NBC’s Today was the only broadcast network to squeal with joy Wednesday morning over Jimmy McCain, the youngest son of late Senator John McCain, coming out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. Since endorsements of the Harris-Walz ticket was of concerning importance to NBC, what had been obviously omitted was the arguably more important subject of Jeff Walz, the brother of Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), saying he didn’t support his brother and was thinking of endorsing former President Trump. “And Peter, Harris got sort of a surprise new endorsement from the youngest son of the late Senator McCain. So what motivated that?” hyped Today co-host Hoda Kotb, teeing up chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander. “Yeah, that's right. It’s Jimmy McCain, he says just weeks ago that he changed his voter registration to Democrat,” he touted. Alexander proceeded to gush about what McCain was saying about Trump: But Hoda, importantly, this is the first time that he is speaking out about Mr. Trump; a series of interviews responding to that controversy over the former President's visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week. Jimmy McCain, who served in the military for 17 years, just returned from a military deployment in Jordan, tells our Phoenix affiliate Arlington, where generations of his family are buried is – in his words “a sacred place and that that it should be off-limits for political activities of any kind.” He also told CNN, quote, “these men and women that laying in the ground there have no choice whether to be a backdrop for a political campaign.”     While NBC was excited about Jimmy attacking Trump over posing for a photo with Abbey Gate Gold Star families (at their request), they failed to mention that John McCain actually filmed part of a 1999 campaign ad in Arlington National Cemetery. What also went conspicuously unreported was that Walz’s brother Jeff had spoken out against him on Facebook. “Haven’t spoken to him in 8 years. I’m 100% opposed to all his ideology. My family wasn’t given any notice thst [sic] he was selected and denied security the days after,” he commented. “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decision about your future,” he added. He replied to one commenter saying he was thinking about making himself available for the Trump campaign. “I’m torn between that and just keeping my family out of it,” he said. In an interview with News Nation, Jeff expressed regret about making those comments on Facebook specifically, but stood by the sentiment: “I was getting a lot of feedback from my friends, old acquaintances, thinking that I was feeling the same way that my brother did on the issues, and I was trying to clarify that just to friends,” Jeff Walz said. “I used Facebook, which wasn’t the right platform to do that. But I will say, I don’t agree with his policies.” Don’t hold your breath that NBC will cover him any time soon. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: NBC’s Today September 4, 2024 8:14:02 p.m. Eastern (…) HODA KOTB: And Peter, Harris got sort of a surprise new endorsement from the youngest son of the late Senator McCain. So what motivated that? PETER ALEXANDER: Yeah, that's right. It’s Jimmy McCain, he says just weeks ago that he changed his voter registration to Democrat. But Hoda, importantly, this is the first time that he is speaking out about Mr. Trump; a series of interviews responding to that controversy over the former President's visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week. Jimmy McCain, who served in the military for 17 years, just returned from a military deployment in Jordan, tells our Phoenix affiliate Arlington, where generations of his family are buried is – in his words –“a sacred place and that that it should be off-limits for political activities of any kind.” He also told CNN, quote, “these men and women that laying in the ground there have no choice whether to be a backdrop for a political campaign.” Hoda. KOTB: All right. Peter Alexander for us there at the White House. Peter, thank you.

I’m about to unload on a human type that I’ve been encountering for eons and whose representatives continue to annoy me. Most (if not all) of these tiresome creatures have been academics, and all of them have told me repeatedly that they’re dying to vote for a “nice, reasonable” Republican. Unfortunately, the party in question just won’t nominate the kind of candidate my acquaintances would be keen to support. When I ask which Republicans they might back, they predictably name Charlie Baker or another ultraliberal, nominally Republican governor, often from New England.This year, Nikki Haley seems to have joined the group of Republicans whom the “moderate” acquaintances I know might consider voting for in the presidential election (or so they say). They insist that if all Republicans could be pleasant and benevolent — like “that nice fellow Tim Walz,” as one family friend described — then they’d provide an acceptable alternative to our consistently moderate Democratic Party.I would love to vote for a Democratic candidate, but unfortunately the Democrats aren’t running Grover Cleveland or even Adlai Stevenson this year.Although my acquaintances grouse about “immoderateness” in American politics, that problem has not yet beset the party of gender fluidity, taxing unrealized capital gains, bailing out black revolutionaries who are burning down American cities, and banning gender-specific pronouns. If only Republicans could be more like Democrats, then my friends would have a real electoral choice between members of different parties whom they consider equally worthy of their vote.The last thing these people want in American politics are clear ideological choices. What they really desire are two national parties that never deviate from leftist party lines. But I’m not sure these “moderates” or “independents” would change their party allegiance even if the desired choice were available. They just want to make sure that both national parties are on the left, that neither causes any problems for our expanding administrative state and for those who run it, and that all social issues are resolved by woke administrators and judges. At that point, it won’t matter if the Democratic candidates win because there won’t be any serious ideological alternative for us to vote for.A useful means to arrive at the same end is the “democracy” program of the DNC, by which all effective opposition to the left will be removed in one fell swoop. By eliminating the filibuster, passing a national election law that bans voter identification, and turning the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico into states, we should be able to achieve one-party leftist woke rule.Alternatives might exist in theory, but they won’t do much to check the leftward drift of the Democratic Party, which will continue pushing its agenda through Congress or executive orders. Since “American democracy” supposedly requires two national parties — at least, that’s been the practice — “moderate” Republican candidates will stick around and occasionally win to maintain the illusion of a binary choice. In such a controlled setup, those who say, “I wish I could vote Republican,” might occasionally vote for non-Democratic candidates.An even more cringeworthy variation on the “too bad there’s no Republican I can vote for” theme is the Bad Orange Man pretext to vote for left-leaning candidates. Although there are undoubtedly a few authentic Trump-hating right-wingers (some of whom write for the magazine I edit, Chronicles), almost everyone who rails against the Donald seems to lean sharply left. They’d happily vote for Kamala Harris against just about anyone to the right of Joe Biden. I typically ask these habitual Trump-haters whether they would vote for Ron DeSantis or JD Vance if one of these figures rather than Trump were the Republican presidential nominee.The answer I invariably receive is that DeSantis is a religious fanatic who bans books and hates women. Vance suffers similar criticism, although my respondents also explains that he is “weird.” What I gather is that it’s not Trump who is keeping that person from voting for a Republican presidential nominee but his own leftist impulses. He would undoubtedly find multiple reasons to hate any Republican candidate who was not at least as far to the left as his Democratic opponent.Usually at this point, I become exasperated and reach for sarcasm. I point out, for example, that I would love to vote for a Democratic candidate, but unfortunately the Democrats aren’t running Grover Cleveland or even Adlai Stevenson this year. I then remind my listener that I am on the right politically and socially to the right, so I have no interest in voting for “moderate” Republicans, much less for the leftist candidates offered by the other national party.I would expect a similar degree of honesty from my interlocutor instead of the usual pap about how he’d love to vote for a “reasonable Republican.” We already have George Will, Bill Kristol, David French, Max Boot, David Brooks, and many other journalistic notables covering that base.

Things are definitely about to change for Diablo 4. The first DLC is on the horizon and the next big update for the game is ready for testing with the release of the Public Test Realm. As always with a PTR, it contains a few details that Blizzard probably didn’t want to announce just yet. The biggest thing found so far is the name and theme of Diablo 4 Season 6, with a few pieces of information that give clues to what the future holds for the game. Continue reading Diablo 4 Season 6 details discovered in 2.0 PTR files MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Diablo 4 builds, Diablo 4 review, Diablo 4 classes

Slick-talking sheriff? Check. Dinosaurs? Check. Miniguns? Check. Heavy rock music? Check. Aliens? Check. Good, it looks like we’ve got all the ingredients together for Son and Bone, a ludicrous new boomer shooter that’s just dropped on the Epic Games Store. With its Doom-style action and dino-infested alien world, this could be one of the year's weirdest and most badass FPS games. Continue reading Son and Bone feels like Doom with dinos, and it’s out now on Epic MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best dinosaur games, Best FPS games, Best single player games

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