‘Hard times create strong men’: Gavin McInnes on why woke tyrants made the right stronger



Donald Trump’s victory made one thing crystal clear: Generation X is sick and tired of the left, and Gavin McInnes of “Get Off My Lawn” has some suspicions as to why that is.

“We had ‘Caddy Shack’ and we had ‘Blazing Saddles,’ so we remember when things were fun and funny. I think, unfortunately, Millennials didn’t experience that kind of no-holds-barred language,” McInnes tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“We played their game of being politically correct and watching what we say, and it was really un-fun, and it sucked. And now we have Trump’s DA or Trump’s lawyer saying, ‘Hey Tish, we’re going to put your fat a** in jail,’” he says, adding, “It makes me feel at home. I’m no longer homesick for the glory days of comedy.”

And the past four years of being shackled by made-up woke rules have only led more Americans to feel the same way.


“I think that having four years of Biden was the best thing that could possibly happen to us as MAGA extremists, because it did two things. It showed America what life is going to be like under this bureaucracy, this Marxist war on meritocracy. So they saw how bad things can get when the Kamala camp is in charge,” McInnes explains.

“And it gave Trump a chance to sort of regroup and realize that hiring neocons like John Bolton, hiring trans lovers like General Milley, hiring his son-in-law and his daughter, he was screwing up. It was a real learning curve those first four years,” he continues, noting that this is why the break was so good for him.

Not only has the Biden-Harris administration gotten weaker as Trump has grown stronger, but the mainstream media has started to fall apart as alternative media has become the source many Americans trust instead for their information.

“I think you’re going to see the Blaze, Daily Wire, even weird outcasts like Censored.TV become numbers-wise the mainstream. I mean, we see that with Joe Rogan and his podcast. He’s supposed to be the outcast and he’s getting millions, tens of millions more eyeballs than MSM,” McInnes says.

“Hard times create strong men,” he says, adding, “They’ve hammered us so hard, that we’re just stronger and better.”

Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?

To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

'He used the word Mennonite': Junior hockey player suspended 5 games for 'marginalizing' an opponent



A junior hockey player was suspended for five games for referring to an opposing player as a Mennonite and therefore violating the league's rules on provocation.

20-year-old Landon Sim of the London Knights was issued the five-game suspension for "marginalizing" an opponent on both "religious and cultural grounds," the Ontario Hockey League found.

The OHL is in the Canadian Hockey League, which is comprised of several leagues across Canada (Western, Ontario, and Quebec) and is considered the top-tier of junior hockey in the world.

On November 6, Sim was ejected with a game misconduct for his violation during a 5-1 win against the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds.

"He used the word 'Mennonite,'" Sim's agent, Andrew Maloney, said, according to the London Free Press. "He was insulted by a player on the other team, just regular back-and-forth banter. Landon used the word toward him. I think it was just something he said without knowledge behind it," the agent added.

Maloney also called Sim's remarks "wrong and inappropriate" as well as a teachable moment, among other platitudes.

The OHL commissioner told the London, Ontario, outlet that a player may not use certain language to provoke another player, citing a series of prohibited language that includes: "Race, age, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or disability."

"This is a violation of the league's code of conduct and it carries with it a minimum suspension of five games," OHL commissioner Bryan Crawford said.

Sim's agent did not argue for his client on a free speech basis but rather that there should be "layers" to the type of discipline a player receives depending on the language they use.

"A player called a kid a monkey and got the same number of games (as Sim). Last season, a player told a kid he should go kill himself and got the same amount of games. There has to be layers to this rule. It's not a bad rule, but when it's interpreted in a one-size-fits-all category, it doesn't work," Maloney attempted to explain.

Landon Sim was drafted in the 6th round of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft by the St. Louis Blues.Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images

This is actually Sim's second suspension related to mean words in 2024.

In May, Sim was suspended five games for calling then-Saginaw Spirit captain Braden Hache a word that allegedly implied he was "soft."

Former OHL commissioner David Branch said at the time the remark was "an inappropriate comment under our diversity program," despite the league being seemingly too fearful to identify what the word was.

In response, Sim's agent claimed at the time that "there is no due process in the league."

All OHL players and staff are reportedly subjected to mandatory diversity policy training before each season.

Sim was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft and has eight points the first 10 games of the 2024-2025 OHL season.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Jerry Seinfeld walks back statement that the 'extreme left' is killing comedy, amends other claims in surprising interview



Jerry Seinfeld walked back a statement he made earlier this year that the "extreme left" is killing comedy — and the iconic funnyman also amended other words of his in a surprising interview that aired Tuesday.

During Tom Papa’s "Breaking Bread" podcast, the host noted that Seinfeld recently "made a lot of news" about what comedians can and can't say, then asked Seinfeld what he believes people got right and wrong about his pronouncements.

'So I don’t think, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I'm taking that back now, officially.'

"Here's the thing that I got wrong," Seinfeld began. "I did not know that people care what comedians say. That literally came as news to me. Who the hell cares about what a comedian thinks about anything?"

He continued, "So there were two things that I have to say I regret saying and that I have to take back."

"One of them I didn't say, but people think I did. ... I said I don't play colleges because the kids are too PC and you can't do comedy for them," Seinfeld noted. "Not true. First of all, I never said it, but if you think I said it, it’s not true. I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids, performing for them. In fact, I was just at the University of Indiana, Kentucky, we did [the University of Texas]. I mean, I do colleges all the time, so that perception that I don't play colleges — wrong."

Actually Seinfeld said in a 2015 ESPN interview that “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC.’" Perhaps Seinfeld's views on playing colleges changed over the last few years, but the "they're so PC" statement indeed appears to be in reference to what others said to him, not what he said himself.

Further in the "Breaking Bread" podcast, Seinfeld noted his second "regret," saying it was in reference to "an interview with the New Yorker, and I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true. It’s not true. ... If you're Lindsey Vonn, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain; she's gonna make the gate. That's comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, 'Where is the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill in the way I want to?'"

Seinfeld continued: "So does culture change, and are there things I used to say that I can’t say that everybody's always moving [acceptability standards that apply to them]? Yeah, but that’s the biggest, easiest target. ... 'You can’t say certain words ... whatever they are ... about groups.' So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that to just be a comedian. … So I don’t think, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I'm taking that back now, officially. They have not. Do you like it? Maybe, maybe not. It's not my business to like or not like where the culture is at; it's my business to make the gate, to stay with my skiing analogy. You make the gate, or you're out."

Later in the conversation, Seinfeld brought up another statement of his from earlier this year that he misses "dominant masculinity" in culture.

"Which is probably not the greatest phrase," Seinfeld confessed to Papa. "What I was really saying is that I miss big personalities. That's what I miss." He referred to figures such as Muhammad Ali, Sean Connery, and Howard Cosell, then noted, "These were all the people I wanted to be like as a kid. ... I wanted to have that kind of authority and style. It was really a style thing; everyone conforms more to not offend. I miss George C. Scott. I miss these gigantic personalities ... just 'cause I thought it was a great flavor in my youth ... and that made a headline the next day."

What led to Seinfeld's reversals?

It's not clear what led Seinfeld to walk back his statements; he's certainly more than powerful and wealthy enough to eschew outside pressure to amend his views.

But interestingly, Julia Louis-Dreyfus — Seinfeld's co-star on the sitcom that used his surname and ruled television for much of the 1990s — made headlines herself after appearing to take issue with Seinfeld's anti-PC stance.

The New York Times in early June published an interview with Louis-Dreyfus, and the paper told her that "your former co-star Jerry Seinfeld recently made news for talking about political correctness in comedy. I’m wondering, as a famous comedian yourself, what you think about that."

Dreyfus didn't mention Seinfeld by name, but she told the Times the following:

If you look back on comedy and drama both, let’s say 30 years ago, through the lens of today, you might find bits and pieces that don’t age well. And I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result. When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else. I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.

She didn't clarify what that "something else" is, nor did the Times follow up with a question regarding what "something else" might be.

Anything else?

Seinfeld has been quite active on the sociopolitical front over the last year.

During a May interview with Bari Weiss during which Seinfeld made the "dominant masculinity" statement, he also addressed anti-Israel sentiment that fueled college campus protests — and how protesters have even targeted him. Earlier in May, some Duke University graduates walked out of Seinfeld's commencement address.

“It’s so dumb. It's so dumb," he said. "In fact, when we get protesters occasionally, I love to say to the audience, ‘You know, I love that these young people, they’re trying to get engaged with politics ... we have to just correct their aim a little bit."

When Weiss brought up seeing video of protesters calling Seinfeld "Nazi scum" and being shocked when he smiled back and waved, Seinfeld told her, "It's so silly. They want to express this sincere, intense rage, but again, a little off target ... so that’s, to me, comedic."

Also, at one point, when Weiss asked Seinfeld about his trip to Israel after the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the comedian in a rare moment had to fight really hard to hold back tears after he called his visit the "most powerful experience of my life."

Seinfeld also took on anti-Israel hecklers at a number of his shows earlier this year.

You can check out Seinfeld's relevant words in the "Breaking Bread" podcast below:

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Roseanne Barr DESTROYS the left: ‘they’re SLAVES and I’m tired of them’



When Roseanne Barr aired the first lesbian kiss on television in the 90s, she thought she was using her show to give “a voice to the voiceless.”

Now, things have changed a bit too much.

“You know, the problem with giving a voice to the voiceless, they never shut the f*** up,” she tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.” “You got equal rights and blah blah, okay? So now, you’re going to take it too far like you always do.”

“They can’t ever be happy with what they got, even though it’s a miracle they got it. Because they’ve got to please their masters, which require them to be a fod for fundraising,” Barr explains. “And all that fundraising, it don’t go to none of the people. It goes to the master’s pocket. They’re slaves and they’re idiots and I’m tired of them.”

“When did you realize that — that they never stop?” Rubin asks Barr, adding, “We got equality, we’re good, but then overnight, it flipped into lets chop genitals off kids.”

Barr recalls that once upon a time, she had friends who were university professors when she noticed this trend.

“They were the F-word; feminists who taught women’s history in basically Jesuit universities. That was the first chop,” she explains. “They had to deny them tenure and kick them off the universities because they refused to include trans theory in their classes. And so they got rid of all the women.”

Barr notes that she realized who was doing this and why they were doing it.

“They’re positioning groups of people against their own better interests. They’re dividing everybody to have two groups, an internal enemy and the regular dumbass people that are too busy to, you know, not listen to CNN,” Barr says.

“It’s incremental steps to destroy a nation and a people’s laws of self protection,” she adds.


Want more from Dave Rubin?

To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Bill Maher's ONE regret that caused him 'consternation and pain'



Age naturally brings at least a little bit of wisdom with it.

And at 68 years old, with decades of capturing audiences as the politically balanced funny guy under his belt — Bill Maher has a lot of it.

“There are certainly so many, many, many mistakes along the way, but that’s life,” he tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report,” who had asked Maher whether he had any regrets.

Not surprisingly, he says there are “too few to mention.”

“In general, I would say life is a game where if you win, you’re fortunate. And even if you win, you don’t win 11 to 2. You win 7 to 5. That’s it,” Maher explains, adding, “I think I won 7 to 5.”

“Why do you think it’s only 7 to 5? Like even when you were talking about not having a wife and kids before, like I don’t think you regret it,” Rubin says.

“Not at all. That’s one of the big victories,” Maher says happily. “That is not facetious. First of all, it’s very difficult to stay single as a successful man. It is. Or even an unsuccessful one,” he laughs.

“I never wanted kids and I kind of stuck with that,” he adds.

However, there is one thing he wishes he knew as a younger man.

“I came across a picture of myself recently when I was 28. And you know, I realized, I had an epiphany, that like I used to think when I was in my 20s and 30s if I didn’t appeal to a woman, 'Oh, I’m not good looking enough, because I’ve had this awesome personality,'” Maher says.

“And I realized, looking at the picture, it was the exact opposite. I was plenty good looking. I was just, you know, too anxious or too insecure. It was the exact opposite of what I thought,” he continues, adding, “If I knew then, I could have been so much happier and caused myself so much less consternation and pain.”


Want more from Dave Rubin?

To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Bill Maher: What Republicans get WRONG about Biden



If there’s one liberal who can make sense of what’s going on in the world today, it’s Bill Maher — and he has a message regarding the current president.

“Let’s be clear about Biden,” Maher says to Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.” “Should he run for president? No. As we were saying, I was saying a long time ago, he shouldn’t. Is he the best choice? No. Is he completely out of his mind? No, he’s not lost his marbles.”

“You talk yourself into the extremes,” he adds.

“I don’t know that that’s extreme,” Rubin counters. “I don’t have any sense that he has the wherewithal, if they woke him up at 7:30, 11:30, or 3:30, that he would know where he is or what he’s doing.”

“Then you’re just a hater,” Maher argues. “He’s terrible in public, he’s terrible when you put him under pressure with his stuttering and with his age, yes, to try to do a debate, it’d be like asking him to run a marathon at 81.”

“Being pointlessly, purposely, stupidly extreme about it, not being objective, you just hate that side so you can’t come to the actual true place where this is, and that’s where this is,” he adds.

While Maher doesn’t believe that Biden is crazy, he does believe that “he just shouldn’t be president.”

“In public, he’s not a crazy person. He’s just an awful speaker. He’s terrible under pressure at 8:00 at night,” Maher explains.

“The bar has been set low, I guess is what you’re saying,” Rubin responds.


Want more from Dave Rubin?

To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Criticism I Never Want to Be Guilty Of | Bill Maher

The Criticism I Never Want to Be Guilty Of | Bill Maher

Government forces Canadian restaurant to stop free meal program for those in need because vouchers were only written in English



A Canadian restaurant has been forced to halt its free meal program for those in need because the government clamped down on the establishment since the vouchers were only written in English.

Abdul Rashia Khan is the owner of Mama Khan restaurant in Montreal, Canada.

Khan developed a "pay it forward program," where customers could donate at least $5 and he would offer free meal vouchers to those in need of food. The vouchers would be hung on the wall for anyone to use as a credit for a free meal. The charity program started last year.

Khan said of the program, "It was very successful. We have given out over 712 free meals."

Khan – who wanted to be a social worker when he was young – noted that charity is a critical part of the Pakistani restaurant that he runs with his mother.

His family-run restaurant also handed out free meals during the 2023 ice storm and offered free meals to people during power outages.

While working 90 hours a week, Khan spent $400 to have a professional graphic designer create the vouchers and have them printed out.

However, the government warned Khan that he would be penalized for his free meal charity because the vouchers were only written in English.

Khan reportedly received a warning letter from the Office québécois de la langue française – the language law enforcement authorities of the area.

The government allegedly informed Khan that commercial publications in Quebec must prioritize French. Promotions that are only in English are subject to fines.

Khan told the Global News, "My reaction was kind of surprised that we were reported to the government saying that we are not bilingual."

He added, "I wasn't aware too much of the law. It’s my first time running a business. It’s been a year and a half I'm the owner."

Apparently, the Office québécois de la langue française did not target Mama Khan, but reportedly received a tip on Facebook that their vouchers were only in English.

"The Office did not ask the restaurant Mama Khan to destroy its meal coupons. The program was never discussed with the business," OQLF spokesperson François Laberge told the news outlet.

Khan reacted by saying, "The only thing I can do from here and moving on forward is just to learn from my mistakes and make sure it’s in bilingual or in French."

The Mama Khan restaurant released a statement on Instagram regarding the ongoing situation:

Due to amount of people who are asking and asked what happened, I’ve just spoken to the person who received the complaints and she was amazing, she told me exactly what happened and what triggered us being warned. Thank you to those who support us and I apologize for halting future services due to not trying to get penalized for what we do. We have given out 712 free meals and helped 11 kids with our tutoring program.

Khan said the vouchers are no longer available, but people in need can come into his restaurant and still get a free meal anyway.

Khan declared, "The only thing I can do from here and moving on forward is just to learn from my mistakes and make sure it’s in bilingual or in French."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

'Seinfeld' co-star on Jerry's real-life stance against political correctness: 'That’s a red flag'



Jerry Seinfeld's stance against political correctness is well-known. Only a few months back, he told the New Yorker in an interview that PC and the "extreme left" ruined comedic television: "It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, 'Oh, 'Cheers' is on. Oh, 'M*A*S*H' is on. Oh, 'Mary Tyler Moore' is on. 'All in the Family' is on.' You just expected, 'There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.' Well, guess what — where is it?"

Seinfeld added to the magazine, "This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people."

'My feeling about all of it is that political correctness, insofar as it equates to tolerance, is obviously fantastic.'

Well, Julia Louis-Dreyfus — Seinfeld's co-star on the sitcom that used his surname and ruled television for much of the 1990s — appeared to take issue with Seinfeld's anti-PC stance.

The New York Times recently interviewed Louis-Dreyfus, and the paper told her that "your former co-star Jerry Seinfeld recently made news for talking about political correctness in comedy. I’m wondering, as a famous comedian yourself, what you think about that."

Dreyfus didn't mention Seinfeld by name, but she told the Times the following:

If you look back on comedy and drama both, let’s say 30 years ago, through the lens of today, you might find bits and pieces that don’t age well. And I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result. When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else. I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.

She didn't clarify what that "something else" is, nor did the Times follow up with a question regarding what "something else" might be.

But the interview continued 11 days later, and Louis-Dreyfus added that "my feeling about all of it is that political correctness, insofar as it equates to tolerance, is obviously fantastic. And of course I reserve the right to boo anyone who says anything that offends me, while also respecting their right to free speech, right?"

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!