J.D. Vance Committed The Unforgivable Facecrime Of Confidently Smiling
According to corporate media propagandists, any smirking by male Republicans is an irrefutable sign of male toxicity.According to corporate media propagandists, any smirking by male Republicans is an irrefutable sign of male toxicity.Dinesh D'Souza weighs in on the VP debate, the hope JD Vance offers, and the ‘insincerity’ and ‘fakery’ of Tim Walz
Renowned author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza joins Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight” to discuss a variety of subjects, including the debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz, as well his latest documentary, “Vindicating Trump.”
“What were your main takeaways from JD Vance last night?” asks Jill.
“As a Dartmouth graduate, he vindicated the value of an Ivy League education,” says D’Souza. “He was informed, measured, cosmopolitan, likeable, and I think he delivered.”
Given that Trump is “getting up there [in age],” D’Souza thinks Vance proved to the nation that he is “a guy with the intellectual ability and the emotional balance to sort of continue with the Trumpian spirit.”
Further, he says Vance in a way “vindicates Trump.”
“When Trump picked Pence the last time, people said, ‘Well, Trump is an alpha male; he doesn't like anybody else who will overshadow him; he doesn't like anyone else who's smart; he needs somebody who's very passive.’ But I think with Vance you get somebody who has his own mind, who clearly is his own guy, and I think it speaks well of Trump,” says D’Souza.
According to him, Vance and Walz were chosen by their respective running mates for the same reason.
“This is a case where the vice presidential pick on both sides is sort of aimed at going after the same audience, namely the white working-class vote, which is decisive in a lot of the key states,” he explains, adding that “Democrats think that Walz is a populist on the left to counter JD Vance, the populist on the right.”
“The problem with Walz,” however, is that “he's so over the top.”
“He borders on the ridiculous” – especially when it comes to his glaring “insincerity” and “fakery,” D’Souza says.
Further, Walz is an outspoken proponent of censorship.
“We know from a comment that [Walz] made back in 2022 – he said, ‘There's no guarantee for free speech when it comes to misinformation,”’ Jill recounts. “Combine that with an apology from Mark Zuckerberg saying, ‘Oh, I'm sorry that we worked with the White House at censoring so many Americans.”
D’Souza criticizes Walz for “[trying] to get out of it” by “invoking the sort of famous example of shouting fire in a crowded theater.”
However, “the stuff that they censor has nothing to do with shouting fire in a crowded theater,” he says. “They're censoring people who are fighting back against government-sponsored misinformation,.”
To hear more of the conversation as well as the behind-the-scenes details of D’Souza’s latest documentary, “Vindicating Trump,” watch the clip above.
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WATCH: Compilation of mainstream media outlets admitting Vance destroyed Walz in the debate
“Every now and then, a debate is so clear ... who won and who lost that they can't really lie about it,” says Dave Rubin.
That was the case during Trump’s debate against Biden, which was the catalyst that kickstarted Biden’s dropping out, and it was certainly the case in the VP debate on Tuesday.
Even the mainstream networks couldn’t deny that Vance mopped the floor with Walz.
Dave plays a compilation of some of the post debate coverage.
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In a News Nation clip, Geraldo Rivera told Dan Abrams, “There is no doubt in my mind, however Governor Walz did in terms of sincerity that Vance won this debate.”
In another News Nation clip, Chris Cuomo said, “At one point, Vance wanted to correct something about how Haitians got into this country, and he was right, and the moderators wouldn't let him correct it.”
In a clip from CNN, John King told Jake Tapper, “The two issues driving the campaign right now are Harris has a big deficit on the economy; Harris has a big deficit on immigration. And Republicans were happy tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous that on those two issues, Vance carried it.” Tapper nodded in agreement.
In another CNN clip, Tapper said, “JD Vance is much more experienced at this — at public speaking, at defending himself, at pivoting.”
CNN’s Abby Phillip also told Dana Bash that she saw “a clear lack of preparation and execution” on the part of Tim Walz in the debate.
Bash disagreed and said, “I think actually it’s the opposite. I think he had too much preparation.”
To see the footage, watch the clip above.
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JD Vance: The ‘real and authentic’ candidate vindicating Trump
The one and only vice presidential debate on Tuesday went better than conservatives expected — and JD Vance walked away with their utmost respect.
Dinesh D’Souza is one of those conservatives, and in his eyes, it’s a no-brainer which of the two VP picks can claim victory.
“The problem with Walz, you know, to some degree, there are elements of him that are charming, and that have a certain folksy quality, but he’s so over the top that at least from my sensibility, he borders on the ridiculous. And there’s an element of insincerity, fakery, putting it on, and Kamala is like that, too,” D’Souza tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”
Meanwhile, Trump and Vance appear “both real and authentic.”
Savage agrees, and points out that in addition, Walz has made pro-censorship comments in the past.
“We know from a comment that he made back in 2022, he said, ‘There’s no guarantee for free speech when it comes to misinformation.’ Now, you combine that with an apology from Mark Zuckerberg saying, ‘Oh, I’m sorry that we worked with the White House in censoring so many Americans,’” Savage says.
Walz “tried to get out of it” when it was brought up in Tuesday’s debate by invoking the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” line.
“The truth of it is that the stuff they censor has nothing to do with shouting fire in a crowded theater. It has to do with people pushing back against the CDC,” D’Souza says. “They’re censoring people who are fighting back against government-sponsored misinformation, and at no point did Walz even begin to defend that.”
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Tulsi Gabbard explains why JD Vance DOMINATED Tim Walz in VP debate
Despite what mainstream news outlets say, JD Vance crushed his debate against Tim Walz, who floundered when trying to defend the Biden administration’s destructive policies.
Tulsi Gabbard confirms that this is true.
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“Anyone who watched with an open mind sincerely interested in listening to what both JD Vance and Tim Walz had to say probably came away with a very different and positive impression of JD Vance as well as the policies that he and President Trump are putting forward,” she tells Glenn Beck.
“I think JD did a fantastic job in talking about these issues in a way that I could relate to, that were very real and really reflect the fact that both he and President Trump are listening to the American people. You contrast that with what we hear from Kamala Harris, what we heard from Tim Walz, who had a really, really tough job tonight trying to defend Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's disastrous policies,” she adds, noting that both Biden and Harris “are so arrogantly dismissive of the reality of the struggles of so many Americans across the country.”
Glenn then asks if there was a singular moment during the debate that might “crystallize things one way or the other” for the undecided voter.
“I honestly think that there were a lot of those moments on every one of the major issues,” Gabbard says.
However, there was one moment that stood out among the rest.
Toward the end of the debate when the subject of censorship was broached, Gabbard felt that the moderators — who, again, were left-leaning — did not devote the time or attention to what is “a very serious issue.”
“We have hard evidence that [censorship] has been taking place” under the Biden administration, she points out. “You have Tim Walz himself who has said that free speech in the First Amendment is a privilege and that it does not apply to misinformation and disinformation and hate speech.”
“The thing that he and Kamala Harris are not telling the American people is that they believe they're the only ones who get to decide what is misinformation and disinformation [and hate speech],” she tells Glenn.
Had she been one of the moderators at the debate, Gabbard says she would have asked, “Would you then support banning Hillary Clinton's hateful, offensive speech in labeling me a traitor to the country that I love and I'm willing to lay my life down for?”
“That was deeply offensive, and it was also 100% false, so their double standard is very real. They want to protect speech that they like, and they want to ban speech that they don't like,” she explains.
“JD was on point when he said fundamentally we cannot have a Democratic Republic unless we protect every American's right to free speech and encourage this vibrant marketplace of ideas where we can debate issues that are important to us, where more speech always wins, and the best ideas will rise to the top.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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Walz tries to use the Bible, Jesus' words to push Democrats' agenda on border crisis — but there are two major problems
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz appeared to use the Bible on Tuesday to support Democrats' agenda on the border crisis.
While discussing the immigration crisis, Walz repeatedly asserted that the immigration bill Democrats sought to pass earlier this year — but twice failed to pass — would solve immigration problems. There is, of course, no evidence to support that, and President Joe Biden doesn't need, and never needed, new laws to enforce existing immigration law.
Where Walz seemed enthusiastic to interject his faith into a discussion about immigration policy, any citation of that faith was noticeably absent when Walz defended radical pro-abortion policies
After claiming that bill adheres to "American principles," Walz interjected a line about his faith.
"I don't talk about my faith a lot, but Matthew 25:40 talks about, 'To the least amongst us, you do unto me.' I think that's true of most Americans. They simply want order to it. This bill does it. It's funded, it's supported by the people who do it, and it lets us keep our dignity about how we treat other people," he said.
It appears, then, that Walz was suggesting that Americans — and especially Christians — have a religious, moral, and ethical duty to pass legislation that Democrats want.
The only Christ-like solution, Walz seemed to suggest, is the one Democrats demand.
But there are two significant issues with Walz's biblical argument.
First, the passage from which Walz cited — Matthew 25:31-46 — has nothing to do with the moral or ethical implications of a nation-state's immigration policy. Rather, Matthew 25:31-46 tells an apocalyptic vision of Christ's final judgment, containing a teaching with significant moral and ethical implications for Christians.
As New Testament scholar R.T. France wrote in his commentary on the Gospel of Matthew:
For the striking feature of this judgement scene is that both sheep and goats claim that they did not know that their actions were directed toward Jesus. Each is as surprised as the other to find their actions interpreted in that light. They have helped, or failed to help, not a Jesus recognized in his representatives, but a Jesus incognito.
It is dishonest, therefore, to invoke Jesus' teaching to imply that Americans are bound by a Christian obligation to pass legislation that Democrats want.
Christians, indeed, have a duty to serve the poor and downtrodden, and they're doing that. Christians are responsible for creating and operating most of the charitable infrastructure invented over the last 2,000 years. Christian organizations, moreover, help provide for the needs of immigrants every day. But that duty to love and serve is not a duty to pass Democrats' bills.
Second, where Walz seemed enthusiastic to interject his faith into a discussion about immigration policy, any citation of that faith was noticeably absent when Walz defended radical pro-abortion policies.
The question, then, is this: Are unborn children among the "least" of us?
Perhaps Jesus answered that question for us when he declared, according to Matthew 18:5, that "whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me."
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JD Vance crushes CBS debate moderator with evidence after she tries to fact-check upon Walz's complaint: 'As promised'
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) posted evidence on Wednesday proving that he was correct when connecting the migrant crisis to rising housing prices during the VP debate.
While discussing inflation and the rising cost of housing, Gov. Tim Walz argued that immigrants shouldn't be blamed for the growing problem of out-of-control housing costs and housing inventory issues.
'The thing that has most turned housing into a commodity is giving it away to millions upon millions of people who have no legal right to be here.'
Vance agreed and said he knows exactly where blame belongs: at the feet of Vice President Kamala Harris.
"We don't want to blame immigrants for higher housing prices. But we do want to blame Kamala Harris for letting in millions of illegal aliens into this country, which does drive up costs, Tim. Twenty-five million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country. It’s why we have massive increases in home prices that have happened right alongside massive increases in illegal alien populations under Kamala Harris’ leadership," Vance said.
"We have a lot of Americans that need homes. We should be kicking out illegal immigrants who are competing for those homes, and we should be building more homes for the American citizens who deserve to be here," he added.
The debate moderators — Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan — then gave Walz an opportunity to respond to Vance's accusation.
To no surprise, Walz claimed it is "not true," before complaining that Vance did not receive a fact-check. So what did the moderators do? They proceeded to fact-check Vance.
"Senator, on that point, I'd like for you to clarify. There are many contributing factors to high housing costs. What evidence do you have that migrants are part of this problem?" Brennan asked Vance.
Vance immediately cited remarks from the Federal Reserve, promising to post the receipts on social media when the debate concluded. The study, he explained, "really drills down on the connection between increased levels of migration, especially illegal immigration, and higher housing prices."
"Now, of course, Margaret, that's not the entire driver of higher housing prices. It's also the regulatory regime of Kamala Harris," Vance continued. "Look, we are a country of builders. We're a country of doers. We're a country of explorers. But we increasingly have a federal administration that makes it harder to develop our resources, makes it harder to build things, and wants to throw people in jail for not doing everything exactly as Kamala Harris says that they have to do."
"And what that means is that you have a lot of people who would love to build homes who aren't able to build homes," he added. "We should get out of this idea of housing as a commodity. But the thing that has most turned housing into a commodity is giving it away to millions upon millions of people who have no legal right to be here."
After the debate, Vance made good on his promise, posting comments on X from Michelle W. Bowman, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
In May, Bowman spoke at the Massachusetts Bankers Association Annual Convention in Key Biscayne, Florida, where she said the "inflow of new immigrants" puts "upward pressure" on the housing market.
Speaking on the state of the economy, Bowman explained:
Finally, there is a risk that strong consumer demand for services, increased immigration, and continued labor market tightness could lead to persistently high core services inflation. Given the current low inventory of affordable housing, the inflow of new immigrants to some geographic areas could result in upward pressure on rents, as additional housing supply may take time to materialize.
The Dallas Fed, moreover, has drawn the same conclusion.
"Higher immigration represents a labor supply shock, which should be disinflationary. But immigrants are also consumers and add to aggregate demand. While certain sectors that extensively depend on immigrants should see costs and prices fall—for example, landscaping and child care—the population influx could put upward pressure on rents and house prices, particularly in the short run before new supply can be built," the Dallas Fed explained in July.
"As promised," Vance said on X.
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JD Vance hammers Tim Walz on immigration, energy policy, and the economy in lively but civil VP debate
The vice presidential candidates battled it out in a debate from New York City on Tuesday evening, and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio gave Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a civilized beat down.
Many noted that the moderators, "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell and "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan, fact-checked Vance while allowing Walz far more leeway.
'You've got to defend Kamala Harris' atrocious economic record, which has made gas, groceries, and housing unaffordable for American citizens.'
Vance appeared to use his time to attack the policies of the Biden-Harris administration while taking jabs at Walz. He really unleashed his rhetorical prowess while discussing the crisis at the border and the streaming in of illegal aliens and illicit drugs.
"For three years, Kamala Harris went out bragging that she was going to undo Donald Trump's border policies," said Vance. "She did exactly that. We had a record number of illegal crossings. We had a record number of fentanyl coming into our country, and now that she's running for president, she says she's got religion."
Walz was asked to explain why he lied about being in China during the Tiananmen Square protests, and he rambled about his bucolic childhood before saying that he had simply been a "knucklehead" at times.
Vance also battered the Democrats on the poor state of the economy, a sore point for American voters.
"You've got a tough job here. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take-home pay, which of course he did," said Vance at one point in the debate.
"You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver lower inflation, which of course he did," he continued. "And then you've got to defend Kamala Harris' atrocious economic record, which has made gas, groceries, and housing unaffordable for American citizens."
At one point, Vance interrupted the moderators and took over the debate after he was fact-checked despite the agreement that moderators would avoid doing so.
Vance and Walz butted heads on abortion, especially as it relates to Minnesota's far-left policies. Walz denied claims from Vance that laws in the state allow doctors to ignore babies who survive abortions and let them die.
The vice presidential contest was the last scheduled debate before the election.
Here's BlazeTV coverage of the VP debate:
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Biden campaign accepts CBS News VP debate offer
The Biden campaign has accepted a vice presidential debate offer from CBS News, a move that sets the stage for Vice President Kamala Harris to go up against whomever former President Donald Trump taps to serve as his running mate, assuming the Trump campaign also chooses to accept the debate invite.
"The Biden campaign has accepted CBS News' invitation to participate in a vice presidential debate this summer. CBS News has extended to same offer to the Trump campaign," CBS News tweeted.
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'We look forward to the Trump campaign accepting one of these dates.'
The Biden campaign has indicated that July 23 or August 13 would both be acceptable dates for the event.
"We look forward to the Trump campaign accepting one of these dates so that the full debate calendar for this campaign can be set," Brian Fallon, campaign communications director for the Vice President Harris, noted, according to CBS News.
Former President Donald Trump, who is the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, has not yet announced a running mate.
Trump and Biden have agreed to participate in two debates later this year, one on June 27 hosted by CNN and another on September 10 with ABC News.
Biden has claimed that Trump lost two debates against him in 2020.
"Crooked Joe Biden is the WORST debater I have ever faced - He can’t put two sentences together!" Trump declared in a post on Truth Social. "Crooked is also the WORST President in the history of the United States, by far. It's time for a debate so that he can explain to the American People his highly destructive Open Border Policy, new and ridiculous EV Mandates, the allowance of Crushing Inflation, High Taxes, and his really WEAK Foreign Policy, which is allowing the World to 'Catch on Fire.'"
Election Day will be on November 5, though many voters will have already cast their ballots by that point.
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