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I really hate AI, but I thought this setup was nice - for once. John Voight starts out and then it transistions to the AI with Congress arguing. Then Frnaklin give his speech.

Dr. El-Sayed is a fighter for our American Constitution, he’s a fighter for our American Democracy, and he’s a fighter against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House. That’s why I’m in his corner 100%.

Elissa Slotkin is one of the CIA Democrats whose political mission is rewriting America's social contract. Slotkin entered the national consciousness as a key player in the "Seditious Six" video, in which she and five other National Security-linked leftist Democrats urged members of the military to join The Resistance and consider violating their orders if they deemed them "illegal." It was an odd video, since when pressed, Slotkin couldn't name a single "illegal" order Trump had given, making the entire framing about preparing soldiers to disobey in general, rather than any in particular. We call that "preparing the ground," and...

I'm just repeating what is posted daily of FR. According to the polls (as biased as they are!) America will shift either gradually or dramatically to the left today. I have some uninformed ideas about this move leftward. Here are some of the positions the majority of the democratic party are espousing and are endorsed by at least 50% of the electorate. 1. Socialism is far superior to capitalism and we need to tax wealthy people to equalize poverty. 2. There are at least 62 genders and it is impossible to define a biological female or male. 3. Democrats believe...

Well, well, well. Wouldn’t you know it? After months of listening to political experts and the media tell Americans that Republicans were headed for an absolute bloodbath in the midterms, the New York Times has suddenly discovered something rather interesting. Late-deciding voters are breaking toward Republicans by NINE POINTS in seven critical Senate races. And this little revelation comes just as Americans are heading to the polls. How convenient, right? For much of this election cycle, the message coming from the polling world has been downright miserable for Republicans. Dems were supposedly surging, the GOP was in serious trouble, and...

French film company Pathe is conducting an experiment to see if hypnosis can be used to make people forget a movie they've seen so that they can get the experience of watching it again for the first time. The peculiar stunt, known as Pathe Rewind, will elicit the services of hypnotist Victor Kraemer. The films that will be shown as part of the experiment are The Matrix, Se7en, La La Land and Interstellar. Pathe has emphasized that there is no guarantee that the hypnosis will actually work and even notes that it "accepts no liability for the outcome, the effect,...

You can see Kara Swisher implies that they might use information "taken" under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Clinton adds to that, suggesting that there could be Social Security numbers "in private hands," talks about Elon Musk, and says that they have to "hold people accountable" because they can't get away with "manipulating the data." This is stoking wackjob conspiracies to whip voters. Truly, Hillary Clinton, the woman whose campaign was involved with the Steele dossier, is the last person who has any credibility on this, the woman pushing the fake Russia collusion hoax. It's sort of hilarious that...

Donald Trump: Agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US funding to Israel at the end of 2026 | The Jerusalem Post. Trump: US will stop funding to Israel after end of 2026, will 'help Israel if they need it'. The president went on to praise Israel as a particularly reliable American ally, contrasting its conduct with that of other US partners. By Idan Kweller. November 3, 2026. On the morning of the US midterm elections, US President Donald Trump made a startling claim in an interview with Fox & Friends: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself initiated a plan to end...

A former worker on Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign was among 12 anti-Israel activists indicted for an alleged campaign of threats, vandalism and intimidation targeting Michigan’s Jewish community and University of Michigan officials. Mariam Odeh, 24, was among eight people initially indicted for allegedly conspiring to threaten university officials in an effort to force the institution to sever ties with Israel. Federal prosecutors announced Friday that four additional suspects had been indicted, bringing the total number of defendants to 12. According to The Detroit News, Odeh worked for El-Sayed’s Senate campaign for two weeks in 2024, receiving nearly $750 in...

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A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says. Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea. The sick smoothie was actually chockful of the sedatives Xanax...

President Trump delivered a closing message from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the midterm election, highlighting the administration's renovation of the Reflecting Pool and outlining additional projects he plans to pursue with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. He also addressed public safety and urged voters to support Republican candidates in Tuesday's election.

Independent international monitoring of detention facilities in Russia has come to an end with the country’s formal withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, the Council of Europe said on Sunday. In a statement, the Council of Europe said inspectors from the convention had carried out 30 visits to more than 450 detention facilities in Russia during the 23 years it was a member. Russia, however, permitted the publication of only four visit reports over that period. “Russia may authorize the publication of [the remaining] reports at any time,” the statement read, noting that the unpublished reports...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US aid to Israel after the end of the year. “They don’t need it,” Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. “We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.” The president said the idea came from Netanyahu himself, suggesting that the agreement was also...

The US has carried out strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials have told CBS, the BBC's US partner. The officials described the strikes as limited and defensive, and said they were in response to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing on a US aircraft. Iranian state news agency Irna reported explosions on Qeshm on Monday. The IRGC did not comment but said its forces had shot down two US MQM-170 drones south of the island and a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz. The US military has not commented on...

Anthropic sent $900,000 to Democratic committees across California in a last-minute burst of political giving, according to a late disclosure form filed with the state on October 30. The bulk of the money, $525,000, went straight to the California Democratic Party, while county parties and a get-out-the-vote group split the rest in the campaign's final stretch before Election Day. The filing, detailed by The San Francisco Standard, shows Anthropic gave $150,000 to a get-out-the-vote group and $45,000 each to the Democratic parties in San Francisco, San Mateo, Orange, Fresno and Siskiyou counties. The $45,000 check to the San Francisco Democratic...

A terrified teenage girl was seen making a desperate dash for freedom after allegedly being kidnapped and brutally stabbed inside a Baltimore basement. The newly released surveillance footage captures the 15-year-old fleeing a property on Garrison Boulevard at 8.52pm on October 22, just 43 minutes after arriving with her alleged attacker, who is an illegal immigrant released into the US under Biden. The girl had been taken to the property by Abubakarr Barrie, 23, who is accused of stabbing her repeatedly during a horrific ordeal that left her with a collapsed lung.

Only 25% of Americans said political surveys correctly estimate votes, according to a new POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Global. The result reveals that a significant portion of the public lacks faith in the industry as it contends with accusations of consistently failing to reach Republican voters. "Failing" to reach? Or just, you know, intentionally not trying to reach? This mistrust, of course, isn't new. Roughly one in four respondents say that polls showing a blue wave coming in November are wrong, and they expect Republicans to win key races. And 41% of Americans — including voters of both parties...

It's Election Day in America, and already we have a familiar problem: Voting machines aren't working. This time, the trouble is in Westchester County, New York, where ballot scanners began rejecting voters' ballots shortly after polls opened at 6 AM Tuesday. The problems were widespread enough that county officials acknowledged a system-wide malfunction, leaving voters filling out paper ballots while election workers scrambled to find a solution. And this isn't some tiny rural county with a handful of precincts. Westchester, just north of New York City, is home to roughly a million people and includes communities where consequential congressional races...