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Critics are wondering whether the Biden-Harris Department of Justice will hold Jimmy Kimmel to the same standard to which it held pro-Trump social media influencer Douglass Mackey, who was convicted for supposed “election interference” and sentenced to prison last year for memes.

There is cause to be skeptical. After all, the DOJ has a habit of holding conservatives to a higher standard than its ideological allies.

Former Trump advisers Stephen Bannon and Peter Navarro were convicted for supposed contempt of Congress, whereas Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Attorney General Eric Holder got off scot-free. The proudly pro-abortion DOJ has almost exclusively targeted pro-life activists when it comes to FACE Act charges. The same DOJ adopted a draconian and in some cases “fact-free approach” when prosecuting Jan. 6 protesters after previously treating Black Lives Matter rioters with kid gloves.

The titular host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” has recently made a number of desperate appeals to potential voters, asking them to get out and vote — just not for President Donald Trump.

In his monologue Wednesday, the Harris booster said, “You have to vote. If you can vote early, vote early. If you can’t vote early, vote on time. If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.”

‘Biden’s DOJ sent Douglass Mackey to prison for sharing this same joke.’

Libs of TikTok responded, “Wasn’t Douglass Mackey sentenced to prison for doing something similar? Will @TheJusticeDept investigate Jimmy Kimmel?”

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) noted, “Douglass Mackey was sent to prison for this.”

“Biden’s DOJ sent Douglass Mackey to prison for sharing this same joke about Hillary,” tweeted former Salomon Brothers and Citigroup investment banker John LeFevre. “Another example of the weaponized lawfare and two-tiered justice that awaits us if Kamala wins.”

Mackey chimed in, tweeting, “Jimmy Kimmel told his joke to an audience of millions. The joke meme I sent out didn’t even reach more than 100 people until Buzzfeed and Wired reported on it.”

Mackey was arrested in 2021, convicted in New York for supposed “election interference,” and sentenced in October 2023 to seven months in prison by an Obama-appointed judge, Ann M. Donnelly.

At the time, Trump said, “They’re putting Douglass Mackey in jail for sharing a joking meme about Hillary Clinton seven years ago. Nobody ever heard of anything like that.”

According to the Biden-Harris DOJ, “Between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to ‘vote’ via text message or social media which was legally invalid.”

The Intercept noted that there is no federal law against lying about election mechanisms or the electoral process. Mackey was instead indicted under a Reconstruction-era statue known as Section 241 or the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” which prohibits conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” trying to exercise a constitutionally or federally protected right.

The DOJ was evidently proud of the mental gymnastics required to charge the Clinton critic, stating that his prosecution was “groundbreaking.”

Mackey is appealing his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court, should that fail.

According to Mackey and amici curiae, “The First Amendment tolerates narrow, clear statutes that target knowingly false speech concerning the time, place, and manner, or other technical mechanics of an election. But Section 241 is not such a statute. This Court should reverse the decision of the district court.”

“When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts. Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same?” Mackey tweeted on Thursday.

‘Force these scumbags to live by their own rules.’

One X user noted that Kimmel’s “violation is worse than what [Mackey was] convicted for, and he transmitted this over federally licensed airwaves. The @FCC, @FBI, #FEC and #DOJ should be contacted, @ABC should be immediately sanctioned, and @Jimmykimmel needs to be investigated. Anything less is selective and preferential justice.”

Rob Eno, Blaze Media’s director of content marketing, quipped, “It would be a real shame if everyone flooded the US DOJ crime tip line and ask them to charge Jimmy Kimmel with the same crime they charged Douglass Mackey with. A real shame. I’m not telling you to to go this link and do it.”

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh tweeted, “I’m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules.”

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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing a criminal referral for allegedly making “criminally false statements” about a July 2020 report that downplayed the number of COVID-related nursing home deaths.

On Wednesday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic referred Cuomo to the Department of Justice, arguing that he lied about his involvement in the New York State Department of Health’s report. However, the subcommittee’s formal referral does not compel the DOJ to move forward with further investigation.

‘The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo’s prior allegedly wrongful conduct.’

According to a draft of the subcommittee’s criminal referral, the report undercounted the number of deaths by 46%.

Cuomo repeatedly claimed he did not recall seeing the report before its public release, Blaze News previously reported. However, evidence uncovered by the subcommittee allegedly revealed that Cuomo personally made edits to the document.

The referral, signed by Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), accused the former governor of making a “conscious, calculated effort” to skirt responsibility for the nursing home death scandal.

“Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the select subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability,” Wenstrup wrote in the referral letter. “The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo’s prior allegedly wrongful conduct when evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements described.”

A June 2020 email from Cuomo’s former assistant allegedly revealed that he had made edits to the report before its release. He requested that it include language emphasizing how “community spread among employees or possibly visitation by family and friends were relevant factors” in the deaths. His edits were included in the final version of the report.

Additionally, congressional documents allegedly uncovered that Cuomo’s aides requested “two copies” of the report be sent to his residence before its release.

Cuomo fired back at the criminal referral by filing his own against the subcommittee.

The former governor’s criminal referral reads, “This interrogation far exceeded the Subcommittee’s jurisdiction and appears to have been an improper effort to advantage the interests of private litigants against Governor Cuomo, warranting investigation by the Department of Justice.”

Richard Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, stated, “This taxpayer-funded farce is an illegal use of Congress’s investigative authority.”

“The governor said he didn’t recall because he didn’t recall. The committee lied in their referral just as they have been lying to the public and the press,” Azzopardi stated.

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Joe Rogan is setting the record straight.

After interviewing Donald Trump last week, Rogan confirmed that an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris is not a foregone conclusion. However, he explained that Harris’ team refused to compromise on the conditions of the interview, which is why it did not happen.

‘I don’t give a f*** what we talk about. I really don’t. I just want to talk to you: Who the f*** are you?’

According to Rogan, Harris’ team demanded that he travel to the vice president and insisted that the interview be limited to just one hour.

“Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday [Oct. 29], but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour,” Rogan explained. “I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.”

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There are two problems with their demands.

First, Rogan always conducts interviews for “The Joe Rogan Experience” from his Austin podcast studio. Trump traveled to Rogan, so Harris should be expected to follow the same conditions as every other guest. Second, Rogan’s podcasts are long-form, unedited discussions that last hours. To limit an interview to one hour would be to change the format of his podcast.

Despite the well-known show format, Harris supporters lashed out at Rogan and accused him of being a “diva.”

But in the latest episode of his podcast — a conversation with Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, hosts of “Triggernometry” — Rogan revealed that he tried everything in his power to make the interview happen.

“She had an opportunity to come. You could look at this and you could say, ‘Oh, you’re being a diva,’ but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas. And I literally gave them an open invitation,” Rogan said. “I said, ‘Any time.’ I said, ‘If she’s done at 10:00, we’ll come back here at 10:00.’ I go, ‘I’ll do it at 9:00 in the morning, I’ll do it at 10:00 p.m., I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up, she wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull and f***in’ party on.'”

Rogan, moreover, explained the impetus behind Harris’ interest in his podcast: because Donald Trump did it first.

“She actually reached out when she found out that he was coming on. So their camp reached out to me. So I said, ‘Great, I would love to talk to her.’ But it was very difficult to tie it down,” he said, referring to the Harris campaign’s conditions.

“If I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room, and they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure, according to the Bret Baier interview on Fox, like, people were waving him off,” he explained. “That’s a distraction.”

Finally, Rogan explained what his “goal” would be if he interviewed Harris: to get to know her as a human being.

“Like, my whole goal with her and with him is just talk. Just sit, have a conversation like a human being,” he said. “You find out things about people, you get a sense of them, at least, a real sense. That was it. I don’t give a f*** what we talk about. I really don’t. I just want to talk to you: Who the f*** are you?”

Perhaps that is why Harris’ team isn’t sending her to Austin to chat with Rogan: They are scared of what would happen if Harris sat for a three-hour, unedited, uncensored interview in which the interviewer sought to understand Kamala Harris, the human — not Kamala Harris, the politician.

The Harris campaign did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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One thing the left is really good at is misinterpreting something Trump said or did and using that twisted lie to bolster their “Trump is racist, sexist, fascist, etc.” narrative.

For example, CNN’s Van Jones took a section of Trump’s Agenda 47 that laid out plans to combat the rampant crime the Biden administration has allowed to escalate and turned it into Trump is “locking up all the black men.”

Dave Rubin plays the clip of Jones explaining why fighting crime is wrong to Bill Maher.

“This is what’s on his website. He says he’s going to ‘require local law enforcement to do stop and frisk,’ which 80% goes against black people,” Jones began, reading from Agenda 47.

“He says he’s going to ‘instruct the DOJ to dismantle every street gang’ — in other words, the feds are going to be in your neighborhood trying to figure out which one of your kids should go to federal prison.”

“He says he’s going to ‘indemnify all cops,’ so you can’t sue cops basically,” Jones continued, adding, “Black men are about to get conned.”

“The best con artist in the world is going to tell black men, ‘I’m going to lift you up.’ In fact, he’s going to lock you up. He’s going to lock you up for the stuff that Kamala Harris is trying to decriminalize,” he ranted.

Dave points out some irony in Jones’ words.

“Van, why do you think that all black men are in street gangs?” he asks rhetorically.

Further, “They don’t do these things to lawful people,” he says. “Now, that doesn’t mean that there can’t be a bad cop that might do a stop and frisk unfairly or unjustly — and that should be dealt with.”

“What Donald Trump is talking about there is that in cities — like in the city [Van Jones and Bill Maher] shot that very video right there, Los Angeles — the mayor of L.A. is no longer doing proper policing. You can trespass and jump over people’s fences and set up a tent and they won’t do anything; you can smoke crack outside of city hall,” says Dave.

As for Jones’ insinuation that Donald Trump is racist against black men, it’s easily debunked considering “Trump literally had lowest all-time black unemployment.”

To hear more, watch the clip above.

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Less than a week from Election Day, six crucial Senate seats remain within striking distance for Republicans.

Republicans are currently in the minority, holding 49 seats, while Democrats and Independents combined hold the remaining 51 seats. While Republicans would have to flip only two seats to win back the majority, there are several pickup opportunities for the GOP.

Despite his previous double-digit wins, Casey’s polling advantage has plummeted to just a few points, which is a good sign for his Republican challenger.

The two most likely seats Republicans are looking to secure are in Montana and West Virginia. West Virginia’s Senate seat is an open race between Republican Gov. Jim Justice and Democratic candidate Glenn Elliott. The candidates are running to replace Independent Sen. Joe Manchin after he announced his retirement in November 2023.

Cook Political Report has rated the Senate race in West Virginia as “solid Republican,” which is reflected in the massive polling advantage Justice boasts over Elliott. In addition to the Mountain State, Republicans are enjoying some rosy poll numbers farther west.

In Montana, Republican candidate Tim Sheehy has pulled Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, who has previously won his seat by narrow margins. Recent polls put the three-term Democratic Senator at a substantial polling deficit, and Cook Political Report rated the seat “lean Republican.”

Although the race is closer than the one in West Virginia, the tide has turned in Sheehy’s favor, and Tester is taking notice. Tester’s campaign has repeatedly labeled him “bipartisan” and has even held off from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, making him the only Democratic Senator to do so. Tester’s decision to distance himself from his party is reflective of Sheehy’s momentum in the red state.

While winning Montana and West Virginia would be enough for Republicans to flip the Senate, there are four more seats rated “toss-ups” that the GOP could secure.

In Michigan, Republican candidate Mike Rogers and Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin are going head-to-head in the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Although Slotkin initially had a several point polling advantage, Rogers has narrowed her lead and even surpassed the Democrat in some polls.

Another key race Republicans have managed to tighten is in Ohio, where Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown is battling GOP candidate Bernie Moreno. Although Brown has won all three of his terms by a substantial margin, Moreno has chipped away and even pulled ahead of the incumbent’s increasingly narrow polling advantage.

In Pennsylvania, Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey is facing a similar challenge from Republican candidate Dave McCormick. Casey first won in 2006 by a significant margin and easily held onto his seat for two more terms. Despite his previous double-digit wins, Casey’s polling advantage has plummeted to just a few points, which is a good sign for his Republican challenger.

Further east in Wisconsin, Republican candidate Eric Hovde has gained ground against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Like other races along the Rust Belt, Baldwin’s initial polling advantage has rapidly diminished as Election Day approaches. Although the race remains tight, Republicans remain optimistic.

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Liberal media news anchors had a complete meltdown on Wednesday over former President Donald Trump’s comical comeback to President Joe Biden’s “garbage” insult.

The controversy started on Sunday during Trump’s Madison Square Garden campaign rally when insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

‘President Biden … inadvertently called Trump supporters garbage.’

Democrats’ media allies wasted no time torching Hinchcliffe and Trump for the offensive joke.

On Tuesday, Biden addressed Hinchcliffe’s comedy, stating, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.”

In an attempt to mitigate the damage from alienating roughly half of American voters, the White House clarified that President Biden’s “garbage” comment was aimed specifically at Hinchcliffe and not at all Trump supporters.

The liberal media jumped on board with the spin, publishing Biden’s statement as: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.“

Without missing a beat, Trump humorously fired back at Biden for his insult by holding a press conference on Wednesday from inside a garbage truck while sporting an orange reflective vest.

Trump asked, “How do you like my garbage truck?”

“This truck is in honor of [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] and Joe Biden,” he added. “For Joe Biden to make that statement — it’s really a disgrace!”

Trump continued to troll the left by wearing the orange vest at his rally in Wisconsin that evening.

Democrats’ media allies had a meltdown in response.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough accused Trump and his supporters of “hypocrisy” for being outraged over Biden’s “misstatement … which he quickly corrected.”

He called it “laughable,” claiming that Trump says similarly offensive remarks “every day.”

“And then you turn on Fox News, ‘Oh, how could anybody do this? I’ve never seen this before,'” Scarborough said in a high-pitched, mocking tone.

He accused Fox News anchors of sitting idly by “while Donald Trump watched violence erupt on January 6th.”

“The gaslighting never ends,” Scarborough continued. “They really do think that their voters are that stupid. It makes me sad for those voters that Donald Trump and people on TV on other channels really think Americans are that dumb.”

CBS’ Norah O’Donnell also addressed Trump’s response, calling it a “campaign stunt” that gave Biden “no grace” for his “gaffe.”

“Former President Donald Trump was in North Carolina earlier, and tonight, he is also in Wisconsin,” O’Donnell said. “He landed in Green Bay just a short time ago and then pulled this campaign stunt, speaking to reporters from a garbage truck, proof that he and his supporters are giving no grace to a gaffe by President Biden where he, in his explanation, inadvertently called Trump supporters garbage. This, of course, was in response to that racist joke about floating garbage told at a Trump rally just last weekend.”

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Shocking documents have revealed that San Jose State University asked other schools for financial compensation after they forfeited against SJSU, following reports that SJSU has a male athlete on its women’s volleyball team.

SJSU features a 6’1″ male — Blaire Fleming, born Brayden — on its roster, which has resulted in five schools issuing forfeits: Boise State, Nevada, Southern Utah, Utah State, and Wyoming.

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request to Boise State, it has been confirmed that SJSU asked for money from two of those schools over alleged lost revenue from home games.

‘I would ask to be made whole at the very least.’

Through the FOIA request, it was revealed that Jeff Konya, San Jose State athletics director, sent an email to Boise State Athletics Director Jeremiah Dickey asking for compensation for its September 28 forfeit.

“Your institution’s arbitrary decision not to play an otherwise eligible NCAA team has resulted in harm to SJSU financially and our institution’s brand,” Konya wrote, according to OutKick.

Konya claimed just over $1,000 was lost when factoring all game-day revenue streams.

“We estimate we missed out on approximately $1,250 in game day revenue by not playing the [match] on Saturday when you add all of the various revenue sources (i.e., concessions, parking among others). I would ask to be made whole at the very least,” the SJSU exec wrote.

OutKick confirmed with SJSU that it asked both Boise State and Utah State — who forfeited an October 23 game — for compensation in the same amount.

SJSU did not ask for money from Nevada, Southern Utah, or Wyoming, however.

While its October 26 game against Nevada was moved to SJSU’s campus, this was only a formality to prevent SJSU from having to travel to Reno to accept the forfeit.

SJSU staff has remained fairly silent over the ordeal, largely ignoring the issue at hand while claiming the true injustice came in the form of denying their athletes a chance to play.

“I know that it’s definitely taken a toll on many of them. They’re receiving messages of hate, which is completely ridiculous to me,” coach Todd Kress said in mid-October.

“When we had our first forfeit, there was a lot of heartbreak,” the coach continued. “And now, we’ve kind of, not come to expect it, but we know the certain programs that may forfeit. It still does hurt our student athletes when we don’t play a match, but I think they’ve come to accept it a little more, and I think that’s a very unfortunate thing to say.”

However, SJSU player Brooke Slusser painted a different picture, stating that meetings with school officials have predominantly focused on the well-being of Fleming, not his female teammates.

Over at Nevada, women’s volleyball captain Sia Liilii made shocking allegations against her school’s athletic director after players organized the forfeit.

Liilii said players were told they “weren’t educated enough” on the topic, and “didn’t understand the science” behind transgenderism. Liilii also said Nevada Athletic Director Stephanie Rempe told the girls that it was actually Fleming who is “at a disadvantage” when competing against women, due to being on testosterone blockers and estrogen supplements.

In a statement to Blaze News, Rempe firmly denied the accusations made against her and said she did not say those things.

When asked whether or not Rempe believes that men or “transgender women” should be able to compete in the female category of NCAA athletics, a Nevada spokesperson simply said the school “stands by” its statement.

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Earlier this week, Americans experienced difficulty tracking down President Donald Trump’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan on YouTube, which presently has over 41.5 million views on the Google-owned platform. The hotly anticipated interview was also glaringly absent from the platform’s trending page on Monday.

Rather than connect would-be viewers with the unfiltered interview, YouTube inundated users with results for antagonistic legacy media reports about the interview and unrelated videos — a redirection strategy that Rogan indicated had a dramatic impact on traffic.

Rogan blasted YouTube on the Wednesday episode of his show, telling stand-up comic Francis Foster and political commentator Konstantin Kisin that the apparent censorship effort reeked of desperation.

“There’s no way this was a mistake,” said Rogan. “That’s too convenient.”

The titular host of “The Joe Rogan Experience” noted that he initially gave YouTube the benefit of the doubt: “I’m like, ‘I’m sure it was a mistake. There’s no way that it was on purpose.’ And so if you googled ‘Rogan Trump,’ you could only get clips. You couldn’t watch the whole episode. You couldn’t find it.”

‘There is massive far left censorship at Google/YouTube.’

David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-owner of the software company Basecamp, shared footage of his unsuccessful attempt to find the interview on Monday, tweeting, “Tried to find the Rogan/Trump interview on YouTube but no matter what I search, it’s not coming up. Would be beyond bonkers if they’re actively trying to suppress it. Must be a glitch, right?”

Hansson, whose original concerns were amplified by Rogan, noted further that numerous variations of his search, including “jre trump” and “trump on rogan,” similarly failed to produce the desired result.

Rogan told Foster and Kisin that not only could potential voters not find the video, YouTube refused to highlight the Trump interview in its trending section, despite the video far surpassing the competition by leaps and bounds. He indicated that this omission revealed either that the section is meaningless or that something foul was afoot.

According to Rogan, amid YouTube’s apparent election-time censorship attempts, Elon Musk — who stressed that “there is massive far left censorship at Google/YouTube” and noted that “Alphabet (Google/YouTube) is the #1 biggest donor to the Democratic Party” — reached out to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, successfully porting the entire interview to X to ensure its visibility.

“So now it has way more views,” said Rogan, referring to the tens of millions of additional views it has since netted on Musk’s platform.

‘They hate it because ideologically they’re opposed to the idea of him being more popular.’

“You can’t suppress s***. It doesn’t work,” said Rogan. “This is the internet. This is 2024. People are going to realize what you’re doing. If you try to make it so that something can’t come up in a search engine because it’s too popular — first of all, if that’s not trending, then you tell me what the f*** is.”

YouTube said in a statement Monday evening:

Since airing Friday, the interview has generated over 34 million views on YouTube and counting, making it Joe Rogan’s most viewed episode of the year. For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently. Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video. We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon.

While Rogan indicated that the censorship was unmistakable, he expressed openness to the possibility that rather than an institutional effort on the part of Google to once again interfere for the ostensible benefit of Democrats, “it could have been like some rogue engineer. There’s a lot of people that are working behind the scenes.”

According to OpenSecrets, individuals at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have donated over $2.2 million to the Harris campaign this election cycle, as well as $1.6 million to the Harris super PAC Future Forward USA and millions more to congressional and Senate Democrats.

Google has also been accused in recent months of manipulating the autocomplete feature for its search engine to suppress information about Donald Trump. An attorney for Alphabet Inc. admitted to Congress in August that the autocomplete tool for its search function hid results about an ActBlue donor’s attempt on Trump’s life in Pennsylvania.

Earlier this year, Google also reportedly killed a pro-Trump ad for a supposed “policy violation.”

“I think they’re desperate because they had no idea it was going to be that popular,” said Rogan. “It’s a runaway train, and they hate it because ideologically they’re opposed to the idea of him being more popular.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace recently underscored the social and political significance of the interview, writing, “The benefit of this interview for candidate Trump could be equivalent to the largest and most expensive media ad buy in political history — something unattainable given the resources and precise messaging required to pull it off effectively.”

Rogan suggested that leftists largely control “these massive media distribution companies like YouTube or Facebook. They’re massive companies. They have so much influence on everything. And they didn’t like that this one was slipping away.”

Google’s antipathy for Trump is likely not all ideological. In 2020, Trump signed an executive order with the aim of limiting legal protections for social media companies and signaled a desire to implement new regulations on Big Tech.

“Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube wield immense, if not unprecedented, power to shape the interpretation of public events; to censor, delete, or disappear information; and to control what people see or do not see,” wrote Trump. “As President, I have made clear my commitment to free and open debate on the internet.”

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MIAMI, Fla. — There is no question that Florida has solidified into a red state for elections, presidential and midterm alike. Former President Donald Trump is expected to win its 30 electoral votes, but there are proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot this year that Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration is intent on defeating.

One of the proposed amendments is Amendment 3, which would enshrine a right to smoke marijuana in the state’s constitution. While on the surface it may seem like a good idea, DeSantis has argued, the amendment is nothing more than a money-grab by a foreign company that wants a monopoly in the state.

“The proposed Amendment 3, written by the CEO of a mega-weed corporation, contains a special provision in the full text of the amendment for complete immunity from civil liability. This unprecedented blanket immunity is — intentionally but deceptively — not provided in the summary that appears on the ballot (also written by the weed CEO). Corporate carve outs do not belong in Florida’s constitution,” DeSantis said on Tuesday.

In California, the black market for weed did not go away. In fact, it expanded in rural parts of the state.

Marijuana use with a medical license is already legal in the state, but it comes with restrictions. For example, marijuana cannot be used in public or on public transportation. Proponents of Amendment 3, like state Senator Joe Gruters (R), say the legislature will work to ensure that weed use is still prohibited in public spaces.

Even with the medical marijuana restrictions, there are still complaints of the pungent smell being a problem in certain parts of the state.

Lt. Alejandro Camacho, a public affairs officer for the Florida Highway Patrol, told Blaze News his agency is concerned that with the right to smoke marijuana in the state’s constitution, there will be an increase in use of the drug while driving.

“When you decide to drive a vehicle under the influence of marijuana, you’re obviously … driving now impaired. You’re putting countless people at risk because of your bad decision to drive impaired. We know that it affects the brain, the body overall, all of your motor skills. … You’re going to have slow reaction times. You’re going to have weakened concentrations. You’re going to have drowsiness,” Camacho said about the impact.

Camacho explained that troopers spend a lot of time when encountering drivers under the influence of any kind of substance, as they have to do tests to determine what kind of substance drivers may have used. FHP has drug recognition experts whom a trooper can call in to confirm the initial tests for the type of impairment.

“The scary part of marijuana is that, unlike alcohol, there’s no specific impairment limit that we know what amount of marijuana it takes for a person to be over the limit or impaired. It affects everyone differently. It stays in the body typically longer than alcohol,” he said.

Officials from frontline men like Camacho all the way up to DeSantis have pointed to states that have allowed recreational use of marijuana and the many problems that followed despite claims that legalizing marijuana would alleviate issues stemming from the plant.

Colorado’s tax revenue from its legal market for marijuana has dramatically fallen, down 30% from two years ago, according to Politico.

In California, the black market for weed did not go away. In fact, it expanded in rural parts of the state. Criminal groups used their massive profits to buy large homes and mansions to grow their product indoors, pushing residents out and causing safety concerns. Even when illegal grows were raided, more sprang up elsewhere, marketing weed to users inside and outside California.

On Monday, Florida first lady Casey DeSantis posted a message to X that read, “Don’t California my Florida! Vote NO on 3.”

Smart & Safe Florida, the organization behind efforts to get “yes” votes on Amendment 3, says those problems won’t happen in Florida because there is a “strong commitment to law and order.”

Most telling about Amendment 3, Gov. DeSantis has said, is that the proposal does not include a provision for Floridians to cultivate their own personal marijuana plants but only for the ability to buy it from a licensed dealer who “is not subject to any criminal or civil liability or sanctions under Florida Law.”

“Impaired driving is impaired driving,” Camacho stressed. “There’s no reason, there’s no justification to get behind the wheel of the car.”

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San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Jon Feliciano said those claiming to be offended by a joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally are pushing an agenda.

During Trump’s star-studded rally at Madison Square Garden, roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe caused a liberal meltdown when he joked that there was an island of garbage floating in the ocean and he thinks “it’s called Puerto Rico.”

Hinchcliffe’s comments angered media members and political commentators, but he has since refused to apologize saying, “These people have no sense of humor.”

Feliciano, who is half Puerto Rican, remarked on Monday that he felt the outrage was largely feigned because it helps certain people politically.

“The only Puerto Ricans that are mad about Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, are mad because it helps push their agenda,” Feliciano wrote on X. “Tony’s joke was so soft compared to his usual material.”

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The Miami native was responding to a fan who said Feliciano seemed to be “down with [Joey] Bosa wearing a maga hat,” while linking to Hinchcliffe’s joke, seemingly in attempt to display the joke as dangerous or harmful.

Feliciano had recently shared a video that showed teammate Joey Bosa crash a postgame interview wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

When asked later by reporters, Bosa said he felt it was “an important time” to show his political leanings.

Feliciano routinely shares pro-Trump videos on his social media page and clearly isn’t shy about his political endorsement.

‘I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you.’

As for the backlash against Hinchcliffe, comedians have come out in his defense, including media darling and left-wing Comedy Central host Jon Stewart.

“Obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before Election Day and roasting a key demographic … probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s just really doing what he does,” Stewart explained.

“I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you,” he told his audience.

Additionally, the Puerto Rican mayor of Keller, Texas, came out in defense of Trump.

“For Latinos, faith, family, and economic opportunity motivates us – not some bad joke by a comedian,” Armin Mizani said.

Cuban American Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) echoed a similar sentiment, saying, “What isn’t a joke and truly outrageous is how ‘journalists’ are helping Kamala [Harris] with her dangerous campaign of hate.”

Rubio pointed out that media members have been “calling Trump the new Hitler” while MSNBC “used old footage of Nazi rallies” to smear Trump supporters.

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Beyoncé fans were led to believe that the pop star would be performing alongside the vice president after USA Today published an article with the headline, “Watch live: Beyoncé returns to hometown of Houston to perform at Kamala Harris rally.”

However, those fans were left feeling deeply betrayed, booing Kamala after Beyoncé read from a teleprompter and left. One video even showed the crowd leaving en masse after Beyoncé’s departure while Kamala struggled to keep their attention from behind the podium.

“This campaign is just imploding,” Keith Malinak of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments, and Pat Gray wholeheartedly agrees.

“Sure feels like it, looks like it, seems like it, let’s hope it really is imploding. We’ll find out next Tuesday,” Gray says.

Not only was Kamala’s Houston rally a complete failure, but she was also heckled at a recent rally in Michigan by an attendee who was yelling, “No more wars.”

Kamala ignored the heckler while saying, “We have to turn the page on fear.”

“How do you make that statement with a straight face when all you’re doing is fearmongering about Donald trump? ‘He’s going to end democracy; he’s a Nazi; he’s exactly like Hitler,’” Gray says. All of this fearmongering: ‘The world will end if Donald Trump is elected,’ and you’re going to ‘turn the page on fear.’”

“Unreal,” he says, adding, “You check the two campaigns and see which really is the campaign of joy and hope and which is the campaign of fearmongering. That’s all Democrats are doing is fear-mongering.”

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There’s no doubt that the liberal mainstream media is relentless in its obedience to Kamala Harris — but one major leftist newspaper, the Washington Post, has faced swift ostracization for its refusal to endorse the vice president as president in 2024.

“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” Jeff Bezos wrote in an WaPo op-ed.

While Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” believes Bezos op-ed is a “step in the right direction,” he notes that every other mainstream newspaper “basically endorses a Democrat or Kamala Harris.”

It’s also quite clear, despite Bezos’ non-endorsement of Kamala, that the Washington Post is a clearly partisan paper intent on showing Democrats and Kamala Harris in the best light.

“I would prefer a movement away from this approach, at least by some of these more mainstream publications. Come out and just be nonpartisan and actually cover the news correctly. A solution to this though is not stop endorsing candidates but still be liberal on everything. That doesn’t solve any problem,” Burguiere explains.

“In a way, it’s trying to make their left-wing activism a little more subtle, a little more stealth,” he adds.

After the Washington Post’s non-endorsement, the newspaper’s very own Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Anne Telnaes created a cartoon of absolutely nothing, just a blacked out piece of paper, titling it “Democracy dies in darkness.”

“They literally believe they are owed the endorsement of every single media organization in the United States or democracy is dead, and they will tell you it’s dead by some gray paint, something on a page,” Stu says.

“Like, all right, stop being so self-important. You want to write a piece that says ‘I don’t agree with this decision, here’s why,’ that’s one thing. To act like democracy is dying in darkness because the Washington Post, one of the most liberal publications in the United States, didn’t explicitly say they want Kamala Harris to win is just dumb,” he adds.

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Feminist icon and best-selling author Naomi Wolf has thrown her support behind President Donald Trump, joining the
likes of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien, and the multitudes of other longtime Democrats who have grown disenchanted with a party now unrecognizable under its current management.

“Naomi Wolf here. NYS. Never in a million years did I think I’d vote for Donald Trump but the folks for whom I voted, censored me illegally via Big Tech, killed thousands of people via FDA lies and put the guy who tried to help me save American lives, in prison,” Wolf
wrote in a Sunday X post, days before President Joe Biden called all Trump supporters “garbage”.

“At a certain point you can’t support the fascists,” added Wolf.

Wolf was long a darling of the left — a Democratic insider celebrated as a key proponent of third-wave feminism who advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore,
took up the cause of the populist Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in 2011, and
donned a “p***y hat” with other Trump critics in 2017.

In recent years, however, the liberal establishment began attacking Wolf as it became increasingly clear she was unwilling to toe the party line.

Leftists lashed out at Wolf when, for instance, she criticized the experimental mRNA vaccines foisted upon the American population, earning
a ban on pre-Musk Twitter; when she underwent firearms training, which she indicated was “empowering”; when she discussed the Bible with Tucker Carlson around the time her former Democrat allies were working to censor him; and when she emphasized that abortion is always a “tragedy.”

Following his release from prison Tuesday, Stephen K. Bannon
spoke to Wolf on his “War Room” show about her Trump endorsement.

“Did you actually endorse President Trump?” asked Bannon.

‘In person, he’s very different from the caricature.’

“This is a hard thing for me to do, but yes I did. I’m saying it. It’s public. Yes I did,” said Wolf. “I posted it and I sent it to you in prison, my tweet or my X post, saying at a certain point, you have to stop supporting the fascists. The people I voted for silenced my voice. They killed thousands of people and they put the man who helped me try to save the lives of thousands of people in prison.”

“At a certain point, you just have to stand up for what’s right,” added Wolf.

When pressed about what specifically prompted her to turn her back on the Democratic Party and to risk “Rachel Maddow’s head blowing up,” Wolf indicated that a good friend brought her to hear Trump
speak to Orthodox Jews at Bedminster about anti-Semitism and about bringing an end to the conflict in the Middle East.

“I’m Jewish,” said Wolf. “That was very, very moving to me.”

Wolf noted further that “in person, he’s very different from the caricature.”

“All of my information about him was filtered through legacy media. ‘He’s a fascist.’ ‘He’s a misogynist.’ ‘He’s a racist.’ I saw someone who was eloquent, articulate, thoughtful, very funny,” continued the feminist icon. “Not every joke he makes I would have endorsed, but he was talking about — he was serious, he was a serious person talking seriously about peace in the Middle East about saving lives, saving innocent lives, Palestinian and Israeli, and how can that not be good?”

‘You guys have become the unity party.’

Wolf emphasized that she was not hearing the same kind of seriousness from the Harris camp.

Trump’s foreign policy may have nudged Wolf along, but she made clear that Democrats’ attempts to censor her criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines effectively poisoned the well:

Biden-Harris suppressed my voice when I was warning women about serious danger to their fertility from the mRNA injection. In June of 2021, two attorneys general with lawsuits revealed that … tweet was lifted out by the Biden-Harris regime at the highest levels. And instead of helping women protect their fertility, their babies, their pregnancies, their own health, they lifted it out to silence me, to smear me unlawfully — to put pressure on Big Tech companies like X and Facebook to suppress my First Amendment rights.

Wolf indicated that when fellow Democrats not only abandoned her but viciously attacked her, Bannon alternatively afforded her the platform to speak out — only to find himself in a prison cell thanks to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.

‘The Democrat Party has no home for people like us.’

“President Trump did something very smart. He aligned himself with a number of luminaries, people who are very thoughtful and serious across the political spectrum: RFK Jr., whom I respect so much; Tulsi Gabbard; [and] Elon Musk has joined,” said Wolf. “You guys have become the unity party.”

When endorsing Trump, Gabbard and Kennedy similarly suggested there has been a great realignment.

“To those of you here and those watching at home who are independent people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democrat Party has no home for people like us,” Gabbard
told a crowd in North Carolina last week. “But we do have a home in the Republican Party.”

Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August that his assassinated father and assassinated uncle would not recognize the Democratic Party under Kamala Harris.

“I think there’s been a bunch of realignments, of political realignments — about four or five throughout American history,” Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August. “I think we’re going through one right now.”

Kennedy
noted that the Democratic Party is an anti-democratic force that has become synonymous with corporatism, military adventurism, and censorship.

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The suspect accused of shooting an Orthodox Jewish man who was on his way to synagogue in Chicago last weekend is an illegal immigrant, Fox News reported.

The shooting suspect — 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi — is a Mauritanian national who was released into the United States after being captured in Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector in March 2023, the cable network said, citing four law enforcement sources.

A Jewish advocacy group said Chicago police indicated during a Monday meeting with the group that Abdallahi shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during a later shoot-out with cops, WMAQ-TV reported.

Fox News noted that the Department of Homeland Security views illegal immigrants from Mauritania — a majority Muslim country in northwest Africa — as “special interest aliens” over security concerns and that they’re supposed to receive additional DHS vetting.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had initially told Fox News Digital that it had no interaction with him. Law enforcement sources say that there is detainer request on Abdallahi — a request that he is transferred to ICE custody in the event of his release — but that ‘sanctuary’ policies in Cook County, Illinois, prohibit local authorities from cooperating with it.

What’s the background?

Chicago police said Abdallahi was identified as the offender who shot a 39-year-old man in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. NBC News reported that the victim is Jewish and was wearing a kippah — the Jewish skullcap — while on his way to services on the Jewish sabbath.

A Jewish advocacy group said Chicago police indicated during a Monday meeting with the group that Abdallahi shouted “Allahu Akbar” during a later shoot-out with cops, WMAQ-TV reported.

The station noted that the group — the Jewish United Fund — said police who met with its members indicated that Abdallahi shouted the well-known Muslim declaration while firing at officers, which led to a concern that hate played a role in the incident. However, WMAQ said police haven’t confirmed those details to the station.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling on Tuesday said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Abdallahi with a hate crime due to the suspect still being in the hospital in the wake of the shoot-out, the station said.

“We do investigations [that are] based on facts that we gather into evidence in order to present charges,” Snelling said, according to WMAQ. “Until we have those facts, we will not announce charges. It’s about what we can prove at the time based on the facts.”

The suspect shot the victim “in the shoulder without saying a word,” Snelling said at a Monday news conference, according to NBC News, which added that the victim was treated in a hospital and discharged Saturday afternoon.

Police said about 30 minutes after the first shooting, Abdallahi fired at responding officers and paramedics multiple times from various locations. Police said officers returned fire, striking the offender, who was placed into custody, taken to an area hospital, and charged. Police said a weapon was recovered at the scene. Police said no officers or fire department members were injured. The suspect was in critical condition, investigators told WGN-TV.

You can view video here apparently showing part of the suspect’s second wave of gunfire, and he hollers something at the 43-second mark after firing a shot. While that same moment is included in WLS-TV’s video report at the 13-second mark, the station cuts the audio just before the suspect’s outburst.

‘What will it take for you to acknowledge the Jewish community?’

Abdallahi was charged with six counts of first-degree attempted murder, seven counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm upon a police officer/firefighter, and one count of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, all of which are felonies, police said.

City Alderman Debra Silverstein — who attends the same synagogue as the Jewish man who was shot — said at the same news conference Monday that there’s increased fear among local Jews, NBC News noted.

“A man wearing the kippah as he walked to synagogue was shot, and this has just escalated our anxieties,” she said, according to the news network, which added that Silverstein in a later message to constituents wrote that she’s “very disappointed” that hate crime charges had not been filed despite “evidence that seems to suggest an anti-Semitic motive for the shooting.”

Silverstein told CBS News she visited the victim Saturday night after his hospital release and noted that he’s doing “OK.”

Rabbi Shlomo Soroka of Agudath Israel of Illinois told WMAQ-TV in regard to the lack of hate crime charges that “there’s no question that from an emotional standpoint, it’s disappointing. But I think it’s equally important to understand that whether or not there is a hate crime charge, that’s a technicality. That doesn’t change the reality of our experience.”

Soroka added to WFLD-TV that the victim — described as an Orthodox Jew — took his “little girls with him” to synagogue “every single week.” But for some reason, not this past Saturday.

“And this week, this particular week, he decided to go by himself, and his little girls weren’t with him,” Soroka observed. “Can you imagine what would have happened if those little girls were with him?”

Abraham Trachtman told WBBM-TV that there’s a large Orthodox Jewish community in the area and that he also was headed to a local synagogue when he was told of the shooting: “A Jewish guy walking to synagogue, Saturday morning, Sabbath morning, it just, it doesn’t make sense.”

Local Jewish leaders also noted to WFLD that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hadn’t acknowledged the shooting or their pain. However, Johnson’s office on Tuesday issued the following statement:

On behalf of the City of Chicago, our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his loved ones from this weekend’s shooting incident that took place in Rogers Park. This tragic event should have never happened, and we recognize the dedication of our first responders who put their lives on the line during this shooting. The Mayor’s Office is in close communication with the Chicago Police Department as the investigation continues. All Chicagoans deserve to feel safe and protected across the city. There is more work to be done, and we are committed to diligently improving community safety in every neighborhood.

However, the Jewish United Fund told Johnson in response, “You failed to identify that the victim was a Jewish man, in a densely populated Jewish neighborhood, going to synagogue for Shabbat morning prayers. What will it take for you to acknowledge the Jewish community?”

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In the final days of the 2024 election, Democrats made a sharp pivot, abandoning Kamala Harris’ “Campaign of Joy” to embrace a theme of fear and hate.

Kamala’s brief joy campaign aimed to achieve two goals. First, it sought to deflect attention from her actual policies, positions, and beliefs — which lean radically left and are unappealing to most Americans.

If Trump is Hitler, then we are Nazis — and should be treated as such.

Second, it attempted to emphasize Harris’ identity as a black woman. The campaign drew from the “Black Joy” movement created by civil rights activists to promote “a joy that no white man can steal.”

Neither tactic worked.

Out of desperation, Harris abandoned her basement strategy and began appearing in scripted performances on select media outlets. The results have been poor. CBS sparked scandal when partisan staff on “60 Minutes” deceptively edited one of her incoherent answers. Even with friendly interviewers tossing softball questions, she stumbled badly. Her lone attempt at a legitimate interview, on Fox News, was so embarrassing that her panicked handlers shut it down.

Facing an unprecedented rise in black voter support for President Trump, Democrats called Barack Obama off the bench. Observing that “energy and turnout” in black neighborhoods for Harris was much lower than it was when he ran for president, Obama noted that the problem “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.” He attempted to shame black men into switching their votes, but his condescending, scolding tone backfired.

Time for Plan B.

Hitler all the time

The Harris-Walz campaign has abandoned “joyful Kamala” and shifted to a closing theme of “Trump is Hitler.” For nearly a decade, the left has labeled Donald Trump a racist and a dictator, but this new tactic takes the demonization to dangerous heights.

Trump has already survived two assassination attempts, so branding him with the Hitler label effectively invites another deranged individual to act on this narrative.

Even for godless elites, inciting the assassination of a presidential candidate seems extreme. So, what’s the motivation? The reality is that Democrats know they’ve lost. Unable to defeat Trump, they want him dead.

The “Trump is Hitler” strategy serves two additional purposes.

First, it signals the entire leftist establishment — from its ruling elite, Democratic Party officeholders, supporters, Deep State bureaucrats, and legacy media down to its Antifa and Black Lives Matter stormtroopers — that a Trump election win will not stand.

Forget constitutional procedure. Democrats have convinced themselves they’re “stopping Hitler” from becoming president, so they believe the rules don’t apply. Like the George Floyd riots of 2020, their mobs will take to the streets to replace the rule of law with chaos.

Second, as those on the left have made clear, Donald Trump isn’t the only target — they’re after his supporters too. And just as they’ve done with Trump, they rationalize violence against those who support him.

Democrats and the media even equated Trump’s Madison Square Garden election rally over the weekend with a 1939 German American Bund Nazi rally. Hillary Clinton made this offensive comparison, claiming, “One thing that you’ll see next week … is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939. … President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis — fascists in America, were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany.”

In case you missed it, Hillary was talking about us.

MSNBC, in a disgusting display of its role as propaganda arm for the Democratic Party, spliced video footage of the 1939 Nazi rally into its coverage of the Trump event.

Leftist elites make it clear how they view Trump voters. If Trump is Hitler, then we are Nazis — and should be treated as such.

Take out the ‘garbage’

Joe Biden is even more direct, calling Trump’s supporters “garbage” on Tuesday. The implication is unmistakable: What do we do with garbage? We shred it. We burn it. We bury it. In short, we dispose of it.

Following Trump’s victory, but before the certification of results, expect an eruption of politically targeted, racially motivated violence against roughly half the country. Trump supporters and the MAGA movement have been vilified and dehumanized, conditioning Democrats to tolerate violence against us.

When the mob descends, it will have strong moral support. Seventy-three percent of Democrats believe that “tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans” are “backing violence and trying to overthrow the Constitution.”

The mob will also find plenty of active support.

The 10 million illegal aliens allowed into the country under Harris and Biden have a vested interest in blocking another Trump presidency. Seeing it as a choice between deportation and amnesty, many will join the chaos.

But once the riots begin, who will stop them?

Democratic politicians at all levels will have little interest in maintaining law and order. In 2020, they allowed chaos to reign, effectively undermining the Trump administration. This time, the incentive to support anarchy will be even stronger.

In Democrat-run cities, the police response will likely mirror, if not worsen, the response during the George Floyd riots. The situation will be even more dire in jurisdictions with George Soros-backed state attorneys.

Democratic governors may also obstruct the National Guard. For instance, in Minnesota during 2020, Gov. Tim Walz, a Black Lives Matter ally, allowed Minneapolis to burn for four days before mobilizing the guard.

It will fall to American patriots to counter the chaos and support law enforcement wherever possible. Saving America will require millions to take to the streets, peacefully and patriotically making their voices heard to protect our country.

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JANESVILLE, Wisconsin — Michael K. Fitzgerald suffered two painful shots to the body on Jan. 6, 2021, one of which still represents a serious threat to his life more than 45 months later.

The first shot struck him in the leg and neck at the U.S. Capitol — from explosive munitions fired and tossed into the crowd by Metropolitan Police Department officers. At the time, Fitzgerald was quietly capturing video at the police line on the West Plaza.

The second shot came more than 40 minutes later, just after he walked into the Capitol with a large group of protesters.

Something was very wrong inside, as he discovered during more than a half-hour in the restroom. He was bleeding. His undiscovered colon cancer was fully present, but it wouldn’t be diagnosed for nearly a year. By that time it was at stage IV and had spread.

Fitzgerald’s peaceful 39-minute visit inside the Capitol brought federal felony and misdemeanor charges. Despite occasional discussions with Fitzgerald’s attorney about dropping the case, prosecutors have refused to dismiss the charges, even though Fitzgerald’s doctor says his cancer is incurable.

“I know it’s all marching orders from the DOJ, which we all know are obviously conflicted and they’re politically biased,” Fitzgerald, 46, said during an interview at his home. “I just take some comfort in knowing that if Trump is re-elected, this will get straightened out.”

‘I appreciate every day with my family a lot more, and I don’t take anything for granted.’

In September, Fitzgerald filed a status report with U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., indicating that his recto-sigmoid cancer has spread to his liver. His treatment regimen would make it dangerous for him to fly to Washington for a trial.

“His cancer has an estimated prognosis from this date (Sept. 25, 2024) in overall survival of 12-24 months based on his current line of therapy and molecular features specific to his cancer type,” wrote Dr. Jeremy Kratz, Fitzgerald’s oncologist at the William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital in Madison.

Kratz said air travel and prolonged immobility would put Fitzgerald at increased risk of blood clots. His chemotherapy requires a 46-hour infusion of two anti-cancer drugs that put him at risk of local infection and require frequent follow-ups for IV fluid support and electrolyte replacement, the doctor wrote.

“It is anticipated that he will remain on chemotherapy and radiation for the remainder of his life based on his goals of pursuing life-prolonging therapy,” Kratz wrote.

Michael Fitzgerald has had several surgeries and is on long-term chemotherapy to fight his stage IV colon cancer.Photo for Blaze News by Chris Duzynski

Fitzgerald’s next court appearance is set for Nov. 8. He said he just wants the case to be finished so he can focus all of his energy on his wife and four children — and fighting the cancer doctors believe is related to his U.S. Marine Corps service.

“Why can’t they just leave me alone?” he asked.

Fitzgerald said even if prosecutors were to drop his case, he would still worry about it hanging over his head while he fights for his life.

“I don’t like the fact that if I ever were to beat cancer, those charges would be re-implemented and I would face maybe jail, prison time. So that’s a huge stressor. At the same time, with me being God-fearing, I’ve kind of let it go because there’s nothing I can do about it.

“I appreciate every day with my family a lot more, and I don’t take anything for granted. Both of them have kind of been a blessing in disguise in that regard.”

Gassed and shot

Fitzgerald was suddenly in a war zone. He had been quietly filming police and the crowd from the front row on the West Plaza beneath the inauguration stage at the Capitol.

Police had been firing and lobbing incendiary munitions into the crowd for nearly an hour, but Fitzgerald’s location was suddenly ground zero.

At 2:04 p.m., Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Frank Edwards fired two 40mm shells over Fitzgerald’s head within less than 10 seconds, security and bodycam video showed.

Throughout the afternoon, Edwards stocked his orange munition launcher with 60-caliber hard rubber “stinger” balls and Skat Shells, which split into four fire-producing sub-munitions that release tear gas.

Another MPD officer was busy tossing incendiary grenades about 30 feet into the crowd. At 2:04:02 p.m., he lobbed one that landed just behind Fitzgerald. A blinding orange flash lit up the profiles of protesters at the police line, followed by a thud and a rapidly expanding cloud of tear gas.

Fitzgerald was looking right at the gas cloud as it flowed south at 20 mph to envelop the crowd at the police line. Within seconds, he doubled up and was incapacitated. He turned away and limped into the crowd. He dropped to his knees, fell on his face, and blacked out.

Michael Fitzgerald was tear-gassed and struck by 60-caliber projectiles while filming at the police line on the West Plaza of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photos by U.S. Capitol Police (above) and Metropolitan Police Department (below)

He’s not sure exactly when during the fusillade it happened, but one of the projectiles struck his neck. He said it felt like a baseball bat hit him. When he returned home, a deep bruise about the diameter of a tin of chewing tobacco formed on his neck. It took weeks to fade, he said.

Fitzgerald was sprawled face down on the concrete. The chemical delivered by many of the munitions on Jan. 6 was 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile — or Courson-Stoughton gas — a lachrymal agent that causes a burning sensation in the eyes, mouth, and throat, a tight chest, and difficulty breathing. The chemical munition typically incapacitates a person for up to 20 minutes. In people with compromised respiratory systems, it can be fatal, but most people recover after 10-15 minutes of fresh air.

Bystanders helped a dazed Fitzgerald to his feet, then used a jug of water to flush out his eyes. He said it felt like “military-grade tear gas.”

The crowd, he insists, had not tried to push through the police line, so the deployment of munitions made no sense to him. In fact, the exploding shells had the opposite effect from what they are designed for. They did not scatter the crowds but rather corralled them in tighter at the barricades.

‘He got caught up in what many people are characterizing as an insurrection.’

“There was no reason for it,” he contends. “The crowd wasn’t getting unruly. The crowd hadn’t moved forward. There was no rioting.”

“People were shaking hands with Capitol Police officers and saying, ‘Good job,’ and everything like that,” he said. “Then all of a sudden they just turned on us.”

Fitzgerald said he saw the munitions affecting people of all ages.

“I saw elderly people get hit, people in wheelchairs get hit, little kids get hit because they didn’t expect that,” he said. “They thought we were just there for a peaceful protest, and then all of a sudden they just started opening fire on people.”

The Metropolitan Police Department declared all of its uses of force on Jan. 6 “objectively reasonable,” including munition launchers, grenades, tear gas, pepper spray, and strikes with riot batons.

39 minutes in the Capitol

Fitzgerald entered the Capitol at 2:47 p.m., 35 minutes after the building was breached by the first rioters at the Senate Wing Door. He did nothing violent yet would be charged with violent entry and five other crimes.

The USA Today-owned Green Bay Press-Gazette seemed to suggest that Fitzgerald was guilty of the acts of those around him in the crowd. That is also the default belief of the U.S. Department of Justice about many J6 defendants.

“For about a minute and a half, rioters were seen on video ‘punching law enforcement officers, throwing objects at law enforcement officers and attempting to hit law enforcement officers with a flagpole,’” a Jan. 6, 2022, Press-Gazette story read.

Capitol Police security video, however, shows that Fitzgerald did none of those things. He was near the front of the crowd that pushed into the building, but he was filming the action and did not push against or strike anyone, video showed.

Michael Fitzgerald asks a police officer for directions to the bathroom inside the Crypt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. Capitol Police CCTV; graphic by Blaze News

That mattered not one bit to the media, which adopted the DOJ’s narrative that Fitzgerald and thousands of others took part in an attack on democracy. They “stormed” the Capitol and attempted an “insurrection” at then-President Donald Trump’s specific direction, the narrative claimed.

“Apparently, he’s admitted to the FBI that he was there,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker said during Fitzgerald’s first court hearing. “And maybe he got caught up in things. But he got caught up in what many people are characterizing as an insurrection, and people were killed.”

Prosecutors insisted that Fitzgerald wear a GPS ankle monitor, which Judge Crocker ordered over the objection of defense attorney Mark Eisenberg. After a few months, however, the monitor was removed.

‘She told me not to go. She said she had a bad feeling.’

The story of Fitzgerald’s time inside the Capitol is told on Capitol Police CCTV and his own iPhone videos. He stayed in the Senate Wing lobby for a few minutes, then walked down to the Crypt. His main concern, he said, was finding a bathroom.

“All of a sudden people just started pushing,” he said. “I had one hand I’m trying to brace so I don’t fall down. I have my cell phone and I’m trying to record it, and we get pushed in.

“The first thing I did was to go up to the Capitol Police officer to say, ‘Hey, I got pushed in.’ He goes, ‘It doesn’t matter now.’ I said, ‘Can you tell me where the bathroom is?’ This is when the symptoms of my cancer were first starting and I was having a lot of issues.”

Fitzgerald’s wife called him while he was in the bathroom and told him someone had been shot at the Capitol. He had no idea that Ashli Babbitt had been fatally wounded three minutes before he entered the building.

“She told me not to go,” he said. “She said she had a bad feeling. I said, ‘What’s going on? Am I getting in trouble for being in the building?’ She said, ‘Do you not know what’s going on?’ I said no. She had to tell me.”

Fitzgerald retraced his steps to the Senate Wing Door and exited the building through a window. “I just left on my own,” he said. “Nobody told me to leave.”

On the way out, “I didn’t see anything,” Fitzgerald said. “I just saw it was still crowded, lots of people, and you could look down the street and it was nothing but heads. It was that packed.”

Most wanted man turns himself in

By the time Fitzgerald reached Reagan National Airport for a flight home late on Jan. 6, the newscasts were filled with dramatic, breathless reports of massive rioting and a “storming” of the Capitol. He couldn’t believe it. Aside from being knocked off his feet by tear gas and a munition shell, Fitzgerald said he didn’t see any large-scale violence.

“That’s when I started freaking out a little bit, but then I was thinking, ‘I didn’t do anything,’” he said. “I was a little bit comforted in that fact. When I got home, I called attorneys before the FBI even came and said, ‘What’s going to happen to me?’”

The first attorney who represented him did not view it as overly serious because he wasn’t violent and did not vandalize or steal anything or go into any Capitol offices, Fitzgerald said.

“He goes, ‘Well, this happens all the time. You’re just going to get a trespassing ticket and maybe a parading ticket. They’re not even misdemeanors; they’re just tickets,’” Fitzgerald said.

That prediction never came true.

Michael Fitzgerald was originally charged with two felony counts for being at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but the obstruction of an official proceeding charge was dropped after a landmark June 2024 Supreme Court ruling.Photo for Blaze News by Chris Duzynski

Two FBI agents visited him on Jan. 9 after he called the Bureau to turn himself in. The FBI put out “most wanted” posters with a photo of Fitzgerald as No. 32. “I turned myself in because I figured that was the best way to go,” he said.

A month later, the situation took a big turn when 18 FBI agents raided his house, looking for the red Trump cap and custom sweatshirt he wore on Jan. 6. The entourage included an FBI SWAT team.

“They came rushing into my house with weapons,” he said. “You couldn’t move in here, that’s how many FBI agents were in my house. I turned around, and my whole yard is full of agents.

“I’m like, ‘All this for me?’ It was overkill,” he said. “I don’t know if they had a slow day or something. They were friendly, but they scared the crap out of my kids.”

Nothing else happened in the case until April 2021. Fitzgerald and his wife were in Illinois visiting a museum with their children when his cell phone rang. A federal grand jury had indicted him on two felonies and four misdemeanors.

“I honestly felt like I had a heart attack. It felt like someone just stabbed me right in the heart,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it. I’m like, ‘What did I do?’ I’m not naive. I know I broke the law by being inside, but I really didn’t think it was going to be anything more than trespassing.”

‘I got a call saying that I had stage four colon cancer that metastasized to my liver.’

A grand jury issued an indictment on April 28 charging him with two felonies — civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding — and four misdemeanors related to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. At a May 7 arraignment hearing, he pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Prosecutors claim that while he was on the Upper West Terrace, Fitzgerald shouted to other protesters, “Go get their sticks,” referring to batons carried by police. On video from his own iPhone, however, his voice is clear: “They have sticks!” Fitzgerald shakes his head at the assertion. “They twist everything,” he said.

A superseding indictment was issued in December 2021, just before Fitzgerald got his cancer diagnosis. The indictment repeated the exact charges that were on the April 28 indictment. The only difference appeared to be that the U.S. attorney’s signature was now Matthew Graves instead of Channing Phillips.

Fitzgerald had been scheduled for court hearings in December 2021 and January 2022, but his life was about to get further toppled in a way that would push his case well into 2022 and 2023.

Fitzgerald said he visited the Veterans Affairs hospital in Madison complaining of blood in his stool — the symptom he first noticed in the bathroom at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I was freaking out and went up there three times telling them what was going on with my symptoms,” he said. “They kept turning me around and saying that it was just symptoms of hemorrhoids. I said, ‘That’s not true because I’ve never seen ounces of blood.’”

Fitzgerald decided to get a second opinion and scheduled an appointment at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison for a colonoscopy. After learning that St. Mary’s doctors had ordered the diagnostic test, the VA relented and performed Fitzgerald’s colonoscopy.

“A couple days later I got a call saying that I had stage four colon cancer that metastasized to my liver,” he said. “At that point it wasn’t in my lungs. Now it’s in my lungs.”

After the first anniversary of Jan. 6 passed, Fitzgerald faced a brutal regimen of chemotherapy to shrink the colon mass and liver tumors. His Jan. 6 criminal case would have to wait — and wait.

The suicide of his Marine Corps buddy right in front of him on the Japanese island of Okinawa left Michael Fitzgerald with lasting mental scars.Photo for Blaze News by Chris Duzynski

“I was doing a really harsh chemo, to the point where I was bedridden six out of seven days, throwing up a lot, in the bathroom a lot,” he said. “They got my tumors down enough to where they could do surgery on my liver and in my colon.”

Initially Fitzgerald expected the surgery to be a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure, but he was surprised at what he saw when he awoke from the anesthesia.

“I ended up waking up to my whole chest open with 54 staples and an ostomy bag,” he said. “So I was not expecting that. If you know anybody that’s ever had an ostomy bag, it’s not pleasant. I had it for 90 days, and if I would’ve had it any longer, I don’t think I would’ve been able to do it.

“So now I have a line from here all the way down under my belly,” he said. “Then it looks like I got a gunshot wound in my side from where the ostomy was. So I had to deal with that while dealing with the [Jan. 6] case.”

The DOJ did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

From the crucible to PTSD

Fitzgerald carries invisible wounds from his time in the U.S. Marine Corps. Based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., Fitzgerald did tours in Kuwait, Korea, and Okinawa, Japan.

He still recalls the end of boot camp, when the recruits were put through a three-day test called “the crucible.” The final stretch was a climb up a steep hill they nicknamed “Mount Motherf***er.”

“So we get up there, and when we’re done, we’re at the end of the hills. That’s when we get our EGAs [Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignias]. They pinned them on our collars, and that’s when we sang ‘[God Bless the USA].’ We actually had Lee Greenwood there, so that was pretty special.”

It was his deployment to Okinawa that left him so scarred that he is now classified as 100% service-disabled. There were good things during his months on Okinawa. He got to climb the snow-capped Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest mountain at 12,388 feet.

The nine-month tour got tedious, so Fitzgerald took college-credit courses and exercised a lot in his spare time. “One of the sayings was either become an alcoholic or a PT stud,” he said, noting that he pursued the physical training option over the booze.

A bystander flushes Michael Fitzgerald’s eyes after he was struck by a heavy cloud of tear gas on the West Plaza of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze News

It was a trip to the shooting range on Okinawa that forever changed his life and took the life of his friend Dan.

Dan had just gotten a “Dear John” letter from home and discovered that his wife was cheating on him. He was upset, so Fitzgerald gave him the best bit of tough-guy Marine advice he could muster: “I told him, ‘Stop being a bitch,’ basically. ‘I mean, there’s plenty of women out there who care. Move on.’”

The pair went to the base shooting range a short time later. Fitzgerald noticed that Dan was unusually quiet. Marines have to have their wits about them during practice and qualification, or they could find themselves in the line of fire. They’re never supposed to put themselves there on purpose.

“There’s a red line that you don’t cross, because then you’re in the direct sight or direct fire of everybody else,” Fitzgerald said. “He walked over that line and got lit up by three or four different Marines who were shooting downrange. He was killed instantly.”

The shock and horror of watching a buddy die in front of him didn’t hit Fitzgerald until he got home and finished his hitch in the Marine Corps. Suicide was not a stranger. Three men in Fitzgerald’s battalion took their own lives. But now it was intensely personal. The experience would shape Fitzgerald’s life for a decade — and not for the better.

‘You think I’m having a stroke?’

“I wouldn’t say I had PTSD right away,” Fitzgerald said. “I was just more in awe, I guess. Probably had a little bit of guilt. I don’t think it really hit me until I started getting in trouble.”

“I wrote some bad checks, got into drugs and girls too hard, and was on a mission of self-destruction,” he said.

That self-destructive mission over a 10-year period landed Fitzgerald in criminal court repeatedly for writing bad checks, using someone else’s identification, theft of movable property, criminal trespass to a dwelling, obstruction of police, and selling alcohol to a minor, court records show.

He said it all started when he used his mother’s car without permission and wrote some checks she gave him to pay bills. Fitzgerald said his stepfather insisted that he be prosecuted, while his mother did not want the police involved.

In 2013, the military classified Fitzgerald as fully service-disabled. The ruling and its basic income helped him steady his life.

Within a few years, he and his wife started a clothing business, selling custom T-shirts, caps, sweatshirts, and more to first responders, Second Amendment enthusiasts, and other conservative patrons. That led in 2018 to the founding of a charity to help homeless veterans by providing tiny homes.

All of that came crashing down after his arrest. It started with hateful messages on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. “People would call me traitor and piece of crap, piece of sh*t,” he said. “Pretty much all of the names you could get. They were like, ‘How could you serve your country and then commit treason?’”

The anti-Jan. 6 rage mob destroyed Michael Fitzgerald’s patriotic clothing business by leaving fake reviews online. They then attacked his veterans’ charity, and soon the donations dried up.Photo for Blaze News by Chris Duzynski

Then the rage mob went after the family business, flooding Yelp and other ratings sites with fake negative reviews. “I went out of business with my apparel line because they would get everybody and their mother, 100 of their best friends, and they would leave all negative reviews saying, ‘I didn’t receive my stuff.’”

The hate campaign also caused donations to the charity to dry up, he said. “We lost all of that funding and donations from people because they would go on [social media] and just make stuff up on our Facebook page. They said, ‘Oh, this guy’s a J6er’ or ‘this guy is treasonous.’”

In the midst of it all, Fitzgerald lost his mother, Laurie Lynn Wallace, to a brain bleed and a stroke on Feb. 19, 2023. A 36-year head nurse at the Middleton VA Hospital where her son is being treated for cancer, Wallace, 66, came out of retirement to help out during the pandemic.

‘He might be a billionaire, but he’s still the underdog.’

“We had our annual sleigh ride, and my mom starts slurring her words. My stepdad said, ‘What’s going on with you? You’re not making any sense,’” Fitzgerald said. “My mom was like, ‘What do you mean? You think I’m having a stroke?’” She then collapsed.

Despite emergency surgery at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Wallace could not be saved. “We had to let her go,” Fitzgerald said.

Laurie Wallace fled domestic abuse with her son, Michael, when he was little. Fitzgerald said his father was prone to violence.

“He threw a vase at my mom and missed my mom. It hit me and broke my collarbone. So my mom took me and never looked back.”

Take no days for granted

Through it all, Fitzgerald stays positive. His surgeries and cancer treatments have left him infertile. He continues to travel to the VA hospital for chemotherapy in the hopes of beating the cancer. He recently had an MRI to make sure the cancer had not spread to his brain.

“If I go up to the [Wisconsin] Dells and take the kids up there and I’m watching them at the water park, I’m like, ‘Is this the last time that we’re going to be able to do this as a family?’” he said.

“But then I’m thinking on the flip side — I could get in a car accident tomorrow and die. So I’m really putting everything in God, knowing that just because I have stage four cancer doesn’t mean I couldn’t be here for another 10, 15 years.

“The way I’m looking at this is I need to make it in three-year increments,” Fitzgerald said. “Every three years there’s a chance of a new treatment or a cure. So if I can make it in those three-year increments, I’m doing good.”

Michael Fitzgerald is a vocal fan of former President Donald J. Trump and has volunteered at several Wisconsin campaign rallies. A sign in his front yard leaves no doubt about the matter.Photo for Blaze News by Chris Duzynski

“I’m trying to stay positive because 50% of the battle is staying positive,” he said. “Obviously that helps your immune system too. I don’t take any day for granted. At first they gave me 24 months, and I’m past that now. So, I mean, that’s a good sign.”

In the nearly four years since Jan. 6, Fitzgerald has become an even bigger admirer of former President Trump, attending eight of his rallies. He worked as a Republican volunteer at various Trump campaign events.

He said he marvels at how Trump gave up a comfortable retirement to take on D.C. corruption and the ruling elites — all because the country was headed in a bad direction. He took a bullet and still stands strong.

“Everybody’s asking me why I support Trump,” Fitzgerald said. “He was a billionaire that didn’t need to do this. He was a Democrat and saw the light, became a Republican.”

Fitzgerald has seen a transformation in his wife, who was politically neutral before but is now a “full-blown Trump girl.”

“She’s been seeing with her own eyes and sees I like underdogs,” Fitzgerald said. “That’s another reason I love Trump, because the more that people hate him, the more that there’s something going on that people [on the left] are trying to cover up.

“That’s where I’m at,” Fitzgerald said. “He might be a billionaire, but he’s still the underdog.”

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It’s been around for a few years now, but these days, the technology is leaping into overdrive. Lucid dreams: the playground of occultists and “psychonauts” for millennia, they’re an occasional — not always enjoyable — experience for some of us and a market opportunity for a few plucky startups.

But can mere money explain why technological advancement is being pushed in this direction — into the strange and bizarre recesses of our consciousness?

More than a new market, more than a new economy, more even than a new way of life, the goal is a new creation in the sense of leaving behind what God himself wrought with the human being.

Spoiler alert, no. Consider the sales pitch offered by the tellingly named PropheticAI, which bills itself as “pursuing answers to the ultimate questions.” According to the company’s website, “Humanity has a rare opportunity to expand consciousness and reimagine the human experience. Prophetic is pioneering the way.”

Simply slip on a ring-shaped headset — revealingly called “the Halo” — and …

induce lucid dreams through dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) activation during naturally occuring dreams by utilizing emerging technologies such as transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) and generative transformer architectures, along with established technologies like electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

But wait, there’s more. Researchers at a separate firm called REMspace have announced that two test subjects could mentally communicate mid-dream through their proprietary tech. “Two individuals successfully induced lucid dreams and exchanged a simple message with specially designed equipment, claimed the company,” according to a report. “The research demonstrated that lucid dreams could unlock new dimensions of communication and humanity’s potential, according to REMspace.”

Add two and two, and what do you get? A whole new market around shared lucid dreams — basically the dream of psychedelic-worshippers like Timothy Leary, who himself believed computers held out the prospect of collective hallucination and its, ahem, spiritual benefits.

This brings us to the real point of this particular line of research and development. More than a new market, more than a new economy, more even than a new way of life, the goal is a new creation in the sense of leaving behind what God himself wrought with the human being.

Engineering collective hallucination — the better to eventually create a kind of Minecraft of the mind — isn’t simply an add-on or augmentation of our given human complement. It flouts the received wisdom of millennia concerning not merely the danger of dreams but their ultimate irrelevance — due to the truth about how we can really achieve collective consciousness in a way as sacred as our given human being.

Holy men from St. Ignatius on down testify that, as delusion is both a possibility according to our freedom and a temptation according to the Fall, attempting to interpret, decode, or take the counsel of our dreams is to gravely risk spiritual confusion, degradation, and even destruction.

In his humility, the watchful Christian even declines to entertain what seem to be blatantly “good dreams” — even or especially prophetic ones. Spiritual history offers sad examples of faithful who, striving for purification and enlightenment, were misled by demons into thinking with grandiose pride that God had singled them out for special treatment and a glorious destiny. Instead, as mania and madness set in, they swiftly lost what grace they thought they had and found themselves servants of evil.

The Christian testimony, including St. Hesychius, John of Damascus, and Nicodemus, shows that sad stories like this are actually illustrative of the onset of sin in general. Without proper training and devotion, we typically fail to notice that a spiritually sickening thought has entered our mind until it has not only entered but set up shop and ascended to the “throne” of our heart — where it is not dislodged without tremendous effort, suffering, humility, and repentance.

Bottom line, it’s a really bad idea to try achieving a healthy and fruitful collective consciousness by technologically invading the deceptive and dangerous realm of dreams, a place where evil spirits can obviously have a field day. That means an even worse idea is to get rich off of people by convincing them that it’s actually a great idea, perhaps the only way they can find spiritual peace or deliverance.

In fact, it’s a distinct spiritual crime, the sin of simony — named after Simon Magus, the sorcerer who, as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles, offered to buy access to the Holy Spirit off of Peter and John. Notably, Simon wasn’t doing this (or so he claimed) for selfish reasons but to lay hands on others as the Apostles did so that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Even this motive wasn’t enough to make it right, of course. But Peter told him that he might well be forgiven if he repented and prayed for forgiveness.

All of this spiritual history is incomplete, however. The kicker to the story is really its heart. We know that sorcery, occultism, and simony are bad ways to strive toward healthy and fruitful collective consciousness because there is a good, pure way — laid out by Christ and his Apostles and the saints who sacrificed all they could of worldly things to pursue it with all their heart.

Ah, but this is so hard! It demands so much patience, so much humility, and suffering! Who has the time? Who has the energy?

Intriguingly, it is often today’s best technologists who most understand that successful engineering demands intensely rigorous patience, humility, and suffering to achieve feats at the highest degree of difficulty. If only they took one more step in an uncomfortable direction, they might realize that what is true of discipline, asceticism, and athleticism in material things is all the more valuable and precious when applied to the spiritual realm. And just as an engineer does not make stuff up on the fly to advance, so does the successful spiritual journey demand faithful reliance on the hard-earned wisdom born of the experience of its past adepts.

Imagine how different our technological research and development trajectory could be if more engineers took that approach!

And ask yourself why so few seem willing. Because forcibly escaping the bounds of our God-given humanity is not the only motive behind the tech that promises shared lucid dreaming. There is another, more practical, perhaps even more lucrative one: war.

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Comedians defending comedy, what a concept (with apologies to Mork from Ork)!

This week, it’s Jon Stewart’s turn.

Will Ferrell is on a mission – crush all the goodwill he generated with 20+ years of great big-screen comedies like ‘Elf,’ ‘Old School,’ and ‘Step Brothers.’

The “Daily Show” host actually took the media to task for getting the vapors over bawdy jokes told at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally by Tony Hinchcliffe.

“There’s something wrong with me, but I find that guy very funny,” he said of the “Kill Tony” host.

Stewart continued his defense, throwing salt on an open DNC wound in the process.

“Bringing him to a rally and have him NOT do roast jokes is like bringing Beyonce to a rally and not — oh!”

That Harris campaign gaffe – Beyonce gave a brief endorsement last week but neither sang nor danced for thousands of fans — didn’t become a media narrative. Stewart used it all the same. He can go back to trashing Trump now, but for a moment he let his bipartisan side show.

Rebel comic’s F-bomb frenzy

And then there’s Marc Maron.

The former comedy rebel plays by all the woke rules. He’s even shouted down his fellow comics for daring to suggest woke bylaws hurt comedy.

Yeah, he’s that laughably out of touch.

Now, he’s attacking comic podcasters for interviewing Sen. JD Vance and President Donald Trump. Think Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and Tim Dillon.

Or, as Maron calls them, “fascists.”

Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter. Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt racists doesn’t matter. They are part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea.

If he keeps this up, some network bigwig will give him a deeply unfunny late-night show.

The Way-ans forward

We miss the “Scary Movie” franchise.

The saga not only shredded horror movie tropes but employed two very funny comic teams. Members of the Wayans family fueled the first two installments, while “Airplane!” alum David Zucker took over for chapters 3, 4, and 5.

Now, the Wayans are back for another installment. Yes, we’re exhausted by Hollywood’s endless reboots, but the Wayans remain comic royalty. Plus, various Wayans made us howl before the comedy police started pulling people over.

Think “In Living Color,” for starters.

Marlon Wayans, for one, is not a fan of the new woke order.

‘I ain’t listening to this damn generation,” he said in 2022, skewering cancel culture in the process.

Here’s betting the family that gave us “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” also loathes those woke comedy cuffs.

Kamala drops mic

Diva alert!

Vice President Kamala Harris has an open invitation to appear on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Except the Democrat insists that the podcast giant come to her, not vice versa.

Even more jaw-dropping? She’ll only sit down with Rogan for an hour-long chat. Rogan’s interviews typically go from two to three hours in length. No-go, says the former “Fear Factor” host.

Looks like the interview won’t happen at this point. And to be fair to Harris, sparing us from a three-hour vibe-fest might be her first real accomplishment.

Ferrell forgets ‘Old School’ lessons

Will Ferrell is on a mission – crush all the goodwill he generated with 20+ years of great big-screen comedies like “Elf,” “Old School,” and “Step Brothers.”

He began his curious quest in 2016 when he flirted with a Ronald Reagan “comedy” about the late president’s Alzheimer’s disease. Only a swift public shaming campaign caused him to drop out of the project.

He hasn’t made us laugh-laugh in some time, with Apple TV+’s 2022 film “Spirited” doing him, and us, few favors.

More recently, he starred in the documentary “Will & Harper,” a buddy road trip featuring his longtime male friend’s life post-transition. Ferrell wondered in various press interviews why trans people get so much hate, ignoring the real concerns parents have with doctors who transition children.

Now, he’s out with a new, vulgar song meant to replace Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” And worst of all, he’s hitting the streets with the screechy Billy Eichner for more “White Dudes for Harris”-style shtick.

Can we have the old Will Ferrell back? Please?

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If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election, will Americans believe it?

After shocking news about Colorado voter fraud has already been reported, and a ballot box has been caught on video being burned in Washington state, Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” answers that question with a resounding “no.”

“There was ballot fraud uncovered in the state of Colorado, and the secretary of state of Colorado said there’s nothing they can do about it. These fraudulent ballots, these votes were already cast, and they will be counted towards the outcome of the election,” Wheeler explains.

“That’s the most messed up thing I’ve ever heard,” she continues. “We should not for one second accept that. That means that in the state of Colorado, the tally of votes is already tainted. The next time a Democrat says, ‘Oh ballot fraud doesn’t happen,’ you point them to this story.”

But it’s not just the 2024 election, and it’s not just in Colorado.

A new undercover video from Steve Crowder’s team at “Louder with Crowder” shows a man claiming that they rigged the election in Atlanta, Georgia.

“The whole thing with the dome, when they was counting, you know, that was the big thing,” Joel Caldwell, director of operations for the Coalition for the People’s Agenda in Georgia, began in the video.

“That was the big thing here, was the counting of the ballots at the dome. They was all counting the ballots, and they told him there was a leak on the opposite side of the dome. Everybody needed to evacuate. So then when they all left, the Democrats went back in and started counting, and the Republicans went back to the headquarters,” he explained.

“When they were counting, I think during that hour, that stretch of that, it was only like, less than 100 votes was counted for Trump and just statistically, you’re downtown. There’s going to be more than 100 votes for Trump,” he added.

“Unbelievable,” Wheeler comments. “These Democrats just thumb their noses at us, don’t they? They thumb their noses at us because they don’t just commit crimes, they commit crimes so blatantly and so egregiously that we know they committed the crime.”

“They want us to know because they know that they’re going to get away with it,” she adds.

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Former President Donald Trump had his campaign bring a garbage truck to his media briefing in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday.

The PR stunt was meant to troll President Joe Biden over comments he made referring to Trump supporters as “garbage” in response to a joke made by a comedian at a Trump rally deriding Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage.”

‘How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden!’

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something,” said Biden.

“In my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people,” he added. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

Republicans immediately pounced on the mistake while Democrats tried to claim that Biden was referring only to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. Trump, meanwhile, pounced into the cab of a garbage truck.

“How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] and Joe Biden,” said Trump while wearing an orange work vest.

“For Joe Biden to make that statement — it’s really a disgrace!” he added.

The garbage truck had a large Trump political sign and was adorned with U.S. flags.

Biden later released a clarification of his comments.

“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” said Biden. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

Some noted that there is a sizable population of Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, a swing state that may determine who is the victor and takes the Oval Office.

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