CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Monday’s taping of The Late Show in an attempt to help him reverse his collapse in the polls by labeling his Conservative Party opponent, Pierre Poilievre, “Canada’s Trump,” which naturally means he is, in Colbert’s eyes, a fascist, nativist-xenophobe. Trudeau was in town for the United Nations General Assembly, and Colbert observed, “Here is one thing, you know, it's something that I am sure comes, you know, quite clearly at the U.N. General Assembly is that the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader, your opponent there, has been called Canada's Trump, and I’m sorry about that and, but I am curious why at least some form of nativism or far-right xenophobia might grow in a country even as polite as Canada. Why do you think this is getting a foothold even in your country?     Since almost all of Colbert’s audience knows nothing about Poilievre, including his name because Colbert wouldn’t mention it, it should be noted that this alleged leader of “nativism” and “far-right xenophobia” has a Venezuelan-born wife and two mixed-race children. He insists Trudeau broke the “multigenerational consensus” in the country and would tie immigration levels to new home construction and move to a more merit-based system. As for Trudeau, he took the opportunity to give a stump speech: That phrase “even in Canada,” I mean, we’re not some magical place of unicorns and rainbows all the time. We got more than our fair share, but the things that we have managed to do, we've had to work really hard at. I mean, universal health care was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen. We moved forward on world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution.  We’re moving forward with dental care for low income Canadians, we’re moving forward with $10 a day child care, these are things we have to fight for and that are really hard to do, but you can bring people together around thoughtful ideas and you can also lose those things too. I mean, there's a big argument right now about whether or dental care even exists. We delivered it to 700,000 people across the country and my opponent is gaslighting us and saying ‘oh, dental care doesn’t even exist yet.’ Whatever one thinks of Canada’s dental care debate, Trudeau, or Poilievre, a smaller role for government is hardly “fascism.” Here is a transcript for the September-24 taped show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 9/24/2024 12:08 AM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: Here is one thing, you know, it's something that I am sure comes, you know, quite clearly at the U.N. General Assembly is that the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader, your opponent there, has been called Canada's Trump, and I’m sorry about that and, but I am curious why at least some form of nativism or far-right xenophobia might grow in a country even as polite as Canada. Why do you think this is getting a foothold even in your country? JUSTIN TRUDEAU: That phrase “even in Canada,” I mean, we’re not some magical place of unicorns and rainbows all the time. We got more than our fair share, but the things that we have managed to do, we've had to work really hard at. I mean, universal health care was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen. We moved forward on world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution. We’re moving forward with dental care for low income Canadians, we’re moving forward with $10 a day child care, these are things we have to fight for and that are really hard to do, but you can bring people together around thoughtful ideas and you can also lose those things too. I mean, there's a big argument right now about whether or dental care even exists. We delivered it to 700,000 people across the country and my opponent is gaslighting us and saying “oh, dental care doesn’t even exist yet.”

In Sunday’s New York Times, reporter Katie Glueck, who covers the Democratic Party for the paper, cynically hyped up a hypocritical new way for Democrats to smear Republicans: “Trump’s Opponents See New Ways to Cast the G.O.P. as ‘Team Misogyny.’” It’s hard to imagine a more slanted Team Kamala lead sentence than the one Glueck came up with. In a race between a Democrat who could be America’s first female president and a Republican who has been found liable for sexual abuse, the issue of gender was always going to be inescapable. But this week, the subject surged to the forefront of the fall contest in new and vivid ways, as Democrats found fresh fuel for their argument that today’s Republican Party is disrespectful of women and their autonomy -- sometimes with dangerous consequences. On Monday and Wednesday, the deaths of two mothers in Georgia were linked to the state’s far-reaching abortion ban in new reports from ProPublica. ProPublica’s abortion death story has been discredited, but the Times used the phony story as an example, with no evidence, of the “dangerous consequences” of Republican policies. On Thursday, the deeply conservative Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina scrambled to deny that he had made graphic and incendiary remarks on a pornographic forum, including about women. Honestly? North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s remarks about women are probably the least inflammatory detail in that sordid case. But the boomlet of anti-Robinson stories bring hope and vibes to Kamala's campaign. And on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris took to a stage in Atlanta to argue with new urgency that the Republican Party was infringing on some of the most personal decisions a woman can make. “It’s clear that they just don’t trust women,” said Ms. Harris, speaking a day after joining a livestreamed event with Oprah Winfrey that attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. “Well, we trust women.” But not enough to trust them to make their own decisions on vaccines? For years, Democrats have tried to paint their Republican opponents as anti-woman, with mixed results. In 2012, they effectively highlighted Republican comments, like the use of the term “legitimate rape” by Todd Akin, a Senate candidate in Missouri, to press their claims of a G.O.P. “war on women.” Four years later, however, Mr. Trump defeated another would-be first female president, Hillary Clinton, despite being caught on a recording bragging about sexually assaulting women. And in plenty of races before and after, many Americans simply did not buy the Democratic argument that Republicans would take away abortion rights if given the chance. Amazingly, Glueck failed to mention Hillary’s husband -- former Democratic President Bill Clinton, who spoke at the 2024 Democratic convention -- who settled Paula Jones’ sexual harassment charge, and was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick, Then came the Liz Cheney types: “This is ‘War on Women’ on steroids,” said former Representative Barbara Comstock, a Virginia Republican who is voting this year for Ms. Harris, the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever earn her vote, she said. Compared with Mr. Akin’s remarks, Ms. Comstock said, this moment is “exponentially politically toxic because there’s nothing worse than being a hypocrite, particularly on these things that are so toxic with women.” “It is Team Misogyny with Trump,” she added. The Times clearly liked Comstock's line, recycling it for the headline.. Glueck reveled that the Democrats’ anti-Republican “misogynist” message would be even stronger than in 2012. “Back then, that’s what the Democrats had: They had outrageous statements” from their opponents to discuss, said Christine Matthews, a pollster who has worked with Republicans but opposes Mr. Trump, citing the 2012 races. “Now,” she said, “they can point to policies.”

Parodies are everywhere this election season, and many of them are quite funny — especially when it comes to Kamala Harris. One video circulating on social media shows the vice president seemingly exposing herself as an incompetent candidate for president. Elon Musk, who’s a fan of a good joke, decided to retweet this video on his own X account, which apparently made Gavin Newsom mad. “I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California. You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communication that contains materially deceptive content — including deepfakes,” the California governor wrote in a post on X. The post was a quote tweet of an earlier post Newsom had written complaining about the fake ad. In the original post he wrote, “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal. I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.” “If they think that a law is somehow going to stop what is coming via AI and editing and everything else, they’re just completely crazy,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” says to his guests, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Karol Markowicz. “Satire is covered by the First Amendment. That’s been established,” Markowicz comments. “I’m glad he solved all the other problems in California, obviously, and it’s finally got to this,” she adds, laughing. All jokes aside, Markowicz isn’t pleased that Newsom’s set his sights on this issue. “It is scary that he’s attempting it. It’s attempting to shut down speech with which he disagrees. And that speech you know, again, covered by the First Amendment, is satire,” she says. However, Newsom’s fight against AI ads isn’t really working in his favor, as the Babylon Bee made an AI ad of the California governor explaining how incompetent he is. “My policies were so effective, that almost one million people are now fleeing the state every year,” Newsom’s AI voice says. The voice also relayed that “bigots shouldn’t be allowed to have kids” and that Kamala will “do to the country everything I did in California.” The video finishes with the sign off, “Thank you, and science bless America.” “Putting aside the fact that it’s actually just like the Kamala video, there’s more truth in that than a real Gavin Newsom ad,” Rubin comments. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Customs and Border Protection agents reported two recent instances in which children were rescued after being drugged by traffickers who were attempting to smuggle them into the United States.Executive Assistant Office of Field Operations Commissioner Diane Sabatino posted a video on social media on Thursday, announcing that Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Arizona, arrested Marlen Contreras-Lopez, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen and Arizona resident. 'Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency.'When stopped at the border on August 29, Contreras-Lopez presented officers with birth certificates for two sleeping children, 8 and 11 years old, in her vehicle. She claimed that the minors were family members. During the initial inspection with Border Patrol agents, Contreras-Lopez was unable to awaken the children, so she was referred to a secondary inspection, where she continued to “have difficulty waking the children.” According to the officers who conducted the inspection, the children remained “extremely groggy.”Court records obtained by the New York Post stated that one of the children had to be carried and the other “struggled to walk.”While interviewing the minors, agents reportedly discovered that they were not related to Contreras-Lopez. While the birth certificates were legitimate, they apparently did not belong to the children, who were Mexican citizens. “The children indicated to CBP officers that they were provided sleep aids in order to avoid detection,” Sabatino said.According to the court documents, one of the children informed the officers that the other child was her brother and that they had taken a bus from their hometown in Mexico to the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, where Contreras-Lopez had picked them up, the Post reported. The girl reportedly told agents that their mother was still in Mexico and that they were being taken to their mother’s boyfriend in the U.S.The children were turned over to Mexican authorities. — (@) Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief of California’s El Centro sector, told the Post about a separate similar incident that occurred within the past few weeks in which Border Patrol agents in California rescued a child who had been “heavily dosed with sleep aids to prevent him from talking” to law enforcement agents.Bovino explained that officers discovered that the smugglers in that case were in possession of birth certificates for more children to whom they were not related.“Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency,” Bovino told the Post.In 2019, former President Donald Trump launched a rapid DNA testing pilot program at the southern border to further deter traffickers from smuggling children. The process involved cheek swabs that took approximately 90 minutes to obtain results. Within the initial three-day trial run, the program determined that 30% of illegal aliens arriving at the border with children they claimed were theirs were, in fact, not related. They were also ruled out as stepparents or adoptive parents. When the Biden-Harris administration took office, it ended the program.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A woman who said she was prevented from entering Citi Field, where the New York Mets play, is suing the organization for damages.Aura Moody said in August that she and her friend were both wearing MAGA hats when they were told by a Citi Field staff member they were not allowed inside the stadium with the Trump-supporting hats on.The staffer also allegedly refused to allow the women to keep their hats in their bags, forcing Moody, 64, to call another friend in order to put the hats back in their vehicle.Moody is seeking $2 million from the team and Citi Field, stating that the incident violated her free speech rights and caused her "emotional distress."'It was embarrassing. It was heartbreaking. It was shocking. It was humiliating.'The woman visited the Mets' field with a group of women from the Queens Village Republican Club, saying, "We are conservative people, we believe in tolerance. If I was wearing a BLM, Biden, Harris hat, they would have let me go through.""This country is supposed to be the beacon of freedom for all," she told the New York Post.Moody is also accusing the Mets of "racial discrimination and political retaliation," along with "reputational harm."Her legal filing states that she "knew she was being racially targeted and politically retaliated against for being a Black woman wearing a MAGA hat, so she requested to speak to a supervisor."When the story first broke in August, however, Moody did not appear to make any mention of any mistreatment she suffered due to her race, or any other race-based abuse she may have faced.The Mets organization apologized after the initial incident and said that the employee had misinterpreted the venue's policy on attire."A Mets employee was mistaken about our attire policy," the team said in August. "We are reaching out to Aura Moody to apologize and invite her back to the ballpark."Nancy Elder, a team spokeswoman, recently told the New York Post that the Mets have no comment on the law suit. Moody said following the events that the country is on the verge of communism, "a system that confiscates private property." She added that she is a Trump supporter because he is the "people's president" and the "only one who can save the United States" from destruction by the Democrats.Moody added that she isn't sure when or if she will return to Citi Field:"It was embarrassing. It was heartbreaking. It was shocking. It was humiliating. So how can I go back? It may take some time."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Glorious Series 2 Pro is the latest addition to the company's roster of gaming mice, and it packs in loads of the latest top-tier gaming features, including a wireless and wired polling rate of up to 8kHz, optical switches, and a 26K DPI sensor. It's a very small and light mouse, with a plain design that's entirely focused on peak performance, so it should be an ideal choice for competitive PC gamers. With specs clearly worthy of a spot on our best gaming mouse guide, this new Glorious mouse is up against stiff competition, but a reasonably competitive launch price helps it considerably. Read on to find out all the juicy details. Continue reading Glorious Series 2 Pro review: A compact and ultralight gaming mouse MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

Rumors have already pointed to the forthcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 drawing a lot of power, but the latest speculation is that the new GPU could have not one, but two 16-pin power sockets. When 16-pin cables were first introduced with the 12VHPWR standard, there were multiple reports of the cables catching fire on RTX 4090 graphics cards, leading to 12VHPWR being usurped by the more secure 12V-2x6 power standard, which also has 16 pins. With AMD widely rumored to be focusing on the mid-range market with its forthcoming RDNA 4 GPU, it looks as though Nvidia will have the best graphics card title all sewn up when it eventually launches its flagship Blackwell gaming GPU. This new Nvidia GPU is rumored to be very power-hungry, though, with leaks pointing to the RTX 5090 power draw being over 550W, and as high as 600W. Continue reading You might need a new PSU for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: GeForce RTX 4070 Super review, DLSS explained, Best graphics cards

Unity, the maker of one of the most popular game development engines in the world, has just released a new demo showcasing the capabilities of its latest Unity 6 engine. Called Time Ghost, the new video shows the stunning visuals that can be achieved with the engine's tech while running on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and it looks amazing. Previous Unity engines have been used to power some of the best PC games around, including Cuphead, and Hollow Knight. Unity 6 is still in the preview stage at the moment, but is already available for game developers to try out. Continue reading Unreal Engine 5 has a fight on its hands, based on this Unity 6 demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best graphics card, Best gaming PC, Best SSD for gaming

After Baldur’s Gate 3 finally reclaimed the CRPG throne last year, Spiders’ Greedfall 2 is poised to enter a very different landscape than its predecessor half a decade ago. Larian’s critical darling is a colossus that looms large, but it proves there’s an audience with a hearty appetite for this niche. It’s also the poster child for the benefits of early access: another success story to add to the pile. The truth is, an early access launch is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get… and sometimes, it’s better to wait. Continue reading Greedfall 2 is a buggy, boring mess that turned me bald MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPG games, Upcoming games, Best PC games

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