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Liberals have grown despondent after it emerged that Donald Trump's interview with Joe Rogan amassed a staggering 17 million YouTube views in less than 24 hours. The three-hour sit down covered a wide range of topics including UFOs, the John F. Kennedy assassination files, the border and healthy food in the US. As soon as the episode was released just after 10pm Eastern Time on Friday night, viewing figures skyrocketed with 300,000 in the first 30 minutes. By comparison, Kamala Harris' appearance on the Call her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper has clocked just 685,000 views in the two weeks...

VIDEOThey hated him. They despised him. They called him a racist. That was the general attitude of liberals back in 2017 when John Kelly was Donald Trump's chief of staff. And yet the liberals now love John Kelly. What changed? Simple, John Kelly, after conveniently waiting over five years until just days before the 2024 election, is now calling Trump a dangerous fascist. See, all someone absolutely hated by liberals needs to do to win the love of liberals is to attack Trump. Looking at YOU, Dick Cheney.

I've gotten over the "turn the other cheek" approach when it comes to dealing with Marxists I am somehow still friendly with. I used to find self-respect in my belief that I was open-minded enough to hobnob with people who have differing political viewpoints. I'm over that now. The political views that once divided us were usually, at least, Constitutional. Today, a huge chunk of the nation is happy to vote for a party that has: been busted spying on the Trump campaign censored Americans who think for themselves allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly over our military bases...

This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man - no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an “a**hole” in an awards ceremony.Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support of former president Donald Trump and his opposition to censorship. Musk-mania is so overwhelming that some are calling for his arrest, deportation and debarment from federal contracts.This week, the California Coastal Commission rejected a request from the Air Force for additional launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is not because the military agency did not need...

I’ve listened to Bob Dylan’s anthem of alienation, Like a Rolling Stone, so many times throughout my life, but it’s never hit home quite the way it does now as I’ve been exiled by almost everyone I once knew. How does it feel, Bob Dylan asks? It feels like tumbling through space with no place to land. It feels like being trapped in a nightmare. It feels like nothing I’ve ever gone through before. But it’s too late to turn back now. It’s full steam ahead. Yes, I am a California Liberal voting for Donald J. Trump. Why am I...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Athanasius Schneider : A Catholic Conscience and CredoBorn in Kyrgyzstan under Soviet repression, to intensely devout Catholic parents, the future Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider was essentially raised in the Catholic underground. His parents, who had been prisoners in the gulag, would often travel dozens of kilometers under the cover of darkness to attend Mass. Had they been captured, the consequences would have been severe – gulag, loss of job status or worse.The Cultural RevolutionUpon moving to West Germany in the 1970s, he and his family were amazed to see the radical changes of Vatican II, especially those...

It was bad enough that professional woke author Ta-Nehisi Coates chose to go all in on antisemitism and Islamic terrorism with his new book of essays ‘The Message’ (which I reviewed today), but Random House, an ex-Nazi corporation that publishes all of his screeds, chose to release it in time for the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas attacks. Coates had signed a letter after Oct 7 which claimed that, “after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza.” CBS News then decided to schedule a featured morning interview with Coates to promote his hateful book which makes...

The newspaper "Le Monde" covered the assassination of the Secretary General of Hezbollah and the terrorist with flattering descriptions of his love for sports: "a die-hard fan" • Journalist Alba Ventura was outraged and responded on the local TV channel: "to read and vomit". Sports Staff. 1/10/2024, 01:50, updated 1/10/2024, 01:53 Shame and disgrace. The assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General and terrorist Hassan Nasrallah, a welcome move that was one of the significant bright spots in light of the tense security situation in recent times, was widely covered in Israel as well as in the world. However, not all media...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has survived a motion in parliament aimed at bringing down his government and triggering an election. Wednesday's no-confidence vote is the first in a series of similar votes expected to be put forward by the opposition Conservative Party amid Trudeau's plummeting approval ratings. The motion failed after opposition leader Pierre Poilievre fell short in his effort to shore up support from leaders of two other political parties in parliament, the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Bloc Québécois.

Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under even more pressure to resign on Tuesday after his Liberal Party lost a “safe seat” in Montreal to the Bloc Quebecois. Current polling suggests Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party would obliterate the Liberal Party if the election were held today. The Liberals fear a vote of no confidence could knock Trudeau out of office long before the next scheduled election in October 2025. The Montreal vote was held to replace Liberal Party Minister David Lametti, who won the seat in 2015. Trudeau appointed Lametti federal justice minister and attorney general in...

Liberals have hit out at Donald Trump after he vowed to prosecute election 'cheaters' if he wins in November. The former president threatened to target, 'lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials' in a rant on Truth Social. It came as he reiterated his false claims about election fraud during his unsuccessful run for office in 2020. His remarks enraged left wing commentators, who accused the presidential hopeful of 'publicly promising to lock up his political enemies'. 'I together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because...

VIDEOLiberals were jumping for joy over Robert F. Kennedy Jr being forced to remain on the ballots of Michigan and North Carolina despite him requesting the removal of his name from those ballots. On September 6, those liberals were hit with a hard case of Karmatic Kickback.

Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and rats being tortured, mutilated or killed in “twisted” religious rituals in parkland surrounding Jamaica Bay, The Post has learned. In a little over a month, at least nine wounded animals or carcasses have been discovered in the federally-managed Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel — including five live pigs with partially severed ears. Creatures recovered from the revolting scene also include a near-dead baby rat tied up in a bag with chicken bones; a freshly-decapitated chicken head; a live hen in...

Canada’s New Democratic party says it has “ripped up” a key agreement with prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, sowing uncertainty into the country’s politics as party leaders brace for a possible election. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh made the surprise announcement on social media on Wednesday afternoon, accusing Trudeau of “caving” to corporate greed. “The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” he said.

Chris Hayes called the Electoral College “a wildly dangerous institution that undermines democracy' MSNBC host Chris Hayes fumed over new poll results showing former President Trump as the favorite to win the Electoral College and therefore the presidency in November. On his X account Friday, the "All in With Chris Hayes" anchor blasted recent poll results from famed pollster Nate Silver showing that Harris would most likely beat Trump in the national popular vote if the election were held today, though Trump would win the Electoral College. "It’s clear as day the Electoral College is, to quote the great Justice...

Jack Kemp once said that liberals "measure compassion by how many people they're helping; we measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help." In my many years of life, especially my years as a minister and a practitioner, I understand that the latter is the better measure. Here's the problem, though. If your measure is how many people you're helping, what happens when people no longer need your help? What do you do? There are fewer people to help, so by your own measure, you're less compassionate. Clearly, we need more people in need. Eventually, as the...

A small, quaint California town has been torn apart by an internal war that has culminated in 'terrorism,' with residents allegedly deliberately swerving trucks toward each other, spraying enemies with weed killer - and now a bomb squad has been called in. The battle erupted in the idyllic, historic town called Port Costa, which has a population of 251 seemingly very angry people. The bitter townsfolk drew lines in the sand in classic 'not in my backyard' (NIMBY) fashion after a non-profit organization called the Field Semester expressed their intention to create an environmental school for high schoolers in the...

Commenters on the twisted Haaretz stating IDF doesn't rape Arab women because of racism." (Just like the usual fake racism terminology by Haaretz - while justifying routinely racist Arab attacks - Haaretzism).(Translated from now14): There is a competition on the left who can say the most delusional statement. They have an iron dome of the media. _ There should be a demonstration in Kaplan [i.e. the center for leftists protesters] for the underprivileged Muslims, with huge signs that will read "We demand pluralistic equality, kidnapping, abuse and rape without discrimination"!!! _ Naama Riba says that whoever is not a racist...

Say what you will about us on the Right, but we are willing to call out or own when they start embarrassing themselves or misrepresenting the rest of us. We keep blowhards like Majorie Taylor-Greene at arm's length. We've long since tired of hearing Hannity turn every other conversation into a banal trumpeting of his martial arts skills. The door hit George Santos on the way out. But aside from a few noble voices, the Left refuses to do any such thing within its own camp. My gut feeling is that your traditional liberal (the sophomoric yard signs and the...

Hundreds of parents brought their children, as young as babies and toddlers, to wave rainbow flags, pose with a drag queen, and do LGBTQ-themed crafts at the “Kids’ Pride Parade and Street Fair” in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Sunday. “Pride is for everyone. That’s the whole point of Pride is to be inclusive of everybody,” a local Takoma Park mom of a 2-and-a-half-year-old child in a stroller told The Daily Signal. “So I think it’s for kids, adults, everybody.” Families marched in the Kids’ Pride Parade at 10 a.m., waving rainbow and transgender flags and signs with messages such as...