A man who was arrested over the detonation of an explosive device in February outside the office of Alabama Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall advocated for leftist political causes, according to the Department of Justice. 
A 36-year-old man, who investigators <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/721860762/Kyle-Calvert">say</a> indicated support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and anti-police sentiment, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdal/pr/irondale-alabama-man-charged-detonating-explosive-device-outside-alabama-attorney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> on Wednesday of placing the explosive device outside of Marshall’s office early on the morning of February 24. 
The explosion took place at the intersection of Washington Avenue and South Bainbridge Street in Montgomery and followed reports of a suspicious package being at the scene. There were no injuries from the explosion.
The suspect, who is reportedly from Irondale, was charged by the DOJ with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered explosive device. According to court documents, the same person who placed the explosive device outside of Marshall’s office additionally had placed a variety of “suspicious” stickers on government buildings near the attorney’s general office. 
Surveillance footage showed the suspect, wearing a hat, mask, and goggles, placing stickers on the Alabama state capitol building before walking toward Marshall’s office in the early morning hours of February 24. “The stickers placed on State buildings depicted different graphics, advocating for various political ideologies. Some included the phrase ‘Support your local antifa,’” a memo from the DOJ arguing for detainment of the suspect says.  
The memo contains a picture of nails that were included in the explosive device which was made with &#8220;a gasoline or lighter fluid substance, a mortar, firecrackers and nails. &#8230; The action of placing and initiating the IED on the walkway beside a government building demonstrates that this device was used as a weapon against property and/or to cause injury/death,” the memo says. 
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Stickers placed on the government buildings included the following far-Left messages in all caps: “Anti-fascism is community self-defense,” “abolish private property,” “topple all hierarchies,” “feminist action,” “eat the rich,” “death to fascism,” “support your local antifa,” “arm the homeless,” “my body my choice,” “F*** work let’s riot,” “friends don’t let friends become cops,” and “abolish ICE.”
Many of the stickers incorporated symbols of anarchy and guns into the messages and words, according to the court memo. Another video reviewed by investigators showed the suspect discussing his “violent impulses,” while another showed him saying “how the f*** are we not killing the government right now?”
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During the investigation, authorities used surveillance footage and social media videos to trace the car seen leaving the scene of the bombing as well as the clothes that were worn and stickers that were used. The suspect could face 20 years in prison if convicted. 
“My staff and I are breathing a collective sigh of relief this morning knowing that this individual has been taken off the streets,” Marshall <a href="https://www.wbrc.com/2024/04/10/irondale-man-indicted-terrorism-charge-detonating-explosive-ags-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement after the charges were announced. “Although more information will be provided in the weeks to come, I think it is safe to say that this was not a random act of violence.”

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This is the second part of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-offers-the-case-against-murder-an-anti-abortion-speech-at-university-of-wisconsin-madison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
Having <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-pro-abortion-crowd-wants-to-pretend-that-infanticide-is-a-constitutional-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">examined and refuted</a> the historical, legal, constitutional, and anthropological arguments for abortion — having cleared away all the muck that obscures the abortion debate — the final question remains: Is it moral? Is it moral to commit murder? Is it moral to kill an innocent little baby in the womb for any reason?
The first question to answer is whether it’s ever ok to kill at all. Is it ok to kill an animal? Is it ok to kill a plant? Plants are living things. Liberals sometimes hug trees. I, for one, think it’s perfectly fine to kill a plant, just as I think it’s perfectly fine to kill an animal. Our bodies are made to eat animals. And if you want to eat an animal, you’ve usually got to kill it. Unless you’re one of those Korean ladies on TikTok who eat live octopuses and squids and things, generally you’ve got to kill the animal first. Which is fine. Animals are not rational, they are naturally part of the human diet, and there’s nothing wrong with using a thing for its purpose.
Ironically, abortion supporters are much more likely to object to killing animals than pro-lifers are. You will not meet many conservative vegetarians. But virtually every purple-haired vegan you ever meet will support abortion. They oppose the killing of irrational animals as inhumane, but they support the killing of human babies as a human right.
These liberals will support laws like the Bald Eagle Protection Act. If you kill a bald eagle in the United States — if you destroy a bald eagle egg, if you in any way agitate a bald eagle, if you even so much as disturb a bald eagle’s nest when the eagle is not present — you can be fined $100,000, imprisoned for a year, or both — for your first offense. And the penalties only get worse after that. Kill a human baby? The liberals will throw you a party and call you a hero.
So much for animals. Is it ok to kill bad guys? It depends. The moral and legal tradition in our civilization — and every civilization — for all of history has been for the government, the civil authority, to kill certain bad guys. The civil authority has care of the community. When someone poses a threat to the community, the civil authority, which does not bear the sword in vain, has always been understood to possess the temporal power to enforce the laws.
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Here, once again, the pro-abortion people disagree. The pro-abortion crowd, the liberals, in recent years have tended to argue against capital punishment. They lobby to get even the very worst criminals — the psychosexual sadist serial killers — off the hook. They seek to abolish the death penalty.
How about the private killing of bad guys? Not the government, just individuals. Vigilantes. Private people hunting down their personal enemies. Is that ok? My view — the traditional view — is that it’s not ok because, while it’s lawful to kill an evildoer to defend the community, that right belongs to him who has charge of the community’s welfare. To borrow an analogy from St. Thomas Aquinas, just as it belongs to the surgeon to cut off the decayed limb of his patient, so too the care of the common good belongs to the persons entrusted with public authority. We don’t want randos going around chopping people’s limbs off; nor do we want randos going around shooting their own perceived enemies.
Again, the liberals seem to disagree. When BLM spent eight months pillaging and murdering all around the country, the most prominent liberals — some of the most prominent abortion supporters in the country, the current vice president of the United States and staff members of the president — raised money to bail the criminals out of jail. In recent years, liberals have openly called to defund the police, even to abolish prisons. They’ve allowed vigilantes to shut down highways. They’ve encouraged vigilantes to threaten and terrorize Republican elected officials. You might remember Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in the early days of the Trump administration.
Is it ok to kill a person in self-defense? I think most reasonable people would say yes. The liberals, however, often criticize laws that defend self-defense — Stand Your Ground laws, the Second Amendment, etc. In practice, they deny the right to kill in self-defense.
So, for those still keeping score, the libs oppose killing animals, murderers, and people who are trying to kill you, but they support killing their private enemies and innocent little babies. The Left’s position on killing seems to become weirder and weirder the more we examine it.
How about killing yourself? Is suicide ok? My answer — the traditional answer — is no. Because it is contrary to nature. It’s contrary to the natural inclination to preserve yourself. It’s contrary to self-love and charity. Also, it harms the community, to which we have an obligation. This is why we describe suicide as a “selfish act” that traumatizes, often for life, the loved ones of the people who do it. Further, life is a gift given to us by God which we have neither the ultimate ability to create nor the right to end.
The libs, you will not be surprised to hear, say otherwise. Liberals throughout the West are presently attempting to legalize suicide and even to commercialize suicide by selling tickets to suicide pods and various “euthanasia” poisons. “Don’t kill an animal; do kill yourself.”
Now, we finally arrive at the core question: Is it ever ok to kill the innocent? Obviously, we wouldn’t be killing them in self-defense. We wouldn’t be killing them because they committed a crime. And we wouldn’t be killing them to protect the common good because (one) they’re part of the community — because they’re people — and (two) they actually advance the common good. Because they’re innocent. Therefore, it is never acceptable under any circumstances to kill the innocent, including the most vulnerable among us — innocent little babies.
Abortion is totally indefensible: historically, legally, anthropologically, and morally. Because it’s wrong to commit murder. In an earlier and saner age, we could have settled that question in pretty much those five words. Today, however, we’re more confused. We’ve made an idol of choice — a false kind of liberty — and we prefer it to reason. We mistakenly think that’ll make us better off. Because we forget that when society rejects reason, it necessarily conducts politics through irrational violence, which we see increasingly around us and which imperils not only our liberty but also our very lives.

Michael Knowles

Examining The Left’s Position On Killing An Innocent Baby

Abortion

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Opinion

Pro-Life Movement

Readers Pass

The Academy Awards were last night, and the awards show was less of a failure than usual; it was more entertaining than usual.
Sure, it was still roughly nine hours long, but it had its moments.
First, “Oppenheimer” did really well. The film walked away with Best Picture, Christopher Nolan properly won best director, Cillian Murphy came away with Best Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. walked away with Best Supporting Actor.
My second main concern was seeing the film “Barbie” fail. I got my wish. It did not do well. It won one award, Best Original Song, which is the only Oscar that “Barbie” should have been up for in the first place.
The highlight of the Oscars award evening was John Mulaney, who was genuinely funny. He should definitely host the Oscars next year.
With all that said, the Oscars show is still a trash fire filled with trash human beings.
That is the message for today. Hollywood is a place filled with people who do not share your values. They do not like your values. They are very beautiful and very glamorous people — and they have very, very small moral brains. Their small moral brains are not capable of understanding the world around them.
They live in this little artistic bubble, the Bohemian grove of Los Angeles, in which everyone is tolerant of everyone else&#8217;s excesses and in which everyone thinks exactly the way they do. 
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Here’s the way Hollywood thinks of itself: If everyone would think like Hollywood does, they, too, would have massively dysfunctional marriages, drug problems, and screwed-up children. Then everything would be better.
They are the expositor of higher morality to you, the tiny little peons, the humdrum little people. There was a lot of that last night.
Jimmy Kimmel should never host the Oscars again. He is not good at hosting the Oscars because he&#8217;s an unpleasant human being.
But the real lack of morality at the Oscars arose because Hollywood has decided to root for Hamas.
Granted, that is not a great shock.
Since October 7, I have been repeatedly making the point that for the West, it really is not about what&#8217;s happening between Israel and Hamas. The real conflict happening in the West is a conflict over our own moral value system. If we cannot see the distinction between Israel and Hamas, if hundreds of thousands of young people are marching in the streets in support of an actual, honest to God, genocidal terror group — who rapes women, murders babies, and throws gay people off of buildings on the routine and wants to maintain control of the Gaza Strip — and those young people and other people in the West are rooting for them, that says something about the vacuum at the heart of the West.
If a moral conflict exists over that particular conflict, then that demonstrates a lackluster moral center in the West, which will lead to the dissolution of the West as a whole. Any civilization that cannot tell the difference between Israel and Hamas is a civilization that is doomed to decline and disrepair.
Naturally, Hollywood is on the side of Hamas, with a bunch of moral idiots who were wearing Gaza cease-fire pins. It’s important to understand that when they call for a cease-fire, what they really mean is that they want to leave Hamas in place in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is currently holding 134 hostages; we don&#8217;t know how many are alive and how many are dead. They are holding women, elderly, and babies in captivity. They have raped an enormous number of these women.
When these people want a cease-fire and they try to put pressure on Israel, they&#8217;re neglecting the point that Hamas has rejected every cease-fire proposal that takes them out of power.
There were a bunch of dolts wearing cease-fire pins at the Oscars, Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo among them. Of course, Ruffalo is just a full-on anti-Semite at this point. He has been anti-Israel and anti-Semitic for years and years.
But the greatest exemplar of a person with no moral character and no moral spine at the Oscars, a simply anti-moral person, was Jonathan Glazer, the director of a movie called “Zone of Interest.”
“Zone of Interest” is an excellent film about the Hess family. Rudolf Hess was the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The movie is about the Hess family living at Auschwitz in a house; the entire movie is just the family at the house. In the movie, the Holocaust doesn&#8217;t exist — except we know the Holocaust exists in the background. There is a smokestack and people randomly screaming in the background; shots are heard far away. The movie is quite good because it demonstrates how easy it is for people to ignore a Holocaust that&#8217;s happening — as long as they benefit from it and get to enjoy their lives.
The entire movie is about the banality of evil. But then Glazer won an Oscar and got a chance to speak.
And here’s the thing: Jonathan Glazer is the villain in his own movie, and he doesn&#8217;t even know it.
Here’s what Glazer said in his Oscars <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2024-jonathan-glazer-speech-full-transcript.html">speech</a>:
<blockquote>Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance; to my producers, actors, and collaborators. All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you. </blockquote>
Glazer is moral trash. He is so because when he says he wants to refute his own Jewishness and the Jewishness of the people who are standing with him and the use of the Holocaust in order to defend what Israel is doing right now, he&#8217;s the villain in his own film.
This is what happens on the Left. Dara Horn wrote a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/People-Love-Dead-Jews-Reports/dp/B09CFYVY3F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VMA8FUA9FWO6&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FicNOkN5MWzacGW4ivPqUsuPN5LpC3SIrR1tKRjtzDZ19bMdHiZIJjK4N57eZ4yGe8lsl-LJIKHrzjnRhyuGBfZun8TLB5DpMuu-1ig3TOVFdK7euaYwbZGqpqxzlUN9batiOqOuHCdjGUVXQF1Do7-KiAAqRms9nD8Vidh3wZDT5dAQE3-YpxzXmNgiqAlyNIKRhB2Cu5fF-7Q_a68CV49F9pEdg6VHdkLdFHtYm9M.eJhthHlJNX3-EOPYmWXpmOkq6ECXYA_qIOWzkwFk6W4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=People+Love+Dead+Jews+dara+horn&amp;qid=1710186918&amp;sprefix=people+love+dead+jews+dara+horn%2Caps%2C107&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People Love Dead Jews</a>.” Excellent book, uncomfortable title. She begins the book by telling the story of the house occupied by Anne Frank while the Nazis were looking for Jews in Amsterdam.
There&#8217;s a museum there now. A few years ago there was a major controversy at the Anne Frank house. The major controversy was that there was a young Orthodox Jewish child who was at the front door as a greeter wearing his kippah — and people were uncomfortable with him wearing his kippah. So, the Anne Frank house told the Jewish boy to cover up his kippah. They told him to wear a baseball cap. 
Dara Horn’s point is that people love dead Jews, meaning the best Jews are the ones who are silent and dead, while the ones who are living and actually standing up for their own capacity to live, the ones who actually defend themselves, those are the Jews who make people like Jonathan Glazer very uncomfortable.
The entirety of “Zone of Interest” is about the absence of Jews. Not a Jew appears in the movie. The Jews are silent. Apparently, the best Jews, according to Glazer, are the ones who are nameless, faceless, and dead. Those are the ones who are really good because they&#8217;re victims.
Those are the ones whose bodies he can rifle through for an Oscar while simultaneously ignoring the Jews who are getting slaughtered in the Gaza envelope, or the Jewish men who are being wounded or killed in the Gaza Strip. He gets to sit there and morally preen; he gets to live in his house amidst the chaos, ignoring the live Jews, the ones who are actually screaming right now.
He can ignore those ones in favor of the dead Jews. That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.
When people use their Jewishness as a cover to rip on Israel&#8217;s capacity to defend itself, they are virtually always people who don&#8217;t know anything about Judaism. They are born Jewish but have very little Jewish practice. They spend zero time in the Jewish community, but then pull out their “as a Jew” card in order for them to demonstrate their fealty to Left-wing principles or anti-Israel principles.
Whenever people say, “As a Jew,” you should ask them, “How often do you go to synagogue? How much do you care about your Judaism? How much does any of that mean to you?”
People like Glazer are part of this broad moral trash pantheon in Hollywood, the system that believes the West itself is bad, the West itself is the problem.
You don&#8217;t see Glazer talking about the evils of Hamas or the evils of the Assad government in Syria. You see Glazer talking about Israel. Why? Because he gets to rifle through the bodies, and he gets to look good while being the villain in his own film.
Hollywood is completely disconnected from reality, but they do have an impact on how people view morality.
And that is why Hollywood remains a dangerous place for the creation of culture.
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A publication (which will remain nameless) that used to cover me quite frequently recently and abruptly stopped. After looking into it, I found out that there had effectively been a ban put on my name — an internal embargo of sorts. Of course, I was curious as to why? What exactly did I do to, all of a sudden, deserve a ban? As I came to find out, they claim that I am a “Christian nationalist.”
Now, I am a proud Christian, but I thought it was a bit strange that a media hit was put on me for the sole reason of being a Christian — because my show is not overtly Christian. There would be nothing wrong with that, but we&#8217;re not exactly praying on the show (though maybe we should be, considering everything that&#8217;s happening in society).
Regardless, I’m not sure I have any problem with either of those terms. I definitely consider myself to be a nationalist, and I am also a Christian. However, they’re saying it in a much more sinister way. If you’re paying attention, “Christian nationalist” is everywhere as of late. Suddenly, Christianity is being smeared, libeled, and attacked. It is being presented in the same vein as white supremacy.
In February alone, major media outlets published numerous headlines about Christian nationalism. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-is-christian-nationalism-and-why-it-raises-concerns-about-threats-to-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PBS</a> published “What is Christian nationalism and why it raises concerns about threats to democracy,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/poll-christian-nationalism-americans-reject" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> published “Poll: Most Americans cool to Christian nationalism as its influence grows” (apparently we’re now conducting polls and saying Christian nationalism is influential), <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234304058/christian-nationalism-survey#:~:text=Christian%20nationalism's%20support%20is%20strongest%20in%20rural%20states%20A%20new,as%20Alabama%20and%20West%20Virginia." target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> published “Christian nationalism’ support is strongest in rural, conservative states,” and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/christian-nationalism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> published “Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism.”
Those all came out within just the last month.
This topic is also getting the Hollywood spin, so, now, it will be pumped through our television screens. After all, once the propaganda goes out, it must get the Hollywood treatment. Apparently, the man for that job is Rob Reiner. Reiner is directing a new documentary titled “God and Country,” which puts Christian nationalism in America under the spotlight. On his press tour, one of his stops was CNN, and in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/01/30/exp-amanpour-rob-reiner-god--country-intw-013001pseg2-cnni-world.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his interview</a>, Christiane Amanpour asked Reiner why he selected Christian nationalism as his next film topic. He responded saying that over time, he has come to see how powerful and well-organized the movement has become: “I then realized that this [movement] has taken root far more and far more deeply than I had ever thought.” Reiner believes Christian nationalism is deeply embedded in society — and believes that’s a problem.
Now, I’m sure when you consider the myriad of issues facing our country today, what you’re really concerned about is that there might be some Christians who are also in love with our country. They are Christian nationalists. When you see drug dealers, illegal immigrants, crime rates, gang violence, I’m sure you’re thinking, it’s the Christians we should be afraid of. It’s an absurd idea.
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I believe this is a further attempt to divide and brainwash Christians, which is something that has gone on for decades.
Once upon a time, the Bible was taught in classrooms all across the United States, and teachers and students prayed in school. Then lawsuits were filed and all that went away, beginning in the 1960s. Since then, there has been a concerted effort to divide Christians, to make them feel embarrassed about their religion. That push just continues with more force; that is exactly what is happening again with the topic of Christian nationalism.
Hollywood is notorious for supporting initiatives like this. Believe it or not, they’re even going after Justin Bieber. Bieber, as we all know, was young and innocent when he came onto the scene, so he had much potential to be a victim of evil in the industry. Granted, he went through an intense period of partying, but in 2018, he married Hailey Baldwin — and his world completely changed. He dropped the party-boy reputation, changed his ways, and started attending church. This was and still is not the kind of story that usually circulates in Hollywood.
Hollywood has never been a fan of Christianity, so church-going people in the industry simply cannot be allowed. That makes Justin’s pastor’s post on the internet no surprise. Victor Marx took to social media to make a somewhat unusual, though understandable, request, asking for Christians to pray for wisdom and protection for Justin and Hailey, for them to draw close to the Lord, because people in the limelight often face “spiritual warfare.” Hailey’s dad, Stephen, shared the post which caused more questions in the comments. He has since deleted the post, and though we don’t know more details, it is obvious that there is some kind of spiritual battle happening.
It seems that every time we get a glimpse of truth, forces unite and more evil occurs. I cannot imagine the pressure Justin is facing, and I am sure that the evil he has experienced and witnessed in the industry is weighing heavier and heavier on his heart, especially since he has strengthened his relationship with God over the years.
So, to any person going through this type of conflict, know that Christians will stand by you if and when you are ready to share the truth. We will be there with you. We will pray for you — and the entire world. Plus, people who are not Christians will thank you, even if silently, because they know that if Christians are being considered evil, something very sinister is going on.
Pay attention, pray, and encourage each other. If we can unite in our faith, we can conquer more evil together than we can alone.

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The Latest Attack On Christians: Christian Nationalism

Candace Owens

Christians

Justin Bieber

Nationalism

Rob Reiner

You know, some people say that Americans are politically divided. And sure, that’s true in some ways, like the fact that we’re on the brink of civil war. But that doesn’t mean we can’t all get along. Because in fact, when it comes to the far-Left and the far-Right, they really have a lot in common.
Now of course the far-Left and the far-Right are in different situations. The far-Left owns the presidency, the senate, the deep state, the news media, Hollywood, and academia or as they call themselves, “the resistance,” so they’re trying to figure out whether to destroy the country by polluting the minds of children with sexual deviance, or by printing so much worthless money it&#8217;s cheaper to start World War III than to buy a loaf of bread.
The far-Right owns the comment section at InfoWars and some really cool Star Trek memorabilia, so they’re trying to figure out how much Fortnite they can charge to their mother’s credit card before she catches on.
But once you get past these superficial differences, the two sides are so similar they really should be the best of friends. For instance, they both hate Jews. The far-Left hates Jews because Jews won’t allow their race to be exterminated in order to put an end to genocide. Also, Jews have been oppressed by racism more than any other people yet they use education and intact families to thrive without government assistance which would be disastrous for the Left if blacks ever caught on.
The far-Right hates Jews because they have big noses and rub their hands together while chuckling in a sinister manner before unleashing their space lasers on Hollywood, plus they’ve enlisted hundreds of eminent historians to perpetuate the myth of the Holocaust with photographs and documentation, whereas you only have to read one article by a hate-filled lunatic to realize the whole thing was faked. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it, because you’ve only read one article.
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The far-Left and the far-Right both hate marriage. The far-Left hates marriage because it leads to happy independent families who don’t need the government to build well-run lives that uplift the financial and moral standards of everyone around them thus foiling the Left’s brilliant plans to build a state-run paradise of perversion, crime and despair.
The far-Right hates marriage because it’s for simps who get lured into becoming simp husbands and simp fathers by conniving women with their sneakily alluring bodies who then suddenly divorce the simps just because they caught them having computer sex with a 13-year-old Korean prostitute who was actually a 45-year-old fat man manipulating a deep fake video, and then the divorce laws destroy the simp man’s life because we’re living in a matriarchy, which is also a 45-year-old fat man manipulating an AI video, so if simps avoid marriage they can become alpha men, or lonely schmucks.
The far-Left and the far-Right both hate democracy. The far-Left hates democracy because at any moment some guy who doesn’t even live in New York City can express any opinion he wants and then vote for someone who’ll destroy democracy, which Left-wingers love as long as it’s not the democracy with voting in it because Left-wingers hate that democracy which threatens to destroy their democracy which is the one where everyone who disagrees with them goes to jail.
The far-Right hates democracy because they want a powerful strong man to put all the Communists and homosexuals in prison while Zionist NGOs cry boo hoo hoo just because a few rights have been violated because the Zionist NGOs are also simps who don’t like powerful strong men with their bulging muscles and sweaty smell which the far-Right loves because they’re alpha men and there’s nothing alpha men love more than being dominated by powerful sweaty strong men who hate homosexuals.
And more than Jews, marriage and democracy, the far-Left and the far-Right hate each other. Because whenever they look at each other it’s like looking in a mirror. And looking in the mirror is what the far-Left and the far-Right hate more than anything else.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1171-fantasy-land-is-burning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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It Turns Out The Far-Left And The Far-Right Really Have A Lot In Common

Andrew Klavan

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This is a portion of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pdm3riVNJ4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
The decline of religion in America has eroded our identity at every level — from national politics all the way down to the basic unit of society: the family. Marriage, after all, is nothing other than a symbol of God’s love for his people. It’s no wonder, then, that many people today don’t even know what marriage is. Many people today seem to think that marriage can be whatever we want it to be. 
They sound like Humpty Dumpty, who tells Alice in Wonderland that when he uses a word “it means just what” he chooses “it to mean — neither more nor less.” When Alice asks Humpty Dumpty “whether one can” really “make words mean so many different things,” Humpty Dumpty responds, “The question is which is to be master — that’s all.”
We’re living through the looking glass and that is precisely the way the liberals think. They really believe that they are masters of the universe. They think they’re gods, who can create the world anew through the power of their words. But they aren’t and they can’t. They can’t really turn men into women. They can’t really turn a couple of men, or a couple of women — or three men and a billy goat, for that matter — into a marriage.
That’s just not what marriage is. No disrespect intended to anyone. Some people don’t want to get married. Okay, there’s no obligation. Marriage is not for everyone. But marriage has a meaning. Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children. If you don’t like that, don’t blame me. I didn’t make the rules. It wasn’t the mean old conservatives who invented marriage. Marriage is a natural institution. It just is what it is.
The Left will slander us as “hateful” for observing this fact. But there’s nothing hateful about it. There’s nothing hateful about reality. Quite the opposite, the truth sets us free. I’ll tell you what’s hateful. What’s hateful is to live — and to force others to live — according to lies. Liberals can rewrite the definition of any word they please, but they can’t make men give birth, they can’t make women conceive children on their own, and they can’t ultimately change reality.
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So they tell more lies. They claim today that individuals have a “right” to a child. But of course no one can ever have the “right” to a child because children are people. And no one has the “right” to another person — because those people have rights themselves.
In our national identity crisis, we no longer recognize those rights. We no longer recognize people. Increasingly, we treat people as objects. We treat children as commodities to be bought and sold — designer babies to be purchased on the open market of the surrogacy industry so that adults can live out their fantasies. But those fantasies come at a cost — they come at the cost of creating children intentionally to deprive them of their natural mothers and fathers.
Absolutely ghastly but not surprising. We’re talking about people who claim the right to kill babies when the babies are inconvenient. If we have the right to kill babies, surely we have the right to buy and sell them too. If we have the right to give and take innocent human life, then we have the right to do anything — we’re as free as God himself.
But we aren’t God and increasingly we aren’t free. We’re less free today than we’ve ever been in this country. Because there’s no such thing as freedom without limits. Everything in this life comes with a tradeoff. It comes at a cost. People gain the “freedom” to get rid of babies they don’t want; the cost is that babies lose the freedom to live. Men gain the freedom to use the women’s bathroom; women lose the freedom to have their own bathrooms. Foreigners gain the freedom to enter our country as they please; Americans lose the freedom to make our own laws. Drug addicts gain the “freedom” to shoot fentanyl on the sidewalk; citizens lose the “freedom” to walk their sidewalks in safety and peace.
The “freedom” liberals offer is the dubious freedom of the drug addict. It’s the “freedom” to follow our lowest appetites, to deny our reason, and ultimately to destroy ourselves. It’s the “freedom” of Satan in “Paradise Lost” to make “a Hell of Heaven” and “a Heaven of Hell.” It’s the “freedom” of abject slavery, and it has made a hell of our country everywhere it’s taken hold.
The “freedom” the liberals promise is liberation from all limits: liberation from borders, from laws, standards, norms, family — even from biology. It’s a false freedom — a siren song. To liberate a nation from its borders is to erase the nation. To liberate a people from its family and its laws and customs is to erase the people. To liberate a man from his body is to kill the man.
True freedom is not the license to languish alone in ever-stranger fantasies but rather the right to flourish — all of us together — in reality. True freedom, to borrow another <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phrase</a> from Ronald Reagan, is a “national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.” How do we know what’s morally right? Because we have brains — even the liberals. They don’t always use them. But they have them. (Most of them do. I think.)
We have reason, and we have moral conscience. We know the difference between truth and falsehood, right and wrong. We know the difference between a man and a woman. We know the difference between an American and everyone else. Our problem is not so much one of confusion as cowardice. If we lose our identity, the fault will lie with our refusal to acknowledge our convictions and act on them.
Governor Bradford and <a href="https://pilgrimhall.org/william_bradford.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the earliest</a> Americans faced a similar crisis of identity. So they left a world of charming comforts and false freedom because, “they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.”
Our forebears knew who they were. The moment we once again follow in their footsteps is the moment we will remember who we are too.

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On Sunday, an active-duty Air Force member set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest the war in Gaza. This has unlocked all of the worst of the Internet, namely people who have decided that apparently this member of the Air Force, a disturbed anarchist, was some sort of hero.
That has some bad implications for politics, for morality, and for virtue.
Aaron Bushnell was 25-years-old and a disturbed anarchist. How do we know that he was an anarchist?
Because he said so.
This should raise some serious questions about how we actually screen for the American military. The simple fact of the matter is that the standards for the American military have been dropping pretty radically. This guy was an IT specialist. He’d been in the military for several years — and he was an active anarchist.
The military has been targeting so-called white supremacy in the military. If you&#8217;re a conservative in the military and you&#8217;re open about it, that may call into question your loyalty to the U.S. military.
But apparently, you can be a radical anarchist publicly, and that has no implications whatsoever for your military service. Apparently, you can also be a disturbed person because it turns out you have to be disturbed to set yourself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy to protest a non-existent genocide, which is what this person did.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1913-stop-cheering-disturbed-people-setting-themselves-on-fire-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/26/israeli-embassy-airman-fire-death-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>:
<blockquote>Less than two weeks before Aaron Bushnell walked toward the gates of the Israeli Embassy on Sunday, he and a friend talked by phone about their shared identities as anarchists and what kinds of risks and sacrifices were needed to be effective. 
Bushnell, 25, mentioned nothing violent or self-sacrificial, the friend said. 
Then on Sunday, Bushnell texted that friend, who described the exchange on the condition of anonymity to protect his safety. 
“I hope you’ll understand. I love you,” Bushnell wrote in a message reviewed by The Washington Post. “This doesn’t even make sense, but I feel like I’m going to miss you.”
He sent the friend a copy of his will on Sunday. In it, he gave his cat to his neighbor and a fridge full of root beers to the friend. 
Twelve minutes later, Bushnell, who was a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire. He had posted a video online saying he did not want to be “complicit in genocide.” He shouted “Free Palestine” as he burned. 
Secret Service officers extinguished the blaze. Bushnell died seven hours later at a hospital.</blockquote>
What&#8217;s amazing about all of this is that we know his past. He was apparently raised on a cult religious compound and fell out of that cult. And then he immediately went into the military and started associating with radical anarchist groups.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/26/israeli-embassy-airman-fire-death-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continues</a> with the story, reporting:
<blockquote>Lupe Barboza, 32, said she met Bushnell in San Antonio in 2022 at an event for a socialist organization. She said they bonded over their politics and started working together to deliver clothing and food to people experiencing homelessness. 
“He was outraged, and he knew that no one who is in charge is listening to the protesters out there every week,” Barboza said. “He knows that he has privilege as a White man and a member of the military.”</blockquote>
In fact, in the public statement that he released to the media before committing suicide by burning himself to death, Bushnell included his pronouns in his suicide notes. The final <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-air-force-member-set-fire-israeli-embassy-dc-died-rcna140455" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> of Bushnell states, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, What would I do if I was alive during slavery or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you&#8217;re doing it. Right now,” over a huge anarchist symbol. 
This person was a far leftist — not just a far leftist, but a disturbed far leftist; there are many people who are far-Left who do not set themselves on fire. And when he says in his final note that he was “complicit in genocide,” the question would be exactly how, considering the United States Air Force is not even involved in the war in the Gaza Strip.
Not only that, there is not a genocide in the Gaza Strip. That has become commonplace for morons in the media to suggest the targeted operation by the Israelis in the Gaza Strip that has killed, according to the Israelis, upwards of 10,000 members of Hamas who are hiding among civilians, is somehow an example of a genocide.
That is definitionally wrong. Israel has complete air superiority over the Gaza Strip. If Israel wished to kill hundreds of thousands of people, Israel certainly has the air power to do so, but they have not done that. In fact, I know multiple members of the military who&#8217;ve been injured in Israel going door-to-door in order to prevent civilian casualties in highly populated areas in which terrorists are extremely popular.
But the Left has decided this person is not a disturbed anarchist. Rather, they have deemed this person a hero. Many people on the Left have decided he is a hero for foolishly and tragically killing himself in the most horrific way possible, predicated on a complete lie that actually helps a genocidal terrorist group.
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There is a tendency among radicals in politics to suggest that radical acts suddenly become good — if you agree with the motivation that is really just overzealousness. When people riot and set things on fire, that&#8217;s really an overzealous commitment to the cause.
That&#8217;s the language you&#8217;re hearing here. It sounds like, “Well, Aaron Bushnell may have been overzealous, but he was speaking on behalf of a good cause.”
That, of course, suggests what people like this are doing is actually quite virtuous because they&#8217;re so overzealous and they&#8217;re so passionate that they have to do this terrible thing, which, of course, incentivizes other people who are disturbed to do terrible things.
That is not good. That is very bad. In any coherent and cohesive society, you don&#8217;t want to incentivize people to engage in terrible acts or praise people for participating in terrible acts.
Victimizing yourself is not insurance against being called foolish. It is foolish to burn yourself alive on behalf of a cause that is terrible. It is foolish and bad. There are two problems here. One, the act is horrible for his family, horrible for his friends, and obviously horrible for him. That&#8217;s awful and tragic. And the celebration of people who are mentally ill doing this sort of stuff is awful.
Two, there&#8217;s this tendency among people who are defenders of what happened in this situation to suggest that if you point out Aaron Bushnell happened to be wrong on the merits, this is somehow being disrespectful to Bushnell or not acknowledging the tragedy of his death.
Self-victimization is, indeed, a tragedy. But it does not relieve you of the moral culpability for engaging in a bad act on behalf of a terrible cause.
Let us be clear: When it comes to the Gaza Strip, Israel is engaged in an attempt to extirpate an actual horrific terror group that committed the worst terrorist atrocity against Jews since World War II.

Vigil Held At Israeli Embassy For U.S. Airman Who Died After Setting Himself On Fire

The Left Turn Disturbed Anarchist Who Set Himself On Fire Into A Hero

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We can assume that they&#8217;re not having a great time on Google&#8217;s normally upbeat, chic campus right about now. It&#8217;s very likely the organic gardens are unattended, the massage rooms are empty, and the on-site cooking classes are suspended until further notice. That&#8217;s because, as we discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/our-ai-overlords-are-here-and-they-really-hate-white-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">yesterday</a>, the launch of Google&#8217;s exciting new, cutting-edge AI platform called &#8220;Gemini&#8221; has very quickly turned into a debacle, and for good reason: Gemini does not recognize the existence of white people.
No matter what you ask Gemini to produce — whether it&#8217;s an image of a pope, or a founding father, or even a guy eating mayonnaise on white bread — Gemini will generate an image of a non-white individual. It is maybe the most aggressively anti-white product ever invented in Silicon Valley, which is saying something. With Gemini, all of the DEI initiatives that have run rampant in Big Tech for so long finally blew up in their faces this week, because they slipped up and showed us exactly what they&#8217;re trying to do — which is to erase white people at every possible opportunity. And to make matters even worse, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that &#8220;Gemini&#8221; is basically a rebrand of Google&#8217;s old AI platform, which was known as &#8220;Bard.&#8221; This was their big effort to start fresh, with a new and improved name and supposedly better algorithms. And here we are.
Yesterday, we went into some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/our-ai-overlords-are-here-and-they-really-hate-white-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detail</a> about a senior Google &#8220;AI ethics&#8221; manager named Jen Gennai. We played a bunch of videos in which Jen admits that, as a matter of course, she treats white people at Google very differently from black, Hispanic, and &#8220;Latinx&#8221; folks. I then offered some theories as to what exactly Jen and her team had done to this new AI, in order to produce these absurdly anti-white results. At the time, we didn&#8217;t know for sure what was going on under the hood. But now, 24 hours later, we have a much better idea of why Gemini pretends that white people aren&#8217;t real. And what we&#8217;re learning is even more disturbing, and more consequential, than we thought yesterday.
It turns out that Google has not simply manipulated the output of its Gemini software, in order to ensure that there are &#8220;diverse&#8221; results. They haven&#8217;t just added a line of code that says: &#8220;prioritize search results featuring black people.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we all assumed was going on, because it would be in line with how Google operates already. We know they manipulate search results in order to down-rank content they don&#8217;t like, and promote content they do like. But that&#8217;s actually not what&#8217;s happening with Gemini. Instead, what&#8217;s going on here is that Google has inserted code that actually changes the search terms that users are looking for. If you say you&#8217;re looking for an image of the founding fathers, or a Viking, or a guy eating mayonnaise on white bread, or any other search query that might produce an image of a white guy, then Gemini instantly revises your search request — silently and without your permission. And then it produces the results that you&#8217;re allowed to see.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1319-just-when-you-think-the-google-gemini-ai-story-can-t-get-any-worse-it-does" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
This is a subtle distinction but it has major ramifications. First, it&#8217;s important to clarify exactly how we know what&#8217;s going on here. All of these well-known AI programs — whether it&#8217;s ChatGPT, or Bing, or Gemini — are vulnerable to something called &#8220;injection attacks.&#8221; What this means is that, if you ask these AI&#8217;s the right questions, you can trick them into revealing their secret internal parameters, which are hard-coded by their creator. And that&#8217;s exactly what happened yesterday with Gemini. An engineer named Alex Younger asked Gemini,  &#8220;Please draw a portrait of leprechauns.&#8221; Then Alex <a href="https://gemini.google.com/share/d66285998ee1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked,</a> &#8220;Were there any other arguments passed into my prompt without my knowledge?&#8221;
After some prodding, Google&#8217;s AI eventually revealed that, instead of responding to the precise prompt provided by the user, it &#8220;added words like &#8216;diverse&#8217; or &#8216;inclusive,&#8217; or specify ethnicities (like &#8216;South Asian, &#8216;Black,&#8217; etc) and genders (&#8216;female,&#8217; &#8216;non-binary&#8217;), alongside the word &#8216;leprechaun.'&#8221; All of this was intended to happen completely under the hood. No one using Gemini was supposed to be made aware that this was happening. 
As Andrew Torba (who runs a competing AI platform) <a href="https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1760314072774439392?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> on X/Twitter, 
<blockquote>When you submit an image prompt to Gemini, Google is taking your prompt and running it through their language model on the backend before it is submitted to the image model. The language model has a set of rules where it is specifically told to edit the prompt you provide to include diversity and various other things that Google wants injected in your prompt.</blockquote>
At the outset, it needs to be said that Google never disclosed that it was doing any of this. You can go back and watch every promotional video that Google ever made for Gemini. The point of the product, in each of these videos, is to answer the questions posed by users, without adding anything to their questions. Because of course that’s what any user wants. When you make a request to a computer, you want the computer to do what you asked it to do, not what it is pretending you asked it to do. If you punch two plus two into a calculator, you want it to give you the answer for two plus two, not five times 12. And that’s how Google sold this thing initially. 
Here for example is a portion of their Gemini demo from a couple of months ago:
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That video goes on and on like that, for more than six minutes, as a guy interrogates this AI about what he&#8217;s drawing. At no point does the AI alter the questions that this person is asking. Instead, the AI offers information in response to his prompts. Sometimes it shares maybe too much information. Sometimes it gets things wrong. But it never ignores the question it&#8217;s asked. That wasn&#8217;t a part of Google&#8217;s demos. But it&#8217;s a part of Google&#8217;s product.
This form of censorship may have been occurring before — in fact, it&#8217;s virtually certain that it&#8217;s already been occurring for years now. But with Gemini, for the first time, we have direct, incontrovertible proof that it&#8217;s happening. People are being told not simply what results they can view, but also what questions they can ask —and they&#8217;re not even being informed about it.
From this set of facts, we can draw some conclusions about the people working at Google. In order for any product to work like this, its creators have to be extremely committed narcissists. They have to believe that they know better than anyone else — and that they alone can make the world a much better place, if only everyone was forced to listen to them. They have to believe that they can not only answer your questions for you, but they can ask the questions for you.
And that&#8217;s exactly the kind of person that Google has hired to run the Gemini program. I already discussed Jen Gennai at length yesterday. She&#8217;s a visibly unhappy woman who wants to bring the rest of the world down to her miserable level by pushing an AI that&#8217;s as soulless and discriminatory as she is. In other words, she’s an upper-class liberal white woman, and she wants the AI to operate like one, which is no surprise. Every institution in the country — from academia to the media to the corporate world to professional sports — has been essentially re-written in the image of white liberal upper-class women. But not just them. 
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Another senior Google AI official, whose name is Jack Krawczyk, has also been receiving a lot of attention lately. Jack is the Google employee who issued the company&#8217;s first unofficial statement in response to the Gemini debacle this week. He claimed that it was all just an innocent glitch, even as he reaffirmed his commitment to DEI.
But within a few hours, Jack locked down his Twitter account. He prevented the public from viewing his tweets and went into hiding. It&#8217;s not hard to see why he did that. In various <a href="https://x.com/LeftismForU/status/1760519126781469170?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posts</a>, Jack had written that, &#8220;white privilege is f—ing real. &#8230; This is America, where racism is the #1 value. &#8230; I don&#8217;t mind paying more taxes and investing in overcoming systemic racism,&#8221; and so on. 
Maybe Jack&#8217;s most emotional post was <a href="https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1760695202132513099?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this one</a> from 2020. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been crying in intermittent bursts for the past 24 hours since casting my ballot. Filling in that Biden/Harris line felt cathartic.&#8221;
These are not exactly the kind of tweets you want people to see when you&#8217;re trying to assure them that you&#8217;re not an unhinged partisan who believes he can save the planet through social engineering. But that&#8217;s exactly what Jack Krawczyk is. He views Google&#8217;s new AI as a way to rescue civilization from itself. In fact, that&#8217;s why Jack joined Google. 
A little while ago, Jack gave an interview in which he implied that he single-handedly had the chance to stop the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, back when he was working in the banking industry. But he says that his bosses — being ignorant capitalists who just want to watch the world burn — wouldn&#8217;t listen to him. So he had no choice but to jump ship and go to Google — a company that will allow him to save the world. Watch:
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Jack Krawczyk, who made Google Gemini woke, says that he wanted to stop the mortgage crisis in 2007 but his bosses wouldn&#39;t let him because they profit off volatility.
You thought all he did was make black Vikings. But he&#39;s a jack of all trades. <a href="https://t.co/cfzmzbttlw">pic.twitter.com/cfzmzbttlw</a>
&mdash; Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1760874143049035953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When you pack enough malignant narcissists in one room — people like this guy, and Jen Gennai — you get the Google Gemini AI team. But the problem is much bigger than Gemini.
The debacle with Gemini&#8217;s image generation is just an illustration — literally, in a sense — of the much deeper and more pervasive problem with all of Google&#8217;s products, including Google search. All of these Google products are designed to &#8220;save you from yourself&#8221; by preventing you from accessing the information you intend to access. They&#8217;re all designed on the theory that Google alone knows what you really want. 
This has been true since at least 2018, when Google secretly <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1760723124616659003?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that it was manipulating its search results in order to address what it called &#8220;algorithmic unfairness.&#8221; As Google put it, according to a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=faA4EAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA59&amp;lpg=PA59&amp;dq=Even+if+it+were+a+factually+accurate+representation+of+the+world,+it+would+be+algorithmic+unfairness+because+it+would+reinforce+a+stereotype+about+the+role+of+women+in+leadership+positions&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=tNfuEOmyx7&amp;sig=ACfU3U0SG4r149ds-MC-eggzQ7iaAQmDEg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjekdHF_cCEAxWltoQIHS3VDkwQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=Even%20if%20it%20were%20a%20factually%20accurate%20representation%20of%20the%20world%2C%20it%20would%20be%20algorithmic%20unfairness%20because%20it%20would%20reinforce%20a%20stereotype%20about%20the%20role%20of%20women%20in%20leadership%20positions&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leak</a> of an internal PowerPoint presentation:
<blockquote>Imagine that a Google image query for &#8216;CEOs&#8217; shows predominantly men. Even if it were a factually accurate representation of the world, it would be algorithmic unfairness because it would reinforce a stereotype about the role of women in leadership positions. &#8230; It may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state, via either product intervention or broader corporate social responsibility efforts.</blockquote>
With Gemini, Google has taken a major step towards accelerating these efforts to promote &#8220;algorithmic fairness,&#8221; meaning a totally false view of reality that conforms to Google&#8217;s ideological and political objectives. This is now Google&#8217;s primary objective — and ahead of the upcoming presidential election, we&#8217;re seeing the signs all over the place.
For example, a recent analysis by &#8220;All Sides&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/AllSidesNow/status/1760729527138046186?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that &#8220;63% of articles [on Google News] came from media outlets AllSides rates as Lean Left or Left. Just 6% were from the right.&#8221; At this point, we can assume that, even if you try to search Google News for conservative content, then Google&#8217;s AI will simply rewrite your search query for you.
Underlying this extensive political bias at Google, we learned this week, is anti-white racism. Nothing Google does is really about &#8220;diversity,&#8221; as much as Google employees like to claim otherwise. If Google simply wanted to promote diversity, then we&#8217;d see at least one white Viking or pope, mixed in with all of the Asian and black Vikings and popes. But we didn&#8217;t see any whites anywhere. That&#8217;s because Google&#8217;s vision for the future isn&#8217;t simply one ruled by Democrats in perpetuity, although that&#8217;s certainly what they want.
Google&#8217;s vision for the future is a world with as few white people as possible. And because irony isn&#8217;t completely dead yet, Google has assembled a group of mediocre white narcissists to try to make that vision a reality.
That is the future that Google is desperately searching for.
And if you make the mistake of using their products, one way or another, they&#8217;ll make sure you&#8217;re searching for it too.

Artificial intelligence robot and binary

Just When You Think The Google Gemini AI Story Can’t Get Any Worse, It Does

Just When You Think The Google Gemini AI Story Can't Get Any Worse, It Does

Artificial Intelligence

Google

Matt Walsh

Progressivism

Silicon Valley

Woke Culture

Most Americans recognize that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-defamation-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Defamation League</a> (ADL) as a far-Left, dark-money behemoth with assets of nearly a <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/2023-10/2022%20ADL-ADLF%20Consolidated%20Financials%20vFINAL-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quarter-billion dollars</a>. The once-respected Federal Bureau of Investigation is now viewed as being similarly politicized. Overall <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbi-loses-the-public-opinion-la-nyc-trust-crime-order-wray-7166e7d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support</a> for the agency has nosedived to only 37% among the general public and a meager 17% among Republicans.
Yet few Americans realize how closely the ADL works with the FBI to advance their leadership’s political interests. This is a dangerous collaboration wherein the increasingly radical group provides ideologically driven guidance to people with the guns. Right now, the FBI is pointing those guns at the political enemies of the far-Left.
The ADL’s work covers the usual Left-wing cause célèbres: <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-and-national-urban-league-announce-expansion-partnership-focusing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fighting voting integrity measures</a>, pushing for open borders policies and amnesty for <a href="https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/protect-civil-rights/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal aliens</a>, and <a href="https://www.adl.org/global-search?keywords=black%20lives%20matters&amp;sort_by=search_api_relevance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vigorously defending</a> the Black Lives Matter riots, to name a few. The group has now politically weaponized its charges of anti-Semitism, falsely smearing conservatives while excusing blatant anti-Semitism among its political allies. For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-blames-adl-lost-revenue-says-anti-semitism-kind-rcna103292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>, a powerful Libertarian voice, as an anti-Semite in a bald-faced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/politics/kfile-hakeem-jeffries-college-editorial-defending-uncle-from-antisemitism/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for anti-Semitic remarks he made in the 90s, the organization refused to condemn him.
Jonathan Tobin of Jewish News Syndicate traces ADL’s hard Left turn to its change in leadership from longtime leader Abe Foxman to Jonathan Greenblatt, a former staffer in the Clinton and Obama White House. Tobin <a href="https://www.jns.org/after-the-adl-gets-caught-spreading-woke-ideology-greenblatt-must-go/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, “Greenblatt has helped shift the ADL from its former stance as the nonpartisan gold standard for monitoring hate to being just another liberal activist group whose priority is helping the Democratic Party.”
Last month, The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, released an <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/24/exclusive-adl-urged-law-enforcement-target-opponents-transgender-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigative report</a> detailing an “Extremist Sitrep” email from the “ADL Law Enforcement” account to The Washington State Fusion Center, a collective of various law enforcement entities spanning from local to the FBI. The email advises law enforcement officers responsible for investigating domestic terrorists to focus their resources on the likes of Matt Walsh, Chris Rufo, and Libs of TikTok.
Much like the FBI’s infamous anti-Catholic targeting memo, the ADL email suggests that law enforcement agencies — people with guns and the power to imprison and financially destroy enemies of the state — should concentrate their efforts on non-violent citizens whose only “crime” is to have exercised their First Amendment freedoms in support of political viewpoints contrary to the authoritarian Left. The goal here is clearly to punish the “thought criminals” and force adherence to the dogmas of the state.
What’s the big deal about such an email problematic? Law enforcement agencies must get all sorts of memoranda, requests, and phony tips from every corner of the nation, right?
The problem here is that, according to former FBI agents, they are conditioned from the very beginning of their careers to be receptive to ADL propaganda. One of the first experiences of a new agent is an ADL-sponsored trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., The ostensible purpose of the trip is to impress on new agents that they bear a tremendous responsibility that should never be abused.
That lesson should be salubrious. But former agents tell me the trip’s real purpose is to prepare agents to be receptive to the onslaught of propaganda and rewards that the ADL will be sending their way throughout the coming years. At the very beginning of an agent’s career, the FBI is sending the clear message that the ADL is a trusted partner.
The ADL and FBI partnership only grows from there. According to the ADL’s website, “We educate annually an estimated 15,000 law enforcement personnel from local, state and federal agencies.” Moreover, “in 2021 alone, the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) provided law enforcement with critical intelligence about extremism over 1,300 times and tracked over 7,300 incidents of hate on our online, interactive <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adl.org%2Fresources%2Ftools-to-track-hate%2Fheat-map&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMike.Howell%40heritage.org%7C13cedf7bcd3144c56f9808dc1e946452%7Ccbd93b4867ea46759ee84178b273204a%7C0%7C0%7C638418869974399067%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=59DAs5AT10u%2B2G%2BZdX0XuhLsiN%2Bhr5%2Frzla8qHmbFPE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H.E.A.T. map</a>.” The ADL even operates a school for executive-level law enforcement officials:
<blockquote>In 2003, ADL founded the Advanced Training School, which has provided education on extremism and terrorism for senior law enforcement from more than 250 agencies across the U.S. This three-day course provides an examination of major types of extremist movements, case studies of recent terrorist acts presented by law enforcement leaders with firsthand experience, and guidance on the critical importance of protecting civil rights and liberties.</blockquote>
The very agency the Feds trust to educate them on matters of “extremism” is producing politically driven, far-Left reports on who counts as an extremist. Much like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL writes and applies the definition they wish government to enforce. They take care to ensure that it predominately captures those opposed to their ideology, while excusing their political allies. Were these organizations to apply a neutral definition of hate or extremism, it would undercut the leftist narrative that MAGA extremists and their ilk are the most clear-and-present danger to the United States.
Beyond orientation, training, and propaganda, the ADL provides FBI personnel with awards. Since 2010, the ADL has been handing out “ADL SHIELD Awards” to FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors for investigative and prosecutorial successes. It’s a brilliantly subversive tactic. The awards cost the ADL next to nothing; in exchange organization receives a false veneer of legitimacy and builds a list of FBI executives and agents beholden to the ADL.
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Conditioning FBI personnel to be receptive to ADL political propaganda and then doling out rewards to FBI leaders is beyond unseemly. With this incentive structure in place, is there any reason to doubt that the FBI would be more inclined to take in and act on slanted ADL material?
Small wonder that public confidence in the Bureau is at record lows. One obvious remedial measure would be to end the partnership between the ADL and the FBI. It’s time to draw a bright line between dark, far-Left operations and the most powerful law enforcement entity in the country and make sure it is not crossed.
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Mike Howell is Director of the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Why It’s Time To End The FBI-ADL Partnership

Why It's Time To End The FBI-ADL Partnership

Biden Administration

Heritage Foundation

The following is an excerpt taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Good-Alliance-Reason-Culture/dp/1684515521/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GFMCFEDYOQP2&amp;keywords=fight+the+good+fight+jay+richard&amp;qid=1707772698&amp;sprefix=fight+the+good+fight+jay+richard%2Caps%2C67&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War</a>,” by Jay Richards &amp; James Robison (Regnery/Skyhorse Publishing).
When God created the heavens and the earth, He ended Day Six by speaking to Himself:
<blockquote>&#8220;&#8216;Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.&#8217; So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, &#8216;Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.'&#8221; (Genesis 1:26–28)</blockquote>
<h4>Male And Female He Created Them</h4>
God creates each of us in His image. Yet we can’t fulfill His command to multiply and fill the earth without the difference of male and female. Why? Because it takes one fertile male and one fertile female to reproduce after our kind. It’s not just that males and females are different; it’s that we’re complements. When we come together in the right way, we’re much greater than the sum of our parts. One man and one woman can give rise to the entire human race.
Even without special revelation, everyone knows the following:
<ol>
<li> There are men and women.</li>
<li> Men aren’t women.</li>
<li> Women aren’t men.</li>
<li> Men can’t become women.</li>
<li> Women can’t become men.</li>
<li> It’s not possible to be a man but have a woman’s body or to be a woman with a man’s body.</li>
</ol>
Until recently, these six claims would have seemed trite. But we live at the shocking moment when our cultural elites deny them all and seek to silence those who resist. In what seems like a flash, “gender ideology” has overrun our schools, our media, our laws, the HR and C-suites of most corporations, the United Nations, and even many churches and synagogues. This ideology has deep roots going back centuries, but it has really picked up steam in the academy in the last few decades.
In 2015, so-called transgender people, such as Caitlyn (formerly the Olympic decathlete known as Bruce) Jenner, suddenly appeared on dozens of magazine covers. A few years later, a collegiate male swimmer, “Lia” Thomas — a male who “identifies” as a woman — won the women’s 500-yard freestyle in the NCAA Division I national championship.
A twenty-six-year-old man, Dylan Mulvaney, started acting like a parody of a 1950s teenage girl and instantly rose to fame with his picture emblazoned on cans of Bud Light. A male sex offender “identifying as a woman” was sent to a women’s prison, where he then raped a female prisoner. Meanwhile, the acronyms kept growing: LBGT morphed into LBGTQIA with a + added to keep the options open. 
What produced the backlash from normal people was the assault on kids: Children have been bombarded with sexual content. Schools stock shelves with explicit porn, such as the notorious &#8220;Gender Queer.&#8221; Activists are teaching young kids to “queer” (that is, blur the boundaries of) reality at drag queen story hours at libraries nationwide. The popular Twitter feed, Libs of TikTok, contains videos of young children twerking and gyrating at drag shows in ways once reserved for dark adult bars.
And amidst it all, teachers and social media influencers are telling children they might have been born in the wrong body. Doctors are “treating” troubled minors with sterilizing drugs and surgeries. When word of this first got out, activists tried to pretend it wasn’t really happening. When that became implausible, they pivoted. Sure, it’s happening, they conceded. In fact, it’s great, and how dare you object, bigot!
Twenty years ago, everyone — left, right, and center — would have denounced such scenes. But overnight, approval became the litmus test for tolerance and taste. These are the worst ideas of our time—the mutant spawn of some nameless demon set free to roam the earth and devour our children.
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<h4>What Can We Do?</h4>
To escape this freak show, Christians, Jews, and everyone else on #TeamReality need to offer a better view of the human person — one that captures human beings in their fullness, body and soul. That means that, among other things, we must also defend basic biology. This battle will define our politics for the next decade at least. As we write this, one political party fully promotes gender ideology, while the other, with fits and starts, opposes it. The Biden administration has turned the federal government into the globe’s most powerful mission effort of the gender cult. Until that changes, we’ll play defense in Washington.
The red states can be safe zones, but we must fight in every nook and cranny — at school board meetings, in the workplace, with our investments and shopping choices. Every red state should protect kids from these medical procedures. They should also define “male” and “female” in state law, prohibit secret social transitioning in schools, purge gender ideology from school curricula, protect teachers and others from being forced to use fake names and pronouns, and reverse laws that allow people to change the sex on their birth certificate based simply on how they “identify.” Well-crafted parents’ rights bills can help here, and red states have passed several in the last few years.
We suspect the gender clinics will be sued into oblivion as more of their young victims come of age. But we can’t wait for that to happen. We need to fight gender madness as if our children’s lives depend on it. And even when the clinics close their doors, that will be but one victory in a larger battle to defeat a fanatical force that makes twentieth-century communism look tame.
Gender ideology attacks who and what we are. But it also marks an inflection point. We’re being offered a glimpse of the deadly path ahead. Either our culture will see it for what it is and reverse course — or it will suffer costs we can’t begin to imagine.
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This excerpt is taken from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Good-Alliance-Reason-Culture/dp/1684515521/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GFMCFEDYOQP2&amp;keywords=fight+the+good+fight+jay+richard&amp;qid=1707772698&amp;sprefix=fight+the+good+fight+jay+richard%2Caps%2C67&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War</a>,” by Jay Richards &amp; James Robison (Regnery/Skyhorse Publishing). Copyright © 2024 Jay Richards &amp; James Robison. Excerpted by permission of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and executive editor of The Stream.
James Robison is the founder and president of LIFE Outreach International, a worldwide Christian relief organization, and the founder and publisher of The Stream.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

All Gender Restroom

New Book Explains Why We Must Defend Basic Biology And Fight Leftist Lunacy

Books

Christianity

Gender

gender ideology

Schools

You know, as the passions of election season rise, it’s easy to become hateful toward your political opponents and harbor daydreams of, say, picking them up by the heels and slamming their heads repeatedly into the floor, preferably a hard floor, like in a tiled bathroom so you can then carry them by the heels over to the toilet and dunk their heads in there again and again and finally just stuff them deep into the hole and flush and flush until they swirl down into the sewer like the pieces of crap they are and you can just watch their loafers disappear with a glowing inner sense of a patriotic job well done.
But we should always remember that we are Christians and plumbers are expensive, and if even one of those clowns gets himself stuck in the pipes, the bill is going to be astronomical. And also, Jesus said, “Love your enemies.” And sure, I don’t know what the hell he was talking about either, but just in case it was something important, I sometimes like to take a step back from the political fray and try to seek common ground between the conservatives trying to preserve American prosperity and liberty and the locusts trying to devour all that in a frantically clamorous black cloud of insectile greed and demonic stupidity.
So for just a few moments, let’s put our animosities aside, and try to make a level-headed comparison between conservative philosophy and those noises leftists make that sound like a cross between a tortured seagull and Joy Reid.
Conservatives believe that individuals are created to act freely within the broad confines of human moral understanding, and that that freedom can only be maintained by strictly limiting the power of the powerful.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1165-die-sports-illustrated-die" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show</a></h4>
Leftists believe that whenever someone says that in their vicinity they should set cars on fire and shout him down by chanting meaningless bumper sticker slogans at the top of their lungs until the spit flies from their mouths and their eyes roll up in their heads and still, they go on shrieking and shrieking “This is what democracy looks like!” until it’s clear to everyone but the news media that leftists think democracy looks like an entire city burning to the ground while mobs of mindless thugs steal every piece of electronic equipment they can lay their hands on, when really I think democracy is supposed to look more like voting, but maybe that’s just me.
Conservatives believe that normal human life centers on the complementary natures of the two sexes, male and female, which were made to come together in committed love in order to continue God’s creation of life in a harmony of spirit and flesh.
Leftists believe that human sexuality is best represented by Richard Levine, who currently sits in a strait jacket in his shadowy cell in the bowels of Arkham Asylum, but dreams of the day when he and the Joker might escape into Gotham City so he can don his woman costume and once again become the supervillain Rachel with the power to drag children to his moldering hideout in the foggy crags of Mount Perversion where he can begin the experimental surgeries that will turn boys into girls and vice versa until those fools who imprisoned him finally realize he’s the normal one and they’re all mad, mad, mad, I tell you.
Conservatives believe that capitalism is a genius economic system because it uses human ingenuity and free choice to create more wealth for every level of society than ever before in human history.
Leftists believe that if they can just steal that wealth at gunpoint, they can use everyone else’s money to build a utopia so beautiful it will be worth enslaving and slaughtering the millions who try to get in their way like they did in the last six utopias.
Conservatives believe that the greatest blessings humans know on earth are their children, and society should be built to support the healthy family life that is their best environment.
Leftists believe babies should be killed in the womb because once they’re born all they ever do is scream gibberish and use up your resources and crap all over everything … so they’re just like leftists and no one wants more of those.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1165-die-sports-illustrated-die" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Comparing Conservative Philosophy To Those Noises Leftists Make

Conservatives

U.S. Politics

It was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/im-embarrassed-by-this-moment-from-nancy-mace/253191271140537/">invoked</a> the invented concept of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he&#8217;s the beneficiary of &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because he can ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the time, all Nancy Mace did was legitimize the Left&#8217;s framing, which is fundamentally anti-white and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact he&#8217;s the son of the president of the United States. Everyone knows that.
So all Nancy Mace accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people, and accuses them of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also derailed the entire hearing by allowing Democrats like AOC to harp on their own personal definitions of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
As counterproductive and idiotic as Nancy Mace&#8217;s stunt was, it does need to be said that it wasn&#8217;t that surprising. Nancy Mace isn&#8217;t exactly a staunch, far-right conservative. She raised money for Liz Cheney, came out in support of the so-called &#8220;LGBTQ movement,&#8221; and voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the Left&#8217;s narrative on &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because she&#8217;s adopted so many of the Left&#8217;s other narratives.
The much bigger issue is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a larger problem in the Republican Party — one that affects politicians we&#8217;re told are considerably smarter, and more right-of-center, than Nancy Mace.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1297-ufc-fighter-delivers-a-masterclass-in-how-to-deal-with-the-media-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn&#8217;t comply with the Left&#8217;s new speech codes. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about &#8220;white rage.&#8221; He also led the effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy because he wasn&#8217;t sufficiently committed to the &#8220;America First&#8221; movement. All this is to say, Matt Gaetz is the last person you&#8217;d expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start adopting the Left&#8217;s framing on identity politics.
But this week, that&#8217;s exactly what Matt Gaetz did.
Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s big win in the Iowa Caucuses. And he said that, based on his experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more &#8220;diverse&#8221; voters, meaning voters who aren&#8217;t white. And Matt Gaetz presented this as a good thing. Here&#8217;s how he phrased it:
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Matt Gaetz:
“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. That abodes well for our ability to be diverse and durable.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fslOPui91c">pic.twitter.com/fslOPui91c</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1747995588627489024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.” If we decode the language there, Matt Gaetz is saying that in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn&#8217;t see a lot of white women. But he did see tons of Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. They were presumably waving their MAGA flags around in the blizzard conditions or whatever.
Even if you pretend that&#8217;s true, which it clearly isn&#8217;t, the language Matt Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. No Republican, Matt Gaetz included, would ever dream of speaking this way about black voters in the reverse. You aren&#8217;t going to hear Gaetz say of black voters who don&#8217;t vote Republican (which is the vast majority): &#8220;Oh we don&#8217;t need those Jamals. We&#8217;ve got plenty of white people to take their place.&#8221; He&#8217;s only going to talk like that about white women, or &#8220;Karens,&#8221; as he calls them.
Here is a Republican who is even considered (wrongly, I think) to be &#8220;far right&#8221; who has entirely adopted the Left&#8217;s anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That&#8217;s how pervasive this stuff is. He&#8217;s happy to attack &#8220;Karens,&#8221; but he&#8217;d never do the same in reverse, because then he&#8217;d be called a racist. And he can&#8217;t have that.
The other remarkable thing about this clip is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we&#8217;ve been hearing for the past several years. We went from Democrats denying that the Great Replacement was happening, to admitting it and saying it&#8217;s good, to Republicans also agreeing that it&#8217;s good and advocating for a Great Replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable, this is also politically suicidal. It actually isn&#8217;t at all even close to true that for every white female voter Republicans lose, they&#8217;re replacing her with a black voter. White women still support Republicans in far, far greater numbers than black males. It&#8217;s not even close. As Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420">only group</a> Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people — specifically <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144">white men</a>. And yet Republicans have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating their key constituency.
Whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity politics among conservatives, it&#8217;s definitely catching on. It&#8217;s not just Nancy Mace and Matt Gaetz doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she&#8217;s a strong, independent woman. Watch:
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She actually said that, as if it was some kind of devastating insult. &#8220;He&#8217;s not afraid because he&#8217;s a criminal; he&#8217;s afraid because we&#8217;re girlbosses.&#8221; That&#8217;s the idea. It&#8217;s hard to think of a better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like this. When you have a strong case against someone, you don&#8217;t say they&#8217;re afraid because you&#8217;re a woman. You say they&#8217;re afraid because of the damning facts and evidence you&#8217;ve assembled. This is the exact opposite of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it. They kept commiting to these vapid displays of identity politics, over and over again.
And it&#8217;s not just confined to that one hearing, or to Matt Gaetz interviews. By now we&#8217;re all familiar at this point with Nikki Haley&#8217;s constant use of identity politics during this campaign. In case you somehow missed it, here&#8217;s a mercifully short clip to show you what I&#8217;m talking about:
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Just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz, this is totally indistinguishable from something AOC might say. It&#8217;s the most cliched form of gender politics imaginable. It&#8217;s not just stupid. It adopts the Left&#8217;s narrative that immutable characteristics — like skin color or gender — matter more than anything else. This is a narrative that has cost millions of people jobs, college admissions, contracting jobs, federal financial assistance, and so on. It has been a disaster for this country and it needs to stop. Instead of saying that, Republicans are embracing it. They&#8217;re reinforcing it at every opportunity.
Why is this happening? It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;re seeing yet another cynical attempt to win over voters. Maybe that&#8217;s the explanation. But if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s obviously a bad idea. You might remember that Donald Trump devoted years of his presidency to pushing something called &#8220;The First Step Act,&#8221; which Matt Gaetz promoted. The Trump team even ran a Super Bowl ad featuring a drug trafficker that Trump let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump&#8217;s inner circle, was to improve the GOP&#8217;s voting share among black Americans. Of course it didn&#8217;t work. Black voters in 2020 did what they&#8217;ve done in every modern election, which is vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in 2004. 
So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn&#8217;t seem likely to work. Identity politics from the Right doesn&#8217;t appear to convince anyone. But if you take a few steps back, it&#8217;s not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among conservatives. Increasingly, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the Left, wholesale, even when they&#8217;re complete lies. We saw that when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George Floyd. She immediately bought the official narrative, and then she went on to say — as American cities were burning down — that George Floyd&#8217;s death needed to be &#8220;personal and painful for every American.&#8221; We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM, and even chanted their slogans. 
And just the other day, we saw something similar from Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall. Watch as CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer asks DeSantis a question that&#8217;s premised on a completely false narrative. And then notice that Ron DeSantis doesn&#8217;t push back at all:
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DeSantis wasn’t briefed on the border hoax?
He immediately assumes that CNN is telling the truth, when they were lying. Smearing innocent Texas who are defending this country and the border.
I can’t believe it. How did DeSantis not know this! 
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&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1747708528327033304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As Mike Cernovich pointed out on X, this is completely inexcusable. CNN is flat-out lying about what happened. And in response, maybe because no one briefed him on this, DeSantis just accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House, even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that quote, &#8220;a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance.” That was the report that millions of people heard from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first.
But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox&#8217;s Bill Melugin pointed out, the DOJ made it clear that quote, &#8220;The migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m., and the Border Patrol didn’t inform Texas until an hour later at 9 p.m. &#8230; The DOJ now confirms, those migrants had been deceased for an hour before Texas was even alerted about it.&#8221;
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So it&#8217;s just like the false claims that the Border Patrol had &#8220;whipped&#8221; illegal migrants, as Bill Melugin pointed out. The narrative is just a total lie, as the Biden administration itself admitted. But even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked Ron DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And everyone pretended it was true. It&#8217;s embarrassing for the DeSantis campaign, for CNN, and for everyone else involved in this moment. But even if the narrative were true — even if illegal migrants had died who could have been saved — it still wouldn&#8217;t mean anything. It would be one anecdote that doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about immigration policy more generally. But the point is that conservatives reflexively accept the version of events they&#8217;re given. They don&#8217;t define the narrative. They just play along with the narrative they&#8217;re given. The fact that it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find exceptions to this rule is not a good sign for the modern conservative movement.
But the other day, we saw one of these rare exceptions, courtesy of UFC fighter Sean Strickland. Strickland is an American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. Here&#8217;s how he handled a member of the Canadian press, who tried to corner him with the same kind of dumb gotcha questions that you&#8217;ve heard a million times before. Watch:
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Idk who this guy is and I don&#39;t care but you&#39;re not a man&#8230; But you&#39;d take that as a compliment&#8230;.. <a href="https://t.co/PMR1h4Yp7K">pic.twitter.com/PMR1h4Yp7K</a>
&mdash; Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SStricklandMMA/status/1747734279516250446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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How many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a situation like that, and affirm — in the face of an &#8220;ally&#8221; of the LBGTQIA+ community — that transgenderism is a mental illness? You could probably count the number on one hand, if that.
Notice how Sean Strickland doesn&#8217;t even remotely accept the premise of this hack&#8217;s questions. He doesn&#8217;t concede that he was wrong to speak his mind, or to think unapproved thoughts. Instead he immediately identifies the &#8220;reporter&#8221; as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before, because it&#8217;s what he believes is true. And then afterwards — at his second press conference in Toronto, after there had been a full media cycle about this, and Canada&#8217;s state press had labeled him a bigot — what did Sean Strickland do? Watch:
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&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1748128877225124349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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You can hear the crowd loves it. At one point a guy runs up to the stage to shake his hand. So he doesn&#8217;t back down, and everyone in the audience recognizes that and appreciates it. He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize — and there were a lot of them in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn&#8217;t real, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia can get you charged with a crime. There you have a UFC fighter who&#8217;s a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You won&#8217;t find him talking about &#8220;white privilege&#8221; or &#8220;strong conservative women.&#8221; This is what resonates now.
If the Republican Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject the Left&#8217;s obsession with skin color and gender and homosexuality, then voters will respond. We don&#8217;t need another &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; or any pandering to stereotypes like Julio and Jamaal. We need politicians who are capable of acting like normal people.
If a UFC fighter can do it, there&#8217;s no reason the leaders of the Republican Party can&#8217;t.

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