A Tennessee man who was thrown in jail for more than a month after posting a Facebook meme mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk has reached a massive settlement with local officials. The post Tennessee Man Who Mocked Charlie Kirk’s Assassination on Facebook Wins MASSIVE $850K Settlement After Being Jailed For A Month appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Elizabeth Warren stays silent when confronted about her support for Graham Platner, whose Nazi-linked tattoo and disturbing posts sparked backlash.
"You never know when the last one is, you know?” Busch responded.
Another corruption scandal has erupted inside the federal contracting world. The post Two Shady Defense Contractors Busted in Massive Bribery and Fraud Scheme That Ripped Off Taxpayers and Corrupted Critical U.S. Military Tech Innovation Contracts appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Tennessee Doubles Down on New Toxicology Law that Broke the Silence on Psychiatric Drugs & Mass Shootings Republished with permission from AbleChild Congratulations to Tennessee for taking the lead and setting a powerful example for other states to follow, proving that public safety should be the guiding light. In the aftermath of the Covenant School mass shooting in Nashville, where three children and three adults were murdered, Tennessee was swept into a political storm that focused almost entirely on gun ownership while pushing urgent questions about psychiatry, toxicology, and transparency to the margins. The post Tennessee Doubles Down on New Toxicology Law that Broke the Silence on Psychiatric Drugs & Mass Shootings appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt may be running one of the most unconventional political campaigns in recent memory — and according to BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler, that’s exactly why it’s working.“What Spencer Pratt is doing … I don’t think I’ve ever seen another politician do this,” Wheeler says, explaining that what he’s doing is “removing the stigma of voting Republican for Democrats in L.A. who’ve been hurt by Democrat elected officials.”“This person’s home was burned down, and this is what he wants to do so that that never happens again. This person sees the financial corruption that’s happening in the city of Los Angeles at the hands of politicians and wants to give that money — that’s your money — back to you,” she says.“This is next-level political strategy that we don’t see in our country,” she adds.Wheeler calls Pratt’s strategy “instinct that is not just a gut reaction.”“This is instinct that’s based on a pre-existing thorough understanding of human nature that you have to provide for people, in order for them to change their minds, the ability to save face,” she says.Unlike most politicians, Pratt has also identified who the elites are and how he plans to stop them.“He’s identified the elites: Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, Gavin Newsom. And he’s identified a problem that you are suffering from that was caused by these elites. And he’s saying he’s not running away from the fact that he’s wealthy. He was famous. He’s doing the same thing that Trump did,” Wheeler explains.“He’s giving people who aren’t just natural Republicans permission to vote for him based on the fact that he’s not necessarily associating himself with the Republican brand,” she continues.“Spencer Pratt is not trying to appeal to Republicans in Los Angeles. Republicans are already going to vote for Spencer Pratt. He’s trying to appeal to Democrats,” she adds.Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
Carruthers’s murder conviction hinged on the claims of paid informant, who has repeatedly recanted his testimony. The post False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Wants to Kill Him Anyway. appeared first on The Intercept.
A bizarre brag by President Donald Trump suggested he has lost track of what month it is.The 79-year-old posted a three-month-old New York Post front page to Truth Social early Friday, captioning it with the barely coherent "Have it!!! Great. President DJT." But the cover he shared, headlined "Trump wins gold," praised him for his "'winning' economic message in State of the Union" — a speech that took place back in February.That State of the Union ran a record-breaking 107 minutes, during which Trump declared the economy was "roaring like never before," blamed Democrats for the affordability crisis, and boasted that he had made America the "hottest" nation on Earth.A lot has changed since then.Trump is now staring down a midterm catastrophe, with a New York Times/Siena poll putting his approval rating at just 37 percent — down from 41 percent in January. Pollster Nate Silver's compiled average painted an even bleaker picture, putting his disapproval at 58.6 percent, surpassing his own first-term worst of 57.9 percent and Joe Biden's worst of 58.3 percent. It is the worst presidential polling average since George W. Bush left office.A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found just one in three Americans — 33 percent — approve of his handling of the economy, down five points from 38 percent in mid-April. It marks the lowest economic approval rating of either of his terms.The State of the Union also came just three days before Trump launched a war with Iran, a conflict that has since claimed 13 American lives and triggered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint through which roughly one-fifth of the world's oil flows in peacetime. The closure has sparked a global energy crisis and pushed gas prices toward $5 a gallon, deepening the affordability crunch Trump once promised to fix.A Daily Beast analysis of Trump's posting habits found that in April alone, he posted on 80 percent of nights — leaving just five nights in which he could theoretically have gotten a full night's sleep. He has also repeatedly appeared to doze off during Oval Office appointments.
I met David Letterman twice. Once when he first began his show, walking up 53rd Street. Such an approachable guy. And once again, after he’d left, at a Starbucks in my apartment building.He said he remembered meeting me 30 years ago. Of course, he was kidding.I love Dave, and was sad to see him go, and let out a meh when Stephen Colbert was named to replace him. But Colbert grew on me, and I find myself not only sad about his exit, but angry about it too.CBS will tell you it was a business decision. Paramount will parrot that. The numbers, they’ll say. The shrinking late-night audience. The economics of a changing media landscape. Don’t believe a word of it.I spent 30 years in corporate PR, and when they lay it on thick about all the reasons Colbert was cancelled, and The Late Show franchise with it, they are lying through their teeth. They cover one falsity with another, desperate to bury the truth.Stephen Colbert didn’t lose his show because of the bogus claims by CBS. Donald Trump took it away from him, and away from us.In doing so, Trump continues his systematic destruction of the one thing Americans have always used to survive their darkest political moments: the joke.It really doesn’t need to be said, but Donald Trump is not funny. Not in any way that matters. He thinks he’s funny, like he thinks he’s always right, like he’s the greatest president, like he won in a landslide, like the Iran war will be over soon. If Trump thinks he’s funny, that’s a lie too.Every president in modern memory has understood that self-deprecating humor is a form of leadership. It signals humanity, from the Irish wit of Reagan and Biden to the humor of every president in between.My grandfather, the funniest person I ever met, said having a sense of humor was a sign of intelligence.He was right. Trump’s lack of wit only validates his dim-wittedness.Trump does not make fun of himself. Ever. His humor is a weapon aimed at people he despises. Reporters are “dummies” and “piggies.” His enemies are vermin, scumbags, or simply scum. Everything he does is not a setup for a punchline, but an actual punch in the face.Think about the past few months. ICE raids tearing apart communities. January 6 insurrectionists eligible to be compensated from Justice Department funds. Death and destruction involving Iran and Venezuela. Casual talk of “wiping out” civilizations and bombing places back to the Stone Age.Trump doesn’t calm fears. He eggs them on and feeds off them. Trump is constitutionally — pun intended — incapable of that.So into that void step the late-night hosts. And now one of the best of them is gone.Colbert was never just doing jokes. In my view, he was performing a public service, taking the daily avalanche of outrage and turning it into something bearable through laughter.Late-night television used to be a war, with networks circling each other and hosts competing. Since Colbert’s exit was announced, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon have come together, recognizing the ironic seriousness of the moment.And speaking of irony, we lost Barney Frank this week too. I keep coming back to that.Frank was perennially the funniest person on Capitol Hill. He was brilliantly, bitingly funny. Arguably, his sense of humor helped make his coming out in the late 1980s more palatable and accepted.I observed that from experience. I was always the class clown, the funniest guy in the room. I knew I was gay underneath, and when I came out, it was my humor people cited first. “You’re the funniest person I know,” was the standard response.I say that with undiluted humility.That’s why, as someone with humor, I’m unusually sad for another reason. There are no funny politicians anymore. Nobody in Washington is laughing. Everyone is pointing, accusing, outraged, and that includes Democrats, who have caught enough of Trump’s disease to forget how to be warm, how to invite people in. Even Obama recently said Democrats need to stop being so easily offended over accidental slights and remember that people ultimately want to enjoy their lives.As he put it, they need to stop being a “buzzkill.”Trump has made the atmosphere of American political life airless, joyless, and mean.Colbert’s exit isn’t about television. It’s about a president who has made it professionally dangerous to mock him. That’s why a mentalist was chosen to perform at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Trump didn’t want anyone telling jokes about him.Because he is ridiculous, and he knows it, and he cannot bear for anyone else to know it too.We used to be able to laugh at our leaders, but not in the way we laugh at Trump, because there is no humor around him. We laugh at a buffoon who is subversively crushing our sense of humor.This week Barney Frank, who knew wit was a form of wisdom, left us. And Stephen Colbert, who knew the monologue was a form of resistance, was pushed out the door.The mood is heavy.