Absolute insanity

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House passed a bill Friday that would overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s de facto electric vehicle mandate if it becomes law. By a 215-191 vote, the House approved H.J. Res. 136, a bill that would vacate the Environmental Protection Agency’s tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Joe Biden. Eight House Democrats crossed the aisle to side with Republicans in favoring the bill, while one GOP lawmaker—Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick—voted against the legislation. The eight Democrats who voted with Republicans were Reps. Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Mary Peltola of Alaska, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. Notably, Democratic Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Colin Allred of Texas—both of whom are running for U.S. Senate—voted to preserve the EPA’s tailpipe emissions rules, which have been characterized as a de facto EV mandate because they will effectively force automakers to substantially increase EV production over the coming decade if enforced. Ford Slashes Electric Vehicle Jobs As Sales Slow https://t.co/I8jxlJ7K7g— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 28, 2024 Specifically, automakers will be in compliance with the EPA’s rules if EVs make up 56% of their new vehicle sales by 2032, with an additional 13% of sales being plug-in hybrids, according to The Associated Press. The Biden-Harris administration contends that the regulations do not amount to an EV mandate. Critics, however, say the opposite. “This EPA rulemaking is clearly beyond the scope of the regulatory power granted to the agency by Congress,” more than two dozen energy-focused advocacy organizations wrote to lawmakers on Thursday. “While this overreach will be litigated in the courts, a positive [Congressional Review Act] decision now would ensure that consumers are protected today, rather than wait years for the issue to work its way through the court system.” The Biden-Harris administration has a goal of having 50% of all new car sales be EVs by 2030 as one facet of its wider climate agenda. Despite billions of dollars of spending and aggressive regulation, consumers appear to still be hesitant to transition to all-electric models while automakers are burning large amounts of cash on their EV lines and starting to retreat from some short-term production targets. Neither the EPA nor the White House responded immediately to requests for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Congress Takes Big Step Toward Dismantling Biden-Harris Admin’s Electric Vehicle Mandate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Remember when then-candidate Joe Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”? It’s been a go-to line during his presidency. And as his term draws to a close, he’s claims to have delivered. True, under Biden’s leadership, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) went after some of the unions’ biggest enemies: Amazon, Starbucks, and American auto manufacturers, for example. But those efforts were less about helping workers—who weren’t showing much love for “Union Joe” before he dropped out—and more about helping union officials. In only that sense was he “pro-union.” And by that definition, Vice President Kamala Harris may be more “pro-union” than Biden. Sure, Harris says less about unions than Biden. She didn’t use the word “union” in the debate against Trump or in her only interview since the nomination. She didn’t mention unions once in her convention speech (neither did her VP running mate Tim Walz) or in her recently released economic plan. It’s nowhere on her campaign website unless you count the “Union Strong” T-shirts selling for $36. But those running the country’s largest public sector unions—the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)—seem very sure Harris will reward their loyalty. Not only did each of those unions quickly endorse Harris after she replaced Biden, but they put all their chips on it, with AFT, SEIU, and AFSCME describing their commitment to Harris as “ALL IN.” Why are union executives so sure of a return on their investment? For starters, Harris’ political connections with public sector union leaders go back to her run for California attorney general in 2010. Big Labor broadly endorsed her, and several large public sector unions—SEIU’s Local 1000, in particular—dragged her across the finish line by dumping enormous sums into her campaign. She won a tight race by a tiny margin—just 74,000 votes out of 8.8 million ballots. Years later, then-Attorney General Harris, seemingly in return for SEIU’s support, blocked the sale of several nonprofit hospitals headed for bankruptcy. SEIU needed leverage against the buyer, a national health care company, which was then fending off the union’s organizing efforts. Harris provided that leverage. According to a lawsuit later filed against Harris, SEIU’s president “repeatedly” told the health care company that Harris would approve the purchase if it allowed SEIU to organize its hospital workers. Harris’s “pro-union” advocacy—and public sector unions’ continued campaign donations—also marked her time in the U.S. Senate. There, she backed politically doomed measures that signaled her support to union leaders. In 2018, she co-sponsored the proposed “Workplace Democracy Act,” a prime example of political doublespeak, authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Far from safeguarding workplace democracy, the initiative would allow union leaders to represent workers without an election allowing workers to vote on their union representation. Notably, under the Biden-Harris administration, the NLRB has undone many of those democratic protections for workers by administrative fiat. As vice president, Harris has pushed hard to save the flailing unions representing federal employees. She chaired the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, a collection of high-ranking officials tasked with identifying ways to promote “worker power, worker organizing, and collective bargaining.” Under Harris, the task force’s recommendations included ideas such as eliminating “barriers to union organizers being able to talk with employees on federal property about the benefits of organizing a union.” Such recommendations directly assist public sector unions in organizing against the federal government. Harris’ efforts to boost public sector unions worked. Despite declining union membership rates nationwide, the unionization rate among federal employees reportedly increased by 20%  during Harris’ vice presidency. Just last year, membership increased by 60,000 workers. Union executives are thrilled. Yet, rank-and-file employees didn’t receive the fruits of Harris’ relationship with union bosses. In fact, federal employees, supposedly represented by these union executives, gained little in exchange for their union dues. In 2024, they received relatively small pay raises, which disproportionately went to federal employees in liberal cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and New York. Even the current administration’s Federal Salary Council—whose membership includes powerful union executives—continues to complain that federal employees supposedly receive less in pay than their private sector counterparts. So, while the Teamsters refuse to formally endorse Harris, the largest public sector unions know exactly what they’d be getting: the most pro-union president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. David R. Osborne is the senior fellow of labor policy with the Commonwealth Foundation, a free-market think tank in Pennsylvania. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post If Elected, Harris Will Carry Biden’s Torch as ‘Most Pro-Union President’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

San Francisco Superintendent Misses Deadline to Offer List of Schools for Closure

Kamala Harris' Battleground Blues

Liberal schoolteachers are every conservative parent’s worst nightmare. But, at least in the past, they tried to hide their bias. These days, there’s an all-out culture war going on in our schools, and FX’s new comedy English Teacher, which Time magazine called “easily the year’s best new sitcom,” is a perfect example of how liberal teachers now openly push their agenda without any shame. To its credit, the show pokes fun at itself. It gives a voice to conservative viewpoints at times, but not enough to overcome the overall message that kids should be allowed to dress in drag for a school event after learning how to perform by a drag queen, that gay teachers should be able to make out and grab their partner’s backside in front of their students without repercussions, that it’s wrong to teach kids proper gun safety, and that all guns are bad. And that’s just the first four episodes. Episode 1, “Pilot” centers around a controversy that erupts after main character Evan (show creator Brian Jordan Alvarez), kisses a fellow teacher in front of students during class at the high school they teach at. This leads to a meeting with Principal Grant Moretti (Enrico Colantoni) after a parent complains: Evan: I’m being investigated? For what? Grant: A mom named Linda Harrison… Evan: Linda Harrison? Wait, I know that name… Grant: …alleges that you kissed your boyfriend in front of her son… Evan: Oh my God! Grant: …in a whole class of other high schoolers at the end of the last school year. Evan: You talked to me about that when it happened. That was nothing. Grant: I know, but now she’s made a formal complaint. I have to read this. Evan: Wait, her kid… That kid graduated. He’s in college now. Why is she doing this now? Grant: I don’t know. Why does anybody do anything? Evan: Wait a minute. Linda Harrison… I remember that name. That’s the mom that complained about the assigned reading. Grant: Lewd content. Evan: Lewd content, right. And do you remember what the book was that she said was lewd? Grant: The Great Gatsby. Evan: The Great Gatsby. Do you know how long that’s been on the curriculum? Grant: Oh my God. Evan: I mean, this doesn’t make sense. This is political. She’s doing a political move. Grant: Yeah. Politics are real. Evan: You know, why doesn’t Markie ever get investigated for all that sh*t he says? Grant: Who? Evan: Markie, the gym teacher. Markie. Grant: Markie. He can’t be investigated. He has a protected victim status. Evan: How do I get that? Grant: Because he was injured in a car accident in his first week of training in the ROTC, and he’s 1/32 Native American and he has paper proof of that. Evan: This is insane. Grant: I mean, you kissed your boyfriend in front of her son. This is serious now. Evan: I think it was just like, just like barely…I don’t even know if our lips touched. Do you understand? This is homophobia. This is what homophobia is like. Grant: I don’t care what it is. Evan: It’s insidious. Grant: I’m agoraphobic. Evan: So, what I do? Do I wait for my fate to be decided? Grant: I don’t know, you can do anything. If you hand in your resignation letter, you could work in a restaurant or something. Or do a short film with your friends. Join Amway. Amway’s very good. Evan: You want me to quit this job? Grant: No, I don’t want you to quit. I don’t want you to quit. She wants you to quit. Look, what I want you to do is write a statement in defense of your position, okay? Then I’ll submit it to the district on your behalf. That’s what I can do. Evan: I’m not writing a statement. This whole thing is bullsh*t. Grant: It’s not bullshit. You’re lucky they’re not suspending you. Evan: Grant, let me ask you something. Her kid… You remember that kid? Grant: Yeah. Evan: Is he gay? Grant: Hmm… Evan: He’s in college, and he’s gay now, right? I always felt like that kid was gay. Grant: Just, just stop. Just stop. Evan: I’m right! She thinks I turned her kid gay! Grant: Will you stop? Evan: This is insane! Grant: Evan, please, just take the rest of the day off! Yeah, no one is trying to ban The Great Gatsby. They’re trying to ban extremely explicit and pornographic books that don’t belong in student libraries. Huge difference. And of course, the son is gay — such an overused trope. At lunch with his former boyfriend, Evan proclaims it’s his responsibility to “improve the future” of his students by fighting the “evil intentions” of their conservative parents: Malcolm: Maybe if you were in like a city school here in Austin it would be one thing, but these suburbs, they’re still like very old-fashioned. Evan: No, but I have to stay there because somewhere bigoted like that is where you can make the most difference. Like, what am I doing if I’m not trying to improve the future for these kids that come through that system. If I just succumb to the evil intentions of their conservative parents, then these kids are going to grow up to be just like them and it’s 1980 again, or worse. Malcolm: Okay, I mean, I will just say, I wouldn’t think of all conservatives as evil. Evan: I don’t. Malcolm: I’m basically a conservative at this point. Evan: No, you’re not. Malcolm: No, not about like everything. I still want social progress. Evan: You say that because you think it’s kitchy. Malcolm: No, I really. I am against a lot of what the left… I don’t even know what I am anymore. I listen to Red Scare. Evan: If my very desire to f*ck is… Oh, I love this song. If my very desire to f*ck is like up for debate or actually evil to them… I don’t know. We have to do something. Malcolm: Oh, we? You and I? Evan: We. Us together. We’ll go talk to the school board. We’re the ones who kissed. Malcolm: No, we are not even together anymore because you can’t commit. Evan: You always act like I broke up with you, but I didn’t break up with you. We broke up with each other. Malcolm: I’m not going back anywhere near that school, and certainly not getting involved. Evan: On that note, if you are open to it, I’d be down to hang out today at your place. Malcolm: Okay. Wow. Evan: I’m supposed to take the rest of the day off to think about my actions. Malcolm: See, this is your whole thing. You create your own problems. Like, for example, what happens if you get me pregnant? Like, are we gonna keep the baby? I can’t raise a baby. I work in tech. Evan: If I get you pregnant, it’ll be a miracle. Evan claims he’s being targeted because he’s gay. But the show does poke fun at itself by showing what really happened, which was extremely inappropriate: Evan: This behavior would not only be tolerated but encouraged if a straight couple did the same. Homophobia… Hello. Gwen: What’re you doing, you little gay guy? Evan: I love when you call me that. Um, I’m writing this official statement I have to submit for this investigation. Gwen: What do you have so far? Evan: To whom it may concern, I pecked my boyfriend on the cheek, perhaps making momentary, passing contact with his lips in front of a class of his students. We were in a serious relationship at the time and it is clear to me that this behavior would not only be tolerated but encouraged if a straight couple did the same. That’s all I have. It feels kind of defensive. Gwen: I don’t know. I think that’s good. Like, you’re in the right on that. Did you talk to Malcolm about it? Evan: We hooked up today, actually. Gwen: Oh my God! Crazy. I didn’t know you guys did that still. Evan: Yeah. Barely. Sometimes. Gwen: Did you guys do it in the school? In front of all the students? Evan: Hahaha. Gwen: I gotcha. The vegan one. Sorry, Nick’s making dinner and he’s just basically been trying to busy himself since he lost the job. He’s been making like those Hello Fresh meals that are too salty. Evan: Tell him I love him. Gwen: Evan says he loves you. Aww, he loves you, too. Okay, I gotta go. I love you so much. Evan: Okay. Love you. Bye. Markie the gym teacher (Sean Patton) gets the investigation canceled by threatening to tell the mom’s country club friends her son is gay. Evan becomes livid and says, “You can’t fight homophobia with homophobia,” adding, “This is about principles. This is about my right to exist as a man in the modern world without being harassed by women like this. This is about ethics and ideals.” So, making out with your boyfriend and him grabbing your behind at your place of employment in front of children is about ethics, principles, ideals and your right to exist? Hardly. You don’t get special rights and if it had been a straight couple, they would have been fired. In episode 2, “Powderpuff,” the school’s annual Powderpuff event, where football players and cheerleaders switch places, gets partially canceled by the school’s “LGBTQ+IA2S+ Alliance” (haha!) because they perceive the football players as mocking drag. Evan discusses the situation with his book club group: Evan: So, you’re saying… Monica: Powderpuff is this old boomer tradition where the boys get to make fun of the girls and more importantly these football players are gender-switching as a joke, when there are actually people in this school who are non-binary or trans. And that is not a joke. Evan: Pablo. Wake up. Wait is anybody actually upset about it? Like, in my experience, if men want to dress up as women, you should just let them. Frank: Yeah, let my boys have fun. Becca: I actually love powderpuff because the boys have to admit how hard our cheers are. Tiffany: Becca, you literally quit cheerleading. Becca: Yeah, because I literally died for three minutes last year. I went to hell. Tiffany: Stop talking about that. Jeff: I’ve never liked powderpuff, personally. Evan: Why, Jeff? Jeff: Because it sickens me. The beauty’s too intense. Pablo: That’s crazy. Evan: So, who here is in the LGBTQIA2S+ Alliance? Okay, look. If you guys had come to me, I would have gently reminded you that while your hearts may be in the right place, in actuality, you’re banning a drag performance at a school in the south. Frank: Oooh! Monica: Stop being a contrarian. You know what’s bullsh*t? That these cool jocks get to dress however they want, and everybody loves it. Hartman: They’re doing it as a joke. It’s not like real, authentic drag. Evan: So, you guys just want the boys to be authentic and respectful in their performance. That would make you happy? Monica: Yeah. Hartman: Yeah, sure. Evan: Okay. Good to know. Yes, Tiffany. Tiffany: This is literally book club. Like, why are we even talking about this? Good question, Tiffany! A “real,” “authentic” performance would be nothing like drag which insults the cheerleaders by making a mockery of what true femininity is. I’m sure the girls aren’t walking around with 3-foot-tall hair, clown makeup, breasts three times the normal size, and costumes with heels, feathers and boas. Evan calls upon an old drag queen friend Shazam (played by RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winner Trixie Mattel/Brian Michael Firkus) to teach the football players how to do authentic drag, a scene which is pretty scary if you’re a parent and realize they really are coming for your children: Evan: I would like to introduce you today to a very special friend of mine. This is Shazam. Shazam: Hello, hello, my little babies! Hello. Players: Hello. Evan: So, Shazam was the queen of drag back at college. Now she has a long-running show in Austin called Woman of LA Mancha. Shazam: That actually got canceled. The show is now called Drink Ticket Tuesday. Evan: So, when you guys are old enough to drink, maybe you can go check that out. Or, don’t tell anyone I said that. Jason: So, are you like a dude? Shazam: I’m like a dude. Yeah, I’m cool like you guys. I’m a cool dude. I sit home. I wear tube socks. I blow my nose. I have hair. Evan: But when she’s dressed like this, she’s Shazam. Shazam: When I’m dressed like this, I’m your mama. Matt: Okay. Shazam: Quick question. Does anybody own a ferret? Evan: Do they have ferrets? Shazam: I’m just trying to connect with the kids. Evan: They’re not 8. Shazam: I don’t know how old they are. Evan: So, here’s the deal, guys. Shazam is gonna teach you guys the proper way to dress like a girl. Shazam: The right way. You know, it’s a little bit like if you guys are going to drink or experiment with drugs, I’d rather you do it in the house. Evan: That’s not a great example. But she and I, we’re gonna be your coaches in this. Tray: Them like real titties, or like what you got going on? Shazam: Honey, no. This is a breast plate. Evan: It looks great, right? Very realistic. Matt: Yeah, it looks awesome. Shazam: We call it a tittie bib. And this is a lace front wig. Player: My mom has that. Shazam: Okay. Tray: So, is there like a tittie bib for your dick, too, or, like, where’s that at? Shazam: Yes, I am tucked. Evan: It’s like a jock strap. Or a cup. Shazam: It just kinda… Player: Does it pop in? Shazam: Yeah, I tie it at the end of a ping pong ball and shove it up my a*s. Jason: Don’t laugh. It’s rude. Evan: Yeah, no no. You guys can laugh. This is what I’m saying. Shazam is very funny. Drag can be very funny. So, if you guys, for this powderpuff performance, instead of doing joke drag or half-drag or just the cheerleading outfits, if you just do authentic, real drag like this, then the LGBTQ Alliance cannot be upset. Tray: So, you want us to dress like this? Shazam: Honey, I don’t think you have the balls to dress like this. Evan: This is good. She just read you and you can read her back. Grant receives complaints and Evan says he was just trying to satisfy the LGBTQIA2S+ Alliance. Grant hands him a list of “appropriate and approved attire,” which includes hair ties, face glitter, nail polish, and cheerleading outfits.” This sounds exactly what Powderpuff is really all about, but Evan says it’s, “ridiculous.” Evan and Shazam meet with the players to inform them of the list, but Evan rips it up and the boys begin dressing in drag anyway: Evan: I hate to break it to you. We got some bad news. I got this e-mail from the school board. This is a list of things that have been approved for the boy's powderpuff performance. Needless to say, the things we've been doing here are not on this list. They want to kick Shazam out of the party. Shazam: First my sister’s baby shower, now this. Evan: You guys want me to read this list? Players: No. Evan: Why don't I just… Players: Yeah! Shazam: Who’s house?! Players: Our house! Shazam: It’s our house! There we go. This is supposed to be a bra, but I wear mine as a sleep mask when I fly coach. Step together. Step together. Come on, boys, a little more sashay, a little less shantay. You see the way she just did this, she was like… You know what I mean? That is what do we call it? Marking. She was marking. Sway, sway. Let’s see your hands like this. We saw a nipple! Now we’ve been disqualified. Evan, I think you’re ready! The students tell Evan they want Shazam in the performance with them because, as one player puts it, “She steps our pussy up.” Yes, really. Grant cancels the boys’ performance after they defied his orders, and Evan emphatically replies, “Do you understand how big this issue is? This isn’t just about a little skit at a football game. This is about drag!” Oh! Well, now that you put it that way, Evan! #eyeroll The boys continue with the performance despite the ban, and the school superintendent ends up being impressed. Of course: Grant: Evan, what the hell is going on? Evan: They did this themselves. I was not involved with this. Jason: Hey, yo! Let me ask you something. Do we offend you? Someone taught us something. That even if things don’t go your way, or work out, we don’t mark it. We going full out. Thank you, Coach Marquez. And even if you understand what I'm talking about then you about to learn. You b*tches ready? One, two, three, four… Grant: Markie! Markie! Control your players! Markie: Who do you think gave them the keys to the cart? Let the girls dance! Evan: Oh, yeah, Markie! Markie: Hey, man. Powderpuff is tradition. Player: Here we go. It’s time for the death drop. Markie: You’re in. Grant: I am so sorry. I didn’t even expect this to happen. Superintendent: Are you kidding? This is funny as hell. Back in my day, when we did powderpuff, they told us to go whole hog. That was whole hog and an extra half hog for good measure! Episode 4, “School Safety,” took on gun rights. As Evan enters the school, he hears shots ring out. He panics and locks everyone in the classroom only to learn it was from the school’s gun club. He demands the club be shut down, but Markie, who runs it, tells him it’s a firearms safety program designed to teach kids how to properly handle and use guns. Evan stages a protest with his students, but Markie counters with kids from the club: Teacher: Dude, is this one of those drunk driving things? Evan: It’s an anti-getting-killed-by-guns protest. The kids are making their voices heard. I’m joining them. Teacher: That's good. I'm so anti-death so I'm like so on board. Gwen: Ghosts. Duality of life and death. Dia de los Muertos.   Evan: It’s an anti gun club protest. Gwen: Oh, it's not reading like that. Evan: What is going on? You look like Erin Brockovich. Gwen: I always look like this. Teacher: Lies. She's doing it because of the list. Gwen: No! But seriously who is making that list, right? ‘Cause we know who's making the Hot List. Who makes it? Who is it? Tiffany: I don't know. Evan: Nobody knows who makes the list. What the hell is this? Markie: Just a little protest. Yeah, that's right. Some of the kids in my program heard about what y'all were up to and decided they wanted to make their voices known, too. Evan: You're doing a protest. What are you protesting? Markie: Protesting y'all for bullying us. Evan: Bullying you. Markie: Yeah, trying to bully us out of having guns. If we can't have guns, then we can't protect ourselves. Evan: Protect yourselves against what, Markie? Markie: People with guns. Evan: You're saying if you can't protect yourself from guns then you're dead. So, guns are the problem. If there were no guns there would be no problem. Are you starting to see that? Markie: I'm starting to see that you're the problem. You don't understand that we already live in a world where guns exist, Evan. Guns exist. Guns are already here. Grant: Coach! Evan: What? Grant: What?! What?! Evan: Let’s go. Markie: We’re not even meeting on school grounds! Evan: You are promoting death. Markie: I am not promoting death. Grant: Civil. Civil. Evan: You are promoting death. That is what you’re promoting. What does a gun do other than kill people? Markie: Protect people! It protects people! Evan: From what? Markie: It protects people from people who don't know how to use it. You know, Evan, man, I'm trying to do something for the kids. I'm trying to give them a skill. A lesson. Evan: But the problem is when you do something like that it doesn't work cause you're an idiot. There are obviously many things people protect themselves from other than people with guns, especially women. I have a gun to protect myself and my family from a home invasion, rapists, thieves, etc. The writers should research how guns deter crimes and save lives. Evan manipulates a student into writing a dark essay that’s taken as an active threat so he can get the club canceled, which works. However, Grant announces the faculty must now undergo gun training because they’ll each be provided with a gun in a lock box in case of a threat. Which is a fantastic idea for keeping students safe. The episode ends with Evan feeling empowered when he hits the bullseye: Teacher: We have to do firearms training now. Markie’s going to f*cking shoot us. Evan: It's fine, we'll just get through it. Teacher: You're just saying it cause it's your fault. Evan: I was trying to do something good. Teacher: What if we all get into gunfights like every day now. Evan: Yeah, that would suck. Gwen: At least we get to be outside. We're together. Evan: See this outfit is working. Gwen: I know! Markie: Alright, the only thing stronger than a bad guy with a gun is… Gwen: A girl with a gun. Markie: A good guy with a gun. Evan: Which one are you? Markie: Listen, I know man. I know you’re pissed at me. I know you think you won something. Evan: I did win, okay? In my own way, because, no, I didn't end gun violence. But I got some guns out of some kids’ hands and that is good, Markie. I made the world a better place. Markie: I don’t care how much sh*t you give me. We're on the same side, okay, buddy? Seriously, we're the good guys. Here, man, think about it like this. You worked your whole life to become a power bottom. Now you get to be a power bottom with a gun. Evan: You think I'm a bottom after this whole week? Gwen: He’s only bottomed like once. Grant: Can we please shoot, please? Evan can you… Markie, please. Markie: Here we go. This is what we're here for. Aim. Evan: Markie, I don't need your advice. Markie: I know you need my advice. Evan: Please back up. This is very straightforward. Here’s the bullseye. Here's the gun. Markie: No, it's called backup. All: Oh sh*t! Whoa! Gwen: Did you break your wrist? Markie: You okay? Teacher: Yeah, I'm fine. Markie: You okay? Evan: I don’t know. I don’t know. Markie: Actually… Hey look at that. Bullseye! Huh? Look at you. Feel that power buddy? Evan: Oh, hell yeah. Okay, that was funny! But not enough to overcome the heavy liberal propaganda. With four episodes left, we can only imagine what will come next. As always, we watch so you don’t have to, so we’ll keep you updated!

Over the weekend, Fox & Friends Saturday helped debunk claims by liberals that two women died because of Georgia's abortion ban as the show had on Dr. Christina Francis to discuss the issue. Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy introduced the segment by playing a clip of Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris trying to scare an audience about abortion: RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: Vice President Harris is calling out Trump's pro-life agenda as Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters across key battlegrounds. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: At least two women -- and those are only the stories we know -- here in the state of Georgia, died -- died because of the Trump abortion ban. Showing on screen an image of an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Campus-Duffy soon introduced her pro-life guest: But in her new op-ed, our next guest explains why this is not the case. Dr. Christina Francis is CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and she joins us now. Doctor, it's so great to have you on on such an important topic because there's a lot of lies being told right now. So explain to us exactly why did Amber Nicole Thurman die. Dr. Francis recalled that Amber Nicole Thurman traveled to North Carolina to get an abortion and was given two medications to induce the abortion in spite of those who argue the medications are unsafe: And when she was nine weeks pregnant, she drove to North Carolina for what she thought was going to be a surgical abortion, and then the reports actually state that just an employee of the clinic gave her the high-risk abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, and she took those drugs and, unfortunately, four to five days later, she went to her local hospital because she got heavy bleeding. She was vomiting blood. She then argued that, after Thurman became ill back home in Georgia, and the hospital she went to mishandled the situation and failed to do what it should have to save her life: Further reports she had passed out, and she showed up at her local hospital with what is very clear to me -- and I think I said in my op-ed -- even a first-year resident would be able to make the diagnosis of sepsis from an incomplete abortion, which we know to be a risk of taking these drugs. And, unfortunately, her doctors did not appear to treat her by the standard of care which would have been an immediate D&C and then antibiotics, and they waited 20 hours before they took her to the operating room. And at that point, she was in multi-system organ failure, and she was on medications to keep her blood pressure up because of the sepsis. And, unfortunately, she died on the operating room table. Dr. Francis then complained about Democrats and the media causing harm by misinforming women: "You know, it's really unfortunate that politicians like Vice President Harris and the media are trying to blame this on laws like Georgia's law that actually protects women and their children. And we know that Amber and her unborn children were victims of these high-risk abortion drugs." But they always want to push these pills are always safe and effective, and never cause complications. Referring to the case of Candi Miller's death, Campos-Duffy played a clip of another pro-life physician, Dr. Susan Bane, who has also accused the media of endangering women with misinformation: I'm mad because this woman didn't have to die. This woman did not die because -- as it is journalists report that a D&C procedure -- which is a minor surgical procedure -- couldn't have been done on this woman. Based on the timeline and her symptoms, she should have had it done as soon as she could get to the hospital. It was medical negligence. (editing jump) What's also negligent is the reporting I'm seeing over and over. You are harming women. You're scaring them to seek care. Stop it. Transcript follows: Fox & Friends Saturday September 21, 2024 7:44 a.m. Eastern RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY: Vice President Harris is calling out Trump's pro-life agenda as Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters across key battlegrounds. VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: At least two women -- and those are only the stories we know -- here in the state of Georgia, died -- died because of the Trump abortion ban. (...) CAMPOS-DUFFY: But in her new op-ed, our next guest explains why this is not the case. Dr. Christina Francis is CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and she joins us now. Doctor, it's so great to have you on on such an important topic because there's a lot of lies being told right now. So explain to us exactly why did Amber Nicole Thurman die. Dr. CHRISTINA FRANCIS, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS: Yeah, thank you so much, Rachel, for having me on. You're right. This is really important to speak the truth on this issue. So Amber Nicole Thurman was a 28-year-old mother who apparently dreamed of going to nursing school one day and found out she was pregnant with twins. And when she was nine weeks pregnant, she drove to North Carolina for what she thought was going to be a surgical abortion, and then the reports actually state that just an employee of the clinic gave her the high-risk abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, and she took those drugs and, unfortunately, four to five days later, she went to her local hospital because she got heavy bleeding. She was vomiting blood. Further reports she had passed out, and she showed up at her local hospital with what is very clear to me -- and I think I said in my op-ed -- even a first-year resident would be able to make the diagnosis of sepsis form an incomplete abortion which we know to be a risk of taking these drugs. And, unfortunately, her doctors did not appear to treat her by the standard of care which would have been an immediate D&C and then antibiotics, and they waited 20 hours before they took her to the operating room. And at that point, she was in multi-system organ failure, and she was on medications to keep her blood pressure up because of the sepsis. And, unfortunately, she died on the operating room table. You know, it's really unfortunate that politicians like Vice President Harris and the media are trying to blame this on laws like Georgia's law that actually protects women and their children. And we know that Amber and her unborn children were victims of these high-risk abortion drugs. CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yeah, I mean, these drugs, people don't understand they're being given abortion pills, told to go to their homes, and basically do a DYI abortion. And when things go wrong -- we know there's been an increase, I think, of 500 percent of emergency room visits -- and those are the ones we know of because we've been hearing reports that some of these clinics that are giving out the pills are telling women when they have these issues to just call and say, "I'm having a miscarriage." Which is true -- they're having -- but they're having -- this is from taking these abortion drugs. I want you to look at this clip because there are OBGYNs who are very angry about the lies being told because it's dangerous to tell lies and not tell the truth about what these pills do. Listen. Dr. SUSAN BANE, AAPLOG BOARD MEMBER: I'm mad because this woman didn't have to die. This woman did not die because -- as it is journalists report that a D&C procedure -- which is a minor surgical procedure -- couldn't have been done on this woman. Based on the timeline and her symptoms, she should have had it done as soon as she could get to the hospital. It was medical negligence. (editing jump) What's also negligent is the reporting I'm seeing over and over. You are harming women. You're scaring them to seek care. Stop it. CAMPOS-DUFFY: Doctor, what are your thoughts on that? Dr. FRANCIS: Well, you know, Dr. Bane is exactly right. There was a second story out of Georgia of another woman, Candi Miller, who her family states actually stayed at home when she was suffering complications again of these high-risk abortion drugs because she was afraid to go to the hospital because of things that she had heard that were false about Georgia's law. You know, we are seeing the direct results of spreading lies and misinformation about these laws. Women are being harmed by that because they are delaying in seeking care. And so I think it's really important no matter where somebody stands on the issue of abortion, we should all want women to have accurate information so that they seek care immediately if they're experiencing complications from things like these high-risk abortion drugs. CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yeah. We've got to talk more about these high-risk abortion drugs and what they do to women. Thank you so much, Doctor, for joining us this morning.

Politico cartoonist Matt Wuerker has a big problem ...at least in his own mind. How to caricature Kamala Harris without appearing to be racist. The funny thing is that this obsession seems to have been shared with none of the other cartoonists that Wuerker contacted on this topic on Sunday in  "‘It’s a Minefield’: Top Political Cartoonists on the Challenges of Caricaturing Kamala Harris." "It's a minefield?" Apparently only in the very very concerned mind of Matt Wuerker since that headline quote comes from ...Wuerker. Let us now join Wuerker rubbing his caricaturist worry beads: When a new, potentially presidential face arrives on the scene, a fierce debate ensues among the cartoonists. What are the features that stand out? How far can we tug on those ears? Lampoon a nose? Mock the haircut? What about the clothes and the body language? Is the necktie too long? Is the pantsuit fair game? How far is too far? Today, that conversation requires us to wrestle with old toxic racial and ethnic stereotypes that were, sadly enough, immensely popular in earlier times. And unfortunately, that kind of racism remains a radioactive aspect of political cartooning, right up to the current generation of ink-stained wretches. Given that ongoing legacy, the caricature of Kamala Harris, possibly our first Black, South Asian-descended, female president, isn’t just precedent setting. It’s a minefield for cartoonists — even more so because it’s a profession that’s overwhelmingly dominated by white men of a certain age. With that in mind, we checked in with some of the nation’s top political cartoonists to see how they’re homing in on the caricature of Kamala. Wuerker then checks in with six cartoonists, and none of them shared his view on the perils of caricaturing Kamala, at least not in the sentence of reaction that's published. Alexandra Bowman just said “I love how Kamala Harris’ default emotion seems to be joy.” Well, that's not quite right. The sixth cartoonist was Wuerker himself who weighed in with this: “You know, in the good ol’ days cartoonists just needed to draw old fat white guys...” Obsessed much, Matt? You appear to be alone.

Kamala Harris continues to collect endorsements from establishmentarians with links to the military-industrial complex and security state. On Sunday, several hundred former officials who served in the George W. Bush, Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations joined a handful of nominal Republicans in signing a letter of support for Harris. Their letter, advanced by the advocacy group National Security Leaders for America, contains the kind of rhetoric that set the stage for two attempts on President Donald Trump's life and appears to have left nearly 3 in 10 Democrats polled wishing Trump had been killed. It states, "This election is a choice between serious leadership and vengeful impulsiveness. It is a choice between democracy and authoritarianism." The letter, signed by some architects of disastrous foreign entanglements, including what was for private contractors an extremely lucrative war in Iraq, stated, "We are trained to make sober, rational decisions. That is how we know Vice President Harris would make an excellent Commander-in-Chief, while Mr. Trump has proven he is not up to the job." The letter further alleges that Harris "has proven she is an effective leader able to advance American national security interests" and that she is "prepared and strategic." 'You need a president that's not going to be taking you into war.' The signatories were evidently content to overlook Harris' hand in the current Democratic administration's deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, her ostensible abandonment of Americans in Haiti during its latest collapse, her failure as border czar to stem the flood of tens of millions of illegal aliens into the country, and the glaring fact that Russia invaded Ukraine during the Biden-Harris and Obama administrations, not Trump's. It's clear that the former security and military officials figure Trump — the first president since Richard Nixon not to kick off a new war or military conflict while in office — will make good on his promise of peace and relative non-interventionism. After all, their letter bemoans the Republican's decision to withdraw from what he called another "endless war" in Syria, his criticism of allies — a likely allusion to Trump's pointed demands that NATO members meet their spending obligations — and his supposed ceding of "influence in the Middle East to Russia, Iran, and China." During a town hall interview earlier this month with Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump said, "You need a president that's not going to be taking you into war. We won't have World War III when I'm elected, but with these clowns that you have in there now, you're going to end up having World War III." 'They get rich when America's sons and daughters go off to die.' Among the signatories of the letter are several partisan ambassadors as well as John Kerry, Biden's former special presidential envoy for climate; former Biden domestic policy adviser and Obama national security adviser Susan Rice; Clinton adviser Nancy Soderberg; Obama speechwriter and national security adviser Ben Rhodes; Obama adviser Caroline Atkinson; Clinton national security adviser Anthony Lake; Janet Ann Napolitano, the Obama Homeland Security secretary who concern-mongered about Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning from war as right-wing extremists; and Rt. Brigadier Gen. John Wade Douglass, a failed Democratic congressional candidate and former CEO of the Douglass Aerospace Group. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Axios in a statement that the letter's signatories "are the same people who got our country into endless foreign wars and profited off of them while the American people suffered." This latest endorsement by establishmentarians comes just weeks after former Jan. 6 committee member Liz Cheney endorsed Harris "because of the danger that Donald Trump poses." Cheney, who was overwhelmingly rejected by Republican voters in Wyoming in 2022, previously called Harris "a radical liberal who wants to raise your taxes, take away your guns and your health insurance, explode the size of our federal government and give it control over every aspect of our lives." Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said of Cheney's endorsement, "Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney make very, very interesting partners. They get rich when America's sons and daughters go off to die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of winning wars. And they get rich when America gets weaker in the world." In August, scores of Republican staffers who served under President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), and failed presidential candidate Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) threw their support behind Harris, claiming another four years of Trump would alternatively "hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Thousands of Hezbollah operatives have been wounded in Lebanon after their pagers spontaneously blew up — nearly simultaneously — in an unprecedented attack that is believed to have been carried out by Israel. “It looks like Israel somehow got into the supply chain, which means that it’s likely that these terrorists bought those pagers from Israel,” Karol Markowicz, New York Post columnist and host of “The Karol Markowicz Show,” tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “We don’t know exactly how they did it; that’s really a great mystery right now, how they got them all to detonate at the same time. All of that is really a large question,” she adds. Peter Gietl, managing editor for Return and Frontier magazine, is curious as to where this leads. “Are you concerned at all, Karol, about this broadening the conflict in the region?” he asks. “Obviously, as you correctly pointed out, this has been going on since last year, but I mean, is there a danger that this could escalate into a full war with Iran or at least Iranian proxies in Lebanon?” “I’m afraid for everybody in the Middle East,” she answers. Perhaps even more concerning is that a phone can so easily be turned into a bomb. “I think we should note,” Peterson adds, “what it presents is the possibility that you can create technology that has a bomb in it that could go off later on.” “That’s not impossible if what we just saw is possible, which would mean that you could sell products that you could essentially use as bombs any time. I think that is unlocking the imagination to a lot of dark possibilities for a lot of people right now,” he adds. 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.