All those ignorant Trump voters worried about the price of food? Let them eat cake, says Madonna.
The Material Girl observed Donald Trump’s re-election by stuffing her face with a special celebratory confection — one bearing the slogan “F*** Trump.”
Academia is the new home for anti-Semitism, meaning young people are going into massive debt for the chance to hate an entire group of people.
A true blow to both MAGA Nation and The PatriarchyTM. How will Trump 2.0 survive?
In Madonna’s defense, she’s come a long way since 2017. That year found her dreaming of blowing up the White House.
Late-night TV isn’t handling Trump’s re-election quite as well.
Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears on the night following Trump’s landslide victory. John Oliver couldn’t muster the energy to make us laugh ... or even try.
Now Stephen Colbert jokes (or confesses?). He’s stress-eating in reaction to the MAGA sequel.
“Over the weekend, what I like to do when I’m feeling stressed out, I cook.”
Wonder if he’s got a recipe for crow.
One of the biggest new stars in Hollywood follows a tried-and-true formula for success. Listen to your mother.
Could Glen Powell, who broke out with “Top Gun: Maverick” and anchored the summer hit “Twisters,” replace Tom Cruise in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise?
Not so fast. First of all, no one has confirmed that news.
Secondly, Mama Powell is putting her foot down.
“My mom would never let me do that.” Powell said of the stunt-laden franchise. It’s the “worst gig in town; everybody knows that.”
Mom might have a change of heart if the assignment comes with Cruise-sized hazard pay.
Adam Carolla has a firm policy when it comes to jokes: no apologies. Ever.
That’s helped him build a sturdy career outside the Hollywood ecosystem. Now he can say whatever he wishes without a cancel culture care in the world.
He’s got company.
Tony Hinchcliffe, the comic who roasted Puerto Rico at President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, isn’t sorry either.
The media desperately hoped Hinchcliffe's "garbage" gag would turn Latinos against Trump.
It didn’t. Just ask the new governor of Puerto Rico, a Republican named Jenniffer Gonzalez.
Tony shared some warm thoughts about both Puerto Rico and its citizens following the election. Then he broke out his Carolla-approved philosophy.
“I apologize to absolutely nobody — not to the Puerto Ricans, not to the whites, not to the blacks, not to the Palestinians, not to the Jews, and not to my own mother, who I made fun of during the set. Nobody clipped that.”
He wasn’t done.
“To the mainstream media and to everybody trying to slander me online, that’s what I do. I go hard and that’s never going to change.”
OK, who’s gonna tell Dwayne Johnson he can’t use urine bottles on a movie set?
The former Rock is trying to explain a 2024 exposé that said he showed up late to the set of “Red One” ... a lot. The superstar’s tardiness set the studio back millions, according to TheWrap.com.
Johnson is denying elements of that story, including the price tag for his tardiness. He does admit to a less substantial part of the narrative. Yes, he does pee in bottles on movie sets to save time.
It’s certainly not the kind of press a movie star craves. The bigger issue in play? “Red One,” an action Christmas comedy co-starring Chris Evans, cost a reported $250 million. The film’s projected box office this weekend? As low as $30 million. That's hardly a trickle.
Universities have had a terrible, no-good 2024. Academia is the new home for anti-Semitism, meaning young people are going into massive debt for the chance to hate an entire group of people.
There is good news, though, at least on one college front.
Yale University is promising a new course titled "Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music.” Graduates may not be able to make a dime from that knowledge, but they won’t have to hear, “from the river to the sea” chants as much as their peers.
It had a billion-dollar budget, lavish sets, and some of the biggest names in entertainment — so why did the Democrats' latest presidential campaign tank at the voting booth?
Yes, there was that desperate, last-minute casting change. But new lead Kamala Harris seemed to get the notoriously troubled production back on track despite a predecessor unwilling to give up his former role and co-star Tim Walz's troublingly erratic public behavior.
Megan Thee Stallion, Lady Gaga, and Charli XCX just weren’t up to the task of rescuing Harris from herself.
The sheer star power on hand seemed to guarantee a runaway hit: Gen Z favorite Alex Cooper ("Call Me Daddy"), as well as proven draws like Will Ferrell, Rihanna, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, and even Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey's glorified cameo was said to cost a cool million. Also rumored to have gotten a seven-figure payday was Beyoncé — who perversely enough appeared in a non-singing role — and any number of other artists ranging from Taylor Swift to Eminem.
Whatever the exact line items were, one thing is certain: A campaign that still had more than $100 million in the bank in October now finds itself $20 million in the hole.
In retrospect, maybe that GloRilla performance wasn't such a good idea after all.
Or maybe the era of the big-budget, mass-marketed, four-quadrant blockbuster is over.
Where was the big-name actor or actress who would come along and save Harris from her floundering campaign?
The tear-streaked viral post recorded on the spur of the moment by Lady Gaga that would finally convince regular people in Pennsylvania and North Carolina that Harris really was the answer to their prayers — and not just a Polly POC-et puppet who couldn’t string two sentences together without cackling like a banshee and waxing poetic about the joy of abortion rights?
Indeed, what happened to the days of influential celebrity videos with warnings about “fascism” and “democracy"? Did they stop uploading them, or did everybody just stop watching?
The answer seems to be a bit of both. A recent YouGov poll found that only 10% of Americans say a celebrity’s opinion has caused them to cast a vote or rethink their vote. Another poll by USA Today and Suffolk University found that political endorsements had a much larger effect on swaying the Democratic vote than celebrity endorsements.
The study also found that conservatives were rarely swayed by either, including from within the conservative movement’s leadership. (The influence of Hulk Hogan’s bodice-ripping howl of support for Trump remains a subject for future historians.)
Perhaps this is why the standard-issue Democratic endorsements Harris got from Obama and the Clintons didn’t do much: They weren’t delivered with much conviction. It probably didn't help that the DNC brand was tainted by the still-fresh memory of Joe Biden's public stab in the back.
Megan Thee Stallion, Lady Gaga, and Charli XCX just weren’t up to the task of rescuing Harris from herself. Even those who somehow enjoy their music apparently found it hard to get very excited about their political opinions.
The celebrities who did endorse Harris did so with smug certitude that didn’t do much to reach independents. Their urgent pleas to “get out and vote” (with the obvious insinuation that meant voting for Harris) also clearly backfired, since Trump won men under 30 by 14 points and Harris won young women under 30 by only 18 points. Gen Z voters just weren't pulling the lever for the Democrats the way their celebrities and pop culture puppets told them to.
As Jimmy Vielkind and Aaron Zitner point out, Harris’ result for young women was “down from the 32-point margin for Biden among that group in 2020.”
Trump’s mastery of social media and popular podcasts like Joe Rogan's show also clearly bolstered his already well-known brand and put him front and center in the mind of many undecideds.
But the fact remains that Trump didn't really need anybody's endorsement — at least not the way Harris did. Our former and future president is a consummate entertainer. He sings, he tells jokes, he does his own stunts. He even dances. Who needs celebrities when you can groove out with the candidate himself?
Expensive disasters tend to end with a lot of finger-pointing, and the Harris campaign is no exception. The Democrats might as well take the opportunity to clean house — starting with those among them who insist on blaming the voters.
If the incredible comeback of Donald Trump can teach us anything, it's that fewer and fewer people are waiting for the media to tell them what's worth their time and attention. After years of having their taste underestimated and dismissed, Americans are finally confident enough to call out real, once-in-a-generation talent when they see it. Anyone who wants to win the people over better start with that.
While both the Trump and Harris campaigns have been focusing their efforts in the swing states, they’ve also put some serious time into Texas, which unfortunately is no longer reliably red. In fact, it’s been trending blue for a while now — and Democrats want to capitalize on this.
Afterall, when and where did Queen Bey show up to campaign for Kamala Harris?
In the Lone Star State. At the end of election season.
While Beyoncé showing up in Houston, Texas, for political purposes might be a unique occurrence, her message certainly wasn’t.
“Beyoncé — wow, she said something so unique, so different than any other celebrity has said for why they're voting for Kamala Harris. I've never heard this kind of profound and moral and compassionate take on why people just have to vote for Kamala Harris,” says Allie Beth Stuckey sarcastically before playing a clip of Beyoncé’s speech.
“I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother — a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies,” the singer said to a cheering crowd.
The math isn’t mathing.
“In one breath, she is saying we need a country that is great for our children and grandchildren” so “we should have the right to kill children,” Allie says, pointing out the glaring hypocrisy.
Beyoncé went on to perpetuate the lie that “there’s going to be a Trump abortion ban” when the reality is Kamala Harris is the only candidate who has promised to “do something at the federal level” regarding abortion.
“Trump has said he's not going to do anything at the federal level about abortion. ... He's saying it's left up to the states,” whereas Harris has said she’s going to “federalize Roe,” which “allows abortion through all nine months,” says Allie.
Federalizing Roe means that “a doctor signs off saying, ‘Yeah, this is for the woman's health,”’ granting approval for a woman to proceed with an abortion regardless of the state she lives in.
“But health is not physical health,” explains Allie. “Health can also mean mental health,” “emotional health,” or “family situation,” so “it's virtually for any reason through all nine months. ... Federalizing that standard would mean that no state can have any restriction on abortion.”
To hear more of Allie’s commentary, watch the episode above.
To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
Beyoncé fans were led to believe that the pop star would be performing alongside the vice president after USA Today published an article with the headline, “Watch live: Beyoncé returns to hometown of Houston to perform at Kamala Harris rally.”
However, those fans were left feeling deeply betrayed, booing Kamala after Beyoncé read from a teleprompter and left. One video even showed the crowd leaving en masse after Beyoncé's departure while Kamala struggled to keep their attention from behind the podium.
“This campaign is just imploding,” Keith Malinak of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments, and Pat Gray wholeheartedly agrees.
“Sure feels like it, looks like it, seems like it, let’s hope it really is imploding. We’ll find out next Tuesday,” Gray says.
Not only was Kamala’s Houston rally a complete failure, but she was also heckled at a recent rally in Michigan by an attendee who was yelling, “No more wars.”
Kamala ignored the heckler while saying, “We have to turn the page on fear.”
“How do you make that statement with a straight face when all you’re doing is fearmongering about Donald trump? ‘He’s going to end democracy; he’s a Nazi; he’s exactly like Hitler,’” Gray says. All of this fearmongering: ‘The world will end if Donald Trump is elected,’ and you’re going to ‘turn the page on fear.’”
“Unreal,” he says, adding, “You check the two campaigns and see which really is the campaign of joy and hope and which is the campaign of fearmongering. That’s all Democrats are doing is fear-mongering.”
To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
The gnashing of elitist teeth since the Blue Wall’s fall has been GLORIOUS! Especially for an old conservative boy from flyover country.
www.theblaze.com