***Refresh the page for updates throughout the evening.*** The Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicks off Monday, and already, it’s looking like Democrats may have to issue a public apology for sullying the good name of a “dumpster fire.” What’s happening? Outside the McCormick Center in downtown Chicago, Illinois, police are bracing for the arrival of Democratic Party members, delegates, guests, and celebrities — along with an assortment of protesters, most of whom are there to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Local businesses have prepared for the protests by boarding up their windows in hopes of discouraging looters. A Planned Parenthood mobile facility is stationed outside the venue so convention goers can obtain free abortions or vasectomies while in town. Who’s there? Who’s not there? In addition to the delegates and superdelegates, prominent members of the Democratic Party and a host of celebrities are expected to join the crowd. Several family members of hostages still being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza are also expected to attend. Key figures who won’t be on hand include Senators John Fetterman (D-PA) and Jon Tester (D-MT). Who’s speaking? “Scandal” star Tony Goldwyn will serve as emcee on Monday, where featured speakers include President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. James Taylor, Mickey Guyton, and Jason Isbell are all scheduled to perform. What are people saying about it? Before the doors have even opened, pro-Hamas protesters on the street have already begun to clash with police. At the DNC in Chicago. This is disturbing. They’re completely driven by hate. pic.twitter.com/71fEKyFuJF — Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) August 19, 2024 “The DNC this week has: 1) A massive shrine (inflatable IUD) 2) Ritual mutilations (vasectomies) 3) Child sacrifices (abortions) It’s not a political party, it’s a pagan death cult,” another shared. The DNC this week has: 1) A massive shrine (inflatable IUD) 2) Ritual mutilations (vasectomies) 3) Child sacrifices (abortions) It’s not a political party, it’s a pagan death cult pic.twitter.com/dnzYc9rnot — William Wolfe ?? (@William_E_Wolfe) August 19, 2024

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was expelled from the House earlier this year, pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in New York on Monday. A judge reportedly suggested Santos could face a six-to-eight year sentence. The Justice Department (DOJ) noted Santos will also pay restitution of $373,749.97 and forfeiture of $205,002.97. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on February 7. “I deeply regret my conduct and the harm it has caused and accept full responsibility for my actions,” Santos said in court, according to USA Today. Federal prosecutors unveiled 23 charges against Santos last year, including aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy stemming back to his 2022 campaign. Santos had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charges. The plea deal, which the DOJ said brings a mandatory two-year minimum sentence of imprisonment and a maximum of 22 years, came before Santos’ trial was expected to begin in September. Santos “will go to prison for at least two years. He will be required to forfeit the money he made illegally. And he will be required to repay the victims that he swindled,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace. A pair of Santos’ former aides have also pleaded guilty. Voters in the Long Island area elected Santos to the House in the 2022 election. He defeated business owner and Democratic activist Robert Zimmerman. Controversy quickly overshadowed Santos during his tenure, and within several months of him taking office, the Department of Justice announced charges. Santos faced calls to resign and had survived multiple attempts by colleagues to expel him from the House, but that changed following a scathing House Ethics Committee report. A vote in December, which required a two-thirds majority to succeed, resulted in his ouster in December. In the special election that followed, Democrat Tom Suozzi prevailed over his GOP rival, Mazi Pilip, to serve out the remainder of the term originally won by Santos. Suozzi is now expected to face off against former State Assemblymember Michael LiPetri Jr. in the 2024 election in the 3rd Congressional District for another two-year term. Santos briefly ran a new campaign against Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY), a Republican from a nearby district who had pushed for Santos’ expulsion, but announced his withdrawal from the race in April.

A Planned Parenthood bus will give out free abortions and vasectomies near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. The “mobile health clinic” is reportedly parked about a half mile down the street from the convention and will offer services on both Monday and Tuesday. ? All free vasectomy and medication abortions are filled for our mobile health clinic in Chicago. Check back soon — we will share the interest form link again if we have cancellations. pic.twitter.com/o1biAPezZh — Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (@ppgreatrivers) August 18, 2024 The first look at the Planned Parenthood “Mobile Health Clinic” that drove from Missouri to Chicago to ??????? ???? ????????? ??? ??????????? ?? ???????????? ?? ??? ???. The bus is located down the street from the DNC and… pic.twitter.com/sifAj9gYFo — TENET Media (@watchTENETnow) August 19, 2024 Appointments are already entirely booked out, and there is a waiting list for vasectomies, according to Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which covers the St. Louis area and sent the bus. The Planned Parenthood affiliate said it would take more appointments if people canceled. Free emergency contraception will also be available without an appointment at the mobile clinic. While a majority of Americans oppose abortions past the first trimester, a majority identify as “pro-choice” and support abortions early in pregnancy. Democrats have hammered the abortion issue throughout the election cycle and are expected to continue to emphasize it over the course of the DNC this week. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has said Democrats are the “radicals” on the abortion issue and supports leaving the issue up to individual states. Since Roe vs. Wade was overturned, 22 states have implemented abortion restrictions, namely North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Bans are blocked by courts for now in two more states, Montana and Wyoming. Pro-life advocates reacted with disgust to the mobile clinic. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America blasted Democrats’ extremism on abortion. “From ‘free’ abortion drugs aboard the Planned Parenthood bus, to a draft party platform that uses the word abortion an unprecedented 13 times, today’s Democrats under the Harris-Walz ticket are officially the Shout Your Abortion Party,” Dannenfelser said. “Everyone should be asking Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and all the Democrats’ candidates the question: What are your exceptions? Harris and Walz won’t name a single limit on abortion they support – not in the seventh, eighth or ninth month of pregnancy when unborn babies clearly feel pain, and not even when a child is born alive following an abortion attempt. They stand for eliminating the most basic protections for women and girls, such as informed consent and parental involvement, and seek to shut down alternatives to abortion,” she added. Judie Brown, president of the American Life League said Democrats have long fueled the Planned Parenthood “engine.” “Now that PP has chosen to provide free child killing at the DNC, the combination, or should we say bloody wedding, is complete. Let buyers beware lest they too become part of the national bloodbath. America is awash in the carnage,” Brown said.

The DNC is beginning. Do you feel the joy yet? This campaign is a forced march. It is Mao’s Long March. But, on Monday, we are going to get “unity.” They’re going to attempt to obscure the fact they took the president of the United States — the actual nominee — out back and beheaded him politically. They’re going to try to make you forget they put him in hospice care and shot him up with a little too much morphine just to ease his passing. They’re going to forget about all that. They’re going to give him the gold watch, wheel out his corpse, and then pass him out the back door. We’ve already had some indicators of what the DNC is going to look like: You can get a free abortion at the DNC. No, I’m not kidding. According to the New York Post: Attendees at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago will have the opportunity to get a free abortion or vasectomy just blocks away from the event — and vasectomy appointments are filling up fast. … Medication abortions are reportedly available on both days, with vasectomies being exclusively offered Monday, according to The New York Times. Don’t let me get in the way of you Democratic men sterilizing yourselves. If this is what you choose to do, then let me not be any obstacle to you removing further generations of your family line. In addition to the mobile clinic, another group called Americans for Contraception is going to erect an 18-foot tall inflatable intrauterine device (IUD) named “Frieda Womb.” Get it? They’re freeing the womb of babies. Idolatry takes many forms. The actual schedule for the DNC lineup starts Monday night, the theme of which is called “for the people.” That’s hugely ironic, as literally no one voted for Kamala Harris. Feel the joy yet? WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show So, the actual president of the United States, Joe Biden, Dr. Jill, and the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak. I love they’re just shuttling Hillary to Monday night, saying, “Ok, everybody whom we hate and want to go away on the stage: Hillary Clinton, come on up!” There will also be a welcome from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has locked all of the medicine cabinets at the local CVS to make sure nobody steals any of the medications. Tuesday will be “a bold vision for America’s future,” featuring former President Obama — because, when you think “forward,” you think of the president who left office in 2016. Michelle Obama is going to speak as well because she is a black woman and that means that she must speak, according to the laws of intersectionality. “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff will speak, but not his nanny. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker will give the night’s welcome from the rotund. Wednesday’s theme, “a fight for our freedoms,” will feature vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, who shut down the entire state of Minnesota for COVID and the funding of rioting. Sure. That’s what I think of when I think of freedom. What they really mean is “freedom to schtoop.” Former President Clinton, who is very much into the freedom to schtoop, will speak, as will Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presided over more transportation failures over the course of the last three and a half years than any time in modern American history. No one even noticed when he went on paternity leave because he’s so incompetent. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. You have to feel sorry for the other members of the Biden cabinet. Their big sin is not being gay. Imagine being Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce, who is likely thinking, “Why don’t I get to speak?” “Well, Gina, you are straight. So that’s going to be a ‘no’ on that.” Thursday’s “for our future” theme will be the night Kamala Harris accepts the convention’s nomination for president. Other speakers will include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who will be pitching his new book, “Anti-Semitism: How I Did It”; House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries; and former President Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter. That’s great. Go ahead; bring up specters of the past like Jimmy Carter. Axios reported, “The stairs at the delegate entrance will say ‘History Is In Your Hands’ — a quote from Biden’s Oval Office address on July 24. As delegates arrive on Monday ahead of Biden’s speech, digital signage in the United Center will say: ‘History is in your hands’ and ‘Spread the faith.’” By “spread the faith,” they do not mean Christianity or anything Biblically-related. “Spread the faith” means 18-foot statues of IUDs. And, of course, the DNC will feature pro-Hamas demonstrators from the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, to which Harris wishes to appeal. The Associated Press reported on Saturday: During a campaign trip to Michigan last week, Harris met with Abdullah Hammoud, the 34-year-old mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb that has the largest number of Arab Americans of any city in the United States. On Sunday, Breitbart followed up the AP’s reporting, explaining she’s in the backroom negotiating with the pro-Hamas crowd: Vice President Kamala Harris secretly met last week with the radical, antisemitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, in an effort to court Muslim- and Arab-American voters. The meeting was reported by the Associated Press, buried within an article published on Saturday about the so-called ‘uncommitted’ group of voters, particularly in Michigan, who are trying to push the Democratic Party into an openly anti-Israel position. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI On the evening of October 7, the day Hamas murdered over 1,200 Israelis, Hammoud tweeted: Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable. Jillian Kay Melchior, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, noted: The anti-Israel crowd has united with radical environmentalists and antipolice activists who have spent years honing unlawful tactics, which include setting up encampments, vandalizing property, brawling with the cops and “de-arresting” their comrades—physically intervening to prevent an arrest, including by pulling someone away from the police. They spent the last school year sharing their peculiar expertise with college students, and they’ve been core participants in this summer’s protests in New York City and elsewhere. If Republicans are confronted by pro-Hamas protesters, they tell them they’re jerks and a waste of oxygen. But if pro-Hamas protesters go up to Democrats, the Democrats immediately begin kowtowing to them and asking what they can do to make them feel better. The DNC: as American as apple pie.

If you thought you had to buy expensive concert tickets to see Keith Urban, think again. This star decided to surprise fans with a free pop-up concert. Watch as Keith Urban performs at Buc-ee’s as if he is on a professional stage. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ABC News (@abcnews) Keith Urban’s Buc-ee’s Concert Just a few hours before the show, Keith Urban gave notice to his fans that he would be performing at a Buc-ee’s in north Alabama. The free show was held Friday night in the parking iconic gas station’s parking lot. ABC News’s video shows Keith Urban’s surprise as a crowd that gathered. “I swear to you,” he said, “I thought maybe 100, 200 people. This is why we got this little stage.” Keith Urban goes on to describe how he came to this Buc-ee’s about a month ago, and it gave him the idea to put on a show there. While he expected a small crowd, the droves of people who showed up to support him truly astonished the performer. Keith didn’t just perform at Buc-ee’s; he got involved with the community. ABC News shared that he became a part of the establishment during his visit. Their caption states: “While he was at the story, Urban also worked behind a food counter. Another video showed him wearing a Buc-ee’s T-shirt and apron as he poured barbeque sauce on some brisket and chopped the meat into smaller pieces.” Buc-ee’s Solid Reputation While the Buc-ee’s in north Alabama is sure to gain fame from Keith Urban’s pop-up performance, the franchise was successful even before the star performed. Buc-ee’s is a huge chain of gas stations, convenience stores, and travel centers. While they originated in Texas, they can now be found across the South. One of the things they are most known for is having the cleanest bathrooms. On their website, they even have an article about how they have the world’s cleanest restrooms. It states: “If you’ve been to Buc-ee’s, you may already know that this friendly neighbor along the highways has the cleanest restrooms in America. In 2012, Cintas ran a nationwide restroom contest and made it official!” With the cleanest restrooms and pop-up performances from major stars like Keith Urban, Buc-ee’s is the place to visit! The source of the featured image can be found here. The post Keith Urban Surprised Buc-ee’s Shoppers With A Free Pop-Up Concert: Watch appeared first on InspireMore.

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