Our ancestors would mock us for asking such questions, but the modern Democratic Party's insanity necessitates it. Do you find yourself feeling offended by an otherwise tasteful advertisement featuring an attractive woman in jeans? Shockingly -- at least from the Democrat perspective -- only 12 percent of respondents to a...

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The internet exploded with viral complaints about American Eagle’s latest ad campaign — featuring actress Sydney Sweeney — but the poll numbers suggest that the outrage was driven by a very small number of people whose influence is largely limited to cyberspace. The ad campaign featured Sweeney in a number of still photos and videos, wearing American Eagle jeans in several different styles. The tag-line was simple: “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.” But critics harped on the obvious play on words and claimed that because Sweeney is white and has blonde hair and blue eyes, the ad was a Nazi-esque dogwhistle suggesting that her “genes” were superior. Indeed, a poll from The Economist/YouGov indicated that overall, only about 12% of respondents believed the ad campaign was offensive, while the vast majority either found it clever (39%) or had no strong opinion (40%). YouGov has Sweeney data – 12% of Americans find it offensive. The gender gap is bigger than the political gap on whether the ad is “offensive” (7% of men, 17% of women) Men are also more likely to find the ad “clever” (49% of men, 31% of women). pic.twitter.com/SMQGsWM66S — Will Jordan (@williamjordann) August 12, 2025 Democrats (18%) were more likely than Republicans (7%) or independents (13%) to find the ads “offensive,” But even among Democrats, more found it “clever” (22%) than “offensive.” Far more independents (38%) and Republicans (57%) said that they’d found the ad to be “clever.” The gender gap was also pronounced, with 17% of women saying that the ads were “offensive” compared to only 7% of men who said the same. On the opposite side, nearly one third of the women polled (31%) said the ads were “clever” compared to nearly half of the men (49%). By race, black Americans were more likely to find the ads “offensive,” but only slightly. According to the data, 16% of black Americans found it so, compared to 12% of white Americans and only 7% of Hispanic Americans. Across all three demographics, more found the ads to be “clever”: 21% of black Americans; 43% of white Americans; and 40% of Hispanic Americans. The poll was conducted between from August 9-11, and posed the questions to 1,635 adults in the United States

The following is an edited excerpt from a Morning Wire Weekend Edition interview where Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley sat down with U.S. Navy retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. They discussed his recent trip to Taiwan, where he had meetings with senior officials, including the president and senior military leadership. Here are five key takeaways. * * * 1. America Is Taiwan’s Primary Key Ally First, they’re very appreciative of the United States. They understand the United States is their key ally and they make that very clear. No one else sells them weapons. No one else stands by them when they’re threatened by the Chinese. That doesn’t mean they don’t get some rhetorical support from the Australians or the Japanese on occasion or from European countries. But when it comes to ship movements, aircraft movements, it’s us. So number one, they get that. 2. Taiwan Will Increase Defense Spending — But Only Buys From America Number two, Taiwan understands that we expect them to spend more on their defense. So they’re taking their defense spending from about 2.5% this year to 3% next year. Then, I think, they’ll go to 4% and eventually 5%. The irony is, to get the spending up that high, they can only buy the weapons from us. We’re the only country who sells to them. 3. America’s Foreign Military Sales Program Is A “Dumpster Fire” I say this gently, our foreign military sales program is a dumpster fire. As a result, it takes seven years to get them javelin missiles; eight years to get them stinger, man-portable air missiles. These should take two, three years. So, part of the problem is U.S. foreign military sales and delivery. But the Taiwanese are going to do everything they can to get themselves to three, four, and eventually 5% [Defense spending] by the end of the Trump administration. So that’s a big deal.  4. It Could Take Nine Years For American Weapons To Arrive In Taiwan Our foreign military sales overseas are hampered by a bureaucratic process inside the Department of Defense and Department of State. They have to work together. They don’t do a great job. It’s also hampered by how we integrate with the weapons providers, like Raytheon or Lockheed Martin, and the back and forth with the host country. For example, we recently did a harpoon sale with Taiwan, an anti-ship cruise missile that’s really critical to the fight. The sale was locked and first approved in 2020. And I’d say the delivery is going to be completed by 2029, if we’re lucky. That should take two, three, four years max — not nine years. So, for military sales, we have a backed up docket with Taiwan alone of $12 billion – it was $18 billion just four years ago. This is way too much. Countries cannot rely on us for timely delivery of weapons if it takes five, seven, or nine years to get weapons. Annabelle Chih/Getty Images 5. Taiwan Must Prepare For Non-Military Attacks Taiwan really understands that, in addition to preparing for the most likely, most dangerous scenario of a cross-strait invasion, they also have to prepare for another most likely scenario  — China attacking their societal resilience, their financial systems, their communication systems, their energy systems with diplomatic, economic, cyber and influence operations, not military attacks. While the CCP would hope to break the societal resilience of Taiwan. Taiwan has to fight that. They need to make a lot of investments in that kind of domestic resilience. And then the United States can help as well. * * * Catch the full interview with retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery on Morning Wire.

Ashley Biden, daughter of former president Joe Biden, has filed for divorce from her husband of 13 years. The 44-year-old former first daughter filed the documents in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, per The Philadelphia Inquirer. Ashley married Dr. Howard Krein, a plastic surgeon, 13 years ago on June 2, 2012, while President Biden was serving as vice president under Barack Obama. She and Krein lived in Philadelphia and had no children. The outlet also noted that Ashley posted a photo of herself to her Instagram stories walking through a park while giving a thumbs up with the Beyoncé song “Freedom” playing in the background. She also reportedly posted the quote, “New life, new beginnings means new boundaries. New ways of being that won’t look or sound like they did before,” to the social media site with Lauryn Hill’s “Freedom Time” playing as the featured song. Ashley and Krein began dating in the summer of 2010 after meeting through Beau Biden, one of her older half-brothers who died from brain cancer in 2015. Ashley and Krein were married at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church, in Greenville, Delaware, and hosted a reception for 200 people at her family’s home. As the activist and social worker recounted at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, “I had my wedding reception in my parents’ backyard. At the time, my dad was vice president, but he was also that dad who literally set up the entire reception. He was riding around in his John Deere 4-wheeler, fixing the place settings, arranging the plants, and by the way, he was very emotional.” Besides speaking at the DNC, Ashley has remained mostly out of the spotlight during her father’s public career – but she did go viral in 2020 after pages from her private journal were published in the run-up to the presidential election. Pages from the first daughter’s diary, including one talking about being “hyper-sexualized” at a young age and “showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),” were published by a website called National File. At the time, Ashley claimed that she was targeted because her father had been running for president, and the publicity the diary had drawn led her to be “constantly re-traumatized by it.” She also said: “Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.” This was far from the only drama in the Biden family. Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau, became romantically involved with Hunter Biden and said she was “ashamed” to have become addicted to crack in 2018 after Hunter introduced her to it. “I found it [crack] and Googled it because I didn’t know what it was,” Hallie said during Hunter’s gun trial in 2024. “He told me what it was, crack cocaine.” “It was a terrible experience I went through and I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed,” Hallie said. “I regret that time of my life.”