Vice President JD Vance spoke about Trump administration policy, his approach to politics, his faith and family life, and more while taking questions at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday evening.
Vance appeared at the event at the request of Erika Kirk, the widow of late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last month at a college event in Utah. The vice president delivered brief remarks before taking questions in front of hundreds of students who packed the auditorium to see Erika and the vice president speak.
Here are some of the highlights from the vice president’s appearance.
One student, a supporter of the Trump administration, worried that the administration was accruing power and setting precedents that would later be used against conservatives.
The vice president responded that, while the question is fair, he is unconcerned about precedents set for a potential Democratic successor to take advantage of. He suggested that Democratic efforts to have the FBI and other law enforcement investigate President Donald Trump and other Republicans show that Democrats are unlikely to respect norms in any case.
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the Left might do it in the future. The Left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it,” said Vance. “That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.”
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VP Vance on the potential for the radical left to misuse power:
“We cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it. That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.” <a href="https://t.co/qWBXPxAj2G">pic.twitter.com/qWBXPxAj2G</a>
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1983704850664976519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vance is in an interfaith marriage; he is Catholic, and his wife, Usha, is non-religious from a Hindu household. On his Christian faith and raising children, Vance said that one of the most important practices in his marriage is communication.
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“As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel and I honestly hope that my wife comes to see it the same way,” said Vance.
Vance also delivered a defense of Christianity and its values, citing a verse from Matthew.
“One of my favorite Bible verses is ‘by your fruits, ye shall know them.’ And I think that the fruits of the Christian faith are the most moral, the most just, and the most prosperous civilization in history,” said Vance. “I make no apologies for believing that Christianity is the pathway to God. I make no apologies for thinking that Christian values are an important foundation of this country, but I’m not going to force you to believe anything because that is not what God wants, and that is not what I want, either.”
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🚨 NOW &#8211; JD VANCE: We&#8217;ve taken Christian values for granted. Treating everyone equal is a Christian concept. Great Britain, a Christian empire, abolished slavery. Eliminating child sacrifice &#8211; what did the Christian settlers do in the New World? They found civilizations m*rdering… <a href="https://t.co/mqQfMlbu3i">pic.twitter.com/mqQfMlbu3i</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1983695270320783432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
On immigration, Vance was asked by a student who is dating an immigrant in the United States on a visa about his overall approach. The vice president said that, in his view, while there are immigrants who enrich the United States, the country has far too many immigrants now and admits too many each year.
“There are people who want to come to the United States of America, and some of them, I am sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here, but we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down,” he said.
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Vice President Vance gets asked about his stance on immigration by a student who&#8217;s in a relationship with a girl here on a Visa with hopes of getting a Green Card:
&#8220;We have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America. That is just a fundamental reality.&#8221;
&#8220;I… <a href="https://t.co/2bB6idrXhQ">pic.twitter.com/2bB6idrXhQ</a>
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/1983696133483335774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
At another moment, Vance said that immigration levels should be significantly reduced until the foreign-born citizens and legal residents in the United States have assimilated.
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can&#8217;t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration,” said Vance.
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VP Vance on immigration policies:
“We have got to become a common community again. And you can&#8217;t do that when you have such high numbers of immigration, which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do.” <a href="https://t.co/mRuFWWcynq">pic.twitter.com/mRuFWWcynq</a>
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1983699277693304993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Vance. As the vice president finished his prepared remarks and prepared to take questions, the crowd broke out in a chant for “48.”
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🚨 WOW! THOUSANDS of students at Ole Miss just started chanting “48! 48!” when VP Vance finished his speech at the TPUSA event
Yes! 48! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/DxJVoMlewv">pic.twitter.com/DxJVoMlewv</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1983691701253500948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2025</a></blockquote>

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A coalition of top state election officials led by Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson urged congressional Republicans to require federal election officials to mandate stronger citizenship protections for voter registration, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire. 
Watson and ten other GOP secretaries of state urged Republican leadership in the Senate and House to pass legislation requiring the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to change the current <a href="https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/Federal_Voter_Registration_ENG.pdf">federal voter registration form</a> to demand proof of citizenship rather than relying on an applicant&#8217;s word. The Republican officials said that the federal form made it more difficult to ensure that only American citizens were voting in elections. 
“Each state requires that to vote, a person must be a U.S. citizen. Unfortunately, the EAC has consistently refused to change the form to require proof of citizenship, preferring a general attestation instead,” Watson wrote on Monday. “As our states’ chief election officials, we respectfully seek your help in fixing this persistent problem.”
The letter was addressed to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-ND), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Rules Committee Chair Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Administration Chair Bryan Steil (R-WI). 
The letter asked them to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require applicants to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The measure has been opposed by Democrats. 
The current voter registration form posted by the EAC requires an applicant to check a box as proof of citizenship. 
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For the past two decades, state election officials have asked for the EAC to update its form to require documentary proof of citizenship, but have so far been rebuffed, the letter said. 
“The EAC’s refusal to change the Federal Form instructions has forced election administrators to process and approve voter registration applications which do not themselves satisfy the requirements laid out in state law,” the officials wrote. 
Watson said that the process of making state officials verify applicants&#8217; proof of citizenship was costly and time-consuming. 
“Each paper form requires our election officials to make individualized inquiries into state records and consult with other state databases to process them and determine citizenship,” he wrote. “In Mississippi, these checks can require up to roughly an hour of an employee’s time, depending on how far into the required state process a check must go. This is an enormous aggregate expense both in employee time and tax dollars.”
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Other states that signed on to the letter included Alabama, Missouri, Iowa, New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Wyoming.
They requested that lawmakers revise federal law to require proof of citizenship on the form provided by the EAC and to hold oversight hearings examining the EAC’s opposition to stricter citizenship safeguards. 
Election integrity groups like the Honest Elections Project have joined in the calls for documentary proof of citizenship for elections. 
“Requiring proof of citizenship is common sense, routine, and hugely popular,” Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told The Daily Wire. “The time has come for the EAC to affirm laws that keep noncitizens from voting, not undercut them.”

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At least forty people were killed as fierce winds and tornadoes ripped across the country over the weekend, slamming the Midwest and the South. 
Twenty-four of the deaths were attributed to tornadoes, while wind-fueled dust storms and fires resulted in another 16 deaths. At least 12 people <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/tornado-outbreak-live-updates-18-dead-dozens-injured/?id=119832914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were</a> killed in Missouri, three in Alabama, eight in Kansas, six in Mississippi, four in Texas, three in Arkansas, and four in Oklahoma. 
Tens of thousands of customers are still out of power after the storms raced across the country up into Pennsylvania and New York. More than 25,000 customers are without electricity in Missouri, 56,000 in Pennsylvania, and 23,000 in New York, <a href="https://poweroutage.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to PowerOutage.us. 
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he had activated the National Guard in response to the storms. 
“We are actively monitoring the severe tornadoes and storms that have impacted many States across the South and Midwest — 36 innocent lives have been lost, and many more devastated,” he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114174243289152293">posted</a> on Truth Social on Sunday. “The National Guard have been deployed to Arkansas, and my Administration is ready to assist State and Local Officials, as they help their communities to try and recover from the damage. Please join Melania and me in praying for everyone impacted by these terrible storms!”
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In Kansas, a wind-fueled dust storm <a href="https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/dust-settles-on-71-vehicle-pileup-8-fatalities-near-goodland/">caused</a> a 70-car pileup on Interstate 70 that killed eight people near Goodland on Friday. 
“I’ve seen it before, but this is probably the worst I’ve ever seen,” Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Tod Hileman told KSNW. 
Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama were all slammed by tornadoes, as at least 56 developed across 10 different states, <a href="https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/severe-weather-tornadoes-dust-storm-blizzard-midwest-plains-southeast-east-coast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Fox Forecast Center. Southeast Missouri was hit particularly hard after storms ripped through Wayne, Ozark, Butler, and Jefferson counties. 
Videos posted online also showed widespread tornado damage in Mississippi.
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Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey said on Sunday that most of her state had been impacted by the storms. 
“We have reports of damage in 52 of our 67 counties. Our damage assessment continues. The sun has risen in Alabama, though. We pray for those lives we lost, as well as those who were injured. And we pray for our first responders, emergency management officials and linemen who are doing incredible work on the ground right now,” she said.

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Governor Tate Reeves (R-MS) slammed CBS News host Margaret Brennan after she suggested during an interview with Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.D. Vance</a> that states like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mississippi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mississippi</a> wouldn’t be able to coordinate a response to natural disasters without the federal government’s help. 
Reeves ripped into Brennan on X after she pushed back on President Donald Trump’s proposals to transform the role of FEMA during her Sunday interview with Vance. Brennan said that states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky would suffer if FEMA took a reduced role in natural disaster response. 
“HILARIOUS elitism by [Brennan] claiming that Mississippians know less about emergency management than DC bureaucrats — all because her favorite Democrats in CA and NC have failed their constituents,” Reeves posted on X. “[Vance] did a great job handling her condescending questions. The disdain these people have for any Americans outside of their little bubble is so pathetic and revealing.”
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HILARIOUS elitism by <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNews</a> claiming that Mississippians know less about emergency management than DC bureaucrats &#8211; all because her favorite Democrats in CA and NC have failed their constituents.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> did a great job handling her condescending questions. The… <a href="https://t.co/YHWqWJhp6h">pic.twitter.com/YHWqWJhp6h</a>
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1883581254114930958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-overhaul-of-fema-floats-getting-rid-of-agency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> on Friday that he would sign an executive order that would “fundamentally” overhaul and transform FEMA. He also suggested that he may get rid of the agency altogether and hand over responsibility to the states. 
“You know FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have,” Brennan told Vance. “How will lower income states, the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas, be able to do this for themselves without federal help?”
Vance replied by saying that the reason behind Trump’s proposal to revamp FEMA was to ensure that disaster victims were able to receive support and aid as efficiently as possible. 
“The president, to be clear, is not saying we’re going to leave anybody behind,” Vance said. “He’s saying that the way that we administer these resources, some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level, we’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most.” 
Trump has said it would be better if states were in total control of recovery efforts and the federal government would fund a certain percentage of the response. His proposals to change FEMA come after he has criticized the agency’s response to both Hurricanes Helene and Milton, saying that the agency slowed its response because many of those impacted were in conservative rural areas. 
During a Friday stop in Asheville, North Carolina, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-nice-trump-speaks-out-about-fema-denying-aid-to-his-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out about</a> a FEMA scandal first reported on by The Daily Wire where relief workers skipped homes because of Trump signs or flags.
“A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who display Trump signs on their property. I think that’s true, isn’t it? I read that. That’s not nice, that’s not too nice, is it? But whoever those property people were, thank you very much,” Trump said.
In November, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">broke a story</a> that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington had ordered relief workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” These instructions were given in person and verbally, whistleblowers told The Daily Wire. At least 20 homes were skipped due to the orders.

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In an apparent attempt to mock pro-life Republicans, a Mississippi Democrat state senator has introduced a bill with a highly unusual name.
State Sen. Bradford Blackmon (D) introduced the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” which would make it illegal for someone “to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”
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Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon has made headlines due to his new bill, the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”
Essentially, the bill makes it unlawful for a person to ejaculate during sexual activity unless the intention is to conceive a child.… <a href="https://t.co/offpGdN2XC">pic.twitter.com/offpGdN2XC</a>
— NewsOne (@newsone) <a href="https://twitter.com/newsone/status/1882594026953539724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation,” Blackmon told <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WLBT News</a>. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”
Fines to be implemented would be $1,000 for a first offense, $5,000 for a second offense, and $10,000 for a third offense. The bill states that the law would not apply to sperm “donated or sold to a facility for the purpose of future procedures to fertilize an embryo or discharged with the use of a contraceptive or contraceptive method intended to prevent fertilization.”
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“You have male-dominated legislatures in Mississippi and all over the country that pass laws that dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her body,&#8221; Blackmon <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/23/bill-ban-unprotected-sex-mississippi/77903909007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said.</a> “I was raised by strong parents that preached equality for all. My mother and my father both believe in equal rights for women … When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body in his own home, it suddenly has people in an uproar. I am trying to figure out when it isn&#8217;t okay for the government to dictate what you do in the privacy of your own home, apparently it is when the laws regulate men.”
“The reactions from some quarters relating to my bill indicate that men are not held to the same standard when it comes to the intrusion into their personal private affairs as women have been held to with the reversal of Roe v. Wade,” Blackmon <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-contraception-begins-erection-act-abortion-rights-senate-2019615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared.</a> ”It is rich that the landmark Supreme Court decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization began it all, here, in the state of Mississippi.”
Conservative pundit, Erick Erickson, responded to Blackmon&#8217;s bill on X, saying, &#8220;You can immediately tell this legislator is a Democrat because the piece doesn&#8217;t mention his party affiliation at all.&#8221;
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You can immediately tell this legislator is a Democrat because the piece doesn&#8217;t mention his party affiliation at all. <a href="https://t.co/gHXWPqYnfz">https://t.co/gHXWPqYnfz</a>
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1882222067153883179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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At least four people were killed in three states as the South was hit by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/severe-weather" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tornadoes</a> over the weekend, leaving tens of thousands without power.
Tornadoes were reported in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina as a severe storm system bringing strong winds and heavy rain moved through the region on Saturday and Sunday. Two people were killed in Mississippi, one in Texas, and another in North Carolina due to the storms.
As of Monday morning, <a href="https://poweroutage.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 32,000 customers in Mississippi and 4,000 in Texas were without power, along with thousands more in Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina. Outages in Mississippi at one point topped 100,000, according to Republican Governor Tate Reeves. 
Reeves also announced that there were fatalities in Adams County and Lowndes County.
“The state of Mississippi will continue to monitor the situation and respond as necessary,” Reeves <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tatereeves/posts/pfbid02rdPaubGBCwhBxnChZUTL3t1o1x5NbekxcSLWB3Zrvak8zCNaeZAfNRi9PhBjomiql" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sunday. “Thank you to all of the emergency managers, first responders, and road and line crews who are working hard to help their fellow Mississippians.”
One church in Meadville, Mississippi, was almost <a href="https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/tornado-strikes-mississippi-church-second-time-90-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entirely destroyed</a> as a tornado ripped through. Two church members were inside at the time but were not injured. 
&#8220;After all this, there&#8217;s one bare spot in this church, about a 6-foot diameter, that has a clean floor,&#8221; one of the congregants of O&#8217;Zion Church who survived the storm told Fox Weather. &#8220;That&#8217;s where she and I were laying, in that clean spot. After it was over with, we stood up and …. we didn&#8217;t have a splinter on us. We didn&#8217;t have a speck of dust on us.&#8221;
In Texas, a fatality from the storms was reported in Brazoria County, which is located south of Houston. The Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that one person had been killed and four injured after a tornado touchdown somewhere between Liverpool and Hillcrest Village on Saturday. 
Footage posted online showed the tornado going through the Houston area.
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🚨 New video showing the EF-3 tornado that tore through Montgomery County, Texas on Saturday.
Wind speeds are estimated to top out at 140 mph.
This video is from New Caney, Texas. According to <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSHouston?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NWSHouston</a>, the tornado was on the ground for just over 10 miles. <a href="https://twitter.com/KPRC2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KPRC2</a> <a href="https://t.co/cZcp2A2MiL">pic.twitter.com/cZcp2A2MiL</a>
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Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Madison Polston <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/weather/tornado-texas-mississippi-storms-south.html#:~:text=Strong%20storms%20spawned%20tornadoes%20in,on%20the%20Carolinas%20on%20Sunday.&amp;text=Four%20people%20were%20dead%20in,heavy%20rains%20in%20the%20Carolinas." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times that the victim was a 48-year-old woman who was found outside her home in Liverpool. 
“We rarely get tornadoes here in Brazoria County,” she said. “If we do, for there to be damage to this extent, or injuries, is also very uncommon.”
The fourth death from the storm occurred on Sunday in Mooresville, North Carolina. Law enforcement <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2024/12/29/troopers-respond-crash-rowan-iredell-county-line/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> 70-year-old Matthew Teeple of Tennessee was killed when a tree fell on his truck.

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Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment this week against several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mississippi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mississippi</a> Democrats over an alleged bribery scheme to enrich themselves.
The indictment, unsealed on Thursday in the Southern District of Mississippi, charged Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens II, 43; Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 41; and former President and current member of the Jackson City Council Aaron Banks, 47, of allegedly participating in the bribery scheme.
Prosecutors said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mississippi-district-attorney-mayor-jackson-and-jackson-city-council-member-charged-bribery">statement</a>:
<blockquote>As alleged in the indictment, between approximately October 2023 and May 2024, Owens facilitated bribe payments to public officials in Jackson on behalf of two FBI undercover employees posing as real estate developers (the Developers) in exchange for at least $115,000 and the promise of future financial benefit. Owens instructed the Developers that, for their project to succeed, they needed to secure the support of certain public officials in Jackson through bribery. Those public officials included Mayor Lumumba, Councilman Banks, and former Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee. Owens instructed the Developers how much, where, and when to bribe those officials.</blockquote>
They said that the mayor accepted a $50,000 bribe from the developers in exchange for official actions that he took to advance their project.
Prosecutors alleged that the money was then laundered through Lumumba&#8217;s campaign before he cashed out his account.
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They alleged that Councilman Banks solicited a $50,000 bribe in exchange for his support for the project.
Jackson City Councilwoman Angelique Lee <a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2024/08/23/angelique-lee-jackson-ms-recording-accepting-bribe/74765961007/">pled guilty</a> in the scheme several months ago for allegedly accepting &#8220;a $10,000 debt repayment, $3,000 in cash, and a shopping trip worth approximately $6,000 in luxury goods in exchange for her votes in support of the Developers’ proposed development project in downtown Jackson.&#8221;
The news comes after the FBI raided a cigar business owned by Owens in May. Owens is <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/">backed</a> by Democrat megadonor George Soros.
Owens was charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; three counts of federal program bribery; using a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity; honest services wire fraud, money laundering; and lying to federal officers.
“The indictment alleges that Jackson’s mayor, the district attorney in Jackson, and members of Jackson’s city council conspired to accept bribes in exchange for official acts benefiting purported real estate developers,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Officials who abuse their positions of authority to enrich themselves undermine public confidence in government. The Justice Department is committed to restoring that confidence by working with its law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute public corruption.”
Lumumba was charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; federal program bribery; using a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity; honest services wire fraud, and money laundering.
Banks was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, and money laundering; and one count of federal program bribery.

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Country star Brantley Gilbert paused his show over the weekend to help his wife Amber deliver their baby on his tour bus.
While on stage performing on Friday in Tupelo, Mississippi, at his Off The Rails Tour, the 39-year-old country singer was called off stage and told there was an “emergency backstage.&#8221; The emergency turned out to be his wife, who was about to give birth to their third child, <a href="https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2024/10/12/brantley-gilbert-pauses-show-in-mississippi-returns-after-helping-his-wife-deliver-their-baby-in-his-tour-bus/">Whiskey Riff</a> reported.
The crowd had no idea what happened or why he had rushed off the stage, but when he got back he filled them in, explaining to the audience that he&#8217;d gotten back to the bus just in time.
“We got a baby,” the <a href="https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1845520494134444499">country singer</a> told the crowd, who cheered and celebrated the happy news about the arrival of his baby boy.
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Shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/brantleygilbert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brantleygilbert</a>&#8216;s wife Amber who did an on-camera interview days after giving birth! <a href="https://t.co/kJ2tDyoQwO">https://t.co/kJ2tDyoQwO</a>
— Taste of Country (@TasteOfCountry) <a href="https://twitter.com/TasteOfCountry/status/1845874710715961679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Later, Gilbert shared in an emotional video on his Instagram Story about what it was like when his third child arrived. He captioned it, “We’ve got a new addition to the Gilbert Family… God is good,” <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/10/12/parents/country-star-brantley-gilbert-pauses-concert-as-wife-gives-birth-on-tour-bus/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix">Page Six</a> noted.
“So, last night might have been the craziest night of my life. Watching such an amazing woman do such an amazing thing is something I’ll never forget,” Gilbert wrote.
“Thank you to our road family for rallying around us, Brittany Thornton for helping us bring this little dude into the world, Tupelo, Mississippi, for showing us mad love and support,” he added.
“And most of all … Amber Gilbert, for letting me love you and showing me EXACTLY how incredibly strong a woman can be. I love you,” Gilbert continued, labeling Amber “a freaking savage.”
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On Monday, the couple spoke to <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1845883062728396843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> about their crazy night, with Brantley joking “I can&#8217;t say this was on my bingo card. It was kind of crazy.&#8221;
The Gilberts said that they had a midwife with them and were prepared if something were to happen, but Amber said that it had still happened fast because they thought she was still a week away from delivering. 
“I went from reading a book in the bed to calling the midwife in a matter of minutes,” the singer’s wife told Fox News. “So, I was just ready to get my show … on the road.” 
The two have been married since 2015 and also share another son and daughter, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/10/12/parents/country-star-brantley-gilbert-pauses-concert-as-wife-gives-birth-on-tour-bus/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix">Page Six</a> noted.

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Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after Hurricane Francine made landfall in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana</a> on Wednesday, bringing torrential winds and rain. 
As of Thursday morning, Francine had been <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/121142.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downgraded</a> to a tropical storm, and there were an <a href="https://poweroutage.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> 391,159 customers without power in Louisiana and 64,247 without power in Mississippi. The storm system is expected to move through Louisiana on Thursday and impact other southern states. 
Francine made landfall as a category 2 hurricane at 5:00 p.m. local time in the southern Louisiana Parish of Terrebonne on Wednesday. Its maximum winds were up to 100 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center, and hit Morgan City hard with rain and wind. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s a little bit worse than what I expected to be honest with you,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-francine-louisiana-power-outages-wind-rain-flooding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Morgan City Sheriff Alvin Cockerham, according to CBS. &#8220;I pulled all my trucks back to the station; it&#8217;s too dangerous to be out there in this.”
In New Orleans, Miles Crawford <a href="https://www.wdsu.com/article/live-tv-rescue-hurricane-francine-new-orleans/62165066" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> save a man stuck in a truck submerged in water. He used a hammer to break open the vehicle&#8217;s window and helped pull the man out of the truck after going into the flooded street. 
A flash flood emergency was declared Wednesday in New Orleans as it was hit with six to eight inches of rain. 
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday morning that Francine will turn north in the next day or so and start slowing down. 
“On the forecast track, the center of Francine will move over central and northern portions of Mississippi through early Friday,” it said in an update. “Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 35 mph (55 km/h)  with higher gusts. Continued weakening is forecast, and Francine is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone later today.”
The storm is also expected to bring heavy rain to Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. 
“Francine is expected to bring storm total rainfall of 3 to 6 inches across portions of Mississippi, eastern Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle. Localized amounts up to 10 inches are possible within rain bands over portions of central and northern Alabama and over the Florida Panhandle. This rainfall could lead to locally considerable flash and urban flooding,” NOAA said. 
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/09/10/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-louisiana-emergency-declaration-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> an emergency declaration from Louisiana to mobilize federal assistance for storm response.

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Illegal immigration could cost Mississippi more than $100 million every year, a new report from the state’s auditor reveals.
The report, from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, addresses the costs of illegal immigration for the broader country before delving into the ways illegal immigration places a financial burden on Mississippi’s education, healthcare, and public safety systems. The investigation comes as polling indicates that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-immigration-remain-top-concerns-for-voters-poll-finds">immigration is a top issue</a> for voters heading into the presidential election.
“Just last week, an <a href="https://darkhorsepressnow.com/man-charged-with-rape-of-10-year-old-in-pontotoc-county/">illegal immigrant was arrested</a> in North Mississippi for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy twice,” State Auditor Shad White told The Daily Wire. “Every state is a border state now, and our new report shows how much state taxpayers are spending thanks to the open border.”
“Illegal immigration creates a financial burden for taxpayers across the country, but the cost of illegal immigration is not borne solely by the federal government,” the report explains, also noting that an estimated 22,000 illegal immigrants reside in the state. “Taxpayers from each state—including Mississippi—must face the reality of increased spending as a result of crisis-level illegal immigration.”
Mississippi’s healthcare system is hit particularly hard by illegal immigration, with the report estimating that the state spends a whopping $77 million on healthcare for illegal immigrants and their children every year. The report estimates the figure with data on the number of illegal immigrants in the state, their rate of health insurance, and their use of emergency medical services. It also found that Mississippi spends $4 million every year to pay for births to illegal immigrants, whose children are then designated as American citizens.
“Children born to illegal immigrant parents are citizens of the United States and immediately eligible to apply for Medicaid,” the report explains. “Given the incentive for hospitals to generate revenue for services provided, many of these children are likely enrolled in Mississippi’s Medicaid program.”
The state auditor’s report indicates that illegal immigration poses a massive financial burden on the Mississippi education system as well.
“In K-12 spending alone, in total, Mississippi taxpayers likely pay $25 million to educate illegal immigrants each year,” it reads, also noting that an estimated 2,500 illegal immigrants are currently enrolled in the state&#8217;s K-12 education system. “This estimate does not include the cost to educate the US-citizen children born to illegal immigrants, which is difficult to estimate given the state’s inability to collect citizenship data for students and their families.”
The sum was driven up in part by the increased costs associated with providing additional instruction to those who qualify as English Language Learners.
Mississippi&#8217;s public safety system also incurs additional costs because of illegal immigration, with the report estimating that “Mississippi taxpayers will spend at least $1.7 million annually incarcerating illegal immigrants.”
“This estimate does not include the cost of the extra burden law enforcement agencies face while policing Mississippi streets as a result of illegal immigration,” White’s report goes on to read. “The presence of illegal immigrants can strain local law enforcement agencies, which may lack the resources to effectively manage the increased workload. Additionally, the need for specialized training for officers to handle immigration-related issues can divert resources away from other critical public safety needs.”
The report also notes that an estimated 22.1 million illegal immigrants lived in the United States as of 2016 <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193">according to a study</a> performed by researchers at Yale and MIT. That number is expected to have increased under the Biden-Harris administration, which has presided over an unprecedented crisis on the southern border.
Over <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> people have crossed the border under President Joe Biden, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since he was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.

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One of the most important principles in life is the idea of cause and effect. Children start mastering the concept at around 18 months. A toddler might drop a block on his foot, and very quickly realize that the block caused him to feel pain. He won&#8217;t assume that the television across the room had somehow hurt him. He won&#8217;t blame the neighborhood cat. And in the future, as a result of this deduction, the toddler might think twice about dropping a block on his foot.
In politics, for various reasons, cause and effect can be difficult for some people to figure out. Sometimes it&#8217;s because life is complicated. Sometimes it&#8217;s because of all the propaganda people are subjected to. And sometimes it&#8217;s because people just aren&#8217;t that bright.
That would explain the <a href="https://x.com/realtoriabrooke/status/1816993762964631590" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scene</a> that took place the other day in Brooklyn, where there was a massive protest against the shelters for illegal aliens that have popped up all over the city. You might have seen the footage on social media. The protesters said they were shocked by all of the violence and mayhem these &#8220;migrants&#8221; have brought to their community, apparently oblivious to the fact that they voted for exactly this outcome. Of course, there are similar scenes playing out all over the country.
But even when you take into account all of these factors — the propaganda, partisan politics, et cetera — it&#8217;s still hard to come to terms with what&#8217;s happening right now in Jackson, Mississippi. Politicians and black activists in Jackson have just made it clear that they have no understanding of causation whatsoever. This basic concept completely eludes them. It&#8217;s not simply that they&#8217;re blinded by politics. Instead it appears that, like infants, these activists do not comprehend that certain actions naturally lead to certain results. And it&#8217;s worth exploring what&#8217;s happening in Jackson in some detail because it has implications for the whole country, including the presidential race.
Here&#8217;s the background. There&#8217;s a Texaco gas station in Jackson <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2024/07/29/community-protests-jackson-gas-station-be-shut-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">located</a> on a street called Medgar Evers Boulevard. And recently there&#8217;s been a lot of crime near the gas station — including several homicides and shootings this year. In response to this crisis, the solution that politicians and activists have come up with is not to blame the criminals. It&#8217;s not to hire more police officers and increase patrols. Instead, their response has been to blame the Texaco gas station.
And now these politicians — including a councilman named Kenneth Stokes — are calling for the gas station to shut down. In fact, Stokes has said he&#8217;ll bring a vote of &#8220;no confidence&#8221; against the city&#8217;s law department for refusing to have the gas station declared a public nuisance. Watch:
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As the man in the video said, &#8220;If you&#8217;re providing a business that you see is detrimental to the community, and that your business is causing people to lose their lives, then you should have the integrity of a human being to say, you need to shut this down.&#8221;
In other words, the Texaco gas station is causing people to shoot each other. The gas station — a collection of snacks and pumps distributing gasoline &#8211; is &#8220;causing people to lose their lives.&#8221; Therefore the local councilman is holding rallies to get the place shut down. 
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When I first saw this story I had to check if there was something I was missing, because I figured this can&#8217;t possibly be the full story. Is the Texaco gas station executing its customers when they walk inside? Do they have guards posted at the doors who shoot you in the head as soon as you enter the place? If so, I totally agree that they need to shut it down. I am completely against that business practice. If I went to the gas station and it tried to murder me, I would be cranky pretty upset. That’s fodder for a bad Yelp review, no doubt. No more than two stars.
But after looking into it, I can conclusively say that these are crimes being committed by community members at — and against — this gas station. So the real problem in Jackson, Mississippi is that so many people in that community are violent criminals. 
The rush to avoid blame and accountability is so extreme that now they’re robbing businesses and then turning around to the business and blaming the business for being robbed. We&#8217;ve seen this kind of thing a few other times — for example, the politicians in Minnesota and other major cities who have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-ignore-criminals-blame-car-companies-skyrocketing-auto-thefts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> car manufacturers for making their cars too easy to steal. But this is a whole other level of delusion that we&#8217;re seeing in Jackson.
Now, I can’t help but compare the situation in Jackson to what I’ve experienced in my own life. Before we moved to Nashville four years ago, we lived in a small blue collar town in Pennsylvania. We had a local gas station that doubled as the town&#8217;s supermarket. People used to park their cars outside, leave the keys in the car with the car running and the doors unlocked, and stroll back out 15 minutes later with a bag of groceries and a coffee, and their car would still be there. So how is it that a gas station in one town is so safe that you can leave your keys in an unlocked car, while in another town you can&#8217;t fill up your tank without getting shot? And it’s not just about gas stations, obviously. 
The violent crime rate all across Jackson is extremely high. Jackson is <a href="https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-murder-rates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more dangerous</a> than 97% of all the cities in America. It is among the least safe places you can live. There are cities in third world countries safer than Jackson. By comparison, and for the record, in the town where I lived the violent crime rate was less than half of the national average. Property crimes were about a third of the national average. It was very safe. So again the question: why is one so safe and the other not? Forget about where I lived. Jackson is in the 97th percentile for crime. You could compare it to almost any town and the comparison will be very unfavorable for Jackson. Why is that? Can any politician in Jackson answer that question? 
Well, we all know where the answer starts, except we aren’t supposed to say it out loud. Every single person reading right now is thinking the same thing, but you aren’t supposed to say it. The population of Jackson is 80% black. You might know nothing about Jackson at all, but just based on the crime stats, you already made assumptions about the racial demographics — and your assumptions were right. Indeed, if you look at any town in America and see that it has a predominantly black population, you can assume that the crime rate is probably pretty high. And you will almost always be correct. We all know that. But we aren’t supposed to say it. Which is very unfortunate because it prevents us from asking the next question: why is that the case? Why is crime so prevalent in black communities? 
There isn’t one single answer to that question, but there is one major, overwhelmingly significant answer that we must begin with. The fatherless rate in the black population in Jackson (just as in cities all across the country) is more than 70%. You’ve read stats like that before so it might not really sink in, but really think about that. More than 70%. We are rapidly approaching a point where married parents and intact families simply don’t exist in Jackson — or cities like it — at all. 
In fact, the fatherless problem is so pervasive in Jackson and other cities in the state that the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/unmarried/unmarried.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">out-of-wedlock birth rate</a> in all of Mississippi is now over 50%. A child in Mississippi is more likely to be born to an unmarried mother than to a married one. It&#8217;s not possible to have a functioning society with statistics like that. It&#8217;s a guaranteed recipe for crime, violence, dysfunction, and chaos.
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There is no solution to the problems facing black people that doesn&#8217;t begin with addressing this issue. It is not possible to have a productive and worthwhile conversation about the plight of black community in this country if that conversation does not revolve around the fact that the black community, generally speaking, has given up on the nuclear family. Politicians — like the one currently running for president on the Democratic ticket — will never talk about it though, as much as they claim to be voices for that community. For Democrats, any criticism or uncomfortable observation of black communities — even if it&#8217;s well-intentioned and completely reasonable and absolutely necessary in order to solve any of the problems — is tantamount to donning a white hood. 
The inevitable result is that black communities will continue to stagnate and devolve into more needless violence. That&#8217;s obviously a very bad outcome that will ruin millions of lives. But really, the problem is even worse than that. This attitude is so cancerous that it&#8217;s now destroying our national political discourse too.
If you doubt that, take a look at what happened yesterday at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. (Yes, apparently we have segregated associations for black journalists, just like Kamala&#8217;s campaign has racially segregated Zoom calls.) Donald Trump showed up, knowing it would be hostile territory. He didn&#8217;t duck the event, like Kamala — who still hasn&#8217;t answered a single serious question from a single journalist since becoming her party&#8217;s presumptive nominee. 
And then as soon as the event began, the ABC journalist didn&#8217;t ask Trump a policy question. She didn&#8217;t talk about inflation or interest rates or the price of housing or any issue that actually matters to a single American. Instead, she started barking about how Donald Trump is racist because he&#8217;s said mean things about some people who happen to be black. Watch:
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What&#8217;s going on here is pretty clear. This woman knows that Donald Trump has called white people a lot of insulting names. Everyone&#8217;s well aware of what Trump has said about Rosie O&#8217;Donnell, or Jeb Bush, or Rand Paul, or John Bolton, or dozens and dozens of other people who happen to be white. There isn&#8217;t a single person on the planet who thinks that Donald Trump only uses nasty names to refer to black people.
What&#8217;s happening here, pretty explicitly, is that the moderator is saying Trump is racist because he treats black people the same way he treats white people. He insults them the same way he insults everyone else who crosses him, and she can&#8217;t tolerate that. She&#8217;s demanding special status for black people. She wants to completely shut down any criticism of black D.A.&#8217;s, black politicians, and black journalists. This is the same mindset that gets gas stations blamed for shootings in black neighborhoods. It is the pathological avoidance of criticism. And now it&#8217;s being used to derail debate during a presidential election.
This is not some fringe ABC reporter I&#8217;m talking about. This is a mainstream view now on the Left. 
I recently came across this post on Twitter, which had millions of views and tens of thousands of likes and supportive comments. There’s been a lot of commentary like this on social media and in corporate media since Trump’s interrogation by the black journalists. This is just <a href="https://x.com/KirkWrites79/status/1818727863375597637">one example</a>: &#8220;If you are Black… and watched how Trump talked to those Black journalists and women and you still want to vote for him. Please keep your Black ass away from me. Thanks.&#8221;
In other words, he&#8217;s saying very clearly that Trump should have treated that black journalist differently from any other journalist. Even though she was being as hostile and unprofessional as she could&#8217;ve possibly been, Trump should&#8217;ve pretended otherwise, because she&#8217;s black and it&#8217;s not possible for black people to do anything wrong whatsoever. That&#8217;s what a critical mass of people on the Left now believe.
It&#8217;s also apparently the view of Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. In response to the event, she <a href="https://x.com/KarenAttiah/status/1818717282702438470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>: &#8220;I am so angry right now. N.A.B.J., this was a colossal mistake.&#8221;
This is how you know that Donald Trump completely neutralized their attacks, by the way. If it had gone badly for Trump, they&#8217;d be glad he was invited. But it went well for Trump because instead of falling for the trap, he called it out. He treated black people the same way he&#8217;d treat anyone else. He was honest. He wasn’t tip toeing around or walking on egg shells.
This is what we need now — we’ve needed it for a long time. A radical, straight forward honesty — an honesty totally unconcerned with coloring inside the PC lines. When people aren&#8217;t allowed to say the truth, they&#8217;ll very quickly start believing in absurdities — like the idea that gas stations cause crime.
Only a party that wants more crime and more violence would push a lie so absurd. 
And only a party that wants to push even more deception and propaganda, even when reality is staring all of us in the face, would ever dream of installing a candidate as obviously fraudulent as Kamala Harris.

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At least one sponsor has withdrawn from the 2024 Olympic games after the games’ opening ceremony featured a blasphemous display of the Last Supper.
C Spire, a telecommunications and technology company based in Mississippi, announced on Saturday that it was pulling advertising from the Olympics after the opening ceremony <a href="https://x.com/Harry__Faulkner/status/1816920155399602352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> a scene of the Last Supper, but with drag queens playing the roles of Jesus and the apostles.
“We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics,” the tech company said in a post on social media.
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We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.
&mdash; C Spire (@CSpire) <a href="https://twitter.com/CSpire/status/1817212284512481485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, a popular Catholic commentator, condemned the Olympics display as a “gross mockery” and urged Christians to &#8220;make our voices heard.&#8221;
“You know, I love the Olympics, so I turn on the opening ceremony of the Olympics. What do I see now … but this gross mockery of the Last Supper,” Barron said in a video posted to social media. “France felt, evidently, as it’s trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity where Jesus at his last supper gives His body and blood in anticipation of the cross. And so it’s presented though as this sort of gross, flippant mockery.”
“I think, folks, what’s interesting here is this deeply secularist, postmodern society knows who its enemy is, they’re naming it, and we should believe them,” he continued. “They’re telling us who they are. We should believe them. But, furthermore, we Christians, we Catholics should not be sheepish. We should resist. We should make our voices heard.”
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Friends, my thoughts on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Olimpiadas2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Olimpiadas2024</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OlympicGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OlympicGames</a> <a href="https://t.co/xU1ljFMZft">pic.twitter.com/xU1ljFMZft</a>
&mdash; Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) <a href="https://twitter.com/BishopBarron/status/1816989733504860577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, applauded C Spire for backing out of the Olympics over the display.
“I am proud to see the private sector in Mississippi step up and put their foot down. God will not be mocked. C Spire drew a common-sense, appropriate line,” Reeves said.
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I am proud to see the private sector in Mississippi step up and put their foot down. God will not be mocked. C Spire drew a common-sense, appropriate line. <a href="https://t.co/R38yJye97I">https://t.co/R38yJye97I</a>
&mdash; Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1817264000583025088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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