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Jack Montgomery
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Joe Biden Thinks There are ‘Fine People on Both Sides’ of the Israel-Hamas Protests.

Joe Biden is trying to walk a fine line as anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests grip U.S. college campuses, seeking to denounce anti-Semitism while placating Muslim and young progressive voters who oppose the Israeli government’s operations against Hamas in Gaza.

“Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?” a reporter asked Biden during an Earth Day event on Monday.

“I condemn the anti-Semitic protests; that’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that,” the Democrat said. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” he added hastily.

The 81-year-old Democrat has claimed for years that, when Donald Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” during protests against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, he was including “white supremacists, Nazis, and the KKK.”

In fact, Trump specifically said he was referring to people “other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” and even some anti-Trump figures, such as Mike Rapaport, have admitted they were wrong to repeat the “fine people” hoax as recounted by Biden.

Biden now finds himself having to suggest there are fine people among anti-Semites on college campuses ahead of the elections in November. The White House has been treading carefully throughout the conflict in Gaza, fearing backlash from traditionally Democrat-supporting voters in swing states like Michigan.

Biden is also struggling with young voters, who skew more pro-Palestinian than older voters, partly as a result of the war. The Democrat led Donald Trump by 23 points at this stage in the 2020 election, but his current lead is just eight points.

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Joe Biden is trying to walk a fine line as anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests grip U.S. college campuses, seeking to denounce anti-Semitism while placating Muslim and young progressive voters who oppose the Israeli government's operations against Hamas in Gaza. show more
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Raheem J. Kassam
Politics

Mike Johnson APOLOGIZED to Joe Biden. Here’s Why…

Beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly apologized to Joe Biden for his televised eye rolls during the State of the Union address earlier this year. Writing for RealClearPolitics, Philip Wegmann explains:

This past March, Johnson felt he owed Biden an apology. Seated just over the president’s shoulder during the State of the Union address, the speaker couldn’t mask his expressions of exhaustion and exasperation as Biden laid into Republicans. The two next met on Capitol Hill for the Friends of Ireland luncheon where Johnson toasted Biden as “America’s most famous Irishman.” On loan from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, his pint glass was the same one Reagan used during a 1984 visit to Ireland. The Guinness the Southern Baptist speaker drank was non-alcoholic.

Johnson pulled Biden aside to “apologize for the eye-roll memes that went around the world.” The president laughed, then told the speaker he was glad Johnson was better behaved than Nancy Pelosi had been during the speeches of his predecessor: “I’m just grateful you didn’t rip my speech up.” The speaker replied, “Well, Mr. President, don’t think my friends back home didn’t want me to light it on fire.”

Johnson is currently fending off challenges to his leadership, specifically relating to the recent foreign aid packages designed to assist Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.

Johnson emphasized, “When I go home, I want to look my kids in the eye and tell them that daddy acted like a gentleman.”

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Beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly apologized to Joe Biden for his televised eye rolls during the State of the Union address earlier this year. Writing for RealClearPolitics, Philip Wegmann explains: show more
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Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: Biden’s Young Person Lead Over Trump Shrinks to Single Digits.

The Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll found Donald Trump’s support among voters aged 18-29 — the key to Joe Biden’s reelection prospects — now stands at 37 percent. The Democrat incumbent leads his predecessor by eight points, at 45 percent, but this is a drastic drop from his 23-point lead among younger voters at this stage in the 2020 election.

Biden’s lead over Trump is much smaller among young men — at six points — than among women, at 33 points. He is also less popular among the youngest Generation Z voters, aged 18-24, than among voters aged 25-9, by a margin of 12 points.

Trump-backing youngsters are also far more enthusiastic than Biden-backing youngsters. Seventy-six percent of young Trump supporters say they “enthusiastically support their candidate,” while just 44 percent of young Biden supporters say the same.

Regarding their priorities, younger voters put the economy and immigration at the top of the list. Trump generally outperforms his successor in polling on both issues.

Reuters/Ipsos polling on 18-29-year-old voters in March painted an even bleaker picture for the 81-year-old Democrat, with a 29 percent to 26 percent advantage — just three points.

The findings come as Biden is already struggling with black male voters, another demographic key to his official victory in the 2020 election.

Trump enjoys solid support among America’s hardest workers, with support at 80 percent among people working over 60 hours a week. Biden, meanwhile, only takes a decisive advantage among people working 29 hours or less.

Similarly, Biden enjoys majority support among people who believe they have an “above average” or “far above average” income. In contrast, Trump enjoys majority support among people who think their income is average, below average, or far below average.

These developments likely contribute to Trump’s current lead in six out of seven swing states.

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The Spring 2024 Harvard Youth Poll found Donald Trump's support among voters aged 18-29 — the key to Joe Biden's reelection prospects — now stands at 37 percent. The Democrat incumbent leads his predecessor by eight points, at 45 percent, but this is a drastic drop from his 23-point lead among younger voters at this stage in the 2020 election. show more
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2 hours ago
NatSec
World

5 Charged With Spying For China, Including Govt Aide.

Two British men and three German citizens have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Communist China. In Britain, Christopher Berry of Witney and Christopher Cash of Whitechapel have both been charged with violations of the Official Secrets Act. Cash is a parliamentary pass holder and worked as a research aid for Conservative Member of Parliament Alicia Kearns. The Crown Prosecution Service says Berry and Cash “will be charged with providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, April 26.”

GERMAN PLOT TO EXPORT LASER TECH.

In Germany, two police raids resulted in the arrest of three German citizens. They are accused of breaching the country’s export laws. State officials say they illegally obtained and sent a laser device to China at some point prior to June 2022.

German police allege that one of the suspects acted as an agent on behalf of an employee of China’s Ministry of State Security. This individual facilitated a partnership between his Chinese handler and the other two German nationals. At the time of the arrests, the three conspirators were in the process of negotiating additional research and technology transfers to their Chinese partners.

“We are keeping an eye on the significant danger from Chinese espionage in business, industry and science,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement. She continued: “We are watching these risks and threats very closely and have warned and sensitized people clearly so that protective measures can be stepped up everywhere.”

U.S. CONTINUES EFFORTS AGAINST TIKTOK.

American lawmakers, meanwhile, are continuing their efforts to reign in TikTok. Over the weekend, Congress advanced legislation to force the Chinese technology and entertainment conglomerate ByteDance to either divest from the TikTok social media app or face its ban. TikTok is accused of having lied about its data-sharing policies, with mounting evidence showing the social media app has transferred American user data to China — something it has claimed it would not do.

The effort to reign in TikTok has received opposition from more libertarian and progressive lawmakers, as well as a major lobbying and public relations campaign backed by ByteDance.

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Two British men and three German citizens have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Communist China. In Britain, Christopher Berry of Witney and Christopher Cash of Whitechapel have both been charged with violations of the Official Secrets Act. Cash is a parliamentary pass holder and worked as a research aid for Conservative Member of Parliament Alicia Kearns. The Crown Prosecution Service says Berry and Cash "will be charged with providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, April 26." show more
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3 hours ago
Raheem J. Kassam
Culture

Jerry Seinfeld’s New Pop Tart Movie Contains a ‘Very Funny January 6 Parody.’

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has declared that the film business is no longer the commanding force it once was in our society and culture. In an interview with GQ magazine to discuss his new Pop-Tart movie, “Unfrosted,” Seinfeld expressed admiration for the unwavering dedication of his colleagues but noted a crisis permeating the industry.

Asked what he thinks has replaced film, Seinfeld responds: “Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?”

Another pull from the interview mentions a “very funny January 6 parody,” which interviewer Brett Martin calls “a little surprising, given how apolitical [Seinfeld has] been.” The scene isn’t in the trailer (below), but will doubtless do the rounds when the movie is released in early May.

But the 69-year-old stand-up and sitcom actor refused to get drawn on the question, instead pivoting to October 7 and antisemitism in America: “Well, I’m Jewish. And you grow up learning about antisemitism, but it’s kind of in a book. It never crossed my mind that people would look at me as anything other than, ‘I like this comedian. I don’t like this comedian.’ I think most Jews of my generation never thought about antisemitism. It was from history books. And then it was something different. It was something different.”

“Unfrosted,” a comedy based on the development of the Pop-Tart and the intensifying rivalry between Kellogg’s and Post during the early ’60s, features Seinfeld alongside Melissa McCarthy. Amy Schumer plays the head of Post. Seinfeld is credited with writing the script, marking his most significant film project since his role in the 2007 animated comedy Bee Movie, where he was a writer, producer, and lead voice.

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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has declared that the film business is no longer the commanding force it once was in our society and culture. In an interview with GQ magazine to discuss his new Pop-Tart movie, "Unfrosted," Seinfeld expressed admiration for the unwavering dedication of his colleagues but noted a crisis permeating the industry. show more
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Given how huge a Seinfeld fan I am (I even watched the entire show backwards, once, to get a different perspective on the character arcs), I sure hope this doesn’t suck, and that the January 6th reference isn’t cringe as all hell (it probably will be)
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Given how huge a Seinfeld fan I am (I even watched the entire show backwards, once, to get a different perspective on the character arcs), I sure hope this doesn’t suck, and that the January 6th reference isn’t cringe as all hell (it probably will be) show more
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