President Joe Biden during a Saturday speech in support of Kamala Harris’ campaign gritted his teeth and snarled that former President Donald Trump and his “Republican friends” are “the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass.”

Biden — who last week called Trump supporters “garbage” — made his latest shocking remark to members of a carpenters’ union in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, while criticizing Trump and the GOP.

It wasn’t the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump.

“There’s one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do,” Biden began. “They want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it’s macho guy. I’ll tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, I used to, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while. … But I’m serious. These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass.”

Biden’s statement was met with cheers, laughter, and applause.

You can view video of the president’s words here.

The headline in left-wing outlet the Huffington Post reads that “Biden Says He’d Like To ‘Smack’ Trump And His Supporters ‘In The Ass.'”

Reuters had a similar interpretation of Biden’s remarks:

Biden used colorful language when describing what he would like to do to those who would turn back his legislative accomplishments with a reference to his younger days in Scranton.

“I’m serious. These are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass,” he said.

It wasn’t the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump. In 2018, Biden infamously stated that if he were back in high school, he’d take Trump “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”

A week before his “garbage” remark, Biden in another speech said of Trump that “we gotta lock him up.” While his listeners applauded, Biden attempted to correct himself and sputtered, “Politically lock him out.”

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

The White House added an apostrophe to the transcript of his call with Voto Latino: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

Indeed, two U.S. government officials told the AP that White House press officials altered the official transcript of Biden’s “garbage” remarks, which elicited objections from federal workers who transcribe what the president says for posterity. The AP added that it also obtained an internal email to back its report.

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation
announced last week that they found the likely remains of 25-year-old Minelys Rodriguez-Ramirez of Cornelia. The man suspected of kidnapping and murdering the Puerto Rican native is an illegal alien, Angel DeJesus Rivera-Sanchez.

Keen to spare other families from similar heartbreak, Rodriguez-Ramirez’s mother endorsed President Donald Trump at his
Sunday rally in Macon, Georgia, emphasizing that it’s high time to end this trend of illegally imported barbarism.

Rodriguez-Ramirez, the mother of a 9-year-old girl who had a popular TikTok account where she shared fitness routines, was engaged to be married. Julio Tovor, the victim’s fiancé,
told Now Hambersham, “Minelys talked about her daughter a lot. She treasured her daughter.”

According to Tovor, his fiancée went to Walmart to exchange a photo with an acquaintance. Her car was later found pulled over on the side of Hazel Creek Road.

The victim’s family reported her missing on Oct. 23, and six days later the GBI announced that her likely remains were found near the Walmart where she was last seen.

Rivera-Sanchez, 24, was arrested last week and charged with both kidnapping and murdering Rodriguez-Ramirez. Georgia state Sen. John Albers (R)
indicated that the suspect was apprehended in Atlanta “as he tried to flee back to Mexico.”

Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell
confirmed to the Northeast Georgian that Rivera-Sanchez is an illegal alien and accused the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security of staying tight-lipped on the matter due to the election.

‘I will not let them spill one more drop of precious American blood.’

“[Rodriguez-Ramirez] moved from Puerto Rico and secured employment with Mt. Vernon Hills, Inc. and tirelessly supported her daughter, mother and fiance. She did everything right, yet her life was cut short because of our federal government’s repeated failure to protect its own citizens,” Albers said in a statement. “Once again, our open-border policies have claimed another innocent life on American soil, right here in Georgia.”

Albers asked, “How many more lives must be lost due to the open-border policies in Washington, D.C.?”

The victim’s mother, Carmen Ramirez, took the stage at Trump’s rally Sunday, holding a flag that read, “Don’t blame us[.] We voted for Trump. The Milholen-Ramirez Fam.”

After hugging the president, Ramirez introduced herself as the murdered woman’s mother, indicating, “She was murdered last Tuesday. I lose my daughter, but I don’t lose my faith.”

“I know Donald Trump is the best choice for the U.S.A.,” continued the bereaved mother. “He is the only one we need to save our country.”

“I have a 25-year-old daughter with a lot of life, and somebody stopped her life. And we have to stop with this and keep going with Donald Trump,” added Ramirez.

After Ramirez implored Trump to “make America great again,” Trump discussed Democrats’ border policies then played a video endorsement from another mother who lost her daughter allegedly as a result of illegal aliens.

Following a video endorsement from
Alexis Nungaray, who underscored that her 12-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, would not have been allegedly raped and murdered by two illegal Venezuelan nationals had border czar Kamala Harris secured the border, Trump told Georgians Sunday, “The day I take the oath of office, the migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins.”

“When you vote on Tuesday, remember this: Kamala is importing illegal alien rapists and murderers; draconian monsters who are killing our children, our brothers, our sisters, our parents, our friends. They’re willing to kill anyone,” said Trump. “When I win I will not let these animals into our country any longer. I will not let them spill one more drop of precious American blood.”

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Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos rocked the established media world when he used the prerogatives of ownership to deny the Washington Post’s desire to publish an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. However, his longer-term plans to make the paper’s opinion section less liberal are even more significant.

Given today’s identity crises on the political right, the only question is what Bezos’ plans will signify.

The irony of a top neoconservative fleeing a paper that wants more conservative voices might be delicious, but it’s not very nutritious. If neocons aren’t conservative any more — and judging by the Cheneys’ endorsement of Harris, that’s a betrayal they’re proud to wear — then who is?

Consider the New York Times report that broke the news on the upheaval: “Mr. Bezos has told others involved with The Post that he is interested in expanding The Post’s audience among conservatives, according to a person familiar with the matter. He has appointed Mr. [Will] Lewis — a chief executive who previously worked at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal — and has informed Mr. Lewis that he wants more conservative writers on the opinion section, the person said.”

More important than the identity of that unnamed person is the “conservative” identity he or she invokes. Superficially, Bezos might simply have meant by the label “anyone to the right of Taylor Lorenz.” But anyone in politics, especially the head of the nation’s emblematic Beltway newspaper, would have to work harder than that to figure out what counts as conservative these days.

For instance, the next line in the Times report lays bare the problem: “The Post’s decision drew immediate blowback inside the paper. At least one member of the opinions department, Robert Kagan, resigned.” Kagan is one of the country’s top self-described neoconservatives, a sect that arose from reactionary liberals “mugged by reality” in the 1980s to become, in the 2000s, the fiercely dominant faction in the conservative movement and the Bush-era GOP.

The irony of a top neoconservative fleeing a paper that wants more conservative voices might be delicious, but it’s not very nutritious. If neocons aren’t conservative any more — and judging by the Cheneys’ endorsement of Harris, that’s a betrayal they’re proud to wear — then who is?

The very label “conservative” has been struggling to make ends meet for years, losing mindshare to the ever-multiplying subcultures on the right that feel “conservatism” is too vague, too broad, too dated, and just too unsuccessful a brand to capture who they really are and want to be. Consider yourself trad? Based? Red-pilled? MAGA? Frog? Groyper? Race realist? Archeofuturist? The list goes on! Odds are you never felt so comfortable with the conservative moniker, whether or not you once identified as such.

It’s not even so crystal clear at this relatively late date just what it might mean to be a “Trumpist.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Politics are about coalitions, after all, and the failure of identity politics to deliver the coalitional goods underscores how identity is ultimately a question of in whose or what image you see yourself to be.

That’s right — religion. And whatever else can be said about religion in American politics, the legacy form of big-tent, evangelical-heavy Judeo-Christian Protestantism that ruled the Republican roost for several generations has, like “conservatism” itself, begun to denature and decay.

All things in this world pass away, so there’s that excuse, but another decisive factor has had an accelerating effect: digital technology, the special sauce that took Bezos from just another nerd at a desktop to a chrome-domed, well-muscled master of the socioeconomic universe. On close inspection, it’s tough to find a more potent solvent for old-school, pre-digital conservatism than the digital tech itself precisely because of how swiftly all things digital have worked against the principles- and values-heavy rhetoric and goals of the Moral Majority era.

The overwhelming power and authority of digital tech flipped the table on the past 500 years of religious and political life in the West — roiled by the leap from the printing press to the radio to the television yet remarkably consistent in its project of swapping in modern institutions justified by interest or appetite where once medieval institutions justified by faith had thrived.

Yes, the digital superpowers of computational recordation and recall suddenly seem to dwarf human knowledge and imagination, making billions start to go crazy at the thought that maybe their interests and appetites, no matter how strong, aren’t enough to hold their identities together.

That’s a huge threat to liberalism, but it’s a dagger at the heart of mere conservatism too — in a world where all that we thought made us who we are is meaningless relative to our own machines, what the heck is worth conserving again?

As the ideological sky falls, liberals have rushed to wokeness and conservatives have scattered into the subcultures of the right. Jeff Bezos is a bright, connected guy. Surely he’s been tracking these developments (along with every boost of TRT or HGH). If mere conservatism can’t conserve itself, does he really think the ambition and resources of a tech titan like himself can bring it back — against the grain of technology?

Or does he have something else in mind? Maybe he’s one of the many leading AI figures who seem to sincerely believe that tech is on the verge of “solving politics” altogether, wiping away the need for any and all ideologies forever. As plenty of those same figures now turn toward implicitly or explicitly worshipping AI itself, perhaps Bezos has realized that, while different kinds of politics and technology come and go, as Alexis de Tocqueville once said, “religion is the only permanent state of mankind.”

Jeff Bezos might be unable to bring on Tocqueville as the Post’s next big columnist. But suppose he knew what’s good for the paper, a media relic needing a radical renaissance. In that case, he’d look past the shifting partisan labels du jour in search of writers even more experienced with the humility of communion than the audacity of communication.

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With just one day to go, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are closing out their historic campaigns.

A new ad titled “It’s the people that Make America Great” was unveiled Sunday, featuring Republicans, former Democrats, and independents all uniting behind Trump.

“What will we do with this moment?” Trump asked. “How will we be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us.”

‘The people dreamed this country, and it’s the people who are making America great again.’

“This election really isn’t about the left versus the right,” former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said in the ad. “It’s about we, the people, choosing our government and the choice between freedom versus tyranny.”

The ad also featured former Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, uniting behind Trump.

“What is going on here is deeper than politics,” Shanahan said. “It is deeply spiritual. We are being called to rise above the hatred and the fear and the evil.”

Republicans like Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as well as Tesla founder and X CEO Elon Musk were also included in the ad.

“We need to remember above and beyond that we must love our neighbors, that we must treat other people as we hope to be treated,” Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said.

“The people dreamed this country, and it’s the people who are making America great again,” Trump said.

Trump has also delivered a disciplined closing message on the campaign trail, reminding voters of his economic and immigration policies and how they contrast with Harris’. Over the past few months leading up to the election, polls have consistently shown the economy and immigration to be top priorities for voters, who also trust Trump over Harris to handle those issues.

Trump also spent his Sunday campaigning in three crucial swing states: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. As of this writing, Trump is ahead in all three of those battlegrounds by 0.3, 1.5, and 1.9 points respectively, according to RealClearPolling averages.

Harris, on the other hand, spent her Sunday campaigning in Michigan. In addition to some economic proposals, Harris largely focused her closing pitch on issues like “reproductive freedom,” legalizing recreational marijuana, and reminding voters of her middle-class background.

Notably, Harris’ most significant lead across the seven swing states is in Michigan, where she leads Trump by an average of 1.2 points. Harris is also ahead by an average of 0.4 points in Wisconsin, although Trump leads in the remaining battlegrounds and has an edge nationally.

This is still anyone’s race. All the polls are within the margin of error, implying this race is essentially deadlocked. Trump has made significant gains with crucial voting blocs this cycle, but most pundits are still calling this race a coin toss.

Heading into the home stretch, Harris is making multiple pit stops in Pennsylvania, arguably the most important swing state given its 19 electoral votes. She will be joined by celebrities like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Oprah Winfrey. Trump will also be stopping in Pennsylvania as well as North Carolina and Michigan.

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Is China spying on us? Is the U.S. government making it easier for the Chinese to spy on us? The answer is obviously yes, but there’s been a convergence of the two countries eavesdropping on Americans. Ever since the horrific events of September 11, 2001 (and some years before that, to a lesser extent), surveillance by our government has been the new normal for Americans. However, it is now coming to light that the surveillance apparatus may make it easier for our enemies to spy on us, too.

JD Vance brought up this issue in a recent conversation on “The Tim Dillon Show,” during which he critiqued big government and surveillance and discussed threats to national security. He mentioned a recent Chinese cyberattack, which shed light on this issue. According to the original report from the Wall Street Journal, China recently hacked U.S. service providers, notably including AT&T and Verizon, using America’s “wiretap” infrastructure.

JD Vance cited this article and criticized the surveillance network that made this cyberattack possible. He said, “We’re creating a back door in our own technology networks that our enemies are now using.” He explained, “My understanding is that part of the infrastructure that they hacked into was built on top of surveillance systems that were implemented in 2001 — Patriot Act-style stuff.”

The Patriot Act, according to another report on this interview, aimed to “enhance national security by expanding the surveillance and investigative powers of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Key provisions included increased authority for monitoring phone, email, and financial records, improved information-sharing between government agencies, and broader powers.” This law was enacted in the wake of the horror of 9/11, but its intended purpose has been corrupted in the continued expansion and application of its provisions. However, this is only one of several laws that have created the back door that our adversaries exploit.

For instance, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was enacted in 1994 to “require that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have the necessary surveillance capabilities to comply with legal requests for information.” Simply put, service providers need to design their systems in a way that allows for government surveillance. Or, even more simply, it requires a “back door.” “Back doors,” as the president of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, wrote, are inherently flawed: “There’s no way to build a back door that only the ‘good guys’ can use.”

Vance brought two important issues into the conversation in light of this recent national security breach: the tyranny of bloated government and the threats to national security. The government created a surveillance apparatus and has continued to encroach on Americans’ privacy, yet our adversaries are now exploiting this same vulnerability.

Earlier in the conversation, Vance brought up the sharp contrast between what the government cares about and what matters to everyday Americans. Vance sarcastically remarked: “I want to speak from the heart here, to my fellow Americans, who are really worried that a CIA bureaucrat making $190,000 a year might have to find a job in the private sector. I recognize that that is the biggest crisis facing my fellow Americans, not that they can’t afford groceries and housing.” He added, “In Kamala Harris’ defense: Yes, she’s made it harder for Americans to afford housing, but that’s been in the service so the CIA can more easily spy on our fellow Americans.”

Sounds like a lose-lose situation.

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Vice President Kamala Harris will spend all of Monday at multiple events in Pennsylvania, a sign that her campaign is concerned that she does not have the critical swing state locked down in her favor.

Harris will be in Scranton, Allentown, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. Running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will spend the final day campaigning in Wisconsin.

The RealClearPolitics polling average for Pennsylvania shows Trump with a razor-thin lead over Harris at 0.3%.

Harris’ decision to put her last efforts into Pennsylvania highlights how much different the situation would have been had she chosen Governor Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) instead of Walz, who governs a state that is much more likely to go to Harris. An unspoken reason why Shapiro was likely not chosen is his Jewish background, as Democrats have struggled to keep the party’s infighting to a minimum in the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Harris campaign is aware of the Jewish and pro-Palestine voting blocs being at extreme odds with each other, as ads in Pennsylvania focus on her support for Israel, while ads playing in Michigan, with its large Muslim population, vow she “will not be silent” on what is happening in Gaza.

In contrast, former President Donald Trump will be in multiple states on Monday.

Trump will be in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Reading and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before ending the day in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The RealClearPolitics polling average for Pennsylvania shows Trump with a razor-thin lead over Harris at 0.3%. While many of the polls have Trump ahead by one or two points, many other polls show a tie. Trump’s average lead in the polls at the national level is even smaller, at 0.1%.

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Hollywood actor Zachary Levi has starred in his fair share of films, but now he’s taking on a new role, one that’s completely foreign to his silver screen comrades.

That is, the role of a man who is voting for Donald Trump and isn’t afraid to talk about it.

“I’m not voting for Donald Trump. I’m voting for Donald Trump and Bobby and Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and JD Vance and everyone else that they’re going to bring in,” Levi told Megyn Kelly in a recent interview.

Levi went on to compare this group of people to superheroes, like the Avengers or Voltron.

“They’re going to get in there and actually do what Donald Trump said he was going to do the first time, which is drain the swamp. And he has admitted that he couldn’t do it, and he didn’t do it, because he didn’t know what he was doing. He didn’t even think he was going to win the first time,” he continued.

In order to avoid another failure to drain the swamp, Trump is privately funding his own transition team and not waiting for the government to step in.

“They are not compromised. That is the government that I want,” Levi told Kelly, who’s in full agreement.

“You’re getting more than just Trump,” she said. “You’re getting a team that we’ve seen now for years in the public eye. It’s exciting. If he loses, that’s one of the things I’ll be the most disappointed about the next day, like, not just the loss of Trump and the elevation of Kamala but the loss of all this opportunity.”

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is also thrilled at the prospect of this group of people working together in the White House.

“There’s going to be good people actually doing things for the right reasons? We wouldn’t even know what to do,” he says.

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Tens of millions of illegal aliens have stolen into the U.S. since January 2021,
killing citizens, tracking in lethal drugs and once-controlled diseases, siphoning taxpayer-funded welfare benefits, displacing schoolchildren, and in some cases, threatening the integrity of American elections.

Rather than take ownership for the deadly crisis, border czar Kamala Harris has
repeatedly blamed President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers for the failure of the so-called “bipartisan” border bill, which Democrats have memorialized as a kind of would-be panacea.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) did his best to amplify this narrative on the Saturday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” but the titular host made clear he wasn’t buying what the senator was selling. Rogan suggested that Democrats aren’t looking for a solution to the border crisis but are instead using the border crisis to solve their problem of incomplete political control.

‘You’re rigging the system.’

When discussing the matter of immigration, Fetterman told Rogan, “Democrats are saying, ‘Hey though, we need a secure border, we — you know — it’s a significant issue.’ And if I thought there was any kinds of issues and I’ve been very vigilant throughout, I’ve been actively involved in those kinds of things, and I’ve never witnessed those kinds of a thing.”

“What do you mean by ‘issues?'” said Rogan. “Like, what kind of issues are you talking about? You’re talking about people letting people in, in order to get votes?”

“Well, it’s not, there’s not that level kinds. I don’t think there’s that level of kinds of organization,” responded the senator.

Rogan balked at the suggestion that the crisis underway is not courtesy of some coordinated efforts, stating:

But there is a [level of] organization that’s moving these people to swing states. There is a significant number of these people that are illegal immigrants that have made their way to swing states. And then there’s been calls for amnesty. There’s been calls for allowing these people to have a pathway to citizenship and allow them to vote. The fear that a lot of people have is that this is a coordinated effort to take these people that you’re allowing to come into the country, then you’re providing them with all sorts of services like food stamps and housing and setting them up, and then providing a pathway to amnesty. And then you would have voters that would be significantly voting towards the Democrats because they’re the people that enabled them to come into the country in the first place, first place and provided them with those services.

“This is a big fear that people have,” added Rogan, “that you’re rigging the system and that this will turn all these states into essentially locked-blue like California is.”

This fear was recently expressed by Elon Musk, who
noted on his social media platform, “The Dems have imported massive numbers of illegals to swing states. Triple digit increases over the past 4 years! Their STATED plan is to give them citizenship as soon as possible, turning all swing states Dem. America would then become a one-party, deep blue socialist state.”

Musk was referencing data that suggested the Biden-Harris administration was
flooding red states with inadmissible migrants under the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela program.

‘The apportionment of House seats and votes in the Electoral College among the states is based on total population — not citizenship or legal status.’

Rogan’s suggestion left Fetterman stammering. After re-centering himself with the defeatist suggestion, “Immigration is always going to be a tough issue in our nation,” the senator proceeded to recycle Harris’ suggestion that the “bipartisan” border bill was a step in the right direction but was ultimately tripped up by Trump.

“They had an opportunity to do a comprehensive border, bipartisan [bill] and that went down because Trump, he declared that, that, that’s, that’s a bad deal after it was negotiated with the other side,” said Fetterman, glossing over Democrats’ rejection of the robust Secure the Border Act of 2023 from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) just months earlier.

Having evidently looked into the specifics of the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, H. R. 815, Rogan responded, “But didn’t that deal also involve amnesty? And didn’t that deal also involve a significant number of illegal aliens being allowed into the country every year? I think it was 2 million people.”

Blaze News
previously reported that the bill included emergency authority provisions that would enable the federal government to shut down the border if the average number of illegal alien encounters reached between 4,000 and 5,000 per day for seven consecutive days. Over 1.4 million illegal aliens could therefore steal into the country without triggering a clamp down.

“So it was still the same sort of situation,” continued Rogan. “Their fear is exactly what I talked about: that these people will be moved to swing states and that will be used to essentially rig those states and turn them blue forever.”

When Fetterman attempted to dive back into empty rhetoric, Rogan
intimated that it only took Republicans tens of thousands of votes across several counties to win certain states in 2016, so tens of millions of illegal aliens, strategically placed then rendered loyal to Democrats with handouts and amnesty, could “rig those states undeniably.”

Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center of Immigration Studies,
noted in a recent op-ed that illegal aliens don’t necessarily have to vote to impact American elections.

The apportionment of House seats and votes in the Electoral College among the states is based on total population — not citizenship or legal status. The Census Bureau is clear that naturalized citizens, as well as non-citizens such as green card holders, foreign students, guestworkers and illegal immigrants are captured in the census every 10 years.

Accordingly, political operatives playing the long game need only deluge blue states with illegal aliens to increase their representation in Congress and the Electoral College.

Because the legal and illegal immigrant population is so large and unevenly distributed across the country, it causes some states to gain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Electoral College at the expense of others.

A Center for Immigration Studies investigation revealed last week that the inclusion of legal and illegal immigrants in the 2020 census shifted 17 House seats.

Fetterman told Rogan, “Immigration is changing our nation,” stressing that it is “generally for a good thing.”

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At the last minute, third-party groups submitted nearly 100,000 voter registration forms in Arizona’s most populous county, creating headaches for both election workers and voters alike, a report from AZ Central says.

On the final day to register to vote in Arizona — which this year would have been October 7 — these groups dumped as many as 90,000 forms on the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, an “unprecedented” number, according to spokesperson Taylor Kinnerup.

‘Places where there are more questions around eligibility — those places could potentially have longer lines because we know there will be more questions there.’

What’s more, a sizeable portion of these forms — some 30,000 or 40,000 of them — were heavily damaged and could not be processed. Still others were registered under names such as “Donald Duck” and “Mickey Mouse.”

Of the 50,000 that could be processed, many still had defects. Some had missing information, AZ Central reported. Others were dated weeks earlier, and Arizona law requires third parties to submit voter registration forms within five days of collecting them, Kinnerup claimed.

Registrants whose addresses could be ascertained were issued a notice to cure their registration information before the deadline of 7 p.m. on Election Day. Those who followed through and fixed the missing information should be able to vote normally on Tuesday.

“All of the preliminary work has been done in terms of processing these forms,” Kinnerup added. “Anything left to do is on the onus of the voter.”

Those with a valid ID whose registration form is still missing some information will likely be able to complete the registration at the polling station and cast a provisional ballot that will be counted if and when officials determine that they were eligible to vote.

Others whose forms were too badly damaged will also likely be able to cast a provisional ballot, but that ballot will not be counted unless they previously registered to vote and that registration remains active, AZ Central reported. The outlet did not clarify why such individuals would re-register to vote or require a provisional ballot if they have an active voter registration.

As of Friday, elections workers have already processed 4,800 provisional ballots, well above average, Elections Department spokesperson Jennifer Liewer claimed.

“It’s certainly a much higher number than we’ve seen previously since moving to a vote center model.”

Officials are also concerned that these problems and uncertainties will increase wait times at the polls even more on Tuesday. They had already warned Election Day voters to expect to wait at least an hour before casting a ballot.

“Places where there are higher provisionals, places where there are more questions around eligibility — those places could potentially have longer lines because we know there will be more questions there,” Tammy Patrick, a former Maricopa County elections official who now works at the Election Center, told the outlet.

Despite going into great detail about potential fallout from tens of thousands of faulty voter registrations submitted at the 11th hour, AZ Central called out what it described as “election denialism,” implying that voters who distrust the system are the problem rather than the system itself.

The outlet did not identify the third-party groups that had submitted the registrations.

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A close United States Senate race should drive a higher Republican turnout for the Nov. 5 presidential election in Wisconsin, with early voting in key areas at 50% or better of the total votes cast in the 2020 election.

With its 10 electoral votes, Wisconsin is a key swing state that has drawn regular attention in recent months from former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump spoke before a packed house at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Nov. 1, not far from the Wisconsin State Fair Park Expo Center, where Harris rallied supporters.

“The race is within a point, point and a half, not only on the presidential side but in the U.S. Senate race, with incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin being opposed by Eric Hovde,” Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” Nov. 2. “It’s very tight here.”

Schimming said Wisconsin has a history of close contests.

“We’ve had 12 races in 24 years that have been decided by less than 30,000 votes,” Schimming said, “including [Sen.] Ron Johnson’s 27,000-vote win in 2022.”

Republican U.S. Senate challenger Hovde has pulled even with incumbent Democratic Sen. Baldwin, who first won election in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018. The RealClearPolitics average has Baldwin at 48.6% and Hovde at 47.2%.

Early voting has lagged in some key Democrat areas for the Nov. 5 election, state figures show.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde addresses a packed house at the Donald J. Trump rally at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum on Nov. 1, 2024. Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city and chief Democrat stronghold, 2024 early voting accounted for a fairly anemic 35% of the November 2020 vote total, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Wisconsin does not track voting by party.

More than 1.34 million absentee ballots have been returned in Wisconsin for the Nov. 5 general election, meaning about 37% of registered voters cast early votes, the WEC reported.

As of Nov. 1 in the city of Madison, 2024 early voting made up 48% of voter totals from the 2020 presidential election. In the city of Green Bay, the early voting figure was 37%.

In historically Republican areas of the state, early voting stands at 50% or higher. In Waukesha, Washington, and Ozaukee Counties, 2024 early votes accounted for 55% of 2020 election totals.

Of those casting absentee ballots in those three GOP counties, at least 66% voted in person, according to WEC figures.

Statewide, 1.34 million absentee ballots had been returned as of Nov. 1 — or 41% of the total votes cast in November 2020.

As of Nov. 1, Wisconsin had 3,658,236 active registered voters, according to the WEC. In the 2020 presidential election, 3,294,872 ballots were cast.

Wisconsin allows voters to register at the polls on Election Day.

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Former Jan. 6 defendant Daniel Goodwyn won an important 2024 appeals court ruling against judicial censorship of so-called “disinformation,” but he has seen it slip away by the actions of a federal district court judge and the Department of Justice as the clock ran out on his case.

For more than 18 months, Goodwyn, 35, of San Francisco, battled U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who ordered monitoring of Goodwyn’s internet communications for what he called “disinformation” and “misinformation” about Jan. 6 and other subjects.

Despite a February 2024 Court of Appeals ruling chiding Walton and overturning his original order imposing probation monitoring of Goodwyn’s speech, the judge reissued the same condition in June.

‘There is no accountability.’

Goodwyn again appealed, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled the case is now moot because Goodwyn finished his one-year term of supervised release on Aug. 25.

“The appeals court has just given the D.C. and other district court judges the green light to enact censorship while anointing themselves as the new ministers of truth,” defense attorney Carolyn Stewart told Blaze News.

“This is all against the U.S. Constitution, with First and Fourth Amendment violations,” Stewart said. “And the green light also goes to the DOJ and FBI to infect defendants’ computers and other devices with spyware without any oversight. There is no accountability.”

The DOJ claims Pretrial and Probation Services never installed any monitoring software or devices on Goodwyn’s computer because he had a pending appeal. Stewart, however, told the Court of Appeals the DOJ accessed the internal logs of Goodwyn’s employer, the news site StopHate.com, to see what her client had been posting.

The Court of Appeals issued a per curiam order on Oct. 28 dismissing Goodwyn’s appeal as moot. “Appellant has not demonstrated that any exception to the mootness doctrine applies to this appeal,” wrote a three-judge panel that included Karen Henderson, Cornelia Pillard, and Justin Walker.

Those judges were appointed to the Court of Appeals by Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump, respectively.

Daniel Goodwyn at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (left) and at a Fourth of July celebration.

Photos courtesy of Daniel Goodwyn

“I believe we met the standard for an exception to mootness,” Stewart said.

In September, Stewart filed a motion opposing the DOJ’s desire to dismiss the case. She instead asked for “an order where the lower court is ordered to answer who monitored his internet use and digital devices, and what was installed for monitoring that was conducted in violation of his Constitutional rights.”

The latest Court of Appeals ruling leaves the questions raised by Goodwyn’s case largely unanswered. Stewart said terrible damage was done to defendants’ First Amendment rights because the appeals court allowed Judge Walton to re-up an unconstitutional condition on her client’s free speech.

Trespassing conviction

Goodwyn accepted a plea offer from the DOJ on one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. He walked into the Senate Wing Door of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and spent 36 seconds inside the building. He served a 60-day prison sentence in 2023.

Judge Walton was highly critical of Goodwyn for his appearance in March 2023 on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News. The judge said Goodwyn minimized his own participation in Jan. 6 unrest and spread “misinformation” and “disinformation” about Jan. 6 and the 2020 presidential election.

The DOJ, which initially did not seek monitoring of Goodwyn’s computer, supported the reimposition of that condition in June 2024. Prosecutors said Goodwyn needed to be kept away from “extremist” media content like that allegedly published by StopHate on its website and in documentaries.

Prosecutors said Judge Walton met the conditions set by the Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel said he “plainly erred” by imposing computer monitoring.

“The computer-monitoring condition protects the public interest by deterring Goodwyn from encouraging future violence and thus threatening public safety, at least while he is still under court supervision,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elizabeth Danello and Lisa Tobin Rubio wrote in a July filing in the case.

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Tomorrow is MAGA’s big day. A lot is on the line. It’s faltered before; in fact, it has lost every election since 2016’s surprise, but here it is — once more at the altar.

The losses have not been entirely MAGA’s fault. Pandemic aside, the American news media and their friends in government threw everything they had against the movement for eight straight years, lying, undermining, suppressing, and cheating. The legacy press landed bitter blows and sacrificed its own popularity and credibility for the cause of beating Donald Trump. A win tomorrow would be the ultimate revenge.

Even if Trump loses, it would matter less for MAGA than you might think.

As one unnamed television producer put it, “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely.”

“A Trump victory,” he continued, “means mainstream media is dead in its current form.” His thinking perfectly illustrates the reason for his predicament: wagering it all on defeating a movement he and his friends hate. That ain’t journalism, and millions know it — and are tuning out.

Even if Trump loses, it would matter less for MAGA than you might think. While 2020 was painful, with the country in disarray and no clear successor capable of leading nationally, that’s no longer the case. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has proven himself and, at 40, is a potentially generational political talent.

Moreover, 2020 proved the NeverTrump faction that considered itself an army in exile was really just a band of self-indulgent scammers and grifters, completely incapable of launching a counteroffensive, never mind retaking power. There would be no surge of support for former Ambassador Nikki Haley; no clarion call for the return of Liz Cheney.

But it’s not just politicians. While in 2016, only Peter Thiel and Tom Barrack were willing to take the stage for Trump, today they’re joined by Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Bill Ackman. Far from a peasant revolt, MAGA 2024 is a team comprising literally some of the smartest and most successful people in the world.

The last redoubt is Washington, D.C.: home of the Nikki Haley primary win and outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). But even here, change is in the air.

As of this morning, a whopping 252 congressmen have no political memory of a time before Donald J. Trump. That’s more than 58% of the House of Representatives. The Grand Old Party is even more changed: 146 of its number now came to Washington with — or after — Trump, or more than 63%. On Inauguration Day, those numbers will grow.

The Senate is a different matter. More than half (65) came to Washington before Trump, including 30 of the GOP’s 49 members. That number, too, will shift Tuesday as men like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) prepare for voluntary retirement and other, less willing men follow suit.

These senators and the power structures they control — including the position either John Cornyn (R-Texas) or John Thune (R-S.D.) will inherit when McConnell steps down this month — stand as the most powerful and obstinate gatekeepers in Washington. They can make K Street bend when they want. They can decide who is hired and who is not; they distribute the contracts; they decide whose calls get picked up and whose knocks are answered.

They control who is on the inside and who is on the outside. Despite everything listed above, these are the powers that will make sure McConnellism outlives Trumpism by a great many years.

Their enemy, of course, is the base — the same people MAGA Republicans are counting on to turn out on Tuesday. They’re the leaders of the party today and tomorrow — if they can keep it.

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The fire rises: The Federalist: Mexico is holding back a massive wave of illegal immigrants that will break after the election

The migrant crisis isn’t over — it’s simply contained in Mexico. But it’s bursting at the seams, and the 2024 election might prove to be the end of the deal. Todd Bensman reports from Tapachula, Mexico:

The deal was to have Mexico deploy 32,500 troops to the U.S. border to round up untold thousands of intending border crossers from the northern precincts and force-ship them — “internal deportation” by planes and buses — thousands of miles to Mexico’s southern provinces and entrap them in cities like Tapachula in Chiapas State and Villahermosa in Tabasco State, behind militarized roadblocks.

Mexico closed off most of its freight trains to migrant free riders, bulldozed northern camps, and patrolled relentlessly for more deportee targets, as I was perhaps the first and only in the nation to report on Jan. 17.

The most likely purpose of these interactions besides the officially provided explanation about “ongoing efforts to manage migratory flows” and “additional enforcement actions urgently needed”? Best guess: to spare the Democratic presidential candidate the damaging political spectacle of mass border crossings for the duration of the coming political campaign season that was sure to feature illegal immigration as a key issue …

Tapachula was bursting at the seams with an entrapped, growing population being deported into it from the north and with an estimated 500-1,500 new foreigners entering every day from Guatemala on the south …

The misery index skyrocketed for both the immigrants and the city’s residents and managers as money-less people unable to advance north for months returned home, or begged, hustled for coins and food, slept in public spaces, and waited for Mexican asylum permits or American parole on the CBP One mobile phone apps that never seemed to materialize quickly enough.

Tapachula became a hellscape …

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After years of liberal lockstep, Armenian-Americans seem to be breaking for Donald Trump. This is good news, not just for ethnic Armenians but for all Americans. Let me explain.

The first big break with the status quo came from Armenian Weekly columnist Armen Morian, who recently
urged his readership to vote for Trump.

But just take a look at a map, and the significance of Armenia’s role as it relates to Western hegemony becomes clear.

Traditionally, Democrat candidates have pushed for Armenian causes, such as recognition of Armenian genocide. This has generally been enough for Armenians, like many other minority American groups, to nod their heads and go along with the empty promises of the liberal platform.

Establishment stooges

Morian acknowledges this habit as he makes a solidly persuasive case for why Armenian-Americans should vote for Trump. The Biden administration is simply the latest iteration of the fundamentally anti-human “Establishment” ideology:

For decades the official ideology of the Establishment has been a globalist one that disdains the cultures, traditions and interests of individual nations, beginning with those of the nation they profess to serve: America. They regard men and nations as interchangeable pawns to be played, regardless, and often in spite of, their unique cultures, histories and traditions, which they see not as determinants of policy but obstacles to be overcome on the path toward advancing their ideology.

For Morian, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government is but an extension of this liberal establishment, with Pashinyan and his cronies doing the globalist work of trying to normalize relations between the republic and Turkey, harassing the Armenian Apostolic Church, and sowing division between Armenians of the mainland and of the diaspora, among other things.

Donald Trump himself seemed to vindicate Morian’s claims a few days later, when he made a post on Truth Social blaming Kamala Harris and the rest of the Biden administration for doing nothing as Islamic Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed 120,000 Armenians from their historic homeland in Artsakh, which was, up until 2023, a disputed enclave within the boundaries of Azerbaijan.

I surmise that advisers like Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have had something to do with raising his awareness of the crisis in that part of the world.

As an ethnic Armenian myself, these developments are all fine and dandy. If the Armenian-American community can wake up from its liberal slumber and manage to find its conservative spine, I can call that progress.

Why you should care

But why should
you care? Why should you care about the political goings-on of the Republic of Armenia and about the Armenians in general? After all, Armenians make up a tiny minority in America. Their vote most likely won’t make a dent in the election.

Likewise, the Western perception of Armenia and Armenians is barely existent, if it even exists at all. What does this tiny nation located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have to do with
you?

Well, allow me to appeal to your sense of geopolitics. On the surface, Armenia comes off as a backwater post-Soviet country tucked away from the rest of Europe under the Caucasus mountain range. It doesn’t contribute much in terms of GDP, as its 1991 statehood came with significant disadvantages: It’s completely landlocked on all sides and neighbored by two bloodthirsty enemies — Turkey and Azerbaijan.

But just take a look at a map, and the significance of Armenia’s role as it relates to Western hegemony becomes clear.

Garen Christopher Kaloustian

Armenia is the lone obstacle standing in the way of Turkey’s pursuit of establishing a pan-Turanic land and sea bridge that would span Europe and Asia. Contrary to public perception, the bonds these nations share are less based on Islam than they are on ethnicity.

The pan-Turanic menace

The nations highlighted in the graphic are all demographically composed of ethnically Turkic peoples. And if they were to establish that pan-Turanic land and sea bridge, you can bet your bottom dollar they would throw the power of that newfound Turanic empire around.

Some scenarios you can expect with the rise of the pan-Turanic empire:

Turkey abuses its position in NATO even more, extracting any and all demands it may have due to its new status as a trading world power.
The European states stand to pay even more for the oil they get from Azerbaijan, risking a position of total indentured dependence.
Even more immigrants from Central Asia flood Europe.
The U.S. is forced to comply with Turkish demands, norms, and cultural exports, so as not to lose out on major trade routes and markets.
The eventual Islamified Turkification of all icons, symbols, and cultural artifacts the West holds dear and sacred.

And if you think this isn’t coming down the pipeline, just look at both Greece and Armenia as your prime examples of what happens when Turks become the power brokers.

The Hagia Sophia is no longer a church. Every major Armenian church and historical site has either been destroyed or retroactively cast as an ancient Turkish site. The ruthless predation of the Turkic world has remained only regional for Christians up until now, but it can very easily become international, very soon.

What stands in the way is Armenia. That’s it.

Very stable genius

That is why the Azeris just cleaned out 120,000 Armenians from their ancestral homeland with military force. It’s why the traitorous, globalist Armenian government is pushing to “normalize” relations between itself and Turkey and Azerbaijan. And yes, it’s even why Iran considers Armenia’s territorial integrity a “red line” that it would not tolerate Azerbaijan breaching.

It’s also why I want you, the reader, to be aware of this pressing issue.

If Donald Trump becomes president, especially with advisers like Vivek Ramaswamy and RFK Jr. on his team, there will be a real opportunity to ward off this threat.

What I’m pushing for is not more taxpayer-funded aid to yet another region of the world. Instead, I’d like us to siphon the power, influence, and money away from antagonists like Turkey and Azerbaijan, whom we help out a lot.

The Middle East can be very stable, if we want it to be. That it happens to be occupied and governed by non-Christians is an anomaly — for much of history, Christians were in charge. A restoration of a Christian Middle East must be on the table as an agenda item for the next administration.

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Two years after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, the fight to protect the unborn rages on.

And there is no bigger threat to life than a Kamala Harris victory this Tuesday.

Even without a Harris victory, this election’s state ballot initiatives could advance a similarly radical pro-abortion agenda across the country.

“If we have a Harris presidency, if the Democrats take control of Congress, we know that they’re going to pass the [Women’s Health Protection Act], which is going to ban states from having pro-life laws,” Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America told Align in an interview Thursday.

More radical than Roe

While the repeal of Roe v. Wade returned decisions on abortion policy to state and local government, the WHPA would prevent states from imposing any restriction or limitation on abortion.

In writing the Roe ruling, the Supreme Court took care to acknowledge the moral issue inherent to abortion, explicitly defining it as a procedure ending “prenatal life.” It forbade states to regulate abortion only up until the viability of the fetus, which generally occurs between 24 and 28 weeks.

Tellingly, the WHPA dispenses with any references to human life, employing the euphemisms “abortion services” and “essential health care.” Rather than representing a “restoration” of Roe, it is far more radical.

“It’s essentially going to allow abortion until birth in every state,” Pritchard said.

While the WHPA has previously failed to garner the 61 votes needed to pass in the Senate, Harris has vowed to eliminate the filibuster, lowering the necessary number of votes to a simple majority of 51.

Abortion until birth

Even without a Harris victory, this election’s state ballot initiatives could advance a similarly radical pro-abortion agenda across the country, said Pritchard.

New York, Florida, Nevada, and Maryland are among the states asking voters to enshrine abortion in their constitutions this Tuesday. Like the WHPA, these initiatives are open-ended enough that activists could use “lawfare” in order to force taxpayers to fund abortion up to birth.

As an example of this, look no farther than the abortion policy of Harris’ running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz.

Thanks to Walz, said Pritchard, Minnesota has “no limits whatsoever” on abortion. “And that’s as extreme as China.”

“We are one of only eight countries that allow abortion in all nine months,” she continued. “Almost all of Europe has a limit after the first trimester or 15 weeks. But we are out of step with the modern developed world.”

Calculated deception

Such radical abortion policy is also out of step with most Americans, 73% of whom oppose abortion after 15 weeks.

Why the discrepancy?

In a memo, SBA Pro-Life America has likened these vaguely worded “reproductive rights” initiatives to “Trojan horses.”

“Even when so many of the American people still aren’t comfortable with abortion after a certain point, the way the abortion industry has been able to spin the issue has deceived people into going along with their agenda time and time again,” Pritchard told Align.

Much of it comes down to who has deeper pockets. With the help of George Soros and other donors, noted Pritchard, the pro-abortion side outspends the pro-life side seven to one. So far, pro-life advocates have failed to win a single ballot measure fight.

Cause for optimism

Still, Pritchard sees cause for optimism this year.

“The good news is that we’ve got some measures that are in very red states this year, like South Dakota, Nebraska, Florida, and Missouri,” said Pritchard.

“Particularly with GOP leaders like [Florida Governor] Ron DeSantis, who are standing strong and exposing what these ballot measures will actually do … we think we have a real shot at winning some of these this year.”

Whatever partial victories it seeks today, SBA Pro-Life America’s overarching fight is against what it calls the abortion industry’s “culture of death,” which Pritchard noted “has a hold on all of our major institutions … higher ed, the mainstream media, Hollywood, and many C-suites.”

She singles out journalists in particular for abdicating their traditional role. “The media need to wake up and realize that their job is not to be the abortion industry’s PR department.”

Fighting the lie

Such powerful backing, continues Pritchard, has allowed “this lie that an unborn child isn’t a child but is a clump of cells … [that] they’re not human until they’re born” to take root in America.

“This lie has legitimized the taking of more than 60 million lives since Roe [was ratified in 1973],” she said.

While SBA Pro-Life America advocates “compassion” for women dealing with unexpected pregnancies — devoting much of its work to defending pro-life pregnancy centers from Democrat attacks — the group’s consistent message is the nonnegotiable “humanity of the unborn child” and the moral wrongness of abortion in any circumstance.

“We will never relent on that point,” said Pritchard. “The more [the American people] have to confront that, I think the more people we’ll eventually win over.”

In the meantime, Pritchard urges pro-life Americans to make their voices heard on Tuesday.

“Life is literally on the ballot and lives are on the line this election,” said Pritchard. “We have to show up to vote, and we have to vote our values and vote for life.”

The way she sees it, the stakes are higher than any immediate outcome. “Our future generations are really depending upon us.”

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I’ve often reflected on Donald Trump’s charge that massive fraud occurred during the 2020 presidential election. While I’m not convinced the opposition cheated enough to change the outcome, I do agree with J.R. Dunn at American Thinker, who argues, “We’re not going to debate whether cheating in fact occurred in 2020 — the only ones who dispute that at this point are the bought, the braindead, and the comatose.”

My acceptance of this view stems largely from the behavior of Democratic Party operatives since 2020. They have used highly questionable tactics to influence election outcomes, including flooding the country with millions of illegal immigrants brought here as potential Democratic voters. In fact, Democrats have already started registering some of these new arrivals, who, grateful for benefits like living expenses, medical care, food, and shelter, are likely to vote in their favor.

The ruling left’s ideal outcome would involve the complete elimination of genuine opposition, leaving only allies or powerless coalition partners.

In states controlled by Democrats or those they are close to controlling, such as my home state of Pennsylvania, voter ID requirements are being removed. This change aims to enable individuals who shouldn’t have voting rights to cast ballots. Similarly, in 2020, ballots were widely mailed to addresses where registered voters once lived but may no longer reside. Democratic operatives likely visited these addresses to fill out ballots, while unguarded drop boxes in Democratic areas were reportedly filled with pro-Biden ballots late at night.

Recently, the Department of Justice has attempted to prevent Republican governors from removing noncitizens from voter rolls, as seen in a widely publicized case in Virginia. Congressional Democrats also strongly oppose limiting voting to only citizens, aligning with the party’s support for massive illegal immigration — essentially importing future Democratic voters.

These practices recall the “salami tactics” communist operatives used in Eastern Europe after World War II, which allowed them to gain power through seemingly constitutional means. Instead of the deep state and corporate media, as in today’s context, communists like Matyas Rakosi in Hungary and Klement Gottwald in Czechoslovakia relied on the Red Army to break up their democratic opposition.

Some of these gradualist tactics, pioneered by communist takeover strategists, echo what our Democratic Party and similar woke leftist parties in Europe are already doing. Much like today’s Democrats, the communists worked relentlessly to delegitimize any party to their right, including agrarian groups, nationalists, and even social democrats, labeling them as fascists and Nazis.

Much like slicing a salami, the political spectrum was gradually narrowed to the communists and their willing collaborators. These collaborators bear a striking resemblance to today’s neoconservatives, who now seek favor with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz while denouncing Trump and MAGA Republicans as neo-Nazis.

The totalitarian left has long perfected the art of marginalizing opposition. During their rise to power, the communists welcomed bourgeois progressives, the Eastern and Central European equivalents of figures like George Will, Ken Adelman, John Bolton, Robert Kagan, and Dick and Liz Cheney. Applying “salami tactics,” they outlawed noncompliant parties and, where possible, jailed their leaders as “fascists.” This approach mirrors how today’s media and Democrats treat MAGA Republicans, whom President Biden recently denounced as “garbage.” The ruling left’s ideal outcome would involve the complete elimination of genuine opposition, leaving only allies or powerless coalition partners.

A future Democratic administration led by Harris and Walz could closely resemble the old communist model. The Democrats have already proposed measures like packing the Supreme Court with loyalists, granting statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to secure additional Senate seats, and federalizing elections while removing voter ID requirements — all under the guise of “saving our democracy.”

Meanwhile, Harris, Walz, and sympathetic media outlets express concern about allowing “disinformation” to circulate without government oversight. The totalitarian left, whether in the modern West or the former Soviet bloc, has always sought to throttle unwanted dissent.

That said, our homegrown version of leftist totalitarianism looks a lot kinkier than what the communists established. Unlike puritanical communist rule, our post-democratic regime is already abolishing gender distinctions, pushing gender-altering surgery for minors, and glorifying homosexual relations. This new form of the totalitarian left would be less about government ownership of resources than reconstructing social and moral behavior and rewarding parasitic capitalists who support those in power.

Although history never repeats itself exactly, troubling trends often have an unfortunate tendency to rhyme.

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Who is running the country? What happened to President Joe Biden? Does anyone know what Kamala Harris is running her campaign on? In the hazy milieu of the mainstream media, these questions are harder to answer than anyone would think possible.

On “Zero Hour,” James Poulos sat down with Jill Savage, host of “Blaze News Tonight,” to discuss the state of the presidential race, the media’s influence on public perception, and Kamala Harris’ campaign of “vibes.”

Noting the strange transition of power within the Biden-Harris administration, James Poulos pointed out the media’s influence on the public perception of Harris. Jill Savage said, “Nobody actually likes Kamala, but we’re just going to pretend people like her and give her a media makeover. If they can get away with it, they absolutely will.”

They also discussed Kamala’s apparent lack of policy positions: “They know that if they put policies out there, people will attack her,” Savage said.

James Poulos observed at least one instance of fabricated photos regarding Harris’ campaign rallies, questioning whether that was a one-time occurrence: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. They’re putting out press photos of these events that seem to be overflowing with human beings, but they’re actually humanoids that have been manufactured by AI,” Savage replied, “That’s what’s passing for news these days. If there weren’t independent news sources, this is what would be on the nightly news, and nobody would know any different.”

On the media’s portrayal of Kamala’s campaign, Savage added, “If pure vibes is Pravda, then we are pure vibing it all summer long.”

To hear more of what Jill Savage had to say on media manipulation, Harris’ platform of “vibes,” and more, watch the full episode of “Zero Hour” with James Poulos.

America was convinced tech would complete our mastery of the world. Instead, we got catastrophe — constant crises from politics and the economy down to the spiritual fiber of our being. Time’s up for the era we grew up in. How do we pick ourselves up and begin again? To find out, visionary author and media theorist James Poulos cracks open the minds — and hearts — of today’s top figures in politics, tech, ideas, and culture on “Zero Hour” on BlazeTV.

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