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Did you ever notice the Hollywood Left is never guilty of hate speech? Unleashing your hatred on Donald Trump and his supporters is never subjected to “fact checking” and it’s never a reason to doubt the future of late-night “comedy.” Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com reviews the cultural landscape, along with our Nick Kangadis of MRCTV. Jimmy Kimmel made our Christmas more annoying with his "Alternative Christmas Message" for England's Channel 4, in which he glamorized himself as a free-speech hero. Kimmel began by suggesting "I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here." He didn't seem to notice that England is not exactly a free-speech haven these days, with people going to jail over things they posted on social media.  Kimmel never mentioned his lies about Charlie Kirk's killer being pro-Trump: "You may have read in your colorful newspapers that my country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored." The notion that America isn't chock-full of Trump-loathing commentary is fanciful. After Kimmel's show was suspended for an entire four programs, ABC extended his contract for 12 more months. At the time, Toto wrote that "ABC would have taken a massive PR hit had it cut ties with Kimmel now. The one-year extension allows both parties to save face and draw positive headlines." Meanwhile, our Alex Christy found the percentage of political jokes that hit conservatives went UP, 92 percent from the 82 percent number in 2024. Jimmy Kimmel led with 97 percent of his jokes lashing the right.  We've found the same tilt on NBC's Saturday Night Live on their "Weekend Update" fake newscast. Then there's the constant anti-Trump skits to open the show.  A December live-open skit suggested Trump is on drugs. James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien in December. The problem is when the jokes somehow transform into factoids, like the idea that Sarah Palin (instead of Tina Fey) actually said "I can see Russia from my house." Finally, after President Trump trashed Rob Reiner after he was violently murdered, the media coverage seemed to skip over Reiner's sometimes ranty leftist politics. Even hour-long specials on CBS and CNN never mentioned Reiner's war on Trump. It remains fascinating that Reiner never got a Best Director Oscar nomination. His work wasn't arty enough. This again underlines that Oscar hates commercially successful films, especially comedies and rom-coms. It's little shocking he didn't get one for A Few Good Men, which matched Hollywood's political bias. Enjoy the video below. The audio is here. 

As the two oldest cast members of The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and fill-in moderator Joy Behar (83) hold a lot of sway and authority on the show and among their audience. And as such, ABC News had a special responsibility to ensure that their moderators were not hyperbolic or ridiculous. In this year-end roundup, we'll be looking at how the guardrails came off in 2025. With the return of President Trump to the White House, Goldberg and Behar were sent into a tail spin that resulted in them making numerous outlandish comments whenever the thoughts creeped into their aged heads. Between defending cheating on a spouse to telling viewers to wear Latinoface to the Super Bowl to accusing someone of supporting Apartheid, Goldberg and Behar’s antics should have network executives contemplating if it was time for them to be retired. Whoopi Defends Men in Women’s Sports: Men ‘Don't Know’ ‘Our Bodies’ In March, Goldberg was bizarrely instant in trying to pair up the far-left’s argument about abortion and men playing in women’s sports: men didn’t know about anything about women’s bodies. Obviously, Goldberg made no sense since she was defending men who were claiming to be women. But when did commonsense ever stop her? GOLDBERG: I think part of the problem that the trans community is facing, and it's the same problem that women face, is if you don't know anything about our bodies, you don't know how it works. So, when you come in and you say, ‘oh, you know, these men -- these are men, you know -- NAVARRO: Competing against women. GOLDBERG: Competing against women, you're assuming that the women are weak and just can't do anything except be here [in a mocking tone of voice]. Have you seen female athletes? They know what they're doing! So, I'm not sure what's going on or why this is an issue! The same for me as when people say, oh, you know, I don't know how I feel about you. You do. God doesn't make mistakes.     ABC News LIES: Whoopi Claims Trump Never Honored Gold Star Families There’s no one on TV as righteously indignant in their ignorance and hypocrisy than Goldberg. When they came back from Memorial Day weekend, Goldberg bitterly declared that Trump had never ever honored Gold Star families before 2025. Even after being corrected, she still clung to her false narrative: GOLDBERG: It was about time we heard him give the Gold Star families their due. It was about time he did that, because he spoke and said we are proud of our Gold Star families. This is the first time– at least maybe -- unless you've heard him do it. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, he’s hosted them at the White House in his first term. GOLDBERG: Right, but the last time we collectively heard him talking about Gold Star families were not - it was not positive. Joy Behar Accuses Musk of Being ‘Pro-Apartheid,’ Begs Not to Be Sued In February, Behar had a bit of a senior moment that could have cost the network a lot of money in another defamation suit. Either ignoring or ignorant of the fact that he was still a child during South Africa’s apartheid period (and even protested against it in his adolescence), Behar accused billionaire Elon Musk of being "pro-apartheid" (she didn’t even seem to be aware that he was a naturalized U.S. citizen). She eventually was made to apologize and begged him not to sue her: BEHAR: And Elon Musk kisses his [President Donald Trump’s] butt and strokes his tiny ego or big ego, whatever it is. And he doesn't get to do -- he can take a nap while the guy who was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid as I understand it! (...) BEHAR: I was just going to say, now I'm getting some flack because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid. I don't really know for sure if he was. He grew up in that time when apartheid was full blown before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that. He was around at that time. But maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. He might have been a young guy too. So don't be suing me, okay, Elon?     Whoopi: 'You Can't Elect a Black Man,' 'No Name' for Her Ideology Goldberg seemed to have her own senior moment in June as she appeared to forget what year she was broadcasting from. With all seriousness, she claimed America would never elect a black man and had to be reminded that it already happened: HAINES (while clapping her hands): I love Wes Moore! Oh, my gosh! Please! GOLDBERG: And people are saying, well, he – you know, you can't elect a black man. Why not? HAINES: Like, hell yeah we will. BEHAR: But we did it. HOSTIN: We did it twice! HAINES: And we will again! GOLDBERG: Well, I’m just  – But I’m saying. 'Sometimes You Just Can’t Help It!' Whoopi Defends Cheating CEO While America was experiencing a rare moment of national unity around mocking a CEO for getting caught on camera in an extramarital affair at a Coldplay concert, Goldberg had to take on the role of defending their cheating: GOLDBERG: Sometimes you can't help who you want to get with! Sometimes you just can’t help it! HOSTIN: Oh no! The head of HR though?! GOLDBERG: She's not the head of HR in the bed! (...) GOLDBERG: Well, I don’t know if she’s his side[piece] – There's so much that I'm interested in but I don't know -- I don't know what this is. I don't know if he was happily married, if she was happily -- I don't know any of that, but I do know that if you don't want people to know what you're doing, don't take them to concerts.     Joy Behar Suggests Abbott Deserves to Be Mocked for His Wheelchair In March, Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett mocked wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.” Of course, Behar had so little class that she argued that Abbott deserved it because Trump: BEHAR: Well, that was about a reporter named Serge Kovaleski that suffers from a condition that restricts joint movement. And he had interviewed Trump many times in the 80s. So, he was basically making fun of the guy's disability and I didn't hear the “OUTRAGE” then! Not that she's right or wrong. I mean, the thing about her, she was looking for a way to say hot mess and hot wheels and, you know, you should leave that stuff to the comedians. Whoopi Tells People to Wear Latinoface to Super Bowl to Confuse ICE Completely ignorant of the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had routinely been deployed as part of the federal protection force for the Super Bowl for years, The View had a newly found outrage to the idea of them being there. In October, Goldberg apparently didn’t learn a lesson from her former lover Ted Danson’s controversy of wearing blackface as a white man (which she defended). She wanted to coordinate an effort to confuse those ICE agents by instructing viewers to attend the game in what amounted to Latinoface. Of course, Behar thought the idea was genius: GOLDBERG: Here is the thing, everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in the sun, that's the first thing. And then -- and this is the only time you can probably ever do this, give yourself a Latin accent. BEHAR: You know, Whoopi, that is such a good idea! GOLDBERG: And just see -- and see if she can tell who’s who!     ‘Personhunt’: Whoopi Wants Inclusive Language for Jewel Thieves Search Goldberg made a fool of herself in the wake of the jewel heist at the Louvre, and not just because she pronounced it “Louv-er.” According to her, calling the investigation as “manhunt” was wrong and you needed to be woke and use a gender-neutral term: The personhunt is on for the thieves – because we don't know if a woman did it, we don't know if a man did it. So, I don't want to say the manhunt, but the personhunt is on for the thieves who stole priceless royal jewelry from the Louv-er [sic] museum in Paris. In a daring daylight heist that sounds right out of a movie!   Whoopi doesn't want to use the word "manhunt" to describe the search for those who stole the French crown jewels from the Louvre: "The person hunt is on for the thieves -- because we don't know if a woman did it, we don't know if a man did it. So I don't want to say the manhunt.… pic.twitter.com/i729RtFzjK — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 21, 2025   Joy Behar Tries to Claim Jay Jones Is GOP and 'Only Democrats Denounced' After initially ignoring Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’s (D) text message scandal where he expressed the desire to see Republican politicians and their young children murdered, Behar erroneously suggested that Jones actually a Republican and claimed only Democrats condemned him: FARAH GRIFFIN: But can I mention, because what's come up in this conversation is this individual, Jay Jones, who’s running for attorney general in Virginia. He’s about a 36-year-old man running for attorney general, who had some leaked text messages come out where he aspired to violence against Republicans. I don't know why it's hard for people -- BEHAR: But only – I saw that. But only Democrats denounced him, no Republicans! FARAH GRIFFIN: He's a Democrat. GOLDBERG: Yeah, he’s a Democrat. FARAH GRIFFIN: But that’s my point – BEHAR: And the Democrats denounced him. Whoopi Abuses Veterans Day, Suggests Hegseth Doesn't Care About Vets Nothing was sacred to ABC’s The View if it could be abused to make an attack on some element of the Trump administration, including Veterans Day. That much was clear when Goldberg suggested that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran, didn’t care about his fellow veterans: GOLDBERG: But our commitment is unwavering to our vets. THE CAST (in unison): Yes. GOLDBERG: We know that you are all – We don't always treat you as well as we should, we don't always take care of you the way that we should, but we are -- we are committing to trying to do a better job, now. We're trying to do a better job. You hear me, Pete Hegseth? You hear me? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. Whoopi Doesn't Include Republicans as People, Slotkin Insults America During a dangerous time in America when the far-left thought little of the lives of Republicans and left-wing violence was on the rise, Goldberg didn’t include Republicans as people when discussing reaction to the economy: GOLDBERG: So, how long do you think people gunna -- and not just people but even Republicans. What do I think? No, I didn't. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: [Laughter] They are people. GOLDBERG: I didn't mean it like that. But I didn't want to not include Republicans because we're starting to hear Republicans say, ‘wait, what is going on?’     Defamation Suit Inbound? Behar: ‘Obvious’ Trump Is Epstein’s Pedophile Partner Behar seemed to open ABC to more legal trouble in late November when she accused Trump of being one of Jeffery Epstein’s pedophile partners, without evidence: BEHAR: But isn't it obvious he was -- that Trump was involved with Epstein?! I mean -- SUNNY HOSTIN: He's mentioned over a thousand times. BEHAR: There are more pictures with Epstein than pictures of Kim Kardashian of herself! HOSTIN: Yes. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. HOSTIN: Correct. BEHAR: How many more things do we have to see before people believe that he was involved with Epstein?!   Defamation suit inbound? ABC News moderator Joy Behar says it's "obvious" that Trump was engaged in pedophilia and was partners with Epstein's abuse of minors: "Isn't it obvious he was -- that Trump was involved with Epstein? I mean, there are more pictures with Epstein than… pic.twitter.com/82DLXE5I48 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 20, 2025   Is it time for them to be retired?

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One of the most vital components in consumer electronics just reached a critical low. Big AI data centers are taking up RAM faster than manufacturers can make it, and the cost is getting passed on to consumers. As the shortage takes hold, prices on many popular electronic devices are expected to jump in 2026 by up to 30%, further straining wallets and the U.S. economy.What is RAM?Every electronic device you own — your smartphone, tablet, laptop, smartwatch, and even your game console — comes with a tiny brain packed inside. The CPU is the control center that runs processes and commands, launching apps and keeping them awake as you click, type, and interact. The GPU handles heavier tasks, from rendering graphics to managing larger processes and more. Local storage, usually in the form of an SSD or HDD, is akin to long-term memory, holding a complete archive of your files, photos, and everything else you saved on your device over the course of weeks, months, and years. Then there’s RAM.Big Tech and AI companies are prioritized over regular citizens like you and me.RAM, or Random Access Memory (sometimes shortened to “memory”), is your computer’s short-term memory. It holds temporary bits of data to keep your open apps running smoothly. RAM is the reason you can switch between several tabs in your web browser without the page reloading, or open a couple Word documents side by side to copy and paste information, or type an email while you also stream your favorite show on BlazeTV.Some devices come with more RAM installed than others. The more RAM you have, the more apps you can run at the same time (i.e., multitask) without crashes or data loss. As consumer electronics advance, the need for more RAM grows at a steady pace. For example, the very first iPhone from 2007 launched with a measly 128MB of RAM, while the latest iPhone 17 Pro Max packs 12GB of RAM. That’s a huge jump!A RAM shortage is comingConsumer electronics aren’t the only devices that need a lot of RAM. Data centers demand tons of it — especially the ones built to train and maintain large language models like ChatGPT by OpenAI, Gemini by Google, and Grok by xAI.Remember how much RAM comes with the latest iPhone Pro Max? A basic AI model — the type that can run directly on a phone — requires 8-16GB of RAM. That means, depending on the model, even the best iPhone in the world will hit a RAM bottleneck due to its own hardware limitations.Moving a step up, medium-level AI models require 32GB to 64GB of RAM. In terms of consumer devices, only the most expensive laptops on the market that are worth thousands of dollars can run these models natively. This is why most models at this level run in data centers where information is processed on a server and beamed back to users via the cloud.At the highest end, advanced AI data centers like the ones being built by Big Tech demand 128GB to 256GB of RAM or more. This kind of RAM is necessary for training large language models, processing data, and creating content for users on the other end. You use about this much RAM every time you send a query to your favorite AI platform, whether it’s a simple question to an answer you could find on the web, a request to create an image for your Christmas card, or a command to write your annual review for work. This is also why AI data centers require so much energy to keep the lights on.Prices on electronics are going upEarlier this year, President Trump unveiled an AI Action Plan to build America’s first AI infrastructure. The deal streamlines the permit process to create new AI data centers across the United States. More data centers mean a higher demand for vital computer components. As the plan moves forward, RAM manufacturers are already feeling the pressure.RELATED: Will this tech company's huge losses sink our economy next? Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images In early December, Micron, one of the largest makers of RAM products on the planet, announced it was closing its consumer business, Crucial, after 29 years. Its new mission is to create RAM directly for Big Tech AI brands and data centers. The news is a double-edged sword, as the shutdown will both help alleviate some of the demand created by Big Tech while it also eliminates a vital option for consumers who rely on Crucial for their upgradable RAM sticks. Crucial will end all consumer shipments in February 2026.Days later, popular PC maker Dell sounded the alarm on the upcoming RAM shortage. Due to low availability, the prices of their PCs are expected to jump anywhere between 10% and 30%, effective immediately. The report from Business Insider notes that this is an industry-wide shortage, so you should expect higher prices from brands like Lenovo and HP as well. In an attempt to make up for the shortage, Dell and Lenovo will also reportedly launch cheaper mid-range laptops with lower RAM specs topping out at 8GB, which as we already covered, is quite low for handling the demands of modern smart devices.Not to be left out, the shortage also extends to mobile devices. In the latest projections by Counterpoint Research, the price of smartphones will inflate by 6.9% in 2026. Although Apple and Samsung are best positioned to endure the RAM shortage, no brand is immune to the price spikes. That said, Chinese OEMs are expected to take the hardest hit.RAM-ifications of the great memory shortageAll of this is part of a bigger problem facing the American people as Big Tech and AI companies are prioritized over regular citizens like you and me.For starters, times are still tough for most Americans just trying to get by. Latest reports indicate that job growth is slowing, the unemployment rate is going up, and AI has even led to more lost jobs than it has created. When asked about this phenomenon, Big Tech CEOs like Sundar Pichai of Google claim that “people need to adapt” to get along in the new age of AI. Until that happens, the coming price increase in consumer electronics will force many to skip out on upgrading their devices this year, negatively impacting businesses and the economy as more people hold on to the money they have left.Another notable strain on the American people directly targets our power grid. AI requires a lot of energy to run and maintain, and without it, Glenn Beck warns that rolling brownouts are on the way. To alleviate the problem, President Trump recently approved the use of nuclear power — something that would’ve been nice to have for us normal people ages ago, but at least it’s a start. Until those nuclear plants are operational, however, our current power grid will continue to buckle under the weight of all the new data centers being built right now, the same ones responsible for the RAM shortage. Simply put, if the nuclear plants are postponed for any reason, or if they’re deactivated if/when Democrats retake power, the American people will be the first to go without in favor of the AI giants and their resource-guzzling LLM machines.Unfortunately it doesn’t look like this mess is going to end anytime soon. President Trump recently put in a fast-lane for AI development, limiting state laws and reducing federal regulations to make it easier for Big Tech to compete against China in the race for artificial general intelligence. With fewer restrictions, AI companies can continue to strain our power grid, gobble up vital computer components, and push AI onto every facet of our daily lives, whether we want it there or not.

The National Geographic Society undertook a massive astronomical survey between 1949 and 1958 at the Palomar Observatory in California, snapping thousands of photographs of the sky from the north celestial pole to 33 degrees south of the celestial equator.According to a 1959 leaflet issued by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the result was a "map of the sky, one that can be used like any road map, to help the astronomer find his way to objects too faint to see directly at the eye-piece of a telescope."The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey images captured a multitude of inexplicable star-like objects that astronomers had reportedly seen appear then quickly vanish. The objects, which flashed in the sky several years before the October 1957 launch of Sputnik, supposedly cannot be chalked up to gravitational lensing, gamma ray bursts, fragmenting asteroids, and/or various non-astronomical effects."We've ruled out some of the prosaic explanations, and it means we have to at least consider the possibility that these might be artificial objects from somewhere," Stephen Bruehl, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Live Science.In a peer-reviewed study published in October in the journal Scientific Reports, Bruehl and co-author Beatriz Villarroel, a Swedish astronomer, found that there are "associations beyond chance between occurrence of transients and both nuclear testing and [unidentified anomalous phenomenon] sightings."The duo analyzed the transient data available for the time period Nov. 19, 1949, to April 28, 1957, and tested for possible associations between the occurrence of 107,875 transients, which were observed on 310 of the 2,718 days in this period, and above-ground nuclear weapons tests, which were conducted by the U.S., the U.K., and the former USSR on 123 days during the study period.RELATED: Pentagon psyop exposed: Military reportedly cooked up tales of alien technology in weapons cover-up Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe researchers found that a "transient was 45% more likely to be observed on dates within a nuclear test window compared to dates outside of a nuclear test window."The duo also linked the transients to unidentified flying object/unidentified anomalous phenomenon reports, noting that "for days on which at least one transient was identified, significant associations were noted between total number of transients and total number of independent UAP reports per date."'Why do they seem to show interest in nuclear testing?'"For every additional UAP reported on a given date, there was an 8.5% increase in number of transients identified," Bruehl and Villarroel wrote.When it came down to hypothesizing what the transients might be, the duo came up with two possibilities that could account for associations of transients with both nuclear testing and UAP reports."The first involves an unexpected and previously undocumented atmospheric phenomenon triggered by nuclear detonations or related to nuclear fallout that may serve as a stimulus for some UAP reports and appear as transients on astronomical images," they wrote.The duo noted, however, that this first hypothesis is problematic, as effects in the atmosphere "would be likely to result in a streak on the image over the 50 min exposure, yet all transients appear as distinct point sources rather than streaks."Additionally, the researchers noted that transients were "most often observed one day after a nuclear test; such atmospheric phenomena would have to be sustained and remain localized in one location for approximately 24 h to account for the visual appearance of transients."After poking holes in their first hypothesis, the duo propped up their second hypothesis on the "well-known strand of UAP lore suggesting that nuclear weapons may attract UAP.""Within this latter hypothesis, our results could be viewed as indicating that transients are artificial, reflective objects either in high-altitude orbits around Earth or at high altitudes within the atmosphere," they added.Bruehl said to Live Science, "If it turns out that transients are reflective artificial objects in orbit — prior to Sputnik — who put them there, and why do they seem to show interest in nuclear testing?"Michael Wiescher, a nuclear astrophysicist at the University of Notre Dame in France, suggested to Scientific American that nuclear tests alone might be the simpler explanation for the transients as they "obviously have an impact on the atmosphere" and can leave "a lot of junk in the outer atmosphere."Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the Department of War's UAP-investigating All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, similarly suggested that the explanation likely has to do with nuclear tests and the sun, noting that the "first thing that comes to mind is solar flare radiation or ionized particle radiation from nuclear testing."Kirkpatrick also suggested that high-altitude balloons, which were used for nuclear monitoring, could account for some of the UAP reports.Like Blaze News? 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