Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul managed to insult all supporters of President Donald Trump in her online feud with rapper Nicki Minaj.

Minaj fired off the first missive in a post calling the Democrat “evil” and promising that God would catch up to her eventually.

‘Downward spiral for her. She will not escape God’s wrath.’

“Kathy Hochul is an evil woman,” Minaj wrote on social media Wednesday.

“The Democratic Party should forfeit her seat because even if she wins, she will be of great consequence to them,” she added. “Downward spiral for her. She will not escape God’s wrath. She did not denounce evil when she had the chance.”

Hochul fired back when asked about the comments at a campaign stop in Albany.

“Maybe she ought to get outside and offline a little more. And stop going to Trump rallies because it’s kind of poisoning your mind,” the governor replied.

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican who is running to replace Hochul, pounced on the opportunity to criticize his competitor.

“Nicki, I’ve got the U-Haul ready. It’s time to fire the worst governor in America,” he responded.

The rapper went on to rip into Hochul for comments from 2024 where she claimed that black children in the Bronx didn’t even know what the word “computer” meant, owing to racial inequality.

“HOW DARE YOU AS BLACK PEOPLE VOTE FOR THIS VILE WICKED CURSE OF A WOMAN? HOW DARE YOU AS CHRISTIANS?!” Minaj added.

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New York state has seen an avalanche of residents fleeing the high taxes and far-left government policies. It is second only to California for highest number of people fleeing to other states.

The governor has had to resort to begging wealthy people to move back in order to shore up the eroding tax base of the state.

Hochul is far ahead of Blakeman in the far-left state, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch.

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A former high school teacher in Kentucky accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a student pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges. The female teacher agreed to never teach again and to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

Rachel Clement, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse with a position of authority or special trust and one count of tampering with physical evidence, according to the Hendersonian.

‘We believe the evidence fit those charges.’

As part of the plea deal Henderson Circuit Judge Karen Wilson accepted, Clement is permanently barred from teaching in the United States and must register as a sex offender for life, the Hendersonian reported.

Under the agreement, Clement must have no contact with her victim or his family, and she is banned from school district property.

WFIE-TV reported that Clement could be sentenced to three years in prison for each sexual abuse count and five years on the tampering charge.

Henderson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Herb McKee Jr. is recommending that the sentences run concurrently but noted that the judge can impose consecutive sentences, according to the Hendersonian.

Clement is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 4, 2027.

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McKee said he met with the victim and his family, Henderson police detectives, and Henderson County Schools officials — all of whom agreed with the recommendations.

“We believe the evidence fit those charges,” McKee said.

Before the plea deal was accepted, Clement was scheduled to stand trial on Friday.

The Hendersonian reported that Clement initially was charged with two counts of unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited actions, first-degree sexual abuse, and tampering with physical evidence.

Clement initially pleaded not guilty during her arraignment.

Clement, who had been a teacher at Henderson County High School, was arrested in June.

The Hendersonian previously reported that McKee indicated that the sexual abuse charge involves the sexual messaging, and the tampering with physical evidence charge involves deleting or obscuring evidence.

The New York Post reported that Clement was immediately removed from the school after the accusations surfaced.

In June, school officials said Clement’s contract would not be renewed, according to WFIE.

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Iconic movie star Patrick Stewart has died at the age of 86, according to a spokesperson.

Stewart is beloved for his portrayals of Jean-Luc Picard in the “Star Trek” franchise as well as Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” series of movies.

‘Playing Jean-Luc for all those years had a real impact on me.’

“He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter, and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all,” wrote Kelly Bush Novak, his spokesperson. “We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.”

Stewart was well known as a classical actor in his home country of Britain, but he skyrocketed to fame around the globe after being cast in 1987 as the lead in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” which became a lasting hit.

After the award-winning series ended in 1994, Stewart feared being typecast in sci-fi roles but decided to take up the mantle of Professor X in the adaptation of the famed “X-Men” comic books.

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The opportunity led to iconic scenes between Stewart and his longtime friend Ian McKellen, who portrayed the comic-book villain Magneto.

Stewart compared the two characters in an interview in 2017.

“Both of them … I immensely admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion,” Stewart said. “Even for their intellectual capacities. Playing Jean-Luc for all those years had a real impact on me.”

Queen Elizabeth II knighted Stewart in 2010.

He passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief battle with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy body dementia.

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Texas is at a crossroads, and with Democrats gaining ground in the upcoming election, Governor Greg Abbott (R) says the stakes have never been higher.

And Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is well aware.

“We now have CAIR Action, whose parent group is a terrorist organization — designated a terrorist organization — listed your opponent now for governor as their preferred candidate,” Glenn Beck tells Governor Greg Abbott.

“That’s an endorsement I wouldn’t want,” he adds.

“This is just one of many extreme contrasts between myself and my opponent, Gina Hinojosa,” Abbott agrees.

“What most people don’t know is that my opponent is to the far radical left of Talarico. My opponent was the number-one leftist Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, and her position with regard to CAIR, with regard to Sharia law, is just one of them,” he explains.

While Abbott signed a law that banned Sharia compounds in the state of Texas, Hinojosa “supports Sharia law in the state of Texas.”

“What voters need to know here in the state of Texas is that this election is a referendum. Are we going to ban Sharia law in the state of Texas, which is what we will be doing this next session if I am governor?” Abbott says. “Or are we going to allow Sharia law to expand in the state of Texas, which would happen if my opponent, Gina Hinojosa, is elected to the governor’s office?”

But it is not just Sharia law that is on the ballot.

“I’m concerned that, you know, Texas has always been on the forefront of the future. With oil and gas, we could be the strongest nation in the world, if it wasn’t for the United States. Texas could be, because of all the energy that we have and all of the development that we have here,” Glenn tells Abbott.

“And I worry about the left coming in and crushing us on energy again and then crushing us on data centers and things like Elon Musk, who is transforming the way we get to space here in Texas,” he adds.

“Your concern is so very real,” Abbott responds.

“When Hurricane Harvey hit in Texas in 2017, my opponent was a member of the Texas House of Representatives. She said the only way forward from a hurricane like that is with a Texas Green New Deal,” he explains.

“She then proposed taxes and regulations on the oil and gas sector. She proposed an environmental justice agency in the state of Texas that would be monitoring the oil and gas sector,” he says.

“Her radical, crazy oil and gas policies would send hundreds of thousands of Texans to the unemployment line. It would lead to a destruction of our oil and gas sector. Texas would become more like California, as opposed to Texas, with regard to what we’re doing on oil and gas, and it would lead to skyrocketing prices at the pump,” he continues.

“It would be devastating to our state, devastating to America,” he adds.

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A 65-year-old Florida male who uses a wheelchair is accused of knifing a woman on a bus while she was holding a child, WPLG-TV reported, citing police.

The Lauderhill Police Department arrested Willie Lester Benjamin shortly after the incident, which took place just before 7 a.m. Monday in the 2900 block of 56th Avenue, the station said, citing an arrest report.

The bus driver said Benjamin and the woman had previously argued aboard the bus over ‘seating arrangements,’ the station said, citing the arrest report.

Police said Benjamin and the woman argued over the designated wheelchair seating area on the bus, WPLG reported.

Benjamin was trying to maneuver his wheelchair into the area the woman occupied, police told the station; the police report said that when she refused to move, Benjamin ran over the woman’s feet.

The argument continued as the bus approached Benjamin’s intended stop, police told WPLG.

But as Benjamin moved toward the bus exit, he pulled out a black pocketknife with a blade measuring approximately four inches and lunged toward the seated woman, the station said, citing the arrest report.

Police said Benjamin struck the woman with the knife, causing a superficial injury to her left forearm, WPLG reported. Police added that the woman sustained minor injuries and declined medical treatment from local fire rescue crews, the station said.

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Investigators spoke with the bus driver, who corroborated the circumstances surrounding the incident, WPLG reported. The bus driver said Benjamin and the woman had previously argued aboard the bus over “seating arrangements,” the station said, citing the arrest report.

Benjamin’s wife, who also was aboard the bus, confirmed that the two had experienced “prior negative interactions,” police told WPLG.

Police told the station the woman indicated to investigators that she wanted to pursue charges.

Benjamin was taken into custody and taken to the Broward County Main Jail, where records show he is facing one count of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability, WPLG said, adding that his bond amount had not been set.

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“Operation Ghostbusters” is nabbing scammers stealing tens of millions of taxpayer cash — and sending it back to Kenya.

Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald explained the details of “Operation Ghostbusters” in a media briefing Thursday to reporters.

‘If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build their future, we are resolved to find you and prosecute you.’

The operation targeted scammers in the Kenyan community who allegedly stole Americans’ identities in order to create “ghost” students and then fraudulently file for financial aid from the federal government.

To express the scale of the fraud involved, McDonald said that one-third of the applications to community colleges were tagged as possible fraud in the state of California.

“These are not isolated errors. This is organized fraud at scale,” said McDonald.

Heith Janke, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Division, said they have identified $32 million in losses but the total could top many tens of millions of dollars.

“This stops now,” said Janke. “The FBI, working hand-in-hand with our partners at the Department of Education and Department of Justice, will follow all evidence, track every dollar, and pursue each criminal who seeks to exploit our nation’s systems.”

There are over 40 open cases related to the investigation that includes 26 FBI field offices and more than 20 U.S. attorney’s offices.

The operation has led to indictments against five people in New Jersey, Nebraska, and other states. The feds also seized more than $750,000 worth of cryptocurrency with ties to networks in Kenya.

The scammers are using artificial intelligence in order to apply for the financial aid as well as complete school coursework to keep the aid flowing. Some scammers are even creating the “appearance” of fake students in online classrooms so that schools believe a real person is present.

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The investigation linked more than 830,000 student financial aid accounts that were potentially a part of the fraud scam.

McDonald said the charges were “just the beginning” and others are expected.

“If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build their future, we are resolved to find you and prosecute you,” he added.

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President Donald Trump is in South Carolina with just a few days before the midterm election as polls show Republicans in a tough battle in the typically red state.

Trump is holding a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Thursday, his second trip to the state in less than two weeks. He hopes to spark added enthusiasm for Republicans, especially Michael Whatley, running for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, and Sen. Darline Graham, who was appointed after her brother, longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), passed away unexpectedly in July.

‘Republicans are taking nothing for granted.’

The city of Rock Hill is strategically located for Trump’s purposes. For one thing, Rock Hill is just a half-hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina, so the president’s appearance there is sure to draw crowds from all over the region.

Notably, it is also in the district represented by Rep. Ralph Norman, who unsuccessfully challenged Darline Graham in the Republican Senate primary runoff in August.

Some Norman supporters remain skeptical of Graham and have even launched a write-in campaign that could spoil Graham’s chances of winning the election against Democrat Annie Andrews.

According to Blaze News’ Poll Watch, Graham maintains a razor-thin lead of just 1.7 points, and a New York Times/Sienna poll has the race tied. Even if the Norman write-in campaign siphons just a few thousand Republican votes away from Graham, it could be enough to tilt the election to Andrews.

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“The president is coming to Ralph Norman territory to rally people around Darline Graham and to say that if you vote for Ralph Norman, you are actually voting for Annie Andrews,” said Brent Nelsen, a professor of politics and international affairs at Furman University, according to WCSC.

Before Sen. Lindsey Graham died, his re-election was considered all but assured. While some Republican insiders have reportedly expressed alarm about his sister’s chances, Trump and others remain optimistic.

“She’s doing well,” Trump said of Darline Graham Wednesday, according to Scripps News. “She’s up.”

An unnamed Republican National Committee official likewise characterized Darline Graham as a “commonsense conservative” running in a state “President Trump has carried three times.”

Still, the official added, “Republicans are taking nothing for granted. We are getting out the vote every single day in every single state to make sure that the president is able to maintain the Republican majorities in the House and the Senate.”

Michael Whatley’s prospects in neighboring North Carolina are more sobering. Blaze News’ Poll Watch shows Democrat former Gov. Roy Cooper with a comfortable lead of over 10 points.

In addition to the rally, Trump has used social media to promote Whatley and to slam Cooper’s shaky record as governor, especially regarding crime and public safety.

“There has never been a Governor with such a bad record on Crime, and there never will be!” Trump posted about Cooper earlier this month.

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Earlier this week, a story out of Helena, Montana, gained national attention for its sensational headline: “Helena man charged with felony for shouting at man to ‘go back to his country.’”

Many assumed that the headlines were exaggerating the case, or that there was at least more to the story.

The felony charge comes with a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.

Blaze News obtained the court documents for the case, and the truth is almost as surprising as the headlines.

According to news reports, a man identified as Jaxton Collins was charged with a felony for allegedly shouting at an Indian man to “go back to his country.”

According to the documents, that detail is apparently not an exaggeration.

Helena police officers responded to a report of assault on the evening of August 7 at the walking mall in Lewis and Clark County, the affidavit said.

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The complainant claimed that he and his friends, at least one of whom was Indian and wearing a head covering, were walking around the mall when a male “in an orange shirt wearing a large cross necklace” approached them.

The suspect approached the Indian man, “shoved him with both hands,” and “told him to go back to his country,” the affidavit said.

Police soon after identified and questioned the suspect, who told them that he had been drinking at Gold Bar. He admitted to shouting the phrase “because he was angry” but denied shoving the Indian man at any time, the affidavit said.

The defendant, Jaxton Collins, faces two charges: a felony malicious intimidation charge and a misdemeanor assault charge.

Under Montana law, a person is guilty of malicious intimidation or harassment relating to civil or human rights when the person, “because of another person’s race, creed, religion, color, national origin, or involvement in civil rights or human rights activities, the person purposely or knowingly, with the intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend,” either causes bodily harm, the apprehension of bodily harm, or the damage of property.

The felony charge comes with a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.

Blaze News contacted the Lewis and Clark County attorney’s office for comment relating to the charges but did not immediately receive a response.

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Flávio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil after losing a presidential election he entered as the favorite. He finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round, then — if the reporting is accurate — lost Sunday’s runoff by more than 4 million votes.

Within days, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered Flávio to surrender his passports in connection with a money-laundering investigation. He denies wrongdoing. He instead reached Miami, where the Trump administration has agreed to admit him and his family. His father, Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest. The Brazilian right has lost an election and watched its most prominent family come under the power of a judiciary it rightly regards as openly hostile.

Republicans should prepare to defend the constitutional order while they still have the power to do so. Nobody is coming to save us.

The election itself was hardly free of controversy. As voting was supposed to end, Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin — who previously represented Lula — ordered polling times extended by two hours after complaints about “transportation problems.” Some polling places had already shut down. The order was then narrowed to those still open. Flávio challenged the result. The final margin was far larger than the number of votes cast after the ordinary closing time, so that extension alone cannot explain Lula’s victory. It does not follow that every concern about how Brazil conducted the election has been settled.

Jair Bolsonaro was a controversial president who openly rejected the fashionable positions of the global elite on abortion, affirmative action, drugs, and religion. He sought closer ties with America and Israel. After losing to Lula in 2022, he questioned the integrity of the electronic voting system, claiming voting machines had been hacked. Brazil’s Supreme Court subsequently convicted him of attempting a coup and sentenced him to 27 years and three months. Bolsonaro denies the charges. His supporters see the prosecution as political punishment; his opponents see it as the defense of constitutional order. The sentence carries the force of law. It does not oblige anyone to surrender his judgment about the court.

Without a thorough review of both elections by independent organizations, it is impossible to know whether the Brazilian races were fraudulent. Given the progressive political leanings of most of the organizations that conduct such reviews, it is unlikely they would declare the elections legitimate if blatant evidence was uncovered.

Even if an independent agency did claim that one or both Bolsonaros had been cheated out of a victory, it is unlikely that there is a government or international body willing to take action to pressure Brazil into removing Lula and installing Flávio. The results of the elections may appear highly suspect, but Lula remains in office and will be allowed to further consolidate power and punish his enemies. Without an outside authority to which they can appeal, Brazilian conservatives appear trapped in an increasingly dangerous political situation.

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American conservatives should recognize the danger. Donald Trump lost a bitterly contested election in 2020, fought the result in court, faced criminal prosecutions connected to efforts to overturn it, and eventually returned to the White House. The parallels are hard to miss. When judges and prosecutors become participants in an all-or-nothing political struggle, appeals to their neutrality will satisfy fewer and fewer Americans.

Meanwhile, American progressives are making plans for a new institutional crisis of their own.

Recordings released by DataRepublican show figures associated with the United Democracy Alliance discussing “red lines” for treating the federal government as illegitimate, an options memo for governors, and the possibility of a constitutional “refounding moment” — i.e., replacing the Constitution. One participant described the crisis as “a real window of opportunity”; another spoke of an “extra constitutional process.”

Contingency planning is one thing. Treating a breakdown as the opportunity to replace the constitutional order is quite another. Why are these people developing criteria for when elected national institutions may be discarded, and who authorized them to decide?

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Republicans respond as if the next constitutional crisis can be resolved with speeches. They have failed to turn much of Trump’s agenda into durable law. The House passed the SAVE America Act, but Republicans have failed to get it through the Senate. Party leaders who warn of election disorder have been unable to enact one of their own signature election bills.

To call congressional Republicans a total failure may be too generous. Failure assumes they were trying. Too many seem content to run out the clock on Trump and wait for MAGA to loosen its hold on the party. They would rather preserve their place in a failing political arrangement and throw the country into chaos than confront the possibility that the establishment itself needs to be replaced.

Conservatives had better understand what time it is. A stern lecture about civic responsibility will not stop a riot. Brilliant arguments about separation of powers will not restrain officials determined to bend the rules. A court’s seal does not make every political judgment impartial. If a constitutional crisis arrives, the right will need more than faith that its opponents will play fair.

The Bolsonaros can come to America. Americans have nowhere else to go. There will be no neutral power waiting offshore to repair our institutions, no foreign president to return the country to us. Republicans should prepare to defend the constitutional order while they still have the power to do so. Nobody is coming to save us.

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War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth has added to the pile of terminations at the Pentagon with the firing of the military’s top planner, according to sources to CBS News.

A Pentagon official told CBS News that Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia had failed three polygraph tests about providing information to the press. Sylvia spent 11 months as the director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Pentagon Joint Staff.

‘Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it.’

The official, who spoke to CBS on the condition of anonymity, claimed Sylvia leaked classified information related to the Iran conflict as well as the Russia-Ukraine War.

Sylvia’s firing was first reported by the Atlantic.

CBS said two other Pentagon sources confirmed that Sylvia’s firing was related to the polygraph tests, but both said the accusations against Sylvia were untrue.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell referred to the action in a post on social media without naming Sylvia.

“The Department of War has zero tolerance for the intentional, unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Anyone who compromises sensitive national security information puts the lives of our Warriors at risk and undermines every military operation that keeps our country safe,” Parnell wrote.

He said the agency took “necessary personnel action” to protect sensitive information after an “extensive” investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

“To protect the integrity of the investigation, no further comment will be made regarding the individual or the circumstances of this action. This matter, along with others, have been referred to the Justice Department for potential further legal action,” he added.

A spokesperson for the Joint Staff had initially released a statement praising Sylvia for his 32 years of service in the military, but the spokesperson later retracted that statement.

“Upon further review, we determined that the statement did not appropriately reflect the full circumstances,” the spokesperson said. “Out of respect for the servicemember and the ongoing personnel process, we will not comment further.”

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President Donald Trump responded to the development by telling reporters Sylvia has “big” problems.

“We’re very much looking for leakers,” he added.

“Classified information is not personal property,” Parnell continued. “Leaking it for personal, political, or professional gain is a betrayal of the trust placed in those responsible for keeping it. Our commitment was not an empty promise. We vowed to find you, and we meant it.”

Sylvia did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment. Blaze News’ attempts to contact Sylvia were unsuccessful.

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In 2007, British-Canadian historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo — whose parents immigrated to the U.K. in the 1960s — warned that the English were suffering the “greatest identity crisis” in all of Europe.

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas tells Heydel-Mankoo that the state of Britain today — with all its sectarian “demonstrations” — proves that he was “correct.”

“What did you see in 2007 that so many people failed to see?” he asks the New Culture Forum senior fellow.

“I saw obviously the beginning of identity politics, and of course, within the United Kingdom, we have the Scots, the Welsh, the Northern Irish, and the English. And it seemed as if when the Scots and the Welsh waved their flags, it was called progressive nationalism, but when the English did it, it was somehow racist,” says Heydel-Mankoo.

He notes the deep irony of this dynamic.

“England made the modern world with the Industrial Revolution, the creation of America, Canada, Australia, the English language, common law, parliamentary democracy — and yet, despite having given the world so much, it seemed to be the one nation that wasn’t able to celebrate its identity,” he tells Freitas.

At the same time, Heydel-Mankoo explains, “multiculturalism” exploded.

“Everybody was supposed to celebrate the fact that they were from a Muslim community or they were African or they were trans or gay. Every identity possible could be celebrated apart from what should be the one overarching identity that unites all of those other identities, and that is your national identity,” he says.

“And since then, of course, we’ve had this long march through the institutions by the left. All of our institutions have been captured, and our institutions shape our worldview, and it’s got to the point now where I say that Britain, England, but also the United Kingdom is now a postrevolutionary society,” he adds.

According to Heydel-Mankoo, this “long, quiet revolution” was “instigated by Tony Blair” — who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

“It’s a 25-year project, and it’s basically complete now,” he says.

“All of our institutions look the same; the buildings are the same, but the people that built those institutions bear no comparison to the people who run them today, who are cuckoos in the nest,” he continues, “and these are the people who are essentially promulgating the idea that Britain’s past is evil, that Britain was born into the state of original sin, which is racism.”

With Britain’s history and ancestors vilified and its culture and institutions broken down, the left has ushered the nation into a “zero year,” says Heydel-Mankoo, allowing it to “create new foundational myths” — like “diversity built Britain.”

He calls this “absolute nonsense.”

“There’s never been a great immigrant population in Britain. The Saxons were the last people to arrive there in the year 600. We have a 2,000-year history,” he tells Freitas.

“When I was born, Britain was 97% white British. Today, it’s only 74% white British. It’s declined 13% in the space of just 20 years.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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