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biden books
September 5, 2023
Culture
News
Politics

Books on Biden Are Bombing.

The book industry has seen significantly lower sales during the Biden presidency compared to the Trump era. Books about former President Donald Trump sold millions of copies, but those focused on Biden have struggled to generate interest. Several books about the Bidens have sold fewer than a humiliating 5,000 copies, while Trump-focused books sold hundreds of thousands to millions of units.

POLITICO reports:

…for the pandemic-era book [Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes] wrote on Joe Biden, Allen didn’t even get the satisfaction of seeing a copy in stores. He didn’t go on a tour, either. “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency” never made the Times best-seller list and so far has sold fewer than 10,000 copies since its release in March 2021, according to NPD BookScan, which is considered the gold standard of book sale measurement but does not include every sale.

Now, Allen says he’s turning his attention back to the Clintons. He has no plans to write another book on Biden.

“He has tried to be kind of a drama-free president, certainly in comparison to his predecessor, and that makes it harder to write a book, both in terms of getting information and turning his story into one that is compelling for readers,” said Allen.

“Biden never does anything interesting,” said Eric Nelson, publisher of Broadside Books. “The Hunter Biden stuff has done pretty well, because he’s appropriately interesting. But Hunter Biden is not the president.”

Gabriel Debenedetti’s “The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama” sold fewer than 1,500 copies. Julie Pace and Darlene Superville’s “Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” sold fewer than 2,500. Chris Whipple’s “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House” and Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power” have each racked up fewer than 5,000 books sold.

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The book industry has seen significantly lower sales during the Biden presidency compared to the Trump era. Books about former President Donald Trump sold millions of copies, but those focused on Biden have struggled to generate interest. Several books about the Bidens have sold fewer than a humiliating 5,000 copies, while Trump-focused books sold hundreds of thousands to millions of units. show more
September 4, 2023
Culture
Podcast
Politics

WATCH: Don Jr Declares ‘Raheem Was Right’ in Spicy New Interview.

The National Pulse Editor in Chief joins Donald Trump Jr. for what the former has referred to as a “spicy” interview that will likely trigger the liberal media.

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The National Pulse Editor in Chief joins Donald Trump Jr. for what the former has referred to as a "spicy" interview that will likely trigger the liberal media. show more
cricket
September 4, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

Canada’s Women’s Cricket Team is Fielding a Dude.

Canada’s international cricket team has named a transgender woman to play for the Twenty-20 Women’s World Cup next year, arguing that the man’s testosterone levels are sufficiently low enough not to have any advantage over the other women.

Australian-born Danielle McGahey, who was 26 when he began claiming to be a woman and 27 when he began medically transitioning, was permitted to play for Canada after his testosterone levels were consistently less than 5nmolL1 per liter for one year straight. He also provided a “written letter and signed declaration” to the International Cricket Council (ICC) that he thought himself a woman.

McGahey has already played a number of games for Canada as the fixtures did not hold official international cricket status. “Within five months of playing my first game with the women in Canada, I was in Brazil,” he explained in an interview.

“Obviously I felt a huge sense of pride. Not only for what I’m doing, but for my [trans] community. Being able to represent them,” McGahey added.

The selection of McGahey was protested by the Women’s Rights Network (WRN), with the group’s spokeswoman Jane Sullivan arguing, “There are currently 17 peer-reviewed studies that show we cannot mitigate against male puberty when it comes to sporting performance… Any cricket team that has an individual who has been through male puberty already has an unfair advantage over an all-female side.”

This follows British Cycling banning transgenders from competing against women in order to mitigate the men’s natural biologically advantages.

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Canada's international cricket team has named a transgender woman to play for the Twenty-20 Women's World Cup next year, arguing that the man's testosterone levels are sufficiently low enough not to have any advantage over the other women. show more
September 1, 2023
Culture
News

Mohamed Al Fayed Dies at 94.

Billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Princess Diana’s late partner Dodi Al-Fayed, has passed away at the age of 94. The Egyptian businessman died on Friday morning and will be buried at London Central Mosque near Regents Park. Al-Fayed was the former owner of Hotel Ritz Paris, Harrods department store, and Fulham Football Club. His wealth was estimated to be $2 billion in 2023, ranking him 1,493 in the world. Al-Fayed’s family released a statement confirming his peaceful passing and requested privacy.

In a statement from Fulham Football Club, owner and chairman Shahid Khan expressed condolences to Al-Fayed’s family and friends. He highlighted Al-Fayed’s positive impact as chairman, which included promotion to the Premier League and a Europa League Final. Al-Fayed’s son, Dodi Al-Fayed, was famously the partner of Princess Diana and the pair died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Mohamed Al-Fayed, who was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1929, moved to London in the 1960s and became influential in the business world. He bought The Ritz hotel in Paris in 1979, Harrods in London in 1984, and was the owner of Fulham FC from 1997 to 2013. Al-Fayed had five children and was known for his colorful personality and commitment to his various ventures.

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Billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Princess Diana’s late partner Dodi Al-Fayed, has passed away at the age of 94. The Egyptian businessman died on Friday morning and will be buried at London Central Mosque near Regents Park. Al-Fayed was the former owner of Hotel Ritz Paris, Harrods department store, and Fulham Football Club. His wealth was estimated to be $2 billion in 2023, ranking him 1,493 in the world. Al-Fayed's family released a statement confirming his peaceful passing and requested privacy. show more
nyc call to prayer
September 1, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

NYC Mosques Can Now Blare Islamic Call to Prayer Over Loudspeakers.

The Islamic call to prayer, or Adhan, can now be blasted across New York City without regard to neighborhood noise restrictions on Fridays, following guideline changes introduced by Democrat city mayor Eric Adams.

“Something that I heard when I visited Morocco, when I visited Saudi Arabia, when I visited Oman, when I visited Jordan, when I visited so many Arab and Muslim countries, I heard the call of prayer. ,” said Mayor Eric Adams, currently presiding over an unprecedented migrant crisis in his “sanctuary city”.

“[T]his city is going to join a rich tradition, cultural, and faith belief… to my Muslim brothers and sisters that are here, as-salamu alaykum,” he continued, promising his audience they would no longer “have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer. You are free to live your faith in NYC.”

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The Islamic call to prayer, or Adhan, can now be blasted across New York City without regard to neighborhood noise restrictions on Fridays, following guideline changes introduced by Democrat city mayor Eric Adams. show more
pride flag
August 31, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

‘Hate Crime’ Charge for Man Who Put LGBT Flags on Ground.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a ‘hate crime’ after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City’s West Village neighborhood in June.

Patrick Murphy is alleged to have engaged in a “criminal mischief pattern” alongside two other men by the city’s authorities after pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized. Despite the months-long effort to locate and charge Murphy, the damage saw around only a dozen small LGBTQI+ and trans flags thrown onto the floor and several flag sticks broken.

New York City Councilor Erik Bottcher posted a number of photos of the small mess on X (formerly Twitter), stating, “If anyone thinks this is going to intimidate us or weaken our resolve, they’re mistaken.”

Murphy disputes the claims and has pleaded not guilty, according to court records. His attorney, Robert Gottlieb, argued: “It is preposterous to conclude that Patrick was involved in any hate crime.”

“The evidence will clearly show that whatever happened that night involving Patrick was not intended to attack gays or their symbol, the gay pride flag,” Gottlieb added.

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A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a 'hate crime' after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York City's West Village neighborhood in June. show more
mcdonalds gay
August 31, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

WATCH: McDonald’s Goes Gay, Gets Dragged.

McDonald’s has embraced LGBT “pride” in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading “couple goals.” The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, “if that’s not love idk [I don’t know] what is,” and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting.

Social media observers noted how the commercial is similar to an old meme which parodies corporates for shoehorning homosexuality into their otherwise unrelated businesses:

The campaign has already flopped, with just 44 reposts and under 850 likes, despite receiving over 3.6 million views. Comments, too, were quick to criticize the post, with one reading, “It seems like gayness has seeped into every type of advertisement. #LGBT make up 7% of the population….but they still try and jam it in everyone’s face. Buy @Whataburger.”

Another response simply read: “Gross.”

McDonald’s is not alone in pushing the LGBT agenda; Chipotle began promoting its commitment to gay pride earlier this year after it launched ‘The Pride Edit’ featuring rainbow-colored T-shirts and other LGBT merchandise.

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McDonald's has embraced LGBT "pride" in its latest ad campaign featuring an interracial gay couple bickering over food alongside the subheading "couple goals." The campaign was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with the description, "if that's not love idk [I don't know] what is," and shows two middle-aged men fighting over fries and play fighting. show more
obama
August 31, 2023
William Upton
Culture
Media
News

TUCKER: Media Ignored Gay Obama Smoking Crack in 2008.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed in a recent interview that, “In 2008 it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack. And a guy came forward, Larry Sinclair, and said ‘I’ll sign an affidavit’ – and he did – ‘I’ll take a lie detector’ – and he did, [saying] ‘I smoked crack with Barack Obama and had sex with him.'”

Tucker explained the corporate media refused to report the story, adding: “Not because they were squeamish about sex or drugs, but because the Obama campaign said, ‘Anyone who reports on this gets no access to the Obama campaign.'”

Carlson blasted the corporate press’s bias, “…the media is reporting on government, but it’s also dependent on government.”

He added that the quid-pro-quo style trade-offs he witnessed between the corporate press and the 2008 Obama presidential campaign “…happens all of the time with lots of different issues… You think you’re holding government accountable but actually they’re controlling you.”

The National Pulse has previously reported on Obama’s biographer David Garrow obtaining a letter the 44th President had written to a former girlfriend detailing fantasies about having sex with other men. Garrow later released the letter to the public, the relevant passage from Obama reading:

“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”

– Barack Hussein Obama, 1982.

The former Democrat President goes on to describe his mind as “…androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men.”

In July, Malik Obama, the former President’s half-brother, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Barack Obama was “definitely gay.”

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed in a recent interview that, "In 2008 it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men and smoking crack. And a guy came forward, Larry Sinclair, and said 'I'll sign an affidavit' – and he did – 'I'll take a lie detector' – and he did, [saying] 'I smoked crack with Barack Obama and had sex with him.'" show more
covid joke
August 30, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
Media
News

Louisiana Man Finally Cleared After Making 2020 COVID Joke on Facebook.

A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Waylon Bailey was arrested by a SWAT team with weapons and bulletproof vests on March 20, 2020, after he posted a joke on Facebook, reading “JUST IN: RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFFERS OFFICE HAVE ISSUED THE ORDER, IF DEPUTIES COME INTO CONTACT WITH ‘THE INFECTED’ SHOOT ON SIGHT…Lord have mercy on us all. #Covid9teen #weneedyoubradpitt.”

Local authorities suggested that his post amounted to a “terrorist threat.”

Now, over three years later, judges have found that his post was neither a threat nor an incitement to violence. Instead, the court said Bailey’s First Amendment rights were violated and that there was no legitimate purpose for his arrest. One judge stated:

“The post did not direct any person or group to take any unlawful action immediately or in the near future… at worst, his post was a joke in poor taste, but it cannot be read as intentionally directed to incitement.”

Bailey subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Rapides County Sheriff’s Office in September 2020. The case was, however, dismissed in July last year on the grounds of qualified immunity, used to protect government officials from civil liability unless they violate a constitutional right.

Bailey has since appealed the decision and is awaiting a verdict next month.

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A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. show more
assassinating trump
August 30, 2023
William Upton
Culture
News
Politics

Tucker: Democrats Are ‘Speeding Towards Assassinating’ Trump.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the escalating partisan attacks on former President Trump have left him believing that Democrats are “speeding towards assassination” as a final resort to stop the Republican presidential frontrunner from retaking the White House.

Carlson laid out, during an interview with Adam Carolla, his logic regarding the escalating political conflict between Democrats and Trump:

They protested him. They called him names. He won anyway. They impeached him, twice, on ridiculous pretenses. They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6th in order to impeach him again. It didn’t work. He came back, then they indicted him. It didn’t work, he became more popular. Then they indicted him three more times. And every single time his popularity rose. So if you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment – and none of them work, what’s next? I mean, graph it out man. We’re speeding towards assassination, obviously. And no one will say that but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion.

This isn’t the first time that Carlson has broached the possibility that Democrats might foment violence against former President Trump. While the other 2024 Republican presidential candidates debated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23rd, Trump sat down for an interview with Carlson.

The former Fox News host pointedly asked Trump about the possibility of Left-wing inspired assassination plot against him, “Are you worried they’re going to try and kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you?” Trump responded calling his persecutors “…savage animals, they’re people that are sick…” adding, “I’ve seen the lengths that they go to… I think they hate our country.”

Trump brushed off the concern for his life – emphasizing that not all of his partisan opponents are bad people – telling Tucker: “You have great people in the Democrat Party, you have great people that are Democrats. Most of the people in our country are fantastic and I’m representing everybody. Not just Republicans or conservatives. I represent everybody, I’m the president of everybody.

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the escalating partisan attacks on former President Trump have left him believing that Democrats are "speeding towards assassination" as a final resort to stop the Republican presidential frontrunner from retaking the White House. show more

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