Kanye Says It ‘Drove Me Crazy’ to Not Say He Liked Trump, Vows ‘I Will Eventually Be President’

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. . .Kanye West revealed the struggle he had to keep hidden his admiration for former President Trump around his liberal peers in the entertainment industry, who “bullied” him into silence.

“It drove me crazy to not be able to say that I like Trump,” Ye said in his exclusive “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview that aired on Friday. “It drove – because think about it, it’s me. Imagine me not being able to say what I wanted. What is the point of being famous? What is the point of having millions of people love your music? What was the point of having a voice if you can’t even use your own voice and connect it to your own opinions? That’s where the disconnect happened. That’s where the quote, I think wrongly diagnosed, that’s where the bipolarity is. Because you got something you’re thinking, but you’re told you’re not allowed to say it in public. Well I never actually told people that I like Trump when he was running because I was bullied by Hollywood.”

Ye added that others told him he was better off “biting [his] tongue” to protect his children and his marriage

“There are so many fathers and mothers that go to work everyday, and they’re in a situation where they’re biting their tongue because they think it will be better for their children,” he said. “So even me in my position, I was biting my tongue on my political opinion because I thought it would be better for my children.” (Read more from “Kanye Says It ‘Drove Me Crazy’ to Not Say He Liked Trump, Vows ‘I Will Eventually Be President'” HERE)

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Gov. Whitmer-Appointed Board Approves $715 Million Contract for CCP-Affiliated Company

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The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) board, appointed by Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, approved $715 million in grants and tax exemptions on Wednesday for a battery manufacturer with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The SMF board, chaired by Quentin Messer and comprised of 11 members appointed by Whitmer, reportedly approved the Renaissance Zone tax exemption request and handed $175 million in state grants to a China-based company named Gotion Inc, and its billionaire chairman, who has deep ties to the CCP, in order to build a $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery parts facility in the outer part of Big Rapids.

In total, as the Detroit News reported, the $715 million in grants and tax exemptions include:

The property tax exemption granted by the board for the Michigan Economic Development Corp. will save the company $540 million over a 30-year period, according to estimates. The approval comes after three local government boards last week unanimously approved the Renaissance Zone request for the project that’s expected to create 2,350 jobs over the next decade [Emphasis added].

The $175 million in grant funding is made possible through new programs the state Legislature created at the end of 2021 to spur economic development in the state.

(Read more from “Gov. Whitmer-Appointed Board Approves $715 Million Contract for CCP-Affiliated Company” HERE)

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This Senate Bill Would Finally Make the Porn Industry Fight Human Trafficking

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, recently introduced the Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking Act of 2022 (PROTECT Act) to bring much-needed and long-overdue regulation to the porn industry, which is currently rampant with abuses.

The PROTECT Act requires porn websites to verify the age, consent, and identity of all individuals appearing on their platforms, filling an urgent and essential regulatory gap.

Online pornography is one of the most lucrative and fastest growing industries in the world today, yet at the same time it is one of the most immune from regulation. This has made an already dangerous industry ripe for further exploitation. The lack of regulation has resulted in pornography websites hosting a large amount of material that is the product of sex trafficking and child exploitation.

The last few years especially have seen a rapid increase in the amount of child pornography (known as child sexual abuse material or CSAM), with social media only further exacerbating its distribution. Without any legal requirement for websites to verify the age or consent of individuals depicted in porn, human traffickers are able to easily exploit children and other victims and upload that exploitation for profit. And every time that exploitation is viewed, that child is revictimized again and again. (Read more from “This Senate Bill Would Finally Make the Porn Industry Fight Human Trafficking” HERE)

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Senator: Hundreds of FBI Agents Resigned Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly received documents from a whistleblower showing hundreds of FBI agents resigned between 2004 to 2020 amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

Grassley’s office shared information about a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) internal report titled “Retirements and Resignations During Unwelcome Sexual Conduct Adjudications.”

According to that document:

665 FBI employees, including 45 [Senior Executive Service (SES)]-level employees have retired or resigned following an FBI or [Justice Department Office of Inspector General (OIG)] investigation into alleged misconduct, but prior to [the Office of Professional Responsibility’s (OPR)] issuance of a final disciplinary letter.

However, Grassley noted that the number could be much higher than 665 because it does not include agents who resigned or retired before or during an ongoing misconduct investigation. (Read more from “Senator: Hundreds of FBI Agents Resigned Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations” HERE)

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Arizona County Packed Polls With Democrat Workers and Wants to Bury the Paper Trail, Lawsuits Allege

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Republican Party of Arizona (RPAZ) filed a series of lawsuits earlier this week alleging that Maricopa County is violating state law by refusing to forfeit public records regarding its failure to hire an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll workers, as well as placing “burdensome requirements” on county election workers.

In the first lawsuit, the RNC and RPAZ claim that they have “repeatedly requested from [Maricopa County] the production of public records relating to the staffing and composition of polling place Election Boards, Special Election Boards, and Central Counting Boards,” but that the locality has “failed to produce or make such records available for inspection promptly, thereby disregarding their statutory obligations under the [Arizona Public Records Act].”

“The substantive integrity and perceived legitimacy of our electoral system requires that it be open and accessible to both political parties on fair and equal terms,” the lawsuit reads. “For this reason, Arizona law requires every county to ensure partisan balance in positions charged with conducting elections.” (Read more from “Arizona County Packed Polls With Democrat Workers and Wants to Bury the Paper Trail, Lawsuits Allege” HERE)

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Man Accused of Las Vegas Mass Stabbing Spree Is an Illegal Alien

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The man who allegedly carried out a deadly mass stabbing spree in Las Vegas this week is an illegal alien.

Police responded to reports of a stabbing outside the Wynn casino off of Las Vegas Boulevard just before noon on Thursday. At least two people have died from the attack and six others were injured, including three who were listed as being in critical condition.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that the man suspected of carrying out the attack, 32-year-old Yoni Barrios, is a Guatemalan national who is illegally in the United States.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that the suspect had a prior criminal record in the state of California, yet he was not known to federal immigration authorities.

(Read more from “Man Accused of Las Vegas Mass Stabbing Spree Is an Illegal Alien” HERE)

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Google Removes Gender Clinic Map, Citing ‘Harassment’ Violation

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A user-made Google map tracking over 500 pediatric gender clinics that have sprouted up all over North America in recent years was removed by Google last week. A spokesperson for Google said the map violated their policies on “harassment.”

Alix Aharon, the creator of the Gender Mapping Project, which was created using the Google Maps “My Maps” feature, which allows users to create custom maps, said she noticed it was deactivated on Friday, September 30. Aharon shared a notice she received to Twitter from Google that said her map violated their “Harrassment, Bullying and Threats policy.”

Aharon is a founding member of Partners for Ethical Care, a “mother-led movement to educate the world about gender ideology and protect children,” Aharon told The Daily Wire. She is also on the Board of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a legal network and advocacy group that aims to protect the rights of women.

“They don’t want people to know how many gender clinics exist. They don’t want people to know there’s hundreds,” said Aharon, who claimed she and her colleagues have called over 500 pediatric gender clinics to confirm their existence before placing them on the map.

A trans-identified biological male named Erin Reed created a map in 2019 to help people find clinics that prescribe cross-sex hormones, which inspired Aharon to create her own in 2021. While both maps track gender clinics across the country containing virtually the same data points, only Reed’s map was permitted to remain visible on Google. (Read more from “Google Removes Gender Clinic Map, Citing ‘Harassment’ Violation” HERE)

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NY Gun Buyback Program Backfires Spectacularly

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A man going by the pseudonym “Kem” showed just how useless some of New York state’s efforts to address gun violence truly are when he walked away from a buyback event $21,000 richer.

When he heard about people printing ghost guns to make money from buyback programs, he put his $200 3D printer to work. Six hours away in Utica, New York, the State Attorney General’s Office was holding a buyback event at the police department, and Kem brought 110 ghost guns with him.

It took an entire day of negotiating with the AG’s office staff, but in the end, he walked away with 42 $500 gift cards.

“I’m sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success,” laughed Kem. “Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, No. 1, that your policies don’t work, and, No. 2, you’re creating perverse demand. You’re causing people to show up to these events and they don’t actually reduce crime whatsoever.” (Read more from “NY Gun Buyback Program Backfires Spectacularly” HERE)

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Biden Warns World Facing Nuclear ‘Armageddon’

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By Breitbart. President Joe Biden warned supporters on Thursday that the world is facing “Armageddon” due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The president compared his plight to that of former President John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis with the Soviet Union.

“We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Biden told supporters at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City. . .

“First time since the Cuban Missile Crisis we have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if, in fact, things continue down the path they are going,” he said. . .

“I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.” (Read more from “Biden Warns World Facing Nuclear ‘Armageddon’” HERE)

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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Says Nuclear War Is Unacceptable and Should Never Be Unleashed

By Yahoo News. Russia has declared that it adheres to the principle of the inadmissibility of nuclear war and that such a war should never be unleashed.

Source: Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a briefing on Thursday, the video of which is published by [Kremlin-aligned] TASS

Quote from Zakharova: “The Russian Federation is fully committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of nuclear war. We have repeatedly said and confirmed this. There can be no winners in such a war – one should never be unleashed.” (Read more from “The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Says Nuclear War Is Unacceptable and Should Never Be Unleashed” HERE)

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NATO Must Fire ‘Preemptive Strikes’ to Prevent Russian Nukes, Zelensky Says

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO to conduct “preventative action” against Russian targets to prevent their use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

The president said these actions “are needed so that [the Russians] know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons” on Thursday during an event with the Australian think tank the Lowy Institute. “Not the other way around, waiting for Russia’s nuclear strikes and then saying, ‘Oh, you’ve done that, then get this.’”

During Zelensky’s remarks, his interpreter said he called for “preventative strikes” but then corrected himself to say “preventative action.”

Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on social media that reports he called for a preventive nuclear strike were “fake.”

“Another ru-fake. 1. @ZelenskyyUa said nothing about a preventive nuclear strike on RF,” he said. “2. Zelensky reminded about Russian nuclear blackmail and suggested to preemptively outline the consequences for Russia and intensify strikes against it — sanctions and armed assistance to UA.” (Read more from “NATO Must Fire ‘Preemptive Strikes’ to Prevent Russian Nukes, Zelensky Says” HERE)

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