Voter breaks silence after Biden staffer tried to end interview critical of president
A voter who criticized President Biden is speaking out about his encounter with a Biden campaign staffer after he said she tried to shut down his interview with a New York Times reporter.
Stephen Stubbs, a First Amendment attorney from Henderson, Nevada, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he was invited to attend a June 28 campaign event at the East Las Vegas Community Center featuring Vice President Kamala Harris.
Stubbs said he initially wanted to attend the Harris event to hear how the administration planned to deal with inflation, but in the wake of Biden’s performance at the CNN Presidential Debate, he wanted to hear what she would say regarding questions about Biden’s mental acuity.
“Everybody was talking about the debate the night before. Everybody was. And everybody was concerned. There were a few people that were vocal and saying, we have to move forward with what we have, so let’s not talk negatively. But 90% of the people were critical of Joe Biden and [were] very, very worried,” he recalled.
Staffers wearing Biden-Harris shirts at the event went around “strongly hinting” that people shouldn’t say anything negative about the president at a Biden event, according to Stubbs.
He said he was sitting outside eating his tacos and ice cream and happened to sit next to the chairwoman of the Democratic Party in Nevada, who was approached a few minutes later by New York Times politics fellow Simon Levien for an interview.
Stubbs said he began talking to Levien, who then asked him what he thought about the debate the night before.
A Biden staffer who was following Levien around took out her phone and began recording their conversation. “That in itself was kind of intimidating,” Stubbs told Fox News Digital.
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He said he began questioning why Biden couldn’t articulate for 90 minutes at the debate what he’s doing daily as president.
“I’m concerned about who’s running the country right now. And I said, from what I saw last night, Biden should step down and Kamala Harris [who] was elected the vice president, that is her job, she should fulfill the rest of his term. And when I said that, the staffer said, I’m going to stop this right now. This is a Biden event. I’m sorry, but I’m going to stop this. She tried to stop it,” Stubbs explained.
“Now, to the New York Times’ credit, they turned to her and said, no. I’m continuing with this interview, but the whole time she was giving me, like, daggers. Just daggers. Like, how dare you talk negatively about Biden to the New York Times.”
Levien identified the staffer as Clio Calvo-Platero, deputy communications director for the Biden campaign in Nevada.
Calvo-Platero twice tried to end interviews with voters who were critical of Biden: once with Democratic voter Amy Nelson and the other with Stubbs, according to a vice presidential pool report from Levien.
The Biden campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment about the incident.
Stubbs, who describes himself as a constitutionalist, said he’s a registered Democrat who voted third-party in the 2020 election because he wasn’t happy with either Trump or Biden.
He said his interaction with Calvo-Platero “shocked” his conscience. “I didn’t appreciate it,” he added. “She is the one that ordered us; it wasn’t a request; she ordered us to stop talking. That was chilling.”
Stubbs told Fox News Digital he’s an undecided voter heading into November. He has issues with both Trump and Biden and likens the choice to “chlamydia” or “gonorrhea.”
“Neither one is a good choice,” he said. “I’m begging someone to give me a reason not to vote for Trump.”
The Nevada native added that he likes Biden’s Supreme Court pick, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, the administration’s environmental policies and its support for unions and unionized workers.
As for Trump, Stubbs said he takes issue with his “pro-police militarization and selling weapons of war to police departments.”
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Inflation is the most important issue for him heading into November because it’s hurting his family and adult children “deeply.”
Stubbs said his final concern about Biden is that he’s being kept in a “bubble.”
“He’s not hearing feedback from real Americans, right? Look, I am not convinced that Biden has the mental acuity to do the job today. I think the responsible thing for him to do is to say, for the good of the country, I’m going to put myself aside and any ego I might have, step down and Mrs. Harris is going to finish out my term. It’s not very long, right? And you know what? Give her a shot,” he told Fox News Digital.
“My problem is, is that if Biden stays in the race, we don’t really know who Trump is running against. It’s a person behind a curtain. We don’t know who’s making the analysis and the decisions because Biden doesn’t have the mental acuity,” Stubbs continued.
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“The curtain has to be open. We have to know what is going on, who is running the country. That’s the first thing I asked that reporter. Who is running the country? We need to know.”
The White House has repeatedly said Biden had a bad night during the debate, citing a cold and jetlag and insists that he is the one making decisions. Biden himself insists he is up for his duties as president and is the candidate best suited to defeat former President Trump in November.
Maher declares ‘Biden is toast,’ roasts top replacements Newsom and Harris
HBO host Bill Maher on Friday night held a quasi-roast of potential replacements for President Biden on Friday night, focusing his fire on Vice President Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., in particular.
During the latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host declared that “Biden is toast” and then ran through a list of possible replacements, offering the strengths and weaknesses of each. Both Harris and Newsom received Maher’s harshest dings, with the host exposing reasons why they probably won’t be getting to the White House.
“Harris has never been popular. You can count the number of delegates she won in the 2020 primaries on one hand, as long as that hand has no fingers,” Maher quipped.
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Maher started off the bit telling the Democratic Party to “stop f—ing around” and get to replacing Biden already, because “he is not going to be the Democrats’ candidate in 2024.”
“Biden is toast,” the comedian stated, and then got into his list of potential Biden replacements, starting with Harris.
Joking about her pro-abortion bona fides, Maher said, “She won’t just protect Plan B, she is plan B.”
Mentioning her appeal as a diverse candidate, the host said, “Harris would be the first woman president, the first Black woman president and first Asian president.” However, he immediately discounted those attributes, stating, “But I don’t vote for who will be the first. I vote for who will win.”
He followed up by pointing out her unpopularity in elections, and then went on to quip that while vice president, “she’s been quieter than an electric car.” Hitting her with one last salvo of mockery, Maher added, “It’s not fair that she’s not popular, she’s intelligent, and accomplished, and in fact, was put in charge of the border and look at how – okay, bad example.”
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The HBO host then introduced Newsom as the “only governor, with the possible exception of Kristi Noem, who looks like he could do porn.” He also joked about Newsom being so eager to be the man that replaces Biden, that he “gets an alert on his phone every time Biden can’t think of a word.”
Maher then hammered Newsom over his state’s homeless problem, quipping, “They’ll attack him on California’s homeless problem, but there’s a response to that: the homeless can live anywhere, but they choose California.”
“Nine out of ten machete-wielding meth addicts say they wouldn’t be unhoused anywhere else.”
As opposed to his treatment of Harris, Maher gave some genuine praise to Newsom before moving on to the other candidates, stating, “Newsom is the best communicator in the party with a history of standing up to bullies, and his name lends itself to the best slogan since ‘I like Ike’ – ‘I’m Havin’ Gavin.’”
The host then went through other potential replacements, like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, though hardly made a joke at their expense, except for saying the latter is “only ten years old” and “checks the liberals’ gay best friend box.”
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It is a talking point we’ve heard ad nauseam since the President Joe Biden debate debacle in Atlanta and one we can expect to hear even more should Democrat power brokers convince the “Big Guy” to step aside for the good of the nation.
Paraphrasing:
But let’s be clear. As one of the very few people in this business to write a book on the man going back to his days in law school, I can say without fear of contradiction that Joe Biden is most certainly NOT a good or decent or honest man. In fact, he’s quite the opposite.
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Biden also has not enjoyed even a moderately successful presidency. The cost of living is up more than 20 percent since he took office. Gas prices are up 50 percent. Violent crime has driven law-abiding citizens out of major American cities (all run by Democrats with liberal district attorneys) to red states like Texas, Tennessee and Florida.
The president’s disastrous border policies have allowed more than 10 million people to enter this country illegally, including hundreds on the terror watch list. Education test scores are at their lowest levels in decades. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with a virtual blank check to fight a war against Russia that is in a hopeless stalemate. The U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan was one of the most tragic and humiliating moments in our country’s history. And China’s posture toward Taiwan has never been more aggressive.
Otherwise, wow… What a success!
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But getting back to Biden’s character, does a good or decent or honest man so plagiarize his work and speeches, both in law school and as a presidential candidate, as he did in 1988?
Does a good or decent or honest man blatantly play the race card to win votes, as he did in 2020 by insisting he was arrested while on the porch with a Black couple during the civil rights era? Because that never happened.
Does a good or decent or honest man tell families in Maui, some of whom lost family members and/or their homes, that he could relate to what they were going through by saying he and his family (and Corvette) also survived a raging fire in his home that nearly killed his wife and cat? Because the fire chief at the time said the blaze was a small kitchen fire that was quickly extinguished and endangered no one.
Does a good or decent or honest man pretend his 7th grandchild doesn’t exist simply because she was the product of his crack-addicted son’s fling?
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Does a good or decent or honest man warn that then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney was going to put Blacks “back in chains” if elected?
Does a good or decent or honest man use his late son as a prop over and over when talking to Gold Star families by saying his son Beau also died while on active duty in Iraq? Because Beau died of cancer years after coming home.
Joe Biden has failed upwards his entire life and has lied so many times along the way, it’s impossible to list them all without going over a 100,000-word limit. Here are just a few of the biggest whoppers with cheese.
- I once drove an 18-wheeler.
- No soldiers died under my watch.
- I inherited 9 percent inflation.
- The Inflation Reduction Act” is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation.
- I inherited a God-awful mess at the border.
- The Border Patrol endorsed me.
- I taught a political theory class at Penn.
- I’ve traveled 17,000 miles with Xi Jinping.
- My uncle was eaten by cannibals.
I still can’t over that last one…
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You get the point. Joe Biden is not, and has never been, a good, decent or honest man, despite what every panicked Democrat and many media members insist as they try to coax him into retirement. He’s been a lousy president since 2021, and a lousy guy for at least a half century.
And that’s no lie.
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Trump VP finalist under scrutiny for past abortion comments
Past abortion remarks by Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, resurfaced online this week as he could potentially join former President Trump’s 2024 ticket.
Vance, a former Trump critic who’s since become a staunch ally of the 45th president, took heat from Democrats during his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign for statements that one fact-checker determined were taken out of context by his Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan. The old story popped up this week on Drudge Report, the famed news aggregator that once supported but later turned against Trump.
In 2021, Vance defended a Texas law that banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Asked by Spectrum News in Columbus, Ohio, at the time whether he supported abortion exceptions for cases of rape and incest, he disagreed with the question’s premise and said “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
“At the end of day, we are talking about an unborn baby. What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded? … It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society,” Vance said.
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“The question to me is really about the baby,” Vance added, according to the Washington Post. “We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life.”
During an Ohio Senate debate in 2022, Ryan accused Vance of saying rape was “inconvenient.”
“J.D., you called rape ‘inconvenient.’ Right?” Ryan said. “Rape is not inconvenient. It’s a significant tragedy, and he thinks we should have Ohio state law which says if you’re raped or pregnant through incest, you should be forced to have the baby.”
Vance fired back that he never called rape “inconvenient,” and claimed Ryan knew that was a false statement. He said at the debate he was pro-life with “reasonable exceptions.” He also said that year he supported Sen. Lindsey Graham’s, R-S.C., proposed 15-week abortion ban that included exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s life.
He went on to frame Ryan as an extremist himself on abortion and for flip-flopping on the issue. He later beat Ryan in the hotly contested race by six points. Since then, Vance has reportedly ascended to become one of the top contenders for Trump’s vice presidential pick.
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PolitiFact reviewed Ryan’s comments at the time and concluded, “Vance did not directly say ‘rape is inconvenient.’ But when he was asked whether laws should allow people to get abortions if they were victims of rape or incest, he suggested that society should not view a pregnancy or birth resulting from rape or incest as ‘inconvenient.'”
This week, a CNN fact-check dinged President Biden’s campaign for falsely framing Vance’s past remarks praising the Heritage Foundation as a full-throated endorsement of “Project 2025,” a lengthy proposed policy document that’s come under fierce criticism from the Left in recent weeks and includes a proposed national abortion ban.
Last year, Vance called a successful referendum in Ohio to enshrine abortion access a “gut punch” and urged Republicans to do a better job of winning voter trust on the issue. In December, he told CNN he supported exceptions for “life of the mother, for rape, and so forth.”
Vance’s recent abortion comments have put him more in line with Trump, such as agreeing with the former president’s stance on abortion law being determined by individual states since the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
“Donald Trump is the pragmatic leader here. He’s saying most abortion policy is going to be decided by the states. We want to make it easier and more affordable for young women and parents to have families to begin with,” Vance told “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Vance also said this week he supported the Supreme Court’s opinion on Americans having access to the abortion medication mifepristone.
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Vance’s office declined comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
Actor teases possible run for office in red state at governors meeting
Actor and author Matthew McConaughey teased a possible political run during the National Governor’s Association summer meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, where he weighed in broadly on the 2024 presidential race.
Participating in a discussion on the role of culture in polarization, McConaughey joked with governors about indulging in the Hollywood heavyweight’s tequila brand the night before, while also taking a more serious tone regarding the “entertainment” factor in American politics. He argued that the “extremes seem to be going further left and further right” and “decency doesn’t seem to be on the table.”
“I understand it’s hard to market and sell success in how people negotiate, because it’s not as fun, it’s not as sexy, it’s not as exciting as the car wreck. We’re a nation of rubberneckers,” McConaughey said. “I think right now we’re all caught up in short-term, short-money wins. And so we come to the table, we argue, we call each other names, and America sees a lot of us when we do that — This is entertainment. I’m in the entertainment business. Our leadership and our leaders don’t need to be in the entertainment business.”
“The extremes on the right and left, they have the microphone. It’s more entertaining,” he added.
McConaughey took the stage with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican and outgoing NGA chair, and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat and the newly elected chair of the association for 2024-2025.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, joked that he was “told” that he and his wife enjoyed McConaughey’s tequila the night before, though “I can’t recall any of it,” garnering laughter from attendees before asking the actor whether elected office, which he considered before, was still on his “dance card.”
“Yes. I have thought about running for office, getting into this category,” McConaughey said. “I’m on a learning tour and have been for probably the last six years of understanding what this category means.”
“Do I have instincts, intellect that it would be a good fit for me and I would be a good fit for it. That would be useful. I’m still on that learning tour, and, you know, days like this. I’m learning a lot. Last night, I learned a lot. I learned a lot from you last night. Through those tequila, through that tequila, sir,” he told Murphy.
McConaughey, a Texas native, years ago mulled a run for governor of the Lone Star State, and was rumored to have also considered a potential presidential bid.
To Murphy’s second question about who his favorite director was, McConaughey answered Richard Linklater, who gave him his break-out role in the 1993 coming of age film Dazed and Confused.
“Alright, alright, alright,” McConaughey said, citing his famous line, evoking cheers from the crowd.
“The first three words I ever said on film. People go all the time, doesn’t it upset you? Aren’t you tired of being introduced with that? And I said, no. I know the author,” McConaughey added.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green encouraged McConaughey to run for office – and to not cede to pressure on choosing a certain party affiliation, whether it be Republican or Democrat.
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“Please don’t fall into the trap to think that you have to be just one thing, because I think you’re so, you know, warm and likable. A lot of Republicans who want you to be Republican, a lot of Democrats who want you to be a Democrat, just be you, because that might be something special for all of us,” Green said.
McConaughey argued that politicians, driven in part by attention on social media, are not engaging in “real competition” through thoughtful debate anymore, making the case that American leaders need to become “better marketers” and salespeople in demonstrating the return on investment into “hope and belief.”
“If I invalidate your position off the bat, that’s a lack of courage on my part. Right out of the gate, that’s not real confrontation,” he said, acknowledging that some of that comes with “party preservation.”
“I want to hear more vision from our leaders rather than just, ‘I want to do the opposite of what they want to do.’ Well, no,” McConaughey added. “How do you see the way forward? Instead of just saying, ‘no, all I know is I don’t want to do it that way or that’s the wrong way.’ We see it right now – It’s with two presidential candidates. Fear. Let’s admit fear’s easier to sell than hope. It’s more measurable.”
The actor admitted, though, that “good negotiation” is harder to sell.
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“The train wreck is front page bold print,” he said. “How can you sell belief, which I think is what we really need more of in our country right now is belief, whether it’s literal belief in the prime mover or God, or whether it’s belief more in ourselves and our neighbors in what America can be, we need more belief.”
“I mean, you’ve hit on so many important themes,” Cox responded. “I’m just trying to imagine a presidential candidate like this, talking about belief in something bigger than ourselves, in each other, in our neighbors, laying out a positive vision for the country… We just don’t see that anymore because fear doessell.”
Israel confirms strike launched in Gaza targeting Oct. 7 mastermind
The Israeli Defense Force has confirmed that a strike was launched in Gaza targeting two high-ranking Hamas leaders, one with a direct role in plotting the Oct. 7 attacks.
Israeli authorities announced early Saturday morning that the strike hit a Hamas compound in al-Mawasi in Southern Gaza.
“Mohammed Deif, the top military commander of Hamas, was the target of an Israeli strike today in al-Mawasi,” two Israel sources told Fox News Digital. “Currently a battle damage assessment is taking place to determine if he was killed. Deif is one of the masterminds behind the October 7th massacre.”
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The alleged Hamas-controlled compound was located in a civilian area containing tent shelters for displaced refugees.
The Hamas-run Gaza Public Health Ministry has claimed the strike killed a total of 71 people.
“Cynically Hamas leaders always embed themselves within civilians and inside civilian areas,” a military official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We know other militants and guards were present in the compound and the assumption is that they are dead. We cannot relate to numbers of Palestinian casualties.”
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The IDF does not believe any Israeli hostages were present within the compound.
Deif has been the commander of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades since Marwan Abdel Karim Ali Issa was killed in an airstrike conducted on Nuseirat in March.
The Hamas commander was also identified as a key architect of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that killed over 1,100 Israelis and launched the ongoing conflict.
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Rafa Salama, Hamas’s commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade, was also a target in the attack and believed to have been inside the compound.
“In a joint IDF and ISA activity based on precise intelligence, the IDF’s Southern Command and the IAF carried out a strike in an area where two senior Hamas terrorists and additional terrorists hid among civilians,” Israeli authorities announced in a separate statement Saturday. “The location of the strike was an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings, and sheds.”
Saudi news outlet Al Hadath is reporting that Salama was killed in the strike, but that information has not been verified by Israeli or U.S. officials.
Riley Gaines swims over a mile to shore with ‘most impressive Navy SEALs’
Maybe the Anglin brothers could have used Riley Gaines’ advice. (Or maybe not? We’ll never know.)
Gaines, the former NCAA swimmer who has since fought for fairness in women’s sports, posted on X that she “successfully swam Alcatraz” on Friday.
The infamous prison-turned-museum sits right in the bay in San Francisco, and is roughly a 1.25-mile swim to shore.
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“Successfully swam Alcatraz with a handful of the most impressive Navy Seals & combat veterans. It was such a fun (and cold) way to honor those who risk their lives for our great nation. God bless our troops!” she posted.
Gaines then sent an invitation to Keith Olbermann, with whom she’s had social media spats before, to try to accomplish the feat with her next time. “Although, I’m not sure the general public wants to see him in a Speedo.”
The prison opened in 1934, but it didn’t even last 30 years.
Considering its distance to shore, Alcatraz was categorized as practically escape-proof, although there were 14 documented attempted escapes.
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The most notorious one, though, was the June 11, 1962, escape by John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, which also turned into a Hollywood movie, “Escape from Alcatraz.”
It remains a mystery whether the three reached shore and survived, but it was also the one deemed the most likely to have been successful, although the FBI concluded the escapees drowned due to harsh conditions.
The three prisoners chiseled an escape route from their own jail cells and built makeshift, paper-mache heads.
The final attempted escape from the prison, almost six months later, was the basis of what has now become the swimming route of the “Escape from Alcatraz” triathlon.
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Gaines hosts the “Gaines for Girls” podcast on OutKick, where she discusses what has occurred with transgender individuals participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
Man refuses to give up meat or alcohol for temporary houseguest at his home
A family drama among four adults currently living under the same roof has drawn thousands of reactions over the past few days.
Writing on the Reddit page known as AITA (“Am I the a–hole?”), a husband and father shared that his stepson, “Ben,” who is 20, is living with the family “right now during summer break from college.”
About a month ago, the man said, his stepson had asked whether he could move his girlfriend from college into the house for the rest of the summer, “because she is going through a rough time at home.”
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Wrote the man with the user name of “spaceneededAITA,” “I wasn’t fully on board with the idea because we already have our two other kids (11 & 9) in the house, and [having] four adults and two kids in our space is a lot.”
However, the man’s wife apparently “struggles to say no” to their 20-year-old son — so now a young woman named “Liv” is “living with us until they go back to school,” wrote the man on the subreddit page.
“There have been a few issues that have come up since Liv came — pretty much all of which have to do with me,” the man continued.
He said, “First, one of the big reasons Liv wanted to change her living situation is because her parents are alcoholics. Now, I don’t drink every day, but I do have alcohol in the house and I like to imbibe with a meal sometimes or have a few cocktails on weekends. This is triggering for Liv to see a parent drinking with kids around.”
“I also hunt, so we eat meat that I have harvested, and I have a few mounts on the walls. This makes [her] especially uncomfortable.”
He went on, “Second, Liv is vegan. We eat a lot of meat in our house. Pretty much every meal has a meat involved. I also hunt, so we eat meat that I have harvested, and I have a few mounts on the walls. This makes Liv especially uncomfortable.”
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Things then came to a head.
The man revealed that “Ben and Liv sat down with my wife and [me] this past weekend and offered some suggestions to help make Liv’s time here easier.”
He said the young couple had three ideas for fixing things around the house.
Their “first suggestion was that if I want to drink, I should do it in private and not around the kids.”
Their next idea, he said, “was to allow Liv to cook vegan meals for us so that we didn’t eat so much meat all the time. She offered to do grocery shopping and meal planning to provide vegan meals for us instead of our usual meals.”
“I told them that my answer to all of their suggestions is ‘no.’”
Finally, he went on, “they asked if I could remove the mounts from the walls of the house until they go back to school in six weeks.”
When they finished, the man said, “I asked if it was OK for me to talk now and they said yes. I told them that my answer to all of their suggestions is ‘no.’”
He went on, “I told them that I appreciate[d] Liv’s offer to cook for us and she is free to cook a few vegan meals for us during the week if she wants, but we are not going to completely change our diets for one person. But as far as their other suggestions, not happening.”
The man added that his wife then “spoke up and said that maybe it wouldn’t hurt to try their suggestions for a little bit and see how things go.”
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She also said that “it’s only six weeks and that changing our lifestyles a little bit for a short period wouldn’t kill us.”
“They are not going to force me to change the way I live in my own home for a temporary guest.”
The man noted, “I told all three of them that if they want to change the way they live, they are free to do so. But they are not going to force me to change the way I live in my own home for a temporary guest.”
He said he told them that “if that means I cook separate meals for myself, so be it. But the mounts stay and if I want a beer or a glass of wine, I’m going to have one.”
He finished with, “All three of them think I am being unreasonable and that they aren’t asking too much of me for a short period of time.”
Some 1,200 comments have come in to date about the family upset, with one person noting, “Say what now? Liz contributes zero dollars to this household, yet she’s making demands about how you should live in the home you pay for? And why, exactly? Why should her feelings matter if yours don’t?”
The same writer added that the man was not wrong for the position he’s taken.
“The biggest issue I see is, why does your wife think this is OK?”
“You should feel comfortable in your home, and absolutely nothing you are doing is inappropriate.”
Another person wrote, “Your stepson and his GF are young enough to think they get to have an opinion while living rent-free in your house. Your wife is weak. Stay strong. It’s your home first and foremost. If they complain, they are free to leave.”
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Of all the comments in defense of the original poster, the following response about the family standoff received the most “upvotes” on the platform.
“This is a great lesson to them that you cannot always control the world around you and you certainly cannot control other people.”
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It went on, “She is lucky to be a guest and guests should never make the kind of asks she is making; it is not polite or respectful. If your lifestyle is so hard for her, then your home is not the safe place she needs, and she should make other arrangements.”
The comment continued, “The biggest issue I see is, why does your wife think this is OK? Has she been making some similar requests of you before?”
Finally, this: “P.S. I am taking you at your word you drink lightly. If you drink more than two tipples every day, they might have a point.”
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In response, the original poster added, “I don’t drink often. Some weeks I will drink 2-3 days. Sometimes I will go 1-2 weeks without a sip. But I have it in the house and if the mood strikes or I want to pair a drink with a meal, I do it.”
Fox News Digital reached out to a psychologist for comment on the situation.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s famous sex therapist, dead at 96
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famous sex therapist and media personality, has passed away at the age of 96.
Westheimer died on Friday surrounded by her family in New York City, according to her publicist.
Known for her frank discussions of sexual topics and amusing candor, Westheimer has appeared on numerous late-night talk shows and authored multiple best-selling books.