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A town in Canada is now facing a $10,000 fine for refusing to participate in Pride Month or fly the LGBTQIA+ flag at its municipal building. 

A fake news CNN host asked disgraced ex-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe if he thought Kash Patel was a good pick for the position of FBI Director. Kash Patel wants to reform an FBI that no longer adheres to its mission. McCabe helped lead the Russiagate hoax and approved the fake FISA warrant on Carter […] The post Disgraced Andy McCabe Trashes Kash Patel on Fake News appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is making the case for how and why the Democratic Party should undergo a “complete reboot” after its candidates got clobbered nationally in the 2024 election. Democrats are conducting election postmortems after losing the White House to President-elect Donald Trump and the Senate to Republicans. They also failed to win back the House. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Ryan was asked what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) or future chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) should do going forward. “You start with a complete reset,” Ryan said. “I mean, we need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016, like, our brand is toxic in so many places and it is like, you are a Democrat?” He added: “That’s the stuff we get like in Ohio. And so it needs — we need a complete reboot. We need a complete reboot with the DNC. We need a complete rebranding.” Ryan, who lost to Trump’s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, in the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Ohio, argued that members of his party need to reassess what it means to be a Democrat. “People want to trust us. They don’t want to go to Donald Trump. I’m telling you, the middle-of-the-road people, they’re holding their nose to vote for him,” Ryan said. Ryan offered a number of suggestions for how the Democrats can recalibrate, such as embracing natural gas as an alternative to coal and backing off a “big fight” with the crypto industry. “We’ve got to get back to the bread and butter policies,” Ryan said, adding that the Democratic Party should focus on wooing back working-class and other voters as well as offering a vision for the future. He further suggested that Democrats need to “lead” on the economy and say “no” to some of the “issues” — even if members can be allies to those causes. “The other thing that I think is really big: We can’t be for solely redistribution,” Ryan said, adding later, “We want people to aspire to make money in America. … It’s about growing the pie.” Ryan posited his party should look back to the “Bill Clinton campaign,” put together a plan geared toward “reinventing” a “broken” government, and offer “more of a class-based upward mobility system.”

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is making for some odd bedfellows. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has long railed against billionaires, vouched for Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and co-leader of DOGE — in the hopes of a defense spending crackdown. “Elon Musk is right,” Sanders said on X. Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions. Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 1, 2024 “The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions,” he added. “Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud.” Sanders concluded: “That must change.” The post garnered all sorts of buzz, including from Musk’s America PAC. “Sensible spending is not a partisan issue,” the PAC said. “The general public supports [DOGE] holding government accountable to spend taxpayer money more wisely.” President-elect Donald Trump picked Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head DOGE and come up with a plan to reform government and cut down on waste. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining DOGE’s aspirations, Musk and Ramaswamy mentioned how the Department of Defense had just failed its seventh audit in a row. “The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent,” they wrote. Further insight could be gleaned from their exchanges on X over the past couple of weeks. In one post, Ramaswamy said, “We need to strengthen our military by focusing on the *effectiveness* of our defense spending, rather than just reflexively increasing the magnitude.” Musk replied by saying that DOGE “will improve the efficiency of Defense spending.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Last week, Ramaswamy said: “Yes, it’s true that cutting bureaucracy will reduce the federal deficit, but the real win will be its pro-growth effect. The biggest cost of bureaucracy isn’t the headcount costs, it’s that bureaucrats find legally dubious ‘things to do’ that stifle freedom & depress our economy.” “Exactly,” Musk replied. “In a meeting with senior military officers today, they told me that it now takes longer to renovate stairs (24 months) in the Pentagon than it took to build the WHOLE Pentagon (16 months) in the 1940s!!”

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said during an interview over the weekend that President-elect Donald Trump plans to use tariffs as a “major tool” to help the United States “achieve our ends” once he takes power in January. Hagerty made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with host Kristen Welker when asked about Trump’s proposals, which include enacting tariffs against Mexico, Canada, China, and countries in the BRICS alliance — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Egypt, and Ethiopia. “One of the most important things that we have as a nation is our economy,” he said. “That’s the most incredible source of competitive advantage that the United States has. Access to our economy is a privilege. If you think about it, we’ve made access to this economy a strategic tool ever since World War II. If you think about what happened in Japan and countries in Europe, when those economies were decimated, the United States put in place very favorable terms of trade to get those countries to rebuild their economies, to trade with us rather than trading with Communist countries.” “We have used these tools effectively decade after decade after decade,” he continued. “Right now, the United States has the most open market of any major economy in the world. We need to take a very hard look at countries that don’t have our best interests at heart. Countries that are allowing our borders to be violated, and use those tariffs as a tool to achieve our ends.” Hagerty said that the tariffs will hopefully lead to “a correction of the behavior that’s taking place right now that is letting fentanyl flood into our border, that is allowing people to flood into our country, millions of people, undocumented, illegal people breaking into our country.” “It needs to stop,” he continued. “And President Trump is going to use every lever at his disposal to do it, and I think it’s absolutely appropriate to use tariffs as one of those tools. It’s a major tool.” WATCH:

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