Go woke, go MEGA broke — this luxury company’s sales just plummeted 97%



2025’s Pride Month went out with a glorious whimper. Many didn’t even notice it happened at all. Compared to previous Junes when rainbow-drenched hordes of people screamed their sexual fetishes in the streets, this June was pretty quiet.

The truth is, Pride Month “is diminishing,” says Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford. “Except for Jaguar.”

  

Last fall, the luxury car company released a bizarre commercial featuring “nothing but androgynous, strange people cavorting in dresses.” Their product — you know, cars — didn’t make the cut. Zero Jaguar vehicles were featured in the advertisement that was intended to launch their nonbinary rebranding campaign.

But that’s not all Jaguar did. As part of its "Reimagine" campaign aimed at transitioning into an all-electric, ultra-luxury brand by 2025, the company discontinued nearly all of its beloved previous models. In other words, “They got rid of all ... the amazing stuff,” Bedford says.

And Jaguar is paying sorely for it. This April, it registered just 49 cars in all of Europe — a 97.5% drop from 1,961 sales in April 2024.

“Go woke, go broke,” Bedford says.

Through the entire campaign, from its weird “Copy Nothing” commercial to its discontinuation of the very models that made it a sought-after brand, Jaguar has hit the “self-destruct” button, says Matthew Peterson, Blaze News editor in chief and co-host of “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“Everything about Jaguar was refuted,” he says. “Who do you think buys Jaguars?”

The company “used to be synonymous with British engineering, and now it's gay,” Bedford says.

Thankfully, Jaguar’s refusal to abandon the path of wokeness is becoming a rarity among big companies these days. Most have walked back the pandering and virtue signaling and returned to doing practical business, which doesn’t include shoving DEI and LGBTQ+ agendas down consumers’ throats.

While “the wokeness is still present and accounted for,” we’re witnessing the beginning of the “end of all this nonsense,” Peterson says.

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Daniel Turner reacts to apparent threat from Democratic lawmaker



Democratic Rep. Greg Casar of Texas apparently threatened congressional witnesses during a heated hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Daniel Turner, founder of Power the Future, was testifying before the Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee about the corrupt relationships between the government and left-wing nonprofits. Turner, who himself has uncovered much of the corruption, found himself in the hot seat when Casar apparently threatened the congressional witness.

'Political violence directed towards me is kind of not new, but it was odd to see it from a member of Congress so flippant.'

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Casar began the confrontation by referencing the 2019 mass murder where a shooter killed 23 individuals in a Walmart. Casar then told the witnesses: "What goes around comes around." Turner attempted to ask for clarification, but Casar left the hearing before anyone had the opportunity to follow up with him.

"I wasn't able to ask Mr. Casar before he ran out the room, but he was looking at the witnesses, talking about a murderer and said, 'What goes around comes around,'" Turner said during the hearing. "I don't know what that comment meant. I don't have the luxury of Capitol Hill police to protect me. In the climate space we get a lot of death threats. We get a lot of hate. ... I just don't know what 'goes around comes around' meant."

Turner later appeared on "Blaze News | The Mandate," where he recapped the interaction with Christopher Bedford, senior Washington correspondent for Blaze News.

"The eco-left has a long, long history in political violence," Turner told Bedford. "Political violence directed towards me is kind of not new, but it was odd to see it from a member of Congress so flippant."

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"He was talking about this horrible mass murder in his city of San Antonio and then saying, 'What goes around comes around,'" Turner added. "And he's doing it in the context of 'you need to stop punishing nonprofits, because otherwise you're going to be mass murdered next.'"

Although Turner notes that he is no stranger to threats of political violence, he admits that they usually do not come from members of Congress.

"It was so bizarre, and I wasn't going to let it go," Turner said. "I actually got a little, not scolded, but you're not supposed to interrupt hearings, right? They're very, very formal. But I was like, 'I'm not going to sit here and have some little congressman, you know, write a check he's not going to cash. I am not going to be threatened by a member of Congress who's got all this bravado trying to intimidate me.'"

"I thought it was really inappropriate, really offensive," Turner added. "He scurried out of the room like a little weasel. I doubt I'll ever hear from him again, but I'm glad I called him out."

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Grift king Tapper? CNN star’s fake exposé spills what he knew for years



In just three days, Jake Tapper’s phony exposé “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which he co-authored with Axios’ Alex Thompson, will be released.

If you’ll recall, Tapper was more than happy to regurgitate the mainstream media narrative that Joe Biden was cognitively stable, downplaying and dismissing concerns about his mental acuity and shaming anyone who dared to raise eyebrows. But now that the secret is out and Democrats are no longer in power, he’s cashing in the opportunity to “expose the truth” he knew all along.

“Is Jake Tapper the king of grift?” scoffs “Blaze News | The Mandate’s” Jill Savage.

Blaze Media senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford, who explored this subject in his recent article “The Great Biden Book War has finally begun,” says that “it’s just incredible” what Tapper and Thompson are trying to do.

 

“They covered Joe Biden; they covered him for years. Alex was on the campaign at the time. He wrote a lot of stuff about the campaign ... but he never at any point wrote about the obvious cognitive decline of the president,” he says.

The same goes for Tapper, who “covered politics from his role as a host at CNN.”

“[Tapper] never once talked about the obvious cognitive decline of the president,” says Bedford. In fact, at one point, he even “[berated] Lara Trump” for questioning Biden’s mental state, claiming she was shaming children with stutters for pointing out Biden’s speech struggles.

But as soon as the cat was out of the bag after Biden’s disastrous career-ending debate against Donald Trump, Tapper and Thompson seized on the chance to pad their wallets. They began conducting interviews with senior Democrats inside and around the White House and Harris’ campaign, collecting stories to corroborate the truth they already knew.

One highlight in the book is that “the administration was considering the use of a wheelchair as soon as the second administration of Joe Biden started ... but not before” so as to maintain the illusion of health, says Bedford.

Another anecdote from the book details how Biden aides tried to conceal his “awkward gait” by blaming it on an old injury that had already healed.

Tapper and Thompson are presenting this information as if it’s shocking, but it was abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that Biden was doing “the dead man shuffle,” says Bedford. “He took the kiddie stairs at the back of Air Force One after multiple falls. This is not an inside scoop.”

“How do you think this thing is gonna sell?” asks Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

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New Washington law forces priests to break confessional seal, sparking Catholic outrage



On May 2, Washington state Governor Bob Ferguson (D) signed Senate Bill 5375 into law, mandating that clergy, including Catholic priests, report suspected child abuse or neglect to law enforcement or state authorities, even if the information is disclosed during the sacrament of confession.

This means priests must break the seal of confession, a sacred Catholic practice, or face legal consequences. However, to abide by the law means priests will face automatic excommunication under Canon Law, which deems violating the confessional seal a grave offense.

The Catholic Church has come out in strong opposition of the law, claiming it violates First Amendment protections for religious freedom and unfairly targets clergy, as other privileged communications (e.g., attorney-client, doctor-patient) remain exempt.

“Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage, Matthew Peterson, and Christopher Bedford — all practicing Catholics — say it’s an egregious law.

 

Confession is how “people bring their sins before God and ask for forgiveness and penance. It’s as important as marriage; it’s as important as last rites; it's as important to salvation as baptism. It's something that is essential in the spiritual life of Catholics,” says Bedford. “People have to unburden themselves with some darkness, and they only can do that and have that access to the sacrament if they know that the priests, that the seal of confession is legit.”

Further, the law is just “a red herring” that distracts from the real problem: abusive priests who have been historically protected by the Church.

Reflecting on his childhood, Bedford says, “We had family friends who killed themselves after the awfulness that they were subjected to by some satanic priests.”

The issue of child abuse as it relates to the Catholic Church has never been that admissions “were whispered in confession” but rather that the criminal actions of abusive priests “were know to the higher-ups of the church and covered over,” he explains.

“This is an actual attack on the Church, on the sacraments, and it's a great thing that the bishops are coming up against it,” Bedford says, adding that “I'm really excited to see that the federal Department of Justice is now investigating this law for the obvious — obvious — civil rights violations that it entails.”

Peterson agrees, suspecting that the push for these laws isn’t really fueled by a desire to protect children, as supporters claim, but rather by an “anti-religious fervor.”

There is “a massive and increasing anti-Catholic animus across the West,” says Bedford, citing the 2021 “spate of church burnings across Canada done by activists.”

“A priest who deals a lot with the demonic once told me …’the devil is no longer hiding in the shadows. The devil is very much out in the open.”’

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Miller teases tariff talks amid ongoing trade war: 'China is a unique situation'



During Thursday morning's press briefing, top White House official Stephen Miller told Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was "in the process" of developing his plan to address the ongoing trade war with China.

At this point, the United States has imposed a 145% tariff on Chinese imports, and China has reciprocated with a 125% tariff on American imports. As market uncertainty lingers, Miller reassured reporters that the administration is working toward a trade deal with China that is advantageous to Americans.

'The secretary of the treasury is in the process of developing a plan that will answer the questions that you're talking about, but the president's goals have been very clear on these points.'

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"China is a unique situation, obviously," Miller told Bedford. "The president has talked at length about what happened to us economically since China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, and the trillions and trillions of dollars of trade deficits that we racked up with China over the period of that time and what that's meant for our national security, what that's meant for economic security, what that's meant for our supply chains."

"Obviously right now, the secretary of the treasury is in the process of developing a plan that will answer the questions that you're talking about, but the president's goals have been very clear on these points," Miller added.

Although tariffs have been a source of criticism from political and media adversaries, Miller maintains that the trade war will be settled in a way that ultimately benefits the United States.

"[President Trump] is not going to allow China to continue to steal our intellectual property, to continue to illegally dump and subsidize their goods in our markets, to manipulate their currency, to rack up an unsustainable trade deficit," Miller said.

"We need to have a trade relationship with China that does not do harm to our nation's economic and national security, and that has to be the guidepost of any objective," Miller added. "At the same time, tariffs will bring significant revenue into this country that will allow us to pursue our dramatic plan of tax cuts and reforms."

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Exclusive: Top immigration official reflects on Biden's failed border policies: 'An invasion unlike we've seen before'



Ron Vitiello, a longtime immigration enforcement official, reflected on the significant failures that took place under former President Joe Biden's administration during an exclusive interview with Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford on Thursday.

Vitiello has spent decades dedicated to protecting America's borders, most recently serving as acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Donald Trump's first term and now as a senior adviser to Customs and Border Protection during his second term. Witnessing the contrast in immigration policy across different administrations, Vitiello tells Bedford that having Trump back in office after Biden is like night and day.

"It's clear that during the Biden administration, uncontrolled border was their goal, right?" Vitiello told Bedford. "We had an invasion unlike we've seen before."

'Alejandro Mayorkas, as the secretary, watched what happened under the Trump administration, takes over as the secretary, and tears down all the things that were working for the previous four years. So they knew exactly what they were doing.'

"If you just used government numbers, and I know we're all a little bit skeptical of those numbers, but using Biden's own published numbers in public, 11 million encounters by CBP at the immediate border during the four years of the Biden administration," Vitiello added. "That doesn't count the number of people they abused the parole system to fly into the United States, which weren't seen by law enforcement agents at the line where people would be responsible for vetting them and making sure they weren't a threat to public safety."

Another weak point for the Biden administration was the influx of migrant "gotaways," which are illegal aliens who are never apprehended or deported after entering the country. Vitiello said that the increase in these migrant "gotaways" was the Biden-era exploitation of the CBP One app, which aided illegal immigration. Now under Trump's leadership, the DHS introduced the CBP Home app, which instead helps illegal aliens to self-deport.

The bottom line, Vitiello points out, is that the Biden administration and the agencies he led were actively and knowingly facilitating illegal immigration.

"The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, was the previous deputy secretary under the Obama administration when Joe Biden was the vice president," Vitiello said. "And during the 2014 surge when I was still a government employee, we made recommendations to the Homeland Security office of the secretary and the deputy secretary on how to fix the surge that was going on in 2014."

"They put those recommendations that we gave — myself, Tom Homan, and others — they took those recommendations and put them in place to reduce the number of people that were coming across the border illegally," Vitiello added. "Those steps worked, and we had better outcomes. Other things happened since, but they knew how to fix it, and Alejandro Mayorkas, as the secretary, watched what happened under the Trump administration, takes over as the secretary, and tears down all the things that were working for the previous four years. So they knew exactly what they were doing."

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From UN hopeful to House lifeline: Trump’s last-minute Stefanik switch explained



Shortly following his historic election victory last November, President Trump nominated loyal ally Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Of all his nominations, Stefanik faced the least opposition in her Senate confirmation hearing — even walking away with some Democrat support.

Last week, however, Trump pulled her nomination, citing fear that Stefanik’s House seat would be replaced by a Democrat in a special election. Granted the GOP holds a razor-thin House majority (218-213) after January 2025 vacancies, losing her vote could very well jeopardize his legislative agenda.

“Is this the right move from the Trump administration?” Jill Savage, host of “Blaze News Tonight,” asks Blaze Media senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford.

 

Bedford’s answer is a resounding yes.

Ambassador for the United Nations is “kind of a pointless job,” he says. “The whole point of the United Nations in New York is just so we can get foreign diplomats and leaders liquored up, hookered up, and on tape and video, and then go back to them later and say, 'Hey, we need a favor because we saw you with six prostitutes in your hotel room and a pile of coke, and your wife wouldn't want to see that.’"

Even still, he feels bad for Stefanik. The position is certainly “a stepping stone” and “a cool thing on your resume.”

However, what’s far more important is the GOP’s House majority, and where the numbers currently stand, Trump can’t afford to lose Stefanik’s vote — especially with wild cards like Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) in the House.

“It just comes down to the reality of giving the Republicans more breathing room particularly for this upcoming budget battle, which is expected in the next few weeks,” says Bedford.

“So who gets [the position] now?” asks Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

“Maybe Ron DeSantis — you know someone who is not necessarily a Trump ally, but it'd be good to get them on the team but at the same time kind of sideline them a little bit,” says Bedford.

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Satanic Grotto poised to hold ‘Black Mass’ and dedicate Kansas legislature to Satan



“The slow seeping of secularism into our government in the name of tolerance” is a cancer in this country, says Blaze News senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford.

Like actual cancer that attacks healthy cells, secularism “is waging open warfare on the religion that underpins our entire civilization,” which is Christianity.

If it wins, the future of America looks dark.

Someone who’s been exploring this issue in depth is John Daniel Davidson, senior editor of the Federalist.

Davidson recently joined Bedford on “Blaze News Tonight” to share his thoughts on the sickness that’s threatening to destroy the fabric of America.

 

“The future of a post-Christian America is not going to be this liberal utopia where we all kind of live and let live and we have like a libertarian kumbaya,” says Davidson. “In the absence of the Christian religion being sort of the basis of our society, the basis of our civic culture and our government and our public morality, something else is going to replace that, some other religion, and what I argue is that it'll be a resurgence of paganism.”

There’s already ample evidence that Davidson’s theory is right. Satanic groups are cropping up all over the country.

Bedford points to a Kansas-based group called the Satanic Grotto that is planning to hold a “Black Mass” on March 28 at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka in the name of the First Amendment. According to the event’s Facebook page, the gathering aims to “dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan.” The event apparently will include a Bible-burning and a cross-burning, as well as a mockery of the Catholic Eucharist.

“I think a proper understanding of what America is and where we come from would have to recognize that freedom of religion, like freedom of speech, has its limits, and the founders who instituted freedom of religion never imagined that it would be used as a pretext to attack what they would have called true religion or legitimate religion,” says Davidson.

All of the things that we associate with the American way of life — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, tolerance, consent of the governed, the rule of law, individual rights, the equality of people before the law — “come from Christianity.”

“If you get rid of Christianity, all those things are going to go too,” says Davidson. “It's not going to be the kind of country that you want to live in whether or not you're a Christian.”

Bedford agrees and wonders if this Satanic Grotto as well as the various “after-school Satan clubs” popping up in public education across the country are mostly composed of “useful idiots” pushing a radical leftist agenda or if they really are seeking to destroy Christianity.

Many satanic groups claim that Satan is just a symbol for their social justice causes and not an actual deity they worship.

Davidson, however, says that’s not always the case.

“I think a lot of them are useful idiots, as is often the case, but the ones who are driving it — the radicals, the ideologues, the people who are out here on the front lines trying to stage a Black Mass here in Kansas … they are attacking Christianity, and they're not attacking Christianity because they're radical atheists and secularists. They are people who increasingly do believe in the spiritual world; they do believe in an enchanted cosmos.”

These individuals, he says, “just hate Christianity, and that's why they attack it relentlessly.”

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USAID official goes rogue — orders BURNING of key documents



It appears Politico has committed what “Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage calls “a random act of journalism.”

In a recent article titled “USAID official tells staffers: Shred and burn your documents,” the outlet spread the word that USAID senior official Erica Carr instructed staffers to destroy documents, many of which contain sensitive information.

 

According to Politico’s report, Carr’s email included the line: “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”

“Now, I'm not a legal expert, but I don't think this is how you're supposed to be doing things right now,” says Jill.

“My understanding is that if you're issuing orders like that, then you're putting yourself in grave legal jeopardy,” said Blaze News senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford. “A forensic investigator will be able to find a lot of these documents, and then you've got the worst of both worlds ... the cover-up” and “the original documents themselves.”

“Who are they working with? What are they trying to cover up?” he asks.

Blaze News editor in chief and “Blaze News Tonight” co-host Matthew Peterson hopes to see “lots of action” when it comes to this mass shredding effort at USAID.

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Dems' behavior at Trump's speech means one thing: Coexistence is OFF the table



The ideological divide that separates conservatives and liberals has grown into a gaping chasm, especially since the Obama administration. It seems that our differences are nearly irreconcilable at this point.

Never was this more obvious than last week, when the nation watched President Donald Trump give his first address to Congress since his historic return to the White House. No matter what he said or who he honored, the Democrats sat in stony, seething silence (except Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who yelled and shook his cane). There was nothing but glares from the left, even when a child with cancer was honored by the Secret Service. Many held signs of opposition; others wore pink to protest Trump’s attack on “women’s rights.”

On the other side of the audience, Republicans whooped, applauded, and stood as President Trump shared the victories of the administration and reiterated what’s still to come.

This is where we’re at.

Is reconciliation even on the table at this point?

In his recent op-ed, Steve Deace, BlazeTV host of the “Steve Deace Show,” argued that Democrats’ reaction to President Trump’s speech made one thing clear: “We can’t share a country with these people.”

Now he joins “Blaze News Tonight” host Jill Savage and Blaze Media senior politics editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford to explain why he believes the only answer is to “defeat” the left.

 

“Why can’t we coexist with the left?” asks Jill.

“Well, number one: They won’t coexist with us,” says Deace, noting that it was the Obama administration specifically that ushered in the era of “everyone who disagrees with me is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic bigot.”

The scary part is that “they’re sincere” when they call us these names. “It’s not just a labeling tactic,” says Deace.

“I didn't want to admit it myself, because it would mean that politics in America has become a zero-sum game, and the minute it becomes a zero-sum game, now you're talking about cold civil war kind of stuff,” he adds.

Sadly, “it’s very clear that we are there now.”

“I like to describe it as a worldview steel-cage match, where two worldviews enter and only one is coming out,” says Deace.

The Democrats, he explains, have adopted a worldview in which “ideology matters more than people.”

“Whenever you get to a point in any human endeavor where the ideology matters more than what's best for human people, you have a cult, and I think that's essentially what [Democrats] are now,” says Deace. “We cannot share a culture together.”

Christopher Bedford says that he has long had a feeling we would come to this point. It started back when ISIS was brutally murdering Christians and President Obama, at a Christian prayer breakfast, said something to the effect of “get off [your] high horse about gay rights and gay marriage.”

“That’s when I realized they hate us. They really do hate us. It’s not just dialogue. They want to destroy us … and this guy was supposed to be the great unifier; this was supposed to be someone who would bring us all together, who would heal the racial sins of America's past and make it a great place, and he did the opposite,” he says, noting that Obama at least had the charisma to take diametrically opposed groups and form them into “a workable political coalition.”

But once his term ended, “the lunatics [began running] the asylum.”

Deace agrees. “Without that external packaging … the deal basically they're offering the American people is: Unless you are a fan of "The View" or MSNBC, we've got nothing for you, literally nothing … and in fact, we not only offer you nothing, we hate your guts.”

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