The presidential debate on Tuesday night was a full-scale disgrace.
The debate was rigged on behalf of Kamala Harris, soup to nuts, beginning to end.
ABC News should be ashamed of themselves. They destroyed any credibility they had. David Muir and Linsey Davis were doing the bidding of the people at the top of the chain of that network.
Harris has joked that Dana Walden, a 30-year friend of hers and co-chairman of Disney Entertainment (who owns ABC News), and Walden’s husband are responsible for Harris meeting her husband, Doug Emhoff.
The bias is real. Last night was a rigged game, beginning to end.
The most significant element of the debate — by far — was the moderators, who did themselves lasting damage. The legacy media made itself appear to be precisely what it is: a Praetorian Guard on behalf of the Democratic Party. David Muir and Linsey Davis were so far up Kamala Harris’ a**, they were performing active colonoscopies with their eyeballs.
It is impossible to overstate how far in the tank they were for Kamala Harris.
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The basic format of the debate was this: The moderators asked Trump a question about how terrible his policies were, and then immediately swiveled to ask Harris how terrible Trump&#8217;s policies were. It was unbelievable.
There would be a question that effectively amounted to, “Mr. President, when did you stop beating your wife?” He would attempt to defend himself. Then, they would turn to Harris and say, “What do you think of him lying about beating his wife?”
It was insane.
And the data supports this. There were four active fact-checks last night. Donald Trump was the subject of all four fact-checks.
But it wasn&#8217;t just the fact-checks. It was also the interruptions in the follow-up, as they would interrupt Trump when he was talking. They always let Kamala Harris finish. They did not interrupt her a single time during the entire debate. Trump would be in the middle of the thought, and they would interrupt him or follow up and push him. They never followed up on Harris.
They never pushed her. Not once.
They pressed Kamala Harris zero times for follow-ups. Zero.
They will claim Trump is dishonest. But Harris lied incessantly. She repeatedly uttered outright, full-scale debunked lies ad nauseam last night.
But the media had a game plan, and the game was to follow hers. She laid out her game plan pretty early on, suggesting that it was all going to be about the playbook, the lies, and the grievances.
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The media picked up on that playbook; they were going to repeat the playbook all night long.
What has been apparent for months is that the media are not going to do the job of informing the American people about Harris. If you watched that debate last night, you came away with zero new information about her.
You know no more about Kamala Harris and her positions today than you knew yesterday or the day before.
Trump&#8217;s best moment came on abortion. He pointed out that the Democrats are radical on abortion, which is true. And he pointed out that Harris’ vice presidential pick, Tim Walz, has been in favor of abortion across the board, which is also true. He said Democrats are against legislation like the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, that Democrats want to make it so that if a baby is “accidentally born” due to a botched abortion there will be no criminal liability to let the baby die.
That is true. Democrats do want that. That is why Tim Walz opposed a Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Minnesota, and eight babies have been born during botched abortions and died on the table in Minnesota. Trump said that, and he was correct.
So what did the moderators do? They lied. Because it turns out the “fact-checkers” are there to lie on behalf of Kamala Harris.
“Her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump stated. “He also says execution after birth, its execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is ok. And that&#8217;s not ok with me.”
“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it&#8217;s born,” moderator Linsey Davis interjected.
That’s a lie. They fact-checked Trump, and it was a false fact-check.
Ralph Northam, the former governor of Virginia, actually said that if a baby is accidentally born alive during an abortion, you put the baby off to the side, and make the baby comfortable until you decide what to do with the baby.
They lied about this because Linsey Davis and David Muir are liars, lying on behalf of their preferred political party.
I would bet David Muir and Linsey Davis have been saying to each other over coffee and to the rest of their colleagues for years and years, “You know, if I ever get Trump in front of me, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to ask him. And if he lies, I&#8217;m gonna fact-check him so hard, I&#8217;ll make his head spin.” They&#8217;ve been prepping this for years.
Cabot Phillips, who covers election-centered news for The Daily Wire and was actually at the debate with the rest of the media, said the media in the spin room were actively cheering and guffawing during the debate, mocking Trump, actively groaning at him.
There is an entire media apparatus that is designed to propagandize on behalf of Harris, and they made themselves apparent last night in that room.
Harris lied later, saying Trump would sign a ban on abortion nationwide. Not only is that not true, JD Vance, who is pro-life, has also said that&#8217;s not true.
So, she lied to the moderators. Fact-checked? Of course not. Of course not.
Where were the fact-checkers? Off in the cornfield where no one knows?
Trump himself tried to prompt the moderators, asking, “You should ask: Will she allow abortion in the eighth month? Ninth month? Seventh month?” He turned to Harris, “Would you do that?” He turned back to the moderators: “Why don&#8217;t you ask her that question? Because under Roe v Wade, you could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth.”
Harris responded, “That’s not true.”
Yes, it&#8217;s true. Yes, it&#8217;s true.
So where were the fact-checkers? Where were they when Harris repeated the Charlottesville lie? Where were they when she repeated the “bloodbath” lie when Trump was actually talking about an economic bloodbath?
If there were a professional guild in charge of moderating debates, these people would be out on their a**es. But of course, there isn&#8217;t. So they will be vetted and celebrated by the mainstream media as having done a wonderful job.
I do think the American people are smart enough to see through a lot of this.
I think the American people can see that the media rigged this debate on behalf of Harris.
There are two months to go. That’s still a long time. If the Trump campaign focuses on defining who Harris is — a hard-core leftist — and sticks to that, pummels her on that, Trump can win.
But they won’t be fighting just the Harris campaign.
They’ll be fighting the legacy media centipede every step of the way.

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Dear Taylor,
As a die-hard Swiftie since your career’s conception in 2006, I have always been your biggest fan. Your music encouraged me to live “fearlessly” and “speak now” on the issues that matter most. I took those words to the core of my heart and made it my life’s 
mission to protect innocent and defenseless preborn children from abortion.
However, your recent <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wtAOKOW1z/?igsh=MWtoMzMxam14eGRvbQ%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram post</a> endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and your stance on a “woman’s right to her body” sadly leads me to believe you don’t understand the value of the fans in your stands and fans yet to be conceived.
You see, I could have been one missing bright light at nine of your concerts if my mom hadn’t chosen life. At age 22 and a senior in college, my mom became pregnant with me. Despite her boyfriend and others pressuring her to abort and “consider other options,” she ignored them. Ironically, it’s the same message abortion supporters use to “empower” women to choose abortion.
You’re a self-proclaimed feminist who said you did your research, but I&#8217;m doubtful. If you critically researched like you proudly boast, you would join the pro-life Swifties and stand against Harris and Walz’s late-term abortion stance.
If you did your research, did you know that Walz signed the &#8220;Protect Reproductive Options Act&#8221;? It&#8217;s abortion-ese for legalizing and codifying abortion for any reason up to nine months with zero protection for babies who survive abortion.
If you did your research, you’d know that Walz signed three bills for “abortion rights” while his Democrat allies in the Senate shot down over 60 amendments to help women and children, one of which is sex-discriminatory abortion. Because you consider yourself a feminist, it&#8217;s hard to comprehend how you could support anti-feminist, anti-human legislation.
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Harris threatening to codify Roe v. Wade isn’t empowerment. It would encourage abortion by telling women they aren’t strong enough by prioritizing convenience over compassion and pushing death over life.
I wouldn’t be here today if my mom had caved to the pressure. You have the platform to encourage mothers to do the same, and as a bonus, you have more grateful and enthusiastic fans.
It could be easy to dismiss &#8220;one potential fan” considering the record-breaking demand for your Eras Tour which can fill at least 900 stadiums with approximately 70,000 seats per stadium.
That&#8217;s a staggering 63 million fans—an equivalent number to the lives lost due to abortion in the United States since Roe v. Wade. All those bright lights “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” for one show multiplied by 900 over almost 50 years vanished—it’s hard to imagine.
At your 1989 World Tour, you told your audience, “You have never looked more beautiful than you do tonight, all 76,000 of you. You should know one thing about me before we begin &#8211; I was born in 1989!”
Your mom gave you life but remember that your entire fandom would not be here today if their moms didn’t embrace life. You, and everyone else, deserve a birthday.
But back to your endorsement. Your statement isn’t merely a political statement; whether intentional or not, it’s a morally void one. Even if it’s an unpopular opinion amongst this young generation or among women, even you, Taylor Swift, will not convince me to stop standing against the poisoning, suctioning, and dismembering of a human child.
Promoting a stance that allows for late-term abortions undermines the potential of those lives yet to be lived. There is a better stance that empowers women and preborn children.
We can advocate for women without slaughtering their children.
We can provide support, resources, and compassion to women facing unplanned pregnancies without flushing preborn children down the toilet through chemical abortion or ripping them from their mother’s womb.
Taylor, at best, you haven’t actually done your research, and at worst, you’ve accepted and celebrated one of the greatest evils of our time. I hope it’s the former.
Please advocate for Swifties to live out their eras in their truest form, beginning in the womb. Who knows, maybe one day you’ll embrace pro-lifers like former President Donald Trump embraces Swifties. Together, we can work toward a society that respects and supports all lives, offering hope and opportunity rather than division.
I hope this letter serves as an invitation for further reflection on this crucial matter. Your influence can foster a more nuanced discussion about life and choice, and I believe that together, we can champion a future where every voice is heard and valued.
For Life,
Mary-Logan Miske
A Swiftie and Advocate for Life
Mary-Logan is a graduate of the University of San Diego with a BA in Communications Studies and a minor in Political Science. She served as the Presidential Intern for Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in the summer of 2021.
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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It was just a few months ago that police in Chicago attempted to pull over a man named Dexter Reed for driving with illegally tinted windows. I talked about this incident on the show at the time, when the media was trying to turn Reed into the next George Floyd. As soon as the traffic stop began, Reed began acting suspiciously. He repeatedly refused officers&#8217; commands to lower his window so they could see what was going on inside his car. Then he raised the tinted window to completely obstruct the officers&#8217; view of the inside of the vehicle. And then, within seconds, Dexter Reed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaO3HPpewdw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened fire</a>.
Police officers train on footage like this all the time. There are hundreds of videos like it all over the internet. And they all tell the same story, which is this: When the police pull someone over, and that person attempts to hide what he&#8217;s doing, then the situation has just become extremely dangerous. All traffic stops involve some level of risk. But when someone rolls up a tinted window instead of complying, that risk gets exponentially higher. That&#8217;s especially true when the suspect has a criminal history. So police have no choice but to respond quickly and decisively, and potentially with force, because they&#8217;re in a life-threatening situation. Otherwise, they might get shot and killed before they can even see what&#8217;s coming.
As I said at the time, there was an attempt to portray Dexter Reed as some kind of BLM martyr. But it fell apart the moment this footage was released. Everyone understood why the officers drew their weapons. Everyone understood that Reed had put the officers in fear for their lives, even before he started shooting. The entire media-driven narrative &#8212; that Dexter Reed was an oppressed victim of police brutality &#8212; fell apart. And no one spoke of it again.
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But there&#8217;s always someone waiting in the wings to claim that mantle of oppression, especially in an election year. And this week, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is going for it &#8212; even though his traffic stop, in many ways, has a lot of similarities to Dexter Reed&#8217;s. Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, was pulled over for a lawful reason. In Tyreek Hill&#8217;s case, he was speeding near the Hard Rock Stadium, where the Dolphins play. That&#8217;s all caught on camera. And like Dexter Reed, Tyreek Hill also had an existing criminal record at the time of his stop, although the officers probably weren&#8217;t aware of that. In Hill&#8217;s case, that record included a prior guilty plea for serious offenses &#8212; including domestic assault and battery by strangulation.
And then, when he was pulled over, Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, refused lawful orders to lower his tinted window. Instead, he started raising the window in clear defiance of the officers. Watch:
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Tyreek Hill ARREST body cam FOOTAGE released.. 😲‼️
Did the cops have a power trip, or were they just doing their job? 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/MUrSiffh2u">pic.twitter.com/MUrSiffh2u</a>
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/DramaAlert/status/1833281051059490877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Instead of complying, Tyreek Hill rolled up a tinted window while the police were trying to talk to him. They responded aggressively to his belligerence. Then, Tyreek Hill refused to sit on the curb as instructed, saying he had just had surgery, so he can&#8217;t sit down. He can play in a professional football game a few hours later and score a touchdown, but he can&#8217;t possibly sit down. That&#8217;s just asking too much. So the officer again used some force, this time to put him on the curb. The officers also detained one of Hill&#8217;s teammates, Calais Campbell, after he approached the scene in the middle of the road. Ultimately the authorities cited Hill for reckless driving but didn&#8217;t arrest him. They also didn&#8217;t charge him for obstructing an officer, which is a misdemeanor in Florida punishable by up to a year in prison.
Speaking to reporters, Hill claimed he had “no idea” why he was placed in handcuffs. “No idea. It’s crazy. No idea. I wasn’t disrespectful because my mom didn’t raise me that way. Didn’t cuss. Did none of that. I’m still trying to figure it out… Don’t be disrespectful.”
Of course, the truth is that Hill could have avoided all of this by acting like an adult rather than a spoiled toddler. He knows that. Everyone watching the video knows that. But the media and the Left are pretending otherwise. They&#8217;re completely ignoring the evidence and running with the same narrative we&#8217;ve seen a million times before, even if the facts don&#8217;t remotely fit. Over on ESPN for example, they&#8217;re acting as if Tyreek Hill was just killed. They&#8217;re mourning him as if he died, by comparing him to a bunch of other BLM martyrs. Watch:
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When Tyreek Hill says &#8220;What if I wasn&#8217;t Tyreek Hill..&#8221; he&#8217;s absolutely right.
&#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCanty99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCanty99</a> on the detainment of Tyreek Hill <a href="https://t.co/JKCafYSwdm">pic.twitter.com/JKCafYSwdm</a>
— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/UnSportsESPN/status/1833467225786736673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Just to be clear about this: Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, and Philando Castile are all dead. That&#8217;s not to relitigate all of those cases &#8212; all of which the media lied about to one degree or another. It&#8217;s just a fact. This guy is comparing several dead people to Tyreek Hill, who in fact is not dead. Tyreek Hill is very much alive. He&#8217;s still earning $30 million a year. He&#8217;s still a famous celebrity. What happened to Hill is that on Sunday, he endured a minor inconvenience that was entirely attributable to his own actions. This was such a minor inconvenience that he was able to play in a football game afterwards and mock the whole situation with a celebration after he scored a touchdown.
All of this fake hysteria is intended to obscure an obvious point, which is that Hill &#8212; like so many other BLM heroes &#8212; didn&#8217;t comply with lawful orders that were given by police officers. He put them in a dangerous situation as a result. And he suffered the predictable consequences of that decision. When the outraged ESPN personality says he&#8217;s &#8220;frustrated&#8221; that the country hasn&#8217;t &#8220;reckoned with race,&#8221; what he&#8217;s really saying is that black people should be able to do whatever they want when the police pull them over. They should be able to put the police in danger, apparently. Or maybe that&#8217;s only the case if they&#8217;re driving expensive cars, like Tyreek Hill was. Maybe the law just doesn&#8217;t apply to football players.
That&#8217;s the position of Tyreek Hill&#8217;s team, the Miami Dolphins. In a statement, the team said they &#8220;urge&#8221; the police department &#8220;to take swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior.&#8221; The team didn&#8217;t even mention Tyreek Hill&#8217;s decision to put people in danger by driving recklessly on the way to the stadium. They didn&#8217;t mention that he disobeyed the officers&#8217; commands. They pretend as if the officers had no reason whatsoever to treat Hill like a potential threat to their lives. This is the lose-lose situation that cops are in. They&#8217;re being told that they have to ignore suspects who roll up their tinted windows, and just hope that it doesn&#8217;t turn out to be another Dexter Reed situation. If they do anything to protect themselves, those cops are “despicable.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the brain trust of former athletes over on FS1 took the melodrama up ten more notches. Here’s former NFL star LeSean McCoy in a conversation with former NFL player Emmanuel Acho. These are some of the most oppressed people in America. They were paid millions to play a game. Now they’re paid millions to talk about playing a game. But that doesn’t make them any less oppressed. Watch:
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The most vulnerable, heartfelt and gut wrenching conversation I’ve ever been a part of on live television.
“We do not feel safe around cops and that’s crazy… Black people do not feel safe around cops.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TyreekHill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TyreekHill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FinsUp</a><a href="https://t.co/jJ24MNiX5Y">pic.twitter.com/jJ24MNiX5Y</a>
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1833543879876087872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Oh is that what you tell your kids? You tell them if the cops are there, get to some light? Have you considered telling them to comply with lawful commands? Have you thought about that? Why don’t you tell your kids to simply comply with lawful orders given by officers of the law? If they do that, then everything will be fine.
We’re told that black men are afraid of the cops. They’re terrified that they’re going to be executed on the spot. Tyreek Hill was afraid, allegedly. Well if that’s the case, why are you going out of your way to antagonize them? Why are you doing everything in your power to make your interactions with the police as stressful and contentious as possible? When I see videos like the one with Tyreek Hill — or any of the footage of any BLM martyr — I do not see black men who are afraid of the cops. I see black men who completely disregard the cops and act as though they are above the law and impervious to the basic rules and standards of conduct that govern the rest of us. If you’re afraid for your life while dealing with the cops, why would you roll up a tinted window? How is that going to make you safer? How is that going to make the situation LESS volatile? You are making it more volatile. You are directly, actively, making it into a more volatile situation.
But this does not occur to these kind of commentators. We can’t blame them for that. They’re emotional. In fact, these guys were so emotional that when they came back from commercial break, they were still comforting each other:
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Moments after a sad, infuriating, tear evoking conversation on Tyreek Hill, I attempted to continue the show as if all was normal. It wasn’t.
I’m grateful for James Jones, who did not allow us to rush by our humanity.
On <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFacilityFS1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheFacilityFS1</a>, we’re not doing TV, we’re doing life. <a href="https://t.co/zU6d5yghG9">pic.twitter.com/zU6d5yghG9</a>
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1833602039915680240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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What brave warriors. What heroes. My God. They had to overcome the trauma of talking about a football player’s briefly unpleasant interaction with the police. They somehow had to soldier through and find a way to keep talking about football. It’s painful, you see. It’s painful to think about the minor inconvenience that a millionaire football player experienced. A minor inconvenience of his own making. They are shaken up. They are barely able to hold it together.
For his part, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, was even more hysterical than the sports commentators. He appeared to be choking back tears as he said he couldn&#8217;t imagine what it&#8217;s like to be as oppressed as Tyreek Hill is. Watch:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dolphins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dolphins</a> HC Mike McDaniel got very emotional and choked up talking about Tyreek Hill getting detained on Sunday.
&#8220;The thing that f***** me up honestly, to be quite frank, is knowing that I don’t know exactly. I don’t know what that feels like.&#8221;
Full answer via <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiDolphins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiamiDolphins</a>: <a href="https://t.co/Pwrlr3XZ5t">pic.twitter.com/Pwrlr3XZ5t</a>
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1833227060887638125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fifty years ago a guy this weepy and emasculated would never be the head coach of a football team. It just wouldn&#8217;t have been possible for a theater kid to get a job like this. But here we are. Mike McDaniel is &#8220;triggered.&#8221; It really messes him up, to not know &#8220;what it feels like&#8221; to be Tyreek Hill. He&#8217;ll never be able to experience that level of oppression.
But the coach could find out pretty easily. He could start driving his sports car, as recklessly as possible, around slow-moving traffic. And when he gets pulled over, he can roll up his tinted windows and dare the cops to do something about it. Very quickly, Mike McDaniel will experience something similar to what Tyreek Hill experienced on Sunday. And if that happens, Mike McDaniel would deserve to be forcibly removed from his car and treated like a threat, just like Tyreek Hill was.
Predictably, no one in the corporate press wants to point this out. Instead, they&#8217;re affirming Tyreek Hill&#8217;s story of racial grievance at every opportunity. Here&#8217;s CNN for example. Watch as they allow Tyreek Hill to claim &#8212; without any pushback &#8212; that, if he weren&#8217;t a football player, the police officers would have executed him on the side of the road. Watch:
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Tyreek was on CNN last night playing the victim and claiming if he wasn&#8217;t Tyreek Hill then in the worst-case scenario he could have been mu*dered. What a joke. Hill is a horrible human being who beat up his pregnant girlfriend several years ago. <a href="https://t.co/aowlTV2L5E">pic.twitter.com/aowlTV2L5E</a>
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1833514276314878426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Try to follow the logic here. According to Hill, the police knew he was a famous NFL player, with a very high profile. So they knew they had to be on their best behavior. That&#8217;s why they decided not to just shoot him outside the stadium. That&#8217;s what the police supposedly do to every other black person, but they don&#8217;t do it to NFL players. At the same time, according to Tyreek Hill, these same police officers didn&#8217;t have any problem risking their entire career just to rough him up on camera for no reason. So they&#8217;re cautious police officers, but they&#8217;re also extremely reckless at the same time.
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That&#8217;s the explanation that flies on CNN, apparently. But it doesn&#8217;t make any sense. What makes more sense is that the police did exactly what they were trained to do, which is to treat everyone who behaves like Hill did &#8212; regardless of how much money they have &#8212; as a potential threat. That&#8217;s especially true when, like Dexter Reed, they have a criminal record and start rolling up their tinted window instead of complying.
The only way to explain the reaction from the corporate press, and the Miami Dolphins, is that these people really believe that a black man should be able to do or say literally anything he wants when confronted by police. Whatever happens will always be the cop’s fault, no matter what. The point is to absolve “people of color” of any blame.
But the effect is that they’re infantilized. They&#8217;re treated like children incapable of controlling themselves. They&#8217;re given no incentive to improve their own behavior. Instead, they&#8217;re given more incentive to act like Tyreek Hill &#8212; with all the entitlement and hysteria that entails. We saw where that approach leads in 2020. It leads to police pulling out of black neighborhoods, and fewer people choosing to become police officers. And that, in turn, leads to a lot more black people dying. Narcissists like Tyreek Hill claim they&#8217;re afraid of that outcome. In reality, they&#8217;re doing everything they can to ensure it keeps happening.

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All that remains of the Kamala Harris campaign is vibes.
That catalyzed a short debate between me and Mark Cuban, the billionaire minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
A recent clip showed Harris at a hard Left-wing spices shop in Pennsylvania, hugging some crying lady.
I made fun of it because it was ridiculous. Ridiculous. This whole “Mamala, we need a hug from our president” vibe is garbage.
I <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1833145963999121702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.”
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If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help <a href="https://t.co/Ob0jfZJ6BS">https://t.co/Ob0jfZJ6BS</a>
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Because guess what? I have a family. I have four little kids. They hug me every single day. It’s great. I have a wife. We hug all the time. It&#8217;s wonderful. I have parents. We hug too. I have sisters, nieces, and nephews. Lots of hugs all around.
I don&#8217;t give a damn about being hugged by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, or Tim Walz. I don&#8217;t want any of those people hugging me, just like I don&#8217;t want my plumber hugging me.
These are people who are delegated a power to do a job. I don&#8217;t need them to come over and hug me. I need them to do their job.
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Harris has been vice president of the United States for the last three and a half years, and she&#8217;s presided over the complete meltdown of American foreign policy, the cleaning out of the base of our military, the fraying of the social fabric in the United States, and the emptying out of the American middle class.
She&#8217;s presided over all of those activities. Why should anyone care if she&#8217;s hugging randos at a spice shop in Pennsylvania?
But this is what the Harris campaign has to run on. They have to run on the vibes.
Mark Cuban, the aforementioned Kamala Harris supporter, has a habit of ignoring everything bad that Harris says and pretending it doesn&#8217;t exist. He&#8217;ll go on national TV and freely acknowledge that her idiotic idea to tax unrealized capital gains would destroy the American economy. And then he’ll say, “Well, it&#8217;s never going to happen, so who cares?”
So Cuban <a href="https://x.com/mcuban/status/1833177670378782939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> at me, “If you don&#8217;t want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help. Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024.”
“Capable?” That’s a hell of a straw man, considering my original tweet read: “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.”
Then, I <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1833203750321983994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> to him in return, “I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I&#8217;d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or a**-kissing Iran,” <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/1833204020674187666" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding</a>, “But I hope she gives you a hug while she taxes your unearned capital gains at 25%.”
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I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I&#8217;d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or ass-kissing Iran. <a href="https://t.co/VGSsWCTXLy">https://t.co/VGSsWCTXLy</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1833203750321983994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The fact that Cuban believes the signal quality to search for in a politician is empathy and kindness, as opposed to competence, is amazing. If we are a country that has been relegated to needing a hug or seeking spiritual fulfillment from the people who run for president, we are in trouble. It is precisely the opposite that the Founders sought to establish.
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The Founders did not see the government as a thing to hug. The government is not your mommy nor your daddy. No one needs a government mama or a government daddy. No one.
You need a mom and a dad. Then, you need a president very far away who does what is described in Article II of the Constitution of the United States.
Those are the things you need. If you are seeking spiritual solace or emotional fulfillment in a candidate like Harris, the emptiest vessel in the history of the modern American Republic, I reiterate my original tweet and suggest, once again, that psychological help is needed.
That’s true, by the way, on all sides of the aisle.
I don&#8217;t want a hug from Donald Trump. I want him to threaten America&#8217;s enemies and free up America&#8217;s economy. That&#8217;s what I want Trump to be doing.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
Look at the propaganda in any fascist state, any communist state. It is all about the “joy” and the “hugs.” Every poster shows the “great leader” hugging children.
I don&#8217;t want these people anywhere near my kids. That is not their job.
I just want them to do their job.
And Kamala Harris is not capable of doing that job.

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In late June 2024, around 40 Iranian-Germans protested against Hossein Mousavian and his relations with the Körber Foundation in Hamburg. This think tank, founded by Kurt A. Körber, a member of the Nazi party who worked for Universelle-Werke J. C. Müller &amp; Co. and advanced Hitler’s war goals, had hosted Mousavian at a May breakfast event, but after a tide of criticism, the think tank deleted its X post. Körber embedded four photographs of people at the breakfast, including pictures from Mousavian. 
The Munich Security Conference and the Körber-Stiftung selected 7 people who work for the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry as international participants to be their Munich Young Leaders fellowship in recent years.
What do these protesters have against Mousavian, a “Middle East specialist” at Princeton University? He can be followed in four cases: the consolidation of the ideology of terror, the supervisor of a terror project (24 killed) in Europe in the ’90s, the agent of the regime’s normalization while advancing its nuclear program, and his financial corruption (convicted) in Iran.
<h4>Propagandist</h4>
By just focusing on Mousavian&#8217;s activities in Resalat Daily between 1985 and 1990, I can show who he really is. During this period, he rarely wrote a piece under his name in this propaganda outlet, and the authors were mainly members of the Qom Seminary Instructors Association, members of the Mu`talfa Party, and people close to these hardliner groups. Other than these terror groups’ members, the rest of the content was published anonymously, with a pseudonym or under the title of the cultural or political section. These people were all followers of Khomeini who was anti-Semitic, anti-Baha&#8217;i, anti-women, and anti-LGBTQ.
<h4>Terror Regime, Terrorist Officials</h4>
In many cases, people look for evidence and documents for the problems in front of their eyes. We don&#8217;t need to provide any evidence for Mousavian to be an agent of the Islamist regime other than his positions in the last 45 years. He was and still is the agent of the Islamist terrorist regime. Even in Princeton, he has been promoting the regime’s nuclear agenda.
Considering the regime&#8217;s terrorist, brutal, and oppressive policies towards the Iranian people, the agency of this regime at high levels automatically turns a person into a criminal. Without contributions in complicity and cover-ups, people cannot be in the regime&#8217;s high-ranking positions. This alone is enough reason to fire Mousavian from Princeton. He is in Princeton to whitewash the crimes of the regime against humanity, and not to promote security and world peace.
In an outlet where Mousavian was on the editorial board (under the title of &#8220;central council&#8221; instead of the editorial board), this propaganda outlet was continuously promoting and praising terror and terrorism. Note that Fada’iyan (Devotees) of Islam, whose assassination actions were commemorated by this outlet, was a terrorist organization that assassinated two prime ministers. It also attempted to assassinate the Shah but failed. The Devotees of Islam also assassinated secular intellectuals such as Ahmad Kasravi. The Qom Seminary Instructors Association was the financier of terror activities and the provider of religious justifications for terror. Khomeini also supported these groups financially and ideologically.
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During February and March of 1989, Resalat in one month, advertised and promoted Khomeini&#8217;s issuance of a fatwa on the killing of Salman Rushdie with big headlines every day. The editorials on 27 Bahman and 9 Esfand of 1367 (February 16 and 28, 1989, both probably under pseudonyms) fully defended the issuance of this fatwa, which is the outlet&#8217;s position and therefore Hossein Mousavian&#8217;s.
Contrary to popular belief, terrorism does not only happen when a group or individual shoots a political opponent, writer, or religious dissenter or presses the button to detonate a bomb. Terrorism is triggered when a religious scholar or political leader issues an order to eliminate the opposition or dissenters. The rest of the story is about the execution. The case of Salman Rushdie and his assassination four decades after Khomeini&#8217;s fatwa is a good example.
In this sense, Mousavian&#8217;s role in launching the Resalat and his responsibility in the Tehran Times, as a propagandist, promoter, and legitimizer of terrorism, is even more important than his role in the assassinations of dissidents in the 90s in Europe. Resalat has been a propaganda mouthpiece and not a newspaper in a free country. In a propaganda outlet, the materials and authors are selected in advance by the &#8220;central council&#8221; and every published article, piece, or news is aimed at advancing an agenda, plan, or narrative. Therefore, every member of the central council &#8211; like communist bulletins &#8211; is responsible for what is published in the outlet, and the responsibility of any article is not solely on the shoulders of the author. In a propaganda bulletin, the content is not just filtered through the council but what goes into the filter is pre-determined and ordered based on a specific political agenda.
Mousavian was the editor or chief editor (in some issues) of Resalat Daily which has been the pioneer of the narratives of elimination, purge, and executions. One of the outlet’s policies for which Mousavian is responsible as a member of its central council was the promotion of terrorism whether praising Suleiman Khater’s action, an Egyptian terrorist (January 28, 1986) or calling Prime Minister Mansour’s assassination a “revolutionary execution” (Badamchian’s piece, March 2, 1986; commemoration of the assassination day, January 20, 1986).
This outlet calls every assassination of the Pahlavi regime’s officials a “revolutionary execution.” During Mousavian’s work, the outlet arranged interviews with every terrorist or theoretician of terrorism who entered Iran, such as Ahmad Ra’if, one of the ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood (February 16, 1987). Resalat constantly glorified Muslim terrorists inside and outside the country and still does so. This is its policy.
The following methods are used in the contents of this newspaper: dividing the world into those who dominate (non-Muslim) and those who are dominated (Muslim) in numerous op-eds and articles, attributing every issue during the Pahlavi dynasty to Western foreigners such as removing hijab, Bahaism, and homosexuality. According to the newspaper op-eds, America and Europe are responsible for starting the Iran-Iraq war, and the West is racist.
<h4>Underlying Method</h4>
Resalat Daily had a very clever way to promote terrorism and mass murder. This outlet prepared the mentality of the society for killing without informing. For example, on the subject of the 1988 massacre in prisons, it did not even provide a single line of news about this story during which 3,000-5,000 people were executed; but by publishing a series of articles under the title &#8220;Ghost of the Monster&#8221; subtitled &#8220;A narrative of the crimes of the hypocrite terrorist network” (an episode of it on August 6, 1988 under the pseudonym M-K, which is a security agent) tries to justify and legitimize the killing of members of the MEK organization.
Mousavi Ardebili, the head of the Supreme Court and imam of Tehran&#8217;s Friday Prayer, gave a speech about the necessity of removing and executing the opponents. Resalat published his anti-due process words in large fonts without any criticism. It is unlikely that the editors of the newspaper, including Hossein Mousavian, were unaware of the executions of thousands of opponents in prisons. In this sense, he is responsible for hiding the story. Resalat published Ardebili&#8217;s words on August 6, 1988. As a judiciary official, he asks the judicial authorities: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you try and execute the MEK members?&#8221; He immediately puts aside the re-trial of the prisoners who have already been convicted in the kangaroo courts and says: &#8220;They don&#8217;t deserve a trial. Their sentence is death.&#8221;
In publishing these words, Mousavian did not question Friday Prayer leaders’ and the judicial officials’ statements in an editorial note. The editorial should have asked why the government executes previously convicted people without a trial. In the final days of the executions, Ali Khamenei said: &#8220;The Islamic Republic remains arrogant and will become stronger and more stable day by day,&#8221; (Resalat, August 27, 1988). In this case, no one in the newspaper asked him how the Islamic Republic is getting stronger day by day while it is busy killing.
<h4>Appeasing Appointment</h4>
The appointment of Hossein Mousavi at Princeton University violates all academic principles in the world. Beyond allocating an academic position without public ad and competition and considering academic qualifications, Mousavian has been placed in his position with the advice of politicians and financiers only because of his dark political records to be a deal maker in the nuclear agreement. This placement violated the academic and administrative independence of universities. Princeton&#8217;s decision-makers most likely agreed to such a ridiculous act only to gain more access to federal public resources or to increase their influence through the federal government channels. Mousavian did not have a scientific record before being hired, and his role was mostly as an intermediary for his respective government and advancing its interests.
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It’s election season, which means Hollywood is pulling out all the stops to push a Democrat over the top.
We’ve already seen White Dudes for Harris, preaching stars at the Democratic National Convention, and wall-to-wall social media messages from the likes of Mark Hamill and Rob Reiner.
Now, it’s time to talk politics at your neighborhood movie house.
This year offers a twist to that tried and blue formula. A few titles buck the progressive narrative, offering a different take on presidential politics. It’s both a sign of the times and a warning shot across the cultural bow.
“Hollywood” takes on a whole new meaning as upstart media companies disrupt the usual narratives.
The most prominent title still clings to DNC talking points. “The Apprentice,” which made a splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, explores the early years of real estate mogul Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan.
AKA the Republican nominee for the White House.
Director Ali Abbasi says the film, slated for an October 11 release, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/apprentice-movie-donald-trump-sebastian-stan-jeremy-strong-dfaa84ffa521b9f54b6104a8515891ef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">isn’t a hit piece</a>. Nor is he telling Americans how to vote.
To quote a popular meme, “Sure, Jan.”
“Do I want to show you some stuff about character? Yes, I would very much love that and I think we have some great stuff to show … What you do with that knowledge is up to you. But that knowledge might come in handy if you want to go and vote.”
Team Trump already cried foul over the film, particularly a scene where Stan’s Trump assaults then-wife Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”). The real Ivana Trump leveled the charge during divorce proceedings but later recanted on the record.
Abbasi included the scene anyway.
Here’s Ivana in her own words years later: “I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit,” Ivana said in a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politics/donald-trump-adviser-michael-cohen-rape/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to CNN.
“Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president.”
A more curious anti-Trump film looms in the not-so-distant future, and while there’s no official release date it seems absurd that it won’t go live before November 5.
“2073” is speculative fiction, a quasi-documentary that examines where the world might be if we keep heading in the wrong direction. Think income inequality, climate change, and other progressive talking points run wild.
The film’s teaser features footage of villains like Vladimir Putin and Trump, the latter suggesting the dystopian vision has roots in his presidency. The Trump connection doesn’t end there. The film, which just bowed at the Venice Film Festival, features a brief visual tease of more Trumpian leaders.
A digital billboard announces “Chairwoman Trump celebrates 30th year in power,” complete with Ivanka Trump’s image.
Subtle.
It’s the kind of hard-left content that may draw little attention at the cineplex but outsized media coverage. That’s already happened.
Another project promises a microscopic audience on two fronts. A new CNN documentary (a contradiction in terms given the platform’s overt bias) called “<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kamala-harris-documentary-short-film-bakari-sellers-1235986229/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala</a>” should drop sometime in October, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Don’t expect Harris’ word salad speeches or epic flip-flops to get a fair hearing.
Documentaries rarely score big with audiences. Plus, the title in question is a short film, further hampering its potential. The title will reportedly shift to VOD platforms before Election Day, which seems a better fit given its length.
Conservatives have several options as election season marches on. Consider the latest installment in the “God’s Not Dead” saga, out September 12. Subtitled, “In God We Trust,” the sequel finds Pastor Dave (David A.R. White) running for Congress against a far-Left zealot (Ray Price) who loathes religion.
Cultural sparks fly, with our hero struggling to balance his Christian beliefs with the rough and tumble world of Beltway politics.
The film’s cast alone, including openly conservative stars like Scott Baio and Samaire Armstrong, sends a political message. So, too, does the film’s plot which is both pro-faith and anti-progressive.
By now, the franchise is preaching directly to the choir, but said choir is given few choices at the movies. Or, at least, that was once the case.
This year is a little different.
The Daily Wire team that uncorked “What Is a Woman?” two years ago returns with an even more incendiary title. “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist-official-trailer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Am I Racist?</a>” finds star Matt Walsh going undercover as a trained DEI instructor to expose the radical movement.
The film <a href="https://www.amiracist.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hits theaters</a> nationwide on September 13, the first time a Daily Wire title moves out from behind a paywall. And the timing couldn’t be better. DEI policies are under fire across the country, and Team Trump has little appetite for the measures.
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The Democratic ticket, by stark comparison, is headed by a politician many see as the ultimate DEI hire, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democrats have been amplifying January 6 for years, yet the party curiously kept the topic mostly off-stage during the recent DNC convention in Chicago.
Now, The Babylon Bee is resurrecting that day for a mockumentary sure to make the Left squirm. “January 6: The Most Deadliest Day,” available October 11 for Bee subscribers, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the Capitol riot.
The mockumentary’s paywall suggests the film won’t find a wide audience, but the Bee’s brand of satire hits both sides enough to suggest some center-left viewers may find a message in the comic madness.
And, if the satire lands as expected, it could leave a mark.
That’s the whole goal of October surprises, to make voters think twice before making their votes heard.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://x.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
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***WARNING: Although the historical events that took place throughout President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s life are well-documented, this article may contain spoilers with regard to the framing and overall presentation of the film.***
The political Left does not appear to want the American people to see &#8220;Reagan&#8221; — at least, not until after the 2024 presidential election is settled.
Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dennis-quaid-says-facebook-is-censoring-the-free-flow-of-ideas-throttling-reagan-movie-promos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dennis Quaid</a>, who portrays the titular president, said weeks ago that Facebook was &#8220;throttling advertising and promotion&#8221; for the film, &#8220;once again censoring the free flow of ideas, deciding what’s best for us to see and hear.&#8221;
It&#8217;s true that the American Left never liked Reagan, which could be reason enough for some to think it worth scuttling a movie about him. But after seeing the film myself — and some of the reactions to it — I realized that it goes much deeper than that. They don&#8217;t just hate Reagan the president: they hate Reagan the man. What&#8217;s more, they hate everyone who values the things Reagan stood for, the things that drove him.
Full disclosure: I was a child of the Reagan years. Born in 1979, I never really saw the havoc wrought by President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s administration. The first political speech I remember was Reagan&#8217;s address to the nation in the wake of the Challenger disaster in 1986. I watched the explosion live from my first-grade classroom and saw my teacher quietly crying at her desk — and later, at home, I watched as the president paid solemn tribute to the lives lost in that tragedy. I was eight years old when, just over a year later, I watched Reagan stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate and forcefully urge Mr. Gorbachev to &#8220;tear down this wall!&#8221;
That was all I knew of American presidents, and so that became what I expected of American presidents: someone who could speak with sincerity and solemnity to a nation in pain, but also someone who showed no fear in the face of adversaries on the world stage. I saw flickers of those same things from President George W. Bush in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Now, the Left is terrified that people will notice those things are not to be found in Vice President Kamala Harris — and even more terrified that they just might see them in former President Donald Trump. That&#8217;s where the &#8220;Reagan&#8221; movie fits in: whether intentionally or not, it draws parallels that are difficult to ignore and even more difficult to explain away.
<h4>They don&#8217;t want a president staying strong in the face of an assassination attempt top of mind.</h4>
The movie begins with a literal &#8220;bang,&#8221; the March 30, 1981 attempt on Reagan&#8217;s life. We get Reagan&#8217;s quip to his wife, Nancy — &#8220;Honey, I forgot to duck&#8221; — and to his surgeons — &#8220;I hope you&#8217;re all Republicans.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, Mr. President, we are all Republicans,&#8221; was the reply from Dr. Joseph Giordano, a liberal Democrat.
Trump may not have lost half of his blood volume when he was shot in the head on July 13th, as Reagan did in 1981. But Trump&#8217;s immediate response to the shooting, despite Secret Service attempts to keep him under cover, was to stand and show his supporters that he was okay. He raised his fist, shouting, &#8220;Fight! Fight! Fight!&#8221; before agents were able to usher him off the stage.
He later described the moment he knew he&#8217;d been hit, saying that at first, it felt like &#8220;a really big <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-bullet-felt-like-mosquito-bite-turning-his-head-saved-his-life-bret-baier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mosquito</a>.&#8221;
<h4>They don&#8217;t want you seeing value in an unorthodox leader who sometimes ignores his closest advisors.</h4>
Whatever else could be said about Reagan, he had his own negotiating style — whether with foreign leaders, an adversarial Congress, or his own advisors. One of the great examples of this is his Brandenburg Gate speech. His advisors warned him not to unnecessarily provoke Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom he had been discussing nuclear disarmament, by demanding the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
But Reagan, with just a year left in his second term, did so anyway. Two years later, the wall came down. Two years after that, the Soviet Union was no more.
The comparison here is obvious. Trump is nothing if not unorthodox, and he often does or says things against the wishes of his advisors — sometimes with more success than others. A reminder that unorthodoxy can be both necessary and effective is not something the Left wants voters thinking about when they head to the polls.
<h4>They really don&#8217;t want you to remember what it was like to have a man of faith in the Oval Office.</h4>
In American politics, we are accustomed to politicians who go to church for the optics. The current president, for example, often talks about his deep and abiding Catholic faith — and although we do see him attending Mass, we also see him making the Sign of the Cross at an abortion rally. We see him embracing the Pope, but inviting trans-identifying influencers to attend White House events with children present.
Reagan was different, on a number of levels. He rarely attended church while he was president — not because he didn&#8217;t want to, but because he worried that attending the service would disrupt the service at best, and endanger his fellow worshipers at worst.
Still, Reagan&#8217;s faith was what planted the seed that blossomed into the president&#8217;s lifelong crusade against communism — a crusade that began when in Hollywood and came to fruition in the White House. As a young man, Reagan sat in the congregation and listened intently as a Soviet dissident explained that the first thing the communists took was their churches. For Reagan, who had always seen church as a refuge from a tumultuous home life, that was a bridge too far.
<h4>They really, REALLY don&#8217;t want you thinking about the enduring threat of socialism.</h4>
In the movie, Reagan mentions the summer he spent as a lifeguard on a river, and explains how he learned to &#8220;read the currents,&#8221; both on the surface and beneath it. Sometimes, he said of the people he rescued on that river, &#8220;I knew they were in trouble before they did.&#8221;
That ability translated to politics, giving Reagan an ability to read the currents driving both global politics and culture — and to predict how they might interact.
Trump has been less effective at this so far, but he has made it clear that he sees the threat of socialism — and that he knows it is coming, at least in part, from within the United States. In his 2019 State of the Union, Trump vowed that America would never be socialist.
&#8220;Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free,&#8221; he said.
In addition, Trump&#8217;s recent efforts to build a coalition — including former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii — may not have brought in a tidal wave of &#8220;Trump Democrats,&#8221; but they have given him a populist boost that Vice President Harris failed to match with a &#8220;bounce&#8221; from the Democratic National Convention.
For these reasons and more, the political Left clearly does not want you to see the parallels. Rolling Stone <a href="https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1832796110198280409" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panned the film</a>, calling it a &#8220;tedious biopic that shows the American political right will always value propaganda over compelling human drama.&#8221; On <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dennis-quaid-biopic-reagan-outperforms-expectations-earns-high-audience-rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rotten Tomatoes,</a> the movie scored a dismal 20% from critics who tend to lean all the way to the Left.
The audience told a different tale, however, giving the film a positive 98%. I&#8217;m with them.

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Here’s Why The Left Hopes You Won’t See ‘Reagan’ — Before The Election, Anyway

Here's Why The Left Hopes You Won't See 'Reagan' — Before The Election, Anyway

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There&#8217;s a brand new poll out and Democrats are freaking out. 
Freaking out. 
The brand-new New York Times/Siena College <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/us/politics/trump-and-harris-times-siena-poll.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> has a huge sample size. It shows Donald Trump with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-dnc-convention-bounce-evaporates-in-latest-nytimes-siena-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-point lead</a> over Kamala Harris nationally, 48-47.
This is a disaster area poll for Kamala Harris. I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time that she had hit her high watermark, that there was only receding to the mean from there, that she had had weeks and weeks and weeks of no serious questions asked of her, and eventually the vibes would run out.
But then I considered that I might have been wrong; perhaps she could just run on fumes all the way through the election. 
It turns out the American people really do want Kamala to explicate who she is and what she believes in order for them to make her president of the United States.
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The poll shows Trump up 48-47 among likely voters. If you are looking at all registered voters — which may be more accurate because it&#8217;s hard to tell who is a likely voter and who is a not likely voter in the Trump-Harris election, because Trump brings in a lot of low-propensity voters — Trump is up two points, 46-44.
Those are terrible numbers for Kamala Harris, disastrous numbers. When you look at the crosstabs, it gets even worse for Kamala Harris. 
If you look at the favorability ratings for Donald Trump, 46% of Americans have a very favorable or somewhat favorable rating of President Trump, But if you look at Kamala Harris, her very or somewhat favorable rating rests at 45%, lower than that of President Trump.
Asked if they still needed to learn more about Donald Trump, 87% of the voters said they already knew what they needed to know about him.
But only 67% said they already knew what they needed to know about Kamala Harris. Wait until the remaining one-third of the American population hears about Kamala Harris, how radical she is, how empty she is.
Wait until all of the airwaves are hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in ads saying all of that, that she&#8217;s shallow, that she is radical, that she is empty, that she vacillates on her positions, that she is Machiavellian, that she&#8217;s dishonest.
Wait until they hear all of that again. The debate tomorrow night is going to be nearly everything, not as much for Trump, but for Kamala Harris because a whopping 31% say they need to know more about her policies and plans.
That’s a problem for her because she&#8217;s trying to avoid talking about all of that. 
In addition, 56% of voters said they believed Kamala Harris doesn’t represent change; she represents more of the same. And that’s in an era in which Americans don&#8217;t like what they are seeing.
Meanwhile, 61% said they felt Trump meant a change.
If this is a change election. Donald Trump is ahead. 
As far as the number one issue, if he had to just pick one, 21% say the economy, 14% say abortion. And Trump leads Harris on the economy. 
He trails on abortion, although he has taken some of those points off the table by taking a very milquetoast position on abortion. He&#8217;s not going to get involved at the national level; he has signaled he doesn&#8217;t like heartbeat bills, even at the state level. 
The number three issue was immigration. The number four issue was inflation and cost of living. So three of the top four issues trend toward President Trump. 
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Asked which candidate they thought would do a better job of handling the issues they thought most important, 50% said Trump. Only 43% said Harris. Trump leads by 16% on the economy. He leads by 11% on immigration. 
That is before people know Kamala Harris&#8217;s actual immigration position. She&#8217;s been portraying herself as a border hawk, and she&#8217;s still losing by 11 on the issue and 16 on the economy. She leads on abortion by 17 points. She leads on democracy, however, by only six points. And right now, 51% of Americans say the economy is poor. 28% say only fair.  
This New York Times Siena poll is a disaster for Democrats and a disaster for Kamala Harris. The vibes have run out; the joy has run out.
Donald Trump is the moderate candidate in this election. He has run there on abortion. He has run there on economics. He has run there on security. 
Kamala Harris and Biden have raced to the Left on everything, including transing the kids, equity, tax policy, foreign policy, and oil and gas.
They have run away from moderation. They abandoned the middle in the weird decision that they could somehow duplicate Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 run. 
I&#8217;ve said before the great unifying field theory of American politics for the Democratic Party was to try and duplicate Barack Obama&#8217;s 2012 coalition, which was a heavy minority turnout and white liberal ladies that was going to spur him to victory.
And Democrats keep trying it. It doesn&#8217;t work all that often. Trying that again is a giant failure. 
You want to know why Trump&#8217;s numbers are up?
It&#8217;s because Democratic Party numbers are down. It&#8217;s because they went too far to the Left. They abandoned the middle. It&#8217;s that simple. 
Every number here looks worse and worse for the Democratic Party and for Kamala Harris. 
And they are freaking out.

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Kamala’s Momentum Gone. Trump Regains Lead.

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In early 2018, senators from both parties met with Donald Trump inside the White House. They were there to discuss the visa lottery system, which is a program that allocates visas to people from countries with &#8220;historically low&#8221; rates of immigration to the United States.
This is one of many government programs that&#8217;s existed for decades without anyone in power asking why it exists &#8212; even though a visa lottery like this makes no sense whatsoever. The only criterion we should have when deciding who gets to enter the United States is whether admitting those people would make the United States a better country. Whether or not their country is &#8220;underrepresented&#8221; in the United States should have no bearing on whether a potential migrant is awarded a visa. As simple and obvious as this point may be, you rarely hear anyone say it. Certainly, you don&#8217;t hear presidents say it.
But in his meeting with the senators, Donald Trump pointed out the problem right away. Trump specifically wanted to know why we were awarding visas to people from Haiti, one of the poorest and most dysfunctional countries in the entire world. (Depending on who you ask, Trump used slightly more colorful language than that.)
You probably remember the outrage that followed. There was an outrage cycle that lasted more than two weeks. Haiti&#8217;s government said Trump&#8217;s comments were &#8220;abhorrent.&#8221; The United Nations human rights office <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1725993057955000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V6ClX0_1_EnAnVUv88R3Z">said</a> Donald Trump had &#8220;damaged&#8221; and &#8220;disrupted&#8221; the lives of &#8220;many people.&#8221; Conan O&#8217;Brien <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/conan-shines-spotlight-haiti-trumps-inflammatory-immigration-remarks-1078606/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/conan-shines-spotlight-haiti-trumps-inflammatory-immigration-remarks-1078606/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1725993057955000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2qL5vknmJwoBOfnRo5-aMO">started</a> filming his show in Haiti, during which he repeatedly blamed Haiti&#8217;s collapse on the United States. “The Haitians have been dealt the worst hand in the Western Hemisphere,&#8221; he said, implying that we owe them housing and healthcare as a result.
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But none of the outrage addressed Trump&#8217;s fundamental question. At no point did anyone in the press, or the Democrat Party, explain why we need to admit more Haitians into the United States. No one addressed Trump&#8217;s concern, which is that giving Haitians visas &#8212; simply because they come from Haiti, and for no other reason &#8212; would dramatically lower the quality of life for American citizens.
As a result, two years after the manufactured outrage over Trump&#8217;s comments, lives have indeed been &#8220;damaged&#8221; and &#8220;disrupted,&#8221; as the United Nations put it. But those lives are not in Haiti. They&#8217;re in places like Springfield, Ohio, which were overrun with Haitians overnight. That is not hysteria. It&#8217;s clearly happening. This is a report from NPR &#8212; maybe the most Democrat-aligned media outlet in existence. But even NPR can&#8217;t spin the situation in Springfield.
&#8220;Around 2020, things in this town took an unexpected turn. Thousands of Haitian migrants, fleeing violence and poverty, landed in Springfield. Locals say it felt like it happened overnight,&#8221; NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/12/nx-s1-5055784/immigration-vance-trump-migration-president-migrants-election-ohio#:~:text=In%20a%20presidential%20race%20where,many%20of%20them%20from%20Haiti." target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;On Sunday afternoons, you could suddenly hear Creole mass wafting through downtown streets. Haitian restaurants started popping up. &#8230; The town of around 60,000 has received some 15,000-20,000 migrants in the last four years, many of them from Haiti.&#8221;
I&#8217;ll say that again. A town of 60,000 people has received roughly 20,000 &#8220;migrants&#8221; in just the last four years. That&#8217;s a third of their population being added. This is a town that already had a poverty rate of more than twice the national average before the Haitians started moving in. This would be unsustainable even if Springfield were recruiting highly qualified, skilled immigrants. You can&#8217;t just massively increase your population very quickly without breaking things.
And things are indeed breaking in Springfield. Take a look at this data, from the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;Crime Data Explorer.&#8221; The blue line tracks the number of crimes reported in Springfield, Ohio.
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Notice how it&#8217;s pretty steady from 2012 to 2020. And then all of a sudden, the number of reported crimes surges. In fact, it more than doubles beginning in 2020, when this surge of migrants from Haiti arrives. One of those crimes was <a href="https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/guilty-verdicts-reached-in-trial-of-minivan-driver-accused-in-fatal-school-bus-crash/EGZUKHYWBNEPXGCUXRKU2TRRXI/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/guilty-verdicts-reached-in-trial-of-minivan-driver-accused-in-fatal-school-bus-crash/EGZUKHYWBNEPXGCUXRKU2TRRXI/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1725993057955000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1BNGbaNNTzax21fLeIKnrD">committed</a> last August by Hermanio Joseph, a Haitian migrant who drove his minivan into a <a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/09/03/20/89240425-13808817-image-a-139_1725391475576.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school bus</a>, killing an 11-year-old child who was ejected from the bus.
The driver apparently had a &#8220;Mexican driver’s license and Ohio ID card, but no Ohio driver’s license.&#8221; Obviously, he shouldn&#8217;t have been in this country, much less driving on the road. But he was here. And for killing a child, he was only sentenced to about ten years in prison. These kinds of stories are now commonplace in Springfield.
Meanwhile, social services have been overwhelmed. The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13808817/Springfield-Ohio-Haitian-immigration-population-surge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;At the community health clinic, Haitian patients rose from 115 to 1,500 between 2021 and 2023, overwhelming services  Rocking Horse Community Health Center chief medical officer Yamini Teegala said language barriers meant a 15-minute consult took up to 45 minutes. &#8216;We lost productivity. We had a huge burnout of staff,&#8217; she [said]. &#8230; The clinic hired six Haitian Creole translators, but its translation budget blew out from $43,000 in 2020 to $436,000, which Teegala said was unsustainable.&#8221;
Even with all this spending, Haitians are still terrorizing locals in Springfield. Here&#8217;s one woman at a city council meeting explaining that the town&#8217;s no longer safe for her to live in:
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Absolutely HEARTBREAKING moment Springfield, Ohio, resident tells mayor that she &#8220;can&#8217;t take it anymore&#8221; as Haitian migrants squat on her lawn, litter in her yard and harass her and elderly husband daily.
The mayor of Springfield does NOT want people to see this: <a href="https://t.co/OJtAy7LSXX">pic.twitter.com/OJtAy7LSXX</a>
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You can understand her exasperation. Springfield didn&#8217;t vote for this. It&#8217;s one of the most pro-Trump areas in the entire country. But no one can escape the consequences of mass migration. That&#8217;s the whole point of it. The Biden-Harris administration looks at this, and they see a success story. There is no outrage among the Left as communities like this are destroyed. They don&#8217;t care even as American citizens &#8212; including children &#8212; are killed.
In fact, it&#8217;s not just human beings who are being murdered as a result of this migrant surge. In Springfield, there are now reports on social media that Haitians are eating people&#8217;s cats. Residents at city council meetings are also complaining that Haitians are eating ducks on the side of the road. This is from just a week ago. Watch:
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&#8220;Haitians are in the park grabbing ducks, cutting the heads off, and eating them&#8221;
Springfield resident to City Council: <a href="https://t.co/aZLsOT8v2b">pic.twitter.com/aZLsOT8v2b</a>
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The man goes on to note that there are plenty of police in Springfield. It&#8217;s easy to get a traffic ticket. But apparently, it&#8217;s not easy to round up and deport the Haitians who are eating animals and crashing their cars into children. That&#8217;s not the government&#8217;s priority. He theorizes in that clip that maybe the government&#8217;s being paid off by somebody. That&#8217;s all he can think of.
But that doesn&#8217;t have to be the explanation. The Biden administration has a clear political motivation to import as many third-world aliens as possible because eventually, they&#8217;ll vote. And some local politicians in Springfield &#8212; which was devastated economically after the auto industry moved overseas &#8212; thought that more migrants would help the economy. And now here we are. Instead of helping the economy, the migrants are eating animals in public.
As unsettling as all of this is, you have to wonder whether this will be the thing that finally awakens people on the Left to the problem of rampant immigration. They don&#8217;t seem to care much when immigrants kill human beings. That doesn&#8217;t bother them in the slightest. But maybe they&#8217;ll care about the ducks and chickens and cats that are meeting an untimely demise. Presumably, the vegans will be rising up any day now. One wonders what the childless cat ladies will say when their cats end up in a Haitian’s crock pot — or whatever they use to cook them. After all, this isn&#8217;t just happening in Springfield, Ohio. It&#8217;s happening everywhere that illegal migrants are being imported.
That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a similar crisis unfolding in Queens, New York, which is the borough that&#8217;s taking the brunt of the illegal migrant surge in the city. 70 of New York&#8217;s 193 taxpayer-funded migrant shelters are located in Queens, and hundreds of thousands of illegals have arrived in the city in the last two years. As councilman Robert Holden put it: &#8220;We&#8217;re getting dumped on here. How long can we sustain this? These shelters add nothing to the neighborhood. They only bring crime.&#8221;
Some of that crime involves eating animals, apparently. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/07/us-news/animal-sacrifices-on-the-rise-in-queens-its-open-season/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and rats being tortured, mutilated or killed in &#8216;twisted&#8217; religious rituals in parkland surrounding Jamaica Bay &#8230; In a little over a month, at least nine wounded animals or carcasses have been discovered in the federally-managed Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel — including five live pigs with partially severed ears. Creatures recovered from the revolting scene also include a near-dead baby rat tied up in a bag with chicken bones; a freshly-decapitated chicken head; a live hen in distress; and a dead dog with its neck snapped.&#8221;
This is being linked not to Haitians, but to &#8220;Hindu devotees who worship the goddess Kali.&#8221; Then there&#8217;s this quote, from Sloane Quealy, who runs Zion&#8217;s Mission Animal Rescue. “It’s continually getting worse. The animal sacrifices are happening more repeatedly, more times a week. The sacrificers know it’s open season.”
Yes, the &#8220;sacrificers&#8221; know it&#8217;s open season. And of course, those &#8220;sacrificers&#8221; typically have something in common, which is that they didn&#8217;t come from the United States. These episodes are yet more evidence of a simple truism: import the third world, become the third world. Culture matters. When you allow a flood of third-world people, you end up with an increasingly third-world culture. Anyone who has ever been to a third-world country knows that this is not an improvement. You get fight clubs on the streets. You get garbage all over the place and loud music playing around the clock. Watch:
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He&#8217;s lived there for more than 30 years, and he&#8217;s &#8220;never seen anything like it.&#8221; But it&#8217;s happening now. Some of this may be because of the visa lottery, which allows people like this into the country illegally. A lot of it is because of asylum fraud or &#8220;temporary protected status&#8221; and so on. But the debate over whether these migrants are &#8220;illegal&#8221; or not isn&#8217;t really the main issue here.
That&#8217;s because, as hard as it may be for either party to admit, illegal immigration is not the only problem. Unchecked immigration of any kind &#8212; illegal or legal &#8212; creates the same problems in this country. We do not erase the downside of importing many thousands of Haitians every year just by importing them &#8220;legally.&#8221; The immigrants that are reportedly conducting blood sacrifices on the streets do not suddenly become acceptable because we give them a visa. The key point is that we do not want America to be like these places. We don&#8217;t want America to become like Haiti or any third-world country. Whether it becomes like Haiti or any similar place illegally or legally is basically irrelevant. If places like Springfield and Queens are ever going to become habitable again, the people running the government have to admit that. And then they have no choice but to get these people out of the country as quickly as possible.

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“With great power comes great responsibility.” Long before Uncle Ben imparted this sage advice to Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in comics and movies, it was an accepted maxim in Western civilization known as “noblesse oblige.” Those with wealth, privilege, or position have an obligation to use the advantages of their birth to benefit those not similarly situated. As Americans, we are blessed with the greatest protection of individual rights known to man, none more important than the Constitution’s First Amendment, which lays freedom of speech, religion, press, and assembly as the bedrock upon which our republic rests. For nearly two and half centuries our nation has been a beacon and today, perhaps more than ever, that light must be shown to Brazil.
On Friday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations” in the country after the social media platform refused to comply with government orders to shut down accounts which it had singled out for censorship.
The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800/almost $9,000) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via a virtual private network.
The same justice has also issued an order to freeze the assets of the company Starlink, a satellite internet provider, following X’s refusal to comply with the censorship orders. Starlink is a subsidiary of SpaceX, an entirely different company in which <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8789d9b8-a466-45c9-94b0-8e409683bb1e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> is a 40% minority shareholder with 79% voting rights.
Monday, the Brazilian Supreme Court upheld the decision to ban X nationwide, further curtailing the right to free speech online.
Appealing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to uphold freedom of expression, lawyers from free speech-supporting legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom International petitioned the body – which has jurisdiction over Brazil under the American Convention on Human Rights – to intervene in the dire situation.
The orders to censor online content are supposedly based on combatting disinformation and fake news. But the state has targeted conservative voices for censorship, including blocking pro-life messages during the 2022 election campaign, which contained a message contrary to the pro-abortion position held by then-candidate Lula da Silva.
Other targeted speech included repudiations of the Nicaraguan government’s suppression of religious freedom and the concern it could happen in Brazil, and criticism of Lula’s promotion of sexually explicit content in school curricula.
Various journalists and public figures, including journalist Paulo Figueiredo and bestselling American author Michael Shellenberger, have already been targeted with secret criminal investigations for reporting on the authoritarian drift of the Brazilian courts and their censorship efforts.
Of course, America’s moral authority to lead the world against the rising global tide of censorship is only as strong as our commitment to uphold these fundamental human rights in our own country. Facebook/Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg recently <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/zuckerberg-says-biden-administration-pressured-meta-censor-covid-19-content-2024-08-27/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Congress admitting that his platform had censored important news stories under pressure from the Biden-Harris administration.
Last year, the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/adf-testify-us-house-subcommittee-weaponization-federal-government?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the U.S. Treasury Department conspired with major banks to monitor transactions of ordinary citizens making purchases at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Bass Pro Shops, and Cabela’s, and buying  “religious texts” like Bibles under the guise of identifying potential “domestic terrorists.” The federal government also flagged mainstream conservative organizations, and faith-based non-profit advocacy organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, as potential “domestic terrorist” threats for surveillance by major banks.
Unfortunately, government suppression of disfavored viewpoints in America isn’t limited to big government in Washington, D.C., As a seventh grader, <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/adf-likely-appeal-there-are-only-two-genders-t-shirt-case?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liam Morrison</a> wore a T-shirt to Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, that read, “There are only two genders.” The principal of the school, along with a school counselor, pulled Liam out of class and ordered him to remove his shirt. After Liam politely declined, school officials said that he must remove the shirt, or he could not return to class. Attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom are representing Liam in court to defend his, and every student’s, right to free speech.
The rising tide of censorship abroad has reached our shores; when it comes to protecting free speech from the authoritarian impulses of government officials, we now must stand resolute on both fronts. And whether it is in the halls of power in Brazil, Washington, D.C., the local city hall or school district, we cannot give an inch. It has been said that all the darkness in the world cannot withstand the light of a single candle. America must stoke the flame of liberty at home so that it might shine brightly for the world to see.
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Lathan Watts is vice president of public affairs at <a href="https://adflegal.org/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes

Brazil’s Ban On X Is Yet Another Gut Punch To Global Free Speech

Brazil's Ban On X Is Yet Another Gut Punch To Global Free Speech

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For Kamala Harris, the “joy” is running out.
The thrill, as they say, is gone. She feels as though she is in the mire. She feels as though she is stagnating — because she is. There&#8217;s been no movement in the polls in her favor. The state polls are not moving in her favor. She has basically flatlined at this point. The momentum is clearly no longer with her. 
Most Americans know nothing about her. How long can Harris go without the American people becoming acquainted with her? 
That suggests we are about to be subjected to a great censorship regime in the United States.
That&#8217;s precisely what happened in 2020. In 2020, there was a full-scale media lockdown on the Hunter Biden story the month before the election in an attempt to secure the election for Joe Biden. 
But now, we are at the point where there&#8217;s no information about Harris, which requires a much bigger lockdown if the goal is to get Harris through unscathed.
That’s why we are seeing an elevated level of attack on Elon Musk.
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The Left has decided it is absolutely necessary that Elon Musk&#8217;s X be punished. Many of the other social media tech pros have done what they can in favor of Democrats in order to prevent the dissemination of material that Harris wouldn’t like.
But on X, it&#8217;s freewheeling access, open for all the good and all the bad. And the Left is furious that Musk has declared he supports President Trump. None of the other social media pros have. All of them are well-known Democratic voters — or they&#8217;ve tried to stay out of it completely. 
But Musk has supported Trump.
This is why you are seeing the Left cheer along as dictatorial regimes attempt to shut down X. 
Remember what happened in Brazil? Jair Bolsonaro, the conservative Right-wing leader, narrowly lost an election in disputed circumstances, then was immediately arrested and barred from running in the future. And leftist Lula da Silva, who is treated by the media of the United States as a great liberator, turned out to be quite dictatorial, and he and the Brazilian judiciary basically rewrote the constitution in tyrannical ways. 
Now, Brazil is outlawing X. According to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/brazils-supreme-court-upholds-x-ban-d9b4a394">Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said his country should serve as an example for the rest of the world on how to deal with Elon Musk after the Supreme Court voted to uphold a ban on the billionaire’s social-media platform X. 
“The world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s leftist leader told local media late Monday.</blockquote>
You might think the world should be obliged to hear a lot of points of view they don&#8217;t like; we do it all the time here in the United States.
But apparently not. 
<blockquote>Brazil, one of the world’s largest democracies, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/brazil-bans-x-outlawing-access-to-app-for-millions-3771d4eb?mod=Searchresults_pos2&amp;page=1&amp;mod=article_inline">shut down X</a> over the weekend after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes outlawed the social-media platform for failing to suspend accounts that he asserted contained hate speech and misinformation, as well as complying with other legal requirements.
A five-member panel of justices voted unanimously in favor of the ban Monday after de Moraes called on the court to review his decision. He and the court have been facing accusations of overstepping their mandate, both here in Brazil and far beyond. Musk has referred to de Moraes as a “dictator” on X. … the ban on X, which took effect early Saturday, is one of his most audacious moves yet, jurists say, drawing criticisms from free speech advocates and also some investors concerned about judicial overreach and the impact it might have on business. </blockquote>
Dictatorship of the Left is hunky-dory with many people on the American Left, so long as it targets their political opponents. 
X is being targeted by Brazil for not shutting down “hate speech and misinformation,” terms that have been applied to everything that disagrees with the Left-wing social agenda.
That is being celebrated by the Left in the United States.
For example, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, former Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, <a href="https://x.com/keithellison/status/1830720700019028109">posted</a> on X, “obrigado Brasil!” — which means, “Thank you, Brazil.” 
Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830826870146727941">replied</a>, “The Democratic Party – same one that used to defend the First Amendment –now wants to destroy the First Amendment.”
True.
Guess who used to be very much in favor of banning people from X for things she disliked? Kamala Harris, when she called for X (then Twitter), to ban Donald Trump, <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1179810648127152128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> in 2019, “Look, let’s be honest. @realDonald Trump’s Twitter account should be suspended.”
Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton, penned <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power">an article</a> titled, “Elon Musk Is Out Of Control.” Noting that Musk endorsed Trump, he suggested a boycott of Tesla, that “advertisers should boycott X,” that “regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X,” that “the Federal Trade Commission should demand that Musk take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals – and if he does not, sue him,” and that “the US should terminate its contracts with him, starting with Musk’s SpaceX.”
Am I suspicious there will be an attempt to shut down information dissemination through pressure tactics on social media before the election?
You bet I am.
I am very grateful that Elon Musk bought X in the first place because if X were in other hands, you’d be getting ready for the coercive and collusive attempt to shut down speech right before another presidential election.

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Unless you&#8217;re a denizen of the internet with at least a little bit of interest in cryptocurrency, you likely haven&#8217;t heard of Web3 yet.
If you&#8217;re not a cryptocurrency person, I can feel your eye rolls from here. &#8220;Crypto again, here we go!&#8221; Yes, I know. Bitcoin has been around forever.
That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m talking about though.
Web3 is an idea for the future of the internet where the entire web is built on blockchains, decentralizing it and putting control back into the hands of the people rather than Big Tech companies. The term Web3 — or Web 3.0 — began floating around in 2013 and refers to the next phase of the World Wide Web after Web 2.0, the age of interactive websites that started around 2004, and the original Web, which consisted of lots of read-only websites.
So what would a blockchain internet look like? What is a blockchain anyway?
A blockchain is a chain or “ledger” of digital data that is decentralized, meaning it is spread across many different computers, often even across different countries.
The big attraction of the blockchain is that it does not need a centralized administrator like a server in a specific location. Google&#8217;s servers are located in Oregon, Arizona, Texas, and several other places. When Google decides to do something, users can&#8217;t stop the company because it controls the servers.
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Big Tech&#8217;s outsized control over internet traffic has long been a bipartisan concern. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-graham-unveil-bipartisan-bill-to-rein-in-big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teamed</a> up on bills to reign in giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook.
Online censorship, misinformation, and election interference concerns marred the last few presidential elections. Data breaches have exposed people&#8217;s personal and financial information. Meanwhile, Big Tech companies gobble up revenue and buy out their competitors, making it nearly impossible to challenge them in the free market.
Blockchain technology could potentially solve some of the problems Big Tech poses, but so far, it hasn&#8217;t quite figured out how to achieve that higher purpose.
Unlike the Big Tech corporations, blockchains are run by the community. Each time someone adds something to the blockchain, the ledger data is updated on each “node,” each computer using the blockchain. A majority of users agree to verify the changes, and the blockchain keeps going. Each “block” on the blockchain contains the new data, a timestamp, and information about the previous block, so every addition to the blockchain is permanent and cannot be reversed without changing every single block after it.
There&#8217;s no third party needed (think traditional banks), and there&#8217;s no CEO in a corner office somewhere calling the shots. This is new and exciting because it means the builders and users of blockchains can record things on the blockchain (like financial transactions) without the fear that their additions could be easily erased or changed.
All of this also means that hacking a blockchain is extremely difficult because you would have to control at least 51% of the computers using the blockchain.
Today, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, and Solana are the most popular uses of blockchain technology. NFTs — non-fungible tokens, essentially digital collector&#8217;s art — are also traded furiously on blockchains. There are also more gimmicky trends like video games built on blockchains that reward people with cryptocurrency.
However, Web3 enthusiasts have a grander idea for the future of blockchains where they are about more than just making money or goofing off — they could someday be used for just about everything we already do on the internet and more.
Social media platforms can be built on top of blockchains. People have already <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/5-blockchain-based-social-media-platforms-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">done</a> this. Banking on blockchains can be more efficient, secure, and transparent without the expensive fees. Stablecoins (cryptocurrencies like USD Coin, which is always redeemable for the same amount in dollars) are working on doing this now.
There are likely things blockchains can do that we haven&#8217;t even thought of yet because our current internet isn&#8217;t able to do them.
Web3 is still a pretty hazy idea. Yes, blockchains exist and cryptocurrency is everywhere now, but for now, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see if the grander vision for this technology pans out.
&#8220;Blockchains are at the computing frontier, as PCs were in the 1980s, the internet was in the 1990s, and mobile phones were in the 2010s,&#8221; writes venture capital tech investor Chris Dixon in his book on Web3 published this year, &#8220;Read Write Own: Building The Next Era Of The Internet.&#8221;
&#8220;People look back today on classic moments in computing and wonder what it was like to be there,&#8221; Dixon writes. &#8220;You are here now. These are the good old days.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re not hearing about Web3 now, you will be soon. Now you&#8217;re in the know.

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