In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist. She claims Trump is planning to put his enemies in encampments. Yet in the modern era, it was not Trump who put large numbers of U.S. residents and citizens […]

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With the Nov. 5 presidential election fast approaching, I’m reminded of my family’s journey to American citizenship and the duties and privileges associated with it. Namely, voting.  When I was 3 years old, I moved to the U.S. with my parents as legal immigrants, all our belongings packed away in suitcases and with a couple of hundred dollars in cash.   It would take a little over 15 years for me to become an American citizen. I am casting my ballot for the first time this Election Day.   Voting is a powerful way in which citizens may voice their opinions. When Americans vote for a candidate, they are not just voting for the person to take a position in office, they’re primarily voting for the policies that the candidate supports. These policies will radically shape how our nation functions.   Over two-thirds (66.8%) of U.S. citizens 18 and older voted in the 2020 presidential election, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So, roughly 1 in 3 Americans allowed their fellow citizens to determine who would represent them.  Prior to becoming a U.S. citizen, I held different visas. At one point, I had a green card saying I was a “permanent resident.” It basically meant that I could do anything a citizen could, except vote.  I didn’t think I would ever apply for U.S. citizenship. Since India doesn’t offer dual citizenship, I would have to give up my Indian citizenship to become an American citizen.  I was born in India, and I wanted to preserve as much of my Indian heritage as possible, citizenship and all.   But, after talking to my parents, we decided that it didn’t make sense for us to remain Indian citizens if we were going to spend the rest of our lives in America. So, we decided to start the lengthy process of becoming American citizens.  The website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services calls the U.S. a representative democracy.  In Plato’s “Republic,” the philosopher Socrates says that, in a democracy, people are so busy with their private affairs—going to work, taking care of their families, embarking on new adventures—that they have no time or energy to engage in political matters. Thus, they vote for representatives to speak in their stead.  When Americans vote, we vote for a representative—someone who shares a similar conscience to our own.  Conscience means “with knowledge.” Thus, when we vote for a candidate, we vote with the knowledge that the candidate will represent us.  If you choose not to vote, you are giving the government one less reason to fight for your beliefs. To fight for your conscience.  As a Christian, I vote not only because it is my civic duty, but also because voting is a God-ordained way of picking a representative who most closely represents my views on the matters of my conscience.   The idea of representative government comes from the Bible. In Exodus 18, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, offers a novel model of leadership: representative government. Jethro tells Moses to select capable men who can serve as judges for the people.   Why wouldn’t you capitalize on the opportunity to choose your representative?  Many Christians “check out” of politics because they claim their “citizenship is in heaven.” A study released Oct. 7 by Arizona Christian University found that an estimated 32 million regular churchgoers will abstain from voting in this year’s presidential election. Placing your citizenship in heaven does not give you the right to ignore the political sphere in the here and now.   In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, saying to God the Father, “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” God’s will is being done on earth right now, but Christians must decide whether they want to participate in it.  Acknowledging your heavenly citizenship is a reminder that a better place awaits us. Until we reach heaven, however, Christians must keep working to advance God’s kingdom in a place that isn’t their final destination.   Psalm 33:12 says: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!”   How can Christians fulfill this when they choose to dissociate from political life altogether?  In Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount, he says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” As Christians, we should strive to bring peace. That may look like voting for a candidate whose policies best match this mission.  This Election Day, let your voice and conscience be heard.  The post As an Immigrant, I Ask My Fellow Christians to Vote  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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After Joe Biden’s recent statement that Trump supporters are “garbage,” it’s hard to tell whether he has it out for the Trump campaign or Kamala’s. His comments came after Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe — who rose to fame after giving an absolutely brutal and hilarious roast at Netflix's "The Roast of Tom Brady" — told a joke at the expense of Puerto Rico. Hinchcliffe led into his joke by saying there was an island of garbage in the ocean but then said he believed that island of garbage was called Puerto Rico. The mainstream media has latched onto Hinchcliffe’s joke, using it to paint all Trump supporters as racists and, of course, Nazis. However, when the president of the United States took it upon himself to call Trump supporters “garbage” after Hinchcliffe’s comments — the divisive rhetoric started to really hurt Kamala’s campaign. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said in a statement, adding, “His demonization seems unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” “Yeah, I know, the left never demonizes people. That’s not their thing. Except he just did,” Rick of “The Rick and Bubba Show” comments. However, it’s not just Biden who’s throwing last minute Hail Mary-style digs at the former president but Bill Clinton as well. “He keeps talking about how he wants to get even and may have to call out the military on our own people, the danger within. I suppose that includes me, and, I mean basically, he’s asserted the right to go after anybody that he thinks, in his wisdom, is a threat,” Clinton said at a Harris-Walz even in Durham, North Carolina. Rick can’t believe the hypocrisy in Clinton’s statement. “We don’t have enough time in the show to list all the people that the Democrats have prosecuted and tried to put in jail or put in jail simply because they oppose them politically. And they’re the ones who have weaponized the government."Want more from Rick and Bubba?To enjoy more legendary comedy, political arguments, and lessons in common sense, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Who will pick our apples, build our homes, and mow our lawns if not immigrants? Liberal politicians frequently ask this question, and the mainstream media repeats it. The goal is to disarm anyone questioning the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.Never mind the elitist or racist undertones, to say nothing of any long-term concerns about demographic, cultural, political, or social changes all for the short-term benefit of cheap labor. The underlying message is that these jobs, filled by immigrants, are beneath American citizens.Someone should fix America and what ails us — and not in some superficial, temporary worker kind of way.Former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) have both recently said the quiet part out loud, but this ideology trickles down to Democratic voters. It’s reflected in people like my once-favorite journalism teacher, who shared a meme saying, “The immigrants ruining your life are Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel, not the apple picker ...”It’s even in my own family. My mother, who moved to Houston from Cleveland, now has a man named Leo mow her grass for $25.“I could never mow your lawn for that here,” I tell her, speaking from Ohio, where I own a landscaping company with employees on a real payroll with real payroll taxes.But Mom thinks it is great. Cheap labor keeps her costs down. Our family wants my mother to move back to Ohio. I know she is thinking about it. She sends me links from Zillow of houses she looked at that might be more up my alley.“I could never afford the house I have here in Ohio,” she says. “It has granite counter tops.”Then she says something that makes me sad and makes me pause. “I couldn’t afford the house on Concord.”That’s the house where I grew up and the one my parents, now divorced, sold for under $150,000 in the early 2000s. Houses on the same street now regularly sell for $300,000.In the long term, my mother has less buying power than she did before, but Leo mows her lawn for practically nothing.Hiring was bad prior to COVID — telling people to stay home and collect checks sent it into overdrive. In early spring of last year, when I pull up a list of past employees in our database we might rehire, I was stunned by the number who have since died from the heroin and opiate epidemic in the more than 15 years we’ve been in business.And it just seems like someone should fix America and what ails us — and not in some superficial, temporary worker kind of way. The birth dearthMaybe it is the drug epidemic, the destruction of the nuclear family, the nearly 1 million abortions America now performs annually, the cost of living, or the constant messaging that babies are a burden and a nuisance that is hammered into school-age children — especially girls — but Americans are not having babies like they used to.Democrats will even tell us that Americans are not having enough babies to replace our current population, and we need mass immigration to replace them and replenish the tax base.While campaigning for Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton suggested Georgia college student Laken Riley might still be alive if her killer had been properly vetted — something that the Biden-Harris administration neglected to do.“Well If they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,” Clinton said regarding Riley’s murder before suggesting we still need immigration. “But if they are properly vetted and that doesn’t happen. ... And America is not having enough babies to keep our population up, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work.”Clinton’s recent campaigning sounds a lot like “replacement theory” — the native population needs to be replenished and replaced by foreigners — although Wikipedia assures me that this is a “far-right conspiracy theory.” That’s a relief!Jobs done with your bare hands offer even greater dignity than those in fields like insurance, pharmaceuticals, law, mortgage brokering, or the permanent bureaucracy.Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance sat down recently with New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro to discuss the immigration crisis.. Garcia-Navarro seemed to bristle at the idea that American citizens could fill the jobs needed in the housing sector.“You could absolutely re-engage American workers,” Vance said while alluding to re-engaging those who have willingly checked out of the workplace or those struggling with mental health or addiction.“To work in construction?” Garcia-Navarro replied.“Of course you could. ... This is one of the really deranged things that I think illegal immigration does to our society is that it gets us into the mindset of saying that we can only build houses with illegal immigrants — when we have 7 million, just men, who have completely dropped out of the labor force,” Vance said. “People say, well, Americans won’t do those jobs. Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages,” Vance continued. “We cannot have an entire business community that is giving up on American workers and then importing millions of illegal laborers. That is what we have thanks to Kamala Harris’ border policy.”Dignity in workI have heard different versions of the question of who will perform the work elitist leftists deem unclean or undesirable repeated often to defend mass immigration and the hiring of illegal immigrant workers. It is often coupled with the implication that Americans will not do the jobs they are unable to perform from the comfort of their home office and Zoom — farming, construction, or landscaping.“Every MAGA I’ve ever seen complain about immigrants taking American jobs would never do this,” a viral tweet reads as the workers in the video harvest what appears to be broccoli.It is somewhat laughable when I hear it, largely because I would put preparing and planting a new lawn from start to finish or building a paver patio — something we have done in the last few weeks with American employees — right up there with roofing, concrete, and indeed farming broccoli as extremely difficult and physically taxing jobs.Work has inherent dignity — all work does. One could argue that jobs done with your bare hands offer even greater dignity than those in fields like insurance, pharmaceuticals, law, mortgage brokering, or the permanent bureaucracy.And yet you will hear various demeaning, overtly racist or elitist iterations from liberals to the question of who will pick our produce, build our homes or mow our lawns if we do not allow for illegal immigration? And who will do that cheaply?What Americans will and won’t doJerry Nadler in January provided one the most transparent examples, saying American produce would rot in the fields if it were not for illegal immigrants.“We need immigrants in this country — forget the fact that our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many immigrants, many illegal immigrants,” the New York congressman said. “The fact is that the birth rate in this country is way below replacement level, which means our population is going to start shrinking. And the ratio of people on Social Security and Medicare is going to increase relative to the number of people supporting them.”I have wondered what it would look like if I ran my business like that.Many of my peers or friends in the industry have done just that — as hiring foreign workers is essentially the business model throughout the “green industry” and commonplace at nurseries or with landscaping contractors.On a cold and rainy March morning in Ohio this spring, I called a friend who also owns a landscaping company to see how he was handling the start of busy season.“I am dropping off a load of plants,” he said.I was shocked because at the time, I was wondering if the rain coming down might turn into snow.“Our guys would quit,” I said, half joking, half not.His guys were the eight Hondurans he was dropping off plants to.They are all here legally through the H-2B program for temporary workers.He houses them on his property — he is required to provide them with housing — and charges them rent. There was a season when he rented them a camper. This year he bought them a house.If you zoom out — or took a drone image — of the modern business with a staff comprised of foreign workers toiling in the fields, doing the jobs deemed unworthy while living in a camper or a house out back, it must in some ways resemble a reimagining of the Southern plantation. Maybe we should not live like that, and that business model should not be the goal. Maybe we should fix what ails us here.

Tucker Carlson described in detail what he believed was a supernatural attack from a demon and said that the incident inspired him to read the Bible. 'No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but that happened to me.' The former Fox News host recounted the story in a video clip released on social media from a documentary entitled "Christianities." He says that the presence of evil is forcing people to turn to God. “I had a direct experience with it,” said Carlson. “In the milieu of journalism?” asked John Heers. “No, in my bed at night,” said Carlson. “And I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.”He said it was a spiritual attack by a demon or something unseen that left claw marks on his sides and that the marks were still visible a year and a half later. "I was totally confused, I woke up, and I couldn’t breathe, and I thought I was going to suffocate," Carlson continued. "And I walked around outside and then I walked in and my wife and dogs had not woken up. And they’re very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible pains on my rib cage and on my shoulder, and I was just in my boxer shorts and I went and flipped on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on either side underneath my arms and on my left shoulder. And they’re bleeding."He said he discussed the incident with his assistant, who is an evangelical Christian. “That happens, people are attacked in their bed by demons," she told him, according to Carlson. “What are you even talking about?” Carlson laughed. He went on to say that the incident inspired him to read the Bible for himself. He did not read with any commentary or any guidance as he said that he has zero trust in any authorities. “Do you think God allowed the demon?” asked Heers. “I have no idea what happened,” Carlson responded. “No one has to believe me, I don’t care, but that happened to me.”Carlson had previously hosted one of the most popular political shows on cable news, but he left Fox News and began his own show on X, which has since garnered tens of millions of views. The video of Carlson's story can be viewed on the documentary's YouTube channel. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

What if Donald Trump narrowly loses the election due to an unnoticed form of election fraud, later confirmed by U.S. Census data? What if Republicans saw this fraud coming but took no action and haven’t even held hearings to address it? With Ohio and Florida solidly Republican this generation, Democrats have based their electoral strategy on the “blue wall” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Signs show that migration trends and demographic shifts may have bolstered Republican positions in Sun Belt swing states like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina. In a closely divided nation, acts of misconduct — and the GOP’s lack of a long-term strategy to counter them — will shape the course of history. If Democrats retain the blue wall, Trump would still have 268 electoral votes — just one short of a potential win through a congressional vote. This outcome remains a real possibility. However, what if the states that Trump would likely win, based on clear population data, should actually yield more than 270 votes, even without a single Rust Belt swing state? The Constitution mandates a census every 10 years to determine each state’s congressional representation. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, then ties the Electoral College to that state’s congressional delegation based on census reapportionment. But if the census inflated blue state numbers and deflated red state numbers in a closely divided country, it could change the balance of power in Congress and potentially determine the next president. Based on the census report used for reapportionment, which estimated the population as of April 1, 2020, Texas gained two congressional seats, while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained one. Meanwhile, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia each lost a congressional seat, reducing their electoral votes for president. Although this shift benefited Republicans overall, many believed it still didn’t capture the massive migration from blue states to red states, especially in the Sun Belt. In a bombshell 2022 report that should have sparked a fierce congressional debate, the Census Bureau admitted to overcounting in eight states and undercounting in six by unprecedented error margins. Five of the six undercounted states were red, and six of the eight overcounted states were blue, with the largest errors affecting red states on both sides. Here are the error rates: Undercounted states Arkansas (-5.04%), Florida (-3.48%), Illinois (-1.97%), Mississippi (-4.11%), Tennessee (-4.78%), Texas (-1.92%) Overcounted states Delaware (+5.45%), Hawaii (+6.79%), Massachusetts (+2.24%), Minnesota (+3.84%), New York (+3.44%), Ohio (+1.49%), Rhode Island (+5.05%), Utah (+2.59%) In raw population terms, the largest errors disadvantaged red states and favored blue states: Florida (-761,094) Texas (-560,319) Tennessee (-330,628) What was the result of these errors? As Hans von Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation noted, “Due to these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats, Texas lost out on one seat, while Minnesota and Rhode Island each retained a seat they should have lost, and Colorado gained an undeserved new seat.” It’s hard to predict how an accurate count would have affected congressional district boundaries, making it difficult to assess the partisan control of Congress. However, in the Electoral College, if Trump wins the Sun Belt swing states and Harris carries the Rust Belt swing states, instead of Trump losing 270-268, he would win 271-267. The data shows Trump could win with just the Sun Belt. And House control could hinge on a few districts that may have been distorted by Biden’s erroneous census certification. Why didn’t Republicans hold hearings to investigate this error? In the previous census, there was an overcount of only 36,000 people nationwide, a negligible 0.01% that didn’t affect any state’s reapportionment. Doesn’t anyone want to understand the cause of such a significant error, especially one so favorable to Democrats? While options for redress in 2022 were limited, Republicans had two years before the next presidential election to challenge the Biden administration’s decision. The apportionment clause grants Congress the authority to direct the census “in such manner as they shall by law direct.” With control of Congress in 2023, House Republicans could have held hearings to clarify the correct apportionment and added legislation to budget bills mandating a compromise between the original numbers and the revised count starting in 2024. Though a legal battle would likely follow, the Supreme Court ruled in Utah v. Evans (2002) that the census clause doesn’t forbid using statistical methods to enhance accuracy beyond a direct count. This error isn’t the only factor giving Democrats an artificial advantage. Even before the recent surge in illegal immigration, estimates suggested California held an extra five seats in the House due to its population of illegal aliens. When Trump tried to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count, the courts blocked his efforts. But when Biden’s inaccurate count favored blue states, officials claimed there was no legal recourse. It’s disheartening and ironic to reflect on our founding and see how the framers believed the census would be one of the least politicized issues. In Federalist No. 36, Alexander Hamilton wrote, “An actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectually shuts the door to partiality or oppression.” Today, self-evident truths are often distorted, making it easy for the government to manipulate data with bias and unfairness. In a closely divided nation, these acts of misconduct — and the GOP’s lack of a long-term strategy to counter them — will shape the course of history.

One thing indie games do so wonderfully is to take a concept and explore it freely. When you’re dealing with multi-million dollar titles, risks can be tough to justify but a small team can double down on something with almost wild abandon. That’s how we get focused and brilliant games like Balatro, Celeste, Shovel Knight, or even Undertale. Buckshot Roulette is another that doubles down on itself to wonderful effect, and it just got even better thanks to a big update. Continue reading Hit horror indie Buckshot Roulette soars on Steam after game changing update MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best indie games, Best puzzle games