Dem rep goes on wild rant against ‘the White man’ during hearing
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, became upset during a House hearing on Wednesday, which led her to rant about how White men were never oppressed in the United States.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing about the “Dismantle DEI Act”, which seeks to weaken diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Crockett responded to a Republican colleague championing the bill as a “strong response to the oppression of our rights, liberties and freedoms.”
Crockett strongly objected to the Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., using the word “oppression.”
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“You consistently said over and over the word ‘oppression,’ and every time that you said it, it was almost as if I was hearing nails on a chalkboard, because it seems like you don’t understand the definition of ‘oppression,’ And I’d ask you to just refer to Google to help you out. Oppression is the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. That is the definition of oppression,” she said. “And so, as I sit here as a Black woman who practiced civil rights, let me tell you the reason that my colleagues wanted to make sure you understood the same Black history that your side of the aisle wants to delete out of classrooms is because you can then misuse words like ‘oppression.’”
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Crockett argued White men in the United States haven’t faced oppression because they weren’t forced off their lands and sent to a foreign country as slaves.
“There has been no oppression for the White man in this country. You tell me which White men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across an ocean and told that ‘You are going to go to work. We are going to steal your wives. We are going to rape your wives.’ That didn’t happen. That is oppression,” Crockett said. “We didn’t ask to be here. We’re not the same migrants that y’all constantly come up against. We didn’t run away from home. We were stolen. So yeah, we are going to sit here and be offended when you want to sit here and act like… and don’t let it escape you that it is White men on this side of the aisle telling us, people-of-color on this side of the aisle that y’all are the ones being oppressed, that y’all are the ones that are being harmed. That’s not the definition of oppression. You tell me the prolonged, cruel or unjust treatment that you’ve had and we can have a conversation.”
Crockett pointed to how White men only comprise of 30% of the country’s population but hold over 60% of elected offices.
“I can’t even tell you how many White men have served in this chamber. But I can tell you that I am only the 55th Black woman to be elected to Congress. And so when you want to talk about history and pretend as if it was so long ago, it wasn’t,” she said. “Because again, I am just number 55.”
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She concluded her remarks by claiming “companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to outperform their competitors.”
“Diversity works, and until you can show me data that says otherwise, I think that we need to go back to being a country that listens to experts and gets out of our feelings and recognizes again that racism is real in this country, and until we stop pretending that it’s not, we will not solve the problems that we are consistently facing. And that will bring real unity that we seek when we’re looking for a more perfect union,” she said.
Pollster calls on Biden to resign immediately and questions his competence
Election guru Nate Silver argued there’s no “particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now” and called for him to resign.
Silver commented on a Washington Post article from Tuesday which described President Biden avoiding the press while attending the G-20 summit in Brazil.
“President Joe Biden was in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, unprotected from mosquitoes, fire ants and loud, squawking macaws. But there was another pest he did manage to avoid: the pack of reporters traveling with him,” the Post reported. “During a six-day foreign trip to Peru and Brazil that wrapped up Monday, the president rarely spoke in public, answering almost no questions despite repeated efforts to engage him. One television producer took to writing messages on a large pad of paper, holding it up as Biden boarded and departed Air Force One.”
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Silver suggested the report was a further sign Biden was incapable of leading in the final weeks of his presidency.
“Is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now? It’s a very difficult job. It’s a dangerous world. Extremely high-stakes decisions in Ukraine. He should resign and let Harris serve out the last 2 months,” Silver wrote on X Wednesday.
Prior to the election, Silver frequently floated the idea of Biden being replaced by a different candidate and even called for Biden to resign in July after his disastrous ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos.
“I wimped out in today’s column and deleted a line saying he should formulate a plan to transition the presidency to Harris within 30-60 days, but I’m there now,” Silver said at the time. “Something is clearly wrong here.”
“The most generous way to put it is that he doesn’t seem in command, and that’s an extremely hard sell when you’re Commander in Chief,” Silver concluded — adding that he believes “Democrats will apply incredible amounts of pressure” to make the president resign.
He previously suggested Biden be replaced in June, adding the Democrats would have been better off had he dropped out of the race last year.
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“But Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval (37.4%) at 538 yesterday. Dropping out would be a big risk. But there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet? I don’t know. But it’s more than fair to ask,” Silver wrote. “What’s clearer IMO is that Democrats would have been better served if Biden had decided a year ago not to seek a second term, which would have allowed them to have some semblance of a primary process and give voters a say among the many popular Democrats across the country.”
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Republicans win House race in Alaska, expanding total to 219 seats
Conservative Republican Nick Begich has won a tight race for Alaska’s lone seat in the House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press.
Begich defeated his main rival, Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, the first Native Alaskan in Congress, and one of only five House Democrats currently representing a district won by President-elect Trump in 2020.
The win widens the Republican majority in the House to 219 and 213 for Democrats.
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The GOP candidate is no stranger to politics, having been born into a prominent political family in Alaska – made up of mostly Democrats.
His grandfather, Nick Begich, Sr., was an Alaska congressman, before mysteriously disappearing on a flight and being pronounced dead in 1972. His uncle, Mark Begich, was a U.S. senator for Alaska from 2009 to 2015.
The other two hopefuls in the race were Alaska Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe and Democratic candidate Eric Hafner.
In a statement, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) congratulated Begich for his “resounding victory.”
“Congratulations to Congressman-elect Nick Begich on his resounding victory,” NRCC Spokesperson Ben Petersen said in a statement. “Alaskans just sent an America First fighter to drain the swamp and stop the liberal war on Alaska, and Congressman-elect Begich will deliver.”
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Alaska is one of only two states to use ranked-choice voting in federal elections, something that benefited Peltola in 2022, when Begich and former Gov. Sarah Palin knocked each other out of the running by splitting the Republican vote.
Republicans took a lesson from that defeat, however, and instead, coalesced around Begich earlier in the race.
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Alaska has just one House seat given its modest population compared to more densely packed states. It is also one of only two states to use ranked-choice voting in its federal elections.
Peltola won her seat in a special election following the sudden death of longtime Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, in 2022.
Young’s daughters and several former staffers endorsed Peltola for re-election in the November race later that year.
The moderate Democrat has been known to break from her party on certain climate and energy issues, among others.
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Begich’s victory is a much-needed win for House Republicans who have fought tooth-and-nail to retain and even expand their majority.
He was added to the House GOP campaign arm’s “Young Guns” list in August of this year, giving him access to National Republican Congressional Committee resources, support, and advisement.
Luxury car brand roasted after releasing woke ad featuring androgynous models
Jaguar could be facing its own Bud Light moment after online backlash to a new ad on Tuesday.
The car brand released a new promotional video debuting its reimagined logo on its X account under the slogan “Copy Nothing.”
The ad featured androgynous models in brightly colored, over-the-top outfits, including one man wearing a dress, along with other slogans such as “create exuberant,” “live vivid,” “delete ordinary” and “break moulds.”
The ad did not feature a car throughout its entire 30-second run.
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Shortly after the ad premiered, X users piled onto the company for releasing what they called a “Bud Light 2.0” campaign by appearing to focus on wokeness and modernism over selling cars.
“This just made me want to sell my Jaguar and I don’t even own a Jaguar,” conservative corporate activist Robby Starbuck joked.
Columnist Jon Gabriel wrote, “This is so the wrong timing for this. I can understand the C-suite being conned into this in 2022, but you have completely misread the moment. Bud Light 2.0.”
“Unburdened by taste, I see,” conservative journalist Ian Miles Cheong joked.
“Fire whoever your ad company is. This is not it,” RedState senior editor Brandon Morse wrote.
RedState writer Bonchie said, “Congrats on continuing to not sell cars.”
“A car ad without cars. Hmm,” PR consultant Jeff Barrett commented with a GIF of a character from the 2004 movie “Dodgeball” saying, “That’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.”
PR firm CEO Craig Lucie added, “I see #jaguar is trending. This is why the right marketing and content team is important. You sell cars. Nothing in this ad tells a potential buyer about the story behind your product. What are your takeaways from this ad?”
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Jaguar’s X account replied to multiple comments and questions regarding its ad, including one from X CEO Elon Musk.
“Do you sell cars?” Musk asked.
“Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar,” Jaguar responded.
The company repeatedly responded to other similar comments, arguing that “the story’s still unfolding” for the rebranding and how the ad is “setting the stage” for the future.
In a press release, Jaguar announced that in December it will present “Copy Nothing,” what it describes as “the first global public installation for its new brand that will include the physical manifestation of its Exuberant Modernism creative philosophy, in a Design Vision Concept.”
“This dramatic, unmistakable and unexpected expression of what it means to Copy Nothing will be a preview of the fearless approach to come from Jaguar,” the press release read. “Jaguar’s presence in Miami will establish its advocacy for artistic expression, in all its forms. Through a series of meticulously curated gallery spaces over two locations, Jaguar will share its platform with new and ground‑breaking emerging artists who share its ethos of Copy Nothing.”
Chief Creative Officer Professor Gerry McGovern OBE argued this new vision is reminiscent of the company’s founder Sir William Lyons, who “believed that ‘A Jaguar should be a copy of nothing.'”
“Our vision for Jaguar today is informed by this philosophy. New Jaguar is a brand built around Exuberant Modernism. It is imaginative, bold and artistic at every touchpoint. It is unique and fearless,” McGovern said in the release.
He continued, “This is a reimagining that recaptures the essence of Jaguar, returning it to the values that once made it so loved, but making it relevant for a contemporary audience. We are creating Jaguar for the future, restoring its status as a brand that enriches the lives of our clients and the Jaguar community.”
Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover added, “To bring back such a globally renowned brand we had to be fearless. Jaguar was always at its best when challenging convention. That ethos is seen in our new brand identity today and will be further revealed over the coming months. This is a complete reset. Jaguar is transformed to reclaim its originality and inspire a new generation. I am excited for the world to finally see Jaguar.”
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In a statement to FOX Business, Jaguar responded, “Our brand relaunch for Jaguar is a bold and imaginative reinvention and as expected it has attracted attention and debate. As proud custodians at such a remarkable point in Jaguar’s history we have preserved iconic symbols while taking a dramatic leap forward. The brand reveal is only the first step in this exciting new era and we look forward to sharing more on Jaguar’s transformation in the coming days and weeks.”
Liberal NY Times columnist says Trump poised to make ‘historic’ peace in Middle East
Liberal New York Times scribe and one of President Biden’s closest media allies, Thomas Friedman, admitted in a new column that President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to go down in history for his Middle East policy.
In the column published Tuesday, Friedman wrote that Trump’s term could have major consequences for the region, especially regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and noted that the president-elect could broker a deal to “birth a Palestinian state.”
“Say what you will about Trump (and there is a lot to say), but he’s drawn to striking big deals that can have profound and even history-shaping consequences,” Friedman wrote, adding, “There is enormous opportunity and appetite for a game-changing deal — if Trump wants to reach for it and only if he does it right.”
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Friedman expressed hope that his soon-to-be successor will pursue a path to peace between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
He stated, “Trump was the rare American president who actually put out a detailed plan for coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. If Trump revives that initiative in 2025, he could be remembered as the president who preserved Israel as a Jewish democracy and helped to securely birth a Palestinian state alongside it.”
Friedman admitted he’s still cautious about whether Trump will pursue that path or not, worrying about Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. But he seemed hopeful that Trump would pursue constructive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, judging by the Middle East policies of his first term.
“Trump has a starting point: the plan for a two-state solution that he put out in January 2020, titled ‘Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People’… the ‘vision’ in the title of Trump’s plan is a kick-starter for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations post-Gaza.”
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The columnist added, “It’s still the only detailed peace map that any president has publicly presented to create two states since the Clinton parameters, set out by [President] Clinton 24 years ago.”
Friedman noted that Trump’s proposals would have to be altered following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, but stated they have “all the key ingredients to start talks.”
“The plan tells both sides that the only stable solution has to involve two states for two indigenous peoples — with land swaps and mutually agreed-upon security arrangements that they would negotiate.”
The columnist suggested that achieving such a deal would make the former president’s Abraham Accords appear to be a “consolation prize” by comparison and urged Trump to “consider taking advantage of this second chance that history is affording him by inviting both sides to Camp David for a peace summit.”
He advised that the Trump administration make the “buy-in” to attend the summit “being the acceptance of the Trump plan as the floor for negotiations — not the ceiling but the floor — and they can negotiate from there.”
Though he called Biden a “good man who stuck his neck out to arm and diplomatically support Israel after Hamas launched its murderous attack on Oct. 7,” he slammed the president for not having “put out to the world the comprehensive peace plan he was working on behind the scenes” for the region that has resulted in Israel being “more globally isolated” than ever before.
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‘The View’ co-hosts spar over school choice: ‘She’s been talking for 3 minutes!’
“The View” co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin clashed on Wednesday over school choice while discussing President-elect Trump’s pick for education secretary, Linda McMahon.
“When you hear about school choice, it’s really connected to the voucher system,” Hostin said. “The Department of Education is responsible for $18.4 billion that fund high-poverty K-12 schools. Schools where kids are poor. Kids that grew up in neighborhoods like I grew up in the South Bronx projects.”
Trump’s education secretary pick comes amid discussions of abolishing the Department of Education, which experts say the president would need congressional approval to do.
“And what happens with vouchers? The studies show very clearly that they fund students already attending private schools. So people with money get those vouchers, use the vouchers to pay less for their private schools and their kids go on to do well. Where do you get the money from vouchers? You pull that money from the poor schools,” Hostin said. “Wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits, I’m not making this up.”
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Hostin touted a 2020 study that found just half of states with voucher programs required teachers to have a bachelor’s degree, teacher training and licensing.
Griffin asked Hostin for the sourcing of the study she mentioned, but Hostin continued to speak.
“That’s just not my experience, if I may get in just to make it a conversation,” Griffin said, as Hostin continued to talk. “I went to public school, I believe you got to go to private school,” Griffin said of Hostin.
After more crosstalk and back and forth, Hostin tried to make a final point before co-host Whoopi Goldberg shut down the conversation and said nobody could understand what was being said.
“I haven’t gotten a word in, she’s been talking for three minutes,” Griffin said.
After returning from a commercial break, Goldberg pointed out the “beauty” of their show was that they have different opinions.
“We lost the election. We’re miserable. Half of this country is miserable. And let’s just tell the truth: We hate that he won. We hate it. And everybody is uptight and crazy right now,” co-host Joy Behar chimed in.
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Hostin argued that voucher programs do not benefit students academically and said definitively “that’s the truth.”
Citing other statistics and her personal work on the D.C. opportunity scholarship program while she worked in Congress, Griffin argued that the tax dollars should follow the students if a parent wants to give their child a leg up in a school district that may be falling behind.
“It’s simply that a parent should be able to make the best choice for their student. I also think that there are schools that are falling behind. It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve education, but I don’t think students should be victims of a falling-behind school. Their life is at stake, their future, their earning potential,” Griffin said.
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Hostin said that she didn’t go to a good school district in the South Bronx and said, “That’s the inequity.”
Griffin pointed out again, “Did you get to go to a private school?” Goldberg threatened to shut the discussion down again before she made her argument.
MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ sheds liberal viewers after co-hosts meet with Trump
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has seen its audience noticeably shrink since co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski told viewers they met face-to-face with President-elect Trump.
During the program’s 6 a.m. ET hour on Monday, Scarborough and Brzezinski revealed they traveled to Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Friday to meet with Trump, who the married co-hosts spent years insisting was a “fascist” and an overall threat to democracy. It appears thousands of viewers responded by switching off the show.
“Morning Joe” averaged 839,000 total viewers during the 6 a.m. ET hour on Monday with 113,000 in the advertiser-coveted demo ages 25-54. In the 7 a.m. ET hour, its total fell to 694,000 and just 70,000 in the key demo. The drop-off was the opposite of the year-to-date “Morning Joe” ratings that typically see the audience grow as more Americans wake up.
Then MSNBC’s marquee morning show took another hit the next day, averaging only 638,000 total viewers at the 6 a.m. hour with just 81,000 in the key demo, losing about 20% of its total audience between Monday and Tuesday. The average total audience was down 11% across its four hours of programming.
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So far in 2024, “Morning Joe” has averaged a little over one million total viewers during the 6 a.m. hour, compared to 1.1 million starting at 7 a.m. ET.
The meeting between Scarborough, Brzezinski and Trump has infuriated liberals — including some MSNBC colleagues — who took to social media to rage against “Morning Joe.”
Several prominent viewers and media figures have sworn they’ll never watch again.
“It’s the last time I ever watch ‘Morning Joe.’ Period. End of statement,” anti-Trump comedian Rosie O’Donnell said in a TikTok post.
Left-wing Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin encouraged viewers to stop watching the show.
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Friday’s meeting was the first time the co-hosts had seen Trump in seven years, Brzezinski said, and Scarborough added that they didn’t see “eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.”
Scarborough said they went over such topics as abortion, mass deportation and threats of retribution against political opponents and media outlets. The meeting, according to the hosts, was about an agreement to “restart communications.”
“For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back — why wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski said. “Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate.”
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“But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote,” she continued. “Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”
The exodus of “Morning Joe” viewers comes on the heels of one of MSNBC’s lowest-rated weeks of all time, as liberal viewers continue to tune out the news since a grim Election Day for Democrats.
“The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Inside with Jen Psaki,” “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” “Alex Wagner Tonight,” “Chris Jansing Reports,” “Deadline: White House,” “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” “Katy Tur Reports,” “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” “Morning Joe” and “The ReidOut” all had their worst weeks in key measurables since Election Day.
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