If there’s one liberal who can make sense of what’s going on in the world today, it’s Bill Maher — and he has a message regarding the current president. “Let’s be clear about Biden,” Maher says to Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.” “Should he run for president? No. As we were saying, I was saying a long time ago, he shouldn’t. Is he the best choice? No. Is he completely out of his mind? No, he’s not lost his marbles.” “You talk yourself into the extremes,” he adds. “I don’t know that that’s extreme,” Rubin counters. “I don’t have any sense that he has the wherewithal, if they woke him up at 7:30, 11:30, or 3:30, that he would know where he is or what he’s doing.” “Then you’re just a hater,” Maher argues. “He’s terrible in public, he’s terrible when you put him under pressure with his stuttering and with his age, yes, to try to do a debate, it’d be like asking him to run a marathon at 81.” “Being pointlessly, purposely, stupidly extreme about it, not being objective, you just hate that side so you can’t come to the actual true place where this is, and that’s where this is,” he adds. While Maher doesn’t believe that Biden is crazy, he does believe that “he just shouldn’t be president.” “In public, he’s not a crazy person. He’s just an awful speaker. He’s terrible under pressure at 8:00 at night,” Maher explains. “The bar has been set low, I guess is what you’re saying,” Rubin responds. 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.

A lot can happen in a month. The last time Align heard from renegade street artist Sabo was in late June. He had traveled to Los Angeles to plaster his provocative fake ads (a shower-capped Biden promoting Biden Bed Bath & Beyond and "ER" throwback Clooney hawking a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome, among other hilarities) all over town. The occasion? George Clooney's star-studded Biden fundraiser at downtown L.A.'s Peacock Theatre. That was the same gala at which Biden seemed to "freeze" onstage in front of Democratic bigwigs like Barack Obama and the stars who love them. Of course, that synaptic snafu was just a preview of Biden's full-scale cognitive crash a few weeks later at the presidential debate. Now, Democrats are scrambling to salvage the election — with or without the incumbent. Things were going well enough that Sabo thought he could take a well-deserved break. Until Trump responded to a would-be assassin's near miss with his instantly iconic raised fist and call to "Fight! Fight! Fight!"As Sabo told Align Thursday afternoon, "I wasn't planning on coming to the RNC, but after the attempted assassination I felt compelled. It was electric seeing President Trump that first Monday and I hope to hear his acceptance speech tonight." We're happy to share Sabo's exclusive photos of his latest work — including "a TRUMP yard sign someone painted over that I decided to 'fix.'"Bravo, sir — and enjoy the convention! Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com Unsavoryagents.com

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) revealed through a letter to the Department of Homeland Security that whistleblowers have claimed President Trump's security detail on the day of his attempted killing was mostly composed of inexperienced DHS agents, with several typical protocols for such an event being skipped.The Missouri senator posted a copy of the letter he sent to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, detailing claims by whistleblowers from inside homeland security."Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service," Hawley wrote on X. "DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel."The letter said that "whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of event" alleged that the July 13, 2024, Trump rally was considered to be a "loose" security event.'How long did agents physically spend on the ground surveying the site before the event?'This apparently meant that "detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner" and that "individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas."In addition, whistleblowers claimed that "department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also not stationed at regular intervals around the event's security perimeter."Shockingly, whistleblowers also said that the former president's detail was not even made up of mostly Secret Service agents."The majority of DHS were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department's Homeland Security Investigations," Hawley wrote.The letter added that the HSI agents were "unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events." — (@) Hawley finished his letter by asking seven questions to the DHS secretary, starting with how DHS determined it would staff the event.He also asked what percentage of DHS agents were from HSI rather than typical Secret Service and whether they were properly trained for events such as the rally in question.The letter also asked if agents were appropriately stationed around Trump's podium.Perhaps the most important question by Hawley was asked last:"How long did agents physically spend on the ground surveying the site before the event?"Secret Service brass have fallen well short of Americans' expectations in terms of their explanations for the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt on Trump. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was pictured on video fleeing from questions by Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday. — (@) Congressman Hawley also said in his letter that the Senate has actually "learned more from whistleblowers" than from DHS officials.Secretary Mayorkas' only public statements in the six days since the shooting of Trump have been regarding border security.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The leader of one of the largest cybersecurity enterprises in the world has apologized after a faulty software update apparently brought global airline industries and many online transactions to a grinding halt.Before 6 a.m. on Friday, George Kurtz — CEO of Texas-based cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike — took to social media to acknowledge that "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts" had led to a major breakdown in Microsoft operations.As a result, more than 18,000 flights from around the world were grounded, 1,200 in the U.S. alone, according to joint reporting from The Hill and the AP. Banks and 911 dispatch stations were also thrown offline. Even the Sphere in Las Vegas was affected, projecting the dreaded "blue screen of death" into the night sky.While CrowdStrike's update issue may have inconvenienced millions of people worldwide, it is apparently not the work of malicious actors, at least according to Kurtz. "This is not a security incident or cyberattack," he insisted.Neither Mac nor Linux systems was affected by the issue, Kurtz noted.In follow-up statements to the media, Kurtz became emotional as he apologized for causing everyone so much trouble. "We’re deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this," he told NBC's "Today."According to Kurtz, the initial problem has been fixed. However, the reverberating effects of the issue are much more complex and therefore much more difficult to address, he said."Sometimes, some systems won’t automatically recover," he said."We’re not going to relent until we get every customer back to where they were."As of mid-morning on Friday, several major U.S. airports — including Logan Airport in Boston, LaGuardia in New York City, and the Las Vegas airport formally known as McCarran — reported significant closures. Flights at other airports such as Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta were delayed by as much as six hours.The FAA professes to be "closely monitoring" the situation. "The FAA is closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines," the aviation agency tweeted at 5:50 a.m. on Friday. "Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops until the issue is resolved. Monitor http://fly.faa.gov for updates."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Hunt Showdown has been a mainstay of multiplayer horror gaming for years now, standing alongside Dead by Daylight, The Outlast Trials, Phasmophobia, and GTFO as a top choice for fans of supernaturally tinged online play. Though it's managed to keep itself relevant by supplying players with a steady output of new additions and updates, ensuring the game never becomes stale, it's also been nearly five years since Hunt Showdown left Early Access. Considering its ongoing success, it isn't much of a surprise to imagine that creator Crytek has been working on a sequel. What is surprising, though, is that details on that sequel seem to have just leaked through the ESRB ratings website. Continue reading Hunt Showdown 2 might actually be happening as new FPS game leaks MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Hunt: Showdown review

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe. The outage, which has brought the Blue Screen of Death upon legions of Windows machines across the globe, is linked to just one software company: CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike plays an important role in helping companies find and prevent security breaches, billing itself as having the “fastest mean time” to detect threats. Since its launch in 2011, the Texas-based company has helped investigate major cyberattacks, such as the Sony Pictures hack in 2014, as well as the Russian cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee in 2015 and 2016. As of Thursday evening,... Continue reading…

Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Look, in the grand scheme of the global outage that’s wreaking havoc across airlines, banks, supermarkets, TV stations, and countless businesses, being unable to order a Trenta iced coffee from Starbucks with my smartphone is a minor inconvenience. But you can add the company’s mobile ordering system to the list of casualties from this CrowdStrike BSOD situation. I am now personally affected by this because I had to order my Starbucks latte verbally and stand in a line. Am I entitled to compensation? pic.twitter.com/ClVO81mIyK— Sherrod DeGrippo (@sherrod_im) July 19, 2024 Starbucks is closed. pic.twitter.com/bsFwSgx155— NoneShallPass (@bfrahm73) July 19, 2024 The Starbucks app itself is working, but the ability to order... Continue reading…

The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing.