Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said on Sunday that those who do not believe in supporting the Democrats’ radical transgender agenda are “a**hole[s].” Fetterman made the remarks when pressed during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” about political ads from the Trump campaign about the issue. “If your political capital comes from picking on trans kids or gay kids or anything like that, that’s — you’re just bankrupt throughout all of this,” Fetterman said. “My version of being a being a man is, it’s like, hey, I like ribeyes, I like Motorhead, and I’m never going to pick on trans kids and gay kids or things,” he continued. “And it’s just sad that the other side choose to kind of pick on members of those community.” Fetterman’s remarks come as the Trump campaign has highlighted on the campaign trail the damage that men pretending to be women have done by competing in girl’s sports. The campaign has also highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for using taxpayer money to give free sex change operations to illegal aliens who are incarcerated. “And, again, it’s just — it’s just a warped version of — it doesn’t make you tough,” he said. “It doesn’t make you a man to pick on trans or gay kids.” Fetterman added, “It just makes you an a**hole.” Bash pressed him again, noting that the ad is appealing to suburban parents and minority men. Fetterman claimed that it was a sign of “their desperation throughout this entire campaign.” WATCH: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says that if you do not support things like using taxpayer money to give incarcerated illegal aliens sex change surgeries or allowing men to compete in girl’s sports then you are “an asshole” pic.twitter.com/PDZ6cZjoH8 — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 3, 2024 Related: Fetterman On Millions Of Illegal Aliens Entering U.S.: ‘A Good Thing’ That’s ‘Changing Our Nation’

Statistician and polling analyst Nate Silver says that late-election polling groups are “herding” their survey results, or fidgeting with the fundamentals to rig the outcomes of their surveys. A statistically anomalous amount of October poll results show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump neck-and-neck in the swing states that could decide the 2024 election, according to Siver. Even if the candidates are running tight races in each of the swing states, normal variations in polling should show a wider smattering of results than currently exists. Silver’s election forecasting model has a database of 249 polls that were at least partly done in month of October in battleground states. Of those polls, 193 of them, or nearly 80%, show Harris and Trump within 2.5 points, a statistical tie. “That’s way more than you should get in theory — even if the candidates are actually exactly tied in all seven states, which they almost certainly aren’t,” Silver reported in Friday’s edition of his newsletter, Silver Bulletin. “Based on a binomial distribution — which assumes that all polls are independent of one another, which theoretically they should be — it’s realllllllllllllly unlikely. Specifically, the odds are 1 in 9.5 trillion against at least this many polls showing such a close margin.” Silver said the most suspicious polling results have come out of Wisconsin. “There, 33 of 36 polls — more than 90 percent — have had the race within 2.5 points. In theory, there’s just a 1 in 2.8 million chance that so many polls would show the Badger State so close,” he said. “In Pennsylvania, which is the most likely tipping-point state — so weighing in there is tantamount to weighing in on the Electoral College — the problems are nearly as bad,” he continued. “There, 42 of 47 polls show the Trump-Harris margin within 2.5 points — about a 300,000 to 1 ‘coincidence.’” Polls across Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan appear to be suffering from herding, as well. The herding is less focused on an even split, however, as results in those states have tended to favor one candidate or the other, so pollsters can project a leader without straying outside of the average cluster of polls, according to Silver. “This is a clear-as-day example of what we call herding: the tendency of some polling firms to move with the flock by file-drawering (not publishing) results that don’t match the consensus or torturing their turnout models until they do,” the polling analyst said. In addition to Silver, Nate Cohen, the chief political analyst for The New York Times, has also voiced some concern that polling results may be flawed. Herding notwithstanding, Cohen says that pollsters may still be undercounting Trump’s support because of the difficulty of projecting his voter base. “Across these final polls, white Democrats were 16 percent likelier to respond than white Republicans. That’s a larger disparity than our earlier polls this year, and it’s not much better than our final polls in 2020 — even with the pandemic over. It raises the possibility that the polls could underestimate Mr. Trump yet again,” Cohen said of the latest New York Times/Sienna College poll, the final poll for the paper before the 2024 election.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said during an interview over the weekend that he believes former President Donald Trump is going to win on Tuesday and Republicans are going to flip seats in key U.S. Senate races. Scott made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash when pressed on the final 48 hours of the race. “I will just tell you that the voters I sat down with in Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday, Ohio on Wednesday, and Philly on Thursday — African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish voters all seem to have momentum behind Donald Trump,” he said. “It’s going to be a very, very good day for Donald Trump on Tuesday,” Scott said. The senator then named some of the U.S. Senate races that he believes Republicans will win. “And, frankly, McCormick will win Pennsylvania without question,” he said. “Bernie Moreno will win Ohio. And I’m really confident that Mike Rogers will win Michigan as well.” “And the reason why is that the voters are listening to our closing arguments on the border,” he continued. “They’re listening to it on crime. They’re really excited about school choice.” WATCH: Senator @votetimscott: We’re looking forward to a very good day on Tuesday. I’m excited to see the battleground states are all leaning towards Trump. So, the good news is, Donald Trump will be our next president. pic.twitter.com/nAz8AV7d2K — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 3, 2024

D.A. King, an immigration enforcement activist whose defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center is proceeding in court, sent a legal demand letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, requesting a correction when the newspaper called his organization an “anti-immigration hate group.” The newspaper, which skews liberal, issued a correction Friday and admitted King’s legal victory in court, despite not covering it at the time it happened. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper of record in and around Georgia’s capital city, mentioned King’s group, the Dustin Inman Society, as an aside in an Oct. 7 article about Katy Stamper, who won the Democratic primary in Georgia’s 11th Congressional District. Democrats now support a write-in candidate, claiming Stamper won the primary on false pretenses. “A search of activity under her birth name, Karen Sacandy, which Stamper legally changed in 2019, showed that she previously was aligned with a Marietta-based anti-immigration hate group,” The Journal-Constitution’s Washington correspondent, Tia Mitchell, wrote. Mitchell went on to include links to the Dustin Inman Society’s website, without mentioning the society or explaining why the paper characterized it as an “anti-immigration hate group.” The Dustin Inman Society, which advocates enforcing immigration law and combats illegal immigration, has three legal immigrants on its board of advisors: Mary Grabar (from Slovenia); Maria Litland (from Austria); and Sabine Durden-Coulter (from Germany). The society takes its name from a 16-year-old Georgia boy killed in a 2000 car crash caused by an illegal immigrant. King’s sent a demand letter on Oct. 18 and the paper issued a correction on Friday. “The left-wing AJC could have saved itself a lot of time and trouble if they weren’t so diligent in their effort to insert a smear on the Dustin Inman Society into an unrelated story about a congressional candidate they don’t like,” King told The Daily Signal in a written statement on Friday. “Today’s lengthy retraction/correction reveals that crack AJC reporter Tia Mitchell got almost nothing right in her hit paragraph.” King noted that when a federal judge allowed his lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center to move forward in 2023, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did not cover the story, but the correction to the article mentions that legal development. “In their correction, the editors had to explain the fact that we have a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC because they decided not to cover that story when the court advanced our case in early 2023,” he told The Daily Signal. “Enforcement of American immigration laws is not ‘anti-immigration’ or ‘hate,'” King added. “This smear is an ongoing and retaliatory habit for the staff at the AJC,” King previously told The Daily Signal. “They know it’s false and have had to run corrections many times over the years telling readers that we are aimed at illegal immigration and are not somehow ‘anti-immigration.’” Where Did AJC Get the Idea? King is already fighting to restore his reputation in court after one left-leaning organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, branded the Dustin Inman Society a “hate group.” The SPLC, which routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups” and puts them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, branded the society an “anti-immigrant hate group” in 2018. Yet back in 2011, the SPLC told The Associated Press that it didn’t consider the society a “hate group.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, which advocates lessening immigration restrictions, registered a lobbyist to oppose a bill the society supported. The SPLC marked the society as a “hate group” around the same time. King sued the SPLC for defamation, and a federal judge allowed the lawsuit to move to the discovery process. As I explain in my book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” a terrorist used the organization’s “hate map” to attack a conservative Christian nonprofit in Washington, D.C., in 2012, and a former SPLC staffer called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.” Many defamation lawsuits against the SPLC have failed, however, in part because few plaintiffs before King could prove that the organization had reason to suspect the “hate group” label was false. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution didn’t cite the SPLC in its attack on the Dustin Inman Society, and it didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment for this story. In Competition With the SPLC? King previously told The Daily Signal that the newspaper is echoing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attack but setting itself up as a separate arbiter of “hate.” “Since we began our battle against illegal immigration here in 2005, the AJC has migrated from merely being biased, liberal and agenda-driven to blooming into apparent competition with the despicable SPLC,” he said. “They have now apparently taken it upon themselves to bypass the leftist establishment smear artists and classify pro-enforcement political opponents who talk back as operating an ‘anti-immigration hate group’ themselves—including those who are immigrants.” King said the newspaper was engaging in a double standard: condemning his organization as a “hate group” while celebrating those on the Left who advocate amnesty for illegal aliens. He cited the Georgia Association of Elected Officials, which goes by the acronym GALEO and describes itself as focusing “on increasing civic participation of the Latinx community and developing prominent Latino leaders throughout Georgia.” “In the meantime,” King said of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “they label anti-enforcement, far-left groups such as the notorious GALEO that publicly protest against immigration enforcement as ‘civil rights groups.’” King also noted that the AJC paid to sponsor the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund gala in 2004. Mario Obledo, MALDEF’s co-founder, had suggested that non-Hispanic, white California residents should move “back to Europe.” When then-President Bill Clinton gave Obledo the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, a man in the audience asked, “You also made the statement that California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn’t like it they should leave. Did you say that?” “I did,” Obledo replied. “They ought to go back to Europe.” “The AJC has openly promoted open borders and helped this far-left, anti-borders group with fundraising,” King told The Daily Signal. “Just because MALDEF founder Mario Obledo called for Americans who didn’t agree with his plan for California and saying those who didn’t ‘ought to go back to Europe’ didn’t stop AJC from serving as ‘dinner chair’ for a MALDEF funder gala here.” “There once was a time when I could get a pro-enforcement guest column on their opinion page,” he lamented of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Letter Todd McMurtry, the defamation lawyer who represents King, sent the demand letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week. “Through use of internet links, the AJC article wrongfully characterizes the Dustin Inman Society as a ‘Marietta-based anti-immigration hate group,’” McMurtry wrote. “This characterization is false, defamatory, and published with actual malice.” “The Dustin Inman Society pushes for secure borders, is not ‘anti-immigration’ and its proprietors do not hate anyone,” McMurtry added in the letter. “Rather, DIS advocates for enforcement of U.S. immigration laws and actively opposes unlawful immigration. This distinction is crucial and well-known to staff at your publication.” McMurtry laid out the society’s position on immigration, saying “it supports sustainable levels of legal immigration through established channels”; it “opposes unlawful immigration due to various societal concerns”; and it “defends legal immigrants when media attempt to blur the difference between them and illegal aliens.” He also noted that legal immigrants serve on the society’s board. McMurtry demanded that the newspaper immediately retract the “defaming statement,” publish “a prominent apology,” and “cease and desist from further defamatory characterizations of the Dustin Inman Society.” 241018.KING.Demand for Retraction Letter to AJCDownload The letter warned that “failure to comply with these demands may result in further legal action.” Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include the retraction and to correctly state the nature of the society’s board. The post ‘DEFAMATORY’: Swing-State Newspaper Issues Embarrassing Correction After Branding Conservative a ‘Hate Group’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

NBC's apparent attempt to give Kamala Harris a last-minute boost with a cringey spot on "Saturday Night Live" — which some critics have called an "in-kind donation" — appears to have been strategically timed in order to "evade" Federal Communications Commission rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said ahead of the Nov. 2 broadcast. Carr, in the Republican minority on the commission, noted on X ahead of Harris' appearance, "This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election." While the FCC's equal opportunities rule established by the Communications Act of 1934 does not require that networks like NBC "provide opposing candidates with programs identical to the initiating candidate," networks generally must provide "comparable time and placement." Carr indicated that in recent elections, NBC at least made an effort to follow the equal time rule. The Hollywood Reporter noted, for instance, that in 2015, then-candidate Trump appeared on "Saturday Night Live" during the Republican primary for a total of 12 minutes and five seconds. NBC subsequently offered the same amount of airtime to his opponents. "NBC stations publicly filed Equal Opportunity notices to ensure that all other qualifying candidates could obtain Equal Time if they sought it," wrote the commissioner. "Stations did the same thing when Clinton appeared on SNL." The equal time rule did not require NBC to seek out President Donald Trump and ask him if he similarly wanted to appear on "Saturday Night Live" but requires that the network entertain requests by the Republican president. Carr suggested that the last-minute nature of Harris' "Saturday Night Live" spot was ostensibly the liberal outlet's way of flouting the FCC's rule. 'This requires FCC action.' "Federal law requires that broadcasters provide comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered," wrote Carr. "With only days before the election, NBC appears to have structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements. What comparable time and placement can they offer all other qualifying candidates?" Not only did "Saturday Night Live" leave the appearance to the last moment and its final show before the election; the head of the show appears to have misled the Trump campaign with the suggestion in a September interview that the show would ultimately have neither Harris nor the 45th president on the show prior to the election. "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter, "You can't bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions." "You can't have the main candidates without having all the candidate, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states, and that becomes really complicated," Michaels said, suggesting that his program might have politicians on the show after the election. A senior adviser for the Trump campaign reportedly informed Fox News that "Saturday Night Live" did not extend an invitation to Trump. Carr stressed that "this requires FCC action" but indicated that the initiative must be taken by the commission's chair, Biden appointee Jessica Rosenworcel. Rosenworcel has demonstrated an unwillingness to hold fellow travelers to the same standard as conservatives. In September, Rosenworcel joined her fellow Democratic commissioners in approving Democratic mega-donor George Soros' controversial purchase of over 200 radio stations in over 40 markets with the help of unvetted foreign investors who were spared the cusomary national security review process. After "60 Minutes'" apparently deceptive edit of its Harris interview, Rosenworcel lashed out at Trump last month for requesting that CBS News be held to account. 'She's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on "Saturday Night Leftists."' While Democratic commissioners on the FCC might let NBC skate for its apparent evasion of federal law, the risk taken by "Saturday Night Live" still does not appear to have been worth it. Harris appeared in the show's cold open, sitting opposite her fictional self, played by actress Maya Rudolph. Pretending to be mirror reflections of each other, the duo took turns talking up the vice president. While some critics suggested that the Harris skit was a "cringe fest," in part owing to the accent the Democratic candidate decided to employ and her reliance on neoligisms rythming with "Kamala," others noted that it once again evidenced Harris' lack of originality. Radio host Ari Hoffman was among the many critics who highlighted the resemblance between NBC's Harris skit and Trump's September 2015 skit on Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," writing, "Kamala continues her pattern of ripping off Trump." In the 2015 spot, Jimmy Fallon, dressed up as Trump, sat opposite the future president with a fake mirror between them and conducted an interview. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote, "In addition to stealing policy ideas, @KamalaHarris has now resorted to stealing comedy skits." Cheung was likely referring to Harris' adoption of Trump's proposal to eliminate taxes on tips as well as her campaign's apparent plagiarization of the defunct Biden campaign's policy agenda. Harris' alleged plagiarism in her 2009 book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," indicates the vice president's lack of originality is nothing new. Trump senior adviser Jason Miller wrote, "Pathetic." Cheung told Fox News, "Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that's why she's living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on 'Saturday Night Leftists' as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala's destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it." Blaze News has reached out to Commissioner Carr and NBC for comment. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If you’ve been eagerly waiting for an update on the Riot Games League of Legends MMO, I’ve got some good news. While at the Worlds 2024 Grand Final, Riot co-founder and chief product officer Marc Merrill finally gave us something. It’s a tad cryptic, but after hearing that the MMO was being “reset” we’ve had very little to go on since. So if you’d been worried about the future of the LoL MMO, don’t be, because it’s going well. Continue reading The League of Legends MMO now has a “great direction,” Riot says MORE FROM PCGAMESN: League of Legends ranks explained, League of Legends Mythic shop rotation, League of Legends tier list

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This, but blasting demons. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge What do John Deere tractors, Ikea smart bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have in common? They can all run Doom, and naturally, so can Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled that off, but what I didn’t expect was that when it happened, it would be playable. That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or pressing the mushroom-shaped blob on top of the Alarmo to move and pressing the other buttons to shoot or open doors. Here, have a look: Gary said it’s “possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from... Continue reading…

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