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If you mirror the priorities of the Left, then you can do whatever you want. As long as you’re not caught on camera, you’re fine. If you look at the disparate consequences for public figures ranging from people like Russell Brand to people like Howard Stern, the public consequences are quite disparate.
Russell Brand has been accused by four separate women of actions ranging from sexual assault to rape to sexual harassment. Whether the allegations are true or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know is that at this moment, they’re just allegations. There has been no actual criminal indictment brought against him. He’s certainly not been convicted of anything. But YouTube has suspended Brand from making any money on its platform only days after that report broke from Channel 4 and BBC, outlets that used to pay Brand while he was in the midst of his most flagrantly vile behavior.
So if there are serious allegations made against you of any sort, all of your videos immediately get demonetized. (Which is going to be very bad news for a significant number of actors and half the rappers on the block.) That’s a horrible standard. You’ve now created a massive incentive structure for people to make allegations against people, true or false, in order to destroy their careers.
I’m not saying the women who have made allegations about Brand are lying. I don’t know whether they are or not. I do know, at this point, I have no idea how YouTube could possibly uphold such a standard. Does it have something to do with the fact that Brand is a heterodox political thinker, somebody who says things YouTube doesn’t like very much?
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Then there’s Howard Stern. Stern has been making headlines the last couple of days by pushing very loudly to the Left. He spent virtually my entire life — from the time I was a teenager — being an absolute deviant and a degraded person beyond all measure. The kinds of behavior that Stern has regularly engaged in publicly throughout his career are nothing short of disgusting. They are disreputable. They are vile toward women; he had women in his studio sit on vibrators so he could record their reactions and blast them out to millions of people in his audience.
But now, Stern is apparently one of our moral exemplars. Over the last couple of days, he ripped into Lauren Boebert, who engaged in what I think is disgusting behavior; he referred to her in vile ways.
How is Howard Stern able to get away with all this? He gets away with it because he mirrors the political priorities of the Left. You be as gross as you want to be so long as you mirror the political priorities of the Left. Stern has discovered the magic elixir that wipes away all of your past and present sins, and that is to be far enough to the Left. He’s saying all the nostrums everybody on the Left really wants to hear, and that means it’s fine for him to do all this.
So why is this important?
Because when you have a class of people who are immunized by their association with certain Left-wing causes, it incentivizes bad behavior by those people. It also creates a massive double standard: If you are heterodox, you can expect to be targeted, but if you are orthodox in your practice of leftism, you can expect you’re going to be given an enormous amount of breathing room.
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Major brands have pulled ads from Rumble, following the video platform&#8217;s refusal to censor or demonetize actor and podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russell-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russell-brand&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694985006561000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PHtQ_G5x1XXnMavvkunMX">Russell Brand</a> over decade-old sexual assault allegations published this month in the U.K. media.
Notably, YouTube, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-demonetizes-russell-brand-over-alleged-sexual-misconduct-from-decade-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to much criticism</a>, has banned Brand from monetization on all of his accounts over the allegations, though Brand has no charges against him and has strongly denied ever engaging in nonconsensual sex. Rumble <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-parliament-demands-rumble-demonetize-russell-brand-rumble-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to follow suit.
<a href="https://www.thenewsmovement.com/articles/russell-brand-sexual-assault-allegations-brands-pull-ads-from-his-rumble-channel-after-news-movement-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to News Movement, Burger King is one of the brands that has paused advertisements on Brand&#8217;s Rumble channel. “Burger King has paused all advertising on the channel while investigations into the allegations are ongoing,&#8221; the company said.
Meal-kit company HelloFresh has pulled ads from all of Rumble, it seems, telling News Movement when it reached out about the allegations, “Thanks for pointing this out to us. We have manually removed our ads from Rumble.”
And Fashion company ASOS pulled ads this week, the report noted.
The allegations against Brand surfaced from a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches. The alleged victims were reached out to by the media before detailing their accusations. So far, no charges have been filed against Brand, though London police have opened an investigation into a newly reported allegation from 20 years ago.
The media report said four women, whose names have not been disclosed, have accused Brand of sexual misconduct from 2006 to 2013, which was the height of Brand’s mainstream fame — when Brand worked for Channel 4 and the BBC. One woman claims Brand raped her, while another alleged victim, who is now 31, says Brand sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old (the age of consent in the U.K.).
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Brand said in a video, which preempted the media dump of the allegations by a matter of hours.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.”
Brand has also questioned the media coordination regarding the allegations and suggested there was an agenda at play. Moreover, his legal team, given eight days to respond to all allegations, questioned how Brand could specifically refute the allegations if he&#8217;s not permitted to know the names of his accusers.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-vehemently-denies-sexual-assault-allegations-in-viral-video-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russell Brand Vehemently Denies Sexual Assault Allegations In Viral Video Statement</a>

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I have spent a lot of time in my career defending the institution of marriage. I defend it because it is the bedrock of civilization, so it deserves defending. And I defend it because it is under constant attack, so it needs defending. One of the most troubling developments in recent years — which we’ve discussed on this show in the past — is that these attacks are increasingly waged not just from the Left but from certain noisy segments of the Right as well. Some right-wing influencers — with legions of young, mostly male fans — have decided that men should abandon marriage and family life and go their own way. These influencers — many of whom consider themselves a part of the so-called “red pill” movement — pretend to despise feminists, and yet have essentially arrived at the same conclusion as feminists: give up on the family. The two sides hate marriage almost as much as they hate each other.
One of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis who has garnered a relatively large following on YouTube and various social media platforms. She’s in her mid twenties, single, and childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage and family life — a subject she has no personal insight into whatsoever. She has spent the past few days on the internet complaining about “tradcons” like myself who, she says, promote the nuclear family despite not understanding what it’s really like. Yes, we men who actually have wives and children don’t know what it’s like to be married, but a woman who is not married and has no children does know what it’s like.
In one of her tweets she wrote: “The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. They don’t know the reality of what they’re pushing.” This is accompanied by a picture of myself, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles. We “aren’t old enough to know better” and “don’t know the reality of what we’re pushing.” Yet a woman who is younger than us, and single, does know better and does understand this reality. 
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The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. 
They don’t know the reality of what they’re pushing. <a href="https://t.co/DttSVE7XtB">pic.twitter.com/DttSVE7XtB</a>
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In other posts she goes on to say that marriage is a “terrible deal for men.” She later explains: “Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the terms are fixed?”
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The virtue signaling needs to stop. For an organization that talks about facts &#8211; let’s ask the question. 
Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? 
Why would you encourage men to sign that contract… <a href="https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf">https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf</a>
&mdash; H. Pearl Davis (@pearlythingz) <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1705253085361103243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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You may be surprised to learn that marriages fail at a rate of 75%. The figure that people like this normally use is 50%. The claim that 50% of marriages end in divorce is already spurious. More on that in a moment. But 75%? I was wondering where that number came from, so I scrolled down and saw something she reposted from an alleged lawyer who said this: “It’s not 50:50 – that only accounts for divorces. Add another 25% on the negative side for miserable men trapped in “cheaper to keep her” marriages unwilling to risk financial destruction and loss of their children. 75% chance of a devastatingly bad outcome is just a bad plan. No sane person would enter into a commercial contract on such terms.” I did ask him where he got this 75% figure and he wouldn’t say. Apparently the magic statistic fairy came and whispered it in his ear. 
For her part, Pearl later tweeted a picture of <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1706092154131476883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierce Brosnan with his wife</a> of 20 years. She questioned whether the marriage “counts as successful” since Brosnan’s wife has put on some weight at the age of 60. Apparently even if they’re happy and have remained married for two decades, they still might fall into that 75% failure rate because they have not both remained in super model condition into their 60s.
This debate on social media brought out the rest of the marriage-skeptical crowd on the Right. A bunch of these &#8220;red pill&#8221; influencers decided to hop on an emergency Zoom call and spend two hours talking about me, and the rest of the Daily Wire crew, and our reckless promotion of society’s most fundamental institution. There’s a divorce lawyer who says that the failure rate for marriage is not 50%, not 75%, but in fact <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even higher</a>. A happy marriage, he says, is like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659">winning the lottery</a>. The thing about the lottery, though, is that almost everyone loses. This is a perfect summation of how this entire club views marriage. Sure it can be great, they concede — but only if you’re insanely lucky. Everyone else is screwed. It is a rather bleak view. Thankfully, it’s also nonsense. First of all, the claim that marriage isn’t “scalable” is obviously ludicrous. Marriage has served as the bedrock of human society since time immemorial. It has already happened at the scale of civilization for thousands of years.
What about the failure rate of marriages in our culture? We’ve heard 50%, we’ve heard 75%, and we just heard that they fail at a rate similar to the rate that people lose the lottery. Which would mean higher than 99%. Yet these kinds of astronomical odds are not based in anything but the doom and gloom speculations of the people inventing them. There is no evidence that having a happy marriage is as unlikely as winning the lottery, or that 75% of marriages end in misery. What about the 50% number? This at least is a familiar statistic — familiar, but bogus. One way that you know it’s bogus is that people have been claiming 50% of marriages end in divorce since I was a kid. That would mean divorce rates are static across time, but of course that isn’t the case. In fact, we know that divorce rates have gone down in recent years. So where does the 50% figure come from? Apparently, it’s a holdover from the 1980s, which is when people first started citing that statistic, and it’s not true today. It’s also not clear that it was true in the 80s either.
What is the actual divorce rate? Our best guess is based on U.S. Census data, which, according to the most recent figures, says that about 35% of American adults who have been married, have been divorced. 35% is high — way too high — but it’s not 50%, and it’s not 75%, and it’s not 99%, and it’s not lottery odds. Still, isn’t it terrifying to think that, if you get married, your chance of failure is 35% and the chance of success is only 65%, at the most? Isn’t that high enough that it should dissuade anyone from attempting it? The answer to that question is no. Here’s why.
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If the divorce rate is 35% — or even if it’s 50% — it does not follow that your own particular marriage has a 35 or 50% chance of failure. I’m not saying that you should be cocky or reckless or see yourself as invincible. I am saying that you shouldn’t, on the other extreme, see yourself as passive debris floating helplessly on the tide of statistical likelihoods. You are an individual, your marriage is an individual thing, and its chances of failure are not set by society at large.
Here’s an example to illustrate what I mean. The obesity rate in the United States is over 40%. Does that mean that your own chances of becoming obese are 40%? No, it does not. Your chances might be 5%, they might be practically zero, or they might be quite a bit higher than 40%. That’s because obesity is the result of behavior and choices. If you do not engage in the behavior or make the choices that lead to obesity, you will not become obese. The fact that 40% of the people around you are fat does not mean that you automatically have a 40% obesity risk.
Let’s take another example: car accidents.ar accidents. Americans get into car accidents at a certain rate. I’m not sure what the rate is, and it doesn’t matter for our purposes. What does matter is that your own individual chance of getting into a car accident is not the same as every other driver on the road. The people who compile statistics will say things like “motorists have an (X)% chance of getting into a collision.” But you are not just a generic motorist. You are an individual. You can never bring your own chance of dying in a fiery car wreck down to zero, but if you are a responsible driver then obviously your chances of getting into an accident are much lower than the chances of someone who is not responsible. All of those stupid drivers who don’t understand the basic rules of the road, and like to tweet and eat while they drive, are inflating the numbers for everyone. They are also making the roads more dangerous for everyone — because of them your chances of getting into a car accident are actually higher. But your chances are not as high as their chances. You do not share their level of risk. Because, again, you are an individual not a mere statistic.
What about marriage? It’s true that even if you do everything right, things can still fall apart if your spouse doesn’t follow that program. That happens. It’s terrible, but it happens. It’s also true that there are many, many things you can do in your marriage to make it much more secure than the average. Obvious things. You can marry someone who shares your same fundamental values. You can state from the outset that you both, in principle, don’t believe in divorce and won’t consider it as a viable option for solving any marital difficulties you may experience down the line. Have a strong and shared faith. Establish from the beginning a habit of honest communication. Make time for each other. Continue to date even — or especially — as your lives get busier and you start having kids and so on. Make a strong effort to be patient with and grateful to each other. Take care of your body and your appearance. You can do all of these things, and more.
I’m not saying that if you do all of this it will bring your divorce chance down to zero. I’m not denying that there are plenty of people out there who did it all, at least on their own end, and yet still ended up divorced. That’s not my point. My point is that the “divorce rate” doesn’t take any of this into account. The people who take none of these basic steps are lumped in with the people who do all of it, and we’re supposed to believe that both groups have an equal chance of marital failure. That is just not true.
I don’t deny that there are real, serious problems with marriage in our society. The so-called “red pill” community, and others, raise totally legitimate and important points on that end. We need drastic reform; abolish no-fault divorce; the entire family court system has to be torn down and rebuilt. The system is stacked against men in many ways that are extremely unfair and have ruined countless lives. So, let&#8217;s absolutely fight for those reforms.
But this systemic problem is not going to be solved today, or tomorrow, or next week. Abolishing no-fault divorce is just the beginning of reforming the system. Lawmakers in a small number of red states have only just started to seriously consider that idea, which is merely step one. We are a long way off from fixing the system. It took decades to get us here, it will take decades to get us out, at best. This is a long-term struggle.
The question is what are young men — young people in general — supposed to do in the meantime? This is where the “red pill” becomes more of a hazy, foggy, ambiguous pill. They have no answer. They simply shout about “reforms” that are needed, yet have nothing to say to the young men in our culture today who will be old, if not dead, by the time the system is fixed, if it’s ever fixed at all. What are these young men supposed to do right now? What kind of life would you have them lead right now?
The answer, it appears, is that an entire generation of young men — if not multiple generations — should skip marriage while we wait for the system to improve. But this is not a viable solution. It’s not a solution at all, it&#8217;s a surrender. You are asking entire generations to give up their bloodline, their legacy, their chance of finding the transcendent joy and meaning that family life can provide. You are asking them to give up on themselves, and on civilization itself. For thousands of years human beings have always understood that their most basic purpose and obligation was to form families and have children — and yet you are telling these young men to ignore this calling. And do what instead? Live for themselves, alone, wasting away in front of screens, only to die with no descendants, leaving no lasting mark on the world? Think about the kind of misery you are consigning these men to. Think about the catastrophic, probably fatal effect this would have on our country. You can’t give up on propagating the species for a few decades and then pick it back up again like nothing happened. That doesn’t work on any level — individually or societally. It is a recipe for despair and collapse.
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Am I saying that young men should accept the risk, then, and get married anyway? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. That doesn’t mean you should be reckless — I’ve already talked about the many practical things you can do to mitigate your own risk so that it is not a roll of the dice. You should do all of those things. Don’t go into marriage blind — but don’t run from it either. Even if you mitigate the risk to the extent possible, still there will be a risk. That’s true.
But here’s the rub: all good things come with risk. The more worthwhile it is, the worse and more disastrous it will be if you fail. If you take on more responsibility, then your life will be more consequential, and the more consequential your life is, the more cataclysmic your failures potentially become. A married man with children lives a life of greater consequence than a single man with no children. There are more people depending on him. He has a greater stake in the future. This means that if things go sideways, it will be a tragedy. If he screws up, or his wife screws up, or they both do, his life will be ruined, his children will be devastated, and the impact will reverberate down through the generations. This is what it means to live a high-impact, consequential life. These are the stakes, and yes they are quite high.
Sure, you can stave off that sort of catastrophe by staying by yourself, never going out on a limb, never taking any risks, never marrying, never having kids, never striving for anything great or meaningful. But then you are not avoiding failure and misery, you are guaranteeing it. You are ensuring that you never lose your family in a divorce by never having a family to lose in the first place, which is like ensuring that you never go bankrupt by being bankrupt to begin with. Not losing by having nothing to lose is a loss in itself. I don’t want that for anyone. It’s not a path to happiness and prosperity — for either you or society. It is a path to defeat — a preemptive and self-imposed defeat. And that is the worst kind of all.

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The Republican Party of Texas unanimously passed a resolution calling on Governor Greg Abbott to convene a special legislative session to address Colony Ridge, the massive housing development north of Houston that’s become a hub for illegal immigrants.
The <a href="https://texasgop.org/colony-ridge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a>, which passed by a vote of 61-0, says a special legislative session must be convened in order to “prevent further settlement of illegal aliens in Colony Ridge and any other areas of Texas.” The power to call a special legislative session is with Abbott, who has already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-in-texas-for-investigation-into-illegal-immigrant-enclave-colony-ridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> by the state&#8217;s Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to do the same.
The party&#8217;s resolution honed in on a number of specific concerns highlighted in The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> of the development, noting that “the developer allows for illegal aliens to obtain loans to purchase land using Individual Tax ID Numbers (ITINs) instead of Social Security Numbers” and that Colony Ridge “has grown to an estimated 50,000 to 75,000 inhabitants and spans over 60 square miles.”
Titled “Resolution Calling for Action in Colony Ridge,&#8221; it also calls for Attorney General Ken Paxton to “initiate a full investigation into the development activities of Colony Ridge Land, LLC, and its possible connections to elected officials in the region.”
Matt Rinaldi, the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, told The Daily Wire that Colony Ridge should be a &#8220;grave concern for all Texans,&#8221; but isn&#8217;t getting the attention it merits from elected officials in his own party.
&#8220;Governor Abbott needs to address this issue immediately in a special session since House Speaker Dade Phelan has refused to pass meaningful border security laws,&#8221; Rinaldi said. &#8220;We thank Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who recently said his office would be investigating Colony Ridge, and Congressman Brian Babin for his efforts to bring more attention to this issue.”
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The resolution comes as several Republican leaders have expressed their concern about Colony Ridge. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-receives-briefing-on-colony-ridge-calls-illegal-immigrant-development-completely-insane">asserted</a> that it is “completely insane that they can set up these villages with illegal immigrants” while also noting that his office is looking into potential “deceptive trade practices.”
“The legislature could address this and should address this. Because right now, we don’t have a real clear path to being able to stop it,” Paxton said. “We can maybe affect the financing or the financial aspect of it to some degree but I don’t think right now the legislature has given me the authority to do anything about it.”
Patrick, the second highest-ranking elected official in Texas, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-in-texas-for-investigation-into-illegal-immigrant-enclave-colony-ridge">called</a> for Colony Ridge to be addressed in a special legislative session just days after The Daily Wire&#8217;s report. “Once I get a little more legal foundation on this to see what we can do I am going to ask Governor Abbott to address some of these issues in a special session,” Patrick said.
The resolution has been praised by advocates for increased border security.
&#8220;We were pleased to see the Republican Party of Texas echo exactly what we have been calling for&#8211;legislative action to ensure that similar settlements can never be replicated in Texas and a full-scale investigation into Colony Ridge and their business dealings,” <a href="https://strongborders.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texans for Strong Borders</a> told The Daily Wire.
The organization also noted that Colony Ridge is now “international news” and that America’s “largest illegal alien settlement” can no longer “hide in obscurity.”
The resolution charged that Colony Ridge has “resulted in an unmanageable amount of growth” in the neighboring school district, also referencing The Daily Wire investigation, which reported that the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels are believed to be active in the development.
But the resolution did not just call for an investigation into Colony Ridge, but also into the development company’s “possible connections to elected officials in the region.”
Though none of the elected officials were named, there are several with financial links to Colony Ridge and its developer, William &#8220;Trey&#8221; Harris. Gov. Abbott, for example, has received a combined $1.5 million from Harris and his wife for his political campaigns.
U.S. Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), who represents a district neighboring Colony Ridge, has also taken thousands of dollars from Harris. State Representative Ernest Bailes received $1,800 from Harris, as well as large contributions from entities linked to the development. Bailes also received money from the political action committees associated with the energy company that services Colony Ridge and a law firm that Harris has given over $100,000 for lobbying efforts. The cousin of Bailes, who also donated to the state representative, owns a clearing and earthwork company employed by Colony Ridge.
Meanwhile, the resolution also expressed gratitude to Congressman Brian Babin (R-TX), who represents Liberty County, “for his role in drawing attention to this crisis.” Babin has not received any money from Harris.
Colony Ridge has also attracted the attention of Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who blamed “weak, spineless leaders” for “permitting and facilitating sprawling developments to house thousands of illegal immigrants who have broken our nation’s laws.”
Multiple U.S. congressmen from Texas have voiced their concern about Colony Ridge. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) told The Daily Wire he also received a report on Colony Ridge that he found “highly concerning.”
“I’m not in a position to fully articulate exactly what’s happening other than it is problematic and a continuation of these wide open border policies,” Roy said.
Abbott did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the resolution.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a white teenager was stomped to death by a group of black men. This week jurors decided to convict the assailants only of assault. This is just the latest case where juries across the country, egged along by prosecutors, are letting violent murderers off the hook if they have the right skin color. Also, the media laments the "humanitarian crisis" down on the border. But who is to blame for it and what should be done about it? And John Fetterman introduces a bill that would grant student loan deferment for rape and harassment victims. It's a good thing that the system can never be abused. In our Daily Cancellation, a new dating show on HBO Max features fully nude contestants. Has pop culture finally reached rock bottom? Of course not.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a white teenager was stomped to death by a group of black men. This week jurors decided to convict the assailants only of assault. This is just the latest case where juries across the country, egged along by prosecutors, are letting violent murderers off the hook if they have the right skin color. Also, the media laments the "humanitarian crisis" down on the border. But who is to blame for it and what should be done about it? And John Fetterman introduces a bill that would grant student loan deferment for rape and harassment victims. It's a good thing that the system can never be abused. In our Daily Cancellation, a new dating show on HBO Max features fully nude contestants. Has pop culture finally reached rock bottom? Of course not.


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A lot has changed since Elon Musk bought Twitter, including the name of the social media platform to X. One new feature that stands out, however, is community notes. I wasn't sure I would like the feature when it first rolled out, but it has actually provided me with endless entertainment.

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Donald Trump leaps to a 10 point lead over Joe Biden in the latest Washington Post poll; General Mark Milley finally leaves; and Senator Bob Menendez won’t go, even if you find bars of gold under his bed.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Monday that the state legislature will use a special session next month to address Colony Ridge, the massive housing development north of Houston that’s become a hub for illegal immigrants and a potential strategic center for drug cartels.
“Serious concerns have been raised about what’s going on in this Colony Ridge area,” Abbott <a href="https://youtu.be/DqU79Nw8lx0?si=thrcfgmr17K0bd04&amp;t=532" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Dana Loesch</a> after the radio host asked about The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation into the development</a>. “We’re trying to put together as much information as possible so that I can add this to the special session.”
Abbott told Loesch that he has already issued subpoenas to the developers “to find out what&#8217;s going on financially,” and asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to launch a new investigation.
“We&#8217;re getting all the baseline information so we can find out exactly what we can do and what we must do. Part of it can be using current law enforcement, but part of it may require new laws,” the governor added. “Whatever it takes.”
Abbott’s comments are his harshest to date on the development, which has become a magnet for illegal immigrants flooding the United States due to financing arrangements catered for non-citizens. The development, which is estimated to be roughly 60 square miles and contains tens of thousands of people, has also become a hotbed for crime, and officials believe the Mexican cartels could use it as a foothold in the United States.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Inside Colony Ridge: The ‘Fastest Growing Development’ In The U.S. Is A Magnet For Illegal Immigrants</a>
Colony Ridge has attracted the ire of Republican officials in the state. Both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressure-builds-in-texas-for-investigation-into-illegal-immigrant-enclave-colony-ridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-receives-briefing-on-colony-ridge-calls-illegal-immigrant-development-completely-insane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Ken Paxton</a> have suggested that the legislature is needed to address the problems stemming from Colony Ridge, and said Abbott should add it to the agenda for the special session.
“The legislature could address this and should address this. Because right now, we don’t have a real clear path to being able to stop it,” Paxton said. “We can maybe affect the financing or the financial aspect of it to some degree but I don’t think right now the legislature has given me the authority to do anything about it.”
The Republican Party of Texas voted 61-0 to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-gop-passes-unanimous-resolution-calling-for-special-legislative-session-on-colony-ridge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pass a resolution</a> calling for Gov. Abbott to convene a special legislative session to address Colony Ridge. The resolution cited The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> into Colony Ridge and called on Attorney General Ken Paxton to “initiate a full investigation into the development activities of Colony Ridge Land, LLC, and its possible connections to elected officials in the region.”
Abbott’s response to Colony Ridge has come under scrutiny due to political donations he has received from the development’s owner, William “Trey” Harris, who donated $1.4 million to Governor Abbott’s campaign. Abbott is still yet to address his relationship with Harris.
His office says the state had taken steps to address Colony Ridge before The Daily Wire’s investigation. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality previously launched nine investigations into Colony Ridge, with eight of the nine <a href="https://reduceflooding.com/2021/06/05/eight-tceq-investigations-reprimand-colony-ridge-construction-practices/#:~:text=The%20Texas%20Commission%20on%20Environmental,practices%20relating%20to%20erosion%20controls." target="_blank" rel="noopener">finding violations</a> which included operating without a permit, large bare areas of unstabilized soil, and several instances where erosion control measures were not installed.
Multiple U.S. congressmen from Texas have voiced their concern about Colony Ridge. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) told The Daily Wire he also received a report on Colony Ridge that he found “highly concerning.”
“I’m not in a position to fully articulate exactly what’s happening other than it is problematic and a continuation of these wide open border policies,” Roy said.
Colony Ridge has also attracted the attention of Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who blamed “weak, spineless leaders” for “permitting and facilitating sprawling developments to house thousands of illegal immigrants who have broken our nation’s laws.”

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Daily Wire Host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/michael-j-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> appeared at Georgetown University in the opening lecture of a new college tour sponsored by YAF on Tuesday night.
During his lecture, Knowles posed the question: “Is Biden More Evil Than Putin Or Xi?”
Knowles drew parallels between the state-controlled media in Russia and China and the Biden administration’s unprecedented censorship of Americans, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the throttling of the Hunter Biden laptop story</a>, which was falsely flagged as likely disinformation by senior intelligence officials sympathetic to the Democratic Party.
Knowles also highlighted the atrocities committed by the Chinese government against the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, which has been described as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-committed-genocide-against-uyghur-muslims-independent-british-tribunal-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genocide</a>, and includes forced sterilization and abortions. While decrying those actions as morally indefensible, Knowles noted that Biden and the Democratic Party have tirelessly promoted abortion in the United States – roughly <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/11/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/">1 million</a> abortions take place in the U.S. each year. 
The Biden administration has also championed experimental procedures for trans-identifying children, including exposure to cross-sex hormones and various body modification surgeries. Knowles argued that minors and their parents can’t truly consent to the lifetime of sterility early medical intervention causes in gender-confused children – children are too young, parents are often cajoled with threats that their child will commit suicide if they don’t &#8220;support their transition,&#8221; and the desire to remove healthy tissue and artificially modify the body in and of itself calls the mental competence of the patient to make medical decisions into question.
While Knowles argues that the United States is unquestionably a better country than China or Russia, the moral stature of its leadership rests on far shakier ground.
Despite that assessment, and recent polling that suggests Biden is historically unpopular and highly vulnerable politically, Knowles does not believe that the president is going to be removed from the Democratic ticket.
“I know this is countercultural now,” Knowles said, “But I would still put a little bit of money on Biden being on the ticket.&#8221;
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Knowles said that despite widespread, and, in his view, well-founded, concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity, Biden is still the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. Because he has no clear successor, removing him at this stage of the race would result in chaotic infighting.
“It would be an admission that things aren’t going well,” Knowles said. &#8220;For Joe Biden not to run for re-election would be an admission that the lights are on, but nobody’s home – and we all know that, but thus far, the Democrats have kept a fairly united front in saying that he’s really running the show.”
Knowles also noted that Joe Biden “has wanted to be president since he was in the womb” and is unlikely to give up his position without a fight.
Knowles argued that the polls were still worth watching, since they demonstrated that Trump could credibly oust Biden in 2024 – Republican critics of Trump have often argued that he’s polarizing and unelectable, citing his narrow defeat in 2020.
“I think the whole talking point is kind of silly,” Knowles said. “We know that Trump can win a general [election], he already did it … he’s won at least one.”

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Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> criticized former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> during an interview Tuesday night, saying that the former president needed to show up to this week&#8217;s GOP primary debate to defend his record as president.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview with Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. DeSantis, who is second place nationally in <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html">current polling</a>, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/desantis-standing-center-stage-haley-ramaswamy-2nd-gop-presidential-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be</a> at the center of the debate stage since Trump is not attending.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s interesting that he is not willing to stand on that stage,&#8221; DeSantis said of Trump. &#8220;I think he owes it to all the voters to show up, defend his record, and articulate what he would do going forward and what he would might do differently. And he&#8217;s not willing to do that. I think the voters have a right to hear from all the candidates.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, I think we can talk about a lot of the things — he&#8217;s running in 2024 on a lot of the same promises he ran on in 2016 and didn&#8217;t deliver on,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He said he was going to drain the swamp. They didn&#8217;t drain the swamp at all. He still defends hiring Christopher Wray, he didn&#8217;t fire Wray. He didn&#8217;t fire Fauci. He said Mexico was gonna pay for the border wall. That didn&#8217;t happen. They started the wall, but we&#8217;ve got a lot more to be able to do to finish the wall. He said he was going to eliminate the national debt. They added almost a trillion dollars to the debt in four years, and then remember, he promised to appoint a special counsel for Hillary Clinton, then after the election two weeks later, he&#8217;s like, ‘Oh, no, forget about it. That&#8217;s what you say before the election, it’s not what you say after.&#8217; So now, he&#8217;s saying he&#8217;s going to do one for Biden, but he had promised to do that for you in 2016. So I think it&#8217;s about, you got to deliver on these things.&#8221;
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It sounds like Ron DeSantis has his game plan set for tomorrow’s debate sans Donald Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Xav36v58wQ">pic.twitter.com/Xav36v58wQ</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1706830941103013894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Trump announced back in August that he would not be attending any of the Republican debates, citing voters&#8217; familiarity with his record and his commanding lead in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html">national polls</a>, which currently stands at around 40 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
“Many people are asking whether or not I will be doing the DEBATES?&#8221; Trump wrote in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110907855329090048" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on his social media platform Truth Social ahead of the first primary debate in August. &#8220;ALL AMERICANS have been clamoring for a President of extremely High Intelligence. As everyone is aware, my Poll numbers, over a ‘wonderful’ field of Republican candidates, are extraordinary. In fact, I am leading the runner up, whoever that may now be, by more than 50 Points. Reagan didn’t do it, and neither did others. People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?&#8221;
A few days later, he confirmed that he would not do any of debates. “The public knows who I am &amp; what a successful Presidency I had,&#8221; he wrote. “I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!”
Instead of attending the debate Wednesday, Trump is planning to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meet</a> with striking autoworkers from the United Auto Workers union in Detroit, Michigan.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s dog Commander bit a member of the Secret Service in yet another incident, the agency confirmed on Tuesday.
Steven Kopek, a spokesman for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service">Secret Service</a>, said a Secret Service Uniformed Division police officer &#8220;came in contact with a first family pet and was bitten&#8221; around 8 p.m. on Monday.
&#8220;The officer was treated by medical personnel on complex,&#8221; Kopek noted, adding that the officer spoke with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Tuesday and is doing alright, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/commander-biden-biting-incident/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
Commander, who is the first family&#8217;s 2-year-old German Shepard, already developed a reputation for biting after being <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/12/21/1066220864/commander-biden-puppy-major">welcomed</a> into the first family in December 2021.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bad-dog-or-bad-owner-bidens-dog-cant-stop-biting-people-records-show">Information obtained</a> by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch showed the canine bit seven people in a four-month period from September 2022 through January 2023 and one Secret Service agent even got sent to the hospital, per the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/biden-dog-commander-bit-or-threatened-10-people-sent-one-to-hospital/">New York Post</a>.
This week&#8217;s biting is reported to be at least the 11th known incident involving Commander spanning from the White House to Delaware. It had some of Biden&#8217;s most vocal critics howling.
&#8220;The Biden family doesn&#8217;t care one whit about the danger this out-of-control dog poses!&#8221; Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1706779422974726633">exclaimed</a> in a post to X.
&#8220;Are the Biden family’s Secret Service agents supposed to just accept being attacked by their disturbed dog as part of the job?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1706817807369822316">asked</a> New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
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Elizabeth Alexander, the communications director for first lady Jill Biden, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/us/politics/biden-commander-biting-secret-service.html">told The New York Times</a> that the White House &#8220;can be a stressful environment for family pets&#8221; and the first family &#8220;continues to work on ways to help Commander handle the often unpredictable nature of the White House grounds.&#8221;
The &#8220;president and first lady are incredibly grateful to the Secret Service and Executive Residence staff for all they do to keep them, their family, and the country safe,&#8221; Alexander also said.
President Biden has been dogged by negative pet stories for years. He had another German Shepard named Major who also got in trouble for biting. The commander in chief even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-hurt-after-falling-while-playing-with-his-dog-sent-to-specialist-for-evaluation">hurt his ankle</a> after falling while playing with the dog.
Major was removed from the White House and ultimately got <a href="https://people.com/pets/biden-family-rehomes-rescue-dog-major-will-get-cat-2022/">left with family friends</a>.
The Bidens also had a 13-year-old German Shepard, Champ, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1406273358187044868">that died in 2021</a>. In addition, they <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/biden-family-cat-willow/index.html">adopted</a> a cat named Willow.

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X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> announced this week that he will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border with a member of Congress to survey the catastrophe that has been unleashed by President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies.
The illegal immigration crisis on the southern border is one of the top political issues that Musk cares about, as he frequently comments about it online and draws attention to it by amplifying posts to his nearly 160 million followers on X.
Musk made the announcement while responding to a video that was originally posted by Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins.
&#8220;FOX News sources capture stunning new video of hundreds more of migrants making their way on top of trains, some waving a Venezuelan flag, en route to the US border in Eagle Pass, TX,&#8221; Jenkins wrote.
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*NEW VIDEO* FOX News sources capture stunning new video of hundreds more of migrants making their way on top of trains, some waving a Venezuelan flag, en route to the US border in Eagle Pass, TX <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/LHsH79xG63">pic.twitter.com/LHsH79xG63</a>
&mdash; Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1706497014341456197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk responded: &#8220;I spoke with Rep Tony Gonzales tonight – he confirmed that it is a serious issue. They are being overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers – just hit an all-time high and still growing!&#8221;
&#8220;Am going to visit Eagle Pass later this week to see what’s going on for myself,&#8221; he added.
Musk&#8217;s visit to the U.S. border comes as Biden still has not gone to see the dire situation that has erupted under his leadership.
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In August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had a total of <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-august-2023-monthly-update#:~:text=DHS%20has%20removed%20or%20returned,border%20in%20August%20were%20232%2C972." target="_blank" rel="noopener">232,972 encounters</a> with illegal aliens at the southern border, an increase of about 50,000 from the previous month.
The high number of crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-blames-biden-for-illegal-alien-crisis-theyre-coming-in-without-any-consequence-whatsoever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued into September</a>, with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming through Eagle Pass, Texas, triggering the mayor to declare an emergency. The Biden administration, which has sued to stop Texas from erecting a water barrier in the Rio Grande to deter illegal crossings, has also been accused of cutting razor wire put up by Texas in Eagle Pass to secure the border.
At the same time as crossings remain high, the Biden administration has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-secretly-has-let-221456-migrants-fly-into-the-us-in-past-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> flown over 200,000 illegal immigrants to airports throughout the U.S. and the administration continues to <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/09/22/usda-launches-program-support-agricultural-employers-and?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push for more legal immigration</a> from countries where many of the illegal immigrants are currently coming from.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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Federal officials have reportedly interviewed approximately 100 witnesses in their criminal investigation of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> handling of classified material while he was vice president in the Obama administration and while he was a U.S. Senator for the state of Delaware.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/secretaries-secretary-state-biden-documents-probe-casts-wide/story?id=103504213" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the interviews have mainly focused on former Biden aides and military aides and the procedures that were used when handling the material. Interviews have been conducted as recently as last week and some of the witnesses have been asked to return for additional questioning, the report said.
The investigation — which is being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur, a Trump-era U.S. attorney — has &#8220;apparently uncovered instances of carelessness from Biden&#8217;s vice presidency,&#8221; the report said, echoing the type of language that was used in the FBI&#8217;s decision to not charge Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified material during the 2016 presidential election.
The report said that the witnesses who have been interviewed have made it seem as though &#8220;the improper removal of classified documents from Biden&#8217;s office when he left the White House in 2017 was more likely a mistake than a criminal act.&#8221;
The report noted, though, that the special counsel has not reached a conclusion about whether Biden will be charged and the investigation is not over.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was an aide for Biden, was one the people reportedly interviewed by investigators.
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The report added:
<blockquote>Investigators have shown witnesses email chains dating back to at least 2010 and asked for context about those exchanges, sources said. Witnesses have also been pressed about the use of cabinets and safes, sources said. &#8230; Sources said investigators are asking witnesses, especially former military aides, granular questions about internal procedures for handling classified materials, apparently seeking to understand the minutiae of how the vice president obtained, consumed, and discarded classified briefing materials.</blockquote>
It has already been reported that some of the documents that were recovered by investigators during a search of Biden&#8217;s home were from his time in the U.S. Senate.
The special counsel investigation into Biden has similarities and differences from the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of classified material.
The biggest difference between the two cases is that when classified material was found at Biden&#8217;s office and home, investigators were contacted, the documents were recovered, and Biden appears to have complied with the investigation whereas Trump is accused of obstructing his investigation.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/260000-in-chinese-wires-to-hunter-biden-listed-joe-bidens-home-as-beneficiary-address-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$260,000 In Chinese Wires To Hunter Biden Listed Joe Biden’s Home As Beneficiary Address: Report</a>

President Joe Biden departs the White House en route to New York city, on September 17 in Washington, DC.

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The CIA is planning to unleash an artificial intelligence tool to give analysts better access to sort through vast amounts of public information, according to a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/cia-builds-its-own-artificial-intelligence-tool-in-rivalry-with-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg report</a>.
Randy Nixon, director of the CIA&#8217;s Open-Source Enterprise division, told the outlet that the ChatGPT-style tool will likely be used by all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies, like the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and various military agencies to find clues through primary information sources.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going,&#8221; Nixon said. &#8220;We have to find the needles in the needle field.&#8221;
Nixon said once an agency gathers such information, the analyst could start chatting and asking questions of the machines to provide sourced answers.
&#8220;Our collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost,&#8221; he said.
Mass gathering of information from U.S. agencies comes as China has pledged to become the global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, which has raised concerns over its use of AI in several surveillance systems to track civilians within the nation and worldwide.
FBI Director Christopher Wray accused China in July of stealing &#8220;more of our personal and corporate data than every nation big or small, combined,&#8221; warning that the Chinese government poses a &#8220;double&#8221; threat regarding AI, according to <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/cia_ai_tool/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Register</a>.
China &#8220;has already spent years stealing both our innovation and massive troves of data that turns out to be perfect for training machine learning models,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And now they&#8217;re in a position to close the cycle, to use the fruits of their widespread hacking to power with AI even-more-powerful hacking efforts.&#8221;
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NSA&#8217;s Jason Wang, technical director for the Computer and Analytic Sciences Research Group, <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/2702241/artificial-intelligence-next-frontier-is-cybersecurity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021 that AI would play a central role in the Intelligence Community&#8217;s efforts to secure and defend U.S. networks.
&#8220;I think the next frontier for us is probably in the cybersecurity space,&#8221; Wang said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of opportunity … to bring machines to this very low latency, highly dynamic problem in ways that really are not human-time kinds of responses.&#8221;
&#8220;[Cybersecurity] is a space where we&#8217;ve gotten [AI] efforts underway that I think we&#8217;d love to mature along with our partners,&#8221; he said.
Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that NSA Research Director Gil Herrera said the intelligence community needs to &#8220;find a way to take benefit of these large models without violating privacy.&#8221;
The CIA drafted Nixon earlier this year as the new Open Source Enterprise director to &#8220;speed up the agency&#8217;s development in open source intelligence just as the field is causing increasing concern and sparking rivalry in Washington,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2023/01/13/randy-nixon-roped-in-to-get-cia-up-to-speed-on-osint,109901640-art">Intelligence Online</a>.
Nixon told Bloomberg the scale of how much the U.S. collects has grown over the last 80 years to a level that can sometimes be &#8220;daunting&#8221; and unusable for consumers.
He added that the AI tool would allow analysts move to a process &#8220;where the machines are pushing you the right information, one where the machine can auto-summarize, group things together.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a>&#8216;s elites were pranked by a group of Generation Zer&#8217;s in a one-night only fake steakhouse meal that had the city&#8217;s A-listers believing, for a moment, they were part of an exclusive group picked to dine at this restaurant that didn&#8217;t exist.
The unmarked public-bathhouse-turned-event space on the Lower East side was the location this group of 20-somethings used to create the illusion of a Manhattan restaurant that doesn&#8217;t really exist, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/nycs-fine-dining-elite-pranked-by-gen-zers-fake-steakhouse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported.
The 140 patrons who showed up to dine at Mehran&#8217;s Steakhouse over the weekend believed they were the lucky ones who had gotten off the years-long waitlist for a chance to dine at the so-called exclusive, 100-year-old chop house. But in reality they were all part of an elaborate prank pulled off by a a 21-year-old AI startup founder and more than 50 of his close friends.
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It all started during the pandemic in 2021, when Mehran Jalali&#8217;s housemates decided to mark their biweekly steak dinners he would cook for them by marking their location as a chop house on Google Maps.
The roommates then started leaving rave reviews of the meal they had leading total strangers to show up at their home wanting to dine on this wonderful meal.
In response, Mehran ended up creating a website for their booked, &#8220;revolutionary steak experience.&#8221; And by the end of 2022, the fake chop house had accrued nearly 3,000 people on the waiting list, the outlet noted.
So Jalali and his pals decided to make their fake restaurant a reality and gathered volunteers, found a venue, got a one-day liquor license and food handling permits. He then hopped on a plane to New York, because he currently lives in California, and the group picked some 200 people to invite to attend the exclusive fake steak house.
Many of the patrons who attended seemed to miss the subtle hints that it was all a joke, including portraits hanging in the lobby showing Mehran posing with celebrities throughout the generations, like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Obama and JFK, he had supposedly cooked for over years and years.
Patrons were taken to their seats by &#8220;barely legal servers&#8221; where a 15-inch laser-etched wood-cut provided them with a comedic amount of text describing their upcoming, $114 prix-fixe meal as violin covers of pop hits played overhead. Waiters also were seen parading around with a gallon of whole milk, at one point, as if the liquid was some fine wine.
Despite all this, guests went through the evening as though nothing was off, the outlet noted. Two Upper East Side patrons told the outlet afterwards that, &#8220;Some improvements could be made.&#8221;
However, the report noted that not everyone was amused. &#8220;One couple threatened Mehran with legal action after finding out his &#8216;restaurant is fake.'&#8221;
But there were others who the outlet noted were thrilled to be part of the gag.
&#8220;It&#8217;s New York, you can eat anywhere,&#8221; opera singer Scott Thomas said. &#8220;But for it to be this fun is priceless.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/olivia-wilde-slams-ex-jason-sudeikis-for-custody-paper-stunt-says-he-tried-to-sabotage-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Sudeikis</a> and his ex-fiance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-blessing-to-her-and-her-film-shia-labeouf-reacts-after-olivia-wilde-doubles-downs-on-claims-against-actor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olivia Wilde</a> have finally settled their custody battle — after nearly two years in and out of court — with Sudeikis agreeing to pay Wilde nearly $30,000 a month in child support.
The 48-year-old actor allegedly has agreed to pay the 39-year-old actress a total of $27,500 per month for their two kids, 9-year-old son Otis and 7-year-old daughter Daisy, according to documents obtained by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12558385/Jason-Sudeikis-Olivia-Wilde-finally-settle-custody-battle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>.
The court documents allegedly noted that, on top of the monthly child support, the &#8220;Ted Lasso&#8221; star must also cover 25% of the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry Darling&#8221; director&#8217;s childcare costs, the outlet noted. Sudeikis&#8217;s annual income, as of 2023, is estimated to be $10.5 million while Wilde&#8217;s is $500,000.
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&#8220;The income of each party is in dispute and fluctuates,&#8221; the documents allegedly read, and it said the couple agrees &#8220;such disputes and fluctuations are not material to their agreement that Jason has an extraordinarily high income&#8230;&#8221; and the amount under child support guidelines would exceed the children&#8217;s needs, according to the Daily Mail.
&#8220;The parties agree that child support for the minor children in the amount of $27,500 per month is sufficient to maintain the needs of the minor children considering Jason&#8217;s station in life, &#8230; is consistent with each child&#8217;s best interest, and application of the guideline would be unjust or inappropriate in this case,&#8221; the document continued.
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News of the settlement comes more than a year after &#8220;The Change-Up&#8221; star was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/olivia-wilde-slams-ex-jason-sudeikis-for-custody-paper-stunt-says-he-tried-to-sabotage-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served custody papers</a> during her presentation on stage at the CinemaCon in Las Vegas in April 2022.
In August that year, a source told <a href="https://people.com/olivia-wilde-jason-sudeikis-settle-custody-battle-child-support-7974329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> that Wilde &#8220;wants to focus on what&#8217;s best for the kids. She and Jason don&#8217;t speak to each other, so they have help communicating about the custody schedule.&#8221;
The former Hollywood couple first started dating back in 2011 after meeting at a Saturday Night Live party, the outlet noted. In 2012, the two stars got engaged and two years later the pair welcomed son Otis in August.
In 2016, the &#8220;Horrible Bosses&#8221; star and Wilde welcomed daughter Daisy into the world, before news of their split broke in 2020.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-sudeikis-claims-no-prior-knowledge-that-olivia-wilde-would-get-served-during-cinemacon-presentation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Sudeikis Claims &#8216;No Prior Knowledge&#8217; That Olivia Wilde Would Get Served During CinemaCon Presentation</a>

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, allegedly received wires sent from inside communist China for more than a quarter of a million dollars in 2019 that listed Joe Biden&#8217;s home in Delaware as the address for the beneficiary of the money.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-received-250k-wire-from-beijing-with-beneficiary-address-listed-as-joe-biden-delaware-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) obtained the information after subpoenaing bank records. The banks produced &#8220;records of two wires originating from Beijing, China and linked to BHR Partners,&#8221; a joint-venture between Hunter Biden&#8217;s company and a Chinese investment company where Hunter Biden served on the Board of Directors, the report said.
The two wires that were sent to Hunter Biden in the Summer of 2019 totaled $260,000 and listed Hunter Biden as the beneficiary, but listed his father&#8217;s home in Delaware as his address.
The report noted that Hunter Biden allegedly lived in the home during various points in time from 2017 through 2019, but it was not clear if he was living at the home when the $10,000 wire was sent in July 2019 or when the second wire for $250,000 was sent in August 2019.
&#8220;Bank records don’t lie but President Joe Biden does,&#8221; Comer said in a statement. &#8220;In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China. We’ve already proved that to be a lie earlier this year, and now we know that two wires originating from Beijing listed Joe Biden’s Wilmington home as the beneficiary address when he was running for President of the United States. When Joe Biden was vice president, he spoke on the phone and had coffee with Jonathan Li in Beijing, and later wrote a college letter of recommendation for his children.&#8221;
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&#8220;Joe Biden’s abuse of public office for his family’s financial gain threatens our national security,&#8221; he added. &#8220;What did the Bidens do with this money from Beijing? Americans demand and deserve accountability for President Biden and the First Family’s corruption. The Oversight Committee, along with the Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees, will continue to follow the evidence and money to provide transparency and accountability.&#8221;
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I just subpoenaed &amp; obtained two bank wires revealing Hunter Biden received payments originating from Beijing in 2019 when Joe Biden was running for President. 
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Wael Hana, an Egyptian national who was indicted last week on corruption charges with Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bob-menendez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Menendez</a> (D-NJ), was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday and later made his initial appearance in court.
Hana pled not guilty and was &#8220;granted release on a $5 million personal recognizance bond and strict conditions, including the surrender of his passport,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/nyregion/wael-hana-arrested-menendez.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He faces one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud.
Prosecutors alleged that Hana, who is also an American citizen, helped facilitate meetings between Menendez and Egyptian government officials in an effort to get Menendez to increase U.S. aid to the Egypt.
Hana was a longtime friend of Menendez&#8217;s wife, who was also charged, and had started a halal meat company, IS EG Halal, that &#8220;the sole certifier of halal meat imported to Egypt, and the government said it became the conduit for a stream of money to the senator,&#8221; the report added.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/menendez-co-defendant-hana/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the USDA contacted the Egyptian government in 2019 and objected to giving IS EG Halal a virtual monopoly over its competition.
&#8220;When Official-1 attempted to explain why the monopoly was detrimental to U.S. interests, MENENDEZ reiterated his demand, in sum and substance, that the USDA stop interfering with IS EG Halal’s monopoly,&#8221; the indictment said. &#8220;Official-1 did not accede to MENENDEZ’s demand, but IS EG Halal nevertheless kept its monopoly.&#8221;
Menendez, his wife, and the two other businessmen charged in the indictment are expected to make their arrangements in court on Wednesday, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/businessman-pleads-not-guilty-charges-bribing-us-senator-menendez-2023-09-26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.
The federal indictment against Menendez and his wife was unsealed on Friday and accused the senator and his wife of accepting bribes from the three businessmen in exchange for actions that he took as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
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Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” the indictment said. Federal authorities reportedly found gold bars and nearly $500,000 in cash stuffed throughout the senator’s home that they traced back to the businessmen Menendez allegedly worked with.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flood-of-democrat-senators-call-on-bob-menendez-to-resign-over-corruption-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flood Of Democrat Senators Call On Bob Menendez To Resign Over Corruption Allegations</a>

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Target announced plans to shut down nine stores across four different U.S. states after ongoing reports of violence, theft, and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of shoppers and employees.
The company said effective October 21, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area, three more in Portland, two locations in Seattle, and one store in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City will permanently close.
“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in a <a href="https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2023/09/Target-Closes-Select-Stores-to-Prioritize-Team-Mem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Before making the decision, Target officials said the retailer corporation invested “heavily” in efforts to prevent and stop organized retail crime in its stores, including ramping up internal security team members and third-party guard services, but struggled to combat the uptick in retail theft from organized smash-and-grab robberies involving large groups of thieves.
Target’s CEO Brian Cornell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-veers-off-target-reaps-rewards-of-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month the company has been battling an “unacceptable amount” of retail theft that has become increasingly violent and dangerous for workers.
Store theft that included “violence or threats of violence” surged 120% during the first five months of the year, Cornell said, adding that Target’s full-year profitability is expected to reduce by more than $500 million compared to the previous year.
Cornell reportedly said the company intended to keep locations open after releasing its rising shrink reported in the fiscal second-quarter earnings in mid-May.
“We do not want to close stores. We know how important our stores are. They create local jobs, they generate taxes, they’re very important for those local shoppers, and they play a critical role in communities across the country,” Cornell said. “We’ll continue to do everything in our power to keep our doors open,” he added. “At the same time, we’ll be closely monitoring the safety of our team and guests as well as the financial impact to our business as we determine the right path forward at Target.”
Organized retail theft has spiked in cities around the country, with videos from some incidents showing hooded figures in dark clothes darting in and out of stores with merchandise, often expensive luxury items.
Critics blame progressive prosecutors, who they say allow criminals to get off without serious consequences — if they face consequences at all.
Earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/01/30/2023/grassley-cortez-masto-bill-bolsters-federal-response-to-organized-retail-theft#:~:text=The%20Combating%20Organized%20Retail%20Crime,trends%20in%20organized%20retail%20theft." target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> legislation to target the rise in flash mob robberies sweeping the nation, which they estimated costs retailers $720,000 for every $1 billion in sales — a 50% increase since 2015.
The bill, which Target officials advocated for in its announcement on Tuesday, would create a multi-agency federal task force at the state and local levels to promote inter-agency efforts and cooperation to crack down on theft and organized retail crime.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/target-says-it-will-close-nine-stores-citing-violence-and-theft-.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&amp;par=sharebar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that over the last two years, at least nine states have passed similar laws to impose harsher penalties for those involved in organized retail crime.
Target’s latest announcement comes after the company revealed a dismal quarterly report showing its sales sank 5.4% for the first time in six years after facing national backlash over its Pride Month collection.
Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> lawmakers are looking at rejecting federal dollars for public education and replacing them with state dollars in a move that would make Tennessee the first in the nation to turn down federal education funding.
Republican leadership in the state <a href="https://onthehill.tnjournal.net/speakers-announce-task-force-to-look-into-rejecting-federal-education-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the formation of a panel to look at the impact of federal education funding in Tennessee and the “strings” that can come attached with that funding.
“Any time the federal government sends money, there are always strings attached to those dollars, and there is always a possibility that it opens the state up to other regulations or restrictions,” said Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton. “This working group will help provide a clearer picture of how much autonomy Tennessee truly has in educating our students.”
Sexton announced on Monday the formation of a 10-member Joint Working Group to look at whether the state can fund education without utilizing federal funds. The panel, which will have members of both the state House and Senate, will have eight Republicans and two Democrats.
“The education of our youth is one of the essential responsibilities of our government,” said Lt. Gov. Randy McNally. “Federal dollars and the various mandates and restrictions that come with those dollars affect the way Tennessee’s children are educated. Due to our state’s excellent financial position, this is a worthy subject of examination and study.”
Sexton <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-bill-lee-tennessee-education-19c635555a8b766322c91b8a5680047a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously discussed</a> turning down $1.8 billion in federal education funding during the last regular legislative session, but the proposal never ended up advancing.
“We as a state can lead the nation once again in telling the federal government that they can keep their money and we’ll just do things the Tennessee way,” Sexton said earlier this year. “And that should start, first and foremost, with the Department of Education.”
Democrats in Tennessee oppose the move, with state Senator Raumesh Akbari claiming that there would be “harsh consequences” if Tennessee rejected federal funding.
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&#8220;Federal funds are crucial in supporting students with special needs, English language learners, and those from low-income families,&#8221; Akbari <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2023/09/26/tennessee-group-consider-rejecting-federal-education-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Through this committee, I will advocate that Tennessee keep accepting these necessary funds.&#8221;
Tennessee has established itself as one of the more conservative states in the country, moving to ban sex change procedures on minors, moving to protect children from sexually explicit performances, and overwhelmingly rejecting proposed “red flag” legislation in the past year despite heavy pressure from Left-wing activist groups.

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Numerous Democrat Senators called on Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bob-menendez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Menendez</a> (D-NJ) to resign on Tuesday after the 69-year-old senator was indicted on federal corruption charges last week.
New Jersey&#8217;s other Democrat senator, Cory Booker, <a href="https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-senator-robert-menendez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Menendez needed to step down because the allegations he is facing &#8220;are of such a nature that the faith and trust of New Jerseyans as well as those he must work with in order to be effective have been shaken to the core.&#8221;
&#8220;Stepping down is not an admission of guilt but an acknowledgment that holding public office often demands tremendous sacrifices at great personal cost,” Booker added. “Senator Menendez has made these sacrifices in the past to serve. And in this case he must do so again. I believe stepping down is best for those Senator Menendez has spent his life serving.&#8221;
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) urged Menendez to resign given “the serious nature of these charges and how they have undermined the public&#8217;s faith” in him.
The first two Democrat senators to call on Menendez to resign were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-fetterman-calls-on-bob-menendez-to-resign-from-u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrat-senator-calls-on-menendez-to-resign-over-bribery-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)</a>.
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also called on Menendez to resign, writing: &#8220;Sen. Menendez should resign. If he doesn’t, a Senate Ethics Committee investigation must go forward immediately.&#8221;
Other Democrat senators that called for Menendez to resign included: Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-PA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jon Tester (D-MT), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).
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The federal indictment against Menendez and his wife was unsealed on Friday and accused the senator and his wife of accepting bribes from three business people in exchange for actions that he took as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.

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Longtime Democratic strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-strategist-james-carville-wokeness-is-a-problem-for-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> and comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-can-say-the-craziest-thing-bill-maher-says-no-one-is-canceled-for-being-too-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> were in complete agreement on one thing going into the 2024 presidential election: incumbent President Joe Biden should not be the Democratic nominee, especially if former President Donald Trump nabs the Republican nomination.
The two got together for Sunday&#8217;s episode of Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, and they both agreed that the Democratic Party&#8217;s best bet was to choose someone — anyone — who was a &#8220;50-ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name.&#8221;
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James Carville &quot;Let&#39;s assume the election was November 3rd. Trump would be a betting favorite. Somebody better wake the fuck up&quot;
Bill Maher calls Joe &quot;Ruth Bader Biden&quot; <a href="https://t.co/H6UznJJRLu">pic.twitter.com/H6UznJJRLu</a>
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&#8220;Let’s assume the election was November the third of this year and the candidates are Joe Biden, the Democrat, Donald Trump, the Republican, Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan, No Labels, and Cornel West. Trump would be a betting favorite,&#8221; Carville said. &#8220;If I told you I would give you even money, you would not take that bet. All right. And so somebody better wake the f*** up.&#8221;
Maher responded by saying that he believed Biden had done a decent job as president, but that he worried about whether or not he was up to the task of running again – especially against Trump.
&#8220;I might take even money. But you’re right. I’m totally on the same page,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In 2020, maybe he was the only one who could have beaten Trump, I think now he’s the only one who will lose to him.&#8221;
&#8220;He cannot run for president. He’ll look bad in the debates. It’s too much. And he’s — I think, going to lose,&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;He will be Ruth Bader Biden, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency. It’s not a good look. And any 50-ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name. People just vote D and R, that person can win.&#8221;
&#8220;Easily. If we had somebody under 60 and ran against Trump, we’d get 55%,&#8221; Carville agreed.
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The Democratic strategist — who long ago earned the nickname &#8220;The Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8221; — also <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/james-carville-rips-stupid-far-left-democrats-on-bill-maher-podcast/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tore into the far Left</a>, saying, &#8220;I find the Left to be just annoying. The western far Left is habitually the most stupid, naive people you can imagine. They come up with these really goofy constructs and it’s all about feeling good about yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;What happened is, overeducated, coastal white people, got ahold of the word, and [like] they do with everything else, they completely f***ed it up and pissed everybody in the country off. If we could just get the humanities faculty at Amherst [College] to shut the f*** up, we’d be a lot better off,&#8221; Carville added.

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Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, alleging the former lawyer of President Trump played a central role in the &#8220;total annihilation&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s digital privacy and data related to his infamous laptop computer.
Biden filed the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.899829/gov.uscourts.cacd.899829.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15-page complaint</a> in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which also named Giuliani&#8217;s companies and attorney and former federal prosecutor Robert Costello, who reportedly represented Giuliani as a defendant, accusing them of violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Attorneys for Biden seek a court order to prevent the Defendants from accessing, tampering with, manipulating, or copying Biden&#8217;s data and returning any content related to the laptop to the president&#8217;s son.
&#8220;For the past many months and even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy toward looking for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from Plaintiff&#8217;s devices or storage platforms, including what Defendants claim to have obtained from Plaintiff&#8217;s alleged &#8220;laptop&#8221; computer,&#8221; Biden&#8217;s attorneys wrote in the complaint.
The suit also alleges the defendants admitted their possession of the content came from an &#8220;external drive&#8221; rather than an actual laptop reportedly left at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019. The data was &#8220;manipulated, altered and damaged&#8221; before the contents were copied and sent to Giuliani and Costello, the suit claims with &#8220;further alterations and damage to the data&#8221; unknown to the president&#8217;s son.
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Giuliani disseminated emails, pictures and videos, and other data from Hunter&#8217;s laptop to the New York Post that implicated President Joe Biden in a Ukrainian business deal that placed Hunter on the board during his father&#8217;s time as Vice President during the Obama administration.
After initially claiming the laptop that he was accused of abandoning at the shop was either hacked, stolen, or some form of Russian disinformation campaign to hinder his father&#8217;s 2020 presidential candidacy, Hunter Biden finally admitted in a sitdown interview with CBS that it &#8220;certainly&#8221; could have belonged to him.
Then, amid working out a plea deal for a criminal probe, Biden finally admitted that the laptop packed with scandalous content was, in fact, his, according to the Post.
Ted Goodman, spokesman for Giuliani, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-sues-rudy-giuliani-over-infamous-laptop.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNBC in a statement, &#8220;Hunter Biden has previously refused to admit ownership of the laptop.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised he&#8217;s now falsely claiming his laptop hard drive was manipulated by Mayor Giuliani, considering the sordid material and potential evidence of crimes on that thing,&#8221; Goodman said.
House Republicans recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-announces-formal-impeachment-inquiry-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened a formal impeachment inquiry</a> against Biden after lawmakers accused him of using his vice presidency to dissuade Ukrainian prosecutors from investigating the company. GOP officials also claim to have uncovered millions of dollars funneled to members of Biden&#8217;s family from foreign nationals.
Biden has repeatedly claimed he never spoke with his son about foreign business dealings.
The latest lawsuit from Hunter Biden comes after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-staffer-over-infamous-laptop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">separate case</a> filed by his legal team accused former Trump White House staffer Garret Ziegler, the founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo, of violating California and federal computer privacy laws by publishing thousands of photos and emails from the laptop.
Ziegler worked for Trump during the last two years of his term as a policy analyst. His nonprofit created a new website in June, unveiling controversial content from the laptop to bring &#8220;truth and transparency&#8221; to America&#8217;s first family.

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Former chair of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fcc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Communications Commission</a> Ajit Pai ripped into plans by his former agency to reintroduce “net neutrality” regulations, saying that they were unnecessary and an “utter waste of time.”
On Tuesday, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397235A1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she would move toward reinstituting net neutrality guidelines that were originally instituted during the Obama administration but repealed during the Trump administration. In a statement sent to The Daily Wire, Pai, who introduced the repeal of “net neutrality” regulations, said that the move was prompted by leftist activists and Big Tech companies.
“The FCC leadership&#8217;s decision to revisit so-called &#8216;net neutrality&#8217; regulations is a complete and utter waste of time. Half a decade ago, we were promised that the end of the Internet was upon us, that broadband providers would block and throttle content, and that consumers would be harmed,” he told The Daily Wire.
Net neutrality regulations have been billed as necessary to make sure that internet service providers (ISPs) did not move to throttle websites that may act as competitors and end paid prioritization. Critics of the regulations warn that they give the government too much power over the internet, especially at a time when the Biden administration has been reprimanded by courts over its work with social media companies to censor information on COVID.
“Today, consumers enjoy higher broadband speeds than ever. More of them than ever before have access to high-speed Internet. They have more options and better prices. And the only entities blocking and throttling what they see and say online are the same Big Tech companies that badgered the Obama FCC into imposing these regulations in the first place,” Pai said.
During her announcement, Rosenworcel said that “net neutrality” regulations were needed to ensure that the internet is &#8220;fast, open, and fair.&#8221; She took aim at the Pai-led FCC, claiming that it was “extreme” and “on the wrong side of history” when it repealed previous “net neutrality” regulations.
In his statement, Pai criticized the FCC for focusing on net neutrality instead of working on improving broadband availability or decreasing robocalls.
“It&#8217;s unfortunate that almost 1,000 days into the Biden Administration, FCC leadership can&#8217;t come up with an accurate map of broadband availability, hasn&#8217;t held a single spectrum auction of its own, hasn&#8217;t improved Wi-Fi, and hasn&#8217;t stemmed the increasing waves of robocalls overwhelming consumers — but is determined to waste enormous time and effort on an issue that matters only to left-wing Beltway activists, Big Tech, and a few (alleged) comedians,” he said.
The decision to reintroduce the regulations came just weeks after the Senate <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863365/anna-gomez-fcc-commissioner-senate-confirmation-net-neutrality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to confirm Anna Gomez, a Biden appointee, to the FCC. The vote now gives Democrats a 3-2 majority on the agency. The agency is expected vote next month on the proposed regulations.
The end of net neutrality regulations in 2017 was met with great concern by media outlets and Democrats, who claimed that the repeal of the regulations would destroy the internet. A CNN headline <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/364959-cnn-headline-declares-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it-after-net-neutrality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the vote to end net neutrality would “end the internet as we know it” while Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1331687277492396035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it would be a “road to digital serfdom.”
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“Six years ago, we were told by net neutrality activists, Senate Democrats, and certain media outlets that the Internet would end without so-called ‘net neutrality.’ The hysterical predictions never came to pass, and the Internet has thrived without government control — speeds are up, prices are down relative to inflation, and more Americans have access thanks to new network deployments,” Evan Swarztrauber, a former policy advisor to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and Pai, told The Daily Wire.
Swarztrauber added that many of the companies supporting net neutrality policies had pushed censorship themselves.
“And ironically, it&#8217;s the Big Tech companies who pushed net neutrality, like Google and Apple, that have been blocking and throttling Americans&#8217; access to information — not Internet service providers,” he said.

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Israeli secularists, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/segregated-yom-kippur-prayers-spark-slurs-and-bitterness-not-atonement-in-tel-aviv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">furious</a> that Orthodox Jews had erected a makeshift barrier so men and women could pray separately in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, tore down Israeli flags strung together for the barrier and seized chairs organizers had set up, thus preventing the prayers from continuing. The barrier separating men from women in Orthodox Jewish prayer is called a mechitzah.
Rosh Yehudi, an organization supporting Orthodox Judaism in Israel, has hosted the Yom Kippur service in the plaza in previous years without a problem. But last week, the avowedly leftist Israeli Supreme Court upheld a lower court order permitting the Tel Aviv Municipality to block the separation of sexes for prayer in the public place.
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Leftist protesters prevented a Yom Kippur prayer service with separate seating for men and women Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv. Protesters confronted the worshipers, destroyed the partition, and removed the chairs that the organizers had placed. 📸 Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90 <a href="https://t.co/Mz0aompDo1">pic.twitter.com/Mz0aompDo1</a>
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“I heard with great sadness about the events that happened around the prayer on the holiest day for the people of Israel,” Israel&#8217;s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Lau, stated. “The most special day of the year turned into a sad day due to wild incitement by elements who hate religion. There are those who forgot the essence of the day and continued the waves of seething hatred. The residents of Tel Aviv came to the prayer service and only wanted to pray according to Jewish law without imposing anything on anyone, but only for those who are interested and interested in it. Then we saw that under the guise of freedom, a very broad public is prevented from praying according to their customs.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated,</a> “To my astonishment, precisely in the Jewish state, on the holiest day for the Jewish people, left-wing protesters rioted against Jews during their prayers. It seems that there are no boundaries, no norms, and no reservation for hatred on the part of the extremists on the left.”
Mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/09/26/pm-blasts-protesters-for-disrupting-yom-kippur-prayer-in-tel-aviv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended,</a> “I want to clarify clearly – I will not let the nature of our city be changed. In Tel Aviv, there is no place for gender segregation in the public sphere. Those who don&#8217;t respect the municipality&#8217;s instructions and the law won&#8217;t be given approvals for activities in the city&#8217;s public spaces.&#8221;
The famed Lubavitcher Rebbe <a href="//BCFDB321-7653-43C8-8CE0-F1BB824F1522/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> of the mechitzah:
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One of the inner and essential reasons for the Mechitzah &#8230; is that the synagogue, and the time of prayer in general (even when recited at home), are not merely the place and time when a formal petition is offered to Him Who is able to fulfill the petition; it is much more profound than that. It is the time and place when the person offering the prayer unites himself with Him to Whom the prayer is offered, by means of the prayer. &#8230; The union of two things can be complete only when there is not a third element involved, be it even a matter of holiness and the like. From the above it follows that there certainly must be nothing to distract the attention and the attunement of the heart and mind towards the attainment of the highest degree of unity with God.
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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; freaked out during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast, panning The New Yorker&#8217;s latest cover art over its apparent insinuation that former House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) was &#8220;too old&#8221; for elected office.
Cohost Joy Behar started the conversation about the cover, which was meant to show politicians too old for public office and included — alongside Pelosi — President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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Whoopi claims Biden is &quot;doing more than showing up to work and functioning.&quot; &quot;Joe Biden can fall down 55 times, that&#39;s not going to make me think he can&#39;t do the job,&quot; she boasts. She also claims Social Security is fine and is not and has never been in danger of going bankrupt. <a href="https://t.co/ovNdZdgiHH">pic.twitter.com/ovNdZdgiHH</a>
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Whoopi Goldberg referenced the Axios report published early Tuesday — which said Biden&#8217;s team was pulling out all the stops to remove trip-hazards from his path and keep him from falling and getting hurt — and then pivoted to the magazine&#8217;s cover art.
&#8220;I hate that cover. Why do they have to put Nancy Pelosi in there?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi, if you watch any of her interviews, she&#8217;s as sharp as a tack, as they say. She makes sense, she keeps getting re-elected by 80% of the constituency.&#8221;
Goldberg suggested that it didn&#8217;t matter whether or not Biden fell down, adding, &#8220;Joe Biden can fall down 55 times, that&#8217;s not going to make me think he can&#8217;t do the job.&#8221;
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Cohost Sunny Hostin once again complained that Americans didn&#8217;t revere their elders the way other cultures did, and argued that Pelosi&#8217;s experience made her more valuable.
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Joy declares that it&#39;s better Biden gets reelected and &quot;dies in office&quot; because &quot;the country will survive it, but if Trump wins, the country will not survive it. That&#39;s a fact.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XcLlEmPx0o">pic.twitter.com/XcLlEmPx0o</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1706691524346462346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Behar jumped back in then, pivoting to Trump and arguing that Biden&#8217;s age was of no consequence — the only thing that mattered was preventing Trump from winning a second term in office.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s say Joe Biden, God forbid, dies in office,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that still okay for the country? The country will survive it, but if Trump wins, the country will not survive it. That&#8217;s a fact.&#8221;

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