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With Joe Biden sinking in the polls like a corrupt, senile inflatable duck with a hole in the bottom, Democrats are using all their resources to answer one question: Why don’t Americans like Democrat policies when Democrat policies are so great?
The search for answers began after Congresswoman and Conniving Harridan Nancy Pelosi was invited to speak at Oxford University so British students could hear what their language sounds like after you take all the meaning out of it.
Harridan Pelosi told the students that Americans are (and this is a real quote), “Poor souls who are looking for some answers. We Democrats have given them the answers, but they’re blocked by some of their views on guns, gays, and God, by which they mean a woman’s right to choose — and the cultural issues cloud some of their reception of an argument that really is in their interest.”
Now some of the Oxford students felt Pelosi’s words revealed that arrogant Democrat elites are completely ignorant about the ideas of ordinary people, while other students were too busy playing Candy Crush on their phones to hear what she said. But here at home, Democrats immediately decided to find out, why poor American souls won’t accept Democrat answers, when Democrat answers are so great.
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To study the problem, American journalists and other non-journalists traveled to Red States in their imaginations by picturing stupid people who hate blacks and trying to think of what they might say if they were asked questions.
What follows is a transcript of some of those interviews.
Journalist: Why do you hate the economy when the economy is so great?
Imaginary Stupid Black-hating Red State Person: I hate the economy because I love guns and want to ban books because I’m prejudiced against homos.
Other Journalist: Well, why do you hate diversity, equity and inclusion when they’re so great?
Other Stupid Imaginary Red State Person: I hate diversity, equity and inclusion because blacks are trying to replace real Americans in a secret conspiracy by Mexico. 
Yet Another Journalist: Well, then why do you hate abortion when abortion is so great?
Yet Another Imaginary Stupid Nazi-like Trump Lover: I hate abortion because women should be submissive and make sandwiches instead of having sex without babies attached to them.
The results of these interviews were then rushed over to Scientific American and other non-scientific anti-Americans and published as peer-reviewed studies.
In one study entitled, “Psychologists Explain Why Racist Americans Can’t See the Economy is so Great,” expert medical professionals from Dr. Jill Biden to Doogie Howser explain: these poor foolish Americans don’t like paying five dollars for a dozen eggs because they’re ignorant of the fact that eggs raised your cholesterol levels in 1968 when doctors thought eggs raised your cholesterol levels. So actually, high egg prices keep you healthy in 1968 so that you can live until doctors realize that eggs are good for you, even though by that time you won’t be able to afford them. 
Another Scientific American article was headlined, “DEI — It’s So Great.” The article explains why hiring airplane pilots on the basis of their sex and skin-color is so great, according to experts such as Denzel Washington, a black pilot in a major motion picture. Scientists studying what Washington would have said if someone had asked him, explain that DEI hiring is so great because in the past, there were not enough black and female pilots and now there will be for at least a brief period of time.
Scientific American also ran a peer-reviewed study reviewed by such peers as Peers Brosnan and Peers Morgan, which asked the question: why can’t conservatives see abortion is so great when without abortion you might have to change diapers for three years when all you wanted was a little rumpty-tumpty? The article revealed that conservatives are psychologically less sensitive to gender inequality than leftists and therefore are happier but in a stupid kind of way that thinks babies shouldn’t be slaughtered.
So now that Democrats have developed a scientific understanding of why Americans don’t like their policies, they have set to work imprisoning their political opponents, silencing dissent on social media and arresting anti-abortion protesters so they can win re-election anyway. Because Democrats are just so great.
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Why Don’t Americans Like Democrat Policies When Democrat Policies Are So Great?

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Early in the 20th century, there was a famous columnist known as H.L. Mencken. Two of his quotes are currently quite applicable.
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theory-that-the-common-people-know-what" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a>: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Number <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37546-no-one-in-this-world-so-far-as-i-know-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a>: “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” 
I point this out because we live in a representative democracy, so when we see spectacles like what we saw in the House of Representatives yesterday, it’s important to remember that these are all elected representatives of the United States.
We have filled Washington, D.C., with complete imbeciles. This is our fault because we vote for them. The fact is that if you don&#8217;t like your representatives, you can always change your them, but it seems as though the American people increasingly like a Congress that is completely unworkable; a presidency filled with numskulls like the current president of the United States; and entire representative agencies of the federal government that are filled with people whose IQs, when combined, might be in double digits.
If you think I&#8217;m being harsh, I present to you the spectacle yesterday, which is not, in fact, from Jerry Springer.
It is from Congress.
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Yesterday, a giant fight broke out between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the noted intellectual congresswoman from Georgia, known colloquially as MTG, on one side, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the noted intellectual congresswoman from New York, known colloquially as AOC, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas on the other side.
You can tell this is similar to a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) face-off when the congresspeople are known by their acronyms.
The wattage displayed by these three ladies put feminism back about 100 years, as shown by the fact that two of the men who are leading this committee, James Comer on the Republican side, and Jamie Raskin on the Democratic side, could not help but laugh at the idiocy displayed by this coterie of crows.
It began when Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Jasmine Crockett’s fake eyelashes and went downhill from there. AOC snapped, “I would like to move to take down Miss Green&#8217;s words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person.”
Greene: “Are your feelings hurt? Aww.”
AOC: “Oh, girl, baby girl, baby girl. Don&#8217;t even play. Don&#8217;t even play. We are going to move and we&#8217;re going to take your words down.”
After MTG said she would agree to take her words down, AOC demanded an apology. MTG refused. Crockett later said to Comer, “I&#8217;m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached-blond, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Comer, genuinely puzzled: “What now?”
A shouting match then ensued.
The question about all this is why? Why? These are outtakes from “Idiocracy” at this point.
The answer is because Congress and our representative government have become a performative spectacle for people who are hoping to get famous and rich outside of Congress. That&#8217;s what this is. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years about this — about how our representative institutions ar supposed to shape the people who enter them because they are given the grave responsibility of representing the American people, taking care of trillions of our taxpayer dollars, figuring out our foreign policy, and trying to rectify breaches in the social fabric and the social compact. That is their actual job. 
But over time, as we have become a more populous and populist country, our representatives have become stand-ins for our various gripes and grievances.
And so you end up with the dumbed-down version of the American public. I don&#8217;t think that this is a partisan issue. I know hundreds of members of Congress and the Senate, both Democrat and Republican, and I can name the number of intelligent people that I know in Congress on less than two hands. 
The American people have chosen poorly. It used to be when government did not have insane levels of power over our life, we didn&#8217;t actually care who was in charge of the government nearly as much because the government didn&#8217;t have the power to control every aspect of our life. Thus, politics was largely relegated to the local level. And when it came to federal politics, people who were very invested in federal politics tended to be the people who were the most knowledgeable, the people who actually cared the most, the people who were the most engaged. 
But now, it&#8217;s become a popularity contest. It&#8217;s “American Idol,” and thanks to the mass media, you can take dullards and make them incredibly famous. If you want to sell papers, that&#8217;s exactly what you do. If you want higher ratings, you focus on the dullards in Congress, not the congressperson who is spending late nights poring over the bills that are being created to shape our lives; that&#8217;s the boring stuff. 
The people like this. And this is why all three of these congresspeople are significantly more famous than some actual powerful congresspeople who make policy. People now use Congress as a platform for other activities to become famous — to be on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to be on various shows on TV. 
That&#8217;s not good for America. Americans ought to get off of this.
But the reality, of course, is that this has pervaded American politics, and it has bled up. The quality of our public leadership is a reflection of the quality of our public conversations. And our public conversations are terrible because they are low IQ and do not involve any sort of actual knowledge base for the people involved. In fact, a quick insult is considered significantly more useful than an actual understanding of the issues at play and the nuances of those issues. The latter things are not important.
This is one of the reasons why you are seeing re-engagement online with three-hour long conversations with various hosts. There is a hunger in a certain segment of the population for something a little more substantive that has completely gone away for the vast majority of the American public.
The American people are casually engaged. They tune in for the last five minutes of “American Idol” before they cast their vote.
And what you end up with is a bunch of people who are getting rich and famous being in Congress and being complete imbeciles.
This is why you end up with a presidential race featuring an incumbent president who is full-on senile, and it doesn&#8217;t matter one whit to at least half the population. 
I think most people look at yesterday’s debacle in Congress and they&#8217;re ashamed of what they see.
We should all be ashamed of what we see in Congress because the level of intellectual achievement in our Congress, the level of true engagement with serious issues, is so unbelievably low that you would get a better conversation about what goes on in our nation in a third-grade social studies classroom than you would in a congressional committee such as yesterday’s.

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We Filled Washington DC With Complete IMBECILES 

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Ben Shapiro

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

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U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Politics

Washington D.C.

Yesterday the House Oversight Committee gathered for a very important hearing. <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a> reports on the purpose of the hearing:
<blockquote>The committee met to discuss a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. That subpoena demanded he turn over the recorded deposition of President Joe Biden as questioned by former Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur investigated Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice president. Ultimately, the special counsel <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/biden/elderly-man-with-a-poor-memory-devastating-doj-report-says-biden-did-not-remember-when-he-was-vice-president-and-when-his-son-died/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to prosecute Biden, stating that a jury would likely view him “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.</blockquote>
As you probably recall, Joe Biden was judged by the special counsel to be mentally unfit to stand trial for his mishandling of classified documents. The poor old man was just confused, Robert Hur determined. There may be some merit to this excuse, if not for the fact that Joe Biden is also, you may have noticed, the President of the United States. If he is not mentally competent enough to stand trial, how is he mentally competent to sit in the Oval Office?
That’s a very good question. Another question is this: just how embarrassing and troubling was Joe Biden’s performance in that deposition that it led to this conclusion? And as a way of getting to the bottom of that, congress has attempted to obtain the audio recording of Biden’s deposition. But the Biden Administration is refusing to comply with the subpoena on the grounds that they don’t want Biden to look bad. That’s not the reason they’re giving but it is the actual reason, as we all know. And this is why the House Oversight Committee was meeting last night. It’s a very important subject. One that requires a seriousness of mind and purpose.
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Unfortunately, however, in the current year, Congress happens to include some of the dumbest human beings who have ever been born on planet Earth. Voters in this country have scoured the nation, from sea to shining sea, looking for the most obnoxious dimwits they can find, and then they have elected those people, and put them into positions of power. Of course, we have been electing clowns to Congress for many years but we have now reached critical clown mass. As philosophers and scientists have long warned, when you reach critical clown mass, total dysfunction follows. And that’s what we saw at this hearing on Thursday night. 
It all began with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a little dig at Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to Jasmine Crockett. 
&quot;I don’t think you know what we’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your reading.&quot; 🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/pB9TqSSKGR">pic.twitter.com/pB9TqSSKGR</a>
&mdash; 3sidedstory 🇺🇲 (@3sidedstory) <a href="https://twitter.com/3sidedstory/status/1791282150966456511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That was the spark — Marjorie Taylor Greene makes fun of Crockett’s fake eyelashes. 
Now, you know I am not exactly a sensitive soul when it comes to this kind of thing, or any kind of thing. I have been known to throw out insults myself on very rare occasion. And it’s true that Crockett does seem to have fake eyelashes. But come on. Is a congressional hearing really a place for catty little insults like this? How does a comment about another representative’s eyelashes help us obtain the recordings of Joe Biden’s deposition, which is supposed to be the purpose of the hearing? It does not help us. Instead, it takes things wildly off course. And that’s exactly what happened. Watch: 
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Anyway. We’re $35 trillion in debt. Heading into World War 3. Being invaded at the southern border. 
Let’s check in on congress: <a href="https://t.co/V3h7u1Jij8">pic.twitter.com/V3h7u1Jij8</a>
&mdash; Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) <a href="https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1791279190760644999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It might be hard to discern anything that is being said over noises that sound like feral cats fighting in a back alley. So please allow me to provide a brief but fully accurate and verbatim transcript of Jasmine Crockett’s remarks. She said, and I quote: 
“Ya’ll wanna play games with me. Don’t tell me to calm down. Y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it. Cuz if I come and talk s*** about her, ya’ll gon’ have a problem.”
That is an actual statement made by an elected member of the United States Congress during a House Oversight Committee hearing. I think we can safely say that it is the first time in American history that any member of Congress, operating in an official capacity, has ever used the phrase “Ya’ll talk noise.” It’s also, I’m guessing, the first time that the phrase “talk s***” and “ya’ll wanna play games” have ever been uttered during a congressional hearing. We are making history here, in all of the wrong ways. 
And that was not the only history making moment. Listen to this exchange, in the same hearing, between Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC:
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Again, the transcript: “Oh girl. Baby girl. Don’t even play.” 
There is another statement that, we can assume with some measure of certainty, has never been stated on the record at any congressional hearing. It is another historic first. We are witnessing history in the making.
If you read just the transcript of these exchanges without any context, you would assume this was, perhaps, an argument between groups of people at a Waffle House. Or maybe it’s a feud that broke out in the parking lot of a Bojangles fast food restaurant at 2:00 a.m. If you just arrived here in a time machine from 30 years ago, or any time prior, you simply would not believe that this was an exchange between members of Congress. If you were informed of that fact, you would immediately get back in your time machine and go back to your own time to warn the world of the impending collapse of our collective IQ. If for some reason you couldn’t go back in your time machine, you would probably elect to throw yourself into the sea, rather than stay here and live through this. 
We should note that the Democrats are not the only ones humiliating themselves in this exchange. Marjorie Taylor Greene is no better. Or if she is better, only slightly so. 
And this dispute between Greene and AOC continued, as AOC demanded an apology for the random insults Greene kept throwing onto the pile:
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“Why don’t you debate me?” I very much hope she doesn’t. I think we’ve already seen what a “debate” between AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene would consist of. Here’s what the debate would be: 
“You’re stupid!”
“No I’m not. You are!”
“And you’re ugly!
“No you are!”
“No, you!”
And so on, for seven and a half hours. This cat fight felt like it went on that long during the hearing, as the men sat there bewildered and stuttering, trying meekly and ineffectually to get the hearing back on track. It was a microcosm of American culture in many ways — and all the worst ways.
By contrast, back in the year 1858, there were a series of presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas. These were highly contentious and emotionally-charged, and often involved bitter personal attacks. After all, this was only three years before the country would erupt into a brutal civil war that would kill 700,000 people on both sides. And yet these men expressed their disdain for one another in eloquent and intelligent ways. So eloquent and intelligent that we can’t even imagine politicians in the modern age speaking this way.
Here is just one very brief example, pulled at random. In the first debate, Douglas spoke first. Lincoln, when it was his turn, felt that Douglas had lied about him and misrepresented his record. Here was his way of accusing Douglas of dishonesty. One sentence will be enough to make the contrast clear. He said:
<blockquote>My fellow citizens, when a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him-at least, I find it so with myself; but when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.</blockquote>
Now compare that to how that same sentiment would be expressed by politicians today. Instead, it would be something like this:
<blockquote>Oh baby girl, don’t play with me. You best stop talkin’ that noise, wit your lyin’ a**.</blockquote>
The intelligence of our leaders hasn’t just declined, it has plummeted like a meteor out of the sky and formed a crater in the ground that goes five miles deep into the Earth. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We know that, because it never was this way until now. There was a time when our nation was led by men — and it used to be mostly men, let’s face it — who were articulate, intelligent, dignified, composed, and most importantly, boring. I’m not saying that they were always good at their jobs or always made wise decisions. That certainly wasn’t the case. But I’m simply trying to emphasize the fact that it is highly unusual, from the perspective of history, to have a congress with an average IQ of 85. Then again, when the average IQ of the country collapses, we would expect the country’s representatives to follow suit.
My only hope is that voters get tired of this. We don’t need to be entertained by politicians. They are not there to amuse us. They are not there to go viral. These are not social media influencers. We should have serious people leading us.
We need more than seriousness from them. We should also want them to be competent, and have integrity, and always put America and its people first. We have almost no one who checks any of those boxes, let alone all of them. But before any of that, they need to be serious people who take the job seriously. Yet we can only get serious kinds of leaders if we have serious voters who take the job of voting seriously. Because ultimately you get the leaders you deserve. And as sad as it is to say, this is what we deserve.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Chaos Breaks Out In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist On Planet Earth

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Matt Walsh

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A disturbing video was posted on Friday that allegedly showed Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a hotel in Los Angeles.
CNN, which obtained the video, said that the incident happened on March 5, 2016, at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.
The video purportedly shows Combs running down the hall after Ventura and catching up to her as she waited for an elevator.
Combs allegedly grabbed her, threw her on the ground, kicked her, and attempted to drag her back to the hotel room.
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She later slowly gets up and picks up a phone on the wall near the elevator as Combs walked back to the hotel room with her bags.
He later returned and appeared to shove her in a corner before sitting on a nearby chair and throwing an object at her.
WATCH:
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BREAKING
CNN has obtained footage of Diddy repeatedly beating his then girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway.
I want to note that Kimora Lee Simmons has warned people about Diddy’s conduct for years, and she has either been attacked for doing so or ignored. Diddy also… <a href="https://t.co/VS6rXczXWo">pic.twitter.com/VS6rXczXWo</a>
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Ventura filed a lawsuit against Combs in November accusing the music mogul of abuse.
Combs settled the lawsuit the following day.
Ben Brafman, an attorney for Combs, said that Combs &#8220;vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations.&#8221;
“A decision to settle a lawsuit, especially in 2023, is in no way an admission of wrongdoing,” he added. “Mr. Combs‘ decision to settle the lawsuit does not in any way undermine his flat-out denial of the claims. He is happy they got to a mutual settlement and wishes Ms. Ventura the best.”
The release of the video comes after federal law enforcement officials with the Department of Homeland Security executed raids on two homes belonging to Combs in March in connection to an alleged sex trafficking investigation.
Multiple women and at least one man have been interviewed by federal investigators “in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms,” NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-federal-investigation-homes-searched-rcna145006">reported</a> at the time.
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Ep. 1370 - Chaos Breaks Out In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist On Planet Earth

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Ep. 1492 - Remember Wuhan? Fauci Lied, People Died [Member Exclusive]

The NIH admits it funded gain of function research in Wuhan, NBC launches a show about “queer” animals, and The View attacks Catholicism.

Ep. 1492 - Remember Wuhan? Fauci Lied, People Died

The Timberwolves force game seven after beating the Nuggets by 45; Xander Schauffele shoots an opening round 62 at the PGA Championship; and we're breaking down 2024 football schedules.

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The Timberwolves force game seven after beating the Nuggets by 45; Xander Schauffele shoots an opening round 62 at the PGA Championship; and we're breaking down 2024 football schedules.

Toughest NFL Schedules in 2024

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/missouri" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Missouri</a> Attorney General Andrew Bailey said on Thursday that his office is &#8220;demanding accountability&#8221; after Kansas City doxxed Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on social media following a commencement speech he gave over the weekend.
&#8220;My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs,&#8221; Bailey posted on X. &#8220;I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion. Stay tuned.&#8221;
The official Kansas City X account, which stated what town Butker resides in, later deleted the post and issued an apology: &#8220;We apologies [sic] for our previous tweet. It was shared in error.&#8221;
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas acknowledged that the post was &#8220;clearly inappropriate.&#8221;
&#8220;A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.&#8221;
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A message appeared earlier this evening from a City public account.
The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The City has correctly apologized for the error, will review account access, and ensure nothing like it is shared in the future from public channels.
— Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuintonLucasKC/status/1790920537511805434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Butker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-kicker-slams-biden-and-dei-in-commencement-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped</a> President Joe Biden and woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies while delivering a commencement address at a Catholic liberal arts school on Saturday.
The three-time Super Bowl champion suggested that Biden, who, like Butler, is Catholic, has betrayed his faith with his support of abortion access.
“Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues,” Butker said during the undergraduate ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.
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Butker said “things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values in media, all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.”
The place kicker then made reference to Biden without mentioning his name, describing how the president made a sign of the cross during a pro-abortion speech by a fellow Democrat in Florida last month.
“Our nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,” Butker said.
“He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure to many people, it appears you can be both Catholic and pro-choice,” he added.
Biden is “not alone,” Butker went on.
“From the man behind the COVID lockdowns, to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common — they are Catholic,” Butker said. “This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn’t cut it.”
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Missouri’s Attorney General Vows To Hold Kansas City Accountable After Doxxing Kicker

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel-defense-forces-idf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel Defense Forces</a> (IDF) have discovered hundreds of tunnel shafts inside the Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza, including dozens of tunnels that cross into Egypt.
Israeli Deputy Attorney General Gilad Noam made the revelation while speaking at the International Court of Justice.
&#8220;Rafah, in particular, is a focal point for ongoing terrorist activity. It is a stronghold for Hamas&#8217; operators with several battalions belonging to the Rafah brigades entrenched in the area,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also present in Rafah is an intricate underground tunnel infrastructure that runs underneath the city and provides ample space for operators, command and control rooms, and military equipment.&#8221;
&#8220;Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have been identified in Rafah from which approximately 50 tunnels cross into Egypt,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;These tunnels are used by Hamas to supply itself with weapons and ammunition. It could potentially be used to smuggle out of Gaza hostages or Hamas senior operators.&#8221;
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Nearly 700 tunnel shafts have been identified in Rafah, with ~50 tunnels crossing into Egypt, revealed <a href="https://twitter.com/DrGiladNoam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrGiladNoam</a> at today&#8217;s sham <a href="https://twitter.com/CIJ_ICJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CIJ_ICJ</a> hearing.
Those tunnels are used to smuggle weapons to Hamas and can be used to smuggle senior terrorists and/or hostages out of Gaza. <a href="https://t.co/UAgvyTCoJk">pic.twitter.com/UAgvyTCoJk</a>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1791469078294458747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies&#8217; Long War Journal, noted that Israel has been very patient with Egypt while Egypt has been playing &#8220;spoiler during this crisis.&#8221;
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&#8220;After Cairo refused to let in Palestinian refugees — a temporary measure that would have shortened the Gaza war — Jerusalem assented to the positioning of heavy Egyptian reinforcements in the supposedly demilitarized Sinai to seal off the Rafah border,&#8221; Truzman said. &#8220;And all the Israelis have got in return has been vitriol and, most recently, Egyptian support for the foul allegations being leveled against them at The Hague. President Sisi is supposed to be a pragmatist rather than a populist. This cannot continue.&#8221;

Israeli Forces Highlight Alleged Hamas Infrastructure In Northern Gaza

IDF Discovers 700 Tunnel Shafts In Rafah, Including 50 That Cross Into Egypt

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Celebrities</a> slammed Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs on Friday after a disturbing video was published on Friday that allegedly showed him beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a hotel in Los Angeles several years ago.
CNN, which obtained the video, said that the incident happened on March 5, 2016, at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.
The video purportedly shows Combs running down the hall after Ventura and catching up to her as she waited for an elevator.
Combs allegedly grabbed her, threw her on the ground, kicked her, and attempted to drag her back to the hotel room. He later appeared to shove her in a corner before sitting on a nearby chair and throwing an object at her.
Rapper 50 Cent <a href="https://twitter.com/50cent/status/1791529907501113748" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> the video on X, writing: &#8220;Now I’m sure puffy didn’t do it, he is innocent this proves nothing ! This is what his lawyers are gonna say, God help us all.&#8221;
Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski responded to a post of the video on X by writing: &#8220;Monster.&#8221;
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy posted on X: &#8220;Throw Diddy in jail. Throw away the key. Throw away the key to whoever had this video and kept their mouth shut. I mean holy f***.&#8221;
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith said that Combs&#8217; career was &#8220;over&#8221; following the video&#8217;s release, which was viewed tens of millions of times across social media in just an hour.
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On the Diddy video <a href="https://t.co/Xnes6Z0BXw">pic.twitter.com/Xnes6Z0BXw</a>
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1791612106619412688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
The release of the video comes after federal law enforcement officials with the Department of Homeland Security executed raids on two homes belonging to Combs in March in connection to an alleged sex trafficking investigation.
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Multiple women and at least one man have been interviewed by federal investigators “in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms,” NBC News reported at the time.

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Celebrity World Slams Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs After Alleged Attack Video Surfaces

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An attorney for professional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">golfer</a> Scottie Scheffler said on Friday that the case against his client will either be dropped or they will take it to trial to fight it because his client &#8220;didn&#8217;t do anything wrong.&#8221;
The world&#8217;s No. 1 ranked golfer was booked into jail on multiple charges — including a felony — on Friday morning while trying to get into Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for the second round of the PGA Championship after there was an alleged misunderstanding with a police officer.
He was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic, according to a court document. The second-degree assault charge is a felony while the others are misdemeanors.
&#8220;Scottie was advised to go around and turn left into the facility to come and do his pre-round preparation. The officer who charged him obviously didn&#8217;t know that,&#8221; said Steve Romines, Scheffler&#8217;s lawyer. &#8220;And so, he did what he was instructed to do. And the officer who arresting didn&#8217;t think he was supposed to be doing that. And so that&#8217;s where the miscommunication occurred.&#8221;
Romines noted that Scheffler was in a marked courtesy vehicle with his credentials out when he drove up to the facility.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to talk to prosecutors,&#8221; he said. &#8220;[The charges will] either be dropped or we&#8217;ll go to trial because he didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. So we&#8217;re not interested in any sort of settlement negotiations or anything like that. He didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. It was just a big miscommunication.&#8221;
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He added that there was a &#8220;perfect storm of circumstances&#8221; in the area that heightened tensions, including a fatality that was down the road.
&#8220;One thing needs to be clear, he didn&#8217;t drive through any accident scene or any investigation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;None of that happened. That kind of misinformation is out there and that did not occur.&#8221;
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Scottie Scheffler&#8217;s lawyer, Steve Romines, clears up his client&#8217;s current legal situation following the events of Friday morning.
Live From the PGA Championship will have coverage on Golf Channel following the completion of play today. <a href="https://t.co/juVEzC3CHn">pic.twitter.com/juVEzC3CHn</a>
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) <a href="https://twitter.com/GolfChannel/status/1791582867195093317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

2024 PGA Championship – Round Two

Scottie Scheffler’s Lawyer: ‘We’re Not Interested In Any Sort Of Settlement’

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> slammed anti-Semitic leftists during a press conference this week, saying that they needed to learn their Middle East history.
DeSantis&#8217; remarks come after activists protested on college campuses late last month and earlier this month, setting up illegal encampments and harassing and assaulting Jews and law enforcement officials.
&#8220;They&#8217;re saying things like &#8216;from the river to the sea,&#8217; you know, that&#8217;s not some cheeky chant,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;They&#8217;re basically saying they want to see the destruction of the State of Israel and a second Holocaust. That&#8217;s what Hamas wants. That&#8217;s why Hamas baked babies and ovens. That&#8217;s why they were raping the mothers. That&#8217;s why they were beheading elderly people on October 7.&#8221;
The governor noted that the activists never protested Hamas after its October 7 terrorist attack, saying that they were &#8220;very quiet&#8221; then.
&#8220;I&#8217;d also say people should learn their history,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The fact of the matter is, there&#8217;s never been a country or state called Palestine. Jews have the longest connection to that territory, it goes back to Biblical times thousands and thousands of years.&#8221;
&#8220;They were displaced by hostile forces over the years, but just in the immediate history until World War I, that was hundreds of years of rule by the Ottoman Empire, by Turks, that was not a Palestinian state,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And then the Brits took it over after World War I, they had the Mandate for Palestine. And the vision was to have a Jewish state and an Arab state. And then the UN, after World War II, adopted Jewish state, Arab state. Jews accepted it, founded a modern Israel; the Arabs rejected it and went to war against Israel, a war that they lost last.&#8221;
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Gov DeSantis tells the truth: &#8220;The fact of the matter is, there&#8217;s never been a country or state called Palestine.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/UGbJ3IgXzg">pic.twitter.com/UGbJ3IgXzg</a>
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1791298047747534976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

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DeSantis Slams Anti-Semitic Leftists: ‘People Should Learn Their History’

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) triggered Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday when he criticized a congressional hearing during which she recently made news after she got into a verbal spat with other female lawmakers.
Fetterman commented on the childish drama that unfolded yesterday on the House Oversight Committee when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) got in a verbal altercation after Crockett insulted Greene&#8217;s intelligence and Greene responded by insulting her appearance.
The incident quickly escalated from there, with other members getting involved, including AOC.
&#8220;In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,&#8221; Fetterman posted on X. &#8220;Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.&#8221;
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In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show.
Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show. <a href="https://t.co/y6wxLX5FIV">pic.twitter.com/y6wxLX5FIV</a>
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1791471678137966855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez responded by lashing out at Fetterman, and appeared to take a shot at his mental fitness for office, calling him &#8220;confused,&#8221; which comes after he suffered a serious stroke in 2022 and has had lingering issues related to speech and hearing ever since.
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&#8220;I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a &#8216;both sides&#8217; issue,&#8221; AOC posted. &#8220;But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.&#8221;
&#8220;And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Enjoy your Friday.&#8221;
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I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague and seem to be confused about racism and misogyny being a “both sides” issue.
But I stand up to bullies, instead of becoming one.
And to the women of Pennsylvania: I’d stand up for you too.
Enjoy your Friday. <a href="https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y">https://t.co/cInF4YXO2y</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1791489796168122700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Fetterman Triggers AOC With Criticism Over ‘Jerry Springer’-Esque Congressional Hearing

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In the throws of the 2024 presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, social media giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meta">Meta</a>, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has taken steps to suppress political content on its platforms.
The new feature rolled out <a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-our-approach-to-political-content-on-instagram-and-threads">earlier this year</a> prevents any content flagged as “political” from being recommended to users on Instagram.  Posts “about laws, elections, or social topics” will not not be displayed in any of the platform’s curated recommendation systems, which drives a significant amount of follower growth for platforms. 
The company claims the filter is not meant to limit the exposure of any candidate or publisher specifically, and is instead meant to insulate users from politically charged content in general. &#8220;Our goal is to preserve the ability for people to choose to interact with political content, while respecting each person&#8217;s appetite for it,&#8221; Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/26/1240737627/meta-limit-political-content-instagram-facebook-opt-out">said</a>.
According to<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/"> Pew Research</a>, half of all American adults got their news from social media – last year 30% of all American adults consumed news on Facebook at least “sometimes” and 16% got their news from Instagram. 
The filter was automatically implemented for all accounts by default, and has to be manually disabled by each user.
In order to disable the filter, you’ll need to go to your profile page and tap the icon on the uppermost right to open &#8220;Settings and Activity.&#8221; From there, you’ll need to scroll down to the &#8220;what you see&#8221; section, where you&#8217;ll find &#8220;content preferences.&#8221; Click &#8220;political content,&#8221; and then you’ll need to select the “don’t limit political content from people you don’t follow” option.
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As of now the feature does not appear to have been implemented on Facebook, which is still the most popular platform for online news. The Daily Wire has historically been one of the <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/the-daily-wire-top-publisher-on-facebook-in-first-quarter-of-2022-3-of-top-5-are-right-leaning/">top publishers on the platform</a> – last year it was revealed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs">officials from the Biden administration pressured Meta to redirect traffic away from right-leaning </a>outlets, and specifically singled out The Daily Wire as a site they wanted to censor.
The policy has been criticized as overly broad – the filter is applied to all accounts by default and has to manually be disabled. Meta has also been criticized for limiting voter access to information about candidates and causes during an election year.
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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has taken a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazilian-supreme-court-takes-on-elon-musk-and-x-in-social-media-crackdown">strong anti-censorship stance</a> since it was purchased by Elon Musk in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter-as-sale-is-now-final-top-execs-fired-report-says">2022</a>, and it is the fifth most popular platform for consuming news among the social media giants, after Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and controversial Chinese-owned TikTok, which is set to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-divestment-ban-what-you-need-to-know-5e1ff786e89da10a1b799241ae025406">be banned in the United States</a> early next year if parent company ByteDance doesn&#8217;t sell it.
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Big Tech Is Filtering The Politics Out Of Your Social Feed. Here’s How To Stop Them.

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Although the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a> tried to distance itself from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker after his openly traditional remarks at Benedictine College, some of which were specifically directed toward women, they are still making money off of him: as of Friday, demand for woman’s jerseys with his name has been so strong the NFL store has reportedly has sold out.
“The jersey shot up the best-selling <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/harrison-butkers-jersey-among-the-most-popular-selling-following-college-address" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rankings at the NFL store Thursday</a>, and as of publication Friday, all of the women&#8217;s jerseys are out of stock,” <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/harrison-butker-womens-jerseys-sold-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Outkick</a> reported on Friday, adding, &#8220;Even attempting to build a custom women&#8217;s jersey from a blank one with Butker&#8217;s name and number only gives a small as an option. The same is true for all custom female jerseys, which would indicate blank jerseys aren&#8217;t kept well-stocked.”
Butker’s remarks directed toward women outraged feminists and delighted traditionalists; he stated:
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I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.
I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I&#8217;m on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I&#8217;m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.
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After Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College last week, Jonathan Beane, NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, responded, “Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
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A Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-kansas-city-chiefs-to-dismiss-harrison-butker-for-discriminatory-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> calling for the three-time Super Bowl champion to be booted from the Chiefs for his “discriminatory” remarks has totaled more than 190,000 signatures.

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Illegal immigrant crossings on America’s northern border with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada</a> are on track to break the previous record, which was set just last year.
Customs and Border Patrol agents recorded 9,460 illegal crossings on the northern border thus far in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in October 2023. The figure is <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/illegal-crossings-at-us-canada-border-on-pace-to-shatter-record/">already nearing</a> the record set by the 2023 fiscal year, when 10,021 illegal crossings were recorded.
With five months remaining in the 2024 fiscal year and summer on its way, illegal crossings on the northern border are poised to surge past last year’s record. The Swanton Border Patrol Sector, which covers New Hampshire, Vermont, and parts of New York, has been one of the busiest areas on the northern border. Some <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/illegal-crossings-at-us-canada-border-on-pace-to-shatter-record/">residents</a> along the northern border have resorted to carrying firearms to ensure their personal protection after witnessing groups of illegal immigrants coming across the border.
The surge of illegal immigrants on the northern border comes as the United States has experienced record-breaking surges of illegal immigration under the Biden administration, with over 9.5 million <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">nationwide encounters</a> and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report">estimated illegal immigrant gotaways</a> recorded under his term.
The drastic increase in illegal crossings on the southern border have resulted in some Border Patrol agents from northern sectors being <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/illegal-crossings-at-us-canada-border-on-pace-to-shatter-record/">reassigned</a> to the south, leaving America’s border with Canada increasingly vulnerable.
The foreign-born population present in the United States has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-born-population-hits-new-high-with-surge-under-biden-fueled-by-illegal-immigration">spiked to a new high</a> under Biden at a whopping 51.6 million, an increase of 6.6 million since the Democrat took office. The increase has been primarily driven by illegal immigration.
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Immigration has now become one of the most important issues for voters as we near the 2024 presidential election, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-colorado-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-as-2024-election-draws-closer">multiple</a> polls <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-massachusetts-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-facing-the-state">finding</a> that voters consider illegal immigration to be one of the biggest issues <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration">facing the country</a>.
Biden currently faces <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/voters-say-immigration-is-top-issue-facing-country-biden-faces-widespread-disapproval-on-immigration">widespread disapproval</a> among voters for his handling of the border crisis, with one recent poll finding that Americans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-americans-trust-trump-over-biden-to-handle-economy-immigration-crime">trust former President Donald Trump</a> more than the Democrat incumbent to handle immigration, while other polls have found that Americans are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-half-of-americans-support-mass-deportations-of-illegal-immigrants">in favor</a> of Trump’s plan to deport illegal immigrants.

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A total of seven pro-life activists were sentenced to prison this week over a protest at a Washington, D.C., <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> facility in 2020.
Three activists were sentenced on Tuesday and another four on Wednesday after they were convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act Act and conspiracy against rights, a charge that could have led to over a decade in prison. All seven were prosecuted by the Biden administration after they staged a sit-in at the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility.
On Wednesday, Jonathan Darnel, Herb Geraghty, Jean Marshall, and Joan Bell were all <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-defendants-sentenced-federal-conspiracy-against-rights-and-freedom-access-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to prison. Darnel got 34 months in prison, Geraghty got 27 months, Marshall got 24 months, and Bell got 27 months. The sentences followed Tuesday’s sentencing of Lauren Handy to 57 months in prison, as well as John Hinshaw (21 months) and William Goodman (27 months).
During the protest, the pro-life protesters sang songs, prayed, locked arms in front of the facility’s staff entrance, and attached themselves with ropes and chains to block doors inside the building.
In March 2022, authorities were called to the home of Handy to recover the bodies of five premie-size aborted babies. Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) activists previously <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1790461280009982275" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they found the box of aborted babies that was on its way from Washington Surgi-Clinic to Curtis Bay Medical Waste Facility to be incinerated. The PAAU activists called police and asked for autopsies on the babies.
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“As evidenced by today&#8217;s sentencings, the FBI and our judicial system will not tolerate the obstruction of civil rights,” said David Sundberg of the FBI Washington Field Office. “The FBI will continue to investigate FACE Act violations in all jurisdictions, so patients and providers can exercise their right to receive or provide lawful reproductive health care without the threat of violence or intimidation.”
Also set to be sentenced over the D.C. protest is 59-year-old Heather Idoni, who was also convicted earlier this year of similar charges over a protest at a Tennessee abortion facility.
On Thursday, several Republican lawmakers sent a <a href="https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2024-05-16_-_member_letter_on_healthcare_for_marshall_and_idoni.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Marshals Service that Idoni and Marshall were not getting necessary medical treatment while in federal custody. The questions relate to treatment of Idoni for a heart condition and diabetes and hip surgery for Marshall.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was the subject of a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html">report</a> that attempted to tie him to supporters of former President Donald Trump who breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 — but the justice himself tells a very different story.
&#8220;At Justice Alito’s House, a &#8216;Stop the Steal&#8217; Symbol on Display,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYT headline blared</a>, with a sub-headline explaining, &#8220;An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.&#8221;
The piece briefly referenced a spat with a neighbor and quoted Alito as saying that he had not made the decision to fly the flag on January 17, 2021: &#8220;I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag. It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.&#8221;
Justice Alito explained the context in further detail to &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; anchor — and former Supreme Court correspondent — Shannon Bream, saying that his wife had been repeatedly provoked by neighbors hurling insults and using foul language before she resorted to flying the flag. Bream said that she &#8220;spoke directly&#8221; with Alito about the report.
&#8220;In addition to what&#8217;s in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a &#8216;F*** Trump&#8217; sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21,&#8221; Bream began in a series of posts on X. &#8220;Mrs. Alito brought this up with the neighbor.&#8221;
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&#8220;According to Justice Alito, things escalated and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing Mrs. Alito and blaming her for the Jan 6th attacks,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;Justice Alito says he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood and there were words between Mrs. Alito and a male at the home with the sign. Alito says the man engaged in vulgar language, &#8216;including the c-word,'&#8221; Bream continued.
&#8220;Following that exchange, Mrs. Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down &#8216;for a short time.&#8217; Justice Alito says some neighbors on his street are &#8216;very political&#8217; and acknowledges it was a very heated time in January 2021,&#8221; Bream&#8217;s thread concluded.
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The New York Times piece quoted several experts who argued that the appearance was all that mattered; whether or not he had made the decision to fly the flag, Alito was ethically and morally responsible for its presence at his home and how that might be viewed by others.
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Judicial experts said in interviews that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito’s impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot.
The mere impression of political opinion can be a problem, the ethics experts said. “It might be his spouse or someone else living in his home, but he shouldn’t have it in his yard as his message to the world,” said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
This is “the equivalent of putting a ‘Stop the Steal’ sign in your yard, which is a problem if you’re deciding election-related cases,” she said.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/video-games" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EA Sports</a> released the official trailer for their new &#8220;College Football 25&#8221; video game on Thursday, the first time in more than a decade that the company produced the game after a lawsuit was filed in 2013 over name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights.
The game will be available for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S starting on July 19 and will allow players to play all 134 FBS schools in all modes of the game, including Dynasty, Road To Glory, Road to the College Football Playoff, and College Football Ultimate Team.
“EA SPORTS College Football is BACK! We’ve felt the passion and anticipation of college football fans every step of the way since we first announced this game, and we’re ecstatic to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been building,” said Daryl Holt, SVP and Group GM, EA SPORTS. “College Football 25 is built with authenticity at its core, inspired by experiences our fans have loved from our games, and fully evolved to reflect modern college football – all of which will immerse them in the sights, sounds, and true-to-life gameplay of the sport they love.”
The official trailer released by EA Sports showcases the major advancements made in the game since the last time the studio released the game.
The game&#8217;s cover features the best players in college football, including  Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, and Colorado wide receiver/defensive back Travis Hunter.
Top commentators broadcast the game, including Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, and David Pollack.
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The man who attacked former House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s</a> (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer in 2022 after breaking into their San Francisco home was sentenced to decades behind bars on Friday.
The sentencing comes after a federal jury in San Francisco found David DePape guilty in November on one count of assault on the immediate family member of a federal official and attempted kidnapping of a federal official.
The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement: &#8220;David DePape was just sentenced to 30 years in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for his violent attack on the spouse of the then-Speaker of the House.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Pelosi said in a statement that the family &#8220;couldn&#8217;t be prouder of their Pop and his tremendous courage in saving his own life on the night of the attack and in testifying in this case.&#8221;
&#8220;Speaker Pelosi and her family are immensely grateful to all who have sent love and prayers over the last eighteen months, as Mr. Pelosi continues his recovery,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Given the ongoing state court proceedings, Speaker Pelosi and the Pelosi family will not be offering further comment on this matter at this time.&#8221;
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A spokesperson for Speaker Pelosi issued this statement on behalf of the Pelosi family: <a href="https://t.co/RjbcLb3bDu">pic.twitter.com/RjbcLb3bDu</a>
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Prosecutors said DePape broke into the Pelosis’ home in San Francisco with a “violent plan to kidnap Nancy Pelosi,” who was not at the abode at the time, and “to hold her hostage,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/depape-verdict-guilty/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>. Paul Pelosi, who is now 84, managed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paul-pelosis-frantic-911-call-from-bathroom-saved-him-from-maniac-accused-child-molester-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call police</a>, and when officers arrived at the house, body camera footage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-footage-of-attack-on-paul-pelosi-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> DePape attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer before law enforcement took DePape into custody.
Paul Pelosi received treatment for a skull fracture, as well as other injuries, and was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paul-pelosi-released-from-hospital-after-violent-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> from the hospital in early November 2022. He spoke during the trial, sharing details about the harrowing experience and stating, “I’ve made the best effort I possibly can to not relive this.”
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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When college and university students — whose historical and constitutional obliviousness is matched only by their self-assured morality of outrage and entitlement — face no discipline from the adults who have abandoned education in favor of indoctrination, the barbaric antics now on display are the inevitable result. 
The worst, and perhaps only, lesson these students have learned is that speech is violence if they disagree with it, and violence is speech if it serves their cause. The Marxists’ “long march through the institutions” may be a pyrrhic victory ending in the destruction of the very institutions they sought to control, if university presidents fail their students again by not enforcing sane policies and the law. 
The purpose of education is to instill in the next generation the civic virtues necessary to live as free men among free men. On many university campuses today, we see the result of abandoning those fundamental precepts.
Free speech is an essential component of a free society. Such a statement is as self-evident a truth as those named in our Declaration of Independence. There is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment, nor should there be.
To revile another person, a fellow image bearer of God, for his ethnicity or religion is arguably the lowest form of human speech and indicative of a much deeper stain on the human condition.
“For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” So said the central figure in the history of the world, a Jewish carpenter, in His most famous sermon. The Judeo-Christian principles so prevalent in the minds and writings of the founding generation led to the establishment of our nation not as a theocracy, but a republic. One in which our Constitution is recognized as the highest civil law of the land, empowering government to protect the God-given rights of the people. 
Anti-Semitic speech, as ignorant and hateful as it is, remains protected speech. But that does not give the speakers free rein to incite violence, trespass on school property, damage or destroy university property, or physically harass and intimidate Jewish students or block them from entering campus, as we have seen at Columbia, UCLA, and elsewhere.
University presidents should use their authority to distinguish between simply despicable words and clearly illegal actions — and act accordingly. Some of the most valuable lessons in life are learned the hard way, and university presidents should be teaching some of their students a hard and valuable lesson right now.
The University of Chicago, and the University of Florida stand out as examples of rational leadership demonstrating the proper balance between respect for free speech and the rule of law. 
There is no right to a college education in our Constitution, or in the “laws of nature and of nature’s God.” To foster an environment of learning and peaceful interaction requires discipline of those who disrupt that environment.
Expulsion from the university is a necessary first step, while criminal penalties for criminal action can be left to local prosecutors. Anyone guilty of a crime while here as a guest of our nation through a student visa should lose the privilege immediately.
Aristotle once said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Centuries later, our nation’s poet laureate, Robert Frost, would echo Aristotle when he stated, “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.”
Judging by this standard, many of our universities have failed to truly educate our youth. Trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speech codes have sprung up like weeds to choke out free expression and civil discourse.
What we are witnessing on college campuses across our nation is the fundamental misunderstanding of the right to free speech and its accompanying duties and limits. Worse, we’re seeing that combined with indoctrination into the toxic, Marxist ideology incompatible with a free, civil society and a constitutional republic. Those who have sewn to the wind for decades are now reaping the inevitable whirlwind.
Yet, even amidst this chaos, there is a teachable moment to restore ordered liberty and return to the classical liberal tradition. These principles, deeply rooted in American soil, are not dormant. If we muster the moral courage and clarity to cultivate them, our nation can renew the bloom of Western Civilization and human flourishing once again.
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Lathan Watts is vice president of public affairs for <a href="http://www.adflegal.org/">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ADFLegal">@ADFLegal</a>).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-music">Country singer</a> Lainey Wilson said her farmer ancestors passed down their work ethic.
The 31-year-old Grammy winner <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/yellowstone-star-lainey-wilson-credits-long-line-farmers-work-ethic">discussed</a> the value of hard work while speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of the 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">ACM Awards</a>. 
&#8220;Yes, my parents are, they&#8217;re the ones to blame. They&#8217;re the ones to blame for all of this,&#8221; Wilson joked. &#8220;They have truly supported me from the beginning.&#8221; 
“I truly do think it is from being from a long line of farmers. I mean, on my mom&#8217;s side and my daddy&#8217;s side. They rolled their sleeves up. They got to work every single day and had good years and bad years, but at the end of the day, they loved it,&#8221; the “Yellowstone” actress continued. 
Wilson told the outlet, &#8220;So that meant that they got up and they did it again, and they&#8217;d fall down and they&#8217;d do it again. They just had no other option and my daddy has always tried to remind me that he worked really hard, but he&#8217;s not just working hard for himself. He&#8217;s working hard for me and my sister and my mama and my sister&#8217;s kids and one day my kids,&#8221; Wilson continued. 
The singer-songwriter also said she believes it’s &#8220;really important to keep…in mind&#8221; that hard work is &#8220;just life.&#8221; 
&#8220;It kind of takes a little bit of pressure off of you when you take yourself out of it, I guess it makes working hard a lot easier,&#8221; Wilson said.
She also explained how her song “Hang Tight Honey” was inspired by her upbringing and her beloved small town of Baskin, Louisiana. 
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&#8220;When I think about who I am today, it truly is because of the place and the people that raised me. It&#8217;s always important to tip your hat to those people, and it&#8217;s very important for me to remember where I come from,&#8221; Wilson told Fox News. 
&#8220;During this crazy time, my life has changed, and I feel like I&#8217;m not like I&#8217;m not changing, but my life is, if that makes any sense at all. I feel like it&#8217;s important for me to remember where I come from and remind myself.&#8221; 
She went on, &#8220;It&#8217;s cool that I get to write this music and I get to remind myself of that every single night. At the end of the day, in order for me to be able to tell the kind of stories that I&#8217;m supposed to tell and relate to my fans, I got to keep living as normal of a life as I possibly can. That&#8217;s why I keep my people close and that&#8217;s why I keep the people of Baskin, my town of 200 people, close.&#8221;

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into a heated spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a Thursday committee hearing, referring to the Georgia congresswoman condescendingly as &#8220;baby girl&#8221; and demanding she &#8220;strike&#8221; her words.
The tiff began as the House Oversight Committee met to discuss holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his classified documents probe — a subpoena the White House blocked by citing &#8220;executive privilege.&#8221;
Greene sparked the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) when she asked whether any Democrats had employed the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan — who is currently presiding over former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Manhattan hush money trial — a political consultant whose firm has worked for Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY).
&#8220;I’d like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter,&#8221; Greene began.
&#8220;Please tell me what that has to do with Merrick Garland,&#8221; Crockett objected.
&#8220;Oh, Goldman. That’s right. He’s advising. Ok,&#8221; Greene continued.
&#8220;Do you know what we’re here for? Do you know we’re here —&#8221; Crockett tried again.
After a little bit of back and forth, Greene took a shot at Crockett: &#8220;I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your –&#8221;
&#8220;Hold on! Hold on! Order,&#8221; Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) cut in. &#8220;We have a point of order. Mr. Lynch, state your point.&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask the parliamentarian if your conduct here in raising money in connection with this hearing is referable to the Ethics Committee within this hearing. There’s a motion in order to refer your conduct and your abuse –&#8221; Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said, prompting an immediate rebuttal from Comer.
&#8220;That’s not a point of order,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I do have a point of order. And I would like to move to take down Ms. Greene’s words,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said then. &#8220;That is absolutely unacceptable! How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person!&#8221;
&#8220;Are your feelings hurt?&#8221; Greene asked.
&#8220;Move her words down!&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez shouted.
&#8220;Aww,&#8221; Greene mocked.
&#8220;Oh! Girl, baby, girl!&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said in condescending tones.
&#8220;Oh, really?&#8221; Greene prodded.
&#8220;Don’t even play!&#8221; from Ocasio-Cortez.
&#8220;Baby, girl? I don’t think so,&#8221; Greene shot back.
&#8220;We are gonna move and we are gonna take your words down,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued.
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Rep. Greene makes fun of Rep. Crockett&#39;s fake eyelashes and all hell breaks loose. 
You have to watch the entire exchange. 
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Greene then agreed to &#8220;strike her words&#8221; but said that she had no intention of offering the apology Ocasio-Cortez demanded.
Greene then suggested that Ocasio-Cortez debate her — an offer the New York congresswoman rejected out of hand. Comer caller for order again, clarifying for the record that Greene would agree to strike her words — although she repeated her prior statement that she would not apologize.
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Crockett then interjected with another point of order, and took a shot at Greene. &#8220;I’m just curious. To better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleached blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?&#8221;
&#8220;A what now?&#8221; Comer asked, and all hell broke loose for a second time.

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Legendary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">American Pie</a>” singer Don McLean had some words of criticism for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry">Prince Harry</a> after the former working royal family member criticized Elvis Presley’s former residence in his 2023 memoir, “Spare.”
“Dark, claustrophobic. I walked around saying, ‘The King lived here, you say? Really?’” the Duke of Sussex wrote after visiting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Graceland</a> in Memphis.
Harry said he stood “in one tiny room with loud furniture and shag carpet and thought, ‘The King’s interior designer must have been on acid.’”
When the memoir first came out, McLean expressed his outrage on X. “Prince Harry should shut his mouth about Graceland and Elvis. He is a hot house orchid, a show horse who never did a thing,” he <a href="https://x.com/donmclean/status/1616890039509872640">wrote</a> at the time. 
The musician just expanded on those thoughts in a new interview, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13416721/Prince-Harry-shut-mouth-just-doesnt-America-American-Pie-singer-Don-McLean-11-million-divorce-young-model-girlfriend-horse-prince-learn-manners.html">telling</a> The Daily Mail, &#8220;[Prince Harry] doesn’t understand that Elvis is like the poor man’s king. He came from nowhere and his recordings are among the greatest ever made.&#8221;
“His family were as poor as they could be and Harry criticized Elvis’s home as if he’s comparing it to Buckingham Palace, and that misses the point completely,” McLean added. “Here’s a fellow who has been brought up to be mannerly, but you don’t criticize America when you’re living here as our guest.”
“He just doesn’t get America,” the singer-songwriter added.
Despite performing one of the most well-known and hotly debated songs of the 20th century, which McLean still receives six-figure royalty checks for, the 78-year-old performer is still making music. He just released a new album, “American Boys.”
He also told The Daily Mail that while he “never [has] to work again,” he’ll still perform shows as long as it’s not a lengthy tour. “I’ll go over for two or three shows. I love the British audience,” he told the outlet. 
McLean also said he’s living comfortably. When asked if his estimated net worth of $40 million was accurate, the musician replied, “That figure is very low. It’s actually more than double that.”
He added, “I own my records, books, trademarks, everything. And I’m a bond investor so I could use the money I’m worth and make probably a billion dollars; but the way I feel, I’ve been so lucky to make the money I’ve made that I’m really happy where I am.”

Don McLean and Prince Harry

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