Former President Barack Obama set off a minor online conflagration after opining about what would happen if women were in control of all governments.

The 60-year-old made the comments during an interview Monday with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Salem State University.

‘They’d be better. I’m confident about that. I really do!’

“Even when I was president I sometimes fantasized about if you put women in charge of every government for like two years and then just kind of saw, all right, how are things going?” said Obama to some laughter in the audience.

“I have a strong belief that things would — they wouldn’t be perfect,” he added.

“But they’d be better!” interrupted Kearns, a woman.

“But they’d be better. I’m confident about that. I really do!” Obama added.

Footage of the comments was posted to social media, where they went viral after many ridiculed his sentiment.

“Ignore both the traditional teachings of [virtually] every religion, as well as all of the lessons from thousands of years of human experience,” responded Jeremy Carl, a fellow at the Claremont Institute.

“He took away the Presidential nomination from a woman,” said one detractor.

“Brother, do you not remember knocking Hillary Clinton out of the primary & thus lay-up Presidential Run of 2008? You prevented America having the first female President. It’s the only thing you & Trump have in common,” read another reply.

“It’s like he was in a cave for the entire [Lindsay] Clancy trial,” responded Republican Lisa Cusack.

Elsewhere in the interview, Obama encouraged the attendees that the country was divided but could come together.

“Today, we are rife with divisions, and our democracy seems broken in so many ways — and the tenor and tone of the times feel mean-spirited,” he said.

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“We’ve gone through times like this before. I believe we can get out of them. And when I travel around the country today, or I work with the young people I work with,” he added, “what you discover is we aren’t as divided as we seem at the ground level.”

He also said the progress on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights has not been reversed and most people support them.

“We’re not as divided as our politics or our media would indicate,” he concluded.

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A sneaker advertisement featuring a K-pop star has become the latest victim of the left.

Converse pulled an image featuring Karina of the group Aespa and issued a public apology after critics claimed the ad’s lighting and composition evoked imagery associated with the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.

“We’re sorry,” Converse said in a statement. “We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong.” The company removed the ad from its channels and was working to remove it everywhere else.

“This is so ridiculous,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“You have to be an absolute horrific racist yourself to see any of that,” he continues, exclaiming that “there’s nothing.”

“The chain at the beginning. Are you serious? That’s a chain of slavery? In your mind,” he adds.

Those crying racism pointed out that the shadows created a white hood reminiscent of the KKK, and the shoes Karina was holding in her hand appeared to look like a lynching.

“How do you make all of this into slavery and the KKK?” Gray asks.

To make matters worse, the creative director behind the ad was a black man.

“They want so badly to be offended and have a stupid cause. And so they find stuff that just no sane person would ever conclude,” executive producer Keith Malinak says.

Gray agrees. “Seriously, when you look at the ad, if you didn’t know there was any kind of outrage, you’d never get any of that from what occurred on the screen.”

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A Florida woman who is an 11-time convicted felon fled a traffic stop Wednesday with a deputy partially inside the vehicle and crashed into a school bus carrying 41 children, police said. Officers said they discovered a pipe bomb, shotgun shells, counterfeit money, drugs, and credit cards belonging to other people in the vehicle the suspect was driving.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies conducted a traffic stop on a silver Kia Forte around 4:36 p.m.

‘Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.’

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released police bodycam footage that shows a deputy informing the driver that she was pulled over because both brake lights on her car were out.

The driver, 54-year-old Tonnetta Evans, handed over an alleged driver’s license and identified her name as “Kirsten,” according to the police bodycam video.

Police said officers developed probable cause during the stop to search the vehicle.

Evans was “uncooperative” during the search and refused to exit the vehicle, police stated.

The statement said that while a deputy was partially inside the suspect’s vehicle, the suspect tried driving away from the scene.

“Immediately after fleeing, and before a pursuit could be initiated based on the aggravated battery, Evans struck a school bus carrying 41 Pierce Middle School students, the bus driver, and a bus aide,” the police statement read.

The bus sustained minor damage, and no students were injured in the collision, according to police. The students were transferred to another bus and taken home.

Police said Evans was apprehended and arrested shortly after the collision.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the following items were recovered during a search of the car Evans was driving:

Pipe bomb/explosive deviceBrass knuckles and a TASERBandolier of shotgun shellsThree identification cards belonging to other individualsFour credit cards belonging to other individualsCounterfeit $100 bills totaling $1,100Silver half-dollars and coinsMethamphetamine, marijuana, and multiple prescription pills

RELATED: Award-winning nurse torpedoes her job after vowing to let cops die during twisted DWI stop caught on bodycam video

Image source: Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office

Evans was arrested and hit with more than a dozen charges, including:

Aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a deadly weaponArmed possession of methamphetamineAggravated fleeing to eludeBattery on a law enforcement officerFelon in possession of ammunitionFelon in possession of an electric weapon or deviceFalse name to a law enforcement officerPossession of cannabis less than 20 gramsPossession of drug paraphernaliaPossession of a controlled substance without a prescription (3 counts)Unlawful possession of the personal identification of another (5 or more)Tampering with physical evidenceAttaching a tag not assignedLeaving the scene of a crash involving a school bus (hit and run)

Evans has criminal records in two other states, police stated.

The statement added that Evans also was arrested on a Kentucky failure to appear warrant for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and theft of identity of another without consent.

Police noted that Evans is a nine-time convicted felon in Indiana, a two-time convicted felon in Kentucky, and a three-time Indiana State Prison releasee.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office stated that Evans’ criminal record in Kentucky and Indiana includes charges of escape, burglary, burglary of a vehicle, theft of identity of another without consent, and possession of narcotics.

During the investigation, deputies discovered that the vehicle Evans was driving was reported stolen out of Kentucky in 2022.

RELATED: Bizarre bodycam video shows Florida cops arresting Chuck E. Cheese mascot as kids, parents watch in shock

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said of Evans, “This suspect showed a complete disregard for the safety of our deputy, other motorists, and the children of our community, and we are extremely fortunate that no one was seriously hurt.”

Chronister continued, “Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.”

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office records show Evans, of Dover, Florida, was being held without bond at Falkenburg Road Jail.

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Colin Kaepernick is openly complaining that his white adoptive parents couldn’t prepare him for what it means to be black in America — but BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says they’re the reason he succeeded in the first place.

In an interview on “The Karen Hunter show,” Hunter asked Kaepernick how he thought “about the term ‘biracial’ in relation to [his] black identity” and whether or not it resonated with him at all.

“I identify as a black man,” Kaepernick responded. “It’s how I show up in the world. It’s how I’m treated in the world. That’s politically how I approach the world. Biracial, my parents knew I was black and told me I was black at a young age.”

“But also how they operated was within a sense of color blindness. Like, hey, we’re all family, like, everybody’s going to be treated equal. And that’s what it is. But that’s not how the world is going to operate or treat me when I walk outside these doors,” he continued.

Kaepernick went on to explain that his white parents from Wisconsin never explained that to him.

“I think their exposure to blackness was also whatever was out in the media at a high level,” he said.

“He’s acting like, ‘Oh, what a disadvantage it was,’” Whitlock says, pointing out that statistically those raised in black families aren’t doing anywhere near as well as he is.

“Don’t you see how well these black parents are doing preparing their kids for success? Haven’t you looked at their SAT scores? Haven’t you looked at their graduation rates? Haven’t you looked at their marriage rates?” Whitlock asks.

“Now they treated him like they treated a kid that would have been their own. They wanted him to be colorblind. And he turned out, for the most part, for a good stretch, pretty successful. Stayed out of trouble, made it to college, made it to the NFL,” he continues.

“It almost feels like what they did worked,” he adds.

However, now that Kaepernick has turned his focus to his racial identity, he’s starting to fail.

“And then once Colin Kaepernick became obsessed with his blackness, that’s when all the trouble started and that’s where the career and everything started going a different direction,” Whitlock explains.

“This guy’s clueless,” he adds.

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A popular radio and television priest was beatified in a Mass Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri, that was attended by tens of thousands of Catholic believers.

Fulton Sheen was a Roman Catholic priest who grew to massive popularity on radio and television as a promulgator of Catholic doctrine in the 1950s and ’60s.

‘Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades.’

He is considered the first television evangelist and is credited with helping pave the way for the election of John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States.

Organizers at the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation and the diocese said that about 48,000 tickets had been distributed for the ceremony at the Dome at America’s Center. The ceremony had been delayed for years after organizers found there was not a venue large enough in Sheen’s home diocese of Peoria, Illinois, to accommodate those wishing to attend.

Beatification is the last step before sainthood. His official title is now Blessed Fulton Sheen.

Sheen had gained popularity as a radio priest and went on to gain even more prominence with his television show, “Life Is Worth Living.” Standing at a chalkboard while addressing moral and religious issues of the day, Sheen inspired millions, including the man who would later become Pope Leo XIV.

“Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades,” said Pope Leo in a speech in June. “I myself witnessed his evangelization efforts as I was growing up.”

Sheen graced the cover of Time, met with popes, and traveled the world on behalf of Catholic missions.

He died at the age of 84 in 1979.

In most cases, in order to be considered for beatification and sainthood, the Catholic Church requires documentation of a miracle made by the candidate’s intercession. In 2010, the family of an infant born without a pulse prayed to Sheen for healing, and the baby was resuscitated.

“I remember sitting on my bedroom floor and watching them do CPR and in my head repeating over and over and over again, ‘Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen,'” recalled Bonnie Engstrom, the baby’s mother.

That family was present at the beatification Mass along with the child, who is now a teenager named James Fulton Engstrom. They presented relics of the priest.

The beatification was delayed for a time so that the Diocese of Rochester could investigate allegations that Sheen had any complicity in clerical sex abuse, but the church confirmed he was innocent.

Pope Leo XIV approved Sheen’s beatification earlier in the year.

RELATED: Terror threat strikes Missouri archdiocese ahead of pre-sainthood Mass for Fulton Sheen

“May the example and the intercession of this holy bishop, known for his evangelizing work through the media, inspire many others likewise to find new ways of spreading the gospel message with joyful enthusiasm,” said Pope Leo on Wednesday ahead of the ceremony.

Sheen was also known for his philosophical and theological arguments against the tenets of communism and materialism during the Cold War.

Sheen won an Emmy for his television show, and during his acceptance speech he thanked his four writers — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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A Republican senator is getting mocked for decrying pilots possibly practicing a “deranged fetish,” but he fired back with disturbing evidence of his claim.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama railed against the transgender agenda in a fiery screed on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, but only one brief clip from his speech against the “woke mind virus” went viral.

‘Ask yourself … would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?’

Tuberville called for a national debate on the mental health crisis that is causing widespread “gender confusion.”

Then he cited furries in the airline industry.

“Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and aircraft traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us,” he said. “It’s terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it’s possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can’t make this up.”

That short clip from the 18-minute speech was posted to social media, where many on the left mocked and ridiculed Tuberville.

The vast majority of the criticism completely ignored the cogent argument and Tuberville’s list of numerous examples of deranged people with fetishes who eventually became violent.

“Gender-confused people have one of the HIGHEST suicide rates among people struggling with mental illness. Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves — they’re also hurting other people,” he wrote on X Thursday. “GENDER CONFUSION IS A MENTAL ILLNESS.”

To demonstrate his point about violence and “gender confusion,” Tuberville mentioned Charlie Kirk, who argued in good faith against the transgender agenda, and was brutally murdered. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been linked to gender confusion and the online furry community.

Tuberville also responded to the ridicule with more evidence for his claims.

“I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week,” Tuberville wrote in a post on social media.

“But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry,” he added. “Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.”

RELATED: Poll finds transgender agenda has lost ground over last three years

He posted a news video that included a recording of pilots meowing and barking while on the job. One voice scolds them to be more professional.

“Just a few weeks ago at the ‘Furry Migration’ convention in Minneapolis, there was an ‘Aviation Furs Meet-up,'” he added in a second post.

“Ask yourself … would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?” he added.

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James Copenhaver became a prominent critic of the security failures at the July 2024 rally where he was shot twice during the attack on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

More than two years after suffering permanent injuries in the failed assassination attempt, the 76-year-old has passed away.

‘Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance.’

Copenhaver was shot twice in Butler, once through his triceps and also in his abdomen. He was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.

He underwent several surgeries and still had bullet fragments in his body when he died.

Copenhaver’s death was reported Thursday by journalist Ken Silva.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jim Copenhaver, who was gravely wounded in the horrific shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania,” read a statement on social media from U.S. House Republicans. “Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance. We join his family and loved ones in mourning his loss and praying for them during this difficult time. May he rest in peace.”

Copenhaver publicly criticized the U.S. Secret Service as well as other agencies for security lapses in Butler.

He wrote a foreword for Silva’s book on the assassination attempt in Butler.

“After raising a family and working for over 30 years — playing in a band on the side — I started to wonder: How will I be remembered?” he wrote. “Well, I got my answer to that question on July 13, 2024, though taking a bullet meant for the President wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.”

RELATED: Trump shooter Thomas Crooks was emotionless from birth, says his father in chilling new details about Butler attacker

A 50-year-old retired fire chief named Corey Comperatore died from his injuries at the rally, and a third man named David Dutch survived being shot.

The president was grazed in the ear during the attack.

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Comedian Bill Burr made a habit in years past of poking fun of both the left and the right. However, he has increasingly been leaning left in his commentary.

In a Rolling Stone interview published on Tuesday, Burr complained about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming whites are “not nearly upset as we need to be because we don’t see ourselves going into the van.”

‘It’s like, you’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.’

Burr — who is pro-abortion and previously criticized Florida’s anti-mask mandates — also insinuated that the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which Luigi Mangione admitted to, was Thompson’s fault. Burr then criticized the defensive actions taken by other major corporate executives.

“The response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, ‘Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if what we’re doing makes some crazy person do this.’ [Executives’] response was to take their faces off of the internet and get security.”

“It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine? You know what I mean?” continued Burr. “It’s like, you’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business. Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you’re doing?'”

Health care executives and other Americans in the radical left’s crosshairs might want more security because polling shows a troubling number of liberals support their demise.

RELATED: ‘Reign of terror’: One-third of Democrats give thumbs-up to Trump assassination

According to a CloudResearch poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Thompson in December 2024, 25% of self-identified liberals were “supportive or very supportive” of the murder, and 68% said they felt at least some sympathy toward Mangione.

A recent Emerson poll found that 12.4% of Democrats said that “the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO” are “completely acceptable,” and 7.5% of Democrats said they were “somewhat acceptable.”

This is hardly the first time that Burr has expressed sympathy with Mangione, not Thompson, who was a father of two.

Just days after Thompson was assassinated, Burr expressed satisfaction on his podcast that “f**king CEOs are f**king afraid right now,” stressing they “should be.”

Just weeks later, in early 2025, the middle-aged comic used his time on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to call for the release of Mangione, stating, “Free Luigi!” Kimmel laughed in response, though whether Burr meant the line as a joke is unclear.

In 2023, Burr’s liberal wife made a lewd gesture to President Donald Trump at UFC 295.

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