News

Poor Jussie Smollett. The b-list actor (I’m being generous) who had a few minutes of fame playing a musician on the Fox network’s drama “Empire,” seems as determined to lose his fortune as he was to lose the public’s respect. 

To recap: In 2019, Smollett made up a hoax for attention. He claimed to be walking at about 2 am in Chicago in the dead of winter to a Subway fast food outlet for a sandwich. Along the way, he claimed, two men approached him and asked if he was that gay guy (using a slur) from the show Empire. Then, Smollett claims, they informed him that Chicago was “MAGA country,” put a noose around his neck, and poured bleach on him. 

A tearful Smollett appeared before cameras soaking up the attention from having been apparently “gay-bashed,” and all the media and most black people and leftists immediately believed him. 

How believable is it that two “homophobes” in Chicago would walk up to a guy at 2 am and proclaim that one of the blackest and most Democrat-ridden cities in America is “MAGA country?” It’s not believable at all, but leftists uncritically accept obvious nonsense if it props up a victimhood narrative they need to sell their politics. 

Smollett was arrested, then the charges were dropped, then they were refiled in 2021. He was convicted of five felony counts in relation to the hoax, though leftist media continues to insist on calling it an “alleged” hoax. It is not alleged; the courts convicted him. In every other situation, media drops the “alleged” when the court has ruled. This is a special carve-out because Smollett is black, gay, and leftist. 

Now, he’s moaning that he’s spent $3 million trying to clear his name, and he regrets sitting for a 2019 interview about his fake gay-bashing. “I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something I didn’t do,” he told Entertainment Tonight. He then goes on about how he’s doing this “as a gay man” and as a (capital B) black man. Well, you can’t say he’s not persistent. As per The Hollywood Reporter:

Smollett: “I want to have all of these things in my life, and I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something that I didn’t do,” Smollett said in part. “That’s what we’re fighting for. I know that on the surface it probably seems like why doesn’t he just serve the time, why doesn’t he just let this go. It would be easier if I had in fact done this to say that I did it. I wouldn’t have spent almost $3 million of my own money. I wouldn’t have had a trial.”

…..

Smollett: “But as a human being and as a man, as a Black man and as an openly gay Black man, I have a problem with letting them win on something they shouldn’t be able to,” Smollett said. “I’m a grown man and something happened. I can’t tell exactly what did happen, but I can tell you what did not happen. That’s what I have to sit on. No matter how much people are yelling in my face, saying ‘You’re a liar, you’re a liar.’ No, I’m not. No, I’m not. I don’t want them to believe that, but if that is what they believe, that’s on you.”

He admitted that his greatest mistake was his infamous interview on Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, where even her softball questions and framing couldn’t sanitize his obvious lies.

But what does the public on social media think of the fact that Smollett is still claiming this thing that never happened totally did happen? 

Gives a little hope for the American people being on the ball, eh?

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, while serving as vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, is facing questions over her secret communications with a key witness in the investigation.

Evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News reveals Cheney used the encrypted app Signal to communicate directly with Cassidy Hutchinson, a witness in the investigation, as well as indirectly through Hutchinson’s friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin. These communications, which took place in June 2022, are raising concerns about potential ethical violations in the Democrat-led inquiry.

At the time, Hutchinson was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino, who told Just the News he was unaware of Cheney’s contact with his client and did not authorize the communication. Cheney’s communication may have violated legal ethics rules in Washington, D.C., where she is a licensed attorney.

WITNESS TAMPERING: Former Rep. Liz Cheney reportedly began secretly communicating with a January 6th Committee witness without informing the witness's lawyer—an clear ethical violation that could cost Cheney her law license. More concerning than the ethical breach, however, is… pic.twitter.com/pk5Hw9j8J1

— @amuse (@amuse) October 16, 2024

🚨 This is a pretty HUGE Scandal…

Liz Cheney was just Busted Secrety Communicating with ‘Start J6 Witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson

Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Donald Trump chocked his Secret Service Driver on January 6. Guess who questioned her? Liz Cheney…

Did Liz Cheney… https://t.co/dl1dBGllfM pic.twitter.com/vEepVuBbQ9

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) October 16, 2024

The D.C. Bar rules explicitly state that a lawyer may not communicate with a person represented by another attorney without that lawyer’s consent.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, raised concerns that Cheney may have influenced Hutchinson’s testimony and led her to switch lawyers.

“Our investigation has uncovered unethical back-channel communications between former Rep. Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson just before Hutchinson changed her sworn testimony,” Loudermilk said. “Not only is communicating with a witness without their attorney present unethical, it undermines the integrity of an investigation.”

According to Loudermilk’s subcommittee, Hutchinson fired her attorney, Passantino, shortly after these secret communications began and retained new lawyers, recommended by Cheney, to represent her pro bono.

Hutchinson later credited Cheney with helping her find new legal representation in her memoir, where she described Cheney’s assistance as “one of the greatest gifts I could have received: hope.”

The timeline of these communications has also raised red flags.

Read the Full Story at LifeZette

Search giant Google is turning to nuclear reactors to power its Artificial Intelligence data centers, which many big tech companies now label as “green energy.”

The news came after Microsoft and Constellation Energy unveiled a power purchase deal, enabling a reactor restart at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Big tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are aggressively expanding their data center capabilities to meet the AI revolution’s computing needs while scouring for sources of electricity, Science Alert said.

On Monday, Google signed a deal with Kairos Power to purchase electricity from small nuclear reactors in order to power its AI operations.

“We believe that nuclear energy has a critical role to play in supporting our clean growth and helping to deliver on the progress of AI,” Google senior director of energy and climate Michael Terrell said during a briefing.

“The grid needs these kinds of clean, reliable sources of energy that can support the build-out of these technologies,” he said.

According to The Expose:

“The first small modular reactor (“SMR”) developed by Kairos is expected to be online by the end of the decade with additional reactors coming online through 2035, generating a combined total of 500 megawatts of power. SMRs are more compact and potentially easier to deploy than traditional nuclear reactors, with big investments by Bill Gates in the sector, but the technology is still in its infancy and lacks regulatory approval.”

The partnership is a major step towards achieving its goal of abundant carbon-free energy from nuclear power, driven by the need for a consistent source of power that is seen as more reliable than solar and wind power.

Read More at The Daily Fetched

While Michigan’s finances improved in 2023, it ranked 35th out of 50 states for its “taxpayer burden” in a recent analysis by Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit focused on highlighting government finances. Truth in Accounting’s fifteenth annual Financial State of the States grades states using an A-F grading scale, while providing perspective on finances through each state’s “taxpayer burden,” which is essentially the amount per taxpayer to pay off all of a state’s debt.

With $46.8 billion in available assets to pay bills, and more than $75 billion in bills, “the outcome was a $28.2 billion shortfall, which breaks down to a burden of $7,600 per taxpayer,” according to the report. The bulk of those bills involve more than $39 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

“Bottom line: Michigan would need $7,600 from each of its taxpayers to pay all of its outstanding bills and received a ‘D’ grade for its finances,” the report reads. “According to Truth in Accounting’s grading scale, any government with a Taxpayer Burden between $5,000 and $20,000 is given a ‘D’ grade.”

Read the Full Story at The Midwesterner

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told Fox News that he never claimed there was “no guarantee to free speech” when it came to “misinformation” or “hate speech.”

HOLY SH!T

Governor Tim Walz: NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful

This man is a dangerous commie pic.twitter.com/hE8xGcRx87

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2024

“Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream noted Walz’s remarks from a 2022 MSNBC interview, “You’ve said there’s no guarantee of free speech for misinformation or hate speech,” Bream told Walz.

“But first of all, the Supreme Court was very clear in a unanimous 2017 decision that hate speech is protected, that’s the kind of stuff that needs to be protected – stuff none of us like to hear,” she continued.

“But more importantly, who gets to decide on the issue of what misinformation is?” she asked.

Shannon Bream: "Who gets to decide on what misinformation is?"

Tim Walz: “Look…” pic.twitter.com/uHblaRmihA

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 13, 2024

Walz responded with a word salad, claiming he was talking about “censorship coming in the form of book banning in different places.”

“We’re seeing attempts in schools,” Walz claimed.

“The issue on this was the hate speech and the protected hate speech — speech that’s aimed at creating violence, speech that’s aimed at threats to individuals. That’s what we’re talking about in this.”

“The decision on that, society decides on a lot of this, the idea of someone going on and threatening someone’s life or a child’s life online,” he added.

“I don’t think any of your viewers think that that is something that should be acceptable.”

However, Bream quickly pushed back: “No. No. No. That’s not misinformation,” she said.

“There’s a distinction, you would say, though, between something like a threat and misinformation?” she pressed Walz.

Read More at The Daily Fetched

It’s hard to know just what to laugh at when it comes to the U.S. military–there are too many choices. What’s funnier, the woke ads featuring fat angry gender-confused non-binaries, or the reaction from the left when people notice the ads? Because boy, is the left very, very angry that not everyone believes that overweight women in their 20s who have a “gender” and a mental diagnosis are going to be able to keep the United States secure. 

Did you see this one? Just look at it. 

This is from a news show on CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network. They’ve rounded up some of the “best” recruitment ads from recent years. Click here to jump to the one featuring a woman using little-baby-girl voice to tell everyone how special and important her “journey” is. See, she has two lesbian moms, and she’s been a “freedom fighter” for LGBT equality since she was a little girl. Bonus points if you make it all the way through before her affected cutesy voice causes you to launch a brick through the screen. 

Or how about this one? This Army recruitment ad is obviously aimed at Gen Z because it talks to them in the developmentally disabled tone they respond to. As the camera focuses on the close-up faces of young people (gotta appeal to that personal narcissism; esprit de corps is so out of fashion), they transform into bland computer-generated cartoon characters. 

Today’s U.S. Military cannot do its job. It can’t focus on protecting the nation because President Joe Biden is more concerned with forcing the service branches to pay for the sex-change surgeries that mentally ill “trans” service members call “lifesaving.” How the removal of genitals or the bolting-on of plastic breasts saves lives is not made clear. 

The Trump campaign knows this, and it’s banking on this ad to appeal to traditional, masculine (and necessary) notions of military bravery and hard-assery. He showed it at an October 9 rally – and has been showing it at all subsequent rallies since. It uses footage from Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Full Metal Jacket to contrast a traditional drill sergeant with the prancing drag queens who put up videos of them dancing lasciviously while making reference to their status as service members. 

Give it a watch yourself – the audiences have been loving it:

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣#Trump played at his rally parts of FULL METAL JACKET.
I remember in the movie
👇🏻
Un-f*ck yourself or I will unscrew your head and sh*t down your neck!
See 2nd post for clip.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/FEYMMrC00v

— JUICY SCOOP (@MamaButterBean) October 10, 2024

Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian Kubrick, loves it. She said that even though her father’s movie had an anti-war message, it’s the perfect film to use because Trump himself is anti-war. But he knows the necessity of having a tough and manly military to keep the peace, Vivian Kubrick said, and her father would have voted for Trump. “Because I’m sure the irony of using FMJ footage is not lost on Trump or his team – Trump is always seeking to end wars and use peaceful methods. However, that’s primarily what FMJ is about, the shocking and complicated paradoxes of human nature,” she wrote in a lengthy post defending the video.

TO THOSE WHO THINK MY FATHER WOULDN’T HAVE WANTED #TRUMP TO USE FMJ FOOTAGE

Here are my thoughts: I agree in principle that an anti-war movie is incongruous with promoting the idea of a tough non-woke US military and thus war itself – however – these are very dangerous and… https://t.co/0bSXz8nL3V

— Vivian Kubrick (@ViKu1111) October 13, 2024

Let’s see what X (Twitter) users had to say. 

There’s always one pantywaist, though. 

Actually, there was more than one. Some sissy liberals are extremely unhappy and would like to complain to the manager. 

Lovely people, too. 

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer contends efforts to keep Stellantis from moving its headquarters out of the Great Lakes State is a “top priority,” though her social media antics raise questions about whether she’s serious.

“We have an open dialogue going on,” Whitmer told Crain’s Detroit Business at the Battery Show at Hunting Place in Detroit this week. “We want to help Stellantis see the wisdom and the opportunities for changing up their headquarters but making sure it stays here in Michigan. That dialogue is robust, continuous, and we’re not going to take our eye off the ball. We want Stellantis to continue to call Michigan home.”

Whitmer is in talks with Carlos Tavares, CEO of the company that produces Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge, over the possibility of relocating Stellantis’ American headquarters in Auburn Hills. Those conversations follow struggles at Stellantis over the last year, with a UAW strike last September, delays in EV product launches, sputtering sales and significant layoffs this month. The company formed from a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Peugeot S.A. in 2020 and its global headquarters is now located in the Netherlands.

Read More at The Midwesterner

Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has claimed that criminal illegal immigrants are not a threat to the United States but rather Trump supporters and white supremacists.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday, Crockett switched the blame from the problems plaguing cities like Springfield, Ohio on MAGA supporters.

Apparently Crockett isn’t willing to believe that Haitians are “eating the cats” – but more than willing to believe some elusive Trump supporters are. 

Crockett said: “He said that we’ve got these cities and these towns that are being overrun by gangs and the crime—I absolutely agree. Guess what? It’s the MAGA gang…. It is the white supremacists that have decided to descend upon places such as Springfield, Ohio.”

The Democrat stressed her belief that Trump and his supporters are the ones causing significant problems in these communities, adding, “The problems are him and his minions.”

She went on to criticize Trump for failing to call out white supremacists.

“I agree that there are problems in our communities, but usually, it’s some white supremacists on the other side, and he has yet to call them out.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: We do have a problem of gangs overrunning towns and cities. I absolutely agree with that. But guess what? It's the MAGA gang and the white supremacists. It's not the illegal immigrants who have come to make our economy stronger.pic.twitter.com/Nvrhy0lTwt

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 12, 2024

The remarks conveniently left out the rising concerns over violent crimes committed by gangs linked to illegal immigration, such as the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has now been designated as a terrorist organization by texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Read More at The Daily Fetched