Charlie Kirk wasn’t a president. He was a Christian conservative. That was enough.



I’ve seen so many people say they don’t understand why Charlie Kirk’s murder hit them so hard. They can’t explain it. Maybe my perspective as a recovering California liberal who now mourns his memory can help.

I attended my first Turning Point USA event in 2022, right around the time I committed myself to Christ. I was a fish out of water.

For context: In late 2021, CBS News fired me from my job at its San Diego affiliate for resisting the COVID shot. That deserves its own chapter someday, but the short version is this: I no longer knew where I belonged.

I had spent years climbing the small-markets-big-dreams world of local TV news, always chasing the hope of one day reporting for a major left-leaning outlet. My laptop carried a feminist bumper sticker my mom gave me. That was my identity.

But everything shifted when I saw the crimes against humanity news agencies committed during the COVID years. It was like someone ripped off my rose-colored glasses and stomped them into the ground.

My husband — then my boyfriend — and I fled to a quiet island in Florida, home mostly to retirees. I reported independently on Rumble, without a political identity. The “inclusive” Democrats had exiled me. And plenty of Republicans revealed themselves as spineless accomplices to the lies.

If 2020 didn’t wake you up to evil, let 2025 be the year that finally does.

On my channel I interviewed fellow truth-seekers, many of whom had been censored into silence elsewhere. Then I noticed something: A number of those same people were scheduled to speak at an event about an hour from me.

So I applied for a press pass and was accepted. It was the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in downtown Tampa, July 2022.

I barely knew who Charlie Kirk was. That’s no disrespect. I had lived too long inside an ideological echo chamber. Back in college in California, I remember hearing about TPUSA and assuming it was a gun club that met for target practice. I had no idea.

My husband asked me, “Why are you going to this? You could interview these people over Zoom.” I told him I felt isolated and needed to see that I wasn’t alone. It was refreshing to witness what Charlie had built — to look around and see young people who shared my concerns about the world or at least were curious.

Thousands packed the convention center. I don’t know the exact number, but I know what I saw: a full hall of people. At the time, our online communities were censored and deleted almost daily. We had to meet in person. And there they were — young, unmasked, unafraid.

As press, I’ve always felt comfortable covering events. That comes naturally after years on the job. But this was different. I wasn’t sure I “fit in,” almost in the high-school sense. What I discovered was a community where I could question the lunacy of those times without being shunned.

The building itself was massive, the air conditioning blasting to fight the summer humidity. Lines stretched all day for the headliner: President Trump. I hadn’t seen him in person since his visit to South Dakota in 2018. At the time, I told friends and family that I thought he was a buffoon.

Back in Florida in 2022, the energy inside that building felt less like a political rally and more like a concert I might have danced at in my 20s — electric, charged, alive. The speakers, staff, and volunteers knew how to connect with young people without condescension.

I remember Karoline Leavitt’s debut as a congressional candidate. She was young, but her off-the-cuff remarks blew me away. At a time when the modern Democratic Party punished dissent and silenced questions, Charlie created a space where people felt at home. We had been locked down, socially distanced, and starved for connection. He gave it back.

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At first, I assumed most of the crowd were lifelong conservatives — country-club Republicans with Ronald Reagan portraits on their bedroom walls. I was wrong. Again and again, I met people with stories just like mine: raised in progressive circles, until COVID shattered their illusions. Wash, rinse, repeat. The same pattern everywhere.

That’s what TPUSA became to me — speakers, roundtables, booths — but more than that, a community. I’ll never forget Charlie walking right past me as I fumbled with my phone tripod, too respectful to interrupt as he hurried to his next commitment.

Since then, I’ve interviewed and built relationships with members of his team. We even share mutual friends. Charlie’s pastor introduced my husband and me to his son-in-law, who later counseled and married us in 2023, quoting Corinthians as the Santa Ana winds carried our vows before family and friends.

I never spoke to Charlie. I still don’t know exactly where I “fit in” or if TPUSA defines that. What I do know is this: God called me to be a journalist — to report fearlessly and to love people with the grace He’s shown me. And now, I wish I had stopped to shake Charlie’s hand and thank him for giving the so-called silent majority a space to breathe.

Fast-forward to September 10, 2025. I was at a train station in Connecticut when my phone lit up with the horrible news. Charlie Kirk was gone. An assassin’s bullet had taken him. I closed my eyes and prayed. When I opened them, I saw his name and face glowing on the iPhone screens of strangers around me.

For me, the grief quickly gave way to something else — a reality check. A line had been crossed.

The satanists want us dead. Some radical leftists want us silenced. Maybe you think that sounds dramatic. But scroll through their posts. Read the bile. You’ll lose your appetite.

Over the last five years, I’ve paid a price for my changing beliefs. Maybe you can relate. I’ve been quietly dropped from parties without explanation. Longtime “friends” unfollowed me out of fear they’d lose opportunities if they stayed connected. People I knew in real life viciously targeted me online. Immediate family members met me with insults instead of hugs — one even blocked me altogether.

No stranger, no random keyboard warrior, ever treated me with as much hatred as those close to me. Not even close. I’ve received threats to my safety. And yet, Jesus — and the people He placed in my life — carried me through in ways I can hardly describe. Some relationships even deepened through mutual respect. But Charlie bore a cost none of us can fully imagine. He put his grassroots efforts on stage for the world to see. The consequences he accepted ultimately claimed his life.

I knew refusing the COVID shot, loving God, flying an American flag instead of a Pride or Ukraine flag, and voting on principles rather than celebrity endorsements would make some people dislike me. I expected a few would even hate me. I prayed others might come around. I was naïve.

Now I know some people don’t just hate us. They want us dead. And they no longer bother to hide it. Read that again: A nauseating number of people openly wish death on us. Scroll social media and you’ll see it — teachers, military members, nurses, even mental health workers. For me, it’s my own town’s pharmacist.

Unfortunately, assassinations and assassination attempts against presidents have marked American history. Deranged people have always sought to kill presidents. But Charlie Kirk wasn’t president. He wasn’t even old enough to run. He never held office.

He was 31 years old. He was a Christian. He was a conservative.

In 2025, that alone was enough for a death sentence — and for neighbors to mock and celebrate his murder online.

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That’s the gut punch. Some knew this already, but I still carried a sliver of rose-colored hope until it was ripped away last week.

The satanists want us dead. Some radical leftists want us silenced. Maybe you think that sounds dramatic. But scroll through their posts. Read the bile. You’ll lose your appetite.

These people, consumed by rage and virtue-signaling darkness, write declarations of violence like a virus eating away at their souls. Not all will pull the trigger. But plenty of the people you pass at the pharmacy, the school drop-off, or the grocery store openly posted that killing us would be a service to the world. One less Trump supporter. One less Bible-thumper. One more enemy erased.

That’s what mass Trump derangement syndrome looks like. That’s what a godless society produces.

Now you understand why Charlie’s murder hit you harder than you can explain. If 2020 didn’t wake you up to evil, let 2025 be the year that finally does.

And if you’re one of the people who think fellow Americans deserve to be brutally murdered — whether you boasted about it online or just let it rot inside you — seek help. Immediately. Humbly. Turn it over to God. He can heal you.

May God save us from the depravity we’ve unleashed. May He bless Charlie Kirk’s grieving family. And may we take up the charge together. Charlie’s voice has been silenced. It’s up to us to be his angels.

The ‘normie conquest’: Millions just joined the right overnight



My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. So I am telling you, my liberal friends and leftists everywhere. This is what has happened.

I’m not talking about people who are “online.” I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive-thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

These normal, middle-of-the-road, nonpolitical citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and — absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine — you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts.

1) Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman — a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter — stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

2) Two days later, tens of millions of Americans saw on video Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family.

Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

3) Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man getting shot in the neck, these same people logged on to Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are factual statements nevertheless.

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Here’s what it means for Democrats reading this: These normal, middle-of-the-road, nonpolitical citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics.

After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families — the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs — depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not. These people are now sprinting — not jogging, not walking, but racing — to the right.

Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends — their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges — and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter BS.

All BS. Not even smart BS, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ BS. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

And they blame you. Because even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their families' safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and constantly jokes — “jokes” — about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin.

They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social media struggle sessions has now turned to .30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log on to social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst.

These people — whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve — start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

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For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but BS.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post nonsensical statistics about reductions in reported crime. In reality, anyone who’s been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, and victims do not waste their time reporting it to cops who don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors who seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanors.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but nonsensical whataboutism. “What about January 6?” Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares any more.

“What about Paul Pelosi?” That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. Also: Paul who?

“What about regulations on assault rifles?” That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.

In response to teachers, health care workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more BS and misdirection.

“It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.

“I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs — especially their taxpayer-funded jobs — for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.

All BS. Not even smart BS, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ BS. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells. You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it. Because I’m right, and as you reflect on this, you know I’m right.

The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members last week. We have a mandate to ensure that these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do. If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared as a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Hail to the cheeseburger! An all-American staple and a 4th of July favorite



OK, who among us doesn't have a moment to give Fourth of July props to the cheeseburger?

C'mon! It's only the most American of our unparalleled collection of all-American foods.

So tell us, dear readers — what are your favorite spots to frequent when the cheeseburger hankerin' hits you?

But before we get to the cheeseburger, the history of its older sibling — the hamburger — deserves a look as well, and as it turns out, its official beginning is a bit disputed.

So how did ye olde hamburger hatch?

Legend has it that Uncle Fletcher Davis in the late 1880s created the first hamburger at a small cafe on the Henderson County courthouse square — and then "Uncle Fletch" took his creation to the 1904 World’s Fair, in St. Louis, where it was called a “hamburger." In another account, it's said that teenager Charlie Nagreen was trying to sell meatballs at a Wisconsin fair in 1885 without much success — until he flattened the meatballs between two slices of bread, and then it was a hit given that folks could carry it around with them. That same year, it's said that Frank and Charles Menches were short on meat for their sausage sandwiches at the 1885 Erie County Fair near Buffalo, New York — and then conjured up some culinary wizardry after a butcher suggested swapping in ground beef.

Or does Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut — which you can still visit — get the nod as the true inventor of the hamburger? (Although, a cheese concoction apparently did start getting added to the one-of-a-kind creation there in due time.)

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You can check out a video report below about Louis' Lunch, which touts that their burgers are still made the same way — no condiments allowed! — and they even use the same 100-plus-year-old stoves in which the burgers are cooked sideways.

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You be the judge.

But as far as our beloved cheeseburger is concerned, it appears safely accepted that it got its start 101 years ago when 16-year-old Lionel Clark Sternberger was working as a short-order cook at his dad's restaurant — The Rite Spot — in Pasadena, California, in 1924. Word is that young Sternberger began adding cheese to the patty, which later was dubbed the "Aristocratic Burger: The Original Hamburger with Cheese."

As you're well aware, the cheeseburger is fast-food, and after The Rite Spot apparently got things in motion, there are now scads of such establishments all over America that can satisfy your taste buds.

But which one serves the best cheeseburger?

And why?

Is it the quality of the patty? The appeal of the bun? Or is it the chosen cheese? The toppings? The veggies? Bacon or no bacon? Or a combination of all of the above? That answer is, as always, up for debate (psst ... it's In 'N' Out), and the final list can change by the day, week, month, and year.

Here's one breakdown that just may get your stomach churning:

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And do you know of cool cheeseburger spots in your state that aren't necessarily creations of chain fast-food eateries?

If you don't, you just may want to check out a few videos that show you just that. Other clips employ variations on that theme and present kingpin cheeseburgers from other vantage points. How about this one?

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So tell us, dear readers — what are your favorite spots to frequent when the cheeseburger hankerin' hits you?

As we've proven here, they don't have to be national, or even regional, cheeseburger joints. One-of-a-kind mom-and-pop outfits count, too. Truth be told, they may even count more.

Finally, do you have any crowd-pleasing cheeseburger recipes you'd like to share with all of us as our grills get fired up today? Let us know all of your secrets in the comments below.

And all hail to the cheeseburger as we celebrate another Independence Day.

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All aboard! Trump should greenlight the Freedom Train



America has long celebrated its greatest moments by train.

In 1915, a steam locomotive carried the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to San Francisco and back, drawing enormous crowds. In 1947, the Freedom Train crisscrossed the country with priceless artifacts of American history. Then came the biggest triumph: the Bicentennial American Freedom Train of 1976, which drew more than 50,000 people at each of its 138 stops.

The train would take the quarter-millennial celebration directly to the people — right where it belongs.

On the cusp of the nation’s 250th birthday, it’s time to bring that tradition back. The red, white, and blue steam train should roll again — celebrating America’s founding and bringing history to Main Streets across the land.

The original idea came from John Wayne. That alone might have been enough for Kamala Harris to oppose it, had she been elected president. Add in the train’s cinematic clouds of smoke, its role in commemorating the westward settlement, and its unapologetic embrace of American greatness, and it’s hard to imagine today’s progressive leaders welcoming it.

But President Trump would. He’s restoring the spirit Wayne loved: American strength, love of country, masculine virtue. Trump has already pledged to include a statue of the Duke in his proposed National Garden of American Heroes. If he also allows the new train to display the federal artifacts its predecessors carried — the original Constitution, the Louisiana Purchase document, Lincoln’s hat, Ruth’s bat — then the American Freedom Train can run again in 2026.

The artifacts are key. If the administration releases them, the biggest remaining challenge will be time.

In 1976, the train took 15 months to organize. Today, in a country where builders are building again, that timeline can be compressed. But it will take at least a year to prepare the train — to build display cars, ready the steam engine, transport and secure the artifacts, and tackle the logistics of a 48-state journey.

The clock is ticking. A decision now could kick off the celebration by next July 4.

The Bicentennial Freedom Train didn’t just appear for a few fireworks in early July. It helped stretch the nation’s celebration over nearly two years — from the April 1975 anniversary of Lexington and Concord to a final stop in Miami on New Year’s Eve 1976.

A Quarter-Millennial Freedom Train would do the same. It would extend the celebration beyond Independence Day and tie together local and national events like nothing else. That was exactly the intention in 1976. John Warner, head of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, called the train “the most visible” element of the celebration — one that helped “sew together” diverse festivities across the country.

Once again, the train would showcase cherished artifacts: Paul Revere’s saddlebags, Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution, JFK’s handwritten inaugural address, even lunar rocks and Olympic memorabilia from the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”

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Private citizens would lead the effort, just as they did before. The American Freedom Train Foundation includes veterans of the original Bicentennial train. They know how to plan and execute a coast-to-coast expedition. They just need modest federal support — and access to the artifacts — to bring it to life.

Army veteran and Nashville artist Tim Maggart sings that the Freedom Train is “as American as a line drive.” And that’s exactly what it would be: a rolling, photogenic, crowd-pleasing tribute to our nation. Day after day, the locomotive would thunder past landmarks, through cities and farmlands, beneath America’s spacious skies. And at every stop, Americans would cheer.

The train would symbolize both American power and American pride. It would carry our founding history from coast to coast, just as it once did. And it would take the quarter-millennial celebration directly to the people — right where it belongs.

Michigan baseball player goes viral for snorting third-base line during celebration: 'I couldn't believe it'



A Michigan Wolverines infielder pretended to snort the white chalk off the third-base line as a celebration for hitting a triple.

During Sunday's game against USC, junior Mitch Voit went three-for-three with four RBIs. One of those hits was a second-inning triple with the bases loaded that put his team up 5-0.

After sliding into third base head first, Voit celebrated in an unorthodox manner that left fans both bothered and bemused. Voit leaned over the white chalk along the third base foul line and pretended to snort it as if it were a line of drugs. The video has since garnered millions of views across multiple posts and platforms.

With his helmet falling off and the play-by-play announcer seemingly ignoring his choice of celebration, Voit popped his head up to look directly at his team's dugout before grabbing his equipment and getting to his feet.

Another angle of the hit showed the play from start to finish; the crowd went wild as Voit rounded the bases.

"I couldn’t believe it, had to post," a baseball podcaster wrote on X alongside a video of the snort.

"This is a work of art," another viewer wrote.

One fan even said the maneuver was now their "new favorite" baseball celebration.

I couldn’t believe it, had to post
— Noah Bieniek (@NoahB77_) March 16, 2025

'You find this funny?'

The Wolverines went on to beat the Trojans 11-0, but that did not mean every viewer was happy with the celebration.

"You find this funny? Sad clown show," one fan wrote in response to the video.

Another viewer simply called the display "disgusting," while another shared the same sentiment and called the celebration "trashy."

Disgusting
— JRAMN2SD (@AhrndtJame13916) March 16, 2025

More than a few viewers joked that Voit should be ready for an "automatic random drug test after the game," while several more fans claimed the player would find a notice in his locker that he has a meeting scheduled with league officials.

automatic random drug test after the game 😭
— NBATigahBoy🐯 (@NBATIGAHBOY) March 16, 2025

Along with the commanding victory, the 6' junior tied his career high of four RBIs with four hits for the second time in a week, according to his team profile.

Voit has been named on All-American and All-Conference preseason teams already in 2025 to go along with his All-Big Ten First Team and All-Big Ten Tournament Team selections from 2024. He also made 59 appearances and 10 starts as a pitcher last year, going 5-3 while simultaneously leading the team in hits.

Voit finished 2024 with 14 home runs and 46 RBIs.

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'We're getting set up': NFL wide receiver says league is baiting players into getting celebration fines



Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chase Brown said the league is baiting players into getting fines by placing assumed celebration spots around the field and then charging them for their behavior.

Brown was specifically referring to giant red kettles, which are novelty Christmas decorations from charity organization the Salvation Army. Four kettles were placed around the field, and Brown couldn't help but jump into one for a touchdown celebration during a week 14 matchup against the Dallas Cowboys.

Perhaps surprisingly, Brown was fined $5,481 by the NFL for unsportsmanlike conduct.

'They're in every corner.'

A week later, Brown said he would be appealing the fine.

"I would rather cut it in half, and then we just donate it to the Salvation Army," he told podcast host Dianna Russini on "Scoop City."

Brown then theorized that the league is baiting players into jumping into the kettles before fining them:

"They're in every corner (of the field), there's four, like it's bait," Brown continued. "That's bait, we're getting set up."

Strangely, officials didn't penalize Brown at the time of the touchdown for excessive celebration. But what makes things more confusing about the ordeal is the how the NFL has treated kettle-related celebrations in the past.

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Specifically, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has a storied history with the kettles. In 2016, he did not receive a fine after jumping in a kettle for a touchdown celebration during his rookie year.

In 2017, he was seen jumping in the kettle during an out-of-game appearance, furthering the tradition.

That same season, then-Seattle Seahawks cornerback Justin Coleman jumped into one of the red displays after returning an interception for a touchdown. He was not fined but was penalized during the game for his antics.

In 2018, however, Elliott again celebrated with the charitable ornament, but this time, he received a fine of $13,369, according to NBC Sports.

2022 saw mixed results, also. A Whac-a-Mole celebration in late November saw three Cowboys players get into the kettle, but no fines were issued.

However, it was only about a week later when the Cowboys implemented a "Zeke-in-the-box" celebration where Elliott again jumped in the kettle. Teammate and quarterback Dak Prescott wound him up, and both were subsequently fined $13,261 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

A Thanksgiving Day 2023 celebration that involved four Cowboys resulted in zero fines despite it involving players eating turkey legs that were hidden inside the kettle.

It's certainly a strange tradition for the NFL to pick and choose which of these celebrations garner fines, as it is hard to imagine that one would not expect players to jump into a gaping hole just feet from the endzone. Players clearly think that it would be allowed by the league considering the prop is from a charitable sponsor.

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HILARIOUS: Watch Joe Biden have 'Mitch McConnell reboot moment' at Juneteenth celebration​



Joe Biden can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to people making fun of his goof ups. Sara Gonzales certainly isn’t going to give him a break, especially after seeing his painful conduct at the White House’s Juneteenth event.

“Joe Biden was looking rather vigorous last night at his Juneteenth celebration,” she says sarcastically.

In the footage from the event, Biden has what Sara calls “a Mitch McConnell reboot moment” where he seemed totally frozen while guests danced happily around him.

Later, as guests were clapping along in sync to a song, poor Joe tried to keep up, but his clapping was always off beat.

Biden “doesn't just [lack] rhythm; he doesn't have memory,” sighs BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens.

“He does have poop in his diaper probably,” laughs Sara, hinting at the recent rumor that Biden pooped his pants at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy.

All jokes aside, the reality is Joe Biden — a man in serious cognitive decline — is running for another four-year term.

“Worst case scenario he wins, there's no way he's going through those four years,” says Rippaverse Comics founder Eric July — a valid point considering Biden could barely get through his Juneteenth speech, during which he slurred his words incoherently.

“[Playing] a vinyl backwards” is how Booyens describes Biden’s muddled words.

See for yourself in the clip below.


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'Anti-vaxxer' Aaron Rodgers' playoff loss sparks celebration among Occupy Democrats, other rabid leftists: 'America needed this'



After Green Bay Packers superstar Aaron Rodgers ripped President Joe Biden last week — the latest sociopolitical critique from the outspoken quarterback now known for defying vaccine mandates and standing up to cancel culture and woke bullies — leftists far and wide were hoping for one thing Saturday: for Rodgers and the Packers to lose their playoff game to the San Francisco 49ers.

It seemed like a pipe dream. Green Bay usually is a graveyard for visiting teams, and Rodgers has been having an MVP-caliber season.

But alas, Rodgers and the Packers managed to cough up the game on a last-second field goal — and on cue, leftists cut loose on Rodgers in a kind of rabid unity, posting delirious, sarcastic tweets as if they won the game instead of the Niners.

What did the leftists have to say?

Seriously, when was the last time you observed Occupy Democrats get so excited about a football score?

BREAKING: Anti-vaxxer quarterback Aaron Rodgers just lost to San Francisco 49ers and got eliminated from the NFL playoffs. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS GOOD RIDDANCE!
— Occupy Democrats (@Occupy Democrats) 1642915405

"BREAKING: Anti-vaxxer quarterback Aaron Rodgers just lost to San Francisco 49ers and got eliminated from the NFL playoffs," the leftist outfit tweeted. "RT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS GOOD RIDDANCE!"

And the venom was still spewing the next day. Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali sure was enjoying the extended Rodgers "roasting," apparently seeing it as a salve for the nation's woes:

Twitter is still roasting Aaron Rodgers. I love it. America needed this. #ByeAaron
— Wajahat Ali (@Wajahat Ali) 1642965128

"Twitter is still roasting Aaron Rodgers. I love it," Ali wrote, adding a "ByeAaron" hashtag. "America needed this."

And Robert Reich — perhaps relieved attention had shifted after his deleted tweet days before about Democrats giving Kyrsten Sinema the "backs of their hands" over the filibuster — was suddenly standing tall with sports knowledge:

Just a reminder: Colin Kaepernick led the 49ers to three victories over Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.
— Robert Reich (@Robert Reich) 1642915064

Here's a sampling of other reactions from left-wing foot soldiers carrying Twitter's coveted blue checkmark:

Once again we all mistakenly believed Aaron Rodgers had a shot
— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1642915974
I guess Aaron Rodgers also got immunized against winning in the postseason.
— Skip Bayless (@Skip Bayless) 1642911707
I\u2019ve read the same Aaron Rodgers \u201cnatural immunity\u201d jokes 100 times already and still can\u2019t get enough.
— Chris Hayes (@Chris Hayes) 1642912189
Aaron Rodgers gonna wait for all the research to come in before he declares this score final
— Drew Magary (@Drew Magary) 1642911409
.@AaronRodgers12 is blaming the loss tonight on Dominion Voting Systems.
— Don Winslow (@Don Winslow) 1642919259
Aaron Rodgers was winning until they counted the mail in points.
— Akilah Hughes (@Akilah Hughes) 1642918212
Look at the bright side for @AaronRodgers12 he doesn\u2019t have to worry about meeting @POTUS at the White House.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari Sellers) 1642911033
Unlike Aaron Rodgers\u2019 play calling, vaccines actually work.
— Jon Cooper \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jon Cooper \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1642945433
Aaron Rodgers\u2019 playoff run thwarted by snowflakes, cancel culture strikes again
— Kyle Neubeck (@Kyle Neubeck) 1642910946
I guess Aaron Rodgers decided to boycott the Super Bowl after all.
— Cousin Sal (@Cousin Sal) 1642911097
The vaccine reduces the severity of COVID so much that Aaron Rodgers is unvaccinated and yet his receivers didn't catch anything significant.
— Steve Hofstetter (@Steve Hofstetter) 1642946433

Oh, but we've long since had a retort from Rodgers

If the giddy leftists reveling in Rodgers' loss hope they're somehow getting to him and contributing to twisting the knife, they may want to remind themselves that Rodgers already said they're a joke to him.

"Now the rules of the game are that you must acquiesce with the woke mob at all times," he told podcast host Pat McAfee a few months back, adding that he's "not a part of this game ... being played out by these individuals. And I see it, I hear it, but to me it's comedy."

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