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Comedian Jim Gaffigan may be a lifelong Democrat, but that didn’t stop him from absolutely obliterating his own party during his Al Smith Dinner speech.

“President Biden couldn’t be here tonight, the DNC made sure of that,” Gaffigan said to thunderous applause. “You know, this has been an interesting presidential campaign. The Democrats have been telling us Trump’s re-election is a threat to democracy.”

“In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, that they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris,” he continued. “In other words, all her dreams have come true.”

Gaffigan’s jokes were so undeniably true, that even Chuck Schumer was laughing — and Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is impressed.

“The whole point of comedy is that you say something true, and you have a twist to it, then you laugh, and then you’re able to think about something. That’s what good comedy is, right? You get somebody to think about something through laughter,” Rubin says.

“If you just run up to somebody and say the truth, they might punch you in the face, but Chuck Schumer laughing at the joke about the DNC pulling off the coup, does kind of tell you a little something,” he continues.

While conservatives felt relieved by Gaffigan acknowledging the truth through his jokes, he didn’t just go after the Democrats.

“He made fun of Trump, he made fun of Republicans,” Rubin says. “Just a year ago, it would be fair to say he had Trump Derangement Syndrome, talking about January 6 with Joe Rogan.”

“This guy is certainly not a Trumper, he’s not a Republican, he’s not a conservative, anything else, but here he is making fun of the Dems, and the Dems don’t even show up,” he adds.

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Team Blue is jittery. Republicans risk overconfidence for sure, but Democrats risk disaster, and they know it. Vice President Kamala Harris might act tough at her rallies, but you can hear a different message from her surrogates on the campaign trail and in the media. There, you’ll catch increasingly shrill appeals to race and to racial debts — and the hopeful expectation of a silent hero who will save the day.

First: race. Long a cornerstone of Democrats’ politics, racial fealty, animus, and vengeance have played increasingly loud roles. Still-alive President Joe Biden infamously told a podcast host in 2020 that if you weren’t voting for him, “you ain’t black.” After the coup, that job fell to his boss, former President Barack Obama.

We live in an age when those fallen champions of silence, librarians, are hosting gay drag shows for kids. Forgive me if I doubt the silent Democrat thesis.

Obama dutifully answered, heading first to Philadelphia and then beyond to tell black men they have a duty to vote for Harris. It was sold as tough love from black America’s father figure, or something to that effect, but it hasn’t gone over so well.

“As Obama campaigns for Harris, he has a tough crowd among young black men,” read a Monday headline from NBC. “Obama’s comments reveal what the Democratic Party thinks about the black electorate,” an op-ed in The Hill blared. “Kwame Kilpatrick says Obama is ‘not the messiah,’” reads one Detroit News piece.

“Why,” a report by the Brookings Institute asked, “are black men mad at Obama?” You might accidentally get an answer from “The Daily Show,” which is still on the air and last week featured a joke about the 44th president “grounding a whole demographic” to whoops and applause from the largely white audience.

Speaking of white people, they also have a racial duty to vote for Harris. “White folks,” pro-Kamala CNN commentator Angela Rye explained over the weekend, can’t be allowed to “escape the accountability that they must face for not showing up to save democracy themselves.” The anchor didn’t seem to have any problem with this.

Earlier in the week, “justice correspondent” Elie Mystal condemned white people in a column the Nation thought was OK to run, calling us “the ‘problem’ in this country” and accusing us of “holding this country back,” opposing democracy, and forming a “global force destroying the environment of this earth.”

Speaking of problems with the country, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter returned to the trail this week to assuage nervous Democrats with the promise that her friends are secretly voting for Harris: the “quiet Democrat voter.”

Search your memory for any time over the past 20 years and ask yourself if you can think of a situation in national politics, popular culture, or your local book group where Democrats have been shamed into some kind of self-aware silence. Think back over the “IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE” yard signs, the “THIS IS NOT NORMAL” bumper stickers, or those rich Hillary Clinton supporters in “p***y hats.”

We live in an age when those fallen champions of silence, librarians, are hosting gay drag shows for children. Forgive me if I doubt the silent Democrat thesis. But this is the state of Democratic coping: racial allegiance, racial debt, and “quiet Democrats.” Best of luck.

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5 key House seats Republicans are likely to flip

By Rebeka Zeljko

While the Republicans’ majority is increasingly narrow, there are currently five competitive blue seats that may help the GOP hold on to the House.

The seats of Democratic Reps. Mary Peltola of Alaska, Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, and Jared Golden of Maine have all been ranked as toss-ups by Cook Political Report.

In 2022, Peltola was the first Democratic candidate to have been elected to Alaska’s sole congressional seat in more than half a century, after the state adopted a ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank their preferred candidates rather than a typical two-party primary system. As a result, Republican candidates Nick Begich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin split the GOP vote, allowing Peltola to flip the seat blue for the first time since 1970.

Despite the ranked-choice system, Peltola is facing a challenge from just one Republican candidate, Nick Begich, after Nancy Dahlstrom dropped out to consolidate the GOP vote. Combined with Alaska’s reliably red voting history, recent polls from the National Republican Congressional Committee put Peltola at an electoral disadvantage.

Peltola is also featured on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “frontline members” list consisting of the most competitive blue seats.

Peltola’s fellow frontliner, Caraveo, is also at risk of losing re-election to her Republican challenger. While one September poll puts the Colorado Democrat at a narrow three-point edge, a recent poll from early October puts her in a dead heat with Republican challenger Gabe Evans. Colorado’s 8th Congressional District is also perfectly split between Republicans and Democrats, according to Cook Political Report.

Caraveo won her seat in 2022 against Republican candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer by less than 1%.

Since Slotkin opted to run for Senate, Democratic candidate Curtis Hertel and Republican challenger Tom Barrett have gone head-to-head for the seat. Slotkin flipped the longtime red seat blue in 2022, making the +2 Republican district a potential layup. Polling is also trending in Republicans’ favor, with Barrett ahead of Hertel by four to six points.

Slotkin secured her seat in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District in 2022 by 5.4 points.

Perez, who is also featured on the DCCC’s list of vulnerable frontliners, is set to face off against Republican candidate Joe Kent for the second time. Although Perez managed to flip the seat in 2022, she is currently polling dead even against Kent in the +5 Republican district, which may reinstate a red streak in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.

Perez, who has refrained from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, defeated Kent in 2022 by less than 1 percentage point after former Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler retired.

Golden, who has served Maine’s congressional district for three consecutive terms, is also facing a tight race against Republican candidate Austin Theriault. Despite being a +6 Republican district, Golden won his seat by a 1% margin in 2018 and just over 6% in 2020 and 2022.

Despite his historical electoral advantage, a recent poll shows Golden at a three-point deficit against Theriault.

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A Texas married couple who said police assaulted them while they were praying on Jan. 6 were sentenced to years in prison Oct. 22 on felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from their time outside the U.S. Capitol during protests and subsequent rioting.

Mark Fulton Middleton, 54, and Jalise Kay Middleton, 54, of Forestburg, Texas, had asked U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss to sentence them to home detention and probation, while the U.S. Department of Justice sought sentences of 7.25 years in prison for each.

Judge Moss sentenced Mark Middleton to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, while he gave Jalise Middleton 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

In February, the Middletons were found guilty by a Washington, D.C., jury of assaulting, resisting, or impeding two police officers, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct, engaging in physical violence and several other related misdemeanors.

‘The officer was pulling her scarf and choking her.’

A guilty verdict on the felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding was dismissed in September due to the June 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Fischer v. United States. That opinion vastly limits use of an accounting-fraud statute — 18 U.S. Code §1512(c)(2) — to prosecute cases that are not related to documents or other evidence. It was the most widely charged felony in Jan. 6 cases.

The crux of the Middletons’ case was what took place at the police line on the Capitol’s West Plaza at about 2:10 p.m. on Jan. 6. The large crowd on the north side of the plaza pressed against the bike racks police were using to hold demonstrators back.

Police on the west front had been lobbing explosive munitions and firing other projectiles into the crowd for more than an hour, Capitol Police security video showed. A grenade exploded six-people deep in the crowd about a minute before the Middletons had their tangle with police, security video showed. Tear gas swirled about in the stiff wind.

The Middletons say if police had not picked up the bike rack barricades and pushed them into the protesters, they would not have made contact with the officers. What prosecutors described as the couple preparing to throw their bodies against the police line was actually the Middletons facing each other and praying, a defense attorney said.

“The videos do show that at one point, Mrs. Middleton’s scarf was being pulled by a police officer and Mr. Middleton has testified that he tried to pull Mrs. Middleton away from the police line and to have the police let go of his wife,” wrote defense attorney Stephen Brennwald in Mark Middleton’s 21-page sentencing memo.

An incendiary grenade is lobbed into the crowd by a Metropolitan Police Department officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Not far away, Mark and Jalise Middleton scuffle with police at the barricades.U.S. Capitol Police CCTV

“That is a natural reaction that any person would have, even if the two people hadn’t been married for decades as the Middletons have,” he said.

Brennwald said there is no question that police initiated contact with the Middletons and others nearby.

“Her behavior only happened because she was assaulted first—hit by a police officer and pushed by a large violent protester behind her,” defense attorney Kira West wrote in Jalise Middleton’s 27-page sentencing memo.

“The officer was pulling her scarf and choking her and Ms. Middleton indiscriminately swatted at him to escape what she perceived was going to be her sudden death,” West said.

Prosecutors took a dimmer view of the 5- to 7-second encounter.

“Mark Middleton heckled police officers, including by shouted obscenities,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sean McCauley and Brendan Ballou in a 47-page sentencing supplemental memo. “Together, the Middletons then threw their bodies into the barricades. When officers tried to restore the barricades and ordered them to get back, both the Middletons assaulted two officers.”

‘I felt responsible to let my voice be heard and make a difference.’

Prosecutors cited the political speech of both Middletons since Jan. 6 and accused them of “spreading falsehoods.”

“Mark Middleton has used his Twitter to trumpet—on an at least daily if not almost hourly basis—convicted January 6 rioters, promulgate conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, and spread baseless lies about January 6,” prosecutors wrote.

The Middletons bragged about their deeds on social media and lied under oath during their trial, the DOJ said.

“They have sought to personally benefit by using the notoriety of their crimes to raise money and seek fame,” the DOJ wrote.

West rejected claims her client lied at the trial.

“Ms. Middleton made no false statements while testifying. Her testimony lines up with the video evidence in the case as well as other testimony and videos from other J6 trials,” West wrote.

The Middletons had a right to exercise freedom of speech regarding their concerns over the 2020 presidential election, West said.

“When this court considers all of the factors before it, the court must conclude that these are not the actions of someone there to overthrow the government or incite violence, but rather a concerned citizen who believed the election was stolen,” West said.

Married couple Mark and Jalise Middleton of Forestburg, Texas, either assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021, as prosecutors claim or defending themselves after police pulled hard on Jalise Middleton’s scarf as a defense attorney asserts.

Photo from Metropolitan Police Department Bodycam

In his sentencing memo for Mark Middleton, Brennwald said he was not suggesting the Middletons “should have been where they were in the first place” or that police “did not have the right to, in some manner, move the crowd away from its location.”

“But the aggressiveness demonstrated by the police in this instance was not the finest example of police behavior, and ended up being counter-productive, as it inflamed passions in the crowd,” he wrote.

In an Oct. 19 letter to Judge Moss, Jalise Middleton said she was in fight-or-flight mode when the incident occurred.

“I felt responsible to let my voice be heard and make a difference,” she wrote of her decision to come to Washington, D.C. “The truth is, Jesus Christ makes the difference. My only job that day was to pray and stand firm. Amidst the chaos that quickly ensued, I forgot to trust him.”

“Furthermore, I do passionately believe my actions that day were consistent with what any person would have done in our shoes,” Jalise Middleton wrote.

The FBI seized Jalise Middleton’s wedding ring while executing a search warrant at the couple’s home. Agents then took it with them. The Middletons have been married since May 1990.

“Wouldn’t a photograph of it suffice?” West asked. “Apparently not.”

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In an apparent effort to outdo Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s embarrassing hunting-themed photo op, Democratic Senate candidate Lucas Kunce attended a sport shooting campaign event Tuesday north of Kansas City with Harris booster Adam Kinzinger.

Unlike Walz, Kunce, a gun control advocate trying to unseat Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), actually hit something — or rather somebody: KSHB-TV reporter Ryan Gamboa.

According to the Kansas City Star, Kunce was firing a rifle at a private residence when a bullet fragment ricocheted off a steel target at close range and struck the reporter in the arm.

Upon realizing he left the fourth estate in need of first aid, Kunce wrapped his belt around Gamboa’s arm to arrest the bleeding. KSHB indicated that its wounded reporter went to a nearby hospital for professional treatment and was later discharged.

‘Will Kamala condemn the gun violence by Kunce and Kinzinger?’

Kunce attempted to make light of the incident, tweeting, “Great day at the range today with my friend @AdamKinzinger.”

“We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom. Always have your first aid kit handy,” continued Kunce. “Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go. We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting.”

Criticism and mockery soon began pouring in.

Hawley, who The Hill indicated was leading Kunce by an average of 7.3% across 10 polls, noted, “When liberals play with guns, people get hurt.”

The Republican senator asked in jest, “Will Kamala condemn the gun violence by Kunce and Kinzinger?”

Apparently unable to help himself, Hawley also wrote, “I know the Kunce campaign needed a shot in the arm, but this is taking it a little far,” and “I condemn all acts of violence against reporters.”

“It’s been a really rough month for Dems trying to appear competent with firearms,” wrote the National Association for Gun Rights.

After noting that “cosplay can be dangerous,” Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) shared a 2021 video of Kunce offering his services for a weapons safety course ahead of his last failed Senate run, writing, “This aged well.”

Police analyst and Townhall columnist Phil Holloway had some questions: “Why did you put a tourniquet on a grazing flesh wound? Why are people wearing their eye protection on top of their head? Why are you firing .223 rounds at metal targets 20 feet away? Asking for a few million friends.”

‘Calm down, Dick Cheney.’

After dwelling on photos from the disastrous photo op, Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist, highlighted other issues Kunce and Kinzinger apparently failed to register:

“They are shooting steel at 5-7 yards with rifles, which could’ve killed somebody given the force with which the bullets will ricochet off the steel targets at [that] distance. You would instantly get permanently banned at my range if you did that. Zero questions asked.”
“Kinzinger holds his rifle like a complete ninny, and that will never not be funny to me. And pro-tip for @AdamKinzinger: the eye protection works better when it’s on your eyes, not your head. You stupid idiot. Try using your brain for once. You’re lucky you still have one after today.”
“Kinzinger is for some reason using a high-powered scope (at least a 3-9x by the looks of it) to shoot a target 5 yards away.”
“There is a bolt action rifle on the table, so presumably someone was also using that to shoot steel at 5 yards. Insane.”
“There are at least two canisters of explosive Tannerite powder on the table, down range from where guns are being fired. That could’ve potentially killed or seriously injured someone if someone shot it or if someone was stupid enough to be shooting close enough to steel for a ricochet to hit it.”
“At one point the cameraman is down range from all the guns, which — given the violations we’ve found so far — we can assume are not safe and unloaded. Way to think that one through, dummy.”

Ryan Cleckner, a former special ops sniper, affirmed Davis’ critiques, writing, “[Davis] told me ‘it gets better the more you look at it.’ He was so right.”

“‘Great day! We only shot one person!’ Calm down, Dick Cheney,” wrote one user.

Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck noted, “Democrats need to stop cosplaying with guns because it’s getting embarrassing.”

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The irony of Gloria Steinem’s latest push for voter engagement is hard to miss. Rallying cries such as, “If you don’t vote [for Kamala Harris], you don’t count!” ring a bit hollow, given her past. A past that many Americans know very little, if anything, about.

I’m talking about Steinem’s history with the CIA — a group infamous for undermining democracy. From 1958 to 1962, Steinem worked as director for the CIA-backed Independent Research Group, which actively helped manipulate youth movements to advance American geopolitical interests.

The glaring disconnect between her public persona as a crusader for empowerment and her involvement with an organization notorious for crushing those very ideals is both hilarious and rather hypocritical.

Then, there are the murky circumstances of the 1972 founding of Ms. Magazine, the editorship of which cemented Steinem’s role as the face of the feminist movement. It was New York Magazine publisher Clay Felker who put up much of the money for Ms.; he had previously given Steinem her first writing jobs while an editor at Esquire.

But Steinem and Felker went further back than that; they had both worked together at the Independent Research Center.

It gets stranger when you consider some of the other sources of funding for Ms: one was the powerful Katharine Graham, publisher-owner of Newsweek and the Washington Post.

Another was media conglomerate Warner Communications Inc., which invested $1 million in Ms. but only took 25% of the stock it was entitled to, making it a major investor but minority stockholder.

In 1978, these same backers successfully prevented Random House from publishing information on Steinem’s CIA history in “Feminist Revolution,” an anthology by radical feminist collective Redstockings. The offending passages were censored.

Clearly, Steinem’s association with an agency that has meddled in foreign elections, propped up dictators, and sabotaged democratic processes worldwide is a sore point for the modern feminist movement.

Down with the patriarchy, up with the covert ops

The irony deepens when considering Steinem’s role as perhaps the most celebrated feminist of her era. The glaring disconnect between her public persona as a crusader for empowerment and her involvement with an organization notorious for crushing those very ideals is both hilarious and rather hypocritical.

Oh, and let’s not forget Jane Fonda, another feminist icon and a close admirer of Steinem. She was also tied to the CIA.

Do these stalwarts of human rights have any dignity themselves? Do they carry any regrets? Do any of the younger women who see them as icons realize they were both CIA spooks, aligning themselves with an agency that embodies the very antithesis of democracy, human dignity, and freedom?

Founded in 1947, the CIA quickly evolved from its original mission of intelligence gathering into a tool for covert operations. While the agency has played a positive role in certain instances — such as its efforts during the Cold War to prevent nuclear escalation — its wicked ways are undeniable.

Subverting democracy, supporting despots

From its very inception, the CIA prioritized regime changes around the world to protect U.S. corporate interests, rather than to promote democracy.

Two notorious examples were Iran and Guatemala. In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, whose decision to nationalize the country’s oil threatened Western corporate profits. The CIA’s Operation Ajax not only restored the shah’s rule but also ignited decades of anti-American sentiment that would later explode in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

While the revolution was framed as a triumph for national sovereignty, it was anything but a victory for Iranian women. Before the revolution, women enjoyed relative freedoms, with the ability to dress however they pleased, work, and pursue education. But the Islamic regime imposed harsh restrictions, forcing women to cover themselves with the hijab and limit their movements, often requiring a male guardian for basic activities.

Today, women in Iran have never been less free.

As for Guatemala, the CIA’s 1954 coup against President Jacobo Árbenz was another prime example of prioritizing U.S. corporate interests over a nation’s democratic will.

Árbenz had sought to redistribute unused land, much of it owned by the U.S.-based United Fruit Company, to impoverished farmers. Fearing the loss of its vast holdings, United Fruit lobbied the U.S. government, and the CIA acted swiftly to remove Árbenz.

The result was decades of military dictatorship, civil war, and widespread human rights abuses (including brutal rapes). Thousands of Guatemalans, particularly indigenous populations, became the victims of violent repression. The intervention devastated the country, leaving scars that still endure today.

Sniff, sniff

The agency’s involvement in the illegal drug trade further erodes any semblance of moral integrity. The Iran-Contra affair, in which the agency not only illegally supplied arms to Nicaraguan rebels but also facilitated the flow of drugs into the United States to fund these operations, comes to mind. This scheme resulted in devastating consequences for the less well-off (you know, the people who feminists care so much about), especially black Americans, who bore the brunt of the crack cocaine epidemic.

Specifically, an epidemic fueled by the CIA’s complicity.

Additionally, the agency has infiltrated and manipulated global media through programs like Operation Mockingbird, which involved recruiting journalists to spread propaganda and suppress narratives unfavorable to U.S. interests.

It doesn’t end there. With the CIA, it never does.

The agency’s actions have often undermined global peace efforts. Its role in covert operations like Project MKUltra, a mind-control research program, shows a willingness to experiment on human subjects with no regard for their well-being. Participants were subjected to forced drug consumption, electroshock therapy, and psychological manipulation. The fact that this program ran for two decades, largely in secret, is a testament to the lack of moral oversight within the agency. All in the name of democracy, of course.

From the assassination of democratically elected leaders like Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to backing murderous regimes in Latin America, the CIA has blood on its hands. These actions were never about supporting democracy but securing U.S. dominance, often at the cost of countless lives. And who suffered the most? Most likely women and girls — the very people Steinem and Fonda love so deeply. Feminism has never looked so shallow, so shambolic.

Duplicity on wheels

In Afghanistan, as more recent reports show, CIA-backed death squads orchestrated night raids on religious schools, targeting children. In a particularly horrific instance, 12 boys, as young as 9, were massacred during a raid on a madrassa in Wardak province. These actions were part of a broader campaign of terror that included executions, mutilations, and attacks on civilian structures, all carried out with U.S. support.

I hope Steinem and Fonda, especially Steinem, see this. While she’s busy pushing young Americans to vote for Kamala, here’s my message: They need her advice like a fish needs a bicycle.

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A homeowner in New Mexico fatally shot an alleged intruder who broke into a residence early Tuesday morning, Bernalillo County deputies told KOB-TV.

The station said deputies responded to a call around 3:45 a.m. about an intruder at a home near Lost Horizon Drive on the West Mesa, the station said. The area is part of Albuquerque.

‘That’s why we have our 2nd Amendment!!!’

The homeowner reported shooting the intruder, the sheriff’s office told KOB.

Arriving deputies found the alleged intruder critically injured and tried life-saving measures on the individual, the station said.

Medics took the suspect to a hospital, but the suspect died, KOB reported.

Sheriff’s office detectives who work on violent crimes and homicides are investigating the incident, the station said.

How are observers reacting?

Plenty of people are reacting to KOB’s story on the station’s Facebook page. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say:

“Unfortunately we have to protect our own because by the time police show up — if they show up — it’s too late,” one commenter wrote. “We all work hard for our things and need [to] protect our families. When [suspects are] arrested, they’re just let right back out to do it all over again…””This is great news! More criminals need this fate!” another user concluded.”This was totally warranted!” another commenter said. “Good job protecting yourself, family, & your home! There needs to be … repercussions for the outrageous amount of crime in this city.””Good job!!!” another commenter exclaimed. “That’s why we have our 2nd Amendment!!!””Good,” another commenter noted before adding, “Tired of this crap. When [they’re] in your home, you gotta protect it. I stand for the homeowner. Job well done.””Finally some good news today,” another user stated before adding, “Great job on protecting your family and what’s yours. Sends a perfect message to thieves; [we’ve] had enough of their BS.”

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Have you noticed how Kamala Harris and her allies in the corporate left-wing media have become bolder in labeling Trump a “fascist”? A recent New York Times article revealed that Democrats have shed their reluctance to use the term. In fact, it has become their rallying cry as Election Day approaches.

What’s the real goal here? According to John Daniel Davidson at the Federalist, Harris and her supporters are using this rhetoric to energize their base — and more disturbingly, to prepare them for violence if Trump wins. The fearmongering isn’t just about driving people to the polls; it’s about creating an atmosphere of rage and chaos.

Let’s show the Democrats that our republic doesn’t bend to fear, and it certainly doesn’t bend to those who twist the truth for political gain.

Harris is deliberately spreading false, fear-driven narratives to turn her base against Trump, regardless of the consequences. This is the same Kamala Harris who, during the George Floyd riots in 2020, encouraged bailing out rioters and urged the violence to continue both before and after the election.

For example, Harris has claimed that Trump will use the Department of Justice as a weapon against his political enemies if he returns to office. But let’s pause for a second: Who is using the Justice Department as a political tool right now? Harris’ own administration, led by Joe Biden, has weaponized federal agencies against Trump and conservatives for years.

Harris also recently entertained the idea that Trump would round up people who “don’t look white” and throw them into camps. During an interview with Charlemagne tha God, a caller suggested this scenario. Instead of refuting the caller’s paranoia, Harris nodded and said, “You have hit on a really important point.”

This kind of divisive rhetoric fuels fear and division in our country. Let’s not forget, Trump was president for four years, and there were no camps, roundups, or authoritarian crackdowns on dissenters. Leftists claim Trump and his supporters spread conspiracies, but they are the ones pushing baseless and dangerous claims.

While Democrats claim to defend democracy, they are increasingly aligning with authoritarianism. For example, the EPA funneled billions of dollars to left-wing organizations, including one tied to Stacey Abrams, for “voter mobilization” efforts. This funding came through the Inflation Reduction Act — a taxpayer-funded omnibus bill. Imagine the outrage if Republicans in Congress gave billions of taxpayer dollars to right-wing groups. The media would be in an uproar, and there would be protests at the White House gates. But because it’s Democrats doing it, the mainstream media turns a blind eye. These are the warning signs of an authoritarian regime.

This is why it’s more critical than ever for Americans to see through the left’s manipulation. Trump’s not the fascist here — he’s a threat to the left’s power. The real danger lies in the left’s escalating rhetoric, which is designed to incite chaos if things don’t go its way. And let me be clear: that’s exactly what leftists are preparing for.

Don’t let them succeed.

The best way to counter their lies is by getting out to vote and encouraging others to do the same. If every single one of us does this, we won’t let the fearmongering and lies being peddled by Harris and the Democrats succeed. Let’s show them that our republic doesn’t bend to fear, and it certainly doesn’t bend to those who twist the truth for political gain.

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Democratic President Joe Biden undermined the Harris-Walz campaign yet again through a five-word gaffe he uttered while trying to get out the vote Tuesday in New Hampshire.

Biden was speaking to a group of supporters and enumerating what he believed to be the worst of former President Donald Trump’s post-inauguration plans when he sputtered out the threat.

‘A reminder to the folks who harassed, attacked, and threatened those who were rightly calling out his decline.’

“He is talking about doing away with the entire Department of Education. He means it! This is not a joke! This is a guy who also wants to replace every civil servant. Every single one. He thinks he has the ruling of the Supreme Court on immunity to be able to, if need be, to actually eliminate, physically eliminate, shoot, kill someone who he believes to be a threat to him,” said Biden.

“I mean, so I know this sounds bizarre, it sounds like I said this five years ago, he’d lock me up,” Biden said before pausing for effect.

“We gotta lock him up,” he added.

The crowd applauded in support of the president, but he appeared to recognize that he had gone too far and tried to correct himself.

“Politically lock him out,” he sputtered.

Video of the moment went viral on social media, where many took his comments to mean that Democrats could prosecute him out of political motivation. Others pointed out that Trump had been excoriated as a fascist by many on the left when he encouraged supporters to chant “lock her up!” about Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.

Vice President Kamala Harris has tried to shut down chants of “lock him up!” at her rallies by telling supporters to help her defeat Trump at the ballot box.

“Hold on. The courts are going to handle that part of it. What we’re going to do is beat him in November,” she said at a rally in Wisconsin.

“A reminder to the folks who harassed, attacked, and threatened those who were rightly calling out his decline,” said independent journalist Yashar Ali.

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There are a lot of talking points circulating this election season, but perhaps the strangest one is whether or not Kamala Harris actually worked at a McDonald’s in the ’80s. The VP is the only one to blame for the scrutiny regarding her alleged occupation as a french fry maker, granted she is the one who has used this to underscore her middle-class upbringing.

McDonald’s has not been able to confirm or deny Harris’ employment at the chain restaurant because its records are incomplete.

However, regardless of the veracity of Harris’ claims, Donald Trump, in a brilliant stunt aimed at mocking his opponent, decided that he would try his hand at making McDonald’s french fries and working the drive-through.

Per usual, he proved once again that he is the candidate who hands down wins the beer question. His charisma and down-to-earth attitude allowed him to effortlessly joke and chat with the employees and patrons.

Pat Gray and the “Unleashed” team discuss what will certainly go down in history as one of the best publicity stunts to date.

Pat suspects Harris’ McDonald’s employment is as fictitious as the stories from Joe Biden’s life.

“How many things did [Biden] tell us that were completely untrue about his past?” asks Pat, noting that according to Biden’s previous statements, “He worked for every conceivable business in every conceivable industry” and “was from every ethnic background.”

“Wherever he went, that’s to whom he pandered,” he says, adding that that’s exactly what Kamala is doing with her alleged McDonald’s history.

Keith Malinak then points out that Donald Trump, who paid for every patron’s meal while he was working at McDonald’s, is a stark contrast to the time that Kamala Harris’ husband and step-daughter, Doug and Ella Emhoff, “walked away from a Starbucks” without paying.

“[Ella] was like, ‘Someone will pay, I’m sure,’” Keith recounts.

As for the patrons who found themselves face-to-face with a former president and potentially the next president of the United States, their response was extremely positive. From average American families to immigrants with heavy accents, people expressed their support for Trump.

One Brazilian patron even said, “Please don’t let the United States become my native Brazil.”

“The immigrants who are here and love the country and want to become a part of it — they understand because they left their original country for a reason,” says Pat, “and that reason is almost always socialism or communism … so they don’t want [the U.S.] to become what they just left.”

To hear more of Pat’s commentary and watch how McDonald’s patrons reacted when they came face-to-face with Trump, watch the clip above.

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Abortion remains one of the biggest issues Christian voters face on the ballot, and many are demoralized by former president Trump’s moderate stance — as it will result in the lives of more innocents being taken.

Since Kamala Harris and her VP pick, Tim Walz, are drastically more radical on the topic of abortion, many of those voters don’t see a choice that reflects their values and are threatening to sit out of the election.

President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Dr. Albert Mohler is of the mind that sitting this election out is not the answer.

“We’re called to a very long fight here. We’ve got to stay in the fight, and that means that we’ve got to be honest about the political alternatives in an election like 2024,” Mohler tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

“When it comes to the Harris-Walz ticket, you’re talking about absolute unbridled support for abortion at any point up until birth, paid for by the American taxpayer, and, quite frankly, aggressively supported with all the power of the administrative state. On the Republican side is a very different picture, and frankly, we need to be honest about those two stark alternatives,” he continues.

Stuckey is in complete agreement, noting that a future Harris-Walz administration views abortion as a “fundamental right” that should not be left up to the states.

“I noticed just in their animation, Kamala and Walz in the debates, that this is really what they’re most excited about. This is when they kind of become most articulate, it’s when they sound the most knowledgeable. When they are talking about abortion, their fervor just comes out in full force,” she explains.

While the United States Constitution recognizes certain rights as inalienable, Stuckey and Mohler both understand that the Democrat ticket plans to recognize abortion as one of those.

“From the Christian worldview, there are certain human rights that the government doesn’t create, it just recognizes and agrees to honor, and that’s ridiculous when it comes to abortion on both counts, because there is no society throughout all of human history that has somehow come to the claim that abortion is a fundamental, inalienable right,” Mohler says.

“Governor Walz, he signed one of the most aggressively pro-abortion bills in all of, I won’t say American history, all of world history, in which there’s absolutely no restriction on abortion, period. The bill that he supported and signed into law in the state of Minnesota,” he continues, adding, “I think he means what he says, and that’s what scares me the most.”

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Florida police arrested a 36-year-old woman who allegedly instructed her 10-year-old daughter to murder a baby by dropping the child on its head, causing serious injuries.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Tara Alexis Sykes was arrested after they were contacted by the Gulf Coast Kids House on Thursday over serious injuries reported to a 2-month-old baby.

‘I have been in Law Enforcement for over 40 years and have never seen anything quite like this.’

The baby had been dropped headfirst onto a tile floor, and police determined that the child had been instructed to do so by Sykes through the social media features on the Roblox game. Police said that Sykes enumerated various methods by which the girl could kill the baby, including drowning in a bathtub, burning with scalding water, or dropping the baby on its head.

Sykes also allegedly told the child to kill two foster parents that the child was living with temporarily.

Sykes had instructed the 10-year-old on how to kill the adults the 10-year-old was temporarily living with by cutting their throats with a knife while they slept and burning their house by dousing bed sheets with aerosol spray and setting them on fire. The 10-year-old doused the sheets but was unable to carry out the instructions.

The baby suffered a skull fracture but is expected to survive.

Sheriff Chip W. Simmons said he was “truly disturbed” by the allegations in the case.

“I have been in Law Enforcement for over 40 years and have never seen anything quite like this,” said Simmons in a statement. “There is something really wrong with her.”

Sykes was held without bond, and the sheriff’s office spokesperson said they do not foresee the daughter being charged with anything. The woman was charged with attempted murder while engaged in aggravated child abuse.

Experts warn parents to monitor children on social media and limit their use to prevent access from child predators. In one incident from 2023, a Delaware man allegedly kidnapped a 11-year-old girl from her New Jersey home after interacting with her on Roblox.

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The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times will not endorse anyone in the presidential election after a 20-year run of endorsing Democrats.

The editorial board listed other endorsements and said it was “no exaggeration to say this may be the most consequential election in a generation” but then ignored the presidential election.

The LA Times had endorsed Harris when she ran for California attorney general in 2014 and in 2016 when she ran for the US Senate.

While some on social media saw this as a sign of former President Donald Trump’s popularity, a report by Max Tani of Semafor claimed it was forced on the editorial board by the paper’s billionaire owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.

A spokesperson for the Times refused to comment on the story.

“We do not comment on internal discussions or decisions about editorials or endorsements,” read the spokesperson’s statement.

Semafor reported that Soon-Shiong, who became wealthy in the health care industry, also overrode the paper’s leaders when they were going to endorse U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts during the Democratic primary presidential campaign in 2020. The paper endorsed no one in the primary but endorsed then-candidate Joe Biden in the general election.

The L.A. Times had endorsed Harris when she ran for California attorney general in 2014 and in 2016 when she ran for the U.S. Senate.

Some on the left posted images of their subscriptions being canceled over the decision.

“Of all the elections to sit out. The Los Angeles Times decision to not endorse for president this year made my decision to cancel my subscription extremely easy. They’ve coward [sic] in fear over Trump’s ‘Enemies will be punished’ threats. Gross, weak and pathetic,” responded lawyer Sean Nyberg.

Prior to 2008, the paper had refused to endorse any presidential candidate over interior disagreements about the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. Prior to that, the paper had endorsed Republicans for nearly a century since its 1881 founding.

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A new poll found that males in Georgia are overwhelmingly rejecting the Harris-Walz presidential campaign, and Democrats are winning women by only a small margin.

According to results from the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center, fewer than three out of every 10 Georgian males are voting for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

‘Barack’s lecture threatening to revoke their black cards for not voting for Kamala is backfiring.’

Only 28% of male respondents said they backed Harris while an overwhelming 59% said they support former President Donald Trump for president.

The tremendous gender gap contributes to Harris currently losing the state to Trump by four percentage points, from 47% to 43%.

Meanwhile, Harris is only winning the female vote in Georgia with 55% to 37%, a much smaller margin for the Democrat than the male margin for Trump.

Trump has a margin of 38% among whites in the poll, and Harris leads among blacks with 74% support to 8%.

Many on social media enjoyed the news out of Georgia and responded hilariously.

“There’s a reason the campaign switched from the Brat theme to relentlessly nagging men. It doesn’t appear to be working,” responded podcaster Scott Greer.

“Proud to say we don’t have many Beta dudes here in Georgia,” read one response.

“I guess Barack’s lecture threatening to revoke their black cards for not voting for Kamala is backfiring,” read another tweet.

Georgia, once a reliable red state, has emerged in recent years as a pivotal battleground state with very important congressional consequences from down-ballot races.

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Host Bianca de la Garza says that reporters in the White House press briefing room routinely try to coax the press secretary into supporting their politics with inflammatory language.

De la Garza explains that through countless hours of watching briefings and inside reporting on press room exchanges, White House reporters have been ruthless in their pursuit of driving specific narratives.

According to de la Garza, press room reporters are “savages” who have no shame in trying to push press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a direction that would help their story, even if there isn’t evidence to support their claim.

“I remember one reporter asking the press secretary, ‘Do you think this is Russian disinformation?’ They were trying to help her and lead her into saying what they wanted,” de la Garza told Blaze News in an exclusive interview.

“I was like, ‘Didn’t we go through this already?'”

Questions are often so egregious and so clearly biased, de la Garza says she sometimes wonders whether the reporters work for the government.

“These people never learn! I want to ask, ‘Are you a plant for the Democrat Party?'” she laughed.

Despite labeling Jean-Pierre a “terrible press secretary,” de la Garza notes that her job is difficult given the situation she is put in. She added that it would be “hard to go out there and do that job” for anyone who doesn’t believe in the policies their administration is implementing.

When asked who she thought Donald Trump’s next press secretary should be if he wins, de la Garza hesitated to throw out any names of her colleagues or favorite commentators due to how taxing and repetitive the role is.

“You can’t be in the job and not love this country and love the people,” the host said.

‘I want smart people in office, I don’t want career politicians.’

The experienced host also touched on the sheer number of politicians and media members she’s seen flip sides over the years.

When asked how viewers can trust the reporting of people who are seemingly so firm in their position only to change depending on who is in office, de la Garza said not to put too much stock in those opinions.

“It’s an act of self-preservation,” she explained. “People go back and forth; it is interesting how some people will allow themselves to be used as pawns and come out and speak against the president after working for the administration.”

She continued, “I don’t take too much stock in that, because I think there were many people who used to be Democrats that have come out in support of [Trump].”

Overall, de la Garza claimed integrity is the most important role for both a good journalist and good politician.

“I want smart people in office, I don’t want career politicians. … I think we need more outsiders,” she stressed

She added that while she “understands the game” being played, there’s no excuse for lies and covering up any government wrongdoing.

De la Garza’s book, “Incoming: On the Front Lines of the Left’s War on Truth,” is available now.

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The Biden-Harris administration’s “smoke and mirrors” border scheme has concealed the true extent of the immigration crisis amid the 2024 election season, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond revealed during a Monday interview with Glenn Beck.

Between September 2023 and June 2024, the Border Patrol released more than 155,000 foreign nationals onto the streets of San Diego County, Desmond stated.

‘This isn’t about securing the border for the Feds — it’s about optics.’

Most of those individuals were dropped off at the Iris Avenue Transit Center, where they hitched a ride to their next destination deeper within the interior of the U.S. after being released by Border Patrol officials.

The Biden-Harris administration was torched for the street releases and the negative optics of using the train station as its main drop-off point for the San Diego Sector.

According to Desmond, the federal government started busing and flying immigrants to other border sectors to reduce the number of street releases in San Diego County.

“There’s about three buses a day that Border Patrol is taking migrants to Yuma, Arizona, which is right on the California-Arizona line. So about three buses per day, and they have about three or four flights per week, leaving San Diego going to Texas, primarily McAllen, Texas,” Desmond told Beck.

“It’s just smoke and mirrors. What they’re doing is they’re just taking these numbers, they’re no longer putting them on our streets, which was very in the open, and press and everything else had access to that, and they’re hiding them by busing them to Arizona or flying them to Texas,” he declared.

Desmond noted that the southern border numbers may be down over the past few months but only from “record highs.”

Border officials told Desmond that the agency planned to restart the street releases in San Diego County last Friday.

“So I think, unfortunately, we’re going to be back to the mayhem that we had in the previous months,” he told Beck. “That’s what I fear.”

He noted that, under the Biden-Harris administration, the San Diego Sector had become the number one spot for border crossings and fentanyl and “one of the top spots for human trafficking.”

Desmond also explained to Beck that several times per week boats packed with illegal aliens are running up onto the shores. The illegal immigrants then jump off the boats and flee on foot into nearby neighborhoods.

“They just abandon the boats on the beach. Those people aren’t even checked or go through Border Patrol. They’re not fingerprinted,” he stated. “That’s been happening for months.”

Desmond slammed the state’s sanctuary status, which prevents local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials.

“The state of California is a sanctuary state, which means our local law enforcement cannot enforce immigration laws. So even these people that are getting off the boats and walking into our neighborhoods, local law enforcement can’t do a thing about it,” he continued.

“There’s very little locally anybody can do about this,” Desmond added.

In a post on X, he wrote, “Border Patrol officials have informed me that street releases were set to resume again last Friday in San Diego County, adding to the more than 155,000 in the past year. But with the election around the corner, the Federal Government was worried about the optics, so every day, they’re bussing illegal immigrants from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona, to fly them across the country.”

“This isn’t about securing the border for the Feds — it’s about optics,” he concluded.

The Border Patrol did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

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A whistleblower revealed that a nonprofit focusing on “digital hate” has a stated goal to destroy Elon Musk’s X platform.

Leaked documents show that the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a U.S. nonprofit and British charity, have an internal goal to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”

Images from January, March, and October 2024 list “Kill Musk’s Twitter” as an annual priority. Other priorities included “advertising focus,” “Trigger EU & UK regulatory action,” and “Progress towards change in USA.”

Reporters Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi posted other screenshots revealing the nonprofit was hoping to discuss policy with Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s team and to seek “a quote/press release endorsement” from her. The document showed the nonprofit already had a meeting set up with the senator’s team.

According to Thacker, the nonprofit held a private conference with a group of liberal representatives who were organizing against Musk.

Guests included members of the Joe Biden administration, Congressman Adam Schiff’s office, Biden State Department officials, Canadian Member of Parliament Peter Julian, and Media Matters for America.

In response to the report, Musk simply stated, “This is war.”

— (@)

‘Boycott all advertisers on Twitter. Mute all ads.’

The nonprofit uses Musk to garner donations in a few locations on its website; on its homepage, the organization cites a legal victory against the entrepreneur, claiming it is “working to hold social media giants accountable.”

“Fighting Elon Musk’s lawsuit has cost us thousands of dollars. … Help us get back on track,” the nonprofit wrote.

The CCDH openly states that platforms like X “and their owners” must be “held accountable for enabling the spread of hate and misinformation.”

In fact, one of its alleged cohorts is Peter Julian, who recently called for “all advertisers” on X to be boycotted.

“Boycott all advertisers on Twitter. Mute all ads. Let’s end the nightmare that is an far right extremist hate speech billionaire controlling this social media platform,” Julian wrote.

— (@)

Along with blatantly going after X’s advertisers, the CCDH pushes a series of campaigns surrounding vague claims of online hate and misinformation and then complains when posts are not taken down.

One of its campaigns, titled “X Content Moderation Failure,” argues that Musk’s platform has failed to delete “hateful posts.” It alleged that 86% of the posts flagged were still not removed within a week of reporting them.

The company says it also “found dozens of advertisements for household brands, such as Apple and Disney, appearing next to hate speech.”

Its “abusing women in politics” report complains that the company found “1,000 abusive comments targeting women politicians running for office” on Instagram.

The company then said that Meta “had taken no action against 926 of these hateful comments.”

The CCDH also accuses platforms of harboring climate disinformation and says that “content producers profit by spreading new forms of climate denial.”

The nonprofit goes on to claim it is part of the “sensible majority” that seeks to avert a “climate catastrophe” but is stymied by having to deal with a large swath of disinformation that is designed to delay its actions to save the planet.

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A journalist was reportedly arrested over the weekend after he attempted to expose an all-ages drag show held at the Mission Event Center in Mission, Texas.

The Fiesta de Colores event was held on Saturday and hosted by RGV PRIDE, a South Texas Equality Project group. It was open to the public for $10 per person. One advertisement promoted the event as free for children under 12, while another conflicting ad stated that children under 10 could enter for free.

“All ages welcomed,” one ad stated. “Vendors, drag entertainers, music & more.”

“RGV PRIDE presents Fiesta de Colores, a celebration of diversity with the LGBTQIA+ Family & Allies. The event will take place at Mission Event Center and will feature a variety of activities, including music, dancing, and more. The event is scheduled for Saturday, October 19th, 2024, from 3pm to 12am,” it continued. “Did you know in October as part of LGBTQ+ History Month we have: 8th – International Lesbian Day 11th – National Coming Out Day 15th – National Latinx HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 16th – International Pronoun Day 26th – Intersex Awareness Day Last week: Asexual Awareness Week.”

‘Four Mission police officers arrested Taylor for not leaving.’

According to RGV PRIDE’s website, Geneva Karr, a “Drag Artist from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16,” was slated to “grace our main stage.” The event also offered a meet-and-greet with Karr.

Sarah Fields, the president of Texas Freedom Coalition, reported in a post on X that her friend and fellow journalist, Taylor Cramer, was arrested by Mission Police Department officers after he attempted to expose the all-ages drag show.

According to Fields, Cramer purchased a ticket and received a wristband to attend the event. Once inside, he entered the main room, where a drag performance was taking place with at least one child present, she noted.

The journalist’s video evidence showed that Cramer attempted to film the show, but a man obstructed his view by dancing, clapping, and jumping in front of the camera.

“Security told Taylor he had to leave. He explained that only the owner or acting manager of the property has the legal authority to trespass someone. (This is correct),” Fields continued. “Four Mission police officers arrested Taylor for not leaving. Two officers then talked with him outside in front of another officer who was going to [transport] him to booking. They asked Taylor if he ‘would be cool’ and they would not book me if he simply left the property.”

Cramer’s approximately two-minute video captured his interaction with local police officers. He could be heard asking police whether the person who requested he leave the event was the owner of the building.

“No, the City of Mission is,” the officer responded.

“Yes, the City of Mission owns this building where you’re having this drag show with children right now,” Cramer stated.

“Yeah, yeah,” the officer replied, nodding his head in the affirmative.

Police refused Cramer’s request to re-enter the event, as attendees inside held the door closed.

“Well, look, let’s go talk outside,” the officer told Cramer.

“No, I’m not doing the outside thing. Because that’s all you want me to do is get outside the property. If I haven’t done anything wrong, I don’t need to,” Cramer stated.

Cramer refused to leave without instruction from the property manager.

“She doesn’t want to come out,” another officer told Cramer.

“So, I have it from your authority — can you say on camera that from the acting manager of this facility you, as the lieutenant, are relaying that information?” Cramer responded.

The officer requested that the journalist put the phone down as he reached to grab it from him. Officers told Cramer that he was being placed under arrest.

“What? For what?” Cramer asked.

An officer replied, “You’ve been told to leave.”

The video jumped to the men continuing their conversation outside. One officer can be heard telling Cramer, “It’s a free country, correct?”

“No, it’s not,” the journalist responded. “I just got arrested for just being here. Yep, no, it’s not a free country. You guys proved it. You absolutely proved it.”

Last year, Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law Senate Bill 12, which prohibits sexually oriented performances in the presence of children. However, the law is currently not in effect, as it remains tied up in the court system after the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas challenged the legislation.

The City of Mission, the Mission Police Department, and STEP did not respond to a request for comment.

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Whether it was drinking wine through masks, cutting out family for refusing to vaccinate, or ratting out neighbors for having company, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in people all over the world taking their faith to an entirely new level.

“Science suddenly became this kind of new god, and it was perhaps embodied in its priest Dr. Fauci, who claimed to be the science and therefore to have authority over all … aspects of our lives,” Spencer Klavan, author of “Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith,” tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.”

While science itself is what Klavan calls a “noble human tradition of understanding and trying to know about the natural world,” the newfound worship of the practice disfigured its true nature.

“Originally, the scientific revolution that we all know of was not an anti-religious crusade, just the opposite, it was a religious endeavor to know God’s universe,” Klavan says, noting that we were brought up to believe that science is the only truth there is.

The blatant lies peddled by Dr. Fauci and the rest of the Democratic establishment regarding masks, vaccines, and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic not only pushed Americans to question “the science” — but how long they’ve been told that it’s the only truth.

“It’s a very different story than we were brought up to believe, and I kind of think we need a hard reset on this,” he says.

Meanwhile, those who do worship science over religion will be for the most part checking off Kamala Harris on their ballot this November — but it’s not stopping Americans from waking up.

“While you have this kind of decrepit establishment endorsing Kamala Harris, you also have things like this article in City Journal that came out recently about all these scientists who are totally shocking themselves by starting to think, ‘Maybe there’s more to the universe than just math and matter in motion,’” Klavan explains.

And perhaps, human beings are much more magnificent than we’ve been led to believe.

“This is also what I think the quantum revolution has unlocked, is this realization that actually, self-awareness and consciousness are irreplaceable things,” he says, adding, “It looked for awhile like everything was just made of meat and we were just chemistry sets, but actually, there’s something much more capacious on the other side.”

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A former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO was arrested Tuesday for his alleged participation in an international sex trafficking operation using male models, according to federal prosecutors.

Mike Jeffries, 80, along with his “romantic partner” Matthew Smith and business associate James Jacobson are accused of recruiting the models for the operation. The three defendants were charged with sex trafficking and interstate prostitution.

The suspects reportedly hired a ‘secret staff’ to maintain events where alleged victims would be provided drugs and alcohol to make it easier to coerce them into sexual activity.

Breon Peace — the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York — said at a news conference in Brooklyn, “To anyone who thinks they can exploit and coerce others by using this so-called casting couch system, this case should serve as a warning: prepare to trade that couch for a bed in federal prison.”

Peace said Jeffries, while he was CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch from 1992 to 2014, used “his power, his wealth, and his influence to traffic men for his own sexual pleasure and that of his romantic partner, Smith.”

Brad Edwards — a civil lawyer representing some of the alleged victims — proclaimed: “These arrests are a huge first step towards obtaining justice for the many victims who were exploited and abused through this sex trafficking scheme that operated for many years under the legitimate cover Abercrombie provided.”

The indictment claims that Jeffries and Smith used Jacobsen as well as employees, contractors, and security professionals to run an operation “dedicated to fulfilling their sexual desires and ensuring that their international sex trafficking and prostitution business was kept secret.”

The former retail executive and Smith relied on their vast financial resources, Jeffries’ power as the CEO of Abercrombie, and numerous people, including Jacobson and a network of employees, contractors, and security professionals, to run a business “that was dedicated to fulfilling their sexual desires and ensuring that their international sex trafficking and prostitution business was kept secret,” the indictment alleges.

Peace said the models were told they needed to comply with sexual demands or their modeling careers could suffer. According to the feds, Jeffries and Smith would forcefully subject the alleged victims to violent sexual contact.

Peace said the international sex trafficking operation lasted from at least 2008 until 2015 and allegedly required millions of dollars to support its massive infrastructure to maintain secrecy.

Federal prosecutors identified 15 victims of the sex trafficking operation, but Peace said there are “dozens and dozens” of potential victims.

Peace claimed Jeffries and Smith reportedly employed Jacobson as a “recruiter” to find men and pay them to engage in sex acts.

According to the indictment, Jacobson traveled throughout the U.S. and internationally to recruit men for alleged sex events. Prosecutors said Jacobson required the potential candidates to first engage in sex with him to determine if they were worthy to be passed on to Jeffries and Smith.

The alleged sex events reportedly occurred in New York, London, and Venice.

The indictment claimed that many of the alleged victims were coerced and teased with modeling opportunities.

“In exchange for providing the position of power and unfettered access to corporate funds necessary for Jeffries to sexually terrorize aspiring male models, Abercrombie knowingly and intentionally benefited and received things of value from Jeffries and his sex trafficking operation, including the value Jeffries himself brought to the brand,” the lawsuit read.

Smith allegedly would personally select men to be flown to the couple’s homes in the Hamptons or to hotels around the world “to engage in commercial sex,” Peace claimed.

The suspects reportedly hired a “secret staff” to maintain events where alleged victims would be provided drugs and alcohol to make it easier to coerce them into sexual activity. The staff purportedly ensured that the alleged victims handed over their phones and signed nondisclosure agreements.

“Prosecutions like this are really impossible without the bravery of victims who are willing to report what happened to them to law enforcement,” Peace declared.

Brian Bieber — an attorney for Jeffries — told USA Today that his legal team would respond to the allegations “after the Indictment is unsealed, and when appropriate, but plan to do so in the courthouse — not the media.”

Federal prosecutors stated the investigation began in January after alleged victims filed a civil lawsuit a year prior.

When the accusations first surfaced in 2023, Abercrombie & Fitch said the company was “appalled and disgusted” by the claims and would hire an outside law firm to conduct a review of the allegations.

Jeffries was known for transforming Abercrombie & Fitch into a powerhouse fashion brand. One of the plaintiffs, David Bradberry — former crewman on the reality series “Below Deck” — said Jeffries made Abercrombie successful by the “oversexualization of young men,” ABC News reported.

Abercrombie & Fitch declined to provide a comment to ABC News.

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The Caitlin Clark effect is the term used to describe the skyrocketing ticket sales, viewership, game attendance, and economic impact the Iowa native has had on women’s basketball. It started in college when Clark played for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and now it’s followed her to the WNBA. With the touch of what seems like a magic wand, the league, having been inconsequential for years, is now widely popular.

Since Clark was drafted by the Indiana Fever, attendance across the WNBA has shot up 50% and ESPN ratings doubled since last year.

One would think that the WNBA would show gratitude toward Clark, who has drawn the public eye toward the league as a whole, but no – the legend responsible for viralizing women’s basketball is demonized by the very players, coaches, and commentators who should be thanking her.

“They get a gift sent to them called Caitlin Clark. She is sprinkling magic all around the WNBA, making a sport that no one likes likeable and watchable, and instead of showing any gratitude towards Caitlin Clark, they have sat out to destroy Caitlin Clark,” says Jason Whitlock.

Why the ingratitude?

For starters, “she’s not black and she’s not lesbian,” so she doesn’t “fit the demographics” the woke league wants to elevate.

Clark has “played this brilliantly,” though, says Jason. “She has said nothing; she hasn’t been aggressive with any of these people; she hasn’t done anything.”

Having nothing to pin against her, Clark’s critics and adversaries have opted to “complain about her fans” instead.

Clark has brought in a demographic that Jason says has long been uninterested in women’s basketball – heterosexual people.

“What they’re really saying is we don’t want heterosexual men and women and their children coming to our sex cult,” says Jason. “They don’t want the demographics inside the arena to change.”

“So rather than have this league turn a profit and … begin the process of being able to stand on its own two feet, the alphabet mafia is throwing a riot and a temper tantrum, and it’s being very hostile towards Caitlin Clark because they’d like to break her and ruin her and destroy her so that they [can] install … preferably a black lesbian woman as the face of this league,” Jason predicts.

“In their delusional minds,” Caitlin Clark is undeserving of the notoriety and attention because “black lesbian women built [the WNBA]” and should therefore be the ones on the pedestal.

To hear more of Jason’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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