Perhaps one reason The Atlantic story alleging Trump is a secret Hitler fan has flopped is because Trump’s critics, such as CBS’s Stephen Colbert, see fascism in the littlest of things. On Thursday’s taping of The Late Show, Colbert tried to suggest that Trump’s desire to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden is some sort of attempt to recall the pro-Nazi rally that took place there in 1939. Colbert declared, “I don’t think winning or losing has anything to do with this. Aides say for three straight presidential campaigns Trump has mused about holding a rally at Madison Square Garden adding, ‘he has just been obsessed with this.’”     Everyone knows Trump loves rallies, crowds, and a good story, so holding a large, headline-grabbing rally in the world’s most famous arena in his former hometown makes sense given his personality. Colbert, however, wasn’t so sure, “It's just, it's just a coincidence. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that in 1939 they held a pro-Nazi rally there. Yeah, it was, it was a stain on MSG's history and I imagine a very uncomfortable courtside seat for Spike Lee.” Reverting to Wednesday’s news, Colbert continued, “The big news continues to be that Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, said that Trump is a fascist who loves Hitler. Well, at least he's not a fascist who loves Hitler. What's that? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Hold on one second. I'm being told that's exactly what I just read out loud but my brain refused to receive the sounds my mouth was making. Got it. Okay. That's good. Well, that's fascinating. So, in 11 days we all get to find out finally whether we live in a fascist country.” Colbert proceeded to highlight Kamala Harris’s recent town hall with CNN where Anderson Cooper asked her, “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” After Harris answered, “Yes, I do,” an excited Colbert replied, “Bam. Thank you. Kamala Harris is not afraid, no hesitation, zero hesitation. She's not afraid to tell the truth. Follow up. Do you think Donald Trump has lost his damn mind?” After replying the same, “Yes, I do” clip, Colbert asked, “Do you ever have a dream where Donald Trump falls head first down a long marble staircase into a hot tub full of porcupines,” to which he played the clip for a third time. Later in the show, Colbert welcomed NBC political analyst Jonathan Alter and asked him about covering Trump’s hush money trial, “What's the most memorable thing you remember?” Alter reminisced, “Remember, Donald Trump had not been held accountable since his father died like 30 years ago, nobody had ever been able to tell him anything. And this was kind of provisional accountability because the sentencing is coming up and a lot depends on the election, but it was real accountability and it was real dramatic and also, look, Stormy Daniels dissing Trump to his face for hours on end. That was fun, you know.” Colbert agreed, “That's my idea of porn.” Here is a transcript for the October 24 show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 10/24/2024 11:39 PM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: I don’t think winning or losing has anything to do with this. Aides say for three straight presidential campaigns Trump has mused about holding a rally at Madison Square Garden adding, “he has just been obsessed with this.” Maybe he just wants to take over for Billy Joel, [TRUMP VOICE] “Rosenberg's H bomb. Sugar Ray, Bing Bing Bong, person, woman, man, camera, Joe DiMaggio. It's just person one.” It's just, it's just a coincidence. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that in 1939 they held a pro-Nazi rally there. Yeah, it was a stain on MSG's history, and I imagine a very uncomfortable courtside seat for Spike Lee. The big news continues to be that Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, said that Trump is a fascist who loves Hitler. Well, at least he's not a fascist who loves Hitler. What's that? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Hold on one second. I'm being told that's exactly what I just read out loud, but my brain refused to receive the sounds my mouth was making. Got it. Okay. That's good. Well, that's fascinating. So, in 11 days we all get to find out finally whether we live in a fascist country. I'm not saying that's a good feeling, but definitely the feeling and if you feel the same way, you're not alone last night, Anderson Cooper asked Kamala Harris point blank what she thought.  ANDERSON COOPER: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? KAMALA HARRIS: Yes, I do.  COLBERT: Bam. Thank you. Kamala Harris is not afraid, no hesitation, zero hesitation. She's not afraid to tell the truth. Follow up. Do you think Donald Trump has lost his damn mind?  HARRIS: Yes, I do.  COLBERT: Do you ever have a dream where Donald Trump falls head first down a long marble staircase into a hot tub full of porcupines?  HARRIS: Yes, I do. COLBERT: Okay, final question. If you win the presidency, do you commit now to coming back on my show? HARRIS: We are not going back. … COLBERT:  What's the most memorable thing you remember? JONATHAN ALTER: Well, I mean, the most memorable thing was sitting a few feet away from the jury foreperson when he said "guilty, guilty, guilty" 34 times and I've covered a lot of big stories, this was right up there. Remember, Donald Trump had not been held accountable since his father died like 30 years ago, nobody had ever been able to tell him anything. And this was kind of provisional accountability because the sentencing is coming up and a lot depends on the election, but it was real accountability, and it was real dramatic, and also, look, Stormy Daniels dissing Trump to his face for hours on end. That was fun, you know. COLBERT: That's my idea of porn.

No one knows former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly better than I do. This bitter, bullying coward should be cast into the dustbin of history for once again smearing Donald Trump, just days before the most important election in modern American history. It may seem reasonable to assume a four-star general would make a good chief of staff, but that assumption is deeply flawed. Kelly invariably hated those closest to Trump. As chief of staff, he single-handedly turned Trump allies into bitter and viperous enemies. Four-star generals like Kelly typically reach the top of their profession because they are seen as the sharpest tools in the military shed. Yet in the West Wing, among uber-elite civilians from academia, the corporate world, and Wall Street, Kelly was consistently the dumbest guy in the room. Regarding Kelly’s leadership, I had to brace myself physically every time his office called, as it inevitably involved some form of threat or abuse. Some leaders inspire, while others attempt to “lead” through intimidation. Kelly was clearly the latter, and I can’t imagine serving under his command in combat. But Kelly’s flawed leadership wasn’t the most concerning issue. His real failure was his refusal to obey the president, breaking the chain of command. Kelly, along with Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis, knew better than anyone that the military’s survival depends on strict respect for the chain of command. Yet once Kelly and Mattis reached the pinnacle of civilian power, they acted as if no one, not even the president, was above them. Kelly routinely subverted the president’s trade agenda. When my former boss instructed Kelly to prepare an executive order to impose steel and aluminum tariffs or tariffs on China, Kelly would consistently delay the process by subjecting it to an extended review. Kelly employed the same tactic whenever the president attempted to push trading partners like South Korea and Japan to stop screwing us in trade. Both Kelly and Mattis resisted actions that could threaten military alliances with these countries, ignoring the fact that gutting our economy and manufacturing base would ultimately weaken our ability to defend ourselves, let alone any other nation. Why was Kelly so opposed to Trump’s trade policies? Lacking any economic training, Kelly fell easily into the globalist mindset of West Wing figures like National Economic Council Directors Gary Cohn and Larry Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin — all of whom worked to block the president’s trade policies. Because Kelly had no training in politics, he failed to understand the importance of trade policy in holding the high political ground of blue wall manufacturing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan that Trump had won in 2016. Because Kelly didn’t know how to “let Trump be Trump,” as Corey Lewandowski famously advised, there was no way “Captain Queeg” Kelly would allow anyone with differing trade policy ideas near the Oval Office. Kelly regularly eavesdropped on press phone calls and scrutinized overnight phone logs. If someone like me called the president, we were threatened with firing. Kelly was also incompetent when handling the media. Hiring him was like putting a trucker behind the wheel of a Formula One car. With his thick Boston accent, perpetual lack of a smile, and clear disdain for the media, Kelly was incapable of delivering any effective messaging. One of Kelly’s most negligent actions was hiding the truth about staff secretary Rob Porter. Porter had two charges of spousal abuse against him and couldn’t get a security clearance, yet he handled highly sensitive national security documents and interacted with the president daily. Kelly’s decision to hide this information should have been grounds for dismissal. Kelly invariably hated those closest to Trump. As chief of staff, he single-handedly turned Trump allies Omarosa Manigault and Anthony Scaramucci into bitter and viperous enemies thanks to his mistreatment. My lasting memory of Kelly was him sitting at my right shoulder on December 2, 2018, at the end of a long table in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with President Trump at the center. Across from us sat our counterparts from the Chinese communist trade delegation. Before the meeting began, a by-then broken Kelly, likely aware of his imminent exit, apologized for treating me poorly. He also admitted he had failed to recognize what George W. Bush might have called the “real evildoers” in the West Wing. Now, it saddens and infuriates me to see Kelly play the court jester to the Atlantic, of all places. I had hoped that the Biden-Harris administration’s tragic mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, where Kelly’s own son died in combat, might have brought him out of his hate-filled and vengeful derangement. I was wrong. And the cowardly bully Kelly is wrong about Donald John Trump. Editor's note: This article is based on Peter Navarro’s memoir, “Taking Back Trump’s America.”

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida called out Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for criticizing former President Donald Trump less than two weeks from the election. "While Leader McConnell and I have fundamental disagreements, I am shocked that he would attack a fellow Republican senator and the Republican nominee for president just two weeks out from an election," Scott said in a statement obtained by Blaze News. McConnell criticized the Republican nominee, saying the "MAGA movement is completely wrong" and claiming that former President Ronald Reagan "wouldn't recognize" the GOP under Trump's leadership, according to excerpts of McConnell's upcoming biography, “The Price of Power” by Michael Tackett. 'With almost $36 trillion in debt, an open border, historic inflation, and a world on fire, I know we need dramatic change and he doesn't.'McConnell further said that Trump has "done a lot of damage to our party's image and our ability to compete," according to the biography. McConnell also criticized Scott, saying he doesn't think "Rick makes a very good victim" and that he "did a poor job of running the (Senate campaign) committee.""His plan was used by the Democrats against our candidates as late as the last weekend [before the election]," McConnell said in the biography. "He promoted the fiction that we were in the middle of a big sweep when there was no tangible evidence of it. And I think his campaign against me was some kind of ill-fated effort to turn the attention away from him and on to somebody else.”Scott, who is competing against Republican Sens. John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas to succeed McConnell, pushed back on the minority leader's remarks. "I believe we should be talking about solutions, he doesn't," Scott said. "I support Donald Trump and his work to fundamentally change the way Washington operates, he doesn't. I believe we could support the candidates Republican voters choose, he doesn't. With almost $36 trillion in debt, an open border, historic inflation, and a world on fire, I know we need dramatic change and he doesn't." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democrats are panicking over recent polling data indicating Kamala Harris is not only deeply unpopular with American men, broadly speaking, but increasingly with young male voters. The Harris boosters at Planned Parenthood Action recently posted then quickly deleted a meme that unintentionally illustrated the alienating approach that might be causing Democrats' retention problems with young men. The PPA posted the "Girl Explaining" meme, which features a disheveled young woman with an exposed midriff yelling into the face of an exhausted and ostensibly apathetic young man at a concert. The misleading caption for the post was: PROJECT 2025 IS A COMPLETE POLITICAL TAKEOVER OF OUR RIGHTS. THEY WANT DONALD TRUMP AND JD VANCE TO WIN SO THEY CAN BAN ABORTION NATIONWIDE. THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, TWO POLITICIANS WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR CAREERS FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. Contrary to the suggestion of the pro-abortion outfit, Trump has disavowed Project 2025 and has repeatedly underscored that he would not support a nationwide abortion ban. 'They accidentally depicted the real state of politics in 2024.' The desperate regurgitation of these falsehoods was not, however, the most telling part of the now-deleted post. Instead, Planned Parenthood appears to have shared a meme hinting at the obliviousness of the left to the numbing affect of its hectoring of young men. While numerous critics responded by noting the "left can't meme," a co-host from "The Right Thoughts" podcast, who goes by Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X, wrote, "It's hilarious that Planned Parenthood misunderstood this meme format to such a catastrophic degree that they accidentally depicted the real state of politics in 2024, the poor unhappy boy being shrieked at by a woke girl." Democrats' pro-abortion, anti-Western messaging and accompanying critiques of tradition, normalcy, and masculinity — both shrieked and calmly communicated — are clearly not resonating with a great many young men. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, recently indicated that there has been a profound shift on campuses, reported Vanity Fair. 'If Donald Trump wins, this is how he wins.' "I've been doing this for 12 years. This is not normal. The energy is off the charts. You have a younger generation, Gen Z, who experienced a lot of — they would say — lies and deceit during COVID, and a lot of their life being altered," said Kirk. "There is this pent up 'rebellion energy' that has never come out." Kirk noted further that young men are profoundly more conservative than people would have expected and, in fact, are the most conservative generation of young men in 50 years. They want to be part of a political movement that doesn’t hate them. Those are their words, not mine. The cultural blob of all left-wing influence has definitely had an undertone that if you’re a straight, white, Christian male, that there’s something wrong with you. Or you must apologize. Or you're a colonizer. The Guardian reported that in 2016, 51% of young men identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party. That plummeted to 39% in 2023, and now the majority of young men want to see Republicans elected. The leftist think tank Data for Progress noted in a report Tuesday "a significant gender divide exists among young voters, with young men showing more conservative tendencies than young women." According to Data for Progress, young men are evenly split between Harris and Trump. Citing the apparent expertise of John Della Volpe, Vanity Fair indicated that Democrats win when they secure 60% of the youth vote — but this is far from guaranteed. While Harris has reportedly won over young women like that represented in the meme by 67% to 28%, Trump is winning Gen Z men by 58% to 37%. According to the Wall Street Journal, the growing gender gap extends to various issues, including two issues Democrats discuss ad nauseam on the campaign trail: abortion and student debt. Neither of these issues animate or mobilize male voters anywhere as much as their female counterparts and for good reason. Young men have increasingly been steered out of colleges — adding to their disenchantment with leftist diversity initiatives — such that women now account for 60% of all college students and carry the super-majority of student-loan debt. Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, told the Guardian that in 2022, 49% of Gen Z men said that the U.S. had become "too soft and feminine." Last year, she said that 60% of the cohort said the same. Blaze News previously highlighted Democratic strategist James Carville's thoughts on what might be driving this trend. "If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election," Carville told the New York Times earlier this year. "I'm like: 'Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'" As if anticipating Planned Parenthood's meme, Carville added, "A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females." "'Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'" continued Carville. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'" Democrats' alienation of young men could preclude them from keeping the White House. "It's extremely serious," Mike Madrid, a nominally Republican strategist who co-founded the pro-Harris Lincoln Project, told The Hill. "If Donald Trump wins, this is how he wins." "This is part of a broader dynamic, a bigger trend that we've noticed and we've been watching for a longer time than both candidates have been on the national scene," added Madrid. Mike Nellis, a Democratic strategist involved with "White Dudes for Harris," told The Hill, "There is an ongoing fight about masculinity in America today and the future of masculinity and I think Democrats as a whole have not done a great job of engaging in that fight and I think we need to do a better job of elevating voices that can go have those tough conversations in spaces where those people are." In the final stretch before Election Day, the Harris campaign is reportedly making one final appeal to young men with ads on Yahoo Sports, sport betting platforms, and on gaming sites. Time will tell whether this was a more effective strategy than spending weeks accusing young men who don't like Harris of misogyny. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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OpenAI has dropped a couple of key ChatGPT upgrades so far this year, but neither one was the big GPT-5 upgrade we're all waiting for. First, we got GPT-4o in May 2024 with advanced multimodal support, including Advanced Voice Mode. Then more recently, we got o1 (in preview) with more advanced reasoning capabilities. The names make little sense, and they could be anything, really. But it's certainly clear that OpenAI went out of its way to avoid calling either one GPT-5. That's understandable, considering the history of that unofficial product name. Some associated GPT-5 with AGI, the more advanced version of AI that's capable of reasoning as well as a human, but the future of AGI is uncertain. GPT-5 also came up about a year ago, around the time of Sam Altman's (brief) firing. Regardless of what product names OpenAI chooses for future ChatGPT models, the next major update might be released by December. It will be different from GPT-4o and o1, and could be more powerful. But this GPT-5 candidate, reportedly called Orion, might not be available to regular users like you and me, at least not initially. Continue reading... The post Orion, the big GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, might roll out in December appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: Free Echo Pop & Amazon Smart Plug, $30 Philips OneBlade 360, $38 Sony headphones, more Today’s deals: $40 in Amazon credit, Nintendo Switch games, $20 waterproof Bluetooth speaker, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $450+ free Today’s deals: Free LED smart bulbs, $64 off Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, $60 Keurig coffee maker, more