After Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, CBS’s Stephen Colbert reacted on a live edition of The Late Show by claiming that day three of the DNC was “another powerful evening” that “was about remembering that America is good and that we shouldn't give in to hopelessness.” Before Walz spoke, he was introduced by his old football team, which was almost too much for Colbert, who brought out his football referee whistle, “Then, one of Tim Walz's old neighbors brought out something special: the football team that Coach Walz took from being 27-game losers to state champions. [blows whistle] Flag on the play, too adorable! Roughing the heart, 15 yards. [blows whistle].”     Later, Colbert introduced a clip of Walz by recalling how, “Walz spoke about his and his wife's experience with fertility treatments.” In the clip, Walz declared, “When our daughter was born, we named her Hope.” Colbert concluded his monologue by praising the convention, “C'mon, man. I'm trying to do a comedy show here. Hulk Hogan didn't make me cry. All in all, I’d think you agree, all in all, another powerful evening in Chicago. Tonight, I believe— I believe tonight was about remembering that America is good and that we shouldn't give in to hopelessness. And maybe we needed a coach to remind us that this is what locker room talk is supposed to sound like.” Colbert did not play the part where Walz falsely implied Republicans were coming after IVF, but speaking of the whole convention, later, Colbert welcomed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and told him, “One of the things I loved about the speech is that you—the theme tonight was ‘fight for our freedoms.’”      He then asked, “And in your speech, you spoke about how your political freedoms, the ones we enjoy today, gave you a life and a family that were impossible for you to imagine when you were younger. What does it mean for you to see freedom, this message, as the centerpiece of a Democratic campaign, a word that is often co-opted by the right?” Buttigieg hyped, “That's why I'm thrilled that Kamala Harris has really made it a leading, maybe the leading theme of the campaign because I do think that's what's at stake in so many ways.” He further claimed, “There was a time when you really or mostly heard conservatives talking about freedom, but they usually meant, I think, a very narrow sense of freedom. Freedom from regulation, freedom from corporate taxes, and that was on their mind, and I'm sure that was sincere, but I'm thinking about not freedom from so much as freedom to. Freedom to live a life of your choosing and that’s part of what I got to talk about tonight.” On the contrary, it is the left that has a narrow definition of freedom because they seem to reduce it to sexual liberalism, whether it is abortion, same-sex marriage, or gender identity. The freedom to disagree with sexual liberalism, however, is not an option. Here is a transcript for the August 21-22 show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 8/22/2024 12:35 AM ET COLBERT: Then, one of Tim Walz's old neighbors brought out something special: the football team that Coach Walz took from being 27-game losers to state champions. [blows whistle] Flag on the play, too adorable! Roughing the heart, 15 yards. [blows whistle]. … COLBERT: Walz spoke about his and his wife's experience with fertility treatments. TIM WALZ: When our daughter was born, we named her Hope. COLBERT: C'mon, man. I'm trying to do a comedy show here. Hulk Hogan didn't make me cry. All in all, I’d think you agree, all in all, another powerful evening in Chicago. Tonight, I believe— I believe tonight was about remembering that America is good and that we shouldn't give in to hopelessness. And maybe we needed a coach to remind us that this is what locker room talk is supposed to sound like. … COLBERT: One of the things I loved about the speech is that you—the theme tonight was “fight for our freedoms.”  PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah. COLBERT: And in your speech, you spoke about how your political freedoms, the ones we enjoy today, gave you a life and a family that were impossible for you to imagine when you were younger. What does it mean for you to see freedom, this message, as the centerpiece of a Democratic campaign, a word that is often co-opted by the right? PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, that's why I'm thrilled that Kamala Harris has really made it a leading, maybe the leading theme of the campaign because I do think that's what's at stake in so many ways. There was a time when you really or mostly heard conservatives talking about freedom, but they usually meant, I think, a very narrow sense of freedom. Freedom from regulation, freedom from corporate taxes, and that was on their mind, and I'm sure that was sincere, but I'm thinking about not freedom from so much as freedom to. Freedom to live a life of your choosing and that’s part of what I got to talk about tonight.

I once read an amazing analysis about the birth of modern America. It explained how veterans returned from World War II and how programs like the GI Bill opened new avenues and opportunities that hadn’t existed before. As American soldiers returned home, many of them were battle-hardened warriors who had faced the worst of humanity. They fought for freedom and brought back skills that aren’t taught in any elementary school or university. We learned to see American brands as icons for what we stood for, but we are now being conditioned to be 'unburdened.' Veterans’ benefits made the American dream possible for over 13 million people. Some went to college, while others bought homes. Many started businesses, empowered by new skills in engineering, auto mechanics, and air mechanics — all fueled by a grit and determination reminiscent of the American pioneers. A few years later, some of those men helped build the U.S. interstate highway system, which connected this new generation of American pioneers like never before. “Go West, young man” was replaced with “get your hands dirty,” “work for what you believe in,” “improve your community,” and “fix what is broken.” Americans once took pride in maintaining their heritage. We valued American brands like John Deere, Tractor Supply, Ford, Chevrolet, Indian, and Harley-Davidson, and we actively protected their legacy. We worked on these products in the fields and in our home garages, building businesses to ensure they continued serving the American public. These weren’t just commodities. They were our livelihood. They plowed our fields, fed our families, and took our kids to school. They embodied the American spirit, symbolizing everything we were willing to fight and die for. To the children of some of those returning veterans, how many of you learned about real American muscle while leaning over the front end of a 1965 Shelby GT, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro, or a 1970 Chevy Chevelle, or learned about the internal combustion engine while Pop tore apart a 1941 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead? How many of you assisted your dad in keeping the plowing season alive by repairing the family’s 1949 Model B John Deere tractor? How many trips to Tractor Supply did it take? You no doubt bloodied a bunch of fingers. You sat in the garage, on the hood, or in the field and dumped about 10 gallons of sweat, but you did it proudly. You listened as Dad or Granddad patiently said, “There’s where the crankshaft is. That’s the water pump. That’s the alternator. That’s the fuel pump, and that’s the line that goes up to the carburetor.” He might have even let you pull on the throttle linkage so you could hear that baby sing. There was no agenda here besides pure American greatness. American brands built our country. We relied and depended on them. We built businesses of our own from them, and we passed that legacy on to our children. It was their birthright, and it created modern America. Harley’s woke surrender This is a big part of the reason why today’s corporate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” craze is such a huge slap in the face. Woke politics have replaced the purity of the American brands that we grew up with. We depended on these products. We built income from them, and we supported our communities with their logos displayed proudly on barns and in garages. Those symbols are now being replaced by corporate boards who get their marching orders from people like Larry Fink at BlackRock. Robby Starbuck has recently exposed multiple companies for this behavior: John Deere, Tractor Supply, and especially Harley-Davidson. Can you think of a bigger slap in the face than the woke capitulation of Harley-Davidson? Harley is one of the brands that helped win World War II. The Harley-Davidson WLA carried American GIs to war against the Nazis. The WLA was brought back to the United States, and a new era of motorcycles was born after the veterans began chopping them up for civilians to use. The “chopper” was born. Bettmann/Getty Images Veterans returning from war from the 1940s through today have ridden Harleys as both a therapeutic mechanism to deal with what they saw on the battlefield and as an homage to experience the openness of American freedom. And that legacy has been taught and handed down to Harley-Davidson riders from father to son enthusiastically since 1903. What has Harley-Davidson done with that legacy? Here are just a few of the things that Starbuck exposed: Harley-Davidson openly supports the Equality Act, which would allow men into girls' bathrooms, sports, and locker rooms. The company funded an all-ages Pride event that featured a "rage room" next to drag queen story time. 1,800 employees were required to attend a virtual training course on how to become “LGBTQ+ allies.” The woke CEO, Jochen Zeitz, signed the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion Pledge. The company made February and March "months of inclusion" because, apparently, Pride Month isn’t enough. The company hosted multiple woke United Way trainings. Harley-Davidson sent some employees to a “white male only” woke diversity training program. To top it off, the company is openly working to have fewer white suppliers, dealers, and employees. And the list goes on. What globalists want ... and fear The purpose of modern cultural Marxism and progressivism is to destroy what was once great by attacking everything that made it great back in the beginning. You have to be “unburdened by what has been,” as Kamala Harris says, in order to open the door to “the fundamental transformation of America," to quote Barack Obama. Twenty-first-century fascists are doing this, one beloved brand at a time, and we’re seeing it happen in real time. Woodrow Wilson once said, "The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.” We’ve been seeing that from academia for decades. By and large, universities are lost. Teach your kids that getting their hands dirty is a good thing. Something fought, bled, and sweat for has meaningful value. It’s part of who we are as Americans. But that wasn’t enough. Progressives then turned their sights on our children in grade school. But that wasn’t enough either. They’re now going after the heart of the American entrepreneurial spirit and the beloved brands that made us who we are today. We were brought up to love them. We learned to see them as icons for what we stood for, but we are now being conditioned to be “unburdened.” Reconnect your children to the basics of what makes American products so great. “American made” is more than just a slogan. It represents the weary men and women working in factories in small towns across Middle America. It’s the dad teaching his kids to change their own tires and oil. It’s the multiple trips to the local parts store and the thrill of victory as the family tractor roars back to life. Teach your kids that getting their hands dirty is a good thing. Something fought, bled, and sweat for has meaningful value. It’s part of who we are as Americans. It benefits the family. It supports the community. It spreads that beloved American brand all over the country — and the world. That connection goes all the way to the top of the corporate boardroom. That connection is what the globalists fear the most. Your passion has the power to destroy every coercive motive they can ever dream up. It is the same passion that fueled the American pioneer. It carried our soldiers into war against the Nazis and then drove them to catapult this country into the modern era. That passion is why they’ll ultimately lose. Unburden your families from the unburdening. Teach them the history of what made this country great. If a corporation tries to pervert a beloved American brand, show your kids what made them beloved to begin with. Explain how the Harley-Davidson engine noise was specifically designed to be iconic, how the crankshaft has only one pin, and how the arrangement of the cylinders makes the pistons fire unevenly. No other motorcycle sounds the same. Why? Because it’s a friggin’ Harley! It’s part of Harley's story, and that is why American companies are so beloved to us. Sure, they sell quality products, but we fall in love with their story. Reconnect these great American brands with their incredible stories. Get some oil, grease, and brake dust on your hands, and take pride when your kids ultimately cover their faces in it while trying to help you. Passion drives change, and it is your passion that scares these tyrants the most. - YouTube youtu.be Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

Kamala Harris was notably absent during running mate Tim Walz's speech at the DNC on Wednesday night, reportedly preferring to watch from her hotel room in Chicago instead."The vice president was not in the arena tonight to watch her running mate, Tim Walz, give his big speech," said a CNN reporter shortly after Walz's speech concluded. "She was watching from her hotel room here in downtown Chicago."The New York Post characterized Harris' absence on Tuesday as 'an obvious snub' of the Obamas. The Post further described a possible 'rift' among Democrats more generally.According to the CNN chyron, Harris called Walz before the speech and encouraged him to "enjoy the moment." Other reports from the outlet indicated that Harris skipped the DNC on Wednesday to finalize her acceptance speech, noting that Harris has never been among Democrats' "master speechmakers" and that she views her speech on Thursday night as an opportunity to reintroduce herself to Americans who may not know her well.Blaze News reached out to Harris' campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.Wednesday marked the second day in a row that Harris absented herself from the convention meant to gin up enthusiasm for her 2024 presidential campaign, which formally began only a few weeks ago.On Tuesday, Harris left Chicago with Walz and traveled about 90 miles north to the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, where they addressed a crowd of some 15,000 supporters."This is where it’s at," Walz told the Milwaukee crowd, even as the DNC continued apace in Chicago. After the rally at Fiserv, Harris invited the crowd to stay and watch the evening's DNC events on the Jumbotron. However, most of the attendees dispersed after the rally and did not stay for the watch party.While Wisconsin is a key swing state that Harris will likely need to carry in November to win the presidency, the trip to Milwaukee meant that Harris was not present in Chicago as Democrat former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, gave speeches Tuesday night to promote Harris' candidacy.The New York Post characterized Harris' absence on Tuesday as "an obvious snub" of the Obamas. The Post further described a possible "rift" among Democrats more generally.Moreover, the DNC is officially only four days long, and with Harris elsewhere on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, she will have missed roughly half of it. On Monday, Harris briefly took the stage to greet supporters and to stand alongside Joe and Jill Biden, who likewise spoke. She is expected to be at the United Center in Chicago on Thursday night to give the final speech of the 2024 DNC.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

As more classic shows receive woke makeovers, America’s once-favorite streaming services can’t seem to stop digging their own graves. Batman is one of the latest to fall, after Amazon Prime’s new cartoon of the famous superhero features a gender-swapped version of the Penguin. The creator reportedly said the move was inspired by a drag queen and numerous musicals. Ryan Kinel, host of “RK Outpost” on YouTube and a U.S. Navy veteran, is among those not pleased. “Unfortunately they decided to put identity politics first and foremost,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “They said, you know, ‘we were inspired by drag queens.’ It’s a penguin that’s grotesque, that’s fat, that’s ugly, but it’s a woman.” “I don’t really understand what they thought was going to happen, but certainly they’ve been at the heavy end of some major criticism,” he adds, noting that the other female villain in the series, Harley Quinn, is no longer a white woman but a race-swapped lesbian. “It just goes back to getting into these things that are beloved and pillaging them and bastardizing them for the sake of modern-day identity politics,” he says. Disney has also come under fire recently for taking its woke agenda too far, with a highly criticized live-action remake of "Snow White" — as well as hiring drag queens to do children’s hair at theme parks. “There’s still men dressed as women who are cutting little girls' and boys' hair at the park,” Peterson tells Savage and Kinel. “Disney as a company for so long has really relied on this aspect of being family-friendly,” Kinel says. “Well, unfortunately, over the past couple years, it’s hard to say that this is a company that any family person, anyone with children, would describe as family-friendly.”Want more from Blaze News Tonight?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

UFC Hall of Fame member Ronda Rousey praised herself in a recent interview for saving women's mixed martial arts after numerous organizations had failed to make lasting stars in the sport.Rousey appeared on the podcast "Insight with Chris Van Vliet" and was asked if she ever considered retiring while still undefeated. The MMA star retired after two consecutive losses, finishing with a record of 12-2. The champion said that while she considered retirement, she didn't want to leave the women's bantamweight division without a star to push the sport forward."People forget how fragile that situation was and how last-minute I was able to get us in [to the UFC]," she told Van Vliet. "Strikeforce was the only organization that was really showcasing women, and that was because of Gina Carano, because her dad was involved with the Nevada Athletic Commission."Carano, a fighter turned actor, was one of the original women's MMA stars who was undefeated until losing to Cris 'Cyborg' Justino in 2009, a fighter whom Rousey revealed she despises. Carano never returned to MMA despite being booked for a fight in 2011.Rousey said she stepped in for Carano both for the fight and as the new star in the sport."When [Carano] was gone, Cris Cyborg's pumped to the f***ing gills with steroids. No one wants to watch that cheating-ass bitch; everything just tanked. The division was dying.""Retiring undefeated would have been such a selfish goal to be able to accomplish because I would have taken all that equity with me," Rousey continued. "No one would have respected the rest of the women that I left behind."Cyborg responded to a clip of Rousey's comments on X and asked if Rousey realized she only won six out of eight UFC fights."Does [Ronda Rousey] realize she only has 8 fights in the ufc and only won 75% of them?!" she wrote.Responding to a fan comment, Cyborg also stated that she never "quit" like Rousey did and called the idea of Rousey saving the sport "goofy."? does @RondaRousey realize she only has 8 fights in the ufc and only won 75% of them?! ? ?— CrisCyborg.Com (@criscyborg) August 21, 2024 By all accounts, Rousey did save women's MMA by being a dominant force in the sport as well as being a marketable face for the UFC. Rousey also said in her recent interview that the WWE is where she learned that retiring undefeated would have been selfish. However, Rousey has previously stated that her retirement was due to concussion issues. "I was so done fighting after that [first] loss. I'd had so many concussions I literally couldn't take a jab without getting a concussion at that point," Rousey explained. "My body and mind started to fall apart, and when I couldn't give anything any more, they hated me for it, but you couldn't even tell them why."In a series of 2024 interviews to promote her book, Rousey caused controversy over her recollections of different events and stories. The fighter has claimed that members of the media, such as Joe Rogan, have turned their back on her while also falsely recalling the outcome of fights.This spawned a series of responses from former UFC employees, including fighter Brendan Schaub, who said a story from Rousey's book "never happened." Former UFC commentator Jimmy Smith also said Rousey was "miserable," "mean," and widely disliked by UFC staff.UFC legend Matt Brown also offered Rousey the advice of practicing humility, because "no one wants to hear" what she has been saying.Rousey last fought in MMA in 2016 and has showed no interest in returning.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Conservative filmmaker turned consumer advocate Robby Starbuck was three for three — but he wasn't about to rest on his laurels. On Monday his social media-fueled boycott of Harley-Davidson convinced the iconic American motorcycle company to walk back various leftist initiatives, including mandatory "LBGTQ+ ally" training for employees and DEI-focused hiring policies. That same day, he informed Align that he was already working on another big target. The victory against Harley-Davidson followed similarly effective campaigns against Tractor Supply and John Deere. Brands like these are so much a part of our history that we can't just let them "go woke, go broke." We owe it to ourselves to preserve them. The woke desecration of Harley-Davidson has been especially insulting. As Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck puts it: Harley is one of the brands that helped win World War II. The Harley-Davidson WLA carried American GIs to war against the Nazis. The WLA was brought back to the United States, and a new era of motorcycles was born after the veterans began chopping them up for civilians to use. The “chopper” was born. Veterans returning from war from the 1940s through today have ridden Harleys as both a therapeutic mechanism to deal with what they saw on the battlefield and as an homage to experience the openness of American freedom. And that legacy has been taught and handed down to Harley-Davidson riders from father to son enthusiastically since 1903. Thanks to Starbuck's efforts, that legacy has been preserved — for now. - YouTube www.youtube.com Shortly after Harley-Davidson's capitulation, Starbuck told Align that he and his small team were already at work on the next target. While he declined to name the company — "We have someone in the field filming and can’t take any risk something accidentally gets out" — Starbuck promised "a powerful takedown" in the near future. Word did get out. Less than twelve hours later, Starbuck revealed that his intended target — Jack Daniel's — had gotten wise to his plan. Incredibly, the mere threat of exposure was enough to make the company pre-emptively change its DEI-motivated policies. — (@) "We are winning and one by one we will bring sanity back to corporate America," posted Starbuck. It's nothing Starbuck takes credit for personally. "We’re just a megaphone for the anger Americans have towards this divisive ideology," he said. What started as a grassroots movement has encountered some growing pains as it expands, admits Starbuck: "To be perfectly candid, right now our biggest issue is scaling this. We have well over 1,000 whistleblowers and need to hire some trusted people to get the tips and evidence coming in. To appropriately organize the stories and put them out takes a lot of manpower hours." Those who want to help with funding Starbuck's work holding companies accountable can subscribe to his X page (@robbystarbuck) for $5 a month. But your time and attention can also make a difference. "Stay engaged with what we’re posting and take the five minutes to email or call the companies we expose," urged Starbuck. "That time investment is winning our country back."

A recent report from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General found that Customs and Border Protection's CBP One application lacks some capabilities to help vet illegal aliens applying for asylum.The app was created to streamline the asylum-claim process so that Border Patrol agents spend less time processing illegal aliens at the border. Between January 12, 2023, and August 18, 2023, the app has been used to process more than 260,000 foreign nationals.'It does not leverage the information to identify suspicious trends.'The internal report claimed that the Biden-Harris administration's CBP failed to assess the "risks" of the application and provided three recommendations aimed at improving vetting procedures. The agency concurred with all three recommendations.The inspector general concluded that the agency "did not initially consider critical factors such as the design" of the app, the functionality of its language translations, and "equity of appointment distribution." As such, users often experience application crashes, error messages, and language barriers."Additionally, CBP may be missing an opportunity to use CBP One™ advance information to improve pre-arrival vetting procedures. Although CBP uses biographic and biometric information submitted to CBP One™ to determine whether arriving noncitizens have derogatory records, it does not leverage the information to identify suspicious trends as part of its pre-arrival vetting procedures," the report read.The inspector general stated that it identified instances in which unrelated illegal aliens repeatedly used the same United States-based address as their intended future residence after arriving in the country. It noted that CBP currently lacks the ability to automatically analyze data submitted at all ports of entry to view suspicious trends. Illegal immigrants who apply through the app can make an appointment at one of eight ports of entry to continue their asylum application.The report also noted some security vulnerabilities with the application that could potentially leave users' information vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it would loosen requirements for applicants to use the CBP One app. Currently, foreign nationals seeking to schedule an appointment through the app have to be in central or northern Mexico. However, the latest expansion will allow individuals to request an appointment from some parts of southern Mexico. The House Committee on Homeland Security previously found "shocking abuse" of the application, claiming that "95.8 percent of all inadmissible aliens who scheduled appointments through the app" were released into the U.S. Neither CBP nor the White House responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment.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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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to promote an official cryptocurrency project bearing his name, calling for followers to "take a stand" against big banks.