First Lady Jill Biden took delivery of the official White House Christmas tree just before the Thanksgiving holiday — but her announcement about where the tree had come from raised eyebrows. Biden explained that the massive Fraser Fir had come from a family-owned Christmas tree farm in North Carolina — and that the family had nicknamed it “Tree-mendous” when it remained standing after thousands of their trees were lost during Hurricane Helene. WATCH: “This one remained standing." First lady Jill Biden received the 2024 White House Christmas tree, a Frasier fir from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, a community recently impacted by Hurricane Helene. pic.twitter.com/CPqKq27kh9 — ABC News (@ABC) November 25, 2024 “Their farm is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a region that was recently devastated by Hurricane Helene,” Biden said of the more-than-60-year-old farm. “The Cartner family lost thousands of trees to the storm. But this one remained standing—and they named it ‘Tremendous’ for the extraordinary hope that it represents.” But critics were not impressed with Biden’s remarks, arguing that if the tree was a symbol of “extraordinary hope,” maybe the political elites should have left it where it stood. “This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it ‘remained standing’ until the government showed up ready to help,” Erick Erickson posted. This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it “remained standing” until the government showed up ready to help. https://t.co/bBBZNFQEvd — Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 29, 2024 “lol …They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy. It’s poetic,” RedState’s Bonchie added. lol…They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy. It’s poetic. https://t.co/9Nmoex04xn — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 29, 2024 The Federalist’s Sean Davis asked, “You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods?” You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods? https://t.co/JfLn7n3k5V — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 29, 2024 “So, let me get this straight. The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname ‘Treemendous’ for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and dragged to the White House to be put on temporary display before getting tossed aside as, for lack of a better term, garbage?” another posted. “Who the hell thought that was a good idea? Speaking of symbolism, this move by Team Deep State is very on-brand.” So, let me get this straight. The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname 'Treemendous' for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and… https://t.co/yDttFwgWHO — AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) November 27, 2024  

Dr. Anthony Fauci recently published a new paper that touched on both HIV/AIDs and the COVID-19 pandemic — and in it, he not only doubled down on his insistence that COVID had a natural origin but also claimed that President-elect Donald Trump had suggested “bleach injection” as a possible treatment. Jerry Dunleavy shared several excerpts of the paper via X, commenting, “Fauci is out with a new scientific paper on HIV/AIDS & COVID-19 where he falsely claims Trump told people to inject bleach & where he argues COVID-19 has a natural origin (Wuhan lab leak not even mentioned) by citing the same authors who wrote the infamous Proximal Origins paper.” Fauci is out with a new scientific paper on HIV/AIDS & COVID-19 where he falsely claims Trump told people to inject bleach & where he argues COVID-19 has a natural origin (Wuhan lab leak not even mentioned) by citing the same authors who wrote the infamous Proximal Origins paper. pic.twitter.com/3Cx1NC7Emc — Jerry Dunleavy IV ?? (@JerryDunleavy) November 29, 2024 In the highlighted sections, Fauci wrote that “abundant evidence from top evolutionary virologists and leading scientists in other fields strongly suggests that the virus jumped species from an animal reservoir to humans at the Huanan Market in Wuhan, China, and then spread throughout China and the rest of the world.” The former White House medical advisor added, “Trump gave credence to unproven and potentially dangerous substances for COVID-19 prevention and treatment such as bleach injection.” What Trump actually asked, during a COVID-related press conference, was whether there was a way to use an injection to introduce the benefits of ultraviolet light or “almost a cleaning” to knock out the virus before it attacked the lungs. Fauci’s new paper comes just as Trump has named Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of Fauci’s leading critics, to head the National Institutes of Health in the incoming administration. Bhattacharya was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, published in 2020, and voiced opposition to the widespread lockdowns and closures during the pandemic. He told Fox News in 2023 that both Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins had “created an illusion of scientific consensus around their ideas and marginalized anyone that disagreed with them even though there wasn’t a scientific consensus. It’s a pattern of behavior that reflects an abuse of power by American scientific bureaucrats at the very top of our scientific bureaucracies.” WATCH: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya talks about Dr. Anthony Fauci secretly crafting the "Proximal Origin" paper that dismissed the lab leak as a conspiracy theory: "Tony Fauci and Francis Collins created an illusion of scientific consensus around their ideas and marginalized anyone that… pic.twitter.com/rzuKFQphpW — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 9, 2023

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Members of Parliament have voted to pass legislation that makes assisted suicide legal in England and Wales.The new legislation will allow for the death of those in the two countries who are over the age of 18 and are registered with a general practitioner for at least 12 months.The bill passed with a vote of 330 to 275 and will allow patients to expect to be killed within six months of their request.'As a religious person, I understand and appreciate the deep moral and philosophical concerns that many people have about this issue.'Other parameters, the BBC reported, included making sure the patient has the mental capacity to make the decision in a clear, settled, and informed manner that is free from coercion.Two separate declarations must be made by the patient, with two "independent doctors" declaring the patient is eligible at least seven days apart.Additionally, a High Court judge would have to rule each time a person makes a request to die, after which the patient has to wait another 14 days after the ruling to reflect on whether they want the government to kill them.A doctor would reportedly prepare a substance that would kill the patient, but the patient has to ingest the substance themselves.Conservative former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote in the Darlington and Stockton Times that he agrees with the decision and voted in favor of it.The "bill is sufficiently tightly drawn to prevent" abuse of the law by the government, Sunak wrote. "Pressuring someone into ending their life will be a criminal offence."He added, "As a religious person, I understand and appreciate the deep moral and philosophical concerns that many people have about this issue."Blaze News previously reported on the rise of government-assisted suicide across the world.In the United States, euthanasia was first made legal in Oregon in 1997. California, Vermont, and Washington have also approved the death method, but it is not federally legalized.Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland have all legalized assisted suicide. Switzerland has made headlines as of late due to an ongoing debate and investigation surrounding the use of suicide pods in the country.In the Netherlands, assisted suicide is allowed for terminally ill children ages 1-12. Those who are 5-10 years old can be killed if they are determined to be suffering unbearably or have no hope of improvement.“The end of life for this group is the only reasonable alternative to the child’s unbearable and hopeless suffering,” the government said in 2023, per the Guardian.Canada, which boasts a robust suicide system, paused its program for those who are mentally ill in February 2024. In August, state-facilitated suicide was the leading cause of death in Canada.In November 2011, Russia passed a law banning euthanasia, making it the only country in the world in which all forms of euthanasia are illegal.As for the English and Welsh legislation, it will be illegal to use dishonesty, pressure, or coercion to encourage someone to end their life, with a 14-year prison sentence for those found guilty of doing so. It is unclear how that would be determined.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The left has labeled Donald Trump as a racist for years — but even some liberals are realizing that couldn’t be further from the truth. “You know, what I think black people think about Trump, like, is he a racist? Yeah, but they think every white person is kind of a racist. And do they think that white people behind closed doors talk like Trump?” Bill Maher asked Stephen A. Smith on an episode of “Club Random.” “That last part right there,” Smith responded excitedly. “Being a black man, you don’t look at white people and automatically think they’re racist. You automatically know they’re different than you, that they think different than you, that they come from a different cultural background and experience things differently.” “So that second part is very, very important because when you talk about how Trump talks,” Smith continued, “We’re going like this, ‘So that’s the first time he talked like that, when he became president.’” “We know better than that. We know that ain’t the first time, and we know that the people that he was friends with all of these years, he talked just like that around y’all. Y’all didn’t have no problem with it, don’t act like you have a problem,” he added. Smith even went as far to admit that he and Trump “were friendly right before he ran for president.” “If we’re being totally honest, all the brothers found him to be cool,” he added. Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” already knew this about Trump and isn’t impressed that Maher is flipping his position. “They’re having their little struggle session over whether Donald Trump is racist or not, and then suddenly, Bill Maher is now saying he’s not racist. Like, Bill, love you, but I have no doubt if we did a little bit of research, we could probably find 50 videos of you relating him to Hitler or Nazis or white supremacists,” Rubin says. 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.

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