Conservatives Finally Find Yet Another Reason to Cancel Netflix

Netflix Discovers That Mocking a Murdered Conservative on the Anniversary of His Assassination Is Apparently Not Great for Customer Retention

Conservatives' latest Netflix boycott didn't exactly come out of leftist field [pardon the pun]. It's the result of years of cultural grievances, political battles, questionable children's programming, and now a social-media post that somehow managed to combine a much-loved murdered conservative activist, a neck wound, and a promotional campaign for a British gangster show.

What could possibly go wrong?

On September 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Netflix's UK & Ireland account decided it was the perfect time to promote The Gentlemen Season 2 with the caption:

“Nearly did himself a neck injury.”

Charlie [I cannot bring myself to formally calling him Kirk], of course, was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

Conservatives on social media responded with the traditional consumer feedback mechanism of the modern age: canceling their subscriptions and posting screenshots to prove they had done it.

Figures including Libs of TikTok, Jack Posobiec, and Rudy Giuliani called for a boycott. I didn't because I was oblivious of the situation at the time since I have a life and don't live on social media.

Netflix, apparently realizing that this was not going to be one of those promotional campaigns where everyone simply shrugs and watches the show, insisted conservatives had gotten the joke completely wrong. Both sides of the aisle apparently have their own scolds who scour the internet to find the latest offense.

Anyway, the company called the interpretation “inaccurate and ludicrous,” explaining that the caption referred to a scene in which a character whips his head around at a wedding.

Which is certainly one explanation.

The post was not taken down.

And while Netflix may have been technically correct about what the caption referred to, the timing turned out to be about as strategically brilliant as announcing a half-price fireworks sale outside a gasoline station. What a pile of dolt bags.

For Charlie's supporters, September 10 was already a painful anniversary. Seeing Netflix use the phrase “neck injury” in a promotional post that landed on that exact date understandably struck many conservatives as another example of a company that simply does not understand why people are angry.

And Then There's the Rest of the Netflix Problem

The funny thing is that conservatives didn't need Netflix to post the “neck injury” line.

They already had a pretty substantial file folder labeled Reasons We Don't Like Netflix.

For years, conservatives have complained about the company's approach to children's programming and LGBTQ themes, in the spirit of a grooming maneuver. 

Critics, including Elon Musk in 2025, pointed to shows such as Dead End: Paranormal Park, The Baby-Sitters Club, and certain CoComelon episodes that include transgender or non-binary characters or themes. One can imagine Veggie Tales' Larry The Cucumber transitioning into a female cucumber named Loretta as this woke nonsense continues.

Loretta [formerly Larry] the Cucumber

Conservative reports have claimed that a significant share of Netflix's G- and Y7-rated programming contains LGBTQ content. 

And so the plot sickens.

Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt brought similar complaints to a February 2026 Senate hearing, describing Netflix's children's programming as “woke” and accusing the company of promoting a “transgender ideology.”

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has rejected the idea that the company has a political agenda, arguing that its enormous catalog simply reflects a wide range of stories.

Because apparently the solution to a culture war is to make approximately 7,000 television shows and then insist nobody should notice any patterns.

Netflix also has a multi-year production deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, originally signed in 2018.

Susan Rice, a former Obama administration official, sits on Netflix's board of mind controllers.

Conservatives became even more suspicious during the proposed 2025-2026 Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, with some MAGA influencers portraying the deal as “the Obamas taking over media.”

The bid ultimately failed amid political pressure and a competing offer.

But by then, conservatives had already filed the transaction under Things That Somehow Make Netflix Even More Netflixish--say that three times fast on helium.

The Politics Don't Help

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has donated heavily to Democratic causes and candidates.

Critics have also pointed to Netflix's statements following former thug and drug addict George Floyd's death and what they regard as a catalog heavily tilted toward progressive positions on race, gender, family, and other cultural issues.

From the conservative perspective, the problem isn't simply that Netflix has left-wing programming. It's that conservatives believe Netflix has spent years behaving as though there is only one acceptable political worldview and that anyone who disagrees can simply go watch something else. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what millions of people can now do with the press of a button.

Remember Cuties? The 2020 French film generated a massive boycott campaign over its sexualized depiction of young girls. That controversy never completely disappeared from conservative memory.

Apparently Netflix has discovered that people on the internet possess something remarkably dangerous: Screenshots.

Adding another layer to the situation, a Florida attorney general lawsuit filed around the same time as the Kirk anniversary controversy alleges deceptive data collection involving minors.

That case is focused primarily on privacy and advertising rather than the culture-war programming dispute, but it gives conservatives yet another reason to look at Netflix and wonder whether perhaps they would rather spend their $20 somewhere else.

At this point, Netflix may want to consider changing its corporate slogan from “Watch What You Want” to “Please Stop Canceling.” The “neck injury” post didn't create conservative anger toward Netflix, it merely poured gasoline onto a fire that had been burning for years.

For many conservatives, Netflix represents something much larger than a streaming service. It represents a culturally progressive institution that they believe has used entertainment, children's programming, political relationships, and corporate influence to push ideas they reject.

Netflix's response remains essentially the same: We're an entertainment company, not a political organization, and our library contains lots of different stories. 

So cut out the damn wokeness. Every hero in every movie doesn't need to be a person of color, or a woman who, in spite of weighing 100 pounds can beat the snot out of guys twice her size.

Conservatives' response is also essentially the same: That's nice. Here's the unsubscribe button. Buh-byeee.

The only question now is whether Netflix can survive the horrifying consequences of its latest promotional campaign.

Namely, conservatives discovering that canceling a streaming service is considerably easier than canceling cable and that dinner date at your in-laws. [Just kidding.]

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JD Vance blasts El-Sayed after he goes after Usha Vance: "Way out of your league"

Vice President JD Vance did not come to metro Detroit to play nice. After Michigan Democratic Anti-Semitic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed decided to take a swipe at the second lady, Vance told him to knock it off and talk about something that actually matters to voters.

Vance implored El-Sayed to focus on policy instead of attacking his wife. 

At a MAGA Inc. rally Monday, JD made it clear he thinks the Democrat’s personal shot is not just cheap. It is strange."I actually think that the people of Michigan think it's kind of weird when you talk about another guy's wife," Vance said. "I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas …I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you're going to protect auto workers when you're supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan auto workers your entire life in public service."

Then came the closer. "But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth because she's way out of your league," the vice president added.

That was not some random zinger. It was a response to El-Sayed saying "do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no" after Vance suggested that Sharia law would have been an alien concept to his grandfather. 

Critics said the post appeared to take aim at Usha Vance’s Indian heritage. El-Sayed later claimed his point was that Vance seemed to be suggesting some people are "more American" than others because their families have been in the country longer, noting that Vance’s own in-laws are immigrants. Sure. That is the cleanup. 

The original post still read like a cheap ethnic jab at the vice president’s wife. Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky cut through the spin. "If you’re a rural White American living in Michigan, just remember El-Sayed believes you’re a racist." 

That is the problem with this guy. Instead of explaining why Michigan auto workers should trust a candidate who has spent his public life backing the policies that undercut their jobs, he went after another man’s wife. Vance was happy to bring it back to substance. 

Earlier in his speech, Vance accused El-Sayed of undercutting his support for working people by taking liberal positions on immigration.

"We're here to talk about protecting Michigan truck drivers, but also protecting the safety of every single person who drives on the road with a semi truck, which is all of us," Vance said. "Here's the crazy thing. Just a few years ago, Abdul El-Sayed said that we need to make sure that illegal aliens have driver's licenses in this country. He would love to undercut the wages of American truckers."

In 2018, El-Sayed expressed support for allowing illegal immigrants to obtain standard driver's licenses, though he did not specifically push for those in the country illegally to receive the commercial driver's licenses necessary to operate long-haul trucks. 

Vance still landed the broader point. You do not get to pose as the champion of Michigan truckers while floating licenses for people who should not be here. The two men do overlap on one thing. While Vance and El-Sayed differ in their approaches to immigration, both agree, in principle, that tariffs should be used to benefit American industry. That is about where the common ground ends. 

El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and will face Republican Mike Rogers in the general election. If Monday was any indication, he would rather talk about Usha Vance than explain how his record helps auto workers. Vance was not having it.The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.

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ICE Bags Visa Overstayer Milo Yiannopoulos, Prepares to Send Him Home

The law finally caught up with Milo Yiannopoulos. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the 41-year-old British citizen Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, and the Department of Homeland Security says he will stay in custody until he is removed from the country.

Yiannopoulos entered the United States legally through New York City on May 14, 2019. Then he stayed. 

An immigration judge issued a final order of removal on July 22 after he failed to show up for his hearing. That is not a paperwork mix-up. That is a man who decided the rules did not apply to him.

“On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom,” DHS said. “He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.” DHS added that he will remain in ICE custody pending removal and used the arrest to advertise the administration’s self-deportation program. 

In other words, the government is doing what voters asked it to do: enforce immigration law, even when the offender used to be a conservative media celebrity. 

TMZ first reported that officers grabbed him at the airport ahead of a Kanye West concert Friday night in New Orleans. Yiannopoulos once served as West’s chief of staff and political director. He also did an unpaid summer internship in 2022 for former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. None of that is a visa.

His public unraveling began in 2017, when video surfaced of him arguing that relationships between older men and younger boys could be a positive “coming-of-age” experience. He stated that such relationships could “help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”

That same year, footage emerged of Yiannopoulos in 2016 singing at a Dallas bar while people in the crowd threw Nazi salutes. The owner said staff started ejecting the group once the “Neo-Nazi type stuff” started and that the bar did not condone it. He also waved away statutory rape laws, saying people can “get quite hung up on this child abuse thing” and that sexual relationships between 13-year-olds and adults could be “perfectly consensual” and beneficial under certain circumstances. 

Conservatives who once treated him as a free-speech mascot had every reason to show him the door. In recent years, prominent right-wing voices have said Yiannopoulos was not building the coalition. He was picking it apart. They accuse him of working with the Left to slander MAGA figures, including the late Charlie Kirk.

“Milo is not ‘Far-Right.’ Milo was working for the Left to divide, slander and lie about Trump’s coalition to break it apart,” conservative podcaster Benny Johnson said on X. “Days after Charlie Kirk was murdered, he accused Charlie of being gay and cheating on Erika. Evil, sick lie. Zero remorse. Zero evidence. Pure sewage and slander. It happened systematically to nearly everyone of prominence in the America First movement.”

Laura Loomer, who has been waving the immigration-status flag for years, celebrated the arrest and repeated her claim that he arranged a “sham marriage” with a man to stay in the United States.

“When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI,” Loomer said, accusing him of overstaying his visa. “I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien. Milo is going to be deported back to the UK where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace.”

Last year, talking to Tucker Carlson, Yiannopoulos called “mainstreaming homosexuality in the Republican Party” one of his biggest regrets.

“It has given rise to horrors I never imagined,” he told Carlson. “Well, the gay horrors I’ve given birth to — Lady MAGA and Nick Fuentes — they keep me up at night.” 

The conservative movement does not owe a visa overstayer a farewell tour. ICE made an arrest. A judge already ordered him removed. The United Kingdom can have him back. America First starts with American law.

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Canadian Illegal Alien Allegedly Slaps MAGA Teen, Suddenly Discovers Immigration Laws Still Exist

For years Americans were assured that immigration laws were more of a "suggestion" than an actual legal concept. Then, in an unexpected plot twist, a Canadian woman allegedly assaulted a teenager wearing Trump gear and discovered that visa expiration dates are, in fact, real.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, 33 year old Canadian national Kaitlyn Tracey is in the United States illegally after overstaying a visa that expired in September 2024. DHS says the redheaded visitor allegedly slapped a teenage girl on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk during Fourth of July weekend, proving once again that nothing says "tolerance" quite like allegedly hitting a kid over her political clothing.

Authorities say Tracey filmed herself confronting a group of four girls on July 3 because two of the minors had the audacity to wear patriotic sweatpants featuring the words “Trump” and “ICE.” After the confrontation escalated, Tracey allegedly struck one of the girls across the face and body.

Police tracked her down using security footage and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child, assault, harassment, and obstruction. ICE later took her into custody and transferred her to the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark.

“She entered the United States on April 14, 2024, on a visa set to expire on September 6, 2024. In violation of our nation’s laws, she overstayed her visa and failed to depart,” DHS said in a statement.

Naturally, the media's favorite immigration standard immediately kicked in. When an illegal immigrant commits an alleged assault, the real victim is apparently the illegal immigrant.

Tracey's husband, Matthew Geroni, who proudly brands himself the “Clown of Asbury Park,” rushed to TikTok to rally his 140,000 followers after a GoFundMe campaign for her legal expenses was removed following reports from conservative users.

“This whole situation has been blown out of proportion, and a person like Kate does not belong in any facility,” Geroni, who acknowledged he was not present during the incident, told NJ.com.

That is certainly one way to describe allegedly assaulting a minor while living in the country unlawfully.

“My wife has never been in trouble in her entire life. She’s never had any kind of situation like this. This one little situation that was really a nothingburger when it happened has been blown so out of control by conservatives online that it has caused my wife to be put in a detention center,” Geroni added.

Apparently, conservatives have now achieved the remarkable feat of forcing someone to overstay a visa, allegedly hit a teenager, get arrested, and then blame everyone else.

Imagine the headlines if a Trump supporter who was in the country illegally allegedly slapped a teenager wearing a Harris shirt. Cable news panels would still be holding emergency roundtables, psychologists would be explaining the dangers of MAGA extremism, and Congress would probably schedule hearings before lunch.

Instead, Americans are told this is merely a "nothingburger," because when the alleged victim is a conservative teenager, standards suddenly become as flexible as the border itself.

Tracey is scheduled to return to court on August 4, where everyone will learn whether "nothingburger" has become an officially recognized legal defense.

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Grieving mothers scorch lawmaker after he pivots during hearing to attack 'MAGA Republicans'

"As a matter of fact, I've seen several islands sink"

Jen Heiling looked straight at Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who brilliantly said that an island could sink if  the population grew too large, and told the congressman that her 11-year-old and 16-year-old are still waiting for her son and their brother to come home.

Yes, Hank Johnson did say that during a March 25, 2010, House Armed Services Committee hearing.
While questioning Admiral Robert Willard (then commander of U.S. Pacific Command) about a proposed military buildup on Guam, specifically, relocating about 8,000 Marines and their families (roughly 25,000 additional people) to the island, which had a population of around 175,000–180,000 at the time, Johnson stated:

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."

He also referenced the island's narrow dimensions (about 7–12 miles wide at points) in the exchange. Admiral Willard responded dryly, "We don't anticipate that," before noting the population figures.

So it's obvious that Johnson is not the sharpest tool on the Christmas tree.

Anyway, an emotional House hearing on the human toll of sanctuary policies turned into a complete circus Thursday after Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson decided to dismiss the whole thing as a MAGA stunt and started whining about witness seating arrangements.

The congressional hearing, which featured families shattered by crimes committed by illegal immigrants, erupted into a tense confrontation when Johnson basically told the grieving mothers that their pain was no big deal compared to his favorite left-wing talking points.

Johnson drew fierce backlash from the mothers and from Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), after he appeared to wave off their tragedies and immediately pivoted to attacking "MAGA Republicans. 

"The fireworks happened during a hearing titled "The Human Toll of Sanctuary Policies." Johnson claimed the victims' families were part of a "Steve Miller-approved" stunt whose only goal was "stir[ring] up passion and prejudice against immigrants who are people of color."

After tossing out a few quick condolences to the families of those allegedly killed and critically injured by illegal immigrants, Johnson wasted no time steering the discussion toward what he really wanted to talk about. He said the committee should be holding hearings on the "human toll" of the "Trump MAGA tax cuts," Trump's foreign policy with Iran, or the "cover up of the Epstein files."

He then rattled off a list of violent crimes committed by White men and brought up the death of Renee Good, who was killed by federal authorities in January while protesting immigration enforcement.

"I'm not minimizing the tragedy that is before us today with you three women, but the other tragedies at the hands of non-immigrants are just as important," Johnson said.

He also accused the Republican majority of strategically "sandwich[ing]" a Democrat witness between the victims' families for "dramatic effect."

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, was having none of it. He called Johnson's tirade "one of the most disgusting testimonies I have ever heard" and laid the blame for these tragedies squarely at the feet of Democrat lawmakers who spent four years pushing open borders under the Biden administration.

But the most powerful response came from Jen Heiling, mother of 18-year-old Brady Heiling. Brady was killed along with his girlfriend, 18-year-old Hallie Helgeson, in 2025 when an illegal immigrant from Honduras allegedly drove the wrong way on I-90 while intoxicated and slammed into the teens' car.

"You can put me in whatever order, in whatever seat. My tragedy is never going to be OK," Heiling told Johnson. "Today's our day. Hear us. Leave your butts in your seat. I don't want to hear your butts."

She described how her 11-year-old and 16-year-old children are still waiting for their big brother to come home. Their garage stall remains empty because Brady's car is still being held as police evidence.

"We can't pick a headstone because that makes it too real. But you can sit here and tell us about what kind of hearing this should be," Heiling said. "Renee Good is not the same as angel families. She made a choice. ... Brady and Hallie didn't get a choice.  . . .  They were living [by] American laws . . . and they were stolen by somebody who doesn't care."

Patricia Fox, mother of Carissa Aspnes, who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant, followed up by directly addressing Johnson's race obsession."I don't know if anybody has noticed, but I am not White. I wake up Brown every day."

"I'm not sure what race has to do with any of this," Fox said. "There's four kids that we talked about today, and y'all can't seem to stay on topic for what, an hour of your time.

"Today, we're talking about sanctuary policies and how they have wrecked our families. Y'all come and y'all feed Carissa. You get her up from her bed using a crane, and then you tell me and lecture me what this hearing should be about."

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Eric Swalwell hit with misconduct allegations as Dem rival Katie Porter goes after him

The moment Eric "Gasman" Swalwell became famous

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is facing increased scrutiny over allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with female staffers and other women, as several rivals take swipes at him ahead of the state’s June gubernatorial primary election.

"I’m very disappointed in Eric Swalwell," former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said on social media Wednesday. "As more and more women come forward with sexual harassment allegations, Swalwell skipped town to avoid facing tough questions about these allegations."

"If Swalwell wants voters to trust him, he needs to show up, stop hiding behind his campaign staff and social media accounts, and answer every question from reporters and the public. Voters deserve nothing less," he added.

The Swalwell campaign fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital, calling Villaraigosa’s claims that the Democratic lawmaker is inaccessible "false" and "absurd."

"Congressman Swalwell spoke to more than 1,000 town hall attendees for nearly 90 minutes Tuesday in Sacramento," Micah Beasley, a spokesperson for the Swalwell campaign, said. "Afterward, he met with members of the media to answer their questions." And he didn't fart once.

Beasley added that Swalwell was unable to attend Wednesday’s candidate forum due to prior commitments, but had met with the group previously. Maybe he's hiding from the sexual misconduct allegations.

Villaraigosa’s social media post referenced a series of accusations circulated by former Democratic congressional staffer and attorney Cheyenne Hunt and other left-leaning politicos who have alleged, without evidence, that Swalwell made sexual advances toward women employed in his office.

The allegations threaten to shake up California’s gubernatorial primary, where Swalwell is vying to be among the top two vote-getters who will advance to the November general election. The crowded field also includes Trump-backed former Fox News host Steve Hilton, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and progressive billionaire Tom Steyer.

Former Rep. Katie Porter, (D-CA) another candidate in the race, has described the allegations as "troubling" and said she is committed to supporting the accusers, who have yet to go public. "It is those women's stories to tell when they are ready, and I hope that they feel safe and supported if they choose to do so," Porter told CNN on Tuesday. "I believe women. I think that has to be the starting place here. So when those women speak up, I will be there, helping to amplify their truths."

They are eating their own. Notice how the left believes women when it doesn't implicate Democrats when Republicans make the allegations.

Swalwell, of course, has denied any wrongdoing, and his campaign has characterized the sexual misconduct allegations as "outrageous" and implied that the accusers are tied to MAGA. Hunt, executive director of Gen-Z for Change, said she is working with multiple women to go public with their allegations against Swalwell. Hunt has not provided verifiable evidence to support the allegations, and no woman has yet come forward.

"The Democratic candidate currently leading in the California governor’s race has a known history of being predatory towards women," Hunt claimed in a post to social media in March. She posted an image of a direct message sent to her privately containing an allegation against Swalwell.

"You know, Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign [non-disclosure agreements] so they don’t speak up, right? And when I was 19, he tried hitting on me and sliding into my DMs," the quote read.

Bhavik Lathia, a Democratic operative, has also called on his party to take the allegations against Swalwell "seriously." Especially now that the gubernatorial primaries are coming up.

"Hey, I just got off the phone with a trusted friend. This is real. Take it seriously. Eric Swalwell cannot be our nominee. There is going to be a lot more coming out soon. I can’t say more right now, but stay tuned," Lathia wrote on social media Monday.

Swalwell, 45, has served in the House of Representatives since 2013, where he has emerged as a frequent Trump critic. He launched a campaign in late 2025 to succeed the oily Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) as the Golden State’s next governor.

Look, guys, here we go again with another Democrat who apparently cannot keep it in his pants while pretending to be some kind of moral crusader against the right. Eric Swalwell, the guy who once thought a Chinese spy was just a great way to get ahead in life, is now dodging accusations faster than he dodges actual governing.

As the June primary creeps up in the Golden State circus, rivals are lining up to smack him around, and it is glorious to watch as there is no honor amongst leftists.

"I’m very disappointed in Eric Swalwell," former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said on social media Wednesday. "As more and more women come forward with sexual harassment allegations, Swalwell skipped town to avoid facing tough questions about these allegations."

"If Swalwell wants voters to trust him, he needs to show up, stop hiding behind his campaign staff and social media accounts, and answer every question from reporters and the public. Voters deserve nothing less," he added.

The Swalwell campaign fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital, calling Villaraigosa’s claims that the Democratic lawmaker is inaccessible "false" and "absurd."

"Congressman Swalwell spoke to more than 1,000 town hall attendees for nearly 90 minutes Tuesday in Sacramento," Micah Beasley, a spokesperson for the Swalwell campaign, said. "Afterward, he met with members of the media to answer their questions."

Beasley added that Swalwell was unable to attend Wednesday’s candidate forum due to prior commitments, but had met with the group previously.

Villaraigosa’s social media post referenced a series of accusations circulated by former Democratic congressional staffer and attorney Cheyenne Hunt and other left-leaning politicos who have alleged, without evidence, that Swalwell made sexual advances toward women employed in his office.

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The allegations threaten to shake up California’s gubernatorial primary, where Swalwell is vying to be among the top two vote-getters who will advance to the November general election. The crowded field also includes Trump-backed former Fox News host Steve Hilton, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and progressive billionaire Tom Steyer.

This is the same party that spent years screeching about "believe all women" until it became inconvenient for one of their own. Now it is all "wait for the evidence" and "MAGA conspiracy." Shocking. Absolutely shocking. California voters, enjoy sorting through this clown car.

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‘Nothing To Hide’: Trump Fires Back at Dem Hoax, Demands Full Epstein Files Dump Now

President Trump isn't backing down from the Radical Left's latest witch hunt. On Sunday night, the man who just crushed the Democrats in a landslide victory lit a fire under House Republicans, demanding they vote to unleash every last page of Jeffrey Epstein's filthy files."It's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics..." Trump blasted on Truth Social, calling out the desperate deflection for what it is: a pathetic attempt to smear the GOP's unstoppable momentum.

This comes hot on the heels of Trump's razor-sharp order to the Justice Department probe Epstein's sleazy ties to Big Dem players like Bill Clinton, the king of the Clinton crime family. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is gearing up for a vote this week on a bill that would force the full release. Pass it in the House, and it'll need 60 Senate votes to land on Trump's desk for the signature that buries this nonsense once and for all.

"As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown,'" Trump wrote, dropping truth bombs that have the swamp in full panic mode.

Trump laid it out plain: The DOJ's already coughed up tens of pages on Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can grab whatever it's legally owed. No smoke, no fire—except the one burning the Democrats' bridges.

"Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory," Trump hammered home. "Some 'members' of the Republican Party are being 'used,' and we can't let that happen. Let's start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein 'TRAP,' which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us."

Bingo. 

Trump's zeroing in on the real dirt: His directive has the DOJ eyeing "various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein." And in a follow-up gut punch, Trump vowed to prosecute any Dems caught in "sleazy relationships" with the predator.

Enough with the Epstein sideshow, Trump says; time to roar about the real wins. Skyrocketing economy. Massive tax cuts for working Americans. Trillions pouring in from investors betting on America First. And Trump's iron-fisted crackdown on the Biden-era border invasion that's flooding our streets with chaos.

Trump's had it up to here with the Epstein obsession. Just last week, desperate Dems leaked a batch of emails where Epstein spewed lies, claiming Trump "knew about the girls" and "spent hours" at his creepy lair with one victim. Total bull frisbees. The House GOP Oversight Committee fired back with 20,000 pages of docs on Wednesday, and the White House slammed the door: Trump had zero involvement in Epstein's depravity.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt nailed it: The so-called "victim" in those emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, who never once pointed a finger at Trump. Another Dem dirty trick, exposed and eviscerated. 

As Trump might say, 'They should be ashamed of themselves.'

Trump's message is crystal: We've got nothing to hide, but the Democrats are sweating bullets. 

House GOP needs to step up and release the files, crush the hoax, and let's get back to Making America Great Again. 

The Radical Left's playbook is toast.

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Riley Gaines Smacks Down ‘Deranged’ Keith Olbermann After He Tries to Slam Her Swimming Skills

Leave it to Keith Olbermann, the perpetually unemployed basement-dweller, to pick a fight with a champion like Riley Gaines, host of Gaines for Girls on OutKick.com. Spoiler alert: it didn’t end well for the guy who’s been fired more times than a circus cannon.

Olbermann, who seems to think tweeting snark from his mom’s basement qualifies as a personality, decided to take a swing at Gaines’ athletic record after Education Secretary Linda McMahon pointed out that Gaines might’ve clinched a race if not for a biological male competing. Olbermann, ever the keyboard warrior, fired off this gem:

“She finished 85th in the Olympic Trials,” the loser sneered. “She finished tied for 5th in the only race including a transgendered athlete. If there had been none, she MIGHT have finished tied for 4th, or had 5th place to herself.”

Then, because he can’t resist stepping on his own rake, he added: “[Gaines] was, somehow, a worse swimmer than she is a MAGA stooge.”

What a dork.

Big mistake, Keith. You don’t poke a lioness with a stick and expect to walk away unscathed. Gaines, a former NCAA swimming star, clapped back with the kind of precision that’d make a sniper jealous. She pointed out she was 15 during those Olympic trials.

“And I placed 5th in the nation in a sport measured in .01s of a second without going a best. Would you say the 5th-best college football player is objectively bad at their sport?” she fired back. Then came the knockout: “No. You’re just a misogynistic pig [and] an old, deranged man with a terminal case of TDS who can’t hold down a job.”

Boom! That’s gonna leave a mark. 

And she’s totally on the money about him. Olbermann’s resume reads like a rap sheet of terminations like Fox Sports, Current TV, ESPN (twice, because once wasn’t enough), and MSNBC/NBC. The man’s been canned so often he probably lists “professional firing victim” on his LinkedIn.

Not content to let him slink away, Gaines upped the ante, telling Fox News Digital she’d race Olbermann for charity. At first, she hesitated, and for good reason: “I’d challenge [Keith] to a race where the loser puts up $ to the charity of the winner’s choice, but no one wants to see him in a Speedo.”

Fair point because the mental image alone is enough to make you want to bleach your brain. But Gaines, being the class act she is, threw down the gauntlet anyway—a 200-yard freestyle for a good cause. Olbermann, predictably, scurried back to his cave, dusted the Cheeto crumbs off his keyboard, and tweeted this pathetic dodge:

“This is a brilliant idea [Riley]! A 66-year-old man with an arthritic left knee and chronic stress fractures in the right foot,” he whined. “Somebody you could finally beat!”

So shut up, Keith. Nice try. Even in your glory days, if you ever had any, you’d have been lapped by Gaines before you could say “unemployment check.” Let’s talk credentials. Gaines? A decorated NCAA swimmer with a trophy case full of accolades: 2021 and 2022 All-SEC First Team, 2022 SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and one of the most accomplished swimmers in Kentucky’s history. Olbermann? His greatest athletic achievement was reportedly smacking his head on a subway pole at Shea Stadium in 1980, leaving him too dazed to drive. True story.

This isn’t Olbermann’s first time getting schooled by a strong woman. He once tried to tangle with Megyn Kelly over her NBC exit, and she mopped the floor with him. “But the record is very clear that I left voluntarily because I wanted to raise my family,” Kelly shot back. “Something you don’t know anything about because no one would marry you.” She didn’t stop there: “And you have no children. You have a cold, lonely life in which you’ve become a bitter, bitter man.”

He probably went back to the basement and cried quietly into his cat-pissed sofa.

And now, here’s Olbermann, still bitter, still deranged, shouting into the void, desperate for clout by attacking a woman with more talent in her pinky than he’s got in his entire rant-filled existence. Riley Gaines isn’t just a better athlete—she’s a better human. And Keith? He’s just a sad, jobless troll who keeps picking fights he can’t win. Keep swinging, buddy. You’re only knocking yourself out.

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Guess what Trump is doing to deal with the "dregs of society"

Alright, folks, strap in—Donald Trump’s got a wild plan to dust off the rusty gates of Alcatraz and turn it into a hardcore slammer for America’s worst criminals. 

Yes, the iconic prison island in San Francisco Bay, left to rot since the ‘60s, is getting a Trump-sized makeover. Why? Because after four years of what he calls “pro-crime Democrat policies,” the Don’s had enough of the chaos and wants to lock up the bad guys where they can’t cause trouble. 

Tourists might have to share the ferry with some serious law enforcement vibes now.

Trump dropped this bombshell on Monday, and it’s classic Trump—big, bold, and in-your-face. Alcatraz, once a fortress for the likes of Al Capone, is about to become a high-security home for “criminal illegal aliens” and “dangerous domestic criminals.” 

He’s not mincing words either: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering.” 

Ouch. That’s Trump painting a picture of a country fed up with robbers, rapists, and killers who, in his view, Democrats have been coddling like wayward pets.

Check out his post on X for the full fire: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate…” You can almost hear him shouting it from a podium, right?

Trump’s leaning hard into nostalgia here, waxing poetic about a tougher, no-nonsense America: “When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets.” 

It’s like he’s channeling a black-and-white crime flick, and he’s the sheriff cleaning up Dodge.

So, what’s the plan? 

Trump’s ordering the Bureau of Prisons, DOJ, FBI, and Homeland Security to team up and rebuild Alcatraz into a fortress for “America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” His words, not mine: “And that is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders. We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally.” 

Boom. He’s not just reopening a prison; he’s making it a symbol of his whole “Law, Order, and JUSTICE” shtick. And, of course, he caps it off with the inevitable: “We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Now, let’s talk context, because this isn’t just Trump throwing darts at a map. He’s in a cage match with Democrat judges who, according to him, keep throwing wrenches into his crime-fighting plans. Take U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston, who last week tried to muddy the waters on federal immigration laws that let authorities nab illegal aliens without warrants. Trump’s team says, “Nope, we’re doing it anyway,” and now they’re eyeing Alcatraz as the ultimate flex—lock ‘em up, ship ‘em out, and let the island do the rest.

Look, whether you’re cheering or clutching your pearls like some silly Democrat, this is Trump doing Trump. He’s betting that Americans are sick of crime and ready for a throwback to the days when the worst of the worst got sent to the Rock. Will it actually happen? Will Alcatraz 2.0 become the ultimate deterrent? Or is this just another headline-grabbing stunt? 

Stay tuned, because if Trump’s involved, it’s gonna be a loud ride either way.

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Sec. of State Rubio kicks S. African ambassador out of US: 'persona non grata'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio just dropped a diplomatic hammer on South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., Embrahim Rasool, telling him to pack his bags and get lost. Rubio’s Friday smackdown branded Rasool a “race-baiting” clown who despises America and loathes President Donald Trump. 

Why? Because Rasool had the audacity of dope to call Trump the grand wizard of a global White supremacist parade.

This all kicked off Thursday when Rasool strutted up to the mic at Johannesburg’s Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA). He was flapping his gums about Trump’s beef with South Africa’s land-grab law and its anti-Israel vibe. According to Rasool, Trump’s Make America Great Again movement is some kind of KKK-lite reaction to the U.S. turning less pale. 

“What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency, at home, and, I think I’ve illustrated, abroad as well,” he yapped. “So in terms of that, the supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white.” Oh, he’s got charts, folks—must be legit.

Rubio wasn’t having it. He took to X and torched Rasool: 

“South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” he fired off. “Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.” 

Translation: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Trump’s been on South Africa’s case for a while, especially over their Expropriation Act 13 of 2024—a law that lets the government snatch land without paying a dime. 

Back in February, Trump hit them with an executive order that’s still got Pretoria crying. “In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,” the order thunders. 

Trump’s response? No more U.S. aid, and a green light to help Afrikaner refugees fleeing what he calls “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” He’s not done—South Africa’s cozying up to Iran and slapping Israel with genocide accusations at the International Court of Justice got tacked onto the rap sheet too. 

“The United States cannot support the government of South Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its undermining United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests,” the order snaps.

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South Africa’s government, meanwhile, is spinning a different yarn. They say Whites—Afrikaners and beyond—still clutch about 70% of the land, and their expropriation gig is just for “public purposes,” like building a school. They even promise “fair and equitable compensation” if they take your dirt. 

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Jew hating pro-Hamas protestors get violent in New York's largest Jewish community

A group of Jew hating demonstrators infiltrated the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn's Borough Park [known colloquially as Boro Park] and unleashed violence and chaos, as seen in video and reports. The neighborhood is home to more than 600,000 Jewish people with more than 300 synagogues.

Several fights broke out as the agitators chanted, "Zionists go to hell," and waved Palestinian flags.

The protest was led by the anti-Semitic "Pal-Awda" activist cretins, who said they were flooding Borough Park to demonstrate against the sale of "stolen Palestinian land," according to the group’s Instagram account. They said they were targeting an event that was selling real estate in Israel.

Of course the attack by these slime-buckets comes on a day when it was announced the Bibas children and mother died as hostages of the terrorists Pal-Awda supports.

The Times of Israel reported that the crowd separated into 3 parts. The anti-Israel protesters and a group of pro-Israel counter-protesters gathered inside opposing barricades on the street while a crowd of Jewish residents watched from the opposite sidewalk. 

There was a heavy police presence who mainly pulled people off of each other with only one arrest of a 42-year-old terrorist supporter who punched a 61-year-old man in the face. The man was treated at the scene by EMS.

Footage also shows a large knife on the ground. Police said they were not aware of the knife being used in any attack.

"How many kids did you kill today?" the anti-Israek protesters chanted to the beat of a snare drum, the Times of Israel reported. A better question might have been: "How many human targets did you use in Gaza for your propaganda bull crap?"

Some flashed their middle fingers [after removing them from their nose] at the Jewish pedestrians while children on their way home from local yeshivas [Jewish schools] watched from their school bus windows, the outlet reported.

"Settlers settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone," the Jew haters yelled. Of course, they lack historical credence about this claim, while the Jews have lived in Israel thousands of years before Islam was created by a terrorist named Mohammad.

Counter-protesters waved Israeli flags and some carried MAGA flags and signs, which tells you how much religious Jews believe President Trump is a Nazi.

The Pal-Awda supporters were blasted online by Rep. Ritchie Torres, (D-NY) who represents parts of the Bronx and one of the few Democrats who supports Israel.

"It should come as a shock to no one that the pro-Hamas mob targeting Jews and promising to ‘flood’ Boro Park has descended into violence," he posted to X Tuesday night.

"Violence is not a bug but a feature of the so-called ‘Free Palestine’ movement, which has no desire to free Palestinians from Hamas."

Violence has for centuries been a feature of Islamic conquest, and no one should be afraid to point that out.

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Kamala Hahaharris begs for money to bail out her dismal campaign annihilation

"Can you help out? Your money will bail me out this time."

Instead of trying to raise money to bail out Minnesota Freedom Fund protesters who were jailed for protesting illegally after George Floyd's death, now Kamala Harris, the failed Democratic presidential candidate and currently MIA VP is trying to raise $20 million for the overspending she created in her campaign expenditures. It seems like $1,500,000,000 wasn't enough to blow in just 15 weeks.

Of that money wasted away, more than $654,000,000 was spent on ads from July 22 to Election Day, and there were high-profile events with paid celebrities on the eve of the election costing over $10,000,000. The incredibly Reverend Al "You're a Racist" Sharpton's organization got two payments of $250,000, Oprah's company, Harpo Productions, got about $2,500,000 to endorse the cackling loser, Megan Thee Stallion was allegedly paid $5,000,000 and she didn't even perform Wet A** Pu**y for the crowd. Then there was Eminem who allegedly received $1,800,000 and a woman named Beyoncé allegedly receiving $10,000,000. And finally, who can forget Lizzo who may have received $3,000,000, but there was no clear evidence to support that claim.

But with all that money in the Democrat's coffers, Kamala Harris ended up being $20,000,000 in debt. And that's because it was never her money to spend--it was her donors' and many of them are pissed.

Now the alleged Vice President is still trying to extort donors for money, weeks after her landslide loss, leaving supporters spent.

“With Trump nominating MAGA loyalists left and right, there is nothing more important than making sure we can fight back and hold him accountable,” read an email from Kamala HQ, the New York Post reported.  “That’s why we need you to step up today. Yes, today.”

“Our records show that you haven’t pitched in to support our Harris Fight Fund program yet,” the missive scolded. “We know the election didn’t turn out as we’d hoped, but we’re not backing down.” 

The nonstop squeegie panhandling was pure Harris as it alienated Democrats who donated and/or voted for her. She has absolutely no political instincts nor the common sense to use common sense.

“Getting fundraising requests after any candidate has lost, when they admit that they are still millions of dollars in debt, having blown through over a billion dollars … is especially galling,” Democratic strategist Jon Reinish told the newspaper.

“When I got yet another request form the Harris campaign for me to pony up. Quiet frankly I thought it was insulting,” Reinish added.

More than half a billion dollars went to just four well-connected Democratic media consulting shops, according to records and reports. 

Money well wasted.

None of Harris’ funding emails mention any of the spending or the campaign committee’s alleged financial woes.

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Oh the horror! Leftist panic grows as conservatism grows in U.S.

It looks like America has had enough with left-wing fiddle-farting with our lives and the leftist media is doing a "Biden with Pope" move regarding the fear that Trump may win a second presidential term.

According to the left-wing outlet The Economist, a "growing peril" of a national conservative movement is spreading faster throughout the U.S. than crotch crabs on a president's son.

The outlet called on liberals to stop the MAGA movement that they claim is "dangerous." Which translates to 'stop the MAGA movement by any means necessary.' See, it's actually the leftist lunatics who are the real danger to democracy. [See Trump trials for further references.]

The authors compared conservatism in the 1980s during the Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher era to former President Trump's presidency.

The article warns that conservatives will reign power by capturing "state institutions, including courts, universities, and the independent press." As it stands now, the left wants to keep those institutions for themselves because they aren't good at sharing.

The Economist did not mention the real problems the U.S. and the rest of the Western world faces, thus avoiding focusing on the economy, law enforcement, the weaponization of the judicial system, the slow Islamization of the West, and the obvious threats by Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and even North Korea. 

Better not to look--it's pretty scary.

Instead, the outlet calls to arm against the growing conservative movement, as if we are the enemy. The reason that we're growing is because their policies aren't working and are even making things worse. Meanwhile, Biden and his party whistle past the grave, pretending that there's nothing to see other than a strong economy and the blossoms of democracy.

If you believe that tripe, you might believe that Joe Biden is the smartest president ever.

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Herr Josef Biden's [hate] speech analysis

Und wir werden das Mutterland vor den MAGA-Wählern schützen
[trans. And we will protect the motherland against the MAGA voters]

Joe Biden's speech was an angry assimilation of Hitler and Beelzebub, the content of which was the exact opposite of the words he used. Left was right, up was down, good was bad, and Joe was demented. Had the Presidential seal been replaced with a swastika, nobody would have been surprised. And believe me, I don't make Hitler or devil references as a rule.

He was guided to the podium by Doctor Jill Biden, his wife, who then kissed him. He covertly smelled her hair, realized he knew her and then she left him standing there all alone. 

Our empty-suited senile old fart of a POTUS mentioned "MAGA" 13 times in his speech that only G-d knows who wrote it. The most used word he said was "Democracy" which he mentioned 31 times, while only using Trump's name 3 times. The phrase "We, the people," was mentioned 9 times, 
extremism 7 times, the January 6 hoax 5 times, and "Republicans" 16 times.

No surprise that the word "violence" was mentioned 10 times, but not in terms of criminal violence, but tin terms of MAGA and white supremacist violence. So the word "crime" was not mentioned at all, nor were the words: fentanyl, China, inflation and border.

Biden's tone was angry, as usual, and he sounded like a "get-off-my-lawn" dementia patient.

Overall, the speech was politically schizophrenic, claiming that conservatives are against law and order and against the U.S. Constitution. The exact opposite is obviously true and the left have said it outright. 

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But the most dangerous thing this so-called president said was that MAGA Republicans are "a clear and present danger." What that can only mean is that we must therefore be eliminated from the political scene using any means necessary. That's what this phrase means and that is disgusting.

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Jussie Smollett blasts prosecutor for quoting him using the N- word

Alleged hoaxer and race baiting actor Jussie Smollett denied under oath all allegations that he had the Osundairo brothers go with him on a "dry run" rehearsal of his attack two days before an actual attack supposedly took place.

The actor's testimony ended Tuesday after the defense redirected prosecutor Dan Webb's line of questioning. 

Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche focused on the Instagram messages that Webb alleged helped prove that he was keeping Bola Osundairo up-to-date on his whereabouts the night of the attack so he would know when and where to find him. 

Smollett said that “tons” of his followers responded to an Instagram story he posted about his flight being delayed and the incoming Polar Vortex in Chicago, which automatically begins a private messaging conversation on the app. 

The Polar Vortex, of course, is conducive for all 2 MAGA supporters in Chicago to wander out in the dead of night in red baseball caps, a noose and a container of bleach, just in case they happen to run into a gay Democrat. And of course they would recognize Jussie Smollett because they are big fans of "Empire" like all conservatives are, and probably of MSNBC too.

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Uche also focused on Smollett’s allegation that the brothers reached out to him after the alleged real attack to try and extort $1 million each in exchange for telling the police that they did not plan the hoax. Under another redirect from Webb, Smollett noted that the brothers did not reach out to him about the money personally but did so through their representatives to his attorneys.

In attempting to prove Smollett was lying, Webb showed and read from private Instagram messages between Bola Osundairo and Smollett showing that the latter kept updating Bola on his whereabouts and flight delay information on the night of the attack. This makes the case that Smollett was working with Bola to time out the planned attack. Some of the messages included the use of the N-word, prompting Smollett to interrupt the prosecutor to ask him to spell or abbreviate the word so as not to offend "every African American in this room."

It's okay to use the N-word conspiratorially but not publicly because you might offend black people who are also allowed to use the N-word in private. 

Webb said that Smollett was welcome to read his own messages to the court but that he would not censor the quotations of the actor's messages. Smollett complied and the two moved on.

The remainder of the cross-examination saw Webb call key details of Smollett’s story of both the night of the attack and the alleged dry run into question, with Smollett denying throughout that he orchestrated anything with the Osundairo brothers, throwing them under the proverbial bus and referring to the siblings as “liars.”

Now we cannot know with absolute certainty that Jussie Smollett  is guilty of a racially-charged hoax but anyone who is being honest in their assessment has to consider the circumstances [Polar Vortex, MAGA people in the wee hours of the morning in Chicago, a city that voted 83% Democrat, having a noose and bleach handy, just in case, a signed check by Smollett to the brothers] and conclude that Smollett is a liar and not a very good friend, and should go to prison where he can make new friends.

But let's wait for the verdict and respect the law. 

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