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'Pure arrogance and moral superiority': Dave Portnoy unloads on Democrats, says Harris ran 'the worst campaign' ever



Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy said Vice President Kamala Harris drove away independent voters by running a campaign based on moral superiority and name-calling.

Portnoy, who announced in September that he would be voting for Donald Trump, demolished Democrat Party brass for running the "worst" campaign he's ever seen.

"Independents or moderates ... the Democrats gave us no choice. That was the worst campaign, and the pure arrogance and moral superiority have driven people away."

Portnoy noted that the strategy of saying Trump is a threat to democracy only resulted in pushing people to his side.

"He didn't just win, he won for fun. He won the electoral, he won the popular vote, he won [by] more votes than last time," Portnoy explained.

'You are alienating all these middle-ground people.'

Furthermore, the Barstool boss pointed to the name-calling used by Democrats and their supporters, typically in the final weeks of the campaign where Trump rallies were likened to Nazi rallies.

"If you say you're voting for Trump, suddenly it's 'Nazi, you're Hitler, you're garbage.' Enough!"

Portnoy added, "You are alienating all these middle-ground people."

"He won clear, he won decisive, so when you call us that and you say that, you're calling the majority of the country racist, Nazi, Hitler."

For Harris' part, Portnoy said in his social media video that there was an obvious call for change that the vice president wasn't up to, and Harris couldn't articulate any way she was different from President Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign continuously highlighted an appearance by Harris on "The View," where she stated, "There is not a thing that comes to mind," in regard to what she would do differently from Biden.

Portnoy added that change was sorely needed to solve issues like inflation, border policy, and conflicts in the Middle East, which he said Harris did not address.

Portnoy's gripes extended to the Democratic Party as a whole, which he felt was gaslighting him by running a candidate who "can't answer any questions" and "didn't get any votes" when she ran for president.

"It's garbage," Portnoy stated.

"Democrats were the one saying Joe Biden was mentally fit for two years when he was a vegetable. He couldn't make it off stage after a speech, and the Democrats would lie to our face."

Portnoy ended his video by saying he voted for Trump because he felt he "had no choice."

The sports personality has remained consistent leading up to the election, voicing that he was worried that if Harris was elected, states like California and New York would become the norm for the rest of the country in terms of their decay.

"I wouldn't have voted for [Trump] in the Republican primaries," he revealed but said that what Democrats have done is "far worse."

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National Zoo euthanizes elephant days ahead of the election, inspiring talk of omens because of its namesake



The Biden-Harris administration euthanized a 50-year-old elephant in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Its name was Kamala.

While zookeepers, members of Kamala's herd, and distant animal lovers mourned the creature's death, some commentators suggested online that Kamala's demise — so soon after the New York Department of Environmental Conservation's slaying of Peanut the squirrel and on the eve of the election — might constitute some sort of omen.

The National Zoo, one of the many federally owned Smithsonian Institution facilities in the D.C. area, announced Saturday that after helping manage Kamala's osteoarthritis for 10 years, the creature's keepers elected to "humanely" dispose of her.

According to the zoo, Kamala — not an African elephant but rather an endangered Asian elephant from Sri Lanka that was orphaned as a calf then raised by humans — found it increasingly difficult over the past several weeks to move, suffering limited motion in her wrists, hips, and shoulders. The elephant's degenerative disease affected her joint cartilage and the underlying bone, leaving her stiff and in constant pain.

'The elephant grew up in a middle class family.'

Hoping the flat terrain might help, the zoo let Kamala and her herd mates parade around the Elephant Community Center and neighboring outdoor habitat. Unfortunately, this change of scenery didn't help as the old elephant "increasingly chose to stand in one spot rather than move about."

The zoo also indicated that Kamala's pain medications were no longer a match for her osteoarthritis.

On account of her limited mobility and increasing discomfort, Kamala's keepers euthanized her in the Elephant Barn.

"The elephant care team fondly remembers Kamala as a smart and inquisitive individual who held a dominant role within the herd," the zoo said in a release. "She built strong bonds with her keepers and enjoyed their attention. Whenever keepers approached, she would rumble and squeak, behaviors that indicated her happiness and excitement."

Kamala was born in Sri Lanka in the mid-1970s, moved to Canada for a period during which she birthed two offspring, then was transferred with her daughter to the National Zoo in 2014.

Owing to the late elephant's namesake in the United States Naval Observatory, superstitious commentators online suggested Kamala's death had greater meaning while others made jokes at the vice president's expense.

Rob Eno, Blaze Media's director of content marketing, tweeted, "The die has been cast. The omens have been read."

Social media influencer Douglass Mackey, the man sentenced to prison last year for Hillary Clinton memes, wrote, "Ominous."

Since the elephant has long been a symbol for the Republican Party, it's unsure precisely what such an omen might portend regarding the election.

"The elephant grew up in a middle class family," wrote one X user.

"Only 50% of the country loved this elephant," quipped another user.

"Her name is Kamala, she lives in DC, is of Indian descent (but is often mistaken as African), has never worked at McDonald's, is claimed to be beloved by many (but is frankly not doing well) and is saying goodbye to supporters this week after a losing battle. She is an elephant," wrote X user Jolly Brandon.

The British political commentator Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad, noted that as news of Kamala's euthanization was spreading, there was also a trending video showing a baby hippopotamus "choos[ing] the Trump cake."

The video, reshared by the New York Post Monday, shows baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng of Thailand presented with a choice of two cakes, then eating the option emblazoned with President Donald Trump's name.

Jimmy von Thron, producer for BlazeTV's "Prime Time with Alex Stein," joked that his confidence was significantly shored up by the hippo's selection, writing, "Just put my mortgage on Trump."

Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said of the hippo's prediction, "More accurate than most."

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NBC strategically timed Harris' promo on 'SNL' to get around federal law: FCC commissioner



NBC's apparent attempt to give Kamala Harris a last-minute boost with a cringey spot on "Saturday Night Live" — which some critics have called an "in-kind donation" — appears to have been strategically timed in order to "evade" Federal Communications Commission rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said ahead of the Nov. 2 broadcast.

Carr, in the Republican minority on the commission, noted on X ahead of Harris' appearance, "This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election."

While the FCC's equal opportunities rule established by the Communications Act of 1934 does not require that networks like NBC "provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate," networks generally must provide "comparable time and placement."

Carr indicated that in recent elections, NBC at least made an effort to follow the equal time rule.

The Hollywood Reporter noted, for instance, that in 2015, then-candidate Trump appeared on "Saturday Night Live" during the Republican primary for a total of 12 minutes and five seconds. NBC subsequently offered the same amount of airtime to his opponents.

"NBC stations publicly filed Equal Opportunity notices to ensure that all other qualifying candidates could obtain Equal Time if they sought it," wrote the commissioner. "Stations did the same thing when Clinton appeared on SNL."

The equal time rule did not require NBC to seek out President Donald Trump and ask him if he similarly wanted to appear on "Saturday Night Live" but requires that the network entertain requests by the Republican president.

Carr suggested that the last-minute nature of Harris' "Saturday Night Live" spot was ostensibly the liberal outlet's way of flouting the FCC's rule.

'This requires FCC action.'

"Federal law requires that broadcasters provide comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered," wrote Carr. "With only days before the election, NBC appears to have structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements. What comparable time and placement can they offer all other qualifying candidates?"

Not only did "Saturday Night Live" leave the appearance to the last moment and its final show before the election; the head of the show appears to have misled the Trump campaign with the suggestion in a September interview that the show would ultimately have neither Harris nor the 45th president on the show prior to the election.

"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter, "You can't bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions."

"You can't have the main candidates without having all the candidate, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states, and that becomes really complicated," Michaels said, suggesting that his program might have politicians on the show after the election.

A senior adviser for the Trump campaign reportedly informed Fox News that "Saturday Night Live" did not extend an invitation to Trump.

Carr stressed that "this requires FCC action" but indicated that the initiative must be taken by the commission's chair, Biden appointee Jessica Rosenworcel.

Rosenworcel has demonstrated an unwillingness to hold fellow travelers to the same standard as conservatives.

In September, Rosenworcel joined her fellow Democratic commissioners in approving Democratic mega-donor George Soros' controversial purchase of over 200 radio stations in over 40 markets with the help of unvetted foreign investors who were spared the cusomary national security review process.

After "60 Minutes'" apparently deceptive edit of its Harris interview, Rosenworcel lashed out at Trump last month for requesting that CBS News be held to account.

'She's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on "Saturday Night Leftists."'

While Democratic commissioners on the FCC might let NBC skate for its apparent evasion of federal law, the risk taken by "Saturday Night Live" still does not appear to have been worth it.

Harris appeared in the show's cold open, sitting opposite her fictional self, played by actress Maya Rudolph. Pretending to be mirror reflections of each other, the duo took turns talking up the vice president.

While some critics suggested that the Harris skit was a "cringe fest," in part owing to the accent the Democratic candidate decided to employ and her reliance on neoligisms rythming with "Kamala," others noted that it once again evidenced Harris' lack of originality.

Radio host Ari Hoffman was among the many critics who highlighted the resemblance between NBC's Harris skit and Trump's September 2015 skit on Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," writing, "Kamala continues her pattern of ripping off Trump."

In the 2015 spot, Jimmy Fallon, dressed up as Trump, sat opposite the future president with a fake mirror between them and conducted an interview.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote, "In addition to stealing policy ideas, @KamalaHarris has now resorted to stealing comedy skits."

Cheung was likely referring to Harris' adoption of Trump's proposal to eliminate taxes on tips as well as her campaign's apparent plagiarization of the defunct Biden campaign's policy agenda. Harris' alleged plagiarism in her 2009 book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," indicates the vice president's lack of originality is nothing new.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller wrote, "Pathetic."

Cheung told Fox News, "Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that's why she's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on 'Saturday Night Leftists' as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala's destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it."

Blaze News has reached out to Commissioner Carr and NBC for comment.

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EXPLAINED: Could Democrats DISQUALIFY Trump if he wins the election?



Democrats have threatened to use the powers of Congress to keep Donald Trump out of the White House if he wins the 2024 election — but is it even possible?

“MoneyGPT” author James Rickards believes it is.

“Let’s just say Trump wins. Now, that’s not a sure thing. It’s going to be a close election, but my models show Trump winning. So he gets more than 270 electoral votes, so we come up to December 17, when they actually count those votes in state capitals. And there are going to be disputes and litigation,” Rickards tells Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“But let’s say we make it. I’m just kind of looking ahead as far as we can, to January 6, 2025. Everyone’s spun up about January 6, 2021. We know what happened, but this is January 6, 2025. Those electoral votes go to the House and the Senate,” he explains.


This is the reason that Trump’s campaigning in states like New York and California, despite knowing he won’t win the states in the election.

“They’re fighting over House seats, because if the Democrats take a majority of the House of Representatives, which is possible,” he continues, “they’re going to pass a resolution saying that Trump is an insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”

“So now you pass this resolution, what happens? Trump’s votes would be disqualified. Let’s say he has 300 electoral votes, and, you know, pick a number over 270. Those are disqualified on the grounds that he’s an insurrectionist,” Rickards says.

If this were to happen, the election would go to the House of Representatives.

“The House votes to choose the president, but there are a couple of caveats. One is they can only vote for someone who got in the top three electoral votes,” he explains. “If you disqualify Trump, no one else is going to win a state, and Kamala Harris is the only one you could vote for, because top three, but she would be the top one.”

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Kamala Harris plagiarized 27 times in her book, according to reports confirmed by Christopher Rufo



The Harris-Walz campaign is a throne of lies – including Tim Walz’s phony hunting venture and Kamala’s new “man-enough” ad, both of which Sara Gonzales can’t help but laugh at.

However, yet another lie has been exposed, and it’s a doozy. In the latest scandal, Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Dr. Stefan Weber unearthed an unbelievable amount of plagiarism in the book Harris co-authored with Joan O'C. Hamilton – “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”

According to Dr. Weber, Harris and Hamilton are guilty of 27 instances of plagiarism in the book.

Harris’ plagiarism “was independently confirmed by Christopher Rufo,” says Sara, who goes over a handful of examples from Weber’s report.

In perhaps the most embarrassing example, Harris plagiarized “a bunch of long passages directly from Wikipedia,” which “is not even a reliable source,” says Sara.

“You can write whatever you want in there,” guest Matthew Marsden says of Wikipedia.

“Not only did she not actually cite it, she just used a totally unreliable source to begin with and just copy-pasted it,” laughs Sara in disbelief.

In addition to Wikipedia, Harris took passages verbatim or nearly verbatim from sources such as the Associated Press, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Urban Institute.

“She is just a total phony, a total fake,” condemns Sara.

To hear more about the scandal, watch the episode above.

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Trump tells Glenn Beck who's really running the country — and it isn't Biden



President Donald Trump spoke this week with Blaze Media co-founder and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, diagnosing various systems and personnel problems he reckons must ultimately be rectified in order for America to be restored to greatness.

In the over-40 minute interview, Trump addressed numerous issues including voter fraud, the fallout of the Biden-Harris administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and the threat of nuclear holocaust.

His remarks about America's covertly transmogrified political hierarchy were, however, among the most troubling.

Trump suggested that even prior to President Joe Biden's unceremonious ouster as a candidate, the 81-year-old Democrat was effectively little more than a figurehead for a "committee" of unnamed kakistocrats.

Echoing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent suggestion to Tucker Carlson that Democrats are poised to once again vote for an "apparatus" regardless of whose name is on the ballot, Trump told Beck that the same cabal operating around Biden now seeks to hold onto power via Kamala Harris who has distinguished herself as a "believer."

'It's a nasty group of people.'

"It's a nasty government. It's a mean government. They weaponize government," said Trump. "It's interesting because the people aren't very smart — you know, the people on top."

While these figureheads are cognitively lackluster, Trump said that the people who surround them are alternatively "smart and they're vicious, and they're fascists, and everything else you can be. It's a nasty group of people."

'She's worse than he is, and the difference is she was a believer.'

After expressing certitude that somebody capable must be running the show, Beck — fresh off condemning Democrats' moral inversion in a speech at Trump's Sunday rally in Arizona — asked Trump, "Who's actually the president?"

"I think it's actually a committee of people, and they might not even know who the committee is. They may not even know themselves," Trump said, intimating a siloed and stratified shadow governance structure. "It's a group of people that are in different levels of [Washington,] D.C., and they surround a man that was not the most capable person. By the way, never was but certainly not anymore."

Trump, who repeatedly emphasized Harris' incompetence and hostility toward Christians, suggested that she might be an even more malleable figurehead for the "committee," noting that "she's worse than he is, and the difference is she was a believer. You know, she was a believer for a long time. She was a Marxist, right, for a long time. She's further left than Bernie."

Referencing Voteview data pertaining to past roll-call votes cast in Congress, Rice University political science professor Mark P. Jones noted in The Hill that Harris was "the second-most liberal Democratic senator to serve in the Senate in the 21st century."

That analysis neither factors in her pre-Senate radicalism, including her endorsement of a handgun ban or her threat to storm the homes of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun inspections, nor her recent proposal for price controls.

Whereas Harris is an extremist even by Democratic standards, Jones noted that Biden was closer to the ideological center when compared to the 109 Democrat senators analyzed in the 107th-118th Congresses.

Kennedy Jr., who at one point attempted to stake out common ground with the Harris campaign, indicated in late August that "there's a lot of handlers involved."

"Even when you talk to Democrats about, you know, 'Do you really think it's a good idea to be electing somebody who cannot give an interview?' they say, 'Well ... you're electing the people around her, you're electing the apparatus,'" said Kennedy. "The apparatus, I don't have any faith in it. It's an apparatus that are neocons like Antony Blinken who are running us right up into World War III, and they are people who masterminded the censorship from inside the White House."

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) raised the possibilities in July that Annie Tomasini, White House deputy chief of staff, and/or Ashley Williams, special assistant to the president, may be among those "doing some of the President's job for him."

There appears, however, to be a great deal of friction presently between Biden's confidants and elements of the Harris campaign, so it is unclear just how transferable the "apparatus" or "committee" would be.

Nevertheless, unnamed sources suggested to NBC News last month that Harris was contemplating bringing over Biden officials, such as U.S Agency for International Development Samantha Power. Such holdovers might constitute committee members even if, according to Trump, they are unaware.

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Biden FCC fast-tracks Soros takeover of conservative radio in Pennsylvania



In an alarming move, the Federal Communications Commission voted this week to approve Audacy’s proposed bankruptcy reorganization — which would place the second largest radio station network in the clutches of George Soros.

“This put the would-be giant microphone in the clutches of a megalomaniac madman,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” says. “I mean, let’s be honest. We’re six weeks away from the election; this is a huge move.”

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who is outspoken on the issue, told Glenn Beck in a recent interview that the FCC commission skipped a process that could take six months in order to quickly approve Soros' ownership.

This is unusual, in part because Soros has more than 25% foreign investors in the stake and has petitioned the Biden administration to fast-track his offer despite an assessment to its national risk securities.

Blaze News media critic Rob Eno is concerned by the move as well — especially considering its proximity to the election.

“Seven of the news and talk stations are in the battleground state of Pennsylvania,” Eno tells Savage and Matthew Peterson, noting that conservative hosts “could be out of jobs next week.”

“If they’re out of jobs next week right before the election, that is silencing a voice. And I think that the biggest part of this is the foreign collusion possibility, right?” He continues. “25% owned by foreign entities. We don’t know who they are. Are they Russian? Are they Chinese? Are they just British? I mean who are these foreign people?”

However, there is a silver lining.

“The good thing about this is that a lot more of the younger generation is getting their news from podcasts, from TikTok, from things like that. So, long term, this might not be as big of a problem,” Eno explains.

“The future is you have to subscribe directly to platforms like BlazeTV and Blaze News because if you don’t, they’re going to take it away,” Matthew Peterson adds.


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Tulsi Gabbard: I’m STILL on a Harris-Biden watchlist after Trump endorsement



Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard recently exposed that she had been put on the TSA’s “Quiet Skies” watchlist, which is often used for tracking potential domestic terrorists.

And after endorsing former President Trump — she’s still on the watchlist.

“I’m the most recent target for the Kamala Harris administration. For criticizing Kamala Harris, they put me on a secret domestic terror watch list, which I’m told is still operational and still going on,” Gabbard tells Glenn Beck.

But that’s not her only concern with the current and potentially future administration.

“On the issue of war and peace, which doesn’t get talked about often enough in these presidential elections, but really is core to our ability to live in a free and peaceful and prosperous society. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have gotten us embroiled in multiple wars in different parts of the world,” Gabbard explains.

“It is directly because of their foreign policy that we sit here one spark away from nuclear war,” she continues, while Glenn notes that Kamala’s DNC speech really did make her sound like a warmonger.

“I was shocked, it was almost like part of her acceptance speech at the convention was written by John Bolton. I mean she sounded like an absolute hawk, like Lindsey Graham, when it comes to war,” Glenn says.

“It didn’t surprise me,” Gabbard explains. “It was just another proof point showing that Joe Biden hasn’t been calling the shots and making decisions over the last three and a half years. If Kamala Harris is elected president, neither will she.”

“She is the latest figurehead for the military industrial complex, the deep state, national security state, all of those who derive the mainstream propaganda media, those who derive power or profit from us being in a constant state of war, wrote those talking points.”

“And that script was fed into that teleprompter, and Kamala Harris declared it loud and proud,” Gabbard continues, adding, “So we know exactly who she’ll be working for.”


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