There was a terrorist attack on Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. 

The attack occurred outside the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals, hosted by the American Jewish Committee. Two staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, a German-Israeli dual citizen and a devout evangelical Christian who had immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were shot at close range. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring to propose to Milgrim when they got back to Jerusalem.

They were murdered. They were murdered by a man who was shouting, “Free Palestine.” Video shows the man chanting in full campus mode, “Free, free Palestine,” which, by the way,  is a good indicator of what the “Free Palestine, Globalize The Intifada” movement is actually about.

This is the pro-Palestinian cause in a nutshell that’s been happening on college campuses across America: Standing for a presumptive terror state with genocidal intentions against Jews and Israelis with the full aid in support of a compliant legacy media. 

The shooter was apparently a member of a group known as the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Investigative reporter Ryan Morrow noted that the group is one of 150 pro-terrorism groups he identified as responsible for the anti-Israel protests in his Marching Towards Violence study. The shooter accused Israel of “genocide” in his manifesto.

Let’s look into this lie, because lies have consequences. According to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national at the ethnical, racial, or religious group, such as killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, etc.”

Genocide requires intent to destroy in whole or in part an entire national group.

It simply does not apply under these circumstances. Not even close. First of all, Hamas has an obvious desire to propagate this myth. This is why Hamas was thanking the U.K., France, and Canada for helping to propagate this myth. This is why Hamas deliberately hides behind civilians. The basic logic of Hamas is that they know that the Israelis don’t want to kill civilians, which is the reason they hide behind them. The whole goal is to get as many civilians killed as possible, and then claim that Israel is purposefully killing the civilians when Israel is doing literally everything humanly possible in an urban warfare environment in which terrorists deliberately hide behind their own children, not to kill the children. 

By the way, Israel has done a remarkable job of that. Israel has not only not engaged in genocide, Israel has engaged in the most humane war in the history of civilization, in an urban warfare environment in which the enemy has taken hostage 250 of their citizens, is still hiding dozens of those citizens in Gaza terror tunnels today, and deliberately hides its weaponry and its terrorists beneath hospitals, schools, and in mosques. Israel has somehow achieved a civilian casualty to combat ratio of about 1 to 1. Totally unheard of. 

As far as humanitarian aid, Israel shipped in literally tons of humanitarian aid into the very same area where the hostages were being held, where civilians were helping to hold the hostages. You may have noticed there’s been no popular movement in the Gaza Strip to free the hostages. None. Zero. It doesn’t exist. Even the protests that are out there against Hamas are not protests to free the hostages.

And yet Israel has been supplying humanitarian aid throughout the war to that exact same population at the expense of its own hostages, because Hamas routinely steals that aid, and then uses it in order to prop itself up. 

Lies have consequences. So we understand why the genocide lie is so popular with those who wish to overtly destroy the state of Israel. We get it, obviously, because it means they win the PR war. Countries in the U.N., for example, that are in thrall to their Muslim populations. Yes, I’m looking at you, France and the U.K. 

Or countries who might want to please their Chinese paymasters, who are seeking to foster anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Yes, that would be you, Canada, and South Africa. 

The real question here is, why has this “genocide” lie become so popular in the West more generally? The answer is because our civilization has fallen in thrall to a Great Conspiracy Theory.

Conspiratorial thinking has become wildly popular on both the Left and the Right. It crosses all political boundaries. Now there are, of course, actual conspiracies in real life. Those conspiracies involve actual planning and implementation by actual human beings. 

There’s a difference between a conspiracy, where there’s evidence, and conspiracy theories. These are not the same. 

The philosopher Karl Popper spelled out a pretty good definition for this in his book, The Open Society and Its Enemies: 

The ‘conspiracy theory of society’ … is the view that an explanation of a social phenomenon consists in the discovery of the men or groups, or interested in the occurrence of this phenomenon (sometimes it’s a hidden interest which has first to be revealed), and who have planned and conspire to bring it about.”

This view … arises, of course, from the mistaken theory that whatever happens in society — especially happenings such as war, unemployment, poverty, shortages, which people as a rule dislike — is the result of direct design by some powerful individuals and groups.

That’s the Great Conspiracy Theory. And that Great Conspiracy Theory has become insanely popular on both the Left and the Right.

Why on the Left? In the left-wing Great Conspiracy Theory, every group disparity is discrimination. If, for example, Black Americans are disproportionately lower income than white Americans, this has to be because of some actual conspiracy: systemic racism, white privilege, or a policy of discrimination without stating the actual policy. 

Now again, it is possible to find policies in a wide variety of places and times across the world that do, in fact, victimize particular groups. That’s true. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s actual policy. 

But if you cannot point to a policy or politician or institution that does the discriminating, you are now operating in the realm of a conspiracy theory. And that’s what the Left does both nationally and internationally. “Crime rates are bad in the black community because all cops are bastards.” “ White supremacy lies behind every corner.” “Racism is clearly the reason for disproportionate poverty.”

When you take that logic to the international stage, you end up with anti-Americanism, because America is disproportionately successful, and there are lots of other places that are not successful. 

You also end up siding with Hamas. You end up chanting “Free Palestine.” In fact, support for Hamas is the apex case of the left-wing great conspiracy theory.

If the Palestinians, who collectively as a group, have made every single bad choice it is possible to make as a political body by: embracing and supporting terrorism, rejecting peace agreement after peace agreement; channeling funding toward violence and hatred rather than economic development; educating their own kids that wiping Israel off the map ought to be a lifelong goal; living in a failed state, both in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria; if no other country will take them specifically because they are shot through with enormous support for terrorism, then according to the Left, that’s not their own fault. 

That must be the result of the more developed democracy on its borders, even if, by the way, that developed democracy (Israel) is one-fifth Muslim, and if the Muslims in that developed democracy have the highest levels of political and civil freedom of any Muslims anywhere in the world and some of the highest incomes in the region.

If Hamas spends billions of dollars to line its own pockets, live in five-star hotels in Qatar, build terror tunnels; if they fire rockets at Israel for nearly two decades, and then launch a genocidal attack on Jews —an actual genocidal attack by UN definition, designed to exterminate a part of a larger whole for which Hamas seeks mass murder and complete with the taking of hundreds of hostages again, dozens of whom are still, after a year and a half, being held in Gaza — then the Left responds by excusing Hamas, because, after all, the Great Conspiracy Theory suggests they are poor and supposedly browner (which ignores the 45% of Israelis whose parents and grandparents are from Arab countries and are in fact brown and less successful). 

This is why there were left-wing protests in solidarity with Hamas before Israel even responded to October 7. 

The genocide charge from the Left against Israel is a fig leaf. Israel’s very existence is the problem for the radical Left, just as the existence of America is a problem, because the successful are, by nature, the exploiters, according to the Left. 

And then there’s the Right. There is a horseshoe theory of the Right that shares many of the same basic conspiracy theories as the Left.

You can hear it on a wide variety of supposedly right-wing or heterodox podcasts these days. This theory is that there is a group of victims, often lower-income whites or Christians, who are being victimized by a shadowy group of people. 

Again, there are absolutely some policies that do victimize white people — we talk about them on the show a lot — through affirmative action on race or anti-Christian anti-discrimination regulations that are directed at the Little Sisters of the Poor or Christian bakers.

Those are all real; they aren’t conspiracy theories. 

But what these conspiracy theorists on the Right often do is target a shadowy group whom they say are “running the system.” This shadowy group of people is often characterized as “clannish,” “cosmopolitan,” or “rootless.”  And the supposed policy that is somehow consigning the conspiratorial Right to the victim class is either with regard to foreign policy or capitalism.

Thus, on the foreign policy front, you’ll hear these folks claim that American foreign policy is being run by AIPAC, which is an absurd claim. AIPAC is one of the least effective organizations in America. Or, that capitalism is being run by conspiratorial elites (who just so often have these Jewish last names.) 

So why is the conspiratorial Right now embracing the “genocide in Gaza” lie, and very often making common cause with Hamas propaganda?

Here’s the thing. The problem for the conspiratorial Right when it comes to Israel is that Israel happens to be the only state in the Middle East where Christians live safely and openly. Israel is also clearly responding to a Muslim genocidal terrorist assault, and those same terrorists hate Americans and hate Christians. Hamas is not a fan of America or Christians.

And this is why the conspiratorial Right, unlike the conspiratorial Left, didn’t immediately start tearing into Israel on October 8; they just went peculiarly silent. None of them had anything to say. They just went totally quiet. Nothing on their Twitter feeds? Nothing. No comment. Nothing.

For a moment. 

Then, the minute that Israel responded, they jumped into action. You see, the conspiratorial Right needed a reason for why “the same people who control American foreign policy and capitalism are the actual bad guys in the Middle East, too.” 

And that’s why they’re fond of chattering about genocide in Gaza, despite the fact that there is no genocide: if they can claim that Israel is a genocidal state — and the same people on the conspiratorial Right who claim this also tend to claim that Israel is anti-Christian, a giant lie, and spend their days trying to dig up bad translations of the Talmud — then they can maintain their own Great Conspiracy Theory, in which this shadowy group of rootless cosmopolitans is in control of all the bad things in their lives. 

The genocide lie is just as valuable to the conspiratorial Right as it is to the conspiratorial Left. 

So why does this matter? Because lies have consequences. 

This doesn’t mean that we have to buy into the theory of stochastic terrorism that the Left so often promotes. It doesn’t mean that opinions ought to be censored or deplatformed. 

Let me say that again for the morons in the room: This does not mean opinions ought to be censored or deplatformed. No one is calling for people not to be on X, YouTube, Facebook, or anything like that. Additionally, this terrorist-murderer is responsible for his own actions, just as the congressional baseball shooter was responsible for his own actions, or the Dallas police shooter back in 2014 was responsible for his own actions. 

Just as Hamas is responsible for its own actions.

But lies change the way people think and act. If I have to explain this to you, I would suggest that you’re mentally deficient.

Lies change the way people think and act. That is what they are designed to do. If you keep saying over and over again, for example, that “Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler,” it’s not a giant shock when multiple people try to assassinate Donald Trump. 

If you keep saying “all cops are bastards” over and over and over again, it should not be a shock when someone tries to shoot cops.

And if you keep claiming or implying that “the Jews run the world and engage in genocide,” it should not be a shock when someone murders people at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C. 

In other words, take some damned responsibility for the things you say and the positions you take. You have responsibility for the things that come out of your mouth. 

It is worthwhile to be responsible in how we speak about issues and engage with the world. We focus a lot on rights. And of course we should, because the violation of rights is bad. But — there are also duties such as duties to the truth, to facts, and to speak reality.

Propagating absolute lies about genocide in Gaza and then spewing that out into the world over and over raises the temperature. Vomiting the N-word or “Heil Hitler” in public discourse raises the temperature, as does treating with absolute credulity a variety of specious claims, ranging from Hitler’s “well-intentioned oopses” in Europe to “Israeli genocide” to “conspiratorial Jews” and their Talmud running the banking system and Hollywood.

Stop with “just asking questions.” Just asking questions doesn’t cut it. The whole purpose of a question is to seek an answer. The people you listen to should be seeking answers. Getting answers is better than just asking questions. 

If you want to live a better life, if you want to improve yourself and the world, you need actual answers to hard questions.

And responsible people base those answers on evidence. Facts. Reality. They don’t just “ask questions” or ignore actual answers in favor of a pseudo-ignorance masking itself as a sort of semi-retarded profundity: “I don’t know the answers. All I know is what we’ve been told is insufficient.” 

Or pretend that answers given by people we trusted a moment ago are now insufficient, because those people aren’t giving us the answers we want: “Dan Bongino must be lying about Jeffrey Epstein because they probably got to him.”

People who do this sort of stuff aren’t just play-actors with teenage cynicism; they are actively misleading you. They are lying to you. They say they want answers when they absolutely, positively do not want answers. In fact, they want to prevent you from getting actual answers because the evidence and the facts and the real answers too often debunk their theories.

Such people, Left and Right, do not want you to have answers. They want you to be satisfied with their leading questions, which all lead to one gigantic false conclusion: that in the world of conspiracy theories, you are a victim. 

And by the way, only they, the real askers, can guide you toward the light. Only they can be trusted.

This stuff is demagoguery of the highest order, and it’s ugly. It’s ugly because it is not only a lie, it also makes your life worse. That’s because in the end, their argument is actually really simple. It’s not a question, it’s an argument: “Someone else is responsible for problems that you can solve.”

That argument is bad for you. It makes you dumb.

It makes you useless. It makes you vicious. 

It’s bad for your soul. It’s bad for America. 

It’s bad for the world.

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There was a terrorist attack on Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. 

The attack occurred outside the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals, hosted by the American Jewish Committee. Two staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, a German-Israeli dual citizen and a devout evangelical Christian who had immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were shot at close range. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring to propose to Milgrim when they got back to Jerusalem.

They were murdered. They were murdered by a man who was shouting, “Free Palestine.” Video shows the man chanting in full campus mode, “Free, free Palestine,” which, by the way,  is a good indicator of what the “Free Palestine, Globalize The Intifada” movement is actually about.

This is the pro-Palestinian cause in a nutshell that’s been happening on college campuses across America: Standing for a presumptive terror state with genocidal intentions against Jews and Israelis with the full aid in support of a compliant legacy media. 

The shooter was apparently a member of a group known as the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Investigative reporter Ryan Morrow noted that the group is one of 150 pro-terrorism groups he identified as responsible for the anti-Israel protests in his Marching Towards Violence study. The shooter accused Israel of “genocide” in his manifesto.

Let’s look into this lie, because lies have consequences. According to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national at the ethnical, racial, or religious group, such as killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, etc.”

Genocide requires intent to destroy in whole or in part an entire national group.

It simply does not apply under these circumstances. Not even close. First of all, Hamas has an obvious desire to propagate this myth. This is why Hamas was thanking the U.K., France, and Canada for helping to propagate this myth. This is why Hamas deliberately hides behind civilians. The basic logic of Hamas is that they know that the Israelis don’t want to kill civilians, which is the reason they hide behind them. The whole goal is to get as many civilians killed as possible, and then claim that Israel is purposefully killing the civilians when Israel is doing literally everything humanly possible in an urban warfare environment in which terrorists deliberately hide behind their own children, not to kill the children. 

By the way, Israel has done a remarkable job of that. Israel has not only not engaged in genocide, Israel has engaged in the most humane war in the history of civilization, in an urban warfare environment in which the enemy has taken hostage 250 of their citizens, is still hiding dozens of those citizens in Gaza terror tunnels today, and deliberately hides its weaponry and its terrorists beneath hospitals, schools, and in mosques. Israel has somehow achieved a civilian casualty to combat ratio of about 1 to 1. Totally unheard of. 

As far as humanitarian aid, Israel shipped in literally tons of humanitarian aid into the very same area where the hostages were being held, where civilians were helping to hold the hostages. You may have noticed there’s been no popular movement in the Gaza Strip to free the hostages. None. Zero. It doesn’t exist. Even the protests that are out there against Hamas are not protests to free the hostages.

And yet Israel has been supplying humanitarian aid throughout the war to that exact same population at the expense of its own hostages, because Hamas routinely steals that aid, and then uses it in order to prop itself up. 

Lies have consequences. So we understand why the genocide lie is so popular with those who wish to overtly destroy the state of Israel. We get it, obviously, because it means they win the PR war. Countries in the U.N., for example, that are in thrall to their Muslim populations. Yes, I’m looking at you, France and the U.K. 

Or countries who might want to please their Chinese paymasters, who are seeking to foster anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Yes, that would be you, Canada, and South Africa. 

The real question here is, why has this “genocide” lie become so popular in the West more generally? The answer is because our civilization has fallen in thrall to a Great Conspiracy Theory.

Conspiratorial thinking has become wildly popular on both the Left and the Right. It crosses all political boundaries. Now there are, of course, actual conspiracies in real life. Those conspiracies involve actual planning and implementation by actual human beings. 

There’s a difference between a conspiracy, where there’s evidence, and conspiracy theories. These are not the same. 

The philosopher Karl Popper spelled out a pretty good definition for this in his book, The Open Society and Its Enemies: 

The ‘conspiracy theory of society’ … is the view that an explanation of a social phenomenon consists in the discovery of the men or groups, or interested in the occurrence of this phenomenon (sometimes it’s a hidden interest which has first to be revealed), and who have planned and conspire to bring it about.”

This view … arises, of course, from the mistaken theory that whatever happens in society — especially happenings such as war, unemployment, poverty, shortages, which people as a rule dislike — is the result of direct design by some powerful individuals and groups.

That’s the Great Conspiracy Theory. And that Great Conspiracy Theory has become insanely popular on both the Left and the Right.

Why on the Left? In the left-wing Great Conspiracy Theory, every group disparity is discrimination. If, for example, Black Americans are disproportionately lower income than white Americans, this has to be because of some actual conspiracy: systemic racism, white privilege, or a policy of discrimination without stating the actual policy. 

Now again, it is possible to find policies in a wide variety of places and times across the world that do, in fact, victimize particular groups. That’s true. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s actual policy. 

But if you cannot point to a policy or politician or institution that does the discriminating, you are now operating in the realm of a conspiracy theory. And that’s what the Left does both nationally and internationally. “Crime rates are bad in the black community because all cops are bastards.” “ White supremacy lies behind every corner.” “Racism is clearly the reason for disproportionate poverty.”

When you take that logic to the international stage, you end up with anti-Americanism, because America is disproportionately successful, and there are lots of other places that are not successful. 

You also end up siding with Hamas. You end up chanting “Free Palestine.” In fact, support for Hamas is the apex case of the left-wing great conspiracy theory.

If the Palestinians, who collectively as a group, have made every single bad choice it is possible to make as a political body by: embracing and supporting terrorism, rejecting peace agreement after peace agreement; channeling funding toward violence and hatred rather than economic development; educating their own kids that wiping Israel off the map ought to be a lifelong goal; living in a failed state, both in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria; if no other country will take them specifically because they are shot through with enormous support for terrorism, then according to the Left, that’s not their own fault. 

That must be the result of the more developed democracy on its borders, even if, by the way, that developed democracy (Israel) is one-fifth Muslim, and if the Muslims in that developed democracy have the highest levels of political and civil freedom of any Muslims anywhere in the world and some of the highest incomes in the region.

If Hamas spends billions of dollars to line its own pockets, live in five-star hotels in Qatar, build terror tunnels; if they fire rockets at Israel for nearly two decades, and then launch a genocidal attack on Jews —an actual genocidal attack by UN definition, designed to exterminate a part of a larger whole for which Hamas seeks mass murder and complete with the taking of hundreds of hostages again, dozens of whom are still, after a year and a half, being held in Gaza — then the Left responds by excusing Hamas, because, after all, the Great Conspiracy Theory suggests they are poor and supposedly browner (which ignores the 45% of Israelis whose parents and grandparents are from Arab countries and are in fact brown and less successful). 

This is why there were left-wing protests in solidarity with Hamas before Israel even responded to October 7. 

The genocide charge from the Left against Israel is a fig leaf. Israel’s very existence is the problem for the radical Left, just as the existence of America is a problem, because the successful are, by nature, the exploiters, according to the Left. 

And then there’s the Right. There is a horseshoe theory of the Right that shares many of the same basic conspiracy theories as the Left.

You can hear it on a wide variety of supposedly right-wing or heterodox podcasts these days. This theory is that there is a group of victims, often lower-income whites or Christians, who are being victimized by a shadowy group of people. 

Again, there are absolutely some policies that do victimize white people — we talk about them on the show a lot — through affirmative action on race or anti-Christian anti-discrimination regulations that are directed at the Little Sisters of the Poor or Christian bakers.

Those are all real; they aren’t conspiracy theories. 

But what these conspiracy theorists on the Right often do is target a shadowy group whom they say are “running the system.” This shadowy group of people is often characterized as “clannish,” “cosmopolitan,” or “rootless.”  And the supposed policy that is somehow consigning the conspiratorial Right to the victim class is either with regard to foreign policy or capitalism.

Thus, on the foreign policy front, you’ll hear these folks claim that American foreign policy is being run by AIPAC, which is an absurd claim. AIPAC is one of the least effective organizations in America. Or, that capitalism is being run by conspiratorial elites (who just so often have these Jewish last names.) 

So why is the conspiratorial Right now embracing the “genocide in Gaza” lie, and very often making common cause with Hamas propaganda?

Here’s the thing. The problem for the conspiratorial Right when it comes to Israel is that Israel happens to be the only state in the Middle East where Christians live safely and openly. Israel is also clearly responding to a Muslim genocidal terrorist assault, and those same terrorists hate Americans and hate Christians. Hamas is not a fan of America or Christians.

And this is why the conspiratorial Right, unlike the conspiratorial Left, didn’t immediately start tearing into Israel on October 8; they just went peculiarly silent. None of them had anything to say. They just went totally quiet. Nothing on their Twitter feeds? Nothing. No comment. Nothing.

For a moment. 

Then, the minute that Israel responded, they jumped into action. You see, the conspiratorial Right needed a reason for why “the same people who control American foreign policy and capitalism are the actual bad guys in the Middle East, too.” 

And that’s why they’re fond of chattering about genocide in Gaza, despite the fact that there is no genocide: if they can claim that Israel is a genocidal state — and the same people on the conspiratorial Right who claim this also tend to claim that Israel is anti-Christian, a giant lie, and spend their days trying to dig up bad translations of the Talmud — then they can maintain their own Great Conspiracy Theory, in which this shadowy group of rootless cosmopolitans is in control of all the bad things in their lives. 

The genocide lie is just as valuable to the conspiratorial Right as it is to the conspiratorial Left. 

So why does this matter? Because lies have consequences. 

This doesn’t mean that we have to buy into the theory of stochastic terrorism that the Left so often promotes. It doesn’t mean that opinions ought to be censored or deplatformed. 

Let me say that again for the morons in the room: This does not mean opinions ought to be censored or deplatformed. No one is calling for people not to be on X, YouTube, Facebook, or anything like that. Additionally, this terrorist-murderer is responsible for his own actions, just as the congressional baseball shooter was responsible for his own actions, or the Dallas police shooter back in 2014 was responsible for his own actions. 

Just as Hamas is responsible for its own actions.

But lies change the way people think and act. If I have to explain this to you, I would suggest that you’re mentally deficient.

Lies change the way people think and act. That is what they are designed to do. If you keep saying over and over again, for example, that “Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler,” it’s not a giant shock when multiple people try to assassinate Donald Trump. 

If you keep saying “all cops are bastards” over and over and over again, it should not be a shock when someone tries to shoot cops.

And if you keep claiming or implying that “the Jews run the world and engage in genocide,” it should not be a shock when someone murders people at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C. 

In other words, take some damned responsibility for the things you say and the positions you take. You have responsibility for the things that come out of your mouth. 

It is worthwhile to be responsible in how we speak about issues and engage with the world. We focus a lot on rights. And of course we should, because the violation of rights is bad. But — there are also duties such as duties to the truth, to facts, and to speak reality.

Propagating absolute lies about genocide in Gaza and then spewing that out into the world over and over raises the temperature. Vomiting the N-word or “Heil Hitler” in public discourse raises the temperature, as does treating with absolute credulity a variety of specious claims, ranging from Hitler’s “well-intentioned oopses” in Europe to “Israeli genocide” to “conspiratorial Jews” and their Talmud running the banking system and Hollywood.

Stop with “just asking questions.” Just asking questions doesn’t cut it. The whole purpose of a question is to seek an answer. The people you listen to should be seeking answers. Getting answers is better than just asking questions. 

If you want to live a better life, if you want to improve yourself and the world, you need actual answers to hard questions.

And responsible people base those answers on evidence. Facts. Reality. They don’t just “ask questions” or ignore actual answers in favor of a pseudo-ignorance masking itself as a sort of semi-retarded profundity: “I don’t know the answers. All I know is what we’ve been told is insufficient.” 

Or pretend that answers given by people we trusted a moment ago are now insufficient, because those people aren’t giving us the answers we want: “Dan Bongino must be lying about Jeffrey Epstein because they probably got to him.”

People who do this sort of stuff aren’t just play-actors with teenage cynicism; they are actively misleading you. They are lying to you. They say they want answers when they absolutely, positively do not want answers. In fact, they want to prevent you from getting actual answers because the evidence and the facts and the real answers too often debunk their theories.

Such people, Left and Right, do not want you to have answers. They want you to be satisfied with their leading questions, which all lead to one gigantic false conclusion: that in the world of conspiracy theories, you are a victim. 

And by the way, only they, the real askers, can guide you toward the light. Only they can be trusted.

This stuff is demagoguery of the highest order, and it’s ugly. It’s ugly because it is not only a lie, it also makes your life worse. That’s because in the end, their argument is actually really simple. It’s not a question, it’s an argument: “Someone else is responsible for problems that you can solve.”

That argument is bad for you. It makes you dumb.

It makes you useless. It makes you vicious. 

It’s bad for your soul. It’s bad for America. 

It’s bad for the world.

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The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students on Thursday as the government and elite university feud over antisemetic incidents on campus.

The Department of Homeland Security notified the university in a letter that its participation in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program had been revoked. The move against the university’s foreign exchange program came after days of negotiations over a government request for Harvard records, according to The New York Times.

“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X. “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.”

“They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law,” she continued. “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.

It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025

The letter bluntly lists the infractions that the Trump administration says Harvard has committed to lose its certification to receive foreign students.

“As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies, you have lost this privilege,” the letter says.

Last month, Noem requested information from Harvard on foreign students. The administration asked for information that the university has that shows if any student with a visa committed “illegal activity” or “dangerous or violent activity” and whether or not that activity took place on campus, according to a letter from Noem to Harvard.

Homeland Security also requested information on what disciplinary action Harvard has taken “as a result of [visa holders] making threats to other students or populations or participating in protests.”

Harvard rebuffed the requests despite warnings from the Trump administration that its certification to accept foreign students could be revoked. The Trump administration has previously stripped billions in taxpayer-funded grants to the university over its handling of antisemitism on campus.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Senate testimony this week that the Trump administration has likely revoked thousands of visas from foreign students who have disrupted campus or expressed solidarity with terror groups.

“I don’t know the latest count, but we probably have more to do,” said Rubio. “We’re going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities.”

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The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students on Thursday as the government and elite university feud over antisemetic incidents on campus.

The Department of Homeland Security notified the university in a letter that its participation in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program had been revoked. The move against the university’s foreign exchange program came after days of negotiations over a government request for Harvard records, according to The New York Times.

“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X. “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.”

“They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law,” she continued. “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.

It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025

The letter bluntly lists the infractions that the Trump administration says Harvard has committed to lose its certification to receive foreign students.

“As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies, you have lost this privilege,” the letter says.

Last month, Noem requested information from Harvard on foreign students. The administration asked for information that the university has that shows if any student with a visa committed “illegal activity” or “dangerous or violent activity” and whether or not that activity took place on campus, according to a letter from Noem to Harvard.

Homeland Security also requested information on what disciplinary action Harvard has taken “as a result of [visa holders] making threats to other students or populations or participating in protests.”

Harvard rebuffed the requests despite warnings from the Trump administration that its certification to accept foreign students could be revoked. The Trump administration has previously stripped billions in taxpayer-funded grants to the university over its handling of antisemitism on campus.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Senate testimony this week that the Trump administration has likely revoked thousands of visas from foreign students who have disrupted campus or expressed solidarity with terror groups.

“I don’t know the latest count, but we probably have more to do,” said Rubio. “We’re going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities.”

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation that would prevent certain migrants from entering the United States in a bid to crack down on what she calls a “multi-million dollar industry” built on birth tourism.

Blackburn’s bill, called “the Ban Birth Tourism” act, would modify existing immigration law to make those intending to come to the United States for the purpose of having a child in America ineligible for entry.

Blackburn asserted in a recent interview that foreign networks, including those operating in China and Russia, have built a multi-million dollar industry by taking advantage of America’s birthright citizenship policy.

“You have brokers who are advertising and pushing for people in countries like Russia and China, and women, when they are pregnant, they can pay a fee to the broker, come into the U.S., live in housing that is provided for them, have the baby, get the birth certificate,” she said, adding that the scheme allows the foreign nationals to start the chain migration process once the child turns 21 years old.

Blackburn’s legislation aims to prevent those foreigners from entering the United States.

“Foreign nationals have been exploiting our nation’s immigration laws for far too long, taking advantage of the system to come to the United States for the sole purpose of giving birth to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children,” the senator from Tennessee charged. “The Ban Birth Tourism Act would prevent foreign nationals, including those from adversaries like Communist China and Russia, from buying American citizenship for their children.”

Blackburn’s bill comes just after the Supreme Court began hearing arguments addressing President Donald Trump’s day one executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States without at least one parent who is a citizen or legal permanent resident.

Trump railed against birthright citizenship in a post on Truth Social ahead of the arguments before the Supreme Court.

“The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows — But the drug cartels love it!” Trump said. “Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the ‘SUCKERS’ that we are!”

Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) introduced his own legislation in the House ending birthright citizenship shortly after Trump’s executive order. Babin’s bill, like Blackburn’s, takes aim at birth tourism and aims to “close loopholes that exploit birthright citizenship and discourage illegal immigration.”

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation that would prevent certain migrants from entering the United States in a bid to crack down on what she calls a “multi-million dollar industry” built on birth tourism.

Blackburn’s bill, called “the Ban Birth Tourism” act, would modify existing immigration law to make those intending to come to the United States for the purpose of having a child in America ineligible for entry.

Blackburn asserted in a recent interview that foreign networks, including those operating in China and Russia, have built a multi-million dollar industry by taking advantage of America’s birthright citizenship policy.

“You have brokers who are advertising and pushing for people in countries like Russia and China, and women, when they are pregnant, they can pay a fee to the broker, come into the U.S., live in housing that is provided for them, have the baby, get the birth certificate,” she said, adding that the scheme allows the foreign nationals to start the chain migration process once the child turns 21 years old.

Blackburn’s legislation aims to prevent those foreigners from entering the United States.

“Foreign nationals have been exploiting our nation’s immigration laws for far too long, taking advantage of the system to come to the United States for the sole purpose of giving birth to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children,” the senator from Tennessee charged. “The Ban Birth Tourism Act would prevent foreign nationals, including those from adversaries like Communist China and Russia, from buying American citizenship for their children.”

Blackburn’s bill comes just after the Supreme Court began hearing arguments addressing President Donald Trump’s day one executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States without at least one parent who is a citizen or legal permanent resident.

Trump railed against birthright citizenship in a post on Truth Social ahead of the arguments before the Supreme Court.

“The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows — But the drug cartels love it!” Trump said. “Birthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the ‘SUCKERS’ that we are!”

Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) introduced his own legislation in the House ending birthright citizenship shortly after Trump’s executive order. Babin’s bill, like Blackburn’s, takes aim at birth tourism and aims to “close loopholes that exploit birthright citizenship and discourage illegal immigration.”

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The Biden administration’s global ambassador for all things LGBT was a travel diva with no regard for cost, who even got smacked down for “inappropriate” spending requests as she traveled on the government dime, according to a batched of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.

The emails show that Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, failed to report travel expenses on time, requested a costly car for a week in Rome, and berated staff for missing vegetarian meals on her flights as she jetted around the world pushing far-left ideology, according to a batched of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.

Stern raked in $180,000 a year as her state-sanctioned LGBT activism took her to all six habitable continents, with stops in places like Fiji and Brazil, where she traveled on the taxpayer dime to march alongside a “transvestite sl*t,” a previous Daily Wire exposé found.

Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) show that Stern, who left her post after President Donald Trump’s re-election, failed to even report her travel expenses on time. The envoy, who said in her emails that she identifies with “all pronouns,” even admitted that she didn’t know where she would find her expenses after a State Department official asked for her accounting.

“We are still waiting on last year’s accounting for travel from your office … before approving further travel,” wrote a State Department official whose name is redacted in October 2022. “We have every other office except yours. I have asked several times and no one has provided. Please do so as soon as possible.”

READ MORE: Meet The Biden Official Making Six Figures To Travel The Globe Pushing Transgenderism

Stern then wrote to a different State Department official and made a stunning admission. “I don’t read all of her messages but I don’t recall seeing multiple requests for our expenses,” Stern wrote. “I also don’t know where we would get our expenses.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

The documents also show that, about a year after the expense reporting mishap, Stern was admonished after she requested a costly rental car for a week in Rome.

An email from a State Department staffer to Stern indicates that the LGBT envoy was originally set to get a rental van in Rome for a week at the cost of $7,000, but that the plan was shot down because of the excessive cost. Stern then hoped to get a rental car for $3,000 to $4,000.

“Sorry for the hassle and expense. This is a stupid way to spend money,” Stern admitted in an email to Christopher Le Mon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. “Apparently there aren’t options due to a taxi shortage. Do you think we could swing $3-4K for a car?”

Le Mon shot down the proposal. “No, I do not think that $3k for a car for five days can be supported. We have asked offices to cut entire trips,” he said in an email. “The overall climate we are in is one of cost consciousness.”

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Then another State Department official pushed Le Mon to give his approval. “Emb Rome has been able to shave SE Stern’s costs down and is urging me to find out today whether the updated transportation estimates would work,” the unnamed State Department staffer wrote. “Could you authorize the hotel-airport transfers?”

Le Mon denied the ask for the costly car again and called the request “inappropriate.”

“Apologies for not being clearer earlier: I’m not going to approve standby transportation in Rome in this budget environment,” Le Mon said in response. “To again make the point I made earlier, there have been DRL trips disapproved where the entire cost of the trip was less than $4000.”

“It’s inappropriate to keep asking for several thousand dollars for a car,” Le Mon admonished Stern.

“Airport transfers and ground transportation can be done by taxi or Uber the same way other DRL principals traveling to European capitals have done,” he added. “I apologize but I do not have time for further back and forth on this question.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

In another exchange over travel arrangements, Stern berated State Department staff in an “urgent” message about her vegetarian meal preferences.

“This is urgent,” Biden’s LGBT activist wrote. “I have taken many flights since I have joined the State Department, and the airlines have repeatedly had no record of my vegetarian meal.”

“This is a serious problem,” she added.“I ask you to assure me that my vegetarian meal has been ordered for my flights this week, and I ask you to confirm how this can be corrected moving forward.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

An unnamed State Department staffer sprung into action in a follow up email. “I have added the requests for the vegetarian meals to the reservations you currently have booked.”

It is unclear if Stern successfully received her vegetarian meals on subsequent flights. She did not respond to a request for comment.

“Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy Jessica Stern repeatedly advocated for excessive taxpayer resources to travel the world in luxury,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. “The Trump administration has since eliminated Stern’s position and the Biden era of using government resources for LGBT advocacy is over.”

While the documents don’t outline how much money was spent on Stern’s travel, one spreadsheet shows that Stern and another State Department official working to advance the Biden administration’s LGBT agenda dropped almost $42,000 in taxpayer funds over roughly five months.

Those funds went towards everything from interpreters to an “overtime photographer” on her trips to Peru, Nepal, Hungary, and other countries across the world.

“While the working men and women of this country were struggling, Stern was asking for more of their money for a private car and a photographer.” Fitzpatrick said. “The American people are sick and tired of this type of irresponsible behavior from their government officials.”

Since leaving the State Department, Stern has “rejoined the resistance” and is working to create a leftwing organization to oppose the Trump administration. She’s also teaching a new generation of activists at Columbia University in a seminar that “offers students an opportunity to reflect, in-depth, on the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBTI rights transnationally.”

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The Biden administration’s global ambassador for all things LGBT was a travel diva with no regard for cost, who even got smacked down for “inappropriate” spending requests as she traveled on the government dime, according to a batched of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.

The emails show that Jessica Stern, the Biden State Department’s Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons, failed to report travel expenses on time, requested a costly car for a week in Rome, and berated staff for missing vegetarian meals on her flights as she jetted around the world pushing far-left ideology, according to a batched of emails obtained by The Daily Wire.

Stern raked in $180,000 a year as her state-sanctioned LGBT activism took her to all six habitable continents, with stops in places like Fiji and Brazil, where she traveled on the taxpayer dime to march alongside a “transvestite sl*t,” a previous Daily Wire exposé found.

Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) show that Stern, who left her post after President Donald Trump’s re-election, failed to even report her travel expenses on time. The envoy, who said in her emails that she identifies with “all pronouns,” even admitted that she didn’t know where she would find her expenses after a State Department official asked for her accounting.

“We are still waiting on last year’s accounting for travel from your office … before approving further travel,” wrote a State Department official whose name is redacted in October 2022. “We have every other office except yours. I have asked several times and no one has provided. Please do so as soon as possible.”

READ MORE: Meet The Biden Official Making Six Figures To Travel The Globe Pushing Transgenderism

Stern then wrote to a different State Department official and made a stunning admission. “I don’t read all of her messages but I don’t recall seeing multiple requests for our expenses,” Stern wrote. “I also don’t know where we would get our expenses.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

The documents also show that, about a year after the expense reporting mishap, Stern was admonished after she requested a costly rental car for a week in Rome.

An email from a State Department staffer to Stern indicates that the LGBT envoy was originally set to get a rental van in Rome for a week at the cost of $7,000, but that the plan was shot down because of the excessive cost. Stern then hoped to get a rental car for $3,000 to $4,000.

“Sorry for the hassle and expense. This is a stupid way to spend money,” Stern admitted in an email to Christopher Le Mon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. “Apparently there aren’t options due to a taxi shortage. Do you think we could swing $3-4K for a car?”

Le Mon shot down the proposal. “No, I do not think that $3k for a car for five days can be supported. We have asked offices to cut entire trips,” he said in an email. “The overall climate we are in is one of cost consciousness.”

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Then another State Department official pushed Le Mon to give his approval. “Emb Rome has been able to shave SE Stern’s costs down and is urging me to find out today whether the updated transportation estimates would work,” the unnamed State Department staffer wrote. “Could you authorize the hotel-airport transfers?”

Le Mon denied the ask for the costly car again and called the request “inappropriate.”

“Apologies for not being clearer earlier: I’m not going to approve standby transportation in Rome in this budget environment,” Le Mon said in response. “To again make the point I made earlier, there have been DRL trips disapproved where the entire cost of the trip was less than $4000.”

“It’s inappropriate to keep asking for several thousand dollars for a car,” Le Mon admonished Stern.

“Airport transfers and ground transportation can be done by taxi or Uber the same way other DRL principals traveling to European capitals have done,” he added. “I apologize but I do not have time for further back and forth on this question.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

In another exchange over travel arrangements, Stern berated State Department staff in an “urgent” message about her vegetarian meal preferences.

“This is urgent,” Biden’s LGBT activist wrote. “I have taken many flights since I have joined the State Department, and the airlines have repeatedly had no record of my vegetarian meal.”

“This is a serious problem,” she added.“I ask you to assure me that my vegetarian meal has been ordered for my flights this week, and I ask you to confirm how this can be corrected moving forward.”

Obtained by The Daily Wire

An unnamed State Department staffer sprung into action in a follow up email. “I have added the requests for the vegetarian meals to the reservations you currently have booked.”

It is unclear if Stern successfully received her vegetarian meals on subsequent flights. She did not respond to a request for comment.

“Biden State Department LGBT Special Envoy Jessica Stern repeatedly advocated for excessive taxpayer resources to travel the world in luxury,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. “The Trump administration has since eliminated Stern’s position and the Biden era of using government resources for LGBT advocacy is over.”

While the documents don’t outline how much money was spent on Stern’s travel, one spreadsheet shows that Stern and another State Department official working to advance the Biden administration’s LGBT agenda dropped almost $42,000 in taxpayer funds over roughly five months.

Those funds went towards everything from interpreters to an “overtime photographer” on her trips to Peru, Nepal, Hungary, and other countries across the world.

“While the working men and women of this country were struggling, Stern was asking for more of their money for a private car and a photographer.” Fitzpatrick said. “The American people are sick and tired of this type of irresponsible behavior from their government officials.”

Since leaving the State Department, Stern has “rejoined the resistance” and is working to create a leftwing organization to oppose the Trump administration. She’s also teaching a new generation of activists at Columbia University in a seminar that “offers students an opportunity to reflect, in-depth, on the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBTI rights transnationally.”

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The Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill” House Republicans passed early Thursday will prohibit all federal funding for transgender procedures on both children and adults if signed into law.

During a marathon nighttime session, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) successfully expanded a provision banning funding for transgender procedures for kids to include adults as well. Due to Crenshaw’s amendment, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will no longer cover life-altering and dangerous transgender medical procedures.

“The Crenshaw Amendment will become law — and it’s long overdue,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Wire. “Gender transition procedures are the lobotomy of our generation. So-called ‘gender-affirming care’ isn’t healthcare—it’s fringe science with no proven benefit and massive risks.”

The provision was secured by an amendment to Section 1903(i) of the Social Security Act, prohibiting funding for medically unnecessary procedures. This would mean funding would no longer go toward things like removing the breasts of women who identify as men or crafting pseudo male or female genitalia for transgender-identifying individuals.

Last week, Crenshaw introduced a provision banning the funding of the procedures on kids into the House Energy and Commerce Committee budget bill that it sent to the House Budget Committee. That provision alone would have saved $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars, The Daily Signal reported last week.

The full House passed the budget bill 215-214 Thursday morning, including Crenshaw’s transgender funding ban for both kids and adults. President Donald Trump has cited the ban on funding of child transgender procedures as one of the reasons for Republicans to back the bill.

Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has pushed for a similar provision to end all taxpayer funding of transgender procedures.

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Crenshaw also secured reimbursements for Texas and other border states that have borne the brunt of the illegal immigration under former President Joe Biden, and added work requirements for able-bodied adults to be eligible for Medicaid, with exceptions for disabled people or pregnant women.

Social conservatives also picked up another major win with the advancement of the budget bill, as it would end Medicaid funding for abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, celebrated the passage of the bill.

“The One, Big, Beautiful Bill that passed the House will end taxpayer funding for gender transition surgeries, defund Planned Parenthood and increase the Child Tax Credit – all are monumental wins for our great nation,” Schilling said. “Now it is time for the Senate to get this bill across the finish line so we can Make Families Great Again.”

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The Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill” House Republicans passed early Thursday will prohibit all federal funding for transgender procedures on both children and adults if signed into law.

During a marathon nighttime session, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) successfully expanded a provision banning funding for transgender procedures for kids to include adults as well. Due to Crenshaw’s amendment, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will no longer cover life-altering and dangerous transgender medical procedures.

“The Crenshaw Amendment will become law — and it’s long overdue,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Wire. “Gender transition procedures are the lobotomy of our generation. So-called ‘gender-affirming care’ isn’t healthcare—it’s fringe science with no proven benefit and massive risks.”

The provision was secured by an amendment to Section 1903(i) of the Social Security Act, prohibiting funding for medically unnecessary procedures. This would mean funding would no longer go toward things like removing the breasts of women who identify as men or crafting pseudo male or female genitalia for transgender-identifying individuals.

Last week, Crenshaw introduced a provision banning the funding of the procedures on kids into the House Energy and Commerce Committee budget bill that it sent to the House Budget Committee. That provision alone would have saved $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars, The Daily Signal reported last week.

The full House passed the budget bill 215-214 Thursday morning, including Crenshaw’s transgender funding ban for both kids and adults. President Donald Trump has cited the ban on funding of child transgender procedures as one of the reasons for Republicans to back the bill.

Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has pushed for a similar provision to end all taxpayer funding of transgender procedures.

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Crenshaw also secured reimbursements for Texas and other border states that have borne the brunt of the illegal immigration under former President Joe Biden, and added work requirements for able-bodied adults to be eligible for Medicaid, with exceptions for disabled people or pregnant women.

Social conservatives also picked up another major win with the advancement of the budget bill, as it would end Medicaid funding for abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, celebrated the passage of the bill.

“The One, Big, Beautiful Bill that passed the House will end taxpayer funding for gender transition surgeries, defund Planned Parenthood and increase the Child Tax Credit – all are monumental wins for our great nation,” Schilling said. “Now it is time for the Senate to get this bill across the finish line so we can Make Families Great Again.”

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On Thursday, the GOP-led Senate voted to overturn a Biden administration move that powered California’s green energy agenda for cars and trucks that 11 other states have sought to adopt.

Fifty Republicans and one Democrat banded together to revoke the Clean Air Act waiver the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted in December to the Golden State that allowed it to proceed with a plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered light-duty vehicles by 2035.

Because the Republican-controlled House already passed the resolution of disapproval, the measure now heads to President Donald Trump. California has signaled that it is prepared to file a legal challenge.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who is the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spearheaded the effort in the upper chamber to repeal the waiver.

“The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process,” Capito said in a statement. “I’m proud to have led this effort to protect American workers and consumers from this radical and drastic policy.”

President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue during his presidential campaign at a rally in Saginaw, Michigan.

“When I’m president, no state in America will be permitted to ban gas-powered cars or trucks, and I guarantee it,” Trump said.

Senate Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows bypassing a filibuster to undo regulations, to pass the resolution. Under this process, Lawmakers also voted to strike down waivers related to emissions for heavier-duty vehicles.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Senate parliamentarian advised that the waivers are not rules that qualify for CRA, but The Hill reported on how Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) used a series of procedural votes to alleviate concerns by some of his GOP colleagues.

On X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused Republicans of trying to “appease the fossil fuel industry.” He also said they were “hijacking the CRA process in a way that’s never been done before” and warned: “What goes around when you’re in the majority comes around when you’re back in the minority.”

The one Democrat who joined with Republicans and spurned California was Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).

“Today, I voted to prevent California and the states that follow its standard from effectively banning gas-powered cars by 2035,” she declared in a statement. “Michigan is the auto capital of the world, and as Michigan’s U.S. Senator, I have a special responsibility to stand up for the more than one million Michiganders whose livelihoods depend on the U.S. auto industry.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, announced his state was ready to fight in court.

“Since the Senate is caving to the Trump Admin’s demands, we will sue to protect California’s longstanding authority to maintain clean vehicle standards,” Bonta said. “President Trump may be playing partisan games with lives and good paying jobs on the line — but California won’t back down.”

Jayden Jelso contributed to this report. 

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On Thursday, the GOP-led Senate voted to overturn a Biden administration move that powered California’s green energy agenda for cars and trucks that 11 other states have sought to adopt.

Fifty Republicans and one Democrat banded together to revoke the Clean Air Act waiver the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted in December to the Golden State that allowed it to proceed with a plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered light-duty vehicles by 2035.

Because the Republican-controlled House already passed the resolution of disapproval, the measure now heads to President Donald Trump. California has signaled that it is prepared to file a legal challenge.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who is the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spearheaded the effort in the upper chamber to repeal the waiver.

“The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process,” Capito said in a statement. “I’m proud to have led this effort to protect American workers and consumers from this radical and drastic policy.”

President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue during his presidential campaign at a rally in Saginaw, Michigan.

“When I’m president, no state in America will be permitted to ban gas-powered cars or trucks, and I guarantee it,” Trump said.

Senate Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows bypassing a filibuster to undo regulations, to pass the resolution. Under this process, Lawmakers also voted to strike down waivers related to emissions for heavier-duty vehicles.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Senate parliamentarian advised that the waivers are not rules that qualify for CRA, but The Hill reported on how Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) used a series of procedural votes to alleviate concerns by some of his GOP colleagues.

On X, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused Republicans of trying to “appease the fossil fuel industry.” He also said they were “hijacking the CRA process in a way that’s never been done before” and warned: “What goes around when you’re in the majority comes around when you’re back in the minority.”

The one Democrat who joined with Republicans and spurned California was Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).

“Today, I voted to prevent California and the states that follow its standard from effectively banning gas-powered cars by 2035,” she declared in a statement. “Michigan is the auto capital of the world, and as Michigan’s U.S. Senator, I have a special responsibility to stand up for the more than one million Michiganders whose livelihoods depend on the U.S. auto industry.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, announced his state was ready to fight in court.

“Since the Senate is caving to the Trump Admin’s demands, we will sue to protect California’s longstanding authority to maintain clean vehicle standards,” Bonta said. “President Trump may be playing partisan games with lives and good paying jobs on the line — but California won’t back down.”

Jayden Jelso contributed to this report. 

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Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it’s fair to call Cyril Ramaphosa one of the few surviving “founding fathers” of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped write the country’s new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphosa gradually accumulated more wealth and power, until he finally became the country’s president in 2018. He’s currently worth something like half a billion dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africa’s residents now live in extreme poverty.

What this means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa’s post-colonial experiment. When he drafted that new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that, by 2025, the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world, at 40%. He certainly didn’t tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white farmers, or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all of that has happened. And yet, for all this time, no one — and certainly no world leader — has held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it’s been something of a tradition in Washington to pretend South Africa is somehow a “great ally” to the United States, and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty, as Joe Biden did a few years ago.

That tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office, when Donald Trump did something no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa, to his face in the most public forum imaginable, that he’s a fraud who’s overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician, from both parties, has been desperate to uphold for several decades.

In order to understand the importance of *what* Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United States for money, because he’s run his country into the ground and they can’t even feed themselves anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about “what it would take” for Trump to stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar to his face, and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. Here’s how it went:

So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa essentially validates what the reporter is saying. He says Donald Trump needs to “listen” to the people of South Africa, in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people. It’s probably the most obnoxious answer that he could’ve come up with, especially after dozens of white South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him — a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen — what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his father’s friends, who own farms, have been murdered, and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch:

Retief Goosen: “My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed… it’s a constant battle with — they’re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.” pic.twitter.com/93b4YZhpLQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 21, 2025

Again, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office, as part of South Africa’s delegation, hoping he’d neutralize the supposedly “fake narrative” about white genocide. This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded, obnoxiously, that Trump “listen to.” It didn’t exactly go as planned — which probably tells you something about the level of “planning” that South Africa’s government is capable of.

And things only got worse from there, as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers. In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa’s bluff. He “listened” to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans — and he made Ramaphosa, and the rest of the world, listen to it as well. And as you watch this, notice the expression on Ramaphosa’s face, as he genuinely cannot believe what is happening. Watch:

If you’ve listened to this show, or been active on social media over the past year or so, then you’ve seen or heard most of these clips before. And you’ve heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited. That’s because in South Africa, black politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured in their homes for decades, in attacks that are clearly racially motivated. And instead of stopping the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white people without compensating them. All of this has been known for a while now.

But in their coverage of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let’s take a brief look at that coverage. Here’s ABC, for example. Watch as they deliberately give the impression that they had never seen anything like this footage before:

“We do not know the source of the videos.” That’s pretty extraordinary. There are only two explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she’s monumentally lazy, and she’s confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage that’s been available on the Internet for years. Or, she’s deliberately lying to ABC’s viewers, and trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. If anyone at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what’s happening in South Africa, they’d tell their audience that, yes, the footage is real, and that the genocide of white people is something they’re openly encouraging over there.

For his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office, Cyril Ramaphosa offered this response. As you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar sleight of hand he uses. Watch:

First of all, he’s right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South Africa. That’s true. But it’s also not very reassuring, for two reasons. First of all, these minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people, chanting about murdering white farmers. So we’re not talking about one fringe politician here. This is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out, the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose their homes and their farms, without any form of compensation whatsoever. That’s a pretty good indication that, indeed, the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide.

Ramaphosa had no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that, in South Africa, the majority of people who die are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you’re a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who doesn’t understand the concept of “per capita,” which of course describes most South African leaders. So maybe the talking point works there. But it doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intelligent people, because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the population of South Africa is black. So obviously, most of the people who are killed in South Africa are going to be black. No one is disputing that.

The relevant question is whether white people (particularly white farmers) are being targeted because of their skin color, and whether they’re dying at a rate that’s higher than black people, given that they only make up something like six percent of the population. And of course, no one in South Africa’s government wants to address those questions, because they know the truth: white farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you’ll see in literal warzones, or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is something like 150 per 100,000 people. That’s why white people in South Africa are currently leaving everything behind — their farms, their homes, everything — in order to fly to the United States and stay in Holiday Inns off the interstate in Idaho. They’re not doing it for fun. They’re doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa.

But even after Trump explained all of this in the Oval Office — even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the press, and for the president of South Africa — the corporate press is continuing to lie, universally, about what’s happening in South Africa. They’re simply denying that white people are being targeted. We’ll put a selection of the headlines on the screen now:

I won’t read all of these, but every single one of them accuses Trump of “falsely” spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say Trump “abused” the South African president with lies, even though he literally played ten minutes of video for him, and listened to first-hand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same thing. This is one compilation that Chaia Raichick assembled. Watch:

This was shameless and coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people’s standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth, seemingly by accident. Here was a photo that the AP posted, buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly safe for white people.

Here’s the caption: “A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside [in South Africa.]”

That’s the reality of what’s happening. And occasionally it gets out. But you won’t find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here’s how they discussed what the white golfers said in the Oval Office: “Two of South Africa’s most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country on Wednesday, after President Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners. .. Mr. Goosen … shared that his relatives on farms lived behind electric fences in fear of crime, like many other South Africans. ‘But the guys live a great life, despite what’s going on,’ he said.”

Yes, that’s what the New York Times took from the golfer’s statement. They left out the fact that the farmer’s friends are dead, that the farms are being torched, and that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home. And the reason they left those details out is that, ordinarily, most criminals don’t set fire to farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they’re motivated by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa.

Over at CNN, meanwhile, they tried to convince their 15 viewers that the song about killing white farmers, which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn’t meant to be taken literally. Watch:

They’re simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it’s bad to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can’t acknowledge that post-colonial South Africa is a failure, for the same reason they can’t acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, thriving state — the “breadbasket of Africa,” they called it — while Zimbabwe (the new name for Rhodesia) is a hellhole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. One after another, these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn’t so bad after all. In fact, it was a lot better than the alternative.

It’s obvious why they can’t admit any of this. Every single Left-wing agenda item — from the modern civil rights movement to DEI — is predicated on the idea that past “oppression,” as they define it, justifies hand-outs and preferential treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that, any effort to supposedly balance things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past, only means the murder rate would be ten times higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation, everyone would be poor, and elderly women would regularly be tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. That’s the reality. It’s gone unsaid for generations, and people in South Africa — of all races — have suffered because of it. So have people in this country.

It is a lie that, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And in doing so, Trump didn’t just demolish one of the central mythologies of the Left — one that, until now, has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that, in this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication, with foreign leaders or anyone else. Instead, we’ll be direct. We won’t cower from the truth, or sugarcoat it with euphemism.

Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we’re going to reverse the damage that South Africa’s leaders have done — and more importantly, if we’re going to prevent that ideology from spreading here. That’s been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think we’re going to succeed in that effort.

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Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it’s fair to call Cyril Ramaphosa one of the few surviving “founding fathers” of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped write the country’s new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphosa gradually accumulated more wealth and power, until he finally became the country’s president in 2018. He’s currently worth something like half a billion dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africa’s residents now live in extreme poverty.

What this means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa’s post-colonial experiment. When he drafted that new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that, by 2025, the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world, at 40%. He certainly didn’t tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white farmers, or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all of that has happened. And yet, for all this time, no one — and certainly no world leader — has held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it’s been something of a tradition in Washington to pretend South Africa is somehow a “great ally” to the United States, and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty, as Joe Biden did a few years ago.

That tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office, when Donald Trump did something no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa, to his face in the most public forum imaginable, that he’s a fraud who’s overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician, from both parties, has been desperate to uphold for several decades.

In order to understand the importance of *what* Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United States for money, because he’s run his country into the ground and they can’t even feed themselves anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about “what it would take” for Trump to stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar to his face, and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. Here’s how it went:

So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa essentially validates what the reporter is saying. He says Donald Trump needs to “listen” to the people of South Africa, in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people. It’s probably the most obnoxious answer that he could’ve come up with, especially after dozens of white South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him — a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen — what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his father’s friends, who own farms, have been murdered, and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch:

Retief Goosen: “My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed… it’s a constant battle with — they’re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.” pic.twitter.com/93b4YZhpLQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 21, 2025

Again, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office, as part of South Africa’s delegation, hoping he’d neutralize the supposedly “fake narrative” about white genocide. This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded, obnoxiously, that Trump “listen to.” It didn’t exactly go as planned — which probably tells you something about the level of “planning” that South Africa’s government is capable of.

And things only got worse from there, as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers. In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa’s bluff. He “listened” to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans — and he made Ramaphosa, and the rest of the world, listen to it as well. And as you watch this, notice the expression on Ramaphosa’s face, as he genuinely cannot believe what is happening. Watch:

If you’ve listened to this show, or been active on social media over the past year or so, then you’ve seen or heard most of these clips before. And you’ve heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited. That’s because in South Africa, black politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured in their homes for decades, in attacks that are clearly racially motivated. And instead of stopping the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white people without compensating them. All of this has been known for a while now.

But in their coverage of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let’s take a brief look at that coverage. Here’s ABC, for example. Watch as they deliberately give the impression that they had never seen anything like this footage before:

“We do not know the source of the videos.” That’s pretty extraordinary. There are only two explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she’s monumentally lazy, and she’s confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage that’s been available on the Internet for years. Or, she’s deliberately lying to ABC’s viewers, and trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. If anyone at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what’s happening in South Africa, they’d tell their audience that, yes, the footage is real, and that the genocide of white people is something they’re openly encouraging over there.

For his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office, Cyril Ramaphosa offered this response. As you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar sleight of hand he uses. Watch:

First of all, he’s right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South Africa. That’s true. But it’s also not very reassuring, for two reasons. First of all, these minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people, chanting about murdering white farmers. So we’re not talking about one fringe politician here. This is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out, the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose their homes and their farms, without any form of compensation whatsoever. That’s a pretty good indication that, indeed, the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide.

Ramaphosa had no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that, in South Africa, the majority of people who die are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you’re a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who doesn’t understand the concept of “per capita,” which of course describes most South African leaders. So maybe the talking point works there. But it doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intelligent people, because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the population of South Africa is black. So obviously, most of the people who are killed in South Africa are going to be black. No one is disputing that.

The relevant question is whether white people (particularly white farmers) are being targeted because of their skin color, and whether they’re dying at a rate that’s higher than black people, given that they only make up something like six percent of the population. And of course, no one in South Africa’s government wants to address those questions, because they know the truth: white farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you’ll see in literal warzones, or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is something like 150 per 100,000 people. That’s why white people in South Africa are currently leaving everything behind — their farms, their homes, everything — in order to fly to the United States and stay in Holiday Inns off the interstate in Idaho. They’re not doing it for fun. They’re doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa.

But even after Trump explained all of this in the Oval Office — even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the press, and for the president of South Africa — the corporate press is continuing to lie, universally, about what’s happening in South Africa. They’re simply denying that white people are being targeted. We’ll put a selection of the headlines on the screen now:

I won’t read all of these, but every single one of them accuses Trump of “falsely” spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say Trump “abused” the South African president with lies, even though he literally played ten minutes of video for him, and listened to first-hand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same thing. This is one compilation that Chaia Raichick assembled. Watch:

This was shameless and coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people’s standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth, seemingly by accident. Here was a photo that the AP posted, buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly safe for white people.

Here’s the caption: “A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside [in South Africa.]”

That’s the reality of what’s happening. And occasionally it gets out. But you won’t find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here’s how they discussed what the white golfers said in the Oval Office: “Two of South Africa’s most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country on Wednesday, after President Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners. .. Mr. Goosen … shared that his relatives on farms lived behind electric fences in fear of crime, like many other South Africans. ‘But the guys live a great life, despite what’s going on,’ he said.”

Yes, that’s what the New York Times took from the golfer’s statement. They left out the fact that the farmer’s friends are dead, that the farms are being torched, and that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home. And the reason they left those details out is that, ordinarily, most criminals don’t set fire to farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they’re motivated by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa.

Over at CNN, meanwhile, they tried to convince their 15 viewers that the song about killing white farmers, which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn’t meant to be taken literally. Watch:

They’re simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it’s bad to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can’t acknowledge that post-colonial South Africa is a failure, for the same reason they can’t acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, thriving state — the “breadbasket of Africa,” they called it — while Zimbabwe (the new name for Rhodesia) is a hellhole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. One after another, these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn’t so bad after all. In fact, it was a lot better than the alternative.

It’s obvious why they can’t admit any of this. Every single Left-wing agenda item — from the modern civil rights movement to DEI — is predicated on the idea that past “oppression,” as they define it, justifies hand-outs and preferential treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that, any effort to supposedly balance things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past, only means the murder rate would be ten times higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation, everyone would be poor, and elderly women would regularly be tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. That’s the reality. It’s gone unsaid for generations, and people in South Africa — of all races — have suffered because of it. So have people in this country.

It is a lie that, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And in doing so, Trump didn’t just demolish one of the central mythologies of the Left — one that, until now, has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that, in this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication, with foreign leaders or anyone else. Instead, we’ll be direct. We won’t cower from the truth, or sugarcoat it with euphemism.

Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we’re going to reverse the damage that South Africa’s leaders have done — and more importantly, if we’re going to prevent that ideology from spreading here. That’s been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think we’re going to succeed in that effort.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor during Thursday’s briefing after Alcindor claimed that President Donald Trump had presented an “unsubstantiated” video of crosses marking the graves of white farmers in South Africa.

Alcindor repeated several times that the video was “unsubstantiated” and “not true” before asking what the process was for vetting such videos before showing them to world leaders like Trump did during an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Leavitt, who was having none of it, fired back immediately.

WATCH:

.@PressSec nukes Fake News @Yamiche for LYING about the burial ground of white farmers killed in South Africa pic.twitter.com/BhCTGumnoz

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

“The president showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t true, and so I wonder, why did the president choose to show that —” Alcindor said.

“What’s not true, Yamiche?” Leavitt interrupted.

“It’s not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that’s the case —” Alcindor continued.

“No, it’s — it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent —” Leavitt pushed back.

“It’s not the burial site and that’s what the president claimed —” Alcindor tried again.

“The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin, and those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it,” Leavitt said as Alcindor continued to try to talk over her.

“Are you disputing that there’s no —” Leavitt pressed.

“I’m disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed, because it did not show that,” Alcindor insisted. “But even more, who at the White House is responsible for —”

“It did show that, it showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution,” Leavitt continued.

“— verifying the videos that the president shows, and what protocols are in place when there’s unsubstantiated information being put out for the world leaders —” Alcindor tried one more time.

“Yamiche, what’s unsubstantiated about the video?” Leavitt asked again — and then she noted that The Associated Press had also shared a photo of the same memorial, along with a caption that read, “A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside in Ysterberg near Polokwane, South Africa.”

“So it is substantiated, not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office, but also by another outlet in this room, The Associated Press, so you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.”

FYI: @Yamiche — this is from the @AP pic.twitter.com/UfzMhbUuDK

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor during Thursday’s briefing after Alcindor claimed that President Donald Trump had presented an “unsubstantiated” video of crosses marking the graves of white farmers in South Africa.

Alcindor repeated several times that the video was “unsubstantiated” and “not true” before asking what the process was for vetting such videos before showing them to world leaders like Trump did during an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Leavitt, who was having none of it, fired back immediately.

WATCH:

.@PressSec nukes Fake News @Yamiche for LYING about the burial ground of white farmers killed in South Africa pic.twitter.com/BhCTGumnoz

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

“The president showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t true, and so I wonder, why did the president choose to show that —” Alcindor said.

“What’s not true, Yamiche?” Leavitt interrupted.

“It’s not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that’s the case —” Alcindor continued.

“No, it’s — it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent —” Leavitt pushed back.

“It’s not the burial site and that’s what the president claimed —” Alcindor tried again.

“The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin, and those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it,” Leavitt said as Alcindor continued to try to talk over her.

“Are you disputing that there’s no —” Leavitt pressed.

“I’m disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed, because it did not show that,” Alcindor insisted. “But even more, who at the White House is responsible for —”

“It did show that, it showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution,” Leavitt continued.

“— verifying the videos that the president shows, and what protocols are in place when there’s unsubstantiated information being put out for the world leaders —” Alcindor tried one more time.

“Yamiche, what’s unsubstantiated about the video?” Leavitt asked again — and then she noted that The Associated Press had also shared a photo of the same memorial, along with a caption that read, “A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside in Ysterberg near Polokwane, South Africa.”

“So it is substantiated, not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office, but also by another outlet in this room, The Associated Press, so you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.”

FYI: @Yamiche — this is from the @AP pic.twitter.com/UfzMhbUuDK

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday released the highly anticipated MAHA Commission report, detailing findings on potential causes of the epidemic of Americans, particularly children, fighting chronic illnesses. 

The report, which is 68 pages long, details findings concerning ultra-processed foods, environmental toxins, stress, and the lack of physical activity, and reliance on medications and vaccines. 

.@PressSec: The MAHA Commission Report “identifies four major factories that are contributing to the rise of childhood chronic disease”:

– Poor diet
– Environmental chemical exposure
– Lack of physical activity
– Overmedicalization pic.twitter.com/HWGgirNkR0

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

On nutrition, the report notes Americans’ reliance on ultra-processed foods, which it says leads to “nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to harmful additives.” The report found that 70% of children’s calories now come from ultra-processed foods, contributing to chronic conditions.

On environmental chemicals, the report says children are being “exposed to an increasing number of synthetic chemicals, some of which have been linked to developmental issues and chronic disease.”

Specifically, when it comes to pesticides, the report’s authors order a study on the chemicals by next year, but it also tires to quell fears of quick regulatory action. Notably, some Republicans have expressed concern about action on pesticides because of how it might impact farmers.

“American farmers rely on these products, and actions that further regulate or restrict crop protection tools beyond risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress must involve thoughtful consideration of what is necessary for adequate protection, alternatives, and cost of production,” the report states.

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Excessive screen time, inactivity, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress were also identified as significant factors contributing to the rise in chronic diseases and mental health challenges.

Addressing the over-medicalization of children, the report cites a 1,400% increase in antidepressant prescriptions and increased prescribing of stimulants, antibiotics, and asthma drugs, an Axios report notes.

Vaccinations were also highlighted, specifically calling for “more rigorous clinical trial designs.”

The detailed report is framed as a “call to action.”

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday released the highly anticipated MAHA Commission report, detailing findings on potential causes of the epidemic of Americans, particularly children, fighting chronic illnesses. 

The report, which is 68 pages long, details findings concerning ultra-processed foods, environmental toxins, stress, and the lack of physical activity, and reliance on medications and vaccines. 

.@PressSec: The MAHA Commission Report “identifies four major factories that are contributing to the rise of childhood chronic disease”:

– Poor diet
– Environmental chemical exposure
– Lack of physical activity
– Overmedicalization pic.twitter.com/HWGgirNkR0

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

On nutrition, the report notes Americans’ reliance on ultra-processed foods, which it says leads to “nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to harmful additives.” The report found that 70% of children’s calories now come from ultra-processed foods, contributing to chronic conditions.

On environmental chemicals, the report says children are being “exposed to an increasing number of synthetic chemicals, some of which have been linked to developmental issues and chronic disease.”

Specifically, when it comes to pesticides, the report’s authors order a study on the chemicals by next year, but it also tires to quell fears of quick regulatory action. Notably, some Republicans have expressed concern about action on pesticides because of how it might impact farmers.

“American farmers rely on these products, and actions that further regulate or restrict crop protection tools beyond risk-based and scientific processes set forth by Congress must involve thoughtful consideration of what is necessary for adequate protection, alternatives, and cost of production,” the report states.

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Excessive screen time, inactivity, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress were also identified as significant factors contributing to the rise in chronic diseases and mental health challenges.

Addressing the over-medicalization of children, the report cites a 1,400% increase in antidepressant prescriptions and increased prescribing of stimulants, antibiotics, and asthma drugs, an Axios report notes.

Vaccinations were also highlighted, specifically calling for “more rigorous clinical trial designs.”

The detailed report is framed as a “call to action.”

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WASHINGTON—Top conservative voices are calling on the United States Senate to “act immediately” to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, citing concerns not only about the massive number of abortions the group facilitates every year, but also the abortion giant’s promotion of transgender hormones.

In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose, whistleblower Eithan Haim, Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson, and other prominent life advocates remind the Senate that the language to defund Planned Parenthood is currently included in the “Big Beautiful Bill” — and if the Senate has the guts, they write, it will keep and pass the provision.

It is an unusual coalition, merging pro-life leaders and individuals who are outspoken on the harms of transgender ideology. The culture wars of the past few years have united many Americans who heretofore would have considered themselves on opposite sides of many political issues, particularly abortion, as they fight to protect the innocence of children.

In this case, the advocates are united in their opposition to Planned Parenthood. The Republican-led House passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” in a 215 to 214 vote early Thursday morning after back-to-back, all-night sessions in the Rules Committee and on the House floor. And these advocates are anxious that the provision defunding Planned Parenthood remains in the Senate version of the bill.

“Today, Planned Parenthood is the second leading provider of transgender hormones in the nation,” the letter states. “Live Action’s latest undercover report has revealed a horrific reality: Planned Parenthood facilities across the country are prescribing life-altering cross-sex hormones to minors as young as 16 years old, without requiring therapy, a mental health evaluation, or prior documentation.”

Chloe Cole Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

“Known to cause sterilization, stunted growth, and irreversible physical and psychological harm, these experimental drugs are even being dispensed virtually, often on the same day an appointment is requested,” the letter continues. 

It also points out that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, “responsible for the killing of over 400,000 preborn babies each year.”

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“Now, by expanding into the gender-transition industry, it compounds its record of harm by pushing sterilizing drugs on minors for profit,” the letter states. “While committing these atrocities, Planned Parenthood receives nearly $800 million annually in taxpayer dollars: a staggering figure that should alarm every American.” 

Another concern for the activists involved with the letter: Planned Parenthood’s involvement in sex education in public schools.

The abortion giant has a well-documented history of crafting sexual education materials about gender ideology and sexuality that, according to the leaders writing to the Senate, are “designed to funnel our children into the organization’s highly lucrative abortion and hormone-treatment pipelines.” 

“Congress must no longer allow this child abuse to continue,” they write. “The current reconciliation bill includes a critical provision to defund Planned Parenthood. We strongly urge you to ensure this provision remains intact and is enacted into law.”

“No entity engaged in the mass killing and chemical sterilization of American children should receive a single cent from the federal government,” the letter adds. “Any member of Congress who refuses to support this defunding effort, especially those claiming to defend life and promote family, is complicit in the ongoing exploitation of both born and preborn children.”

Other signers include Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life America; Josh Mercer, the vice president of CatholicVote; Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee; John Bruchalski, the founder of Tepeyac OBGYN Divine Mercy Care; Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood worker and the CEO and Founder of And Then There Were None, and others.

“Planned Parenthood is committing unconscionable abuse — killing over 400,000 preborn children each year and now pushing potentially sterilizing trans drugs on vulnerable minors,” Lila Rose told The Daily Wire on Thursday.

“No organization that profits from the destruction and mutilation of children should receive a single cent of taxpayer money,” she added. “I urge Congress to keep the defunding provision in the reconciliation bill and pass the bill. Anything less is complicity.”

During a White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon, The Daily Wire asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt whether the president is committed to ensuring that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood stays in the “Big Beautiful Bill” as it passes through the Senate.

“The president has maintained a very clear commitment to ensuring that this administration and the American people’s tax dollars are not funding any institution; that includes hospital systems that are funding the chemical castration and mutilation of children,” Leavitt responded. “We are not going to tolerate taxpayer dollars going to such efforts.”

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WASHINGTON—Top conservative voices are calling on the United States Senate to “act immediately” to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, citing concerns not only about the massive number of abortions the group facilitates every year, but also the abortion giant’s promotion of transgender hormones.

In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines, detransitioner Chloe Cole, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose, whistleblower Eithan Haim, Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson, and other prominent life advocates remind the Senate that the language to defund Planned Parenthood is currently included in the “Big Beautiful Bill” — and if the Senate has the guts, they write, it will keep and pass the provision.

It is an unusual coalition, merging pro-life leaders and individuals who are outspoken on the harms of transgender ideology. The culture wars of the past few years have united many Americans who heretofore would have considered themselves on opposite sides of many political issues, particularly abortion, as they fight to protect the innocence of children.

In this case, the advocates are united in their opposition to Planned Parenthood. The Republican-led House passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” in a 215 to 214 vote early Thursday morning after back-to-back, all-night sessions in the Rules Committee and on the House floor. And these advocates are anxious that the provision defunding Planned Parenthood remains in the Senate version of the bill.

“Today, Planned Parenthood is the second leading provider of transgender hormones in the nation,” the letter states. “Live Action’s latest undercover report has revealed a horrific reality: Planned Parenthood facilities across the country are prescribing life-altering cross-sex hormones to minors as young as 16 years old, without requiring therapy, a mental health evaluation, or prior documentation.”

Chloe Cole Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

“Known to cause sterilization, stunted growth, and irreversible physical and psychological harm, these experimental drugs are even being dispensed virtually, often on the same day an appointment is requested,” the letter continues. 

It also points out that Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, “responsible for the killing of over 400,000 preborn babies each year.”

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“Now, by expanding into the gender-transition industry, it compounds its record of harm by pushing sterilizing drugs on minors for profit,” the letter states. “While committing these atrocities, Planned Parenthood receives nearly $800 million annually in taxpayer dollars: a staggering figure that should alarm every American.” 

Another concern for the activists involved with the letter: Planned Parenthood’s involvement in sex education in public schools.

The abortion giant has a well-documented history of crafting sexual education materials about gender ideology and sexuality that, according to the leaders writing to the Senate, are “designed to funnel our children into the organization’s highly lucrative abortion and hormone-treatment pipelines.” 

“Congress must no longer allow this child abuse to continue,” they write. “The current reconciliation bill includes a critical provision to defund Planned Parenthood. We strongly urge you to ensure this provision remains intact and is enacted into law.”

“No entity engaged in the mass killing and chemical sterilization of American children should receive a single cent from the federal government,” the letter adds. “Any member of Congress who refuses to support this defunding effort, especially those claiming to defend life and promote family, is complicit in the ongoing exploitation of both born and preborn children.”

Other signers include Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life America; Josh Mercer, the vice president of CatholicVote; Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee; John Bruchalski, the founder of Tepeyac OBGYN Divine Mercy Care; Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood worker and the CEO and Founder of And Then There Were None, and others.

“Planned Parenthood is committing unconscionable abuse — killing over 400,000 preborn children each year and now pushing potentially sterilizing trans drugs on vulnerable minors,” Lila Rose told The Daily Wire on Thursday.

“No organization that profits from the destruction and mutilation of children should receive a single cent of taxpayer money,” she added. “I urge Congress to keep the defunding provision in the reconciliation bill and pass the bill. Anything less is complicity.”

During a White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon, The Daily Wire asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt whether the president is committed to ensuring that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood stays in the “Big Beautiful Bill” as it passes through the Senate.

“The president has maintained a very clear commitment to ensuring that this administration and the American people’s tax dollars are not funding any institution; that includes hospital systems that are funding the chemical castration and mutilation of children,” Leavitt responded. “We are not going to tolerate taxpayer dollars going to such efforts.”

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