Comedian Bill Maher spoke to Megyn Kelly about the pro-Hamas madness on college campuses, and both agreed that the social justice warriors have lost it by sticking up for terrorists. During Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, Kelly asked the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” how we got to a place where the Left is defending terrorists and supporting murderers like Hezbollah and Hamas with pro-Palestinian protestors “chanting at Jews that they can’t go to class.” “If I ever needed a reason or rationale for making the case that the Left has changed, it would be this,” Maher replied. “The fact that they’re now marching for the terrorists, really? The people who see themselves as the most liberal people in the world, the social justice warriors, are standing with some of the most illiberal people in the world.” “Look kids, I know you’re looking for a cause,” he added. “And that’s admirable, that kids want to have a cause. I got one for you. Women. Women around the world, especially in Muslim majority countries. Hamas? I mean, really, you’re marching for Hamas?”  .@BillMaher on Biden’s Pandering, Woke Progressives Supporting Terrorists, and The Value of Disagreement Plus, Stormy Daniels’ changing story, the viral Ben Affleck vs. Sam Harris moment, and more. Watch today’s FULL show, right here on X: pic.twitter.com/ADYaUpMLIu — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 22, 2024 The “Real Time” host said “every possible thing that is a left-wing cause they [Hamas] violate, even the people of course under the rule of Hamas hate them. It’s a fascist dictatorship. It’s worse. It’s a fascist dictatorship with a hard Right, religious bent. It’s like the worst of all worlds. And those are your heroes?” Kelly brought up the recent TikTok trend by some young people praising September 11th terrorist attack mastermind Osama Bin Laden. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “This is one of the big problems with the Left today is they see race in everything,” Maher replied. “As the guy who is trying to, like, be the common sense person in the middle, just speak for the normies, everything, I think to a lot of people, strikes at the way it strikes me as we start with one thing, this idea over here and then we’re all the way on the other side over here.” “And of course it’s great that we got more impatient with racism in this country; that is the appropriate response … and then it goes all the way to and ‘no one who is a person of color can ever do anything wrong,’” he added. “That’s how you get, ‘we don’t talk about China,'” Maher continued. “North Korea starves its people. China puts the Uyghurs in concentration camps. The president of Burundi … said we should march the gays into football stadiums and kill them for just being gay … but none of these crimes are coming from white people, so crickets. Really kids, nothing? No marching against any of this?” In December, Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye said, “If you want to attract a curse to the country, accept homosexuality.” “I even think that these people, if we find them in Burundi, it is better to lead them to a stadium and stone them,” the president said. “And that cannot be a sin.”

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The Senate will vote again Thursday on a border bill that Republicans say would do more harm than good.  The bill “is not a border bill, and it is not a border security bill,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. “This is an election-year political stunt designed to give our Democratic colleagues the appearance of doing something about the problem without doing anything at all.”   The border bill at hand previously failed in the Senate in February, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he’s bringing the bill back to the floor a second time because “Democrats’ commitment to act never waned.”  Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., originally negotiated the text of the bill. Blackburn slammed Democrats for being a “party of open borders,” adding that the political Left and Right mean two very different things when they speak of “border security.”   “The Left means release and resettle,” Blackburn said, but “When Republicans talk about border security, we mean deny and deport.”  .@SenSchumer’s partisan open border legislation is really a feeble attempt to make illegal immigration legal.WATCH ?? pic.twitter.com/aeSLizGh35— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) May 22, 2024 The contested bill would allow up to 5,000 illegal aliens to enter the U.S. daily—meaning up to 1.8 million illegal immigrants could still cross the border annually if the bill became law.   Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., was one of seven GOP senators to join Blackburn’s press conference Wednesday. Johnson criticized the bill that, if passed, would provide “$20 billion to not security border, but to more efficiently encounter, process, and disperse illegal migrants.”  The text of the bill “codifies an industrial-scale mass-release program,” Mike Howell, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, told “The Daily Signal Podcast” in February. Howell noted that the bill is “full of giveaways, codifying—basically—amnesty practices into law; visa giveaways; money to sanctuary cities; far-left, dark money nonprofits, etc.” (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.) Following the bill’s failure three months ago, Schumer accused former President Donald Trump of having “demanded congressional Republicans kill the legislation.”    But Johnson said the bill’s failure was not because of Trump. “It failed because it’s an awful bill,” the Wisconsin Republican said. The only reason the bill is back on the floor to begin with, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said at the press conference, is because “poll numbers are showing [Democrats] that, after months and months of throwing the border open to anyone who wants to come in, that the public doesn’t like the policy.”  Gallup polling data reports that immigration is the No. 1 issue not specifically related to the economy on the minds of American voters right now.   “And now, all of a sudden, six months before an election, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have got religion on border security,” said Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio.   Sen @JDVance1 on Schumer’s border bill:“Six months before an election, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have got religion on border security…It doesn’t even pass the smell test. Joe Biden opened the southern border, he can close the southern border. It’s really that simple.”? pic.twitter.com/a4XGQ5PO8D— Senator Vance Press Office (@SenVancePress) May 22, 2024 If Senate “Democrats were serious” about stopping the flow of illegal immigration, Schumer would take up the border security bill known as H.R. 2, which the House passed a year ago, said Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. If passed into law, HR 2 would end “catch and release,” restart construction of the border wall, and reinstate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.  On Tuesday night, Marshall and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke on the Senate floor and called for the Senate to pass H.R. 2 by unanimous consent. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., reserved the right to object and blocked the bill.    More than 10 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to Customs and Border Protection data. On President Joe Biden’s first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021, he stopped construction of the Trump administration’s wall at the southern border, signed an executive order “revoking a Trump Executive Order that directed harsh and extreme immigration enforcement,” and strategically undid many of the Trump administration’s other border security policies.    Rather than bring the border bill back to the Senate floor for a vote, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said “if Chuck Schumer wanted to be useful with his time, which he’s not good at, he would spend that time over at the White House begging Joe Biden to undo the madness that he created.”   The bill is expected to fail in the Senate, but even if it manages to pass, GOP House leadership says the bill is “dead on arrival” in the lower chamber.   The post GOP Senators Slam Schumer, Call Border Bill Revote an ‘Election Year Political Stunt’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—After President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to work with private organizations to mobilize voters, senior White House officials asked agencies for “bold ideas” and explained plans to coordinate with “stakeholders.”  One message from the White House, obtained by The Daily Signal, said: “We look forward to working with you to”—but the rest of the content is blacked out by a redaction.  The specifics of those “bold ideas” and “stakeholders” isn’t knowable right now because “upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office, the information is being withheld under the presidential communications privilege,” according to a cover letter to The Daily Signal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  The letter accompanied 99 pages that The Daily Signal obtained from USDA through a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Since Biden signed his executive order on elections in March 2021, members of Congress, the press, and watchdog groups have struggled to get basic information on how the administration is implementing the order. Some details have trickled out through FOIA law, which requires that basic information from the government be available to the public.  Earlier this month, two House committees intensified their investigations of Biden’s order on turning out voters.  Although records obtained previously by The Daily Signal under FOIA requests contained redactions and cited exemptions, the responses didn’t refer to “presidential communication privilege.” “The presidential communications privilege protects communications among the president and his advisors,” the cover letter to the released but redacted documents says.  “The records being withheld here consist of email communications concerning President Biden’s Executive Order 14019 and attached records that were solicited and received by the president or his immediate White House advisers who have broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given to the president,” says the letter signed by Alexis R. Graves, director of the USDA’s Office of Information Affairs.  Other exemptions to disclosure cited in Graves’ cover letter include the deliberative process privilege and attorney-client privilege. Critics of Biden’s executive order, some of whom refer to it as “Bidenbucks,” argue that its implementation could cause bureaucrats to violate the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits political activity using resources of the federal government. Critics also say the order may violate the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits agencies from spending taxpayers’ money for reasons not approved by Congress.  Separately, the Justice Department has invoked presidential privilege to shield documents about Biden’s order in a public records lawsuit brought by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a watchdog group. “In recent years, the presidential communications privilege has become an increasingly common excuse used by federal agencies to sidestep their disclosure obligations under federal law,” Stewart Whitson, senior director of federal affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, told The Daily Signal.  “During the current administration, federal agencies have shown an increasing willingness to stretch the presidential communications privilege well beyond what is allowed under current law—documents or other materials that reflect presidential decision making and deliberations that the president believes should remain confidential—to any and all documents received by White House advisers and their staff,” Whitson said. “If allowed to persist, federal agencies and the politically appointed bureaucrats leading these agencies will gradually render the FOIA law meaningless. Government transparency and our very democracy are under threat,” he said. USDA-3-EO14019-2022-OSEC-02115-F-final-response_Redacted-1Download Stephonn O. Alcorn, then the associate director of racial justice and equity at the White House, sent an April 1, 2021, email to all federal agencies that is heavily redacted in the released version.  Alcorn’s email was about an interagency meeting to be convened eight days later, on April 9, by the White House Counsel’s Office and the Domestic Policy Counsel. The agenda is completely redacted.   Alcorn notified agencies that taking the White House lead on Biden’s election executive order would be Justin Vail, special assistant to the president for democracy and civic participation with the Domestic Policy Council, and Larry Schwartztol, an associate White House counsel. In September 2021, Kumar Chandran, senior adviser for nutrition to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, notified Vail of a change of plans for how the USDA wanted to implement Biden’s order. In the released record, however, the change is blacked out from public view.  “After input from Sec. Vilsack this week, we are considering a change to one of our proposed actions, which would result in [redacted],” Chandran wrote.  “We need to do some further diligence to determine if it is viable, but if it is, we think it might be more meaningful,” he added. A White House press release that month gave a broad overview of how the USDA would implement Biden’s order on mobilizing voters.  “The Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service will encourage the provision of nonpartisan voter information through its borrowers and guaranteed lenders, who interface with thousands of residents in the process of changing their voting address every year,” the White House press release said. “In addition, Rural Development agencies—which are spread throughout field offices across the country where rural Americans can apply for housing, facilities, or business assistance—will take steps to promote access to voter registration forms and other pertinent nonpartisan election information among their patrons.” Getting to the point of how the USDA would push Americans to vote appears to be a tedious process, based on what’s discernible from the released records.  Some messages were more heavily redacted than others. For example, a September 2021 message from USDA Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development Farah Ahmad says only “This is” before the text is blacked out.  A June 2021 email from Vail to Chandran was about the “interim report template.”  “At this point,” Vail’s message began, followed by several lines of redacted information. He continued: “We just want to ensure that all agencies are taking steps to generate bold ideas and begin to flesh out those ideas; it will also allow the opportunity for us to provide feedback.” This statement is followed by more heavy redactions.  White House official Devontae Freeland, special assistant to the racial justice and equity team, notified agencies on July 2, 2021, about an upcoming conference with “stakeholders” on Biden’s executive order.  Separate document releases show that a Zoom conference the following July 12 involved Biden administration officials and numerous far-left political organizations, among them unions. The groups included the Southern Poverty Law Center, Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the Stacey Abrams-founded Fair Fight Action, and the Al Sharpton-founded National Action Network.  “As you know, we’re coordinating some input from stakeholders, including what we hope you found to be an informative session yesterday afternoon with state and local election officials,” Freeland wrote.  “We’ve also planned a session for nonpartisan nonprofit organizations engaged in voting rights advocacy to provide their recommendations and thoughts on best practices; we will follow up shortly with an additional session from nonprofit organizations with substantial expertise in reaching out to and engaging particular populations of voters who may be more difficult to reach. We hope that each of these sessions will provide helpful feedback,” he wrote, before more redactions blacked out the text.  In another heavily redacted message, Vail wrote USDA officials in late September 2021 with the subject line “Voting EO/Follow up items.” On Oct. 6, 2021, Vail wrote to agencies about meeting on Biden’s executive order in coming days.  “We look forward to working with you to [redacted],” he wrote.  The next interagency meeting would be Oct. 20, Vail wrote.  Spokespersons for the White House and the Agriculture Department didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s inquiries about this report before publication. USDA-3-PresidentialPrivilege-1Download The post ‘PRIVILEGE’: What the White House Doesn’t Think You Should Know About Biden’s Order on Mobilizing Voters appeared first on The Daily Signal.