed across 38 states.

The left’s strategies to disrupt, delay, and discredit the electoral process will likely create chaos, making us question our institutions, our rights, and even each other.

But it’s not just people like Elias. This year, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice has sued states like Virginia, Alabama, and Wisconsin for simple measures like removing noncitizens from voter rolls or switching to paper ballots.

Ensuring that every vote is legitimate? Apparently, that’s not part of the agenda for “winning the vote.”

Step 2: Winning the count

Why should this even be an issue? If the votes are valid, counting should be straightforward. But for the left, it’s critical. Their mindset hinges on shady elections, where election laws are “flexible” and the public is unsure about what’s legitimate. Disputes will arise, and you can bet they’ll have battalions of lawyers ready to jump in.

In 2020, their war-game simulations involved calling for recounts in swing states. It’s a safe bet we’ll see a similar strategy this time. Disruptions and doubt will dominate the days after the election, with Democrats and their allies questioning every inch of the counting process.

Step 3: Winning the certification

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) recently stated that he expects Democrats to object to the electoral count if Trump wins. Not “maybe” or “probably” — he expects it. Democrats like Jamie Raskin (D-Calif.) have already hinted that they’ll object to Trump’s “interference with the process.” But what’s considered “interference” these days? Standing up for election integrity seems to qualify.

Certification, a simple step in a functioning democracy, will likely become yet another battleground. The left’s playbook has no tolerance for a result the left doesn’t control. If the results go against the left, objections and accusations of “shady” electoral practices will fill the headlines.

Step 4: Winning the Electoral College

This step could be explosive. Left-wing media are already priming the public with headlines like Politico’s recent article, “The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway.” Their theory? Trump will rely on Republican support to endorse alternate electors or, if the electoral votes fall short, send the election to the House, where Republicans could select him as president.

Democrats accuse Trump of plotting a plan they have mapped out themselves. They’ll claim manipulation and try to delegitimize the Electoral College process, even though it’s been a constitutional safeguard since our nation’s founding.

Step 5: Winning the transition

Traditionally, the transition of power is a formality. But the left’s strategy suggests otherwise. According to the left’s 2020 playbook, this final step offers opportunities for “disruption” — whatever they can manufacture. If Trump wins, expect the usual suspects to re-emerge with protests and accusations, all under the banner of “defending democracy.”

Preparing for unrest

If 2020 was any indication, the weeks following the election may be a powder keg. In 2020, the Democracy Defense Coalition went so far as to organize bail funds in anticipation of mass arrests, with a separate fund ready for families of those “killed in violence” on Election Day. The American public remembers the chaos of that year.

Since then, however, progressive groups have been eerily quiet. Are they planning a quieter assault this time — or just waiting for the right moment to pounce?

Either way, if Trump wins, expect that their playbook has a contingency plan for unrest. The left’s strategies to disrupt, delay, and discredit the electoral process will likely create chaos, making us question our institutions, our rights, and even each other.

This time, however, conservatives have a chance to prepare. It’s essential that the GOP and Trump’s team are ready for every twist and turn, from vote-counting controversies to the transition itself.

The only way to counter the left’s plan is with transparency, vigilance, and a firm commitment to our constitutional processes. If we don’t, the chaos of 2020 may feel like a dress rehearsal compared to what lies ahead.

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Organizers of the main fundraising portal for the Democratic Party have been subpoenaed by Republicans in Congress over accusations that they aided illegal foreign donations.

‘The Committee’s investigation uncovered that foreign actors might be taking advantage of ActBlue’s inadequate security protocols.’

Republican Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, who is also the chair of the Committee on House Administration, said the committee had requested documents from ActBlue related to its donor verification policies. The platform’s lax policies might be allowing foreign actors to “launder illicit money” into political campaigns, the letter claimed.

“We cannot allow foreign actors to influence our elections through campaign financing,” said Steil in a statement Wednesday.

“The Committee’s investigation uncovered that foreign actors might be taking advantage of ActBlue’s inadequate security protocols,” he added. “To ensure that foreign money is not being laundered through ActBlue, we are requesting a series of documents and communications related to their donor security and verification policies.”

ActBlue has collected over $1.5 billion in donations from about 7 million donors. The portal’s organizers issued a brief response to the subpoena Thursday.

“ActBlue has received Chairman Steil’s latest inquiry and will respond to address the continued inaccuracies and misrepresentations about our platform, as we have done previously,” the statement read. “We rigorously protect donors’ security and maintain strict anti-fraud compliance practices. We have zero tolerance for fraud on our platform.”

Critics of the platform have documented suspicious irregularities in donor records that have led some to accuse ActBlue of illegal money laundering. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called on the Federal Election Commission to investigate the donor portal over the accusations.

Earlier in October the portal said it had dumped several political action committees that had been accused of being “scam PACs” inappropriately spending donation money meant for campaigns.

“Preventing foreign interference in U.S. elections has been my top priority as Chairman, and this next step in our investigation is crucial to achieving that goal,” Steil concluded.

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Tony Hinchcliffe of “Kill Tony” left America clutching their sides from laughter after his killer performance at the Netflix roast of Tom Brady, but his jokes weren’t as well-received at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

“It is absolutely wild times, it really, really is, and you know, there’s a lot going on. Like, I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean, right?” Hinchcliffe asked the rally attendees.

“I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he added, while the crowd reacted in a groan — just like at a roast.

“Everyone knows it’s a joke, right? Adults are familiar with this form of entertainment, right?” Stu Burguiere asks Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program,” noting that the Netflix Tom Brady special is “one of the most watched things of the entire year.”

Even Jon Stewart got the joke and poked fun at those offended in a segment on “The Daily Show.”

“Now, obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before Election Day and roasting a key voting demographic, probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s really just doing his job,” Stewart said.

Stewart then played a clip of Hinchcliffe from the Tom Brady roast, laughing alongside his offensive jokes.

“Yes, yes, of course, terrible, boo,” Stewart comments, suppressing more laughter, and adding, “I find that guy very funny. So I’m sorry. I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes, that’d be like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not have — oh.”

However, Stewart’s response is rare, as it appears that many Americans are not aware of this form of comedy. Especially the mainstream media, who is now using Hinchcliffe’s joke as evidence that Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was about “hate” and akin to the 1939 Nazi rally at the same venue.

“Look at what the left is doing, every step of the way, they’re the ones that wreck the fun,” Glenn says.

Stu thinks this might spell disaster for the Democrats, telling Glenn that “when you suck the fun out of life, you don’t win. It’s not a winning long-term position.”

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A video of an altercation between a Trump supporter and poll workers in South Carolina went viral on social media Thursday.

The video shows the man get into a heated argument with poll workers in Orangeburg who demand he take off his hat. The hat read, “Let’s Go Brandon!” according to WIS-TV. The workers told him he could not vote if he wore the hat.

‘Voters are not allowed in South Carolina to wear articles of clothing that displays any candidate, political party or ballot issue.’

Although he flings the hat out of the polling area, he and one poll worker continue arguing before she appears to assault him, video showed. The poll workers hold him back as he swings at her.

WIS reported that the Orangeburg County Department of Public Safety responded to the incident and it was under investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

According to WIS, voters in South Carolina are not allowed to wear articles of clothing that display any candidate, political party, or ballot issue.

Some on social media used the video to blame former President Donald Trump and call on voters to reject him at the ballot box.

“A Trump supporter in Orangeburg, South Carolina refused to take off his Trump cap (prohibited inside precincts) and assaulted election workers,” responded activist Keith Boykin. “We must vote to stop Trump, or MAGA will get bolder every day we normalize a twice-impeached, convicted felon insurrectionist.”

Others argued that the poll workers were in the wrong because the “Let’s Go Brandon!” hat was not technically electioneering. Some noted that the poll worker appeared in the video to assault him first.

The video garnered 2.4 million views in just one of the instances where it was posted to the X platform.

A similar incident unfolded in Bexar County in Texas on Oct. 24 when a 63-year-old man allegedly punched a 69-year-old poll worker for telling him he had to take off his “Make America Great Again” hat after he voted. The district attorney said they would “vigorously prosecute” the man over the alleged assault.

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While both the Trump and Harris campaigns have been focusing their efforts in the swing states, they’ve also put some serious time into Texas, which unfortunately is no longer reliably red. In fact, it’s been trending blue for a while now — and Democrats want to capitalize on this.

Afterall, when and where did Queen Bey show up to campaign for Kamala Harris?

In the Lone Star State. At the end of election season.

While Beyoncé showing up in Houston, Texas, for political purposes might be a unique occurrence, her message certainly wasn’t.

“Beyoncé — wow, she said something so unique, so different than any other celebrity has said for why they’re voting for Kamala Harris. I’ve never heard this kind of profound and moral and compassionate take on why people just have to vote for Kamala Harris,” says Allie Beth Stuckey sarcastically before playing a clip of Beyoncé’s speech.

“I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother — a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies,” the singer said to a cheering crowd.

The math isn’t mathing.

“In one breath, she is saying we need a country that is great for our children and grandchildren” so “we should have the right to kill children,” Allie says, pointing out the glaring hypocrisy.

Beyoncé went on to perpetuate the lie that “there’s going to be a Trump abortion ban” when the reality is Kamala Harris is the only candidate who has promised to “do something at the federal level” regarding abortion.

“Trump has said he’s not going to do anything at the federal level about abortion. … He’s saying it’s left up to the states,” whereas Harris has said she’s going to “federalize Roe,” which “allows abortion through all nine months,” says Allie.

Federalizing Roe means that “a doctor signs off saying, ‘Yeah, this is for the woman’s health,”’ granting approval for a woman to proceed with an abortion regardless of the state she lives in.

“But health is not physical health,” explains Allie. “Health can also mean mental health,” “emotional health,” or “family situation,” so “it’s virtually for any reason through all nine months. … Federalizing that standard would mean that no state can have any restriction on abortion.”

To hear more of Allie’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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