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'This is exactly why Trump is in office': Stephen A. Smith yells at AOC over claims of Trump's 'fascism' and media control



Sports analyst and podcaster Stephen A. Smith accused liberals like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of not addressing the issues of the American public in a high-octane rant against the Democrats.

Smith has let loose on the left-wing party since Donald Trump was elected again, so much so in fact that he has been accused of being disingenuous given that he admittedly didn't vote for the president.

On Tuesday, Smith reacted to videos posted by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez in which she claimed Americans are "on the eve of an authoritarian administration."

AOC was reacting specifically to Trump's dealings with social media platform TikTok and claimed that the app has agreed to use its "push notification system for all 170 million American users to promote Donald Trump."

"This is what 21st-century fascism is starting to look like," Ocasio-Cortez said.

She added, "If I were a betting person, they probably are making a deal with Donald Trump to not just use these push notifications. They probably would consider algorithmic changes."

The New York representative went on to claim that Republicans model themselves after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and would like to control media and companies in the United States.

'This is exactly why Trump is in office.'

The Democrat's remarks sent Smith into a spiral, with his response starting in a calm whisper until eventually escalating into full-blown yelling.

"Did you say, control the media? AOC?" Smith began. "Did you talk about controlling the media? Is that what you brought up?"

"So the left has not engaged in bullying tactics, so 'woke' culture didn't exist?"

Smith then paused, raising an inquisitive eyebrow to the camera before he spoke about the rhetoric around transgenderism.

"Where one minute we were called upon to protect the young women in our society and then that got thrown out the window the second a male was transitioning to female and wanted to participate in female sports and then all of a sudden there wasn't any consistency with the stuff that had been spewed beforehand and ultimately enforced!" Smith said, raising his voice.

Now fully yelling, Smith remarked, "So now it's the Republicans we need to be worried about? But not y'all? Y'all would never do such a thing. Oh my goodness. It would never be you. It would never be y'all! That would never happen! Really?!" Smith said.

"This is exactly why Trump is in office. 'Racist, fascist 'and all these other names. That's what you do when you’re on the left!" he added.

The host also claimed Democrats have not been paying attention to what the American people want and cited the party's focus on transgender issues that effect less than "1%" of the population as opposed to black issues that represent "nearly 14%."

Smith then read from newspaper clippings about President Trump's immigration plans and executive orders, which cited a revolution surrounding "common sense."

"Trump didn't win the election. You all lost," Smith concluded.

The podcaster's closing comments were similar to his remarks about H-1B visas at the beginning of 2025.

Without firmly taking a side on the issue, Smith applauded Republicans for allowing the debate within their party, while at the same time noting that Democrats would never allow such discussions.

"You're black, you're white, you're gay, you're lesbian, you're heterosexual, you're transgender. It don't matter. You still have to have one form of thinking if you fell under their umbrella, otherwise you were pushed out."

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Ocasio-Cortez says she refused to attend Trump's inauguration because she doesn't 'celebrate rapists'



Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York released a video expressing why she refused to attend the second inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday.

Ocasio-Cortez implied in her statement that she believed accusations of rape against Trump, leading many online to call on the president to file a lawsuit for defamation against her.

'This is what 21st century fascism is starting to look like.'

"All these journalists are like, 'Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Congresswoman, are you going to the inauguration? Are you going to the inauguration?'" she said in the video on her official Instagram account.

"Let me make myself clear: I don't celebrate rapists. So no. I'm not going to the inauguration," she added.

In a separate video, Ocasio-Cortez tied the negotiations over the TikTok ban to accusations of authoritarianism against the president.

"For all of those concerns that people were saying that TikTok is going to be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese, understand they’re using it as a propaganda tool for the right," she said. "We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what 21st-century fascism is starting to look like."

Clips of the video were posted to the X platform, where they quickly went viral. One version was viewed more than 14 million times.

"Sue her," replied actor Dean Cain.

"More proof that @AOC is completely insane and has no business being in Congress," read another response.

"I expect President Trump’s lawyer to file a defamation/libel lawsuit against woke aoc," said another user.

"Make AOC Bartend Again!" joked one account.

While many cited the settlement reached between Trump and ABC News over statements made by George Stephanopoulos falsely calling Trump "liable of rape" on the network, others pointed out that AOC didn't technically say Trump was the person she was referring to.

Ocasio-Cortez responded to a post of the video from Libs of TikTok, who also called for a lawsuit. "Oh, are you triggered? Cry more," AOC responded.

ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to Trump's future presidential library, as well as $1 million in legal fees.

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Nearly every House Democrat votes against bill to protect women's sports



Nearly every House Democrat voted to block the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Tuesday. Despite the overwhelming opposition from Democrats, the bill passed the House with Republican support.

This landmark legislation amends Title IX so that protections are recognized based on sex rather than the gender identity an individual claims to adopt. The bill was brought forth to confront the increasing concern surrounding male athletes who identify as transgender and then compete in women's sports.

'Men are men, women are women, and men cannot become women. ... It’s just that simple.'

The bill states that any federally funded sports program "designated for women or girls" that allows "a person whose sex is male to participate" will be in violation of the law. The legislation goes on to clarify that "sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth."

The bill passed with the support of 216 Republicans and just two Democrats, Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez. There were 206 Democrats who voted against the bill.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks at a news conference following the House of Representatives vote on H.R. 28, "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" at the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

"This is a great day for women in America," Speaker Mike Johnson said following the bill's passage. "House Republicans have yet again stood up for women. This is a commitment we have made because it comports with what is right and what is common sense."

"Men are men, women are women, and men cannot become women," Johnson said. "It’s just that simple."

Johnson had also addressed the issue when freshman Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, a man who identifies as a woman, became the first transgender member of Congress. Following his election, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a provision prohibiting men from using women's facilities on Capitol grounds.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said, backing Mace's provision.

"It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol," Johnson added. "Women deserve women's only spaces."

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'Irony is not dead': A special Hanukkah message for AOC and Ilhan Omar



While many people, including politicians, will wish the Jews who celebrate Hanukkah a happy holiday, their beliefs aren’t exactly consistent with their well-wishes.

Thankfully, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is here to set the record straight for those who don’t seem to know what they’re saying.

“One of the things that we’re going to be seeing over the next couple days is a whole bunch of people wishing people a happy Hanukkah, including people like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and AOC and the usual suspects, who don’t seem to want Jews to live in the ancient land of Israel,” Rubin says.


“And yet, Hanukkah is the story of the Jews, the indigenous people of the ancient land of Israel, defending the Judean Hills in Judea and Samaria, which unfortunately now we call the West Bank, against their Greek invaders,” he continues.

“So when AOC and Ilhan and Rashida wish people a happy Hanukkah, they are literally wishing the Jewish people a happy holiday for successfully pushing back the foreign invaders in the land of Israel, a place that they don’t seem to want Jews to live in these days.”

“Irony is not dead,” he adds, “So happy Hanukkah to everyone who celebrates, especially Rashida, AOC, and Ilhan.”

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Why we should root for AOC in her coup against Democrat House leadership



When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is in our headlines, it’s almost always for something negative. She is a far-left Hamas apologist who advocates for the rights of biological men to use women’s bathrooms and perpetuates the Trump-is-a-fascist narrative.

Despite her obvious flaws, AOC’s decision to challenge Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) for ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform might be a good thing, according to Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

In his recent article, Bedford compared the two candidates. “AOC is a young firebrand and a household name” who “riles up the base,” while “Connolly is a white man in his mid-70s who is battling stomach cancer.”

Now he joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to explain why the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is such an important role and why he believes AOC is preferable to Connolly.

“The ranking member of Oversight's job is to essentially investigate and oversee the executive branch,” says Bedford.

“It is an important role, and it's one that people can either use simply to raise their profile and make a lot of noise and to go on their cable channels … and rile up their base and raise money, or they can use it to be a little more studious, a little more serious, and really dig into and cause trouble for whoever is running the executive at that moment,” he explains.

AOC falls into the first category, while Connolly falls into the second, Bedford explains.

“If you want the least done, then you probably want Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in that position. She's very vocal; she jumps around; she dances at rallies,” he says. “She's someone who's a lot of bark but I would say less serious in the bite.”

Her “much more serious” opponent, on the other hand, “had spent 10 years in Senate Oversight as a staffer by the time [AOC] was born,” says Bedford. “If you're in the administration and you don't want the Democrats causing you too much trouble, you would not prefer [Connolly] to be the guy who's watching over you.”

On top of that, he’s also “backed by Nancy Pelosi.”

When it comes to the “Resistance 2.0,” Bedford would much prefer AOC’s “yelling to the base and throwing dance parties” to Connolly’s “more substantive investigations.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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AOC launches bid for top Dem on key House committee



Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York formally announced her bid to lead her party on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the 119th Congress on Friday.

Ocasio-Cortez is now set to run against Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia to replace the committee's current ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. Raskin is stepping down from the role and is instead vying for the top spot on the House Judiciary Committee in the upcoming Congress, replacing Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York.

"This is not a position I seek lightly," Ocasio-Cortez said in a letter to her colleagues. "The responsibility of leading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee during Donald Trump's second term in the White House is a profound and consequential one."

'I know firsthand how the Majority uses their chaos to confuse, disorient, and distract the public's attention away from their disastrous agenda.'

"Now, more than ever, we must focus on the Committee's strong history of both holding administrations accountable and taking on the economic precarity and inequality that is challenging the American way of life," Ocasio-Cortez continued.

Ocasio-Cortez made it clear that much of her work on the committee would be dedicated to curbing the agenda of the incoming Trump administration.

"In the 119th Congress, Oversight Committee Democrats will face an important task: we must balance our focus on the incoming president's corrosive actions and corruption with a tangible fight to make life easier for America's working class," Ocasio-Cortez said in the letter.

"I know firsthand how the Majority uses their chaos to confuse, disorient, and distract the public's attention away from their disastrous agenda," Ocasio-Cortez continued. "We cannot and will not allow that to happen. I will lead by example by always keeping the lives of everyday Americans at the center of our work."

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From feminism to ‘theminism’: Nancy Mace faces liberal fury in Congress



The opposition Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has received from her progressive female colleagues in Congress is a clear sign that “theminism” is a far stronger political force than feminism.

Mace recently submitted a resolution to ban men from women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. She did so because Tim McBride, who “identifies” as a woman called Sarah, was elected to Congress in November and will become Mace’s colleague in January.

The fact that liberals have become libertines and conservatives don’t know what they want to conserve is a sign of our culture’s spiritual sickness.

Mace has spent several days posting videos about her desire to protect women in their private spaces, including bathrooms and locker rooms. Unsurprisingly, progressive women don’t have her back.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called her Republican colleague’s attempts to keep natal males out of the women’s bathroom “disgusting” and said she would put “girls of all kinds” in danger. Former “Today Show” host Katie Couric said she was “disappointed” that Mace was being “bigoted” toward McBride.

All of this comes at a time when Democrats, still reeling from their recent electoral drubbing, are doubling down on their support of radical gender ideology. Jen Psaki recently tried to minimize the issue of boys in girls’ sports on her show. John Oliver did the same on his show.

None of this should come as a surprise. Some of the most outspoken women in our culture on abortion rights, pay equity, climate change, and politics are now scared to speak about the very thing they have built their identity around: womanhood. They spent decades trying to smash the patriarchy only to submit to the men leading the “theytriarchy.”

The party that spent the last few months saying it would defend women is unwilling to define a “woman” publicly. The feminist movement has laid down its sword, raised the white flag of surrender, and bowed in submission to the handful of “impossible women” who are society’s latest oppressed group.

Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem are hailed as the matriarchs of the Second Wave feminist movement that sought to give women greater access to higher education and professional opportunities. But Shulamith Firestone, a radical feminist, was vocal about her desire to see sex itself abolished in her 1971 book “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”:

And just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

Firestone died alone in her apartment in 2012 after years of living with schizophrenia, but she saw where the feminist movement was headed more than a half-century ago. The trans movement is a feature of her feminist utopia, but it’s a bug to women like Mace, who tout their “girl power” credentials and brag about supporting gay marriage.

This is one of the reasons we are here today. A hallmark of progressivism is the desire to reshape reality by controlling the dictionary. Liberals — in both parties — transformed the government’s definition of marriage from a union between one man and one woman to a contract between any two consenting adults. For now. They are attempting to do the same with sex by pushing the notion it’s possible to be a male “woman” or female “man.”

Only time will tell whether Republicans will develop the spine to see this battle all the way through. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tried to dodge a direct question about McBride’s sex at a press conference before affirming the sex binary in a follow-up statement. Getting Jimmy off of Jane’s field hockey team is one thing. But forcing girls to refer to hulking teenage boys as “she” and “her” is a sign the roots of this twisted ideology are still firmly in place. The only thing that can withstand the current wave — and all the ones to come — is a renewed cultural mindset firmly rooted in biblical truth.

No other ideology can assure victory because this is ultimately not a partisan problem. The fact that liberals have become libertines and conservatives don’t know what they want to conserve is a sign of our culture’s spiritual sickness. It’s impossible to rebuild American families if we live in a society where people are confused about which sex has the babies.

The fact people are attacking Nancy Mace for her campaign to “Make Women Female Again” is a sign we’re continuing on our downward slide into madness. Only God can save us now. In the end, the choice is clear: We are either going to have Christ or chaos.