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November 3, 2023
William Upton
Media
Politics
War

WATCH: Tucker ‘Enraged’ By Speaker Johnson’s Ukraine-First Attitude.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted the newly-elected Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), for prioritizing the interests of foreign countries over those of the United States. Appearing on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von, Carlson said of Johnson: “He’s a nice guy and I’m not against him… [but] if you think the welfare of another country is the most important thing for you as one of the leaders of our country – third in line to the presidency – you have lost the thread son.”

Carlson pointed out that “the first thing” Johnson did when assuming the Speakership was issue a “statement on behalf of a foreign country,” adding “I was enraged by that.”

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In a speech after being elected Speaker on October 25th, Johnson stated “We want our allies around the world to know that this body of lawmakers is reporting again to our duty stations.” The Louisiana Republican added, “Let the enemies of freedom around the world hear us loud and clear. The people’s house is back in business.” Republican defense hawks in Congress took this as a signal that Johnson was open to additional aid for Ukraine. On Wednesday of this week, Speaker Johnson announced that House Republicans would, in fact, put a new Ukraine funding bill on the floor – the legislation will also contain funding for U.S. border security.

Johnson’s support for new foreign aid packages for Ukraine and Israel isn’t the only issue drawing criticism amongst conservatives, with new staff hires causing consternation. Dan Ziegler, who will service as the Speaker’s policy director, previously served as a lobbyist with Williams and Jensen. While at the firm, Ziegler’s clients included the bio-tech firm Amgen, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Merck, Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk, and PhRMA

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted the newly-elected Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), for prioritizing the interests of foreign countries over those of the United States. Appearing on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von, Carlson said of Johnson: "He's a nice guy and I'm not against him... [but] if you think the welfare of another country is the most important thing for you as one of the leaders of our country – third in line to the presidency – you have lost the thread son." show more

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November 3, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Politics

Senator Bob Menendez is Bragging About His Intel Clearance Despite Being Charged as a Foreign Agent.

Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has bragged he still attends intelligence briefings and retains access to classified information, despite facing felony charges for conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right while acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Egyptian government.

“I still have all my intelligence credentials,” he boasted in a PBS appearance, adding he was a “not barred from going into… intelligence briefing[s]” after he was charged and continues to attend the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“Bottom line is, I’m a United States senator, I have my security credentials, and an accusation is just that. It’s not proof of anything,” he reiterated on CNN.

Investigators found gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard cash at Menendez’s home. He is also accused of accepting a luxury car  for his wife – who wrote off her previous vehicle during a crash in which she killed a pedestrian – in exchange for interfering in an insurance fraud investigation.

While Senate Democrat rules forced Menendez had to step down as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after he was charged, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has declined to remove him from the committee altogether.

It has fallen to the Democrats’ brain-damaged junior senator for Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, to introduce a resolution to try to take away Menendez’s committee assignments and prevent him from accessing classified briefings and information.

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Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has bragged he still attends intelligence briefings and retains access to classified information, despite facing felony charges for conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right while acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Egyptian government. show more
November 3, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
Politics

Democrat Co-Authored ‘Demonic’ Books, Supported Satanic ‘After-School Club’.

Jeremy D. Rodden, a Democratic candidate running to become a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has published or contributed to “demonic” books and supported sending his children to an after-school Satan Club.

Rodden, whose election bid is supported by the Democratic Party, Virginia’s Planned Parenthood, and former Barack Obama administration attorney Eric Holder, has contributed to disturbing books such as “Demonic Carnival: First Ticket’s Free,” “Demonic Household,” “UnCommon Evil: A collection of Nightmares, Demonic Creatures, and UnImaginable Horrors,” and “Demonic Wildlife.”

The self-described “stay-at-home dad of three” attained notoriety in his area in February last year after he called an after school club organized by the Satanic Temple “good news.”

He posted on Facebook in subsequently deleted posts, “I can’t wait to sign up my second grader for this after-school club… Note for those who don’t know: this club does not practice any religious indoctrination whatsoever, unlike some of the other clubs offered at this school…”

Predictably, responses from other parents were not as welcoming, including one who said he was “appalled” and would not “tolerate” the club. “I will not be scared to stand up for the safety of our future generations and I will not be quiet because it may ‘offend’ people,” he said.

Rodden is standing as a candidate in District 90 in the Old Dominium, with voting to commence on November 7.

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Jeremy D. Rodden, a Democratic candidate running to become a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has published or contributed to "demonic" books and supported sending his children to an after-school Satan Club. show more
November 3, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Politics
TECH

REPORT: Obama Ran Biden’s AI Policy – As Well As Everything Else – in Secret.

Joe Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama, put together his policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) behind the scenes over recent months, aides to the two Democrats have revealed. The news comes amidst growing acknowledgement in Washington, D.C. that the 44th President of the United States in fact secured a third term with the “election” of Joe Biden, staffing his White House and handing down recommendations from his home in D.C.’s lavish Kalorama neighborhood.

Obama, 62, coordinated with Big Tech and West Wing officials over Zoom on behalf of the 80-year-old incumbent as he was piecing together an executive order on AI. The order lays the groundwork for federal oversight of and funding for the technology, as well as a slew of government hirings related to it.

The Democrat aides claim Biden asked Obama to develop his AI policy because they have a “shared vision” on the subject.

During Donald Trump’s term, Obama spoke at length about his desire to a run a third administration through a placeman, telling far-left talk show host Stephen Colbert: “People would ask me… do you wish you had a third term?” … If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I’d be fine with that.”

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Joe Biden's former boss, Barack Obama, put together his policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) behind the scenes over recent months, aides to the two Democrats have revealed. The news comes amidst growing acknowledgement in Washington, D.C. that the 44th President of the United States in fact secured a third term with the "election" of Joe Biden, staffing his White House and handing down recommendations from his home in D.C.'s lavish Kalorama neighborhood. show more
November 3, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Politics

WATCH: DeSantis Says People Who Mock His Height Have ‘Foot Fetishes’.

Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is continuing to stumble as he tries to tamp down the conversation around whether or not he wears hidden heels in order to appear taller than he really is, rambling about “foot fetishes” and offering to “wear a boot on my head” to get Donald Trump to share a debate stage with him.

Responding to a softball invite to dismiss “#bootgate” as trivial, DeSantis opened by saying it is “no time for foot fetishes” before launching into a long spiel about “war in the Middle East” and “the Bidenflation and the high energy prices”.

“I know people want to try to divert onto other issues; I know Donald Trump and a lot of his people have been focusing on things like footwear. I’ll tell you this, you know, if Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on me head,” he said.

The DeSantis campaign is now attempting to raise money from this attack line by selling sets of golf balls representing the Florida Governor’s gonads.

Whether the optics of DeSantis’s testicles being kept in a small box and only taken out to be whacked will help him present a more assertive public image remains to be seen, but Trump currently leads him by 49 points.

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Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is continuing to stumble as he tries to tamp down the conversation around whether or not he wears hidden heels in order to appear taller than he really is, rambling about "foot fetishes" and offering to "wear a boot on my head" to get Donald Trump to share a debate stage with him. show more
November 3, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Politics
World

Dems Who Called Christians and Conservatives ‘Nazis’ for Years Fume as Republican Compares Gaza to Nazi Germany.

Democrats who regularly rail against Christians and conservatives as Nazis are furious over Republican Representative Brian Mast (R-Fla.) comparing Gaza to Germany under National Socialism.

“I think when we look at this as a whole, I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of ‘innocent Palestinian civilians,’ as is frequently said,” Mast said during a discussion on the Israel-Hamas conflict in the House of Representatives.

“I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II,” he added.

As the Nazis were elected by the German people in 1933 and Adolf Hitler elevated to Führer in a referendum a year later, Hamas won the last legislative election in Gaza in 2006. Unlike Gazan civilians, German civilians were also deliberately and openly targeted by the Allies during the war, with hundreds of thousands being killed in bombing raids on cities such as Dresden.

Nevertheless, Rep. Mast was roundly attacked by Democrat politicians including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brian Schatz, and Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who branded the Republican a “bigoted” and “racist”.

The same politicians have shown no qualms about suggesting or openly accusing conservatives of being Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists in the past, however. Ocasio-Cortez said then-President Donald Trump “showed off his white nationalism for the world to see” in 2019, for example, while Schatz branded Trump an “overt racism” running on a platform of “white supremacy” in 2020.

Frost said Trump rival Ron DeSantis stands for “[f]ascism, white nationalism, and no freedom” in May, and has previously claimed the life of Trayvon Martin, killed in self-defense by a Hispanic man, lost his life “because of white supremacy.”

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Democrats who regularly rail against Christians and conservatives as Nazis are furious over Republican Representative Brian Mast (R-Fla.) comparing Gaza to Germany under National Socialism. show more
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November 2, 2023
William Upton
Politics

DeSantis Hurries Out New Ad Campaign as ‘Bootgate’ Hits Mainstream.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign, scrambling to salvage their primary hopes, are rushing out a new ad campaign in Iowa well ahead of schedule. The ad, which touts DeSantis’s leadership record, wasn’t originally supposed to begin airing until mid-November. To kick the ad blitz off early, the Desantis campaign has had to drop an addition $320,000 on top of the $2 million they’ve already spent on ads that were set to run from mid-November through the Republican Iowa Caucuses on January 15th, 2024.

The renewed urgency from the DeSantis campaign comes after a series of late-October polls showing the Florida Governor tied with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in both Iowa and nationally. The earlier-than-expected ad blitz may also be an attempt at damage control after a bungled podcast appearance resulted in a slew of viral social media memes poking fun at DeSantis’s short stature and penchant for wearing cowboy boots.

The viral “#bootgate” social media frenzy was kicked off by DeSantis’s October 30th appearance on the PBD podcast, hosted by Iranian-American entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David. DeSantis appeared to be caught-off-guard when Bet-David pressed him on why he only seems to wear cowboy boots – which social media trolls contend contain lifts to increase his hight. After DeSantis awkwardly tried to brush off the question, while Bet-David produced a pair of expensive Ferragamo shoes he intended to gift the Florida Governor. DeSantis frantically declined the Italian-designer shoes which usually retail for over $1,000, claiming he can’t accept gifts.

He has, in fact, taken many gifts during his tenure as Governor including a golf simulator for the Governor’s Mansion, and private flights from Iran-linked donors.

The exchange and renewed accusations that DeSantis uses lifts in his footwear to overcome his vertical impairment quickly spread on X (formerly Twitter) and eventually even captured the attention of the corporate media.

The DeSantis campaign’s emergency ad blitz in Iowa is actually their first ad buy of the entire primary. The cash-strapped campaign has been almost entirely reliant on the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down for most of its television and radio messaging.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign, scrambling to salvage their primary hopes, are rushing out a new ad campaign in Iowa well ahead of schedule. The ad, which touts DeSantis's leadership record, wasn't originally supposed to begin airing until mid-November. To kick the ad blitz off early, the Desantis campaign has had to drop an addition $320,000 on top of the $2 million they've already spent on ads that were set to run from mid-November through the Republican Iowa Caucuses on January 15th, 2024. show more
November 2, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

McConnell Threatens Republicans Who Want to Get Corporate Cash Out of Politics.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening GOP senators not to support Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act, which would stop publicly traded corporations from running political ad campaigns and donating to super PACs.

McConnell, who has been leading the Senate Republican Conference for the better part of two decades, warned fellow senators they could face “incoming” from the so-called “center-right” if they backed Hawley’s initiative.

If it passed, Hawley’s bill would limit McConnell’s own power as a key player in the Senate Leadership Fund, a powerful super PAC that spent more money than any other group in key battleground states last year.

McConnell’s camp have hinted to colleagues that many of them, including Hawley himself, need the Senate Leadership Fund’s money to fight their campaigns, implying they could be left high and dry if they go against the 81-year-old Minority Leader.

Hawley, for his part, has said he does not want politicized corporations trying to “dictate voting laws in the states” or “dictate rules on biological men playing women’s sports,” or unduly influencing politicians who rely on them for financial support.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening GOP senators not to support Senator Josh Hawley's proposed Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act, which would stop publicly traded corporations from running political ad campaigns and donating to super PACs. show more
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November 2, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration
News
Politics

Illegal Migrants Caught ‘With Explosives’ Crossing Southern Border.

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have recently seized a number of illegal migrants carrying improvised explosives “tailor-made for terrorism” while attempting to cross the southern border.

Several Republican Senators, including John Barrasso (R-Wyo), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb), spoke openly at a press conference on Tuesday of the heightened risks of terrorism as a result of the unrelenting migrant influx as well as the frustration felt by Border Patrol agents, who argue they are powerless to stop it.

“We have just returned from our southern border, and it is painfully clear that with Joe Biden’s open border policy, our country is really at an increased threat for [sic] a terrorist attack,” said Senator Barrasso, who added the explosive devices brought into the country were the “size of cannonballs.”

Senator Ricketts highlighted how authorities at the border have caught 180 people on the U.S. terrorist watchlist attempting to enter the country over the past two years. “To put this into perspective, in years past, that number was single digits,” he said, “We’re opening ourselves up for a terrorist attack.”

More than 10 million illegal migrants have poured into the country under the Biden government, representing the highest number on record. The number of “gotaways” – those who evade Border Patrol upon entry – although impossible to know exactly is at least 600,000, per the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

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United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have recently seized a number of illegal migrants carrying improvised explosives "tailor-made for terrorism" while attempting to cross the southern border. show more
November 2, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

RFK Peels Off 3X as Many Trump Donors as Biden Donors.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has received large-dollar donations from over three times as many former Donald Trump campaign contributors as former Joe Biden campaign contributors, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

While RFK Jr. originally ran against Joe Biden for the Democrat nomination – and received a great deal of negative press coverage as a result – America First conservatives suspect his run as an independent has been designed to help his former party retain power, drawing more anti-establishment votes away from Trump than disaffected Democrats from Biden.

FEC data appears to bear this out, showing 500 large-dollar Kenned donors gave to Trump in 2020, and over 160 donors have given to both Trump and Kennedy this cycle, while there is almost no overlap between Biden and Kennedy donors.

“It legitimately always felt like [RFK] was a Democrat plant to hurt [Trump],” said the former president’s son, Don Jr., recently, adding Kennedy “wouldn’t be there if the Democrats didn’t want him.”

Despite his vaccine skepticism and anti-corporate activism resonating with some Trump supporters, Kennedy is in most respects a standard or even far-left Democrat, endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016, describing the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a “terror group”, and backing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for a top personal income tax rate of 70 percent, for example.

Kennedy has also openly stated he believe he will take “more votes from President Trump than President Biden,” suggesting he is well aware his run could hand the White House to the latter.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has received large-dollar donations from over three times as many former Donald Trump campaign contributors as former Joe Biden campaign contributors, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. show more

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