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On Tuesday, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View finally got their highly anticipated chance to rage and vent at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for leading nine other Democrats to vote for the Republican Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown. Their reactions ranged from simply asking “why” to questioning his ability to lead and suggesting he should “step aside” as a leader of the party and make way for younger radicals. They kicked off the show with a conversation about who the options were to lead the party, with moderator Whoopi Goldberg making clear that the cast had a stake in it. “[W]hich Democrat do you see stepping up to lead the party?” she asked. “[Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) is] not wrong when he says the party is us and what are we going -- what are we prepared to do?” When Schumer finally came on, over 10 minutes later, Goldberg immediately pressed him on why he wanted to avoid a government shutdown. “I'm just going to throw it out there. Why? What were you thinking, and why?” she asked simply. “Okay. So look, I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew that I'd get a lot of criticism for my choice but I felt as a leader I had to do it,” Schumer defended himself. “And here's what would happen if we cut off government spending. It would be devastation like we have never seen.” It did little to dissuade the angry liberal ladies. Pretend independent Sara Haines came out swinging with a question questioning his leadership given he was only able to convince nine of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate to follow him: You mentioned this is what a leader does and we were just talking in our last segment about we aren't seeing a clear leader of the party because –  even though I agree with you, with your decision and I see why, but you were only able to get nine Democrats to go with you. How is that leadership?     Co-host Joy Behar was angry at Schumer over a Trump post on social media congratulating him on voting to fund the government, suggesting Trump managed to pull one over on him or that they possibly worked together. Schumer and other cast members had to explain to her that Trump was just trolling him (Click “expand”): BEHAR: If what you're saying is true, how do you explain the fact that Friday Trump publicly congratulated you for this decision? He said you did the right thing he said your decision, quote, unquote, “took guts and courage.” Was he trying to trick you? SCHUMER: Troll me. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: He's trolling. SCHUMER: He was trolling me. I know this guy. BEHAR: It's so confusing, though. People are reading that! SCHUMER: Well he's trying to confuse people. He always tries to confuse people. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, who boasted about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, came at Schumer from the left and pressed him on leaving Democratic leadership to get out of the way of up and coming radicals. She even cited his behind-the-scenes work to get former President Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. “There seems to be a disconnect between the younger generation and some of the newly elected Democrats and yours,” she prefaced. “Do you believe that the party has confidence in you to continue to serve as its leader, and as somebody who was influential in helping Biden's decision to step aside, do you think it might be for you too?” The outrage directed at Schumer from co-host Sunny Hostin took on a more personal tone, especially after she lamented: “And it gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved.” Adding: “I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away.” “Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by?” she demanded to know. Schumer also made headlines during the interview when he bitterly lashed out at Americans who wanted to keep their hard-earned money and didn’t want to pay excessive taxes. “You know what their attitude is, 'I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?'” he decried. “They hate government, government is a barrier to people. A barrier to stop them from doing things."   Dem Senate leader Chuck Schumer mocks Americans who want to keep their hard-earned income and praises the government as a "barrier" to them: "You know what their attitude is, 'I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me?' ... They hate… pic.twitter.com/vb4oDxPQ3V — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 18, 2025   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 18, 2025 11:03:36 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And voters also said they're looking for leadership, you know. And so, I guess the question is, which Democrat do you see stepping up to lead the party? I mean, I don't know if this is -- I don't know you can wait for somebody to step up and lead the party. He's [Governor Tim Walz (D-MN)] not wrong when he says the party is us and what are we going -- what are we prepared to do? (…) 11:14:44 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I'm just going to throw it out there. Why? What were you thinking, and why? SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): Okay. So look, I knew it was a difficult choice and I knew that I'd get a lot of criticism for my choice but I felt as a leader I had to do it. Here's why. The CR bill was bad, no question, and it allowed a slush fund which allowed money to be pushed around. JOY BEHAR: Explain it for the people who don't know what CR means and what you did. SCHUMER: CR means continue the government spending. A shutdown, the alternative is cut off the government spending. And here's what would happen if we cut off government spending. It would be devastation like we have never seen. GOLDBERG: Worse than we're seeing now? SCHUMER: Much. (…) 11:17:33 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: You mentioned this is what a leader does and we were just talking in our last segment about we aren't seeing a clear leader of the party because –  even though I agree with you, with your decision and I see why, but you were only able to get nine Democrats to go with you. How is that leadership? (…) 11:19:36 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: But if you're right -- if what you're saying is true, how do you explain the fact that Friday Trump publicly congratulated you for this decision? He said you did the right thing he said your decision, quote, unquote, “took guts and courage.” Was he trying to trick you? SCHUMER: Troll me. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: He's trolling. SCHUMER: He was trolling me. I know this guy. BEHAR: It's so confusing, though. People are reading that! SCHUMER: Well he's trying to confuse people. He always tries to confuse people. (…) 11:21:02 a.m. Eastern FARAH GRIFFIN: Senator, I want to ask you, because I actually agree with your decision to keep government open. I think no one wins, it costs the economy billions of dollars, federal workers are left in the lurch in a shut down, but I'm a Republican. I'm not really your core constituency. SCHUMER: I have a lot of Republicans who are Republicans. FARAH GRIFFIN: But some of the progressive members of your caucus – the House caucus are not with you, Jasmine Crockett questioned your leadership and Hakeem Jeffries dodged a question about your alignment over this and obviously voted the other direction. There seems to be a disconnect between the younger generation and some of the newly elected Democrats and yours. Do you believe that the party has confidence in you to continue to serve as its leader, and as somebody who was influential in helping Biden's decision to step aside, do you think it might be for you too? (…) 11:29:36 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: And it gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away. SCHUMER: True. HOSTIN: And so, in my view what you did really was, in supporting that GOP partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid. Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by? SCHUMER: Okay, first I'd say, Sunny, no one wants to fight more than me and no one fights more than me. You got to fight smart. (…)

The so-called "climate emergency" is Exhibit A in the intolerance of "public" broadcasting for any opposing point of view. Either you perpetually believe we're ten years away from mass death (as PBS projected in 1990), or you cannot appear on PBS. On Sunday's PBS News Weekend, the latest hyperbolic hangout was headlined "Earth is ‘perilously close’ to a global warming threshold. Here’s what to know". The expert doomsayer was Michael Mann, one of those Ivy League leftists from the University of Pennsylvania. Not only did Mann fear no opponent, he knew PBS would not bring up how he was forced to pay National Review more than $500,000 in legal fees for a frivolous defamation lawsuit, in which he channeled the no-dissent spirit of PBS by saying he viewed his lawsuit as a way to “ruin National Review.” Weekend anchor Ali Rogin ran through a puffy-pillow set of questions for Mann:  Simply put, how big a deal is it for the planet to exceed this 1.5 degree threshold?... And what happens if we do continue to exceed this number? That'll be a sign that things are continuing to move in that direction in a more permanent way, right?... And what is it about that 1.5 degree change? I've read that it's not so much that number itself, it's that it more about what it represents. Is that correct? This is where Mann uncorks all his drama about how the California wildfires and the hurricane in North Carolina, it's all signs of the coming apocalypse. But then it turned to Trump, and  Mann the Scientist spoke of the "climate" like it was a caring human being:  ALI ROGIN: President Trump has started the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which set this 1.5 degree threshold, also easing restrictions on oil and gas production. How does that impact efforts to avoid further exceeding this threshold? And what about the general political climate elsewhere in the world? MICHAEL MANN: The real problem here is that this sort of sends a signal to the rest of the world that the United States isn't willing to honor its commitments. We're the world's largest legacy carbon polluter. We've put more carbon pollution into the atmosphere than any other country, and that's all the climate cares about. It cares about the cumulative carbon emissions. Over time, we've contributed more to the warming of the planet than any other country. This sounds a little like an old Washington Post article: "The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will get its revenge." Rogin ended with one more softball: "And in terms of that global participation, there's long been a debate about the responsibility of developing countries and what they have to do versus developed first world countries like the United States. How does the reaching and exceeding of this 1.5 degree threshold move the needle on that debate?" Predictably, Mann said it's sad that American "disengagement" causes poor countries to wonder why they have to sacrifice anything. So naturally, America better "pony up" for the poor. PS:  On the "less than 10 years" business. They were saying this in 1990. Try this howler from PBS, badly predicting doom. https://t.co/FQRWrv4aQP pic.twitter.com/XR8Rryuw5V — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 14, 2025

Vice President JD Vance outlined the Trump administration's plan for the nation's "great industrial comeback" Tuesday at the American Dynamism Summit hosted by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. In his speech, Vance identified precisely what must change in order to unbridle U.S. innovation without further dispossessing and deracinating American workers. Vance, who spent years as a venture capitalist after distinguishing himself overseas in the Marines, acknowledged at the outset that the Trump administration's endeavor to lead the world in artificial intelligence and other potentially disruptive technologies has prompted concerns about the potential for tension between the "techno optimists and the populist right of President Trump's coalition." "While this is a well-intentioned concern, I think it's based on a faulty premise," said Vance, identifying as a proponent of both tribes. "The reality is that in any dynamic society, technology is going to advance, of course. And speaking as a Catholic, I think back to Pope John Paul II's opening lines of the encyclical Laborem Exercens: 'Through work, man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives.'" The vice president underscored that, to the late pope's point, technology should not be inimical to labor; instead, it "should be something that enhances rather than supplants the value of labor" — something that improves productivity, increases wages, and "dignifies our workers." The problem, suggested Vance, is that American firms grew addicted to the drug of cheap labor over the past four decades. 'Even if you replaced the financial element of their jobs — you would destroy something that was dignified and purposeful about work itself.' This addiction, coupled with innovation's geographical divorce from manufacturing — a consequence of globalization and liberal economic thinking — has prompted some Trump-supporting populists to doubt the promised good of innovation. After all, populists witnessed the de-industrialization of America, an exodus of jobs, the gutting of the middle class, and an unprecedented stratification of wealth. While foreign nations that Western elites figured for indefinite sources of cheap labor climbed the "value chain" and effectively ate America's lunch, populists watched as American workers at home were further alienated "from their jobs, from their communities, from their sense of solidarity," and from a sense of purpose, said Vance. Vance intimated that compounding populists' skepticism is the cavalier attitude taken by some technologists and the leadership class' apparent belief that "welfare can replace a job and an application on a phone can replace a sense of purpose." The vice president recalled a meeting in his venture capitalist days where he told a number of American tech leaders that "even if you had enough economic dynamism to provide the wealth to ensure [middle class families] could afford to buy a house and afford their food and so forth — that even if you replaced the financial element of their jobs — you would destroy something that was dignified and purposeful about work itself." 'We don't want people seeking cheap labor. We want them investing and building right here in the United States of America.' Vance said that the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech company suggested in response that Americans' loss of purpose would be remedied by "fully immersive gaming." While concerns about the potential incompatibility between techno-optimism and rightist populism may be historically justified, Vance indicated that the current administration's "America First" policies can protect citizen labor and thereby reconcile the two camps. "I'd ask my friends, both on the tech-optimist side and on the populist side not to see the failure of the logic of globalization as a failure of innovation," said Vance. "Indeed, I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad for innovation. Both our working people — our populists — and our innovators gathered here today have the same enemy, and the solution, I believe, is American innovation, because in the long run, it's technology that increases the value of labor." Vance further indicated that the Trump administration is going to help innovators wean off cheap foreign labor and begin on-shoring industry, in part by incentivizing manufacturing and investment inside the United States with tax cuts and other policy instruments; by reducing regulations and the cost of energy; by erecting tariff walls around critical industries; and also by enforcing immigration law and securing the border to drain the pool of cheap illegal alien labor. "You're making interesting new things here in America? Great. Then we're going to cut your taxes. We're going to slash regulations. We're going to reduce the cost of energy so that you can build, build, build," said the vice president. "Our goal is to incentivize investment in our own borders, in our own businesses, our own workers, and our own innovation. We don't want people seeking cheap labor. We want them investing and building right here in the United States of America." The vice president distilled the fundamental premise of President Donald Trump's economic policy down to undoing "40 years of failed economic policy in this country," which he characterized as an addiction to cheap labor, both overseas and illegally imported into the country; the over-regulation of industry; the over-taxation of innovators; and the setting of caltrops before individuals seeking to build in the United States. Vance indicated that by undoing these ruinous trends and wedding techno-futurism to rightist populism, America is destined for an industrial renaissance. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg is extremely worried after the Trump administration deported alleged gang members who were in the United States illegally to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.Many of the illegal immigrants who were flown to El Salvador, in a new agreement with the United States, were deported under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The move was to help speed up the deportation process so that the number of expulsions can increase. While a federal judge ordered the flights to halt or to turn around if they were in the air, the flights made it the Central American country, and the detainees were processed into the Terrorism Confinement Center.'The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.'"You just gotta keep your eyes open, y'all. 'Cause if they can just come up and take somebody 'cause they made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves being deported to some country," Goldberg said on Monday. "Don't give them any ideas, girl," Ana Navarro interjected.Goldberg then went off the rails, rambling and making wild accusations about the Trump administration."Well, listen, you know, it is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say ... listen, I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff. I get it, but why do you now have access to my personal information? I get with the things you're trying to do. I don't understand why you're taking my stuff," Goldberg said.Democrats and the mainstream media have accused the Trump administration of defying the judge's order because the flights proceeded as planned, allegedly violating the deportees' due process. In response to the criticisms, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "The Administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory. The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict."Leavitt pointed out that "the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An Illinois special education teacher is accused of having an "inappropriate sexual relationship" with a student. Detectives with the Downers Grove Police Department arrested Christina Formella — a 30-year-old married teacher at Downers Grove South High School — during a traffic stop Sunday.'The allegations against Ms. Formella are extremely disturbing.'Formella was charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 1 Felony), one count of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 Felony), and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 2 Felony).Formella was released from jail under the conditions that she not enter Downers Grove South High School, and she was ordered to have no contact with anyone under the age of 18. Downers Grove is about 30 minutes southwest of Chicago.The alleged victim and his mother on Saturday went to the Downers Grove Police Department to report inappropriate sexual contact.The Downers Grove Police Department and the DuPage County Children’s Advocacy Center launched an investigation into the child sex crime accusations.Formella reportedly was the boy's soccer coach and tutor.At the time the alleged assault took place — December 2023 — the alleged victim was 15 years old and Formella was 28 years old.The DuPage County state's attorney said in a statement that "the victim and Formella were in a classroom for a tutoring session before school began, when Formella sexually assaulted the boy."The boy ended their relationship, according to the New York Post.The mother of the alleged victim looked through her son’s text messages on his cell phone that detailed the alleged sexual relationship, according to the DuPage County state's attorney.Formella has been in the high school’s special services department since the 2020-21 school year. She also coached boys’ and girls’ soccer.'It is alleged that she used her position of trust and authority as a tutor and a coach to sexually assault a minor student.'Don Renner, president of the Board of Education of Community High School District 99, on Monday said, "We are heartbroken for the victim and also for the hundreds of students, staff, and [families] who trusted this teacher and feel betrayed by this terrible situation. Our top focus now is to support for [sic] victim and their family."Downers Grove South High School Principal Arwen Lyp wrote in an email to parents, "We are devastated, and our community is reeling. An adult has been charged with the most serious of violations, and trust has been broken. Our team is here to support students who are impacted by this terrible news."Lyp added that "we are cooperating with law enforcement to investigate the allegations. Additionally, we will contact families whose students have had direct contact with Formella."Lyp urged anyone with information on the case to provide an anonymous tip on the Safe2Help Illinois website. Formella has been placed on administrative leave with pay, Lyp said. Formella on Tuesday afternoon was still listed on the Downers Grove South High School staff page of the school website.DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin stated, "The allegations against Ms. Formella are extremely disturbing.""It is alleged that she used her position of trust and authority as a tutor and a coach to sexually assault a minor student," Berlin added. "The type of abuse and behavior alleged in this case will not be tolerated."Downers Grove Police Chief Michael DeVries called the child molestation allegations a "deeply concerning case.""The safety and well-being of our children remain our highest priority, and we will take all necessary actions to ensure that anyone engaging in this type of conduct is held accountable," DeVries added.Formella is scheduled to appear in court on April 14.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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