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As Democrats continue to ask themselves what went wrong, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart came up with a new idea: they are simply too soft. Stewart made the puzzling claim on Monday, asserting that while Republicans “don't give a [bleep] about your norms,” Democrats are busy running “to the nearby Kinkos.” Stewart was not happy with the Democratic response to the idea that Donald Trump may use recess appointments for some of his more controversial cabinet picks and mocked them, “Yeah, you can do it, and it is legal, but, whatever, guy. We’re going to think you are a dick."     Some state-level Democrats tried to keep Trump off the ballot and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just rebuked four Democratic counties for counting illegal votes despite an order forbidding them to do so, but Stewart still claimed, “Republicans exploit the loopholes. Democrats complain about the norms. Over and over and over and it has ghastly consequences.” Stewart then recalled the Senate not voting on Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, “Now you could make a case that Obama could violate the norm, say the Senate failed their advice and consent, and appoint him anyway, and see what the [bleep] happens. Fight. But they just went, "Well, we've never heard of that rule, but okay!" Smash cut: Two months before a presidential election, Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the completely unforeseeable death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And as you can imagine, the Democrats went right to the nearby Kinkos.” The Senate declining to give its consent is not a “loophole,” but nevertheless, Stewart then played a clip of Sen. Dick Durbin, who once filibustered Miguel Estrada because he was Latino, rather dully explaining, “Behind me is the McConnell rule. On February 13, 2016, when Justice Scalia passed away, Senator McConnell said, and I quote, "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." Again, Stewart was dismayed, "So, Amy Coney Barrett was forced to head back to her homestead, never to be heard from—oh, they didn't give a [bleep]?" Oh, right, I forgot! They didn't give a [bleep]!” Stewart then had some advice for Democrats, “Look, let this show be the utterly ineffective hypocrisy finders. I can tell you from experience, it does nothing! You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get shit done. Because they don't give a [bleep] about your norms! They will exploit any loophole, even if they have to go through clearly closed windows to do it.”     The ever distraught Stewart then recalled, “You would think after Trump's presidency, Democrats would have learned. But they doubled down. When Biden tried to get immigration reform into the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Senate parliamentarian told him he couldn't, did he respond to the rule with a loophole or did he—” After patting himself on the back and playing a clip of President Joe Biden deferring to the parliamentarian, Steart ranted, “No! That's for—you take the parliamentarian and you put them in a locker and then you bring Grimace in and have him—that's what you do!” Later, Stewart welcomed professor and author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, Ruy Teixeira to discuss his more recent book, Where Have all The Democrats Gone? And asked him: I’ll say something that I feel like resonated with the audience and has resonated with them in a while. My idea of what happened with the Democratic Party is, it was a rejection of a status quo, a feeling that, not just in the working class movement but in many movements, that democracy is by nature analog. We are living in a digital world, we’re, you know, terminally online. The outrage and the anger and confusion is much elevated, and the distance between those two points becomes untenable. Especially, if the Democrats insist on, ‘Well, we have to keep, I would love to get the help you need, but the parliamentarian has been really up my ass all night.’ I feel like that’s a real problem for them. Teixeira concurred, “Yeah, I mean, the sense that the Democratic Party isn't responsive to the needs of, sort of, ordinary, the common man and woman, the working class, and they are too caught up in other issues or they are too afraid about sort of government regulations and parliamentarian stuff and they're not laser focused on getting stuff done.” Here is a transcript for the November 18 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 11/18/2024 11:16 PM ET STEWART: "Yeah, you can do it, and it is legal, but, whatever, guy. We’re going to think you are a dick." Republicans exploit the loopholes. Democrats complain about the norms. Over and over and over and it has ghastly consequences. Remember when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to give that a vote, saying, well, it's only one full year before the election. It's too close. Now you could make a case that Obama could violate the norm, say the Senate failed their advice and consent, and appoint him anyway, and see what the [bleep] happens. Fight. But they just went, "Well, we've never heard of that rule, but okay!" Smash cut: Two months before a presidential election, Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the completely unforeseeable death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And as you can imagine, the Democrats went right to the nearby Kinkos. DICK DURBAN: Behind me is the McConnell rule. On February 13, 2016, when Justice Scalia passed away, Senator McConnell said, and I quote, "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." STEWART: "So, Amy Coney Barrett was forced to head back to her homestead, never to be heard from—oh, they didn't give a [bleep]?" Oh, right, I forgot! They didn't give a [bleep]! Look, let this show be the utterly ineffective hypocrisy finders. I can tell you from experience, it does nothing! You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get shit done. Because they don't give a [bleep] about your norms! They will exploit any loophole, even if they have to go through clearly closed windows to do it. You would think after Trump's presidency, Democrats would have learned. But they doubled down. When Biden tried to get immigration reform into the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Senate parliamentarian told him he couldn't, did he respond to the rule with a loophole or did he [Pats self on the back]— JOE BIDEN: That's for the parliamentarian to decide, though— not for Joe Biden to decide. STEWART: No! That's for — you take the parliamentarian and you put them in a locker and then you bring Grimace in and have him—that's what you do!  … STEWART: Now, and I’ll say something that I feel like resonated with the audience and has resonated with them in a while. My idea of what happened with the Democratic Party is, it was a rejection of a status quo, a feeling that, not just in the working class movement but in many movements, that democracy is by nature analog. We are living in a digital world, we’re, you know, terminally online. The outrage and the anger and confusion is much elevated, and the distance between those two points becomes untenable. Especially, if the Democrats insist on, "Well, we have to keep, I would love to get the help you need, but the parliamentarian has been really up my ass all night." RUY TEIXEIRA: Right. Right. STEWART:  I feel like that’s a real problem for them. TEIXEIRA: Yeah, I mean, the sense that the Democratic Party isn't responsive to the needs of, sort of, ordinary, the common man and woman, the working class, and they are too caught up in other issues or they are too afraid about sort of government regulations and parliamentarian stuff and they're not laser focused on getting stuff done and you know, even in places like New York City where you have, you know, very Democratic governance there's a sense that they aren't pulling out all the stops to make sure everyone gets good services and everything runs well and, you know, effective government is what people want to.

On Monday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings informally added Chris Wright and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr — whom President-Elect Trump nominated to become Energy secretary and chair of the FCC, respectively — to the list of appointments they’re melting down over, fearing the former’s promise to unleash American potential on energy production and the latter’s long-standing crusade against bias. ABC put Biden-Harris apple polisher Mary Bruce on the case, so she naturally had only mean things to say.  She made sure to point out Wright joined Trump alongside other appointments such as Department of Government Efficiency picks Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at Saturday’s UFC fights before melting down over Wright being “[o]ne of the nation’s top fracking CEOs” and “fiercely criticized the existence of a climate crisis.”     “Wright, who has no government experience, has argued the impacts of climate change are overblown. But scientists agree, humans are causing global warming and climate change. This year is shaping up to be the hottest on record, with more extreme weather events made worse by climate change expected,” she huffed. Fact-check: Pants on fire. Wright has cultivated a relationship with the great team at American Conservation Coalition, a pro-environmental group that’s advocated for free market solutions to climate challenges.  Speaking at their Action summit last year, Wright called himself “a lifelong environmentalist” and deemed “climate change” to be “a real problem and I’ve been speaking on it for 20 years.” As for Carr, Bruce downplayed his qualifications by merely stating he’s been at the FCC since 2012 before moving onto kicking dirt, lamenting he’s “received high praise from Elon Musk and wrote a chapter of the Project 2025 policy book how he would run the FCC.” ABC’s Mary Bruce, upset with Trump naming @BrendanCarrFCC as his nominee to become FCC Chairman: “Now, overnight, Trump naming Brendan Carr to be FCC commissioner. He’s served there since 2012, received high praise from Elon Musk and wrote a chapter of the Project 2025 policy… pic.twitter.com/1BjunZOFT7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 18, 2024 CBS had political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns bite the bullet on the transition picks. After huffing about Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, she too peddled misinformation about Wright, cutting him down to merely “a fracking company CEO and an opponent of efforts to fight climate change.” Given CBS’s shenanigans with Vice President Harris’s 60 Minutes interview, the Tony Dokoupil-Ta-Nehisi Coates fiasco, and cutting portions of an interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to name a few, one could see why Huey-Burns would be worried about how Carr would see whether over-the-air broadcast networks like CBS are serving the public: CBS’s Caitlin-Huey Burns was low-key freaking out on ‘CBS Mornings’ over President-Elect Trump tapping @BrendanCarrFCC to lead the FCC and @ChrisAWright_ to lead the Energy Department pic.twitter.com/cmevIR2053 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 18, 2024 HUEY-BURNS: And the latest pick, Brendan Carr, for FCC chairman. He’s a senior Republican member of the FCC who has drawn attention over his contribution to Project 2025, the planning document Trump attempted to distance himself from during the campaign. In a post last night, Carr seemed to take aim at broadcast media, stating they’re expected to operate in the public interest, and the FCC plans to enforce this obligation. BRENDAN CARR : The remedies the FCC has ultimately would be license revocation if we find that it`s egregious. HUEY-BURNS: Now, the FCC does not have the authority to punish or revoke the license of a broadcast station for content, only for obscenities, but Carr is expected to test the legal limits of the FCC, and Trump himself has called Carr a free speech warrior. For good measure, CBS Mornings Plus also invoked Carr and Wright. Co-host Tony Dokoupil said in a news brief that Wright is “the CEO of a fracking company and an opponent of efforts to fight climate change” while Carr “has drawn controversy over his contribution to Project 2025, that conservative blueprint for this administration” and has “seemed to take aim at broadcast media.”

MRC founder and president Brent Bozell appeared Tuesday morning on Varney & Co. on the Fox Business Network to discuss the collapsing ratings of MSNBC and the spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski traipsing into Mar-a-Lago to have a little summit with the president-elect Donald Trump. Bozell laid out a picture from the Nielsen ratings of MSNBC's ratings plunge. Since October their ratings are down 53%. From November 6 to 13, they drew 550,000 viewers compared to 2.2. million at Fox. Even Rachel Maddow's show lost a million viewers. So that's why it's time for desperate measures with Trump.  BRENT BOZELL: The support for the national news media with, the trust in the national news media a is at 31%. It's at an all-time low. Now, his -- the people at MSNBC could care less about the collapse of their network. What Joe Scarborough is trying to do is stop the bleeding because that's the -- they've got to do that the or that network collapses completely.  The way you stop the bleeding was you go to the man who's famously had no permanent friend, no permanent enemies, and you try to amend it is so that you can go back on the air and you can be talking about him and no longer talking to him about a fascist, etc. So it's a smart move that Joe Scarborough made, it's even a smarter move that Donald Trump is making in welcoming him to Mar-a-Lago. Right before Bozell came on, Varney ran a clip of Ana Navarro on The View ripping Joe and Mika as opportunists: "There are probably a lot of people looking at what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic. There are people who change their stripes or maybe their spots depending on who's in power -- I don't know if that's what happening with them. Everybody has to live with their decisions, everybody has to look in the mirror -- I'm good."  

As expected, the left has gone into full-on meltdown mode as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House — and celebrities across the nation are threatening to leave the country for greener pastures. The hysteria began to ramp up about a year ago when Barbra Streisand told Stephen Colbert in an interview on “The Late Show” that she couldn’t live in the United States should Trump be successful in his bid for the presidency, and would likely move to England. Cher joined Streisand on the list of celebrities afraid of a Trump presidency, telling the Guardian in an interview that she “almost got an ulcer the last time he was in office.” “If he gets in, who knows. This time, I will leave,” Cher continued, adding, “I was with two trans girls the other night and my own child. I was saying we’ve got to stand together. I don’t know what their eventual plan is for trans people, I don’t put anything past them.” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” believes they should make good on their promises, saying, “Good, don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.” Sharon Stone has also reportedly been considering a move to Europe if Trump wins, explaining she was “certainly considering a house in Italy” as this is one of the first times in her life that she’s “actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate.” However, Gray doesn’t believe they mean it — as many celebrities said the exact same thing in 2016. “Among those was Miley Cyrus, who declared in an Instagram post back in 2016, ‘Honestly f*** this. I’m moving if this is my president. I don’t say things I don’t mean,’” Gray says, adding, “Yet, she’s still here.” Lena Dunham made the same promise, telling fans she planned to move to Canada after Trump’s election. “Unfortunately, she didn’t,” Gray says. Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

An older foreign national died earlier this month after falling off a wall along the U.S. southern border near San Diego, California, and if not for American Border Patrol agents and first responders, he would have died alone.At 5:42 in the morning on November 8, a group of suspected illegal aliens were spotted attempting to cross the double-barrier wall just west of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego.Apparently recognizing that they had law enforcement on their heels, the group scattered. One person returned to Mexico. Three managed to scale the second barrier wall using an "improvised pompier ladder" and head north, according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. However, two men were still atop the second barrier when Border Patrol agents arrived in the zone between the two barrier walls. One man managed to make his descent into America and head north but was apprehended a short time later.His fellow traveler — later identified by the San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office as Edgar Guillermo Hernández, a 62-year-old Colombian national — was not so fortunate.At about 5:44 a.m., Hernández "fell as he descended, and landed on the north side of the secondary barrier," said the press release, which also noted that the secondary barrier is "approximately 30 feet tall and ... constructed of vertical metal bollards."'This was one of the most dangerous areas. We have a double wall. We have a wall on both sides.'From behind the barrier, Border Patrol agents noted that despite the fall, Hernández was still alive and moaning in pain. They quickly radioed for emergency medical assistance. It seems there may have been some confusion about their exact location, because by 6:09, a Border Patrol supervisor had ordered agents to "escort" EMTs to the right spot, the press release said. They arrived about five minutes later, but within 60 seconds of their arrival, Hernández had become "physically unresponsive and stopped moving."Hernández was pronounced dead at 6:25 a.m.The medical examiner's office conducted an autopsy and determined that Hernández died of blunt-force injuries, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.An investigator from the medical examiner's office initially "took custody" of Hernández's body, the press release stated, but whether his body remains with the medical examiner is unclear.The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has been notified of the incident, and the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility is "reviewing" it, the press release said.During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump paid a visit to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to celebrate progress on the border wall, one of his central campaign promises."This is an area — because it’s so highly trafficked, this was one of the most dangerous areas. We have a double wall. We have a wall on both sides," Trump said in a speech in September 2019."It’s a very powerful, very powerful wall," he added, "the likes of which, probably, to this extent, has not been built before."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A high school girls' volleyball team in California refused to play in a tournament match after learning their opponent has a male athlete on their team.Stone Ridge Christian School was set to play San Francisco Waldorf in the California Interscholastic Federation State Girls Volleyball Championship playoffs. However, after learning the San Francisco team had a male player, the team has announced its intention to forfeit.A copy of a school letter sent to parents, posted on X, revealed that the school was standing on its religious beliefs as the reason to not participate."As many of you know, our girls won on Wednesday and advanced to the state playoffs," the letter dated November 15 began. "Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team.""We believe God's Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female," the letter continued."We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message," it added.The message concluded by expressing a "duty and responsibility" for the safety of the students, expressing that standing on their beliefs "means more" than the game.The school then asked recipients to congratulate the student-athletes.'We will always stand for Biblical truth.'The male student was identified by outlet Reduxx as Henry Hanlon, a senior who also plays on the Waldorf girls' basketball team.Hanlon has likely sparked previous forfeits in basketball, particularly from the Islamic school Averroes High School, which declined to specify the reason for its forfeiture.In a statement to Blaze News, Stone Ridge said it intends to stand for what the school believes is the truth."We will always stand for Biblical truth and what is right." "Girls must compete against girls for fairness safety and truth," the school added.Stone Ridge has a history of going against the grain in the ultra-liberal state of California. In 2021, it was one of three schools to receive a two-year playoff ban in high school football for playing while COVID-19 shutdowns were in effect.Capital Christian, Ripon Christian, and Stone Ridge received bans, in addition to their teams and athletic departments being placed on probation. Sac-Joaquin Section school district said at the time that while it "understood that the postponement of interscholastic athletics" was "frustrating," it expected all schools to follow the rules set forth by the governor's office.Commissioner Michael Garrison called the shutdown a "public safety issue" and expressed disappointment that the schools did not follow directives.Stone Ridge is reportedly seeking counsel for the volleyball debacle from Alliance Defending Freedom.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The greatest war games are all about scale. Perhaps you remember Medal of Honor Allied Assault, the superlative FPS from 2002. By today’s standards it may look antiquated, but back then, the Omaha Beach level was bigger and more alive than anything you’d seen before - it really felt like a huge-scale battle, with thousands of soldiers and vehicles. Battlefield V can also feel suitably expansive. Likewise Hell Let Loose. But there’s one unique MMO that is bigger than all of them, and still, somehow, manages to slip beneath the radar. A combination of Civilization’s building and logistics and the co-op tactics of Commandos, it’s just gotten an enormous new update, and now, Foxhole is close to breaking its all-time record on Steam. Continue reading Huge WW2 MMO is like a more realistic Battlefield V, and it’s exploding on Steam

It's been a while since we've gotten anything truly new from StarCraft. Blizzard's iconic sci-fi RTS series has been largely dormant for a while now, with World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, and Overwatch 2 taking most of the studio's attention. But between all of these games, there have been ongoing rumors of a return. Speculation abounds over a possible StarCraft FPS, and right now, that feels like it might actually be happening. A new rating for a StarCraft project has just appeared. Let's start theorizing. Continue reading New StarCraft game could actually be real as cryptic listing appears online MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RTS games, Best strategy games, Best space games

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