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MSNBC host Joy Reid made a surprising interpretation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) this week, claiming it was not about race, gender, or identity politics but about supporting disabled veterans.

Who knew?

During a discussion with her guest, Everett Kelley, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees, both criticized President Donald Trump‘s executive order to shut down DEI offices across federal agencies.

MSNBC's Joy Reid says Americans have got DEI all wrong.

You see, it's not about giving unqualified people positions they didn't earn because they were born with characteristics that have nothing to do with the job.

It's all about "helping disabled veterans." No, seriously. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/6YJqEfCNf2

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 24, 2025

Reid began by referring to the order and asking Kelley how his union would respond.

“This memo, we can put it up on screen, and it went to all heads and acting heads of departments and agencies, shuttering DEI offices and other things. What is the union’s response going to be?” Reid asked.

Kelley argued that the public misconceptions about DEI need to be corrected. “We have an obligation to educate the public as to what DEI really is because, number one, it’s not affirmative action as some might think,” Kelley stated.

He then framed DEI as a program that accommodates disabled veterans in federal jobs.

You heard that right.

“DEI is about making sure that, say, a veteran may have a handicap, an injury from the services, and come to work for the federal government,” Kelley said. “DEI would make sure that that veteran has the, I guess, I would say the opportunity to work in a job, and they were placed in a position where they could accommodate that veteran and so that they can do their job.”

Kelley then insisted that DEI has been misunderstood as a program focused on racial or gender quotas. “It’s not about the color of a person’s skin. It’s about disabled veterans being accommodated,” he added.

Reid chimed in, dismissing the idea that DEI is a racial or gender-based initiative. “And it’s not a quota program. Let’s just be clear. They believe DEI just means black people getting jobs, and so when they see a black person in any job, they say, ‘Oh, that person’s a DEI hire.’”

Reid also pulled out the race card to target anyone daring to question Vice President Kamala Harris’s qualifications.

However, then-candidate Joe Biden openly admitted that choosing a female running mate was a result of mounting pressure from within the Democratic Party for him to select a black woman.

Reid and Kelley’s claim that DEI is a patriotic program for disabled veterans flies against the reality that it is actually about gender equity and LGBTQ+ inclusion.

It appears they are trying to repackage DEI for it to survive under Trump’s presidency.

Regardless of their attempts to re-market DEI, Trump moves forward with his plans to eliminate it from federal agencies.

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A Lenawee County Democrat who posted an unhinged rant denying the 2024 election results and labeling immigration officials as “Nazi collaborators” is doubling down. Lenawee County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Swift called in to Talk Back Radio with Doug Spade and Mike Clement on Saturday to discuss the post, which was deleted from the party’s Facebook page shortly after it was posted last week. Swift on Saturday also called for the death penalty for the president’s supporters.

Swift alleged the party removed the post over concerns supporters of President Donald Trump “might do violence to people in our community,” but made it clear “we as a party and I as an individual absolutely 100% support the statements that we made.” He described the post as “outlining a very rational argument” about Trump’s inauguration and the president’s immediate move to crack down on illegal immigration. Swift alleged Trump-supporter and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, “performed two Hitler salutes, two Nazi salutes” during the Jan. 20 inauguration.

Swift then extrapolated that to build an argument that Trump and those who support him are Nazis, pointing to Trump’s social media missteps during his campaign and alleged “Nazi imagery and Nazi language” at conservative events. He concluded his comments by highlighting another recent post by the Lenawee County Democrats that calls for the death penalty for Trump’s supporters. “They should be arrested, and they should be facing the death penalty,” he said. “They should be hanged by the neck until dead. I believe this is one of the few areas of the law where I believe the death penalty should be imposed.”

The Lenawee County Democrat Party is doubling down on their threat to “hang” Trump supporters: pic.twitter.com/guqBycbSp0

— Anna Hoffman (@shoesonplease) January 24, 2025

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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said he believes President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and release the January 6 hostages was a “mistake.”

During an appearance on NBC, the RINO Senator told Kirsten Welker that the January 6 victims were no better than the Black Lives Matter rioters, who burned down cities across the United States.

Those who protested the legitimacy of the 2020 election lost everything after being thrown in jail as Democrats rushed to frame Trump with a fake narrative that he incited a riot.

However, the media ignored that Trump told protestors to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol.

Welker asked Graham, “Let’s turn now to President Trump’s decision to pardon, to give blanket pardons to, everyone who was convicted of crimes on January 6, including the 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Even his own Vice President said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Do you believe President Trump was wrong to issue these blanket pardons to the January 6 defendants?”

Graham responded: “Number one, he had the legal authority to do it, but I fear that you will get more violence. Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think, was a mistake because it seems to suggest that’s an okay thing to do.”

“Kamala Harris wanted to raise bail money for people burning down Minneapolis. You know, Biden pardoned half his family going out the door. I think most Americans, if this continues, to see this as an abuse of the pardon power, that we’ll revisit the pardon power of the president if this continues, but as to pardoning violent people who beat up cops, I think that’s a mistake,” he said.

Aging lesbian Lindsey Graham says Trump pardoning Jan. 6 defendants "was a mistake" pic.twitter.com/M9GPUG27n3

— Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 (@realJoelFischer) January 26, 2025

Welker asked, “So, you think it was a mistake of President Trump to issue these blanket pardons? What message does it convey to law enforcement?”

Graham responded: “There’s really been no better supporter of law enforcement in general, and there are a lot of people who supported President Trump in law enforcement who didn’t like this.”

“But he said it during the campaign. He’s not tricking people. You know, Biden promised not to pardon his family.”

“He did. Trump said I’m gonna pardon these people. So, the fact that he did it is no surprise, but I’ll be consistent here,” he added.

“I don’t like the idea of bailing people out of jail or pardoning people who burned down cities and beat up cops whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.”

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A Republican congressman has introduced a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that could pave the way for former President Donald Trump to potentially serve a third term in the White House.

Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) announced the amendment, stating it would allow a two-term president to serve a third term if the terms were non-consecutive.

🚨 JUST IN: Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) is proposing a constitutional amendment to allow President Trump to seek a third term.

YOUR REACTION? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/WimW0VAPcK

— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) January 24, 2025

Ogles argued the change is necessary to ensure the country can benefit from what he called “bold leadership” during times of crisis.

“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” Ogles said in a statement on Thursday.

“He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.”

The proposed amendment reads:

“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

NEW: Rep. Andy Ogles proposes amending the 22nd Amendment to allow President Trump to serve a third term in office.

A Trump vs. Obama matchup sounds lit.

Ogles has introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution to allow a president to be elected for no more than… pic.twitter.com/wwCAfMePf4

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 23, 2025

The amendment would create a legal framework to allow a president to serve a third term under certain conditions.

If passed, it would add to the historical precedent of non-consecutive presidencies, a distinction currently held only by President Grover Cleveland, who served as both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, currently limits presidents to two terms.

This was established after Franklin Delano Roosevelt served an unprecedented four terms, setting a new precedent for presidential term limits.

While the proposed amendment aligns with Rep. Ogles’ vision for Trump’s leadership, Trump himself has often joked about the idea of a third term.

His remarks, frequently made in jest, have nonetheless drawn strong reactions from his critics.

One of Trump’s notable posts on his Truth Social platform included a meme depicting campaign signs for “Trump 2024, Trump 2028, Trump 2032,” eventually expanding into far-off centuries.

The post was widely circulated and sparked debate across political circles.

Following his victory in the 2024 election, Trump joked during a meeting with Republican lawmakers about the prospect of another term. “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something,” he said. “Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”

Republican lawmakers who attended the meeting clarified that the comments were made in jest.

“That was a joke. It was clearly a joke,” said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-OK). Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) reportedly echoed the sentiment, predicting media outlets would mischaracterize the president’s comments as serious.

Despite the proposed amendment and his occasional jokes, Trump has stated that he does not plan to pursue a third term.

“I wouldn’t be in favor of a challenge. Not for me. I wouldn’t be in favor of it at all,” Trump told Time magazine in a prior interview.

“I intend to serve four years and do a great job. And I want to bring our country back. I want to put it back on the right track.”

While the amendment faces significant legal and political hurdles, it underscores the continued influence of Trump’s presidency and the strong support he maintains among Republican lawmakers and voters.

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The mainstream media has so thoroughly reversed the truth for so many years that even the skeptical among us don’t really react anymore when the most ludicrous statements are made by people who are allegedly trustworthy and serious. Since at least 2016, the left—and the mainstream media is 100 percent left-aligned with the partial exception of Fox News—has successfully unmoored the very idea of truth from anything observable or sensible in the real world. 

Look at how many Americans accept the idea that there are “transgender children.” That is to say, grown adults in huge numbers profess to believe that it is natural and normal for a percentage of children to be “born in the wrong body.” If that doesn’t shock you reading it, that’s because you, like all the rest of us, have been living in a deliberately created dystopian fiction that’s worn you down. You may expect  to hear straight lunacy on the news, but you should not. Big, society-level lies such as the existence of “transgender children” (or really, “transgender” anyone) do enough damage on their own, but there’s a secondary damage: We get used to it enough that we don’t fight back much anymore. 

It’s how cults work. It’s how cult societies such as North Korea grind down adults of ordinary intelligence until they actually believe that it’s Americans, not North Koreans, who are suffering under political abuse. 

So it isn’t a surprise when an allegedly respectable, grown-up news anchor like CNN’s Dana Bash cannot seem to comprehend that it’s normal and morally acceptable to enforce the law against lawbreakers. She can’t accept that simple premise. Listen to Bash characterize the completely normal activity of apprehending criminals, then transporting criminals to where they need to go, as if it were some wicked and nefarious Nazi-inspired activity. 

Tom Homan crushes CNN's Dana Bash when she tries to shame ICE for "rounding up" criminal illegals.

"ICE is going to uphold the oath they took. They're going to enforce the laws enacted by Congress and sign by a President. And they're going to do that without apology." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yanxbm859n

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 22, 2025

We’re talking about illegal aliens who broke U.S. law and entered the country without permission. Bash seems, on some (emotional?) level, not to be able to accept that this is actually a crime. She seems unable to accept that, well, yes, physically rounding them up and getting them out of the country is the normal thing countries do with illegal border jumpers. You can imagine her saying to a cop, “Are you really saying that you’re going to HANDCUFF men who break into people’s living rooms?”

Border Czar Tom Homan is having none of it. He reminds Bash that this is a law enforcement action, and that, yes, “sanctuary cities” who try to obstruct the carrying out of the law are not going get away with it. 

Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say:

Why is upholding the laws of the United States when it comes to the border a controversial topic?

— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) January 22, 2025

This guy’s bafflement speaks for lots of people:

I do not get these folks in the MSM. They are also parents. They have family and friends.

Their families can be affected by illegal migrant crime. Yet they get on our TVs in our living rooms and act like taking these criminals into custody is a bad thing.

Make it make sense.

— 𝕏 Real AR 𝕏 (@OriginalRealAR) January 22, 2025

The Democrats are always shocked when someone says they are going to enforce the law 😂😂

— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) January 22, 2025

Brutal. CNN wants protection of their voting class (and feelings) and they have no love for the constitution.

— Noah Fencebutt (@Noah_Fencebutt) January 22, 2025

I know how shocking it must be for Dana Bash to see someone willing to do their job with integrity

— Kasie (@Kasie_dilla) January 22, 2025

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has called on her millions of followers not to take President Donald Trump‘s executive orders seriously, urging them to “not listen.”

Trump signed several executive orders, including ending DEI, fixing the border, and withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO).

AOC urges civil disobedience against Trump’s executive orders.

“We don’t have to listen to him,” she argues.pic.twitter.com/jw3SMIVmOE

— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) January 22, 2025

However, AOC still wants a socialist America and called on people to ignore or disobey executive orders signed by the president.

“One of the most simple things that we can do is just not comply. This today, the Trump administration, and also last night, the Trump administration signed a bunch of illegal executive orders,” she said.

“For example, Donald Trump tried to sign an executive order to end birthright citizenship in this country, which is part of the Constitution.”

“It is, day one, already trying to shred the foundational documents of American society and try to end birthright citizenship, which basically, as we know, if you are born in the United States, you are a United States citizen,” AOC continued.

“That remains. That is the law. That is the Constitution. And he just tried to sign a piece of paper trying to say, no, we don’t have to listen to him. It’s illegal.”

“We don’t have to treat this seriously. It’s a joke.”

“And that’s not to say that what they’re trying to do isn’t serious. It is serious. But we should not consent in advance,” she concluded.

AOC’s remarks show she isn’t going to enjoy these next four years.

Last week, she also accused Trump of taking over every “mass social media platform in the United States.”

“So what does this mean for us?” she asked.

”Well, we are on the eve of an authoritarian administration,” she continued.

“This is what 21st-century fascism is starting to look like.”

AOC on the verge of tears: "This is the eve of an authoritarian, 21st century fascism" pic.twitter.com/grLnsdDPcF

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 19, 2025

Perhaps AOC needs to look up the definition of Fascism and censorship, especially since she has been calling to remove free speech from social media platforms for years.

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Ana Navarro, a co-host on The View, stirred controversy during a recent episode by criticizing black entertainers such as Snoop Dogg and Nelly for their participation in events associated with Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Ana Navarro calls black artists who performed at Trump's inauguration "trained seal[s]." pic.twitter.com/WrXWO6WaAw

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 21, 2025

Navarro’s remarks, which included a comparison of Snoop Dogg to a “trained seal,” sparked backlash for their racially charged tone. The discussion unfolded as the panel addressed the involvement of several black performers in Trump’s inaugural festivities.

Co-host Sunny Hostin initiated the segment by highlighting criticism from CNN commentator Keith Boykin, who previously stated, “You dishonor [black] people when you go and perform for this man; this man who has done nothing but dishonor black people.”

Navarro expanded on the criticism, targeting entertainers who had opposed Trump in the past but later performed at his events.

Snoop Dogg then: Anyone who performs for Trump at his inauguration is a "jigaboo a$$ n****" and an "Uncle Tom."

Snoop Dogg now: *Performs at a Trump inaugural ball.*

Interesting shift. pic.twitter.com/cZkOKXL39c

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 19, 2025

“If you opposed and stood up against Trump in 2017, but you were there now, if you spoke up against Trump on January 7th, 2021, but you were there now applauding him like a trained seal, Donald Trump has not changed. You’ve changed,” she said.

Her comments referenced Snoop Dogg’s outspoken opposition to Trump during the 2017 inaugural period.

Navarro’s remarks drew attention not only for their content but also for the racial undertones of her comparison, with some questioning whether her language crossed a line.

Navarro’s remarks are part of broader criticism that has been directed at The View, which airs under the ABC News division.

Critics argue that the show often veers into politically divisive territory, with a tone that can alienate viewers.

The latest controversy raises questions about the program’s approach to political commentary and its potential impact on the network’s reputation.

The segment reflected ongoing tensions within the entertainment industry regarding political affiliations.

Performers who engage with conservative events or figures frequently face backlash, particularly when their actions are perceived as contradictory to past statements.

The discussion highlights a persistent divide in how entertainers’ political decisions are perceived and judged, particularly along racial and ideological lines.

For many conservatives, the criticism from Navarro and Hostin serves as another example of the double standards applied by prominent media figures.

As The View continues to generate headlines with its outspoken commentary, the network must navigate balancing provocative discussions with maintaining journalistic integrity under the ABC News umbrella.

Whether the controversy surrounding Navarro’s comments will have lasting repercussions remains to be seen.

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