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"What is best in life?” "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women” Now is the time to shove the dem's choice down their throats. They are fatally weakened by last night's debate. Do not let up. Put away your empathy. Give them no quarter. No half-measures. No mercy.

Amid the documented false statements and truth-stretching during Thursday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump did manage to speak at least one truth: "This shouldn't be a debate." Trump called the first general election debate of the 2024 season a waste of time, and for once, I couldn't agree more with him. There should be no discussion today about who won the debate. There was no winner, but it sure feels like our country lost big-time. There's a saying that goes, "We get the government we deserve." I don't know that any of us deserved the farcical mess we witnessed Thursday...

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban might be the only one who thinks that President Joe Biden is still fit for office after last night’s debate. The commander-in-chief was a total train wreck during last night’s debate with Republican nominee Donald Trump, and his inability to form coherent sentences was a profound contrast to Trump’s responses. The only positives to come from the debate were the goldmine of memes. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban might be the only one who thinks that President Joe Biden is still fit for office after last night’s debate. The commander-in-chief was a total train wreck...

As Democrats grapple with President Joe Biden’s poor performance on the debate stage Thursday night, some are wondering if and how he could be replaced, but campaign finance laws might stand in the way of that. The campaign to reelect Biden has fundraised no small amount of money — it has $195 million on hand as of the last time campaign funds were reported. Despite the poor performance, Biden’s campaign is reporting it raised $14 million through online fundraising the night of the debate and the following morning.Still, if Biden does in fact drop out of the race, the money...

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Pennsylvania Democrats, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have ties to a super PAC that former President Donald Trump’s campaign said engaged in “election interference.” Pennsylvania Values, a Democrat super PAC based out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, enflamed controversy in June when the group ran an ad telling voters to “Stand strong with President Trump Against Mail in Voting!” Author Sean Parnell called this move “brazen election interference and a direct response to what we are doing in Pennsylvania with mail-in ballots & Republican voter registration. This is NOT how President Trump feels. This is a lie....

UPDATE, 1:35 p.m. PT: Nielsen has released an update on Thursday’s Biden-Trump presidential debate, and the average audience has climbed to 51.3 million viewers, across 17 networks. Networks include CNN, which originated the debate, as well as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Scripps News, Telemundo, Univision, BET, CNN en Español, HLN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation and PBS. Audience estimates include out-of-home viewing for all networks except Newsmax, NewsNation, PBS and Scripps News.

Republicans are lashing out at CNN anchor Jake Tapper for his supposed efforts to "save" President Joe Biden during the first of two scheduled debates with former President Donald Trump......Tapper and CNN are also frequently accused by Republicans of harboring an anti-Trump bias, although both Trump and Biden agreed to the conditions of the debate, which include time limits for each candidate to speak, before it took place on Thursday.Biden seemingly lost his train of thought during the debate on Thursday while speaking about his plans for spending money saved by reversing Trump-era tax cuts that he said "benefited the...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger appeared to regret his very-recent endorsement of President Joe Biden, after the latter’s abysmal performance during the first 2024 presidential debate. On Wednesday, Kinzinger released a statement endorsing Biden. But on Friday, as the Washington Examiner’s Byron York noted on X, Kinzinger was re-posting calls for Biden to step down as his party’s presidential candidate: Former Rep. Kinzinger rolled out his Biden endorsement on Thursday morning. On Friday morning, he was retweeting calls for Biden to step down.

Joe Biden is at it again, folks. And by “at it,” we mean he’s continuing his grand tour of bumbling and fumbling across America’s stages. This time, he landed in North Carolina at a campaign rally, where things went just as disastrously as his recent debate debacle. Trump just released this as a response to the debate. BRUTAL. Biden’s debate performance was such a disaster that it triggered a meltdown among the media and liberals, who are now clamoring for him to throw in the towel. BRUTAL: "There are at least some House Democrats ... talking about talking to the...

A new Arizona State University study suggests that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are ineffective. The study done by the university's Center for American Institutions argued that there is a emphasis on training new soldiers about social issues like "unconscious bias" and "intersectionality" in a way the center says runs contrary to typical American ideals. The study examined DEI plan's in different sector of the military, including DEI office staffing and education at academies like West Point. "The massive DEI bureaucracy, its training and its pseudo-scientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time...

Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after racking up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere over the last five years, an air quality board said Tuesday. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District planned to issue a written abatement order later this week after Tuesday's announcement. Each of the 112 violations can emit hundreds of pounds of illegal air pollution, the board said. The plant is in the city of Fremont, in the East Bay, and the agency's independent hearing board pointed...

Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal on Friday. Bannon was previously convicted in July 2022 of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 select committee. He was sentenced to four months in jail.

Adult film star Austin Wolf has been arrested in New York City for child abuse materials, according to the Justice Department. Wolf, real name Justin Heath Smith, is charged with sending and receiving hundreds of videos of child pornography via the Telegram messaging application between March 24 and March 28. The gay porn star, 43, allegedly sent and received images that 'depicted children as young as infants, including a video showing a 10-year-old child bound and raped.' He is also accused of possessing hundreds of additional videos containing child pornography in his Manhattan apartment. One of Wolf's last social media...

Former President Donald Trump did not announce his running mate Thursday night as he’d teased. But he did give an on-stage shoutout to one of the top contenders: U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold a Lone Star State law that effectively bans gender experimentation on children.In an 8-1 decision published on Friday, the highest court in the state confirmed the legislature’s May 2023 law prohibiting health care professionals from castrating and mutilating minors does not violate the state constitution, as a trial court had previously concluded.In fact, Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle, joined by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Justice Jeff Boyd, Justice John Phillip Devine, Justice Jimmy Blacklock, Justice Brett Busby, Justice Jane Bland, and Justice Evan Young, affirmed in her majority opinion that the state...

Of all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is near the top, second only to its catastrophic decision to rip away half a century of reproductive rights from American women.Until the court’s shocking 2013 Shelby County vs. Holder decision, states and counties with histories of racial discrimination were required to get approval from the Justice Department — known as “preclearance” — for redistricting or changes to voting laws. The conservative members of the Supreme Court changed all that with a 5-4 decision.“There is no denying,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote,...

Former President Barack Obama expressed his confidence in President Joe Biden on Friday, one day after a disastrous debate performance spurred many Democrats to suggest that Biden should drop out of the presidential race. “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” began Obama. “But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own...

Perfection https://x.com/ritapanahi/status/1806700808328933885?s=42&t=BsFpgwv5ttUBcVmzMswdTg

Former President Barack Obama on Friday rushed to President Joe Biden’s rescue following a lackluster debate performance, one that sent many Democrats into a spiral of panic, the former president asserting that “bad debate nights happen.” “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” Obama said in a statement shared to social media, urging Americans to look beyond Biden’s dismal debate performance. “But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama claimed.