The world <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/country-music-star-toby-keith-dead-at-62">lost a legend</a> on February 5 when country star Toby Keith’s family announced that he had died following a battle with stomach cancer.
The death of a celebrity always inspires a lot of reflection and public mourning, but for some reason losing the “Beer For My Horses” singer-songwriter at the age of 62 hit everyone in the community a little harder. 
Maybe it was because he was one of the last unapologetically patriotic country artists in a genre that’s been slowly phasing out those sentiments for years. Maybe it has something to do with how much he respected the armed forces. Or perhaps it’s because his three decades worth of songs are so catchy. 
It’s likely a combination of all these factors, and more.
<div id="attachment_692907" style="width: 889px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-692907" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-692907" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-483328753-879x576.jpg" alt="LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 07: Musician Toby Keith performs onstage during ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute To The Troops at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/ACMA2014/Getty Images for ACM)" width="879" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-483328753-879x576.jpg 879w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-483328753-300x197.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-483328753-768x503.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-483328753.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px" />Kevin Winter/ACMA2014/Getty Images for ACM</div>
The singer was known for hit songs such as, “How Do You Like Me Now?&#8221; and &#8220;As Good as I Once Was,&#8221; but more than that, he’ll be remembered for celebrating and performing for our nation’s armed forces. One X <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-true-legend-tributes-to-toby-keith-pour-in-following-his-death-at-62">tribute</a> from U.S. Marine Corps veteran and podcast host Leigh Wolf described one of his encounters with Keith.
“‘Toby Keith is here.’ Words that spread through Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan like wildfire. Everyone knew the USO sent acts to bases to perform, but Toby Keith was something special,” he wrote on X. “In the midst of war, a slice of home. Forever grateful to a man who had everything but still took time to come see us and give us a reprieve from the grind of combat operations. Rest in peace sir.”
Then there’s the story about Keith performing for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 when the military base he was singing at came under fire. Mortar fire exploded on the base right in the middle of the song “Weed With Willie,” per <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/toby-keith-comes-under-fire-during-uso-show-wbna24356099">Today</a>. After taking cover for about an hour with the troops, Keith apparently went back out and finished the show.
<div id="attachment_692901" style="width: 802px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-692901" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-692901" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-50922345-792x576.jpg" alt="KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - JUNE 3: In this handout image provided by the United Service Organizations (USO), country music star Toby Keith (R) holds an artillery shell he is asked to autograph by U.S. troops at Camp Phoenix after a USO performance for coalition forces June 3, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Keith, who swept top honors at last week's Academy of Country Music Awards, is touring U.S. military installations for the USO in Kosovo, Germany, Italy and the Persian Gulf. (Photo by Mike Theiler/USO via Getty Images)" width="792" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-50922345-792x576.jpg 792w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-50922345-300x218.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-50922345-768x559.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-50922345.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px" />Mike Theiler/USO via Getty Images</div>
Incidents like this help explain why just after Keith’s death was announced on Tuesday morning, the tributes to the country singer started pouring in. They came from both fans and from other big names in the country sphere.
“Our self titled debuts came out on the same day, April 20, 1993… Toby and I spent quite a bit of time together early in our careers,” fellow country star Tim McGraw <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3BTBLByiqd/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ%3D%3D&amp;img_index=1">shared</a> on Instagram. “We had a lot of good times and conversations about what we wanted out of our careers and our lives. He was a maverick. He did things his way, on his terms, a true artist. I always have and always will have tremendous respect for his artistry, dedication and fearlessness to do his thing.”
“We all will miss you, brother,” he added.
The musical duo Brooks &amp; Dunn each <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3A4SEQuJWE/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==">shared</a> their separate thoughts on Keith with a lengthy Instagram post.
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“A troubadour gone too soon,” Dunn wrote. “We played together, we sang together. He was a friend, ornery, rough, tough, kind and loyal… if he liked you. A rascal, an outlaw with a big heart. He was opinionated, usually his way or the highway. A patriot that acted, didn’t just talk it. He was a loyal husband and proud loving father. He was a big man, a fighter… in the end life wins. Give ‘em hell up there my friend !!! Our love, prayers and condolences go out to his lovely wife Tricia, daughters Krystal, and Shelley and son Stelen.”
Brooks wrote, “Waking up to losing Toby wakes up a lot of memories and realities – I remember the first time we actually met and talked – he was wearing a blue leather suit – we all wore horrible clothes back then – we got along from the beginning – he called “a spade a spade” plain and simple — always – we asked him to come on tour with us somewhere in the late ‘90s, along with Keith Urban, and I’ll never forget after our first show together, he said “We’ve got to find a place to play” …after that we would go find a house band after every show and burn ‘til the flame was gone”
He continued, saying the singer was “a relentless participant in every aspect of his life – performing, writing, golf, hanging with his friends, along with his dedication to the military and the Red White and Blue. But he always put his loyalty and love of God and family first – He was one of those guys I just assumed would always be there &#8211; HOF Cowboy Heart – RIP Big Man.” 
Country legend Tanya Tucker weighed in, <a href="https://www.threads.net/@thetanyatucker/post/C3A6tD8usFK/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D">writing</a>, “My heart is bleeding for @tobykeith and his family. He was so kind and his music meant so much. He was so patriotic, loved his country and Loved his fans! He was a great warrior right up until last night. Now he’s in Gods army&#8230; My thoughts and everything I can muster goes to his wife and family in hopes that he gives them the strength they’re gonna need to move forward and get through this tragedy!
She added, “Sleep well my friend! It sure won’t be the same without you!”
Luke Bryan <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3BBB9suZjX/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ%3D%3D">wrote</a>, “An iconic artist and a great man. Your songs turn every room into a good time.”
<div id="attachment_692919" style="width: 778px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-692919" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-692919" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-526958620-768x576.jpg" alt="INGLEWOOD, CA - MAY 01: Singers Luke Bryan (L) and Toby Keith attend the 2016 American Country Countdown Awards at The Forum on May 1, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for dcp)" width="768" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-526958620-768x576.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-526958620-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-526958620.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" />Lester Cohen/Getty Images for dcp</div>
Dolly Parton also <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3BDWc_uaWh/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ%3D%3D">shared</a> a message of mourning, writing, “It’s always hard when we lose our brothers and sisters in country music. Toby Keith was one of the greats in every way. He will be missed but his music and legacy will live on.”
“Waking up to the terrible news that our friend, and legend @tobykeith has passed away from cancer. He was a true Patriot, a first class singer/songwriter, and a bigger than life kind of guy. He will be greatly missed,” singer John Rich shared.
“Toby Keith was a true trail blazer. Authentic and heartfelt but always with a wink ‘til the end. He was larger than life in so many ways and his music will live on forever! Raising our red solos tonight—you will be missed by so many. Peace,” Old Dominion wrote in an X post.
“Just waking up to the news of Toby Keith’s passing,” country star Jason Aldean wrote. “Today is a sad day for Country music and its fans. Toby was a huge presence in our business and someone we all looked up to and respected. You and your music will be forever remembered big man.”
Even first lady Jill Biden posted about the singer’s death, writing, “Cancer truly touches us all. Rest in peace, Toby Keith.”
<div id="attachment_692935" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-692935" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-692935" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-173092777-827x576.jpg" alt="NORMAN, OK - JULY 06: Musician Toby Keith performs during the Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert to benefit United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on July 6, 2013 in Norman, Oklahoma. To donate go to www.unitedwayokc.org or text REBUILD to 52000. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Shock Ink)" width="827" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-173092777-827x576.jpg 827w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-173092777-300x209.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-173092777-768x535.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-173092777.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" />Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Shock Ink</div>
The country singer had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2021, publicly revealing his battle later on social media.
“Last fall I was diagnosed with stomach cancer,” Keith tweeted in June 2022. “I’ve spent the last 6 months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. So far, so good. I need time to breathe, recover and relax.”
The singer described his cancer battle as a “roller coaster” in September 2023. Keith also said that his faith played a major role in helping him cope. “I lean on my faith and I just pray and lean into it. You gotta’ do what you gotta’ do, and I don’t know how people do it without faith … that’s what I did, it was my rock.”
Keith is survived by his wife Tricia, three children, and four grandchildren.
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Katie Jerkovich contributed to this report.

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) — who was censured by the House of Representatives after he was caught pulling a fire alarm in a House office building on September 30 as Democrats tried to delay voting on a Republican stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown — issued a statement Monday after The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-rep-jamaal-bowman-promoted-911-conspiracy-theories-on-blog?utm_campaign=owned_social&amp;via=twitter_page&amp;utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">reported</a> he had promoted conspiratorial theories regarding 9/11 on his blog when he was a high school principal.
In 2011, when Bowman served as principal at the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, his online journal included a section titled “Recapitulate” in which he mused that the collapse of Building 7 on 9/11 came from a controlled demolition and cited the films “Loose Change” and “Zeitgeist,” the first of which claimed that the U.S. orchestrated the 9/11 attacks while the second, the Daily Beast writes, “argues that a ring of globalist bankers controls the Federal Reserve and periodically contrives national tragedies to compel the U.S. government to embark on wars and take out greater debt.”
On Monday, Bowman responded to The Daily Beast’s report, saying, “Well over a decade ago, as I was debating diving into a doctoral degree, I explored a wide range of books, films, and articles across a wide swath of the political spectrum and processed my thoughts in a personal blog that few people ever read.”
“I don’t believe anything that these cranks have said, and my life’s work has proven that,” he continued. “As a Congressman, I’ve written a Congressional Resolution condemning a dangerous conspiracy theory, I’ve stood up to MAGA extremists, and I’ve called out the endless bull**** of the far-right.”
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He declared he had since “learned how misinformation spreads,” adding, “I regret posting anything about any of these people. Anyone who looks at my work today knows where I stand.”
A <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/OCE%20Report%20and%20Findings_17.pdf">congressional ethics report</a> about the fire alarm incident stated:
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Following mounting criticism and calls for the Department of Justice to investigate Rep. Bowman for his actions in triggering a false alarm of fire in the Cannon House Building earlier in the day, Rep. Bowman sought to “personally clear up confusion” and extinguish the controversy. To this end, Rep. Bowman released an official statement where he claimed that he “mistakenly” activated the fire alarm “thinking it would open the door.
However, [Office of Congressional Ethics] staff obtained evidence appearing to contradict Rep. Bowman’s claim that he mistakenly activated the fire alarm.
Surveillance video obtained by the OCE shows Rep. Bowman deliberately pulling the fire alarm lever without ever looking back to determine whether the alarm facilitated the opening of the emergency doors.
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UNITED STATES – JUNE 22: Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., arrives to the U.S. Capitol before the House voted to send an articles of impeachment resolution against President Joe Biden to committees on Thursday, June 22, 2023.

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A Harvard University employee challenged a Jewish student who is currently suing the Ivy league school over anti-Semitism to a debate on Israel’s role in 9/11, according to a copy of the harassing email obtained by The Daily Wire. 
“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don&#8217;t miss it!” Gustavo Espada, an active university employee, wrote in a Thursday email to Shabbos Kestenbaum, the student. “If you don&#8217;t show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you!”
Espada sent the email from his official Harvard account with the subject line, “invitation to debate Israeli role in 9/11.” He also offered to plan a “more formal” debate in a “large venue” on campus.
<div id="attachment_686725" style="width: 562px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-686725" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-686725 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.25.24%E2%80%AFPM-552x576.png" alt="Your tweet on X is getting a lot of attention! That's fantastic. As such, I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don't miss it! If you don't show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you! 🙂 We can always schedule a more formal one in large venue on campus." width="552" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.25.24%E2%80%AFPM-552x576.png 552w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.25.24%E2%80%AFPM-287x300.png 287w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.25.24%E2%80%AFPM-768x802.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.25.24%E2%80%AFPM.png 1044w" sizes="(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px" />Harvard Employee, Gustavo Espada, asked a Jewish student to debate the &#8220;Israeli role in 9/11.&#8221;</div>
Espada is the financial and systems coordinator for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, according to Harvard University&#8217;s <a href="https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/gustavo-espada">website</a>. He is also a Harvard alumni who graduated in 1996 and a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, according to his email signature. Espada did not agree to an on the record interview. Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.
“PS stop saying I hate Jews unless that is something you want,” Espada added in the email. “I hate Israel and Zionism with a passion and you know full well they are two different things.”
<div id="attachment_686761" style="width: 562px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-686761" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-686761 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM-552x576.png" alt="Gustavo Espada bio page on Harvard's website" width="552" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM-552x576.png 552w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM-287x300.png 287w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM-768x802.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM-1472x1536.png 1472w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-3.12.32%E2%80%AFPM.png 1510w" sizes="(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px" />Gustavo Espada&#8217;s bio page on Harvard University&#8217;s website. (Credit: Harvard University)</div>
Kestenbaum, along with other students, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">filed a lawsuit</a> against the Ivy League earlier this month, accusing it of selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling anti-Semitism.
“It would stand to reason that someone this hateful would have attended, and continue to work, at Harvard,” Kestenbaum, who notified the Cambridge Police Department of Espada&#8217;s actions, told The Daily Wire. “Harvard, to this day, has yet to introduce or enforce a concrete plan of action pertaining to their dismantling of antisemitism on campus.”
“The time for task forces, statements, and apologies are over,” he added. “I want action and I want it yesterday.”
Espada also referenced posters of Israeli hostages that were defaced earlier this week with 9/11 conspiracies, which Kestebaum documented on his X, formerly known as Twitter, account
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“Perhaps you and your allies want to start acting in better faith, starting with a public correction of the false claims you have made about the posters, and an apology to the community for inflaming passions at this difficult time with false statements?” Espada added in the email.
<div id="attachment_686731" style="width: 580px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-686731" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-686731" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.45.03%E2%80%AFPM-300x93.png" alt="Gustavo Espado conspiracy theories" width="570" height="176" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.45.03%E2%80%AFPM-300x93.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.45.03%E2%80%AFPM-1024x317.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.45.03%E2%80%AFPM-768x238.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.45.03%E2%80%AFPM.png 1196w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" />Gustavo Espado posted 9/11 conspiracy theories to his X account.</div>
A X account that appears to belong to Espada, with account name &#8220;9/11 Guy&#8221; posted at Kestenbaum Thursday defending the vandalism on the posters that blames Israel for 9/11. 
“The posters make no mention of Jews, only Israel and its lies including the 5?Israelis arrested on 9/11 and the obvious demolition with explosives of the WTC, [sic]” he wrote. 
Espada reiterated the call for a debate, this time at the &#8220;science center.&#8221;
“Anyone wishing to debate me should come to the science center today between 12 and 1!” <a href="https://archive.ph/ciVVB#selection-489.194-489.404">he added</a>. “All individuals and news outlets publishing incorrect and/or libelous statements about these events is hereby served notice.”
<div id="attachment_684725" style="width: 580px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-684725" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-684725" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/24_720-300x169.png" alt="Havard posters on campus" width="570" height="321" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/24_720-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/24_720.png 720w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" />Posters of Israeli hostages defaced at Harvard University on January 22, 2024.</div>
In photos obtained by The Daily Wire, the words “lies” and “fake” were written over one of the hostage posters. In another, “Sure, Jan” was written over the face of 23-year-old hostage Romi Gonen. 
Espada’s X account is full of posts with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel.
Espada called for Israel to “be wiped off the map” on January 20, 2024.
“Why, because I think Israel should be wiped off the map for what it’s done around the world?” he posted. “I think what I am is an &#8216;antisemite&#8217; because I have no problem with Jews per se, just the ones who think there’s a different set of rules for them.”
<div id="attachment_686727" style="width: 580px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-686727" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-686727" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.44.33%E2%80%AFPM-300x104.png" alt="Gustavo Espado " width="570" height="197" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.44.33%E2%80%AFPM-300x104.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.44.33%E2%80%AFPM-1024x354.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.44.33%E2%80%AFPM-768x265.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-2.44.33%E2%80%AFPM.png 1198w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" />Harvard employee Gustavo Espado called for the destruction of Israel in a post to X.</div>
He questioned the legitimacy of Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israeli civilians, <a href="https://archive.ph/E7qLn">tweeting</a>, “IDF helicopter fired into kibbutz. No beheaded babies. What if any part of 10/7 is real?”
In a video <a href="https://twitter.com/ixxiguy/status/1748432464450625866">Espada posted</a> of himself in Harvard Square, he shouted at police officers and chants “From the River to the Sea,” and “Globalize the intifada.”
On January 23, <a href="https://archive.ph/QtZyt#selection-465.0-474.0">he shared a tweet</a> with a picture of Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk at the concentration camp, Auschwitz, from another user that accused Zionists and globalists of being “the same people who rule America and their vassals.” 
“This is power,” he wrote, responding to the tweet. “A certain kind of power on the decline, but nevertheless, bear witness to it for posterity!”
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On the same day, he returned to his 9/11 conspiracies, <a href="https://archive.ph/l9vO4#selection-433.1-433.91">posting</a>, “one thing I learned on 9/11 and will never forget is how good Israelis are with explosives.” 
In a TikTok post Thursday night, Espada spoke in Spanish while waving around a toy machete, claiming he is ready to fight to win. &#8220;I’m not going to go into details but this is a good plan. So if you follow us, this is what’s happening,&#8221; he says in Spanish before photos of various high-profile Jews and a screenshot of Kestenbaum&#8217;s tweet.
Espada has been active in pushing 9/11 conspiracy theories for 18 years, according to a 2006 piece in <a href="https://www.lowellsun.com/2006/08/12/they-remain-convinced-us-behind-911/">The Lowell Sun</a> which reported he spends 10 hours a week “handing out literature, Web logging and talking with people on the street about his views on 9/11.”
“I don’t think anybody has a 100 percent view of what actually did happen on 9/11,” he told the paper at the time.

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Around 20% of young Americans view Osama Bin Laden — the mastermind behind the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history — in a positive light, according to a new <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890583/americans-osama-bin-laden-poll-gen-zers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> poll. 
The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890583/americans-osama-bin-laden-poll-gen-zers.html">poll</a>, which surveyed voters between 18 and 29 years old, also found that around 30% of the young Americans believe the views that guided Bin Laden were a “force for good,” The Daily Mail reported. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in May of 2011 after a decade-long manhunt for the radical Islamic terrorist. The al-Qaeda leader orchestrated the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. 
Of the 18-29-year-olds surveyed in the poll, 8% said they had a “completely positive” view of Bin Laden while another 12% said they had a “somewhat positive” view of the infamous terrorist. Among those who viewed Bin Laden positively, 8% said both his “views and actions” were good, and 23% said his views were good but his actions were bad, according to the Mail. Eighty-one percent of those polled overall held a negative view of Bin Laden.
The Daily Mail poll results come a month after viral TikTok videos showed young Americans discussing Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-killed-bin-laden-responds-to-viral-tiktok-trend-praising-the-terrorists-letter-to-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sympathizing</a> with the al-Qaeda leader after reading it. The letter outlines Bin Laden’s justification for the 9/11 terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 
Terry Strada, whose husband died in the North Tower on 9/11, told the Mail that the poll results are a “horrifying” and “disturbing” sign that terrorism is being “normalized” in the U.S. 
“What is wrong with our youth? How do they not realize the horrors of terrorism?” Strada asked. “This is a dangerous and slippery slope to go down.” 
Another American who lost a loved one on 9/11 blamed the U.S. government’s lack of transparency about Saudi involvement in the terror attack for the rise in young Americans’ sympathies for Bin Laden. 
“We have never been told the full story or truth about what happened to us on 9/11,” said Brett Eagleson, whose father perished in the South Tower. “So it’s no wonder why today’s youth and adolescents have taken such extremist views supporting the evil that visited us that day. We have a two-decades-long government cover up to blame for this.” 
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“The time is past for a full accounting of the Saudi Government[‘s] role in 9/11 as well the intelligence failures of the US government,” Eagleson added. 
In October, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-muslim-americans-believe-hamas-was-justified-in-its-terror-attacks-against-israel">survey</a> conducted by Cygnal showed that a majority (57.5%) of Muslim Americans believed Hamas was “justified” in its terrorist attack against Israel. While most Muslim Americans defended Hamas’ actions on October 7, 75% of all Americans condemned Hamas for attacking Israel and murdering around 1,200 people.

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20% Of Young Americans View Osama Bin Laden In A ‘Positive’ Light: Poll

20% Of Young Americans View Osama Bin Laden In A 'Positive' Light: Poll

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New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams generated controversy this week during an interview with a local television station when he said that one of the things that makes New York City the &#8220;greatest city on the globe&#8221; is the possibility people could experience a terrorist attack there.
The moment happened during an interview with host Dan Mannarino on WPIX-TV’s “PIX on Politics” when Adams was asked to describe 2023 in one word.
&#8220;Mr. Mayor, we&#8217;ve come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023,&#8221; Mannarino said. &#8220;So when you look at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it, and it&#8217;s tough to do, in one word, what would that word be? And tell me why.&#8221;
&#8220;New York,&#8221; Adams responded. &#8220;This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.&#8221;
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Mr. Mayor, describe 2023 in one word. &quot;Ugh, New York. This is a place where everyday you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person celebrating a new business that&#39;s open&#8230;And that&#39;s why it&#39;s the greatest city on the globe.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/0jjv9DMzJ6">pic.twitter.com/0jjv9DMzJ6</a>
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The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was the largest terror attack in world history as nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered on that day. The attacks spurred decades of war in the Middle East that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives.
Online, people expressed shock over Adams&#8217; bizarre comment.
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&#8220;This may go down as the worst answer of 2023,&#8221; said sports writer Jack McGuire.
Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure that selling New York as a place where you can experience 9/11 is the best argument that can be made for the world&#8217;s greatest city&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Seriously, what?&#8221; asked writer Ian Miles Cheong.
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Eric Adams On Why NYC Is The ‘Greatest City’: You Can Experience ‘Plane Crashing Into Our Trade Center’

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said during an interview over the weekend that the conditions on the U.S. southern border have him more worried about the potential for terrorist attacks similar to 9/11 happening on U.S. soil than at any other point since the attacks happened more than two decades ago.
Graham made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; while discussing U.S. Senate negotiations with the White House on a border package.
Graham said that he did not believe a deal would be reached by the end of the year and that he expects talks to continue into the new year.
&#8220;The White House got engaged five days ago,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They sent over a supplemental with border security provisions that did nothing to change policy. We&#8217;ve been talking to them since September. Five days ago, they finally sat at the table. &#8230; The bottom line here is, we feel like we&#8217;re being jammed. We&#8217;re not anywhere close to a deal. It&#8217;ll go into next year.&#8221;
Graham said that it was important to fix the border after the testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier this month, who warned that there were &#8220;blinking lights everywhere&#8221; in terms of the warning signs that a terrorist attack could be about to happen due to terrorists&#8217; ability to exploit the southern border.
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&#8220;The border has been obliterated since January &#8217;21 until now,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had 6 million people come to date. There are 3.6 million on schedule to come this year alone. The policy choices of the Biden administration has made the border a dangerous place to come to. America&#8217;s under threat. According to the FBI director since October the 7th, jihadist groups want to attack us because we&#8217;re helping Israel.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been more worried about a 9/11 than I am right now, and our border has been obliterated,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we&#8217;re not going to give in on some Band-Aid fix.&#8221;
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WATCH: &quot;I&#39;ve never been more worried about a 9/11 than I am right now,&quot; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says.<a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LindseyGrahamSC</a>: &quot;Our border has been obliterated and we&#39;re not going to give in on some Band-Aid fix.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HMswj6f4Wb">pic.twitter.com/HMswj6f4Wb</a>
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Lindsey Graham: Biden’s Border Crisis Has Me ‘More Worried About A 9/11’ Attack Than Ever Before

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Lynette Adkins isn&#8217;t exactly the person you&#8217;d expect to kickstart a social media conversation about international terrorism, and how Osama bin Laden might have done the right thing by ordering the 9/11 terrorist attacks. For one thing, Lynette Adkins is a recent college graduate whose latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qDEhVKb_gM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> on YouTube is entitled, &#8220;getting hotter &amp; making friends in LA.&#8221; And in 2021, Adkins was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-23/content-creators-meet-lynette-adkins-youtube-influencer-marketing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profiled</a> by The Los Angeles Times, not for her great insights on world affairs, but because of her videos on, &#8220;college life, skin and hair care,&#8221; including &#8220;a tutorial for Black women growing out their natural hair.&#8221; Adkins, the Times reported, was mainly successful because she often told her followers — which now number well over 200,000 on various social media platforms — how they could quit their white-collar jobs and become a vapid social media personality like herself.
But just a couple of days ago, Adkins offered an insight into a very different topic. Claiming she was in the midst of an existential crisis, Adkins posted this short video on TikTok:
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Tiktokers are now so anti semitic that they’re promoting OSAMA BIN LADEN and the essay where he rants about the Jewish Question <a href="https://t.co/X2QV2rLeCi">pic.twitter.com/X2QV2rLeCi</a>
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She’s having an existential crisis, she says. We&#8217;re now a long way from telling black women how to grow out their natural hair. In that clip, Adkins conspicuously doesn&#8217;t mention what &#8220;A Letter to America” is, apparently because she worried people might not be interested in the document when they learned it was Osama bin Laden&#8217;s manifesto justifying the 9/11 attacks.
But in the end, Adkins&#8217; ploy apparently worked. As the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/business/tiktok-shredded-as-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-gets-viral-praise-terrorist-propaganda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> Adkins single-handedly &#8220;jumpstarted&#8221; a flood of activity on social media, and in particular on TikTok, about Osama bin Laden&#8217;s manifesto. Several <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/the-guardian-deletes-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other outlets</a> also credited Adkins for what happened next. The #lettertoamerica hashtag on TikTok racked up more than 14 million views and on X (Twitter), the same hashtag quickly accounted for nearly 100,000 posts. 
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1265-osama-bin-laden-becomes-a-tik-tok-influencer-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
The journalist Yashar Ali <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1724942399431217457" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that in thousands of TikToks, people of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds responded to bin Laden&#8217;s letter. And for the most part, these TikToks involved young people saying bin Laden&#8217;s letter has led them to reevaluate their perspective on terrorism, and how it can, in fact, be a legitimate form of protest to a hostile, colonizing power. He uploaded just a small handful of these TikToks. We’ll take a look at a small handful of that handful:
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Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous &quot;Letter to America,&quot; in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
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Osama bin Laden, the mass murderer of 3,000 people, has opened their eyes. He has enlightened them with his penetrating insights and deep wisdom.
Now for anyone who lived through 9/11 — which many of these TikTok personalities didn’t — it might be hard to make sense of this. Twenty years ago, even the most rabid leftists on college campuses didn&#8217;t go out in public and proudly suggest that bin Laden was justified. That would have been unthinkable. Instead, the Left generally agreed that acts of terrorism that kill thousands of U.S. citizens were a bad thing. The mass protests that we saw after 9/11, which began in earnest 2002, were almost entirely in response to the planned U.S. military intervention in Iraq — a country that, it turns out, didn&#8217;t have anything to do with 9/11. That was the concern.
Until that point, the country was mostly unified. There was no groundswell of support on the Left in defense of 9/11, on the internet or elsewhere.
So what changed? For one thing, academic theories of &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; as the reaction to the events in the Middle East has made very clear, aren&#8217;t academic anymore. They&#8217;ve filtered down from the university system into the mainstream. But as I&#8217;ve said repeatedly, &#8220;decolonization&#8221; is about much more than Israel. And this latest TikTok trend makes that very clear. The ultimate objective of &#8220;decolonizers&#8221; is the destruction of anything that these zealots perceive as too white. 
Decolonization is a genocidal ideology. It expressly justifies the mass slaughter of innocents — white innocents, specifically — on the grounds that no white person can actually be innocent. That of course includes the thousands of people who died on 9/11 — and most people living in the United States right now.
One of the many striking aspects of this ideology is how incoherent and self-defeating it is. If Libs of TikTok&#8217;s videos are any indication, people on TikTok would be among the very first to get stoned to death if bin Laden&#8217;s version of Sharia Law ever came to the United States. (Which, by the way, is another demand in bin Laden&#8217;s <a href="https://archive.is/rjKSc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> — the total subservience of the West to Sharia law). Only defeated and very confused people, with a constant connection to other very confused people on the internet, would ever support their own eradication like this. 
But none of these people uploading this nonsense to TikTok actually came up with this idea on their own. For a long time now, many commentators have lamented that &#8220;the schools are failing&#8221; and asked,&#8221;What are they teaching these kids?&#8221; and so on. But the answer has always been pretty clear. This is what they&#8217;re teaching. Schools have succeeded in creating exactly the sort of people they set out to create. They may not be explicitly defending bin Laden, but they are spreading a deep hatred of white Western civilization. They&#8217;ve taught that colonization is an abject and eternal evil, with no positive upshot whatsoever. They&#8217;ve told students that the very idea of policing is a white supremacist concept intended to victimize black people. They have taught that “whiteness” is a sickness, a cancer, that must be eradicated. This is the actual language used in schools. Of course they&#8217;ve said the same thing about fundamental concepts like biology, as well. Schools want students to grow into adults who hate this country and everything about it. And that&#8217;s exactly what we&#8217;re seeing right now.
At the same time, the blame doesn&#8217;t entirely fall on the university system. For one thing, it&#8217;s probably not a coincidence that this trend is taking off on a Chinese social media app. As hard as this may be to believe, there are consequences to allowing millions of kids to spend their entire day ingesting content from an algorithm controlled by a communist adversary. In a follow-up video, the woman who apparently started this whole trend on TikTok, Lynette Adkins, went on to acknowledge that TikTok has a role in reprogramming Americans. 
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Here is the video so that no-one will have to click and enter the den of scum which is TikTok&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/L5uDaq1aJR">pic.twitter.com/L5uDaq1aJR</a>
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Young people, Lynette Adkins says, &#8220;have been so programmed to think a certain way.&#8221; And now, she says, &#8220;TikTok is undoing all of that. It&#8217;s crazy to watch in real time.&#8221;
That&#8217;s an understatement. It may be the only true and useful thing that Lynette has ever said on her various social media channels. And apparently, it&#8217;s the last thing she&#8217;s going to say. As of this morning, Lynette&#8217;s videos on TikTok — including the one I just showed you — are all inaccessible. Her account apparently doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. It&#8217;s not clear whether TikTok took her account down, or if she deleted her account herself. We reached out to her for an explanation, and she didn&#8217;t respond.
For its part, TikTok is claiming to be outraged by all of this. They&#8217;ve suppressed any videos that use the term &#8220;Letter to America&#8221; or &#8220;Osama bin Laden.&#8221; If you try to search for it, you&#8217;ll get a warning about &#8220;community guidelines.&#8221; And the company has put out statements saying they&#8217;re horrified that this letter has resurfaced. And they&#8217;re not the only ones saying that. The Guardian, which hosted a <a href="https://archive.is/rjKSc">version of this letter</a> on their website for the past 20 years, deleted the letter from its website in response to all the traffic from TikTok. And of course, in response, interest in bin Laden&#8217;s letter only grew from there, because you can&#8217;t delete anything from the internet. If you try, you just encourage more people to seek it out. Which is why the Guardian’s decision to delete the letter was ridiculous, and did more harm than good.
You can interpret these reactions from TikTok and The Guardian however you want. You can choose to believe that a social media platform controlled by the Communist Party of China is deeply upset that American youth are talking about how bin Laden was justified in taking down the Twin Towers. You can choose to believe that social media mercenary Lynette Adkins, for some reason, decided out of the blue one day to promote this whole idea.
But no matter what — whether you think this is just the latest successful Chinese propaganda effort or not — one fact remains, which no amount of online censorship can change. The truth is that, after 9/11, there were scattered reports of celebrations that broke out in response to the violence. Most of those reports are unverified and disputed to this day. But if another 9/11 happened today, it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to find people celebrating. All you&#8217;d have to do is look at any college campus, or go on TikTok. That’s the harshest reality to contemplate. Everyone was basically on the same page after 9/11 — everyone was sad, everyone was angry. And that was the last time we would all be on the same page about anything. If a similar attack were launched today, we would not even be able to all agree that it’s a sad thing.
That fact is now unavoidable. It&#8217;s unavoidable because of an ideology that both parties have been subsidizing in the university and public school systems for decades. This is an ideology that our leaders have done nothing to combat, for all the years it festered. So now, instead of our young people looking up to great authors or public servants — people with good moral character — they look up to tedious social media &#8220;influencers&#8221; like Lynette Adkins. That&#8217;s as humiliating an indictment of a society as you can find.
But for China, which controls TikTok, it&#8217;s fantastic news. Xi Jinping just <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/xi-says-china-seeks-to-be-friends-with-us-wants-peaceful-ties?embedded-checkout=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> at the APEC Summit that there will be no &#8220;hot war&#8221; with the United States. What he didn&#8217;t say is that he won&#8217;t need to launch a hot war in order to weaken, delegitimize, and ultimately destroy this country. All he needs is an army of useful idiots who want to destroy Western civilization from within.
And if there&#8217;s anything we can learn from what happened on TikTok this week, it&#8217;s that Xi Jinping now has that army. And it&#8217;s bigger and dumber than he could have possibly hoped for.

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Osama Bin Laden Becomes A TikTok Influencer

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Matt Walsh

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A new viral trend on China-owned social media platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> includes largely younger people praising and agreeing with notorious terrorist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/osama-bin-laden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Osama bin Laden</a>&#8216;s &#8220;Letter to America.&#8221;
The letter, which is filled with anti-Western and anti-Semitic language, is a justification from bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, which killed roughly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
&#8220;Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous &#8216;Letter to America,&#8217; in which he explained why he attacked the United States,&#8221; journalist Yashar Ali posted to X. &#8220;Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again. &#8230; [and many] say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power.&#8221;
In one viral video, a woman said the letter is &#8220;wild&#8221; and &#8220;everyone should read it,&#8221; adding that reading it has &#8220;left her disillusioned.&#8221;
Another woman said reading the letter left her reeling in an &#8220;existential crisis,&#8221; and encouraged viewers to also read it. &#8220;In the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed and I have lived has changed. Please read that entire letter.&#8221;
&#8220;I need you to stop what you&#8217;re doing and go read a &#8216;Letter to America,'&#8221; a male said on video. &#8220;It is literally the craziest thing I have read in a while and while I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m not surprised, I&#8217;m pretty shocked.&#8221; He then proceeded to read the following X post, which he said was reminiscent of the letter: &#8220;Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as [terrorism] because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.&#8221;
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Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous &quot;Letter to America,&quot; in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
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Robert O&#8217;Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden, responded to the trend: &#8220;Deceit is a mask the Devil puts over the eyes of useful idiots.&#8221;
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The new Tik Tok fad is the positive reaction from gen Z after reading &quot;Letter to America&quot; by Osama bin Laden.
Deceit is a mask the Devil puts over the eyes of useful idiots.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1725151785411596691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Others reacted, too. Politico Noam Blum said, &#8220;TikTok brain is reading a rant by Osama bin Laden, realizing you agree with him on everything, and concluding not that you need to rethink your life, but that you need to rethink your priors about Osama bin Laden.&#8221;
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TikTok brain is reading a rant by Osama bin Laden, realizing you agree with him on everything, and concluding not that you need to rethink your life, but that you need to rethink your priors about Osama bin Laden.
&mdash; Noam Blum 🚡 (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1724983521494900911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Osama Bin Laden is being praised on the left for attacking America,&#8221; radio host and Outkick founder Clay Travis posted to X. &#8220;And TikTok is helping these clips go viral to idiot kids. This is what happens when for a generation the left has taught kids that America is evil.&#8221;
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Osama Bin Laden is being praised on the left for attacking America. And Tik Tok is helping these clips go viral to idiot kids. This is what happens when for a generation the left has taught kids that America is evil. <a href="https://t.co/5q7mX6bysA">https://t.co/5q7mX6bysA</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1725192206753939788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you kids think Bin Laden made some good points, wait&#8217;ll I tell you about a vegetarian former art student with an ironic mustache whose impassioned manifesto about the Zionist oppression of his people sparked a worldwide movement,&#8221; David Burge mocked, adding, &#8220;I feel I&#8217;m gonna regret this tweet because these motherf***ers are so stupid the next Tik Tok dance craze will be goosestepping.&#8221;
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I feel I&#39;m gonna regret this tweet because these motherfuckers are so stupid the next Tik Tok dance craze will be goosestepping
&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1725191798354583668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Megyn Kelly zoned in on the parents of some of the younger people participating in the trend. &#8220;To the parents of all of these losers suddenly persuaded by the deranged musings of the man who murdered 3k American innocents: you failed,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;You were likely boozing, marching for some L-wing cause and/or simply ignoring your kids. You failed to teach wrong from right, a proper moral code, a love of country and perspective on America’s role in the world. [Because] you failed, my kids and others are going to have to grow up battling these a**holes for the future of the United States. I have every confidence they can do it, but I resent and judge you for making it necessary as opposed to fostering a life in which they can focus solely on growth, joy, love, family, hard work and creation.&#8221;
&#8220;No point getting bogged down in it however, trust me when I tell you that the majority of Americans &#8211; this generation and the next &#8211; will fight to defeat the pernicious lunacy you’ve unleashed,&#8221; Kelly added. &#8220;And we will win.&#8221;
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Man Who Killed Bin Laden Responds To Viral TikTok Trend Praising The Terrorist’s ‘Letter To America’

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News Nation host Chris Cuomo slammed college kids that are siding with the Palestinian terrorists who attacked Israel three weeks ago, saying that if there had been this kind of reaction on college campuses after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that things would have quickly gotten violent.
Cuomo&#8217;s remarks come as there have been anti-Semitic demonstrations held at many of the top universities across the U.S. in recent days organized by the far-left.
&#8220;America was asked by those in the region to exercise restraint after 9/11,&#8221; Cuomo said on Tuesday night. &#8220;Do you remember that? If you&#8217;re under 30- something, you probably don&#8217;t. Google it. College campuses weren&#8217;t calling for a ceasefire the same way then. And America likely would have ignored it.&#8221;
&#8220;Or, I&#8217;ll tell you really the truth, and I don&#8217;t like to say this, if these college kids had been mouthing off about &#8216;we got what we deserved&#8217; the way they&#8217;re saying about Israel right now, this would have been a very violent time in this country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And thank God it didn&#8217;t happen then and I hope it doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;
Cuomo said that regardless of whether people agreed with the war in Iraq after 9/11, the country never would have tolerated support for the terrorist groups that were responsible.
&#8220;And if you think the country would have tolerated support for al-Qaeda&#8217;s actions, as we&#8217;re hearing now, it would have been bedlam,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Again, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of acts of terror. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of brutality, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of death. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of heads and things chopped off and burned and all the different things that you see in movies. I&#8217;ve never seen a group, celebrate and enjoy what I saw with my own eyes that I hope you get to see as well.&#8221;
&#8220;And the fact that it&#8217;s being ignored here by so many, or rationalized by so many, is unbelievable to me, especially younger people,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;I guess you&#8217;re too young to remember what 9/11 meant for the next 10 years of our lives.&#8221;
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Chris Cuomo says if college kids were &quot;mouthing off&quot; after 9/11 the way they are with Israel, they would have gotten a literal beat down. &quot;And if you think the country would have tolerated support for al Qaeda&#39;s actions as we&#39;re hearing now, it would have been bedlam.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sV771MRYry">pic.twitter.com/sV771MRYry</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1716898705591222658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2000-years-ago-they-hated-him-too-chris-pratt-looks-to-jesus-when-dealing-with-haters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Pratt</a> called on Americans to remember the feelings of unity and patriotism that swept the United States in the aftermath of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-i-have-to-go-to-prison-ill-go-sean-penn-reveals-what-he-would-have-done-after-9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11 terrorist attacks</a>, recalling that devastating day — and the groundswell that followed &#8212; in a recent speech.
Pratt shared video of the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-pratt-shares-stirring-september-11th-tribute-social-media-dont-let-9-11-effect-fade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> he gave at Pepperdine University, reflecting on that day and what he felt in the moment that he had realized his country was under attack — and he encouraged students to embrace the things that bring Americans together rather than the things that keep people divided.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t let the 9/11 effect fade,&#8221; he captioned the clip. &#8220;Just a week ago, we gathered to remember the heroes and the indomitable spirit that emerged from the ashes. Let&#8217;s keep that fire of patriotism burning bright, honoring the sacrifices of those who stepped up in the face of adversity. In a world that sometimes feels divided, it&#8217;s crucial to remember that we are one nation, united under the same flag, indivisible. Let&#8217;s carry the torch forward, ensuring that the lessons of 9/11 continue to shape our future and inspire generations to come.&#8221;
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Don&#39;t let the 9/11 effect fade. Just a week ago, we gathered to remember the heroes and the indomitable spirit that emerged from the ashes. Let&#39;s keep that fire of patriotism burning bright, honoring the sacrifices of those who stepped up in the face of adversity.
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&mdash; Chris Pratt (@prattprattpratt) <a href="https://twitter.com/prattprattpratt/status/1703940372534284567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I remember it so vividly. I stood there alone watching the television,&#8221; Pratt recalled, noting that he had been in New Zealand filming at the time. &#8220;I watched in horror as the second plane hit the tower. I watched the smoke, the devastation. I watched people jumping from buildings, falling from buildings. I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes. I&#8217;d never seen anything like that in my life.&#8221;
&#8220;I stepped out and I fell to my knees in the snow and I cried and I cried,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And in that moment, I gotta say I felt &#8212; I felt really alone. And I wanted to go home. I wanted to come back to America.&#8221;
He recalled his concern for his older brother &#8220;Cully&#8221; — who had been in the Army at the time &#8212; and wondering what would become of him and his fellow Americans in uniform.
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&#8220;My brother, my older brother Cully was in the army at the time. I thought, &#8216;Oh my God, my brother’s going to go to war,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I felt the tectonic plates of the earth shifting beneath my feet. I knew in that moment that the world I lived in was going to be totally different moving forward.&#8221;
Pratt went on to say that while the remembrance ceremonies and memorials had been important in the early years after the attacks, he believed that they were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wh-blows-off-critics-after-biden-skips-9-11-memorials-presidents-werent-going-to-pearl-harbor-after-22-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more important</a> as time went by — important because they could now teach those who were not there what America was like when the people believed in each other.
&#8220;Understanding this history means a future in which policymakers have the opportunity to take the lessons of the past and apply them going forward as wisdom. That’s what we owe those on the planes, and in the buildings, who never made it home that day. It’s what we owe the firefighters, the police officers, and paramedics who responded,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s what we owe those who were already in uniform and those who stepped up in service to this great nation in the aftermath of the attacks.&#8221;
&#8220;We must remember, we have to teach our children the lessons of 9/11, to rekindle the 9/11 effect and keep it alive,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Faith, religion, love of our fellow citizens and patriotism grew from the ashes of that day.&#8221;

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‘Don’t Let The 9/11 Effect Fade’: Chris Pratt Gives Stirring Remarks Calling For Unity

'Don't Let The 9/11 Effect Fade': Chris Pratt Gives Stirring Remarks Calling For Unity

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NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-kirby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kirby</a> refused to answer questions on Wednesday about multiple false claims that President Joe Biden has made in recent days that a reporter noted were &#8220;easily debunked.&#8221;
Washington Times reporter Jeff Murdoch said, &#8220;In the past couple of weeks, the president has lied about being at Ground Zero the day after the September 11th attacks, falsely claimed he saw the Pittsburgh bridge collapse, claimed his grandfather died in the hospital days before his birth.&#8221;
&#8220;What is going on with the president?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Is he just believing things that didn’t happen did happen, or is he just randomly making stuff up?&#8221;
Kirby did not answer the question and instead said, &#8220;The president was deeply touched and honored to be able to spend 9/11 with the military members there in Alaska and some families.&#8221;
&#8220;He spoke about a visit to Ground Zero, which he did participate in about a week or so after the — the event, and what that looked and what that smelled and what like — that felt like,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it had a visceral impact on him, as it did so many other Americans on that terrible day.&#8221;
&#8220;And he’s focused on making sure that an attack like that never happens again, which is why we’ve improved our over-the-horizon counterterrorism capability and why we continue to hold terrorist networks accountable,&#8221; he claimed, failing to mention that pulling out of Afghanistan significantly reduced America&#8217;s ability to respond to terror networks in the country. &#8220;And it’s why he spent so much time last week shoring up our national security interests in a vital part of the world on issues that aren’t necessarily tied to terrorism, but very much tied to our ability to secure peace and prosperity there and around the world.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/WashTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WashTimes</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffMordock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffMordock</a>: &quot;In the past couple weeks, the President has lied about being at Ground Zero the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, falsely claimed he saw the Pittsburgh bridge collapse, claimed his grandfather died in the hospital days before his birthday? What is going… <a href="https://t.co/OUi6by9Pab">pic.twitter.com/OUi6by9Pab</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1702021251206652376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Murdoch noted that Biden has &#8220;had a string of saying things that happened — didn’t happen — things that are easily debunked.&#8221;
&#8220;Why does he keep doing that?&#8221; he asked.
Kirby again refused to answer the question, saying: &#8220;The president was grateful to spend that time with those family members and those troops.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/WashTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WashTimes</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffMordock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffMordock</a>: &quot;He&#39;s had a string of saying that things happened didn&#39;t. Things that are easily debunked. Why does he keep doing that?&quot;
Kirby: &quot;The president was grateful to spend that time with those family members and those troops.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CV77cUgtsT">pic.twitter.com/CV77cUgtsT</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1702022069183983642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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White House Dodges Questions About Multiple ‘Easily Debunked’ Claims From Biden

White House Dodges Questions About Multiple 'Easily Debunked' Claims From Biden

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Top lawmakers on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are asking for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> to provide unredacted documents on Saudi Arabia’s “role” in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11</a> as numerous records on the subject have remained classified.
In a <a href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4A131859-DDBB-4A6D-8D88-EA7A76631F14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) ask for unredacted documents so they can better understand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabia</a>’s connection to 9/11.
“No one was more affected by these attacks than the families of those whose lives were lost on that day, and who have struggled to obtain accountability ever since. Our inquiry into Saudi Arabia’s attempts to influence U.S. affairs has underscored, yet again, the need for transparency, particularly regarding Saudi Arabia’s connection to the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote on Sunday, one day before the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. 
The senators said that they had previously asked in July for “the U.S. government finally provide full transparency into what it knows about the attacks, particularly as it relates to Saudi Arabia’s involvement,” but had not yet heard back. 
They said that they asked again on August 8 for an unredacted copy of a record on “Operation Encore,” but had not yet received a single document from the FBI or the DOJ. &#8220;Operation Encore&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/11/senate-sept11-saudi-arabia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> the name given by the FBI to describe links between Saudi nationals and the terrorists who crashed the planes on 9/11. 
“Your failure to respond to our letter only adds to our concerns about the U.S. government’s longstanding refusal to provide full transparency to the American public, and particularly for the families of 9/11 victims, about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote. 
Blumenthal and Johnson said that if the federal entities did not respond to their new call for unredacted documents, they could turn to other methods to ensure compliance with their request. 
Families and survivors of the 9/11 attacks have long pushed for more U.S. officials to press Saudi Arabia on the terrorist attacks. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia in July 2022, the families and survivors asked Biden to discuss the attacks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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“Please stand where no other President since 9/11 has stood, with the September 11 community in our pursuit for justice, and prioritize a full and complete discussion of the Saudis’ continued denial of their complicity in the attacks,” the families said in a <a href="https://911familiesunited.org/9-11-families-president-biden-must-demand-saudi-accountability-for-the-september-11-attacks/">letter</a>.
Although Biden has released some 9/11 documents, they have remained heavily redacted and lawmakers and victims have continued to push for more information.

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Senators Push For 'Transparency,' Unredacted Documents On Saudi Arabia's 'Role' In 9/11

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