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the national pulse
July 30, 2023
Jake Welch
News

The National Pulse’s Top 10 Articles of the Week (July 23 – 30).

The National Pulse has published 225 news articles so far in July. In case you missed them, here are 10 of the most important stories of this week. If you haven’t yet joined the Pulse+, come and support our work and enjoy a mountain of extras, here.

  1. ‘Say GAY or PAY’: Newsom Forces LGBTpedo Curriculum Under $1.5 Fine Threat.
    “California Governor Gavin Newsom is coercing schools in California to “say gay” – i.e. forcibly including homosexual and pedophilic education upon children – under threat of $1.5m fines…”
  2. SHOCK: DeSantis’s ‘Never Back Down’ PAC May Pivot to Scott, Youngkin.
    “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s own ‘Never Back Down’ super PAC could soon morph into ‘Not Backing DeSantis’…”
  3. DATA: Leftists Increasingly Willing To Resort To Violence for Political Ends. 
    “A growing number of Democrat voters support the use of violence or force to attain political ends…”
  4. Journo Favorite Mastodon Has a Pedophilia Problem.
    “Mastodon – a social media platform popular with leftist “reporters” – is also coincidentally littered with highly explicit child sexual abuse material.”
  5. NBA Freezes Out Ice Cube & His ‘BIG3’ League While Courting Qatar.
    “The National Basketball Association (NBA) is getting in bed with Qatar while freezing out Ice Cube and his ‘BIG3’ basketball league…”
  6. 1 in 35 Who Got Boosted Developed Myocarditis, Study Finds.
    “One in 35 people who received the COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccinations had vaccine-associated myocardial injury…”
  7. Ron Decided to Run for POTUS in 2020, Despite Denials & Shadow Campaigning.
    “…Ron DeSantis has admitted that he and his wife Jill, a.k.a Casey, decided he would make a run at the White House all the way back in November 2020…”
  8. AG Ken Paxton Seeks to Quash Impeachment Following ‘Gag Order.’
    “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is moving to quash his own, Trump-style impeachment following an unprecedented, anti-free speech “gag order…”
  9. Germany Pays $145Bn+ In Welfare To Foreigners Since 2010.
    “Germany has paid over 132 billion euros, or $145bn (USD) to unemployed foreign nationals in state welfare since 2010…”
  10. Ron DeStripper! Top DeSantis Donor in RAUNCHY ‘Gentleman’s Club’ Ad.
    “…Brooke Waltzer appears in a raunchy advertisement for South Florida strip club “Vixens…”
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The National Pulse has published 225 news articles so far in July. In case you missed them, here are 10 of the most important stories of this week. If you haven't yet joined the Pulse+, come and support our work and enjoy a mountain of extras, here. show more
trump
July 30, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Prissy Republicans ‘Gotta Be a Little Lower Class’ to Fight ‘Dirty, Sick’ Dems, Says Trump.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Republicans to fight tougher against dirty Democrat tactics, telling an audience of thousands in Pennsylvania this weekend:

“The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it. They don’t do anything about it… the radical lunatic Democrats, they impeach me, they indict me, they rig our elections and the Republicans just don’t fight that way. They’re good people, but they don’t fight the way they’re supposed to fight. The others are dirty, sick players and the Republicans are very high class. They’ve gotta be a little bit lower class.”

Trump’s insistence of fighting fire with fire comes days after DeSantis supporters urged Trump to distance himself from aggressive political fighters. Bill ‘Biff’ Mitchell, however, lost his own Twitter poll suggesting Trump supporters should be more genteel, like their DeSantis-backing counterparts.

“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaried and get out!” Trump blasted on Saturday, prompting media hysteria.

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ai
July 30, 2023
Jake Welch
News

AI is Performing at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival.

The Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival is allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to perform comedy skits as writers admit to being ‘out of ideas.’ A number of performers and comedians are using the technology to generate their own shows and plays amid growing international concerns – witnessed by the recent Writers’ Strike in Los Angeles – that AI is replacing human creativity.

One comedian argues she has created a robot that can determine whether she is funny and encourages people to watch her so as to “impress future robot overlords.” Another has used ChatGPT to write jokes on his behalf, with a third having used coding to “perfect the prototype of what he suspects will make the most acceptable sort of gay man” for his show.

However, Piotr Mirowski, a research scientist at Google and co-founder of Improbotics, told The Guardian, “[w]e do not use humans to showcase AI; instead we use AI, demonstrating its obvious limitations, to showcase human creativity, ingenuity and support on the stage.”

This follows the CEO of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, arguing that mankind with be ‘exceeded‘ by the “AI revolution.”

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The Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival is allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to perform comedy skits as writers admit to being 'out of ideas.' A number of performers and comedians are using the technology to generate their own shows and plays amid growing international concerns – witnessed by the recent Writers' Strike in Los Angeles – that AI is replacing human creativity. show more
reynolds
July 30, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

DeSantis Floats Kim Reynolds As Veep to Crowd of Tens.

Presidential hopeful hopeless Ron DeSantis has continued to tout Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds as a possible running mate, to a few tens of not largely unenthused voters in the Hawkeye State.

“You guys think she’d be a good number two?” he asked a small crowd this week, having told reporters he was considering her at another Iowa event just weeks ago.

Officially, Governor Reynolds is claiming neutrality in the GOP race, but she has appeared alongside DeSantis and his wife Jill, a.k.a. Casey, multiple times, praising them to the rafters – a matter that has not been lost on frontrunner Donald Trump.

Pointing out that he “opened up the Governor position” for Reynolds in 2018 and held a number of rallies on her behalf, Trump has said she is no longer welcome at his events.

DeSantis has sought to strengthen the sense that Reynolds is in his camp by criticizing Trump’s “chirping” about her, but their alignment does not appear to be doing anything for him in Iowa, where he is trailing the former president on just 15 percent, with Tim Scott snapping at his heels.

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Presidential hopeful hopeless Ron DeSantis has continued to tout Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds as a possible running mate, to a few tens of not largely unenthused voters in the Hawkeye State. show more
July 30, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
News

Britain Opens Floating Illegal Migrant Housing Barge.

The British government is beginning to house illegal migrants on floating barges, a supposedly tough alternative to putting them up in hotels across the country at a cost of £6 million ($7.7 million) per day.

Fifty men are expected to arrive on the Bibby Stockholm barge — docked in Portland, Dorset on England’s South West Coast — on Tuesday. A total of 500 are expected to be onboarded over time.

Anti-borders activists argue the barge is a “floating prison,” and the Conservative (Tory) government has done little to counter this, as it wants to give its voters the impression it is getting tough on immigration – while actually increasing it to record-breaking levels.

Migrants on the barge will in fact be free to leave the barge and roam the local area whenever they please.

They will be equally at liberty on board the barge, with access to a free IT area with Wi-Fi and computers, a free gym, recreational areas with flat screen televisions, and more.

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The British government is beginning to house illegal migrants on floating barges, a supposedly tough alternative to putting them up in hotels across the country at a cost of £6 million ($7.7 million) per day. show more
stripper
July 29, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Ron DeStripper! Top DeSantis Donor in RAUNCHY ‘Gentleman’s Club’ Ad.

Top Ron DeSantis fundraiser, donor, and bundler Brooke Waltzer appears in a raunchy advertisement for South Florida strip club “Vixens,” and has promoted a “sexy party” known as the “Groove Cruise”. Waltzer recently attended DeSantis’s emergency donor summit at Stein Erisken Lodge in Utah, and has been pictured a number of times with the Florida Governor and his wife Jill (aka Casey).

Waltzer, who now appears to run a real estate firm, is pictured in a number of recent Vixen’s cabaret events, including a “sexy” Christmas video where strippers appear to be demanding “your dick” for Christmas, before dancing along to the lyrics, “Gobble me, swallow me, drip down the side of me,” from rapper Cardi B’s “Wet-Ass P*ssy” song.

The lurid DeSantis donor details were revealed this week by investigative reporter Laura Loomer. The information will add complication to DeSantis’s claims to be “Trump without the controversy,” or that he surrounds himself with more serious people than the 45th President – an assertion already upended by his recent mass firing of failed staffers. The invitation for such a couple to get repeat and close proximity to the Florida Governor in exchange for cash will likely also rankle religious and socially conservative voters.

Waltzer appears on the furthest right.

Waltzer and her husband Rich, who sat next to DeSantis during his campaign launch at the Four Seasons in Miami, are reported to be regulars at the Vixens club, which also boasts: “LGBT COMMUNITY WELCOME” on its website, as well as advertising “DIVORCE PARTIES.” The couple have even introduced DeSantis at speaking events. On Friday the New York Post revealed that Rich Waltzer had bragged about doing business with Fidel Castro.

Loomer pressed the DeSantis campaign for comment, asking: “[Did Ron DeSantis] or his wife… ever attend ANY of the Waltzer’s parties, and has DeSantis ever been invited to or attended ANY swinger events with the Waltzers?”

There does not yet appear to have been an answer provided.

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Top Ron DeSantis fundraiser, donor, and bundler Brooke Waltzer appears in a raunchy advertisement for South Florida strip club "Vixens," and has promoted a "sexy party" known as the "Groove Cruise". Waltzer recently attended DeSantis's emergency donor summit at Stein Erisken Lodge in Utah, and has been pictured a number of times with the Florida Governor and his wife Jill (aka Casey). show more
Vaccine Info
July 29, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News

Biden WH Censored Truthful Vaccine Info from Social Media.

Joe Biden’s White House successfully pressured Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram platforms into censoring and/or removing content related to COVID-19 vaccines, including “humorous or satirical jokes” and even “true information about side effects”.

Internal emails obtained by Congress show posts that suggested the Wuhan virus leaked from or was made in a lab were also censored, in direct response to demands from the Biden regime, which in turn has protected the Chinese Communist Party from scrutiny on the matter.

“Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing – rather than demoting/labeling – claims that Covid is man made?” asked Sir Nick Clegg, the anti-Brexit, former UK deputy prime minister turned Meta Global Affairs Chief, in July of 2021.

“We were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more,” replied an unnamed vice president with responsibility for content policy, frankly admitting that “[w]e shouldn’t have done it.”

The revelations that the government strong-armed Meta into censoring “true information about [vaccine] side-effects” unless accompanied with “complete information” about their supposed rarity may prove most concerning to the public, however, as “worrisome” new research on side-effects is emerging years after the vaccines’ emergency authorization.

The censorship of vital information related to the side effects of the vaccine is likely to have cost lives.

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Joe Biden's White House successfully pressured Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and Instagram platforms into censoring and/or removing content related to COVID-19 vaccines, including "humorous or satirical jokes" and even "true information about side effects". show more
veterans
July 29, 2023
NatSec
News

100% of Dems Vote AGAINST Veteran Help Bill, Citing Lack of ‘Trans’ Care.

One hundred percent of Congressional Democrats this week voted against a Veteran’s Affairs funding bill, citing concerns over transgender care and abortion. The bill, which passed broadly along party lines with just two Republicans voting ‘no’, now passes to the Senate where it is expected to die on arrival over the same issues Democrats raised in the House of Representatives.

The bill increases funding for veterans above current levels, and adds $130 billion for veterans’ medical care, but the Biden White House said that while it “appreciates” the increase of spending for veterans and military construction projects, the GOP bill does not allow for taxpayer funded abortions, nor “provide hormone therapies for the purpose of gender-affirming care.”

As a result, parties will have to work out differences on the matter in conference later this year, while Joe Biden himself has threatened to veto the plan to increase support for veterans over both abortion and transgenderism.

On Thursday, Democrat Congresswoman Cori Bush used up time on the House floor shouting, “Your bills are racist!” at Congressman Steve Scalise, with specific reference to the military construction and veteran spending bill. She did not explain how the bill was “racist” but simply tweeted an emoji after the fact, adding, “I said what I said.”

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One hundred percent of Congressional Democrats this week voted against a Veteran's Affairs funding bill, citing concerns over transgender care and abortion. The bill, which passed broadly along party lines with just two Republicans voting 'no', now passes to the Senate where it is expected to die on arrival over the same issues Democrats raised in the House of Representatives. show more
will hurd
July 28, 2023
News
Politics

WATCH: CIA Candidate Will Hurd Booed Off Stage After Trump Jab.

“Former” CIA man and ex-“Republican” Congressman Will Hurd was booed off stage at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner on Friday night, after telling the audience he believed Donald Trump is running for president “to stay out of prison.”

Hurd’s ludicrous claim – which falls apart when considering that Trump’s legal woes only began in earnest when he cemented his frontrunner status in the Republican primary – was met by a chorus of boos. Hurd promptly left the stage afterwards, having claimed:

“I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, listen I know the truth, the truth is hard. But if we elected Donald Trump, we are willingly giving Joe Biden another four years in the White House and America can’t handle that.”

Donald Trump has been pulling ahead of Biden in national polls for a number of weeks, further ridiculing Hurd’s claims.

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"Former" CIA man and ex-"Republican" Congressman Will Hurd was booed off stage at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner on Friday night, after telling the audience he believed Donald Trump is running for president "to stay out of prison." show more
July 28, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Ukrainian Breakthrough After ‘Massive’ Strike by U.S. Artillery.

Ukrainain and Western officials say Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces may finally be achieving a breakthrough in their stalled counter-offensive, after U.S.-made HIMARS artillery launched a “massive” strike against Russian positions.

HIMARS rockets reportedly blasted a Russian ammunition dump sky high in the southern Zaporizhzhia (Zaporozhye) region, which links the Donbass to Russian-controlled southern Kherson and the Crimea, and hosts the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

They have also seemingly punched a hole through the Russian minefields and fortifications which have thwarted Ukraine’s Western armor before now, with geolocated images showing Ukrainian tanks and American-made Bradley fighting vehicles beyond the Russian lines near the village of Robotyne.

U.S. officials have hailed the possible breakthrough as the “main thrust” of the Ukrainian counter-offensive arriving at last, while British officials are hyping a “major offensive operation”.

Russian officials, too, acknowledge the situation is serious, with Vladimir Putin himself saying fighting has “intensified significantly”.

The Ukrainians will be keen to demonstrate they have some momentum in the war, with Ukrainian ports being systematically devastated by air strikes in recent days and a 100-strong force of Russians back on the offensive in the Kharkov region.

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Ukrainain and Western officials say Volodymyr Zelensky's forces may finally be achieving a breakthrough in their stalled counter-offensive, after U.S.-made HIMARS artillery launched a "massive" strike against Russian positions. show more