After rejecting assertions of being &#8220;gender fluid,&#8221; actor Billy Dee Williams now says that Disney made a mistake by turning the iconic character Lando Calrissian into a pansexual for the &#8220;Solo: A Star Wars Story&#8221; movie, arguing that it may have hurt the film&#8217;s overall box office success.
“I think that’s the reason they didn’t have the success they could have had,” Williams told <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/billy-dee-williams-star-wars-lando-912372/">Rolling Stone</a>. “Because they were going for something that was topical, instead of an adventure that’s far beyond those questions. If you’re talking about this huge, incredible story, why lock yourself into this tiny moment between a character like Lando and his robot friend?”
Last year, prior to the release of &#8220;Solo,&#8221; screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan confirmed that Lando was a pansexual, meaning someone who swings for all different sorts of teams.
“There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” Kasdan told the Huffington Post at the time. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity – sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.”
“He doesn’t make any hard and fast rules. I think it’s fun,” Kasdan <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lando-calrissian-sexual-fluidity-solo-star-wars_us_5af77d59e4b00d7e4c1b37a9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>. “I don’t know where it will go.”
Kasdan also indicated that the movie dropped hints about sexuality in the “Star Wars” universe and how it differs from our world.
“There’s a line that [Jon Favreau’s character, Rio] has where he’s asking Han about the girl that he left behind, and he says, ‘Does she have big teeth?’” Jonathan Kasdan <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lando-calrissian-sexual-fluidity-solo-star-wars_us_5af77d59e4b00d7e4c1b37a9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explained.</a> “It’s a joke in the movie, but we did want to hit on this idea that people’s ideas of what they’re attracted to all over the galaxy are very, very different and not exactly as set as ours are.”
“Solo” went on to drastically underperform at the box office.
Actor Billy Dee Williams made headlines last week when he told Esquire that he likes to refer to himself in both the masculine and the feminine. However, when social liberals interpreted his comments as being indicative of some gender-fluid identity, Williams rebuked them.
“What the hell is gender fluid?” Williams told <a href="https://theundefeated.com/features/billy-dee-williams-star-wars-what-the-hell-is-gender-fluid/">The Undefeated</a>. “But what I was talking about was about men getting in touch with their softer side of themselves. There’s a phrase that was coined by Carl G. Jung, who was a psychiatrist, who was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud, and they had a splitting of the ways because they had different ideas about the … what do you call it? Consciousness. Unconscious. It’s collective unconsciousness. But he coined a phrase that’s, ‘<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freudian-sip/201103/jung-dummies-animus-planet-0">Anima animus</a>.’ And anima means that is the female counterpart of the male self, and the animus is the male counterpart of the female.”
“So, that’s what I was referring to,” Williams continued. “I was talking about men getting in touch with the female side of themselves. I wasn’t talking about sex, I wasn’t talking about being gay or straight. People should read [Jung]. I mean, it would be an interesting education for a lot of people.”
“No, no, no, I’m not gay – by any stretch of the imagination,” he added. “Not that I have anything against gay people. But personally? Not gay.”

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And the marketing stunt of the year award goes to &#8230; Ryan Reynolds.
Capitalizing off the fervor over the viral Peloton commercial in which a husband gives the exercise bike to his attractive wife for Christmas, a new commercial from the brand Aviation Gin (owned by actor Ryan Reynolds) featured the actress who has become known throughout the halls of social media as the &#8220;Peloton Girl.”
&#8220;Exercise bike not included,&#8221; Reynolds cheekily said in the caption while announcing the ad on Twitter. Take a look:
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Starting in extreme close-up, the 40-second ad begins with the Peloton Girl actress looking into the fourth-wall as if processing a great trauma as she stares down a glass of gin at a bar table. Sitting beside her are her dumbfounded but supportive friends, who both ponder on how best to console her seemingly mysterious anguish. Suddenly, the actress breaks the dreaded ice of silence when she utters, &#8220;This gin is really smooth.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; her friend replies. &#8220;We can get you another one if you like.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re safe here,&#8221; the other friend says comfortingly.
Feeling relaxed, the Peloton Girl actress raises a glass and says, &#8220;To new beginnings.&#8221; After a brief toast, the friends watch helplessly as the girl downs her glass of gin in a fit of desperation.
&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be a fun night,&#8221; the friend says as the glass empties.
In the final shot on the Aviation Gin bottle, an enthusiastic voice exclaims, &#8220;You look great by the way.&#8221;
Earlier this week, the halls of social media lit up with controversy about the Peloton exercise bike, which seemed to stoke all kinds of mockery from various sections of society. Feminists derided it for alleged sexism while others just found it incomprehensible and somewhat ridiculous.
Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kjbw/peloton-commercial-holiday-advertisement">Vice writer</a> Katie Way characterized it:
<blockquote>To anyone who hasn’t seen a commercial for the wildly expensive subscription home-exercise bike, the horror imbued in the scene above may feel obvious or overwrought. To that I say: Watch the clip, and tell me this shit isn’t wildly sinister. Her grim motivation that pushes her to drag herself out of bed combined with exclaiming at the camera how blatantly, inexplicably nervous the Peloton makes her paint a bleak portrait of a woman in the thrall of a machine designed to erode her spirit as it sculpts her quads.</blockquote>
The conversation became so hot that the actor who played the husband <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-peloton-husband-responds-to-becoming-a-symbol-of-the-patriarchy-over-that-viral-ad-2019-12-06">lamented how</a> his face somehow became synonymous with sexism.
“People turned down a pretty dark path and it turned into a nasty thing,&#8221; the actor told &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221; &#8220;My image is being associated with sexism, with the patriarchy, with abuse, with these words that I am seeing people write about me – that’s not who I am.”
“I currently sit here hoping that I’ll be able to continue auditioning for commercials without any taint, and that if my students happen to find the commercial and recognize me, they won’t think about me any different than they already know me,” he told Psychology Today. “If recognized on the street, what will people’s first opinions be of me?”

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There must be something about the Christmas season that brings the Melania Trump haters out in force. Between the attacks on her White House decor and her fashion choices, the first lady just never seems to escape them.
After a Washington Post fashion critic trashed Melania for wearing a white coat in the video debuting this year&#8217;s Christmas decorations, another columnist with the newspaper argued that the first lady may be seeing &#8220;coded messages&#8221; through her fashion choices.
In an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-melania-trump-sending-coded-messages-or-are-we-just-talking-to-ourselves/2019/12/05/98bf304c-1543-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a> published on Thursday, writer Monica Hesse wondered aloud if Melania has attempted to make her fashion &#8220;mean something.&#8221; She based her argument on an upcoming biography from CNN&#8217;s Kate Bennett, titled &#8220;Free, Melania.&#8221;
&#8220;Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves?&#8221; the story&#8217;s headline reads before segueing into gross speculation about Melania&#8217;s choice of outfits.
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&#8220;After years of examining the first lady, for example, Bennett has concluded that there are no sartorial “coincidences” when it comes to Melania. She believes Melania’s suffragist white suits are intentional,&#8221; argued Hesse. &#8220;Melania’s &#8216;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/11/melania-trumps-pussy-bow-blouse-has-nearly-sold-out/?tid=lk_inline_manual_8">pussy bow&#8217;</a> blouse, famously worn after the release of President Trump’s leaked &#8216;Access Hollywood&#8217; footage, was intentional. Pants? Intentional, and potentially chosen to stick it to her husband on occasions when the first couple are arguing: The president prefers women in dresses.&#8221;
As to the infamous &#8220;I really don’t care, do u?&#8221; jacket she wore when leaving to visit migrant children at the southern border, Hesse noted how Bennett&#8217;s book argued the move was meant to actually take a stab at Ivanka Trump, of all people.
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&#8220;The message wasn’t referring to the situation at the border, as Melania’s detractors had accused, nor to negative press coverage, which was the explanation put forth by Melania’s camp,&#8221; continued Hesse. &#8220;Rather, the jacket was a message for . . . Ivanka Trump? Ivanka is the Zara fan, Bennett argues, and the jacket was Melania’s way of taunting her for trying to take credit for pushing her dad to end family separation.&#8221;
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While Hesse concedes that this speculation into Melania Trump&#8217;s choice of fashion may be an exercise in futility, she nonetheless wants to hope that the first lady is some sort of secret leftist mole in the White House conveying subliminal messages meant to deride her husband &#8212; a beacon of hope, if you will.
&#8220;I have wondered whether Melania Trump is a genius,&#8221; Hesse wrote. &#8220;I have wondered whether she&#8217;s an idiot. I have wondered why I wonder about her at all. I am grateful this is Kate Bennett&#8217;s task, not mine, and Bennett comes down believing that Melania is an independent thinker and a wickedly intelligent operator: pragmatic, confident, warmer than she often appears and excellent with children.&#8221;
&#8220;I would like Melania Trump to mean something. I would like for her to mean something in the way that we would all like any of this chaotic era to mean anything, because the alternative is that we&#8217;re just living in chaos, in a country led by chaotic people.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-melania-trump-coded-messages">Fox News</a>, Hesse has since been getting mercilessly trolled online. The report follows a previous article from Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cold-dismissive-washington-post-blasts-first-lady-melania-for-her-coat">said</a> that the first lady&#8217;s coat worn during her Christmas video suggested a “cold, dismissive aloofness.”
“The coat looks ridiculous,” said Givhan. “But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction. It’s a discomforting affectation taken to a ludicrous extreme. In a video that is intended to celebrate the warmth and welcoming spirit of the holiday season, that simple flourish exudes cold, dismissive aloofness.”

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At least one LGBTQ advocate has expressed dismay over the fact that failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton denied rumors of ever having a lesbian affair.
Earlier this week, shock jock Howard Stern pushed more than a few of Hillary&#8217;s buttons when he asked rather forthrightly on his radio show if the former first lady secretly swings for the other team.
“Well, contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/howard-stern-asks-hillary-to-go-on-the-record-youve-never-had-lesbian-affair">Hillary told Stern</a>.
“Raise your right hand,” responded Stern. “You’ve never had a lesbian affair.”
“Never, never, never!” Clinton said as she began laughing. “Never even been tempted. I dated a lot of different people, and I liked a lot of them. I was pretty popular. I was OK popular … boys were not my problem.”
Speaking with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hillary-clinton-puts-lesbian-rumors-bed-never-even-been-tempted-n1096021" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a>, reporter Trish Bendix, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and winner of the 2015 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for excellence in LGBT media, said she did not appreciate how lesbianism came across as salacious. She took particular issue with Hillary&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;tempted.&#8221;
“It&#8217;s so frustrating when public figures like Hillary feel the need to dispel lesbian rumors in a way that equates lesbianism or queerness with salaciousness, and that&#8217;s ultimately what I dislike about the way she phrased it,” Bendix said.
“I think there&#8217;s a way to refute untrue ideas about one&#8217;s own identity without saying something damaging to others,” Bendix said.
As noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-lesbian-denial-howard-stern-lgbtq">Fox News</a>, Gabriel Hays of Media Research Center mocked the idea of Hillary getting scolded for not being &#8220;woke enough&#8221; when talking about her sexuality.
“Tsk tsk, Hillary. The former presidential candidate is taking heat for her response to old rumors about her being a lesbian,&#8221; Hays wrote. “And while we’re not bashing her for her sexuality, it’s a hilarious predicament for the woman who fancies herself a de facto leader of the Left.”
Hillary Clinton&#8217;s interview with Howard Stern <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hillary-is-still-thinking-about-running-in-2020/">has indeed sparked rumors</a> over whether or not she plans to jump into the 2020 presidential race while the water is still warm and the supposedly top-tier candidates flounder. In fact, earlier this year, Howard Stern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-howard-stern-says-hillary-clinton-would-be-paul-bois">openly stated</a> that Hillary made a mistake by not joining his show during the 2016 election, arguing it would have made her more relatable.
“I thought that if I did an interview with Hillary, … she would reach a new audience,” Stern told Stephen Colbert this past May.
Stern noted his potential listenership of 66 million people and how the election had hinged <a href="https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-2016-election-votes-supreme-court-liberal-justice-1b4bc4fc-9fad-44b4-ab54-9ef86aa9c1f1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0">on less than 80,000 votes</a> across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states where his show is popular.
“What if Hillary had come on and, forget politics for a second, but what if we could have talked about her humanity, why she got into public service?” Stern wondered aloud.
“Here is a woman who dedicated her whole life to public service,” Stern continued. “What was her life like as a little girl growing up? What was her romance with Bill Clinton? What was she thinking when she was secretary of state? What was she thinking when she was the first lady? Was she saying to herself, ‘I wish I could be president,’ or was she satisfied with that? There were a million questions I could have asked her that I think would have humanized her.”

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Continuing his quest to Make America Merry Again, President Trump delivered a powerful message about the birth of Jesus Christ as he addressed the crowd during the lighting of the National Christmas Tree.
“In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first National Christmas tree,” President Trump began, as reported by <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-the-cross-is-a-powerful-reminder-of-the-meaning-of-christmas">LifeSiteNews</a>. “Later that night, African-American community centers held an outdoor worship service on these grounds, and during that service, the Washington Monument was illuminated with a beautiful cross, a powerful reminder of the meaning of Christmas.”
The president then spoke of the three wise men and how the birth of Christ inspires us all to love one another with open hearts.
“More than two thousand years ago, a brilliant star shown in the east. Wise men traveled far and they came and they stood under the star where they found the Holy Family, in Bethlehem,” the president said. “As the Bible tells us, when the wise men had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshipped Him. Christians give thanks that the Son of God came into the world to save humanity. Jesus Christ inspires us to love one another with hearts full of generosity and grace.”
President Trump then tipped his hat to David and Sharron Hudson of the Salvation Army, an organization that has increasingly been inundated with false accusations of homophobia from the radical Left in recent days. Those accusations boiled over into absurdity when <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pete-buttigieg-criticized-volunteering-salvation-army-n1096111">LGBT activists began criticizing South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg</a> for once having volunteered for the organization.
&#8220;Joining us today are David and Sharron Hudson of the Salvation Army,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;Each year, through their Angel Tree program, the Salvation Army brings new gifts to more than 600,000 children. David and Sharron are an inspiration to us all. And, David and Sharron, thank you very much for being with us. Thank you.&#8221;
As the president concluded, he reminded the audience that every human being is a child of God and wished the whole country a Merry Christmas.
&#8220;At Christmas we remember this eternal truth: Every person is a beloved child of God,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;As one grateful nation we praise the joy of family, the blessings of freedom, and the miracle of Christmas. On behalf of Melania and our entire family, Merry Christmas, and God bless you all.&#8221;
During the campaign of 2016 and following his election, President Trump promised to buck the culture of political correctness he saw during the Christmas season. Accordingly, Trump denounced the phrase, &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221;
“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word Christmas because it’s not politically correct,&#8221; he said to a crowd in 2017. &#8220;You go to department stores and they’ll say &#8216;Happy New Year,&#8217; or they’ll say other things and it’ll be red, they’ll have it painted. But they don’t say — well guess what? We’re saying Merry Christmas again.&#8221;
Though President Obama did say &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; for the White House Christmas card, <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/03/remarks-president-lighting-national-christmas-tree">he did use the phrase</a> &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; during the National Tree lighting.
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Lena Dunham will return to HBO with yet another sex-charged series, only this one will explore teen sexuality in a conservative community with themes similar to that of the highly controversial &#8220;Euphoria.&#8221;
&#8220;HBO Max has given a series order to &#8216;Generation,&#8217; a dramedy executive-produced by the controversial &#8216;Girls&#8217; creator, the streaming service announced Thursday,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.tvguide.com/news/lena-dunham-generation-hbo-max/">TV Guide</a>. &#8220;The series is created by 18-year-old writer Zelda Barnz and her father Daniel, who also directs. It&#8217;s executive-produced by Dunham and Ben Barnz, Daniel&#8217;s husband and Zelda&#8217;s other father. It&#8217;s HBO Max&#8217;s first pilot to be ordered to series.&#8221;
The show has been described as &#8220;dark yet playful half-hour following a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love, and the nature of family in their conservative community.&#8221;
Series writer Zelda Barnz said that the show is meant to represent kids of her own age — Generation Z — without any judgment or nostalgia.
&#8220;I wanted to see myself and kids my own age represented on TV in a way that felt real, without judgment or nostalgia,&#8221; Barnz said in a statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m so appreciative of my mentor and soul-sister Lena Dunham for all her support and guidance, and so thankful to HBO Max for making this crazy dream come true.&#8221;
As of now, there is no indication as to how explicit the sexuality presented will be; if it&#8217;s anything like HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Euphoria,&#8221; then audiences should expect something shocking, to say the least. Here&#8217;s how The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/director-new-hbo-teen-series-boasts-parents-will-hank-berrien">described it</a> at the time of the show&#8217;s release:
<blockquote>“Euphoria,” starring Zendaya, who first came to prominence on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” features an actor using a prosthetic penis to commit a rape as well as a scene in which roughly 30 young men are shown fully nude, as <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbos-explicit-euphoria-courts-controversy-how-teen-sex-is-1217606?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">The Hollywood Reporter</a> notes. There’s a sex scene between teens involving choking and even a charming scene where an obese man on a webcam masturbates to a young woman.</blockquote>
Strangely, the presence of Lena Dunham might actually shake things up a bit, because, believe it or not, conservatives have heaped praise upon her HBO show &#8220;Girls&#8221; for concluding on a positive note despite her outspoken feminism and abortion advocacy. Magdalena Segieda went as far to call Dunham &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lena-dunham-most-pro-life-conservative-voice-her-magdalena-segieda">The Most Pro-Life Conservative Voice of Her Generation</a>&#8221; due to the show&#8217;s conclusion.
<blockquote>As the series developed, it has become clear that if you cast aside the sex, the drugs, and the nudity — although it is doubtful if you can ever truly forget the image of Lena Dunham nude — then GIRLS is one of the most conservative and pro-life TV series in years.
The show’s conservative messages are plenty. All the girls featured in GIRLS learn at the end of the series that in order to be truly happy, you need to give up your promiscuous, drug-taking lifestyle and get a job. Or you need to drop your drug-taking spouse and get a job. Or you need to marry a nice boy. Or you need to move out of the city where people crap on the street and into the countryside. The happy endings for all the GIRLS are all variations on a fairly conservative theme.</blockquote>

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Former quarterback Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s recent stunt workout may not have garnered him a job in the NFL, but it certainly benefited one of the wide receivers who caught his footballs.
After generating some interest from Cleveland Browns, Jordan Veasy has now signed on with the Washington Redskins.
&#8220;The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/nfl/washington-redskins" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Washington Redskins</a> signed Jordan Veasy to their practice squad Wednesday. Veasy worked out with Kaepernick last month at an Atlanta high school,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/colin-kaepernick-workout-wide-receiver-nfl-job">Fox News</a>. &#8220;He caught a 50-yard pass from the former <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">San Francisco 49ers</a> star, which was described as one of the quarterback’s best throws.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oops-colin-kaepernick-didnt-get-an-nfl-offer-but-the-wide-receiver-he-worked-out-with-might">reported</a> in November, Veasy generated some buzz with Cleveland Browns following his workout with Colin Kaepernick. Speaking with The Washington Post, the wide receiver largely credited the session for his professional success.
“It helped,” Veasy said. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to be a part of it. Just being a part of the history of it, and I knew it was going to help me. I was going to be in Gadsden running routes anyway. Might as well run &#8217;em in front of some scouts.”
After opting out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, Kaepernick became a free agent and has not been signed to an NFL team since — leading many to believe that he has been persecuted for his political views. That all came to head last November when the NFL set aside a day for him to workout in front of scouts in the hopes of signing up for a team, which he derailed just hours before when he refused to sign a waiver while demanding that reporters be present throughout the affair. Instead, he transferred the workout to a local high school football field where he <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/2019/11/16/colin-kaepernick-after-workout-nfl-been-denied-three-years/4213910002/">proceeded to bash the NFL</a> for supposedly persecuting him.
“Our biggest thing with everything today was making sure we had transparency of what went on,” Kaepernick said after the workout. “We weren’t getting that elsewhere, so we came out here. I’ve been ready for three years, I’ve been denied for three years.”
“We all know why I came out here and showed it today in front of everybody,” Kaepernick continued. “We have nothing to hide. So we’re waiting for the 32 owners, the 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all them to stop running. Stop running from the truth, stop running from the people. We’re out here, we’re ready to play, ready to go anywhere. My agent, Jeff Nalley, is ready to talk to any team, I’ll interview with any team at any time. I&#8217;ve been ready, I’m staying ready and I’ll continue to be ready.”
No team signed Colin Kaepernick, which he blames on the NFL.
“I’ll be honest, I’m a little bit pessimistic because I’ve talked to all 32 teams,” he told reporters last week. “I’ve reached out to them recently, and none of them have had any interest. I’ll tell you this: No team asked for this workout. The league office asked for this workout.”
Over the past few years, some people on the political Left have compared Kaepernick to such historic civil rights icons as Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. Sports Illustrated even went so far as to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24218/sports-illustrated-awards-kaepernick-muhammad-ali-paul-bois">award him</a> the “Muhammad Ali Award.”

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Judge Andrew Napolitano has taken his general anti-Trump stance to its logical conclusion, saying he would &#8220;certainly&#8221; vote to impeach the president.
The Fox News senior judicial analyst made his pronouncement during an appearance on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom,&#8221; during which he said that that &#8220;the Democrats have credibly argued that [Trump] committed impeachable offenses,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-andrew-napolitano-trump-impeachment_n_5de8aca6e4b00149f73b77cd">Fox News</a>.
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“The easiest one, because this existed in Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, is obstruction of Congress,” said Napolitano. “So, by directing his subordinates to refuse to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas, whether it’s for testimony or for documents, that’s an impeachable offense. We know that from history, every time the House of Representatives has looked at that with respect to a president, they found it to be impeachable. On that, reasonable minds cannot disagree without rejecting history and without rejecting constitutional norms.”
When host Bill Hemmer asked the former judge if he would vote for impeachment in the House, Napolitano replied that he &#8220;certainly would.&#8221;
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“I certainly would.” Napolitano said.
Though Napolitano conceded that the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on the impeachment inquiry will do little to change public opinion against Trump, he warned that “letting Trump be Trump is not good enough under the Constitution.”
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“We don’t lower the bar because the president has unorthodox ways,” he said. “The bar is intentionally broad and even ambiguous as to what high crimes and misdemeanors are. We learned today that the Democrats apparently intend to include in there things we didn’t know they were going to include, like bribery, like the obstruction of justice allegations which were made by [former Special Counsel] Bob Mueller long before the Ukraine case came to the public’s attention.”
Judge Napolitano has consistently been on board with Democratic Party&#8217;s attacks on President Trump. He has also consistently been wrong in his predictions about the political fallout. For instance, in December of 2018, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foxs-napolitano-ample-evidence-indict-trump-co-james-barrett">he said</a> that the Department of Justice has &#8220;ample evidence&#8221; to indict President Trump based on the then-ongoing Mueller investigation.
“You think that a grand jury subpoena is a real thing that might come for President Trump?” former Fox News host Shep Smith asked at the time.
“Yes, I do,” replied Napolitano. “I think that Bob Mueller knows that he needs to lock the president in to a version of events before he takes the next step — whatever the next step is, whether it’s indictment or whether it’s a referral for impeachment.”
“Last week, in federal district court here in New York City, a federal judge at the end of Michael Cohen’s sentencing said the president orchestrated and paid for this crime,” Napolitano continued. “He was referring to one of the nine to which Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty.&#8221;
The Mueller report proved largely futile for Democrats, as the president was never indicted and Democrats never pursued impeachment based on its findings. Democrats and anti-Trumpers such as George Conway and Napolitano have decided to run with the &#8220;it&#8217;s all about the Constitution&#8221; line, despite the fact that many would say the Democrats&#8217; current impeachment inquiry is all about politics and the 2020 election.
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Judge Napolitano Would ‘Certainly’ Vote To Impeach Trump

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Music icon Kanye West and megachurch pastor Joel Osteen will continue their ongoing Christian bromance in 2020 at a packed Yankee Stadium event. According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/05/kanye-west-joel-osteen-yankee-stadium-choir-americas-night-of-hope-2020/">TMZ</a>, sources close to the famed rapper confirmed that the two cultural figures are seeking to host a mega event in May of 2020 as part of Joel Osteen&#8217;s &#8220;America&#8217;s Night of Hope.&#8221;
&#8220;Sources close to Kanye tell us Ye and Joel will take center stage at baseball&#8217;s cathedral on May 2, 2020 for a mega event that certainly plays like a tour stop,&#8221; reported the outlet. &#8220;The NYC event is part of Joel&#8217;s &#8216;America&#8217;s Night of Hope,&#8217; which he takes to several cities across the country.&#8221;
The event will most likely unfold similar to Kanye&#8217;s visit to Osteen&#8217;s Lakewood Church, in Houston, in which Osteen delivered a sermon and invited Kanye out for a discussion. Apparently, Kanye&#8217;s visit with Osteen was such a success that the pastor hoped for an encore.
&#8220;We&#8217;re told Joel will do his sermon at Yankee Stadium, and then let Kanye and his choir do their thing with the music,&#8221; reported TMZ. &#8220;Call it a double play, considering the setting, similar to what they did a few weeks ago in Houston. If Joel&#8217;s past appearances at Yankee Stadium are any indication, this one&#8217;s sure to sell out quickly &#8230; especially now that Kanye&#8217;s involved. The stadium has a max capacity of 54,251 &#8230; almost 10,000 more than Lakewood. &#8220;Tickets for Osteen&#8217;s event typically go for $15, though nothing has been made official.
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During his appearance at Lakewood Church, Kanye West made some bold proclamations about the culture wars as more and more entertainment figures return to Jesus:
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“So even for someone who’s professing God and saying this is gonna be … a gospel album, the devil is gonna come and do everything he can to distract people from knowing how to fully be in service to the Lord, and all of that arrogance and confidence and cockiness that y’all see me use before God is now using for him,” West continued. “Because every time I stand up I feel that I’m standing up and drawing a line in the sand and saying, ‘I’m here in service to God and no weapon formed against me shall prosper.’”

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REPORT: Kanye West, Joel Osteen Are Joining Forces For A Massive 2020 Yankee Stadium Event

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On Thursday, following the press conference in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the Democrats have &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to impeach President Trump, the career politician snapped at a reporter for suggesting she hates the president.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with me,&#8221; Pelosi told the reporter from Sinclair. &#8220;I don&#8217;t hate anybody.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/nancy-pelosi-dont-mess-with-me/index.html">CNN</a>, Pelosi then returned to the microphone to say that she believes President Trump is a &#8220;coward&#8221; for his political positions. Pelosi argued that impeachment is only now being pursued to protect the Constitution.
&#8220;I think this president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think that he is cruel when he doesn&#8217;t deal with helping our &#8216;Dreamers,&#8217; of which we are very proud of. I think he is in denial about the climate crisis. However, that&#8217;s about the election.&#8221;
Pelosi even brought up her Catholic faith (despite her being staunchly pro-abortion) and scolded the reporter for using the word &#8220;hate.&#8221;
&#8220;This is about the Constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the President&#8217;s violation of his oath of office,&#8221; she continued. &#8221; And as a Catholic, I resent your using the word &#8216;hate&#8217; in a sentence that addresses me. I don&#8217;t hate anyone. I pray for the president all the time. So don&#8217;t mess with me when it comes to words like that.&#8221;
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Nancy Pelosi is right out of an episode of The Golden Girls as the self-righteous neighbor who they all really hated. <a href="https://t.co/rkLXqauSjO">pic.twitter.com/rkLXqauSjO</a>
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President Trump has since responded to Pelosi&#8217;s comments, saying she indeed hates him and only denied it in a &#8220;nervous fit.&#8221;
&#8220;Nancy Pelosi just had a nervous fit,&#8221; the president tweeted. &#8220;She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more. Stock Market and employment records. She says she &#8216;prays for the President.&#8217; I don’t believe her, not even close. Help the homeless in your district Nancy. USMCA?&#8221;
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Nancy Pelosi just had a nervous fit. She hates that we will soon have 182 great new judges and sooo much more. Stock Market and employment records. She says she “prays for the President.” I don’t believe her, not even close. Help the homeless in your district Nancy. USMCA?
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Prior to her snap at the reporter, Pelosi <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-announcement_n_5de906bde4b0d50f32af92d4">said that</a> President Trump abused his power, leaving Congress &#8220;no choice but to act.&#8221;
“The facts are uncontested: The president abused his power,” she said. “The president leaves us no choice but to act. Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment.&#8221;
Pelosi said during the press conference that she has no concern about the political fallout that might occur if the Democrats pursue impeachment.
&#8220;This has absolutely nothing to do with politics. It isn&#8217;t about politics, partisanship, Democrats and Republicans. That&#8217;s totally insignificant,&#8221; Pelosi told a CNN reporter. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the Constitution of the United States, the oath of office we take to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It&#8217;s about the president not honoring his oath of office. So no, I&#8217;m not concerned.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m really sorry the president made this necessary,&#8221; she added.
President Trump dismissed the impeachment inquiry as yet another example of the &#8220;Do Nothing Democrats&#8221; hating on him instead of servicing the country.
&#8220;The Do Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House. They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our Country. But nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy,&#8221; the president tweeted. &#8220;Therefore I say, if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to &#8216;Clean the Swamp,&#8217; and that’s what I am doing!&#8221;

Speaker Pelosi Addresses The Media In Weekly Press Conference

WATCH: Nancy Pelosi Snaps At Reporter For Suggesting She Hates Trump. President Responds.

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A school principal in England has banned the exchange of Christmas cards on campus, arguing that it harms the planet.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/england-school-bans-christmas-cards-envioronment">Fox News</a>, principal Jonathan Mason of Belton Lane Primary School in Lincolnshire wrote a letter to parents highlighting &#8220;the impact of sending Christmas cards on the environment.&#8221;
&#8220;I have been approached by a number of children recently who are concerned about the impact of sending Christmas cards on the environment,&#8221; Mason&#8217;s letter begins.  &#8220;Throughout the world, we send enough Christmas cards that if we placed them alongside each other, they&#8217;d cover the world&#8217;s circumference 500 times The manufacture of Christmas cards is contributing to our ever-growing carbon emissions.&#8221;
Mason then says that school will henceforth no longer have a post box for Christmas cards and urged parents to instead just send one card to the whole class that teachers can display.
&#8220;In order <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/environment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to be environmentally friendly</a> in school we will not be having a post box for Christmas cards from this year onwards,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;Instead, we can encourage you to save money and the environment by not sending cards to all of the children in a class individually but instead, if you send a card please send one card to the whole class. Teachers can then display the card in the classroom for everyone to see.&#8221;
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Parents did not exactly welcome Mason&#8217;s new edict with open arms and have since been branding him as a Grinch.
&#8220;Why should children have the joy of taken out of Christmas? Why can&#8217;t all these cards be recycled anyway? And I buy a lot of Christmas cards for charity,&#8221; one parent <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7750921/Headteacher-blasted-banning-pupils-sending-Christmas-cards-help-environment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told the Daily Mail</a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s great to see them come out of school with their cards and a smile on their faces. It&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/special/occasions/holiday" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a Christmas tradition</a> they have had for a long time and now they are taking it away. I know we have to protect the environment, but these are a few Christmas cards once a year and to be told about this on a piece of paper seems contradictory.&#8221;
Another mother accused Mason of &#8220;rank hypocrisy&#8221; because Christmas cards are largely recyclable. Some have even be reused year after year as a form of decoration.
&#8220;Telling people to stop sending cards in a letter sent out to hundreds of kids stinks of rank hypocrisy,&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;They are mostly recyclable anyway. I agree that environmental issues are important but I don&#8217;t see recyclable Christmas cards as a massive contributor to these problems.&#8221;
Mason issued no response when questioned by reporters.
The idea of Christmas cards being a bane on planet Earth have circulated in environmentalist circles for some years. In 2012, an <a href="https://mashable.com/2012/11/27/holiday-cards-bad-environment/">article in Mashable</a> argued for a move to e-cards, citing the fossil fuels burned in the delivery of Christmas cards year after year.
&#8220;In 2011 the U.S. Postal Service mail carriers and truck drivers drove 1.25 billion miles and put 125,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to sources cited in the infographic,&#8221; the article argued. &#8220;While the amount of postal mail sent appears to be <a href="http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/welcome.htm#H2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">slowly decreasing</a> over the past few years, in 2011 people still went through lots of paper — approximately 168 billion pieces of mail were sent in the U.S. last year. According to the USPS, between <a href="https://mashable.com/category/thanksgiving/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thanksgiving</a> and <a href="https://mashable.com/category/christmas-eve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Christmas Eve</a> last year 16.5 billion cards, letters and packages were delivered. While sometimes sending things via paper mail is unavoidable, making a move to digital <a href="https://mashable.com/category/ecards/">ecards</a> cuts down on paper waste and the need for stamps.&#8221;

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ENGLAND: School Principal Bans Christmas Cards Citing Environmental Concerns

Hollywood assistants are beginning to organize, with the arrival of the hashtag #PayUpHollywood, in response to reports of widespread horrid working conditions across studios and production companies.
According to <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/payuphollywood-poll-assistants-increased-substance-use-1203421558/#article-comments">Variety</a>, a recent poll that surveyed over 1,500 support staffers in the entertainment industry showed that assistants are being asked to stretch themselves far beyond their limits with terrible pay and almost no hope for promotion or job mobility. One in four even reported of indulging in substance abuse, as a result. From the report:
<blockquote>According to the poll — which surveyed assistants at studios, agencies, production and development companies, in-house production and post-production departments — 93% of those who responded reported that their job has led to an increase in anxiety, and 66% said they have been experiencing increased feelings of depression as a result of their work experiences.
Some of the survey’s findings point to gender and racial disparities within the industry. (Around 70% of the assistants surveyed were women, in contrast with the upper echelons of the industry, and 78.21% were white.) Meanwhile, other statistics point to issues which haven’t been as widely discussed.</blockquote>
Most distressingly, of those polled, a total of 104 assistants reported being physically abused at the hands of their boss throwing an object (often a stapler) at them while working. Despite this, assistants are reportedly terrified to report the abuse in fear of facing professional repercussions. Beyond that, the assistants reported working long hours (sometimes including 16-hour days) by performing duties well beyond their job description for wages below $50,000.
&#8220;Given the current cost of living in Los Angeles, an assistant would have to be paid $53,600 after taxes in order to not be rent-burdened, which means that housing costs encompass more than 30% of their income,&#8221; reported Variety. &#8220;It’s no surprise, therefore, that 90% of the assistants who took the survey reported being rent-burdened.&#8221;
Liz Alper, co-founder of #PayUpHollywood, said the industry has essentially created a paywall that prevents middle-class dreamers from getting an entry-level position — leaving them open only to privileged rich kids whose parents often subsidize their income. She states:
<blockquote>What the data shows is, despite record profits logged by studios this year, the entertainment industry across the board is refusing to pay assistants a living wage,” said Alper. “The paywall enacted here is tall, keeping out the dreamers and Hollywood hopefuls who do not come from wealthy families or historically privileged communities. And when millions of dollars are poured in FYC campaigns but 67.58% of assistants have to take on a second job to afford working their entertainment job, and 52% of assistants have to ask their families for financial help so they don’t starve, it should be a wake call for all us, that we have to stand up and speak out and say, ‘This is not right, this is not acceptable, and this must change.</blockquote>
While some might dismiss these alleged workplace abuses as rough stepping stones for assistants having to &#8220;pay their dues,&#8221; the survey also showed that job mobility for assistants has increasingly stagnated in recent years.
&#8220;About 40% of respondents have been working as an assistant for 1-3 years, a typical period of time that one would expect to remain in an entry-level position,&#8221; Variety continued. &#8220;But 20% of those polled have been working as an assistant for more than 5 years, and 27% remain support staffers after 3-5 years in the role — challenging the long-held notion that being a Hollywood assistant offers a direct stepping stone to a higher-level career in the industry.&#8221;
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#PayUpHollywood Trending After Horrible Working Conditions Reported At Studios, Production Companies

Never one to back away from the wokescolds, comedian Ricky Gervais has once again fired off a joke that will surely be deemed by some as &#8220;transphobic.&#8221;
In response to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-who-sued-over-bikini-wax-access-now-targeting-gynecologists">recent Twitter tirade</a> from transgender activist Jessica Yaniv being upset about gynecologists refusing to service his genitals, Gervais showed no mercy.
&#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady&#8217;s c*** for ovarian cancer,&#8221; Gervais tweeted. &#8220;What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I&#8217;m outraged.&#8221;
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It&#39;s disgusting that a qualified gynaecologist can refuse to check a lady&#39;s cock for ovarian cancer. What if her bollocks are pregnant? She could lose the baby. I&#39;m outraged. <a href="https://t.co/iNNcUS8Uak">https://t.co/iNNcUS8Uak</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1201952293014376450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-who-sued-over-bikini-wax-access-now-targeting-gynecologists">reported</a>, Yaniv has now moved on from demanding that beauty salons wax his genitalia into demanding that gynecologists inspect his genitals despite his not having any female sexual organs.
“Ok so [Fraser Health] needs to stop hiring employees who are discriminatory towards the #LGBTQ and use their bulls*** excuses on why they can’t see you even though you have a referral from the emergency department and live in the Fraser Health area!!” Yaniv posted on Twitter this week. “I want help and can’t get it!!”
“So a gynecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that ‘we don’t serve transgender patients.’ And me, being me, I’m shocked.. and confused… and hurt,&#8221; Yaniv later added. “Are they allowed to do that, legally? Isn’t that against the college practices?”
Gervais previously scolded Yaniv when he sued a Canadian beauty parlor for refusing to perform a Brazilian wax on his genitals, claiming it was discriminatory. The lawsuit was eventually quashed.
“How did we get to the point where women are having to fight for the right to choose whether they wax some big old hairy c*** &amp; balls or not?” Gervais <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-accused-being-transphobe-saying-paul-bois">tweeted at the time</a>. “It is not a human right to have your meat &amp; 2 veg polished.”
Due to his refusal to bow to the politically correct establishment, SJWs have been on a concerted quest to cancel Ricky Gervais. Most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiewire-calls-for-canceling-transphobic-gervais-from-globes-gets-crushed-by-readers">IndieWire published</a> an op-ed arguing that the Golden Globes should fire him from hosting the upcoming awards show due to his outspoken &#8220;transphobia.&#8221;
<blockquote>During Gervais’ 2016 stint hosting the ceremony, he dead-named Olympic Gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner from the stage, and transphobic commentary has been a through line of his work since.
The star of Netflix’s “After Life” opened his 2018 stand-up comedy special “Humanity” — also on Netflix — with not one but three different derogatory remarks about Jenner, discussing her former name, referring to her as a man, as well as discussing surgery and her genitals. …
In an age where comedians are rightfully being held accountable[emphasis added] for bigoted words and actions from years prior … Gervais continues to tweet vitriol toward the LGBTQ+ community only to face no repercussions.</blockquote>
Though a self-described “champagne socialist” and an avowed atheist, Ricky Gervais has taken the politically incorrect stance on a number of free speech issues recently, such as when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49038/ricky-gervais-blasts-radical-leftists-attacking-paul-bois">he condemned activists</a> for throwing milkshakes at right-wingers.
“It’s interesting that the people who believe that throwing a milkshake in someone’s face shouldn’t be considered assault are often the same people who believe that ‘saying things’ should be,” the comedian tweeted in July.

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Ricky Gervais Trolls Transgender Activist Jessica Yaniv For Targeting Gynecologists

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Director J.J. Abrams has allegedly delivered on his promise to feature more LGBTQ representation in the Star Wars universe via the upcoming film &#8220;Rise of Skywalker.&#8221; Though the characters Finn and Poe will not be lovers, Abrams said the representation will still be apparent.
Speaking with <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/star-wars-finn-poe-not-boyfriends-lgbtq-representation-1203423286/">Variety</a>, Abrams said he specifically wanted the LGBTQ community to feel represented without revealing any details as to how he had pulled it off.
&#8220;In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film,” Abrams said. “I will say I’m giving away nothing about what happens in the movie. But I did just say what I just said.”
J.J. Abrams has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jj-abrams-promise-add-gay-characters-star-wars-joseph-curl">long promised</a> that the Star Wars universe will be introducing gay characters in the coming future.
“When I talk about inclusivity, it’s not excluding gay characters,” Abrams previously told The Daily Beast. “It’s about inclusivity. So of course. I would love it. To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
Following the release of &#8220;The Force Awakens,&#8221; social media immediately lit up with hopeful calls for the characters Finn and Poe (played by John Boyega and Oscar Isaac, respectively) to embark on a romantic love affair; fans hoping to see that materialize will be left disappointed this time around. Both Boyega and Oscar Isaac expressed dismay over that fact.
&#8220;Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would’ve been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control,” Oscar Isaac told Variety. “It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough, it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of … I don’t know what.”
“But if they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun,&#8221; added Isaac.
John Boyega simultaneously told Variety that the relationship between Poe and Finn &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be too weird&#8221; if it suddenly advanced beyond the platonic.
“They’ve always had a quite loving and open relationship in which it wouldn’t be too weird if it went beyond it,” Boyega said. “But at the same time, they are just platonic at the moment.”
As to why he ruled against Finn and Poe being romantic lovers, J.J. Abrams said he believed the relationship was a deeper one.
“That relationship to me is a far deeper one than a romantic one,” Abrams said. “It is a deep bond that these two have, not just because of the trial by fire in which they met, but also because of their willingness to be as intimate as they are, as afraid as they, as unsure as they are, and still be bold, and still be daring and brave.”
Most recently, executive producer Justin Ridge of the show “Star Wars: Resistance” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/producer-confirms-these-two-star-wars-resistance-characters-are-gay">revealed that two cartoon characters</a>, Flix and Orka, were in fact gay lovers.
“They’re absolutely a gay couple, and we’re proud of that,” Ridge said, confirming what fans have already suspected. “I think it’s safe to say they’re an item, absolutely.”

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After a deluge of leaks, rumors, and hearsay, the trailer for the newest James Bond outing, &#8220;No Time to Die,&#8221; has now arrived. Though a trailer can only reveal so much, what&#8217;s presented here looks like another 007 thrill ride. Take a look:
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As is the case with every franchise movie, the Bond films live and die by their villains, and &#8220;No Time to Die&#8221; made the bold choice of featuring Academy Award winner Rami Malek (of &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; fame) in the coveted role. Though the trailer gives little indication of the villain&#8217;s plan or motives, initial reports were that he would be an eco-friendly mastermind.
“His unnamed nemesis — nicknamed Greenfinger by insiders — has a lair powered by an algae farm and with a Zen garden,” reported <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10214824/james-bond-eco-friendly-villain/">The Sun </a>back in October. “As the plot is shrouded in secrecy, it is not clear what the villain is plotting to do or how 007 confronts him. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga is so keen to keep the plot under wraps he has reportedly filmed three endings. But an eco-friendly villain would be a Bond first. One theory is that algae blooms can produce deadly toxins.”
A source close to production told The Sun that the film’s villain, played by the Oscar-winning Rami Malek, will own a sinister algae farm.
“The baddie’s lair apparently has a giant algae farm,” the source said. “Something like that would look very sinister and green so will look great on the screen. Quite how it will impact Bond only the scriptwriters can know but fans will be keen to find out.”
At one point in the trailer, a noticeably infuriated James Bond (featuring Daniel Craig in his final outing as the famed spy) tells Malek that &#8220;history isn&#8217;t kind to men who play God&#8221; — indicating the character&#8217;s delusions of grandeur and possible disregard for human life in the pursuit of a &#8220;higher&#8221; goal.
Leading up to the trailer&#8217;s release, the film has been dogged by multiple leaks and rumors as to how the makers plan to usher the infamously lecherous British spy into the #MeToo era. Actress Lashana Lynch, who will reportedly make history as the first black woman to play 007, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-an-evolution-james-bond-actresses-talk-bringing-the-famed-spy-into-the-metoo-age">told The Hollywood Reporter</a> recently that making a #MeToo-conscious movie was important to everyone involved in the film&#8217;s production.
“Everyone was really responsive to having her be what I wanted,” Lynch said of her character. “You’re given a fresh perspective on a brand-new black woman in the Bond world.”
“I didn’t want someone who was slick. I wanted someone who was rough around the edges and who has a past and a history and has issues with her weight and maybe questions what’s going on with her boyfriend,” she later added.
Lynch even suggested to screenwriter Waller-Bridge the possibility of a scene in which her character is on her period. “We had one conversation about her maybe being on her period in one scene, and maybe at the beginning of the scene — and I spoke to Cary about this — throwing her tampon in the thing,” said Lynch.
However, Phoebe Waller-Bridge <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/08/james-bond-didnt-need-make-no-time-die-feminist-phoebe-waller-bridge-clears-role-new-007-movie-11066029/">recently clarified </a>that she had no intention of turning the iconic spy into a feminist superhero.
“They were already doing that themselves. They’re having that conversation with themselves the whole time,” <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/08/james-bond-didnt-need-make-no-time-die-feminist-phoebe-waller-bridge-clears-role-new-007-movie-11066029/">she told</a> BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme. “They were just looking for tweaks across a few of the characters and a few of the storylines.”

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A new wellness fad that sounds like something off the pages of Goop just caused actor Josh Brolin (&#8220;The Avengers&#8221;) to burn his &#8220;pucker hole.&#8221;
In an angry <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ddxy6ggyW/?utm_source=ig_embed">Instagram post</a> over the weekend, Brolin announced he gave something called &#8220;perineum sunning&#8221; a try only to regret it shortly after. What exactly is this special new trend? Well, apparently, it&#8217;s laying outside naked with the expressed purpose of sticking sunlight where the sun don&#8217;t shine.
&#8220;Tried this perineum sunning that I’ve been hearing about and my suggestion is DO NOT do it as long as I did,&#8221; said Brolin. &#8220;My pucker hole is crazy burned and I was going to spend the day shopping with my family and instead I’m icing and using aloe and burn creams because of the severity of the pain. I don’t know who the f**k thought of this stupid s**t but f**k you nonetheless. Seriously.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/26/perineum-sunning-is-latest-insanity-wellness-influencers-swear-by/">New York Post</a>, &#8220;perineum sunning&#8221; became a hot topic in the wellness world when an Instagram user named Metaphysical Meagan (whose photo is featured in the Brolin post) shared an image of herself fully naked on a rock as her nether regions soaked up some rays.
“For the past few weeks I have included sunning my bum and yoni into my daily rising routine,” Metaphysical Meagan said in the original post, which garnered more than 84,000 likes after one Twitter user shared it. An influencer who goes by the name Ra of Earth claimed in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3TBsl2BHmB/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">viral video</a> that just 30 seconds of this butt-sunning will release more &#8220;energy from this electric node than you would in an entire day being outside with your clothes on.&#8221;
Dr. Stephen T. Chang, author “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Sexology-Book-Infinite-Wisdom/dp/0942196031?tag=nypost-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;affiliate ecommerce click&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Sexology-Book-Infinite-Wisdom/dp/0942196031?tag=nypost-20&quot;}" data-amzn-asin="0942196031">The Tao of Sexology: The Book of Infinite Wisdom,</a>” said the practice can help keep the area free of germs. Influencer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B3fN8DdBDtO/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Troy Casey </a>simultaneously argued that “[thirty] seconds of direct sunlight injection to the anal orifice is equivalent to being outside in the sun all day!”
Other celebrities have participated in the trend as well, such as &#8220;Divergent&#8221; actress Shailene Woodley, who told <a href="http://intothegloss.com/2014/03/shailene-woodley-hair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Into The Gloss</a> in 2014 that she gives her &#8220;vagina a little vitamin D&#8221; to prevent yeast infections.
“Another thing I like to do is give my vagina a little vitamin D,” said Woodley. “I was reading an article written by an herbalist I studied about yeast infections and other genital issues. She said there’s nothing better than vitamin D. If you’re feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get. Or, if you live in a place that has heavy winters, when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine.”
Does the practice have any medical merits? Doctors are mostly skeptical, saying no evidence exists that sunbathing in such a way offers any health benefits.
“There is no evidence that sunbathing in this way has any effect on physical well-being,” Dr. Diana Gall <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-real-effects-of-perineum-sunning-according-to-doctors-2019-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told Insider</a>. “Yes, practicing mindfulness and meditation, and getting your dose of vitamin D, is beneficial for mental and physical health, but you don’t need to damage your skin in the process from sun exposure.&#8221;

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‘Perineum Sunning’: This Latest Wellness Fad Caused Actor Josh Brolin To Burn His ‘Pucker Hole’

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race">dropped out</a> of the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday despite being once having exceedingly high hopes to reach the White House.
Those dreams have been dashed now, and some identity politics pushers on the Left have already lamented that the 2020 race is now headed by a bunch of white people.
&#8220;Kamala Harris officially ended her campaign today, which means that all of the candidates who currently qualify for the December Democratic debate are white (Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer). White supremacy is not just a Fox News problem, folks,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1201930900445057024?s=20">tweeted journalist</a> Lauren Duca.
&#8220;Obviously I’m no centrist but it’s downright effed up that smart, compelling, *very* experienced, centrist Democratic candidates of color are floundering while a smart but wildly inexperienced, centrist white mayor of teeny tiny city is surging. Bad look, Democrats,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1201930298482741248?s=20">tweeted LGBT activist</a> Sally Kohn.
&#8220;Kamala Harris’ campaign was historic — a black and South Asian female candidate whose potential seemed sky high early on. Her dropping out means that every candidate that’s qualified so far for the next debate is white: Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, and Warren,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1201935814197940225?s=20">tweeted CNN correspondent</a> MJ Lee. 
&#8220;Kamala Harris dropping out of the race while only white candidates qualify for the next presidential debate shows that white privilege and white supremacy cut across party lines. It’s not just Trump. We have a racism problem in all of the United States of America, and it sucks,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1201939626199379968?s=20">tweeted SJW activist</a> Dr. Eugene Gu. 
&#8220;I’m not a Kamala Harris fan (Bernie 2020), but it’s quite telling that the only Black woman has dropped out while a host of mediocre white men are still in, wasting our time with their inflated egos,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA/status/1201941070776397824?s=20">tweeted congressional candidate</a> Rebecca Parsons. 
Upon announcing her withdrawal from the 2020 race, Harris said the lack of &#8220;financial resources&#8221; motivated the decision.
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,” Harris wrote on <a href="https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/i-am-suspending-my-campaign-today-6dca8cefb252">Medium</a>. “My campaign for the presidency simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
“I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign,” continued Harris. “As the campaign has gone, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
Indeed, the senator&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;billionaire&#8221; has induced some leftists into blaming her eventual dropout on the Democratic Party donor class, rather than her low polling numbers.
&#8220;The fact that [Gillibrand] and [Harris] both dropped out of the race before the billionaire white guys who bought their way in and are funding their continued stay tells you every damn thing you need to know about our f***ed up political system,&#8221; tweeted <a href="https://twitter.com/DCampoamor/status/1201926161770659841?s=20">Danielle Campoamor of The New York Times</a>. 
&#8220;Two SITTING WOMEN SENATORS, Gillibrand and Harris, were forced out of this race while non-office-holders Bloomberg and Steyer bought their way in. And it&#8217;s not just because they can, but because our broken system continues to allows white, male billionaires like them to do it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=billionaire&amp;src=typed_query">tweeted</a> Lauren Rankin.
A civil war seems to be brewing within the Democratic Party ranks.

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Has President Trump&#8217;s promise to &#8220;Make Christmas Great Again&#8221; pushed hardcore leftists into becoming an angry horde of Scrooges? The latest <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/11/29/how-donald-trump-ruined-christmas-i-wont-celebrate-this-year-and-hes-why/">op-ed from feminist Amanda Marcotte of Salon</a>, titled &#8220;How Donald Trump ruined Christmas,&#8221; indicates that might be the case.
Even though Christmas was never &#8220;of great importance&#8221; to Marcotte, she admits that the holiday at least carried some level of meaning to her over the years. What little enthusiasm she had for the holiday, however, has all but evaporated in the age of Trump, who &#8220;ruins everything he touches.&#8221; As an atheist, Marcotte never appreciated the holiday&#8217;s religious roots, but she at least appreciated the time of &#8220;the nation coming together in the spirit of joy and generosity.&#8221; Even that, Marcotte claims, no longer holds sway over her.
&#8220;But all that feels like a lie in Trump&#8217;s America,&#8221; writes Marcotte. &#8220;Forget Tiny Tim declaring, &#8216;God bless us, everyone!&#8217; It&#8217;s clear that for that 40% of people in the Trump cult, it&#8217;s closer to &#8216;Damn anyone to hell who isn&#8217;t exactly like us!'&#8221;
Marcotte charges Trump and his supporters of wielding the Christmas season to perpetuate some sort of white supremacist ethos that has driven a wedge between her and other Trump supporters, such as members of her own family.
&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s personal. My family is mostly a bunch of Trump voters, sucked up into a vortex of propaganda and lies, unable even to admit basic facts about the world that run contrary to what their tribal politics dictate,&#8221; she argues. &#8220;That sort of thing is stressful on a normal day but makes a mockery of the idea of familial love and harmony.&#8221;
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a matter of political differences that can be set aside for the sake of the holiday,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;This is about not being able to make merry with people who think nothing of voting for a man who is on tape bragging about sexual assault, a man who cheats in elections and runs concentration camps on the border. A man whose racism has inspired a wave of terrorist violence, including in my hometown of El Paso, Texas.&#8221;
Though Marcotte stopped actually celebrating Christmas with her family out of convenience (the travel made it difficult), she will not even bother to celebrate it silently with her partner.
&#8220;It seems a little silly to make a big thing out of a holiday that just reminds me how my own family and so many other people in America have been sucked up into the Trump cult. I&#8217;d rather just read a book or binge-watch some TV,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Family is a touchy subject and the spirit of communal joy seems like a joke. The only thing left is the materialism of the season. Which, to be fair, seems to be going full force. The pull of capitalism is such that, unless you can plead poverty, the annual round of gift exchanges will go on no matter how much the nation appears to be collapsing around us.&#8221;
In response to the shame and condescension that will surely be coming her way as a result of this op-ed, Marcotte reminds her readers that she is &#8220;not a joyless person.&#8221;
&#8220;On the contrary, I&#8217;m a lucky and even privileged person, who gets to have a lot of fun in her life,&#8221; she concludes. &#8220;It&#8217;s just that Christmas isn&#8217;t fun for me anymore. It&#8217;s a sad reminder that we are not the country we pretend to be when we sing songs about love and joy at this supposedly wonderful time of the year.&#8221;

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Salon Op-Ed: I&#8217;m Skipping Christmas Because &#8216;Donald Trump Ruined&#8217; It

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The grinches are once again hating on First Lady Melania Trump for delivering another round of beautiful Christmas decorations.
Over the weekend, Melania Trump unveiled the White House Christmas decorations that were meant to evoke the &#8220;Spirit of America,&#8221; accentuated by a color scheme of icy whites and faded golds.
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“The Spirit of America” is shining in the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>! I am delighted to share this beautiful exhibit of patriotism for all to see, and excited for everyone to experience the beauty of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Christmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Christmas</a> season! <a href="https://t.co/qGxxl9qBrd">pic.twitter.com/qGxxl9qBrd</a>
&mdash; Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1201351943790174208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a manner as barefaced as the snow is white, the Melania haters are hating like they never hated before this Christmas. Over at <a href="https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/8945279/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-return">Refinery 29</a>, Leah Carroll complained that this year&#8217;s decorations had a bland nicety to them, leaving her pining for &#8220;last year&#8217;s blood-icicle trees and 2017&#8217;s spooky ice queen aesthetic.&#8221;
&#8220;My hopes were very, very high for something equally ghastly,&#8221; lamented Carroll. &#8220;But a video of the first lady guiding us through the People&#8217;s House reveals a distinctly less dystopian take on the season this time around. Is the War on Christmas real? Because I feel attacked by all this bland niceness!&#8221;
&#8220;Everything is so elegant and tasteful! That garland of red roses on the mantel? Pure class,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The white-and-gold accents? Opulence. A bit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Colby" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Alexis Carrington (opens in a new tab)" data-tracker-added="true">Alexis Carrington</a>, sure — but in the best way. Naturally, I&#8217;m devastated.&#8221;
Carroll then took aim at the East Colonnade, which, for reasons unexplained, always seems to draw the most fiery of condemnations every year.
&#8220;Whoever saw fit to suppress Melania&#8217;s natural inclination to turn tree-trimming into an expression of the bottomless void in her soul had their work cut out for them,&#8221; Carroll wrote. &#8220;It appears that the first lady might have taken design control in the East Colonnade, where silver stars, their points sharpened to a glinting razor&#8217;s edge, float menacingly above lit glass panels. Looks dangerous! I like it!&#8221;
During his opening monologue, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel explored the supposed hidden message buried beneath Melania Trump&#8217;s Christmas decoration: An entrapped woman screaming for help.
&#8220;I get the feeling she&#8217;s trying to tell us something. I just can&#8217;t figure out what it is,&#8221; Kimmel told his audience after he shared a video of Melania Trump&#8217;s rose decorations spelling out the words &#8220;Help Me.&#8221;
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A message from Melania who was decorating the White House&#8230;..(Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel!!) <a href="https://t.co/dG72hQtbsd">pic.twitter.com/dG72hQtbsd</a>
&mdash; Mike Moulton (@MikeMoulton64) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeMoulton64/status/1201804198628728832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Robin Givhan, fashion critic for The Washington Post, took most issue with Melania Trump&#8217;s coat, as The Daily Wire has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cold-dismissive-washington-post-blasts-first-lady-melania-for-her-coat">noted</a>. Givhan argued that it expresses the first lady&#8217;s &#8220;cold, dismissive aloofness.&#8221;
&#8220;The coat looks ridiculous,&#8221; said Givhan. &#8220;But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction. It’s a discomforting affectation taken to a ludicrous extreme. In a video that is intended to celebrate the warmth and welcoming spirit of the holiday season, that simple flourish exudes cold, dismissive aloofness.&#8221;
As was the case last year and the year before that, the first lady <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melania-trump-white-house-christmas_n_5de5da4fe4b00149f734b3c7">was likened</a> by some to a fairy tale witch overseeing her own rendition of a horror-themed Yuletide.
&#8220;This is like a cross between a Lexus December to Remember commercial and a trailer for The Shining,&#8221; said one Twitter user of Melania Trump&#8217;s promotional video. &#8220;There is even a The Shining-like cameo from two random people dressed like either chefs or grand wizards.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s hard to make Christmas decorations look cold &amp; unhappy but they succeeded,&#8221; said actress Kristen Johnston.
&#8220;This remake of The Shining is the scariest one yet,&#8221; said author John Pavlovitch.
&#8220;There is something empty, cold, and creepy about this,&#8221; said another Twitter user.
&#8220;Melania has a real talent for imparting anything she touches with the warmth of ‘The Shining,'&#8221; said another.
Rain or shine, day or night, snowfall or summer&#8217;s day, the hate train just rolls on.

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Though George Conway has been openly critical of his wife&#8217;s boss since 2017, never once has he publicly rebuked her &#8230; until now.
On Monday, the internet erupted into a firestorm when the husband of top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway quote-tweeted his wife after she publicly ripped Joe Biden for his bizarre gaffe over the weekend in which he talked about kids jumping into his lap.
&#8220;WATCH: Sleepy Joe is Creepy Joe. We need Ukraine’s help to defeat THIS guy?&#8221; Kellyanne said as she shared the video of Joe Biden.
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Sleepy Joe is Creepy Joe. 
We need Ukraine’s help to defeat THIS guy? <a href="https://t.co/QsCwihXAB6">https://t.co/QsCwihXAB6</a>
&mdash; Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/1201585936208924672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In response, George Conway then quote-tweeted his wife and said, &#8220;Your boss apparently thought so.&#8221;
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Your boss apparently thought so. <a href="https://t.co/yje099pkPU">https://t.co/yje099pkPU</a>
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George Conway&#8217;s tweet was obviously meant to imply that President Trump indeed issued a quid pro quo by withholding military aid from Ukraine in exchange for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s corruption. Many foes of Kellyanne Conway immediately jumped for joy at the sight of her own husband publicly rebuking her.
&#8220;Is this not amazing? She inadvertently self-owns then gets meta-trolled by hubby,&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;*yawn* to whatever the hell George Conway said to Kellyanne Conway. Wake me up when he announces a separation from the chief spokesperson for the world&#8217;s most visible white supremacist,&#8221; said Charlotte Clymer. 
&#8220;Kellyanne and George should sell tickets to their divorce proceedings,&#8221; tweeted Laura Bassett. 
Others came to Kellyanne&#8217;s defense, accusing George Conway of being a jealous husband.
&#8220;Kellyanne is a counselor to the most powerful man in the world &amp; the first woman to run a winning presidential campaign. She&#8217;s successful &amp; an excellent role model to women who want to work in politics. The only reason people give you the time of day is [because] you&#8217;re her husband,&#8221; said one Twitter user.
&#8220;How shitty does your marriage have to be to publicly dunk on &amp; disrespect your wife? This is pathetic,&#8221; tweeted Blaire White.
&#8220;Wow. You really are a trash individual,&#8221; tweeted Seth Weathers.
&#8220;Not judging their marriage. Maybe Kellyanne is entertained by it. I don&#8217;t know. I just think trying to dunk on your wife on twitter is pretty low,&#8221; tweeted Jason Howerton. 
According to friends close with George Conway, the accomplished attorney <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/shes-in-a-cult-george-conway-can-make-marriage-work-if-kellyanne-leaves-white-house">allegedly believes</a> that his wife has been indoctrinated into a cult of Trump.
&#8220;He tells people she&#8217;s in a cult,&#8221; a source told Vanity Fair.
&#8220;He’s going through a tough time,&#8221; another source said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to get better until she&#8217;s cast out of the cult,&#8221; another said.
Kellyanne Conway has rebuked the mainstream media&#8217;s coverage of her marriage, saying the media only cover the marriage in a negative light it to score political points.
&#8220;You wanted to put it in my husband’s voice because you think somehow that that will help your ratings or that you’re really sticking it to Kellyanne Conway. And let me be very clear. You didn’t stick it to Kellyanne Conway,&#8221; she said in response to MSNBC giving her husband a platform. &#8220;I think you embarrassed yourself, and I’m embarrassed for you.&#8221;
George Conway also faced severe scrutiny last month when he called Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) &#8220;trash&#8221; for defending President Trump during the week&#8217;s impeachment inquiry hearings.

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